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TRIBUTARY TO
SOUTH METROPOLITAN SYSTEM
AND
BOSTON MAIN DRAINAGE SYSTEM
ANNUAL REPORT
Street Department
YEAR 1901
Compliments of ...
James Donovan,
Superintendent of Streets.
PLEASE EXCH.ANGE.
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ANNUAL REPORT
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YEAR 1901
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CONTENTS.
PART I.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS.
PAGE
Appropriations 2
Asphalt pavement:
Trinidad 48
Sicilian Rock 54
Seyssel 57
All Others 57
Summary 57
Under Guarantee:
Trinidad 58
Sicilian Rock 62
Seyssel 65
Asphaltina 66
Cost of Patching:
Trinidad 67
Sicilian Rock 70
Coal Tar 71
Comparative Table .... 72
Bill Boards 6
Central Office 75
Contracts 21
Dorchester Yard ^. . . 7
Down-town Paving 5
Dumps 8
Employment of Labor 8
Expenditures:
Blue Hill and Other
Avenues 19
Bridge Division Spe-
cials 3
Comparative Table of 16
Construction of Highways
Already Laid Out 19
Ferry Division Specials . . 17
PAGE
Expenditures:
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways 19
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways. Chap.
478, Acts of 1900 19
Paving Division Specials . 18
Recapitulation 20
Sanitary and Street Clean-
ing Specials 18
Sewer Division Specials. . 19
Street Improvements .... 17
Financial Statement (Main-
tenance) 15
General Review 9-13
Income 75
New Head-house and Coal
Elevat(>r 7
Organization 1
Pavements, Area of 74
Smoke Nuisance 7
Street Litter 8
Street Mileage , 73
Summary of Work Performed:
Bridge Division 13
Ferry Division 13
Paving Division 13
Sanitary Division 14
Sewer Division 14
Street Cleaning Division . 14
Street Watering Division, 14
West End Yard and Buildings, 7
Wooden Block Pavements . . 6
Contents.
PART II.— APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
BRIDGE DIVISION. (Page 3.)
PAGE
Cable-houses and Boxes 31
Draw-tenders' Reports 37
Draw-tenders' Eeports (Five
Years) 38
Expenditures:
Inland Bridges 15
Recapitulation 21
Maintenance Expen s e s ,
North and South Yards . 23
Special Appropriations. . . 24
Tide-water Bridges 7
Recapitulation 7
Financial Statement 6
Income T
List of Bridges:
Wholly Maintained by Boston, 25
Of Which Boston Main-
tains the Part Within its
Limits 27
List of Bridges :
Of Which Boston Pays a
Part of the Cost of Main-
taining . 28
Of Which Boston Maintains
the Wearing Surface ... 28
In Charge of Commission-
ers of Bost on and Cam-
bridge Bridges 28
Wholly Maintained by
Railroad Corporations . . 29
Recapitulation 30
Objects of Expenditures .. . . 5
Property in Charge of Di-
vision 32
Public Landing Places 31
Width of Bridges 34
Width of Bridge Openings . 35
Work Performed 3
APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
FERRY DIVISION. (Page 39.)
PAGE
Coal Elevator 40
Difference in Travel Between
Ferries 51
Ferry-boats 41
Financial Statement 42
Appropriations (1902) 49
Balance Sheet 43
Capital Invested 47
Comparison of Balance
Sheets 47
Comparison of Receipts,
Appropriations and Ex-
jjenditures (Five Years), 44
Total Expeuditures and
Receipts (1858-1902) .... 48
Location of Ferries 39
New Head-house 40
Receipts at each Ferry 50
Ticket Statement 52
Total Travel 52
Work Performed 40
Contents.
m
APPENDIX C.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
PAVING DIVISION. (Page 53.)
PAGE
Asphalting 59
" ■ Details of 60
Assessment or "323"
Streets 63
Assessment or "323"
Streets, Details of 64
Block Paving 55
" " Details of 55
Crushing Plant 54
Expenditures :
Abolishment of Grade
Crossings -r 82
Blue Hill aiid Other Ave-
nues 157
Construction of Highways
Already Laid Out 154
Summary 154
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways .... 151
Summary 1.53
Laying-Out and Constriic-
tion of Highways, Chap-
ter 478, Acts of 1900 .... 135
Summary 148
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of High ways, Brigh-
ton 155
Summary » . . 156
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways, Dor-
chester 156
Summary 156
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion of Highways, East
Boston 155
Summary 155
Laying-Out and Construc-
tion pf Highways, Rox-
bury and West Eoxbury 156
Summary 156
Expenditures:
Street Improvements (By
Wards) 90
Street Improvements
(General) 106
Summary 129
Under Special Appropria-
tions 82
Financial Statement 77
Income 78
New Brick Sidewalks 160
N"ew Edgestones 157
Objects of Expenditures. ... 79
Schedule A. Miscellane-
ous 80
Schedule B. In Excess of
Special Appropriations. 81
Schedule C. New work.. 82
Output of Stone from City
Crushers 1 65
Permit Office:
Artificial Stone Sidewalks 172
Bill Boards 173
Inspectors 172
Permits for Street Open-
ings 170
Permits, Miscellaneous. . . 171
Street Numbering 173
Work Performed 172
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 168
Public Alleys 72
Snowfall and Rainfall 165
Street Construction:
New Work 162
General Repairs 163
Streets Laid Out, Extended,
etc 165
Street Names Changed 168
Work in Charge of Division 53
IV
Contents.
APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
SANITARY DIVISION. (Page 174.)
PAGE
Contracts 184
Dorchester Yard 175
Dumping Places 174
Expenditures :
Collection of Ashes and
Offal 183
Cost of Horseshoeing 188
Cost per Boat Load Tow-
ing to Sea 186
Items of 179
^ Maintenance of Fort Hill
Wharf and Dumping Boats, 186
Financial Statement 176
Hay and Grain 185
House Dirt, Ashes and Wastes :
Amount Removed 181
Force Employed in Col-
lecting 180
House Offal :
Amount Removed 181
Force Employed in Col-
lecting 181
Income 178
Material Collected by Dis-
tricts 182
Material Collected Five
Years 182
Final Disposition of 182
Material Sold by Contract. . 184
Number of Carts Employed, 183
Property in Charge of Divi-
sion 190
Revenue 178
Signs 188
Work Performed for Other
Divisions 186
APPENDIX E.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE SEWER DIVISION. (Page 192.)
PAGE
Catch-basins Built 231
Contract with Metropolitan
Water and Sewerage
Board 192
Entrance Fees 226
Financial Statement 227
Metropolitan System of
Sewerage :
(1st.) As To The Work
Which the City Must Do, 194
(2d.) As To The Future
Development of The
Sewerage System of The
City of Boston 196
PAGE
Metropolitan System of Sewerage :
Table Showing Estimated
Average Maximum
Flow of Sewage from
Low Level Territory,
1900 to 1940 199
Objects of Expenditures:
Construction of Highways
Already Laid Out 230
Laying Out and Construc-
tion of Highways 229
Laying Out and Construc-
tion of Highways, Chap.
478 Acts of 1900 229
Contents.
l^AGE
Object of Expenditures:
Maintenance 228
Recapitulation 230
Sewerage Works 229
Permits 227
Property in Charge of Division, 232
Schedule of Sewers Built to
Date 231
Sludge Account 232
Summary of Sewer Construc-
tion : 230
Summary of Sewer Construc-
tion (Five Years) 230
Work in Charge of Division, 192
Work Performed and Eec-
ommendations :
South Boston 203
Work Performed, etc. :
East Boston 213
Charlestown 212
Brighton 214
West Roxbury 211
Dorchester 207
Roxbury 204
City Proper 215
Main Drainage 217
Main and Intercepting
Sewers 218
Moon Island 221
Pumpiug Station, Calf
Pasture 219
Pumping Station, Lyons
Street 220
Stony Brook 222
APPENDIX F.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
STREET CLEANING DIVISION. (Page 233.)
PAGE
Cost per Mile for Machine
Sweeping, Exclusive of
Supervision 241
Cost per Mile for Machine
Sweeping, Including Sii-
pervision 242
Dorchester District 236
Dumps 235
Expenditures:
Objects of "... 237
Recapitulation 241
Enlarged Sweeping Areas. . . 234
Financial Statement 237
PAGE
Income 241
Loads of Street Dirt Re-
moved 242
Methods Employed in Clean-
ing Streets 233
Paper Patrol 234
Property in Charge of 243
Public Alleys 236
Slippery Pavements 236
Stables 235
Stock 235
Summary of Work Done .... 243
Work Done 233
Contents.
APPENDIX G.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
STREET WATERING DIVISION. (Page 244.)
PAGE
Appropriation 245
Distribution of Carts 246
Financial Statement 245
Location of Water Posts . . . 246
Miles of Streets Watered ... 246
PAGE
245
Objects of Expenditures . .
Objects of Expenditures (by
Districts) 246
Work Performed 244
APPENDIX H,
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE BOSTON
AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES. (Page 247.)
PAGE
Bridges Under Control of:
Cambridge Street 247
Canal or Craigies 247
Essex Street
Harvard
Wooden Block Paving . .
Travel Statement
North Harvard Street .
248
248
248
250
251
PAGE
Prison Point 250
West Boston (Temporary-
Bridge) 251
Western Avenue 251
Classification of Expenditures, 253
In General 252
Number of Draw Openings . . 254
Revenue 252
APPENDIX
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER ON SPECIAL
WORK. (Page 255.)
PAGE
Alford Street 255
Assessment Streets 259
Bennington Street , 255
Broadway Bridge 256
Brooks street Retaining
walls 256
Carleton Street Retaining
walls 256
Columbia Road 257
Dover-street Bridge 257
East Boston Ferries 257
PAGE
258
261
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Garbage Depot
Grading Street Ra i 1 w a y
Tracks
Miscellaneous Plans, Specifi-
cations, etc 261
Mt. Washington Av e n u e
Bridge 258
Public Alleys 260
Stairway from Summer-
Street Bridge to B Street 258
Winthrop Bridge 258
Contents.
APPENDIX J,
REPORT OF THE CHIEF SMOKE INSPECTOR.
(Page 265.)
PAGE
Boiler Applications 267
Causes of Smoke Nuisance, 265
Coal Importations 266
Defects in Smoke Nuisance
Law 265
PAGE
Plants Equipped With Smoke
Preventing Devices 266
Summary of Work Performed 267
Work Performed 266
APPENDIX K.
REPORT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE CLERK. (Page 268.)
PAGE
Applications 272
Comparative Table of Em-
ployees 271
Employment of Labor 268
PAGE
Grade and Number of Em-
ployees 269
Transfers 272
APPENDIX L.
FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS AND DOCUMENT NUM-
BERS OF ANNUAL REPORTS. (Page 273.)
Hon. Patrick A. Collins,
Mayor of the City of Boston :
Sifi, — In compliance with the Revised Ordinances, the
annual report of the operations and expenses of the Street
Department for the year 1901 is herewith respectfully sub-
mitted.
Organization.
The work of the department during the past year has
been carried on under the same organization that was effected
when the consolidated department was created in 1891, and
as amended in 1895, the several divisions of the depart-
ment 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. 40.
The Boston and Cambridge Bridges are managed by two
commissioners, the Superintendent of Streets being the com-
missioner for the City of Boston, the other commissioner
being appointed by the Maj^or of the City of Cambridge.
Appeopetations.
The money assigned for Street Department work for the
past year was made available under the following appropria-
tions :
First. — Maintenance : From income of the city raised by
taxes. Previous to the commencement of the financial year,
February 1, the department estimates of the amounts neces-
sary for the proper maintenance of the various divisions are
submitted to His Honor the Mayor, who makes such recom-
mendation as he may deem proper to the City Council.
The maintenance appropriations, as passed by the City Coun-
cil, were as follows :
Central Office .....
^25,000 00
Bridge Division ....
165,000 00
Cambridge and Boston Bridges .
18,500 00
Ferry Division ....
250,600 00
Paving Division ....
846,000 00
Sanitary Division ....
637,000 00
Sewer Division ....
373,000 00
Street-Cleaning Division .
379,000 00
Street-Watering Division .
175,000 00
Total
. 12,869,100 00
Second, — Work done under appropriations for permanent
improvements : There was made available by the Cit}^ Coun-
cil, from income of the city raised by taxes, $985,000 for
general new or reconstruction work, and for special items, as
follows :
Paving Division
Street Improvements
Total
$485,000 00
500,000 00
$985,000 00
Third. — Work done under appropriations for permanent
improvements : There was made available by the City Coun-
cil, from loans within the debt limit, $140,000 for new work
as follows :
Sanitary Division (new garbage plant)
$140,000 00
Street Department. 3
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." (Chapter 323, Acts of 1891, and amend-
ments.) Loans under this Act previous to 1901 were out-
side the debt limit, but by chapter 199 of the Acts of 1901
the city was empowered to borrow the money inside the debt
limit. From this fund new streets, assessable on the abutting
property, are built. Tlie amount expended the past year was :
Sewers |4,498 02
Streets . . - 10,815 63
Total . . . . . . 115,313 65
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." (Chapter 443.) Loans
under this Act are outside the debt limit. The amounts
expended for street construction last year in each district
were as follows :
District.
Brighton |1,226 35
Dorchester 2,173 91
East Boston 2,254 21
Roxbury and West Roxbury . . . 1,263 99
Total $6,918 46
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).
(Chapter 334 of 1895 ; chapter 236 of 1898.) Loans under
this Act are outside the debt limit. The amount expended
this year was as follows :
Streets . . . . . . . $40,380 45
Seventh. — 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." (Chapter 435.)
Under this Act the loan is outside the debt limit. The
amount expended this year was $41,988.16.
Eighth. — In 1897 an Act was passed by the Legislature,
entitled " An Act Relative to the Sewerage Works of the
4 City Document No. 40.
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 . 1883,931 13
Ninth. — In 1900 an Act was passed by the Legislature
and accepted by the City Council entitled " An Act Rela-
tive 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
sewerage works construction in highways laid out previous
to July 17, 1900, may be built.
The amount expended the past year was as follows :
Sewer . , $308,443 47
Street 499,848 57
Totals 1808,292 04
Tenth. — In 1901 an Act was passed by the Legislature
entitled " An Act Relative to Highways in the City of Bos-
ton." (Chap. 199.) Under this Act the loan is inside the
debt limit. From this appropriation street and sewerage
works construction in " 323 " streets may be built. The
City Council appropriated the sum of 1900,000 under this
Act, apportioned as follows :
Laying-Out and Construction of New High-
ways 1500,000 00
Construction of Highways already Laid
Out ...... . 400,000 00
The expenditures under the $500,000 appropriation are
shown in Item 4, page 3 ; the appropriation for " Construc-
tion of Highways already Laid Out " was used for street
and sewerage works construction in streets laid out and
ordered constructed between July 17, 1900, and July 3,
1901.
The amount thus expended the past year was : '
Sewers 115,301 86
Streets . . . . . . . 15,830 49
Totals 131,132 35
Street Department.
Thus the expenditures under the several appropriations of
the year 1901 were as follows :
Maintenance .....
Street Improvements ....
Bridge, Specials ....
Paving, Specials . . ■ .
Sanitary and Street Cleaning, Specials
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
(by Districts) :
Brighton ......
Dorchester ......
East Boston . . . .
Roxbury and West Roxbury .
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
(Chap. 478 of 1900) . . . .
Construction of Highways already Laid
Out
Blue Hill and Other Avenues (Boulevard
Act)
New Ferry Landing . . . . .
Sewerage Works . . . . .
Totals ...
J,883,739 19
773,073 12
5,484 10
644,943 00
24,578 96
15,313 65
1,226 35
2,173 91
2,254 21
. 1,263 99
808,292 04
31,132 35
40,380 45
41,988 16
883,931 13
5,159,774 61
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.
Dov^N-TOWN Paving.
The down-town business district has been extensively
repaved, and streets that have been a source of complaint for
years have been reconstructed in the most modern manner
with large granite blocks with Portland cement grout or
pitch joints on a concrete base, the most durable pavement
for heavy team traffic known.
The details of construction will be found in the report of
the Deputy Superintendent of the Paving Division, Appen-
dix C.
City Document No. 40.
Wooden Block Paving.
The demand for a noiseless pavement, and one easily
cleaned and maintained, led to the introduction of wooden
blocks as a surfacing material.
These blocks are of long-leaf Georgia or Florida yellow
pine, and are laid on a 6-inch American cement concrete
base.
The joints are filled with paving pitch or Portland cement
grout, and the entire paving is guaranteed by a surety com-
pany bond for ten (10) years.
This paving has been laid on a level grade on Newbury
street and on steeper grades on Harvard bridge, Boylston
and Tremont streets. That on Tremont street, between
Winter and Park streets and at the intersection of Beacon
and Tremont streets, has been in service about eighteen
months, and to-day shows little evidence of. wear. It has a
smooth appearance, does not crawl or show wavy or billowy,
as does asphalt, and the entire paving seems impervious to
moisture. Close joints (made by driving the blocks together
after every sixth row laid) on grades over 3 per cent, prove
more slippery than joints of from one-quarter to one-half an
inch filled with Portland cement grout.
This latter joint is laid on Boylston street, and is appar-
ently better suited for up grades than the close joints on
Tremont street.
Another recommendation for this paving is that excava-
tions may be made and the surface easily repaired, and within
a short time no trace of the patching will be noticeable, so
well does the pavement unite.
Some fault has been found from the fact that blocks
" bled," as the action of the sun in drawing the creo-resin-
ate from them is called, but the proportions of creosote and
resin have been changed in preparing new blocks, and no
more trouble from this source is anticipated.
Bill-boards.
The practice of bill posters in removing paper from bill-
boards and throwing it' into the streets has been a source of
annoyance to this department and a prominent factor in
adding greatly to complaints from the public as to street
litter. During the past year an inspector was detailed to
carefully watch bill posters and prevent the throwing of
paper into the streets, and the results obtained by this
method warrant his permanent employment.
Steeet Depaetment.
Smoke Nuisance.
Under the existing law it is almost impossible to prevent
the smoke nuisance or to secure a conviction in court of an
offender who wilfully violates the law.
Some steps should be taken to lessen the time allowed for
the continuous emission of smoke, as complaints from citi-
zens and business houses inconvenienced by this nuisance
are continually being received at this office.
New Head-house and Coal Elevator.
Plans and specifications have been prepared and a con-
tract awarded for the erection of a new head-house at the
East Boston landing of the South Ferry. This work will be
completed early in the coming year, and the accommodations
for the public, as well as the division, will then be all that can
be desired at this ferry. The coal elevator, contracted for in
the early part of 1901, has been completed, and the facilities
for the storage of coal have been greatly increased — a matter
that has given the department much concern in the past.
West End Yard and Buildings.
Attention is called to the statement made in the last
report in reference to the stables and buildings at this yard.
An appropriation should be provided for the purpose of
equipping a model Street Department yard at this place, as
the cost of keeping the present structures in repair greatly
increases year by year, and makes the demand for new build-
ings imperative.
Proposed Dorchester Yard.
The department purchased in 1901 a lot of land on Free-
port street, Dorchester, with the intention of installing a
Sanitary and Street-Cleaning yard for this district.
Plans and specifications for a brick stable have been pre-
pared, and a permit for seventy-two horses was granted by
the Board of Health, but owing to the protests of the resi-
dents no action was taken.
The work of collecting and removing ashes and garbage in
this district is now done by contract, and this method of
doing the work is always more or less unsatisfactory, and I
respectfully urge the establishment of a yard in this district
that the department force may take charge of these
collections.
8 City Document No. 40.
Another matter which seems to have been lost sight of is
the contract existing between the New England Sanitary
Product Company and the City of Boston, which provides
that the city shall deliver the offal of all the districts of the
city, excejDting West Roxbury and Brighton, at five places
along the water front.
The offal of Dorchester has never been delivered under
this contract on account of the lack of a necessary wharf and
dump.
Dumps.
The question of providing dumps for the disposal of
material collected is becoming a grave one with this depart-
ment.
In the outlying sections particularly, the long hauls to
dumps increase the cost of collecting and removing very
matei'ially, and the ashes of the North and West Ends are
now being hauled to Cambridge, where we pay the sum of
ten (10) cents for each load dumped.
The available dumps in South Boston, Dorchester and
Roxbury are being rapidly filled up, and the outlook to-day
points to the establishment of scow dumps for the purpose of
carrying this material to sea.
Street Litter.
The problem that is perhaps causing more discussion than
any other among the municipalities of this country to-day is
that of cleaning streets and keeping them in a presentable
condition.
The public demand clean streets, but in a great many cases
the individual is to blame for the unsightly appearance, and per-
haps unconsciously so ; however, the fact remains that surface
your streets with the most modern paving, and place your
patrol sweepers where you will, if the public persist in
throwing papers, fruit parings, store sweepings, etc., into the
streets, the surface cannot be kept in a clean condition.
The Board of Police have very kindly detailed two officers
to assist in preventing this violation of the ordinances, but
more attention should be paid by the police, and offenders
should be warned against throwing refuse into the highway,
and if necessary prosecution should follow all violations of
this ordinance.
Employment of Labor.
The report of the Civil Service Clerk, showing the classifi-
cation of the employees of the department and tiansfers and
requisitions made for the severals divisions of the department,
will be found in Appendix K.
Street Department.
BRIDGE DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Specials.
1170,866.18 15,484.10
Necessary repairs have been made to a great many bridges,
fences and piers have been rebuilt, electrical apparatus
repaired, etc.
Money should be provided for the rebuilding of the Shaw-
mut-avenue bridge as in the opinion of the City Engineer a new
structure is required at this point and further repairing is
simply a waste of money.
A new brick stable and workshop, thoroughly equipped to
meet the needs of the division, has been erected on Broad-
way near Dorchester avenue.
The new Maiden bridge, under construction by the En-
gineering Department, has been completed, and is now open
for travel, and is in charge of this division.
The City Council should provide money for the rebuilding
of Mt. Washington-avenue and Congress-street bridges, as
to-day the demands of traffic are such that these bridges are
unable to cope with them.
FERRY DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Specials.
$248,754:06 141,988.16
The new coal elevator has been completed, and the storage
facilities for coal at the ferry wharves has been increased
about 2,700 tons, thus making it possible to take advantage
of the coal market at favorable times.
The piers and drops have been repaired, and are now in
good condition.
The new head-house will be completed about the first of
June "next, and with this open to the public the terminal
facilities at the ferries will be all that is required to meet the
demands for some years to come. Money should be provided
for fitting out the machine and other shops connected with
the head-house, that the many repairs necessary to the proper
maintenance of the boats, etc., of the division can at all
times be promptly made.
10 City Document No. 40.
PAVING DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Specials.
$931,349.52. $644,948.00
A large area of down-town streets have been paved with
granite blocks with cement grout joints on a concrete base,
among them being Atlantic avenue and Commercial street.
These two thoroughfares, connecting as they do the North
and South Stations and lined on the water side by wharves,
are very heavily travelled streets, and their reconstruction
was urgently requested for years by the teaming interests of
the city.
The work of down-town paving, so called, should be
carried on, and money provided, to the end that every street
in the business section will be surfaced in a first-class man-
ner, thus providing what is essfintial to every progressive
municipality, well-paved streets in the teaming district.
A new stone-crushing plant, with a daily capacity of 500
tons, has been erected at the Columbia-road ledge, near
Brunswick street. This plant was made necessary by the
heavy dem^ands on the division for crushed stone for new
macadam roads in the outlying districts of the city.
About 80,000 square yards of asphalt on a concrete base
have been laid, under a ten-years' maintenance guarantee.
Work on "328" streets has progressed rapidly, and 34
streets and 21 public alleys have been under construction.
SANITARY DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Specials.
1628,000.50. $24,578.96
' The work of this division is greatly hampered by the
scarcity of available dumps for clean ashes, and relief might
be had, particularly in the North and West Ends, by the
purchase and location of a Barney dumping boat at the old
Charles River-avenue bridge, to which material collected
could be delivered and thence towed to sea.
Money should be provided for this purpose, as we now
haul to Cambridge and pay for the privilege of dumping.
A dumping platform for ashes should be provided at the
South End yard for the disposal of the collections in the
section south of Massachusetts avenue.
The necessity of establishing a yard in the Dorchester
Street Department. 11
district grows more urgent with the increase of population in
this section.
Money is available for buildings, and money should be
provided to purchase the necessary plant as soon as possible,
thus doing away with the contract system, and doing the
work with the department force, a method much to be
preferred.
SEWER DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance. Sewerage Works.
$345,669.05 $883,931.13
The Sewer Division has been engaged in the construction
of house sewers and surface drains in a large number of
" 323 " streets, many of which have been completed.
Work has progressed rapidly on Ston}^ brook as far as
outlined, and the question of the location of the brook
towards Forest Hills should be taken up at once that the
work of construction may not be delayed.
It is imperative that money be provided for the cleaning
of sewers and catch-basins as upon investigation so much
deposit has been found in the sewers that their capacity has
been greatly reduced, and complaints from abutters as to
flooded cellars, etc., have been the result.
The constant increase in the miles of sewers built demands
a proportional increase in the amount of the appropriation
for maintenance as imperfect sewerage facilities are a menace
to the health of every community.
Work at the pumping station in preparation for the new
engine has progressed very favorably, and the pump wells,
masonry settings, etc., will be built during the coming year
so that no delay to the installing of the new 72,000,000
gallons engine may occur when it is delivered.
Attention is called tg the exhaustive statement and map
shown in Appendix E outlining the policy of the division for
future years, and steps should be taken and money provided
that these recommendations may be carried out.
STREET-CLEANING DIVISION.
Expenditures.
Maintenance . . . . 1356,445.72
On account of the great amount of new paving in the
down-town district and the construction of a large number
12 City Document No. 40.
of public alleys, the patrol work of this division has been
greatly increased.
The additional large area to be cared for, particularly in
the business district, means a great increase in the work
and an extension of the service. Money should be provided
at the earliest possible moment for this work.
The condition of some of our asphalt streets and the
carelessness of some drivers led to the purchase of a sanding
machine, which has given good satisfaction wherever used.
The number of well-built residential streets in Dorchester
calls for the establishment of a street-cleaning force in this
district, and, as noted in the Sanitary Division statement, the
only solution of this question is the establishment of a yard
in this district. The stables, sheds, etc., of this division are
in an almost dilapidated condition, and money should be pro-
vided for the purpose of thoroughly repairing or rebuilding
them.
STREET-WATERING DIVISION.
Expenditures.
$164,259.36.
The cost of watering the streets during the past year has
been paid from the tax levy in accordance with the action of
the City Council. The service was well performed, as fewer
complaints were received this year than ever before.
The constant increase in the miles of streets constructed
should occasion an increase in the appropriation for street
watering, as macadam roads to be well kept should be
frequently watered,
BOSTON AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES.
Expenditures.
118,394.97.
The paving of the roadway and draw of 'Harvard bridge
with wooden blocks was begun last year, and will be finished
early in the coming spring.
The paving is laid under a ten years' maintenance guaran-
tee, and provides a better travelling surface than the old
one of sheathing with 2-inch spruce.
The work of supervising this construction, as well as all
other matters pertaining to the management of these bridges.
Street Department.
13
has been borne almost entirely by my fellow-commissioner,
Mr. William J. Marvin, of Cambridge, to whom should be
accorded the credit for the efficient manner in which the
bridges have been conducted.
SUMMARY OF WORK DONE.
Bridge Division.
Overhauled and thoroughly repaired the following bridges,
viz. :
Berkeley-street, Commercial-point, Federal-street and
Massachusetts avenue.
Scraped and painted ironwork on Beacon-street, Berkeley-
street, Berwick-park, Boylston-street, Charlesgate West,
Chelsea (South), Columbus-avenue, Federal-street, Irvington-
street, Massachusetts-avenue, Meridian-street and West
Rutland-square bridges.
New sidewalks built on Beacon-street and Massachusetts-
avenue bridges.
Fences painted on Byron-street, Coramercial-point, Hunt-
ington-avenue, Milton and West Newton-street bridges.
A new brick stable and workshop has been erected on
Broadway, near Dorchester avenue.
The stable at the North yard and the draw-house and
drawbridge gates at Warren bridge have been painted, as
have also the doors to the storehouses under the Charlestown
bridge.
Ferry Division.
Five ferry-boats have been running on full time during
the entire year.
A new coal elevator, new piers, wharves and landings
have been erected at the South Ferry, East Boston side, and
a new head-house and workshops have been contracted for,
and are in process of erection at this ferry.
Paving Division.
Granite block paving laid as follows :
On concrete base, with grout joints
" " " " pitch 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 ....
Edgestones, set or reset .
. 85,923 .
square yards
7,872
. 13,440
1,671
. 45,644
. 218,365
. 14,042
. 14,179
(( (;
. 396,814 linear feet
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City Document No. 40.
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
167,861 square feet
167,450 square yards
4,859
28,192
11,813
80,629
79,743
8,000
499,000
Work has progressed on thirty-four (34) new streets, and
twenty-one (21) public alleys laid out and ordered con-
structed under chapter 323 of the Acts of 1891 and amend-
ments, and twenty-five (25) streets, and nineteen (19) public
alleys have been completed.
Sanitary Division.
Collected and removed three hundred and forty-two thou-
sand, nine hundred and forty (342,940) loads of house dirt
and ashes, nineteen thousand three hundred and twenty-
five (19,325) loads of wastes and rubbish and sixty-six
thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight (66,758) loads of
house offal.
Sewer Division.
Built twenty-five and seventy-eight hundredths (25.78)
miles of sewers, and five hundred and eighty (580) catch-
basins, flushed two hundred and sixty-six (266) miles of
sewers, removed fifteen hundred and forty-seven (1,547)
cubic yards of deposit from sewers, and eight thousand two
hundred and five (8,205) cubic yards from the pumping
station ; cleaned nine thousand four hundred and twenty-five
(9,425) catch-basins, removing twenty-six thousand four
hundred and fifty-one (26,451) cubic yards of deposit.
Street-Cleaning Division.
Cleaned fourteen thousand two hundred and sixty-three
{14,263) miles of paved streets and gutters, removed two
hundred fifty-six thousand nine hundred and seventeen
(256,917) loads of street sweepings, etc., and emptied twelve
thousand five hundred and twenty-two (12,522) public waste
barrels.
Street-Watering Division.
Watered four hundred and sixty (460) miles of public
streets.
Street Department.
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Financial Statement of the Street Department Appropriation.
February, i, 1901, to January SI, 1902.
Maintenance.
Appropriation.
Appropriations
and Transfers
during 1901.
Revenue.
Total Credits.
Expenditures for
the twelve months
ending
January 31, 1902.
Street Department :
1 $24,999 83
2 170,395 12
3 1S,39'1 97
^ 248,754 06
5 929,572 93
c 623,000 50
' 344,706 58
8 356,445 72
3 164,259 36
$24,999 83
170,866 18
18,394 97
248,754 06
931,349 52
623,000 50
345,669 05
356,445 72
164,259 36
«24,999 83
170,866 18
18 394 97
Bridge Division
Boston and Cambridge Bridges.
$471 06
1,776 59"
248,754 06
931,349 52
623,000 50
962 47
345,669 05
356,445 72
164.259 36
Totals '
.$2,880,529 07
$3,210 12
$2,883,739 19
$2,883,739 19
1 Appropriation $25,000 00
Transferred to Bridge Division 17
$24,999 83
2 Appropriation $165,000 00
Revenue 471 06
Transferred from Mt. Washington
Avenue Bridge, repairs 3,288 60
Transferred from Ferry Division.. 1,959 87
Transferred from Cambridge and
Boston bridges 105 03
Transferred from Sewer Division.. 41 45
Transferred from Central office — 17
$170,866 18
3 Appropriation $18,.500 00
Transferred to Bridge Division 105 03
$18,394 97
* Appropriation $250,600 00
Transferred from " Gen-
eral Revenue " 3,113 93
Transferred to Paving
Division $3,000 00
Transferred to Bridge
Division 1,959 87
$248;
$253,713 93
959 87
754 06
» Appropriation. . , $846,000 00
Revenue 1,776 59
Transferred from Beacon street,
Massachusetts avenue to Raleigh
street 29,350 09
Transferred from Sewer Division . . 20,046 89
Transferred from General Revenue 12,653 66
Transferred from Sanitary Divi-
sion 6,999 50
Transferred from Street Cleaning
Division 4,500 00
Transferred from Public Buildings
Department 4,000 00
Transferred to Dock and Adams
squares, Faneuil Hall square to
Elm street 3,022 79
Transferred from Ferry Division . . 3,000 00
$931,349 52
0 Appropriation $637,000 00
Transferred from Public Buildings
Department 3,000 00
$640,000 00
Transferred to City
Treasury $10,000 00
Transferred to Paving-
Division 6,999 50
16,999 50
$623,000 50
7 Appropriation $373,000 00
Transferred from Public
Buildings Department 2,000 00
Revenue 962 47
$375,962 47
Transferred to Citv
Treasury \ $10,000 00
Transferred to Paving
Division 20,046 89
Transferred to Street-
Cleaning Division 205 08
Transferred to Bridge
Division 41 45
30,293 42
$345,669 05
8 Appropriation $379,000 00
Transferred from Public Build-
ings Department 1,000 00
Transferred from Street-Watering
Division 740 64
Transferred from Sewer Division, 205 08
$380,945 72
Transferred to City
Treasury $20,000 00
Transferred to Paving
Division 4,500 00
24,500 00
$356,445 72
9 Appropriation $175,000 00
Transferred to City
Treasury $10,000 00
Transferred to Street
Cleaning Division 740 64
10,740 64
$164,259 36
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Street Improvements.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from Febru-
ary 1, 1901, to
January 31,
1902.
Balance
on hand
January 31,
1902.
Street Improvements Ward
Street Improvements.
Totals.
$3,994 45
16,215 85
18,879 60
23,518 35
16,154 30
14,481 88
18,708 20
18,622 30
10,647 15
18,401 74
2,515 81
8,469 52
2,696 49
6,222 78
8,702 13
620,814 50
$3,994 45
16,215 85
6,365 71
5,781 68
16,l.'i4 30
14,481 88
18,708 20
18,622 30
10,647 15
12,680 37
2,515 81
8,469 52
2,696 49
6,222 78
8,702 13
620,814 50
$809,045 05
$773,073 12
i$12,513 89
117,736 67
»5,721 37
$35,971 93
1^ Transferred to Street Improvements.
Bridge Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Bal-
ances and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1901, to Jan.
31, 1902.
Balances on
hand .Tan.
31, 1902.
Broadway bridg:e, rebuilding ,
Congress-street bridge, repairs ,
Dover-street bridge, tearing out old
worlj
Mt. Washington-avenue bridge, re-
pairs
Nev7 Charlestovrn bridge, public land-
ing
Rosseter-street steel foot-bridge
Winthrop bridge
Totals
$12 25
5,000 00
1,916 00
5,400 00
1,000 00
6,300 00
940 00
$12 25
111 37
1,916 00
2,111 40
393 08
'"946 '66'
$4,888 63
See Note (i)
606 92
See Note i-\
$20,568 25
$5,484 10
$5,495 55
Note : 1 Transferred to Bridge Division $3,288 60
2 " " City Treasury 6,300 00
Total $9,588 60
Ferry Division Specials.
Object of Appropriation.
Appropria-
tions, Bal-
ances and
Transfers.
Expended
from Feb. 1,
1901, to Jan.
31, 1902.
Balances on
hand, Jan.
31, 1902.
NevF Ferry Landing (Chap. 435, Acts
of 1895)
Totals .
$52,627 87
$52,627 87
$41,988 16
$41,988 16
$10,639 71
$10,639 71
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City Document No. 40.
Paving Division Specials.
Object of Appropriations.
Appropriations
Balances and
Transfers.
Expended
fi-om Feb. 1,
1901, to Jan. 31,
1902.
Balances on
hand Jan. 31,
1902.
Abolishment of Grade Crossings
Arlington street
Athens street
Atlantic avenue
Beacon street, Arlington street to
Dartmouth street
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue
to Raleigh street
Bowen street
Boylston street, Arlington street to
Berkeley street ".
Boylston street, Tremont street to
Arlington street
Buildings, Chelsea street
Carleton street
Commercial street, Fleet street to
Clinton street
Commercial street, Prince street,
across Eastern avenue
Congress street, Milk street to Atlan-
tic avenue
Congress street, Milk street to Water
street
Copley square, streets bounding
Dock and Adams squares, Faneuil
Hall square to Elm street
East First street
Faneuil Hall square, south of Faneuil
Hall
Franklin street
Freeport street, i-etaining wall
Gold street
Harrison avenue
Hiofh street
India street
Massacliusetts avenue
Maiden bridge
Milk street. Pearl street, across Oliver
street
Milk street, Washington street, to
Congress street-
Neponset avenue
Pearl street
Silver street
Summer street
Temple place
Temple-street tunnel
Tremont street
Tudor street
Union street
Totals
$6,960 51
31,000 00
3,900 00
38,962 88
15,337 66
42,000 00
7,700 00
34,000 00
5,527 36
330 26
30,207 62
47,029 95
26,800 GO
17,689 31
48,799 25
23,445 45
32,300 00
4,300 00
20,847 58
776 28
7,700 00
3,037 47
45,682 39
10,100 00
88,277,87
26,472 55
5,100 00
12,348 95
25,128 01
16,700 00
7,700 00
2,765 42
1,577 17
15,000 00
18,653 89
3,700 00
18,400 00
$6,960 51
31,000 00
3,762 59
38,962 88
15,337 66
12,649 91
6,476 88
3,665 58
29,306 00
2,391 92
330 26
30,207 62
47.029 95
26.030 70
17,125 91
42,086 15
18,377 21
29,592 29
4,.800 00
20,847 58
776 28
6,712 24
2,639 80
44,945 59
9,745 34
79,008 52
26,472 55
5,100 00
11,357 46
25,128 01
16,700 00
4,293 11
2,765 42
733 48
438 37
3,285 23
18,400 00
1 137 41
2 29,3.50 09
11,223 12
1321 30
14,694 00
13,135 44
1 769 30
1 563 40
16,713 10
12,045 45
2 3,022 79
1 2,707 71
1987 76
1397 67
1736 80
1354 66
19,269 35
1 991 49
13,406 89
1843 69
3 15,000 00
1 18,215 52
1414 77
$750,244 71
$644,943 00
$105,301 71
I Transferred to " Street Improvements ".
= " " " Paving Division".
3 " " "City Treasury ".
Sanitary and Street-Cleaning Divisions Special.
Ob-ject of Appropriations.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Tranfers.
Expended
from
Feb. 1, 1901, to
Jan. 31, 1902.
Balances
on hand
Jan. 31, li^02.
Land and Buildings, Sanitary and
Street-Cleaning Divisions, Dorches-
$75,000 00
$24,578 96
$50,421 04
Totals
$75,000 00
$24,578 96
$50,421 04
Street Department.
19
Sewer Division Special.
Object of Appropriations.
Appropria-
tions, Balances
and
Transfers.
Expended
from
Feb. 1,1901, to
Jan. 31, 1902.
Balances
on hand
Jan. 31, 1902.
$1,036,392 69
$883,931 13
$152,461 56
Totals
$1,036,392 69
$883,931 13
$152,461 56
Laying=Out and Construction of Highways.
Expenditures.
Sewer construction
Street construction
Total .
Street construction
Street construction
Street construction
Street construction
$4,498 02
10,815 63
Brighton.
Dorchester.
East Boston.
Roxbury and West Roxbury.
$15,313 65
$1,226 35
$2,173 91
$2,254 21
$1,263 99
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways.
{Chapter 478, Acts of 1900.)
Sewer construction $308,443 47
Street construction . . . . . . 499,848 57
Total
,292 04
Construction of Highways Already Laid Out.
Sewer construction . " . . . . . $15,301 86
Street construction ...... 15,830 49
Total $31,132 35
Blue Hill and Other Avenues.
Expenditures, Street Construction.
Blue Hill avenue . $17,256 19
Commonwealth avenue ..... 23,124 26
Total
),380 45
20
City Document No. 40.
Recapitulation of Expenditures for the Twelve Months Ending
January 31, 1902.
Object of Appropriations.
Current
Expenses.
Special
Appropria-
tions.
Totals.
Street Department :
Central Oifice
Bridge Division
Boston and Cambridge Bridges.
rerry Division
Paving Division
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division
Street -Cleaning Division
Street- Watering Division
Street Improvements
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways
Laying-Out and Constniction of
Highways (Brighton)
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways (Dorchester)
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways (East Boston)
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways (Roxbury and West
Roxbury)
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways (Chap. 478 of 1900)
Construction of Highways Already
Laid Out
Blue Hill and Other Avenues.
$24,999 83
170,866 18
18,394 97
248,754 06
931,349 52
623,000 50
345,669 05
356,445 72
164,269 36
5,484 10
41,988 16
644,943 00
24,578 96
883,931 13
773,073 12
15,313 65
1,226 35
2,173 91
2,254 21
1,263 99
808,292 04
31,132 35
40,380 45
$24,999 83
176,350 28
18,394 97
290,742 22
1,576,292 52
647,579 46
1,229,600 18
356,445 72
164,259 36
773,073 12
15,313 65
1,226 85
2,173 91
2,254 21
1,263 99
808,292 04
31,132 35
40,380 46
Totals ,
$2,883,739 19
$3,276,035 42
$6,159,774 61
Street Department.
21
List of Contracts from February 1, 1901, to January 31, 1902,
Made by the Street Department.
Paving Blocks.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per M. deliv-
ered on
Wharves.
Streets.
Large paving blocks,
3,000,000
Rockport Granite
March 25, 1901..
April 3, 1901 ....
$60 00
Large paving blocks
(Quincy), Neponset
S. & R. J. Lombard,
S.& R.J.Lombard,
S. & R. J. Lombard,
S. &R.J. Lombard,
$52 00
Large paving blocks
(Quincy), Adams
July 8, 1901
52 00
Large paving blocks
(Quincy), Blue Hill
August 1, 1901 . .
58 00
Large paving blocks
(Quincy), Columbia
November 11,
1901
58 00
Bank Gravel and Sand.
District.
Awarded to
Dated.
Price double load of
40 cubic feet.
Gravel.
Sand.
South Boston
Frank J. Hannon
Estate of P. O'Riorden,
Estate of P^O'Riorden,
John O'Brien & Son....
J. A. Whittemore
Old Colony Sand and
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14,1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
Feb. 14, 1901....
$1 48
1 54
1 40
1 30
1 08
1 49
1 35
1 55
1 45
1 0
$1 35
1 54
Charlestown
1 10
1 30
West Roxbury
Dorchester
1 08
1 37
Charles J. Jacobs
Old Colony Sand and
Stone Co
1 44
City Proper:
District 8
1 45
City Proper:
District 9
Edward A.Janse
Estate of P. O'Riorden,
1 45
City Proper:
District 10
1 10
Note. — Single loads to cost one-half of the foregoing prices.
22
City Document No. 40.
Crosswalk Flagging.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per Square
Foot.
On Wharves.
On Streets.
S. &R. J. Lombard
A. Ford & Son
Aprils, 1901....
Aprils, 1901....
$0 30
29i
f 0 34
32
Spruce Lumber.
District.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per
M. ft. B. M.
rough.
South Boston..
East Boston. ..
Charlestown . . .
Brighton
West Roxbury
Dorchester.. ..
Roxbury
City Proper. . .
Curtis & Pope Lumber Co. ..
J. O. Wetherbee
J. O. Wetherbee
C. W. Leatherbee Co
C. W. Leatherbee Co
Curtis & Pope Lumber Co. . .
C. W. Leatherbee Co
J. O. Wetherbee
Feb. 8, 1901
Feb. S, 1901
Feb. S, 1901
Feb. S, 1901
Feb. 8, 1901,
Feb. 8, 1901
Feb, S, 1901
Feb. 8, 1901
$18 00
17 75
17 75
18 75
18 75
18 75
18 50
17 75
Beach Gravel.
District.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per
ton.delivered
on wharves.
City wharves
M. .
r. Mahoney
Feb. 1, 1901
$0 58
Edgestone.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per
lineal foot.
Furnishing circular
March 30, 1901..
July 30, 1901....
Augiist 1,1901..
$1 30
78
Furnishing 200 lineal
feet edgestone, deliv-
ered on Storer street. .
S. & R. J. Lombard
Furnishing 4,000 lineal
feet edgestones, deliv-
ered on East First
S. & R. J. Lombard
73
Street Depaktment.
23
Iron Castings.
Contract.
Awarded to
Dated
Price per
100 lbs., de-
livered at
yards.
The Sessions Foundry Com-
Feb. 1,1901
$1 34
Coal.
Contract.
10,000 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
1,200 tons, Ferry Wharves
1,800 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
1,200 tons, Pumping Station,
Dorchester
250 tons Anthracite Fiirnace,
Pumping Station, Lyons street
1,200 tons. Pumping Station,
Dorchester
1,500 tons. Pumping Station,
Dorchester
2,000 tons Ferry Wharves
Awarded to
Dated.
Price per ton,
2,240 lbs.
John Morrison
John Morrison
John Morrison
John Morrison
Marston Coal Co...
Garfield and Proc
tor Coal Co
Garfield and Proc
tor Coal Co
John Morrison
March 4, 1901...
March 4,1901...
May 11, 1901....
June 5, 1901....
June 18, 1901....
August 13, 1901.
October 22, 1901.
January 20, 1902
$3 20
3 50
3 50
3 50
4 98
3 40
3 40
3 79
Leasing Ledge Lots.
Contract.
Lessors.
Dated
Price per ton
for stone re-
moved.
1 Lease of ledge on Columbia
road, near Brunswicli street. .
2 Lease of ledge on Centre street,
between AUandale and Walter
streets .'
2 Lease of ledge, Kenney street,
near Day
2 Lease of ledge on Iffley and
Montebello roads
2 Lease of ledge on Iffley and
Montebello roads and Wash-
ington street. West Roxbury..
W.J. Wilcox eiaZs..
Joseph H. Rowe
James W. Kenney. .
William A.'Mosman,
William A. Mosman,
March 22 and
Jiine 12,1901..
April 20, 1900...
June 9, 1900
April 2, 1900....
Nov. 17, 1900....
$0 10
18
17
12i
1 Expires March 22, 1906.
2 Expires February 1, 1902.
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City Document No. 40.
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt, February 1, 1902.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Albany at
Albany st
Andrews st
Arch st
Arlington st
Ash st
Avon st
Barton court
Batterymarch st. . .
Beacon st
Beacon at
Beacon st
Beacon st
Bennet st
Bond st
Boylston st ,. ..
Boylston st
Boylston st
Boylston st
Brattle sq
Brighton st
Brimmer st
Broadway
Castle st
Cazenove st
Central st
Chambers st
Chambers st
Chandler st
Carried forward.
0 ft. north of Broadway across
Way st
E. Concord st. to 225 ft. north of
Massachusetts ave
B. Dedham to E. Canton st.
Eranklin to Mills: st
Boylston to Beacon st
Bennet to Nassau st
Washington to Cbauncy st. .
Barton to Brighton st
Milk St. to Liberty sq
Charles across Arlington st.
Easterly side of Dartmouth to
within 150 ft. of westerly line of
Gloucester st
150 ft. from westerly line of
Gloucester to 68 ft. beyond west-
erly line of Gloucester st
8 ft. west of Gloucester st. to Mas-
sachusetts ave
90 ft. west of Harrison ave. to 162
ft. east of Washington st
Hanson to Milford st
Tremont st. across Boylston pi.
Charles to Arlington st
Easterly side of Berkeley across
Clarendon st
Clarendon across Dartmouth st
Brattle to Elm st
Leverett to Allen st
Beacon to Pinckney st
Albany to 105 ft. west of Albany st.,
Castle sq. easterly
Columbus ave. to 45 ft. south of
Columbus ave
Broad to Kilby st
Green across Poplar st.
Brighton to Charles st..
At Castle sq
105
450
216
426
1,324
230
437
134
150
1,744
218
1,019
180
192
357
854
656
649
281
845
1,087
105
45
313
460
272
397
2,700
312
1,267
7,355
427
1,081
186
466
5,945
9,277
1,183
5,391
350
426
1,395
5,030
3,869
3,450
• 670
1,737
3,300
467
427
100
869
1,061
604
51
1899
1884
1899
1883-93
1901
1887
1901
1894
1896
1891-01
1892
1898
1893
1887
1895
1901
1901
1897
1901
1888
1892
1895
1899
1899
1899
1887
1894
1895
1899
13,615
59,793
Street Department.
49
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt.— Continued.
City Proper,
Name.
Location.
Length.
Year
Laid.
Brought forward
Charles
Charter st
Cherry st
Clark 8t
Columbus ave
Columbus ave
Congress sq
Cooper st
Cooper st
Corniug st
Court st
Court sq
Dartmouth st
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 ,
Harrison ave
Hay ward pi ,
Hollis st
Hudson st ,
Southerly side of Fruit across Allen
st
Hanover across Unity st
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
Hanover to North st
B. & A. R.R. bridge across Massa-
chusetts ave
Massachusetts ave. to 301 feet south
of Camden st
From Congress sq. to Congress st...
N. Margin across Endicott st
Endicott to Charlestown st
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
Washington st. to Court sq
Court St. to Court st
Buckingham st. to B. & A. R.R
Huntington ave. to Boylston st
Boylston to Newbury st
Washington st. to Harrison ave
Milk to Water st
Kilby to Broad st
Essex to Beach st
Cooper across Thacher st
Congress to Kilby st
At Castle sq
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
Hanover to North st
22 ft. south of Kneeland to 22 ft.
north of Harvard st
Asylum across Davis st
E. Newton to E. Springfield st
E. Springfield st. to 90 ft. southerly
Harrison ave. to Washington st
Tremont toward Washington st
Beach to 90 ft. north of Curve st.
(miniis Kneeland and Harvard
sts. intersections)
13,615
706
318
334
319
3,505
903
209
194
205
338
231
665
127
234
266
323
262
312
470
318
244
37
335
307
249
158
928
260
276
1,407
59,793
1,804
636
594
614
15,000
5,418
400
597
604
734
642
1,883
580
1,890
2,058
646
786
624
924
1,078
678
107
558
266
885
300
2,681
130
578
521
3,938
1899
1804
1892
1892
1884-87-
88-91-99
1883-
1900
1887
1887-97
1883-96
1891
1881-94
1899
1901
1894
1892
1899
1881
1895
1884-99
1887
1899
1892
1892
1899
1901
1888-95
1888
1898
1891
1891
Carried forward,
28,055
107,937
50
City Document No. 40.
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Brought Jorward.
Huntington ave —
Kilbyst
Laconia st
La Grange st
Lincoln pi
Malcolm st
Mason st
MasBachnsetts ave..
Massachusetts ave..
Massachusetts ave..
Moon st
N. Bennet st
N. Margin st
Oxford st
Parkman st
Parmenter st
Pinckney st
Pinest
Pleasant st
Poplar st
Public alley 301
Public alley 401
Public alley 402
Public alley 403
Public alley 414
Public alley 415
Public alley 416.....
Carried forward,
Boylston, across Dartmouth st
State to Milk st., including Liberty
Bq
Washington st. to Harrison ave
Tremont, toward Washington st
Worcester to Springlield st
Mt. Vernon to Chestnut st
Avery to Tremout st
Columbus ave. to Tremont st.,
southerly roadway
Tremout st. to Shawmut ave.,
southerly roadway
Shawmut ave. to Washington st.
southerly roadway
North sq. to Lewis st
Hanover to Salem st
Stillman to Thacher st
Beach to Essex st
N. Anderson, across Blossom st
Hanover to Salem st
Charles, across Brimmer st
Washington st. to Harrison ave
Bridge over Boston Elevated Rail-
way
Chambers to Charles st ,
Pinckney to River st
Between Huntington ave. and St.
Botolph St., from Irvington to
Garrison st
Between Huntington ave. and St.
Botolph St., from Garrison to W.
Newton st
Between Huntington ave. and St.
Botolph St., from W. Newton to
Cumberland st
Between Beacon and Marlboro' sts.,
from .53 ft. east of Massachusetts
ave. to Hereford st
Between Beacon and Marlboro' sts.,
from Hereford to Gloucester st-. ..
Between Beacon and Marlboro' sts.,
from Gloucester to Fairfield st
28,055
618
330
181
217
261
85
267
470
180
182
552
519
430
241
279
271
419
55
1,188
270
355
614
398
524
38,309
107,937
5,493
727
355
313
290
206
1,621
2,934
994
884
• 920
1,154
735
550
764
723
597
128
2,442
400
374
370
574
382
494
136,282
1901
1881-88-
98
1896
1897
1897
1892
1900
1892
1892
1892
1891
1883
1895
1895
1898
• 1893
1895
1896
1900
1887-92
1897
1899
1899
1901
1901
1901
Street Department.
51
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Brought forward.
Public alley 417
Public alley 419
Public alley 420
Public alley 423
Public alley 426. . . .
Public alley 428
Public alley 431
Public alley 437
Public alley 701
St. James ave
Spring 8t
Stevens st
Stillman st
Stoddard st
Sun Court st
Temple pi
Tbacher st
Tileston st
Tileston st
Tremont st
Tremont st
Tremont st
Trinity pi
Trinity pi
Unity st
Carried forward.
Between Beacon and Marlboro' sts.,
from Fairfield to Exeter sts ,
Between Beacon and Marlboro' sts.,
from Dartmouth to Clarendon St.,
Between Beacon and Marlboro sts.,
from Clarendon to Berkeley st
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlboro' St., from Berkeley to
Clarendon st - ..
