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MANCHESTER
CITY GOVERNMENT.
1890.
MAYOR.
DAVID B. VARNEY.
CITY CLERK.
NATHAN P. KIDDER.
CITY AUDITOR.
JAMES B. STRAW.
AUDITOR S CLERK.
ALLAN E. HERRICK.
CITY TREASURER.
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM.
MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
GEORGE E. MORRILL.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
EDWIN C. PAUL.
CITY SOLICITOR.
EDWIN F. JONES.
CITY MESSENGER.
JOHN A. BARKER.
CITY PHYSICIAN.
CLARENCE W. DOWNING.
CITY ENGINEER.
WINFRED H. BENNETT.
PRESIDENT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
JOHN F. FROST.
CLERK OF COMMON COUNCIL.
JESSE B. PATTEE.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
-SUPERINTENDENT OF WATER-WORKS.
CHARLES K. WALKER.
CLERK OF WATER-WORKS.
ARTHUR E. STEARNS.
ALDERMEN.
Ward I. — George W. Bacon.
Ward 2. — Frank A. Lane.
Ward 3. — John A. Bartlett.
Ward 4. — W, Byron Stearns.
Ward 5. — John J. Holland.
Ward 6. — William P. Farmer.
Ward 7. — David Farmer.
Ward 8. — James F. Baldwin.
members of common council.
Ward i. Ward 2.
John P. Mullen. Charles A. Carpenter.*
Roscoe Dyer. Alfred D. Maxwell.
Henry P. Hunter. William M. Butterfield.
Ward 3. Ward 4.
Frank D. Thorp.* George C. Chase.
George W. Reed. Desire Laneville.
Walter H. Wright. Clarence R. Merrill.*
* Resigned.
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Ward 5. Ward 6.
David E. Guiney. Joseph Quirin.
William J. Freeman. Edward A. Plummer.
Thomas P. Riley. Thomas Walker, Jr.
Ward 7. Ward 8.
John F. Frost. Henry Schimmel.
Edson S. Heath. Joseph N. Lacourse.
Irving L. Campbell. Charles S. Cousins.
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEES.
On Finance. — The Mayor and Alderman Stearns ; Council-
men Chase, Walker, Jr., and Heath.
On Accounts. — Aldermen Bartlett and Holland ; Councilman
Hunter, Frost, and Lacourse.
On Clai?ns. — Aldermen Baldwin and W. P. Farmer ; Coun-
cilmen Butterfield, Campbell, and Wright.
On Streets. — Aldermen Stearns and Bartlett ; Councilmen
Maxwell and Quirin.
On Sewers and Drains. — Aldermen Lane and Baldwin ;
Councilmen Quirin, Merrill, and Maxwell.
On Lighting Streets. — Aldermen Bartlett and D. Farmer ;
Councilmen Walker, Jr., Reed, and Butterfield.
On Lafids and Buildings. — Aldermen D. Farmer and Bacon ;
Councilmen Frost, Guiney, and Mullen.
On Fire Department. — Aldermen Lane and Baldwin ; Coun-
cilmen Cousins, Plummer, and Dyer.
On Commons and Cemeteries. — Aldermen Bacon and Lane ;
Councilmen Wright, Heath, and Hunter.
On Public Instruction. — Aldermen Baldwin and Holland ;
Councilmen Laneville and Schimmel.
On Water-Works. — Aldermen W. P. Farmer and Stearns;
Councilmen Freeman, Reed, and Cousins.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 7
On City Farm. — Aldermen Baldwin and W. P. Farmer ;
Councilmen Campbell, Riley, and Chase.
On House of Correction. — Aldermen Bartlett and Holland ;
Councilmen Lacourse, Mullen, and Merrill.
On Military Affairs. — Aldermen Holland and Baldwin ;
Councilmen Plummer, Dyer, and Schimmel.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
On Enrollment. — Aldermen Bacon and Bartlett.
On Bills on Second jReading. — Aldermen Baldwin and W. P.
Farmer.
On Market. — Aldermen Bartlett and Lane.
On MarshaV s Accounts. — Aldermen Stearns and Holland.
On Licenses. — Aldermen Bacon and W. P. Farmer.
On Setting Trees. — Aldermen Lane and Stearns.
On Special Police. — Aldermen D. Farmer and Bacon.
STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE COMMON COUNCIL.
On Election Returns. — Councilmen Frost, Walker, Jr., and
Lacourse.
On Bills on Second Reading. — Councilmen Reed, Cousins,
and Freeman.
On Enrollment. — Councilmen Wright, Campbell, and
Merrill.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Judge of Police Court.
Nathan P. Hunt.
MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Associate Justice of Police Court.
Isaac L. Heath.
Clerk.
John C. Bickford.
City Marshal.
Horatio W. Longa.
Assistant Marshal.
John F. Cassidy.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
David B. Varney, ex officio Chairman.
James E. Dodge, Clerk.
Ward i.
Charles H. Manning.
John L. Sanborn.
Ward 2.
Benjamin C. Dean.
William C. Clarke.
Ward 3.
Nathan P. Hunt.
James E. Dodge.
Ward 4.
Frederick C. Crosby.
Stephen B. Stearns.
Ward 5.
John F. Cahill.
James P. Slattery.
Ward 6.
F. T. E. Richardson.
Charles G. Dodge.
Ward 7. '
Ed. B. Woodbury.
Marshall P. Hall.
Ward 8.
Luther C. Baldwin.
William K. Robbins.
John F. Frost, ex officio.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
William E. Buck.
TRUANT OFFICER.
Samuel Brooks.
ASSESSORS.
Henry Lewis. John Ryan.
John E. Stearns. George H. Dudley.
David O. Furnald. Andrew J. Dickey.
Harrison D. Lord. Frank T. Provost.
INSPECTORS OF CHECK-LISTS.
William B. Stearns. Michael F. Lawler.
Benjamin L. Hartshorn. Isaac Whittemore.
David O. Furnald. Joseph A. Foster.
Harrison D. Lord. Charles C. Tinkham.
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
David B. Varney, ex officio Chairman.
William H. Maxwell, Clerk.
William H. Maxwell. Thomas H. Mahoney.
Thomas L. Quimby. Charles Francis.
James Sutcliffe. * David W. Anderson.
Benjamin F. Garland, t Horatio Fradd.
George S. Holmes.
* Deceased. t Elected to fill vacancy.
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BOARD OF HEALTH.
George C. Hoitt, Chairman.
Joseph B. Sawyer, Clerk.
Wm. M. Parsons. Joseph B. Sawyer.
George C. Hoitt.
Russell White, Sanitary Inspector.
Charles H. Reed, Sanitary hispector.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Thomas W. Lane, Chief Engineer.
Fred S. Bean, Clerk.
Clarence D. Palmer. * Ruel G. Manning.
Fred S. Bean. Eugene S. Whitney
Clarence R. Merrill. ^f
WATER COMMISSIONERS.
David B. Varney, ex officio.
Alpheus Gay, Chairman.
James A. Weston, Clerk.
Edwin H. Hobbs. | Henry Chandler.
Andrew C. Wallace. James A. Weston.
Alpheus Gay. Joseph F. Kennard.
TRUSTEES OF CITY LIBRARY.
David B. Varney, ex officio.
John F. Frost, ex officio.
Lucien B. Clough. Daniel Clark.
Nathan P. Hunt. Isaac W. Smith.
Herman F. Straw. Moody Currier.
Benjamin C. Dean.
* Resigned. f Elected to fill vacancy. J Deceased November 27, 1890.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
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HIGHWAY SURVEYORS.
Dist
Dlst.
I.
John C. Ray.
8. Levi J. Proctor.
2.
Wm. Sanborn.
9. Alphonzo Boyce.
3-
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10. Charles O. Phelps.
4-
Rodney N. Whittemore.
11. Wm. H. Colby.*
5-
Mark E. Harvey.
II. Frank D. Hanscom.-f
6.
Albert J, Peaslee.
12. Leroy M. Streeter.
7-
Charles Francis.
13. John H. Campbell.
CITY
WEIGHER.
Jonathan S. Paige. *
Frank H. Crawford. * J
William Bayley. §
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Joseph B. Baril.
FISH AND GAME WARDENS.
John C. Higgins.
George A. Clark.
William F. Bradbury.
Samuel S. James.
William C. Clarke.
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES.
Sylvanus B. Putnam, Clerk.
Nathan P. Hunt, Bushrod W. Hill, for four years.
» Kesigned. f Elected to fill vacancy of Colby, Sept. 2, 1890, % Elected to
fill vacancy of Paige. § Elected to fill vacancy of Crawford.
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John M. Kendall, Hiram Stearns, for three years.
C. H. Bartlett, Joseph L. Stevens, for two years.
James A. Weston, John E. Stearns, for one year.
SUB-TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES.
Valley. — Alderman Lane, Councilman Wright; Messrs.
Hunt, Hill, and Kendall.
Pine Grove. — Alderman Bacon, Councilman Hunter ; Messrs.
Bartlett, Stevens, and Weston.
Amoskeag. — Councilman Heath ; Messrs. J. E. Stearns and
Hiram Stearns.
Byron A. Stearns, Supt. Pine Grove Cemetery.
Charles H. G. Foss, Supt. Valley Cemetery.
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERY FUNDS.
Hon. James A. Weston, Chairman.
Hon. Person C. Cheney.
Hon. David B. Varney, ex officio.
INSPECTORS.
Milk. — H. F. W. Little.
Buildings. — Thomas W. Lane.
Oil. — John P. Cronin and Edward J. Powers.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 13
WARD OFFICERS.
Moderators.
Ward I. — Stillman P. Cannon.
Ward 2. — Nicholas Nichols.
Ward 3. — Lyman W. Colby.
Ward 4. — John C. Bickford.
Ward 5. — John McAllister.
Ward 6. — Clarence D. Palmer.
Ward 7. — Ira W. Stearns.
Ward 8. —John W. Wilson.
Ward Clerks.
Ward I. — Frank X. Foster.
Ward 2. — Daniel C. Smith.
Ward 3. — Frank O. Moulton.
Ward 4. ' — Edwin L. Richardson.
Ward 5. — Thomas Howe.
Ward 6. — William H. Sleeper.
Ward 7. — Fred W. Pillsbury.
Ward 8. — Charles G. Ranno.
Selectmen.
Ward i. Ward 2.
Lees Ward. Daniel G. Andrews.
George C. Kemp. Charles R. Holbrook.
Amasa S. Hilands. Harry P. Ray.
Ward 3. Ward 4.
David Thayer. John F. Gillis.
Charles F. Garland. George E. Richards.
William H. Darling. Josiah H. Mann,
Ward 5. . Ward 6.
Charles J. Woods. George B. Rogers.
Martin J. Harvey. Jerome B. Titus.
Patrick C. Campbell. Peter D. St. Germain.
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Ward 7. Ward 8.
George B. Smith. Joseph A. Heon.
Sumner F. Claflin. Henry J. Hatch.
Willie D. Wheeler. Victor Sansoucie.
MAYOR VARNEY'S
VALEDICTORY ADDRESS.
MAYOR VARNEY'S ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of the City Councils :
As this is the last meeting that will be held under the present
administration, I deem it proper to take this occasion to thank
you individually and collectively for the courtesies that you have
extended to me during my incumbency of the office of Mayor.
Coming to the office without any previous training in matters of
municipal government, mistakes could not but be anticipated. If
from any error of judgment, or difference of opinion, any of you
have had reason to complain of any decision of mine, you have
done so in a manner creditable to yourselves and satisfactory to
me. In many cases, in your generosity you have kindly overlooked
the fault, and have been content to ignore the matter altogether.
I wish also to thank you for your prompt attendance at the
various meetings of the city government, and the wholesome in-
terest you have shown in all matters relating to the city's affairs.
I think I am justified in saying that the retiring city govern-
ment has done much that will redound to its credit ; that the
two years in which we have held control of the city's affairs have
been years of progress, and that now as we prepare to lay down
our trust that we can look back w'ith pride on what has been ac-
complished.
I do not propose, as has been the custom of my predecessors,
to write a valedictory for publication, as the auditor early in
the year will issue the annual year book, giving a detailed state-
ment of what has been done in all the public departments during
the year 1890, together with amass of other information with re-
lation to the city's recent municipal career, of a most interesting
character.
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I cannot refrain, however, from calling your attention to a few
of the things, permanent in their character, by which this admin-
istration will be judged not only by the people of our own day
but, I trust, by those of a later generation.
In a city the size and character of Manchester, with more
than 140 miles of streets and roads in its corporate limits, there
is a constant demand for new sewers and streets, and for im-
provements and repairs upon those already in existence. During
the last two years there have been built in Manchester 28,425
feet of sewerage, more than five and one fourth miles. There have
been laid 33,773 square yards of macadamizing, amounting in a
lineal measurement to 10,849 ^^^^j °^ ^ little over two miles.
There has also been laid 5,963}^ square yards of concrete road-
way, amounting to 2,450 feet in length. There have been about
30 miles of streets turnpiked and graded, and a great amount of
other work done in the street department, enumeration of which
is not necessary here. The sewers that have been constructed
have many of them been built under tremendous difficulties ; in
many places the sev/er trenches have been from 15 to 20 feet in
depth, much of the distance through a solid ledge. In spite of
the odds under which the sewer department has labored, the facts
show that more sewer main has been constructed during the past
two years than has ever been the case before, during the same
length of time.
An important piece of work was the replanking of McGregor
bridge. All the bridges in the city have been replanked or re-
paired, and are believed to be in,a good state of preservation.
Another matter that will be readily recalled by many of you
is the building of the new city stables. It has been obvious for
a long time that the quarters at the Vine-street station were too
cramped for both the street and fire departments,,and the city
government is, I believe, to be congratulated on having remedied
this evil, and given to each department the quarters it so mani-
festly needed.
The chief building enterprise of this administration has been
the new West Manchester school building. The school facilities
on that side of the river have for some time been crowded and
MAYOR VARNEY's ADDRESS. 19
insufficient ; realizing this fact, the present city government took
steps very early in its career to increase the school property on
the West Side. A lot was purchased on a commanding elevation
and a substantial and modernly appointed structure erected
thereon at a cost of not far from $42,000. The building will
accommodate eight schools, and by a comparatively small outlay
two more. The edifice is one in which we may well take pride,
and although the erection of a school building, or any other
structure where it is necessary to expend any considerable sum,
is apt to arouse criticism for the time being, that is the lot of
all public servants and should be borne cheerfully. I think, gen-
tlemen, we can safely await the verdict of the future as to the
wisdom of erecting this structure in the thorough and pains-
taking manner that we have done.
The creation of the office of City Auditor is another event
which belongs to this administration and one I think in which
we may all take a just pride. The influence of the office cannot
but be beneficial to the city.
Our police and fire departments have maintained their previous
high standard of efficiency, and are believed to be in better con-
dition to-day than ever before. The city's enterprise has been
shown by the interest taken in the matter of public parks, two of
which in easily accessible locations we now control. There are
other matters of which I might speak, but I will not further tres-
pass on your time.
The office of mayor of a city of 44,000 inhabitants, with the
industry, enterprise, and zeal of Manchester, is one which any
citizen may well feel proud to hold. The responsibilities at-
tached to the position are many and great and are deserving of
the best thought and warmest endeavor of the ablest men in the
community. Manchester should be no laggard in the race for
industrial and mercantile honor and position in which she is en-
gaged, and in which she has as competitors many older, richer,
and more powerful municipalities. It is only by pursuing a wise,
broad-minded, and liberal policy that she will be able to avoid
the mistakes of others and secure to herself that full measure of
prosperity which is so manifestly in the future her due.
DAVID B. VARNEY, Mayor.
REPORT
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
BOARD OF Water commissioners.
1890.
DAVID B. VARNEY, Mayor, ex officio.
James A. Weston, Clerk, term expires January, 1897.
Henry Chandler, term expires January, 1892.
Alpheus Gay, Ptesideiit, term expires January, 1893.
A. C. Wallace, term expires January, 1894.
Edwin H. Hobbs,* term expires January, 1895.
Joseph F. Kennard, term expires January, 1896.
officers.
Charles K. Walker, Supej-intendent.
Arthur E. Stearns, Registrar.
Charles C. Cole, Engineer at Pumping Station.
* Deceased November 27, 1890. Charles H. Manning elected to fill vacancy .^
REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester :
Gentlemen, — The Board of Water Commissioners have the
honor to present herewith their nineteenth annual report for the
year ending December 31, 1890, together with the report of the
superintendent covering the same period of time, to which refer-
ence is made for the details of the service connected with this
department.
The receipts and expenditures for the year have been as fol-
lows :
Balance unexpended December 31, 1889 . . $39,589.21
Receipts from all sources ..... 90,463.37
Total $130,052.58
Appropriated to pay interest . $36,000.00
Expended on construction . . 11,314.87
Repairs and running expenses . 22,088.82
Total expenditures ..... 69,403.69
Balance unexpended ...... $60,648.89
The increase in gross receipts over the year 1889 is $3,762.91.
The construction expenses have not been as large as usual from
the fact that very little cast iron pipe has been purchased, the
stock left over from the previous year having been nearlv suffi-
cient to answer the requirements. It is estimated that an ex-
24 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
penditure of about $30,000 will be advisable the coming year to
furnish the desired quantity of pipe, gates, hydrants, and special
castings, in order to continue the renewals and make the exten-
sions demanded by the expansion of the city limits.
Another year of excessive rainfall has caused the low lands
surrounding Massabesic lake to be unusually wet and in some
instances flooded immediately after heavy rains. The water in
the lake has in consequence been kept high a considerable part
of the season. While it is a manifest advantage to the owners of
land bordering on the lake to have a full pond and as near as
possible an unvarying stage of water, some have entertained a
different view and have claimed that the high water was due to
the dam at the outlet, instead of ascribing it to the true cause, so
manifest to those who have given attention to the subject,
namely, the heavy and, for considerable periods of time, almost
incessant rains. Yet your commissioners have pursued the pol-
icy adopted some years ago and have purchased such lands as
have been offered at reasonable prices. They have also purchased
several pieces of real estate in Auburn village, where locations
were such that the drainage from the buildings must necessarily
mingle with the waters of the lake.
The attention of your commissioners has been called to the
subject of a high service system of water-works by a petition to
your honorable body, which was referred to them. After con-
sultation with the joint standing committee on water-works, Mr.
M. M. Tidd, of Boston, a hydraulic engineer of long experience
and acknowledged ability, was employed to make a thorough ex-
amination of the various methods that have been suggested for
carrying out the project, and prepare estimates of the cost of the
different plans. The results of his investigations are embodied in
an exhaustive report appended hereto. It is desirable that atten-
tion be given to this subject before the annual appropriations are
made, in order that means may be provided for carrying on the
work, should it be deemed expedient to inaugurate the enterprise
the coming season. The questions, therefore, as to the advisabil-
ity of constructing this system, and also whether the time has ar-
rived when it is required for the convenience of the citizens
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 25
immediately interested and for the reasonable protection of their
property, are submitted for your early consideration and de-
cision.
In such investigation as you wish to make bearing on this sub-
ject, your commissioners will be glad to furnish any aid in their
power by conference or otherwise. In this connection they beg
to suggest that whenever the work is undertaken it progress by
such moderate stages that the cost may be met by the income of
the water-works and thus avoid raising the funds by taxation.
Respectfully submitted.
ALPHEUS GAY, President,
D. B. VARNEY, Mayor, ex officio,
A. C. WALLACE,
HENRY CHANDLER,
JOSEPH F. KENNARD,
JAMES A. WESTON, C/er^,
Board of Water Commissioners.
January i, 1891.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the Board of Water Commissioners of the City of Ma^ichester •
Gentlemen, — I herewith submit the report of the superin-
tendent for the year 1890.
For the past four years there has been a large supply of water
in the lake. The lowest point reached the past season was eleven
inches above the dam. This was in the month of August. In
the month of October the water was the highest on account of
the heavy rains during that month.
The following is the rainfall each year for the past three years,
furnished by Sergeant J. H. Melton :
1888 ..... 46.81 inches.
1889 36.94 "
1890 45-70 "
From the records kept by the Amoskeag Corporation at the
gate house, we get the amount from 1880 to 1888.
1880 .
27.76 inches.
1884 .
38.32 inches,
I88I .
• 38.91 "
1885 .
. 36.28 "
1882 .
• 33-9° "
1886 .
- 35-79 "
1883 .
• 30-93 "
1887 .
• 43-02
There has been cut on the city's land just south of Johnson's
Beach a little over 100 cords of wood, mostly birches that had
begun to decay. On the same land there is a small growth of
sapling pines that were left. They are growing quite fast, and
will thrive all the better for cutting out the other trees. About
three fourths of this wood was hauled to the pipe yard near the
Portsmouth railroad, sawed, and piled up to be used for melting
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 27
lead. The remainder was hauled to the pumping-station.
There is now wood enough on hand for another year. A fire at
the pipe yard last autumn caused the loss of about five cords of
wood and several lengths of fence. No repairs have been made
on the dam, canal, or penstock, with the exception of some wood
work on the gates at the head of the canal.
At the pumping-station we have had no serious accident.
Every part of the machinery has run well, and is in good condi-
tion at the present time. The old blacksmith shop just west of
the station has been taken down and a new building erected.
One part is used for a storehouse, and the other for a blacksmith
shop.
The following table shows the amount of water pumped each
month during the year 1890 by each pump :
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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The force and supply main had about the usual number of
leaks. No repairs have been made on the reservoir or gate house.
A cheap shed 48 feet long and 16 feet wide has been built at the
pipe yard for storing special castings, hydrants, and wood.
DISTRIBUTION PIPES.
We commenced to lay pipe the last day of April and finished
the 29th day of October. The following are the streets where
the pipe has been extended : Auburn, Belmont, Beauport, Bay,
Conant, Cartier, Dubuque, Gore, Prospect, Lake Avenue, Jew-
ett, West Hancock, and Young road. The whole amount is
7,629 feet, equal to 1.44 miles, at an expense of ^5,375.
The pipe taken out and laid over was 995 feet on Auburn
street from the 14-inch on Elm to Pine with 8-inch pipe ; west of
Elm to Canal street, 426 feet of 6-inch pipe; Bowman street, 810
feet of 6-inch ; Barr street, 232 feet of 4-inch ; Cedar street, from
the 14-inch on Elm to Pine, 993 feet of 8-inch ; Concord street,
from the east side of Elm to Pine street, 940 feet of 8-inch ;
Chestnut street, 275 feet of 4-inch; Central street, 40 feet of 6-
inch ; Granite street, 355 feet of 6-inch ; Hanover street from
the east side of Elm to Pine, 929 feet of 8-inch ; Douglas street,
124 feet of 6-inch ; Laurel street, 40 feet 6-inch; Main street,
430 feet lo-inch, Merrimack street from the 14-inch on Elm to
Pine, 985 feet of 8-inch; Mast road, 461 feet of 6-inch; Man-
chester street from the east side of Elm to Chestnut street, 570
feet of 8-inch ; Pearl street from the east side of Elm to Pine,
920 feet of 8-inch, 32 feet of 6-inch; Pine street from Amherst
to Concord street, 330 feet of 8-inch ; Pine from Lake Avenue
to Merrimack, 750 feet of 8-inch, 8 feet of 6-inch; Second street,
488 feet 6-inch ; Spruce street, from the 14-inch on Elm to Chest-
nut, 640 feet of 8-inch; Walnut street, 260 feet of 4-inch ; Vine
street, 30 feet 4-inch. The whole length, 12,063 ^^^^ i^ equal to
a little over 2^^ miles, at an expense of $11,426.
The greater part of the old cement pipe is found to be in bad
condition. But there are some sections of 50 to 100 feet in
length where the cement pipe is perfectly sound. One place in
particular was noticed in making the connection on Merrimack
30 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
street with the 14- inch on Ehii across the latter street, the pipe
was just as sound and free from rust as when first laid. The
cement pipe has been taken out where it was considered the
poorest. It will be noticed by the above that the pipes relaid,
excepting 430 feet of lo-inch, are the smaller sized, mostly 8, 6,
and 4 inch.
Two years ago 641 tons of cast iron pipe were bought, think-
ing it would be enough for a two years supply, but laying more
8-inch than was estimated at that time, 400 pieces more were
purchased, equal to about 100 tons. Next year we shall have to
buy a large amount if we are to continue to re-lay and make ex-
tensions, as has been done the past season.
We have set twenty new hydrants the past year, making in all
461. Last winter there was not much trouble about freezing.
Last month, during the first of the cold weather, the street de-
partment began to use them for washing out sewers and cess-
pools, but were notified to quit till warmer weather. As it was
we found five hydrants frozen on account of letting water in
when the thermometer was about zero.
As a whole, the water works have run with as little trouble the
past season as any. We have had about the same number of
leaks and washouts. All claims presented for damages on this
account have been adjusted.
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
31
PIPES, GATES, AND HYDRANTS LAID IN 1890.
Streets.
Pipe laid in feet.
Gates set.
c
Location.
6 in.
4 in.
CO
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to
a
204
East to No 3SS
1
2
Barr
Bay
625
263
778
390
9
2
Bay
S'thw'd to John Dolber res.
Northward to Massabesic.
Schuyler — northward.
Beauport
Cor. Milford.
252
613
Southward to Sullivan.
1
Central
West side Pine
1
466
West St. to Dubuque.
Cor Elm
1
Dubuque
550
248
Valley northward.
To Walnut.
60
667
Eastward to shoe shop.
Cor.Elni, Chestnut and Pine.
Valley northward.
Eastward from Cass st.
Cor. Pine.
3
373
419
2
2
1
Cor. Elm and Chestnut.
Cor. Elm.
Merrimack.. . .
Pearl
232
East of Ashland
Pearl
1
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20
Cor Elm
Prospect
721
2
East of Russell
1
Cor Elm
1
7G0
East of Taylor.
248
12
13
3
7,381
Number miles of pipe laid, 1890,
" gates set, "
" hydrants set, "
1.44, or 7,629 feet,
28
20
LOCATION OF HYDRANTS SET, 189O.
Auburn, cor. Elm; Bay, cor. Salmon; Belmont, near Coffin
residence ; Blaine, cor. Main ; Cartier, cor. Sullivan ; Cedar,
cor. Elm; Conant, cor. Cartier; Conant, cor. Dubuque; Con-
cord, cor. Elm ; Hancock, near Shoe shop ; Hanover, cor. Elm ;
Hanover, cor. Pine ; Jewett, cor. Massabesic ; Lake Ave. ;
Manchester, cor. Elm ; Merrimack, cor. Elm ; Pearl, cor. Elm ;
Prospect, cor. Linden ; Spruce, cor. Elm ; Young road.
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The following places are where cement-lined pipe was taken up
and cast-iron laid :
Steeets.
Length
in feet.
Gates.
Location.
10 in.
8 iu.
6 in.
4 in.
995
1
426
Elm to Canal.
Granite to Douglas.
Mast to Milford.
BaiT
232
810
Cedar ,
993
1
40
275
940
124
355
West St. west.
929 _
Elm to Pine.
Corner Pine.
Near engine-house.
Elm to Chestnut.
40
430
570
461
985
920
330
750
640
1
Pearl
32
Pine
Pine
8
1
488
Walnut
260
30
Bridge to Pearl.
Vine
430
8052
2784
797
4
Total 12,063 feet.
On Auburn, Spruce, Cedar, Merrimack, Manchester, Hanover,
and Concord, 6-inch pipe was replaced with 8-inch pipe. One
6-inch gate was taken out on Auburn, Cedar, Spruce, and Merri-
mack, corner Elm.
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 37
DISTRIBUTION PIPES AND GATES LAID TO DECEMBER 31, 1890.
Size.
Cement-lined pipe.
Cast-iron pipe.
Gates.
20 ineli diameter
20,660.00 ft.
5,146.00 ft.
9
14 iucli diameter
6,825.00 "
7,598.00 "
11
12 inch diameter
7,983.00 "
11,709.00 "
20
10 inch diameter
4,383.75 "
11,194.00 "
14
8 inch diameter
9,506.00 "
20,680.00 "
45
6 inch diameter
70,402.50 "
97,336.00 "
296
4 inch diameter
6,774.00 "
9,956.00 "
40
126,434.25 ft.
163,619.00 ft.
435
23.946 miles cement-lined pipe.
30.988 miles cast-iron pipe.
54.934 total miles of pipe.
435 gates.
461 hydrants.
7 air valves.
METERS.
The number of meters set during the year was one hundred
and eighty-four (184).
Total number of meters now in use, eleven hundred and thir-
ty-five (1,135).
The number of applications for water to date has been thirty-
five hundred forty-five (3,545).
SERVICE PIPES.
One hundred and sixty-six (166) service pipes have been laid
this year, as follows :
164 I inch diameter ..... 4,199.7 feet.
I i| " " 36.0 "
12"" 21.5 "
Total number of feet laid, 1S90
4,257.2
38
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Service Pipes Relaid.
\ inch diameter, 73.8 feet, to i inch diameter, 74.5 feet.
3 £(
66.6
33-0
to i^
to I
68.3
16.0
Thirty-three hundred and ninety-two (3,392) service pipes
have been laid to date, as follows :
39 Y-z inch diameter
1768 ^
1488 I
23 i^
18 i>^
47 2
I 2>^
I 3
7 4
Total length of service pipe
Number of miles of service pipe, 16.95
845.0
feet.
46,473-9
u
38,095.5
u
1.293.5
((
552-3
((
1,904.9
(1
57-0
(1
16.8
<(
233-0
1(
,471.9 feet.
The income from the sale of water for 1890 has been as
follows :
Received for water by rate .
" for water by meter
" for building purposes
" from fines
" for labor and pipe sold
" of G. G. Griffin (lease)
'' of B. P. Kimball (for grass)
" of W. G. Brown (rent) .
" of George P. Clark (lease)
'' of Fletcher Brown (lease)
Abatements, ^191.66.
^52,311. ID
37,009.80
649.90
151.80
298.77
1. 00
2.00
36.00
2.00
I. GO
^0,463-37
Current expenses for 1890
^22,088.82
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
39
Construction expenses for 1890
Appropriated for interest, 1890
Receipts over expenditures
Amount on hand January i, 1890
Amount received, 1890
Amount expended, 1890
Amount on hand, Dec. 31, 1890
CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUN
Superintendence and repairs
Stationery and printing
Office and incidental expenses
Pumping expenses
Repairs to dam, canal, and reservoir
Repairs to buildings
Current expenses for 1890
Service pipes
Distribution pipes
Fire hydrants and valves
Meters and fixtures
Pump house and building
Land ....
Grading and fencing
Construction expense, 1890
Land and water rights .
Dam, canal, penstock, and races .
Pumping machinery, pump house, and
buildings .
Distributing reservoir .
Force and supply main .
Distribution pipes
$11,314.87
36,000.00
$69,403.69
$21,059.68
$39,589.21
90.463-37
5130,052.58
69,403.69
$60,648.89
rs
FOR 1890.
$17,640.11
229.37
1,409.01
2,590.90
85.00
134-43
$1,871.37
2,077.73
1,801.78
2,957-33
298.90
2,290.75
17.01
$11,314.87
$57,383-20
101,399.16
107,444.07
71,542.36
89,769.02
368,598.25
40
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Fire hydrants and valves
Tools and fixtures
Boarding and store houses
Roads and culverts
Supplies ...
Engineering
Livery and traveling expenses
Legal expenses
Grading and fencing .
Service pipes
Meters and fixtures
Total construction account to
Dec. 31, 1S90
Current expenses :
Superintendence, collecting, a.nd re-
pairs ....
Stationery and printing
Office and incidental expenses
Pumping expenses and repairs
Repairs to buildings
Repairs to dam, canal, races, and reser-
voir . . ....
Total current expenses to Dec.
31, 1890 . . . .
Interest ......
Highway expenditures ....
Total amount of bills approved
to date . . . .
Interest, discount, and labor performed
on highways, trans., and tools and
materials sold .....
Current expenses to Dec. 31, 1890
141,863.00
10,649.35
919.36
2,193.49
550.39
22,176.19
2,856.64
563-79
13,588.26
47,692.74
26,365.13
$140,614.07
5,480.00
18,312.96
39,029.08
1,576.09
3:725-15
,554-40
^208,737.35
$40,678.51
14,000.53
54,679.04
$1,228,970.79
^62,093.35
208,737.35
270,830.70
BOARD OP WATER COMMISSIONERS.
41
Total
interest and
discount
to
Dec.
31
1S90
•
Amount
paid tow
ard interest to Dec.
31.