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlboro' st., from Exeter to
Fairfield st
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlboro' st., from Gloucester to
205 ft. east of Hereford st
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury St.. from 205 ft. east of
Hereford to 83 ft. west of Glouces-
ter St.
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury St., from Berkeley to Ar-
lington st
Between Union Park and Upton
sts., from 130 ft. east of Tremont
St. to Shawnrat ave
At Huntington ave
Poplar to Leverett st
Lincoln pi., toward Shawmut ave. .
Endicott, across N. Margin st
Howard to Court st
North to Moon st
Washington to Tremont st
Charlestown to Endicott st
155 ft. west of Hanover, across
Unity st
Unity to Salem st
Scollay sq. to 23 ft. north of Beacon
st
21 ft. south of Beacon to Boylston
st
At Castle sq
St. James ave., across Stuart st.
Stuart, across Stanhope st
Charter to Tileston st
38,309
624
575
580
580
190
107
631
48,506
136,282
583
511
515
516
595
193
521
611
1899
123
600
1901
447
90S
1895
16
22
1897
170
463
1892
135
150
1892
151
218
- 1891
503
1,621
1900
203
562
1892
254
346
1887
163
124
1895
460
1,586
1900
2,090
8,784
1900
67
886
1899
391
1.130
1899
262
757
1900
330
500
1897
159,109
1901
1899
1901
52
City Document No. 40.
List of Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Lengtli.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Brought forward,
48,506
670
468
255
252
159,109
1,587
910
694
682
64
240
119
38
Eliot to Tremont st
1884-91
Warrenton at
Sliawmut ave. to Washington st
Congress to Kilby st
1891
1889
1896
West st
At Tremont st
1900
Wiget St
259
107
1897
1887
1900
50,517
163,453
Charlestown.
Seminary pi. to Lawrence st .
At Tufts st
156
451
150
533
276
243
390
284
415
670
1891
Bunker Hill st.
1897
Charlestown bridge
60
124
81
180
128
141
165
1899
124 ft. north of Moulton to Moulton
st
1897
Easterly side of Corey st. to Vine St.,
1897
1897
Devon St., 128 ft. westerly
1897
Tufts st
Bunker Hill st., 141 ft. northerly. . . .
Bunker Hill, across Moulton st
1897
Vinest
1897
985
3,412
South Boston.
D st
W. Fifth to Gold st
126
111
360
91
185
448
410
480
305
769
1889
E st
W. Third to Bolton st
1892
1891
W. Sixth st
160 ft. east of C, towards D st
153 ft. west of E, across E st
1887
W. Third st
1892
873
2,412
Street Department.
53
Streets Paved with Trinidad Asphalt. — Concluded.
Roxbury.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Cabot St
Cabot st
Cabot st
Columbus ave.
Public alley 404. ...
Public alley 405. . . .
Public alley 428.
Public alley 429.
Public alley 431.
Tremont to Ruggles st
Easterly side of Ruggles to Vernon
st '
Easterly side of Vernon to Linden
Park st
301 ft. south of Camden, across
Terry st
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 of
northeast side of Massachusetts
ave
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlboro st., from 205 ft. east
of Hereford st. to Hereford st
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Marlboro st., from 55 ft. west
of Hereford st. to 77 ft. east of
Massachusetts ave
205 ft. east of Hereford to Hereford
st
1,236
723
484
2,640
534
100
205
533
205
3,571
2,988
1,390
15,840
533
89
502
182
25,281
1891
1892
1897
1896
1899
1901
1899
54
City Document No. 40.
List of Streets Paved with Sicilian Rock Asphalt, Feb. 1, 1902.
City Proper.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
259
285
403
220
360
403
1,856
695
600
347
370
716
202
170
421
318
383
315
1,591
565
492
1,251
213
231
344
318
263
251
307
325
332
204
215
352
1,710
1,522
391
275
683
9,933
3,773
1,270
1,041
781
2,075
348
387
615
560
597
934
8,840
2,135
1,859
5,004
473
470
2,030
2,121
1,256
418
437
253
516
226
335
1896
Easterly side of Stoughton across
1897
1901
1895
1897
1895
Beacon st
Arlington to Dartmouth st
Easterly side of Arlington to Berke-
1900-01
1900
Bradford st
Waltham st. to Shawmut ave
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
Washington st. to Harrison ave
1897
Cobli st
1897
1892
1893
1901
Exeter pi...
Fabin st
1897
1895
Fay st : . . .
1894
1896
Hanover st
Tileston across Charter st
1896
Huntington ave. . . .
India st
B. & A. R.E. to Cumberland st
Milk to India st. (formerly India sq.;
1896
1901
1899
Marlboro' st
Arlington to Clarendon st
190]
Mason st
West to 213 ft. south of West st
From 213 ft. south of West to 444
ft. south of West st
1901
Mason st
1894
Massachusetts ave.,
Washington st. to Harrison ave.
(southerly roadway)
1894
Massachusetts ave.,
Harrison ave. to Albany st. (south-
1894
1901
Mayo 8t
Castle to Cobb st
1897
Meander st
E. Dedham to Maiden st
1896
Morton st
1901
Motte st
Washington st to Harrison ave
1892-99
Mystic st
1896
1896
Carried forward.
15,225
53,620
Street Department.
65
List of Streets Paved with Sicilian Rock Asphalt. — Continued.
City Proper.
Name.
l/ocalion.
Length.
Area.
Year
Laid.
Brought forward,
15,225
216
205
221
343
168
323
293
213
555
580
631
555
351
1,142
327
196
485
530
249
53,620
337
518
339
277
523
1,365
654
497
483
544
589
529
312
2,235
945
274
985
1,413
445
E. Canton to E. Brookline st
Thacher towards Endicott st
1896
N. Margin st
1897
1896
Ohio st
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
Beacon st. to alley along Charles
1896
1901
Pemberton sq
Front of Suffolk County Court
1894
Prince st
Hanover st. to Bennet ave
1895
1900
Public alley 434 ... .
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury st., from Exeter to
1901
Public alley 436 ....
Between Commonwealth ave. and
Newbury St., from Clarendon to
1901
Public alley 438 ... .
Public alley 440 .. .
Public alley 443 ....
Between Newbury and Boylston sts.,
from Arlington to Berkeley st
Between Newbury and Boylston sts.,
from Dartmouth to Exeter st
Between Newbury and Boylston sts.,
from 59 ft. west of Eairfleld to
110 ft. east of Gloucester st
1901
1901
1901
"1901
Shawmut ave
132 ft. south of Castle across
1898
Taylor st
Dwight to Milford st.
1896
Tufts st
1901
Tyler st
1901
Whitmore st
Kneeland to Harvard st
1895
22,808
66,884
East Boston.
Trenton to Eutaw st
Charlestown.
East side of Lawrence ave. acres
Miller st
Main to Lawrence st
Winthrop to Soley st
Meridian st..
Lawrence st.
Miller st
Warren st. . .
600
385
203
127
715
1,014
383
365
1,762
1901
1901
1895-01
56
City Document No. 40.
List of Streets. Paved with Sicilian Rock Asphalt. — Concluded.
South Boston.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Year
Laid.
Athens St
Athens St
Athens st
Bowen st
Bowen st
E. Broadway.
Gold st
Goldst
K st
Silver st
Silver st
Tudor st
W. Broadway
W. Broadway
W. Broadway
W. Broadway
W. Broadway
W. Second to A st
BtoC st
CtoDet
CtoDst
D to E st
Front of Lincoln School.
BtoCst
CtoD st
E. Sixth to E. Eighth St..
B to C st
CtoDst
C to D st
From 196 It. east of easterly line
of Dorchester ave. to A st
Gardner pi. to 150 ft. easterly.
New England Bridge to E st (4-foot
gutters)
150 ft. west of F to 267 ft. east of
F st
267 ft. east of F to 44 ft. west of
Dorchester st
617
515
519
519
523
ISO
524
521
566
522
520
515
360
150
448
410
916
746
750
750
755
1,000
747
753
1,083
754
751
744
1,440
648
1,487
1,544
1,818
7,409
16,686
1895
1892
1901
1901
1901
1897
1901
1901
1896
1901
1901
1901
1892
1893
1897
1897
1898
Roxbury.
Columbus ave
Huntington ave. . . .
Terry to 61 ft. north of Station st. . . .
Easterly side of Cumberland st. to
884
747
587
61
2,897
5,304
4,150
3,372
267
13,842
1896
1896
Himtington ave. . . .
Ipswich st
Massachusetts ave.,
Massachusetts ave. to Gainsboro' st.
1896
1898
Huntington ave. across Marlboro' st.
1901
5,176
26,935
Brighton.
Cottage Farm
Bridge . . .
Over B. & A. R.R.
1,556
189fr
Street Depabtment. 57
Streets Paved with Seyssel Rock Asphalt, February 1, 1902.
Name.
Location.
Length.
Area.
Tear
Laid.
505 1.122
1899
Mason et
444 ft. south of West to Avery st. . . .
123
308
506
133
276
320
182
222
116
316
265
274
1,068
236
456
693
184
222
103
544
1899
1899
Oswego St
Paul st
1899
Emerald to Village st
1897
Paul St
1897-99
Washington st. to Shawmut ave
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Columbus ave. to Tremont st. north-
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Sicilian Rock Asphalt 36,483 " "
Seyssel Rock Asphalt 3,007 " "
Other Asphalts 903 " "
Total Sheet Asphalt 99,428
Asphalt blocks 1,749
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6.91 " " 114,423 "
0.57 " " 5,167 "
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4.44 miles of public alleys, chap. 298, Acts of 1898, included in this table.
Total length of public streets, 496.90 miles.
There have been laid out and accepted by the Street Com-
missioners during the year 4.78 linear miles of public streets ;
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1859 111.50 miles.
1871 201.32 "
1872 207.40 "
1873 209.24 "
1874 313.90 "
1875 318.58 "
1876 327.50 "
1877 333.20 "
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1884 374.10 "
1885 379.60 "
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1887 390.30 "
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1889 397.84 "
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1895 452.12
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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, 1902, 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
$7,346 72
390' 00
165,220 62
105,512 72
14,486 74
10,394 25
1,488 72
$304,839 77
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 . . . . . '. . |7,302 46
Boston and Cambridge bridges
Ferry Division
Paving Division .
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division
Street-Cleaning Division
Street- Watering Division
390 00
165,339 62
86,923 44
13,079 74
11,096 58
1,501 47
37,491 59
,124 90
CENTRAL OFFICE DIVISION.
expenses of the central office.
For the current expenses of the Central Office the city.
Council appropriated the sum of twenty-five thousand
(25,000) dollars, which was expended as follows:
Salaries $20,875 15
General office expenditures . . 4,124 68
Total
$24,999 83
leaving a balance of seventeen cents, which was transferred
to the Bridge Division.
Respectfully submitted,
James Donovan,
■ Superintendent of Streets.
PART II.
APPENDICES.
PAGES I TO 280
APPENDIX A.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE BRIDGE DIVISION.
927 AND 928 Tkemont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan,
Superintendent of Streets, Boston :
Deab Sie, — I respectfully submit herewith the annual
report of the expenditures, income and operations of the
Bridge Division of the Street Department for the financial
year ending January 31,1902. 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, kinds of pavement, number of open-
ings made for navigation, and a list of the property of the
City of Boston in charge of the Bridge Division, etc.
The total number of bridges is 153, not including culverts.
Eight of these bridges, namely, Harvard, Canal, Prison Point,
West Boston, Essex street,' Cambridge street. Western ave-
nue to Cambridge, and North Harvard street, all connecting
Boston and Cambridge, are in charge of two commissioners,
one of whom is appointed by the Mayor of the City of Bos-
ton and the other by ihe Mayor of the City of Cambridge.
One hundred and thirteen bridges are supported wholly or
in part by the City of Boston, 28 of these are tide-water
bridges provided with a draw. Forty bridges are supported
wholly by railroad corporations. Of the tide-water bridges
there are 13 of great importance, namely, Mt. Washington
avenue, operated by hand power; the new Maiden bridge,
Charlestown bridge, Summer street, Chelsea North, Federal
street, Dover street, and Meridian street, all operated by
electricity ; Warren, Broadway, Congress street, L street,
and Chelsea, South, operated by steam power.
Work necessitating new floor beams, new deck and sheath-
4 City Document No. 40.
ing has been done on Berkeley street, Federal street, Massa-
chusetts avenue, and Commercial Point bridges. New steps
have been put on Irvington street footbridge. New side-
walks on Beacon street, L street, and Massachusetts avenue
bridges. Ironwork has been scraped and painted on Berke-
ley street. Federal street, Beacon street, Berwick park, Irv-
ington street, West Rutland square, Columbus avenue, Chel-
sea, South, Meridian street, Charlesgate West, Massachusetts
avenue and Boylston street bridges. Fences have been
painted on Milton, Huntington avenue, West Newton street,
Byron street and Commercial Point bridges.
Thfe stable at North Yard, drawhouse at Warren bridge,
gates on the drawbridges, and the doors to the storehouses
under the roadway of the new Charlestown bridge, have also
been painted.
The opening to Mt. Washington-avenue bridge has been
widened on the South Boston side, new hinges on Nepon-
set draw, abutment walls of Huntington avenue and Com-
mercial Point bridges have been repaired, trucks on Federal
street draw have been overhauled, piles under Cottage
street bridge. East Boston, have been braced. The up-
stream end of the pier of Broadway bridge has been rebuilt.
The new Maiden bridge, between Boston and Everett, the
construction of which has been in charge of the Engineering
Department, has been completed and is now open to travel.
A brick stable and workshop have been erected on the lot
owned by the City of Boston, 168-170 Broadway, near the
corner of Dorchester avenue. An iron stairway has been
erected on Summer-street bridge over B street. The wires
which supply the power to operate Federal-street bridge have
been replaced by lead covered cables to insure more perfect
insulation.
Repairs have been made to the electrical apparatus and
machinery of the draw of Meridian-street bridge. Congress-
street and Mt. Washington-avenue bridges are in need of
extensive repairs, also the piers and waterways of Meridian
street, Chelsea South, Neponset, and Broadway bridges.
The force employed on the tide-water bridges are all work-
ing on an 8-hour basis, which necessitated an increase of 40
per cent, of the force in order to cover the day of 24 hours.
The work performed by the men in charge of these bridges
has been generally satisfactory. They have kept the prem-
ises in good condition, 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.
Steeet Department — Bridge Drt.sion. 5
The Shawmut avenue bridge over the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Raiboad, Providence Division, and the
Boston & Albany Railroad needs rebuilding, and a special
appropriation should be provided for this work.
The City Engineer has called the attention of this depart-
ment to the dangerous condition of this bridge. Several
times during the past two years needed repairs were made at
various times in order to make it safe for travel. Early in
the present year it was found necessary to remove the iron
parapets, and after this had been done on one side of the
bridge a thorough examination was made by the City Engi-
neer, who reported that the bridge needed rebuilding in the
interest of public safety, and requested that it be made safe,
temporarily, for public travel. This has been done, and the
City Council should now be asked to provide money to
rebuild this bridge, as further repairs would be a useless
expenditure of money.
In order to avoid delay to navigation and street traffic the
Engineering Department has been requested to prepare plans
for six new trucks of different sizes, to be kept on hand*in
case of accident to those now in use, investigation having
brought out the fact that except in one or two cases there
was no provision made for such a contingency. This will
necessitate the expenditure of at least $2,500.
Additional expense will be incurred in the purchase of
duplicate sets of gearing and machinery, so that in cases of
accidents repairs can be made without delay to traffic and
navigation. -, ■ -,
Respectiuliy submitted,
J. P. Lomasney,
Deputy Superintendent.
OBJECT OF EXPENDITURES.
„^ Administration.
Oince expenses :
Printing and stationery . . . Si 03 25
Sundry office expenses ... . 139 78
$243 03
Salaries of Deputy Superintendent and clerical
force . . . . .... 6,976 07
Salaries of Supervisor and Foreman . . . 4,530 57
Board of Deputy Superintendent's horse and
extra horse ....... 625 70
Telephone at Deputy Superintendent's house . 116 49
Amount expended, administration . . . $12,491 86
6 City Document No. 40.
Maintenance Expenditubes.
Administration $12,491 86
On tide-water bridges . . . ' . . . 113,687 75
On inland bridges ...... 14,248 70
North yard and stable . . . . . . 5,41557
South yard and stable ...... 9,337 81
New brick stable and new South yard . . . 15,684 49
Total . . . . . . . . $170,866 18
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Maintenance Appropriation.
Appropriation, 1901-02 .....
Received from Metropolitan Steamship Company,
damage to fence ......
Received from Boston & Albany Railroad Com-
pany, for work done July, 1900, to July, 1901 .
Transferred from Mt. Washington-avenue bridge,
repairs ........
Transferred from Central Office ....
Transferred from Sewer Division ....
Transferred from Cambridge Bridges Division
Transferred from Ferry Division ....
Total
Amount of expenditures from February 1, 1901, to
January 31, 1902
$165,000 00
20
00
451
06
3,288
60
17
41
45
105
03
1,959
87
$170,866
18
$170,866
18
Special Appropriations in Charge of Bridge Division.
Name of Appkopriation.
Appropria-
tions and
Balances.
Expended
Eeb. 1, 1901,
toJan.31,1902,
Balances on
hand
Jan. 31, 1902.
New Charlestown bridge, public land-
ing
Congress-street bridge, repairs
Dover-street bridge, tearing out old
work
Mt. Washington-ay enue bridge, re-
pairs
Winthrop bridge
Totals
$1,000 00
5,000 00
1,916 00
2,111 40
940 00
$393 08
111 37
1,916 00
2,111 40
940 00
$606 92
4,888 63
$10,967 40
5,471 85
$5,495 55
Street Depaetment — Bridge Division. 7
Amount of expenditures February 1, 1901, to Jan-
uary 31, 1902 $5,471 85
Balances ........ 5,495 55
Amount of appropriations . . . . $10,967 40
Amounts Chakged to Special AppROPPaATiONS in Charge of
OTHER Divisions.
Name of Appropriation. Amount Expended.
Broadway bridge, rebuilding .... $12 25
Reserve fund . . . ... . 360 00
Total expended $372 25
Amount expended and charged to maintenance
appropriation $170,866 18
Amount expended and charged to Bridge Division
specials ........ 5,471 85
Amount expended and charged to appropriations
in chai'ge of other divisions . . . . 372 25
Grand total of expenditures February 1, 1901, to
January 31, 1902 $176,710 28
Income.
The amount of bills deposited with the City Collector during
the year was $7,346.72, and the amount received by the City
Collector on account of the Bridge Division during the same
period was $7,302.46.
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 ; table showing widths of
bridges and kind of roadway and sidewalks ; width of draw
openings ; also one showing number of draw openings made for
navigation :
TIDE-WATER BRIDGES.
Broadway bridge (over Fort Point channel) .
Patched deck and sheathing at various times, and
repaired draw pier, waterway and fence.
Labor .... $728 50
Material .... 1,726 57
$2,455 07
Carried forward . . . $2,455 07
CiT3^ Document No. 40.
brought forward
Regular expenses :
Salaries
Supplies .
. $2,455 07
. $6,853 34
307 90
7 1 fil ^A
Charlestown bridge (from BostoiTto Charles-
town) .
Sheathed draw twice, repaired sheathing in several
places, set up new motor, repaired asphalt over
storehouses, connected water pipes, built new
fence at end of roadway leading to storehouses,
and painted gates and doors.
Labor .... $1,462 37
Material .... 1,959 94
$3,422 31
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $9,055 68
Supphes . . . . 513 45
9,569 13
Chelsea bridge [north] (over north channel.
Mystic river) .
Sheathed draw, rebuilt chimney, repaired latch,
scuttle, waterway, float stage, gates, pier-cap,
water-closet and machinery.
Labor
. $212 50
Material .
531 98
$744 48
Regular expenses :
Salaries
. $6,264 25
Supplies .
121 33
6,385 58
Chelsea bridge [south] (over south channel,
Mystic river) .
Sheathed draw, patched deck, built new chimney,
repaired fence, gates, machinery, pier, and
painted engine-room and top of draw.
Labor .... $546 50
Material . . . . 305 49
$851 99
1,616 31
12,991 44
7,130 06
Carried forward . . . $851 99- $29,737 81
Street Department — Bridge Division. 9
;i 99 $29,737 81
6,676 43
Chelsea=street bridge (from East Boston to
Chelsea) .
Regular expenses :
Salary . . . . . . $299 00
Supplies . • . . . . 15 77
Brought forward
.
$851 99
Regular expenses :
Salaries
. $5,475 33
Supplies .
349 11
5,824 44
Commercial Point or Tenean bridge (Dor-
chester).
Built new bridge above piling, patched deck and
sheathing, and painted ironwork.
Labor .... $1,331 38
Material .... 2,193 87
$3,525 25
Regular expenses :
Salary ...... 50 00
Congress=street bridge (over Fort Point chan-
nel).
Sheathed draw four times, connected water pipes,
repaired machinery, gates, headers, fence, bulk-
head, closet, boat and sidewalk.
Labor
. $853 54
Material .
. 1,362 82
$2,216 36
Regular expenses :
Salaries
. $6,364 09
Supplies .
664 42
7,028 51
•
Dover=street -bridge (over Fort Point channel) .
Sheathed draw, repaired pier and draw foundation,
boat, headers, sidewalk, float, roof of house,
machinery, painted gate, boat and outside panels
of fence.
Labor .... $460 75
Material . . . . 2,165 58
$2,626 33
314 77
3,575 25
9,244 87
Carried forward \ . . $2,626 33 $49,549 13
10 City Document No. 40.
Brought forward
. $2,626 33
Regular expenses :
,
Salaries
. $6,295 63
Supplies .
62 93
R ^i^^ "ifi
Federal=street bridge (over Fort Point chan-
nel).
Sheathed draw twice, patched deck where needed,
repaired machinery, motor, gates, capping, pul-
ley, bunter, and cleaned and painted ironwork
and gates.
Labor .... $512 63
Material . . , . 970 11
Regular expenses :
Salaries . . . . $6,167 14
Supplies .... 82 00
;i,482 74
6,249 14
Granite bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
Patched deck and sheathing.
Labor . . . . $40 00
Material . . . . 9 69
$49 69
Regular expenses :
Salary .... 239 20
L=street bridge (over reserved channel at
junction of Congress and L streets).
Sheathed draw, built new float stage, laid new side-
walk on one side, put on new steel hauling rope,
reset buoy, repaired pier, gate, fence, headers,
and track.
),549 13
8,984 89
7,731
288 89
Labor
. $287 75
Material .
523 48
$811 23
Regular expenses :
Salaries .
. $4,813 94
Supplies .
472 19
T 9SR 1 ^
fi 0^7 Sfi
Carried fonoard $72,652 15
Street Department — Bridge Division. 11
Brought forioard ... . . $72,652 15
Maiden bridge (from Charlestown to Everett).
Put on new headers, and repaired fence and frame
to pinion.
Labor . . . . ■ $280 25
Material . . . . 433 88
$714 13
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... 14,873 16
Supplies . . . . 77 54
4,950 70
Meridian=street bridge (from East Boston to
- Chelsea).
Sheathed draw, patched deck and sheathing, calked
deck over motor, repaired machinery, electric
apparatus, fence, pier, float, painted top of draw
and inside of draw-house.
Labor
Material .
$948 00
627 07
^1 ^1^ 07
Regular expenses :
Salaries
Supplies .
. $4,573 67
188 02
\ 7fi1 fiO
Mt. Washington-avenue bridge (over Fort
Point channel).
Sheathed draw twice, built new gate and painted
same, patched deck and sheathing, repaired
straps, pier, bulkhead, waterway, gate, latch and
fence.
Labor . ,y , . $661 00
Material . \ ^ . . 369 78
$1,030 78
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $5,838 12
Supplies .... 90 22
5,928 34
5,664 83
6,336 76
6,959 12
Carried forioard . ■ . . . . $91,612 86
12 , City Document No. 40.
Brought foi'ward ..... $91,612 86
Neponset bridge (from Dorchester to Quincy).
Sheathed draw, repaired machinery, straps, plates
and hinges.
Labor .... $151 50
Material . . . • 342 51
$494 01
Regular expenses :
Salary . . ' . . . . 398 84
North Beacon=street bridge (from Brighton
to Watertown) .
Sheathed draw, patched deck and sheathing, re-
paired draw and wheel-guard.
Labor .... $154 00
Material . . . . 114 53
$268 53
Regular expenses :
Salary 99 84
Summer=street bridge (over Fort Point
channel).
New steps on pier, repaired chain-box, ladder,
pier, asphalt sidewalk, iron fence, and painted
fence and gates.
Labor .... $590 21
Material .... 1,172 12
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $6,045 10
Supplies . . . . 131 89
,762 33
6,176 99
Warren bridge (from Boston to Charles-
town).
Sheathed draw twice, put in new steel hauling
rope, repaired headers, machinery, track gate,
painted steps and partly completed work of
painting draw-house.
Labor .... $886 50
Material . . . . 648 43
$1,534 93
892 85
/
368 37
7,939 32
Carried forioard . . . $1,534 93 $100,813 40
Street Department — Bridge Divisioisr. 13
Brought fortoard . . . $1,534 93 $100,813 40
Regular expenses :
Salaries .... $6,298 34
Supplies . . . . 816 68
7,115 02
8,649 95
Western=avenue bridge (from Brighton to
Watertown) .
Sheathed draw, shingled tool-house, patched sheath-
ing and repaired latch.
Labor . . . . $108 00
Material . . . . 133 07
$241 07
Regular expenses :
Salary ...... 99 84
Wintiirop bridge (from Breed's Island to Win-
throp) .
Sheathed, repaired wheel-guard, and extensive re-
pairs were made on the bridge under a contract.
Labor . . . . $183 00
Material . . . . 400 13
Contract repairing bridge,
inspector and diving . 1,217 22
$1,800 35
Regular expenses :
Salary 50 00
Sundry Expenditures on tide-water bridges.
Oak lumber for headers and other
material . . . ' . . $527 72
Regular expenses :
Sundry supplies . . . . 891 57
t^"
340 91 !/'
1,850 35
1,419 29
Public Landings.
East Boston :
Regular expenses :
Rent ....
Care ....
$187 50
25 00
$212 50
401 35
Jeffries Point :
Repairs ....
Regular expenses :
Rent . . . .
$1 35
400 00
bridges .
Total expended on tide-water
. $113,687 75
14
City Document No. 40.
RECAPITULATION.
Table shovnng Expenditures on the Tide-vmter bridges,
February i, 1901^ to January SI, 1902.
Name of Bbidge.
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.
Wlnthrop
Sundry expenditures
Public landings
Totals .
$2,455 07
3,422 31
744 48
851 99
3,525 25
2,216 36
2,626 33
1,482 74
49 69
811 23
714 13
1,575 07
1,030 78
494 01
268 53
1,762 33
1,534 93
241 07
1,800 35
527 72
1 35
$28,135 72
$7,161 24
9,569 13
6,385 58
5,824 44
314 77
50 00
7,028 51
6,358 56
6,249 14
239 20
5,286 13
4,950 70
4,761 69
5,928 34
398 84
99 84
6,176 99
7,115 02
99 84
50 00
891 57
612 50
$85,552 03
$9,616 31
12,991 44
7,130 06
6,676 43
314 77
3,575 25
9,244 87
8,984 89
7,731 88
288 89
6,097 36
5,664 83
6,336 76.
6,959 12
892 85
368 37
7,939 32
8,649 95
340 91
1,850 35
1,419 29
613 85
$113,687 75
Street Department — Bridge Division. 15
INLAND BRIDaES.
Albany=street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad) .
Patched deck, sheathing and sidewalk, sheathed the
bridge and cleaned and painted iron core.
Labor $67 50
Material 131 26
Allston bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad at Cambridge street) .
Patched sheathing and painted iron fence.
Labor . . . . . . $60 00
Material . . . . • . . 15 47
Ashland-street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division) .
Sheathed, built new fence and painted same.
Labor ...... $135 00
Material . . . . . . 173 28
Ashmont bridge (over New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad, Plymouth Di\'ision,
Shawmut Branch).
Sheathed and patched deck.
Labor $44 00
Material 83 27
Athens-street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion).
Sheathed, patched deck and laid new sidewalks.
Labor $18 50
Material . . . , . .. . 20 55
Atlantic avenue (at India Wharf).
Built new fence and pajnted same, for the Paving
Division.
Labor . . . . . . $81 00
Material 43 75
Beacon-street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad) .
Repaired fence and painted top of bridge.
Labor $256 50
Material ...... 55 05
76 [/
75 47
308 28
127 27
39 05
124 75 .
311 55 ^'
Carried forward . . . . . $1,185 13
16 City Document No. 40.
Brought forward . . . . . $1,1851 3
Beacon=street bridge (over waterway).
Put in new beams, laid new sidewalks and painted
fence.
Labor $121 50
Material 122 32
243 82
Beech=street culvert (at
Central Station,
West Roxbury) .
Patched deck and sheathing.
Labor ....
$15 50
Material ....
55
Berkeley=street bridge (over Boston & Al-
bany Railroad).
New timbers, deck and sheathing, and painted iron-
work top and bottom.
Labor $875 63
Material 823 77
Berkeley=street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division, old location) .
Patched deck and sheathing in various places and
repaired fence.
■ Labor $210 63
Material 294 58
Berwick park (foot) bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division) .
Painted iron work.
Labor . . . . . . $142 00
Material 20 87
Bolton=street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division).
Sheathed.
Labor $15 50
Material 25 12
BoyIston=street bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad) .
Patched sheathing in various places, and painted
top of bridge.
Labor $608 00
Material 87 75
16 05
1,699 40 l^
505 21 ^
162 87
40 62 V
695 75
Carried forward ...... $4,548 85
Street Department — Bridge Division. IT
Brought forward ... . . . $4,548 85
Broadway bridge (over Boston & Albany
Railroad).
Sheathed, patched deck and sheathing, cleaned
and painted ironwork.
Labor $185 50
Material . . . . . . 240 85
426 35
Byron=street bridge (over Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn Railroad).
Patched sidewalk, repaired wheel-guard and fence,
and painted fence.
Labor $58 00
Material ...... 11 12
Central=avenue bridge (from Dorchester to
Milton) .
Sheathed, patched deck and sheathing.
Labor . . . . . . $102 00
Material 227 89
Charlesgate bridge (over Ipswich street) .
Painted fence.
Labor 183 00
Material 12 87
Cohasset=street Culvert (at Roslindale).
Patched deck and sheathing in various places.
Labor $18 00
Material ...... 74
Columbia road (at New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad, Midland Division bridge) .
Built new fence.
Labor . . . ° . . . $46 50
Material 28 83
Columbus=avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
New beams, sheathed one side, patched sheathing,
and painted top ironwork.
Labor ■. $266 75
Material 78 28
69 12
329 89
95 87
18 74
75 33
345 03
Carried forvMrd . . '. . . $5,909 18
18 City Document No. 40.
Brought forward ..... $5,909 18
Cottage=street [foot] bridge (over flats, East
Boston).
Repaired fence, sidewalks and braces.
Bridge-tender ..... $728 00
Supplies , . . . . . 18 45
Labor 105 50
Material 65 03
916 98
Dorchester=avenue bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Division).
Sheathed.
Labor $36 00
Material 59 85
Dorchester=street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Division) . \
New sidewalk in-town side and repaired fence, also
roadway repaired by the railroad.
Paid the raikoad . . . . $10 93
Labor 7 50
Material 37
Elinwood=street bridge (over Stony brook,
Roxbury) .
Sheathed.
Labor $33 50
Material 23 51
Ferdinand=street bridge (over Boston &
Albany Railroad).
Repaired fence.
Labor ...... $8 00
Material . . . . . . 81 03
Qardner=street culvert (West Roxbury) .
New deck and sheathed.
Labor $20 50
Material 34 15
95 85 /
18 80 ^''
57 01 '/
89 03 v/
54 65!
Qold=street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion ) ,
Flagman [1900] 19 25
Carried forward . . . . . $7,16075
Street Department — Bridge Drvisioisr. 19
JBrought forioard . . . . . $7,160 75
Harvard-street bridge (over New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion) .
Rent for location of sidewalks . . . . 2 00 V
Huntington=avenue bridge (over Boston &
AllDany Railroad).
Pointed wall, repaired and painted fence.
Labor - $92 25
Material . . . . . . 11 55
103 80;/
Irvington=street [foot] bridge (over New York,
'New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division).
New steps and painted ironwork.
Labor $164 15
Material 42 89
Keyes=street bridge (over Stony brook) .
Patched deck and sheathed.
Labor $20 50
Material 26 78
Leyden=street bridge (over Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn Railroad) .
Sheathed.
Labor $69 00
Material • 64 40
Linden Park=street bridge (over Stony brook).
Patched deck, sheathing and sidewalk.
Labor $40 50
Material 73 96
Massachusetts=avenue bridge (over New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
Providence Division) .
Sheathed centre and southerly roadway, put in new
beams and deck, new beams and new sidewalk
northerly side, and cleaned and painted bridge
top and bottom.
Labor ...... $818 86
Material 678 31
207 04
47 28
133 40
114 46
1,497 17 \/
Carried forward ..... $9,265 90
20 City Document No. 40.
Brought foricard $9,265 90
Massachusetts=avenue bridge (over Boston
& Albany Railroad) .
Sheathed bridge, and small repairs made on beams.
Labor $49 25
Material 138 29
187 54
Milton bridge (from Dorchester to Milton).
Repaired sidewalk and painted fence.
Labor ...... S55 50
Material 25 44
Shawmut-avenue bridge (over Boston &
Albany and New York, New Haven & Hart-
ford railroad. Providence Division).
Sheathed part of bridge, patched sheathing in
various places and made small repairs on deck.
Labor $185 75
Material 28 93
Southampton-street bridge (East of New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Mid-
land Division).
Patched sheathing.
Labor ...... $27 00
Material [used in 1900] . . . 195 59
Southampton-street bridge (west of New
York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
Midland Division).
Sheathed.
Labor $20 50
Material 61 92
Southampton-street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Division).
Sheathed and repaired wheel-guard.
Labor . . . . . . $45 00
Material ...... 63 38
West Fourth=street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Division).
Patched deck and sheathing in various places.
Labor $554 13
Material 772 35
80 24.]/
214 6S
./
222 59 \/
82 42 \J
108 3a
s(
1,326 48
Carried forward $11,488 93
Street Department — Bridge Division.
21
JBrought forward . . . .
West Newton-street bridge (over New York,
New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence
Division).
Sheathed, patched decli and sheathing and painted
fence.
Labor $112 50
Material 187 28
West Rutland-square [foot] bridge (over
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
Providence Division).
Painted ironwork.
Labor . . . . . . $103 65
Material 16 10
Williams-street bridge (over Stony brook,
West Roxbury).
Patched deck and sheathing and repaired bulkhead.
Labor $33 50
Material 28 34
Sundry expenditures on inland bridges.
Cleaning, remo\'ing snow and ice, and small repairs.
Labor $1,967 14
Material 311 26
Total expended on inland bridges
.1,488 93
299 78 V
/
119
75 1/'"
61 84 ^
2,278 40
514,248 70
RECAPITULATION.
Table shoioing Expenditures on the Inland Bridges^ from
February i, 1901^ to January 31, 1902.
Name of Bridge.
Albany street
Allston
Ashland street
Ashmont
Athens street
Atlantic avenue [fence]
Beacon street (over B. & A. Railroad)
Carried forward .
Repairs, Labor,
Lumber, Ironwork
and Painting.
$198
76
75
47
308
28
127
27
39
05
124
75
311
55
$1,185 13
22
City Document No. 40.
Brought forward
Beacon street (over waterway
Beech street (culvert) .
Berkeley street (over B. & A. Railroad
Berkeley street (over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad
Providence Division, old location)
Berwick park ....
Bolton street ....
Boylston street (over B. & A. Railroad
Broadway (over B. & A. Railroad)
Byron street
Central avenue
Charlesgate (over Ipswich street)
Cohasset (culvert)
Columbia road fence
Columbus avenue
Cottage street
Dorchester avenue
Dorchester street
Elmwood Street .
Ferdinand street
G-ardner street (culvert)
Grold street
Harvard street
Huntington avenue
Irvington street .
Keyes street
Leyden street
Linden Park street
Massachusetts avenue (over B. & A. Railroad)
Massachusetts avenue (over N. Y., N. H. & H
Railroad, Providence Division)
Milton
Shawmut avenue
Southampton street (east of railroad)
Southampton street (west of railroad)
Southampton street (over N. Y., N. H. & H. Rail
road, Plymouth Division)
West Fourth street (over N. Y., N. H. & H. Rail
road, Plymouth Division)
West Newton street
West Rutland square .
WilUams street .
Sundry expenditures .
$1,185 13
243 82
16 05
1,699 40
505 21
162 87
40 62
695 75
426 35
69 12
329 89
95 87
18 74
75 33
345 03
916 98
95 85
18 80
57 01
89 03
54 65
19 25
2 00
103 80
207 04
47 28
133 40
114 46
187 54
1,497 17
80 94
214 68
222 59
82 42
108 38
1,326 48
299 78
119 75
61 84
2,278 40
Total
>14,248 70 y/'
Street Department — Bridge Division. 23
MAINTENANCE EXPENSES AT NORTH AND SOUTH
YARDS.
North Yard, District No. 1,
Warren JBridge.
$2,055
&S
10
00
175
97
226
81
Messenger and watchmen .
Tools . . . .
Supplies ....
Repairing building . ' .
Stable District No. 1.
Warreyi Bridge.
Teamster and hostlers . . . $2,273 00
Harness, feed, and supplies . . 674 1\
Stable, District No. 2.
No. S23 West Fourth Street.
Moved September, 1901, to new stable, Nos.
168 and 170 Broadway Extension.
Teamster, driver, and stableman . $1,975 56
Board of horses to September . . 1,086 58
Repairing vehicles, horse-shoeing, feed,
harness, and supplies . . . 1,350 65
Buggy, wagon, and horse . . . 750 00
!,468 46
2,947 11
Total ex^Dended, North Yard and Stable . $5,415 57
South Yard, District No. 2.
No. jlf.5 Foundry Street.
Moved September, 1901, to new yard, Nos. 168
and 170 Broadway Extension.
Messenger, yardman, and watchmen . $3,549 18
Labor in yard . . . . . 16 50
Tools 116 03
Supplies 493 31
— $4,175 02
5,162 79
Total expended, South Yard and stable . $9,337 81
24
City Document No. 40.
New South Yard and Stable.
JVos. 168 and 170 Broadxoay Extension.
Constructed new brick stable, driveways and fence
Contract, erecting stable
Architects' services
Borings, blue prints and advertising-
Contract, plumbing
Contract, installing electrical fixtures
Labor and material, fitting up interior
Electrical service to November 1 .
Labor and material, bmlding fence
Constructed two driveways .
Expended new brick stable and new South Yard
$12,800 00
676 10
102 10
722' 00
45 00
866 16
28 88
309 18
135 07
nth Yard
$15,684 49
SPECIAL APPROPRIATIONS.
In Charge of Bridge Division.
New Charlestown bridge, public landing.
Labor
Material ......
Amount expended January 31, 1902
Balance .....
Appropriation ....
Congress=street bridge, repairs.
Labor ......
Material ......
Amount expended January 31, 1902
Balance .....
Appropriation ....
Dover=street bridge, tearing out old work
First approximate estimate of work
done and material furnished . . $1,895 00
Inspector 21 00
$140 00
253 08
.
$393 08
606 92
$77 50
33 87
$1,000 00
•
$111 37
4,888 63
•
$5,000 00
Balance of appropriation February 1, 1901
Mt. Washington=a venue bridge, repairs.
First and final estimate of work done
and material furnished . . . $1,900 00
Inspector ...... 59 50
Labor and advertising . . . 151 90
$1,916 00
Appropriation and revenue
!,111 40
Steeet Department — Beidge Division. 25
Winthrop bridge.
First approximate estimate of work
done and material furnislied . . $940 00
Balance of appropriation February 1, 1901 . $940 00
Special Appropriations in Charge of other Divisions.
Broadway bridge (over Fort Point channel) .
Advertising $12 25
[Charged to "Broadway bridge, rebuilding."]
Awards of Committee on Claims.
Edward Pettipas, damage to schooner
"Howard" $135 00
George E. Seymour, injuries received . 100 00
Martin J. Padden, damage to wagon . 50 ^0
Eugene McCarthy, injury to horse . 50 00
S. E. & H. L. Shepard and Owners,
damage to schooner "Ella May" . 25 00
Total $360 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.
Berwick park (foot-bridge), over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad,
Providence Division.
Blakemore street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Providence
Division.
26 City Document No. 40.
Bolton street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland
Division.
Boylston street, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
* Broadway, Over Fort Point channel.
Broadway, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Brookline avenue, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Byron street, over Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad.
Charlesgate, over Ipswich street.
* 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.
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.
Grold 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.
Ipswich street, over waterway.
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.
L6yden 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. Railroad,
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. Railroad, Midland
Division.
Summer street, over A street.
Summer street, over B street.
Suimner street, over C street.
* Summer street, over Fort Point channel.
Southampton street, east of N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Mid-
land Division.
Street Department — ]3ridge Division. 27
Southampton street, west of N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Mid-
land Di'S'lsion.
* Warren, from Boston to Charlestown.
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, Pro^ddence Division.
Williams street, over Stony brook, West Roxbury.
Winthrop, from Breed's Island to Wiutbrop.
In Charge of Parh Deijartment.
Agassiz, in Fens.
Audubon, in Riverway, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Boylston, in Fens, over waterway.
Bridle-path, in Riverway, over Muddy river.
*Castle Island, in Marine Park, South Boston to Castle Island.
Chapel Arch, in Riverway.
Charlesgate, in Fens, over Boston & Albany Railroad.
Commonwealth avenue, in Fens, over waterway.
Ellicot Arch, in Franklin Park.
Fen, in Fens.
Forest Hills, in Franklin Park.
Leverett pond (foot) in Leverett Park.
Neptune, in Wood Island Park, over Boston, Revere Beach «fe
L3mn Railroad.
Overlook Arch, in Franklin Park.
Railroad Viaduct, in Arborway.
Scarboro', in Frankhn Park.
Scarboro' pond (foot) in Franklin Park.
Stony brook, in Arborway.
Stony brook, in Fens.
Wood Island (foot), in Wood Island Park.
In Charge of Public Grounds Department.
PubUc Garden (foot-bridge).
II. — Bridges of which Boston Maintains the Part within
ITS Limits.
In Charge of Bridge Pivision.
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. 40.
In Charge of Park Department.
Bellevue, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Brookline avenue, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Chapel, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Longwood, in the Riverway, over Muddy river.
Tremont street, in the Riverway, over Muddj^ river.
III. — Bridges of vthich 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 (75 feet south
of northerly end).
Dorchester street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
Harvard street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland Di-
vision (sidewalks).
IV. — Bridges of which Boston Maintains the Wearing
Surface.
In Charge of Bridge Division.
Boston street, over N. Y., IS". H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth Di-
vision.
Cambridge street, over Boston & Maine Railtoad.
Chelsea bridge, over Boston & Maine Railroad.
Dorchester avenue, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
Everett street, over Boston & Albany Railroad, Brighton.
Perkins street (foot-bridge) , over Boston & Maine Railroad.
Summer street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Midland Divi-
sion.
Southampton street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
West Fourth street, over N. Y., N. H. & H. Railroad, Plymouth
Division.
In Charge of Com')nissioners 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.
Street Department — Bridge Division. 29
V. — Bri'dges Maintained by Railroad Corporations.
1st. — Boston S Albany Railroad.
Harrison avenue.
Market street, Brighton.
Tremont street.
Washington street.
2d. — Boston c& 3Jai?ie Railroad, Eastern Division.
Main street.
Mystic avenue.
3d. — Boston S Maine Railroad, Western Division.
Main street.
Mystic avenue.
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Ji.th. — Boston, Revere Beach <& Lynn Railroad.
Everett street.
5th . — New York, Neio 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. — Neio York, New Haven <b Hartford Railroad, Plymouth
Divisio7i.
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.
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City Document No. 40.
Centre and Mt. Vernon street, West Roxbury.
Chandler street.
Columbus avenue (new part).
Dartmouth street (new part).
Dudley avenue, West Roxbury.
Ferdinand street (new part) .
Harrison avenue (new part).
Park street. West Roxbury.
Tremont street (new part) .
Washington street (new part).
Recapitulation of Bridges.
I. Number wholly maintained by Boston :
In charge of Bridge Division . . . 57
In charge of Park Department ... 20
In charge of Public Grounds Department, 1
II. Number of which Boston maintains the part
within its limits :
In charge of Bridge Division
In charge of Park Department . . .
III. Number of which Boston pays a part of the
cost of maintenance :
In charge of Bridge Division
In charge of Commissioners of Boston and
Cambridge Bridges ....
IV. Number of which Boston maintains the wear-
ing surface :
In charge of Bridge Division
V. Number maintained by railroad corporations :
1. Boston & Albany
2. Boston & Maine, Eastern Division
3. Boston & Maine, Western Division
4. Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn
5. New York, New Haven & Hartford
Midland Division
6. New York, New Haven & Hartford
Plymouth Division .
7. New York, New Haven & Hartford
Providence Division
9
5
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— 12
— 9
4
2 '
2
1
11
3
17
— 40
TotaK number
153
Steeet Department — Bridge Division". 31
Public Landing-Places.
The following public landing-places have been built by the
city, and are maintained and controlled by the Bridge Division.
Charles-river Avenue [Boston side]. — Size, 40x30. Built
in 1901. Moored from city's property.
J^ast Boston Public Landing. — Size, 18x30. Built in
1893. Moored at dock of East Boston Dry Dock Company.
Dock and flats leased at $250 per year.
Federal-street bridge. — ^ Size 20x20. Built by M. F. SulU-
van, October 26, 1892. Moored from city's property.
Jefferies"" Point., East Boston. — Size 20x50. Moored from
Fitzpatrick's Wharf ; $400 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 box«s.
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. '
32 City Document No. 40.
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.
Land and Buildings, in Chabge of Bridge Division.
JBroadway Bridge. — Draw-house, engine-room, and storehouse.
Land, Broadway and Dorchester avenue, containing 5,516 feet,
on which is a brick stable and work-shop.
Charlestotcn Bridge. — Draw-house, electrical power-room, and
six store-houses.
Chelsea \_North'] Bridge. — Draw-house, storehouse and tool-
house.
Chelsea \_South'] B7'idge. — Draw-house, engine-house and tool-
house.
Chelsea-street Bridge. — Tool-house.
Congress-street Bridge. — Draw-house, storehouse, tool-house
and two shelter-houses.
Dover-street Bridge. — Draw-house and storeroom.
Federal-street Bridge. — Draw-house, tool-house, two motor-
houses, one 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-aveyiiie Bridge. — Draw-house and tool-house.
Neponset Bridge. — Tool-house.
Summer-street Bridge. — Draw-house, controller-house, two shel-
ter-houses.
Warren Bridge. — Stable, draw-house, engine-house, boiler-
house, tool-house.
Western-aveyiue Bridge to Watertown — Tool-house.
Stkeet Department — Bridge Division.
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City Document No. 40.
Table showing Width of Bridges, kind of Roadways, Sidewalks,
etc., on Tide=water Bridges, 1901.
Name of Bridge.
Roadway.
Kind of
Roadway.
Sidewalks.
Kind of Walks.
Broadway
Camljridge 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 (old
bridge)
Ft. In.
Ft. In.
60 0
40 0
40 0
32 9
64 0
100 oj
48 0
127 9 )
122 0 [
127 9 )
49 0
40 0
50 3
41 2
30 0
23 2
about
34 0
about
27 0
60 0
44 0
60 0
40 0
31 0
22 8
69 0
49 0
30 2
24 4
69 4
51 0
60 0
44 0
(60 0
to
(67 6
44 0
50 0
36 0
61 0
39 6
30 0
23 10
31 0
25 2
28 2
26 7
50 0
36 0
100 0
76 0
80 0
60 0
33 2
26 3
33 0
24 2
24 2
19 10
50 0
36 0
Planlv
Paved.,
Plank .
Paved.
Plank .
Paved.
Plank .
Paved.,
Plank part ,
Paved part '
Paved .
Plank.
Ft. In.
10 0
6 0
8 0
10 0
8 0
8 0
6 0
8 0
10 0
7 6
10 0
5 0
9 2
8 0
8 0
7 0
10 9
5 5
5 0
12 0
10 0
6 0
8 0
3 7
7 0
Coal-tar concrete.
Plank.
Brick.
Asphalt.
Coal-tar concrete
and plank.
Plank.
Coal-tar concrete.
Asphalt.
Plank.
Asphalt.
Plank.
Asphalt.
Composition.
Coal-tar concrete.
Plank.
Coal-tar concrete.
Asphalt.
Coal-tar concrete.
Plank.
Brick.
Steeet Depaetment — Beidge Divisioisr.
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Table showing the Widths of Openings for Vessels in all Bridges
Provided with Draws in the City of Boston, 1901.
Name of Bridge.
Location.
(U.d
Width.
Boston & Maine K.R., Eastern
Division
Boston & Maine R.R., Eastern
Division
Boston & Maine R.R., Fitchburg
Division
Boston & Maine R.R., Fitcliburg
Division (for teaming freight)",
Boston & Maine R.R. (freight),
Southern Division
Boston & Maine R.R. (passen-
ger), Southern Division
Boston & Maine R.R., Western
Division
Boston & Maine R.R., Western
Division
Broadway
Cambridge street
Canal (or Craigie's)
Charlestown (main channel)
Charlestown (north channel)
Chelsea (south channel)
Chelsea (north channel)
Chelsea street (East Boston side) ,
Chelsea street (Chelsea side)
Commercial Point (or Tenean). ..
Congress street (Boston side) —
Congress st; (South Boston side),
Dover street ^.
Essex street
Federal street
Grand Junction R.R
Grand Junction R.R
Granite
Harvard (Boston side)
Harvard (Cambridge side)
L street
Maiden
Boston to Charlestown
Over Milier's river
Boston to Charlestown
Boston to East Cambridge,
Boston to Charlestown
Over Miller's River
Over Fort Point channel..
Brighton to Cambridge
Boston to East Cambridge,
Boston to Charlestown
Charlestown to Chelsea .
East Boston to Chelsea.
Dorchester
Over Fort Point channel.
Brighton to Cambridge
Over Fort Point channel.,
Brighton to Cambridge —
East Boston to Chelsea
Dorchester to Milton
Boston to Cambridge
Over Reserved channel.
South Boston
Charlestown to Everett .
39 feet 7 inches
35 " 9 "
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Table showing Width of Openings, etc. — Concluded.
Name of Bridge.
Location.
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Meridian st. (East Boston side) .
Bast Boston to Chelsea —
Over Fort Point channel. . .
Dorchester to Quincy
Over South Bay
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Mt. Washington avenue (Boston
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Mt. Washington avenue
South
New York, New Haven &
ford R.R
Hart-
New York, New Haven &
Hart-
Over Fort Point channel...
Dorchester to Quincy
Brighton lo Watertown
Brighton to Cambridge —
Charlestown to Cambridge
Over Fort Point channel. . .
Boston to Charlestown —
Boston to Cambridge
Brighton to Cambridge —
Brighton to Watertown
New York, New Haven &
Hart-
New York, New Haven &
ford R.R
Hart-
North Beacon street
Summer street :
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APPENDIX B.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT
OF THE FERRY DIVISION.
North Febkt, East Boston, February 1, 1902.
Mr. James Donovan,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I herewith submit the annual report of the
expenditures, income, and operation of the Ferry Division,
for the financial year ending January 31, 1902, and the
amount of property and the condition of the same.
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, both of the above buildings being at
present time in course of construction ; one storehouse and
temporary waiting-room, one new modern coal-pocket, three
new piers, which form the two slips ; two drops and tanks,
one new wharf and dock, where boats are laid when not in
use, or while undergoing repairs.
South Ferry, Boston Side. — Located at the termination of
Eastern avenue, and covers an area of 38,135 square feet of
land and water, on 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, on which are one head-house, with canopies ;
one gate-room, three piers, which form the two slips and
two drops and tanks.
North Ferry, Fast Boston Side. — Located at the termina-
tion of Border street, and covers an area of 62,138 square
feet of land and water, on which are one head-house, with
canopies; one boiler and oil-room, one stable, one coal shed,
40 City Document No. 40.
three piers, which form the two slips and two drops and
tanks.
The wharf property adjoining the premises at South Ferry,
Boston side, 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, when the city bought
these ferries, and this expense has been borne by this division
since then.
The whole of it is sub-let to the Penal Institutions Depart-
ment for $2,000 per year, which is returned to the City
Treasury, making a net loss to this division of |4,000 per
year ; the payment of this lease should be transferred to the
department using the wharf, and should not be charged to
this division, as we do not use or receive any benefit from
the same.
A new and modern coal elevator or pocket has been
erected at South Ferry, East Boston side, at a cost of about
$20,000. This pocket was seriously damaged by fire after
erection, caused by the combustion of coal, and should be
carefully watched in the future, to avoid a repetition of the
same.
As the engine, machinery and tools for carpenters, machin-
ists and blacksmiths were stored under this coal pocket and
exposed to the weather after the fire, it will in some cases be
more economical to replace them with modern tools in order
to keep in line with the class of work we are compelled to
operate and repair.
A contract has been awarded to build a new head-house
and building for use of mechanics at the South Ferry, East
Boston side, which calls for the completion of same before
April 1, 1902.