1890
^449:
000.00
Amount
trans
in
1890
•
36
000.00
Total cost, exclusive of interest
and current expenses . . $958,140.09
Interest and discount to Dec. 31, 1890 $592,919.51
Interest for 1890 ..... -34,177.00
•27,096.51
$485,000.00
the city treas-
$S73-6i
177.07
193.26
146.00
1.920.53
607.89
14,000.53
12,347-25
22,361.74
30,233.54
4,566.25
15.00
2,089.45
27,119.15
125.00
24.00
38,879.47
43,823.30
48,873.26
1. 00
Total .....
The following amounts have been paid over to
urer, and credited to the water-works :
1872, supplies and materials sold
1873, supplies and materials sold
accrued interest on water bonds sold
accrued interest on state bonds sold
water rents ....
1874, supplies and materials sold
March 12, highway expenditures, trans
from water account
March 17, interest and discount trans
from water account
Sept. I, interest and discount trans, from
water account
water and hydrant rent, etc.
Dec. 29, interest transferred
1875, Dec. 18, one anvil sold
Sept. 25, engine, crusher, and material sold
water and hydrant rent, etc.
1876, May 20, derrick sold
May 20, rent of derrick
water and hydrant rent, etc.
1877, water and hydrant rent, etc.
1878, water and hydrant rent, etc.
old plow sold ....
42
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
1879, derrick sold ....
May 20, water and hydrant rent, etc.
1880, water and hydrant rent, etc.
sale of grass
level, transit, etc.
1 88 1, water and hydrant rent, etc.
sale of grass
derrick ....
received of G. G. Griffin .
1882, water and hydrant rent, etc.
received of G. G. Griffin .
received of James Baldwin & C(
received from the sale of grass
received from Goodhue & Birnie
received for old plank
received for use of derrick
1883, received of G. G. Griffin .
received from sale of grass
water and hydrant rent, etc.
1884, received of G. G. Griffin .
received for stone
received from sale of grass
received from pipe sold and labor
received for water and hydrant rent
1885, received from G. G. Griffin
B. P. Kimball, for grass
labor and pipe sold .
received for water and hydrant rent
1886, received from G. G. Griffin
B. P. Kimball, for grass
for wood ....
labor and pipe .
water and hydrant rent
1887, received for labor and pipe
received of G. G. Griffin .
received of C. C. Cole
received of B. P. Kimball, for grass
$75.00
53,068.17
57,395-25
10.00
250.00
60,154.62
10.00
50.00
1. 00
67,403.76
1. 00
175.00
10.00
24-37
1. 00
15.00
1. 00
20.00
73j437-2o
1. 00
5.00
10.00
616.20
74,947.88
1. 00
10.00
13-45
80,379.67
1. 00
5.00
37.80
282.43
74,803.76
768.86
1. 00
-50
10.00
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
43
1887, received of A. J, Crombie, for grass
received of A. Goodwin, for poles
received of W, G. Brown .
received of T, H. Risdon & Co., for freight
received for water and hydrant rent
1888, received for labor and pipe
received of G. G. Griffin .
received of George P. Clark
received of R. D. Wood & Co. (gear)
received for water and hydrant rent
1889, received for labor and pipe
received of G. G. Griffin .
received of B. P. Kimball, for grass
received of W. G. Brown, for rent
received of James Baldwin, for pipe
received of Mr. Clement, for pipe
received for water and hydrant rent
1890, received of G. G. Griffin (lease)
received of Fletcher Brown (lease)
received of George P. Clark (lease)
received of B. P. Kimball, for grass
received of W. G. Brown, for rent
received of N, W. Ellis & Co., for pipe
received of J. H. Dearborn, for pipe
received for water and hydrant rent
Total received for water, etc.
Amount appropriated to date
Amount received to date .
Amount of bills approved to date
Amount transferred toward interest
$5.00
10.00
25.00
15. II
79,682.70
227.33
1. 00
2.00
16.29
85.397-20
89.77
1. 00
2.00
50.00
65.00
•50
86,492.19
1. 00
1. 00
2.00
2.00
36.00
153-00
35-40
90,232.97
$1,134,619.68
640,000.00
$.i»774,6i9.68
1,228,970.79
$545,648.89
485,000.00
Balance on hand Dec. 31, 1890 . . $60,648.89
CHARLES K. WALKER,
Supeririten dent.
44
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
USES FOR WHICH WATER IS SUPPLIED.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
I Jail.
4
Cemeteries.
21 Churches.
I
Orphanage.
I Court-house.
I
Post-office.
6 Hose Companies.
I
City Library.
4 Fire-engines.
6
Banks.
I Hook-and-ladder.
8
HoteJs.
2 Opera-houses.
I
Masonic Hall.
I Convent.
I
Odd Fellows' Hall.
2 City Hospitals.
I
Holly-Tree Inn.
I Old Ladies' Home.
3
Halls.
I Soldiers' Monument.
23
Schoolhouses.
I Turner Hall.
I
Battery Building.
4 Fountains.
I
Skating Rink.
2 Trust Companies.
MANUFACTURING
', ESTABLISHMENTS.
I Hosiery mill.
2
Granite works.
I Silver-plating.
2
Electric light stations,
2 iron foundries.
3
Sash and blind shops.
2 Dyehouses.
I
Brewery.
4 Machine-shops.
I
Shoe-shop.
6 Clothing manufactories.
I
Gas-works.
8 Harness-shops.
4
Slaughter-houses.
I Brush-shop.
I
Soap manufactory.
9 Carriage-shops.
4
Needle manufactories,
12 Cigar factories.
4
Beer-bottling.
I Brass and copper foundry.
3
Book-binderies.
I Locomotive works.
I
Paper-mill.
I Grist-mill.
2
Box makers.
MARKETS.
5 Fish.
2
Meat (wholesale).
9 Meat and fish.
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
45
STABLES.
19 Livery.
798
Private.
I Horse-railroad.
OFFICES.
15 Dentists.
14
Printing.
I Telephone.
I
Gas.
2 Telegraph.
9
Coal.
3 Express.
SHOPS.
27 Barber.
2
Currying.
9 Wheelwright.
6
Plumber and gas and water
II Blacksmith.
pipe.
5 Carpenter.
8
Paint.
I Tinsmith.
I
Gunsmith.
STORES.
4 Auction.
82
Grocery.
28 Drug.
S
Meal.
13 Jewelry.
3
Hardware.
I Fur.
30
Boot and shoe.
2 House-furnishing goods,
8
Stove.
20 Fancy goods.
17
Gents' furnishing goods.
I Wholesale paper.
7
Book.
5 Wholesale produce.
I
Leather and shoe-finders.
21 Dry goods.
3
Music.
12 Candy.
3
Upholstery.
I Cloak.
8
Undertakers.
15 Millinery.
5
Sewing-machine.
2 Tea.
I
Feather-cleaner.
9 Furniture.
I
Rubber.
SALOONS.
II Dining.
69
Liquor.
6 Billiard.
46
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
MISCELLANEOUS,
6 Club-rooms.
2 Bleacheries.
19 Laundries.
3 Ice-houses.
10 Photographers.
5 Greenhouses.
2 Band rooms.
18 Bakeries.
2 Waste.
X Business college.
WATER FIXTURES, ETC.
7807 Families.
117 Boarding-houses.
9743 Faucets.
15 1 2 Wash-bowls.
2485 Water-closets.
235 Wash-tubs.
747 Bath-tubs.
128 Urinals.
1983 Sill-cocks.
461 Fire-hydrants.
35 Stand-pipes.
21 Watering-troughs.
4 Drinking-fountains.
1932 Horses.
90 Cattle.
I Public urinal.
MATERIAL ON HAND.
PIPE.
1300 feet 20 in.
2100 feet 12 in.
1935 feet 8 in.
1896 feet 4 in.
4 m.
8 in.
1535 feet 14 in.
1644 feet 10 in.
7000 feet 6 in.
GATES.
7 6 in.
I 10 in.
I 20 in.
6 12 in.
24 6 in.
WHOLE SLEEVES.
6 14 in.
7 10 in.
10 4 in.
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
47
CLAMP SLEEVES.
3 20
in.
3 12
in.
27 8
in.
10 4
in.
2 14
in.
5 10
in.
I 12
in.
5 double 6 on
12.
8 doi;
ible 6 on-
10.
2 double 6 on
6.
2 double 4 on
6.
8 double 4 on
4-
10 double 8 on
8.
4 double 4 on
8.
2 single 6 on
14,
I sin^
^le 12 on
14.
I 14 to 12.
8 8 to 6.
5 10 to 6.
3 8 to 4-
I 10 in. 1-8.
I 14 in. 1-8.
I
6 14 in.
46 10 in.
65 6 in.
PLUCxS.
6 in. 1-8.
17 6 in.
18 8 in.
BRANCHES.
3 single 6 on 12.
2 single 10 on 10.
I single 6 on 10.
I single 8 on 8.
10 single 6 on 8.
16 single 6 on 6.
I single 4 on 6.
I single 4 on 4.
1 single 8 on 10.
REDUCERS.
8 6 to 4.
2 12 to 6.
5 8 to 10.
BENDS.
6 6 in. 1-4.
10 8 in. 1-4. *
I 12 in. 1-8.
2^ in. 54 feet.
2 in. 476 feet.
lyi in. 250 feet.
SERVICE PIPE.
i/< ill- 332 feet.
I in. 1490 feet.
^ in. 664 feet.
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REPORT
CITY ENGINEER.
CITY ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT.
1890.
CITY ENGINEER.
WINFRED H. BENNETT.
ASSISTANTS.
Harrie M. Young.
George W. Wales.
John J. McDonough.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
To His Honor the Mayor, and Gentlemen of the City Councils :
Sirs, — I have the honor of presenting my fifth annual report,
being the twelfth annual report of the work in the City En-
gineer's office and the several highway districts of the city of
Manchester, for the year ending December 31, 1890.
Expenses of the office for the year 1890 :
For salary of city engineer
^1,170.00
salary of assistants ....
1,478.88
supplies for the office
153-74
repairing .....
10.69
additional horse hire
242.00
stakes
19-35
horse-shoeing and repairs of wagon
and harness, including bill of 1S89
45-75
horse-car fares .....
10.45
street numbers ....
9-3°
printing reports ....
25-75
express and postage ....
2.85
repairing drawing-boards . .
12.43
expenses ......
2.85
books and folios ....
37-85
Total
. .
$3,221.89
Appropriation
•
3,000.00
Amount overdrawn
.■^221.80
52 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The items for salary of assistants may be divided as follows :
For giving lines and grades for the extension and
construction of streets and sidewalks . . $136.05
plans and profiles relating to the construction of
streets and sidewalks . . . . . 99.18
surveys and levels for the construction of streets
and scAvers ....... 103.54
giving lines and grades for the construction of
sewers not mentioned in these items . . 52-47
plans and profiles relating to the construction of
sewers as above ...... 63.47
surveys and measurements for the assignment of
street numbers ...... 92-53
making plans, taking levels, and preparing data
for the laying out of Candia road . . . 82.01
making plans, taking levels, and preparing data
for the laying out of Hanover-street road . 4i'53
taking levels and making plans of Calef road . - 21.78
plans, levels, lines, and grades relating to the
construction of the Massabesic-street sewer . 33-^3
plans, levels, lines, and grades relating to the
construction of the Granite-street sewer . . i7-45
plans, levels, lines, and grades relating to the
construction of the main sewer outlet at Merri-
mack river . . . . . . . 1-1-74
making plans for improvements other than those
mentioned in this account .... 54-35
surveys, levels, and plans, also lines and grades
given for improvements in Pine Grove ceme-
tery ........ 97-69
surveys, levels, and plans, also lines and grades
given for improvements in Valley cemetery . 10.76
surveys, levels, and plans, also lines and grades
given for repairing and extending the street
railway ........ 38-05
collecting data, classifying accounts, and other
work in relation to office report .■ . . 44.10-
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53
For plan and notes for Derryfield park
copying and indexing old records of highways .
indexing plans and notes .....
making plans, furnishing lines and grades for con-
tractor, and estimating amount of earth re-
moved on Beauport street
checking notes, figures, etc.
measuring amount of coal in schoolhouses for
city auditor ......
making plans of streets in city clerk's book of
records .......
levels and grades at Government building .
work in city yard in relation to stable
making plan of present city farm, also for pro
posed improvements ....
plans for improvements at central fire station
locating street-signs .....
preparing and mounting drawing paper for office
use .......
locating cesspools, manholes, etc.
office work preparing notes, data, records, etc
office work, information given engineers and
others regarding lines, grades, sewers, etc.
Total
^68.25
47-95
11.77
21-53
9.60
15-72
17.00
13.68
1 4. 1 1
17.10
22.76
6.60
19.25
21.50
93-93
.75-3°
^1,478-88
Expenses for soldiers' monument :
For water ...... . $190.00
The amount of work done in the office during the year is as
follows :
Number of orders for surveys, street lines, and grades . 846
Number of orders for sewer and paving grades . . 99
Number of orders for street-railway grades . . . 19
Number of orders for profile levels . . . . . 18
Total number of orders
982
54
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Levels for profiles for establishing grades, 38,868 feet, equal to
7.36 miles. These profiles, having three lines of levels on each
street, make a total distance actually leveled of 116,604 f^et.
Levels for sewer profiles . . . . . 1,455 ^'^^t-
Levels for other center profiles
Levels in Pine Grove cemetery
Levels in Valley cemetery
Other levels ....
Total levels taken
Equal to 25.94 miles.
Surveys of streets and street lines
Surveys in Pine Grove cemetery
Surveys in Valley cemetery .
Surveys for street numbers
Other surveys
Total surveys made .
Equal to 26.42 miles.
Street lines marked on ground . , .
Lines of lots and avenues. Pine Grove cemetery
Lines of lots and avenues, Valley cemetery
Lines, for street centers
Lines for gutters .
Lines for curbs
Lines for sewers
Lines for street railway
Other lines .
Total length of lines marked on ground
Equal to 14.71 miles.
Grades set for sidewalks
Grades set for centers .
Grades set for gutters .
Grades set for curb
Grades set for sewers
Grades set for street-railway tracks
4,535
1,855
179
12,361
136,989
feet
47,550
feet
13,270
((
1,300
( (
28,125
11
49,264
li
139,509
feet
32,290
feet
6,950
800
2,811
15,542
3,901
10,243
4,731
400
77,668 feet.
31,552 feet
2,811
15,542
3,901
10,243
4,731
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
55
Grades set in Pine Grove cemetery
Grades set in Valley cemetery
Other grades .....
Total length of grades set .
Equal to 14 miles.
Area leveled for cross-section
Profile measurements made .
Equal to 9.75 miles.
Perambulation of lines between Manchester and
surrounding towns ......
Equal to 27.35 I'liil^s.
BATTERS SET.
City yard, city stable.
Massabesic-street culvert, at Cemetery brook
Old lots relaid in Valley cemetery .
Old lots relaid in Pine Grove cemetery .
New lots laid out in Pine Grove cemetery
Total cemetery lots laid out .
Street numbers assigned and put on
Street numbers replaced ....
Street numbers assigned, but not put on .
Total
3,657 feet.
178 "
1,344 "
• 73,959 feet.
24,825 sq. feet.
51,500 feet.
144,439 feet.
5
33
106
144
142
846
294
1,282
This year, as in previous years, the city engineer has investi-
gated, and made surveys in all cases where suits were liable to be
brought against the city. Cases investigated and reported to the
Committee on Claims, 4.
PLANS AND PROFILES MADE FOR SIDEWALK GRADES.
Adams street, from Webster street to Ray brook.
Candia road, from Mammoth road to Auburn line. Fifteen
plans.
Central street, from Beacon to Highland street.
Chestnut street, from Clarke street northerly.
56 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
East High street, from Jane street to Wilson road.
Elm avenue, from Elm street to Calef road.
Front street, from Goffstown road to north of Dunbarton
road. Three plans.
Hanover street, from Chestnut to Pine street.
Hanover street, from Beech to Maple street.
Hanover street, from Beacon street to Candia road. Ten
plans.
Massabesic street, from Cypress street to Mammoth road.
Three plans.
Merrimack street, from Elm to Wilson street. Four plans.
Second street, from M. & N. W. R. R, to Piscataquog river.
West Hancock street, from Merrimack river westerly 1,435
feet.
Total plans and profiles, 43.
SEWER PLANS AND PROFILES.
Adams street, from Clarke street northerly.
Bay street, from Sagamore to Salmon street.
Concord street, from Maple to Derry street.
Elm east back street, from Valley to Young street.
Granite, Barr, and Douglas streets, mains and laterals. Three
plans.
Main sewer outlet, extension to river.
Massabesic street, from Lake avenue to Cypress street. Two
plans.
Pearl street, from Ashland to Belmont street.
Sagamore street, from Elm to Bay street.
Total sewer plans and profiles, 12.
NUMBERING PLANS.
Adams street, Webster street northerly. Two plans.
Brown avenue, Baker to Elm street.
Buzzell street, East High to Bridge street.
Calef road. Baker street northerly.
Central street, Beacon to Cass street.
Cheney place, Elm street westerly.
Chester street, Amherst to Button street.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 57
Cleveland street, Merrimack river to Blaine street. Two
plans.
Cypress street, Young road to Massabesic street.
Dean street, Elm to Canal street.
Foster avenue, Valley to Young street.
Garland avenue, Taylor to Cypress street.
Gates street, Cartier to Rimmon street.
Jewett street, Cilley road to Massabesic street.
Liberty street, Sagamore to Webster street. Two plans.
Market street, Elm to Franklin street.
Marlborough street, Bowman street westerly.
Mechanic street, Elm street westerly.
Pleasant street. Elm to Franklin street.
Rimmon street, Conant to Kelly street. Four plans.
Spring street, Elm street westerly.
Spruce street, Hall street to James Hall road. Three plans.
Stark street, Elm street westerly.
Taylor street, Young road to Massabesic street.
Union street, North to Clarke street. Two plans.
Valley street, Wilson to Massabesic street.
Water street, Elm street westerly.
West Merrimack street. Elm to Franklin street.
Young street, Taylor to east of Jewett street.
Young road, Taylor to east of Jewett street.
Total numbering plans, 39.
MISCELLANEOUS PLANS.
Central fire station, proposed changes.
City yard, location of buildings.
Hanover square, sections and location of culvert.
Hanover square, plan, section, and details of pond basin.
Massabesic street, plan, section, and location of culvert.
Valley cemetery, plan of summer-house.
Total miscellaneous plans, 6.
WORKING PLANS.
Ash east back street, Harrison to Brook street. Sewer profile.
Cartier street, Conant to Sullivan street. Profile.
58 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Central street, Beacon to Highland street. Profile.
Central fire station, proposed improvements. Three plans.
Chandler street, North to Webster street. Profile.
Chandler street, North* to North north back street. Sewer
profile.
City farm, present building. Three plans.
City farm, proposed building. Nine plans.
City stable, detail of date.
Douglas street. West to Barr street. Profile.
Dubuque street, Conant to Sullivan street. Profile.
Elm street, Blodget to Salmon street. Center profile.
Elm street. River road to Baker street. Sewer profile.
Elm avenue. Elm street to Calef road. Profile.
Elm west back street. North north back to Webster street.
Profile.
Elm west back street, North north back to Webster street.
Sewer profile.
Falls road, Amoskeag bridge to Front street. Profile.
Foster avenue, Young to Valley street. Profile.
Government building, arrangement of interior of vaults.
Granite and Main streets, location of car tracks. Two plans.
Hancock street, River road westerly. Sewer profile.
Hanover street, Hall to Belmont street. Profile of gutters.
Hanover-street road. Mammoth road to Candia road. Laying
out.
Hanover square, proposed pond basin.
Lowell street, Maple to Ashland street. Profile.
Main street, proposed bridge over Piscataquog river.
Massabesic street. Spruce street to Mammoth road. Two
profiles.
North street, Elm street to River road. Profile.
North north back street, Chandler to Elm west back street.
Sewer profile.
North route to Goffstown road. Profile.
Pearl street, Elm to Chestnut street. Profile.
Pine street, Amherst to Concord street. Profile.
Pine street, Oransfe to Harrison street. Profile.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 59
Pine Grove cemetery, James A. Weston's lot.
Rimmon street, Kelly to Wayne street. Center profile.
River road, Hancock to Elm street. Sewer profile.
Schuyler street, Main to Cartier street. Profile.
Union street, Lowell to Bridge street. Profile.
Valley cemetery, lot for Palmer & Garmon.
Total working plans, 53.
TRACINGS.
Ash street. Concord to Lowell street, city lot. Two plans.
Candia road, Mammoth road to Hanover street.
Central fire station, proposed improvements.
City stable. Three plans.
Government building, curbing and walks. Two plans.
Government building, section of post-office.
Government building, arrangement of interior of vaults.
Hancock street, land taken from Waterman Smith.
Hanover street, land of A. G. Fairbanks.
Hanover street. Beacon street to Candia road.
Lake avenue, turnout for street railway.
Main street, proposed bridge over Piscataquog river.
Main sewer outlet, at Merrimack river.
McGregorville, portion of sewerage map.
Pine Grove cemetery, curbing at James A. Weston's lot.
Two plans.
Pine Grove cemetery, Swede lot, for G. W. Bacon.
Pine Grove cemetery, Mrs. Charles H. Hill's lot. Two plans.
Pine Grove cemetery, lots in northwest section, for superinten-
dent.
Pine Grove cemetery, Riverside lawn. Three plans.
Pine Grove cemetery. Landscape lawn. Two plans.
Square bounded by Chestnut, Webster, Union, and North
streets. •*
Total tracings, 30.
BLUE PRINTS.
City stable. Ten plans.
Main sewer outlet at Merrimack river. Eleven plans.
60
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Part of West Manchester, from Amoskeag company.
Total blue prints, 22.
MAPS.
City of Manchester, showing scavenger district. Two plans.
Derryfield park, showing walks, drives, etc.
Total maps, 3.
Eight plans of streets laid out have been copied in the city
clerk's book of records.
Total of all plans made, 216.
Plans made for the establishment of grade on laid-out streets,
37,626 feet.
Plans made for the establishment of grade on streets not laid
out, 2,607 f^st-
Total, 40,233 feet, equal to 7.62 miles.
NEW HIGHWAYS LAID OUT.
Street.
Location.
Candia road Massabesic street to Auburn line . . .
Cartier i Conant to Sullivan
Cartier ! Amory to Kelly
Forest Milford street to Old Mast road
Hoyt I South Main stieet to Boynton road .
Milford i Amherst road westerly
Mitchell I Beech street to Calef road
North I Pine east back to Union
Second I M. & N. W. R. R. to Blaine
Wayne Dubuque to Rimmon
West Hancock Merrimack river westerly
West Webster \ River road to C. R. R
Width.
66 feet.
50
50
45
40
50
50
50
50
50
50
40
Length.
14,900 feet.
900 "
700 "
1,460 "
604 "
517 "
1,260 "
336 "
175 "
270 "
1,435 "
382 "
23,002 feet.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
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PIPE REMOVED WHERE NEW SEWERS HAVE BEEN BUILT.
Street.
Location.
Material
Size in
inches.
Length
in feet.
River St. to Merrimack river
Cement.
Akron.
Cement.
16x24
12
12
. 10
10
9
108
18
Merrimack to Hanover .. ..
325
189
West to Barr
379
275
1,204
SUMMARY.
Total 48-inch Steel
" 24 X 36 inches, brick
" 22 X 33 " "
" 24-inch brick
" 20-inch Akron pipe
" 20-inch iron
" 1 5 -inch Akron
" 14-inch iron
" 12-inch Akron
" lo-inch "
8 -inch "
" 12-inch "
" lo-inch "
8-inch "
6-inch "
Total sewers built in 1890
Equal to 2.23 miles.
Following is the total amount of sewerage in the city January
, i8qi.
cesspools and connections,
312
feet.
. 712
a
379
i(
• 275
a
. 2,424
f (
45
a
• 939
a
12
a
3-319
i(
1.354
i i
323
a
10
a
258
(I
1,184
e i
246
iC
11,792
feet.
8-inch Akron pipe
lo-inch " "
12-inch " "
15-inch " "
6,456 feet.
37,246 "
57^433 "
13^963 "
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63
1 8-inch Akron pipe .
20-inch " "
24-inch " "
Total Akron pipe
Equal to 23.852 miles.
8-inch Portland pipe
12-
inch
li
a
18-
inch
li
u
•
Total Portland
pipe
Equal
to
919 mi
les.
9-
inch cement
pipe .
10-
inch
cc
12
inch
((
15
-inch
(1
18
-inch
ii
24
-inch
IC
16
X 24 inches,
cement
pipe
Total cement pipe
Equal to 7.969 miles.
lo-inch earthen pipe
12-inch " "
Total earthen pipe
Equal to 0.704 miles.
2,835
feet.
4,893
u
3,110
u
125,936 feet.
90
feet.
3,990
u
770
u
4,850 feet.
16,071 feet
161
22,064
490
860
735
1,697
42,078 feet.
1,175 ^eet.
2,545 "
3,720 feet.
18-inch brick sewers .
5,725 feet
24-inch " " . . .
3,187 "
29-inch " "
1,600 "
36-inch " " .
545 "
42-inch " " .
446 "
44-inch " "
1,195 "
57-inch " " . .
1,400 "
17 X 26 inches, brick sewers
1,527 "
20x30 "
1,197 "
64
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
22 X 33 inches,
brick sewers
379 feet
24x36 "
8,954 "
29i X44"
4,530 "
30x46 "
1,360 "
32x48 "
3,279 "
40 X 44 "
rick sewers ....
790 "
Total b
. 36,114 feet
Equal to 6.839 niiles.
14-inch iron pipe .....
12 feet
20-inch "
a
45 "
36-inch "
u
277i "
334i feet.
312 feet.
• 213,344? feet.
Total iron pipe ....
Equal to 0.064 miles.
48-inch steel pipe .....
Equal to 0.052 miles.
Total in all sewers .....
Equal to 40.406 miles.
Some of the important work attended to this year may prove
of interest and is herewith given :
The entire city has been systematically and thoroughly gone
over and a list made of all house numbers required. Owing
to the extension of the free-delivery system by the post-office
authorities, the suburbs of East and South Manchester were in-
cluded in this list. Three thousand nickel numbers have been
purchased, but on account of the lack of funds only a few were
placed on the buildings. The work will be completed the com-
ing year.
Considerable time has been devoted to assisting the city audi-
tor in preparing drafts of his books, bills, balance sheets, etc.,
for the printer, also in investigating accounts rendered for work
done on the city buildings where he was in doubt.
Under the instructions of a special committee, one himdred
and seventy-three street signs were located, the majority of which
have been placed in position.
REPORT OP THE CITY ENGINEER. 65
Early in the season the subject of new water carts was broached.
At first it was intended to procure what is known as the " Cen-
trifugal Street Sprinkler," but the amount asked being more
than the committee desired to expend, an ordinary, old-style
watering cart was purchased in its stead, and two already owned
by the city repaired.
After the fire in the basement of the City Hall in February,
the doors in that part of the building were tinned to prevent fire
from being communicated to other rooms than the one where it
originated.
Conferences were had with a special committee of the city
government in relation to the disposal of garbage, and in com-
pany with them and the board of health investigations were made
of a system of cremation. The expense of construction being
considerable and the idea being in a rudimentary state, it was
deemed advisable to employ other means. A contract was made
for removing the material to the suburbs, and plans showing the
district to be covered were made in the office.
Numerous complaints having been made regarding the outlet
of the main sewer south of the lower canal weir, the committee
on sewers ordered plans prepared for extending this sewer into
the river below low-water mark by means of a forty-eight-inch
steel pipe. Considerable time was demanded of the office in pre-
paring plans and superintending the construction of the sewer.
The contract was awarded Richard Dobbins, of Lowell, and the
work done in a highly satisfactory manner.
Plans were prepared for an addition to the N. S. Bean steamer
quarters at the central station, including extra engine room,
extra stall, smoking room, bath and sleeping rooms. Plans were
also made for improvements in the rooms of the chief engineer
and chemical engine company, and for remodeling the stall
floors in the various houses in accordance wrth the latest system.
By order of the mayor, all lines, grades, levels, and measure-
ments required at the government building for completing the
grounds and approaches were given.
The system of sewerage as accepted by the previous city gov-
ernment called for a main sewer through Douglas street empty-
QQ ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ing into Piscataquog river. Certain abutters objecting, and
finding that such objection would be sustained by the courts, a
new plan of the entire section drained by the Douglas-street
sewer was prepared, providing for a main connecting with the
sewer in Main street. Work was begun early in the season and
the sewer built to the corner of Granite and Barr streets.
Considerable time has been spent in the Pine Grove cemetery,
the more important pieces of work being the laying out of lots
on the new Riverside lawn, preparing plans for the curbing at
James A. Weston's lot on Landscape lawn, and levels, plans,
and grades incident to the remodeling of the Bean, Gerrish,
and Hosley lots on Landscape lawn.
The question of providing more commodious buildings at the
city farm was brought before the committee on lands and build-
ings. Under their instructions a survey and plan was made
showing the present structure and in what manner improvements
could be made. Plans were also prepared calling for a new
building of brick, three stories high and so constructed as to
admit of the paupers and prisoners being kept entirely separate,
each having their own dining, sleeping, and bath rooms. The
new building would be practically fire proof and far more suita-
ble than the present cramped quarters.
Several plans were made for improvements in Hanover square
relating to a fountain or pond basin. The committee deciding
to lay the matter over, grades were given for completing the fill.
Measurements were made for the amount of plank necessary
for replanking Amoskeag and Granite bridges, also for repairing
the roof of the former and for the iron rods replacing those
broken on McGregor bridge.
By order of the mayor, all lines and grades required at the
Elliot Hospital for grading and for the concrete walks were
given.
The contract for building Beauport street to the sub-grade was
awarded to George Whitford and lines and grades given for the
work. Through carelessness and ignorance on the part of the
workmen the stakes were displaced several times, necessitating re-
setting them at considerable expense. On account of the slow
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 67
progress made the ground became frozen before the work was
completed. Levels were taken and the amount of earth removed
computed.
* The plans for the city stable made last year were modified to
admit of constructing the offices in the main l)uilding which has
since been built. The batters for the building were set and
daily visits made during the progress of construction.
Plans and specifications were prepared for enlarging the Mas-
sabesic-street culvert at Cemetery brook and a general oversight
given to the work. At this point the Spruce-street sewer crosses
beneath the brook, forty-five feet of iron pipe being used.
A complete plan of the city yard has been made, showing the
location of all the buildings, including the new stable.
In West Manchester the Ferry-street sewer outlet has been re-
laid. On removing the old cement pipe it was found to be
nearly filled with roots, rendering it useless. It was relaid with
2o-inch Akron pipe.
The lines of Candia and Hanover street roads, as determined,
have been plotted, and accepted by the city government.
In rebuilding the crossings at Hanover and Chestnut streets
two parallel rows of flag stones were laid on the outer edges and
the space between concreted, this having been proven to be the
best form of a crossing.
Chapter 51, section 2, of the General Laws of the State pro-
vides for the perambulation of the town lines every seven years.
Agreeable to notices received from the selectmen of Auburn,
Bedford, Goffstown, Litchfield, and Londonderry, and by order
of the mayor, the lines adjoining each town have been perambu-
lated in company with each town's selectmen. The marks on
every bound have been renewed, and twelve new bounds set to
replace those liable to be removed by persons mistaking them
for common stones. One of these bounds was placed on the
Auburn line, and the remainder on the Londonderry line, includ-
ing one at the corner of Auburn and Londonderry and line of
Manchester, known as 134. I would suggest that all of the re-
maining bounds be replaced by substantial stones, many of the
present bounds being nothing but round bowlders or wall stones.
68 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The abutters' names have been procured for the city clerk on
all new streets laid out and on all streets where the street railway
company has petitioned to lay tracks. In connection with this,
lot areas have been given to the different officials as occasion
required.
Levels have been taken and surveys made for a bridge at Sec-
ond street, and plans showing the desired grade transmitted to
the acting superintendent of the Concord & Montreal Railroad,
construction department. The plans for the bridge and abut-
ments have been made by the railroad officials.
In compliance with the request of Dr. John S. Billings, sur-
geon, U. S. A., special agent of the census office, numerous
blanks were filled out in relation to social statistics of cities. A
brief synopsis is herewith given :
The highest point in the city above mean sea level is 539 feet,
the lowest, 129 feet.
There are three cemeteries belonging to the city having a
combined area of 84.55 acres, and twelve private cemeteries con-
taining 42.5 acres. The average yearly number of interments in
all cemeteries for the past ten years has been 746.3.
The total length of all sewers in the city is 38.9 miles, of
which 33 miles are pipe sewers and 5.9 miles brick. The largest
sewer is 57 inches in diameter and the smallest 8 inches. There
are six outlets, all discharging into the river, — two above high
water mark and four submerged from i to 8 feet. In connection
with the sewers are 1,939 house drains, 1,232 catch-basins, 220
manholes, and 38 lampholes.
The city has seven parks with a'total area of 93.3 acres. Six of
these, with an area of 25.3 acres, are inside the city limits ; five of
the parks, containing 19. i acres, are improved, and two, containing
74. 2 acres, are not open to the public. All of the parks were
either given to the city or set apart from city land. They have
300 feet of driveways and 2.4 miles of footways. The average
yearly cost of maintenance of all parks for the past ten years has
been ^2,770.77.
The city owns wholly or in part ^8 public buildings, of which
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 69
I is built of brick and stone, 21 of brick, and 16 of wood. Of
the 25 schoolhouses, 11 are built of wood and 14 of brick.
There are in the city 146.6 miles of streets and roads, built of
the following materials: cobble, 0.14 miles; stone block, 2.18
miles; concrete, 0.2 miles; McAdam, 5.9 miles; gravel, 138.2
miles. The common width of streets is 50 feet; the widest street is
100 feet and the narrowest 20 feet. There are 196.7 miles of side-
walks in the city, the width averaging one third the width of the
street. About 90 miles of the streets have shade trees.
Only the more important answers are given here, the entire
list required occupying eight pages.
In addition to this, many questions have been answered from
engineers, boards of trade, and others in various cities throughout
the country.
I would respectfully tender my acknowledgments to His
Honor the Mayor and the various committees of the city council,
for the support which they have given.
I wish also to acknowledge the courtesies shown by the various
heads of departments, and the co-operation of the assistants of
this department.
Respectfully submitted.
WINFRED H. BENNETT,
City Engineer.
January i, 1891.
REPORTS OF DISTRICT SURVEYORS,
Report of the work done in the various highway districts dur-
ing the year 1890 :
DISTRICT NO. I.
John C Ray, Surveyor.
The road machine has been used tliroughout nearly the whole
district and the small stones removed from the roads.
Rebuilt several small culverts and repaired the water bars where
needed.
Built rail fence the entire length of the east side of the road on
Clark's Hill.
During the season thirty-five loads of gravel were purchased at
a cost of fifteen cents a load.
One hundred dollars remain of the year's appropriation which
could be used to advantage in building Chestnut street from
Clarke northerly.
DISTRICT NO. 2.*
William Sanborn, Superintendent.
cobble gutter paving.
Beech street, Lake avenue to Cedar
Belmont street, Hanover to Amherst
Depot street, Elm westerly ....
Elm street, Blodget to Pennacook, W. side
* District No. 3 is now included in this district.
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
880
293-3
630
210.0
30
lO.O
200
66.7
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
71
Elm avenue, Elm to Calef road
Hanover street, Wilson to Milton
High street, Jane to Wilson road
Lake avenue, at Cass (relaid)
Lincoln street, Manchester to Merrimac
Lincoln street, Central to Lake avenue
Manchester street, Belmont to Milton
Pearl street. Elm to Chestnut
Pine street, Orange to Prospect
Pine street, Amherst to Concord .
Union street, Lowell to Bridge
Wilson street, Manchester to Hanover
Total cobble gutter paving
COBBLE EDGING
Beech street. Lake avenue to Cedar
Belmont street, Hanover to Amherst
Elm street, Blodget to Pennacook, W. h
Elm avenue. Elm to Calef road
Hanover street, Wilson to Milton .
High street, Jane to Wilson road .
Lincoln street, Merrimack northerly
Manchester street, Belmont to Milton
Pearl street, Elm to Chestnut
Pine street, Orange to Prospect
Union street, Lowell to Bridge
Total cobble edging .
EDGE STONES.
Netv.
Auburn street. Pine to Beech
Beech street, at St. Augustine's church ,
Cedar street, west of Lincoln
Central street, Lincoln easterly . ■
de
Feet.
700
1,910
50
230
220
400
1,140
S80
i,o8q
Sq. Yds.
o ^ 't 'y
636.7
64-3
16.7
76.7
73-3
^33-3
511. 1
293-3
256.9
360.0
41.7
9,246 3,277.3
654 feet.
486 "
200 "
700 "
1.550 "
193 "
83 "
400 "
439 "
880 "
1,080 "
6,665 feet.
150 feet.
200 "
88 "
89 "
72
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Central street, west of Franklin
Chestnut street, Hanover northerly
Elm street, Dean southerly .
Hanover street, Chestnut easterly
Kidder street, west of Elm .
Lake avenue, Chestnut west back westerly
Laurel street. Chestnut to Union .
Lincoln street, Central to Lake avenue .
Spruce street, Pine to Union
Union street, at High ....
Total edge stones set
Eds:e Stones Reset.
95
feet
182
161
262
16
25
88
216
50
97
1,719 feet.
Canal street, near passenger station
Chestnut street, Hanover northerly
Depot street, west of Elm
Granite street, at city yard .
Hanover street. Pine westerly
Hanover street, Chestnut westerly .
Pine street, Amherst to Concord
Pleasant street, Ehii to Franklin .
Total edsre stones reset
28 feet
■ 18
68
125
163
61
50
200
713 feet.
Canal street
Granite street
Hanover street
BLOCK PAVING RELAID.
Total block paving relaid .
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
215
238.9
100
III. I
547
607.8
862
957-8
MACADAMIZING.
Netv.
Beech street, Lake Avenue to Cedar .
Belmont street, Hanover to Amherst .
Elm street, Blodget to Pennacook, W. side
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
500
. 1,388.9
Z^Z
969.0
204
566.7
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
73
Hanover street, Wilson to Milton
Pearl street. Elm to Chestnut
Pine street, Amherst to Concord
Pine street, Orange to Prospect .
Union street, Lowell to Bridge .
Total new macadamizing
Top-Dressed.
Franklin street, Granite northerly
Lowell street, Pine easterly
Total top-dressed
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
1,122
4,481.3
575
1,597-2
289
802.8
515
1,430-5
586
1,627.8
• 4,114
12,864.2
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
395
1,623.3
719
1,997.2
1,114 3,620.5
GRAVELED STREETS TOP-DRESSED WITH CRUSHED STONE.
Central street, Milton easterly
Hall street, Manchester southerly
Hanover street
HoUis street, Elm westerly .
Hooksett road, Webster northerly
Lake avenue, near Beacon street
Lake avenue, Cass easterly .
Lowell south back street, Chestnut
Milton street, Central southerly
Pennacook street, Pine easterly
Pine street. Prospect northerly
Pine street, Pennacook southerly
Wilson street, Hanover southerly
Wilson street. Valley northerly
Totals
District No. 6
District No. 10 .
Forsaith Machine Company
General repairing
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
100
155-6
250
416.7
434
115. 6
no
427.8
.
220
635-6
225
50G.0
.
800
i,iii.r
t westerly
no
207.8
220
440.0
450
1,450.0
263
730.6
200
711. 1
214
404.1
275
70-3
•
3,871
7,376.3
NT FROM Y
ARD.
6 loads.
602 "
170 "
108 "
74
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Government building ......
Macadamizing .......
Top-dressing .......
Total sent from yard ....
Stone chips drawn from ledge for general repairs
and top-dressing ......
Total stone used .....
Each load being equal to one cubic yard.
Stone drawn from ledge to crusher
From all other sources . . . .
13
loads.
3
360
< i
I
007
ti
5
,266 loads.
350
loads.
Total
STREETS GRAVELED.
Amherst street, Ashland westerly .
Auburn street, Pine easterly
Beacon street, Manchester southerly
Belmont street, Manchester southerly
Bridge street, Hall Avesterly
Cedar street, Beech easterly
Chestnut street, Webster southerly
East High street. Maple easterly
Hanover street, Highland easterly
Hooksett road, north of Webster
Lake avenue, Mammoth road westerly
Laurel street. Beacon westerly
Liberty street, W^ebster southerly
Maple street. Cedar northerly
Maple street, Lowell southerly
Merrimack street. Hall westerly
Merrimack street, Hall easterly
Myrtle street. Ash easterly .
Myrtle street, Russell easterly
Pine east back street. Lake avenue southerly
5,616 loads.
1,181 loads.
3.579 "
Feet.
700
1,000
500
200
I, 100
250
900
1,050
600
1,100
500
575
500
400
925
775
500
200
400
100
4,760 loads.
Sq. Yds.
1,244.4
3.777-8
1,1 1 I.I
400.0
2,566.7
555-6
2,800.0
2,450.0
^'533-3
2,200.0
1,388.9
1,150.0
1.555-6
800.0
2,466.7
2,066.7
944-4
355-6
888.9
^33-3
Totals
12,275 30,389-0
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER,
75
STREETS TURNPIKED AND GRAVELED.
Baker street
Calef road .
Cilley street
Elm street .
Hancock street
Highland street
Nutt road .
Pine street .
Shasta street
Valley street
Total
STREET
Amherst street
Arlington street
Ash street .
Auburn street
Beacon street
Beech street
Belmont street
Calef road .
Cass street .
Cedar street
Central street
Chestnut street
Elm street .
Harrison street
Hooksett road
Jane street .
Kennard road
Lake avenue
Langdon street
Laurel street
Lincoln street
Maple street
Milton street
S TURNPIKED WITH ROAD
1,875
feet
• 8,875
((
1,125
"
3,000
a
1,125
i I
1,250
a
4,500
( i
9,375
li
750
li
2,250
a
34,125
feet
MACHINE.
1,150
feet
1,344
a
500
it
1,000
a
1,200
i (
10,300
it
650
It
1,000
i i
218
li
1,200
"l'
1,500
i i
1,000
it
1,200
i I
3,100
a
5,300
i I
400
ti
2,000
'•
3,450
11
1,300
1 1
6,050
i t
900
"
1,885
i:
650
It
76
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Myrtle street
Nashua street
North street
Oak street .
Old Bridge street
Pearl street
Pennacook street
Pine street
Prospect street
River road .
Russell street
Sagamore street
Smyth road
Spruce street
Union street
Walnut street
Total
423
feet
700
550
1.450
i>725
400
929
1,128
3,000
3.350
1,190
450
5.500
2,700
1,650
1,792
74,234 feet.
STREETS GRADED.
By cut.
Chestnut street, Webster southerly .
Elm avenue. Elm to Calef road
Liberty street, Webster southerly
Manchester street, Belmont easterly
Manchester street, Milton easterly
Maple street, Harrison northerly
North street, Pine easterly
Orange street, Ashland easterly
Pearl street, Ashland easterly .
Webster street, east of Hooksett road
Totals ...... 3,102 6,929.0
The cut on Manchester street, east of Milton street, was
through ledge the entire distance.
Feet.
Cu. Yds.
600
zzz-z
375
95-0
400
414.7
230
212.7
250
1,481.4
250
231.4
150
z-^z-z
147
98.0
250
641.8
450
3.107.4
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
77
By fill.
Ash street, Gore southerly
Behiiont street, Central southerly
Chestnut street, Pennacoolc northerly
Prospect street, Russell easterly
Sagamore street, Chestnut easterly .
Webster street, Hooksett road easterly
Wilson road, Bridge southerly
Totals
GRADING FOR CONCRETE.
By cut.
Belmont street, Hanover northerly
Hanover street, Belmont easterly
Liberty street. North northerly
North street, Chestnut easterly
North street. Liberty westerly .
Totals
By fill.
Ash street, Myrtle northerly
Ashland street, Hanover northerly .
Auburn street, Union westerly
Auburn street, Union easterly
Auburn street, Beech easterly .
Bakersville .....
Beech street. Gore northerly .
Belmont street, Lake avenue northerly
Belmont street, Amherst northerly .
Bridge street, Russell westerly
East High street, Wilson road easterly
Elm street, Orange northerly .
Gore street, Union easterly
Hanover street, Ashland westerly
Feet. Cu. Yds.
loo 255.5
200 266.6
500 2,592.5
300 777.7
100 1,851.7
2,300 6,785.0
JO
8
650.9
pSjS i3»i79-9
Feet.
163
77
50
75
ICC
Cu. Yds.
96-5
34-2
22.2
I I.I
44.4
465 208.4
Feet.
Cu. Yds.
225
32-7
125
74.1
150
22.2
150
44.4
ICO
148.2
5,280
782.2
TOO
129.6
100
29.6
120
53-3
TOO
25-9
50
29.6
120
71. 1
100
59-2
100
37-1
78
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Lowell street, Maple easterly .
North street, Elm westerly
North street, Chestnut easterly
Prospect street, Beech easterly
Sagamore street, Elm easterly .
Sagamore street, Pine easterly
Walnut street. Gore northerly
Wilson road, Bridge southerly
Winter place. Elm westerly
Totals ....... 8,ii6 2,130.7
This refers only to the larger fills, as in many places only a
few yards have been used, scattered here and there.
Feet.
Cu. Yds.
150
44.4
ICO
88.8
ICO
29.6
220
65.2
100
15-1
ICO
59-2
75
66.6
376
194.9
75
27.7
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
48-inch Steel
24x36 inches, brick
20-inch Akron pipe
20-inch iron pipe
1 5 -inch Akron pipe
nch Akron pipe (relaid)
nch iron pipe
nch Akron pipe
nch Akron pipe (relaid)
nch Akron pipe
lo-inch Akron pipe (relaid)
8-inch Akron pipe
Total
15-
14-
12-
12-
10-
312 feet
505
2,328
33
531
106
12
2,434
736
989
365
72
8,423 feet.
CESSPOOL CONNECTIONS.
lo-inch Akron pipe
8-inch Akron pipe
8-inch Akron pipe (relaid)
Total
Total pipe laid
Equal to 1.75 miles.
34 feet.
718 "
42 "
794 feet.
9,217 feet.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
79
Following is the amount paid for labor on the various sewers
during the year :
Street.
Belmont and Massabesic
City stable with Granite
Clarke and Adams
Concord
East High
East Spruce
Hancock and River road
Hanover
Harrison and Ash east back
Laurel
Main sewer outlet
Merrimack
North, Chandler, and North north bad'
Pearl
Ray
Sagamore and Bay
Wilson
Labor of
men.
Labor of
teams.
$4,803.11
210.87
1,250.71
220.08
74.75
2,043.77
500.16
343.68
810.64
51.84
950.75
972.23
122.40
75.G1
237.25
295.47
$148.00
60.00
10.00
5.00
110.00
36.00
18.00
16.00
15.00
42.00
111.00
18.00
5.50
13..50
32.00
Total.
$.5,011.11
210.87
1,310.71
230.08
79.75
2,153.77
536.16
361.68
826.64
66.84
978.56
992.75
1,083.23
140.40
81.11
250.75
327.47
$14,641.88
Paid Concord Railroad for labor of men and material for fill
at main sewer outlet, $2^^.06.
ON HAND AT CITY YARD.
24-inch Akron pipe
20-inch Akron pipe
1 5 -inch Akron pipe
12-inch Akron pipe
lo-inch Akron-pipe
8-inch Akron pipe
Total pipe on hand
46 feet.
66
o
164
1,096
700
1,204
;, 5 76 feet.
80 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
4 Y branches, 8 on 20 inches.
20 Y branches, 8 on 15 inches.
7 Y branches, 6 on 15 inches.
21 Y branches, 8 on 12 inches.
T Y branch, 10 on 10 inches.
2 Y branches, 8 on 10 inches.
32 Y branches, 8 on 8 inches.
6 15-inch quarter turns.
10 12-inch quarter turns.
11 lo-inch quarter turns.
II 8-inch quarter turns.
I 6-inch quarter turn.
1 1 1 5 -inch curves.
5 lo-inch curves.
I reducer, 15 to 10 inches.
22 20-inch rings.
6 manhole covers.
4 cesspool traps.
12 oval cesspool grates.
4 flat cesspool grates.
4 cesspool curbs.
4 water gate covers.
10 M. brick.
I barrel cement.
13,440 feet of new hemlock plank.
2,000 feet of old hemlock plank.
20 cords of hard wood.
Catch-basins built, 43 ; repaired, 30 ; manholes built, 25 ;
lampholes built, 9.
CROSSINGS.
Concrete, new, 25 ; top-dressed, 7 ; patched, 3.
Stone, new, 6 ; relaid, 11.
CONCRETE.
Crossings (new) . . . . . . 812.7 sq. yds.
Crossings (patched) ..... 45.0 "
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
81
Crossings (top-dressed) . . . . ,
Belmont and Hanover streets, at Dea. James
Baldwin's ......
Chestnut and Myrtle streets, at Gen. Charles
Williams's .....
City stable .....
Concord square (top-dressed)
Elm street, at Aretas Blood's .
Hanover square ....
Lincoln-street school yard (new)
Lincoln-street school yard (top-dressed)
Merrimack square (new)
Merrimack square (top-dressed)
Total
179.3 ^q
yds
361-5
a
113-9
((
314.0
t(
1,892.5
'•
102.0
a
643.6
11
221.7
a
307.1
a
72.6
u
1,394-7
•'
6,460.6 sq. yds.
CONCRETE ROADWAYS.
Bridge street (repaired)
Chestnut street
Granite street
Merrimack street .
Total .
239.4 sq. yds.
930.9 "
281.1 "
2,100.6 "
3,552.0 sq. yds.
CONTRACT WORK.
Massabesic-street culvert : Warren Harvey, contractor.
PIPE CULVERTS.
Belmont street, at Dea. James Baldwin's, 12-inch iron 46 feet.
Behnont and Central streets, lo-inch iron . . . 50 "
Hanover, east of Belmont, 8-inch iron . . . 12 "
Laurel street, east of Beacon, 12-inch Akron . . 22 "
Bushes have been cut from sides of roads for a distance of two
miles.
6
82 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
DISTRICT NO. 4.
Rodney N. Whittemore, Surveyor.
Turnpiked 100 rods.
Graded and graveled 236 rods.
Cobble gutters paved, 500 feet, 166.7 sq- yds.
Laid 40 feet of 12-inch Akron pipe.
Extended the sidewalk on the north side of Depot road from
the main road to the depot.
Four hundred loads of gravel were used and five hundred feet
of cobble edging laid.
Repaired bridges, cut bushes, removed stones from roadbed,
and made general repairs where needed.
DISTRICT NO. 5.
Mark E. Harvey, Surveyor.
Graveled . . . . . . . . 4,170 feet.
Turnpiked ....... 2,340 "
Turnpiked and graveled . . . • . 1,140 "
Graded (cut) . . . . . . . 9,458 cu. ft.
Taken up, cleaned, and relaid two stone culverts.
Replanked twelve feet of center of bridge over Cohas brook,
also small bridge near the old Harvey mill. This latter bridge
should be rebuilt the coming season. The timbers are badly
decayed and in its present condition it is unsafe for loaded
teams to cross.
Cut bushes on three and one half miles of road.
Laid 48 feet of 8-inch pipe.
Removed stones from road and made all general repairs.
A larger appropriation is necessary in this district, as many
needed improvements are called for which cannot be made, as
the present amount is only sufficient for the regular work.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
83
DISTRICT NO. 6.
Albert J. Peaslee, Surveyor.
Graveled . . . . . . . . 320 rods.
Turnpiked ........ 42 "
Built three stone culverts, one 18" X 18" X 24', one 15" X
15" X 24', and one 12" X 12" X 17'.
Raised Island Pond road from six to twelve inches for a dis-
tance of two hundred feet, across the bog.
Made all necessary repairs throughout the district.
DISTRICT NO. 7.
Charles Francis, Surveyor.
graveled.
Belmont street
Candia road .
Falls roads
Massabesic street
Taylor street .
Valley street .
Young road .
Total . . . . . . . .270 rods.
Graded and graveled Cypress street, 450 feet long, 50 feet
wide.
15 rods.
30
20
25
70
80
30
turnpiked and graveled.
Hall road
Valley street
Total
70 rods.
28 "
98 rods.
GRADING FOR CONCRETE.
Belmont street
50 feet.
84
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Cypress street .
Massabesic street
Total .
800 feet.
300 "
1,150 feet.
GUTTERS.
Belmont street
Cypress street
Massabesic street (relaid)
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
700
233-3
800
266.7
400
^33-3
1,900 633.
CESSPOOLS AND CONNECTIONS.
Belmont street at Massabesic
Massabesic street at Felmont
Massabesic street at Spruce
1 5 -inch Akron pipe (new)
1 5 -inch Akron pipe (relaid)
lo-inch Akron pipe .
2
2
2
40 feet.
40 "
. 160 "
Repaired stone culvert 3 by 4 feet on Young road and
lengthened the same 20 feet.
Built two stone culverts, one 14" X 18" X 40', and one 12" X
14" X 20'.
Made general repairs throughout the district where most
needed.
DISTRICT NO. 8.
Levi J. Proctor, Surveyor.
No report.
DISTRICT NO. 9.
Alphonso N. Boyce, Surveyor.
No report.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
85
DISTRICT NO. lo.
Charles O. Phelps, Superintendent.
COBBLE GUTTER PAVING.
Bowman street, Mast southerly
Bridge street, McGregor easterly
Carroll street, south of Amherst road
Douglas street, West easterly
Douglas street, Barr easterly
Granite street, Main westerly
Main street, Douglas northerly
Main street, Hancock northerly
Wayne street, Beauport westerly
West street, Douglas northerly .
West Hancock street. Main easterly
Totals ....
COBBLE EDGING.
Bowman street. Mast southerly
Bridge street, McGregor easterly .
Carroll street, Amherst road southerly
Main street, Douglas northerly
Main street. West Hancock northerly
Wayne street, Beauport westerly
West Hancock street, Main easterly
Total
EDGE STONES.
Douglas street, West easterly
Main street, Douglas northerly
Main street, Monmouth northerly
West street, Douglas northerly
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
75°
250
lOO
33
1 20
40
5S
19
100
33
400
^33
1,282
427
58
19
600
200
112
37
50
17
3.630
1,208
750 feet.
100 "
120 "
1,312 "
58 "
600 "
50 "
2,990 feet.
58 feet.
250 "
150 ''
112 "
Total .
570 feet.
86
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
MACADAMIZING.
Main street, engine-house to Adams street, 675 feet, 2,550
square yards.
GRAVELED STREETS TOP-DRESSED WITH CRUSHED STONE.
Main street, Granite to Douglas, 372 feet, 1,166 square yards.
STREETS GRAVELED.
Amory street, at Beauport
Beauport street, Conant northerly
Boynton street
Douglas street
Granite street, Dover to Barr .
Main street, Monmouth northerly
Mast road ....
Third street. Fourth to Walker
Wayne street. Main to Dubuque
West street, Douglas to Conant
Total ....
STREETS GRADED.
Bowman street, Mast to Milford
Fourth street. School to Walker
Main street. Granite to Sullivan
School south back street, Third to Fourth
Walker street. River to Second .
Total
GRADING.
Feet.
Sq. Yds.
100
378
432
1,632
1,200
4,533'
400
1,511
450
1,400
630
2,380
500
1,888
200
755
950
3,588
250
944
5,112 19,009.
Feet.
Cu. Yds.
837
2,046
350
620
2,181
2,058
250
240
200
311
,818 5,275
Kelly street at Beauport, 260 feet, 481 cubic yards.
Varney school lot, 1,481 cubic yards.
TURNPIKING.
Morgan street, Amory to Kelly, 650 feet, 2,210 square yards..
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
87
CONCRETE.
Seven crossings .....
Main street, roadway ....
Main street, at engine-house (new) .
Main street, at engine-house (patched)
Main street, at engine-house cellar (patched)
Main street, sidewalk at Mr. Bailey's
McGregor and Marion streets, roadway
Total
186.0 sq.
yds
• 3692
• 259.0
■ 59-3
19.9
• 52-4
171.6
1,117.4 sq
yds
CONTRACT WORK.
Beauport street, sub-grading, George Whitford contractor.
Parker-street bridge has been replanked, using 4,034 feet of
hemlock plank, also the culvert at the junction of Old and
New Mast roads, using 1,568 feet of plank.
The following tables give an itemized account of the two
principal sewers constructed in the district this year.
GRANITE-STREET SEWER.
Length, Main to Barr street, 861 feet.
Brick, 103,93, ^t ;^6.5o per M . . .
Cement, 273 bbls. Norton's and 2 bbls. Portland
Manhole castings, 1,066 lbs. at ;^o.o3 per lb
Labor of men and teams
Car fare, carrying battery
Damage to buildings by blasting
Lumber for cribbing trench, 25,500 feet
Ropes, snaps, etc.
Blacksmithing
Hardware and oil
Material for blasting
Total . . , . . . . ^7,040.14
Akron pipe used in cesspools and connections :
12-inch, 10 feet; lo-inch, 6 feet; 8-inch, 164 feet; 6-inch
186 feet.
1675-55
416.00
31.98
4,973.00
9-5°
14.00
459-45
3-57
268.36
55-65
133-08
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The cost of constructing this sewer was greatly augmented by
the large amount of ledge encountered.
WEST-STREET SEW'ER.
Length, Granite to Conant south back street, 428 feet.
Brick, in manholes, 4,000 at $6.50 per M. . . ^26.00
Cement, 8 bbls. Norton's . . . . . 12.00
Manhole castings, 533 lbs. at ^0.03 per lb . . 15-99
Lumber for cribbing trench, 4,180 feet . . . 73-66
Labor of men and teams ..... 947-75
Total ........ $1,075.40
15-inch Akron pipe, relaid, 217 feet; new, 62 feet.
12-inch Akron pipe, relaid, 137 feet : new, 12 feet.
Akron pipe in cesspools and connections, lo-inch, 8 feet ;
8-inch, 56 feet ; 6-inch, 60 feet.
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
new
relaid
24 X 36 inches, brick .
22 X 33 inches, brick .
24-inch, brick
20-inch, Akron pipe, relaid .
1 5 -inch '•■
1 5 -inch "
12-inch "
8-inch "
1 2 -inch "
lo-inch "
8-inch
6-inch "
in cesspools and connections
Total sewers .....
Cesspools built, 11 ; manholes, 6.
PIPE ON HAND AT YARD.
200 feet of 24 inch Akron, 50 feet of odd sizes.
Total amount of cement used in sewers, 295 barrels.
Total number of brick used in sewers, 114,931.
Paid for tools used on sewers, $180.39.
207 feet.
379
275
108
85
262
149
251
10
64
424
246
2,415 feet.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 89
DISTRICT NO. II.
William H. Colby, Suryeyor.*
No report.
Concrete, Falls road, 1,190.7 square yards.
Frank D. HANScoM.f
General repairs.
DISTRICT NO. 12.
Leroy M. Streeter, Suryeyor.
The road machine has been used to good advantage in the dis-
trict this year. Mammoth road from Hanover to Bridge street
and a portion of Bald Hill road have been turnpiked.
A bank wall has been built on the Mammoth road near the
city farm buildings, 390 feet long, containing ninety perch of
stone and one hundred cubic yards of cobble stone and other
filling. Four hundred feet of 3 x 4 railing has been built, sup-
ported by one-inch iron rods firmly cemented in the wall.
The road is now from four to ten feet wider than formerly, and
is much safer for public travel.
The James Hall road has been widened at Mr. Plummer's,
using fifty cubic yards of fill.
General repairs have been attended to on all roads throughout
the district.
DISTRICT NO. 13.
John H. Campbell, Surveyor.
No report.
*To September. fFrom September.
REPORT
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
REPORT
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Engineer's Office, Vine Street,
Manchester, N. H., December 31, 1890.
To His Honor the Mayor, and Gentlemen of the City
Councils :
In compliance with the laws and ordinances of the city, I
herewith submit my twelfth annual report (it being the forty-fifth
of this department), giving a complete record of the operations
of the department for the year ending December 31, 1890; also
giving a detailed statement of the fires and alarms responded to,
with the losses, the insurance carried upon the property endan-
gered, the insurance paid thereon, and causes, so far as could be
ascertained by inspection and inquiry. The report will also
contain a complete list of the working force of the department,
giving their rank, occupation, residence, etc., a list of the fire-
alarm stations and locations of keys to the same, location of
hydrants, etc.
During the past year the department has responded to thirty-
five " bell alarms " and thirty " stills," making a total of sixty-
five, a slight increase over last year, although many of the
"stills" were of little or no consequence and some of them en-
tirely needless.
The total insurance on the property endangered by fire, as
will be seen by the list in the following pages, was ^229,150.00 ;
94 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
the damage resulting therefrom has been $16,533.28 and the
amount of insurance paid $10,026.28, leaving only $6,507.00 as
uncovered losses.
THE FORCE
of the department consists of eighteen permanent men and one
hundred and six call men, divided as follows :
1 Chief Engineer.
4 Assistant Engineers.
5 Steamer Companies of 14 men each.
2 Horse Hose Companies, — 12 men each.
I Hook-and-Ladder Company, — 20 men.
1 Chemical Engine Company, — 5 men.
In addition to the above there is a volunteer hand-hose com-
pany in Amoskeag village of twelve men.
The two Steamer companies at the Central Station, Nos. i and
4, in close proximity to the business portion of the city, are both
without permanent engineers, and the increasing demands upon
the department should warrant the increase of the permanent
force that one should be assigned to each of these companies.
THE BUILDINGS.
The roof of the Central Station requires some repairs ; the tin
on the east slope should receive a coat of paint to prevent its
further rust and the entire roof of the stables in the rear should
be re-graveled, as in its present condition much of the hay is
wasted by the leakage of water.
THE APPARATUS
as at present located consists of —
2 Steam Fire-engines at Central Station with Horse Hose
Wagons.
I Steam Fire-engine with two-horse Hose Wagon and Hook-
and-Ladder combination, North Main street.
I Steam Fire-engine and Horse Carriage, at corner of Lake
avenue and Massabesic street.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. " 95
I Steam Fire-engine and two-horse Hose Carriage and Hook-
and-Ladder combination, at corner of Webster and Chestnut
streets. ^^■
I Horse Hose Carriage at Central Station.
I Horse Hose Carriage, corner Maple and East High streets.
I Hook-and-Ladder Truck at Central Station.
I Hook-and-Ladder Truck (old), at Lake Avenue Station.
I Double Tank (60 gallons each) Chemical Engine at (Central
Station.
I Supply Wagon at Central Fire Station.
I Steam Fire-engine (reserve) at old engine-house, Clinton
street, of but little use for fire purposes.
I Hand Hose Carriage at junction of Old Falls road and
Front street, Amoskeag.
I Two-wheeled Hose Carriage, Derry Mills, Goffe's Falls.
On the eighteenth of December, the one-horse hose carriage
run in connection with Fire King Steamer No. 2 was exchanged
for a two-horse combination hose wagon carrying six ladders.
This change will enable the company to have a few ladders to
use until the arrival of the truck from this side of the river.
On the thirty-first of December, the "jumper" attached to
N. S. Bean Steamer No. 4 was discarded and a modern one-
horse hose wagon placed in its stead.
During the month of April the Pennacook hose carriage was
supplied with a new set of rear wheels, the front ones sent to the
manufacturer and received new rmis, and the carriage painted at
the expense of ^220.19.
In August the N. S. Bean steamer was taken to the Manchester
Locomotive Works and thoroughly overhauled and supplied with
a new set of tubes, at the expense of $335-55.
THE FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
Satisfactory results have attended the working of this impor-
tant auxiliary of the department when called upon to perform
service, and only once during the year has a second alarm been
given for the same fire. (French Catholic Church, October 17.)
There have been no additional stations added during the year,
96 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
although two have been ordered and will be placed in service m
due time.
I desire to enter my protest against the granting of licenses to
irresponsible persons to move buildings through our streets, es-
pecially where it interferes with, and requires cutting our fire-
alarm wires. On one occasion during the summer, one of our
circuits was open during an alarm of fire. Had there been a fire
in that vicinity then it would have been impossible to give an
alarm by telegraph for a number of hours.
Another standing evil is the " Acoustic " telephones. Our
lines have received more annoyance from these wires than from
all other sources combined. From their nature the wires cannot
be put up as firmly as others, and the whole southeastern section
of the city was cut out by a cross from these wires for several
hours before t he cause could be found. Serious results may fol-
low their continuance.
There are now about thirty (30) miles of main lines wire and
twenty-nine (29) miles of " Tapper " lines, that require the ser-
vices of four hundred and eleven (41 1) jars of gravity battery.