New piers, wharves and landings have also been erected at
this ferry during the past year. On the completion of the
head-house this landing will be entirely new, with as good
facilities as at any other place. These improvements have
been agitated for several years, and it is a source of satisfac-
tion to the people of East Boston to see them under way with
the intention of having them finally carried out.
The ferry-boat " Revere," the oldest boat in the fleet, has
been in commission since 1875, and is now in such condition
that it is almost useless to attempt to fit her for ferry service
on account of the expense attached, and steps should be
taken to provide for her disposal at auction.
An appropriation should be provided for the construc-
tion of a new propeller ferry-boat to take the place of the
" Revere."
Street Department — Ferry Divisioisr. 41
The decks of all the boats need calking, and should be
attended to whenever the cross planking needs renewal.
Two new shafts are needed on the " General Hancock,"
and will be installed as soon as practicable.
The " Noddle Island " and " General Sumner " will have
to be coppered as soon as possible in order to prevent wearing.
The following steam ferry-boats are in commission :
Name. When built. Kind. Length.
Kevere 1875. Side-wheel. 148 ft.
D.D.Kelly 1879. " 148"
Hugh O'Brien 1883. " 163 "
General Hancock 1887. " 148 "
Noddle Island 1889. Propeller. 164 " 3 in.
Gov. Paissell 1900. " 164" 3 in.
General Sumner 1900. " 164" 3 in.
The financial statement, which follows, is in the form
arranged by the Mayor's expert accountant, as a standard form
for department or division reports of this character.
The difference heretofore existing between the figures of
the Ferry Division's books and the books of the City Auditor
have been reconciled, and these statements are now in agree-
ment.
Yours truly,
Wm. J. DoNOVAisr,
Deputy Superintendent.
42 City Document No. 40.
Ferry Division of the Street Department.
Con^,olidated Financial Statement for the Year 1901-2.
1. KECEIPTS.
Total cash receipts during the year . . . $167,880 86
Cash in hands of tollmen at beginning of the year, 575 00
Total $168,455 86
Cash paid over to City Collector . $167,879 62
Counterfeit money received and
destroyed .... 1 24
167,880 86
Balance of cash on hand at end of year . $575 00
2. APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES.
Balance unexpended from jDrevious year (loans) . $52,627 87
*Total appropriations all kinds, including "trans-
fers to" 253,713 93
$306,341 80
*Total expenditures of all kinds, including " trans-
fers from" 295,702 09
Balance unexpended (loans) . . . $10,639 71
3. RESULT OF OPERATIONS FOR THE TEAR.
Receipts paid over to City Collector as above
(net income) $167,879 62
Ordinary expenses . . . $248,754 06
Extraordinary expenses (special
appropriations) . . . 41,988 16
Interest on Ferry debts . . 13,420 00
Depreciation on boats . . 18,207 52
Decrease of stock of supplies . 498 27
Total debits . . . $322,868 01
Appreciation of real estate (as-
sessors' figures) credit . ■ . 47,700 00
Net outgo for the year ..... 275,16801
Net loss for the year .... $107,288 39
' Details of appropriations and expenditures given in Table 5.
Street Department — Ferry DiyisiON.
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Street Depaetment — Feeey Division.
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Table 6.
Comparative Balance Sheets at the Close of each Year fob Five Years.
January 31,
1898.
January 31,
1899.
January 31,
1900.
January 31,
1901.
January 31,
1902.
Assets.
Cash in hand of tollmen,
$608 00
$575 00
$575 00
16 68
12,429 92
- 157,601 42
457,500 00
216,756 31
6,000 00
$575 00
10,870 05
52,627 87
498,900 00
303,458 37
6,000 00
$575 00
Fuel and supplies on
4,062 45
80,679 31
451,100 00
183,953 74
6,000 00
2,972 85
103,442 91
457,500 00
160,041 26
6,000 00
10,371 78
10,639 71
546,600 00
285,250 85
City Treasurer (balance
of appropriations)
Real estate and buildings
(Assessors' valuations)
Ferry boats (less de-
Machinery and tools
6,000 00'
Total tangible assets. . .
Cost of avenues, etc..
East Boston (previous
to 1870)t
$726,403 50
315,815 68
1,717,635 00
$730,532 02
315,815 68
1,798,939 12
$850,879 33
315,815 68
1,863,118 43
$872,431 29
315,815 68
1,927,086 05
$859,437 34
315,815 68
Deficiency of assets
(loss)
2,034,374 44
Totals
$2,759,8.H 18
$2,845,286 82
$3,029,813 44
$3,115,333 02
$3,209,627 46
Liabilities.
Capital invested b y
City of Boston to date,
Appropriations account
$2,679,174 87
80,679 31
$2,741,843 91
103,442 91
$2,872,212 02
157,601 42
$3,062,705 15
52,627 87
$3,198,987 75
10,639 71
Total liabilites
$2,759,854 18
$2,845,286 82
$3,029,813 44
$3,115,333 02
$3,209,627 46
Details of Capital Invested by the City of Boston.
Total expenditures to
date, per ferry books,
Interest on debts for
the year (per City
Auditor)
Interest previous years,
etc. (net debits per
Auditor)
Total expenditures
Deduct total receipts
, paid to Collector
Excess of expenditure,
viz., capital invested
by city
$7,042,497 26
6,88r96
279,148 85
$7,328,527 07
4,649,352 20
$2,679,174 87
$7,394,170 41
11,373 00
279,148 85
$7,684,692 26
4,942,848 35
$2,741,843 91
$7,694,882 56
13,044 00
279,148 85
$7,987,075 41
5,114,863 39
2,872,212 02
$8,049,900 02
15,340 00
279,148 85
$8,344,388 87
5,281,683 72
$3,062,705 15
$8,355,982 24
13,420 00
279,148 85
* $8,648,551 09
* 5,449,563 34
$3,198,987 75
* Auditor's figures for total expenditures and receipts are $60,278.56 more than above,
the ditt'erence (capital invested) being the same.
$3,542.50 for additional interest and $33, an error in total stated by ferry books, have
also been included in these figures.
t See foot note § under Table 4.
48 City Document No. 40.
Table 7.
Total Expenditures upon Ferries since 1858-9.
Expenditures for avenues, paving, interest, etc.,
previous to purchase of the ferries by the city, J $444,101 30=
Purchase of ferries, April, 1870 . . . 276,375 00
*Expenditures for ferry-boats since April, 1870 . 618,070 58
*Expenditures for ne'w buildings, piers, drops, etc., 485,092 10
*Expenditures for tools and fixtures . . . 14,752 46
Expenditures for land from Lincoln's Wharf in
1887 5,562 52
Expenditures for land from Battery Wharf in
1893 . 10,000 00
Total expenditures on capital account . $1,853,953 96
^Expenditures for repairs of all kinds . . 721,863 70
*Expenditures for fuel 1,097,360 76
*Expenditures for salaries and wages . . . 3,690,688 92
Expenditures for all other purposes . . . 1,344,962 31
5,708,829 65
Total Receipts from Ferries since 1858-9.
Receipts from rents, etc., previous to purchase of
ferries $29,588 56
*Re,ceipts from ferry-tolls since purchase of ferries, 5,235,927 12
*Receipts from rents since purchase of ferries . 55,292 96
*Receipts from sales of ferry-boats . . . 147,331 21
^Receipts from all other sources, per ferry books . 11,718 03
Receipts from all other sources, additional, per
Auditor 30,690 00
Less counterfeit money destroyed
Less amount counted twice
Less amount in hands of tollmen
Total per City Auditor's figures . . $5,509,841 90
* According to books of the Ferry Division.
t This total agrees with City Auditor's figures when $3,542.50 are added to the lat-
ter for net increase of interest on debts.
t See foot note § under Table 4.
$5,510,547 88
$97 98
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Steeet Department — Ferry Division. 49
Regular Annual (Ordinary) and Special Appropriations
(Extraordinary) of the Ferry Division of the
Street Department for the Year ending January
31, 1902.
Appropriations for year ending January 31, 1902, $250,600 00
Received by transfer from surplus revenue . . 3,113 93
Total amount . . . . . . $253,713 93
Amount of expenditures . . $248,754 06
Transferred to Paving Division . 3,000 00
Transferred to Bridge Division . 1,959 87
$253,713 93
Special Appropriations.
Appropriation autliorized and issued for new ferry
landings, liead-house, new boats, slips, and
drops (1897) $500,000 00
Amount transferred by City Government January
14, 1901, approved by the Mayor January 19,
1901, unexpended balance of appropriation for
new ferry-boats ...... 4,400 79
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
Amount expended from February
1, 1899, to February 1, 1900 .
Amount expended from February
1, 1900, to February 1, 1901 .
Amount expended from February
1, 1901, to February i, 1902 .
$504,400 79
Unexpended balance of appropriation, January
31, 1902 ....
12,187 69
96,191 74
41,988 16
493,761 08
on, January
$10,639 71
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City Document No. 40.
Details op Expenditures from Special Appropriations
Balances, 1901-2.
ISTew Ferry Landing Appropriation.
New coal elevator, South Ferry, East Boston . $18,712 50
George Hayes & Co. on contract
January 9, 1901 . . . $17,275 00
Harrison H. Atwood, architect . 863 75
Inspector, engineers, printing,
and advertising ... . 573 75
L8,712 50
Rebuilding piers and wharves at South Ferry,
East Boston .......
William J. Lawler, on contract
May 7, 1901 .... $19,975 35
Inspector, engineers, advertising,
and printing . . . . 818 60
),793 95
20,793 95
Amount paid on new ferry buildings in process of
construction ....... 2,481 71
Total expenditures for year ending Janu-
uary 31, 1902 $41,988 16
Statement showing Receipts at each Ferry.
North Ferry.
From Tollman.
Foot
Passengers.
Team
Tickets.
Total.
No.
2.
3.
5.
6.
9.
10.
13.
$12,864 57
12,658 38
12,770 48
12,892 61
12,809 03
12,775 68
12,869 90
J2,131 50
2,296 50
2,370 00
2,118 00
2,188 00
2,266 00
2,210 50
$89,640 65
$15,580 50
^14,996 OT
14,954 88
15,140 48
15,010 61
14,997 03
15,041 68
15,080 40
,221 15
From tollmen .......
From gatemen :
For 157,890 foot passengers, at Ic, $1,578 90
For cash fares for teams . .8,391 57
Total at North Ferry
$105,221 15
9,970 47
$115,191 62
No.
Street Department — Ferry Division.
South Ferry.
51
From Tollman.
1.
4.
7.
8.
11.
12.
Foot
Passengers.
n,054 87
6,968 56
7,295 78
6,830 34
1,163 32
1,162 11
),474 98
Team
Tickets.
$2,787 00
2,917 50
2,885 60
2,827 00
68 50
71 50
$11,567 00
Total.
$9,841 87
9,886 06
10,181 28
9,657 34
1,231 82
1,233 61
142,031 98
From tollmen
From gatemen :
For 76,009 foot passengers, at Ic.
For cash fares for teams
Total at South Ferry
$760 09
4,899 90
North and South Ferries as above
Tickets paid for at office of City Collector . .
Tickets paid for at office of Ferry Division .
Received in lieu of free ferries July 4, 1901
Total ferriage receipts ....
Rents for the year . . . . . _ .
Sales of old material, head-house and bootblack
privileges .......
Total cash receipts as above ^ .
$42,031 98
5,659 99
$47,691 97
$162,883 59
519 50
1,385 50
1 00
$164,789 59
2,540 00
551 27
$167,880 86
Statement showing the Difference of Travel on the Ferries
FROM February 1, 1901, to February 1, 1902.
Foot passengers at 1 cent each
Foot passengers by ticket .
Foot passengers free .
Total foot passengers
One-horse teams
riages .
Two-horse teams
Three-horse teams
Four-horse teams
and pleasure car-
North Ferry.
9,121,955
98,455
70,895
South Ferry.
3,123,507
51,732
4,140
9,291,305 3,179,379
429,044
216,239
117,880
114,677
5,133
4,082
7,927
5,877
52
City Document No. 40.
North Ferry.
South Ferry.
Two-horse pleasure
carriages
and
hacks . . .
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.
11,702
4,663
Hand-carts, etc.
.
10,798
2,784
Drag wheels
,
.
77
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Free teams
.
.
6,596 '
1,108
Total Travel on both Ferries from February 1, 1897, to
February 1, 1902.
From
Feb. 1, 1897,
to
Feb. 1, 1898.
From
Feb. 1,1898,
to
Feb. 1, 1899.
From
Feb. 1, 1899,
to
Feb. 1, 1900.
From
Feb. 1, 1900,
to
Feb. 1,1901.
From
Feb. 1.1901,
to
Feb. 1, 1902.
One-horse teams
738,514
685,422
689,754
679,746
645,283
Two horse teams
240,434
207,402
230,100
210,390
232,557
Three-horse teams —
7,716
9,474
10,355
8,376
9,215
Four-horse teams
14,961
15,311
15,360
12,344
13,804
Two-horse carriages
14,659
8.819
13,582
14,764
15,390
16,365
Two-cent tolls for
hand-carts, etc
6,850
6,076
5,547
13,582
Drag wheels, etc
75
99
66
60
122
Foot passengers
12,466,272
12,182,842
12,453,163
12,243,877
12,595,649
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35,209
3,282
5,220
19,259
3,264
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349,056
213,936
7,830
12,720
32,860
8,220
38,400
2,304
1,872
350,515
403,736
251,017
11,112
17,940
52,219
11,484
150,187
345,484
211,446
7,947
12,603
32,644
7,988
200,328
58,252
89,571
3,165
One-horse team tickets
Two-horse team-tickets
5,837
19,575
3,496
One-horse carriage-tickets. .
Two-horse carriage-tickets,
100
Street Department — Paving Division. 53
APPENDIX C.
EEPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE PAVING DIVISION.
EooM 44, City Hall, Boston, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan, 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,
1902, 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 to occupy the streets, or
for such other purposes as may be required under the ordi-
nances.
The removal of snow and ice from the streets and gutters.
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 engineerilig force under the direction of a chief engineer.
Work Done.
The past year has been one of great activity, the amount
of work completed exceeding any previous year in the
history of the division. The amount of work accomplished
in the down-town, or business section of the city, has not
only added to the general appearance but greatly improved
the condition of the streets in that section. A great deal
remains to be done, however, in order to properly surface the
54 City Document No. 40.
streets that are subject to the heavy traffic of the business
district. Many of these streets have not been paved for years,
and teaming is made difficult and even dangerous by the
uneven surface caused in many cases by the settlement of
trenches and openings made by corporations occupying the
streets. The most important work was the reconstruction
of the following streets, which were paved with large granite
blocks with Portland cement grout joints on a concrete base :
Atlantic avenue^ between Oliver and Commercial streets.
Commercial street^ between Hull and Fleet streets.
Qommercial street, Fleet to Clinton street.
Congress street, from Atlantic avenue across Exchange
place, including Post Office square.
Dartmouth street, Huntington avenue to railroad bridge.
Faneuil Hall square, north and south.
Franklin street, from Washington across Oliver street.
Bock and Adams squares.
Green street, between Bowdoin square and Chambers
street.
Sigh street, between Summer and Broad streets.
Pearl street, between Milk street and Atlantic avcDue.
Portland street, between Hanover and Traverse streets.
Union street, between Dock and Haymarket squares.
Milk street, between Washington and Congress streets, and
from Pearl across Oliver street.
Milk street, between India street and Atlantic avenue.
East First street, between L and P streets, and Washington
street, between School and Green streets, were paved with
large blocks on gravel base.
Tremont street. Castle across Berkeley street, and
Lincoln street, between Kneeland and Beach streets, were
paved on gravel base with Portland cement grout joints.
Crushing Plant.
During the year the crusher at the Rosseter-street ledge
was shut down. This crushing plant has been in use a num-
ber of years, and is now in need of a thorough overhauling
in order to put it in good working order.
The largest and most complete crusher in this section of
the country was erected this year by the Paving Division, at
Columbia road and Intervale street. Ward 20. It is equipped
with all the modern appliances and has a daily output of
500 tons.
The new crusher, elected last year between Iffley and
Montebello roads, in West Roxbury, has , about served its
Steeet Depaetment — Paving Division. 55
purpose in its present location. It has a capacity of 300
tons per day, and is thoroughly built. If a suitable ledge
were found this crusher could be removed as it is good for
several years' service without any extensive repairs.
The Kenney-street crusher is in good working order, and
is now located on the Kenney ledge, Kenney street, Roxbury,
having been removed from the Bleiler ledge two years ago.
The Centre-street crusher in West Roxbury, the Chestnut-
hill crusher in Brighton and the Dimock-street crusher in
Roxbury, were overhauled and repaired last year and are
now in good working condition.
Atlantic avenue, from Oliver street across India square,
was paved with large granite blocks, on a 6-inch American
cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints.
Within the tracks of the Boston Elevated Railway Company,
Philadelphia blocks were used, on a concrete base with grout
joints, the stock and labor being paid for by this company.
The paving and regulating was done under contract by
Jones & Meehan. The old pavement was removed and the
roadway excavated by the Street Department. Former
pavement, granite blocks with gravel joints on gravel base.
Atlantic avenue, from India square to Eastern avenue,
was divided into two sections ; the part from India square
across Clinton street was done by Dennis Kiley, and from
Clinton street to Eastern avenue by D. F. O'Connell. The
roadway on the west side was widened two (2) feet by
reducing the width of the sidewalk. The roadway was
paved with large granite blocks on a six (6) inch American
cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints.
The Boston Elevated Railway Company paid for the work
done within its tracks.
The old 3-foot corners were taken up and replaced by cir-
cular edgestones cut on a longer radii. The old pavement
was removed and the roadway excavated by the Street
Department. Former pavement was granite blocks on gravel
base with gravel joints.
Commercial street, from Hull to Hanover street, was
paved with large granite blocks, on a six (6) inch American
cement concrete base with Portland cement grout joints,
including the area within the tracks, which was paid for by
the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The paving and
regulating was done under contract by A. A. Libby & Co.,
who also removed the old pavement and excavated the road-
way. Former pavement, granite blocks with gravel joints
oh gravel base.
5Q City Document No. 40.
Commercial street, from Eastern avenue across Hanover
street, was paved with large granite blocks, on a six (6) inch
American cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout
joints, including the area within the tracks, which was paid
for by the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The paving
and regulating was done under contract by H. Gore & Co.,
who also removed the old pavement and excavated the road-
way. Former pavement, granite blocks with gravel joints
on gravel base.
Commercial street, from Fleet street across Clinton street,
was paved with large granite blocks, on a six (6) inch
American cement concrete base with Portland cement grout
joints. The paving and regulating was done mider contract
by John Turner & Co., who also removed the old pavement
and excavated the roadway. Former pavement, granite
blocks with gravel joints on gravel base.
Congress street, from Atlantic avenue to Milk street, and
from Milk street across Exchange place (Post Office square)
was paved with large granite blocks, on a six (6) inch
American cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout
joints. At the north corner of Milk street and Post Office
square the roadway was widened by cutting into the granite
flagging of which the sidewalk is composed, around the
Post Office building ; this relieves the congestion at that
point by giving space for teams to pass between the cars
and the curbing. The paving and regulating was done
under contract by A. A. Libby & Co., who also removed the
old pavement and excavated the roadway. Former pave-
ment, granite blocks with gravel joints on gravel base.
Dartmouth street, from Huntington avenue to the railroad
bridge, was paved with granite blocks, on gravel base with
pitch and pebble joints. The paving and regulating was
done under contract by E. S. Fogerty. Former pavement,
granite blocks on gravel base with gravel joints.
Dock and Adams squares, between Faneuil Hall square
and Elm street was paved with large granite blocks, on a
6-inch American cement concrete base, with Portland cement
grout joints, including the area within the tracks, which was
paid for by the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The
work was done under contract by D. F. O'Connell. The old
pavement was removed and roadway excavated by the Street
Department. Former pavement, granite blocks with gravel
joints on gravel base.
Uast First street, between L and P streets, South Boston,
was paved with large granite blocks, on a gravel base with
gravel joints. The paving and regulating was done under
Street Department — Paving Division. 57
contract by J. B. O'Rourke, who also excavated the old
macadam surface and prepared the road-bed.
Faneuil Hall square^ north and south, was paved with
large granite blocks, on a 6-inch American cement concrete
base, with Portland cement grout joints. The paving and
regulating was done under contract by D. F. O'Connell.
The old pavement was removed and roadway excavated by
the Street Department. Former pavement, granite blocks,
with gravel joints on gravel base.
Franklin sti'eet, between Washington street and Pearl
street, was paved with large granite blocks, on a 6-inch
American cement concrete base, with Portland cement grout
joints, including the area within the tracks, which was paid
for by the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The paving
and regulating was done under contract by James Doherty,
who also removed the old pavement and excavated the
roadway. The former pavement was granite blocks with
gravel joints on gravel base.
G-reen street, from Bowdoin square to Chambers street, was
paved with large granite blocks, on a 6-inch American cement
concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints, including
the area within the tracks, which was paid for by the Boston
Elevated Railway Company. The paving and regulating
was done under contract by S. D. Payson, who also removed
the old pavement and excavated the roadway. Former
pavement, granite blocks with gravel joints on gravel
base.
High street, from Summer to Broad street, was paved
with large granite blocks, on a 6-inch American cement
concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints. The
paving and regulating was done under contract by Frank
Bachelder, who also removed the old pavement and excavated
the roadway. Former pavement, granite blocks with gravel
joints on gravel base.
Lincoln street, from Kneeland to Beach street, was repaved
with granite blocks on a gravel base, with Portland cement
grout joints, including the area within the tracks, which was
paid for by the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The
paving and regulating was done under contract by Frank
Bachelder, who also removed the old pavement and excavated
the roadway. Former pavement, granite blocks with gravel
joints on gravel base.
Milk street, from Washington to Congress street and from
Pearl across Oliver street, was paved with large granite blocks,
on a 6-inch American cement concrete base, with Portland
cement grout joints, including the area within the tracks,
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which was paid for by the Boston Elevated Railway Company.
The paving and regulating was done under contract by H.
Gore & Co., who also removed the old pavement and
excavated the roadway. Former pavement, granite blocks
with gravel joints on gravel base.
Pearl street, from Milk street to Atlantic avenue, was
paved with large granite blocks, on a 6-inch American cement
concrete base, with Portland cement grout joints. The
paving and regulating was done under contract by H. Gore
& Co., who also removed the old pavement and excavated
the roadway. Former pavement, granite blocks, with gravel
joints on gravel base.
Portland street, between Causeway and Hanover streets ;
the contract for paving and regulating was awarded to Den-
nis Kiley, who began work on July 8, 1901, and suspended
August 30, 1901 ; the sewerage works not being completed.
Within the tracks the work was done by the Boston Elevated
Railway Company, as far as the work progressed, on a gravel
base with gravel joints. Outside the tracks the blocks are
laid on a 6-inch American cement concrete base, with Port-
land cement grout joints. The old pavement was removed,
and the roadway excavated by the contractor. Former pave-
ment, granite blocks, with gravel joints on gravel base.
Tremont street, from Castle street across Berkeley, street,
was paved with granite blocks, on a gravel base, with Portland
cement grout joints. The paving and regulating was done
under contract by D. F. O'Connell. The old pavement was
removed, and the roadway excavated by the Street De-
partment. Former pavement, granite blocks, with gravel
joints on gravel base.
Union street, from Haymarket to Dock square, was paved
with large granite blocks, on a 6-inch American cement con-
crete base, with Portland cement grout joints. The paving
and regulating was done under contract by D. F. O'Connell.
The old pavement was removed, and the roadway exca-
vated by the Street Department. Former pavement, granite
blocks, with gravel joints on gravel base.
Wasliington street, between School and Green streets, West
Roxbury, was paved with granite blocks, on gravel base with
gravel joints, including the area within the tracks, which was
paid for by the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The
old pavement was removed, and the roadway excavated by
the Street Department. The paving and regulating was
done under contract by Jones & Meehan. Former pave-
ment, macadam.
Condor street, between Meridian and Brooks streets, was
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paved with granite blocks, on gravel base with gravel joints.
The paving and regulating was done under contract by Jolm
Turner & Co. The former pavement, which was macadam,
was removed by the Street Department.
Neponset avenue, east side, between Adams and Minot
streets, Dorchester, was paved with large granite blocks, on
a gravel base with gravel joints. The paving and regulating
was done under contract by D. F. O'Connell. The old
macadam was excavated, and the west roadway w^as resur-
faced with macadam by the Street Department.
The force of the Paving Division has been employed in
the care and maintenance of the streets of the city.
About thirty-nine (39) miles of macadam streets, with an
area of 499,000 square yards, have been resurfaced.
Edgestones set or reset . . 245,410 linear feet
Paving relaid .... 218,365 square yards
Brick sidewalks . . . . 131,487 " "
Artificial stone sidewalks . . 15,565 " "
Coal-tar sidewalks . . . 698 " "
The above work was done outside of the work done under
contract for street construction.
A large amount of asphalt pavement has been laid this
year, mostly in the residential districts. The total amount
of asphalt surface laid is as follows :
31,803 square yards of Trinidad Lake asphalt,
48,836 square yards of Sicilian Rock asphalt,
both on a 6-inch American cement concrete base, under a ten
(10) year guarantee, at $3.25 per square yard, exclusive of
the cost of preparing the road-bed.
The following streets were surfaced with asphalt, viz. :
Arch street, Summer to Franklin street.
Arlington street, Beaton to Boylston street.
Athens street, C to D street.
Avon street, Washington to Chauncy street.
Beacon street, west side, Charles to Arlington street.
Beacon street, Arlington to Dartmouth street.
Bowen street, C to E street.
Copley square, streets bounding.
Essex place, Essex to Tufts street.
G-old street, B to D street.
India street. Milk street to India square.
Laivrence street, Lawrence avenue across Miller street.
Marlborough street, Arlington to Clarendon street.
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Mason street, West street, about 213 feet southerly.
Massachusetts avenue, Beacon street across Huntington
avenue.
Miller street. Main to Lawrence street.
Otter street, Beacon street to Charles river.
Salem street, Endicott to Prince street.
Silver street, B to D street.
Tudor street, C to D street.
Tufts street, Kingston to South street.
Tyler street. Oak to Harvard street.
Warren street, Winthrop to Soley street.
And a number of alleys between Beacon and Boylston street.
The streets paved with wooden blocks on a concrete base
were :
Boylston street, from Boylston place to west side of Charles
street.
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Raleigh street.
Newhury street, Fairfield to Hereford street.
Public alley 44^i between Newbury and Boylston streets,
from Fairfield to Gloucester street (a portion only).
Asphalt Paving.
Arch street, between Summer and Franklin streets was
paved with two (2) inches Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch
American cement concrete base by the Boston Asphalt Com-
pany. The old pavement was removed and the roadway
excavated by H. Gore & Co. Former pavement, granite
blocks on gravel base, with gravel joints.
Arlington street, between Beacon and Boylston streets, was
paved with one and one-half (li) inches of Trinidad Lake
asphalt wearing surface, with one and one-half (li) inches
of asphaltic cement concrete binder, on a 6-inch American
cement concrete base, by the Barber Asphalt Paving Com-
pany. The old macadam surface and vitrified bricks were
removed and the road-bed prepared by the Street Department.
Athens street, between C and D streets, was paved with
two (2) inches of Sicilian Rock asphalt, on a six (6) inch
American cement concrete base, by Jones & Meehan. The
edgestones were reset, the brick sidewalks relaid, and the
roadway excavated by the contractor. Former pavement,
macadam.
Avon street, between Washington and Chauncy streets,
was paved with one and one-half (1^) inches of Trinidad
Lake asphalt wearing surface, with one and one-half (li)
inches of asphaltic cement concrete binder, on a 6-inch
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American cement concrete base, by the Barber Asphalt
Pavmg Company. The old pavement was removed and the
roadway excavated by the Street Department. Former pave-
ment, old blocks on gravel base, with gravel joints.
Beacon st7'eet, west side between Charles and Arlington
streets, was paved with one and one-half (li) inches of
Trinidad Lake asphalt wearing surface, with one and one-half
(li) inches of asphaltic cement concrete binder, on a 6-incli
American cement concrete base, by the Barber Asphalt
Paving Company ; the old pavement was granite blocks
occupied by car tracks, it being the terminus of the last rem-
nant of the Boston Elevated Railway horse railroad. The
company abolished the line and removed the tracks. The
Street Department prepared the road-bed for the concrete
base.
Beacon street, between Arlington and Dartmouth streets,
was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt on a
6-inch American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old macadam surface was removed and the
road-bed prepared by the Street Department.
Bowen street, between C and E streets, was paved with two
inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch American cement
concrete base, by Jones & Meelian. The old macadam sur-
face was removed and the road-bed prepared by the con-
tractors, who also reset the edgestones and relaid the side-
walks.
Copley square, streets bounding, was paved with one and
one-half (li) inches of Trinidad Lake asphalt wearing sur-
face with one and one-half (1^) inches asphaltic cement
concrete binder, on a 6-inch American cement concrete base,
by the Barber Asphalt Paving Company. A brow about one
foot wide was paved each side of the rails of the Boston Ele-
vated Railway Company's surface tracks. The old macadam
surface was removed and the road-bed prepared by the Street
Department.
Essex place, between Essex and Tufts streets, was paved
with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch
American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt Com-
pany. The old pavement was removed and the road-bed pre-
pared by. the Street Department. Former pavement, granite
blocks, with gravel joints on gravel base.
Grold street, between B and D streets, was paved with two
(2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch American ce-
ment concrete base, by Jones & Meehan. The old macadam
surface was removed and the road-bed prepared by the con-
tractors, who also reset the edgestones and relaid the brick
sidewalks.
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India street, between Milk street and India square,
was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a
6-inch American cement concrete base, by the Boston As-
phalt Company. The old pavement was removed and the
road-bed prepared by H. Gore & Co. The former pavement,
granite blocks, on gravel base, with gravel joints.
Lawrence street, from Lawrence avenue across Miller
street, was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock as-
phalt, on a 6-inch American cement concrete base, by Jones
& Meehan. The old macadam surface was removed and
the road-bed prepared by the contractors.
Marlborough street, between Arlington and Clarendon sts.,
was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a
6-inch American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old macadam surface was removed and the
road-bed prepared by the Street Department. The edgestones
were reset and the brick sidewalks relaid by H. Gore & Co.
Mason street, from West street, about 213 feet southerly,
was paved with two inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a
6-inch American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old pavement was removed and the road-bed
prepared by the Street Department. Former pavement,
granite blocks, with gravel joints on gravel base.
Massachusetts avenue, from Beacon street across Hunting-
ton avenue, was paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock
asphalt, on a 6-inch American Portland cement concrete base,
except the portion occupied by the Boston Elevated Railway
Company. The brows for eighteen (18) inches outside the
tracks were paved with granite blocks on a concrete base with
pitch and pebble joints. The work was done under contract
by the Boston Asphalt Company. The edgestones were re-
set and the brick sidewalks relaid by H. Gore & Co., who
also removed the old macadam surface and prepared the road-
bed for the concrete base.
Miller street, between Main and Lawrence streets, was
paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-
inch American cement concrete base, by Jones & Meehan.
The old macadam surface was removed and the road-bed pre-
pared by the contractors who reset the edgestones and- relaid
the brick sidewalks.
Otter street, from Beacon street to the Charles river, was
paved with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-
inch American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old macadam surface was removed and the
road-bed prepared- by the Street Department. The edge-
stones were reset and the brick sidewalks relaid by H. Gore
& Co.
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Salem street, from Endicott to Prince street, was paved
with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch
American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old pavement was removed and the road-
bed prepared by the Street Department. Former pavement,
granite blocks on gravel base, with gravel joints.
Silver street, between B and D streets, was paved with
two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch American
cement concrete base, by Jones & Meehan. The old
macadam surface was removed and the road-bed prepared by
the contractors, who also reset the edgestones and relaid the
brick sidewalks.
Tudor street, between C and D streets, was paved with two
(2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch American
cement concrete base, by Jones & Meehan. The old
macadam surface was removed and the road-bed prepared by
the contractors, who also reset the edgestones and relaid the
brick sidewalks.
Tufts street, between Kingston and South streets, was
paved with two inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch
American cement concrete base, by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old pavement was removed and the road-
bed prepared by the Street Department. Former pavement,
granite blocks on gravel base, with gravel joints.
Tyler street, between Oak and Harvard streets, was paved
with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on a 6-inch
American cement concrete base by the Boston Asphalt
Company. The old macadam surface was removed and the
road-bed prepared by H. Gore & Co., who also reset the
edgestones.
Warren street, between Winthrop an^d Soley streets, was
resurfaced with two (2) inches of Sicilian rock asphalt, on
existing American cement concrete base, except the portion
occupied by the Boston Elevated Railway Company. The
brows for eighteen (18), inches outside the tracks were paved
with granite blocks on a concrete base, with pitch and pebble
joints. The work was done under contract by the Boston
Asphalt Company. Former pavement asphalt.
Assessment Streets.
Under the provisions of chapter 323, of the Acts of 1891,
and acts in amendment thereof or in addition thereto, twenty-
five (25) new streets and nineteen (19) public alleys have
been constructed, and nine (9) streets and two (2) public
alleys partially constructed.
64 City Document No.- 40.
The construction of that part of Blue Hill avenue between
Walk Hill street and Mattapan square is now under way
and will be completed during the coming season, giving a
broad avenue from Grove Hall to the Neponset river.
Columbia road, from Blue Hill avenue to Edward Everett
square, will soon be completed, as the work of finishing the
boulevard and the approaches thereto is well under way, and
the bridge of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad-
at Richfield street has been finished.
Hancock street, from Columbia road to Bowdoin street,
has been relocated and widened. The work of construction
is practically completed. The street is sixty (60) feet wide,
consisting of a roadway forty (40) feet wide, and two side-
walks ten (10) feet wide.
On Northwood street. East Boston, a flight of hard pine
steps has been built, giving access from Leyden street,
opposite the Blackinton School, to Gladstone street, with an
ascent of 51.5 feet and a distance in a westerly direction of
182 feet. The steps are ten (10) feet wide, with risers of
7i inch, and" tread of one foot, entirely enclosed by a picket
fence. These steps were constructed by this division, be-
ginning work April 8, 1901, and finishing May 23, 1901.
The following streets were constructed under chapter 323,
of the Acts of 1891, and the acts in amendment thereof or
in addition thereto :
Ashley street, from Breed 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 was begun October 1, 1900, and completed July 1, 1901.
It is a 6-inch macadam roadway, with crushed stone side-
walks. The crushed stone and gutter blocks were furnished
by the city on the line of the work. The edgestones were
furnished by the city and hauled by the contractor to the site
of the work. The flagging for crosswalks was furnished by
the contractor.
Alford street, west side, from Maiden bridge, about 1,100
feet northerly. " Filling and Slope Paving." The contract
for this work was awarded to William L. Miller, July 22,
1901. Work was begun July 29, 1901. The work consisted
of " filling and slope paving " on the west side to complete
the widening between Maiden bridge and the Everett line.
All the materials used were furnished by the contractor.
Barry street, from Richfield to Quincy street, is about
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1,356 feet long. The contract for surfacing this street was
awarded to the Dorchester Construction Company, May 20,
1901. Work was begun August 5, 1901, and completed
December 16, 1901. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway, with
brick sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks and edge-
stones were furnished by the city and hauled by the con-
tractor to the site of the work. The bricks for the sidewalks
were delivered on the street by the city. The flagging for
the crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Blue mil avenue, from Mattapan square to Walk Hill
street, is about 3,400 feet long. The contract for construct-
ing the surface of this boulevard was awarded to James
Doherty, July 23, 1901. Work was begun July 30, 1901,
and was suspended January 11, 1902. This boulevard is
120 feet wide between Walk Hill and Norfolk streets, and 130
feet wide between Norfolk street and Mattapan square.
There are two telford-macadam roadways, with a 25-foot
reservation in the centre for car tracks, and the sidewalks
are each 15 feet wide, 10 feet of which is crushed stone, the
balance being grass, bounded by granite curbing. The
telford, crushed stone and gutter blocks were furnished on
the line of the work by the city; the edgestones were fur-
nished by the city, and hauled to the site of the work by the
contractor. The flagging for crosswalks and also the loam
for the planting spaces were furnished by the contractor.
Bosto7i street, from Columbia road to Mt. Vernon street, is
about 950 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to Thomas F. Welch, July
10, 1901. Work was begun July 22, 1901, and completed
September 16, 1901. It is a granite block pavement -on
gravel base, and gravel joints, with brick sidewalks. The
granite blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city,
and hauled to the site of the work by the contractor. The
bricks for the sidewalks were delivered on the street by
the city. The flagging- for crosswalks was furnished by the
contractor.
Brooks street, between Holton and North Beacon streets, is
about 1,135 feet long. The contract for constructing the sus-
face of this street was awarded to John F. McBride and Jesse
Moulton, July 2, 1901. Work was begun July 11, 1901, and
suspended December 14, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway with crushed stone sidewalks.
Cambridge street, from Brighton avenue to Washington
street, is about 3,642 feet long. The contract for constructing
the surface of this street was awarded to J. L. Byrne & Co.
Work was begun October 26, 1899, and suspended December
66 City Document No. 40.
23, 1899. The work was subsequently abandoned by tlie
contractors, who surrendered their contract.
The contract for finishing this street was awarded to J. H.
Sullivan, October 30, 1900. Work under this contract was
begun November 6, 1900, and completed August 20, 1901.
It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway, with crushed stone
sidewalks, a change being made subsequent to the signing of
the contract, and a coal tar sidewalk substituted on the north
side of the street. The crushed-stone, gutter blocks and edge-
stones were furnished by the city, and hauled to the site of
the work by the contractor. The flagging for crosswalks was
furnished by the contractor.
Oarlow street, from Albany to Chadwick street, is about
265 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to the Dorchester Construction Com-
pany, April 16, 1901 ; work was begun May 9, 1901, and
completed June 15, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway, with brick sidewalks. The edgestones, gutter
blocks and crushed stone were furnished by the city, and
hauled to the site of the work by the contractors. The
bricks for the sidewalks were delivered on the line of the
work by the city. The flagging for crosswalks was furnished
by the contractors.
Columbia road, that portion between Ceylon, Hamilton and
Richfield streets, left uncompleted on account of the bridge
of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-
pany. Columbia road proper is to be telford-macadam road-
ways, while the approaches are to be six (6) inch macadam.
The contract for constructing the surface was awarded to the
Barnes, Ruffin Company, October 1,1901. Work was begun
November 18, 1901, and suspended December 19, 1901.
The work will be completed early the coming season.
Conrad street, from Sumner street, about 224 feet easterly.
The contract for constructing the surface of this street was
awarded to the Dorchester Construction Company, April 16,
1901. Work was begun April 18, 1901, and completed May
15, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway, with
crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks,
and edgestones were furnished by the city, and hauled to the
site of the work by the contractors. The flagging for cross-
walks was furnished by the contractors.
Corinth street, from Washington to Brandon street, is about
614 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Collins & Ham, October 19, 1900.
Work was begun October 26,1900, and completed July 1,] 901.
It is a six (6) inch macadam roadwa}^, with crushed stone
Street Department — Paving Division. 67
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 crosswalks was fur-
nished by the contractors.
Dixfield street^ from Old Harbor to Covington street, is about
300 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Philip Doherty, September 25,
1901. Woprk was begun October 1, 1901, and completed
October 22, 1901. I|b is a macadam roadway with brick
sidewalks. The edgestones and gutter blocks were furnished
by the city, and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor. The crushed stone for roadway and bricks for
sidewalks were delivered on the line of the work by the
city. The flagging for crosswalks was furnished bv the
contractor.
Dra'ptr street, from Robinson to Bowdoin street, is about
1,722' feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to Philip Doherty, May 20, 1901.
Work was begun June 28, 1901, and completed September
3, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway with
crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks
and edgestones were furnished by the city, and hauled to the
site of the work by the contractor. The flagging for cross-
walks was furnished by the contractor. Subsequent to the
signing of the contract, artificial stone sidewalks were sub-
stituted for crushed stone sidewalks from Bowdoin street,
about 682 feet easterly, on petition of the abutters.
Fairfax street, from Carruth to Beaumont street, is about
626 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Philip Doherty, October 9, 1901.
Work was begun October 16, 1901, and completed November
20, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway with
artificial stone sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks
and edgestones were furnished by the city, and were delivered
on the street by the city. The flagging for crosswalks was
furnished by the contractor.
The contract for the construction of the artificial stone
sidewalks has been awarded, but on account of the late
season no woi'k has been done.
Forest Hills street, from Washington street to Glen road,
is about 1,305 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to Jones & Meehan,
May 20, 1901. Work was begun August 12, 1901, and
completed November 15, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway with crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone,
gutter blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city, and
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hauled by the contractor to the site of the work. The
flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Grainshorough street, from St. Stephen to Hemenway
street, is about 800 feet long. The contract for construct-
ing the surface of this street was awarded to Thomas F.
Welch, September 11, 1901. Work was begun September
17, 1901, and completed November 3, 1901. It is a six (6)
inch macadam roadway Avith crushed stone sidew;alks, except
on the east side between Hemenway street and a private
way about 100 feet north of St. Stephen street, where
artificial stone sidewalks were built instead of crushed stone.
The crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones were fur-
nished by the city, and were hauled by the contractor to the
site of the work. The flagging for the crosswalks was fur-
nished by the contractor.
Hancock street, from Columbia road to Winter street, is
about 2,400 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to James Doherty, August
23, 1901. Work was begun September 4, 1901, and com-
pleted December 16, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway with crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone,
gutter blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city, and
were hauled to the site of the work by the contractor. The
flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Hancock-street ivall. The contract for building the wall
in front of the Dorchester paving yard was awarded to
James Doherty. It is a rubble wall, laid solid in cement and
surmounted by a wooden picket fence.
Leeds street, from Woodward street to Dorchester avenue,,
is about 380 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to S. J. Cowin & Co.,
April 16, 1901. Work was begun April 24, 1901, and com-
pleted June 1, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway
with brick sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks and
edgestones were furnished by the city, and were hauled to the
site of the work by the contractor. The bricks for the side-
walks were delivered on the street by the city. The flagging
for the crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Leonard street, from Duncan to Adams street, is about-
478 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to the Dorchester Construction Com-
pany, April 17, 1901. Work was begun May 31, 1901, and
completed July 20, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway with crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone
paving blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city, and
were hauled to the site of the work by the contractor. The
flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
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Millet street, from Park to Athelwold street, is about 482
feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of this
street, was awarded to the Barnes, Ruffin Company, Septem-
ber 11, 1901, and suspended December 2, 1901. It is a six
(6) inch macadam roadway with crushed stone sidewalks. The
crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones were furnished
by the city, and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractors. The flagging for the crosswalks was furnished by
the contractors.
Milk street, from India street to Atlantic avenue, is about
602 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Frank Bachelder, November 7,
1901. Work under this contract was begun November 9,
1901, and completed December 2, 1901. It is a granite block
pavement on a six (6) inch American cement concrete base,
with Portland cement grout joints, and brick sidewalks.
The paving blocks were furnished by the city, and hauled to
to the site of the work by the contractor ; the bricks for the
sidewalks, the crushed stone for the concrete base and edge-
stones were furnished by the city, and delivered on the line
of the work.
Moseley street, from Crescent avenue to Columbia road, is
about 1,085 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to J. B. O'Rourke,
October 9, 1901. Work was begun October 23, 1901, and
suspended November 30, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway with crushed stone sidewalks.
Normandy street, from Lawrence avenue across Grove
street, is about 284 feet long. The contract for constructing
the surface of this street was awarded to the Dorchester
Construction Company, May 20, 1901. Work was begun
October 7, 1901, and suspended December 5, 1901. It is a
six (6) inch macadam roadway with crushed stone sidewalks.
The crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones were fur-'
nished by the city, and Jiauled to the site of the work by the
contractors. The flagging for crosswalks was furnished by
the contractors.
Nottingham street, from BuUard street to Bowdoin avenue,
artificial stone sidewalks, about 626 feet long. The contract
for laying the walks was awarded to W. A. Murtfeldt Com-
pany, October 5, 1900. Work was suspended December 8,
1900, and resumed in the spring of 1901, the contractors
completing the work July 20, 1901.
Perkins street, from Centre street to Jamaicaway, is about
1,779 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface
of this street was awarded to Jones & Meehan, May 20,
70 City Document No. 40.
1901. Work was begun July 24, 1901, and suspended
December 2, 1901 ; the contractors not being able to complete
their contract on account of the Metropolitan sewerage works
at Centre street. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway,
with crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter
blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city, and hauled
to the site of the work by the contractors. The flagging for
the crosswalks was furnished by the contractors.
Shepton street^ from Dorchester avenue to Florida street, is
about 1,057 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to James Doherty, April
17, 1901. Work was begun April 23, 1901, and completed
July 8, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway. The
crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones were furnished
by the city, and hauled to the site of the work by the con-
tractor. The flagging for crosswalks was furnished by the
contractor.
Shepton street^ artificial stone sidewalks. The contract for
laying these walks was awarded to W. A. Murtfeldt Com-
pany, May 10, 1901, and completed September 24, 1901.
Spencer street, from Athelwold to Harvard street, is about
336 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to the Dorchester Construction Com-
pany, May 20, 1901. Work was begun June 20, 1901, and
completed August 2, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway. The crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones
were furnished by the city, and hauled to the site of the
work by thfe contractors. The flagging for crosswalks was
furnished by the contractors.
Storer street, from India square to Atlantic avenue, is about
172 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Jones & Meehan, July 30, 1901.
Work under this contract was begun August 2, 1901, and
completed August 23, 1901. It is a granite block pavement
on concrete base. The granite blocks and granite flagging
were furnished by the city, and were hauled by the contract-
ors to the site of the work ; the bricks for sidewalks were
furnished on the line of the work ; the crushed stone for the
concrete was furnished by the contractors.
Stratford street, from Anawan to Clement avenue, is about
985 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Philip Doherty, December 3, 1900,
and completed June 1.3,1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam
roadway with dish gutters, edgestones being set only at the
street corners. The crushed stone, gutter blocks and straight
edgestones were furnished by the city, and hauled by the
Stbbet Department — Paving Division. 71
contractor to the site of the work. The circular stones were
delivered by the city on the line of the work. The flagging
for the crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Stratford street, sidewalks. The sidewalks on this street
are ten (10) feet wide ; five (5) feet in width, being laid with
artificial stone and the balance loam space, seeded and rolled.
The contract for laying the artificial stone was awarded to
W. L. Cahalan, June 21, 1900. Work was begun September
12, 1900, and completed July 13, 1901.
Templeton street, from Dorchester avenue to Adams street,
is about 2,100 feet long. The contract for constructing the
surface of this street was awarded to D. F. O'Connell
August 23, 1901. Work was begun September 6, 1901,
and completed November 13, 1901. It is a six (6) inch
macadam roadway, with brick sidewalks. The crushed stone,
gutter blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city, and
were hauled to the site of the work by the contractor. The
bricks were delivered on the street by the city. The flag-
ging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Tremont street, Brighton, from Washington street to the
Newton line, is about 1,827 feet long. The contract for con-
structing the surface of this street was awarded to William
Scollans, November 6, 1900. Work was begun November 12,
1900, and completed June 21, 1901. It is a six (6) inch
macadam roadway with crushed stone sidewalks. The
crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones were furnished
by the city and were hauled to the site of the work by the
contractor. The flagging for crosswalks was furnished by
the contractor.
Wainwright street, from Centre street to Welles avenue, is
about 827 feet long. The contract for constructing the sur-
face of this street was awarded to Philip Doherty July 10,
1901. Work was begun July 15, 1901, and completed
September 11, 1901. It is a six (6) inch macadam roadway
with crushed stone sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter
blocks and edgestones were furnished by the city and were
hauled to the site of the work by the contractor. The flag-
ging for crosswalks was furnished by the contractor.
Westbourne street, from Cornell to Beech streets, is about
610 feet long. The contract for constructing the surface of
this street was awarded to Thomas F. Welch April 17, 1901.
Work was begun May 10, 1901, and completed July 30,
1901. It is a 6-inch macadam roadway with crushed stone
sidewalks. The crushed stone, gutter blocks and edgestones
were furnished by the city, and were hauled to the site of
the work by the contractor. The flagging for the crosswalks
was furnished by the contractor. .
72 City Document No. 40.
Public Alleys.
During the year twenty-four (24) public alleys were
ordered constructed and nineteen (19) were completed.
The sidewalks in many of the alleys were found defective,
the bricks were loose and falling away, causing depressions
which were accounted for by the yards being below the level
of the sidewalks ; the old wooden bulkheads or earth embank-
ments not being sufficient to retain the sidewalk foundation.
To remedy this defect a system of concrete walls was
designed to be built on the fence line under the sidewalks and
to extend two (2) feet below the level of the yards.
The work of constructing the alleys was in most cases
done under two (2) contracts ; one for the preliminary work
of building the concrete walls, setting edgestones, etc., and
another for asphalting the surface of the roadway. In the
alleys that were paved with granite blocks the preliminary
work and surfacing was done under one contract, and the
city furnished the paving blocks, edgestones, flagging and
bricks.
Public alley Jfl^, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Hereford street to Massachusetts avenue, is
about 667 feet long. The contract for building the concrete
walls, setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavat-
ing the roadway, was awarded to Barnes, Ruffin Company,
August 31, 1901. Work was begun September 23, 1901,
and completed October 12, 1901. The contract for construct-
ing the asphalt surface for the roadway was awarded to the
Barber Asphalt Paving Company, August 29, 1901. Work
was begmi October 12, 1901, and completed October 24, 1901.
Public alley 4^5, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Gloucester to Hereford street, is about 398
feet long. The contract for building the concrete walls,
setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating
the, roadway, was awarded to Barnes, RufSn Company,
August 31, 1901. Work was began September 10, 1901, and
completed September 21, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving Com-
pany, August 29, 1901. Work was began October 2, 1901,
and completed October 12, 1901.
Public alley 4-1^ ■> between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Gloucester to Fairfield street, is about 524 feet
long. The contract for building the concrete walls, setting
edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the road-
way was awarded to Barnes, Ruffin Company, August 31,
Street Department — Paving Division. 73
1901. Work was begun October 10, 1901, and completed
October 31, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun November 1, 1901, and
completed November 14, 1901.
Public alley 4-^7^ between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Exeter to Fairfield street, is about 624 feet long.
The contract for building the concrete walls, setting edge-
stones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the roadway
was awarded to Barnes, Ruffin Company, August 31, 1901.
Work was begun October 29, 1901, and completed November
18,1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving Com-
pany, August 29, 1901. Work was begun November 19,
1901, and completed November 29, 1901.
Public alley /f21, between Beacon and Marlborough
streets, from Arlington to Berkeley street, is about 630 feet
long. The contract for building the concrete walls, and pav-
ing and regulating the roadway was awarded to J. B.
O'Rourke, August 24, 1901. Work was begun September
4, 1901, and completed October 8, 1901. It is a granite
block pavement on gravel base Vith Portland cement grout
joints. The excavation was done by the contractor ; former
pavement, granite blocks on gravel with gravel joints.
Public alley 4^4-, between Commonwealth avenue and
Marlborough, street, from Clarendon to Dartmouth street, is
about 575 feet long. The contract for building the concrete
walls, setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavat-
ing the roadway was awarded to Barnes, Ruffin Company,
August 31, 1901. Work was begun November 8, 1901, and
suspended December 7, 1901.
Public alley 4^6^ between Commonwealth avenue and
Marlborough street, frgm Exeter to Fairfield street, is about
624 feet long. J'he contract for building the concrete walls,
setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the
roadway was awarded to Thomas F. Welch, August 31,
1901. Work was begun September 16, 1901, and completed
October 3, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun October 7, 1901, and
completed October 16, 1901.
Public alley ^^7, between Commonwealth avenue and
Marlborough street, from Fairfield to Gloucester street, is
74 City Document No. 40.
about 524 feet long. The contract for building the concrete
walls, excavating the roadway and paving and regulating
was awarded to J B. O'Rourke, August 24, 1901. Work
was begun October 8, 1901, and completed November 2,
1901. It is a granite block pavement on gravel base with
Portland cement grout joints. Former pavement, granite
blocks on gravel base.
Public alley 4^8, between Commonwealth avenue and
Marlborough street, from Gloucester to Hereford street, is
about 395 feet long. The contract for building the concrete
walls, setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavat-
ing the roadway was awarded to Thomas F. Welch, August
31, 1901. Work was begun September 24, 1901, and com-
pleted October 12, 1901. The contract for constructing the
asphalt surface for the roadway was awarded to the Barber
Asphalt Paving Company, August 29, 1901. Work was
begun October 18, 1901, and completed October 23, 1901.
Public alley 4^9^ between Commonwealth avenue and
Marlborough street, from Hereford street to Massachusetts
avenue, is about 665 feet long. The contract for building
the concrete walls, setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks
and excavating roadway was awarded to Thomas F. Welch,
August 31, 1901. Work was begun October 10, 1901, and
completed October 25, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface of the
roadway was awarded to the Barber Asphalt Paving Com-
pany, August 29, 1901. Work was begun October 26,
1901, and completed November 13, 1901. The surface of
this alley is asphalt, with the exception of the end near
Massachusetts avenue, where granite blocks were used on
account of a very sharp grade.