THE HORSES.
There are at present twenty-six horses connected with this de-
partment.
During the year one pair of grays have been purchased to take
the place of the single horse on the Combination hose carriage
of Steamer No. 5, and a pair of grays for the new combination
hose wagon that took the place of the one-horse carriage of
Steamer No. 2.
Two or three changes of horses should be made the coming
year, by exchanging some unfit for fire service.
THE ANNUAL PARADE.
The eleventh annual parade occurred on Thursday, October
9, and was observed in the usual manner of a street parade, fol-
lowed by collation in the City Hall. The bills for the parade
amounted to $343.85. Notwithstanding an appropriation of
$500 was made by the City Councils in accordance with section.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
97
8 of chapter 8, City Ordinances, the city auditor refused to ap-
prove the bills and even after being authorized by vote of the
Councils to allow said bill he did not do it, and they still remain
unpaid.
THE firemen's RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
This benevolent institution has been in existence since 1873,
and its treasury has received substantial aid through the liberality
of our citizens and the local insurance companies.
The condition of the treasury is as follows, December 31, 1890 :
Cash on hand February 11, 1890 . $2,498.56
Interest on deposits .... 104.72
Franklin-street Congregational society . 50.00
Chandler Brothers (George B., Henry,
and J. M.) ..... 20.00
^t. Rev. Bishop Bradley . . . 10.00
Col. Waterman Smith .... 10.00
Hon. Moody Currier .... 10.00
Hon. P. C. Cheney . . . •. 10.00
Hon. Horatio Fradd .... 10.00
Hon. H. D. Upton .... 10.00
Hon. Jacob F. James .... 5.00
Hon. D. B. Varney .... 5.00
Col. H. B. Fairbanks .... 5.00
CR.
By cash paid J. E.
Merrill, secretary
$2,748.28
25.00
$2,723.28
To those who have so kindly aided us by their contributions
during the last eighteen years of the existence of the association,
we desire to say " God bless them," and if they ever need our
services we will endeavor to care for them as they have cared for
us.
7
98 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
I would renew my recommendation of last year for the pur-
chase of an aerial ladder truck for especial use in our business
section.
The rapidly growing sections of Bakersville and McGregor-
ville are requiring better protection, and I would recommend
placing a horse hose carriage in both of these sections. The hose
carriage displaced at Steamer No. 2 by the combination wagon,
is in good, serviceable condition, and could be placed in one of
these places with comparatively small expense.
I would recommend a change of section 3 of chapter 8 of City
Ordinances, whereby the officers of the several companies would
receive their appointments from the board of engineers. I am
confident a majority of the entire membership feel that such a
move would be beneficial to the discipline and efficiency of the
department.
I would recommend the adoption of a police call and a mili-
tary call, by means of the fire-alarm telegraph. In case of an
extensive conflagration, or a riot, this would be of great impor-
tance in notifying these departments quickly. This is only a
precautionary measure, but one which I think ought to receive
early attention.
I would recommend the purchase of at least two thousand feet
of hose the coming year.
INSPECTION OF BUILDINGS.
There can be but little accomplished in the way of a thorough
building inspection until something can be brought to bear upon
contractors and builders to convince them that they should be
called to account for putting up death traps and " tinder boxes."
So long as men who are considered reputable and responsible
contractors delight in telling their patrons they have a right to
erect such buildings as they choose on property they have bought
and paid for, and the city cannot deprive them of such rights,
and until carpenters and builders are in sympathy with whole-
some building laws, just so long shall we have " tinder boxes, "
erroneously called dwellings, erected in our midst.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 99
No building ought to be allowed to be erected within the city
limits until a permit has been granted, and then only when the
builder shall comply with specifications furnished.
When a building in process of construction takes fire from a
defective chimney what may we expect when such chimneys are
inclosed inside of plastering and sheathing ?
A building inspector can accomplish but little if the officers
of the law and the courts will not uphold him in the perform-
ance of his duties.
PERSONAL.'
Before closing this report I desire to return my personal thanks
to the New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company, and the Peo-
ples Fire Insurance Company, of this city, for their generosity
in paying the expenses of the chief engineer to the eighteenth
session of the National Association of Fire Engineers at Detroit,
Mich., August 19-22. This is an expense that should properly
be borne by the city, as is the case in most of the large cities in
New England. These conventions are not " junketing " trips,
as some suppose, but a meeting of practical fire fighters ■who
have made their branch of business a study, and meet annually
for an exchange of ideas and discussions on the methods and ap-
paratus pertaining to the prevention and extinguishment of fires
and the saving of life and property when endangered thereby.
I desire to return my thanks to the associate engineers for
their unselfish support and for the efficient aid they have ren-
dered on all occasions ; to the officers and men composing the
different companies, who have always striven to keep the effi-
ciency of the department at its present high standard, and for
the uniform courtesy they have always shown, as well as their
alacrity in responding to alarms and their fidelity to the cause
they are engaged in. They have stood shoulder to shoulder in
times past, and may they continue so to do.
To the committee on fire department, who have striven hard
to make our department efficient, to His Honor the Mayor and
other members of the City Council, for their encouragement, to
City Marshal Longa and his entire police force for their valuable
and willing assistance, I also desire to return my thanks.
100 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
To Gen. Charles Williams, I desire to extend not only my
personal thanks but those of the entire department for his con-
tinued hospitality for refreshments at fires.
To the incoming City Councils, I desire to say that our de-
partment will, in a measure, be what you make it. See to it
that it is not crippled in any way so as to reduce its efficiency,
and render it such aid as to make it among the best in the Union.
Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS W. LANE,
Chief Engineer Fire Department.
LIST OF FIRES AND ALARMS DURING 1890, WITH
LOSSES AND INSURANCE PAID.
Still. Tuesday, January 7, 5.25 p. m. One of the roomers at
No. 1 06 1 Elm street was lighting a fire with kerosene. Some
boys seeing the flash gave the alarm, to which the Chemical re-
sponded. No services required.
Still. Thursday, January 16, 5.30 p. m. Three-story brick
building, owned by Higgins Bros., and occupied by the Higgins
Bros. Co. as furniture and upholstery rooms. The fire took in a
bale of wadding from a gas jet. Insured for $12,000. Loss, $50.
Fully covered.
Still. Wednesday, January 29, 6.20 A. jm. Three-story
brick block, known as Post-office Block, owned by Bartlett, Gay,
and others. The fire originated in a waste basket in the store
occupied by Thomas A. Lane, gas fixtures, piping, etc. Penna-
cook Hose Co. responded, and with hydrant stream through
quarter-inch shut-off nozzle, extinguished the fire with very little
damage by either fire or water. Building insured for $20,000.
Stock for $6,000. Damage to building, $6. To stock, $25.
Insurance paid, $31.
Box 6. Thursday, January 30, 10.56 a. m. City Hall build-
ing. Fire originated in the basement under John J. Holland's
drug store, and was caused by hot oil boiling over. No damage
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 101
to building. Stock insured for $10,000. Damage to stock,
^200. Insurance paid, $200.
Still. Sunday, February 9, 2.47 p. m. Two-and-a-half story
house, corner of Merrimack and Maple streets, owned and occu-
pied by Mrs. Henry A. Follansbee. Burning chimney extin-
guished with " Pony " Extinguisher without damage.
Box 4. Sunday, February 16, 2.48 a. m. Two-story wooden
house, owned and occupied by Jeremiah J. Horan, as residence
and saloon. Cause, cigar stub carelessly thrown into the saw-
dust upon the floor. Building insured for $300. Damage,
^22.50. Insurance paid, $22.50. No damage to contents.
Still. Monday, February 17, 9.45 a. m. Four-story brick
block, Nos. 43-61 Hanover street, owned by the heirs of J.
N. Brown and William B. Johnson. A burning chimney filled
the entire block with smoke. Chemical Engine responded. No
damage.
Still. Monday, February 17, 1.40 p.m. Three-story brick
boarding block, No. ;^;^ Mechanic street, owned by Stark Manu-
facturing Co. An overheated chimney ignited the lathing and
sheathing. Damage estimated, $10. No insurance. Used
" Pony " Extinguisher.
Still. Tuesday, March 4, 7.40 p. M. Three-story wooden
block. No. 7 Pearl street, corner Elm, owned by the heirs of
Hugh Ramsey. An overheated chimney ignited the "header"
about the chimney. Extinguished with " Pony " with slight
damage.
Box 8. Friday, March 7, 7.12 a. m. Burning chimney in
Webster block caused a needless alarm. No damage.
Still. Friday, March 7, 8.30 a. m. Chimney fire in Wig-
gins block, No. 136 Lake Avenue. Used "Pony" Extin-
guisher. No damage.
Still. Tuesday, March 11, 2.48 p. m. Burning chimney.
No. 10 Clark's avenue, off Pearl street. Used two charges in
"Pony" Extinguisher.
Still. Friday, April 11, 5.20 p. m. Chimney fire in tene-
ment No. 26 Dover street, occupied by Joseph Lahey. Re-
sponded to by Fire King Co. No. 2 with "Pony." No
damage.
102 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Still. Saturday, April 19, 7.40 a. i\l An eight-tenement
block, No. 470 Granite street, owned by Mrs. Tolman and Mrs.
N. T. Folsom. Sparks from the chimney set fire to roof which
was slightly damaged. Insurance on block, $3,000. Damage,
$20. Insurance paid, $20. Fire King Co. No. 2 responded
with hose carriage.
Still. Saturday, April 19, 12.15 ^- ^^- Brush fire on Mc-
Gregor hill. Fire King Co. No. 2 responded with hose carriage.
Still. Monday, April 21, 11.20 A. m. Two-story brick
tenement block. No. 16 Machine Shop Corporation, owned by
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., and occupied by Charles Edgar.
Fire originated among some clothes in the attic, from some un-
known cause. Damage to building, $5. Damage to contents,
$10. No insurance. Chemical responded, but services not
needed. Extinguished with pails of water before arrival of
engine.
Still. Monday, April 21, 3.58 p. u. Word received by
telephone of fire at Driving Park. Went down with Steamer 4
with four horses, and a hose wagon. On arrival at grounds
found only a small brush fire. No damage.
Box 313. Monday, April 21, 7.06 p. m. Three-story wooden
block No. 511 North Main street, McGregorville. Kerosene
lamp exploded in tenement occupied by Antoine Giguire. No
damage. Extinguished before arrival of department.
Box 45. Friday, April 25, 11. 18 a. m. Three-story brick
block, at corner of Franklin and West Auburn streets, owned
and occupied by the S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. The fire
originated in a bin for shavings over the boiler-room from some
unknown cause. Buildings insured for $33,500. Damage
$51.45. Insurance paid, $51.45.
Box 71. Saturday, April 26, 2.04 p. m. Two-and-one-half-
story wooden dwelling, No. 153 Cedar street, owned by heirs of
Edward Gallagher, and occupied by John Healey and John Reddy.
The fire caught from sparks upon the dry shingles, burning
through the roof. Insurance on building, $1,200. Damage,
^58. Insurance paid, $58.
Still. Tuesday, April 29, 5.03 p. m. Chimney fire in Baker
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 103
& Burnham's block, Dover street. Responded to by Fire King
Co. No. 2. No damage.
Box 8. Sunday, May ii, 11.45 ^- ^- Four-story brick tene-
ment block owned by Charles F. Morrill at No. 13 Hollis street,
occupied by Louis Letourneau. A member of the family
attempted to light a fire with kerosene and succeeded to such an
extent as to explode the can partly filled with oil. Building in-
sured for ^6,000. Damage, $28.05. Insurance paid, $28.05.
Extinguished by Chemical.
Box 24. Wednesday, May 14, 9.15 p. m. Three-story brick
building, "The Elliot Hospital," situated on Hall hill. The
fire originated in the kitchen or pantry adjoining, from some
cause not definitely known, but I have no doubt it was from ex-
plosion of kerosene lamp. Mrs. Daniel S. Harriman, an employe
of the hospital, who occupied a room directly over the kitchen,
was suffocated in the early stage of the fire, and on the arrival of
the department it was impossible to rescue her body until the
flames were nearly extinguished. The fire was confined wholly
to the east wing of the building. Building insured for $20,000.
Contents uninsured. Damage to building, $2,150; to contents,
$450. Insurance paid, $2,150.
Box 7. Thursday, May 15, 8.57 P. m. Two-and-one-half-
story wooden block, No. 38 Lowell street, owed by Michael Mc-
Cabe and occupied by John Turcotte, who upset a kerosene lamp,
setting fire to the bedding. Damage to building, $5 ; to con-
tents, $10. Uninsured.
Box 7. Friday, May 16, 5.18 p. m. Burning chimney at No.
17 Washington street. Needless alarm. No damage.
Box 52. Sunday, May 18, 6.22 p. m. Burning chimney in
tenement rear of 26 Dover street, occupied by Joseph Lahey.
No damage.
Still. Sunday, June 8, 9.15 a. m. Burning chimney at No.
163 Hanover street, in house owned and occupied by Sarah A.
Foster. No damage. Chemical responded.
Box 53. Monday, June 9, 4.22 p. m. Two-story wooden
dwelling. No. 54 Milford street, owned by John D. Bean and oc-
cupied by Frank F. Ferguson, Levi Caldwell, and A. Whitte-
104 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
more. Fire caught from a spark on the roof, burning through
into an open attic. Building insured for $800. Damage to build-
ing, $60. Insurance paid, ^60. No damage to contents.
Box 8. Saturday, June 21, 12.59 a. m. Three-story wooden
tenement block, No. 7 Clark's avenue. Pearl street, owned by
heirs of Joseph B. Clark. The fire originated in the tenement
occupied by Mary C. Houlihan, in a storeroom, from some
cause unexplained. It spread through the partition to the sec-
ond and third stories and roof. Building insured for $2,000.
Damage to buiding, $210.50. Insurance paid, $210.50. Damage
to contents, $20. Uninsured.
Box 511. Wednesday, June 25, 4. 14. p. m. Slight fire on the
roof of Johnson's block, Douglas street, from sparks from chim-
ney. Extinguished with hydrant stream of Steamer Company
No. 2 before the arrival of the department from this side. Dam-
age slight.
Box 8. Thursday, July 3, 11.42 p. m. One-story cobbler's
shop, No. 21 Dean street, owned and occupied by Gustavus D.
Parker. The building and contents were totally destroyed.
Damage, $100. No insurance. Cause, fire-crackers.
Box 7. Friday, July 4, 10.05 p- ^^- Two-and-one-half- story
wooden building, No. 11 27 Elm street, corner Washington,
owned by Kennard Brothers & Chadwick. The fire originated
in the store occupied by Thomas Kelley, and was caused by a
fire-cracker thrown among the fire-works in Kelley's window.
Insurance on building, $1,400. Damage to building, $65. In-
surance paid, $65. Insurance on contents, $200. Damage to
same, $200. Insurance paid, $100.
Box 52. Saturday, July 5, 7.42 a. m. One-story flat-roof
building, No. 38 South Main street, corner of School street,
owned by George S. Eastman and occupied by Carl Koehler &
Sons as a bakery. ' The fire resulted from an overheated chim-
ney. Damage to building, $25. No insurance. Insurance on
contents, $700. Damage to contents, $32. Insurance paid, $32.
Still. Wednesday, July g, 5.48 p. m. Four-story brick block
owned by Michael Lane, rear of No. 12 Birch street. A bed
in the tenement occupied by Ann Turcotte caught fire from some
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 105
unknown cause. No damage to building. Damage to contents,
^5. No insurance. Extinguished with pails of water.
Box 17. Monday, July 14, 10.55 a. m. Ash barrel in rear of
509 Maple street caught fire, causing needless alarm.
Box 15. Saturday, July 19, 7.10 a. i\r. Two-story wooden
dwelling, No. 67 Orange street, owned by Henry Fiske and
occupied by John Millet. Sparks from stove set fire to cra-
dle near by, causing very slight damage to contents.
Box 7. Two-story tenement house, No. 50 Bridge street
owned by Jonas Paige and occupied by Cornelius Kearns. The
fire originated in an attic occupied by the Kearns family, proba-
bly from carelessness with matches. No damage to building.
Damage to contents, ^3. Uninsured.
Still. Tuesday, August 12, 5 p. m. Tenement house on Mast
road owned by James Baldwin Co. Fire in bed ; cause unknown.
Damage slight. Fire King Company No. 2 responded.
Box 313. Wednesday, August 13, 8.10 p. m. Three-story
wooden block, No. 14 Marion street. Lamp exploded in grocery
store of J. MoUieur & Co. No damage. Services of depart-
ment not needed.
Box 4. Friday, August 22, 10.17 ^- m. Tenement in rear of
No. 653 Elm street, owned by Alonzo Elliott and occupied by
Frank Massant. Slight fire in bed with but little damage. Cause
unknown.
Box 313. Monday, August 25, 2.10 a. m. Three-story
wooden tenement block owned by Robert Leggett. The fire orig-
inated from some unknown cause in the photograph rooms
occupied by Oliver Desmarais. Building insured for $3,800.
Damage, $325. Insurance paid, $325. Contents insured for
$500. Damage, $275. Insurance paid, $249.50.
Box 21. Thursday, September 18, 7.33 p. m. The upsetting
of a kerosene lamp in a tenement, rear of No. 189 Manchester
street, caused an alarm. Fire extinguished before the arrival of
the department without damage.
Box 313. (Box 312 for second alarm.) Friday, October 17,
12.02 A. M. Wooden French Catholic church of St. Marie So-
ciety, next to 376 Beauport street. Fire originated from some
106 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
unknown cause in the church and had gained considerable head-
way before it was discovered. The structure with the exception
of a small portion of the northwest wing was a total loss. The
heat set fire to the parsonage on the north and the orphanage on
the south. Church insured for ^4,000. Damage estimated at
19,000. Insurance paid, ^4,oqo. Orphanage insured for
$10,000. Damaged, $1,050. Insurance paid, $1,050. Parson-
age insured for $3,700. Damaged $405. Insurance paid, $405.
Charles W. Bailey, member of Excelsior Hook-and-Ladder
Company No. i, was injured in the head by a falling slate, and
was conveyed to his home in a hack. Recovered in a few days.
Still. Saturday, October 18, 12.10 p.m. Load of straw
in Elm west back street, rear of Whitten & Fifield's stable, be-
longing to Mr. Bailey, of New Boston. Loss, $15. No in-
surance.
Box 15. Wednesday, November 5, 5.05 p. :\l Chimney fire
in tenement block, No. 50 Pearl street. No damage.
Box 313. Thursday, November 6, 5.15 p. m. A needless
alarm was "rung in" from this box, caused by a light from a
slight fire, in the Amoskeag dye-house, which was attended to by
the employes of the yard and the assistance of the department
was not needed.
Still. Sunday, November 16, 12.37 p. m. Chimney fire on
North Main street. Responded to by Fire King Company No.
2. No damage.
Still. Sunday, November 16, 3.20 p. m. In yard of water-
works, south of Valley street, on the Concord & Portsmouth
Railroad. Boys set fire to woodpile. Loss estimated at $15.
No insurance. Responded to by Merrimack Company No. 3
with hose carriage.
Box 15. Tuesday, November 18, 5.13 p. m. Two-and-one-
half-story house. No. 73 Orange street, owned by Mrs. Eliza
Creighton and occupied by Mrs. Emma Freldst. " Rats and
matches" caused a little disturbance which was early attended
to. Building insured for $1,200. Damage to building, $3.50.
Insurance paid, $3.50.
Still. Wednesday, November 19, 8.30 p. m. Chimney fire
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 107
in house of Dennis Lane, 412 Beauport street. No damage.
Responded to by Fire King Company No. 2.
Still. Sunday, November 23, 8.07 p. m. Chimney fire in
Thorp's block, West street. No damage. Responded to by
Fire King Company No. 2.
Still. Wednesday, November 26, 3 p. m. Brush fire on
North Weare Railroad, near head of Granite street. No dam-
age. Responded to by Fire King Company No. 2, with hose
carriage.
Still. Tuesday, December 2, 6.46 p. m. Chimney fire at No.
42 Bridge street. No damage. Chemical Company responded.
Used " Pony " Extinguisher.
Box 4. Friday, December 5, 3.05 a. m. Car shed of the
Manchester Horse Railroad, on Depot street. Too hot fire in
''drivers' lobby" caught clothes on fire. Building insured for
^1,150. Damage, ^81.02. Insurance paid, $81.02.
Box 4. 5.50 A. M. Rekindling of same fire. Extinguished
by stream from Chemical Engine.
Box 45. 10.05 ^- ^^- Four-story brick building on corner of
Franklin and West Cedar streets, owned by the S. C. Forsaith
Machine Co., and occupied by L. N. Westover & Co., Allan E.
Eaton «& Co., and Thomas L. Thorp. The fire originated in the
room occupied by the latter for wool-carding, and was caused by
friction in the card rollers. Building insured for $3,600. Dam-
age to building, $117.03. Insurance paid, $117.03. L. N.
Westover & Co., insurance on stock, $1,000. Damage, $300.
Insurance paid, $300. Allan E. Eaton's stock damaged $25.
No insurance. Thomas L. Thorp's stock damaged $600. No
insurance.
Still. Monday, December 8, 6.30 a. m. Chimney fire in
Patrick O'Dowd's house, 69 Dover street. No damage. Fire
King Company No. 2 responded.
Box 113. Friday, December 12, 6.12 p. m. House in pro-
cess of construction at corner of Prospect and Russell streets,
owned by Clarence M. Edgerly. Cause, defective chimney.
Damage estimated, $6. No insurance.
Still. Friday, December 12, 8.04 p. m. Chimney fire in
108 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Johnson's block, corner Douglas and Barr streets. Responded
to by Fire King Company No. 2 with " Pony " Extinguisher.
Box 15. Saturday, December 13, 12.38 p. m. Two-and-
half-story tenement building, No. 28 Pearl street, owned by heirs
of Joseph B. Clark and occupied by Peter Martin. Fire in bed,
from some cause unknown. No damage to building. Damage
to contents, $2.50. No insurance.
Still. Monday, December 15, 7.20 p. m. Four-story brick
block, owned by Thomas Dunlap, corner of Elm and Amherst
streets. Fire was discovered among some packing in the base-
ment of jewelry store occupied by Charles A. Trefethen. Cause
unknown. No damage to building. Stock insured for ^7,000.
Damage, ^200. Insurance paid, $200. Chemical Engine re-
sponded.
Box 5. Tuesday, December 16, 12.24 a. i\l Two-and-half-
story house. No. 40 Merrimack street, owned by John D.
Murphy and occupied by him and Mrs. Bridget McCarty and
Frank St. Lawrence. Building insured for $1,100. Damage to
building, $180. Insurance paid, $180. Damage to contents,
$75. No insurance. Roderick E. Wilson, a standing member
of Excelsior Hook-and-Ladder Company was rendered insensible
for several hours by a falling brick from the chimney, and con-
fined to his house for a few weeks in consequence.
Still. Wednesday, December 17, 7.15 a. m. Four-story
brick block, — Opera House Block. Fire in office of Northern
Express, No. 36 Hanover street, caused by electric-light wires.
Building insured for $75,000. Damage on building, $36.73.
Insurance paid, $36.73. Contents uninjured. Chemical Engine
responded.
Box 15. Thursday, December 18, 5.53 P. M. Chimney fire in
tenement block of George H. Dorr, in Elm east back street. No
damage. Needless alarm.
Still. Thursday, December 18, 6.17 p. m. Burning chimney
in Smyth & Carpenter's block, 1 208-1 244 Elm street. No dam-
age. Responded with " Pony " Extinguisher.
Number of bell alarms . . . . • . . 35
Number of still alarms ....... 30
Total 65
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 109
Aggregate losses for the year 1890 . . . . ^16,533.28
Amount of insurance paid ..... 10,026.28
Leaving a balance uncovered of . . . ^6,507.00
Note. — In addition to the foregoing, word was received from Reed's
Ferry, Wednesday, November 26, at 12.25 ^- ^i-> of a fire in the kit factory
near the depot. I took the N. S. Bean Steamer No. 4 with horses, hose,
and a delegation of men and went there by special train. The structure
was in ruins on our arrival there, and after some delay in getting water we
played upon the ruins as long as the water lasted, returning a few hours
later.
110
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. Ill
NUMBER AND LOCATION OF ALARM-BOXES AND
KEYS.
No. 3. — Blood's lower shop. Keys at ofifices of E. P. John-
son Co., Gas-works, County Jail, Marshall & Underhill, and
Charles H. Hutchinson's shop.
No. 4. — Corner of Spruce and Elm streets. Keys at Hotel
Belmont, L. B. Bodwell & Co.'s, Palmer & Garmon's, Horse
Railroad stables, and W. C. Blodgett's office.
No. 5. — Corner of Merrimack and Elm streets. Keys at
Tebbetts Brothers' and Currier's drug stores, and Manchester
House.
No. 6. — City Hall. Keys at Holland's and Mead's drug
stores, and J. A. Riddle's office.
No. 7. — Old City Hotel, corner Lowell and Elm east back
streets. Keys at Higgins Bros.', Brewer Bros.' stable, and Eames
Bros.' drug store.
No. 8. — Corner Elm and Hollis streets. Keys at Smith &
Co.'s and Colby's drug stores, and Partridge Bros.' grain store.
No. 9. — Corner of Elm and Webster streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Mrs. H. D. Corliss, J. Freeman Clough, J. B. Jones,
and General Stark engine-house.
No. 12. — Corner of North and Pine streets. Keys at resi-
dences of William C. Clarke, George Emerson, and Walter A.
Green.
No. 13. — Corner of Brook and Chestnut streets. Keys at
residences of Welcome Jencks and Lewis Simons, and No. i Sen-
ter's block.
No. 14. — Corner of Prospect and Union streets. Keys at
residences of W. Ireland, Mrs. N. L. Hardy, and D. J. Adams.
No. 15. — Corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets. Keys at res-
idences of Willie H. Dodge and Ervin S. Lyford.
No. 16. — Corner of Lowell and Union streets. Keys at res-
idences of Rt. Rev. Bishop Bradley and R. H. Hassam.
No. 17. — Corner of Amherst and Beech streets. Keys at
residences of Mrs. H. P. Watts and Michael Connor.
112 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 1 8. — Corner of Manchester and Maple streets. Keys at
residences of the late H. E. Stevens, A. N. Baker, and William
Perkins.
No. 21. — Corner of Merrimack and Pine streets. Keys at
A. D. Smith's drug store, J. McKeon's grocery store, A. L.
Walker's office, and residence of James F. Gillis.
No. 23. — Corner of Central and Beech streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Eben T. James and Mrs. Josiah Stevens.
No. 24. — Merrimack Steamer house, corner of Massabesic
street and Lake avenue. Keys at residence of D. M. Goodwin
and Steamer houee.
No. 25. — Corner of Hanover and Ashland streets. Keys at
residences of George F. Lincoln, A. D. Gooden, Horace Stearns,
and the late Horace Gordon.
No. 26. — Corner of Bridge and Russell streets. Keys at
McCrillis's carriage-shop, Geo. W. Bailey's stable, and residence
of John N. Chase.
No. 27. — Corner of Belmont and Amherst streets. Keys at
residences of H. M. Tarbell, A. G. Fairbanks, William B. Orrill,.
E. S. Fletcher, William Carr, and George H. Hubbard.
No. 31. — Corner of Canal and Hollis streets, Blood's shop.
Keys at office and Amory Mills watch-room.
No. 32. — Langdon Mills block, corner of Canal and Brook
streets. Keys at the Amoskeag Paper Co.'s mill, Langdon watch-
room, and Electric Light Station.
No. 34. — Jefferson Mill. Keys at watch-room and pumping
— Stark Mills. Keys at watch-room.
— Amory Mills. Keys at watch-room.
— Amoskeag Mills. Keys at watch-room.
— Manchester Mills. Keys at watch-room.
— Olzendam's Mill. Keys at watch-room.
— The S. C. Forsaith Co.'s shops. Keys at freight
depot, S. C. Forsaith Co.'s office, and the Lowell iron foundry
office.
No. 51. — Corner of Walker and Second streets. Keys at
stores of F. Riedel and William Weber.
ition.
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No.
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No.
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No.
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REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 113
No. 52. — Barr's brick block, 'Squog. Keys at Fradd & Co.'s
and A. N. Clapp's stores and Merrimack House.
No. 53. — Wallace's steam-mill. Keys at the office and I. R.
Dewey's tenement block.
No. 54. — Corner of A and Bowman streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Lord sisters and Neil Fullerton.
No. 56. — Mast road, near Riddle street. Keys at Baldwin's
bobbin shop, and residences of J. C. Smith and E. P. Littlefield.
No. 61. — Corner of River road and Hancock street, Bakers-
ville. Keys at Mary Stack's saloon, Carney, Lynch & Co.'s
brewery, and residence of H. F. Dillingham.
No. 62. — Kimball & Gerrish's tannery, River road. Keys at
tannery, and residence of Edwin Kennedy.
No. 71. — Corner of Cedar and Pine streets. Keys at residences
of T. Collins, Daniel Sheehan, and Thomas J- Smith.
No. 72. — Corner of Park and Lincoln streets. Keys at res-
idences of Austin Jenkins, C. H. Leach, and Clarence D. Palmer.
No. 73. — Corner of Beech and Cedar streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Rev. J. A. Chevalier and Edward Prindable.
No. 81. — Central Fire Station, Vine street. Keys at all the
engine-rooms.
No. 112. — Corner of Sagamore and Union streets. Keys at
residences of Woodbury Davison and W. T. Stevens.
No. 113. — Corner of Oak and Prospect streets. Keys at
residences of William B. Abbott, W. N. Johnson, and E. M.
Topi iff.
No. 114. — Corner of Pearl and Ash streets. Keys at resi-
dences of A. P. 01zendam,G. A. Olzendam, W. S. Shannon, and
John J. Bennett.
No. 212. — Shoe-shop, Hallsville. Keys at the office of shoe
factory, and residences of Charles C. Chase, G. W. Dearborn,
Mrs. Milton A. Abbott, and M. V. B. Garland.
No. 213. — Sash and blind factory, South Beech street, junc-
tion of Portsmouth Railroad. Keys at office of Austin, Flint &
Day.
No. 312. — Corner of Putnam, Main, and McGregor streets.
114
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Keys at residences of James Spence (391 Main street), Thomas
Bolton, and Amoskeag Co.'s gate.
No. 313. — Corner of Amory and Main streets. Keys at
residences of Allen Dean and Lawrence M. Connor, Bouthillier
& Gingras's drug store, and Amoskeag Co.'s gate.
No. 314. — P. C. Cheney Company's paper-mill. Keys at
office and Independent hose-house.
No. 315. — Old Brick Store, 'Skeag. Keys at Flanders' store.
Independent hose-house, and Robinson's residence.
No. 32.1. — To be located near corner Beauport and Wayne
streets.
No. 511. — Corner of Douglas and Green streets. Keys at
residences of Henry Harmon, Amelia Davis, and Charlotte T.
Snow.
No. 513. — To be located near corner Milford and Carroll
streets.
Also, keys will be found in the hands of all regular police.
The true time from Cambridge Observatory will be given at
precisely 12.30 P. M., from Charles A. Trefethen's jewelry store,
and will be denoted by one strike of the fire bells.
TELEPHONE CALLS.
Central station, Chemical Engine
Chief Engineer Lane's residence .
Assistant Engineer Whitney's residence
" " Merrill's residence
" '' Merrill's store
Fire King Steamer No. 2
Merrimack Steamer No. 3
General Stark Steamer No. 5
Massabesic Hose No. 2
64-3
64-4
34-4
71-3
55-4
59-3
56-3
64-6
1 1 6-4
INSTRUCTIONS TO KEY-HOLDERS AND CITIZENS.
I. Upon the discovery of a fire, notice should be immediately
communicated to the nearest alarm-box, the keys to which are in
the hands of all regular police, and generally of persons at the
vcorner or nearest houses.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 115
2. Key-holders, upon the discovery of a fire, or positive infor-
mation of a fire, will unlock the box, pull down the hook once as
far as it will go (without jerking) and then let go. Shut the
door, but do not try to remove the key, as it is locked in by a
trap-lock, and can only be removed with a release-key, which is
carried by each of the engineers, who will, as soon as convenient,
release and return it.
3. All persons giving fire alarms are requested to remain by
the box a moment, and if no clicking is heard in the box, pull
again ; if you still hear no clicking, go to the next nearest box,
procure another key, and give an alarm from that.
4. Never signal for a fire seen at a distance. Never touch the
box except to give an alarm of fire. Give an alarm for no cause
other than actual fire. Don't give an alarm for a chimney fire.
5. Never let the keys go out of your possession unless called
for by the Chief Engineer. If you change your residence or place
of business, where the keys are kept, return the keys to the same
officer.
6. Owners and occupants of buildings are requested to inform
themselves of the location of alarm-boxes near their property, also
all places where the keys are kept. Be sure the alarm is promptly
and properly given.
7. Alarms will be sounded upon all the fire bells in the city,
and the number of the box will be given thus : Box 6, six blows,
2\ seconds apart, repeated three times. Box 212, two blows,
pause of 6^ seconds, one blow, same pause, and two blows,
2 — I — 2, repeated three times.
8. The engineers reserve the right to give one stroke of the
bells at any time ; and, in case of testing the boxes, each test
will be preceded by one stroke of the bells.
SCHOOL SIGNAL.
Two strokes, with fifteen seconds between them, close the
primary schools ; and to close all the schools, two immediate
strokes, and after a lapse of fifteen seconds two more immediate
strokes, — the time of striking the bells being at 7.45 a. m. for
closing the schools during the forenoon, and at 11.30 a. m. or
1. 1 5 p. M. for closing them during the afternoon.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS IN REGARD TO RE-
SPONDING TO FIRES AND ALARMS.
The following order has been adopted by the Board of En-
gineers, and the Fire Department will strictly comply until other-
wise ordered, and will attend alarms of fire as follows :
1. Pennacook Hose Co. No. i, Hook-and-Ladder Co. No. i,
and Chemical Engine Co. No. i will report for duty to all boxes
QXi first alarm.
2. Amoskeag Steamer Co. No. i will report for duty, on days
of its first run, on first alarm to all boxes except 9, 12, 51, 54, 56,
315, 513 ; on second alarm, to all other boxes.
Second Run. Ox\ first alarm., to boxes 6, 7, 8, 15, 34, 35,
36, 41, 42, 45, 81 ; on second alaj'm, to boxes 3, 4, 5, 13, 14,
16, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 43, 61, 62, 71, 7?, 73,
112, 113, 114, 213, 312, 313, 314, 321, 511 ; on third alarm, to
all other boxes.
3. Fire King Steamer Co. No. 2 will report for duty on first
alarm to boxes 34, 35, 36, 41, 42,43- 45- S^' 52, .53' 54,56,312,
313, 321, 511, 513; on second alarm, to boxes 4, 5, 31, 32 ; on
third alarm, to all other boxes.
4. Merrimack Steamer Co. No. 3 will report for duty on first
alarm to boxes ;^, 4, 5, t6, 17, 18, 21, 23, 24,25, 26,27, 4i, 42,
43, 45, 61,62, 71, 72, 73, 212, 213; on second alarm, to boxes
6, 7, 8, 15, 31, 34, 35' 36, SI' 52, 53' 56, 81 ; on third alarm,
to all other boxes.
5. N. S. Bean Steamer Co. No. 4 will report for duty, on days
of its first run, on first alann to all boxes except 9, 12, 51, 54,
56, 315 ; on second alarm, to all other boxes.
Second Run. On first alarm, to boxes 6, 7, 8, 15, 34, 35, 36,
41, 42, 45, 81 ; on second alarm, to boxes 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 16,
17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 43, 61,62, 71, 72, 73, 112,
113, 114, 213, 312, 313, 314, 321, 511 ; on third alarm, to all
other boxes.
6. Gen. Stark Steamer Co. No. 5 will report for duty on first
alarm to boxes 7, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 31, 32, 34, 35, 41, 112,
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113, 114, 314, 315 ; on second alarm, to boxes 6, 16, T^d^ 42, 81,
312, 313, 321 ; on third alarm, to all other boxes.
7. Massabesic Hose Company No. 2 will report for duty, on
days of its first run, ox\ first alarm, to boxes 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36, 41, 42, 72, 81,
112, 113, 114; on second alarm, to boxes 4, 5, 9, 12, 43, 45, 71,
73, 212, 312, 313, 314, 321 ; on third alarm, to all other boxes.
Second Run. On first alarm^ to boxes 7, 8, 13, 14, 15, 16,
17, 18, 25, 26, 34, 112, 113, 114; on second alarm, to boxes 4,
5, 6, 9, 12, 21, 23, 24, 27, 31, 32, 35, 36, 41, 42, 43, 45, 71, 72,
73, 81, 212, 312, 313, 314, 321; on tliird alarm, to all other
boxes.
8. On the first alarm from boxes 9, 24, 27, 54, 56, 61, 62, 212,
213, 314, 315, 513, the horses of the second run will double on
to the engine of its first run, and on the arrival at the fire
THE second-run HORSES WILL RETURN TO THEIR HOUSE, and in
case of an alarm from any box the company will immediately re-
spond with their engine.
9. During the progress of a fire, any of the apparatus not called
on that alarm will promptly respond to an alarm from any other
box.
10. At any time when an alarm of fire is given, the engine,
hose-carriage, or truck that leaves the house first will have the
right to lead to the fire. No running by will be allowed, ex-
cept IN CASE OF accident, UNDER PENALTY OF DISMISSAL OF THE
DRIVER FROM THE DEPARTMENT.
11. The drivers shall not permit persons not connected with
the department to ride upon their apparatus, and in muddy
weather or heavy wheeling they shall not permit any one to ride
upon their apparatus when returning from fires.
12. The companies of the department not called on the first
alarm will prepare for a start and hold themselves in readiness for
a second or third alarm ; and, if not needed, one stroke on the
bells and gongs by the engineer in charge will be the signal for
discharge to all companies remaining at the houses ; or in case
this one blow is not struck within thirty minutes, companies may
consider themselves dismissed ; except the drivers, who will remain
118
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
in the houses with their horses until the two blows to limber up.
13. Two strokes on the bells will be a signal for those at a fire
to limber up.
ESTIMATED VALUE OF PROPERTY.
AMOSKEAG STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. i.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I extra first-size Amoskeag steamer
I one-horse hose-wagon
I pair gray horses for steamer .
I black horse for hose-wagon .
3 swinging harnesses
I pair double harnesses (for_ street work)
I single harness (for street work)
2,000 feet fabric hose
100 feet three-inch leather hose
I double cart .
I single cart
I sled ....
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc.
Tools, furniture, and fixtures
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
$4,000.00
450.00
800.00
375-00
150.00
60.00
50.00
1,200.00
50.00
T 00.00
100.00
40.00
60.00
200.00
200.00
$7,835.00
FIRE KING STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2.
LOCATED ON NORTH MAIN STREET, 'SQUOG.
I second-size Amoskeag steamer . . . $4,000.00
I combination hose-wagon .... 650.00
I pair bay horses for steamer .... 800.00
1 pair gray horses for combination . . . 600.00
3 street harnesses, two at 540, i at $20 . . 100.00
2 pairs harnesses ...... 200.00
I four-wheeled hose-carriage .... 600.00
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I
single cart
.
-Iioo.oo
I
two-horse cart
.
75.00
I
double sled .
75.00
I
single sled
50.00
2,000
feet fabric hose
1,500.00
Stable fixtures and blankets .
60.00
Furniture, fixtures,
carpets, etc.
466.00
Firemen's suits and badges .
Total amount ....
150.00
. $0,426.00
MERRIMACK STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 4-
LOCATED ON LAKE AVENUE, CORNER MASSABESIC STREET.
I second-size Amoskeag steamer
I pair black horses ....
I single horse .....
3 street harnesses, two at $50, one at $40
3 swinging harnesses
I four-wheeled Amoskeag hose-carriage
I double cart .....
I single cart .....
I single sled .....
2,000 feet fabric hose ....
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc.
Beds, bedding, carpets, hall furniture, etc
Total amount .....
$3,500.00
600.00
250.00
140.00
150.00
600.00
162.50
40.00
40.00
1,200.00
50.00
575-00
$7,307-50
N. S. BEAN STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 4.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I second-size Amoskeag steamer
I hose-wagon .....
I pair bay horses for steamer .
I horse for hose-wagon
I pair street harnesses
1,500.00
400.00
600.00
200.00
50.00
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
I pair swinging harnesses for steamer
I single swinging harness for hose-wagon
550 feet fabric hose
900 feet Baker fabric hose .
Hall furniture, beds, bedding, etc.
Stable fixtures and blankets .
Firemen's suits and badges .
Total amount
^100.00
50.00
330.00
360.00
275.00
75.00
150.00
$6,090.00
GENERAL STARK STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 5.
LOCATED ON WEBSTER STREET, CORNER CHESTNUT.
I third-size Amoskeag steamer
I combination hose reel and ladder
I pair bay horses
1 pair gray horses
2 double carts .
2 double sleds .
2 pairs swinging harnesses
2 pairs street harnesses
2,000 feet fabric hose
Furniture, fixtures, tools, etc.
Stable fixtures and blankets .
Firemen's suits, badges, etc.
Total amount
$3,600.00
1,000.00
600.00
400.00
225.00
150.00
200.00
iSo.oo
1,200.00
175.00
80.00
150.00
$7,960.00
E. W. HARRINGTON STEAM FIRE-ENGINE.
LOCATED AT OLD ENGINE-HOUSE, CLINTON STREET.
Old U tank Amoskeag engine
PENNACOOK HOSE COMPANY NO. i.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
1 four-wheeled Amoskeag hose-carriage
2 horses ........
2 single harnesses . . . • .
$500.00
$600.00
600.00
70.00
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121
I single cart
I single sled
I hose sled
1,650 feet fabric hose
3,000 feet leather hose
Furniture and fixtures
Stable fixtures and blankets
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
$50.00
40.00
20.00
990.00
i,Soo.oo
200.00
50.00
175.00
54,595-00
MASSABESIC HOSE COMPANY NO. 2.
LOCATED ON MAPLE STREET, CORNER EAST HIGH.
I tour-wheeled Amoskeag hose-carriage
I bay horse
I street harness
I swinging harness
I single cart
I single sled
2,000 feet fabric hose
2,000 feet leather hose
Furniture and fixtures
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
$
600.00
350.00
40.00
50.00
60.00
40.00
I
,200.00
I
,200.00
100.00
175.00
5,815.00
EXCELSIOR HOOK-AND-LADDER COMPANY NO. i.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I hook-and-ladder truck .
. $1,700.00
I reserve truck ....
300.00
I pair bay horses ....
600.00
I pair exercise harnesses .
30.00
I pair swinging harnesses .
100.00
2 extra Bangor extension ladders
360.00
6 rubber blanket covers
144.00
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS
Furniture and fixtures .
Stable fixtures and blankets
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY NO. i.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I double tank (60 gallons each) engine
I pair black horses .
I pair exercise harnesses .
I pair swinging harnesses
Furniture and fixtures .
Stable fixtures and blankets
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
SUPPLY WAGON.
I supply wagon with boxes and engineer's lanterns
6 rubber blanket covers .....
Total amount .....
SPARE HOSE.
AT CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
500 feet leather hose .....
600 feet fabric hose ......
Total amount .....
$200.00
50.00
280.00
$3,764.00
;2, 250.00
750.00
50.00
100.00
75.00
50.00
35-00
^3,310.00
$312.00
144.00
$456.00
$500.00
360.00
$860.00
EXERCISE WAGON.
CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
I four-wheeled exercise wagon with pole and shafts
and coal boxes $350.00
I second-hand hand wagon ..... 30.00
Total amount
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123
ENGINEERS' DEPARTMENT.
5 fire hats . . . .
5 engineers' white rubber coats
Furniture and fixtures
Total amount
$io.oo
37-5°
175.00
^222.50
INDEPENDENT HOSE COMPANY NO. 5.
LOCATED AT CORNER OF OLD FALLS ROAD AND FRONT STREET.
1 four-wheeled hand hose-carriage
600 feet leather hose
2 hose-pipes, spanners, etc.
Furniture and fixtures .
Total amount
^400.00
360.00
40.00
10.00
GOFFE'S FALLS HOSE-CARRIAGE.
LOCATED AT DERRY MILLS.
1 two-wheeled hose-carriage
300 feet fabric hose .....
2 hose-pipes ......
Total amount .....
SLEEPING-HALL.
AT CENTRAL ST.\TION, VINE STREET.
7 beds, bedding, wardrobes, etc.
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
At cost (including additions previous to 1S85)
Remodeling in 1885
Additions in 1886 .
" in 1887 .
" in 1888 .
in i88g .
^50.00
200.00
10.00
^260.00
5275.00
521,625.00
6,000.00
775.00
375-00
575-00
430.00
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Additions in 1890 .
" Individual Tapper " system .
Wire, ladders, arms, brackets, etc.
Total
RECAPITULATION.
Amoskeag Steam Fire-Engine Co. No. i
Fire King Steam Fire-Engine Co. No. 2
Merrimack Steam Fire-Engine Co. No. 3
N. S. Bean Steam Fire-Engine Co. No. 4
Gen. Stark Steam Fire-Engine Co. No. 5
E. W. Harrington Steamer (old)
Pennacook Hose Co. No. i
Massabesic Hose Co. No. 2
Excelsior Hook-and-Ladder Co. No,
Chemical Engine Co. No. i
Supply Wagon
Spare Hose ....
Exercise Wagon
Engineers' Department
Independent Hose Co. No. 5 .
Goffe's Falls Hose-Carriage
Sleeping Hall (Central Station)
Fire-Alarm Telegraph
Total ....
$300.00
3,000.00
150.00
$33)230-00
^7)835-oo
9,426.00
7)3o7-5o
6,090.00
7,960.00
500.00
4,595-oo
3,815.00
3,764.00
3,310.00
456.00
860.00
380.00
222.50
810.00
260.00
275.00
33,230.00
$91,096.00
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NAMES AND RESIDENCES OF THE MEMBERS OF
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
1
Thomas W. Lane
Fred S Bean
Chief
1937 Elm street
3
Asst. and clerk
Assistant
Assistant
Assistant
Machinist
Carpenter
Supt.Electric L't
Grain dealer
IC Orange St
2
4
5
Ruel G. Manning
Eiigene S. Whitney. . .
Clarence R. Merrill *. .
52 Douglas St.
River road, N.
414 Merrimack.
* Elected to fill vacancj' caused by resignation of Clarence D. Palmer,
July 1, 1890.
AMOSKEAG STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1.
House No. 28 Vine Street.
1°
PQ
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
7
Charles F. McCoy
Foreman
Machinist
5M. S.B.
8
Frank E. Stearns
Asst. foreman..
Paper-hanger
389 Lake Ave.
18
Henry C. Parsons —
Clerk
Auctioneer
28 Vine street.
6
Charles F.Hall
Engineer
Machinist
146 Orange St.
13
Joseph H. Gould
Asst. engineer.
1087 Elm street.
11
Charles H. Rogers —
Driver steamer
Teamster
28 Vine street.
12
Artemas C. Barker....
Driver of hose.
. "
28 Vine street.
16
Frank B. Marston . .
Hosenian
Carpenter
11 M. S B.
19
Henry A. Boone
Machinist
546ChestiuitSt.
15
Thomas J. Wyatt
Carpenter
44 Middle St.
IS
James L. Brock
u
Tinsmith
21 Market St.
10
Lewis G. Bryant
Teamster
12 M. S. B.
K
Edgar A. Young
Frank H. Harvey
,1
Clerk
9
Teamster
546 Chestnut St.
126
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
FIRE KING STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2.
House on North Main Street, ' Squog.
* .
pa
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
67
David G.Mills
Foreman
Contractor
607 Granite Ex.
71
Charles G. Ranuo —
Asst. foreman .
Harness-maker. .
63 Parker St.
68
Clerk IVraphinist
624 N. Main St.
120
Thomas F. Dodge ....
Engineer
Engineer
Engine house.
119
Stephen Thomes
Asst. engineer Carpenter
55 Douglas St.
76
Jeremiah Lane
Driver steamer
Teamster
Engine house.
69
Arthur W. Whitcomb
Driver of hose-
Engine house.
72
Samuel A. Hill
Hoseman
Janitor
86 School St.
Robert J. Hill
Carpenter
86 School St.
77
Daniel B. Emery
Machinist
Williams St.
73
Charles S. Cousins
Harness-maker. .
f3 Douglas St.
74
Thomas C. Foote
Wool-sorter
56 N. Main St.
66
Joseph H. Alsop
Wool-waste-s'rt'r
34 Douglas St.
70
Charles Tewksbury ..
Freight-]] andler .
86 School St.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
127
MERRIMACK STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 3.
House on Lake Avenue, corner Massabesic.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
84
Charles H. Colburn...
Foreman
Carpenter
294 Laurel St.
86
Frank F. Porter
Asst. foreman..
Manufacturer....
330 Spruce St.
S'i
Will P. Emerson
Clerk
Carpenter
Engineer
294 Laurel St.
196 Laurel St.
121
George B. Forsaith. . .
Engineer
122
Edwin E. Weeks
Asst. engineer.
Machinist...
284 Spruce St.
87
George H. Wheeler. ..
Driver steamer
Teamster
419 Lake Ave.
81
William S. McLeod...
Driver of hose.
347 Spruce St.
78
George Dunnington.
Louis N. Dufrain
Clerk
422 Merrimack.
373 Hall street.
253 Lake Ave.
404 Merrimack.
428 Central St.
79
SO
Ernest L. George
Clerk
89,
John S. Avery
83
Ernest E. Hubbell
Yeast agent
88
Fred S. Sloan
58 Massabesic.
422 Merrimack.
89
Parker K. Brown
Clerk
128
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
N. S. BEAN STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 4.
House on Vine Street.
pa
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
26
Lorenzo J. Chandler. .
Foreman
Clerk
123 Orange St.
27
20
24
Asst. foreman..
Clerk
Machinist
Pharmacist
90 Blodget St.
Lucius B. Snelling.. ..
Albert Merrill
37 Water street.
Engineer
Electrician
River road, N.
21
Edgar G. Abbott
Asst. engineer.
Machinist
12 Linden St.
31
Frank J. Dustin
Driver steamer
Teamster
20 Vine street.
29
Alphonso E. Foster.. .
Driver of hose.
20 Vine street.
28
William H. Dodge —
Hoseman
R. K. fireman —
530 Chestnut St.
33
Henry C. Morrill
,,
Machinist
112 Pearl St.
23
George A.Cann
Watchman
27 Middle St.
32
Benj. R. Richardson..
Machinist
12 Mechanic St.
30
Ellsworth V. Rowe. . .
Section-hand
1261 Elm street.
22
Walter A. Clarkson.. .
Carpenter
98 Sagamore St.
25
Frank B. Stevens
Clerk
301 Amherst St.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
129
GENERAL STARK STEAM FIRE-ENGINE COMPANY NO. 5.
House on Webster Street.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
Charles W. Brown —
Geo. R. Simmons
Woodbury Davison. . .
Daniel W. Morse
Arthur W. Bond......
Emil H. Smith
Martin W. Ford
Arthur A. Smith
Russell L. Cilley
Edward H. Clough....
John J. Kelley
Mile B. Wilson
Lnville O. Blanchai'd
Alvin McLane
Foreman
Asst. foreman .
Clerk
Engineer
Asst. engineer.
Driver steam'r
Driver hose . . .
Hoseman
Clerk
Machinist.
Carpenter
Engineer . .
Teamster.
Blacksmith.
Clerk
Machinist...
Mason
Blacksmith .
Carpenter . .
16 Hazel St.
82 Pennacook.
78.5 Union St.
1419 Elm St.
630 Pine street.
44 AVebster St.
44 Webster St.
W. Appleton.
1449 Elm St.
41 Ajipleton St.
River road N.
45 Blodget St.
817 Union St.
661 Chestnut St.
PENNACOOK HOSE COMPANY NO. 1.
House No. 26 Vine Street.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
34
Albert Maxfleld
Foreman
Belt-maker
23 M. S. B.
36
Joseph E. Merrill
Frank D. Burleigh. . . .
21 Ash street.
50
Clerk
Carpenter
6 M. S. B.
37
Walter L. Blenus
Driver
Teamster
26 Vine street.
38
George H. Porter
Hoseman
Carpenter
■ 279 Laurel St.
48
Albert A. Puffer
R. R. emploj'e....
499 Beech St.
.52
Charles B. French —
Carpenter
ISM. S. B.
.53
John E. Sanborn
274 Laurel St.
35
Samuel W. Patten —
Belt-maker
3 M. S. B.
45
George I. Ayer
Electrician
28 M. S. B.
51
Edwin W Merrill
,1
Clerk
21 Ash street.
39
"
Mechanic
7 M. S. B.
130
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1.
House No. 8 Vine Street.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
116
George N. Burpee —
Foreman
Electrician
19 Ash street.
115
Jesse W Ti'nell.
Clerk
117
118
8 Vine street.
Frank A. Pherson ....
Engineer
Engineer
8 Vine street.
44 Henry S. Reed
Fireman
Teamster
273 Chestnut St.
MASSABESIC HOSE COMPANY NO. 2.
House on Maple Street, corner East High.
P3
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
54
John F. Seaward
Foreman
Carpenter
27 Warren St.
55
Revilo G. Houghton..
A>3St. foreman .
Gas-fitter
288 Bridge St.
58
Henry G. Seaman
Clerk
Carpenter
14 South street
57
521 Maple St.
"64 Lowell St
56
George \V. Huntley...
Jos. W. Batchelder....
59
Carpenter
521 Maple St.
64
Albert E. Batchelder.
467 Maple St.
65
Fred S Lewis
,1
62
Julien B. Huntley
Frank E.Heald
„
36 Dutton St
63
Book-keeper
289 Concord St.
60
Charles W. Powell . . .
Carpenter
540 Maple St.
61
Addison Seaward
"
"
296 Orange St.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
131
EXCELSIOR HOOK-AND-LADDEK COMPANY NO. 1.
House No. 18 Vine Street.
¥
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
91
Jerome J. Loverin g. . .
Foreman
Carpenter
300 Pine street.
111
90
94
92
Machinist
36 Water St.
Henry Jolinson
Charles M. Denyou ...
Oscar P. Stone
Clerk.
Piper
20 M. S. B.
Teamster
18 Vine street.
Fireman
Clerk
696 Elm street.
96
98
114
100
100 Blodget St.
268 Bridge St.
John Wilson \ " rnrnpntpv
19 Warren St.
Hiram p. Young "
Taxidermist
33 Dulton St.
103
Luther J. Flint "
Carpenter
4 Button St.
104
Harrison H. Cole
45 M. S. B.
109
George M. Jones
Gardener
558 Chestnut St.
110
Pharis E. Rogers
Mason —
118 Pearl St.
97
Charles W . Bailey —
" Carriage-maker..
265 Concord St.
107
93
4 Whitney St.
Edward E. White
Teamsler
107 Manchest'r.
113
Charles H. Laxon
" Carpenter
9 Myrtle street.
106
16 M. S. B.
105
John T. Gott ...
" ' Teamster
301 E. Spruce.
112
Henry C. Crosby
10 South street.
93
Charles Gile
" ! ( larnenter
56 Stark Corp.
132
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
INDEPENDENT HOSE COMPANY NO. 5.
House corner of Front Street and Old Falls Road, Amoskeag.
Name.
Bank.
Occupation.
Residence.
133
Charles E. Stearns . . . .
Foreman
Milk-dealer
Front street.
134
Thomas Hamilton . . .
Asst. foreman .
Handle-maker.
Goffstown R'd.
135
George B. Glidclen
Clerk
Milk-dealer
Dunbart'n R'd.
136
George Lawrence —
Steward
Front street.
137
Sherman L. FJanders.
Hoseman
Grocer
» u
138
Andrew J. Moynihan.
l( t(
139
.,
..
140
Clarence H.Stearns..
„
Clerk
<l X
141
William F. Stearns....
"
Leather-cutter ..
..
142
Alfred D. Maxwell....
Ice-dealer
Goffstown R'd.
143
Elbridge G. Keed
K
Driver
223 Lowell St.
1't'l
Benjamin Herbert. . . .
,,
LOCATION OF HYDRANTS.
Amherst, northwest corner of Vine street.
Amherst, southwest corner of Chestnut street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Pine street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Union street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Walnut street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Beech street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Maple street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Ashland street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Hall street.
Amherst, northwest corner of Belmont street.
Appleton, northwest corner of Elm street.
Appleton, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Appleton, northwest corner of Pine street.
Appleton, northwest corner of Union street.
Arlington, northwest corner of Cross street.
Arlington, northwest corner of Warren street.
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Arlington, northwest corner of Ashland street.
Ash, front of No. 32.
Auburn, corner of Franklin street.
Auburn, northeast corner of Elm street.
Auburn, front of No. 40.
Auburn, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Auburn, northwest corner of Adams street.
Auburn, northwest corner of Union street.
Auburn, northwest corner of Beech street.
Baker, corner of Elm street.
Baker, corner of River road.
Baker, corner of Calef road.
Baker, corner of Nutt road.
Bay, corner of Salmon street.
Bedford, northwest corner of Granite street.
Bedford, near No. 36 M. P. W. corporation.
Bedford, northwest corner of Central street.
Beech, northwest corner of Park street.
Beech, front of No. 584.
Belmont, near No. 345.
Belmont, corner of Young street.
Belmont, near Coffin residence.
Birch, northwest corner of Lowell street.
Birch, northwest corner of Washington street.
Blodget, front of primary school house.
Blodget, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Blodget, northwest corner of Pine street.
Blodget, northwest corner of Union street.
Bridge, front of No. 26,
Bridge, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Bridge, northwest corner of Union street.
Bridge, northwest corner of Walnut street.
Bridge, northwest corner of Beech street.
Bridge, northwest corner of Ash street.
Bridge, northwest corner of Maple street.
Bridge, near No. 242.
Bridge, northwest corner of Russell street.
134 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
Bridge, northwest corner of Linden street.
Bridge, corner of Ashland street.
Bridge, corner of Hall street.
Brook, northwest corner of P. Adams's lot.
Brook, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Brook, northwest corner of Pine street.
Brook, northwest corner of Union street.
Brook, northwest corner of Beech street.
Brook, northwest corner of Ash street.
Calef road, near Patrick Harrington's.
Calef road, near D. T. Smith's house.
Canal, near east corner of Depot street.
Canal, near office door M. L. W.
Cedar, corner of Elm street.
Cedar, front of No. ;^6.
Cedar, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Cedar, northwest corner of Pine street.
Cedar, northwest corner of Union street.
Cedar, northwest corner of Beech street.
Cedar, northwest corner of Maple street.
Cedar, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Central, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Central, northwest corner of Pine street.
Central, northwest corner of Union street.
Central, near gate, Merrimack square.
Central, northwest corner of Beech street.
Central, northwest corner of Maple street.
Central, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Central, front of No. 374.
Central, northwest corner of Wilson street.
Central, northwest corner of Hall street.
Central, corner of Cass street.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Lowell street.
Chestnut, opposite High street.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Pearl street.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Orange street.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Myrtle street.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 135
Chestnut, northwest corner of Prospect street.
Clarke, northwest corner of Elm street.
Clarke, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Concord, corner Elm street.
Concord, opposite Vine street.
Concord, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Concord, northwest corner of Union street.
Concord, northwest corner of Walnut street.
Concord, northwest corner of Beech street.
Concord, northwest corner of Maple street.
Concord, northwest corner of old Amherst street.
Concord, northwest corner of Ashland street.
Concord, northwest corner of Hall street.
Concord, northwest corner of Belmont street.
Cypress, south end of street.
Cypress, at Manchester shoe-shop.
Dean, northeast corner of Canal street.
Dean, northwest corner of Elm street.
Depot, northeast corner of Elm street.
Elm, front Temple & Farrington Co.'s bookstore.
Elm, northwest corner of Salmon street.
Elm, northwest corner of Cove street.
Franklin, opposite Middle street.
Gore, corner of Beech street.
Granite, northwest corner of Elm street.
Granite, near Franklin street.
Granite, northeast corner of Canal street.
Granite, east end of Granite bridge.
Grove, corner of Elm street.
Hancock street.
Hancock, near shoe-shop.
Hancock, northwest corner of River road.
Hancock, near brewery.
Hanover, corner of Elm street.
Hanover, front of Opera House.
Hanover, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Pine street.
136 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
Hanover, northwest corner of Union street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Beech street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Maple street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Lincohi street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Ashland street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Hall street.
Hanover, northwest corner of Belmont street.
Harrison, opposite No. 15.
Harrison, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Harrison, northwest corner of Pine street.
Harrison, northwest corner of Union street.
Harrison, northwest corner of Beech street.
Harrison, northwest corner of Maple street.
Harrison, northwest corner of Oak street.
Harrison, northwest corner of Russell street.
High, corner of Ashland street.
High, corner of South street.
High, fifty feet east of Wilson road.
Hollis, northeast corner of Canal street.
Hollis, northeast corner of Hobbs street.
Hollis, northwest corner of Elm street.
Jevvett, corner of Massabesic street.
Kidder, northeast corner of Canal street.
Kidder, northeast corner of Hobbs street.
Kidder, northwest corner of Elm street.
Kidder's court, northwest corner of Elm street.
Lake avenue, near No. 36.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Union street.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Maple street.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Wilson street.
Lake avenue, corner of Cass street.
Lake avenue, east end near Hastings residence.
Langdon, northwest corner of Elm street.
Langdon, northeast corner of Canal street.
Laurel, northwest corner of Pine street.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. ' 137
Laurel, northwest corner of Union street.
Laurel, northwest corner of Beech street.
Laurel, northwest corner of Maple street.
Laurel, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Laurel, near No. 244.
Laurel, northwest corner of Wilson street.
Laurel, near Belmont street.
Laurel, northwest corner of Milton street.
Laurel, northwest corner of Beacon street.
Lowell, northwest corner of Beech street.
Lowell, northwest corner of Ash street.
Lowell, northwest corner of South street.
Lowell, front of No. 276.
Lowell, northwest corner of Wilson road.
Lowell, northwest corner of Ashland street.
Mammoth road.
Manchester, corner of Elm street.
Manchester, front of James Bros.' stable.
Manchester, northwest corner of Central street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Pine street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Union street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Beech street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Maple street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Manchester, northwest corner of W^ilson street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Hall street.
Manchester, northwest corner of Belmont street.
Maple, northwest corner of Lowell street.
Maple, front of No. 350.
Market, near Canal street.
Market, near second back street west of Elm street.
Market, northwest corner of Elm street.
Massabesic, northwest corner of Old Falls road.
Massabesic, southeast corner of Taylor street.
Massabesic avenue.
Massabesic, near Mammoth road.
Mechanic, northeast corner of Canal street.
138 ■ ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Mechanic, near second back street west of Elm street.
Mechanic, northwest corner of Elm street.
Merrimack, corner of Elm street.
Merrimack, opposite gate, Merrimack square.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Pine street.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Union street.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Beech street,
]\Ierrimack, northwest corner of Maple street.
]\Ierrimack, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Merrimack, near No 362.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Wilson street.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Hall street.
Merrimack, near Belmont street.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Beacon street.
Middle, northeast corner of Canal street.
Middle, near No. 67 x\moskeag corporation.
Monroe, northwest corner of Elm street.
Myrtle, opposite No. ;^^.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Pine street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Union street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Walnut street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Beech street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Ash street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Maple street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Oak street.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Russell street.
North, northwest corner of Bay ctreet.
North, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
North, northwest corner of Pine street.
North, corner of Liberty street.
Orange, opposite Clark's avenue.
Orange, northwest corner of Pine street.
Orange, northwest corner of Union street.
Orange, northwest corner of Walnut street.
Orange, northwest corner of Beech street.
Orange, corner of Ash street.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 139
Orange, corner of Maple street.
Orange, corner of Oak street.
Orange, corner of Russell street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Elm street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Clark's avenue.
Pearl, northwest*corner of Pine street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Union street.
Pearl, corner of Beech street.
Pearl, corner of Walnut street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Ash street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Maple street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Oak street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Russell street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Linden street.
Pearl, northwest corner of Ashland street.
Pennacook, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Pennacook, northwest corner of Pine street.
Pennacook, northwest corner of Union street.
Pine, near Road House.
Pine, northwest corner of Lake avenue.
Pine, northwest corner of Hanover street.
Pine, northwest corner of Concord street.
Pine, northwest corner of Lowell street.
Pine, northwest corner of High street.
Pine, northwest corner of Bridge street.
Pleasant, northeast corner of Canal street.
Pleasant, near No. 35 Manchester corporation.
Pleasant, northwest corner of Franklin street.
Pleasant, northwest corner of Elm street.
Prospect, between Elm and Chestnut streets.