Public alley 4^0, between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Hereford street to Massachusetts
avenue, is about 665 feet long. The contract for building
the concrete walls, excavating the roadway and paving and
regulating was awarded to J. B. O'Rourke, August 24,
1901. Work was begun October 17, 1901, and completed
October 31, 1901. It is a granite block pavement on gravel
base, with Portland cement grout joints.
Public alley ^5c?, between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Fairfield to Exeter street, is about 622
feet long. The contract for building the concrete walls,
excavating the roadway and paving and regulating was
awarded to J. B. O'Rourke, August 24, 1901. Work was
begun September 30, 1901, and completed October 19, 1901.
It is a granite block pavement on gravel base, with Portland
Street Department — Paving Division. " 75
cement grout joints. Former pavement, granite blocks on
gravel base, with gravel joints.
Public alley 434i between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Exeter to Dartmouth street, is 555 feet
long. The contract for building the concrete walls, setting
edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the road-
way was awarded to Benjamin M. Cram, August 30, 1901.
Work was begun October 1, 1901, and completed October
17, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Boston Asphalt Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun October 18, 1901, and
completed October 29, 1901.
Public alley If35^ between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Dartmouth to Clarendon street, is 575
feet long. The contract for building the concrete walls,
excavating the roadway and paving and regulating was
awarded to J. B. O'Rourke, August 24,1901. Work was
begun September 5, 1901, and completed October 16, 1901.
It is a granite block pavement on gravel base with pitch
joints. Former pavement, granite blocks on gravel base with
pitch joints.
Public alley Jfo6^ between Commonwealth avenue and
Newbury street, from Clarendon to Berkeley street, is 580
feet long. The contract for building the concrete walls,
setting edgestones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the
roadway was awarded to Benjamin M. Cram, August 30,
1901. Work was begun September 12, 1901, and completed
September 21, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Boston Asphalt Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun October 3, 1901, and
completed October 19, 1901.
Public alley 4-38^ between Newbury and Boylston streets,
from Arlington to Berkeley street, is 631 feet long. The
contract for building the ^concrete walls, setting edgestones,
laying brick sidewalks and excavating the roadway was
awarded to Benjamin M. Cram, August 30, 1901. Work
was begun September 25, 1901, and completed October 10,
1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Boston Asphalt Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun October 15, 1901, and
completed October 22, 1901.
Public alley IfJ^O-, between Boylston and Newbury streets,
from Dartmouth to Exeter street, is about 555 feet long.
76 City Document No. 40.
The contract for building the concrete walls, setting edge-
stones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the roadway
was awarded to Benjamin M. Cram, August 30, 1901.
Work was begun October 8, 1901, and completed October
29, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Boston Asphalt Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun October 24, 1901, and
completed November 5, 1901.
Public alley JfJf'B^ between Boylston and Newbury streets,
from Fairfield to Gloucester street, is about 511 feet long.
The contract for building the concrete walls, setting edge-
stones, laying brick sidewalks and excavating the roadway
was awarded to Benjamin M. Cram, August 30, 1901.
Work was begun October 19, 1901, and completed November
8, 1901.
The contract for constructing the asphalt surface for the
roadway was awarded to the Boston Asphalt Company,
August 29, 1901. Work was begun November 8, 1901, and
completed November 29, 1901.
Public alley Jf^i between Boylston and Newbury streets,
from Gloucester to Hereford street, is 395 feet long. The
contract for building the concrete walls, and paving and
regulating was awarded to J. B. O'Rourke, August 24, 1901.
Work was begun October 12, 1901, and completed January
16, 1902. It is a granite block pavement on gravel base
with gravel joints. Former surface, gravel.
Public alley 90S, between Massachusetts avenue and New-
bury street, is 223 feet long. The contract for paving and
regulating was awarded to E. S. Fogerty, July 10, 1901.
Work was begun July 30, 1901, and completed August 17,
1901. It is a granite block pavement on gravel base, with
Portland cement grout joints.
Public alley 706, from Newland street, northwesterly, is
566 feet long. The contract for building the concrete walls
and paving and regulating was awarded to Thomas F. Welch,
November 19, 1901. Work was begun November 25, 1901,
and suspended December 13, 1901.
Yours respectfully,
Joshua Atwood, 3d.,
Acting Deputy Superintendent, Paving Division.
Street Department — Paving Division.
77
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Regular Appropriation.
Maintenance .... $846,000 00
Amount collected for repairs made
by Paving Division, and inspect-
ors' services for different com-
panies, etc. .... 1,776 59
Transfers from various appropria-
tions 83,572 93
Expenditures from February 1,1901, to January
31, 1902
6931,349 52
$931,349 52
Special Appropriations, Paving and Street Improvements.
Amount of balances, February
1, 1901 . . . . . 1367,047 00
Amount of appropriations 1901-
1902, revenues and transfers . 1,017,205 6
Amount of expenditures
?1, 384, 252 80
^, 384, 252 80
Total Expenditures.
Maintenance appropriation
Special appropriations ....
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
East Boston .....
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
Brighton ......
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
Dorchester ......
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
Roxbury and West Roxbury
Laying-Out and Construction of Highways
chapter 478, Acts of 1900 , . .
Construction of highways, already laid out
Blue Hill and Other Avenues
Abolishment of grade crossings
Carleton street . . . . . .
*Harvard bridge .....
Maiden bridge ......
$931,349 52
1,384,252 80
10,815 63
2,254 21
1,226 35
2,173 91
1,263 99
499,848 57
15,830 49
40,380 45
6,960 51
330 26
112 00
26,472 55
$2,923,271 24
' $112 paid out of appropriation for Cambridge and Boston bridges.
78 City Document No. 40.
Income.
Statement showing the amount of IMlls deposited with the City
Collector from February 1, 1901, on account of the Paving
Division.
Edgestone and sidewalk assessments . . . , $14,393 63
The amount paid into the City Treasury during the year on
account of the Paving Division was as follows :
Sidewalk construction assessments (law of 1892), $6,561 57
Edgestone and sidewalk assessments (law of 1893) , 5,568 17
$12,129 74
Street Department — Paving Division.
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SCHEDULE A.
Salaries of Deputy Superindenclent 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
Repairing stable at yard on Child street. West Rox
bury
Printing and stationery
Gas and electric lighting
Messenger service
Wharfage and rent
Medical attendance on injured employees
Fuel and oil
Taxes
Advertising
Sundries
Boiler insurance
Execution of court
Moving fire-alarm box
Badges
Flags
Expenses of yards and stables, including
repairs to carts, harnesses, stables
and care of horses, etc. . . $152,418 81
Less amount earned by division teams, 83,513 54
Tools, cost of keeping same in repair, etc.
Veterinary services
Telephones ....
Artificial stone sidewalks
Street cleaning, suburban districts
Edgestones and sidewalks, new
Building new fences, etc.
Crossing repairs .
Crossings, new ....
Subway, Traverse street
Engineering supphes .
Columbia road crusher, construction
Hecht's wharf, repairing of .
Stone-crushers ....
$14,542
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8,619
12
19,509
41
16,135
71
3,370
52
33,812
16
7,057
23
67
80
2,259
24
2,712
91
6,880
22
531
72
49
80
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53
901
35
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75
333
33
191
73
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418
40
327
38
232
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50
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60
68,905 27
14,186 62
1,808 85
1,582 21
5,220 65
39,703 48
21,400 24
518 67
7,401 47
4,560 98
1,610 47
1,353 86
34,209 31
2,417 59
28,727 35
Carried forward
172,989 26
Street Department — Paving Division.
81
Brought forward .....
Less amount earned by steam-rollers, $1,936 55
Less decrease in stock . . . 26,685 89
SCHEDULE B.
$372,989 26
28,622 44
$344,366^82
The following schedule shows the expenditures from the main-
tenance appropriation of this division, in excess of
special appro-
priations :
Street Improvements :
Allen street . . . . • .
$2,027 93
Arch street ......
4,969 19
Avon street . . . . . .
3,759 80
Bay State road . . . .
7,359 75
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Raleigl
1
street . . . . . .
7,887 63
Bennett street .......
1,739 84
Boston street . .
2,900 77
Bowdoin street .....
5,318 04
Boylston street, West Eoxbury .
2,619 81
Boylston street, Tremont to Arlington street
6,118 71
Canton street ......
8,570 98
Centre street ......
2,094 82
Chauncy street . .
1,068 10
Chelsea street ......
2,043 52
Chestnut Hill avenue ....
2,912 87
Commercial street. Fleet to Chnton street .
3,026 29
Condor street . . . . . . .
6,835 69
Copley square ......
5,797 99
Dartmouth street ......
615 52
Faneuil Hall square ...
8,283 55
G-ardner street . . . . . .
1,968 02
G-reen street ......
3,500 55
Harvard street .....
5,155 99
Heath street ......
2,882 67
Lawrence street, Charlestown .
638 06
Lincoln street .....
2,217 59
Marlborough street . ' .
4,146 14
Maverick sti'eet .....
2,916 23
Miller street
181 35
Morton street .....
793 65
Neponset avenue .....
10,433 27
Newbury street, Massachusetts avenue to Charles
gate east ......
1,659 90
New Heath street . . . .
1,225 73
Salem street ......
4,489 17
Savin Hill avenue . . . .
2,095 75
Carried forward . • • •
$130,254 87
82
City Document No. 40.
Brought forward
Sparhawk street
Temple street
Tremont street, Castle to Dover street
Tudor street
Tyler street
Union street
Washington street
Washington street, West Roxbury
Wayne street .
Westville street
Worcester square
$130,254
87
1,547
77
2,162
98
9,099
21
1,869
95
4,499
98
2,274
07
4,774
38
3,976
58
1,380
63
1,399
33
3,887 41
$167,127 16
SCHEDULE C.
New Work. — Paid from Maintenance.
Parker street, Euggles to Ward street, regulated.
Teaming and materials furnished by the city .
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving .
$715 60
1,459 91
52,175 51
DETAIL OF EXPENDITURES UNDER SPECIAL
APPROPRIATIONS.
Abolishment of grade crossings, included in cost for Congress
street. Milk street to Exchange place. (Post Office square.)
Arlington street, Beacon to Boylston street, asphalted and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,625 69
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting . • 24,387 23
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, pacing ... . 219 05
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Arhngton street . . . . $31,000
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 231 97
11,231 97
11,231 97
Athens street, C toD street, asphalted and regulated
Labor and materials furnished by the city . . $563 28
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting . 2,798 50
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, pa^^ng . . 400 81
;,762 59
Street Department — Paving Division.
83
Atlantic avenue, Oliver to Commercial street, repaved with
large grauite blocks on a concrete base, witli cement grout
joints, and regulated (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaining and materials furnished by the city, $56,049 36
Amount paid to W. J. Delano, masonry . . 350 00
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 815 48
Amount paid to E. M. Chapman, carpentering . 1,995 00
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 10,985 34
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, pa^dng . . 14,580 78
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Atlantic avenue . . . . $38,962
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . 10,350
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . . 10,441
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . .25,020
82
90
36
,775 96
c,775 96
Beacon street, Arlington to Dartmouth street, asphalted and
regulated. (Unfinished work from 1900.)
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving-
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, as-
phalting .......
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Beacon street .... $15,337 66
Amount paid out of appropriation
for Street Improvements . . 3,331 75
$4,226 65
89 36
414 15
13,939 25
818,669 41
$18,669 41
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Raleigh street paved
with wooden blocks on a concrete base and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving
Amount paid to New England Structural Com
pany, beams and tie-rods ....
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Company, build
ing bridge over Fens ....
Amount paid to United States Wood Preserving
Company, paving with wooden blocks
Carried forward . . . .
$8,997 89
548 11
879 41
2,224 50
27,225 13
),875 04
* $13,083.26 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company; $11,541.65 charged to
Union Freight Railroad Company, but not paid.
84 City Document No. 40.
Brought for^oard $39,875 04
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Beacon street . . . .$12,649 91
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 19,337 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 7,887 63
_ * $39,875 04
Bowen street, C to E street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor and materials furnished by the city . . $658 92
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting . 4,826 25
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 991 71
),476 88
Boylston street, Arlington to Berkeley street, asphalted and
regulated (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor furnished by the city . . . . . $5 25
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 413 90
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing . 3,246 43
t $3,665 58
Boylston street, Tremont to Arlington street, roadway
asphalted (wooden blocks laid on concrete base, between
Boylston place and Charles street,), sidewalks widened and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $7,569 87
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 310 29
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stone sidewalks ..... 546 60
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 1,123 84
Amount paid to United States Wood Preser\ing
Company, laying wooden blocks . . . 7,186 13
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting 20,312 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for $37,049 23
Boylston street . . , . . $29,306 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 6,118 71
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,624 52
X $37,049 23
* $4,706.35 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
t $3,741.75 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
X $3,947.12 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Street Department — Paving Division. 85
Buildings, Chelsea street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
erecting new buildings on Glendon wharf, East
Eagle street (unfinished work from 1900) , $2,391 92
Carleton street, Yarmouth street to Massachusetts avenue
(unfinished). Chapter 139, Acts 1900.
Labor and materials furnished by the city . . $330 26
Commercial street, Fleet to Clinton street, repaved with large
granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout joints and
regulated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $15,994 11
Amount paid to John Turner & Co., paving . . 17,286 43
Amount paid out of appropriation for $33,280 54
Commercial street. Fleet to Clinton
street $30,207 62
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 3,026 29
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 46 63
!,280 54
Commercial street, Prince street across Eastern avenue, re-
paved with large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement
grout joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and matex-ials furnished by the city, $18,554 94
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . . 19,765 62
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 13,921 18
},241 74
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Commercial street. Prince street,
across Eastern avenue . . $47,029 95
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements ° . . . 5,211 79
* $52,241 74
Congress street, Milk street to Atlantic avenue, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout
joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $11,044 95
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 14,985 75
$26,030 70
* $11,206.15 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company; $10,238.39 charged to the
Union Freight Railroad Company, but not paid.
86 City Document No. 40.
Congress street, Milk street to Exchange place, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout
joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $11,498 64
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . 12,587 78
$24,086 42
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Congress street. Milk to Water street, $17,125 91
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Abohshment of Grade Crossings . 6,960 51
^$24,086 42
Copley square, streets bounding, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $8,293 87
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving ; . . 1,077 02
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting 38,653 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Copley square .... $42,086 15
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Di^dsion . . . . 5,797 99
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 140 00
i,024 14
t $48,024 14
Dock and Adams squares, repaved with large granite blocks
on a concrete base, with pitch joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $16,541 64
Amount paid to D. F. O'Conuell, pa^dng . . 8,622 18
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Dock and Adams squares . .$18,377 21
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 6,786 61
$25,163 82
),163 82
East First street, L to P street, paved with granite blocks on a
gravel base, with gravel joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $19,054 78
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rovu-ke, paving . . 10,537 51
1,592 29
* $1,689.31 paid by Boston Elevated Kailway Company.
ti6,fi99.'25 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
} $2,045.45 paid by Boston Elevated Railveay Company.
Street Department — Paving Division. 87
Faneuil Hall square, around Faneuil Hall, repaved with large
granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout joints and,
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $10,126 88
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, pa^ang . . 4,556 46
$14,683 34
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Faneuil Hall square . . . $4,300 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 8,283 55
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 2,099 79
$14,683 34
Franklin street, Washington to Oliver street, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout
joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, 813,508 17
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 16,624 99
Amount paid out of appropriation for $30,133 16
Franklin street, Washington to Con-
gress street $20,847 58
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 9,285 58
*$30,133 16
Freeport street, Ward 24, retaining wall (unfinished work
from 1900).
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, building retaining
wall $630 90
Amount paid to George T. McLauthlin & Co.,
erectino; fence . . . . . . 189 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Freeport-street retainin'g wall . . $776 28
Amount paid out of appropriaton for
Street Improvements . . . 43 67
il9 95,
il9 95
Gold street, B to D street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
city $802 14
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting, 4,888 00
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 1,022 10
;,712 24
•= $2,147.58 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
88 City Document No. 40.
Harrison avenue, Asylum to Davis street, asphalted and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and material furnished by the city, $1,166 90
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving . . 423 15
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting ....... 1,049 75
* $2,639 80
Harvard bridge.
Labor . tSll2 00
High street, Broad to Summer street, repaved with large gran-
ite blocks, on a concrete base, with cement grout joints, and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $20,212 52
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stone patching . . . . . . 373 65
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving . . 24,359 42
I $44,945 59
India street. Milk street to India square, asphalted and regu-
ated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,231 71
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 6,977 75
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 894 84
$11,104 30
Amount paid out of appropriation for
India street $9,745 34
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,358 96
$11,104 30
rialden bridge.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,640 38
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 431 91
Amount paid to W. L. Miller, filling and slope
paving 23,400 26
,472 55
* $449.63 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
t Paid out of appropriation for Cambridge and Boston bridges.
t $982.39 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Street Department — Paving Division. 89
riassachusetts avenue, Beacon street, across Huntington
avenue, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $20,057 91
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 1,382 71
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving, track area, 18,064 15
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company . . 39,503 75
* 79,008 52
flilk street, Pearl to Oliver street, repaved with large granite
blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout joints and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,689 89
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 2,410 11
$5,100 00
flilk street, Washington to Congress street, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout
joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,901 11
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . . 6,837 69
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Milk street, Washington to Congress
street $11,357 46
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 381 34
.1,738 80
t$ll,738 80
Neponset avenue, Adams to Minot street, paved with large
granite blocks on a gravel base, with gravel joints on the east-
erly side, macadamized on the westerly, and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $42,711 88
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 3,864 95
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Neponset avenue, Adams to Minot
street $25,128 01
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 11,015 55
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 10,433 27
),576 83
;,576 83
* $8,877.87 paid by Boston Elevated RaUway Company.
t $1,048.95 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
90 City Document No. 40.
Pearl street, Atlantic avenue to Milk street, repaved with large
granite blocks on a concrete base with cement grout joints and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $9,328 12
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 11,057 81
$20,385 93
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Pearl street, Atlantic avenue to Milk
street $16,700 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 3,685 93
$20,385 93
Silver street, B to D street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $816 64
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 707 50
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting . 5,621 75
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Silver street, B to C street . . $4,293 11
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 2,852 78
',145 89
^145 89
Summer street, Washington to Federal street (unfinished work
from 1900) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $243 14
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, paving . . 3,392 57
i,635 71
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Summer street . . . . $2,765 42
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . 870 29
13,635 71
Temple place, Washington to Tremont street (unfinished work
from 1900).
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corpor-
ation, artificial stone walks . . $35 00
Amount paid to United States Paving
Company, asphalting . . . 698 48
$733 48
* $5,916. 58 paid by Boston EleTated Kail way Company.
Street Department — Paving Division. 91
Tremont street, Boylston to Court street (unfinished work from
1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, S189 24
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stone walks . . . . . . 249 13
Tudor street, C to D street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Jones and Meehan, paving .
Amount paid to Jones and Meehan, asphalting
Union street, Dock square to Haymarket square, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base with cement grout
joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $13,755 21
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 6,918 86
$438
37
$410
485
2,390
08
10
05
$3,285
23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Union street. Dock square to Hay-
market square . . . $18,400 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,274 07
$20,674 07
$20,674 07
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 1.
Chelsea street, Saratoga street to Chelsea bridge, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $10,283 48
Amount paid to Charles L. Ward, paving . . 1,726 93
Amount paid out of, appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 1 . . $1,899 23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 2 . . 370 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 7,697 41
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 2,043 52
$12,010 41
$12,010 41
92 City Document No. 40.
Condor street, Meridian to Brooks street, paved with large
granite blocks on a gravel base, with gravel joints and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished b;f the city, $10,413 04
Amount paid to John Turner & Co., paving . . 1,290 09
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 1 . . $o3 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 6,335 69
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 4,814 44
.1,703 13
m,703 13
Ford street, Boardman to Breed street, regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $149 50
Marion street, Saratoga to Bennington street (unfinished work
from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $766 54
Amount paid to Charles L. Ward, paving . . 105 17
;71 71
Meridian street, Trenton to Eutaw street (unfinished work
from 1900).
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . $436 39
Princeton street, at Marion street (unfinished work from 1900) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $157 02
Saratoga street, at Marion street (unfinished work from 1900) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $427 60
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.— WARD 2.
Border street, at North Ferry, repaired and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $553 86
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 74 30
$628 16
Bremen street, Maverick to Porter street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,346 53
Amount paid to J. E. Donovan, paving . . 677 28
$4,023 81
Street Department — Paving Division. 93
Gove street, Havre to Bremen street, macadamized and reg-
ulated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,282 01
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 1,022 36
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 2 , . $1,921 65
Amount paid out of appi'opriation for
Street Improvements . . . 2,382 72
:,304 37
.,304 37
London street, Marion to Maverick street, macadamized and
regulated. '
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,082 73
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 1,789 14
7,871 87
flaverick street, Cottage street to Boston & Albany Railroad,
macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $9,753 85
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 1,105 05
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 2
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division
$10,858 90
$216 61
7,726 06
2,916 23
$10,858 90
rieridian street, at Marion street (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $157 25
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 252 21
$409 46
Paris street, Putnam to Brooks street (unfinished work from
1900). ^
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $774 04
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.— WARD 3.
Bartlett street, Concord to Pearl street, macadamized and reg-
ulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,259 15
Amount paid to John Turner «fe Co., paving . . 496 81
$2,755 96
94 City Document No. 40.
Bartlett, Summer, School and Pearl streets, laying side-
walks around Warren School.
Labor, teaming and materials, fm'nished by the city, $162 00
Amount paid to John Turner & Co., paving . . 562 07
$724 07
$610
32
$856
358
79
33
$1,215
12
Cedar street, Bartlett to High street, macadamized and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $280 40
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 329 92
Cross street, Bartlett to High street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving .
Laurel street. Cedar street to Monument square, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $196 20
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 114 46
rionument street.
Labor ........
rit. Vernon street (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.— WARD 4.
Essex street (work not started) .
Labor . $10 68
Gardner street, Sever to Main street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $220 80
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
paving 112 77
$310
66
$32
20
$717
38
$333 57
Haverhill street, from Main street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,003 30
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 216 43
$1,219 73
Street Department — Paving Division. 95
Hill street, Cook to Sackville street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $391 40
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
pa^dng ........ 97 27
$488 67
Kingston street, from Sever street.
Labor $69 76
Sever street, Cambridge to Haverhill street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,157 65
Amount paid to Boston Contracting Company,
paving 439 90
$1,597 55
Walnut street, Bunker Hill to Medford street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,735 57
Amount paid to J. Turner & Co., paving . . 326 15
$2,061 72
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.— WARD 5.
Benedict street, Lawrence street to Rutherford avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $239 74
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 489 90
$729 64
Devens street, Rutherford avenue to Main street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,074 41
Amount paid to J. Turner & Co., paving . . 197 08
$1,271 49
- Green street. High to Main street, widened, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,044 54
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., f)aving . . 294 12
Amount paid out of appropriation for $2,338 66
Street Improvements, Ward 5 . $1,289 08
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . ■ . . 1,049 58
$2,338 66
96 City DoctJMEisrT No. 40.
Lawrence street, Austin to Miller street (asphalted between
MiUer street and Lawrence avenue) , paved with granite blocks
on a gravel base, with gravel joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving .
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting
Amount paid out of appropriation for $6,942 71
Street Lnprovements, Ward 5 . . $5,453 01
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 851 64
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 638 06
86,942 71
$1,274
55
712
57
701
84
4,253
75
fliller street, Main to Lawrence street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $249 80
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 209 72
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, asphalting . 1,209 00
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 154 41
Amount paid out of appropriation for $1,822 93
Street Improvements, Ward 5 . $394 86
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,246 72
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 181 35
$1,822 93
rionument avenue, Monument square to Main street, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,115 57
Amount paid to P. Brennan & Co., paving . . 531 95
$3,647 52
Phipps street.
Labor $40 62
Pleasant street. Main street to Monument square (unfinished
work from 1900).
Labor and teaming furnished by the city . . $104 50
Prescott street, Washington to Harvard street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,998 97
Amount paid to J. Turner & Co., paving . . 187 34
. $2,186 31
Street Department — Paving Division. 97
Warren street, Wiuthrop to Soley street, asphalted and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $58 50
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing . . ...... 978 77
,037 27
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.— WARD 6.
Central street, Broad to India street (unfinished work from
1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $138 90
Amount paid to James Doherty & Co., paving . 182 05
Amount paid out of appropriation for $320 95
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . $138 90
Amount paid out of apiDropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . . 182 05
$320 95
Haverhill street. Traverse to Causeway street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . $217 40
Amount paid out of aj^propriations for
Street Improvements, Ward 8 . 88 80
Amount paid out of appropi'iation for
Street Improvements . . . 82 58
$388 78
riercantile street, Clinton to South Market street, repaved with
granite blocks on a gravel base with cement grout joints, and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $610 68
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 834 61
Amount paid out of appropriation for $1,445 29
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . $1,220 07
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Im^Drovements . . . 225 22
$1,445 29
Prince street (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $118 80
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 277 00
$395 80
* $193.35 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
98 ■ ■ City Document No. 40.
South Market street, Commercial street to Merchants row,
repaved on a gravel base, with gravel joints.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $452 70
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 1,022 40
61,475 10
Sudbury square, repaved and regulated. -~
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $572 49
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving , . . 179 83
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . $266 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 8 . . 485 82
$752 32
$752 32
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 7.
Congress street, Gilbert place to the bridge, repaved on a
gravel base, with gravel joints.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $646 18
Amount paid to S. J. Cowin & Co., paving . . 983 21
$1,629 39
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . . $457 87
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,171 52
$1,629 39
Kneeland street, Atlantic avenue to Albany street, repaved
and regulated (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $698 56
Amount paid to J. Doherty & Co., paving . . 1,274 83
,973 39
Oak street, Albany street to Harrison avenue, repaved with
pitch joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,833 35
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,567 08
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . . $3,343 23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 57 20
!,400 43
!,400 43
Street Department — Paving Division^. 99
Oliver street (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $610 56
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 691 41
$1,301 97
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. —WARD 8.
Green street, Bowdoiu square to Chambers street, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout
joints, and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,676 28
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 6,602 81
$13,279 09
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 8 . . $7,600 61
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 2,177 93
Amount paid out of appropriation for .
Pacing Division .... 3,500 55
* $13,279 09
North Russell street, Cambridge to Parkman street, repaved
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $915 60
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 758 91
,674 51
Portland street, Hanover to Causeway street, repaved with
large granite blocks on a concrete base, with cement grout
joints, and regulated (■work unfinished).
L«,bor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $8,641 60
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 7,235 69
$15,877 29
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 8. . $8,77256
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 7,104 73
$15,877 29
* $1,324.27 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
100 City DocuMEisrT No. 40.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 9.
Washington street, Dover to Northampton street, repaved
with cement grout joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $11,645 52
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 6,349 48
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 7,901 49
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, paving . . 8,456 86
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 10,307 68
$44,661 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 9. .$10,647 15
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 34,013 88
* $44,661 03
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 13.
B street, West Fourth to Silver street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $532 05
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 224 48
1756 53
Bolton street. Second to C street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,021 61
Amount paid to R. McDonough, paving . . 708 45-
$1,730 06
Broadway, Dorchester avenue towards Foundry street (unfin-
ished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $138 44
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paving . 183 68-
$322 12
Congress street, at Pittsburgh street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $489 28
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 350 88
$840 16
* $897.65 paid by New England Telephone and Telegraph Company; $841.75 paid
hy Boston Electric Light Company.
Street Department — Paving Division. 101
Dorchester avenue (unfinished work fi-om 1900).
Teaming $16 00
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paving . 200 00
$216 00
West Eighth street, D to E street, macadamized and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,317 65
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 487 38
.,805 03
West Fifth street, C to D street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,135 62
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 611 83
;i,747 45
West First street, A street to Eailroad crossing (work not
started) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,013 07
West Ninth street, D to E street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $866 25
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 847 17
,713 42
West Third street, A to B street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,036 57
Amount paid to R. McDouough, paving . . 499 96
,536 53
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 14.
East Fourth street, N to P street (unfinished work from
1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $126 30
East Third street, N to O street, macadamized and regulated
(unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,193 02
Amount paid to R. McDonough, paving . . 556 47
Carried forward . . ' . . • . . $1,749 49
102 City Document No. 40.
JBt ought forward . . . ... Si, 749 49
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 14 . $455 37
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,294 12
$1,749 49
r\ street, East Broadway to East Eighth street (unfinished
work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,002 98
N street, East Broadway to East Fifth street (unfinished work
from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to B. M. Cram, paving
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 14
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements
y the city.
$2,564 57
793 90
$931 16
2,427 31
$3,358 47
$3,358 47
.
— WARD
15.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.
Bo wen street, F to Dorchester street, regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $453 10
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 306 56
$759 66
Dexter street, Dorchester avenue to Ellery street, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $730 57
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 269 59
$1,000 16
East Ninth street, Dorchester to Mercer street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,309 19
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . 687 11
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 15 . $1,661 73
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,334 57
$2,996 30
^2,996 30
^ ' Street Department — Paving Division. 103
East Sixth street, G to H street (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,355 21
F street, West Sixth to West Eighth street, resurfaced.
Teaming furnished by the city .... $23 GO
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 203 21
S226 21
Q street, Seventh street to Thomas park, macadamized and
regulated.
•Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $642 39
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 235 01
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 15 . $209 75
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 667 65
;77 40
^77 40
Mercer street. East Eighth to Newman street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $962 05
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 541 74
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 15 . $590 87
Amount- paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 912 92
$1,503 79
$1,503 79
Thomas Park, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,678 15
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 2,188 47
A , -T . . - • ,. . $3,866 62
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 15 . $1,357 63
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 2,508 99
$3,866 62
West Sixth street, E to Dorchester street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,576 66
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 630 56
Carried forward . . • . . . . $2,207 22
104 City Document No. 40.
Brought forward $2,20722
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 15 . $1,209 21
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 998 01
$2,207 22
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 20.
Blue Hill avenue, Intervale street to Lawrence avenue
(unfinished worlv from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $486 15'
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 676 54
Chamberlain street (unfinished work from 1900),
Gravel furnished by the city ....
Lawrence avenue (unfinished work from 1900).
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving
Savin Hill avenue (unfinished work from 1900) .
Sand furnished by the city . . . .
Willis street, (unfinished work from 1900).
Gravel furnished by the city ....
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.— WARD 22.
Washington street, Townsend street to Columbus avenue
(unfinished work from 1900).
Materials furnished by the city .... $117 84
Washington street, School to Green street, paved witli large
granite blocks on a gravel base with gravel joints and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $32,472 18
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . 6,922 32
$1,162
69
$4
35
$14
85
$15
00
$5_
80
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 22 . $6,104 94
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 29,31298
Amount paid out of Appropriation
for Paving Division . . . 3,976 58
$39,394 50
39,394 50
* $4,778.30 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Street Department — Paving Division. 105
STREET IMPROVEMENTS. — WARD 24.
Adams street, Nepouset avenue to Granite avenue (un-
finished work from 1900).
Gravel $5 80
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 59 60
65 40
Adams street, Park to Gibson street, repaved (on the easterly
side) and regulated.
Gravel $17 88
Amount paid out to D. F. O'Connell, paving . 544 19
$562 07
Mather street (unfinished work from 1900) .
Sand $3 00
Parkman street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,033 66
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 748 66
$1,782 32
Richmond street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,788 60
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,250 28
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 24 . $3,014 31
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1,024 57
$4,038 88
$4,038 88
River street, Washington street to Central avenue (unfinished
work from 1900).
Teaming furnished by the city .... $190 00
Wessex street, Wyanoke to Codman street (unfinished work
from 1900).
Gravel $62 35
106 City Document No. 40.
STREET IMPR 0 VE3IENTS.
Advertising.
Advertising repairs to streets . . . . $308 44
Adams street, Park street to Dorchester avenue, paved with
granite blocks on a gravel base, with gravel joints, and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $9,651 79
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,046 40
$10,698 19
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $9,561 46
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 24 . 1,336 73
$10,698 19
Albany street, Dedham to Plympton street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $507 05
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 773 66
;i,280 71
Allen street. Blossom to Charles street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,857 67
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 824 71
;,682 38
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,654 45
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,027 93
$3,682 38
Allston street, Brighton, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $40 30
Alpine street, St. James to Regent street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,961 49
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 459 52
$3,421 01
Street Department — Paving Division. 107
Amory street, Boylston street to Columbus avenue, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $549 95
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,128 66
$1,678 61
Arch street, Summer to Franklin sti-eet, asphalted and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $486 27
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, as-
phalting 4,803 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $320 58
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 4,969 19
i,289 77
i,289 77
Ashland street, Canterbury to Harvard street, resurfaced and
portion of gutter paved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,857 74
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 414 00
$4,301 74
Ashmont street, Washington to Ocean street, macadamized
and regulated, and between Adams and Train streets resur-
faced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving
Asphalt Repairs. Repairing asphalt streets.
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
Labor furnished by the city ...
Athol street, Aldie to Raymond street, resurfaced and regu-
lated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,145 38
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving , . . 277 20
$1,422 58
$3,277
408
01
30
$3,685
31
$3,351
■ 13
77
93
$3,365
70
108 City Document No. 40.
Avon street, Washington to Chauncy street, asphalted and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,050 79
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 166 82
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting ....... 3,402 75
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $860 56
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 3,759 80
t,620 36
b,620 36
Ballard street (West Roxbury), gutters paved.
Labor and materials furnished by the city . . $352 57
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 224 00
$576 57
Bay State road, Beacon to Granby street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,445 54
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving. . . 1,539 81
Amount paid to Simpson Brothers Corp., arti-
ficial stone walks . . . . . . 266 80
5,252 15
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $892 40
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 7,359 75
;8,252 15
Beacon street, Charles to Arlington street, asphalted and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,014 20
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting 7,270 75
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . . 498 95
$8,783 90
Beacon street, Tremont to Park street, repaved and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,133 18
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, paving . . 2,868 82
$4,002 00
Street Department — Paving Division. 109
Bellevue street, Oriole to Robin street, resurfaced and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,246 18
Amount paid to S. D. Pay son, paving . . . 495 60
$1,741 78
Bennett street, Market to Parsons street, resurfaced and
regixlated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,787 25
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 413 86
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . .. $1,461 27
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,739 84
,201 11
;,201 11
Beverly street. Causeway to Washington street, north, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $227 40
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 112 85
$340 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $337 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . 3 00
$340 25
Blue Hill avenue, Intervale to Washington street, and Dewey
street to Lawrence avenue, paved with granite blocks on a
gravel base with gravel joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $19,267 33
Amount paid to Booth & Co., paving . . . 6,099 54
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . .$23,873 07
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 20 . 1,493 80
),366 87
i,366 87
Boston street, Washburn to Mt. Vernon street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,177 25
Amount paid to R. McDonough, paving . . 1,423 57
Carried forvmrd . .■ . . . . $4,600 82
110 City Document No. 40.
Brought forioard $4,600 82
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,700 05
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 2,900 77
$4,600 82
Bowdoin street, Washington to Quincy street, macadamized
and regulated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,499 83
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 2,401 44
18,901 27
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $3,583 23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 5,318 04
$8,901 27
Boylston avenue, Stony brook to Green street, repaved and'
regulated.
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . $1,257 92
Boylston street, Washington to Centre street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,809 47
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 2,456 35
i,265 82
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $5,646 01
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,619 81
$8,265 82
Bremen street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $79 00
Brentwood street, Franklin to Everett street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $940 07
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 298 80
$1,238 87
Brookline avenue, Longwood avenue to Boston & Albany
Railroad , repaved .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $246 32
Street Department — Paving Division. Ill
Brookline street, Washington street to Shawmut avenue,
macadamized and regulated, and Shawmut avenue, West
Brooliline to West Newton street, repaved and regulated
(around Blackstone square) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $949 67
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,366 70
i,816 37
Burr street, Boylston street to Spring Park avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,222 66
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 453 26
,675 92
Cambridge street, Brighton, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $816 96
Canton street, Albany to Tremont street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $8,431 91
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 3,530 78
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $3,391 71
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 8,570 98
$11,962 69
$11,962 69
Carruth street, Ashmont to Codman street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,330 26
Amount paid to U. F. O'Connell, paving . . 289 31
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, paving . . 348 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements ' . . . $1,647 79
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 24 . 320 03
51,967 82 ,
11,967 82
Centre street. Church to Grove street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the City, $2,748 32
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $653 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 2,094 82
$2,748 32
112 City Document No. 40.
Centre street, Fort avenue to Marcella street, repaved.
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . , . $285 82
Chauncy street, repaved and regulated.
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving . . S2,323 10
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements. . . . $1,255 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Department . '. . 1,068 10
$2,323 10
Cheney street, Maple street to Blue Hill avenue, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,106 03
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 93 93
$1,199 96
Chestnut Hill avenue, Washington street to Commonwealth
avenue, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $11,534 80
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 1,676 80
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial sidewalks . . , . . . 1,001 30
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . .$11,300 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,912 87
$14,212 90
.4,212 90
» —
Chestnut street. West Roxbury, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $142 15
Circuit street, Fenwick street to Walnut avenue, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,751 69
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving, . . 478 97
1,230 66
Clarendon street, side of engine-house, repaved.
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . $324 12
Columbus avenue, sidewalk repairs (unfinished workfrom 1900) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $918 54
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 715 90
$1,634 44
Street Department — Paving Division. 113
Congress square (unfinished work from 1900).
Amount retained from Barber Asphalt Paving Com-
pany for work done in 1900, under contract . $126 87
Copeland street, Moreland to Warren street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,598 63
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,303 85
i,902 48
Cumston street, Concord to Rutland street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $498 78
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 248 93
.747 71
Gushing avenue, Sawyer avenue to Columbia road, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, , $657 93
Amount paid to D. F. O'Couuell, paving . . 502 32
,160 25
Dartmouth street, Huntington avenue to the bridge, paved
with granite blocks on a gravel base, with gravel joints and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,517 64
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 1,239 49
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $3,141 61
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . - . . . 615 52
!,757 13
p3,757 13
Devon street, Warren street to Blue Hill avenue, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,663 49
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 151 49
$1,814 98
Dimock street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $410 08
114 City Document No. 40.
Dorchester avenue, East Cottage street to Columbia road, re-
paved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $269 82
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, pa\dng . . 876 22
,146 04
East Newton street, Washington street to Harrison avenue,,
macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,773 94
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving , . . . 618 61
Edgestones, sidewalks and gutters (new).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Edgestones, sidewalks and gutters (repaired) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving .
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving .
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving-
End icott street, Cross to Cooper street, and Keany square to
Traverse street, repaved on a gravel base, with gravel joints.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,514 56
Amount paid to D. Kiley, paving . . . 1,291 30-
$2,392
55
$461
46-
$320
80
1,352
31
1,107
05
969
61
709
50
16
20
$4,475
47
$3,805 86
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements , . .'$3,489 75
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . 316 11
$3,805 86,
Erie street, Washington to Glenway street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,407 63
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 812 30
$3,219 9S
Street Department — Paving Division. 115
Essex place, from Essex street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $67 78
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 57 60
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 1,101 75
,227 13
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . .$1,22163
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . . 5 50
;i,227 13
Fairfield street, regulated.
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . , |495 75
Ford street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $104 00
Gardner street, Baker to Morrison street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,457 67
Gardner street. Harvard avenue to Malvern street, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,364 75
Amount paid to James Doherty, paving . . 966 90
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $4,363 63
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,968 02
;,331 65
;,331 65
Gloucester street, gutters repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving
Goldsmith street, Custer to Centre street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
$46
476
00
55
$522
55
$343
241
20
20
$584 40
116 City Document No. 40.
Qreen street, Washington to Centre street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,064 64
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 1,390 56
L,45.5 20
H street, East Eighth to East Ninth street, macadamized and
regulated .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,004 89
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving ... 267 45
,272 34
Halleck street, Ruggles to Station street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,107 80
Amount paid to T. O'Leary, paving . . . 202 78
;,310 58
Hardwick street, Dunboy to Bigelow street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $406 60
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 226 80
$633 40
Harris avenue. Centre to Alveston street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $535 99
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, con-
crete sidewalks . . . . . . 577 50
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 293 50
$1,406 99
Harvard avenue, Cambridge street to Commonwealth avenue,
resurfaced.
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . $431 44
Harvard street. Blue Hill avenue to Glenway street, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $8,590 46
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,860 57
Carried forward . . . . . . $10,45103
Street Department — Paving Division. 117
Brought forward . . . . , $10,451 03 .
Amount paid out of appropilation for
Street Improvements . . . $5,295 04
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 5,155 99
$10,451 03
Haven street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $470 36
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 206 86
$677 22
Hereford Street, Boylston to Beacon street, gutters repaved
and regulated.
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . $556 03
Hillside street, Parker street to Parker Hill avenue, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $19,452 81
Amount paid to T. O'Leary, paving . . . 3,686 20
53,139 01
Heath street (Old), Columbus avenue to Parker street, macad-
amized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,823 34
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 726 62
Amount paid out of appropriations for
Street Improvements . . . $2,667 29
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,882 67
$5,549 96
$5,549 96
Heath street, Columbus avenue to Parker street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,045 63
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 364 12
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements .' . . $1,184 02
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,225 73
},409 75
!,409 75
Julian street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $304 76
118 City Document No. 40.
Kent street, Roxbury to Vernon street, macadamized and reg-
ulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $533 45
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 412 46
$945 91
L street, East Eighth street to Cohimbia road, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,064 30
Amount paid to R. McDonough, paving . . 871 36
:,y35 66
La Grange street, Washington to Centre street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,404 13
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 246 00
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 1,228 82
$6,878 95
Lark street. West Eighth to West Ninth street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, - $211 83
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 144 74
556 57
Landseer street, Bellevue to La Grange street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $472 65
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 282 00
$754 65
Lincoln street, Kneeland to Essex street, repaved on a gravel
base, with cement grout joints, and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the citj^ $1,768 11
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 4,454 86
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $4,005 38
Amount paid out of appropriation . for
Pa%dng Division . . . . 2,217 59
;,222 97
;,222 97
* $321.30 paid by Boston Elevated Kailway Company.
Street Department — Paving Divisiox. 119
Linden street, Freeport to Adams street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, 8431 39
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 463 08
$894 47
Linnet street, La Grange to Bellevue street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $632 50
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 329 60
Amount paid to James Doherty . . . . 126 00
$1,088 10
flarket street, Washington street to Western avenue, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,153 90
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving ... 34 40
S4,188 30
Marlborough street, Massachusetts avenue to Clarendon street,
macadamized and regulated. Clarendon to Arlington street,
asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $17,040 28
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 16,086 53
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 5,262 74
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 1,959 62
S40,349 17
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . .$36,203 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . - . . . 4,146 14
40,349 17
Mason street. West street, about 213 feet, southerly.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $483 96
Amount i^aid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing . . 1,509 63
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . '39 66
),033 25
* $10,097 paid by Boston Elevated Railway Company, whose tracks were removed
on Marlborougli, "Beacon, and Arlington streets.
120 City Document No. 40
Massachusetts avenue, Edward Everett square to Swett
street, unfinished work from 1900.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,371 58
flassachusetts avenue, Albany to Tremont street, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,819 33
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 1,765 32
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stone walks ...... 461 95
5,046 60
Metropolitan avenue, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $274 31
Morton street, Endicott to Salem street, asphalted and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $863 96
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing ........ 793 65
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . .$863 96
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 793 65
.,657 61
51.657 61
Murdock street, Elmira to Sparhawk street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $453 96
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 329 80
$783 76
flillet street. Park street to Talbot avenue, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,734 11
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 749 58
5,483 69
Newbury street, Massachusetts avenue to Charlesgate, east,
macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,385 97
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . 568 23
Carried forioarcl ...... $1,954 20
Stkeet Depaetment — Paving Division. 121
Brought forxoard . . . . . . $1,95420
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $294 30
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,659 90
$1,954 20
Newbury street, Fairfield to Hereford street, paved with
wooden blocks on a concrete base, and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $138 25
Amount paid to A, A. Libby & Co., paving . , 829 24
Amount paid to United States Wood Preserving
Company 11,337 72
Northampton street (unfinished work from 1900).
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving .
Ophir street. West Roxbury, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving .
Otter street, Beacon street to Charles river, asphalted and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $788 33
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving
$12,305
21
$355
1,444
30
58
$1,799
88
$340
191
77
60
$532
27
1,540
108
50
87
$2,437
70
$2,778
09
P street, East Sixth street to Columbia road, filled.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
P street. East First to East Fourth street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,348 24
Amount paid to E. McDonough, paving , . 1,191 50
$4,539 74
Perrin street, Waverly to Moreland street, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,192 49
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,136 86
$4,329 35
122 City Document No. 40.
Peter Parley road, Walnut to Forest Hills street, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $90 42
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, pa^dng . . . 664 62
^55 04
Providence street, Church street to Park square, resurfaced.
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paAdng . . . $453 04
Regent street. Circuit to Dale street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $459 55
Rosedale street, Washington to Whitfield street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,284 76
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 555 15
$2,839 91
Royal street, near Cambridge street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $521 32
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 121 42
$642 74
Ruth ven street, Humboldt avenue to Elm Hill avenue, resurfaced
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,720 52
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co. . . . 455 03
$4,195 55
Rutland street and Rutland square, macadamized and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,917 58
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 2,868 69
$9,786 27
Salem street, Endicottto Prince street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,051 23
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Companv, asphalt-
ing " . . 7,491 25
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 567 22
Carried forioard . . . . . . $13,10970
Street Department — Paving Division. 123
Br ought' forimrd . . . . . $13,109 70
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $8,522 35
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 6 . . 98 18
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 4,489 17
$13,109 70
Saratoga street, near Bremen street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $886 71
Amount paid to C. L. Ward, paving . . . 242 56
$1,129 27
Savin Hill avenue, Denny street to Raikoad bridge, and Gram-
pian way, Savin Hill avenue to Rockland street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,037 27
Amount paid to Booth & Co., parang . .* . 1,15594
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements , , . $4,097 46
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,095 75
,193 21
$6,193 21
Shannon street, Union to Washington street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $742 65
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 223 20
)65 85
Shawmut avenue. Pleasant and Tremont streets (at Sub-
way entrance) .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,415 77
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 2,680 15
$4,095 92
Shepard street. Union to Washington street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $700 38
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . , . 793 79
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stonewalks ...... 247 00
$1,741 17
124 City Document No. 40.
South Russell street, from Cambridge street, repaved.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $386 24
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 203 91
p590 15
Sparhawk street, Market to Cambridge street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,988 42
Amount paid to J. Doherty & Co. . . . 560 06
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,000 71
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,547 77
$2,548 48
!,548 48
Springfield street, Harrison avenue to Tremont street, macad-
amized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $8,706 82
. Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 3,507 06
$12,253 88
Standish street.
Labor ' . . $8 40
Stafford street, Dennis street to Blue Hill avenue, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving .
$865
340
69
44
$1,206
13
$17
50
Sterling street.
Labor .......
Sunderland street, Warren street to Blue Hill avenue, resui--
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,069 13
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 118 78
$1,187 91
Sycamore street, Florence to Kittredge street, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $963 99
Street Department — Paving Division. 125
Temple street, Cambridge to Derne street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,512 32
Amount paid to Dennis Kiley, paving . . . 657 14
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,006 48
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 2,162 98
;,169 46
!,169 46
Tremont street, Dover to Castle street, repaved on a gravel
base with cement grout joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,298 77
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 8,649 14
$10,947 91
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,848 70
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 9,099 21
$10,947 91
Tudor street, E to Dorchester street, macadamized and regu-
lated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,034 68
Amount paid to R. McDonough, paving . . 721 40
$2,756 08
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $886 13
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 1,869 95
: $2,756 08
Tufts street, Kingston to South street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,103 41
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 3,402 75
Amount paid to H. Gore & Co., paving . . 192 25
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements
Amount jjaid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 .
$4,698 41
H,683 91
14 50
$4,698 41
126 City Document No. 40.
Tyler street, Oak to Harvard street, asphalted and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $97 78
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 4,485 98
Amount paid to H. G-ore & Co., paving . , . 690 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $773 78
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 4,499 98
i,273 76
1,273 76
Union street (Brighton), Washington to Winship street, resur-
faced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,507 40
Amount paid to J. Doherty, paving . . . 460 20
$2,967 60
Utica street, Beach to Kneeland street, repaved on a gravel base
with gravel joints and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $506 47
Amount paid to S. J. Cowin & Co., paving . . 497 15
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . 1886 12
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 7 . . 117 50
,003 62
.,003 62
Walnut avenue, Roxbury, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $265 50
Walpole street, at Columbus avenue, resurfaced and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $226 60
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 13 79
$240 39
Waiter street. West Roxbury, resurfaced.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Washington street, Codman street to Talbot avenue, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,120 68
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 2,662 97
$6,783 65
Street Department — Paying Division. 127
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,841 77
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 24 . 167 50
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 4,774 38
$6,783 65
Waverly street, Warren street to Blue Hill avenue, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,492 83
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 1,370 56
$2,863 39
Wayne street, Blue Hill avenue to Maple street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,006 14
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 265 89
$3,272 OS
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,891 40
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,380 63
$3,272 03-
Weld street, corner Maple street, widened and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,442 32
Wenham street. Walk Hill to Weld Hill street, resurfaced and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3 00
Amount paid to S. D. Payson, paving . . . 839 02
$842 02
Westminster avenue, W^ashington street to Walnut avenue,
macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,017 27
Amount paid to A. A. Libby & Co., paving . . 887 54
!,904 81
Westville street, Bowdoin to Ashmont street, macadamized
and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $9,795 99
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 1,844 99
Carried fonoard . .' . . . . $11,640 98
128 City Document No. 40.
Brought forimrd . . . . . $11,640 98
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . $10,241 65
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division .... 1,399 33
, $11,640 98
West Eighth street, E to Dorchestei street, repaved and
regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,534 85
Amount paid to J. O'Donnell, paving . . . 1,135 80
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $2,571 56
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 15 . 99 09
$2,670 65
1,670 65
West Ninth street, resurfaced, not finished.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $134 00
Whitfield street. Park street to Wheatland avenue, macadam-
ized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,198 95
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, paving . . 432 54
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $1,233 07
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements, Ward 24 . 1,398 42
!,631 49
$2,631 49
Worcester street and square, Harrison avenue to Tremont
street, macadamized and regulated.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $9,775 15
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, paving . . . 3,770 55
$13,545 70
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Street Improvements . . . $9,658 29
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Paving Division . . . . 3,887 41
$13,545 70
Street Department — Paving Division.
129
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES UNDER SPECIAL
APPROPRIATIONS.
Abolishmeut of Grade Crossings (see Congress
street, Milk to Water street) :
Arlington street ......
Athens street ......
Atlantic avenue ......
Beacon street, Arlington to Dartmouth street
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Raleig
street .......
Bowen street ......
Boylston street, Arlington to Berkeley street
Boylston street, Tremont to Arhngton street .
Buildings, Chelsea street ....
Carleton street ......
Commercial street, Fleet to Clinton street
Commercial street, Prince street to Eastern avenue
Congress street, Milk street to Atlantic avenue
Congress street. Milk to Water street
Copley square, streets bounding .
Dock and Adam squares
East First street ....
Faneuil Hall square
Franklin street
Freeport street, retaining wall
Gold street . . .
Harrison avenue ....
Harvard bridge ....
High street .....
India street ....
Maiden bridge ....
Massachusetts avenue .
Milk street. Pearl to Oliver street
Milk street, Washington to Congress street
Neponset avenue .
Pearl street
Silver street
Summer street
Temple place
Tremont street. Court
Tudor street
Union street
Street Improvements, Ward 1
Chelsea street .
Condor street .
to Boylston street
. $31,231
97
3,762
59
84,775
96
18,669
41
39,875
04
6,476
88
3,665
58
37,049
23
2,391
92
330
26
33,280
54
52,241
74
26,030
70
24,086
42
48,024
14
25,163
82
29,592
29
14,683
34
30,133
16
819
95
6,712
24
2,639
80
*112
00
44,945
59
11,104
30
26,472
55
79,008
52
5,100
00
11,738
80
46,576
83
20,385
93
7,145
89
3,635
71
733
48
438
37
3,285
23
20,674
07
12,010
41
11,703
13
Carried forvmrd
,101 79
^Included in cost of Cambridge and Boston bridges.
130
City Document No. 40.
JBrought forward
Ford street
Marion street .
Meridian street
Princeton street
Saratoga street
Street Improvements, Ward
Border street .
Bremen street .
Gove street
London street .
Maverick street
Meridian street
Paris street
Street Improvements, Ward
Bartlett street .
Bartlett street, Summer street,
Cedar street .
Cross street
Laurel street .
Monument street
Mt. Vernon street
Street Improvements, Ward
Essex street
Gardner street
Haverhill street
Hill street
Kingston street
Sever street
Walnut street .
Street Improvements, Ward 5 :
Benedict street
Devens street .
Green street
Lawrence street
Miller street
Monument avenue
Phipps street .
Pleasant street
Prescott street
Warren street .
Street Improvements, Ward
Central street .
Haverhill street
Mercantile street
Prince street .
South Market street
Sudbury street
Carried forward
etc.