Prospect, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Pine street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Union street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Walnut street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Beech street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Ash street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Maple street.
140 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Prospect, northwest corner of Oak street.
Prospect, northwest corner of Russell street.
Prospect, corner of Linden street.
Reservoir, on force main.
River road (north), north of Webster street.
River road (north), near Mrs. John Kelly's.
River road (north), near J. Otis Clark's.
River road (south), near gate of tannery.
Sagamore, corner of Union street.
Shasta, corner of Elm street.
Shasta, corner of River road.
Shasta, corner of Beech street.
Silver, corner of Union street.
Silver, corner of Beech street.
Somerville, corner of Union street.
Spring, northeast corner of Canal street.
Spring, northwest corner of Charles street.
Spring, northwest corner of Elm street.
Spring, corner of Elm street.
Spruce, northwest corner of Chestnut street. .
Spruce, northwest corner of Pine back street.
Spruce, northwest corner of Union street.
Spruce, between Chestnut and Elm streets.
Spruce, northwest corner of Beech street.
Spruce, northwest corner of Maple street.
Spruce, northwest corner of Lincoln street.
Spruce, northwest corner of Wilson street.
Spruce, northwest corner of Belmont street.
Spruce, near T. J. Perry's house.
Stark, northeast corner of Canal street.
Stark, near No. 13 Stark corporation.
Stark, northwest corner of Elm street.
State, northwest corner of Granite street.
State, opposite No. 57 Manchester corporation.
State, opposite No. 13 Manchester corporation.
State, corner of West Central street.
Summer, corner of Elm street.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 141
Taylor, corner Young road.
Union, northwest corner of Lowell street.
Union, northwest corner of High street.
Valley, northwest corner of Elm street.
Valley, northwest corner of Willow street.
Valley, northwest corner of Beech street.
Valley, northwest corner of Wilson street.
Valley, northwest corner of Belmont street.
Valley, northwest corner of Taylor street.
Valley, northwest corner of Cypress street.
Valley, northwest corner of Jewett street.
Valley, 150 feet east of J. L. Woodman's.
Walnut, northwest corner of Lowell street.
Walnut, opposite No. 79.
Water, near No. ^8 Amoskeag corporation.
Water, northwest corner of Elm street.
Webster, northwest corner of Chestnut street.
Webster, corner of Adams street.
Webster, northwest corner of Union street.
West Auburn, northeast corner of Canal street.
West Bridge, northeast corner of Canal street.
West Bridge, northeast corner of Hobbs street.
West Bridge, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Brook, northeast corner of Canal street.
West Brook, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Cedar, northeast corner of Canal street.
West Cedar, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Central, northeast corner of Canal street.
West Central, corner of Franklin street.
West Central, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Merrimack, northeast corner of Canal street.
West Merrimack, near iii Amoskeag corporation.
West Merrimack, northwest corner of Franklin street.
West Merrimack, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Pennacook, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Webster, northwest corner of Elm street.
West Webster, northeast corner of River road.
142 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Wilson, corner of Lake avenue.
Young, corner of Elm street.
Young, northwest corner of Beech street.
Young, corner of Maple street.
Young, 96 feet east of R. N. Batchelder's.
Young, corner of Jevvett street.
Young road.
PISCATAQUOG AND MCGREGORVILLE.
A, corner of South Main street.
A, near No. 73.
A, northwest corner of B street.
Adams, corner of Main street.
Adams, corner of Beauport street.
Amory, corner of Beauport street.
Amory, near Dubuque street.
Amory, corner of Rimmon street.
Bath, corner of River street.
Bath, corner of Shirley street.
Bedford road, near Huntress's.
Bennington, corner of Main street.
Blaine, corner of Wayne street.
Blaine, corner of Cleveland street.
Blaine, east end of street.
Bowman street, opposite cemetery.
C street, corner of Bedford road.
Cartier, corner of Sullivan street.
Cartier, corner of Putnam street.
Carroll street.
Clinton, corner of Dover street.
Clinton, corner of South Main street.
Conant, corner of Cartier street.
Conant, corner of Dubuque street.
Douglas, corner of Quincy street.
Douglas, corner of Green street.
Douglas, corner of Barr street.
Douglas, corner of West street.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 143
Douglas, corner of Main street.
Douglas, east of Main street.
Ferry, corner of Main street.
Granite, corner of Quincy street.
Granite, corner of Green street.
Granite, corner of Barr street.
Granite, corner of West street.
Granite, corner of Dover street.
Granite, corner of Main street.
Granite, corner of Shirley street.
Granite, corner of River street.
Kelly, corner of Beauport street.
Kelly, corner of Cartier street.
Kelly, corner of Dubuque street.
Main, near Milford street.
Marion, corner of McGregor street.
Mast, corner of South Main street.
Mast, corner of Bowman street.
Mast, between Bowman and South Main streets.
Mast, opposite J. C. Smith's house.
Mast, 400 feet west of Charles Hoitt's house.
Mast, near J. P. Brock's.
Mast, near the J. N. Prescott house.
McGregor, near Johnson block.
McGregor, opposite " Reed " house.
Milford, southwest corner of South Main street.
Milford, southeast corner of Bowman street.
Milford, corner of Old Bedford road.
Patten, corner of Ferry street.
Putnam, corner of Main street.
Putnam, corner of Beauport street.
Putnam, corner of Dubuque street.
Riddle, near Mast street.
School, corner of South Main street.
School, opposite schoolhouse.
School, corner of River street.
Shirley, northwest corner of Walker street.
144 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Shirley, southwest corner of Ferry street.
Sullivan, corner of Main street.
Sullivan, corner of Beauport street.
Temple, corner of Main street.
Walker, corner of River street.
Walker, corner of Patten street.
Walker, corner of Parker street.
Walker, near corner of South Main street.
Wayne, near G. Belisle's house.
Wayne, near corner of Beauport street.
Wayne, near corner of Main street.
Winter, corner of South Main street.
AMOSKEAG.
Dunbarton road, corner of Front street.
Dunbarton road, near L. D. Colby's.
Goffstown road,/cwr hydrants.
Main, at Robinson's slaughter-works.
Main, near brick schoolhouse.
Main, corner of Goffstowm road.
Main, opposite the John E. Stearns house.
Main, near the Hiram Stearns house.
Mill, near paper-mill.
Mill, corner of Main street.
Varnum, corner of Main street.
In addition to the above, there are five private hydrants that
are available in case of need :
Two at P. C. Cheney Co.'s paper-mill
One at S. C. Forsaith Co.'s machine shop.
One at J. Hodge's wood-working establishment.
One at the A. H. Lowell iron foundry.
Total number, 458.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY,
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester- :
The Trustees of the City Library herewith respectfully present
their thirty-seventh annual report of the affairs of the library, and
with the same the report made to them by the treasurer of the
board, containing a statement of the amounts received and the
expenditures made by him in behalf of the board from the funds
in their possession and under their control, and also the report of
the librarian giving in detail the statistics of the operation of the
library during the year, and the condition of the property in her
charge at the close of the year.
The treasurer's report shows that during the year the sum of
fifteen hundred and twelve dollars and eighty-nine cents has been
expended for the purchase of books, and the sum of one hundred
and seventy dollars and eighty-one cents for the purchase of
periodicals, making a total expenditure for both these purposes
of sixteen hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy cents.
Of the amount expended for the purchase of books, the sum of
one hundred and forty-five dollars and ten cents was taken from
the income of the Dean Fund, and used for the purchase of
additional books for that department of the library, and the sum
of three hundred and sixty-six dollars and eleven cents was
expended in the purchase of books to replace those worn out and
withdrawn from circulation. Excluding those two amounts, the
sum expended for the purchase of books is one thousand and one
148 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
dollars and sixty-eight cents. The balance in the hands of the
treasurer, at the close of the year, of the amounts appropriated by
the City Councils for the purchase of books, was four hundred
and eighty-three dollars and four cents.
The balance of the accumulated income of the Dean Fund at
the end of the year was five thousand nine hundred and fifty-
seven dollars and ten cents. In expending the income of this
fund the trustees have followed the plan originally adopted, of
purchasing special works on mechanical and scientific subjects.
The accumulated income of the Mary E. Elliot fund at the
close of the year was five hundred and twenty-two dollars and
eighty-two cents.
No books have as yet been purchased from the income of this
fund, but the trustees expect soon to arrange for the purchase of
that class of books specified in the will of Mrs. Elliot.
The incidental expenses of the library for the past year have
been three thousand two hundred and thirty-nine dollars and
eighty-eight cents, which amount includes the sum of eight hun-
dred and eighty-eight dollars and twelve cents expended towards
the preparation of a new catalogue.
The items of these expenditures may be found in detail in the
annual report of the city, the bills for the same having been
paid by the city treasurer, upon the approval of the trustees,
from the sum appropriated for the library.
The librarian reports that the library has been open for the
delivery of books three hundred and eight days, during which
time the number of books delivered for home use was fifty-one
thousand four hundred and ninety-eight, being an average of one
hundred and sixty-seven per day. In addition to this number
delivered for general circulation, ten thousand and fifteen books
were delivered for use in the reading-room at the library, an
average of about thirty-two per day. The total number of books
delivered for both these purposes during the year, was sixty-one
thousand five hundred and thirteen, an average of almost two
hundred per day. As compared with the year preceding, the
circulation for home use shows an increase of two thousand three
hundred and eleven, and the number delivered for use at the
REPOKT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 149
reading-room an increase of six hundred and thirty-two, a total
increase of twenty-nine hundred and forty-three. For conven-
ience of comparison the circulation of the library for twelve years
is given below in tabular form, from which it appears that the
circulation of books for home use of the past year was exceeded
in the years 1879, 1883, 1885, and 1886, while the total circu-
lation was exceeded only in the year 1879. No explanation is
given in the report of the librarian of that year for the large
increase in the number of books used in the reading-room, the
largest in the history of the library.
TABLE OF CIRCULATION, 1879 to 1890 INCLUSIVE.
Year.
For home use.
Use in reading-room.
Total.
1879
53,558
10,861
64,419
1880
45,109
7,128
52,237
1881
38,122
4,916
43,038
1882
41,788
4,770
46,558
1883
53,948
4,380
58,328
1884
50,914
5,848
56,763
1885
55,142
5,156
60,298
1886
54,037
5,540
59,577
1887
50,335
5,665
56,000
1888
50,417
6,031
56,448
1889
49,187
9,383
58,570
1890
51,498
10,015
61,513
The number of volumes in the library at the date of the last
report was thirty-two thousand five hundred and twenty-three.
During the year there have been added six hundred and eighty-
seven volumes by purchase, three hundred and thirty-seven vol-
umes by donation, and ninety-two volumes of periodicals have
been bound, making the number of bound volumes in the library
at the close of the year, thirty-one thousand six hundred and
thirty-three, and the total number, including maps and pamphlets,
thirty-three thousand six hundred and thirty-nine.
150 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Eighty-three different periodicals have been regularly received
at the library during the year, — sixty by purchase and twenty-
three by donation, and as the several volumes have been com-
pleted they have been bound and placed upon the shelves for
general circulation.
The number of volumes withdrawn from circulation on ac-
count of their worn and defaced condition was eighty-six. Of
this number, and of others retired from circulation in previous
years for the same reason, four hundred and fourteen have been
replaced at a cost of three hundred and sixty-six dollars and
eleven cents. There is still a large number of books remaining
upon the shelves, which by long and constant use have become
badly worn, and must soon.be replaced by new editions, the
purchase of which will be a considerable item for several years.
A special appropriation should be made by the City Councils for
this purpose, that the usual annual appropriation may be applied,
as undoubtedly intended under the original contract, to the pur-
chase of new books and periodicals, and not for the renewal of
books worn out and lost.
Following the report of the librarian is a list of books pre-
sented to the library during the year with the names of the per-
sons presenting them. Among these donations are sixty-eight
volumes of the British Poets, presented by the Hon. Moody
Currier, as an addition to the " Currier Donation, " making a
total number of twelve hundred and thirty volumes presented by
him to the library for this department. Due acknowledgment
has been made to all those who have in this manner contributed
to the increase of the library.
Three portraits in oil have been presented to the library dur-
ing the year : one of the late Hon. Samuel N. Bell, who was one
of the trustees, and the treasurer of the Board from the time the
library was established till his resignation in 1879, presented by
his brother, Hon. John J. Bell ; one of the late Hon. John Hos-
ley, mayor of the city in the years 1866, 18S7, and 1888, pre-
sented by his daughter, Mrs. William M. Parsons, and one of the
late Dr. Josiah Crosby, one of the leading physicians of the city,
presented by Mrs. George A. Crosby. The trustees hope that
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 151
portraits of other prominent citizens may be added to the col-
lection already in the library rooms.
The estate of the late Eliza A. Eaton, the residue of which,
after payment of debts and legacies, was devised and bequeathed
to the city for the benefit of the library, and of which mention
was made in the last report of the Board, is still unsettled, and in
the hands of the executor. The trustees are not aware of any
reason why all matters relating to this estate should not be finally
determined during the present year, and the balance of the es-
tate paid over for the purpose expressed in the will of Mrs.
Eaton.
The compilation of a new catalogue of the library, of which
mention was made in the last report as having been commenced,
has been continued during the year by Mr. Charles A. Durfee,
who was engaged to prepare the same under the supervision of a
committee of the trustees. The work upon the catalogue has not
progressed so rapidly, nor advanced so far toward completion at
this time as the trustees were led to expect by the compiler it
would be when he entered upon its preparation. It was not ex-
pected that more than a year would be needed for the proper
preparation of the manuscript of the catalogue for the printer.
That the work upon the catalogue might be carried on as rapidly
as practicable, the trustees, at the close of the year, secured the
services of Mrs. Emma A. H. Piper, as an assistant to Mr. Durfee.
It is now expected that the. catalogue may be ready for the
printer about the middle of the present year.
In the death of the Hon. Daniel Clark, which occurred Jan-
uary 2 of the present year, the Board of Trustees has sustamed
the loss of one of its most honored and useful members. The
late Judge Clark was one of the directors of the Athenaeum and
under the contract with that institution establishing the City Li-
brary in 1854 became a member of the Board of Trustees, and
held the position continuously to the time of his death. He al-
ways manifested a deep interest in the success and welfare of the
library, and by his valuable advice and earnest efforts in its be-
half materially assisted in the establishing of the library, and in
its successful operation.
152 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The duties of librarian have been performed by Mrs. M. J.
Buncher during the year with the same fidelity to the public as
in previous years, and to the satisfaction of the trustees.
The trustees desire again to return their acknowledgments to
the members of the City Councils for the courtesy and consider-
ation with which their suggestions relating to the operation or
improvements for the library have been received and carried out.
March io, 1891.
In Board of Trustees, read and approved, and ordered to be
signed by the chairman and clerk of the Board, and transmitted
to the City Councils.
E. J. KNOWLTON, Mayor.
N. P. Hunt, Clerk.
At a meeting of the Trustees of the City Library held at the
mayor's office on the loth day of March, 1891, the following
resolutions of respect to the memory of the late Judge Clark,
presented by Judge Isaac W. Smith, were unanimously adopted :
Whereas, On the second day of January of the present year, the Hon.
Daniel Clark, a member of this Board from its formation in 1854, departed this
life ; and
Whereas, It is fitting that the surviving members of this Board should put
on record their appreciation of his valuable services to the city as a member of
the Board ; therefore,
Resolved, That in the death of Judge Clark the city of Manchester has met
with an irreparable loss. His interest in the intellectual welfare of its citizens
was early manifested in the formation and maintenance of the Manchester
Athenseum, of which he was a prominent officer. However well adapted
that institution was to the needs of the city in the earlier years of its existence,
when it became necessary to lay the foundations of an institution as deep and
broad as the prospective growth of the city required, he cordially co-operated
with the late Chief Justice Bell and others in merging the Athenteum in the
present organization, and, to the time of his death, gave it the benefit of his
cultivated m.ind and of his large business experience. He took pride in its
growth and success, and pleasure in the rich benefits his fellow citizens were
thereby enabled to enjoy. Other organizations have placed on record their
testimony of the value of his services to the city, the State, and the nation in
other offices of trust which he was called to hold, of his high standing as a
lawyer and judge, and of his character as a citizen, in.all of which this Board
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 153
cordially joins. On this occasion the trustees of the city library discharge a
grateful duty by placing on their records this testimonial of their appreciation
of his invaluable services as one of its trustees.
Resok'fd, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the family of the
deceased.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees of the City Library :
The Treasurer of the Board presents the following account of
the receipts and expenditures by the board of the funds received
on account of the Library :
1890. Dr.
Jan. I. To balance of appropriation,
Feb.
July
Jan.
July
Jan.
April
etc
Mrs. M. J. Buncher, fines,
5939-91
catalogues, etc. .
81.73
appropriation for books
for 1890 .
1,000.00
$2;
,021.64
To
balance of income of
Dean fund
income of Dean fund
income of Dean fund
interest on accumulation
55.542.25
153-00
153-00
of income .
253-95
6;
,102.20
To
Mary E. Elliot fund
^2,000.00
balance of interest on
Mary E. Elliot fund
interest on Mary E. Elliot
414.19
fund
90.00
interest on accumulation
of income
18.63
2;
,522.82
5IO:
,646.66
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 155
1890.
Jan.
Feb.
17
March
8
22
April
4-
28
29
May
3
10
13
14
17
29
June
4-
•
13-
19
26
Paid New England News Co., period-
icals ......
Geo. H. Policy & Co., periodicals
Boston Book Co., periodicals .
Central Law Journal, periodicals
New England News Co., periodicals
W. B. Clarke & Co., books
The History Co., books .
J. N. McClintock, books .
Sampson, Murdock, & Co., books
Frank B. Webster, periodicals .
J. H. Hickcox, periodicals
Charles Scribners' Sons, books .
James E. Abbe, books
Estes & Lauriat, books
New England News Co., periodicals
Little, Brown & Co., books
New England News Co., periodicals
The History Co., books .
The Franklin Institute, books .
The Historical Society of Penn., books
William T. Davis, books .
New England News Co., periodicals
New Hampshire State Library, books
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
, W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced)
Little, Brown & Co, books
Geo. A. Leavitt & Co., books .
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced)
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced)
New England News Co., periodicals
Balch Bros., books ....
Geo. E. Littlefield, books
Estes & Lauriat, books
Cr.
$11.48
6.00
5.00
5.00
11.74
26.75
4-5°
2.00
3-5°
1. 00
5.00
5.00
1.25
9.00
11.97
3-5°
15-87
4-5°
5.00
5.00
1.66
10.91
10.00
355-20
22.39
3-75
6.05
82.44
Si. 17
26.15
102.01
13.60
30.00
24.30
9.00
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
Dec.
6.
5-
II.
156 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
July 8. New Engiand News Co., periodicals $10.43
9. W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 80.37
W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced) 18.97
15. W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 3.68
W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced) 1.50
29. The History Company, books . . 4.50
5. New England News Co., periodicals 10.86
W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 22.23
W. H. Briggs, treasurer, books . . 5.00
Little, Brown & Co., books (Dean
purchase) . . . . . i45-io
New England News Co., periodicals 16.20
Little, Brown & Co., books . . 4.25
W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 17.17
W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced) 113-93
20. W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 3.58
W. B. Clarke & Co., books (replaced) 15-12
Temple & Farrington Co., books . .50
27. S. G. Abbott, books . . . 2.00
2. New England News Co., periodicals n-o.S
3. W. B. Clarke & Co., books ($11.02
replaced) ..... 12.86
20. Estes & Lauriat, books . . . 9.00
24. The History Company, books . . 4.50
3. New England News Co., periodicals 11. 16
6. Boston Society Natural History, books 10.00
10. Little, Brown & Co!, books . . 3.50
Balch Bros., books . . . . 10.00
26. Estes & Lauriat, books . . . 9.00
2. New England News Co., periodicals i3-54
4. W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 21.52
22. W. B. Clarke & Co., books . . 170.49
31. By balance of appropriation, etc. , . 483.04
balance of Dean fund . . . 5>957-io
Mary E. Elliot fund and interest . 2,522.82
$10,646.66
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 157
The expenditures for the incidental expenses of the library for
the year ending December 31, 1890, paid by the city treasurer
upon the approval of the committee on accounts of the board of
trustees, the items of which may be found in detail in the annual
report of the city, are as follows :
bervices 01 libra
nar
1
^800.00
Services of assistant librarian .
335-72
Gas
216.86
Insurance
100.00
Binding
144.09
Rebinding
207.67
Supplies
193.72
Fuel
289.28
Printing
11.00
Newspapers
6.00
Water .
32.00
Incidentals
15.42
New catalogue
888.12
$3,239.88
RECAPITULATION
Balance Dec. 31
, 1889 . . . .
$2,
047-45
Balance of appropriation for catalogue .
776.10
^2,823.55
4,000.00
Appropriation for 1890 .
Additional appropriation for catalogue
$2
500.00
Additional appropriation for catalogue .
I
000.00
3,500.00
purchase of books
$1
000.00
Paid trustees for
^10,323-55
Paid incidental
exp
enses and c
-atalo
gue
3
239.5
8
Balance Dec. 31, 1890 . . $2,695.69
Balance, Dec. 31, 1890, of ap-
propriation for catalogue 3)387.98
6,083.67
$10,323.55
Respectfully submitted.
NATHAN P. HUNT,
Treasurer of the Trustees of the City Library.
158 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
December" 31, 1890.
We have examined the foregoing report and find the same cor-
rectly cast and properly vouched.
D. B. VARNEY,
L. B. CLOUGH,
Committee on Accounts of City Library.
December 31, 1890.
I certify that I have examined the several items of receipts and
expenditures embraced in the foregoing report of the Treasurer
of the Trustees of the City Library, and find the same correctly
cast and properly vouched.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
LIBRARIAN'S REPORT.
Gentlemen of the Board of Trustees :
I respectfully submit to you the thirth-seventh report of the
City Library, showing the work of the year and its present
condition.
Whole number of volumes Dec. 31, 1889 . . . 32,523
Accessions during the year :
By purchase . . . . . 687
Donated ...... 337
Periodicals and papers bound . . 92
1,116
Whole number of volumes at present :
Maps 16
Pamphlets ...... 1,990
Bound volumes ..... 31,633
33.639
Number of periodicals and papers regularly received
by purchase ....... 60
Number by gift ....... 23
Number of days open to the public for reading and
distribution of books ...... 30S
Number of books delivered for home use . . . 51,498
Average per day ....... 167.2
Largest number any one day, March 16 . . . 361
Largest number any one month, March . . . 4,990
160
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Number of books, magazines, etc., used in the read-
ing-room .......
Average per day ......
Number of guarantees received and new cards issued
during the year ......
Whole number since new registration
Number of cards returned to the library during the
year ........
Number used on deposit ....
Postals sent to delinquents ....
Number of volumes taken from the shelves, unfit for
use . . .'....
Volumes replaced during the year .
Number of books lost or destroyed and paid for
Not yet paid for ..... .
Books repaired at the bindery
Number repaired and covered in the library
Balance of fines on hand Dec. 31, 1889 .
Amount received from Jan. i to Dec. i, 1890
Amount paid for express, stationery, and
incidentals ^46.98
Paid N. P. Hunt, treasurer . . . 77-93
Balance of fines on hand Dec. 31, 1890
Balance of cash on hand Dec. 31, 1889, for catalogues
and supplements sold, and lost or injured books .
Amount received from Jan. i to Dec. 31, 1890:
For 250 finding-lists at 10 cts. . . $25.00
For 2 old supplements at 15 cts. . . .30
For 5 books lost or destroyed . . 5.21
10,015
32-5
429
7>623
13
455
86
414
5
2
500
4,792
$77-93
119. 14
$197.07
124.91
$72.16
$3-8o
30-51
$34-31
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY, 161
Paid the treasurer ...... $3-8o
$30-51
Balance of fines on hand ..... 72.16
Total balance on hand ..... ^102.67
The general work of the library the past year has been uniform
with the preceding ones, but its gradual growth brings increase
of labor, and the work of compiling a new catalogue (although
performed by a specialist) necessarily brings additional work
and has made the year an unusually busy one.
The reclassification and recataloguing are steadily progressing,
and we rejoice in the belief that before another year has passed
we shall be in possession of both a new printed catalogue for
general use and card catalogue for exclusively library use.
The issuing of a finding-list of the late works of fiction and
juvenile already shows its influence in the circulation, and the
catalogue, even in its present condition, is of great service in
enabling us more readily to find the recent works of the higher
branches of literature.
The delivery of books for home use for the year shows an in-
crease of 2,311, and as the greatest gain has been made during the
last four months we may give the credit largely to the finding-list
referred to above ; 250 have already been sold. It will be ob-
served, also, that the number using the reading-room has steadily
increased. During the year 1887 the number was 5,665 ; the
past year shows 10,015 (not including the number who come to
consult the patent office and state law reports), an increase of
4,350 in three years. It seems that this showing should stimulate
a forward movement toward the provision of a more commodious
and agreeable apartment for the public use.
There has been very little cause for criticism or complaint in
regard to the deportment of the younger visitors. The improve,
ment in this respect has been very marked.
The number of new cards issued during the year is larger than
in 1889, and the number relinquished less.
Eighty-six volumes have been withdrawn from circulation,
11
162 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
unfit for longer use, and 414 have been replaced, relieving us
greatly in the department of fiction and juvenile. There are
many more which we trust will be obtained before the completion
of the catalogue. The total number of books added to the library
during the year is 1,116 ; by purchase 687. Of this number 78
were a purchase from the "Dean Fund, " on mechanical and
scientific subjects. Of the 337 volumes donated, special mention
should be made of the liberal gift by the Hon. Moody Currier of
68 volumes, viz., the Riverside edition of " British Poets. "
A large number of pamphlets have been received not included
in the accession number, but held in reserve for future arrange-
ment.
Our periodical list remains the same, but I would respectfully
suggest a change in some of the publications, as they are so rarely
called for, and seem of little practical use to our patrons.
The departments of Congress have shown their usual liberality.
Besides a large number of miscellaneous publications, we have re-
ceived 75 volumes belonging to the regular set of the Forty-ninth
and Fiftieth Congresses, and at their request we have returned to
them about 100 duplicates of past Congresses, to supply defi-
ciencies in other public libraries.
The work of repairing books has been less at the bindery, but
an increase of 576 volumes in the library, including the re-
covering.
We have had very little trouble from delinquents. Some, of
course, are in arrears for fines, and two lost books are yet unpaid
for.
The examination of the library shows four books missing at
the present time. Two are very old editions of fiction and ju-
venile ; the other two doubtless will be returned later on.
In closing I desire to express my sincere sorrow in the recent
death of one of the honored members of the Board of Trustees.
The memory of his uniform kindness, his pleasant words of cheer
and encouragement, and his unwavering interest in all pertaining
to the library, made him a helpful and wise counselor, an honored
and respected friend.
Respectfully submitted.
Mrs. M. J. BUNCHER, Librarian.
DONATIONS TO THE CITY LIBRARY.
1890.
Secretary of the State of New Hampshire.
Annual Reports of the State, 1889. Vols, i and 2. 8vo.
Journal of the Senate and House, 1889. i vol. 8vo.
Pamphlet Laws of New Hampshire, 1889. i vol. 8vo.
Constitutional Convention, 1889. i vol. 8vo.
Irving A. Watson, M. D., Secretary.
Eighth Annual Report of the New Hampshire State Board
of Health. 1889. i vol. 8vo.
Hon. Moody Currier.
vSixty-eight volumes of "British Poets. " Riverside edition.
i2mo.
Hon. James F. Briggs, Manchester.
Eleven volumes of the Official Records of the Union and
Confederate Armies. From Vol. 27 to Vol. 30, with
parts. 8vo.
John C. Linehan, Commissioner.
Twenty-first Annual Report of the New Hampshire Insur-
ance Commissioner. 1890. 8vo.
Benjamin C. Dean, Esq., Manchester.
Scientific and Industrial History of Aniline Black. By
Nelting. 1889. 8vo.
Hon. Benjamin F. Prescott, Epping, N. H.
History of the Class of 1856, Dartmouth College. By B.
F. Prescott. i8qo. 8vo.
164 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Charlemagne Tower Collection of American Colonial Laws.
1890. 8vo.
Edward Ingersol, Esq., Philadelphia.
Recollections : Historical, Political, Geographical, and
Social. By Charles J. Ingersol. Vol i. Svo.
Wilford Woodruff, Utah.
History of Utah. By Herbert H. Bancroft. From 1540 to
1887. I vol. 1890. 8vo.
Waldo Thompson, Esq., Lynn, Mass.
Sketches of Swampscott, Mass. 1885. 121110.
Charles H. Osgood, Esq., Manchester.
Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition Made by C. F.
Hall. 1864-69. I vol 4to.
William L Washburn. (Author.)
"Spring and Summer, or Blushing Hours." Poems.
1890. i6mo.
Wilbur Larremore, New York. (Author.)
" Mother Carey's Chickens. " Poems. 1890. i6nio.
Allen Eastman Cross, Manchester.
"Amherst Memories." A collection of undergraduate
verse of Amherst College. 1890. i6mo.
Rev. William E. Griffis, Boston. (Author.)
" Japanese Fairy World. " 1880. i6mo.
City of Nashua, N. H.
Memorial Volume of the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument,
erected at Nashua in 18S9. 8vo.
David McKnight, Esq., Philadelphia. (Author.)
" The Electoral System of the United States. " 12 mo.
Boston & Maine R. R.
"Along Shore among the Mountains, Lakes, and Streams. "
By M. A. Sweetzer. 1889. i2mo.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 165
Charles A. Durfee, New York.
History of Williams College. By Rev. Calvin Durfee. 8vo.
The Romance of Trade. By H. R. F, Bourne. i6mo.
Tennyson's Poems (a complete volume). i2mo.
Harper's Descriptive List of Publications. Compiled by
C. A. Durfee. 1888. 8vo.
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library, New York, 8vo.
5 vols, in all.
H. E. Messinger, Manchester.
"The Civil War in Song and Story." 1860-65. Ar-
ranged by Frank Moore, Esq., New York. 8vo.
Harry Clifton, Manchester.
"The Curse of the Century. " By Henry M. Hunt. 1889.
1 2rao.
Sparks from the Camp Fire. Compiled by Lieut. Charles S
Green. 1889. i2mo.
"The Veterans' Advocate" for the year 1890. Folio.
Charles F. Livingston, Esq., Manchester.
" The Unity and University. " 1888-89. 4^0-
The Printer's Circular. Vol. 24. 1889-90. 4to.
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
"The Medical Temperance Journal" for the year 1890.
1 2 mo.
Executive Committee.
" The Nation's Birthday. " A souvenir volume of the Cen-
tennial Celebration of Washington's Inauguration at Chi-
ago, April, 1889. 4to.
Adolph Lene, Secretary.
Fourth annual report of the Ohio State Forestry Bureau.
For the year 1888. 8vo.
S. C. Gould, Esq., Manchester.
" Notes and Queries" for the year 1890. 8yo.
Constitution and By-Laws of the Boston Theosophical So-
ciety. 1889. Pamphlet.
166 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
G. C. GiLMORE, Manchester.
Report of the Joint Special Committee of the Bunker Hill
Monument. May, 1889. Pamphlet.
Report upon the Bronze Tablets in memory of the Soldiers
killed at Bunker Hill, June, 1775. Placed in Winthrop
Square, June, 1889. Pamphlet.
Trustees and Hon. Secretary.
Report of the O'Connell Monument Committee. By Rev.
John Canon O'Hanton, P. P. Sec, Dublin, Ireland.
Pamphlet.
IvisON, Blakeman & Co., New York.
The Story of the Invention of the Steel Pen. By Henry
Bore. London. i6mo.
Joseph M, Brown, Atlanta, Ga.
The Mountain Campaigns in Georgia ; or War Scenes on
the W. and A. Illustrated. Pamphlet. 4to.
Grand Rapids Board of Trade.
Grand Rapids as It Is, Published by the Board of Trade.
1890-91. Pamphlet.
H. B. Battle.
Report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion for the year 1888. 8vo.
W. H. Jeffrey, Manchester.
Monographical Paper on Mutual Co-operation. Delivered
in New York, October 31, 1890, by W. H. Jeffrey. 8vo.
A. S. Batchellor, Littleton, N. H.
Report of the Committee of the Executive Council to His
Excellency Governor Charles H. Sawyer, of New Hamp-
shire. 1887-89. Pamphlet.
Old Residents' Historical Association, Lowell.
Contributions No. 3 of Vol. 4. 1890. Pamphlet.
Judge N. P. Hunt.
The Laws of New Hampshire relating to Common Schools.
Compiled by N. P. Hunt, Esq. 1886. i2mo.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 107
Annual Report of the County Commissioners of Hillsbor-
ough County. 1890. Pamphlet.
N. P. Kidder, Esq., City Clerk.
Manchester City Documents for the year 1889. i2mo.
John C. French, Esq., Manchester.
Historical Sketch of Epsom, N. H. By Jonathan Curtis,
A. M. 1823. Pamphlet.
Amherst College.
General Catalogue of Amherst College, 1 821-1890, and
Obituary Record ot 'Graduates, for the year ending June
25, 1890. Two pamphlets.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.
Register of the University, for the years 1889-90 and
1S90-91. Two pamphlets.
University of Pennsylvania.
Catalogue and Announcement. 1889-90. i2mo.
University of California.
Register of the University, for the year 1889-90. Pam-
phlet.
W. M. Griswold.
Directory of Writers for the Literary Press. Pamphlet.
Tribune Association, New York.
Tribune Almanac, for 1889. Pamphlet.
Thomas W. Lane, Chief Engineer.
Annual Report of the Fire Department of Manchester,
N. H., for the year 1889. Pamphlet.
Hon. H. K. Slayton, Manchester, N. H.
Report of the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Vermont
Dairymen's Association. 1890. Pamphlet.
Harvey L. Currier, Manchestei.
Annual Reports ol the Hillsborough County Commissioners,
for the years 1889 and 1890. Two pamphlets.
168 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
Isaac R. Shepard, Esq., Manchester.
Annual Reports of the Directors of the Manchester & Law-
rence Railroad, from the year 1866 to 1883 inclusive, ex-
cepting 1868. Seventeen pamphlets.
Horace G. Wadlin, Chief of Bureau of Statistics of Labor in
Massachusetts.
The Annual Statistics of Manufactures. 1888. 8vo. Five
pamphlets, viz. :
Fifth and Seventh National Conventions of the Bureau of
Statistics of Labor in the United States. 1887 and 1889.
Two pamphlets.
Strikes in Massachusetts. 1830-80. Carroll D. Wright.
Comparative Wages, Prices, and Cost of Living. Carroll
D. Wright. influence of Intemperance upon Crime.
Carroll D. Wright 3 pamphlets.
Board of Trade, Manchester.
Historical Sketch of the City of Manchester, N. H. : Its
Rapid Rise and Material Development ; Its Healthfulness,
Industries, etc. Compiled September, 1890.
Unknown.
" Buddha's Dhammapada, or Path of Virtue." By J. P. C.
Pamphlet.
Costa Rica and Her Future. By Paul Biolley, Professor in
the College at San Jose, Cal. Pamphlet.
Relations between the Central Pacific Railroad Company
and the United States Government ; Summary of Facts.
1889. Pamphlet.
Dennison Board of Trade. Glimpses of Dennison, Texas,
in Photographs. Pamphlet.
Reports of Librarians and Boards of Trustees.
Boston, Mass. Clas:-ified Illustrated Catalogue of the Library
Bureau. 8vo. Decimal, Classified, and Relative Index.
Pamphlet. Catalogue of the Bibliographies of Special Sub-
jects in the Boston City Library, by J. L. Whitney. 8vo.
KEPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 169
Bulletins of Volume 8 completed. 1 88 7-S9. 8vo. Bulletin
No. I, Vol. 9.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Thirty-Second Annual Report of the Public
Library, year ending March, 1890. Bulletin No. 28 of books
added during the year 1890. Pamphlets. Catalogue of Pratt
Institute. 1890-91. 4to.
Baltimore, Md. Twenty-third Annual Report of the Peabody
Institute. June, 1890. Pamphlet.
Brookline, Mass. Thirty-third Annual Report of the Public Li-
brary. 1889. Pamphlet.
Birmingham, Eng. Twenty-eighth Annual Report of the Free
Libraries' Committee, for the year 1889. Pamphlet.
Cambridge, Mass. Annual Report for the year 1889. Pam-
phlet.
Chicago, 111. Seventeenth Annual Report of the Public Library.
June, 1890. Catalogue of English Prose Fiction. Finding-List
of History and Biography. Bulletins of accessions to the library
from December, 1887, to October, 1889. Nine pamphlets.
Proceedings of the Trustees and Librarian's Report of the New-
berry Library, for the year 1889. Pamphlet.
Cincinnati, O. Annual Report of the Public Library, for the
year 1889. Pamphlet.
Cleveland, O. Twenty-first Annual Report, for the year 1889.
Pamphlet.
Detroit, Mich. Ninth Report of the Library Commission, for
1889. Pamphlet.
Fall River, Mass. Annual Report of the Public Library. 1889-
Pamphlet.
Grand Rapids, Mich. Annual Report of the Public School Li-
brary, from September i, 1889, to August 31, 1890. Pam-
phlet.
Germantown, Phila. Report of the Friends' Free Library and
Reading-room, for the year 1889. Pamphlet.
Indianapolis, Ind. Finding List of Biography, History, and
Travels, belonging to the Public Library. 1890.
Lowell, Mass. Annual Report of the City Library. 1889.
Pamphlet.
170 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Lawrence, Mass. Eighteenth Annual Report of the Free
Public Library. 1889. Pamphlet. Bulletins of books
added to the library from January to October, 1890.
Three pamphlets.
Lynn, Mass. Twenty-seventh Annual Report, for the year
1889. Pamphlet.
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set.
REPORTS
COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES,
VALLEY CEMETERY.
The Sub-Trustees of the Valley Cemetery respectfully submit
the following report for the year 1890 :
During the year many improvements have been made. Stone
gutters have been made ; the water pipes have been extended
five hundred feet, sewer pipes about one hundred feet ; the
stone bottom and edges of the brook have been extended, and
the usual amount of graveling of the avenues has been done.
Monuments have been erected on the S. N. Bell, J. C. Tasker,
Joseph Peabody, J. S. Shannon, Walter Neal, Mrs. Schaefer, J.
N. Sanborn, and Piper lots. Material used in improvements as
follows :
1,184 loads of sand.
171
"■ loam.
no
" gravel.
20
" stone.
>52o
feet of turf.
2DO
i:
2 -inch water pipe.
100
it
1 14^ -inch water pipe.
200
a
I -inch water pipe.
100
i i
sewer pipe.
12
178
ANNUAL OFFICIAL KEPORTS.
RECEIPTS.
Balance January
Appropriation
1890
Tomb fees
Graves and removals
Care and water
Grass and wood sold
Labor and materials
EXPENDITURES.
Paid C. H. G. Foss, superintendent .
C. W. Noyes, labor
C. H. Griffin, labor
James Barrett, labor
J. Bilodeau, labor
F. Sullivan, labor
S. McCuen, labor
M. Kelley, labor
Luther Leavitt, labor
F. L. Mead, labor
Samuel Neal
Campbell «Sc Williams, printing
Dist. No. 2, sand, loam, etc.
George Piper, team, sand, etc. .
Killey & Wadleigh, hardware .
Temple & Farrington Co., book, etc
Timothy Carr, loam
C. H. Hutchinson, repairing fence
Geo. Whitford, sand
C. H. G. Foss, cash paid for plants
John Francis, plants and labor .
J. B. Varick Co., hardware and
phosphate . . . . .
$70-45
1,500.00
$1,570-45
$203.00
209.25
650.00
17.00
220.75
1,300.00
$2,870.45
5719.25
91.87
327.17
270.65
170.78
5-63
50-17
44.00
173-25
6.00
7-33
1.25
142.38
144.42
25.81
4-34
7.00
2.83
67.00
7.12
81.87
47.02
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES.
179
Paid Peter Woodman, loam and turf
C. C. Webster, turf .
T. A. Lane, pipe
Pike & Heald, pipe .
G. W. Dodge, rubber boots
J. B. Abbott, painting
Palmer & Garmon, repairing stoves
Pettee & Adams, cement .
F. X. Chenette, sand, team, etc.
F. G. Riddle, printing
Manchester Water-works .
M. L. Aldrich, boxes, etc. • .
Head & Dowst, sand and gravel
C. H. Chase, trees .
B. F. Bascomb, team, sand, and turf
Manchester Hardware Co., hardware
F. W. Blood, loam .
Balance ....
^46.50
7.98
80.93
53-12
2.50
7.68
5.60
•75
25-65
1-75
35-55
16.80
57-41
4.00
26.00
2.00
18.50
$2,789.86
80.59
$2,870.45
The]committee have been very much pleased with the man-
ner in which Superintendent Foss has performed his duties, and
consider the city fortunate in having so faithful a man in this
position.
FRANK A. LANE,
BUSHROD W. HHX,
JOHN M. KENDALL,
N. P. HUNT,
WALTER H. WRIGHT,
Sjib- Trustees of the Valley Cemetery.
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
The Sub-Trustees of the Pine Grove Cemetery submit the fol-
lowing report of work done for the year ending December 31,
1890 :
180 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Much has been done the past year for the general improve-
ment of the cemetery. Fifty maple shade trees have been set
out. A new fountain has been put on Willow Avenue to accom-
modate lot owners on Hillside lawn and the east side of the
cemetery. The underbrush has been cut on the Straw lot, and
granite bounds set, thereby permanently establishing the bound-
ary lines of this lot.
AVENUES.
Two new avenues have been laid out and graded, one on the
west side and one on the south side of the Swedish lawn. All
the avenues have^received attention with top-dressing and gravel,
950 loads of the latter having been used for that purpose the past
season.
LOAM AND MUCK.
As has been stated in former reports of the sub-trustees, with-
out a liberal supply of these indispensable articles little can be
accomplished toward making and maintaining sward. Five
hundred loads of muck taken from the Straw lot have been used
this season in grading new lots and re-grading old lots.
The superintendent has been able to make satisfactory purchase
of a sufficient quantity of loam to meet the demands of the ceme-
tery, which has been used with the muck mentioned above. Be-
sides the muck and loam above mentioned one hundred and
fifty-eight loads of clay have been used.
RIVERSIDE LAWN.
The hill in the southwest part of the cemetery, which will here-
after be known as Riverside lawn, although not entirely finished,
is one of the most beautiful locations in the cemetery. Work on
this section was advanced as far the past season as was possible,
and continued in the thorough manner in which it was begun,
and the sub-trustees hope to see this lawn completed early the
coming summer. After cutting the hill down to a desirable
grade, a covering of clay four inches in thickness was put on ;
next, four inches of muck, taken from the Straw lot, were ap-
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES. 181
plied, and over this four to six inches of rich loam. Clay has
been used for several years in different parts of the cemetery
with excellent results ; not only does a lawn so prepared stand
the dry weather much better, but will show the benefit of a dress-
ing of manure after all signs of it have disappeared on a lawn
where clay is not used. The lots on Riverside lawn are to be
under perpetual care, subject to the same restrictions and regula-
tions as Hillside lawn.
HILLSIDE LAWN.
The lots on this beautiful lawn are being rapidly taken up, and
each year adds to its beauty and to the number of magnificent
monuments which adorn its graceful slopes.
SWEDISH LAWN.
In 1886, the sub-trustees set aside a plot of ground for the
exclusive use of the Swedish society, which, owing to the rapidly
increasing number of graves thereon, the sub-trustees have, at the
request of the Swedish society, extended. This plot will here-
after be known as the "Swedish Gethsemane Lawn, " and adds
much to the appearance of this part of the cemetery.
CEMETERY EXTENSION.
At a meeting of the sub-trustees held December 22, it was
voted to recommend to the City Councils that the land lying
north of the present cemetery, owned by the heirs of Benjamin
Mitchell, and containing about sixteen acres, be purchased by
the city for cemetery purposes, the sub-trustees having previously
gone over the ground, said vote being duly certified by the clerk.
IRON FENCE.
The fence on the Calef road, with the exception of about 200
feet of iron fence built in 1889, is in a deplorable condition.
The same is true at the south end and a portion of the north end
of the old lot, while the entire Straw lot is without a fence of
any kind.
It is the hope of the sub-trustees that the matter may be seri-
ow^y considered by the city government in their wise apportion-
ment of the city's funds.
182
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SUPERINTENDENT.
The superintendent, Mr. Byron A. Stearns, has given entire
satisfaction the past year, and deserves much credit for the faith-
ful manner in which he has discharged his duties as superintend-
ent of the Pine Grove Cemetery.
GEORGE W. BACON,
HENRY P. HUNTER,
CHARLES H. BARTLETT,
JAMES A. WESTON,
JOSEPH L. STEVENS,
Sub- Trustees of the Fine Grove Ce7netery.
The sub-trustees append the following statistical tables to their
report with the hope that they may be satisfactory to the lot
owners, and those who are interested in the prosperity of the Pine
Grove Cemetery :
Superintendent's account.
Received for advcance payments on lots sold
" " interments
" " water and care of lots
" " grading lots
" " loam sold
" " clay sold
" " wood sold
" " removal of bodies •
Total receipts
Deduct minor expenses
Paid city treasurer
1890.
$2,334.37
$551.00
$495.00
438.00
384.00
665.00
481.00
547.37
384. 9S
7.00
59.(10
10.00
6.34
60.44
61.56
65.00
$2,340.87
$1,875.32
6.50
1.84
$1,873.48
Miscellaneous.
Number of lots re-graded
" of monuments erected
Lots sold on Hillside lawn
" unsold on Hillside lawn
" sold with lawn restrictions
" unsold with lawn restrictions
Ordinai-y lots sold
" " unsold
Lots sold on Riverside lawn
" unsold on Riverside lawn
Total number of lots sold
Number of interments
" " " on public ground
Whole number buried on public ground
1890.
1889.
38
24
28
21
14
9
30
44
31
38
20
44
21
16
25
17
o
60
68
63
228
199
67
47
1,129
1,062
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES.
183
Receipts.
Balance on hand January 1
Appropriation
Advance payments on lots sold
Sale of lots bj' treasurer
John B. Varick's overdraft
Balance of superintendent's receipts.
Totals.
1890.
$548.59
1,000.00
551.00
2,600.00
1,789.87
$6,489.46
1S89.
$3,5.33.21
1. 000.00
495.00
.96
1,378.48
$7,752.18
Current Expenses.
1890.
Salary of superintendent
Labor and teaming
Materials and tools
Printing and stationery
Flowers and shrubs
Water rates
Telephone
Coal
Paint for iron fence and castins
Totals.
S!730 00
$730.00
2,851.19
3,485.88
168.70
234.58
20.48
45.93
61.54
64.80
300.00
300.00
48.25
49.50
74.48
24.75
19..53
$4,254.64
$4,954.97
Permanent Improvement.
Water extension
Sewerage extension
Loam and turf
Clay
Castings for gates
Iron fence
Granite posts for bounds
Markers for graves on public ground.
Maple shade trees
Totals.
So42.7.'3
158.00
47.15
15.00
$762 90
1889.
$.509.11
104.84
680.12
453.00
13.30
462.00
26.25
$2,248.62
SUMMARY.
Balance January i, 1890, and appropria-
tion $1,548.59
Receipts from cemetery during the year 4,940.87
Total receipts .....
Expenditures for the year 1890 . . $5,017.54
Amount transferred to reserve fund . 654.22
Balance on hand December 31, 1890 . 300.20
,489.46
Total
$5-97i-96
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To llie Trustees of Cemeteries :
Gentlemen, — I herewith present to you my annual report of
the money received by me during the year ending December 31,
1890 :
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Number of deeds delivered during the year 1890, sixty-four.
To cash received for the same . . $2,707.06
interest ..... 1.80
cash received from superintendent 1)783.37
By superintendent's receipt . . , $1,783.37
treasurer's receipts . . . . 2,600.00
cash on hand .... 108.86
$4,492.23
$4,492.23
VALLEY CEMETERY.
To cash received from superintendent . . . $1,300.00
By superintendent's receipt ..... 1,300.00
I have in my possession thirty-four deeds ready for delivery,
some of which have been standing for a long time and probably
never will be taken, and the only way to dispose of such is to re-
move the bodies buried in the lots and sell the lots to other
parties. In some of these cases I am sure the contract never will be
completed by the original purchaser.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES, 185
All money received by me has been turned into the city treas-
ury ; for which I have the proper vouchers from the city clerk.
Most respectfully submitted.
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM,
Treasii7-er of Tj'iistces of Cemeteries.
Manchester, N. H., January, 1891.
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts of Sylvanus
B. Putnam, treasurer of the trustees of cemeteries, and find the
same correct and properly vouched for.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE CEMETERY FUND.
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester :
Gentlemen, — The Trustees of the Cemetery Fund have the
honor to present herewith their eleventh annual report, embrac-
ing the report of the treasurer, which shows the financial opera-
tions for the year ending December 31, 1890, and the condition
of the fund at the present time.
Your trustees are pleased to say that gradual improvements are
being made upon the lots placed in their care, and in some cases
quite satisfactory progress has been made in laying the founda-
tion for beautifying and adorning these grounds, as provided in
the ordinance under the act and in accordance with the desires
of the donors of this fund.
The owners of lots on Landscape Lawn have commenced, at
their own expense, the environment of this beautiful plot with a
substantial border of granite, which, when completed, will en-
hance its general appearance and be of practical utility in guard-
ing the ground against the encroachments of vehicles and injury
from other causes.
It is the aim of the trustees to do all that the means at their
command will allow to carry out the wishes of the proprietors of
endowed lots, and they will be glad to receive suggestions from
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES. 187
parties interested, in order that the trust may be executed in the
most satisfactory and faithful manner.
Respectfully submitted.
D. B. VARNEY, Mayor,
P. C. CHENEY,
JAMES A. WESTON,
Trustees of Cemetery Fund.
January i, 1891.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Trustees of the Cemetery Fund :
Gentlemen, — I herewith transmit to you the eighth annual
report of the funds received and the expenses paid to December
31, 1890.
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Amount of permanent fund on hand as
per last report . . . .
Received during the year from :
Estate of Cyrus W. Wallace
John Hosley .
Chas. W. Eager
Henry A. Bailey
Henry H. Huse
Mrs. J. G. Sturgis .
Frank M. Gerrish .
Chas. H. Bartlett .
John D. Bean and L. K. Mead
Asa W. Davis
Amos, Edson S., and Walter S. Heath
Wm. Bailey
Henry D. Soule
Estate of Ruth L. Waterman
Total permanent fund .
Income on hand as per last report
Income received since last report
$7,662.82
155-00
160.00
97.80
100.00
101.40
135-05
344.00
209.84
344.00
181. 12
151. 18
134.48
160.00
109. 02
^363-53
395-00
$10,045.71
Total income
$758-53
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES.
189
Expenses paid as follows :
B. A. Stearns ....
14-15
S. A. Blood ....
35-17
E. T. James ....
13-25
J. B. Varick Co. .
16.30
.
Thomas Johnson
8.00
Marden & Woodbury
25.00
Pine Grove Cemetery, care of lots
189.00
Total expenses . . . .
^290.87
Cash on hand . . . .
467.66
^758-53
VALLEY CEMETERY.
Amount of permanent fund on hand as
per last report .... $3,250.00
Received during the year from :
Estate of James A. McEvoy . . 100.00
Estate of Elvira H. Brewer
Total amount of permanent fund
Income on hand as per last report
Income received since last report
Total
Expenses paid as follows :
To Valley Cemetery for care of lots
Cash on hand
Total
5231. 91
162.50
$69.65
324.76
;, 450.00
.41
^394-41
PISCATAQUOG CEMETERY.
Amount of permanent fund on hand as
per last report .... $200.00
Total amount of permanent fund
$200.00
190 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Income on hand as per last report . $30.00
Income received since last report . 10.00
Expenses paid as follows :
Oilman Riddle .... $28.75
Cash on hand . . . . ii.2q
$40.00
$40.00
MERRILL CEMETERY,
Amount of permanent fund received
since last report :
From Harriet W. Emerson . . $200.00
Total^amount of permanent fund . . . $200.00
Most respectfully submitted.
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM,
Treasurer of Trustees of Cetnetery Fund.
This is to certify that I have examined the books of accounts of
Sylvanus B. Putnam, treasurer of the trustees of the cemetery
fund, embracing the receipts and expenditures for the year end-
ing December 31, 1890, and that I find the same correct and
properly vouched.
I have'also examined the securities in which said fund is in-
vested, and find as follows :
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.,
5 percent, 19 13 .... $10,000.00
Cash . . . . . . . 45-71
$10,045.71
Amount of permanent fund ... . 10.045. 71
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEES ON CEMETERIES. 191
VALLEY CEMETERY,
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H,,
5 per cent, 1913 .... ^3,450.00
Amount of permanent fund ... . $3,450.00
PISCATAQUOG CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.,
5 percent, 1913 .... $200.00
Amount of permanent fund . . . $200.00
MERRILL CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N, H.,
5 per cent, 1913 .... $200.00
Amount of permanent fund ... . $200.00
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
REPORT
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
REPORT
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commo7i Council of the City
of Manchester :
In compliance with the ordinances of said city, the Overseers
of the Poor herewith present their annual report for the year
1890.
The whole number of paupers supported at the City Farm
during the year has been two.
The whole number of families that have received more or less
assistance off the farm during the year has been forty, consisting
of one hundred persons, all of whom have a settlement in this
city. Six of this number died during the year.
The whole number of persons supported at the State Indus-
trial School during the year has been three, at a cost of one dol-
lar and fifty cents per week for each person.
The whole number of persons supported at the County Farm
during the year has been one, at a cost of two dollars per week.
The whole number of persons supported at the Asylum for the
Insane has been one, at a cost of four dollars per week.
The whole number of persons supported at the Insane Asylum
under control of the State Board of Commissioners of Lunacy,
under chapter 18, Laws of 1889, June session, has been three,
without cost to this city.
The Overseers of the Poor have given and allowed three hun-
dred and seventy-six orders to paupers off the farm during the
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year, consisting chiefly of groceries, fuel, medicine, board, cloth-
ing, and for emergencies.
The amount allowed to the several wards is as follows:
Ward 2 . . . . .
$24.58
Ward 3 . . • • •
135-90
Ward 4
226.40
Ward 5 .....
923.86
Ward 6
250.00
Ward 7
6.35
Ward 8
• 315-88
$1,882.97
Bills allowed for emergency cases .
. .
2,518.60
$4,401-57
Cash received from county
* • *
2,201.57
Total cost allowed
$2,200.00'
Cost over appropriation allowed, $200.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, Ward i. Clerk.
THOMAS L. QUIMBY, Ward 2.
BENJAMIN F. GARLAND.
GEORGE S. HOLMES.
THOMAS H. MAHONEY.
CHARLES FRANCIS.
DAVID W. ANDERSON.
HORATIO FRADD.
A true copy.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL,
Clerk of the Board of Overseers of the Poor.
To the Mayor ^ Aldermen, and Common Council of the City
of Manchester :
In compliance with chapter 81, sections i and 2, Laws, State
of New Hampshire, passed at the June session, 1889, the Over-
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. 197
seers of the Poor herewith present their annual report under the
head of " Aid to Dependent Soldiers and their Families."
The whole number of families of indigent soldiers who have
received more or less aid during the year has been twelve, con-
sisting of thirty-two persons, at a cost of seven hundred ninety-
five dollars and twenty-five cents.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL, Ward i, Clerk.
THOMAS L. QUIMBY, Ward 2.
BENJAMIN F. GARLAND, Ward 3.
GEORGE S. HOLMES, Ward 4-
THOMAS H. MAHONEY, Ward 5.
CHARLES FRANCIS, Ward 6.
DAVID W. ANDERSON, Ward 7.
HORATIO FRADD, Ward 8.
A true copy.
WILLIAM H. MAXWELL,
Clo'k of the Board of Overseers of the Poor.
REPORT
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON
CITY FARM.
REPORT
lOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON CITY
FARM.
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester:
Gentlemen, — The Mayor and Joint Standing Committee on
the City Farm hereby submit their annual report for the year
ending December 31, 1890.
The following is the inventory and appraisal of the personal
property of the City Farm made December 31, 1S90.
Live-stock
• 1:1,705.00
Wagons, carts, and team furnishings
963.50
Farm implements ......
1,284.55
Hay, grain, and produce ....
2,952.40
Household furniture . .
2,117.14
Provisions and fuel .....
1,116.81
Total
. ^10,139.40
Statement of accounts for the year 1890 :
Total cash paid out .....
$7,467.20
Interest .......
1,000.00
^8,467.20
Total receipts of farm .....
2,432.75
,034.45
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Bills receivable
Permanent improvements
Increase in stock .
$190.76
$5^843.69
300.20
$5>543-49
189.08
$5:354-4^
Total number of weeks' board furnished, 2,2oo|-.
Average cost of board for each individual per week, $2.43.
Total cash paid city treasurer, 12,432.75.
There was raised on the farm last season
Corn
Turnips
Onions . . . . . . , , 45 "
Beets . . . . . . . . 120 "
Mangold beets . . . . . . . 253 "
Carrots . . . . . . . . 158 "
Beans . . . . . . . . 30 "
Potatoes . . . . . . . .1,231 "
Cabbage . . . . . . . .8,035 pounds.
Squash ........ 2,800 "
Hay . . . . . . . . 100 tons.
Pork 5,482 pounds.
Beef 2,844
The potatoes were all sold early in the season instead of being
kept for use, as they showed signs of rotting badly, and the
superintendent thought best to dispose of them, which he was
obliged to do at a very low price.
The stock remains in full as good condition as one year ago.
Early in the spring the committee thought it advisable to dispose
of the oxen, which they did and replaced them with a pair of
horses.
The general appearance of the farm has been much improved
by the removal of old walls, hedges, clearing brush, etc.
613 bushels.
547 "
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON CITY FARM. 203
Mr. Streeter as superintendent, ably assisted by Mrs. Streeter as
matron, have met the full expectations of the committee, and
they heartily approve of their management.
D. B. VARNEY, Mayor,
JAMES F. BALDWIN,
WILLIAM P. FARMER,
THOMAS P. RILEY,
GEORGE C. CHASE,
Joint Standing Committee on City Farm.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY SOLICITOR
REPORT OF CITY SOLICITOR.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commom Council of the City of
Manchester :
Gentlemen, — The City Solicitor hereby submits the follow-
ing report for the year 1890 :
Of the cases pending in court in which the city of Manchester
was a party at the beginning of the year, the following,
Clara Moore vs. Manchester, Mary Kildea vs. Manchester,
Margaret Kelly vs. Manchester, and Sarah B. Bean vs. Manches-
ter, were tried by the jury at the March term of the Supreme
Court for Hillsborough county, all being for damages for per-
sonal injuries while traveling on highways ; the trials resulted in
verdicts for the plaintiffs, in each case for much less than the
amount sued for. For the amounts paid by the city on the verdicts
in the Kildea and Kelley cases, suit has been brought against the
owners of the buildings in front of which the injuries were
received, who are responsible for the obstructions in the high-
way which caused the accidents. The cases of Florence O'Leary
vs. Manchester, for damages for personal injuries ; of Jacob B.
Mooar vs. Manchester, for land damages by changing the grade
of a street ; of Manchester vs. the Western Union Telegraph
Company, to recover the verdict in the Sykes case ; and of Man-
chester vs. Manchester Shoe M'fg Company, to recover ex-
pense of cleaning their vault under direction of the health
officers, were all adjusted out of court, in a manner, in the
judgment of the solicitor, beneficial to the city. Luther Hall vs.
Manchester for land damages in laying out East Spruce street
was tried by the county commissioners, and he was awarded a
much smaller sum than he claimed.
208 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
In the petition of P. C. Cheney Co. and others for a new
highway from Amory street to the Mast road in Manchester, which
was on trial at the beginning of the year before the county
commissioners, the petitioners withdrew, before the city had
put in its side of the case. The other cases on the docket January
I, viz., those of Emeline C. Call, Augusta A. Currin, Maria
Colby, T. S. Colby, and Worthley Brothers, all for damages for
injuries received on highways ; of Caroline S. Head and others
for damages to land by water flowing on it from the highway ;
and of Rebecca C. Newton for land damages by changing the
grade of Webster street, are still pending in court and m order
for some disposition at the coming term of the Supreme Court.
During the year new suits have been entered in the Supreme
Court for Hillsborough county and now stand on the docket as
follows :
At the March Term :
Louis Laventure vs. Manchester.
A suit for $7,000 for damages for personal injuries occasioned
by a telephone pole falling on the plaintiff in Hanover back
street, October 15, 1889. The New England Telegraph and
Telephone Company have been summoned to appear and take
care of the case.
WiNi. M. Parsons vs. Manchester.
A suit for $15,000 damages for personal injuries occasioned by
being thrown from his carriage in Beech back street, Septea"iber
25, 1889. F. H. Auger and wife have been summoned to appear
and defend the case, as they are responsible for any defect which
may have existed in the road.
Margaret Golden vs. Manchester.
A suit for $5,000 for personal injuries received by falling on
Merrimack street, November 15, 1889. John H. Maynard, who
occasioned whatever obstruction there was in the street, if any,
has been summoned to defend the action, and agrees to hold the
city harmless therefrom.
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR. 209
■ Lee Big vs. Manchester.
In this action the plaintiff sues for $5,000, for personal injur-
ies occasioned by falling on Elm street, December 29, 1889.
Frederick E. Scheer zfs. Manchester.
This plaintiff alleges that on February 27, 18S8, he fell on
Walker street and broke his leg, and sues for ^5,000.
Hannah Ryan vs. Manchester.
This suit is brought to recover damages for injuries alleged to
have been received by falling, owing to the slippery condition of
Lake avenue, February 17, 1889.
The appeal of Campbell & Maxwell from the judgment of the
committee of appraisers as to the value of a horse killed by
order of the mayor and aldermen as having glanders.
The petition of P. C. Cheney and others for a new highway
from Amoskeag Village to the Mast road in Goffstown.
At the September Term :
Edwin Branch vs. Manchester.
A suit to recover ^7,000, for injuries alleged to have been
received by falling on Pearl street, July 22, 1890.
Edwin R. Whitney vs. Manchester.
In which the plaintiff claims ^15,000 for injuries which he
says were caused by the icy condition of North street, March 19,
1890.
December 29, 1890, under direction of the Mayor and Alder-
men, the solicitor brought suits against ex-City Marshal M. J.
Jenkins, and his bondsmen, W. B. Patten, H. B. Sawyer, and
C. E. York, to recover the amount of money unpaid by said
Jenkins, according to the result of the examination of his accounts
by the city auditor.
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210 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
This covers the cases now in court in ^yhich the city is a
party. There seems to be an idea somewhat prevalent that the
looking after cases in the Supreme Court is about all the solicitor
has to do. As a matter of fact, that portion of his duties, though
very important, forms but a small part of his labors. In per-
forming them, in the actual trial of causes, the solicitor has had
assistance in some of the cases of other counsel. It is im-
possible, almost, and in important cases very rarely attempted, for
one man to try a difficult cause alone ; but in the performance
■of other numerous labors of his office, the solicitor has worked
unaided. These duties cover nearly every day in the year. What
whh attending Police Court and trying every variety of criminal
•cause, advising the mayor and other officials in the line of their
•duties, investigating claims, attending committee meetings and
•meetings of the aldermen, drawing all sorts of documents which
the city needs, draftmg ordinances and performing many other
•duties, the office of solicitor is no sinecure. The present incum-
bent has givea the city his best endeavor, and appreciates the
manner in which his efforts have been received by the City Coun-
cils of 1889-90. He would publicly express his thanks to you
all, and for the favors and courtesies shown him by the various
officials with whom his duties have brought him in contact, he
as deeply grateful.
Respectfully submitted.
EDWIN F. JONES,
O'/)' Solicitor.
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR.
REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR.
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of
Alanchester :
I herewith submit a report for the year 1S90.
The milk brought into the city from the suburbs and sur-
rounding towns was sampled by stationing myself on the differ-
ent roads leading into the city, and afterwards samples of that
being delivered were compared with that taken from the full
loads as originally brought in, which conclusively showed me in
each case whether the milk delivered would stand the same test
as that of the load before any delivery had been made.
To give an idea of the amount of business on some of the
roads entering the city it may be well to state that there are t^'^
well loaded wagons which enter the city by South Main street,
eight by the way of Amoskeag, and from that number down to
one or two on other roads. The larger part of the milk supply
of the city comes from the towns of Dunbarton, Goffstown, and
Bedford, the town of Bedford furnishing a much larger quantity
than any other town ; yet within the city limits a much larger
amount is raised than is generally supposed.