$826,707
79
149
50
871
71
436
39
157
02
427
60
628
16
4,023
81
4,304
37
7,871
87
10,858
90
409
46
■ 774
04
2,755
96
724
07
610
32
1,215
12
310
66
32
20
717
38
10
68
333
57
1,219
73
488
67
69
76
1,597
55
2,061
72
729
64
1,271
49
2,338
%^-
6,942
71
1,822
93
3,647
52
"40
62
104
50
2,186
31
1,037
27
320
95
388
78
1,445
29
395
80
1,475
10
752
32
$894,667
90
Street Department — Paving Division. 131
Brought forivard
Street Improvements, Ward 7 :
Congress street
Kneeland street
Oak street
Oliver street
Street Improvements, Ward
Green street .
- North Kussell street
Portland street
Street Imi^rovements, Ward 9
Washington street
Street Improvements, Ward 13
B street .
Bolton street .
Broadway
Congress street
Dorchester avenue
West- Eighth street
West Fifth street
West First street
West Ninth street
West Third street
Street Improvements, Ward 14
East Fourth street
East Third street
M street .
N street .
Street Improvements, Ward 15
Bowen street .
Dexter street .
East Ninth street
East Sixth street
F street .
G street .
Mercer street .
Thomas park ,
West Sixth street
Street Improvements, Ward 20
Blue Hill avenue
Chamberlain street
Lawrence avenue
Savin Hill avenue
Willis street
Street Improvements, Ward 22 :
Washington street, Townsend street to Columbus
avenue .....
Washington street. School to Green street
Carried forward . . • .
. $894,667
90
1,629
39
1,973
39
3,400
43
1,301
97
13,279
09
1,674
51
15,877
29
44,661
03
756
53
1,730
06
322
12
840
16
216
00
. . 1,805
08
1,747
45
2,013
07
1,713
42
1,536
53
126
30
1,749
49
1,002
98
3,358
47
759
66
1,000
16
2,996
30
1,355
21
226
21
877
40
1,503
79
3,866
62
2,207
22
1,162
69
4
35
14
85
15
00
5
80
117
84
39,394
50
11,052,890
21
132
City Document No. 40.
street
to Dorchester a.\
Brought forioard ...
Street Improvements, A¥ard 24 ;
Adams street, Nepouset to Granite avenue
Adams street, Park to Gibson street
Mather street .
Parl^man street
Richmond street
River street
Wessex street .
Street Improvements :
Advertising
Adams street, Park
Albany street .
Allen street
Allstou street .
Alpine street .
Amory street .
Arch street
Ashland street
Ashmont street
Asphalt repairs
Athol street
Avon street
Ballard street .
Bay State road
Beacon street, Charles to Arlington street
Beacon street, Tremont to Park street
Bellevue street
Bennett street
Beverly street .
Blue Hill avenue
Boston street .
Bowdoin street
Boylston avenue
Boylston street. West Roxbury
Bremen street .
Brentwood street
Brookline avenue
Brookline street and
Burr street
Cambridge street
Canton street .
Carruth street .
Centre street, West Roxbury
Centre street, Roxbury
Chauncy street
Cheney street .
Chestnut Hill avenue
Carried forioard .
Shawmut avenue
U, 052, 890
21
65
40
562
07
3
00
1,782
32
4,038
88
190
00
62
35
308
44
10,698
19
1,280
71
3,682
38
40
30
3,421
01
1,678
61
5,289
77
4,301
74
3,685
31
3,365
70
1,422
58
4,620
36
576
57
8,252
15
8,783
90
4,002
00
1,741
78
3,201
11
340
25
25,366
87
4,600
82
8,901
27
1,257
92
8,265
82
79
00
1,238
87
246
32
2,316
37
1,675
92
816
96
11,962
69
1,967
82
2,748
32
285
82
2,323
10
1,199
96
14,212
90
$1,219,753
84
Street Department — Paving Division. 133
Brought forward
Chlestnut street
Circuit street .
Clarendon street
Columbus avenue
Congress square
Copelancl street
Cumston street
Cushing avenue
Dartmouth street
Devon street .
Dimoek street .
Dorchester avenue
East Newton street
Edgestones and sidewalks (new)
Edgestones and sidewalks (repaired)
Endicott street
Erie street
Essex place
Fairfield street
Ford street
G-ardner street, West Roxbury
Gardner street, Brighton
Gloucester street
Goldsmith street
Green street
H street .
Halleck street .
Hard wick street
Harris avenue
Harvard avenue
Harvard street
Haven street .
Hereford street
Hillside street .
Heath street (old)
Heath street (new)
Julian street
Kent street
L street .
La Grange street
Lark street
Landseer street
Lincoln street .
Linden street .
Linnett street .
Market street .
Marlborough street
Carried forvKtrd
1,219,753 84
■ 142 15
3,230 66
324 12
1,634 44
126 87
3,902 48
747 71
1,160 25
3,757 13
1,814 98
410 08
1,146 04
2,392 55
461 46
4,475 47
3,805 86
3,219 93
1,227 13
495 75
104 00
3,457 67
6,331 65
522 55
584 40
4,455 20
1,272 34
3,310 58
633 40
1,406 99
431 44
10,451 03
677 22
556 03
23,139 01
5,549 96
2,409 75
304 76
945 91
4,935 66
6,878 95
356 57
754 65
6,222 97
894 47
1,088 10
4,188 30
40,349 17
.,386,441 63
134
City Document No. 40.
Brought forward
Mason street .
Massachusetts avenue, Edward Everett square to
Swett street ......
Massachusetts avenue, Albany to Tremont street
Metropolitan avenue ....
Morton street ......
Murdock street .....
Millet street ......
Newbury street, Massachusetts avenue to Charles
gate East ......
Newbury street, Fairfield to Hereford street
Northampton street .....
Ophir street ......
Otter street ......
P street, East Sixth street to Columbia road
P street. West First to West Fourth street
Pearl street
Peter Parley road
Providence street
Regent street .
Rosedale street
Royal street
Ruthven street
Rutland street and square
^alem street
Saratoga street
Savin Hill avenue
Shannon street
Shawmut avenue
Shepard street
South Russell street
Sparhawk street
Springfield street
Standish street
Stafford street .
Sterling street .
Sunderland street
Sycamore street
Temple place .
Tudor street, E to Dorchester street
Tufts street
Tremont street. Castle to Dover street
Tyler street
Union street, Brighton
Utica street
Walnut street .
Walpole street
,386,441 63
2,033 25
3,371 58
8,046 60
274 31
1,657 61
783 76
6,483 69
1,954 20
12,305 21
1,799 88
532 37
2,437 70
2,778 09
4,539 74
4,329 35
755 04
453 04
459 55
2,839 91
642 74
4,195 55
9,786 27
13,109 70
1,129 27
6,193 21
965 85
4,095 92
1,741 17
590 15
2,548 48
12,253 88
8 40
1,206 13
17 50
1,187 91
963 99
3,169 46
2,756 08
4,698 41
10,947 91
5,273 76
2,967 60
1,003 62
265 50
240 39
Carried forward
$1,536,235 36
Street Depaetment — Paving Division. 135
Brought forward
Walter street .
Washington street, Dorchester
Waverly street
Wayne street .
Weld street
Wenham street
Westminster avenue
Westville street
West Eighth street
West Ninth street
Whitfield street
Worcester street and square
$1,536,235 36
288 88
6,783 65
2,863 39
3,272 03
1,442 32
842 02
2,904 81
11,640 98
2,670 65
134 00
2,631 49
13,545 70
$1,585,255 28
Less amount paid out of appropriation for Paving
Division 167,127 16
.,418,128 12
LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS.
Chapter 478 of the Acts op 1900.
Adams street, Common to Chestnut street.
Labor ........
Alford street, Mystic river to Everett line.
Labor ........
Ashley street. Breed to Walley street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work.
Austin street, Washington to Lawrence street.
Labor .......
18 00
$18 38
;i,458 49
1,836 98
53,295 47
$28 75
B street, from line of original low water to Congress street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,169 50
Amount paid to New England Structural Company,
building, erecting and painting stone and iron
work for stairs . . . . . . 759 00
Amount paid to Joseph Ross, material and labor,
building piers for stairway . . . . 138 00
Amount paid to New England Safety Tread Com-
pany, installing steel tread . . . . 135 62
!,202 12
136 City Document No. 40.
Barry street, Qnincy to Eichfield street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,652 17
Amount paid to Dorchester Construction Company,
construction work ...... 4,564 43
$10,216 60
Bennington street, Chelsea street to Belle Isle Inlet.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,379 53
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, filhng . . 18,447 75
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, filhng . . 28,271 28
Amount paid to J. C ashman, abutments . . 13,612 31
Amount paid to Boston, Revere Beach and Lynn
Railroad, labor, etc. ..... 327 15
Amount paid to Coleman Bros., building temporary
roadway 2,286 07
$71,324 09
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 . . . . . .$70,646 89
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, East Boston .... 677 20
$71,324 09
Bird street, Columbia road to Hancock street.
Advertising ....... $3 49
Boston street, Mt. Vernon street to Columbia road.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,467 28
Amount paid to T. F. Welch, construction work . 5,369 53
>,836 81
Bow street, Washington street to City square.
Labor $45 75
Brookline avenue, Longwood avenue entrance to Back Bay
Fens to Rivenvay.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,188 84
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $1,665 09
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Roxbury and West Roxbury . 523 75
$2,188 84
Street Department — Paving Division. 137
Brooks street, Holton to North Beacon street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
city $4,570 98
Amount paid to McBride & Moulton, retaining
walls and grading . . . . . . 18,047 54
Amount paid to McBride & Moulton, construction
work 1,133 73
;23,752 25
Cambridge street, Brighton avenue to Washington street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
city $9,102 02
Amount paid to J. H. Sulhvan, construction work, 14,186 13
$23,288 15
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $22,942 23
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Brighton .... 345 92
$23,288 15
Cardington street, from Cobden street.
Labor and materials furnished by the city . ' . $82 38
Amount retained from Philip Doherty for work done
in 1900 under contract . . . " . . 77 02
.59 40
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $55 20
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Roxbury and West Eoxbury . 104 20
$159 40
Carlow street, Albany to Chadwick street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the
city
Amount paid to Dorchester Construction Company,
construction work ......
$826
94
501
08
$1,328
02
138
City Document No. 40.
Columbia road.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city
Amount paid to New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Railroad Company, constructing bridge
Amount paid to American Bridge Company, build
ing bridge superstructures
Amount paid to John Cashman, abutments and
piers to bridge .....
Amount paid to Simon .J. Donovan, filling
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffln Company, construe
tion work ......
Amount paid to R. W. Hunt & Co., inspection
service .......
S9,868 78
85,989 12
16,622 20
26,156 20
9,923 63
283 30
120 57
$148,963 80
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, chapter 478 of the Acts
of 1900
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of
Highways .....
S147,896 61
1,067 19
Conrad street, from Sumner street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to Dorchester Construction Company,
construction work ......
Corinth street, Washington to Brandon street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, removing houses
and stable
Amount paid to Collins & Ham, construction
work ........
148,963 80
$1,076 51
565 70
$1,642 21
$2,691 50
575 00
2,882 31
$6,148 81
Devens street, Rutherford avenue to Washington street.
Labor $24 50
Dixfield street. Old Harbor to Covington street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $946 48
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 783 80
.,730 28
Street Department — Pa^t:ng Division. 139
Draper street, Robinson to Bowdoin street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,180 21
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work, 4,507 28
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stonewalks ...... 299 28
Amount paid to F. L. Pierce, loaming . . 234 40
»,221 17
Forest Hills street, Washington street to G-len road.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $4,508 04
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, construction
work . . . 3,879 74
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $8,379 53
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
waj^s ...... 8 25
$8,387 78
i8,387 78
Gainsborough street, St. Stephen to Hemenway street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $3,268 31.
Amount paid to T. F. Welch, construction work . 2,431 22
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, arti-
ficial stone walks . . . . . . . 311 10
Gibson street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Advertising .......
Labor . . . . . . ...
Hancock street, Colunn)ia road to Winter street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to James Doherty, construction work.
Leeds street, Woodward street to Dorchester avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,579 03
Amount paid to S.J. Cowin & Co., construction
work 1,171 08
$2,750 11
$6,010
63
$3
38
51
50
$42
01
$11,927
10,558
14
18
$22,485
32
140 City Document No. 40.
Leonard street, Duncan to Adams street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,421 95
Amount paid to Dorchester Construction Company,
construction work . .. . . . 2,01889
$3,440 84
Louder's lane, at Centre street.
Labor $103 79
nillet street, Park to Athelwold street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,261 13
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, con-
struction work . . . . . . . 1,095 22
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $3,352 60
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Dorchester .... 3 75
!,356 35
$3,356 35
riilton avenue, Lauriat avenue to Norfolk street.
Labor $747 28
rioseley street, Crescent avenue to Columbia road.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,172 16
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, construction work, 1,281 12
$7,453 28
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $7,445 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Dorchester .... 8 25
$7,453 28
Normandy street, from Lawrence avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $839 66
Amount paid to Dorchester Construction Company,
construction work . . ^ . . . 1,106 05
$1,945 71
Street Department — Paving Division. 141
Perkins street, Centre street to Jamaicaway.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $5,187 68
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, construction
work 3,727 39
Pontiac street, Hillside to Tremont street.
Teaming ........
Province court, from Province street.
Materials furnished by the city ....
Ritchie street, Columbus avenue to Marcella street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Rockford street, Dudley to Clifton street.
Materials furnished by the city . . . . $805 62
Amount retained from D. F. O'Connell for work
done in 1900 under contract . . ., . 227 00
$8,915
07
$47
50
$313
66
$6,448
03
$1,032 62
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $227 00
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Dorchester . . . . 805 62
$1,032 62
Rowe street, Ashland to Seymour street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Rutherford avenue. Chapman to Devens street.
Labor ........
Seymour street, Canterbury street to Brown avenue,
Labor ........
Shepton street, Dorchester avenue to Florida street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $2,557 14
Amount paid to James Doherty, construction work, 2,164 07
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Company, arti-
ficial stone sidewalks ..... 2,065 21
$1,172
16
$162
04
$417
40
;,786 42
South street, Jamaica street to Arborway.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $425 80
142 City Document No. 40.
Spencer street, Athelwold to Harvard street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Dorchester Construction Company,
construction work ......
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Company, arti-
ficial stone sidewalks .....
Spring street, Centre to Gardner street.
Advertising . . . . . . .
Stratford street, Anawan to Clement avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work,
Amount paid to W. L. Cahalan, artificial stone
sidewalks . . . .
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $6,225 73
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and construction of High-
ways, Roxbury and West Roxbury, 25 00
$519
15
981
75
104
40
$1,605
30
$5
25
$3,165
20
2,522
54
562
99
;,250 73
;,250 73
Swett street (now Southampton street), Massachusetts avenue
to Dorchester avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to Boston Bridge Works, portion of
bridge ........
Amount paid to Joseph Ross, alterations and
additions to parapet .....
Templeton street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to D. F. O'Connell, construction work,
Thane street, Athelwold to School street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffln Company, con-
struction work ......
Carried forward . ..... $2,634 03
setts avenue
$1,905
17
1,050
00
500
00
63,455
17
jet.
$9,294
6,262
92
09
$15,557
01
$2,509
08
124
95
Street Depaetment — Paving Division. 143
Brought forward $2,634 03
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, cliapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $2,140 93
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways . . • . . • 343 10
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Dorchester . . . . 150 00
62,634 03
Tremont street, Washington street to Newton line.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $7,256 84
Amount paid to William ScoUans, construction
work . . 3,784 71.
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 $10,161 12
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Brighton . . . . 880 43
.1,041 55
1,041 55
Trinity place, Stuart to Stanhope street.
Materials furnished by the city . . . . $32 65
Amount paid to F. Bachelder, construction work, 198 67
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, chapter 478 of the Acts
of 1900 $32 65
Amount paid out of appTopriation for
Laying Out and Construction of
Highways 198 67
$231 32
11 32
Van Winkle street, Dorchester avenue to Shawmut Branch
railroad.
Labor $3 75
Amount paid to Simpson Bros. Corporation, artifi-
cial stone sidewalks . . . . . 330 80
$334 55
144 City Document No. 40.
Wainwright street. Centre street to Welles avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnislied by the eity,
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work.
Walk Hill street, South to Washington street.
Advertising , . . ' .
Walter street, Centre to South street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Warner street, Harvard to Park street.
Advertising . ...
Washington street, Talbot avenue to Euclid street.
Labor ........
Washington street, Morton to Tower street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, paving
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, chapter 478 of the Acts
of 1900 ^180 52
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, Roxbury and West Rox-
bury . . . . . . 531 47
$3,434
2,951
55
56
$6,386
11
$6
$1,763
00
61
■ $3
51
$47
93
$542
169
47
52
$711 99
$711 99
Westbourne street, Cornell to Beech street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,314 06
Amount paid to T. F. Welch, construction work . 2,009 58
;,323 64
West 5elden street, Morton to Manchester street.
Labor . . . . . . . . $107 00
'Wordsworth street, Saratoga to Pope street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $6,188 75
Amount paid to James Doherty, construction work, 2,570 93
!,759 68
Worth ington street, Longwood avenue to the Fenway.
Labor . $433 32
Street Department — Paving Division. 145
(Between Beacon and Marlborough streets.)
Public alley 414, Massacliusetts avenue to Hereford street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $218 41
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting 1,932 43
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paving . 998 10
;,148 94
Public alley 415, Hereford to Gloucester street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $192 12
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting .......
Amount paid to Barnes, Rufflu Company, paving .
Public alley 416, Gloucester to Fairfield street. .
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amonnt paid to Barnes, Rnffln Company, paviug .
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting .......
Public alley 417, Fairfield to Exeter street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Barnes, Ruffin Company, paviug .
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting . . . . ...
Public alley 421, Berkeley to Arhngton street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, construction work,
(Between Marlborough street and Commonwealth avenue.)
Public alley 422, Arlington to Berkeley street.
Labor and advertising , . . . , $20 66
1,243
551
13
11
$1,986
36
$204
1,032
1,608
97
48
75
$2,846
20
$238
1,100
1,875
54
04
25
$3,213
83
$382
1,246
26
27
$1,628
53
Public alley 423, Berkeley to Clarendon street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $85 66
146 City Document No. 40.
Public alley 424, Clarendon to Dartmouth street
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $222 79
Amount paid to Barnes, Euffin Company, con-
struction work . . . . . . . 548 80
Public alley 426, Exeter to Fairfield street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to T. F, Welch, paving .
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting . .
Public alley 427, Fairfield to Gloucester street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, construction work,
Public alley 428, Gloucester to Hereford street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $166 66
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting 1,222 00
Amount paid to T. F. Welch, paving . . . 618 79
■$771
59
$163
702
1,940
28
50
90
$2,806
68
$171
1,324
16
24
$1,495
40
$2,007 45
Public alley 429, Hereford street to Massachusetts avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $327 66
Amount paid to T. F. Welch, paving . . . 724 45
Amount paid to Barber Asphalt Paving Company,
asphalting . ' 1,729 33
^2,781 44
(Between Commonwealth avenue and Xewbury street.)
Public alley 430, Massachusetts avenue to Hereford street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $256 77
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, paving . . 1,443 46
Public alley 433, Fairfield to Exeter street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, construction work.
$1,700
23
$248
1,516
19
56
$1,764
75
Street Department — Paving Division. 147
Public alley 434, Exeter to Dartmouth street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $134 06
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing
Amount paid to B. M. Cram, paving .
Public alley 435, Dartmouth to Clarendon street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to J. B. O'Rourke, construction work,
Public alley 436, Clarendon to Berkeley street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $256 06
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing 1,751 75
Amount paid to B. M. Cram, paving . . . 659 26
1,547
730
00
87
$2,411
93
$268
1,388
68
08
$1,656
76
!,667 07
(Between Newbury and Boylston streets.)
Public alley 438, Arlington to Boylston street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $212 05
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing
Amount paid to B. M. Cram, paving
1,898
1,143
00
02
$3,253
07
$46
128
00
31
Public alley 439, Clarendon to Dartmouth street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving
Amount paid out of appropriation for $174 31
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900 . . . ' . . . $161 31
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways 13 00
$174 31
Public alley 440, Dartmouth to Exeter street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $203 42
Amount paid to B. M. Cram, paving . . . 783 47
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing ... 1,729 00
$2,715 89
148
City Document No. 40.
Public alley 441, Exeter to Fairfield street.
Labor and advertising . . . . . .
Public alley 442, Fairfield to Gloucester street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to Boston Asphalt Company, asphalt-
ing
Amount paid to B. M. Cram, paving
Public alley 443, G-loucester to Hereford street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
S16 42
$(3Uo 0/
1,620 50
979 53
$3,205 60
$815 84
Public alley 444, Hereford street to Massachusetts avenue.
Labor and advertising ...... $24 91
Public alley 901, Hemenwa}'^ street to Fenway,
1 Labor and advertising .....
$49 20
Public alley 905, West from Massachusetts avenue, between
Commonwealth avenue and Marlborough street and to Marl-
borough street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $242 56
Amount paid to E. S. Fogerty, paving . . c 522 20
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, chapter 478 of the Acts of
1900
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Roxbury and West Roxbury .
1764 76
^757 26
7 50
;764 76
SUMMARY OF EXPENBITUUES.
Laying Out and Construction of Highways, Chapter 478,
Acts, 1900.
Total Amount Expended.
Adams street . .
$8 00
Alford street
18 38
Ashley street
3,295 47
Austin street
28 75
B street
2,202 12
Barry street
10,216 60
Bennington street
71,324 09
Bird street .
3 49
Boston street
9,836 81
Carried fortoard . .
. $96,933 71
Street Department — Paving Division.
149
Brouglit forward
Bow street .
Brookline avenue
Brooks street
Cambridge street
Cardington street
Car low street
Columbia road
Conrad street
Corinth street
Devens street
Dixfield street
Draper street
Forest Hills street
Gainsborough street
Gibson street
Hancock street
Leeds street
Leonard street
Louder' s lane
Millet street
Milton avenue
Moseley street
Normandy street
Perkins street
Pontiac street
Province court
Ritchie street
Rock ford street
Rowe street
Rutherford avenue
Seymour street
Shepton street
South street
Spencer street
Spring street
Stratford street
Swett street
Templeton street
Thane street
Tremont street
Trinity place
Van Winkle street
Wainwright street
Walk Hill street .
Walter street
Warner street
Washington street, Dorchester
Washington street, West Roxbury
Carried forward .
$96,933 71
45 75
2,188 84
23,752 25
23,288 15
159 40
1,328 02
148,963 80
1,642 21
6,148 81
. 24 50
1,730 28
10,221 17
8,387 78
6,010 63
42 01
22,485 32
2,750 11
3,440 84
103 79
3,356 35
747 28
7,453 28
1,945 71
8,915 07
47 50
313 66
6,448 03
1,032 62
1,172 16
162 04
417 40
6,786 42
425 80
1,605 30
5 25
6,250 73
3,455 17
15,557 01
2,634^03
11,041 55
231 32
334 55
6,386 11
6 00
1,763 61
3 51
47 93
711 99
,904 75
150
City Document No. 40.
Brought forioard
Westbourne street
West Seldeu street
Wordsworth street
Worthington street
Public alley 414 .
Public alley 415 .
Public alley 416 .
Public alley 417 .
Public alley 421 .
PubHc alley 422 .
Public alley 423 .
Public alley 424 .
PubUc alley 426 .
Public alley 427 .
Public alley 428 .
Public alley 429 .
Public alley 430 .
PubKc alley 433 .
PubHc alley 434 .
Public alley 435 .
Public alley 436 .
PubUc alley 438 .
Public alley 439 .
Public alley 440 .
Public alley 441 .
Public alley 442 .
Public alley 443 .
PubKc alley 444 .
PubHc alley 901 .
Public alley 905 .
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways .....
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, Brighton
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, Roxbury and West Rox-
bury
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, Dorchester
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, East Boston .
$448,904 75
3,323 64
107 00
8,759 68
433 32
3,148 94
1,986 36
2,846 20
3,213 83
1,628 53
20 66
85 66
771 59
2,806 &8
1,495 40
2,007 45
2,781 44
1,700 23
1,764 75
2,411 93
1,656 76
2,667 07
3,253 07
174 31
2,715 89
16 42
3,205 60
815 84
24 91
49 20
764 76
$505,541 87
$1,630 21
1,226 35
1,191 92
967 62
677 20
5,693 30
$499,848 57
Street Department — Paving Division. 151
LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS.
Ainsley street, from Rosemont street.
Labor .' $6 50
Belmore terrace, Boylston street to Boylston terrace.
Amount paid to P. O'Hara .....
Berkeley street, Boylston street to Columbus avenue.
Labor and advertising ......
Blanche street, Green Hill to Preston street.
Labor . . . . .
Bowen street, E to F street.
Labor ........
Brackett street, Washington to Faneuil street.
Labor ........
Capen street, Evans to Fairmount street.
Labor . . . . . . .
Carter street, Cambridge to Roland street.
Labor ........
Dakota street, Washington to Greenbrier street.
Labor ........
Darling street, Calumet to Hillside street.
Labor
Fairfax street, Carruth to Beaumont street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid to Philip Doherty, construction work,
Fayston street. Blue Hill avenue to Mascoma street.
Labor ......'..
Fisher avenue, Hayden street to Parker Hill avenue.
Labor ........
Hamilton street, Bowdoin street to Homes avenue.
Amount retained from James McGovern for work
done in 1900 under contract ....
Hamilton street, Columbia road to Mt. Everett street
Labor and advertising ......
Hinckley street, Pleasant to Bakersfield street.
Labor . . . . . . . .
Ipswich street, Boylston road to Boylston street.
Amount paid to W. A. Murtfeldt Company, arti-
ficial stone sidewalks ..... $1,995 75
Labor . . . . . . . . 27 45
$2,023 20
$150
00
$30
00
$25
25
$3
00
$54
25
$16
25
$10
00
$9
50
$8
00
$1,635
878
39
78
$2,514
17
147
50
$27 00
$93
48
it.
$623
12
$35
25
152 . City Document No. 40.
florrill street, Pleasant to Bakersfield street.
Labor $40 00
floultrie street, AUston to Washington street.
Labor $30 00
Oak Square avenue, Washington to Faneuil street.
Labor $35 50
Oakwood street, Norfolk to Torrey street.
Labor ........ $31 00
Roland street, Boston & Maine Railroad to Somerville line.
Labor $203 50
Rosemont street, Adams to Gustin street.
Labor $13 00
Snow street, Washington to Union street.
Labor and teaming ...... $2,531 23
Torrey street, Washington to Wentworth street.
Labor and advertising . . . . . $83 42
Tower street, Hyde Park avenue to Forest Hills Cemetery.
Labor $10 25
Vinson street, Park street to Geneva avenue.
Labor ........ $62 18
Wayland street, Howard avenue to Dacia street.
Labor $31 00
West Tremlett street, Washington to Whitfield street.
Labor and advertising . . . . . $66 42
Windermere road, Stoughton street to Gushing avenue.
Labor $25 50
Winthrop street, Dennis street to Brook avenue.
Labor $33 00
Public alley 502, from Rutland to Concord squares, between
Columbus avenue and Tremont street.
Labor and advertising ...... $43 16
Public alley 503, from Rutland to Concord squares, next east
of Columbus avenue.
Labor and advertising; ...... $38 16
Public alley 706, from Newland street, between West Concord
and Worcester streets.
Labor . . $194 88
Street Department — Paving Division.
153
SUMMARY^ OF EXPENDITURES.
Laying Out and Construction of Highways.
Total Amount Expended.
Ainsley street
Belmore terrace
Berkeley street
Blanche street
Bowen street
Brackett street
Capen street
Carter street
Dakota street
Darling street
Fairfax street
Fayston street
Fisher avenue
Hamilton street, Bowdoin street to Homes avenue,
Hamilton street, Columbia road to Mt. Everett
street
Hinckley street .
Ipswich street
Morrill street
Moultrie street
Oak Square avenue
Oakwood street .
Roland street
Rosemont street .
Snow street
Torrey street
Tower street
Vinson street
Wayland street .
West Tremlett street
Windermere road
Winthi'op street .
Public alley 502 .
Public alley 503 .
Public alley 706 .
66
50
150
00
30
00
25
25
3
00
54
25
16
25
10
00
9
50
8
00
2,514
17
47
50
27
00
93
48
623
12
35
25
2,023
20
40
00
30
00
35
50
31
00
203
50
13
00
2,531
23
83
42
10
25
62
18
31
00
66
42
25
50
33
00
43
16
38
16
194
88
89,148
67
Amount included in cost for Laying Out and Con-
struction of Highways, chapter 478,
Acts of 1900 .^ . . . . 81,630 21
Amount included in cost for Construc-
tion of Highways, Already Laid Out, 36 75
1,666 96
_0,815 63
154
City Document No. 40.
CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS ALREADY LAID OUT.
Mead street, Russell to Bunker Hill street.
Labor and advertising . . . . . . $140 06
Milk street, India street to Atlantic avenue.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the citj'', $7,739 08
Amount paid to Frank Bachelder, construction
work 3,917 63
511,656 71
Newland street. West Brookline to West Newton street.
Labor and advertising ...... . i
;7 62
Robinwood avenue. Centre to Euchd street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city.
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Construction of Highways already
laid out ......
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways, Roxbury and West Roxbury .
$242 25
.70 18
72 07
South Huntington avenue. Heath to Centre street.
Labor and advertisino- .....
S242 25
$228 00
Storer street, Atlantic avenue to India street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,194 63
Amount paid to Jones & Meehan, construction work, 2,440 04
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Construction of Highways Already
Laid Out .....
Amount paid out of appropriation for
Laying Out and Construction of High-
ways ......
;,634 67
;,597 92
36 75
$3,634 67
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
Construction of Highways Already Laid Out.
Total Amount Expended.
Mead street
Milk street .
Newland street .
Robinwood avenue
South Huntington avenue
Storer street
Carried forvmrd .
$140 06
11,656 71
37 62
242 25
228 00
3,634 67
515,939 31
Street Department — Paving Division. 155
Brought forioard . . . . . $15,93931
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways . . . . . $36 75
Less amount paid out of appropriation
for Laying Out and Construction of
Highways, Roxbury and West Rox-
bury • . 72 07
108 82
$15,830 49
LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS,
EAST BOSTON.
Board man street, Saratoga street to Boston & Maine Railroad.
Labor and teaming ...... $30 25
Northwood street, Leyden to Gladstone street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $1,546 76
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
Laying Out and Construction of Highways, East Boston.
Total Amount Expended.
Boardman street ....... $30 25
Northwood street . . . . . . 1,546 76
;i,577 01
Amount included in cost of Laying Out and Con-
struction of Highways, chapter 478, Acts 1900 . 677 20
&2,254 21
SUMMARY OF EXPENDITURES.
Laying Out and Construction of Highways, Brighton.
Total Amount Expended.
Cambridge street . . . . . . $395 42
Tremont street . . . . . . . 880 43
$1,226 35
Amount included in cost of Laying Out and Con-
struction of Highways, chapter 478, Acts 1900, $1,226 35
156
City Document No. 40.
LAYING OUT AND CONSTRUCTION OF HIGHWAYS
DORCHESTER.
Callender street, Tucker to Dorr street.
Labor ........
Aniouut retained from J. F. Cullen, for work done
in 1900 under contract .....
Lauriat avenue, Ballon avenue to Norfolk street.
Amount retained from W. A. Murtfeldt Company,
for laying artificial stone sidewalks .
flontague street, Ashmont to Roslin street.
Materials furnished by the city ....
$4 80
182 34
;187 14
^354 39
^326 75
Nottingham street, Bullard street to Bowdoin avenue.
Amount retained from W, A. Murtfeldt Company,
for laying artificial stone sidewalks . . . $338 01
SU3IMARY OF EXPENBITURES.
Laying Out and Construction of Highways, Dorchester.
Total Amount Expeixded.
Callender street .....
Lauriat avenue . . . « .
Montague street .....
Nottingham street ....
Amount included in cost for Laying Out and Con-
struction of Highways, chapter 478, Acts 1900,
SUMMARY OF EXPENBITTIRES.
Laying Out and Construction of Highways, Roxbury and
West Roxbury.
$187
354
326
338
14
39
75
01
$1,206
29
967
62
$2,173
91
Total Amount Expended.
Brookline avenue ....
$523 75
Cardington street
104 20
Robinwood avenue
72 07
Stratford street ....
25 00
Washington street
531 47
Public alley 905 .
7 50
Carried forward .
.,263 99
Street Department — Paving Dia^sion.
157
Brought foricard
Amount included in cost of Laying Out
and Construction of Highways,
chapter 478, Acts 1900 .
Amount inchided in cost of Construc-
tion of Highways already laid out
.,191 92
72 07
,263 99
,263 99
BLUE HILL AND OTHER AVENUES.
Blue Hill avenue, Walk Hill to River street.
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city,
Amount paid to James Doherty, construction work.
p8,790 99
8,465 20
$17,256 19
Commonwealth avenue. =**"
Labor, teaming and materials furnished by the city, $23,124 26
SU3£MARY OF EXPjENBITUEES.
Blue Hill and Other Avenues.
Total Amount Expended.
Blue Hill avenue
Commonwealth avenue
$17,256 19
23,124 26
$40,380 45
NEW EDGESTONES.
The following tables show the amount of new edgestones set
during the year, not including " 323 " streets :
South Boston.
Wards 13, H, 15 and 16, in whole or hi part. {Paving
District No. 1.) Lin. feet.
East Eighth street ■ . 280
L street , . . . . 1,278
Sundry streets in small quantities .... 367
1,925
East Boston.
Wards 1 and 2. {Paving District No. 2.)
Lin. feet.
Condor street .......
219
Falcon street ......
111
London street ......
82
Maverick street ......
375
Morris street . . . . . .
100
Paris street ......
147
Saratoga street . . . . .
150
1,184
158
City Document No. 40.
Ward 25
Bennett street .
Gardner street .
Murdock street .
Royal street
Sparhawk street
Summit avenue .
Washino-ton street
Brighton.
{Paving District JSFo. ^.)
Lin. feet.
1,103
2,225
100
357
482
206
154
4,627
West
ROXBtTKT.
Wards 22 and 23 in
whole or in part.
{Paving District N'o. 5.)
Lin. feet.
Adelaide street .
Boylston street .
Burr street
Paul Gore street
Washington street
Sundry streets in smal
[ quar
itit
les
340
2,809
875
298
3,434
180
7,936
Dorchester.
Wai'ds 16, 20 and 24 in whole or in part.
No. 6.)
Allston street
Ashmont street .
Gushing avenue .
Erie and Elmo streets
Geneva avenue .
Grampian way .
Harvard street .
Hendry street
Millet and Park streets
Mt. Vernon street
McLellan street .
Mill street
Neponset avenue
Oakman street .
Eichmond street
Eosedale street .
Savin Hill avenue
Talbot avenue
Washington street
Westville street .
Whitfield street .
{Paving District
Lin. feet.
302
1,098
113
364
150
102
4,300
267
2,263
112
116
140
3,336
270
1,040
1,048
1,758
110
888
3,494
1,303
22,574
Street Department — Paving Division. 159
ROXBURY.
Wards 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22 in ichole or in part.
District JSFo. 7.)
{Paving
Lin. feet.
Blue Hill avenue 1,337
Burrell street ......
298
Crawford street .
120
Devon street
739
Gumey street
171
Heath street
130
Hillside street .
6,436
Hollander street . • .
244
Julian street
138
Mayfair and Bainbridge streets
129
Reed street . .
436
Ruthven street .
978
Savin street
176
Sunderland street
840
Walnut avenue ....
101
Waumbeck street
175
"Wayne street
1,258
Sundry streets in small quantities
736
13,942
City Proper.
Wards 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17 and 18 in lohole or in part.
{Paving Districts 8, 9 and 10.)
Belvidere street .
Beacon street
Massachusetts avenue
Newbury street .
Westland avenue
RECAPITULATION.
South Boston
East Boston
Brighton .
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Roxbury .
City Proper
Lin. feet.
102
198
184
1,876
120
2,480
Lin. feet.
1,925
1,184
4,627
7,936
22,574
13,942
2,480
54,668
160
City Document No. 40.
New Edgestones. (Not including " 323 " streets.)
First setting. Linear feet.
Yeak.
w
p^
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896... ■..
18^7
1898
1899
1900
1901
Totals
11,724
9,631
4,372
521
2,097
3,855
2,311
1,259
808
729
1,925
4,131
11,238
1,969
816
1,146
807
1,691
918
2,715
616
1,184
2,227
2,804
694
668
791
111
100
2,032
9,001
3,981
1,323
4,191
8,50'
1,086
5,909
439
4,627
4,617
9,970
4,795
1,568
8,319
2,498
5,228
2,185
2,265
614
7,
18,138
36,859
10,587
6,544
15,205
21,367
37,205
50,124
6,818
9,633
22,574
22,693
25,506
14,979
39,324
17,053
20,111
14,241
13,252
8,134
8,882
13,942
8,236
9,222
1,118
1,916
2,990
43,614
5,097
1,281
• 1,410
1,544
2,480
73,798
114,231
41,801
52,706
51,669
101,550
66,859
74,928
22,200
22,118
54,668
38,732
27,231
7,395
41,096
49,995
235,054
198,117
78,908
676,528
NEW BRICK SIDEWALKS.
The following tables show the number of square yards of brick
sidewalk laid during the year, not including " 323 " streets :
South Boston.
Wards 13, 14, 15 and 16, in whole or in part.
District No. 1.)
L street ........
Sundry streets in small quantities
East Boston.
War'ds 1 and 2. {Paving District iVb. 2.)
Brooks and West Eagle streets
Falcon street
Morris and Marion streets .
Paris street
Saratoga street .
Sundry streets in small quantities
(^Paving
Sq. yds.
3,635
982
4,617
Sq. yds.
105
173
278
175
131
280
1,142
Street Department — Paving Di\^ision. 161
Charlestown.
Wards 3, 4 ci^^(^ 5. {Paving District N'o. 3.)
Cambridge street .......
Brighton.
Ward S5. {Paving District N'o, 4-)
Sundry streets in small quantities ....
West Roxbury.
Sq. yds.
323
Sq. yds.
100
Wards 22 and 23, in lohole or in part. {Paving District
No. 5.)
Sq. yds.
Washington street ....... 3,825
Dorchester.
Wards 16, 20 and 24-, in whole or in part. {Paving District
No. 6.)
Sq. yds.
Dorchester avenue . . . . . . . 451
Sa^^n Hill avenue ....... 823
Washington street ....... 3,559
Sundry streets in small quantities . . . . 780
ROXBURT.
5,613
Wards 16, 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22, in whole or in part. {Paving
District No. 7.)
Sq. yds .
JrVipiUC D LI ecu ......
Copelaud street ......
108
Hillside street ......
3,674
Sheridan street ......
102
Winthrop street . . ^ .
117
Sundry streets in small quantities
695
4,920
City Proper.
Wards 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 17 and 18, in whole or in part.
{Paving Districts Nos. 8, 9 and 10.)
Sq. yds.
Commonwealth avenue . . . . . . 124
Hereford street . . . . . . . . 117
Sundry streets in small quantities . . . . 308
549
162
City Document No. 40.
Recapitulation .
South Boston
East Boston
Charlestown
Brighton .
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Roxbury
City Proper
Sq. yds.
4,617
1,142
323
100
8,825
5,613
4,920
549
21,089
New Brick Sidewalks. (Not iiichiding "323" streets.)
First laying. Square yards.
1891
1892
1893
18ft4
1895
1896
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
Totals
3,628
4,484
751
2,706
1,946
2,314
13,460
4,487
4,084
1,069
4,617
2,176
12,847
2,197
2,115
1,151
681
16,125
6,453
3,503
1,476
1,142
120
3,451
175
437
408
5,361
14,454
4,653
377
1,068
2,908
2,128
216
477
323
873
100
967
2,905
350
834
1,734
542
1,855
1,225
1,448
1,583
3,825
1,478
10,462
2,412
453
2,146
2,616
2,995
4,723
2,610
4,033
5,613
9,098
20,231
5,912
11,533
6,246
15,897
2] ,596
13,783
8,316
4,999
4,920
3,881
10,423
964
1,537
4,103
1,044
17,287
10,121
5,424
2,858
549
21,725
65,871
12,761
19,615
20,642
28,455
89,900
45,661
25,385
17,368
21,089
43,536 49,866
29,859 7,670 17,268
39,541
122,531
58,191
368,472
STREET CONSTRUCTION.
Number of new " 323 " streets constructed
Number of " 323 " (new) streets partially constructed
Number of public alleys constructed .
Number of public alleys partially constructed
25-
19
2
Paving.
Details of JVew 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 .
Sq. yds..
7,872
85,923
1,671
13,440
45,644
Total
154,550
StEEET DEPAilTMENT — PaVJNG DIVISION. 163
Triuidad asphalt
Sicilian rock asphalt
Wooden blocks on concrete base .
Macadam.
Telford
Area of surface laid .
Length of edgestones set
Area of gutters laid
Edgestones.
Gutters.
Sidewalks.
Brick sidewalks laid .
Crushed stone sidewalks laid
Coal tar concrete laid .
Artificial stone sidewalks laid
CrossuialJcs.
Area of flagging laid . . . ,
Sq. yds.
31,803
48,826
80,629
Sq. yds.
14,179
Sq. yds.
8,000
79,743
87,743
Lin. feet.
151,404
Sq. yds.
14,042
Sq. yds.
35,963
28,192
4,161
$68,316
Sq. feet.
27,776
Sq. yds.
11,813
GiENERAL REPAIRS.
* Summary of Work Done Under District Foremen.
Number of streets repaired . . . . 180
Length of streets repaired .... 39 miles.
Area of macadam streets resurfaced . . 499,000 sq. yds.
Area of paving relaid . . . . . 218,365 "
Length of edgestones set or reset . . 245,410 lin. ft.
Area of brick sidewalks laid . . . 131,487 sq. yds.
Area of artificial stone sidewalks laid . . 15,565 "
Area of coal tar sidewalks laid . . . 698 "
*The quantities given in this schedule are in addition to and are not included in
the foregoing tables.
164
City Document No. 40.
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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2.0
14.6
35.3
4.5
7.9
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18.5
15.0
21.6
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64.0
6.7
13.5
13.9
8.8
3.8
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9.5
9.5
14.5
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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
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7.8
8.8
1.2
14.5
U.7
13.7
16.2
12.0'
11.5
20.0
12.6
January —
12.0
13.0
March
7.5
71.6
Totals . .
59.1
43.5
67.3
47.2
38.9
48.2
51.9
8.4
17.5
45.3
1892-93
1893-94
1894-95
1895-96
1896-97
Snow Account.
1897-98
$60,190 20
151,943 33
78,381 71
84,809 08
68,741 07
1898-99 .
1899-1900
1900-1901
1901-1902
$116,224 20
172,963 48
154,625 18
29,138 38
93,518 45
Average for ten years, $101,053.51.
Rainfall (inches).
MONTH.
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January
February
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
2.26
4.82
2.80
3.13
5.23
2.20
1.72
6.46
1.59
2.94
1.83
5.16
3.01
3.15
1.01
3.78
4.12
.80
3.01
3.03
2.14
5.11
3.10
4.28
3.79
1.11
2.72
3.65
2.71
1.73
2.98
3.24
1.53
6.19
8.07
2.45
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
4.20
6.83
4:60
1.90
, 5.07
1.85
2.69
2.46
4.62
3.41
4.17
2.25
1.56
.66
6.58
j^pril
7.43
6.31
1.31
July
5.20
3.25
September
October
November
December
2.50
3.02
2.41
8.49
Totals
36.08
30.47
40.14
36.54
40.17
37,55
40.77
49.78
34.69
44.05
48.72
In this rainfall is included the precipitation during the winter
months, which equals .1 of an inch to 1 inch of snowfall.
Stebet Department — Paving Division.
165
Crushed Stone, Ballast and Telford.
Output of Stone from City Crushers.
Crushed Stone.
Tons.
Telford.
Tons.
Centre-street cruslier
7,683
18,597
10,519
23,992
17,697
9,679
37,565
4,234
Chestnut Hill avenue crusher
Codman-street crusher
Colunibia-road crusher
10
Diniock-street crusher
Kenney-street crusher
Mosman-crusher
Rosseter-street crusher
Totals
129,966
10
The records of the Board of Street Commissioners for the
year 1901 show the following results :
Streets laid out or extended
Streets widened or relocated
Increase in mileage
25,217.68 Unear feet.
95,682 square feet.
4.776 miles.
166
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168 City Document No. 40.
NAMES OF STREETS CHANGED.
February 27, 1901.
The public way at South Boston, leading from the south-
westerly side of Summer street to A street, named Melcher
street.
The public way at West Roxbury, leading from the south-
westerly side of South street, opposite Conway street to South
Fairview street, named South Conway street.
The public way extending in continuation of the present Dor-
chester avenue, from Summer street to Congress street, named
Dorchester avenue.
The public way known as Charlestown street, changed to
Washington street North.
Hazel street. West Roxbury, from Enfield street to Rockview
street, changed to Robinwood avenue.
The name of that part of Mt. Vernon street. West Roxbury,
which extends from the angle in said street, at Vermont street to
Baker street, changed to Vermont street.
Draper court, Dorchester, changed to Hendry street.
Creek street, Dorchester, changed to Cireenmount street.
Coolidge street, Brighton, changed to Coolidge road.
Rockland street, Brighton, changed to Academy hill road.
Swett street, changed to Southampton street.
OPEN SPACES OR SQUARES NAMED.
February 21. — Junction of Adams street and Neponset
avenue, called King square.
Junction of Neponset avenue and Freeport street, called
Spaulding square.
PROPERTY IN CHARGE OF THE DEPUTY SUPER-
INTENDENT 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 tins lot are buildings
containing a steam-engine and stone-crusher.
Highland street stable lot. Upon this lot is a large brick
Street Department — Paving Division. 169
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-cru§her, also a stable and
tool-house.
On the Almshouse lot, Hancock street, Dorchester, there are
two stables, also a shed and tool-house.
Ledge lot on Magnolia street and Bird place, Dorchester, 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 Roxbury, 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 LTnion 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 feeet, 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 $15,000.
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.
170
City Document No. 40.
On Kenney street, Roxbury, buildings containing engines,
stone-cruslaers, tools, etc., on leased land.
On Columbia road, Dorchester, buildings containing engines,
stone-crushers, tools, etc., on leased land.
On Hamlin street, South Boston, lot used for storage purposes.
On Mt. Vernon street; West Roxbury, yard lot, belonging to
the Schoolhouse Commission, used for storage purposes.
On Massachusetts avenue. South End, lot used for storage
purposes.
On Savin Hill avenue, Dorchester, crushing plant, on ledge of
John McMorrow.
STREET OPENINGS.
Permits have been issued from this office for making openings
in the public streets during the year ending January 31, 1902, as
follows :
Street Openings.
Permits.
- Feet.
10
102
3
200
1
75
1
40
27
3,146
398
5,239
13
330
17
1,203
32
622
894
47,442
2,326
161,129
5
146
17
482
345
49,803
539
277,147
13
773
680
87,346
443
3,164
381
96,849
121
2,573
349
22,529
921
48,739
(
363
137
30,425
143
13,297
4
1,896
1
20
3
225
27
5,376
10
160,136
5
690
598
•94,527
4
195
American Telegraph and Telephone Company
Automatic Fire Alarm Company
Boston City Hospital Trustees
Boston Cemetery Department
Boston Fire Department
Boston Lamp Department
Boston Park Department •
Boston Police Department
Boston Public Grounds- Department
Boston Street Department (Sewer Division) .
Boston Water Department
Boston & Albany Railroad Company
Boston & Maine Raih-oad Company
Boston Electric Light Company ,
Boston Elevated Railway Company
Boston Low Tension Wire Association ,
Boston Gas Light Company
Boston Pneumatic Transit Company ,
Brookline Gas Light Company
Charlestown Gas and Electric Company ,
Dorchester Gas Light Company
Edison Electric Illuminating Company ,
Eastern Cold Storage Company
East Boston Gas Light Company ,
Jamaica Plain Gas Light Company ,
Lynn & Boston Railroad Company
Massachtisetts Homojopathic Hospital
Massachusetts Pipe Line Gas Company
Massachusetts Telephone and Telegraph
Company
Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board. ...
Metropolitan Contracting Company
New England Telephone and Telegraph Com-
pany
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Comj^any
Carried f 07 ward
8,475
1,116,229
Street Department — Paving Division. 171
street Openings. — Concluded.
Permit4.
Feet.
Brought forward
Old Colony Street Railway Company
Postal Telegraph Cable Company
Quincy Market Cold Storage Company
Roxbury Gas Light Company
South Boston Gas Light Company
Simpson Brothers Corporation
Standard Oil Company
Union Freight Railway Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Miscellaneous
Emergency Permits, Class A
Emergency Permits returned as used, 1,417;
estimated length in feet
8,475
13
13
54
313
274
83
6
2
21
2,667
2,176
1,116,229
4,292
741
2,100
66,881
49,488
9,731
52
1,000
8,600
263,476
8,502
Total.
14,097
1,531,092
Making a total length of openings of about 290 miles.
Permits other than for street openings have been granted as
follows :
Permits.
1
192
154
27
4,090
6,455
461
16
601
760
2,525
14
582
14
93
452
129
115
1,032
347
Advertising by man wearing hat and coat lettered
Cleaning snow from roofs
Dumping snow in public alleys
Driving cattle .....
Erecting, removing and repairing awnings
Erecting and repairing buildings .
Feeding horses on the street
Moving buildings
Loading and unloading goods
Pedlers (two classes) ....
Placing signs flat on buildings
Painting signs or notices on obstruction fences
Raising and lowering safes, machinery, etc.
Selling from areas
Selling from doors and windows .
Selling from farmers' wagon-stands
Special permits for June 17, July 4 and other holidays
Special perinits for various purposes .
Extension of permits . =- .
Emergency permits, class B .
Permits to Project Electric Lamps and Signs as follows
Boston Electric Light Company
Charlestown Gas and Electric Company
Edison Electric Illuminating Company
Block Plant Electric Light Company ....
Kitson Hydro-Carbon Heating and Incandescent Lighting
pany
Petroleum Incandescent Lighting Company
Suburban Light and Power Company ....
Washington Incandescent Company ....
Com
45
6
73
2
25
3
Total 18,229
172 City Document No. 40.
Total number of permits for street openings .... 14,097
Total number of permits for all other purposes . . . . 18,229
Grand total of permits issued 32,326
All bonds excepting those of corporations are guaranteed by
some one of the surety companies authorized to do business iu
the State of Massachusetts.
There are now on file 1,147 such bonds, and there have been
375 bonds cancelled during the year.
About 400 notices were sent early in the year to storekeepers
and householders in connection with selling fruit, etc., from
doorways, windows and areas, and care has been taken to see
that the premises have been kept clean.
There have been 16,132 notices sent to the vp.rious foremen dur-
ing the year, directing them to repair defects in the public streets
which had been reported by the police, inspectors and others ; also
5,940 letters and notices to departments, corporations and private
parties 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 3,318 instances.
Three hundred and four notices have been sent to departments
and corporations at the request of the Chief Engineer of the Pav-
ing Division, calling for various changes on account of street
improvements. In each case permits have been inclosed allowing
them to do the work.
Inspectors.
Inspectors are now located at the various paving yards, with
the exception of those required in the office for emergency work.
They report each day by mail to the permit office, regarding
defects in the pubhc streets, and notices are sent to the proper
parties directing repairs to be made.
There have been other inspectors detailed to serve with and at
the expense of the various corporations excavating in the streets,
who make a written report weekly on blanks prepared for the
purpose.
Artificial Stone Sidewalks.
One hundred and sixty-seven of the permits issued from this
office have been for the construction of these wallcs, which have
been completed and inspected this present year by the inspector
detailed for this purpose.
All walks constructed in 1896, and maintenance guarantee
expiring this year, have been carefully examined and all, except-
ing those with small defects, were repaired by the different con-
tractors and put in good condition under the terms of their
contract.
Street Department — Paving Division.
173
lu connection mth the general inspection of artificial stone
sidewalks, 180 inspections have been made on accident cases and
claims in connection with the work of the Street Department.
Street Numbering.
During the year ten whole streets were numbered or renum-
bered, 534 parts of streets were numbered and 3,055 metallic
figures were supplied.
The appended table explains the work done by districts, and in
addition gives the number of estates numbered, and the number
of changes made necessary by renumbering or other cause.
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Bill Boards.
The ever-increasing complaint about bill boards has received
proper notice, and an inspector has given special attention to
this matter.
A list showing the location of each bill board in this city has
been prepared, so that if a complaint is made against any par-
ticular board the owner is promptly notified.
Very many of the boards are located on private land just back
of the hue of the sidewalk, and therefore are beyond the control
of this department ; but the inspector has been able to have the
streets kept clean from paper which has been torn or blown off
from such boards, and the complaints against bill boards have
been very few the past year as compared with previous years.
174 City Document No. 40.
APPENDIX D.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE SANITARY DIVISION.
Rooms 917-920 Tremont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1902.
James Donovan, 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 end-
ing January 31, 1902.
The Sanitary Division has charge of the removal of house
offal, waste, rubbish, house dirt and ashes accumulated from
burning of material for heating buildings and domestic pur-
poses.
North of Massachusetts avenue this division collects ashes
under what is known as the " block system." Ashes are
removed from hotels and business buildings daily, from pri-
vate residences twice a week ; waste and rubbish, including
store dirt is removed in this section twice a week before 8.30
A.M., in order that pedestrians may not be inconvenienced.
Offal is removed from hotels daily, from restaurants where
such removal is requested and from private residences twice
a week.
South of Massachusetts avenue, and in the outlying dis-
tricts, ashes and offal are removed once a week except in the
summer months, when offal is collected twice a week.
Suitable dumping places are becoming scarce, and the
matter of increased expense to the division on this account is
a subject to be carefully considered. Some relief in the dis-
position of ashes collected in Charlestown and portions of
the North and West Ends might be had by the location of a
dumping scow in the vicinity of Charles River avenue, as
during the past year 16,036 loads of ashes were dumped at
East Cambridge, the nearest obtainable dump to the West
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 175
End, for which privilege the division paid the sum of
$1,026.70.
The rapid increase in population and taxable property of
Dorchester should entitle it to the same improvement in the
collection and disposal of offal that other sections of the city
are now enjoying.
This has been neglected in the past on account of the wide
area covered by the district, and the necessity of greatly in-
creasing the expense to accomplish the work, owing to the
lack of facilities to readily handle the material after collec-
tion. The first step in the solution of this problem was
made in 1901, by the purchase by the city of a parcel of land
and flats admirably adapted to meet the requirements of this
division. As a tide-water location is a necessary adjunct for
the economical disposition of material collected, it would be
difficult to find a better location anywhere in Doj Chester than
the one now owned by the city, as the wharf will set back
400 feet from the street and 550 feet from the nearest resi-
dence and all possibility of objection on account of prox-
imity to residences is removed, and as the department is
bound by contract to deliver the offal of Dorchester to the
New England Sanitary Product Company into scows pro-
vided by the, company, this location will furnish an ideal
berth for carrjdng out the contract.
The Street Department has plans for the construction of
the most approved dumping arrangements obtainable in
modern practice, a design for a practical dump which fulfils
every requirement that could be imposed for the transfer of
the materials collected in the district that require disposition
other than being used as a filling.
The wharf facilities could be made ample for the reception
of paving materials of all descriptions, lumber, etc., dj-ain
pipe, and other necessary articles used in the work of the
Street Department. In fact, the present location is admirably
adapted to the needs jof a combination Street Department
yard for this district, and as such, if the necessary funds for
equi]Dping it can be obtained, would prove almost invaluable.
The City Government of 1900 authorized a loan of
$75,000 for the purchase of land and erection of buildings
for the Sanitary and Street Cleaning Divisions in the Dor-
chester district. A wharf property located on Freeport
street was purchased for the sum of $22,500, plans, estimates
and specifications were drawn for stables and shops, and
other incidental expenses brought the total expended to
$24,578.96, leaving an unexpended balance of $50,421.04.
This money should be used for the purpose designed, namely,
the establishment of a Sanitarj' and Street Cleaning yard
176 City Document No. 40.
for the Dorchester district, and an additional $50,000 should
be provided to equip the yard for this division and put it on
a working basis equal to the yards in other districts.
Some opposition was raised to the establishment of a sani-
tary yard on Freeport street, owing to the intention of the
department to dispose of the garbage collected in this district
from that point.
The opposition was needless, as the dump designed to be
used for the final disposition of the ashes and garbage con-
templated a method that would be free from objection, that
is, the dump was to be a covered one, and particular care was
to be paid to its sanitary arrangements, so that no refuse
could get overboard to contaminate the waters of the bay.
The Street Department consulted the New England Sani-
tary Product Company, the present contractors for the final
disposition of the garlDage, and was assured by the company
that the boats used would be kept clean, and the garbage
removed at the direction of the Street Department, so that
the quantity of offal collected in this district (amounting
approximately to 10 per cent, of that collected in the entire
city) could be handled without giving offense.
Respectfully yours,
Daniel P. Sullivan,
Deputy Superintendent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Amount of appropriation ..... $637,000 00
Transfered from special appropriation, " Repairs on
stables," Public Buildings Department . . 3,000 00
Total amount of appropriation .
Transferred to Paving Division .
Transferred to Soldier's Relief Depart-
ment .....
Transferred to Insane and State Insti
tutions .....
Transferred to Music Department
Total amount expended by Sanitary Division, $623,000 50
The total expenditures of the division including
work done for other divisions and departments,
and paid for by them was . $665,840 93
Less amounts paid by other divisions
and departments . . . 42,840 43
Net cost of maintenance Sanitary Division . . $623,000 50
.
$640,000 00
. $6,999 50
. 1,841 37
. 7,627 63
531 00
16,999 50
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 177
Total Cost of Removal of House Dirt, Ashes, Waste,
Rubbish and House Offal.
Salaries, deputy superintendent, clerks and fore-
men $19,807 09
Office supplies and expenses . . . . 3,069 86
Ashes, Waste and HubMsh Account.
Expended for labor, as per pay-rolls, $181,183 90
Expended for hired teams, as per
pay-rolls 62,410 50
Expended for disposition of ashes, 20,496 39
Expended for disposition of waste
and rubbish . . . . 20,350 19
Expended for stock, as per ledger
accounts . . . . . 54,488 97
Expended on contract, part of West ,
Roxbury 2,440 83
Expended on contracts, Dorchester, 10,431 66
House Offal Account
Expended for labor, as per pay-rolls
Expended for hired teams as per pay-
rolls .....
Expended for disposition of offal
Expended for stock, etc., as per
ledger ....
Expended on contract. East Boston
Expended on contract, Brighton
Expended on contract, part of West
Roxbury ....
Expended on contract, Dorchester
351,802 44
$100,720 98
7,335 00
51,292 65
29,056 93
8,305 93
2,650 00
1,575 00
6,650 00
Construction, Repair and Horseshoeing Shops
Account.
Foreman ........
Expended for labor . . . $30,67827
Expended for stock '. . . 18,087 71
Allowed time for holidays . . $31,522 47
Medical attendance and allowed time
for injured men .... 1,890 40
Total expenditures of the Sanitary Division, for
year ending January 31, 1902 ....
Average price per cart load to remove
and dispose of waste material, $1.45.
Carried forward . . .
207,586 49
1,396 20
48,765 98
33,412 87
5665,840 93
. $665,840 93
178
City Document No. 40.
brought forioard .....
Revenue Received ekom Outside Divisions and
Departments fok Board and Care of
Horses, Rent, Use of Dumping Boats,
Shoeing, and for Repairing Vehicles, etc.
$665,840 93
Bridge Division
County of Suffolk .
Paving Division
Sewer Division
Street Cleaning Division
Street Watering Division
$557 82
2,098 42
12,092 66
6,321 40
21,121 92
648 21
Income.
42,840 43
1623,000 50
Amounts of moneys deposited and bills presented to the City
Collector for material sold and work performed by the Sanitary
Division of the Street Department during the year ending January
31, 1902.
Moneys Deposited with City Collector.
.From letting of scow privileges . . . . $1,286 70
Bills Deposited with City Collector.
For removal of engine ashes . . $11,496 20
For sale of manure . . . 377 74
Horse-show prize money ... 50 00
For renting portion of Fort Hill Wharf, 1,135 00
13,058 94
$14,345 64
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 179
Items of Expenditures and Revenue.
Items.
Total Amount
Expended.
Amount Paid
by Other
Divisions.
Amount Charged
to Sanitary
Division.
Salaries of deputy and clerks,
Salaries of foremen
Labor in removing house dirt
and ashes
Labor, sub-foreman and in-
spectors, collecting house
dirt and ashes
Extra teams, collecting house
dirt and ashes
Collection of house dirt and
ashes, West Roxbury, North
and South Dorchester
Disposition of ashes
Ash stock, consisting of shov-
els, carts, covers, etc
Labor, removing vfaste and
rubbish
Labor, sub-foreman and in-
spectors on waste and rub-
bish
Extra teams, on vs^aste and
rubbish
Disposition of vraste and rub-
bish
Labor, removing house offal.
Labor, sub-foreman and in-
spectors, removing house
offal
Extra teams, removing house
offal
Removing house offal in East
Boston, Brighton, West Rox-
bury and Dorchester
Offal stock, consisting of vrag-
ons, buckets, etc
Disposition of house offal . . .
Labor of men employed in
stables and yards
Allowed time and holidays . .
Grain ^ . .
Hay and straw
Medical attendance and al-
lowed time on account of
injured men
Horses
Veterinary services and medi-
cines
Stable and yard furnishings,
consisting of currycombs,
sponges, brushes, etc
Outside board and care of
horses
Carried forward
$10,870 97
10,332 32
117,949 93
14,387 35
61,943 GO
12,872 49
20,496 39
419 09
28,739 15
2,947 50
467 50
20,350 19
75,906 00
7,655 02
7,335 00
19,180 98
3,051 02
51,292 65
34,319 93
31,522 47
16,549 70
14,804 35
1,890 40
6,210 60
4,052 79
1,790 30
1,518 09
$578,855 73
143 35
16,424 13
1,825 36
904 84
6,185 00
553 50
9,668 77
467 75
175 70
2,494 08
1,999 53
1,477 64
620 78
$10,870 97
10,288 97
101,525 80
12,561 99
61,943 00
12,872 49
19,591 55
419 09
22,554 15
2,394 00
467 50
20,350 19
66,237 23
7,187 27
7,335 00
19,180 93
3,051 02
51,il6 95
31,825 85
29,522 94
15,072 06
14,183 57
1,890 40
6,210 60
4,052 79
1,790 30
1,518 69
$42,840 43
$536,015 30
180 City Documejstt No. 40.
Items of Expenditure and Revenue. — Concluded.
Items.
Notal Amount
Expended.
Amount Paid
by Other
Divisions.
Amount Chargi
to Sanitary
Division.
Brought forward
Outside horseslioeing, black-
smith andwheelwrigiitwork,
harnesses and painting
Labor, stock and tools, black-
smith shop
Labor, stock, etc., wheel-
wright shop
Labor, stock, etc., paint shop.
Labor, stock, etc., harness
shop
Labor, stock, etc., plumbing
and gasfitting
Labor, stock, etc., horseshoe-
ing shop. South Yard
Labor, stock, etc., horseshoe-
ing shop, West Yard
Dumping boats, labor, stock,
etc
Eepairs on stables and sheds,
Fuel
Gas
Electric light
Electric power
Printing
Stationery ^
Advertising
Rents
Tolls and fares
Telephone
Office items and expenses ....
Damages caused by city
teams
Taxes on Hecht estate as per
lease
Use of hired horses
Totals
1578,855 73
2,410 17
14,927 52
10,279 32
7,920 06
8,298 72
92 19
4,475 59
2,002 58
4,355 08
1,666 83
1,066 34
1,096 85
574 92
781 07
2,111 76
342 75
392 62
15.408 16
332 65
1,016 34
615 35
31 31
3,722 02
3,065 00
$42,840 43
$665,840 93
$42,840 43
$536,015 30
2,410 17
14,927 52
10,279 32
7,920 06
8,298 72
92 ra
4,475 59
2,002 58
4,355 08
1,666 83
1,066 34
1,096 85
674 92
781 07
2,111 76
342 75
392 62
15,408 16
332 65
1,016 34
615 35
31 31
3,722 02
3,065 00
$623,000 50
Force Employed on House Dirt, Ashes, Waste and Rubbish.
Department
No.
Hired
Teams.
Contractors' Teams.
Force.
Nortli
D orchester.
South
Dorchester.
West
Roxbury.
Total.-
7
15
4
123
148
26
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Inspectors
Tallymen
Teamsters
Helpers
Dumpers
15
4
40
40
6
6
4
4
2
3
175
201
26
Totals
323
80
12
8
5
428
Steeet Department — Sanitary Division. 181
Amount of House Dirt and Ashes Removed.
Yeak.
No. OF Loads
OF 44 Cu. Ft.
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
House dirt and ashes, including waste and rubbish,
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u u ic li exclusive of " " "
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389,098
394,937
329,096
344,682
342,940
Amount of Waste and Rubbish Removed.
Year.
Ntjmbee OF Loads.
Paper Cart.
Market Wagon.
1899
14,903
11,452
11,534
3,020
5,494
7,791
1900
1901
Force Employed on House Offal.
Department
No.
Hired
Teams.
Contractors' Teams.
Force.
East
Boston.
Brighton.
Dorchester.
West
Eoxbury.
Total.
Sub-foremen. .
3
5
65
69
4
1
3
Inspectors.. . .
Teamsters. . . .
Helpers
Dumpers
Tallymen
5
4
5
6
7
3
3
8
15
2
3
88
102
4
1
Totals
147
9
13
6
23
5
203
Amount of House Offal Removed.
Year.
No. OF Loads.
1897
1898
1899
1900
1901
56,783
57,764
59,956
62,975
66,758
182
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and ashes,
Waste and
27,044
272
4,100
18,141
5,520
18,878
225
3,043
13,043
18,443
29,336
70,167
855
10,426
76,123
9,250
22,527
71,765
8,723
10,617
342,940
19,325
66,758
House offal,
1,694
3,253
5,578
Totals
31,416
23,661
22,146
14,737
21,696
34,914
81,448
107,900
91,105
429,023
Number of Loads of Material Collected from January 31, 1896, to
February 1, 1902.
Years.
Waste and Rubbish.
Ashes.
Offal.
Total Loads.
1897
389,098
394,937
329,096
344,682
1 342,940
56,783
57,764
59,956
62,975
2 66,758
445,881
1898
452,701
1899
1900
1901
19,815
18,460
* 19,325
408,867
426,117
429,023
*Average weight of load of waste and rubbish in 1900, 949 lbs.; 1901, 1,179 lbs.,
aggregating a difference of 2,632 tons more removed in 1901.
1 Collected by West Roxbury Contractor 7,700 loads of ashes.
" " North Dorchester " 17,741 " " "
" " South Dorchester " 11,595 " " "
Total 37,036
2 Collected by East Boston Contractor 5,520 loads of offal.
" " Brighton " 1,694 " " "
"West Roxbury " 1,498 " "
" " Dorchester " 5,578 " " "
Total 14,290
Final Disposition of all Waste Material by the Sanitary Division Collected from
February 1, 1901, to February 1, 1902, for this and other Divisions.
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342,940
19,325
66,758
33,849
2,884
222,688
1,216
83,216
524
37,036
342,940
Waste and rub-
17,585
19,325
52,724
14,034
66,758
Street sweepings.
Cesspool dirt
83,849
2,884
33,849
2,884
Total
465,756
223,904
120,473
52,724
51,070
17,585
465,756
Stkbet Department — Sanitary Division. 183
Amount Expended for Collection of House Dirt, Ashes, Waste and Rubbish and
House Offal, Labor, Hired Teams and Contracts, and Disposition of same.
Deducting Salaries of Foremen, Yard and Stable Labor, Stock, etc.
Districts.
Waste and
Rubbish.
Expended for Collecting
Ashes.
Offal.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
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10.
11.
South Boston
East Boston
Charlestown
Brighton
West Eoxbury
Dorchester
Eoxbury
South End and Back Bay .
North and West End
Dumping Boats
$864 00
191'
1,693 00
18,812 00
10,642 00
19,802 34
118,653 55
11,177 96
13,681 61
9,429 85
11,166 58
12,190 66
51,611 29
65,132 15
47,968 78
4,376 55
110,224 45
8,914 17
8,208 14
3,321 35
6,258 25
6,834 00
27,512 58
38,286 90
16,707 44
50,293 35
Totals
^51,504 34
$245,388 98
$176,560 63
Number of Carts and Wagons Collecting House Dirt and Ashes, Waste, Rubbish
and Offal.
Iron.
Wooden.
Total.
Offal wagons
in use by the Sanitary Division
" Thomas Mulligan, East Boston.
" John Newbury, Brighton
" David M. Biggs, Dorchester —
' ' John Krug, West Roxbury
Ash carts in use by the Sanitary Division
" " " John J. Moore, West Roxbury.
" " " John McShane, Dorchester
Market wagons in use by the Sanitary Division.
Paper carts in use by the Sanitagy Division
Ash and offal sleds.
Total
54
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8
12
3
178
3
12
193
48
150
521
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Maintenance of Fort Hill Wharf and Dumping Boats.
Amount Expe^ided.
For towing by department tow boat . $10,767 50
For towing by hired tow boat . . 2,554 00
13,321 50
For repairs on wharves and boats . . . 4,139 81
For rents $4,000 00
For dumping-boat stock and supphes . 215 27
For labor, messengers, crew and clumpers, 7,364 19
For hoUdays and allowed time, injured
men 379 40
11,958 86
),420 17
Number of trips to sea by department
tow boats ..... 252
Number of trips to sea by hired boats, 75
327
Cost per Load, Including Rents, etc., of Towing to Sea
Waste Material Belonging to this and other Divisions.
The number of loads of waste material carried to
sea- 120,473
The cost per cart load ..... 24.04 cents
The cost per boat load . . . . .89.97 cents
Division Construction, Repair and Horseshoeing Shops.
An extensive plant is located at the South Yard, 650 Albany
street, opposite East Newton street, where the construction of and
repairs on street and other department carriages, carts, wagons,
etc., are made, together with the painting of the same. 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 by the different shops as
follows :
Wheelwright shop
Blacksmith shop
Paint shop
Harness shop
Horseshoeing shop. South End
Horseshoeing shop. West End
Carried forioard
H,936 55
7,872 56
5,099 39
2,180 53
1,947 50
1,564 00
$23,600 53
" Street Department — Sanitary Division. 187
Brought forioard
i,600 53
For work done and material furnished for the
Sanitary Di^dsion there was expended in the differ-
ent shops as follows :
Wheelwright shop
Blacksmith shop
Paint shop
Harness shop
Horseshoeing shop, South End
Horseshoeing shop, West End
$5,482 21
7,059 96
2,820 67
6,118 19
4,788 32
449 08
Total amount paid out, stock and labor, all divi-
sions and departments . . .
Foremen in charge .... $1,396 20
Allowed time 3,050 77
26,718 43
$50,318 96
4,446 97
$54,765 93
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Detailed Account of Amount Paid for Work done by the
Sanitary Division for other Divisions of the Street
Department and other Departments.
For repair and construction work .
For horseshoeing .....
For use of dumping boats ....
For hay, grain, straw, board and care of horses
For feeders, watchman and stableman .
For fuel, hght and telephone
For board and care of sick horses at Veterinary Hos
pital . . . . ...
For rent for use of Litchfield's Wharf .
$20,089 03
3,511 50
8,323 29
3,304 12
1,443 22
779 77
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$42,840 43
Lands and Buildings in Charge of the Sanitary Division.
South Boston Stable. (^Leased.)
Stables and sheds, with accommodations for 19 horses, located
317 and 319 First street. South Boston,
JEast Boston Stable. - [Leased.)
Stables and sheds with accommodations for 15 horses, located
at 324 East Eagle street, and are occupied jointly by Paving,
Sewer, Street Cleaning and Sanitary Divisions.
Gharlestown Stable.
With accommodations for 25 horses, 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 its 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. 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 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 pui'pose, and con-
tains 90,780 feet.
Street Department — Sanitary Division. 191
The stables and buildings connected tlierewith 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, wheelwiight, paint and
harnessmakers' shops, in which 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
outbuildings attached to 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.
I^ort mil 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
Department tug -boat " Cormorant."
A portion of this wharf is used by the Street Cleaning Divi-
sion 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.
Hechfs ^harf. {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. This property is now owned by the Mid-
dlesex Trust.
192 City Document No. 40
APPENDIX E.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
SEWER DIVISION.
30 Tkemont Stkeet, Boston, February 1, 1902.
Mk. James Donovan, Superintendent of Streets :
Deae, Sir, — I respectfully submit report of the expendi-
tures, income and operation of the Sewer Division for the
financial jear ending January 31, 1902, together with recom-
mendations as to the future development of the sewer
system.
The work of the Sewer Division is as follows :
The preparation of plans for sewerage works, the construc-
tion and maintenance of all drainage works, inclisiding the
investigation of complaints in regard to defective drainage,
the granting of permits for sewer connections and the prepa-
ration of plans for the assessment of the cost of construction ;
also the examination of the plans of other corporations pro-
posing to construct works in public streets, with reference to
their probable interference with sewerage works, and approval
of lines and grades of private streets with reference to the
requirements of this division.
The five-year period, for which an agreement had been
made with the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board for
the handling of the Metropolitan sewage, having expired, the
city during the past year made a new agreement with the
aforesaid board, covering a period from 1901, "until other
provision for the discharge of the sewage from said sewerage
districts shall be made." Following is the agreement :
"Agreement between the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage
Board, of the State of Massachusetts and the City of Boston,
relative to the pumping of sewage of the Metropolitan districts
by the main drainage works of the City of Boston."
"The Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board, to which,
by chapter 168 of the Acts of the year 1901, was trans-
ferred all the power, rights, duties and liabihties of the
Metropohtan Sewerage Commissioners, acting for the Common-
wealth of Massachusetts, and the Mayor of the City of Boston,
Stkeet Department — Sewer Division. 193
acting for the city, hereto authorized by chapter 502 of the Acts
of the year 1897, and by an agreement entered into thereunder by
the Board of Metropohtan Sewerage Commissioners and the Mayor
of the City of Boston, dated December 31, 1897, hereby agree
and determine as follows :
The Commonwealth shall, after the year 1901, pay to the City
of Boston, in the month of January in each year, as follows :
For the year 1901, a total sum, on account of the sewerage
districts referred to in the Act of 1897 and agreement, of eighty-
three thousand, eight hundred and ninety-two dollars and eleven
cents ($83,892.11) ; and for each year hereafter, until other pro-
visions for the discharge of the sewage from the said sewerage
districts shall be made, the sum of eighty-three thousand, eight
hundred and ninety-two dollars and eleven cents ($83,892.11),
increased by four hundred and fifty dollars ($450) and by the
amount of three and twenty-five hundredths per cent. (3.25%)
of twenty-three and eighty-two hundredths percent. (23.82%) of
the cost of construction of the sewers and works forming a part
of said portion of said City of Boston's system of sewage discharge
and works lying between Gainsborough street and the point of
discharge into the water at Moon Island, between Granite avenue
bridge, Dorchester, and Moon Island, as shall have been paid
after January 1, 1902 ; provided, however, that no part of the
cost of construction of any such sewer or work which the said
Board and said Mayor shall agree, or, in case they cannot agree,
which a third person selected by the said Board and Mayor, shall
find ought not to be paid by the Commonwealth, shall be used in
determining any such amount.
Inasmuch, however, as said sum of eighty-three thousand, eight
hundred and ninety-two dollars and eleven cents ($83,892.11) is
in part made up of interest at the rate of three and nine hundred
and eighty-seven thousandths per cent, (3.987%) on the original
capital expenditure of five milhon dollars ($5,000,000), it is
agreed that if there shall be in any year a reduction in the rate of
interest from said percentage, by refunding or otherwise, paid by
the City of Boston on its said capital expenditures, then the
Commonwealth, through the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage
Board, shall receive the proper proportional benefit of such
reduction.
The above payments do not include any sum to be paid to the
City of Boston for the sewage of the City of Quincy under its
agreement with the City of Boston.
Signed this thirty-first day of December, 1901.
(Signed) Henry H. Sprague,
(Signed) Henry P. Walcott,
(Signed) James A. Bailey, Jr.,
Metropolitan Water and Seioerage Board.
City of Boston,
(Signed) By
Thomas N. Hart, Mayor,
194 City Document No. 40.
The above agreement will provide for the payments from
the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board to the city
until such time as the new high level system is put in
operation. This system will, in all probability, be in condi-
tion to receive some sewage in 1903j and will be in full
operation in 1904. The inset map in this report shows the
territory of the City of Boston which will be diverted from
Boston's main drainage system and the Moon Island outlet,
and taken care of by the Metropolitan high level. sewer.
In view of the fact that this system will be put into opera-
tion so soon, and that a large portion of the territory of the
City of Boston will be involved in the new South Metropoli-
tan District, as the district which will be tributary to the
high level system is now called, it now becomes proper to
consider the work which the City of Boston must do in order
to receive the benefit which will be conferred by this new
system, and it also now becomes possible and proper to out-
line the future development of the whole sewerage system of
the City of Boston.
Fir Sit. As to the Work which the City must do.
There are thirty-four (34) square miles of territory be-
longing to the City of Boston now tributary to the main
drainage system of the city, that is, all the city's territory
except Charlestown and East Boston, which latter contribute
to the North Metropolitan system. Of these 34 square
miles 21 will be intercepted by the high level sewer and
the branches which the city will construct, leaving 13 square
miles of low level territory forever tributary to the Boston
main drainage system. In order to connect the sewer sys-
tems of the 21 square miles of high level territory with the
Metropolitan high level intercepter the City of Boston will
have to construct about twelve and one-half miles of branch
intercepters, at a total estimated cost of about $1,500,000.
The map published with this report shows the two classes
of territory, viz. : the territory which will be tributary to the
high level South Metropolitan system (colored blue) and
that which will remain tributary to the Boston main drain-
age works (colored buff). The map also shows the Metro-
politan system of sewers, the system of tributary intercepters
which the city must build, the points of connection of these
and all existing sewer systems with the high level and the
Boston main drainage sewers. The Stony brook valley
sewer is also shown on this map for purposes of discussion.
The largest and longest of these branch intercepters is the
Steeet Department — Sewee Division. 195
one starting at the high level sewer near its crossing with
the Neponset Valley Intercepter, near the Hyde Park line,
running through Mattapan, Dorchester Lower Mills, Ash-
mont. Meeting House Hill, and terminating at the crossing
of Blue Hill avenue and Moreland street. This sewer is 6.5
miles long, and is 4 feet 9 inches in diameter at its connec-
tion with the high level, diminishing to a 15-inch pipe at
its upper terminus.
The next largest intercepter is the one starting from the
high level near the corner of Ashland and Canterbury
streets, crossing Walk Hill street, Morton street and Blue
Hill avenue, and terminating at the corner of Norfolk street
and Talbot avenue. This, in some respects, is more impor-
tant than the first mentioned intercepter, as it will afford a
sewer outlet for Morton street, will do away with the Callen-
der and Lyons st-reet pumping station and will afford a new
outlet for the rebuilding of the Talbot avenue sewer at a
lower and more satisfactory grade. This sewer varies in size
from 4 feet 3 inches to 3 feet 9 inches.
The third large branch intercepter is the one lying in
Green and Washington streets and passing through Egleston
square. This ranges in size from 5 feet to 3 feet, and in-
volves the building of a 60-inch iron pipe syphon about
1,600 feet long in Green street.
In addition to these large branch intercepters there are five
smaller mtercepters to be built at Arnold arboretum, Harri-
son street, Mt. Hope street, Rowe street, Canterbury
street west, and four direct connections, namely, at Spauld-
ing street, Keyes street, Grotto Glen and Gainsborough
street.
It is evident that all the foregoing work cannot be done
in a year or two. When the Metropolitan high level sewer
is completed and ready for use assessments will be levied
upon the cities and towns for which it is designed without
regard to whether they have availed themselves of opportuni-
ties to make connections with it or not. The chief item of
assessment, i.e., for interest and repayment of principal, is
already operative, and contributions for maintenance will be
assessed as soon as this item of expense begins. This is,
of course, right and necessary on the part of the State, the
State having assumed the obligation, incurred the expense
and provided the facilities for drainage. It must, therefore,
meet its obligations and make its assessments on the parties
benefited, or who might be benefited had they availed them-
selves of the opportunity. The assessment on the City of
Boston will be about $95,000. This will be based on 21
196 ^ City Document No. 40.
square miles of high level territory. The city will, of
course, receive the benefit of having the sewage from the
territory tributary to the Charles-river and Neponset-river
intercepters immediately diverted from the Boston mam
drainage system to the high level system, but will receive
no further benefit until the intercepters and connections pre-
viously mentioned are built. The territory wliich will be in
this manner diverted immediately upon the completion of the
high level system will be about 42 per cent, of the 21
square miles ultimately to be so diverted, or 8.82 square
miles, leaving 12.18 square miles of high level territory
still tributary to the main drainage. The assessment will,
of course, be the same whether 8 square miles or 21 square
miles are drained. Figured out in dollars, unless the high
level connections are ready at the time the high level
system is ready to receive them, the City of Boston will pay
58 per cent, of its assessment, or |55,100, for absolutely no
service. This, of course, is ruinous policy.
It is therefore evident that work should be begun this year
on these connections which it will take the longest time to
finish, namely, the main Dorchester connection, running
through Ashmont and Meeting House Hill, the Canterbury
branch connection, running through the Lauriat-avenue and
Talbot-avenue district, and, if possible, the Green-street con-
nection. The Harrison-street connection should be built
either this year or next, for, although a work of compara-
tively small magnitude, it will divert a large amount of ter-
ritory into the high level, as it cuts off all of the Stony brook
valley system south of its location, and, of course, will afford
a great relief to this overcrowded sewer throughout the re-
mainder of its course to the intercepter at Elmwood street.
This important sewer is shown on the map, and is the house
sewer outlet for practically the whole Stony brook valley in
West Roxbury and southerly portion of Roxbury.
Second. As to the Future Development of the Sewerage System
of the City of Boston.
The high level territory tributary to the South Metropoli-
tan system must be considered separately from the low level
territory tributary to the Boston main drainage system. The
high level territory, colored blue on the map, is, speaking in
general terms, the territory which is only partially sewered,
and therefore is the territory in which active sewer building
is now going on. The high level intercepter is designed to
take hoQse sewage only, with a small allowance for rain
Street Department — Sewer Divisioisr. 197
water, the act of the Legislature authorizing the building of
this sewer being mandatory in this respect.
It is therefore evident that the systems of common sewers
which contribute to it will have to be built upon the separate
system ; that is, those which are now upon the combined
system will have to be converted to the separate system, and
all new sewerage works will have to be designed upon the
separate system.
I assume that at first there will be no objection on the
part of the Metropolitan Water and Sewerage Board to con-
nections from our existing combined system, but as the flow
in the high level increases in the course of time and begins
to approach its limit, they will, of course, insist upon the
separation of all systems tributary to it. It is therefore
evident that it should be the policy of the city to build all
new work in this territory upon the separate plan, and to
effect the separation of the existing systems as fast as it is
practicable to do so. The existing systems will be brought
to work upon the separate system by the building of surface
drains in every street to connect with large lines of surface
conduits or relief sewers which have been started in many
places throughout this district. The surface drains, by re-
ceiving the flow from the catch-basins, will carry off the
street water to the surface-water conduits, leaving the sewers
on practically a separate basis. This programme involves
the improvement of the natural water courses in West Rox-
bury, Dorchester, and throughout the valley of Stony brook,
at least to an extent sufficient to fit them for receiving catch-
basin drains from the streets of the high level territory.
These lines of water courses include the brooks tributary to
Charles river in West Roxbury ; in Dorchester, the Oakland,
Mattapan and Davenport brooks, the upper branches of the
Tenean brook system ; the separation of the Dorchester
brook sewerage system in Dorchester and Roxbury is also
involved. In Stony brook valley it necessitates the improve-
ment of the Williams-street branch, Canterbury branch,
Roslindale branch and the Bussey brook.
The policy to be pursued in the high level territory, as
indicated above, is comparatively simple ; but in the thirteen
square miles of low level territory, or Boston main-drainage
territory, the problem is more complex. This is the territory
which is substantially well sewered, and almost entirely upon
the combined S3'stem. The question, of course, arises as to
whether it is necessary for sanitary reasons or justifiable
financially to separate the sewer system throughout this
territory.
198 City Document No. 40.
In order to discuss this problem it is necessary to distin-
guish between the very lowest of this territory and that
which lies at a higher elevation.
There are four districts which have a direct connection
with the intercepting system. These are districts in which
the cellars are lower in general than in any other section of
the city, and it was the intention of the designers of the
improved sewerage to favor these districts by draining from
them a large portion of the surface water into the intercept-
ers ; therefore, connections were made without any regulator,
and these connections are open all the time. The connec-
tions are not large enough to discharge all surface water into
the intercepter, for the flood discharge from these districts
may equal 200,000,000 gallons per twenty-four hours.
They are throttled down somewhat, but do discharge
enough of it to keep the level of sewage in these districts
down many feet below the tide and below the level of the
cellars during storms. These districts — the Dedham, Dover,
Beach and Church street districts — have been especially
favored in this manner ever since the intercepting system
has been built, and it is evident that this policy must be con-
tinued, for if the level of the sewage in these systems is not
kept down by means of the influence of these direct connec-
tions with the pumping plant at Calf pasture, general flood-
ings of these low cellars will take place whenever a severe
storm occurs at high tide.
The question to be determined, then, is whether, in view
of the relief which the main drainage system will get from
the diversion of the high level territory, it will be necessary to
introduce the separate system throughout the low level terri-
tory, including the four districts previously mentioned ; or, if
the separate system is not so introduced, whether the main drain-
age works will have pumping capacity sufficient to handle the
storm water of small storms and prevent frequent overflows,
and also to continue the practice of pumping down storm
water in the four districts named. This, of course, is almost
entirel}^ a question of pump capacity. The first effect upon
the city's main drainage system which will be experienced
when the high level system is put in operation will be one
of great relief to the pumps. Still further relief will be ex-
perienced as the high level branch interceptors are built and
the process of introducing the separate system throughout
the high level territory goes on.
In addition to the relief above described, the capacity of
the pumping station will be greatly increased within a year
or two by the installation of a new pump of a nominal ca-
pacity of 72,000,000 gallons per day. The present capacity
Steeet Departivient — Sewee, Division.
199
of the pumping station, with the four pumps running at a
fair rate of speed, is 118,000,000 gallons per twenty-four hours.
They may be speeded for a short period to 122,000,000 gal-
lons. When the new engine is installed the capacity of the
plant will be increased to about 181,000,000 gallons, making
a fair allowance for slip. This is more than the capacity of
the tunnel, which until some alterations are made in the de-
posit sewers is limited to 154,000,000 gallons, which may there-
fore be regarded as the limit of the capacity of the pumping
station for the purposes of discussion.
The following table shows the estimated yearly average flow,
maximum dry-weather flow, and maximum flow including
allowance for storm water from Boston main drainage terri-
tory— that is, from the 13 square miles which will be left
tributary to the Boston main drainage after the diversion of
the 21 square miles of high level territoiy. In making
these forecasts of sewerage flow it has of course been neces-
sary to estimate future increases in population. In making
up this table only a slight increase in population has been
allowed for in the city proper north of Dover street, for the
reason that much of this territory is so thickly populated that
there can be but little increase, and this increase will be
largely offset by encroachments of business upon residential
areas.
Table showing estimated average and maximum flows of sewage, from 1900
to 1940, from low level territory, to be conveyed to the Pumping Station of the
Boston Maine-Drainage System.
Estimated
Population.
Daily Flow. — The rate being considered uniform throughout
the twenty-four hours.
Year.
Yearly Average
Mow.
Maximum Dry-
Weather Flow.
Maximum Flow, in-
cluding allowance
for Storm Water.
Per
Head
Daily
^Volume.
Per
Head
Daily
Volume.
Per
Head
Daily
\' olume.
per
Day.
Gallons.
per
Day.
160
Gallons.
per
Day.
Gallons.
1900....
353,506
144
50,904,864
56,560,960
244
86,255,464
1905....
377,445
147
55,484,415
165
62,278,425
251
94,738,695
1910 ...
401,492
151
60,625,292
170
68,253,640
258
103,584,936
1915....
422,900
155
65,549,500
- 175
74,007,500
265
112,068,500
1920....
446,200
159
70,945,800
180
80,316,000
272
121 ,366,400
1925....
472,600
163
77,033,800
185
87,431,000
279
131,855,400
1930....
499,000
167
83,833,000
190
94,810,000
286
142,714,000
1935...
529,000
171
90,459,000
195
103,155,000
293
154,997,000
1940....
564,000
175
98,700,000
200
112,800,000
300
169,200,000
200 City Document No. 40.
The foregoing table indicates that although the system will
have a large surplus capacity for the handling of storm
water after the installation of the new pump and the diver-
sion of all the high level territory, which we hope to have
accomplished by 1910, this surplus capacity will diminish
and will entirely disappear about the year 1934, the capacity
to handle the storm water being estimated to be the difference
between the maximum capacity of the system (154,000,000
gallons) and the estimated maximum flow as indicated in the
last column of the foregoing table. The figures in this
column include the same allowance for storm water as was
made in the original main drainage calculations, namely,
i-inch rainfall in 24 hours. It is proper to include this in
figuring the maximum flow of sewage, for the reason that the
flow of surface water from storms of small magnitude is
equally as foul as the house sewage proper. When the time
arrives at which the maximum dry-weather flow, with this
small allowance of storm water, equals the capacity of the
tunnel, namely, 164,000,000 gallons per day, the capacity of
the whole system may be regarded as exhausted, and meas-
ures must then be taken to enlarge or supplement it. The
same result will be reached at substantially the same time,
whether the system is made a separate one or remains a
combined system governed by regulation.
During the latter part of the period under consideration,
that is, from 1910 to 1934, as the capacity of the system
approaches exhaustion the overflows would become more and
more frequent until at last a vei'y slight rain will be sufficient
to cause the regulators to close and the overflows to come
into operation. (This subject has been fully discussed by
Mr. F. P. Stearns, then Chief Engineer of the State Board
of Health, in report dated Januarj', 1889, on the Sewerage of
the Mystic and Charles River Valleys — Senate Document 2
of 1889).
The only advantage that would be gained by the separa-
tion of the existing and combined system throughout the
main drainage territory would be the avoidance of these
frequent overflows during the later part of the period under
consideration, and a reduction to some extent of the amount
of pumping during thaws and slow rains. Even in the
lowest main drainage territory, that is, the four districts
previously mentioned, no other advantage Avould be obtained
from separation, as there will always be enough pump capacity
to keep down the level of the sewage of these districts during
storms when all the other districts are shut off by the regu-
lators. To reduce pumpage and to avoid frequent overflows,
Street Department — Sewer Division. 201
is of course desirable. The pumpage is increased, roughly,
50 per cent, during times of thaws and rains not heavy
enough to close the regulators. Frequent overflows are very
undesirable on some parts of the water front, but not so
injurious on other parts. Complete separation of the system
would accomplish both these objects, and of course it would
be desirable to do this if it could be done for any reasonable
cost. This brings up the question of the probable cost of
effecting this separation of the system.
Separation would be effected in most cases by building
surface drains to take the flow from the catch-basins and
relieve the existing sewers. The cost of doing this would
of course vary in different localities, estimates having been
made running from $570 to |1,100 per acre, estimating that
a single surface drain in the street would be all that is
required, but in the congested business parts of the city a
single surface drain would not be sufficient. It would require
a drain on each side of the street near the curb line, and
would also require remodelling of the plumbing system of
the buildmgs in order to get the roof water from the back
parts of the buildings and paved yards and courts in the rear
into the surface drainage system. Unless all this were done
it would be impossible to build a really separate system in
the business parts of the city. A system which removed
only surface water from the streets and such roof water as
came down the leaders of the buildings (in front) would take
less than half 'the surface water of a district, for the area of
roofs and yards is about 70 per cent, of the total. Such a
system would not be a separate system at all, but would
consist of a combined system from which a portion of the
surface water had been removed, namely, 30 per cent, and a
surface drainage system carrying that 30 per cent.
To provide a separate system by means of a surface drain
on each side of the street would bring the cost per acre to
probably f 1,500, and -would also put the owners of all the
buildings to the expense of making an additional connection
with the surface drain for roof and yard water and such
changes in their internal system of drainage as would be
required to convey the storm water from the back portions of
the estates to the surface drains instead of the sewer in the
street. This double system of surface drains would be
necessary, probably, throughout the business section of the
city. The total cost of separating the existing systems
throughout the thirteen square miles of main drainage terri-
tory may be estimated at about $6,000,000. This may be
regarded as equivalent to a perpetual interest expenditure of
202 City Document No. 40.
$240,000 per annum. It is therefore apparent that this
division is not justified in undertaking the separation of the
entire sj^stem, but there are sanitary reasons wliich will
justify the separation of a portion of the system, namely,
those portions of the system, the overflows from which take
place into the two partially landlocked bodies of salt water —
the Charles river basin and the South Bay.
Overflows becoming more and more frequent, and at the
same time carrying a larger percentage of sewage in the
storm water at each overflow as time goes od, will become
at last intolerable, because they will tend to convert these
two bodies of water into sewage pools. Overflows into the
Charles river basin are objectionable, even now in its present
condition, and will be more objectionable in the future if any
scheme of damming the river to produce a water park is
carried out, as seems likely to take place in the course of
time. Overflows into the South bay are and always will be
objectionable, because there is no current to produce a change
in the volume of the water of the bay.
It therefore seems necessary to plan for a systematic pro-
gressive separation of the sewer systems of the main drain-
age territory south of Dover street, and of the systems which
overflow into the Charles river basin south of Craigie's
bridge, and the South Boston systems finding an overflow
outlet at B and Seventh street. This process of separation
should be begun now and carried on at such a rate as will
insure its completion before the time when the main drainage
system becomes overcrowded again from the natural growth
of population, say in 1920, assuming that the system will
have reached the limit of its capacity in 1934.
This programme includes the separation of the system
throughout the Stony brook valley, and also Dorchester brook
valley. On the Dorchester water front sewer overflows are
not particularly more objectionable than around the city
proper, but as the sewer systems in these large valleys are
entirely too small to carry storm water, relief storm sewers
and large surface drains are in process of construction in
many of these drainage areas. The case differs from that of
the city proper, where the sewers are in general large enough.
Of course, where these relief sewers must be built to provide
adequate capacity, the rational thing to do is to build them
in the form of storm-water conduits, leaving the old sewers
to perform the duty of carrying house sewage. In this way
this system would naturally be developed into a separate one,
not because it is absolutely necessary, but because it is the
most desirable way to augment the capacity of the sewer
svstem.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 203
To summarize, the programme is as follows :
To build the high level branch intercepting sewers and
inaugurate a separate system throughout the high level or
south metropolitan territory.
To inaugurate and carry to completion at or about 1920
the separation of the existing combined system in the
low level or main drainage territory naturally tributary to
the Charles river basin and the South bay, including the
valleys of Stony brook and Dorchester brook and the eastern
part of South Boston territory having its storm water outlet
at B and Seventh streets.
Also to separate the system of those drainage areas on the
Dorchester water front where large surface drains have been
found necessary to supplement the capacity of the sewer sys-
tem. This includes the valleys of the Crescent avenue
brook, Freeport street brook, Tenean creek, Pine Neck creek
and Davenport brook.
To allow forever to remain upon the combined system the
remaining territory of the city proper and South Boston.
Charlestown and East Boston have not been involved in
this discussion, as they are tributary to the North Metro-
politan system, but in order to complete the programme may
now be considered. The same principles apply here as else-
where. The sewers of Charlestown and East Boston are
large enough in general, and therefore extensive rebuildings
are- not necessary. Overflows from the combined system are
not particularly objectionable, and they may therefore be
allowed to remain upon the combined system, with the excep-
tion of the Breed's Island territory. As this is in process of
development there is no reason why it should not be
developed upon the separate instead of the combined system.
A general statement of the most important work done by
the division during the year, accompanied by recommenda-
tions as to the work required in the immediate future, is
given in the succeeding pages and is classified according to
districts.
South Boston.
There have been built in this district during the past year
9,997.01 linear feet of pipe sewer, 1,070.17 linear feet of
brick sewer, and 931.14 linear feet of pipe surface drain,
making a total of 11,998.32 linear feet, or 2.272 miles.
The principal works completed are :
D street, from West Second street to Broadway. This
sewer was badly broken down and of insufficient capacity.
B street, between West Fourth and Silver street. This
204 - City Document No. 40.
sewer was built to provide an outlet for the sewer in Silver
street.
Silvei* street, from B street to D street. This sewer was
an old dilapidated wooden sewer built many years ago, and
has been replaced with 18-inch pipe.
West Seventh street, from B street to D street. This
sewer was built of wood and having broken down in several
places, is now being replaced with a 4-ft. brick conduit.
This is the main trunk sewer for a large district, and is built
with a view to the future development of this district.
Tudor street, from C street to D street. This sewer was
badly needed, as the old one, a wooden and pipe sewer, was
in very bad condition.
Sewers and drains have also been built in East First
street, between L street and P street; Columbia road, between
G street and H street ; Ninth and L streets.
Leeds street and Dixfield street have been built " under
the 323 Act," and private parties have built sewers in
Melcher, Swallow, Stillings, K and Midway streets. Contract
has been let for sewer in Bowen street, construction on
which has not been started.
Recommendations.
D street, from Dorchester avenue to Seventh street. This
sewer is too small, is badly settled, greatly overcharged in
time of storms and should be rebuilt at a greater depth, of
larger size and on a pile foundation.
Athens street, from D street to E street.
Mitchell street, from Ninth street to the railroad. This
sewer is broken down and stopped up and is the cause of
many complaints.
F street, from West First street to West Second street.
This is a single ring brick sewer, and is in very poor con-
dition.
ROXBUHY.
There have been built in this district during the past
year, 13,460.26 linear feet of pipe sewer; 1,427.19 linear feet
of brick sewer; 4,902.13 linear feet of pipe surface drain;
4,316.76 linear feet of brick surface drain — making a total
of 24,106.34 linear feet, or 4.56 miles.
The principals works completed are :
Brookline avenue, Longwood entrance to Riverway. In
this avenue all sewerage works necessary under chapter 323
of the Acts of 1891 were constructed and included in the
system are surface water outlets for the Vila street and
Street Department — Sewer Division. 205
Francis street districts. This system built in Brookline
avenue therefore furnislied the beginning for the separation
of tlie sewer system throughout this territory.
Smith street district. A surface drain for this district has
been built in Smith street, from Stony brook channel in Parker
street to Whitney street, and in Whitney street from Smith,
street to Tremont street, and is now being built in Tremont
street, between Whitney street and St. Alphonsus street.
The work now done in this district has already demonstrated
its ability to relieve the district. Last fall during heavy
rainfalls the cellars were dry that had been flooded for years
by less severe storms. Surface drains should be constructed
in the lower part of this district, that is, around Longwood
avenue and Ward street.
Ruthven street, surface drainage. This included the
building of a 3 foot 9 inches brick drain in Walnut avenue,
Ruthven street and Humboldt avenue, and has entirely
abated the extensive flooding which frequently took place at
the corner of Humboldt avenue and Ruthven street.
George street, from Rockford street to Clarence street.
Here a 12-inch pipe sewer, totally inadequate to carry the
heavy flow, has been replaced with a 24-incli pipe, laid at
a greater depth, thereby abating a long standing nuisance.
Burnham, Southampton and Atkinson streets. This work
has been started, being the main trunk sewer for the so-called
" Swett street district."
Humboldt avenue, from Waumbeck street to Harrishof
street. This has been built through solid ledge, and will
serve to take the surface water which has always been a
nuisance at this location.
Ritchie street and private land, between Columbus avenue
and Marcella street. This sewer has been completed and
h.as provided an adequate outlet for the overcrowded sewers
in the vicinity of Washington and Kingsbury streets.
Recommendations.
Vila street district. The outlet for this district in Brook-
line avenue has been constructed. The part between Brook-
line avenue and Vila street can now be built. On account
of the low grade of the land the street should be filled before
sewers are constructed. This server will act as an overflow
for the Vila street sewer, which now has no outlet when the
regulator of the Metropolitan sewer is closed, and as outlet
for the catch-basins when the surface drain system for the
district is completed.
206 City Document No. 40.
Fenway lands. The surface drains of this district are
still discharging on to the private land as mentioned in last
year's report. Nothing can be done in this district until the
Jersey street system is built.
Muddy river. Nothing has been done to the wooden con-
duit in Brookline avenue, although it is in very poor
condition, the arch being held up for a length of about 600
feet by wooden braces. If this conduit, which is 9 feet by 11
feet, built of wood, with a concrete arch, should collapse
a dangerous hole would be made in the avenue.
Francis street district. The building of the surface drains
in Brookline avenue have provided an outlet for surface
water of this district. A start has been made towards chang-
ing this district to the separate system. Now that the outlet
sewers are in, it should be done as soon as possible as the
storm flow at present has to pass through a small pipe across
the Muddy river into the Brookline sewer. When the district
around Kenwood road is built up it is sure to be flooded by
the surface water from the hill above Francis street, unless
the catch-basins are connected with the surface drains.
Hammond street. This sewer is too small to carry the
flow, and too high to properly drain the cellars.
Ruggles street district, comprising Warwick, Westminster
and Cabot streets, should be rebuilt of a larger size and at a
lower grade.
Cottage terrace, Marshfield street, Coventry street and
Davenport street. These are old sewers built by private
parties, and are badly sunken in places, too high and badly
out of line and grade.
Elmwood street overflow. This is needed as a relief for
the overcrowded trunk sewer in this district.
Fenner street surface drain. This is needed to complete
the Ruthven street drainage system, and to relieve the flood-
ing which is bound to occur on Cobden street.
Private land between Marcella street and Beech Glen
street. This is needed as an outlet for the storm water on
Beech Glen street, which now runs on to private land.
Renfrew street. Too high, and in general bad condition.
Ritchie street and Winthrop street. Already ordered built
« under chapter 323 of the Acts of 1891."
Sewers should also be built in the following streets :
Mountfort street, Blandford street, Cummington street,
Jersey street, Newland street, between West Newton and
West Brookline streets, Queensbury street and Fisher avenue.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 207
Dorchester.
There have been built in this district during the past year
25,313.78 linear feet of pipe sewer and drain, 163 linear feet
of brick sewer, 17,637.31 linear feet of pipe surface drain,
6,994.72 linear feet of brick surface drain, making a total of
50,008.81 linear feet, or 9.47 miles.
The principal works completed are :
Hancock street, from Columbia road to Winter street.
This street has been widened to sixty feet, and has called for
an immense amount of sewers and surface drains.
Freeport-street brook. This drain, when completed, will
serve as an outlet for the large amount of surface water
coming from Hancock street and Columbia road, and will
abate the flooding which has occurred so long in Rill, Trull
and Howe streets.
The Dorchester intercepting sewer at the junction of
Dorchester avenue and Freeport street has been rebuilt for a
distance of 187 feet. This was done at considerable trouble
and cost, owing to the fact that the flow from the entire
Dorchester district had to be maintained while the work was
in progress.
Columbia road, at the crossing of the Midland Division of
the N. Y., N. H. & H. E.R. This system had been at a stand-
still for some time, owing to the uncompleted railroad bridge
at this point, but was put in first-class condition during the
past year.
York and Glenway streets. This 30-inch brick drain has
relieved a well-improved residential district from the flooding
which occurred after nearly every storm.
Tenean creek, Geneva avenue to Marlowe street, started.
Avondale place. A house sewer to connect with the
Dorchester Lower Mills trunk sewer in private land be-
tween Dorchester avenue and Washington street, south of
Codman street, and a surface or catch-basin drain to empty
into Davenport brook, are under construction. When com-
pleted and in use they will relieve a small district, which
has been the subject of a number of communications from the
Board of Health.
In Bismarck street, Mattapan, on each side of Oakland
street, a large stone conduit has been built for a part of
Oakland brook, the course of which it was necessary to
change on account of the work attending the elimination
of the grade crossings on the Midland Division of the N.Y.,
N. H. & H. R.R. This work was done in connection with
the building of a culvert across Oakland street by the con-
208 City Document No. 40.
tractor for the railroad company, and should be extended
down stream.
On Blue Hill avenue, between Walk Hill street and the
Neponset river, the sewerage works have been continued and
are nearly completed.
The house sewers between River street and the railroad,
just north of Fremont street, are all done; between the rail-
road and Walk Hill street work is now in progress.
The conduit for Mattapan brook has been finished from
the Neponset river to a point north and east of Blue Hill
avenue and Fremont street.
A little work on catch-basin drains between Fremont street
and the railroad remains to be done. Between the railroad
crossing and Walk Hill street considerable catch-basin drain
work remains to be done on the west side of the avenue.
On Bushnell street, Ashmont, between Van Winkle street
and Peabody square, a catch-basin drain tributary to Daven-
port brook was built, which will relieve in some degree a
house sewer which was so overcrowded with surface water
that cellars of houses connected with it were flooded after
every rain storm.
Canterbury branch of Stony brook. Considerable work
has been done for the permanent improvement of this brook
during the year. A tributary of it, known as the Wentworth
street branch, has had built on it a large pipe structure with
manholes and catch-basins appurtenant in Norfolk street,
between Bernard and Wentworth streets ; in Wentworth
street, between Norfolk and Torrey streets ; and in Torrey
street, between Wentworth and Withington streets.
A short section of brick conduit on the Oakland Garden
fork remains unbuilt in Millet street and Wheatland avenue,
the plans for which are ready.
A catch-basin drain tributary to it is being built in Wheat-
land avenue, Whitfield street and West Tremlett street,
formerly Clarence place.
The lower end of the Oakland Garden fork is very near
completion in Franklin field, a small part remaining unbuilt
on account of the drainage ditch, which remains in service
until the completion of the new proposed conduit near
Talbot avenue, between Blue Hill avenue and Nightingale
street.
The main channel of Canterbury branch has been having
built for it a conduit varying in diameter from 10 feet to 4
feet 9 inches, extending through the field from Lyons street
to Kingsdale street, and thence in the existing drainage ditch
to the culvert near Blue Hill avenue and Harvard street.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 209
A long stretch of open ditch has been dug for another trib-
utary of this branch near the corner of Morton street and
Norfolk street, proposed Board of Survey streets being util-
ized as far as possible, so that in future, when the streets are
laid out, permanent catch-basin drains can be put in at a very
small additional cost.
On Capen street, between Preston and Green Hill streets,
a house sewer was built with the necessary outlet in Mill
and Preston streets to the Dorchester intercepting sewer near
Houghton street.
' River street, between Washington street and Idaho street.
Work has been commenced on house sewers and catch-basin
drains in River street, between Washington and Idaho
streets, the Board of Health having for a number of years
called attention to the unfavorable state of affairs in the
vicinity.
The outlet for the catch-basin drain will be into the
Neponset river, by way of Central avenue and the Metropol-
itan Park Reservation, the lower part of the system being a
30-inch pipe structure, which should be continued through
Sturbridge street and beyond.
Torrey street, between Wentworth and Washington streets.
Sewerage works are completed in Torrey street, between
Wentworth and Washington streets. In the accomplishment
of this there was built in Wentworth street, between Nor-
folk street and Torrey street, a small part of the conduit
which was necessary in the improvement of the Wentworth
street tributary of the Oakland Garden fork of the Canter-
bury branch of Stony brook.
West Selden street, from Morton street to Manchester
street. The surface drainage structures in this street were
built this year. This included a section of the Mattapan
brook conduit.
Recommendations.
• Dakota street, Faystone street, Vinson street, Wayland
street and Bird street, " 323 " streets ordered but not- yet
built, should be constructed in the near future.
Crescent avenue brook, from Shoreham street to Crescent
avenue. This will take the surface water from the Crescent
avenue district and abate the flooding on Spring Garden
street and other streets in this vicinity.
Freeport street brook, from Hancock street to Dorchester
avenue. This is needed as an outlet for surface drains in
Hancock street and private land, and serves as an overflow
for the overcrowded sewers in this district.
210 City Document No. 40.
Harvard street district. Considerable surface drainage
will have to be undertaken here to relieve the Talbot avenue
main trunk sewer, which has caused so much trouble by
flooding in the recent past. This work includes the build-
ing of a brick drain in Harvard street, from Blue Hill ave-
nue to Wales street, and one in private land, from Talbot
avenue to Blue Hill avenue, together with pipe drains in
adjoining streets.
Private land between Westville street and Homes avenue.
This is made necessary by the large amount of surface water
brought down from Hamilton street and Draper street, which
have no outlet, overflowing private land and causing consid-
erable damage to private estates.
Surface drains are also needed in Normandy street ex-
tension and in private land between Hancock street and
Hendry street, formerly Draper court.
Davenport brook. A small piece of conduit was built at
Bailey street and Burt street in continuation of what was
built last year.
The improvement of this brook should be continued, as it
is the subject of numerous complaints, on account of stag-
nant water in cellars and lots, and deep pools along the
channel being a menace to life and health.
There remain to be built between the part built in Van
Wmkle street about three years ago, and the part built in
Bailey street about two years ago, about 1,320 linear feet in
private land, Dorchester avenue, Fuller street and Hillside
terrace. The takings have been made and plans are ready
for this work.
To continue the improvement between Burt street and
Washington street, near Armadine street, calls for 1,040 lin-
ear feet of structure. The channel should be deepened
below Magdala street, as there is now a piece of conduit at
the lower end of which the water is nearly three feet deep
at times.
Below Adams street the bed should be deepened, and
thereby relieve a deep pool which has been complained of by
residents in the vicinity.
Mattapan brook. Permanent connection has been made
with the Neponset river at Blue Hill avenue bridge. The
conduit has been built from Fremont street along Blue Hill
avenue, and through land of private parties and the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, to a point between
Blue Hill avenue and Norfolk street. Above this point
there remain 3,375 linear feet to be done to close the gap
now remaining open to a 4-foot 3-inch conduit, built last year
Street Depaetment — Sewer Division. 211
in West S el don street and private land near Morton street.
The bed of the brook has been deepened below the conduit
to a point near Delhi street.
Oakland brook, on River street, Mattapan, near Hyde
Park. Plans have been made and contract let for the build-
ing of a small part of a section of the Oakland brook 'conduit
across River sti'eet, near Hyde Park. The culvert across
River street, which will be eliminated by this work, is an old
stone culvert, in bad condition.
Tenean creek, or Smelt brook. In the work which was
done in Wainwright street, between Centre street and Welles
avenue, under the " 323 Act," the necessary conduit was built
for that part of Tenean creek, or Smelt brook, which was
called for. This should be extended to Centre street, near
Seaborn street, in the taking which was made some years ago.
Conduits on the branches of this brook should be built in
Rosemont road,* northeast, and in Adams street, between
King street and Lonsdale street, and in Florida-street exten-
sion, between Wrentham street and Ashmont street.
West Roxbury.
There have been built in this district during the past year
12,784.09 linear feet of pipe sewer, 6,569.12 linear feet of
pipe surface drain, 485.71 linear feet of brick surface drain,
399.10 linear feet of wood surface drain, making a total of
20,238.02 linear feet, or 3.83 miles.
The principal works completed are :
The most important work has been the building of surface
drains in Clement avenue, Stratford avenue and Park street,
from New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad to Anawan
avenue.
The building of sewerage works in Forest Hills street,
between Washington street and Glen road. A conduit for
Kirk-street brook in private land in Centre and Montview
streets. The rebuilding of the culverts under La Grange
street, near Weld street, and under Weld street, near La
Grange street, and the completion of Goldsmith brook con-
duit in Centre street and Joseph street to connect with park
conduit at Woodman street. Sewerage works in Spring
street, between Gardner and Centre streets, were partially
completed, the house sewer being entirely finished, the sur-
face drain, catch-basin and house drains remaining to be done.
Work in Walter and Centre streets is in progress.
212 City Document No. 40.
Recommendations.
For the coming je&v it would be very desirable to build
culverts for the Roslindale branch of Stony brook, and
deepen and improve the open brook from Cohasset street up
as far as Central station. This is necessitated by the fact
that, owing to the small size of the culverts and the shallow-
ness of the brook, it overflows at every rain, and floods many
cellars along its course.
A sewer is badly needed in Summer street, between Powell
street and the summit, with an outlet in Powell street to
Spring street.
It is likewise desirable to build a sewer in Montclair ave-
nue, and surface drain in Boy Is ton and Lamartine streets, to
relieve the congested condition of the sewers hi time of
storm.
■ Surface drains should be built in the Mt. Hope district, so
called.
Chaelestov^n.
There have been built in this district during the past year
2,458.47 linear feet of pipe sewer, and 2,234.74 linear feet
of pipe surface drain, making a total of 4,693.21 linear feet,
o.r 0.89 mile.
The principal Avorks completed are :
Surface drains and catch-basins built in Alford street,
between the Mystic river and Everett line.
The old and leaky sewer in Frothingham avenue, between
Main street and Rutherford avenue, has been rebuilt, and the
sewer laid in Mead street, between Russell and Bunker Hill
streets. In Prescott street, between Main and Washington
streets, the old defective sewer has been rebuilt.
The sewerage works in Roland street, between the Boston
& Maine Railroad and Somerville line, have been begun.
Recommendations.
For the ensuing year it is desirable to rebuild the sewers
in the Beacham-street district, and make the necessary con-
nections with the Metropolitan sewers. These sewers will be
on the separate system. The connection with the Metropoli-
tan sewer at Warren avenue should be made, and the tide-
gate chamber and overflow built ; this was not done at the
time the Charles River avenue connection was made, as the
Charles River avenue bridge at that time was not completed.
Ifc will probably be necessary to close the Warren avenue
bridsre to team or car traflic for at least two weeks while this
woik is going on, and it may require a month.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 213
The Rutherford avenue sewer sliould. be rebuilt from
Cambridge street to outlet near Dunstable street, as well as
the sewers in Tibbett's Town Way and Tufts street.
East Boston.
There have been built in this district during the past year
4,967.64 linear feet of pipe sewer; 62 linear feet of brick
sewer; 1,390.87 linear feet of pipe surface drain; 361 linear
feet of wood sewer, and 159.25 linear feet of wood surface
drain — making a total of 6,940.76 linear feet, or 1.31 miles.
The principal works completed are:
The Putnam street outlet has been rebuilt, thus relieving
the residents of this locality from a great nuisance. This
matter had been agitated for several years.
Sewers, surface drains, catch-basin drains, house drains
and catch-basins have been built on the north side of
Bennington-street boulevard, between the Boston & Maine
Railroad and sluiceway, near Trumbull street; also the
culvert rebuilt under the boulevard near the Revere line.
Marginal street sewer, between Ruth street and a point
400 feet westerly, concerning which many complaints were
received, has been rebuilt, and is now in a satisfactory
condition.
The sewer for Walley street and Farrington street, between
Gladstone street and Orient avenue, has been started and
work is now progressing as rapidly as the weather will
permit.
Recommendations.
During the coming year it would be very desirable to
continue the sewer in Farrington street, from Orient avenue
to a point about 2,000 feet westerly, as the ground is saturated
with sewage and the condition dangerous to the health of the
residents.
The East Boston Ioav level sewer should be started, part of
which will be in the Bennington-street boulevard. This will
drain the low lands on Breed's Island, which stand little
chance of being developed until this sewer is built. It will
also be the outlet for an intercepting sewer, which must in
the near future be built to intercept the sewage of the
easterly end of East Boston. The sewage now flows into
the harbor from some four outlets, no provision for inter-
cepting it having been made by the Metropolitan Sewerage
Commissioners.
An intercepting sewer should also be built from Eagle
square, along the Chelsea creek shore of East. Boston to
214 City Document No. 40.
intercept Putnam street and Glenclon-street sewers. On the
map, accompanying tliis report, tlie sewered, but unintercepted
portion of East Boston is shown by buff hatcliing. This
territory is all sewered on the combined system, and the dry
weather flow is still being delivered continuously upon the
flats and shores of East Boston, and the city is paying to the
State its assessment for the pumping of this sewage without
securing the benefit.
Bkighton.
There have been built in tliis district during the past year
8,195.04 linear feet of pipe sewer; 778.52 linear feet of pipe
surface drain ; and 1,133.39 linear feet of brick surface drain —
making a total of 10,106.95 linear feet, or 1.91 miles.
The principal works completed are as follows :
The most important work has been the building of the
Faneuil valley brook conduit practically along the natural
course of the brook, from Parsons street to Faneuil streets;
size, 11 feet by 9 feet.
Sewer in Summit avenue and Allston street, nearly all of
which was in rock.
Sewerage works in Brooks street, between Boston & Albany
Railroad and Holton street. These were necessitated by the
depression of the street under the railroad and its extension
across the Metropolitan parkway lands to North Beacon
street. The sewer in AVarren street, from Allston street to
Brookline line has been built.
Recommendations.
During the coming year it is desirable to build a conduit
for what is known as Shepard brook, between Wool pond and
Shannon street ; also the easterly branch of this brook, from
Charles river to Everett street. Both of these will be brick
structures of large size^ and their construction would relieve
the sewers which are much overcrowded in time of storm and
prevent the flooding of cellars, which very frequently occurs
in the water-shed of these brooks. The brooks themselves
have in many places been taken into the sewers where they
cross streets, and much of their original bed totally obliterated.
An outlet for the Faneuil valley and Shepard-street brooks
is at present a 4 feet by 5 feet stone culvert, running under-
neath the northeasterly abutment of the iron bridge on North
Beacon street, and thence to the river by a wooden box cul-
vert, both being much too small for the duty required of them.
Already fioodings of the street have occurred under this
bridge several feet in depth, and whatever work is done on
Street Department — Sewer Division. 215
either of the brooks above mentioned will increase the severity
of these floods.
The time has arrived when the building of the outlet to
Charles river must be prosecuted. This will be a very diffi-
cult work, the conduit being of large size (12-foot circular or
its equivalent), and the route being either through the high
railroad embankment, or in North Beacon street under the
bridge. Careful explorations of the nature of the ground and
estimates by each of these lines will have to be made in order
to decide upon which is the least objectionable.
The Salt creek conduit should be completed, and a begin-
ning at least made on surface drains in the Aberdeen dis-
trict.
City Proper.
There have been built in this district during the past year,
3,882.49 linear feet of pipe sewer and 2,241.49 linear feet of
brick sewer — making a total of 6,123.98 linear feet, or 1.16
miles.
The principal works completed are :
India street, between Custom House street and Central
street. In this street an old wooden sewer of large size
finally became so decayed as to break down, and there was
much complaint of floodings of cellars from sewage leaking
through the walls. The sewer was rebuilt in India street,
between Central street and Custom House street. There
are many sewers of the same kind in this vicinity, and the
rebuilding of the India street sewer furnishes a starting point
for rebuilding this system.
A large number of public alleys were put in condition, as
far as sewerage works were concerned, on the basis of 323
streets, that is, everything that it was foreseen would ever be
required was put in, including house sewers and catch-basins,
the work being done before the alleys were surfaced. The pub-
lic alleys on which work was done as above described are as
follows : Nos. 414, 415, 416, 417, 418, 422, 423, 424, 426,
427, 428, 429, 430, 433, 434, 435, 436, 438, 440, 441, 442,
443, 444, 502,503, 706.
Recommendation s .
Church street district. The outlet for the Church street
district sewer should be rebuilt of a larger size. Charles
street has been flooded over one foot deep, between Beacon
and Boylston street, the flood extending into the Common
and Public Garden for several hundred feet. This has hap-
pened a number of times.
216 City Document No. 40.
State street. Sewers in State street, between India and
Wasliington streets, will be destroyed by the East Boston tun-
nel. They will be replaced by sewers on each side of the
street, the work being done by the Transit Commission. As
the subway will probably pass through Court street at a high
elevation, the sewer will have to be rebuilt on each side of the
street, and the one on the southerly side will be taken into
the State street system, thereby increasing the size of the
sewer on that side of the street. The sewer on the north
side can run into Washington street, as it now does. Sewers
on the line of the subway that are to be rebuilt should be
lowered where possible, as nearly all new buildings in the
business part of the city are making the cellars much deeper
than in the past. They therefore should have a deeper sewer
where one is rebuilt, provided the outlet is at such a grade as
to permit.
With this object in view, when the Canal street relief sewer
was built in Commercial street, across State street, the bull's-
eye for State street sewer was placed as low as possible. The
Transit Commission is rebuilding the sewer in State street at
India street around a shaft which is to be a permanent
structure. The sewer is being placed on a lower grade, and
sewage will rise temporarily into the present sewer just be-
low the shaft. After the tunnel is built to the shaft this
division should rebuild the sewer from where the commission
leaves it to the bull's-eye on the Canal street relief sewer.
Kneeland street. The sewer in Kneeland street, between
Utica and South streets, was built in 1900 at a low grade,
and turned temporarily into the South street sewer, which is
higher than the Kneeland street sewer, with the intention of
shortly carrying it on to the sewer in the railroad yard at
Atlantic avenue which connects with the intercepting sewer.
This work, however, has not been done, but should be, as there
must be a large amount of sludge depositing in the sewer.
Norman street. When the sewer in Green street, between
Staniford and Norman streets, was built, a house drain near
Norman street was encountered which was too low to be
taken into the sew^er. It was decided to drop the grade at
that point and run into the Norman street sewer. Large
pipes were found to be in the way, and as there was no time
to move them without delaying the work of the Paving
Division and the Boston Elevated Railway, it was decided to
run under these f)ipes and let the sewage rise in the Norman
street pipe sewer until such time as the sewer could be
extended to the brick sewer in Norman street.
Prospect and South Margin streets. The sewer in South
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Margin street is broken down where it crosses Staniford
street. It has been temporarily repaired, but is in danger of
stopping up at any time. This sewer discharges into the
Prospect street sewer, which is also in bad cor.dition between
South Margin street and Lowell street.
Traverse street. Sewer in Traverse street, between Canal
street and Portland street, is being rebuilt. It is completed
to near Friend street. The new sewer will be about three
feet lower than the present one, and will furnish a much-
needed improvement in the outlet for the sewers which run
into it at Portland street.
Beverly street overflow. It was suggested in last year's
report that the Beverly street overflow be reopened, a short
piece of sewer and a pair of tide gates being needed to put
this outlet in commission. This is very desirable, as the
outlets at the North Station, Clinton street and Central
street are not sufficient for this large flat district.. As the
district is covered with business houses the floodings are
especially disastrous.
Buckingham street. The sewer in Buckingham street is
badly settled, and should be rebuilt. There- is no way of
providing an outlet for the sewer low enough to drain the
present cellars without going to an expense out of proportion
to the necessity. A good sewer can be built and run into
the Columbus avenue sewer which would drain cellars at
grade 12, but will not drain cellars on the street that are
down to grade 8.50.
Wall and Cotting streets. The sewer in Wall street finds
an outlet through private land to the sewer in Lowell street.
This sewer is broken down and frequently causes trouble.
The part through private land should be abandoned and sewer
built in Wall street and Cotting street to connect with the
Lowell street sewer.
Sewers should be rebuilt in the following streets :
Salem street, Brigliton street. Barton street, Essex: street
(between. Kingston and Chauncy), Thacher street (Wash-
ington street, north, to Endicott street), Endicott street
(Thacher to Cooper street).
Main Drainage Works.
These works consist of the main and intercepting sewers
throughout the city, including overflows and tide-gates, the
pumping station and deposit sewers at the Calf pasture,
Dorchester, the reservoir and outfall and discharge sewers at
Moon Island, and the pumping statioji at Lyons street.
218
City Document No. 40.
Dorchester. The care and maintenance of the above, with
that of the channels of Stony brook, comprise the work of
this branch of the Sewer Division.
Main and Intercepting Sewers.
The care of main and intercepting sewers consists of the
building, repairing and cleaning of all tide-gates, sumps,
overflows and regulators, connected with the Metropolitan
sewer in Brighton, East Boston, Charlestown and Dorchester.
The building, repairing and cleaning of all gates, regu-
lators, overflows and sumps connected with the main sewer,
east side, west side, Stony brook, Roxbury canal, and
Dorchester interceptors.
The cleaning of the main sewer and all interceptors in the
city proper, with the repairs of all manholes and coverings.
The following is the number of regulators, gates, sumps
and overflows to be cared for :
Gates.
Regulators.
Sumps.
Overflows.
Brighton
40
24
34
213
16
9
15
21
17
1]
16
67
20
Charlestown
11
East Boston
19
City proper, inchiding South
Boston and Dorchester. . .
101
311
61
111
151
These gates, regulators, sumps and overflows must be in-
spected and cleaned after each storm or heavy rise of sewage.
The length of sewers to be inspected and attended to in
the city proper is twenty-four miles.
The following is an account of the work done during the
year :
Sewers cleaned, 2 miles ; connections built, 7 ; vapor tide-
gates built, 16; regulators repaired, 43; tide-gates repaired,
128 ; flushing gates repaired, 4 ; manholes repaired, 91 ;
sumps repaired, 21 ; manhole steps put in, 145 ; tide-gates
cleaned, 5,228 ; regulators cleaned, 2,764 ; overflows cleaned,
336, and sumps cleaned, 4,235.
The work in Stony brook district consists of cleaning the
covered channel from Back Bay fens to Green street, Jamaica
Plain, with repairs of all manholes, coverings and overflows
on this section.
The cleaning of the open channel from Green street,
Jamaica Plain, to the Hyde Park line, the care of the banks
Street Department — Sewer Division. 219
on both sides of this channel, and repairs of fences and stone
walls along this section of the brook.
The cleaning of the old overflow channel, from the
premises of the Boston Belting Company down-stream to the
Back Bay fens, with the care of all overflows and repair of
fences and stone wails on this channel. The total length of
water-conrse to be cared for is six and one-fourth miles.
The following is an account of work done in this district
during the past year :
Number of cubic yards of wall rebuilt . . .390
Number of cubic yards of wall repaired . . . 15
Number of square feet of fence built - . . . 1,320
•Number of overflows cleaned . . . ' . . 400
An inspection of the open channel was made after each
storm.
PuMPiKG Station. — Calf Pasture.
At this point the sewage is lifted up by the pumps about
36 feet and settled in the deposit sewers before flowing
through the tunnel under Dorchester bay to Moon Island.
The following repairs and alterations were made during
the year :
New steam chests on the high pressure of Nos. 1 and 2
pumps.
New brass sleeves on plunger rods of Nos. 1 and 2 pumps.
Two new composition valve frames on Nos. 1 and 2 pumps.
New cylinders on valve motion of Nos. 3 and 4 pumps.
New railing on oiling galleries of Nos. 3 and 4 pumps.
Renewals on and new stop-valves for main steam-piping.
General repairs on piping.
Repairs on salt-water pump of No. 1 pump.
Rotary pump for auxiliary salt water injection.
Turning of exhaust from all jackets into new receiver,
and new pump to foK3e same to heater.
A large amount of new work will have to be done here on
account of the new large pumping engine that will be deliv-
ered this season. It will be necessary to start construction
without delay on the necessary pump foundations. The main
building will have to be extended or space furnished else-
where to make room for a machine shop, stock-room, lavatories,
etc., as the space now occupied for these purposes is the location
for the new pump. Borings were made last April to deter-
mine the character of the subsoil on the site of the proposed
extension of the building.
A temporary machine shop will have to be erected for use
220 City Document No. 40.
while the alterations are going on. New boilers, carrying 1 85
pounds steam pressure, will have to be furnished to run the
new pump. The location of these boilers brings up a matter
which should not be deferred any longer, but settled at this
time. There is ho room in the boiler-house for additional
boilers, unless the location of the present boilers is changed.
These boilers have been in use, day and night, for nearly
twenty (20) years, and it has been necessary for some time
to make repairs repeatedly. The State Inspector has been
reducing the steam pressure from time to time, until now only
ninety pounds is allowed, which is insufficient to do the
work required. An}^ further reduction of the pressure will
practically throw the boilers out of commission.
In view of all the circumstances, and the question of the*
possible danger of using the boilers at all after so long ser-
vice, I would recommend that the old boilers be removed and
a new battery be installed sufficient to run the whole plant
when the new pump is. set up. Before doing this it will be
necessary to set up a temporary battery of boilers outside the
boiler-house to run the plant while the old boilers are being
removed and new ones put in.
New feed-water pumps and steam-piping will be necessary
on account of the extra steam pressure to be carried. An in-
crease in the capacity of the electric lighting will also be
necessary.
Before the new pump can be set up the pump-well gates
will have to be renewed. The iron in them has been so eaten
away by the action of the sewage in the many years since the
works were started that it would not be safe to depend on
them and have men working behind them in the galleries
setting up the new pump.
The cages at the filth hoist are rapidly going to pieces.
New ones will have to be put in as soon as possible.
There has been a day gang only for the whole season on
the removal of deposit from the deposit sewers. During the
times of a heavy flow in these sewers the work cannot go on
on account of the lack of head room, but during the period of
lower flow the extra accumulation can be readily handled.
The new return pipe from the sludge tank which was laid
last September, connecting the tank with the pump wells
instead of the west shaft, is a great improvement, and enables
the deposit to be removed with ease.
Lyons Street Pumping Station.
At this station there has been no special work outside of
the regular repairs and maintenance.
Street Department — Sewer Division. 221
Moon Island.
The outlet to the city's system is at this point. After
leaving the pumping station the sewage flows through the
tunnel under Dorchester bay and is received at the reservoirs
at the island, where it is held until the time of discharge.
The discharge takes place at a certain time of the ebb tide,
and as this time changes with each successive tide, it neces-
sitates some one on watch day and night who can attend to
the discharge of the sewer and later the flushing out of the
reservoir.
The extension of the reservoir necessitated a new method
of flushing after the discharge. This flushing is now done
from the side of the reservoir opjjosite the gate-house, and,
in order to enable the man on watch at the gate-house to do
the work, a system was installed whereby these gates could
be operated from the gate-house by means of compressed air
and electricity. The working of the system is perfectly
satisfactory, and the gate-man has perfect control in handling
the gates, although 1,500 feet away from this part of his
work. This method of handling the gates was installed and
the gate-houses over these gates were erected the past year.
The contract for sea-wall, wharf extension, boat-house and
grading will be finished some time the coming spring.
The following new construction or renewals should be
attended to as far as possible the coming season, viz.:
Paving of the slope on the easterly side of the island,
between the sea-wall at the northeasterly point of the island
and the reservoir. The storms continually eat into this
slope, causing it to fall at the top of the beach, and then
washing it away. This is the only portion of the shore
which is not at present protected with rip-rap or paving.
New fencing is needed around the reservoir; also, the
fencing along the roadway, on the embankment, from the
island to Squantum^ should be renewed. This fence was
constructed at the time the works were built, and is in such
condition that more or less of it is blown down with every
heavy storm.
A new stable and storehouse should be constructed as soon
as possible, as the old stable is not only unfit for the horses,
but is actually unsafe.
The relajang of salt-water mains for washing the reservoir
walls should be attended to.
The original rip-rap, for at least 1,000 feet in length on
the north side of the discharge sewer, should be relaid. The
continual storms have moved it to such an extent that when
222 City Document No. 40.
there is a severe storm there is liability of damage to the
discharge sewer embankment.
The average daily amount of sewage received at the
reservoir, Moon Island, from the pumping station, from
January 31, 1901, to February 1, 1902, was 85,649,000
gallons. For the corresponding period of the year 1900 the
average daily amount received was 75,292,000 gallons.
Stony Brook.
Construction work on the 15-foot 6-inch by 17-foot brick
conduit was stopped in September, 1900, at a point about
eighty feet north of the north line of Cornwall street, and
work was resumed May 10, 1901. The flow of the brook
was carried at that time through a temporary flume in Corn-
wall street to the 9-foot by 92-foot conduit in Boylston
avenue. Before carrying the work across Cornwall street, a
48-inch pipe was laid in Green street, connecting the double
stone channels in Green street and Brookside avenue with
the 9-foot by 9 2 -foot brick conduit in Green street, near the
corner of Brookside avenue, and the flow of the brook was
diverted at Green street into the brick conduit in Boylston
avenue. In the fall of 1901 the 48-inch pipe was replaced
by. a 9-foot wooden flume, in order to leave the channel in
safe condition for the floods in the coming winter. From
Cornwall street to Brookside avenue the line of the new
conduit followed very closely the bed of the brook. Near
Brookside avenue the work was of a very heavy and diflicult
character, the line being a succession of curves, the curve
passing between and partly under the buildings. The storm
of July 29, 1901, caused some little damage, washing out
sheeting and bracing, and bringing down one end of a stable
which abutted on the brook. The foundation of this stable
and also the foundations of three other buildings were
replaced in the progress of the work. This large brick
conduit carries on its easterly side a brick sewer, 2 feet wide
by 82 feet high, called in this office the West Roxbury low-
level sewer, for the purpose of afl^ording better drainage to
the low territory adjacent to Stony brook.
It is very desirable that the Stony brook conduit, together
with the West Roxburj^ low-level sewer, should be carried
through Jamaica Plain, at least as far as the Washington
street crossing, as in this vicinity there are many estates
which are very poorly served by the existing sewer system.
Surveys, borings and estimates are being made to find the
best line for the work south of Green street. Boring's show
Street Department — Sewer Division. 223
a deep bed of quick-sand near the corner of Brookside avenue
and Green street and extending southerly for a considerable
distance.
The pollution of the Fens ponds by the waters of Stony
brook is a subject which has been the cause of much com-
plaint and correspondence with the Park Department.
These ponds have now become practically pools of sewage,
a menace to public health and a common nuisance.
In order to explain how this deplorable state of things has
come about, it is necessary to review a little the history of
Stony brook and the Back Bay Fens park.
When this Parkway was planned, the fact was recognized
that the open waterway was a part of the chaniiel of Stony
brook and Muddy river, and that these two water courses
flowing through populous districts could not be expected to
run clear at all times, and that it was therefore an essential
feature of this kind of a park system to provide a covered
channel through which the flow of these water-courses could
be turned directly to Charles river without going through
the ornamental ponds whenever such flow was foul ; and
large covered channels were built for both Stony brook and
Muddy river. At that time the only channel of Stony brook
was the old channel, located in Bryant street and Parker
street. The gate chamber was built at this point, and
a 7-foot circular wooden conduit built from the gate chamber
to the river, and gates were so arranged that the flow of
Stony brook could be turned in either direction, as it might
be either clear or foul.
A similar arrangement was made on Brookline avenue at
the parkway, a gate chamber being built here of similar
design, and a 10-foot by 11-foot wooden conduit carried
down Brookline avenue and Deerfield street to the river.
These provisions were wise and answered their purpose
at the time, the large channel formed by the ponds furnish-
ing an ample outlet for the clear water of freshets, and the
covered channels being available for the foul flow caused by
small and moderate rainfalls.
When the Stony brook flood of 1886 occurred a commis-
sion was appointed by Mayor O'Brien in accordance with
the following order of the City Council :
February 15, 1886.
Ordered^ That His Honor the Mayor be requested to appoint a
commission of three persons, who shall examine the whole subject
of the surface drainage of the section of the city flooded during
the late storm, and see if a plan can be devised for preventing
such floods in the future ; the expense of such commission to be
paid from the appropriation for Incidentals.
224 City Document No. 40,
As the order only referi'ed to the prevention of floods, the
commission confined itself to that question and devised a
plan, which has been carried out since that date, in part, and
which is still in process of constrnctionj By this plan a new
route was selected for the channel of Stony brook, b&tween
the Roxbury crossing and the Fens ponds, and a new entrance
made near the crossing of Parker street and Huntington
avenue. No provision was made by this commission for any
foul-flow channel similar to the one with which the old chan-
nel had been furnished, nor did they touch upon this point
in their report. To the failure of the city to make this pro-
vision is due the present condition of the Fens ponds.
Stony brook is a stream having its rise in the town of
Hyde Park, and flowing through West Roxbury, Roxbury
and the Back Bay. In its upper reaches it drains large
areas of unsewered territory, but in its lower reaches flows
through a thickly-settled district. Comparatively few branch
surface drains have as yet been extended to take surface
water directly from the catch-basins to the main brook chan-
nel, the surface water being still conveyed to the brook
through the common sewers, and discharged into the brook
during rains by means of overflows. Of course, some sewage
is necessarily mingled with the storm water, and during light
and moderate rains the admixture of sewage is large com-
pared with the rain water.
Another circumstance which aggravates the condition of
things is that the main sewer in the Stony brook valley is
but little larger than is necessary to carry the dry-weather
flow, so that comparatively light rainfalls cause overflows of
but slightly diluted sewage into the brook.
The consequence of this state of affairs is that the Fens
ponds have been growing more and more foul year by year.
The water in the ponds is actually offensive in warm weather.
This is a disgrace to the City of Boston, and a foul blot
upon the otherwise beautiful park system. The condition
has become so bad that, unless some remedy is applied at
once, the whole chai;acter of this beautiful water park will
have to be changed, a covered channel provided for the
brook and the Fens filled in, thus sacrificing the distinctive
characteristic of this part of the park system, namely, that of
a water park. Even this cannot be done, in my opinion,
without incurring greater expense than by the plan which
will be presently outlined.
This state of things is nothing new. In 1898 the condi-
tion of the ponds had become so bad that this division went
to the expense of about $25,000 to partially cleanse them
STfiEET Department — Sewer Division. 225
by dredging out the largest deposits and flushing them out
through the seven-foot wooden channel previously referred to.
This, of course, was only a temporary amelioration of con-
ditions, and the ponds are now in as bad a state as they were
then.
The effect of these pools of sewage upon property in the
vicinity should also be considered. The Fenway lands are
naturally fitted to be developed into the finest residential
and hotel district in the City of Boston; but that develop-
ment is being retarded, and, in my opinion, will be held in
check indefinitely until the Fens ponds can be purified and
kept pure. It is inconceivable that any one will put
large sums of money into the building of residences or hotels
in this vicinity while the ponds remain in their present con-
dition, for it cannot be denied that they are actually a menace
to health.
The remedy is a simple one, but not inexpensive. It is to
provide the new channel of Stony brook with a foul-flow or
by-pass channel which will perform for it the same function
which the existing covered channels do for the old channel
of Stony brook and for Muddy river.
This ofhce has made a study of what it is desirable to
build, and has designed a twelve-foot by twelve-foot covered
channel for this purpose, with a gate-house to be located at
or near the terminus of the Commissioners' channel at the
• Huntington avenue entrance of the park and extending to
Charles river, substantially parallel with the existing seven-foot
channel which connects with the old Stony brook channel
at Bryant street. This channel will be large enough to carry
the flow of Stony brook during storms whose magnitude
does not amount to that of a freshet.
During freshets the flow of Stony brook is clear enough
to cause no nuisance in flowing through the open channel of
the Fens, and flows clear for such a long time after sewer
overflows cease that ij, will sweep out any offensive material
that may come down at the beginning of the freshet.
The gate-chamber is designed to be furnished with sluice-
gates operated by hydraulic rams, which will be set in motion
automatically when the flood in Stony brook reaches a given
height. These gates will therefore remain closed during all
except freshet times, and all ordinary flow of Stony brook
will be carried by the new channel directly to the river.
The cost of this channel, including the sluice gate-house,
is estimated at three hundred thousand (300,000) dollars.
The condition of the old channel of Stony brook, between
the gate-house at Bryant street and the premises of the
226 City Document No. 40.
Boston Belting Company, was fully discussed in last year's
report, and it is hardly necessary to add anything to what
was then said, except to mention the fact that this also is
a source of pollution to the Back Bay Fens. The foul flow
is, of course, turned through the 7-foot channel which was
provided for that purpose, as has been previously described,
but during floods large amounts of sewage sludge which had
been previously deposited in this channel, encumbered as it
is with interior bracing in many places to keep it from fall-
ing in, is necessarily carried over into the Fens ponds. It is
impossible to prevent this accumulation of foul matter in
this old stone channel, except by rebuilding the channel and
providing proper house sewers connecting with the intercept-
ing sewers to carry the drainage of the abutting estates
which are too low to drain into the existing sewer system.
The estimated cost of rebuilding this channel, together
with the pipe intercepting sewers on each side, is $302,000.
Tables and statements are appended showing the amount
of work done durmg the past year.
Entraistce Fees, Pbemits, and Assessments.
Entrance- fees to the amount of $3,505.27 have been col-
lected from estates upon which no sewer assessment was ever
paid, in accordance with chapter 38, section 10, of the
Revised Ordinances of 1898.
Bills for sewer assessments, amounting to $1,932, 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.
One thousand nine hundred and fifty-four (1,954) permits
have been issued to licensed drain-layers to make connections
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.
One thousand and sixty-six (1,066) permits have been,
issued to district formen 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 109,138 feet of sewers, costing 1805,788.75.
Respectfully,
Geoege Phillips,
Deputy Superintendent..
Street Department — Sewer Division.
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OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURES.
Street Department, Sewer Division.
Pumping station and Moon Island, $107,608 91
Towboats . . $$12,563 25
Less paid by Sanitary
Division . . 10,767 50
1,795 75
Main and intercepting sewers . 18,821 70
.28 226 36
Pumping Station, Lyons Street, Dorchester.
Maintenance . . . . . . . 8,240 07
Stony JBrooh.
Maintenance 6,760 00
Miscellaneous Maintenance Charges.
Office and engineering force, salaries and expenses, 1 1 ,083 1 7
Current expenses of yards
lockers, stables, etc.
Less amoimt earned by depart
ment teams and engines
$105,502 00
43,346 16
61,155 84
Repairing and cleaning catch-basins, sewers and
general repairs ...... 101,098 08
House connections, work for other departments,
incidental expenses, etc. . . . . 12,00763
Hardware, tools, rubber goods, etc. . . . 9,663 45
Telephones not included elsewhere . . . 1,481 26
$339,715 86
Increase in stock at yards . . . . 5,953 19
Transferred to Fire Department, $10,000 00
Transferred to Paving Division, 20,046 89
Transferred to Bridge Division, 41 45
Transferred to Street Cleaning
Division .... 205 08
Less paid by transfer $30,293 42
from Pubhc Build-
ings Department to
Sewer Division . $2,000 00
Less revenue received
from corporations . 962 47
■ 2,962 47
27,330 95
$373,000 00
Street Department — Sewer Divisioit.
229
Sewerage Works.
Pumping station and Moon Island
Seicer Construction.
South Boston
East Boston
Cliaiiestown
Brighton
West Roxbvu'y
Dorchester
Roxbiuy
City Proper
$68,937 02
12,724 52
8,709 01
43,214 06
59,590 58
151,931 80
94,466 55
85,128 18
Miscellaneous Construction Charges.
Office and engineering force, salaries and expenses,
Hardware, tools, rubber goods, damages .
New manholes ......
Sundries .......
Stony brook improvement, construction and
eno-ineering; ......
$148,596 41
524,701 72
98,545 16
. 2,574 88
2,716 35
4,641 17
102,155 44
,931 13
Lating-Out and Construction of Highways.
Sewer Construction.
Dorchester .
City Proper
t,382 05
115 97
Laying and Construction of Highways.
Chapter Jf.78 of the Acts 1900.
Office and sundries . . . ...
Sewer Construction,
South Boston
East Boston
Charlestown
Brighton
West Roxbury
Dorchester .
Roxbury
City Proper
$21,025 90
24,334 44
6,253 90
8,382 70
58,291 19
112,343 72
35,928 06
20,696 07
$4,498 02
.,187 49
287,255 98
,443 47
230 City Document No. 40.
Construction of Highways already laid out
$400,000 00
Charlestown
"West Roxbury
City Proper
Sewer Construction.
^2,133 77
8,688 38
4,479 71
.5,301 86
Recapitulation.
Street Department, Sewer Division .
Sewerage Works ......
Laying and Construction of Highways, chapter
478 of the Acts of 1900 ....
Construction of Highways already laid out,
$400,000
Laying Out and Construction of Highways
$345,669 05
883,931 13
308,443 47
15,301 86
4,498 02
1,557,843 53
Summary of Sewer Construction for the Twelve Months ending January
31, 1902.
District.
Builtby the
City by
Contract or
Day Labor.
Built by
Private
Parties.
Total length
built
during the
12 months
ending
Jan. 31, 1902.
City Proper . . .
East Boston. ..
Charlestown...
South Boston..
Roxbury
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Brighton
Total
Feet.
5,734 98
6,940 76
3,674 31
8,438 41
23,102 58
21,299 02
47,415 24
5,487 22
Feet.
389 00
1,018 90
3,.559 91
1,003 76
429 00
2,984 37
4,619 73
Feet.
6,123 98
6,940 76
4,693 21
11,998 32
24,106 34
21,728 02
50,399 61
10,106 95
122,092 52
14,004 67
136,097 19
Summary of Sewer Construction for five years previous to February 1, 1902.
1897.
1898.
1899.
1900.
1901.
Built by the City by con-
tract or day labor
Built by private parties. . .
Feet.
134,324 93
38,969 14
Feet.
203,139 68
9,325 99
Feet.
99,772 15
17,955 05
[Feet.
78,255 92
15,438 28
Feet.
122,092 52
14,004 ~67
Total number of feet built.
173,294 07
212,465 67
117,727 20
93,694 20
136,097 19
Street Department — Sewee Division. 231
Schedule of Sewers Built to Date in the City of Boston, February 1, 1902.
District.
Total length
built during
12 months
ending
Jan. 31, 1902.
Length rebuilt
and aban-
doned during
the 12 months
ending
Jan. 31, 1902.
Additional length for
12 months ending
Jan. 31, 1902.
City Proper
East Boston —
Charlestown
South Boston. ..
Roxbury
West Roxbury.
Dorchester
Brighton
Feet.
6,123 98
6,940 76
4,693 21
11,998 32
24,106 34
21,728 02
50,399 61
10,106 95
Feet.
4,046 70
970 40
1,530 34
2,807 84
2,072 44
135 85
1,167 12
235 15
Feet.
2,077 28
5,970 36
3,162 87
9,190 48
22,033 90
21,592 17
49,232 49
9,871 SO
Miles.
0.39
1.13
0.60
1.74
4.17
4.09
9.32
1.87
Totals.
136.097 19
12,965 84
123,131 35
Length built previous to January 31, 1901
Total
Length of intersecting sewer
Total
Total mileage of streets containing sewerage works
23.31
527.75
551.06
24.12
575.18
417.10
Catch-basins Built February 1, 1901, to January 31, 1902.
Number.
City Proper . .
Roxbury
Dorchester
West Roxbury
Brighton
Charlestown . .
East Boston...
South Boston .
Total
109
69
205
70
37
IS
22
50
580
1,404,781 linear feet of sewers flushed.
1,547 cubic yards material removed
from sewers.
9,425 catch-basins cleaned; 26,451
cubic yards removed.
232
City Document No. 40.
Report of Sludge Received in and Removed from the Deposit Sewer for
Twelve Montlis, Ending January 31, 1902.
1901.
Received.
Removed.
February
512 cubic yards
512 cubic yards
March
600 " "
600
April
1,283 "
509 " "
338 '
507 '
686 " "
914 "
1,048 " "
579
849 '
917 '
Sludge in sewers Feb.
1, 1901, 290 cubic
yards.
Sludge in sewers Feb.
1, 1902, 1,314 cubic
yards.
September
759 "
725 " "
769 '
860 '
November
820 "
765 '
December
634 "
766 '
1902.
739 "
743 "
Totals
9,229 cubic yards
8,205 cubic vards
Real Estate in Charge of the Sewer Division.
Owned by City.
Assessed Valuation.
Land.
Buildings.
Sewer yard, 678 Albany street. South End
Gate-house, Columbus avenue, Roxlniry
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 Divi-
sion)
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. (Build-
ings erected by Sewer Division. Leased from
trustees of Gibson School Fund)
$56,400
"'13,606'
56,400
8,600
98,000
19,500
66,720
19,300
76.500
4,800
7,000
$3,000
4,666"
3,000
5,500
300,000
4,300
28,000
3,000
3,500
3,200
5,000
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 233
APPENDIX F.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF THE
STREET CLEANING DIVISION.
921, 922, 923 Tkemont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sir, — I have the honor to submit the following
report of the work of this division during the financial year
ending January 31, 1902 :
Methods.
The work in this division has been carried on in a man-
ner similar to that of the previous year. The paved streets
have been swept at night with machines, and many of them
patrolled during the day by push-cart men. This method
seems to be the most effective, the sweeping at night
with machines being, of course, more thorough than hand
work, there being no teams or obstructions on the street to
contend with at that time. The patrol work in the daytime
is necessary to keep the streets in a neat looking and clean
condition. At the present time the regular force in this
division consists of about 370 men, an increase of nearly
twenty over last year. All these men have been carried on
full time during the entire year.
The following table shows the work done on the streets
during the year :
Miles of paved streets cleaned
Miles of .gutters cleaned
Loads of dirt removed
Loads of snow removed
Loads of litter, etc., collected
Barrels collected and removed by push-cart service,
11,808
2,455
99,354
42,374
5,353
152,210
234 City Document No. 40.
Enlakged Sweeping Areas.
There has been during this year a large increase of paved
streets. In some districts many streets have been newly
paved, and in the business district many have been repaved.
Some of our streets naturally receive more attention than
others, according to the location of the street and the amount
of traffic through it, and for these reasons some streets are
swept but once a week, where otliers receive sometimes six
sweepings. With our present force, streets that should
receive more attention are thus somewhat neglected. There
has been an increase, in consequence, in the push-cart work,
and there is still field for a much larger extension of this
service resulting from our newly-paved streets in the resi-
dential parts of the cit}^, and those repaved in the business
parts which call for constant care. Many of these have never
been patrolled, and as they are now in first-class condition,
such service would be of much value, and should be extended
as far as possible. This, however, would call for a much
larger appropriation.
Paper Patrol, etc.
The question of paper patrol, etc., on our streets is a
very serious one. Although it is not a sanitary question to a
very large extent, it is still a matter vitally concerning the
appearance of our streets, as a very little paper on the streets
mars all our good work. The litter occurs, first, from the
placing of the waste barrels on the sidewalks for the Sanitary
Division, and the lack of care taken in so placing or in filling
them, and the scattering by the scavengers of the contents
in picking them over. More stringent rules should be m&de
governing this, and the people forced to be more careful. In
the second place, more of this litter comes from the throwing
of rubbish into the streets in some of the dwelling districts.
To obviate these nuisances as much as possible a paper
patrol service was organized during the summer months.
At one time fifteen teams patrolled the streets every day and
picked up the rubbish. By allotting to each team a certain
district we were able to do considerable work, and the effect
was very noticeable ; but some streets cleaned one day were
just as dirty the next. The Board of Police has the powxr
to prevent these violations, as they are contrary to law, and
some arrangements should be made looking to the prosecution
of the offenders. There is really no need of all this rubbish,
and as along as it is permitted many of our streets will never
be in a very clean condition.
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 235
Stock.
In regard to the stock, many valuable additions could be
made to this division. At the present time we have 109
horses, an increase of eight over last 3^ear. Many of these
horses have been in this division for years, and are unfit
for the use to which we put them. Much more efficient work
could be done if they could be replaced by new horses.
There have been ten carts and six sweeping machines
purchased this year, and, though much of our rolling stock
has been thoroughly repaired and is in very good condition,
still some of the old carts should be condemned and new ones
purchased. In the estimates for this division for the year
ensuing a request has been made for an appropriation for the
purchase of stock in accordance with the foregoing statement.
Dumps.
The question of dumps is a very serious one, and in some
districts calls for immediate attention.
In Charlestown the present dump is very nearly filled, and
we must soon seek some other place. There are no available
dumps in Charlestown ; and it either means a longer or more
expensive haul out towards Somerville or the placing of a
scow somewhere on the water front, say the site of the old
Charles-river bridge.
The facilities of the scow at Atlantic avenue are often
overtaxed and sometimes to our great disadvantage, especially
Avhen we are working at night and are cut off from its use.
Several times we have been obliged to leave the dirt, swept
into piles on the street, or haul it to a very distant dump.
The Back Bay district is also at a disadvantage, and soon
the hauling of the dirt to the dumps available there will
be at a heavy expense and a consequent lessening of the
efficiency of the service.
Stables.
This division is badly cramped for stable room, and out-
side of South Boston we have no chance for expansion. In
some places there is hardly room enough to store our carts.
The old stable which was leased for this division in South
Boston is to be torn down by the Park Commission, and we
have been ordered to vacate by February 1, 1 902. A five-year
lease has been made for a new stable at the corner of H
and Second streets, which will meet all the demands of this
district. Some provision must soon be made in the other
districts for stable and shed room, as in many cases teams
are often exposed to the weather.
236 City Document No. 40.
Slippery Pavements.
We have had considerable trouble on account of the
slippery character of some of the asphalt streets, and we
have often been obliged to sand them, especially when it has
rained, and during the winter months. To meet this emer-
gency a sanding machine was purchased which has given
good satisfaction ; but one machine cannot cover all the
area to be sanded, particularly as the streets become very
slippery in a short space of time, and at least one other
machine should be procured. During part of the summer
the asphalt on Tremont and part of Boylston street was
flushed at night ; a one and a half-inch wire-wound hose, con-
nected with the city hydrants, was used, and the streets
cleaned with squilgees and brooms afterwards. This method
was very effective, removing the deposits which made the
streets slippery, but the coming of cold weather put a stop
to this flushing.
Work in Dorchester During the Year.
Oui' South Boston gang has cleaned Dorchester avenue as
far as Peabody square about twice a month. This of course
takes them from their work in South Boston, and, besides,
such service is inadequate for the work necessary on such a
thoroughfare as Dorchester avenue. An appropriation is
available for a Street Department yard in Dorchester, and
steps should be taken to install a plant there at as early a
date as is possible.
Public Alleys.
Quite a number of public alleys have been completed this
year, especially in the Back Bay, and the cleaning of these
sometimes takes the gang in that district an entire day ;
this is a much-needed improvement, but funds should be pro-
vided for this work, as it is an extra, not a regular, expense
of this division.
Respectfully yours,
Joseph J. Norton,
. Deputy Superintendent.
Stkeet Department — Street Cleaning Division. 237
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Appropriation, 1901-1902 ....
Transferred from Public Buildings Department
Transferred from Sewer Division .
Transferred from Street Watering Division .
;79,000 00
1,000 00
205 08
740 64
$380,945 72
Transferred to City Treasury . . $20,000 00
Transferred to Paving Division . 4,500 00
Total expenditures .... 356,445 72
,945 72
OBJECTS OF EXPENDITURES.
Superintendence.
Salary of Superintendent ....
$3,184 43
Office pay-rolls ......
4,342 72
Stationery . . .
202 97
Printing .......
871 81
Board of horses, not mentioned elsewhere
132 02
Telephone service .....
482 80
$9,216 75
Machine Sweeping of Paved Streets.
This includes cost of sweeping, loading-
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
District 10, North End
and removal of street
m,121 95
6,475 64
11,838 75
15,292 26
12,979 69
33,029 84
6,564 31
15,424 90
15,404 41
,131 75
238
City Document No. 40.
Cleaning Gutters.
This includes cost of sweeping, loading and removal of street
dirt.
District 1, South Boston
District 2, East Boston
District 3, Charlestown
District 7, Eoxbury
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang .
Down-town gang
District 9, Back Bay
District 10, West End .
1,640
50
3,279
68
2,874
17
4,215
45
2,680
59
72
97
4,925
13
72
00
$19,760 49
Total length of gutters cleaned, 2,455, miles.
Average cost per mile (including pro rata cost of dump), %S 30
Cost of Maintaining Dumps.
District 1, South Boston
District 2, East Boston
District 3, Charlestown
District 7, Eoxbury
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang .
Down-town gang
District 9, Back Bay .
District 10, West End .
District 10, North End
425
91
247
35
508
20
524
45
462
55
508
21
457
50
228
70
258
31
!,621 18
Removing Snow.
This includes labor on crossings, in streets, carting of snow,
etc.
District 1 , South Boston
District 2, East Boston
District 3, Charlestown
District 7, Eoxbury
District 8, South End :
Up-town gang .
Down-town gang
District 9 , Back Bay .
District 10, West End .
District 10, North End
2,954
60
1,560
61
2,170
74
2,911
90
2,044
37
8,018
51
2,791
89
3,284
16
3,303
83
$29,040 61
See Patrol System.
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 239
Miscellaneous.
This shows the cost of such work as may not be characterized
the same in all districts.
District 1, South Boston
District 2, East Boston
District 3, Charlestown
District 7, Eoxbury
District 8, South End :
Up- town gang .
Down-town gang
District 9, Back Bay .
District 10, West End .
District 10, North End
Patrolling hy Districts.
$288 41
51 40
30 00
169 86
79 80
10 00
79 80
127 80
8 00
$845 07
This includes the cost of picking up and the removal of refuse
papers, etc., from the streets.
District 1, South Boston . . . ... $1,989 21
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 .
District 10, North End
$6,147 53
798
45
701
73
2,484
89
117
43
2
10
2
10
49
52
2
10
Flushing asphalt streets ....
$861 45
Collecting ashes . . . . . .
$106 56
Public Alleys.
Labor and teaming . . . . .
$239 18
Push- Cart Patrol System.
Superintendence, inspection, etc. .
$4,970 42
Push-carts — labor, teaming, etc.
47,409 51
Paper patrolling ......
3,067 72
Stock
1,526 52
Snow-work . . .
5,280 56
Holidays . . . . . . .
5,129 22
Repairs at station, 95 Columbus avenue
67 08
Sundries — repairs, etc. ....
2,480 00
Sanding asphalt streets . . ' .
65 10
$69,996 13
240
City Document No. 40.
Stable and Yard Expenses.
In the following statement is included the cost of the South
End, West End, Roxbury, South Boston, Charlestown and East
Boston stables :
Superintendence of stables .....
Labor, including the cost of feeders, hostlers,
broom-makers, watchmen, yardmen, messenger,
hay, grain, 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.
$1,396
20
35,755
31
3,376
86
1,751
74
3,339
50
2,185
06
277
99
600
00
134
34
1,466
64
186
00
See Patrol System.
Stock Account.
Broom stock purchased
Harnesses and horse furnishings purchased
Horses purchased
Tools purchased .
Sweeping machines purchased
Bag-carriers, push-carts, etc.
Carts, carriages, etc. .
),469 64
^5,930 78
1,148 61
1,800 00
755 85
1,650 00
407 50
1,875 14
.3,567 88
Miscellaneous.
Holidays $15,136 76
Scow (cost of disposal at sea of 33,849 loads of
street dirt) 7,819 OS
Sundries 1,959 72
Annuity 300 00
i,215 56
Street Depaktment — Street Cleaning Division. 241
General Recapitulation of Expenses
Superintendence . . .
Machine sweeping of paved streets
Cleaning gutters
Maintaining dumps
Removal of snow and ice
Miscellaneous work
Paper patrolling .
Flushing asphalt streets
Collecting ashes .
Cleaning pubhc alleys
Patrol system, push-carts
Stable and yard expenses
Stock account
Miscellaneous
$9,216 75
128,131 75
19,760 49
3,621 18
29,040 61
845 07
6,147 53
861 45
106 56
239 18
69,996 13
50,469 64
13,567 88
25,215 56
$357,219 78
Of the above amount, the sum of $774.06 was paid by other
departments and divisions for work done, thus making the net
expenses of this division, as shown in the financial statement,
$356,445.72.
Incojie.
Amount of bills deposited -with the City Collector during the
financial year ending January 31, 1902, $1,535.22.
Table showing the Cost per Mile of Machine Sweeping, etc.,
of Paved Streets in each District, Exclusive of Supervision
and other Expenses.
Districts.
m
6X3
a
§
3
a-l
O
o
O
Pro Rata Cost of
Diunp.
o
o
■ 1
6
1
704
493
880
726
946
4,053
593
1,813
1,600
$11,121 95
6,475 64
11,838 75
15,292 26
12,979 69
33,029 84
6,564 31
15,424 90
15,404 41
$371 16
164 20
408 93
411 12
383 37
507 07
261 38
227 60
258 31
$11,493 11
6,639 84
12,247 67
15,703 38
13,363 06
33,536 91
6,825 69
15,652 50
15,662 72
$16 32
13 47
13 92
21 63
14 13
8 37
11 51
8 63
9 79
2
3
7
8 Up-lown '
9
10 West End
10 North End
11,808
$128,131 75
$2,993 13
$131,124 88
Average cost per mile of cleaning streets in districts, exclusive of supervision,
242
City Document No. 40.
Table showing the Cost per Mile of Machine Sweeping, etc.,^
of Paved Streets in each District, including Supervision,
Labor, Yard and Stable Expenses.
Districts.
9
m .
o a
a
"a
cs
o a>
o a
H 3
66% of the Cost
of Yard and
Stable Ex.
penses.
"do
O
O
"ci
O
o
O
11
1
704
493
880
726
946
4,053
593
1,813
1,600
$11,493 11
6,639 84
12,247 67
15,703 38
13,363 06
33,536 91
6,825 69
15,652 50
15,662 72
$403 91
233 40
430 50
551 90
469 60
1,178 62
239 88
550 09
550 47
$2,919 62
1,686 74
3,111 30
3,989 17
3,396 65
8,519 45
1,733 95
3,974 24
3,978 84
$14,816 64
8,559 98
15,789 47
20,244 45
17,229 31
43,234 98
8,799 52
20,176 83
20,192 03
$21 05
2
17 36
3
7
17 94
27 88
8 Up-town ....
8 Down-town.
9
18 21
10 67
14 84
10 West End...
lONortbEnd..
11 13
12 62
11,808
$131,124 88
$4,608 37
$33,309 96
$169,043 21
Average cost per mile of cleaning the streets in districts, including supervision,
etc.. $14.31.
Table showing the Number of Loads of Street Dirt Removed.
Districts.
K II m b e r of
loads of dirt
removed.
Cost per load of
cleaning streets
and removing
to dumps, in.
eluding fore-
man's superin-
tendence.
1
2
3
7
Up-town Gang.
Down-town Gan
-f. ( West End
^" \ North End
15,762
6,590
8,954
13,570
9,346
16,237
5,795
8,142
8,210
10 80
1 87
Removed by push-cart patrol system.
Removed by district push-carts
Removed by paper patrol
92,606
6,748
5,353
Barrels and Baj
Loads.
122,663
29,547
Total .
104,707
152,210
Total number of cart loads removed 104,707
Total number of barrel and bag loads removed 152,210
Thirty-three thousand, eight hundred and forty-niue (33,849) loads of these street
sweepings (or 32 per cent.) were delivered at the dumping scow at Tort Hill Wharf,,
the towing of which to sea cost twenty three (23) cents per load.
Street Department — Street Cleaning Division. 248
Public Waste- JBarr els.
Total number of waste-barrels emptied
Total number of subway barrels emptied
Summary.
Miles of paved streets cleaned
Miles of gutters cleaned
Loads of dirt removed
Loads of paper and refuse removed
Push-cart barrels emptied
Waste-barrels emptied
Subway barrels emptied
10,794
1,728
12, 522
11,808
2,455
99,354
5,353
152,210
10,794
1,728
Property Occupied by the Street Cleaning Division.
South Boston. Lease of stable, corner of H and Second 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.
244 City Document No. 40.
APPENDIX G.
REPORT OF THE DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF
THE STREET WATERING DIVISION.
904-905 Tremont Building,
Boston, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan,
/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, 1902.
In accordance with the recommendation of His Honor the
Mayor the Board of Aldermen adopted the following order
December 17, 1900 :
Ordered, That hereafter streets in all the Street Watering dis-
tricts of the city be watered at public expense.
Accordingly the watering of the past year was done at the
general expense, and an appropriation of $175,000 provided
from the tax levy.
The season opened March 8 and practically ended Novem-
ber 18. It was what might be termed a wet season, particu-
larly the spring and fall months, and the reduced expenditure
is in a great measure directly chargeable to the weather.
The work done during the past year was generally satis-
factory, and but very few complaints were received.
The increase in the number of carts over that of 1900 was
due to the increased service on main thoroughfares and the
watering of newly constructed streets in the suburban dis-
tricts ; and, as this is a natural increase in the work of the
division, the coming year in all probability will call for a
corresponding addition.
The streets of the Back Bay district were watered daily
from four to six times, those of the City Proper and South
End four times, and in the outlying districts the main thor-
oughfares three and four times, and the other streets at least
twice.
The property in charge of the division is in excellent
condition, and especial care has been taken in using the
standpipes, so that breakage and leakage might be prevented.
Street Department — Street Watering Divisioisr. 245
The expenditures of this division are controlled largely
by the weather conditions, and in consequence the amount
necessary for maintenance in any one year is purely a
matter of approximation ; but using the cost in past years
with the increase in efficiency and in the street area, as a
basis for comparison, it would appear that the sum of
$190,000 should be appropriated for the use of the division
during the coming year.
This amount will enable the division to water during
the winter months, and will thus remove a constant source
of complaint, as a period of cold, dry weather, accompanied
by high winds, makes street watering necessary on the
ground of public health ; but funds have not been available
heretofore to do this service, as required in every section of
the city.
The division is indebted to Mr. J. W. Smith, local forecast
official, for daily weather reports.
Respectfully submitted,
Ambrose Woods,
Deputy Superintendent.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Appropriation ......
. $175,000 00
Expenditures . . . . $164,259
36
Transferred to City Treasurer . 10,000
00
Transferred to Street Cleaning
Division . . . . 740
64
-
- fti 7t c\c\(\ no
tjP-L ( *J ,UUv/ \j\j
Object of Expenditures.
Salaries and labor .....
. $16,038 09
Teaming ....
. 144,861 50
Water-posts, painting^of
189 20
Board of horses .
652 23
Shoeing and clipping .
118 75
Harness and supplies .
37 85
Telephone service
214 04
Bicycle repairs, etc.
523 50
Printing . . . .
234 08
Stationery and postage
134 03
Vehicles, repairs, etc. .
698 13
Horse hire . . . . .
39 00
General supplies ....
518 96
■ Total
$164,259 36
246
City Document No. 40.
Object of Expenditures, Classified by Districts, from February
1, 1901, to January 31, 1902.
Districts.
Teaming.
Labor.
Maintenance.
Totals.
§11,996 75
8,325 00
6,280 00
12,657 50
16,731 75
22,362 50
22,413 00
14,574 00
12,454 50
17,066 50
$883 22
883 21
441 61
883 22
1,324 82
1,324 83
1,324 S3
883 22
883 22
1,324 82
$763 71
534 59
420 04
801 89
1,145 56
1,489 2a
1,412 86
801 89
763 71
1,107 38
$13,643 68
9,742 80
7,141 65
Brighton
14,342 61
19,202 13
25,176 56
25,150 69
16,259 11
South End
14,101 43
City Proper
19,498 70
Totals
$144,861 50
$10,157 00
$9,240 86
$164,259 36
Distribution of Carts, showing Entire Amount of Work Done.
District.
Hired
Carts.
Number
Miles
Corered.
Average
per Cart.
South Boston.
East Boston. .
Charlestown . .
Brighton ,
West Roxbury
Dorchester. . .
Eoxbury
Back Bay ....
South End
City Proper . .
Totals
40
25
22
40
75
90
85
83
2.00
1.78
2.00
1.90
2.50
2.30
2.29
1.18
242
460
1.99
Location of Water Posts by Districts.
Year.
Electric
1891.
1897.
1898.
1899,
1900.
1901.
Hydrants.
South Boston
East Boston
Charlestown
Brighton
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
39
42
22
50
84
101
75
73
West Roxbury
Dorchester
Roxbury
City Proper
5
Totals
271
397
451
490
473
486
5
Note. — During the past year 8 posts were relocated, 1 post abandoned, and 14 new
posts erected.
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. ' 24T
APPENDIX H.
REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR THE BOSTON
AND CAMBRIDGE BRIDGES.
Cambridge-street Bridge.
The decayed decking was replaced, the surface sheathed
with two-inch spruce plank, and the houses on the pier were
painted. The four-inch hard-pine plank removed from Har-
vard bridge to make room for larger timbers was carted to
this bridge for decking. The drawtenders swept the bridge
every week, and in winter removed snow and ice from side-
walks and piers.
Canal OR Craigie's Bridge.
A new draw-pier was built, the old one being so broken
up that it was unsafe.
New oak piles were driven, hard pine timber placed in
position, and the surface of the pier covered with two-inch
hard pine plank.
The paving from the draw to the Cambridge end of the
bridge was relaid, the drawtenders' house was shingled, and
a new end built on the Cambridge side.
The draw was repaired by placing hard pine timber under
it, and a new deck was laid and sheathed.
The bridge has been cleaned once a week, all ordinary
repairs and keeping the bridge free from snow and ice being
cared for by the drawtenders.
Next year it will be necessary to build a new bulkhead
on the Boston side, and repair the one on the Cambridge
end, and to lay about ten hundred and sixty feet of new
sidewalk, as well as building a new deck and sheathing the
draw. These repairs will cost about thirteen thousand
dollars.
248 City Document No. 40.
Essex-street Bridge.
The roadway was sheathed for about the whole length of
the bridge, the sidewalk was repaired by putting new stringers
under the planking, and repairs were made on other parts of
the bridge.
The drawtenders swept the bridge every week, and kept
the sidewalks free from snow and ice, and made all ordinary
repairs.
Harvard Bridge.
The roadway of this bridge was in very bad condition
and had to be looked after very carefully. Heavy teams
several times broke through the sheathing and deck, and in
one instance it was necessary to use jacks to get the team
out. The sheathing was from time to time repaired, and
almost the entire surface was renewed.
Heretofore the roadway of the bridge was sheathed with
two-inch plank once a year, and after six months' traffic a
great deal of patching was necessary, as the surface was
badly worn, and splinters from the plank were a source of
annoyance to the public.
The traffic over the bridge has increased every year, and
now it is so enormous that, if the old surface was to be con-
tinued, it would have been necessary to sheathe the roadway
twice a year, at a cost of about six thousand five hundred
dollars. When the bridge was built horse cars only were in
use, and timbers of sufficient strength to carry them were
placed, but now heavier timbers are required under the rails
on account of the electric cars.
The floor of the bridge was in such bad condition that the i /
Commissioners deemed it necessary to give the bridge a thor-
ough repairing. The Boston Elevated Railway Company
placed large timbers under its tracks for the entire length of
the bridge, and under the rest of the roadway many decayed
stringers were taken out and new ones put in their place by the
Commissioners. All of the old and new stringers were coated
with Cabot's conservo to preserve the wood. The old deck-
ing on the stringers was of four-inch spruce and somewhat
decayed, having been in place thirteen years. This was
removed and replaced with three-inch hard pine, treated with
creoresinate, which we think will last many years. While
the bridge was uncovered, the ironwork, where it could not
be got at any other way, was painted.
The new wooden block paving is of longleaf Georgia or
Florida yellow pine four inches deep, treated with creoresinate
mixture. The blocks are treated as follows :
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. 249
They are placed in an air-tight cylinder, and when the
doors are closed the diy heat, is raised to 215 degrees Fahren-
heit, without pressure, for one hour, for the purpose of getting
rid of the moisture. Then the heat is increased, pressure
applied, and both raised gradually, to avoid injury to the
fibre, for two hours, until the heat has reached about 285
degrees and the pressure about 90 pounds, and both held
there for one hour. The heat is then shut off and the tanks
allowed to cool gradually for one hour. At the end of this
time the heat is reduced to 250 degrees and the pressure to
about 40 pounds. The pressure is then blown off and the
heat still further reduced. Vacuum is then applied until
about 26 inches is reached, and while under vacuum the
creoresinate mixture is run into the cylinders at a tempera-
ture of 175 to 200 degrees, and hydraulic pressure, reaching
200 pounds per square inch, is applied, and kept at this
point until 21 to 22 pounds of mixture per cubic foot has
been absorbed. The liquid is then run off and the Avood
placed in another cylinder, and milk of lime at a temperature
of about 150 degrees run in, and hydraulic pressure of about
200 pounds applied for from one-half to one hour.
The blocks are laid close, with the grain vertical, upon the
planking, and at such an angle to the curb as may be directed
by the Commissioners, and are driven together as tighly as
possible at every sixth row. Proper expansion joints are
provided at curbs.
The joints are filled with dry, screened sand and rammed
or rolled until the blocks present a firm, uniform and unyield-
ing surface. The joints are then filled with creoresinate
mixture heated to 300 degrees Fahrenheit and poured as
nearly as practicable at that temperature.
The surface of the paving when completed is covered with
i-inch deep dressing of clean, screened sharp sand, or crushed
stone screenings.
The work that v^as done to strengthen the floor of the
bridge and to put new decking down would have had to be
done whether the floor was sheathed or paved with blocks.
Quite a saving each year will be shown between the yearly
cost of planking and the yearly interest on the cost of paving
with wooden blocks, and the saving made in the labor of
cleaning the bridge.
The asphalt sidewalks are very much broken up, and
should be removed and replaced with hard pine plank two
inches thick.
The electric lights on the bridge are giving good satisfac-
tion. Drawtenders make all ordinary repairs, clear the side-
250
City Document No. 40.
walks from snow and ice, clean the globes used on electric
lights, and the bridge twice a week.
The benefit the public derive from this bridge is best shown
by the following statement of traffic : Between the hours of
6.45 A.M. and 7.45 A.M 118 cars pass over the bridge, and
from 4 P.M. to 5 P.M. the same number cross over. For the
rest of the day the average is 60 cars per hour.
Number of Teams Crossing Harvard Bridge, Dec. 13, 1901.
Teams
to Boston.
Teams
to Cambridge.
6 to 7
A.M
45
140
53
105
90
65
45
40
71
70
90
45
62
10
7 to 8
25
8 to 9
25
9 to 10
55
10 to 11
55
11 to 12
67
12 to 1
P.M
61
1 to 2
50
2 to 3
no
3 to 4
105
4 to 5
120
5 to 6
125
6 to 7
91
Totals
921
899
Grand total
1,820
It being a dull day, and raining, there were not so many
teams as on a pleasant day. On a pleasant day the number
would be from 2,000 to 2,400 teams.
This bridge is 2,017 feet long ; draw, 149 feet long ; width
of bridge over all, 72 feet; width of draw over all, 50 feet.
- Peison Point Bridge. .
This bridge, being the only direct route from Cambridge
to Charlestown, and from the freight sheds at the North Ter-
minal station to Boston proper, carries a large amount of
heavy trucking, which is constantly increasing, and great
care is required to keep the roadway iii a condition safe for
travel.
Should this bridge be closed for any length of time, serious
inconvenience and considerable expense would be encountered
by truckmen and others accustomed to use it, as they would
be obliged to go through Boston or Somerville to get to
Charlestown from Cambridge or from Cambridge to Charles-
Boston and Cambridge Bridges. 251
town, a matter of travelling perhaps three miles out of the
ordinary way.
It is understood that the Boston & Maine Railroad Com-
pany is going to construct the overhead street at this point
from Cambridge to Charlestown this spring. Should this be
true a bad grade crossing will be eliminated, as at the present
time travel is delayed and made dangerous by the many rail-
road trains crossing at this point. The ordinary repairs were
made, and the bridge kept free from snow and ice by the
drawtenders.
The drawtenders' house was shingled, a new hard-pine
floor laid, a window built into the house, and the bridge and "
draw repaired and sheathed.
North Harvard-street Bridge.
The decking of this bridge was very much decayed. All
of it was removed and four-inch plank put in (some of this
brought from Harvard bridge), and the whole surface covered
with two-inch sheathing plank. Bulkhead timbers were
found very rotten ; replaced them by putting in new timbers ;
placed new guards in position ; put new posts in fence, and
secured them to guards with iron braces. . The draw was
thoroughly repaired. Some of the piles to support the bridge
were decayed ; the upper part of them was cut off and spliced
with new material ; part of brace or spur-shores to keep the
bridge in position had to be sawed off and bolted to piles.
The bridge structure is now in fair condition. //
This bridge is old and narrow, and should be replaced by
a modern structure of the same width as the streets leading
to it.
Western- avenue Bridge.
#
A new guard was built by driving oak piles, and spur-
shores, firmly bolted to piles and capped with hard pine
timber. The under- planking was repaired and the bridge
sheathed where necessary.
The drawtenders on this bridge perform the same duties
on Cambridge-street bridge, they having the care of both ^
bridges.
West Boston Temporary Bridge.
The drawtenders' house was moved from near the draw of
the old West Boston bridge towards the draw of the tem- •
porary bridge, as its position interfered with the work of the
contractors on the new Cambridge bridge.
New bolts and washers were put on all the timbers the
252
City Document No. 40.
whole length of the under side of the bridge ; the roadway-
was repaired and sheathed for the entire surface of the
bridge. A new dolphin was built to protect the bridge by
driving five oak piles and bolting them together.
The drawtenders made all ordinary repairs, and swept the
piers and sidewalks, and kept them free from snow and ice.
The surface of the bridge was cleaned every week.
Iisr General.
The usual statement is appended showing the number of
draw openings and the number of vessels which passed
through.
The amount of revenue for rents, dockage, etc., during the
year has been $780, one-half of which has been paid to each
city.
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, 1901, to January 31, 1902 :
Amount of appropriation for financial year
1901-1902
Expended to January 31, 1902
Unexpended balance February 1, 1902
118,500 00
18,394 97
$105 03
Revenue, February 1, 1901, to January 31, 1902.
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Street Department — Engineering Division. 255
APPENDIX I.
City of Boston, Engineering Department,
50 City Hall, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan,
Superintendent of Streets :
Sir, — I herewith submit the following report of the work
done for the Street Department during the year ending
January 31, 1902 :
Alford Street, Widening.
In May, 1901, plans were made for the widening of Alford
street, north of Maiden bridge, by filling a strip twenty feet
wide on the west side and protecting the slope with slope
paving.
Bennington Street.
A contract for filling a part of Bennington street. East
Boston, was awarded to Jones & Meehan, November 20,
1899. Work under this contract was begun January 16,
1900, and completed February 9, 1901. The total amount
of filling furnished was 126,043 cubic yards.
A second contract for furnishing and depositing additional
filling in the vicinity of the bridge over the Boston, Revere
Beach & Lynn R.R. was awarded to Jones & Meehan, March
18, 1901, at the rate of sixty-three (63) cents per cubic yard
measured in the cut. Work under this contract was begun
March 19, 1901, and completed August 23, 1901, the total
amount of filling furnished was 44,870 cubic yards.
A temporary gravel roadway, a plank sidewalk, and a
fence were constructed on the newly-filled part of Bennington
street, between Leverett avenue and the Revere town line,
about 1,330 feet in length. A contract for this work was
awarded to Coleman Bros., July 10, 1901. Work under this
contract was begun July 17, 1901, and completed August
23, 1901, at a cost of 12,286.07.
256 City Document No. 40.
A contract for extending the abutments of the bridge on
Bennington street (formerly Leyden-street bridge), over the
Boston, Revere Beacli & Lynn R.R., was awarded to John
Cashman, July 8, 1901. Work under this contract was
begun August 3, 1901, and completed December 23, 1901, \/
at a cost of 116,014.48.
Broadway Bridge.
Plans and specifications were made for repairing the
up-stream end of the draw-pier, and a contract was made
with William J. Lawler for doing the work. The work was
done in March at a cost for contract work of $843, and V
consisted in driving and capping nineteen new oak piles,
recapping one bent of piles, and bail ding a new floor of
stringers and plank for thirty feet.
Brooks Street, Retaining Walls.
Plans and specifications were prepared early in the year
for building retaining walls on that part of Brooks street
which is to be depressed so as to pass under the Boston &
Albany Railroad. This depression is to occupy the central
portion of the street for a width of 40 feet, and for a length
of about 350 feet southerly from the railroad. The remain-
ing width of the street on each side of the depressed portion [/'
is to be built at higher grades, and these two side roadways
are to be connected at the ends adjoining the railroad by a
bridge 35 feet wide over the sunken roadway.
A contract was made on July 2 with John F. McBride
and Jesse Moulti)n for building the retaining walls, and on
November 22, with the American Bridge Company for build-
ing the bridge superstructure. The work is not yet com-
pleted.
During the, progress of the work a temporary foot-bridge
has been maintained across the excavation for the central
roadway.
The sewer, water and gas pipes have been relocated and
laid in the side roadways.
Caeleton Street, Retaining Wall.
Plans and specifications were prepared for building a
retaining wall along the westerly side line of Carleton street, \J
adjoining the tracks of the Providence Division of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad between Yarmouth
and West Newton streets, and a contract was made with
John Cashman for doing the work, dated October 19, 1901.
Steeet Department — Engdstebring Division. 257
Up to the date of this report the only work done has been ,
the excavation of the trench for the foundation and the '
driving of a few piles.
Columbia Road.
The filling under the contract with Simon J. Donovan,
dated October 25, 1898, is not yet completed, there having
been deposited 123,044 cubic yards.
The street work for the bridges over Old Colony avenue
and the Plymouth Division of the New York, New Haven
& Hartford Railroad, and over Shoreham street, is in place,
but the floors of these bridges have not been finished. v
On March 12 a contract was made with John Cashman for
building the abutments and pier for the bridge which is to
carry Columbia road over Shoreham street, and also for build-
ing a retaining wall on the southerly side of Mt. Vernon
street where the grade of the latter is separated from that of
Columbia road. This work is nearly finished.
Dover-street Bridge.
The work of removing the old draw foundation and re-
pairing the piers mentioned in the last report was completed
by William J. Lawler in February at a cost of 13,629.87.
All of the old draw foundation not being used in connec-
tion with the water pipes was removed, and the remaining j
part was sheathed over. \/
The piers (except the part built in 1894) were redecked,
the stringers and caps found in poor condition were renewed,
the water way of the up-stream pier was replanked and a
new flight of stairs was built from the street to the pier.
East Boston Ferries.
South Ferry ^ East Boston Side. — Plans having been made
and approved for a new head-house and other buildings, and
a change in position of the drops, plans and specifications
were prepared by this department for rebuilding the piers
and wharves, and May 8, a contract was made with William
J. Lawler for doing the work. A new middle pier was built,
the outer piers were rebuilt in part, the drops were placed in
new position, having new guide-piles and additions to the
foundations ; two new wharves were built, and the slips were ■
dredged. The south roadway was rebuilt at a higher grade,
using part of the old foundation. The work was completed
December 13, at a cost of $19,975.35.
258 City Document No. 40.
The northerly drop foundation was raised at a cost of
$37.70.
Lines and grades were given for building the coal elevator.
North Ferry ^ Bostoyi Side. — Specifications were made for
renewing one pile in the head of each of the outer piers, the
entire head and five other piles in the middle pier, and
replanting 58 feet of the northerly face of the middle pier.
The work was done by George Hayes & Co., and was
completed July 11, at a cost of 11,986.71.
Mount Washington-avenue Bridge.
February 26 the steamer " Vizcaina " was stuck in the
southerly draw-way of the bridge, and the capping of the
bridge was cut away to release her. It being decided to
widen the draw-way, plans were made for increasing its V
width from 42 feet 3 inches to 43 feet 9 inches ; the work
was done by William J. Lawler at a cost of $1,900, and was
completed April 6.
Stairway from Summer-street Bridge to B Street.
Plans were prepared for a flight of iron stairs leading from
the bridge on Summer street, over B street, to the easterly i/
sidewalk of the latter street, and a contract made with the ^
New England Structural Company for building the same for
the sum of 1759.
The foundations for the stairs were built by Joseph Ross,
and the treads and landings were provided with safety treads
furnished by the Universal Safety Tread Company.
WiNTHROP Bridge.
The work of renewing the piles damaged by the "Lim-
noria" and making other repairs, mentioned in the last r /
annual report, was completed March 13, 1901, by William ^
L. Miller, contractor, at a cost for contract work of 81,990.22.
Thirty-one new oak piles were driven, nine bents were
recapped, the sidewalk was replanked, the northerly fence
was rebuilt, and other miscellaneous work was done without
closing the bridge to travel.
Garbage Depot.
An estimate and plans were made for establishing a
garbage depot on Tenean street.
Stkbet Department — Engineeeing Division. 259
Assessment Streets.
Working plans, specifications and forms of contract were
prepared and forwarded for tlie following assessment streets
and public alleys :
Barry street^ Quincy street to Richfield street.
Boston street^ Mt. Vernon street to Columbia road.
* Brackett street^ Washington street to Faneuil street.
BrooTdine avenue^ Longwood entrance to the Back Bay Fens
to the Riverway.
BrooJcs street, Holton street to North Beacon street.
Carloio street, Albany street to Chadwick street.
Columbia road, in the vicinity of Hamilton street.
Conrad street, Summer street, westerly.
Bixfield street, Old Harbor street to Covington street.
Draper street, Robinson street to Bowdoin street.
Fairfax street, Carruth street to Beaumont street.
* Fayston street. Blue Hill avenue to Mascoma street.
Forest Hills street, Washington street to Glen road.
Gainsborough street, St. Stephen street to Hemenway street.
Gibson street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Hamilton street, Columbia road to Mt. Everett street.
Hancock street, Columbia road to Winter street.
* Hinckley street, Pleasant street to Bakersfield street.
"^ Lansdovme street, Ipswich street, 300 feet westerly.
Leeds street. Woodward street to Dorchester avenue.
Leonard street, Duncan street to Adams street.
Milk street, India street to Atlantic avenue.
Millet street. Park street to Athelwold street.
* Morrill street. Pleasant street to Bakersfield street.
Moseley street. Crescent avenue to Columbia road.
Newland street. West Brookhne street to West Newton street.
Normandy street, Lawrence avenue across Grove street.
* Oak Square avenue, Washington street to Faneuil street.
Perkins street. Centre street to Jamaicaway.
Robinioood avenue. Centre street to Hazel street.
^ Roseland street. Beacon street to Medfield street.
Shepton street, Doschester avenue to Florida street.
* Snow street, Washington street to Union street.
South street, Jamaica street to Arborway.
Spencer street, Athelwold street to Harvard street.
Storer street, Atlantic avenue to India street.
Templeton street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Thane street, Athelwold street to Harvard street.
Torrey street, Washington street to Wentworth street.
* Vinson street. Park street to Geneva avenue.
"Wainwright street. Centre street to Welles avenue.
Washington street, Morton street to Tower street.
Westbourne street, Cornell street to Beech street.
West Tremlet street, Washington street to Whitfield street.
* Specifications only have been forwarded.
1 To be built by private parties, under the supervision of the Street Department.
260 City Document No. 40,
Public Alleys Between Beacon Street and Marlborough Street.
Public alley., No. J^l-^t Hereford street to Massachusetts ave-
nue.
Public alley.! No. ^15., Gloucester street to Hereford street.
Public alley., No. 416., Fairfield street to Gloucester street.
Public alley., No. 417^ Exeter street to Fairfield street.
Public alley, No. Jf21., Arlington street to Berkeley street.
Public Alleys Between Marlborough Street and Commomoealth
Avenue.
Public alley, No. 4^3, Arlington street to Berkeley street.
Public alley, No. 4^3, Berkeley street to Clarendon street.
Public alley, No. 4^4i Clarendon street to Dartmouth street.
Public alley. No. 4^6, Exeter street to Fairfield street.
Public alley. No. 4^7, Fairfield street to Gloucester street.
Public alley, No. 4^8, Gloucester street to Hereford street.
Public cdley. No. 4^9, Hereford street to Massachusetts ave-
nue.
Public Alleys Betxoeen Commonwealth Avenue and Newbury
Street.
Public alley. No. 430, Massachusetts avenue to Hereford
street.
Public alley, No. 433, Fairfield street to Exeter street.
Public alley, No. 434i Exeter street to Dartmouth street.
Public alley, No. 433, Dartmouth street to Clarendon street.
Public alley. No. 436, Clarendon street to Berkeley street.
Public Alleys Bettoeen Newbury Street and Boylston Street.
P%d)lic cdley, No. 438, Arlington street to Berkeley street.
Public alley. No. 440 •, Dartmouth street to Exeter street.
Public alley. No. 441 1 Exeter street to Fail-field street.
Public alley. No. 44^i Fairfield street to Gloucester street.
Pioblic alley. No. 443, Gloucester street to Hereford street.
Public alley, No. 444i Hereford street, about 521 feet south-
westerly.
Public alley, No. 502, between Rutland and Concord squares,
from Columbus avenue to Tremont street.
Pid>lic alley. No. 503, Rutland square to Concord square, next
east of Columbus avenue.
P%d)lic alley. No. 706, between Concord street and Worcester
street, from Newland street, about,. 5 60 feet northwesterly.
Public alley. No. 901, between Hemenway street and the Fen-
way, from Hemenway street to Hemenway street.
Public alley No. 905, west from Massachusetts avenue,
between Marlborough street and Commonwealth avenue and to
Marlborouo'h street.
Street Department — Engineering Division. 261
Plans and Specifications for Repaying Streets.
Preliminary surveys were made and the working plans,
specifications and forms of contract were prepared and for-
warded for repaying the following streets :
Adams square, Cornhill to Elm street.
Arch street, Smnmer street to Franklin street.
Ay-lington street, Beacon street to Boylston street.
Athens street, C street to D street.
Avon street, Washington street to Chauncy street.
Beacon street (south side), Charles street to Arlington street,
asphalt, specifications only.
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Raleigh street.
Blue Hill avenue, Lawrence avenue to Dewey street.
Blue Hill avenue. Intervale street to Warren street.
Boioen street, C street to E street.
Boylston street, Tremont street to Arlington street.
Boylston street, Huntington avenue across Dartmouth street.
Condor street, Meridian street to Brooks street.
Congress street. Exchange place to Atlantic avenue.
Dartmouth street, Huntington avenue to Columbus avenue.
Dartmouth street, Boylston street to Huntington avenue.
Dock square, Faneuil Hall square to Adams square.
Hast First street, L street to P street.
Essex street ( Charlesto%m%) , Rutherford avenue to Hancock
square.
Essex place, Essex street to Tufts street.
Faneuil Hall square, south of Faneuil Hall.
Franklin street, Washington street to Oliver street.
Gold street, B street to D street.
Green street, Bowdoin square to Chambers street.
Heath street, Columbus avenue to Parker street.
High street, Broad street to Summer street.
Huntington avenue, Boylston street across Dartmouth street.
India street, Milk street to India square.
Lawrence street ( Charlestoimx) , Austin street to Lawrence
avenue.
Lawrence street ( C^ar/es^oi«n), Lawrence avenue across Miller
street.
Lincoln street, Kneeland street to Beach street.
Marlborough street, Arlington street to Clarendon street.
Mason street. West street, 213 feet, south.
Massachusetts avenue. Beacon street to Huntington avenue.
Milk street, Washington street to Congress street.
3Iilk street, Pearl street across Oliver street.
Miller street {Charlestovm) , Main street to Lawrence st.
Morton street, Salem street to Endicott street.
Nexohury street, Fairfield street to Massachusetts avenue.
■New Heath street, Colunabus avenue to Parker street.
Otter street, Beacon street to Charles river.
262 City Document No. 40.
Pearl street^ Atlantic avenue to Milk street.
Portland street^ Hanover street to Causeway street.
Salem street^ Enclicott street to Prince street.
Silver street^ B street to D street.
Tremont street^ Castle street across Berkeley street.
Tudor street^ C street to D street.
Tufts street^ South street to Kingston street.
Tyler street^ Oak street to Harvard street.
Union street^ Dock square to Haymarket square.
Warren street (^Charlestoion) , Winthrop street to Soley street.
Washington street ( JVest Moxbiiry) , School street to Green
street.
West First street, A street to railroad tracks.
Miscellaneous.
Plans have been prepared of the following assessment
streets, preliminary to construction :
Adams street ( Charlestown) , Common street to Chestnut
street.
Ainsley street, Rosemont street, southerly.
Austin street, Washington street to Lawrence street.
Berkeley street, Boylston street to Columbus avenue.
Blanche street, G-reenhill street to Preston street.
Bote street, Washington street to City square.
Boioen street, E street to F street.
Brackett street, Washington street to Faneuil street.
Gapen street, Evans street to Fairmount street.
Carleton street, Yarmouth street to West Newton street.
Carter street, Cambridge street to Roland street.
Dakota street, Washington street to Greenbrier street.
Barling street, Calumet street to Hillside street.
Bevens street, Rutherford avenue to Washington street.
Fayston street. Blue Hill avenue to Mascoma street.
Fisher avenue, Hayden street to Parker Hill avenue.
Hinckley street. Pleasant street to Bakersfield street.
Louder''s lane. Centre street, about 325 feet southwesterly.
Mead street, Russell street to Bunker Hill street.
Milton avenue, Lauriat avenue to Norfolk street.
Morrill street. Pleasant street to Bakersfield street.
Moidtrie street, Allston street to Washington street.
Oak Square avenue, Washington street to Faneuil street.
Oakioood street, Norfolk street to Torrey street.
Ritchie street, Columbus avenue to Marcella street.
Poland street, Boston & Maine Railroad to Somerville line.
Rosemont street, Adams street to Gustine street.
Rutherford avenue. Chapman street to Devens street.
Snoio street, Washington street to Union street.
Toioer street, Hyde Park avenue to Forest Hills cemetery.
Vinson street. Park street to Geneva avenue.
Steeet Department — Engineering Division. 263
Walter street, Centre street to South street.
Washington street, Talbot avenue to Euclid street.
Wayland street, Howard avenue to Daeia street.
" Windermere road, Stoughton street to Gushing avenue.
Winthrop street, Dennis street to Brook avenue.
Grading Street Railway Tracks.
Grades for tracks in the following" streets have been deter-
mined and the necessary surveys made for determining the
same :
Boston Elevated Railway Company.
Adams square, Cornhill to Elm street.
Beacon street, Massachusetts avenue to Raleigh street.
Blue Hill avenue. Intervale street to Warren street.
Boylston street, Charles street to Arlington street.
Congress street, Milk street to Exchange place.
Copley sqxmre, streets bounding.
Dartmouth street, Huntington avenue to Columbus avenue.
Franklin street, Washington street to Federal street.
Gibson street, Dorchester avenue to Adams street.
Hancock street, Columbia road to Winter street.
Harrison avenue, Massachusetts avenue to Eustis street.
High street. Fort Hill square to Broad street.
Lincoln street, Kneela'nd street to Beach street.
Massachusetts avenue. Beacon street to Huntington avenue.
Milk street, Washington street to Congress street.
Portland street, Hanover street to Causeway street.
South street, Jamaica street to the Arborway.
Tremont street, at Berkeley street.
Warren street ( Charlestoion) , Soley street to Winthrop street.
Washington street (^Dorchester), Bowdoin street to Norfolk
street.
Washingt07i street ( West JRoxbury), School street to Green
street.
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Com-
pany.
West First street, A street to New York & New England Rail-
road tracks.
Total length of single track grades, 10.3 miles.
Miscellaneous Plans, Specifications, Etc.
The following plans have been prepared and the prelim-
inary surveys necessary for the same have been made :
264 City Document No. 40.
Bennington street^ Leverett street to Revere town line ; plan
and specification for temporary roadway, plank sidewalks and
fence.
JBoiodoin street {city proper)^ section of underground con-
struction.
Brooks street^ Holton street to North Beacon street ; cross
section for construction.
Hancock street^ Columbia road to "Winter street ; plan and
specification for retaining wall and fence, at paving yard.
Mead street^ Russell street to Bunker Hill street ; plan and
specLflcation for artificial stone retaining walls and steps, iron
fences and hand rails.
Perkins street^ showing proposed connection with Jamaicaway.
South street^ showing proposed connection with the Arborway.
Plans showing details of construction of streets and other
structures have been made from time to time as required.
The street book, giving lengths and areas of pavements in
accepted streets and public alleys, has been corrected to Feb-
ruary 1, 1901, and is now being corrected to February 1,
1902.
Respectfully submitted,
William Jackson,
City Engineer.
Street Depaetment — Smoke Inspection. 265
APPENDIX J.
REPORT OF THE CHIEF SMOKE INSPECTOR.
> 64 Pemberton Square,
Boston, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan,
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 abatement of the
smoke nuisance in this city.
The combustion of soft coal without producing smoke in
offensive quantities is a problem which is constantly being
agitated in this city ; the experience of Boston is similar to
that of every large city, and the fact that over 550,000 tons
of Nova Scotia coal, representing a market value of nearly
$700,000, is annually imported into Boston, is an important
factor as showing how general is the use of soft coal to-day.
There is probably not a consumer of bituminous coal in
Boston who permits a nuisance to continue from mere wan-
tonness ; carelessness is responsible for some cases of smok-
ing chimneys, and lack of knowledge of smoke-consuming
devices and methods for perhaps the majority of others.
Nearly all the owners of large steam plants visited during
the past year have come to understand the importance of
careful and intelligent stoking as one of the most effective
methods of reducing the smoke evil to a minimum.
The present smoke nuisance act may be complied with by
any device that causes the complete combustion of coal, but
to secure the abolition of the smoke nuisance in its entirety
it will be necessary by legislative action to reduce the length
of time allowed for the continuous emission of smoke.
On account of its cheapness, bituminous coal is generally
used by owners of steam plants in preference to anthracite,
and the enforcement of the smoke nuisance law is made
266
City Document No. 40.
much more difficult on this account. Many of the steam
railroad companies have equipped their engines with smoke-
consuming devices, and complaints as to the nuisance from
this source have been few as compared with previous years.
The plants of the Boston Elevated Railway Company and
the Edison Electric Illuminating Company, Atlantic avenue,
both of which are equipped with all modern appliances for
furnishing power, have been inspected and were found to be
fitted with devices for the prevention of the smoke nuisance.
During the year 163 short observations of three to five
hours each have been taken by the inspectors in the several
districts. Seventeen observations lasting from five to nine
hours were taken throughout the city, seven of these not
on account of complaints, but at the request of the owners of
steam plants, and as a result R. Marston & Co., J. F. & W.
H. Falvey, The Boston City Hospital, Boston Belting Com-
pany, Fobes, Haywood & Co., Houghton & Dutton, and
Hey wood Brothers and Wakefield Company have equipped
their boilers with smoke-consuming devices.
Nova Scotia Coal.
Importations of Coal from Nova Scotia at this Port during the Year
ending January 31^ 1902.
Months.
Tons.
Value.
February, 1901
March
April
May
June
July
August
September . . . .
October
November
December ....
January, 1902.
Total
38,854
57,224
47,815
50,775
37,105
40,620
42,329
44,907
33,621
60,270
53,445
56,178
563,143
148,568
71,533
59,872
63,470
33,882
50,776
52,912
56,138
42,027
75,340
90,900
92,574
$737,992
Nova Scotia coal recorded at the Collector's office (Boston
Custom House), for the year ending January 31, 1902,
shows 563,143 tons as against 553,029 tons for the year
ending January 31, 1901.
Street Department — Smoke Inspection. 267
Boiler Applications.
During the past year 387 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 other engines
Applications withdrawn
Duplicates
Relocations
Unsigned
310
33
34
3
4
2
1
387
Special Reports.'
February 18. Report on Automatic Smoke Preventer of
America.
March 22. Report on condition of plant of the Niles
building, No. 27 School street.
May 27. Report on complaint against plant of the Monks
building. No. 37 Congress street.
June 7. Report with observation on complaint against
plant of Messrs. R. Marston & Co., Brattle and Hanover
streets.
July 3. Report with observations on plant of the Pump-
ing Station and Garbage Plant, Calf Pasture.
July 5. Report with observation on complaint against
plant of the Boston Elevated Railway Company, Freeport
street, Dorchester.
Summary.
I submit a brief summary of work for the year ending
January 81, 1902:
Number of applications for boiler permits received . 387
Number of smoke consumers adopted . . . 33
Number of objection notices sent out ... 82
Number agreeing to burn hard coal . . . 310
Number of short observations taken . . . 163
Number of observations from 5 to 9 hours . . 17
Number of special reports ..... 6
Number of special requests for observations received, 7
Respectfully submitted,
Sumner Appleton,
Chief Inspector.
268 City Document No. 40.
APPENDIX K.
REPORT OF THE CIVIL SERVICE CLERK.
Boston, February 1, 1902.
Hon. James Donovan,
Superintendent of Streets :
Dear Sie, — 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, 1902.
One hundred and forty three applications were made
upon the commission for 1,314 men of various grades, and
of this number 2 were for promotion and 1 for reinstatement.
Two thousand and thirteen names were submitted, from
which 219 were selected and appointed, 21 of whom were
veterans and 30 were appointed provisionally under Civil
Service Rule 36.
Of the 2 applications for promotion both were granted.
Twenty-nine transfers were made from other city and state
departments, with the approval of the Civil Service Com-
mission, as follows: 3 from the Bath Department, 14 from
the Park Department, 8 from the Department of Public
Grounds, 1 from the Water Department, 1 from the Ceme-
tery Department, 1 from the Engineering Department and
1 from the Hospital Department.
Notices of the discharge of 18 men were forwarded to the
Civil Service Commission.
The records of the department show that there are now
3,236 persons eligible for employment in the several divisions,
and of that number 3,086 were upon the January, 1902, pay-
rolls.
Stueet Department — Civil Service,
269
Grade and Number of Employees.
Divisions
Title.
.an
O
a
03
"3
n
01
bo
I
Superintendent
1
1
6
1
1
36
28
2
30
20
13
47
38
1
114
45
58
40
1
27
8
13
47
1
5
3
1
1
1
1
1
1
Purcbasing Agent
1
1
3
Purchasing Agent's assistant
Clerks
15
9
1
14
1
7
5
1
16
19
13
37
14
1
45
11
10
4
3
7
2
3
3
2
3
1
1
Messengers
Chief Engineer
Civil Engineers
Draughtsmen
Instrument-men
JRodmen
10
15
Aids or tallymen
6
3
Axemen
Inspectors
44
10
20
20
21
7
7
14
4
11
19
Foremen . . .
4
2
1
2
2
Blacksmiths and assistants
Boilermakers
Bracers and assistants
27
3
1
10
1
5
3
Boys
5
Captains
1
11
2
15
Carpenters and assistants
20
Concrete-washer
Concrete-mixer
Coal-passers
Supervisors of draws and bridges
1
Coachmen
2
1
3
20
85
15
36
Drawtenders
20
85
Assistant drawtenders
Deck-hands
15
Dumpers
29
7
CMef Engineer (steam)
1
1
Carried forward
6
186
336
96
47
40
131
6
748
270
City Document No. 40.
Qrade and Number of Employees. — Continued.
Divisions.
Title.
go
.s
u
'3
bib
p
"a
^ oj
o
6
186
17
236
30
96
1
47
40
14
2
131
6
2
6
748
67
5
1
1
2
2
4
4
7
5
26
16
30
20
3
11
5
3
1
3
6
1
1
8
5
1
3
2
9
5
1
555
464
180
219
1 421
2
69
2
47
2
1
9
69
2
4
47
2
3
4
7
16
81
3
31
1
4
7
1
11
7
18
12
4
2
1
2
1
2
1
1
3
1
4
4
8
1
8
1
1
3
7
814
883
297
269
138
149
6
2,563
Street Department — Civil Service.
271
Grade and Number of Employees. — Concluded.
Divisions.
Title.
go
fcb
1
"a
bjj
p
'3
3q
2
o
7
814
25
883
4
2
6
297
269
138
149
6
2,568
29
1
11
1
6
1
2
7
3
12
56
26
184
12
66
51
314
11
1
19
6
15
10
1
1
9
2
53
7
6
1
9
26
6
0
3
1
3
12
2
1
19
3
0
Total
7
950
911
534
352
166
160
6
3,086
Comparative Table showing the Number of Employees
February 1, 1901, and February 1, 1902.
Divisions.
bn
bb
Date.
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so
bo
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'3
a
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2
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m
03
t»
ta
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February 1,
February 1,
1901
■ fi
900
9^0
561
341
155
119
6
3,008
3,086
1902
•7
950
911
534
352
166
160
6
272
City Document No. 40.
Table showing Transfers made from various City and State
Departments to the several Divisions of the Street De-
partment.
Departments.
■o
fco
Divisions.
a
a
o
u
d
a
'-D
o
M
s>
o
3
^
A
3
o
3
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d
a
s
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rtM
0
M
Ch
Ph
Ph
o
H
o
Ph
H
Paving
1
12
fi
1
1
1
1
23
0
0
2
2
2
Ferry
2
2
Bridge
0
Central Office
0
Total
3
14
8
1
1
1
1
29
Table showing the number of Applications for various Grades
of Men made upon the Civil Service Commission for the
Year ending January 31, 1902.
m
"a
bmitted
Service
on.
5
2
a. 2
oil
a a
0) '^ 5
fl 0 S
aa 0
Divisions.
0
0
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53 g
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OS
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nts inc
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nmns.
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46
333
539
91
8
1
4
32
21
483
76
755
143
33
14
5
3
Sanitary
2
12
94
127
24
3
20
8
103
99
170
113
12
30
4
Bridge
17
6
Street Watering
3
125
163
14
Central Office ...
1
1
3
1
Total
143
1,314
2,013
219
30
1
21
The above table includes 2 persons that were promoted
and 21 veterans that were appointed, 5 as laborers, 1 as jani-
tor, 1 as gateman, 7 as assistant draw-tenders, 4 as inspectors,
1 as sub-foreman, 1 as painter and 1 as wharfinger.
One requisition was made for reinstating 1 discharged
employee.
Respectfully submitted,
Amos B. M. Kingslby,
Civil Service Clerk.
Street Depaetment.
273
APPENDIX L.
FORMER SUPERINTENDENTS AND DOCUMENT
NUMBERS OF ANNUAL REPORTS.
Bridge Department before 1891.
Previous to 1886, under charge of City Engineer.
Name.
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.
Annua
1 report
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
29
11
26
((
u
29
(1
(I
22
u
u
*
* 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
Zephaniah Sampson, " " " "
Thomas Hunting, Superintendent
Alfred T. Turner, "
Charles Harris, "
Kehemiah T. Merritt, "
James J. Flynn, "
Charles Harris, "
Michael Meehan, "
John W. McDonald, "
J. Edwin Jones, "
1825 to
1831 to
1846 to
18.53 to
1864 to
1884 to
1886 to
1889 to
1831
1846
1853
1864
1883
1883
1883
1884
1886
1889
1891
274
Cit:^ Document No. 40.
Paving Department before 1891.
Name of Document.
For
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
Quarterly report.
Annual report . . .
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1851
1851
1852
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
6
29
2
5
3
3
3
5
6
5
4
3
3
7
3
6
9
14
13
12
16
21
25
27
30
38
29
24
24
48
51
47
46
97
30
16
23
30
19
♦Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part II., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
Street Department.
275
Sewer Department before 1891,
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
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886^
1887
1888
1889
1890
1861
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884 j
1885 1
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
11
12
11 i
12
(I (
13
11
(1 (
<i (
5
11 (
Q
11 i.
8
<( I
13
11 L
11
it l
3
IL 1.
11
(( (.
10
(( I
13
(I (
12
(( 1
17
(I C
11
il (
13
(( i
15
11 i
11
(1 I
I
16
1( I
19
H I
18
(I (
16
il (
l(, i.
43
(1 I
58
11. ^
69
11 1
81
i( 1
129
U L
14
i( (
*
^Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part II., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
276
City Document No. 40.
Health Department before 1891,
Sanitary.
Year.
Ezra Forristall, Superintendent
Joseph W. Coburn, "
Ezra Forristall, "
George W. Forristall, "
1853 to 1854
1854 to 1855'
1855 to 1869
1869 to 1890
Health Department before 1891.
Sanitary.
Name of Document.
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
1853
1854
1855
1856
1857
1858
1859
1860
1861
1862
1863
1864
1865
1866
1867
1868
1869
1870
1871
1872
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
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
7
Cl (I
6
l( tl
4
u u
4
(I u
4
11 ((
4
(( u
5
11 u
6
UK
5
11 11
5
11 11
4
11 11
4
11 11
8
11 11
7
11 11
8
11 11
12
11 11
4
11 11
10
It 11
17
11 11
40
Annual report from 1873 to 1884, inclu-
sive; the Superintendent's report was
embodied in the report of the Board of
Health
45
22
It 11
16
11 II
23
11 11
21
11 11
*
* Published in annual report, Executive Department, Part II., City Document
No. 1, 1891.
Street Department.
277
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, 1901.
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.)
Name of Document.
For
Year.
Pub,
Year.
No. of
Doc.
Annual report
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
19
12
16
23
20
12
10
8
12
8
16
15
19
8
' u u
12
19
25
22
20
tt «4 *"
* ■
♦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
278
City Document No. 40.
Ferry Department before 1895.
Name of Document.
For
Year.
Pub.
Year.
No. of
Doc.
Annual report
1870
1871
1872
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1871
1872 .
1873
1874
1875
1876
1877
1878
1879
1880
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
41
55
81
42
65
51
53
49
60
74
77
72
93
76
72
28
12
10
3
4
*
12
11
11
11
* Published in annual report, Executive Department, Parti., City Document
Ko. 1, 1891.
Street Department since 1891.
Superi7itendent.
Henry H. Carter, Member of American Society Civil Engineers.
Resiffned December 8, 1894.
Ctiarles R. 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 November 25, 1901.
Member of the Boston Society Civil Engineers.
Resigned November 25, 1901.
William Jackson, Acting, Superintendent from November 25, 1901, to January 14, 1902.
Member of American Society Civil Engineers.
Guy C. Emerson, Deputy Superintendent in charge of the Department, from November
25, 1901, to January 14, 1902.
Member of the Boston Society Civil Engineers.
James Donovan, Superintendent from January 14, 1902, to the present time.
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.
Street Depaetmeisit. , 279
Bkidge Division. — William H. Carberry, Deputy Superintendent from February
14, 1896, to February 3, 1900.
Bridge Division. — Walter Reed, Deputy Superintendent from February 6, 1900,
to January 22, 1902.
Bridge Division. — Joseph P. Lomasney, Deputy Superintendent from January 22
to the x>resent time.
Ferkt Division. — Thomas Kellough, Deputy Superintendent from July 1,1895,
to February 14, 1896.
Ferry Division. — William F. McClellan, Deputy Superintenent from February
14, 1896, to February 3, 1900.
Ferry Division. — Joseph J. Dennison, Deputy Superintendent from February
5, 1900, to January 22, 1902.
Ferry Division. — William J. Donovan, Deputy Superintendent from January
22, 1902, to the present time.
Paving Division. — Charles R. Cutter, Deputy Superintendent until January 24,
1895.
Paving Division. — Darius N. V&y son. Deputy Superintendent from January 24,
1895, to March 1, 1896.
Paving Division. — John L. Kelly, Deputy Superintendent from March 1, 1896,
to February 3, 1900.
Paving Division. — Darius N. Payson, Deputy Superintendent from February 5,
1900, to January 24, 1902.
Paving Division. — Joshua Atwood, 3d, ^cMn^r Deputy Superintendent from Jan-
uary 24, 1902, 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
1, 1895, to March 1, 1896.
Sanitary Division. — Patrjck O'Shea, Dejmty Superintendent from, March 1, 1896,
to February 3, 1900.
Sanitary* Division. — Charles A. Young, Deputy Superintendent from February 5,
1900, to January 22, 1902.
Sanitary Division. — Daniel P. Sullivan, Deputy Superintendent from January
22, 1902, 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 Civil Engineers.
Sewer Division. — Guy C. Emerson, Deputy Superintendent from February 5, 1900,
to November 25, 1901, and from January 14 to January 22,
1902.
Member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers.
Sewer Division. — Henry W. Sanborn, Acting Deputy Superintendent from
November 25, 1901, to January 14, 1902.
Member Philadelphia Society Civil Engineers.
Sewer Division. — George Phillips, Deputy Superintendent from January 22, 1902,
to the present time.
* Died January 12, 1894.
280
City Document No. 40.
Street Watering Division.
Street Watering Division. -
Street Cleaning Division. — Philip A. Jackson, Deputy Superintendent until
March 22, 1895.
Street Cleaning Division. — Benjamin M. Cram, Deputy Superintenden t 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 Civil Engineers.
Street Cleaning Division. — Prank H. Haynes, Deputy Superintendent from
Februarys, 1900, to April 16, 1901.
Resigned April 16, 1901.
Street Cleaning Division. — Frank C. S,\ie^h.QT6., Deputy Superintendent from,
April 16, 1901, to January 22, 1902.
Street Cleaning Division.— Joseph J. Norton, Deputy Superintendent from
January 22, 1902, to the present time.
-M. Edward Libbey, Deputy Superintendent from
March 6, 1895, to March 1, 1896.
-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 January 22, 1902.
Street Watering Division. — Ambrose Woods, Deputy Superintendent from
January 22, 1902, to the present time.
Boston AND Cambridge Bridges. — Henry H. Carter, ex-offi,cio, Commissioner for
Boston, until Decetnber 8, 1894.
Charles R. Cutter, ex-officio, Acting from De-
cember 8, 1894, to January 14, 1895.
Bertrand T. Wheeler, ex-officio, from, January
14, 1895, to February 4, 1896.
Benjamin W. Wells, /row February 4, 1896, to
February 1, 1900 ; ex-officio, toMay 26, 1898.*
Bertrand T. Wheeler, from February 2, 1900,
to November 25, 1901.
Guy C. Emerson, from November 25, 1901, to
i to January 14, 1902.
James Donovan, from January 14, 1902, to
the present time.
William J. Marvin, Cotnmissioner for Cam-
bridge.
* See Chap. 467, Acts of 1898.
Street Department,
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