The milk supply was not affected by severe droughts or scar-
city of feed, as has often been the case in previous years, and in
fact the supply was so good that at times many milk raisers were
unable to dispose of all they raised, daily, especially when pas-
turage was at its best.
During the month of October tuberculosis was found to be
badly developed in the Industrial School herd of cows, and steps
were at once taken to ascertain whether other herds in that vicin-
ity were suffering from the same disease. As the Industrial
School herd furnished no milk supplied to the city, I did not
214 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
make a specialty of examining the milk from that herd, but I
at once visited all other herds in that locality, and all in the
northern section of the city, from which a portion of our milk
supply is obtained, and took samples from the different herds,
which I took particular pains to mark, that the cow from which
the sample was obtained might be easily identified in the future,
should any of the animals be condemned by the veterinary sur-
geons, as I took all of my samples direct from these different
herds before any examination had been made by a veterinary
surgeon, except at the Industrial School. The next thing to do
was to obtain the use of a powerful microscope. As none was
owned by the city, and on account of the cost of such an instru-
ment it was not deemed advisable to purchase one for this par-
ticular occasion, therefore, by permission of the mayor, I em-
ployed Dr. J. Frank Robinson to prepare these samples for ex-
amination, especially for the detection of bacilli, or germs of tu-
berculosis, and 19 samples were thus examined very thoroughly,
and nothing could be found, and a portion of these samples I
examined with him, and on the following day, a part of these
herds were examined by a veterinary surgeon ; three cows were
condemned and slaughtered, in only one of which traces of tu-
berculosis were found. From two of the slaughtered cows I had
taken samples of milk. It was afterwards reported that symp-
toms of the disease had again been found in one of the herds,
and I again visited the herd and procured two samples in which
nothing was found, and an examination by veterinary surgeons
on the following day proved the report groundless.
These examinations were of much benefit, inasmuch as they
establish beyond a doubt that the trouble arising from this source
was of much smaller consequence than was at first supposed, al-
though it established beyond doubt that tuberculosis existed
among cattle in our vicinity, but not to any extent among herds
from which the milk supply of the city had been obtained, and
again, it was the means of causing all herds to be examined by
expert veterinary surgeons and cards of health were given to each
owner, thereby allaying any fears consumers might have regard-
ing their milk supply.
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR. 215
At first it seemed a serious affair, and one which was very lia-
ble to contaminate the whole community with tuberculosis, and
at the same time almost wholly obliterate the milk traffic, besides
entailing a severe loss upon the farmers and milkmen, but the
appearance of the disease will be an incentive to each milk
raiser to keep his herd in a healthy condition, and it will cause
every milkman to be more careful of the source of his supply.
One hundred and four licenses have been given out and duly-
recorded, amounting to $52. There have not been as many-
store licenses given out as during some previous years, owing tO'
fewer changes in firms handling milk, and fewer new firms com-
mencing business who cared to sell milk. There is a growing
tendency to consolidation among the milkmen, and a few routes
have been purchased and consolidated with others during the
year. One route already has six teams, and another has five,
while a few have two teams each. There are 87 regular routes,,
and the number of quarts of new milk delivered daily 15,311,
and 1,192 quarts of skimmed milk are delivered daily. Esti-
mated number of cows to produce the daily supply of milk for
the city, 2,347. The average daily consumption of milk has in-
creased during the year, as have also small routes of from two to
six cans capacity. The sale of skimmed milk is confined to five
routes.
I have collected 155 samples, which I have carefully tested,
and have analyzed 35 samples, none of which have been found
below the standard required by law. I have examined many
samples for private parties, at one time going to an adjoining
town for the purpose, although outside the limits of my jurisdic-
tion, and have at all times held myself in readiness to respond to
any call, whether for the general public or for parties requiring
private tests or analysis, and during the year I have had but four
complaints, which were on account of milk souring in hot
weather, as many of our citizens did not take ice on account of
the cost being more than in previous seasons.
In my visits to the herds within the city limits I have found
the farmers very courteous and untiring in their efforts to assist
me in any way in the performance of my duty, and the store-
216 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
keepers and milkmen, whose patience no doubt I sometimes
taxed in the strict performance of duty, and which seemed per-
haps unnecessarily often to them, have invariably treated me in
a gentlemanly manner, both by day and by night.
Very respectfully,
H. F. W. LITTLE,
Alilk Inspector.
REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL
REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL.
City Marshal's Office,
Manchester, N. H., February 23, 1891.
To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Aldermen :
Gentlemen, — I have the honor to submit to you my annual
report of the Police Department for the year ending December
31, 1890, showing the strength and condition of the force, and
reviewing briefly the service performed by it during the year.
POLICE organization.
The police force of Manchester at the date of making this re-
port consists of thirty-six men, organized with rank and title as
follows, viz :
City Marshal, Horatio W, Longa.
Deputy Marshal, John F. Cassidy.
Captain, Lafayette Tebbetts.
Sergeant, Michael J. Healey.
Day Patrol.
Randall W. Bean. John T. O'Dowd.
Edgar Farrar. Florence Sullivan.
Ira P. Fellows. Bartlett N. Wilson.
Edwin A. Hutchins.
Night Patrol.
Francois E. Bourassa. Benjamin F. Lake.
Henry A. Burns. George A. Lovejoy.
William M. Caldwell. Andrew J. Mayhew.
220 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
George W. Cheney. Samuel L. Mitchell.
John C. Colburn. John T. O'Malley.
Norbert Decoteau. Francis Renville.
James F. Dunn. Philip Richer.
Edward C. Emerson. Olof Ring.
Merrill Farmer. Gilbert A. Sackett.
George E. Flanders. Timothy P. Shea.
Jonathan E. Floyd. Charles W. Stevens.
Lowell O. Fowler. " George E. Varnum.
Edward H. Holmes.
SUMMARY OF THE WORK ACCOMPLISHED BY THE DEPARTMENT.
Fines and costs, $5,773-3i.
Assault, 1 80; aggravated assault, 4; assault on officer, 23;
adultery, 2 ; attempt to rescue prisoner, i ; burglary, 23 ; break-
ing glass, 8; common drunkard, i; drunk, 1,230; disorderly
conduct, 8 ; defacing buildings, 2 ; disorderly house, 3 ; expos-
ure of person, 2; embezzlement, i; fornication, 25; fast driv-
ing, 12 ; keeping liquor for sale, 158 ; keeping open Sunday, 10;
keeping dog without license, 31; larceny from the person, 6;
larceny, 112; manslaughter, i; malicious mischief, 3; noise
and brawl, 20 ; obscene and profane language, i ; attempt at
rape, 3 ; running away from house of correction, 6 ; stealing a
ride, 7 ; selling liquor, 2 ; stubborn child, i ; throwing stones, i ;
throwing snow-balls, 3; vagabond, 3.
The cases were disposed of as follows:
Paid fine imposed, 556; committed to house of correction,
SoS ; committed to house of correction on sentence, 48 ; com-
mitted to jail for non-payment of fine, 120; nol-prossed, 31;
committed to reform school, 4 ; bound over to Supreme Court,
140 ; committed to jail — bail not furnished, 51 ; committed to
Wilton, 21 ; sentence suspended, 30; appealed, 15 ; discharged,
48; whole number of arrests, 2,599; females, 396; on file, 80.
Admitted for lodging, 1,293 5 accidents reported, 14; assisted
out of town officers, 24; buildings found open and secured, 435 ;
cases investigated, 310; cases of cruelty to animals investigated,
8 ; defective streets and sidewalks reported, 30 ; disturbances
REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL. 221
suppressed, 468; dogs killed, 112; dogs lost and found, 22;
dangerous dogs reported, 64; fires discovered and reported, 7;
fires extinguished without an. alarm, 19; injured and sick per-
sons assisted, 55 ; intoxicated persons taken home, 155 ; lights
extinguished in buildings, 70; lights furnished for dangerous
places, 83; lost children restored to their parents, 108; stolea
property recovered, ^2,499.66; nuisances abated, 56; search
warrants for liquor, none found, 11 ; search warrants for stolen
goods served, 3 ; stray teams put up, 79 ; street obstructions
removed, 145.
A large amount of business is required of and performed by
the police that does not appear on the records, in attending to
complaints and in the general exercise of care and watchfulness
over the property and personal well-being of the citizens.
An officer of the police department is supposed to be a well-
stored encyclopedia of information on all matters and thmgs
transpiring or existing in the city, and is called upon to remedy
all troubles of whatever nature that occur.
The last year has been one of unusual quiet as regards crime.
No serious disturbances or outbreaks have occurred during the
year.
Special pains has been taken to render the fire department
every assistance to protect life and property. Both have worked
harmoniously together and the very best feeling exists between
the two departments.
A large number of cases reported, which demanded investiga-
tion requiring considerable labor on the part of the officers, are
of such character that they cannot be presented in form or sum-
marized.
The members of the department have, with a few exceptions,
performed their duties in a satisfactory manner. My desire has-
been that the force might reach a high standard of excellence, and
I point with some pride to the fact that of the higher crimes com-
mitted, the offenders were arrested and found guilty. This is grat-
ifying and must show to the citizens of Manchester that the offi-
cers are zealous in the discharge of their duties.
I have made an effort to conduct the department on a basis of
222 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
economy as well as efificiency. As a result, a very large saving
has been made.
DISCIPLINE.
The conduct of the officers in the department has been good.
Only one case has been brought before the Board, and that was
not considered of sufficient importance to merit removal or rep-
rimand.
I am satisfied with the department, that they intend to dis-
charge their duties with fidelity and zeal, and the discretion ex-
ercised by them in dealing with the varied interests with which
they are officially brought in contact and the lack of complaint
of official misconduct are the best testimonials to the efificiency
and sobriety of the force.
We have assisted officers from other places in numerous cases,
and have also received valuable assistance and favors from officers
in our neighboring cities, for which we are extremely grateful.
TRAMPS AND LODGERS.
The whole number of persons applying for and furnished with
lodgings has been 1,293.
The poor and unfortunate we have always with us.
Many who apply for lodging at the police station are truly un-
fortunate, but the greater number are what have come to be
known as " tramps." They are a nuisance. They have no
abiding place, and live upon the mistaken charity of any one
who gives them either food or clothing.
POLICE MATRON.
This department has been looked after very carefully and effi-
ciently by the present matron, Miss A. B. Brown, who reports
daily and attends to such duties at the police station as are in her
line of duty. Miss Brown also investigates such cases of young
girls as are liable to fall into habits of vice and immorality as are
called to her attention.
The police business from its very nature is liable to make ene-
mies for the officer who discharges duty faithfully, for in the en-
forcement of the city ordinances, and in the execution of crimi-
REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL. 223
nal law, it is not strange that frequently he should run against
the sharp corners of men and test the individual peculiarities of
their nature ; for rarely is a person arrested who has not sympa-
thizing friends ready to believe that the officer has exceeded his
authority.
A policeman should be civil and courteous at all times and so
conduct himself as to possess the moral support of law-abiding
citizens, but he who is everybody's friend is usually better adapt-
ed to other occupations than for this peculiar work. It requires
time, experience, and study, before a police officer becomes
thoroughly acquainted with the duties of this office.
In closing my report, I would remember His Honor, the retir-
ing Mayor, whose counsel and assistance in the duties pertaining
to this office have been of great value, the members of the honor-
able City Council for their confidence and co-operation, and the
rank and file of this department who have so ably assisted me,
and tender to each and all my hearty thanks for these favors so
generously bestowed, with the assurance that during the coming
year I shall continue to perform the duties without partiality,
and to the best of my knowledge and ability. I also extend my
heartfelt thanks to Solicitor Jones, Judge Hunt, and Police Clerk
Bickford, for their kind words of encouragement ; and for the
members of the police department I have only words of praise
for the manner in which they have performed their duties during
the past fiscal year.
Respectfully submitted.
H. W. LONGA,
City Marshal.
REPORT
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
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SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
ORGANIZATION FOR 1890.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
DAVID B. VARNEY, ex officio Chairman.
JOHN F. FROST, President of the Common Council.
BENJAMIN C. DEAN, Vice-chairman of the Board.
JAMES E. DODGE, Clerk of the Board.
Ward I. — Charles H. Manning.
John L. Sanborn.
Ward 2. — Benjamin C. Dean.
William C. Clarke.
Ward 3. — Nathan P. Hunt.
James E. Dodge.
Ward 4. — Frederick C. Crosby.
S. B. Stearns.
AVard 5.— John F. Cahill.
James P. Slattery.
Ward 6. — Charles G. Dodge.
Frank T. E. Richardson
Ward 7. — : Edward B. Woodbury
Marshall P. Hall.
Ward 8. — Luther C. Baldwin.
William K. Robbins.
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SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
WILLIAM E. BUCK.
TRUANT OFFICER.
SAMUEL BROOKS.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Finance. — The Mayor, Messrs. J. E. Dodge, Slattery, Stearns^
Frost.
Salaries. — Messrs. Woodbury, Hall, Robbins.
Repairs, Furniture, a?id Supplies. — Messrs. Manning, San-
born, Charles G. Dodge.
Text-books, Apparatus, and Studies. — Messrs. Dean, Hunt^
W. C. Clarke.
Drawing. — Messrs. Hall, Baldwin, Richardson.
Music. — Messrs. Richardson, W. C. Clarke, Crosby.
Fuel and Heating. — Mr. J. E. Dodge, the Mayor, Messrs.
Manning, Frost, C. G. Dodge.
Examinatioti of Teachers. — Messrs. Hunt, Dean, Stearns.
Attendance. — Messrs. Baldwin, Woodbury, Crosby.
Health. — Messrs. Robbins, Cahill, Sanborn.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
High School. — Messrs. Manning, Dean, Hall, Hunt, Stearns.
Ash and Bridge Streets. — Messrs. Dean, Hunt, W. C. Clarke.
Lincoln Street. — Messrs. Stearns, Woodbury, Richardson.
Spring Street and Lowell Street. — Messrs. Hall, Manning,
Sanborn.
Franklin Street. — Messrs. Woodbury, J. E. Dodge, Sanborn.
Training School and Wilson Hill. — Messrs. Hunt, Dean, J. E.
Dodge.
West Manchester Grammar. — Messrs. Baldwin, Stearns, C. G.
Dodge.
School Street and South Main Street. — Messrs. Robbins, Slat-
tery, Baldwin.
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Webster Street, B lodge t Street, Amoskeag, and Stark District.
— Messrs. W. C. Clarke, Robbins, Slattery.
Bakersville. — Messrs. C. G. Dodge, Hall, Woodbury.
Hallsville and Youngsville. — Messrs. Crosby, C. G. Dodge,
Cahill.
Mosquito Pond and Webster'' s Mills. — Messrs. Cahill, Robbins,
Slattery.
Goffe'' s Falls and Harvey District. — Messrs. J. E. Dodge,
Baldwin, Crosby.
Evening Schools. — Messrs. Richardson, Manning, W. C.
Clarke.
In Board of School Committee.
December 31, 1890.
The Superintendent presented his annual report to the committee, and it was
accepted.
Charles H. Manning presented the annual report prepared by him at the re-
quest of the Board.
Voted, That the report by Mr. Manning be accepted and adopted as the re-
port of the Board, and that it be transmitted to the City Councils, together with
the report of the Superintendent, for publication in the annual City Report.
JAMES E. DODGE, Clerk.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
To the City Councils :
The school committee respectfully present the following report
for the year ending December 31, 1890, it being their final re-
port and the forty-fourth in the annual series.
In the Appendix will be found, in a tabulated form, all the
usual statistics covered by this report.
Though the total enrollment of pupils for the year shows but a.
slight increase over that of last year, the general condition and use-
fulness of the schools we believe has improved, and with the now-
increased accommodation in West Manchester we expect a con-
siderable increase in the enrollment in that quarter, and the same
would be true with increased accommodation east of Elm street,
where nearly every house is overcrowded.
Commencing at the North End, the Webster-street house, in
the midst of one of the most rapidly growing sections of the
city, has already five schools in four rooms, the upper east rooni
having been temporarily partitioned off into two rooms, neither
of which affords proper light or ventilation. Immediate provi-
sion should be made for the addition of at least two rooms on
the south side.
Blodget-street house is full, but we do not consider the en-
largement of that building advisable.
The Ash-street house is overcrowded and a temporary room,
has been divided off from the hall in the third story, until the
building can be relieved by the erection of a four-room building;
on the Bridge-street lot, and this also should be done at once.
The High School needs an addition of four recitation rooms^
which would allow the two rooms on the west of the assembly
232 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
to be added to that room, making of it a fairly lighted one of
sufficient size for the present needs of the school. As at present
arranged, the assembly room is dark, gloomy, and poorly ven-
tilated.
Under the new recitation rooms should be a gymnasium and
drill hall for the use of both girls and boys.
A much better scheme would be to build a new high-school
house on a suitable lot nearer the center of the city and use the
present high-school house instead of erecting a new building on
the Bridge-street lot.
The Training School, comfortably filled during the fall and
winter terms, is generally overcrowded during the spring.
Lincoln-street house and Wilson Hill are full to overflowing,
but a new six-room schoolhouse at Hallsville, taken with the pro-
posed changes north, would obviate this.
A new house at Hallsville is the most imperative need of all
and a lot should at once be procured and the building com-
menced in the spring.
The ill-advised sale of the Beech-street house of course is
partly to blame for the overcrowded condition of the schools in
this quarter.
We congratulate you on the completion of the new Varney
school house in West Manchester, which gives ample accommo-
dations for some years to come in that quarter, and, while there
is nothing unnecessary or extravagant about it, we believe it to
be one of the most perfect houses in the New England States.
This year will be the last of mixed courses in the High School,
as the class which graduates in June is the last that entered be-
fore the adoption of the present courses. This will simplify
matters somewhat, and though the courses are yet far from per-
fection we think all the changes have been for the better.
The growing needs of the school require the services of another
teacher, as some of the classes are much too large to receive
proper attention in the time allowed.
The master of the school should have at least one hour a day
during the session to devote to visiting the other recitation rooms,
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that his influence may be felt throughout the school, but with the
present force this is impossible.
The new free text-book law has added much work to the
teachers' duties here as elsewhere.
The scholarship, discipline, and attendance at this school
never were better than they are to-day, notwithstanding dis-
orders that have occurred out of school hours.
In the grammar schools there have been no changes of note
and they, as well as all the lower grades, have been maintained
in a high state of efficiency.
Among the teachers we have lost by death is Miss Rocilla M.
Tuson from the High School, one of the ablest and most con-
scientious teachers the school has ever had. Death has also re-
moved Miss Etta J. Carley, of the Amoskeag school, an able
teacher of many years' experience and usefulness.
Other changes in the pe?'sonnel of the teaching force will be
more fully noted in the report of our able superintendent of
schools, to whose untiring energy and good judgment is largely
due the success of our unusually able corps of teachers.
To the Training School is due the fact that a large part of our
force is home talent, and we are confident that this school was
never doing better work than at present.
The evening drawing school, which has been a marked suc-
cess from its beginning, is doing better work than ever, the classes
being full and the attendance excellent. There is no money
expended by the city for education that shows more direct and
satisfactory returns for the expenditure.
The condition of the school buildings is fair, but the limited
means at the disposal of the Board (about two per cent on the
value of the houses) allows very little for improvement.
During the last summer vacation, besides the ordinary repairs,
the Youngsville house was reshingled, replastered, and new floors
laid, brick vaults built for the outhouses, and the entire building
painted inside and out. At the Webster-street house, the Smead
system of dry closets was introduced at a cost of about fourteen
hundred dollars, and it is a great improvement over the former
arrangement. During the next summer, a steam heating system
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should be placed in the Bakersville house, at present heated by
two hot-air furnaces which are insufficient and cost more to re-
pair every year than all the steam plants in the other houses.
The steam heating at the Ash-street house is insufficient to
allow any ventilation in very cold weather. During the coming
summer the boilers should be repaired and the radiating surface
in most of the rooms increased.
The free text-book law has been a source of considerable more
expense this year than it will be again, as the renewal and addi-
tion will be much less than the first cost of starting the system.
It has hardly been in operation here long enough to pronounce
judgment as to its real merits, but as far as our experience goes we
are well pleased with it, as it is the final step in making the
schools free in fact as well as in name.
If any one doubts the utility of a truant officer, a perusal of
the appended report of that official should be convincing. Of
the whole number of 375 absentees reported to him, there were
but three cases where the delinquent was n'ot found or accounted
for.
In conclusion, we would thank you, gentlemen of the Coun-
cils, for the prompt and kind consideration received by all mat-
ters we have brought before you.
CHARLES H. MANNING,
J^of the Cotfwiittee.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the Manchester School Board :
Gentlemen, — I present the following as the Annual Report of
the Superintendent of Public Instruction for the year 1890 :
ORGANIZATION OF THE SCHOOLS.
Throughout the year six teachers have been employed in the
High School, twenty-one in the grammar schools, and sixteen in
the middle schools. There have been twenty-six primary schools,
taught by twenty-three teachers. This is accounted for from the
fact that the principal of the Training School, who for conven-
ience is reckoned among the middle-school teachers, has charge
of three primary schools where no regular teachers are employed.
There have also been two partially graded schools^ employing
three teachers, and six ungraded schools f with one teacher for
each.
The organization of the city schools for 1890 has therefore
been equivalent to seventy-seven distinct schools of a single room
each, taught by an average of seventy-five teachers. The num-
ber of schools and of teachers is respectively the same as the
number of each last year ; for the gain this year was offset by the
discontinuance of the Beech-street school at the end of the
second term in 1889.
ATTENDANCE.
The number of pupils in attendance upon the public day
schools this year is greater by 27 than for last year, while the
average number belonging is less than for last year by 6, and the
* The upper room at Amoskeag and the Hallsville schooL
t Country suburban.
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
average attendance is less by 45. To understand so unusual a
record, it is necessary to give the latter items by terms.
Av. No. Belonging. A v. Daily Attendance.
Winter Term, 1889, . . 2,818 2,588
" " 1890, . . 2,607 2,305
Spring " 1889, . . 2,821 2,590
" " 1890, . . 2,791 2,581
Fall " 1889, . . 2,764 2,565
" " 1890, . . 2,987 2,722
From the foregoing figures it is readily seen that though the
averages for the fall term make the showing about 200 better for
1S90, the absences during the spring and more especially during
the winter cause the items under comparison to make the record
in the aggregate appear slightly to a disadvantage for 1890.
These excessive absences occurred when la grippe was rampant
throughout our community, and it is justly chargeable with the
apparently inconsistent record for the present year.
It is difficult yet to tell to what extent the increase of about
200 during the fall term of this year over any term of last year is
attributable to the introduction of free text-books ; for other rea-
sons than their use have quite as often been given for more largely
patronizing the public schools.
The following tabular arrangement will show the comparative
rate of tardinesses for four years, including the present year :
Average Tardinesses on Average Attendance, ^jer Ptipil.
Schools.
1887.
High school I 4.6
Grammar schools 2.6
Middle schools 3.2
Primary schools 2.1
Partially graded schools 2.9
Ungraded schools 4.1
1888.
1889.
4.0
4.8
2.0
2.0
3.2
3.1
2.4
2.8
2.7
4.2
2.7
2.1
1890.
2.8
1.9
2.4
2.3
3.4
1.1
Total tardinesses, 1889, 7,231 ; 1890, 5,755.
There has been a gratifying decrease in every grade.
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NEED OF MORE SCHOOLROOMS.
What I said in my report for 1889 in regard to additional
schoolrooms and new schoolhouses has proved emphatically
true. There is imperative need of a new schoolhouse at Halls-
ville, and of additional rooms for the relief of the overcrowded
schools in the Ash-street and Lincoln-street buildings.
There should also be more room provided for high-school
purposes, and it has been wisely suggested by the chairman of
the sub-committee of the High School that a new and properly
appointed building be erected for its use.
Upon completion of a new high-school house, the present
building could be used for the relief of the Ash-street and Lin-
coln-street buildings, already overcrowded, and also be used for
the accommodation of the rapidly increasing school population
in the eastern part of the city. . •
CHANGES.
The new school building in West Manchester, known as the
Varney school, will next term be occupied by the only grammar
school on the west side of the Merrimack, and by such pupils of
middle school grade as live beyond the Piscataquog river.
By the withdrawal from the Main-street house of the grammar
school, and of the other pupils above mentioned, sufficient room
will be provided on Main street for the four unduly large and im-
properly housed schools now at the School-street building, —
with opportunity, if deemed advisable, to organize them as five
schools.
The rapidly growing needs of this part of the town are such
that it will be unwise for the city to dispose of the School-street
property, unless a larger lot is immediately secured in a southeast-
erly direction therefrom. It will be better to sell the Clinton-street
engine-house, and use the house on School street for evening
schools and a ward room a few years. The old building can then
be removed and replaced by a proper structure for primary
schools likely to be needed in that locality within five or six
years.
238 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS.
The work of the schools is in accord with that agreed upon
by the leading educators of our day as best adapted to train the
rising generation for the emergencies of immediate citizenship,
and for the proper discharge of the general duties of life.
The efforts of superintendent and teachers for the year
have therefore been to improve the quality of that work, rather
than to make any radical changes in its character. The free text-
book law, which became operative in our schools early in the
year, provided opportunity for desired changes in text-books, and
the superintendent then exerted his influence to secure the best
in the market ; he also prepared modifications of the course of
study necessitated by the changes made ; and has endeavored to
advise teachers to the best of his ability according to their ap-
parent needs, throughout the year. The teachers have not only
heartily co-operated, but of their own volition they have in
general taken a deep and abiding interest in the improve-
ments attempted, and have sought from every available source
any aid seemingly helpful. The result has been in a good meas-
ure satisfactory. Specialists who have been among us do not find
the work of our schools to suffer in the lines of their work, when
compared with the efforts of others in similar grades whose work
they have inspected or directed; and it is designed that the work
in all its lines shall be so done that it may at every point be
found entitled to similar approbation when duly inspected.
The High School stands at the head of our public school sys-
tem, and the present efficiency of its organization and the excel-
lence of its work are commensurate with its normal position. This
school has been greatly improved since the organization of the
present board of school committee: and you, gentlemen, may
take just pride that your efforts have produced a school that must
well satisfy its patrons.
While all the schools have profited at your hands, it may be
proper to mention the Webster-street schools and the schools at
Hallsville and Youngsville as especially improved, — the latter
largely in consequence of what has been done by the committee
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on repairs of schoolhouses, though the teachers there for the last
two terms are exceptionally good, at least for country districts.
The City Training School for Teachers has maintained its usual
efficiency throughout the year, and continued to do excellent
work. This school is a highly important factor in our system,
and it has particularly well fulfilled its mission during the admin-
istration of your Board.
The Lincoln-street and Ash-street schools have from their
organization occupied a leading position in our system of schools,
and they are still largest and as important and successful as any.
The overcrowded condition in the lower grades at Ash street
has already resulted in forcing one of the grammar divisions to
the third floor of the building, and similar conditions will pre-
vail in the Lincoln-street district as early as the opening of the
spring term. Moreover, unless relief is soon afforded the schools
in these two districts, the large halls in the Ash-street and Lin-
coln-street buildings will have to be subdivided into school rooms
and pupils be required to mount thereto.
The whole number of different teachers employed one term or
more in the day schools, for the year 1890, has been eighty-six.
Their respective positions may be learned from the " Attendance
Table" in the Appendix (Pages C, D, E, and F) ; but the
various changes made within the year can be more readily under-
stood by an inspection of the arrangement showing " Changes in
the Corps of Teachers." (Appendix, page K.)
Eight teachers have left the schools during the year by resig-
nation, two * by expiration of term of service, and one has died.
The ten teachers' positions thus made vacant were duly filled by
transfers and the election of new teachers, two males and eight
females ; of these, one half (or five) are graduates of our city
schools and three of the five of the Training School. Each of
these five has shown good results ; and, likewise, most of the oth-
ers, who came from out of town. At least four of those with-
drawn from our schools during the year were as good as the best,
and of these none was better than Miss Rocilla M. Tuson, who
suddenly died June 3, 1890.
* Both at Youngsville.
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OBITUARIES.
I here submit a most just and sincere tribute to the memory of
Miss Tuson, uttered on the day of her death by Col. B. C.
Dean, vice-chairman of your board, as the result of a newspaper
interview.
" The sudden death of Miss Rocilla M. Tuson, of our high school corps of
teachers, is a crushing blow to her family and friends, and casts a deep gloom
over the hearts of all who are interested in the cause of education in our city.
An acquaintance with her and with her school work of some twelve years^
covering her service in both the grammar and high schools, convinces me that
the latter has met with an almost irreparable loss. Miss Tuson had no superior
among our teachers as a disciplinarian or as an instructor. Thoroughly
equipped for all work she undertook to perform, and always ready and willing
to take upon herself any additional labor called for by committee or principal of
the school, she invariably carried to the discharge of her duties a strong mind,
well trained, intelligent methods, and a bright, cheerful, and winning manner
which never failed to win the love of her pupils, and the hearty respect and
esteem of all her associates. She was a thoroughly conscientious, true, and
noble woman, pure in mind, upright in life, and devoted to and enthusiastic in
her work. She fully deserved the success which ever attended her efforts, and
merits the highest commendations possible to bestow. In every way her death
is a serious blow to high-school work, and her place can hardly be filled "
The following resolutions were also offered on behalf of the
high-school sub-committee by Marshall P. Hall, at the special
meeting of your Board in June, and unanimously adopted by the
Board.
In view of the recent death of Miss Rocilla M. Tuson, an instructor in the
High School, it is
Resolved by the Board of School Committee, That we greatly deplore the
loss of a teacher whose work was of inestimable value, and whose purity of
character and noble devotion to duty have called forth unwonted expressions
of love and respect, both private and public, in this community.
Resolved, That we hold in admiration the record of her life, which has given
another and most beautiful expression to our conception of a true teacher —
faithful, patient, and earnest, loving the task of teaching for the sake of those
she taught.
" Nor reaping for self the harvest sown. "
Resolved, That the clerk transmit a copy of these resolutions to the family of
the deceased teacher, and tender therewith the personal regard and sympathy
of the members of this Board.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 241
Miss Etta J. Carley was but nominally in the employ of the
Board at the time of her death, February 14, 1890. It was only,
however, on account of loss of health that she, last year, closed
active duties as a teacher. Miss Carley was a product of our
schools. For several years she rendered exceptionally satisfac-
tory service as a teacher. Though in a difficult position, by her
cheerftilness, energy, and tact, she invariably had a school that
was a credit to herself and highly profitable to her pupils.
At the regular meeting of the School Board in April, Mr. Wm.
C. Clarke offered the following, which was unanimously adopted :
Whereas, It has pleased the All-wise Father to remove Miss Etta J. Carley
to her heavenly home,
Resolved, that in her death we sincerely mourn for the loss of an unusually
faithful, energetic, and efficient teacher, whose work has ever been held in high
appreciation by this Board; and that we hereby extend to her relatives and
friends our profound sympathy in the days of their sorrow for one so worthily
beloved.
CLOSING SCHOOL IN BAD WEATHER.
The following are present regulations in regard to closing the
schools by aid of the fire-alarm signals :
The bells of the city fire-alarm will signal to close the schools
when in the judgment of the superintendent the severity of the
weather or very bad traveling may seem to require it, as follows :
To close the primary and middle schools, two strokes with
fifteen seconds between them.
To close all the schools, two immediate strokes and after a
lapse of fifteen seconds two more immediate strokes.
The times of striking the bells for closing the schools are, —
1. For no forenoon session, at 8.05 a. m.
2. For no afternoon session, at 11.30 a. m., or at 1.15 r. i\r.
Whenever the four signals are given at 11.30 to dispense with
the afternoon session, the primary, middle, and grammar schools
will be dismissed for the day at 11.45, ^^''d the high school at i
o'clock.
Janitors are directed not to ring the school bells on any half-
day for which the four signals may be given for closing all the
schools.
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242 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Teachers should keep their pupils informed in regard to the
foregoing regulations, and suggest to them that they listen for
signals at the times named, whenever the weather and traveling
are very bad.
If at any time pupils should appear at a school through failure
to hear or understand attempted signals for closing the schools in
bad weather, teachers who may be present are directed to care
for pupils as their interests most demand, and not thoughtlessly
turn them back before they have opportunity to get rested or
dry. If a session be held, other pupils who fail to attend are
not to be marked absent.
The authority thus delegated to the superintendent has been
exercised this year rather more frec|uently than heretofore ; be-
cause, first, it has seemed to be the wish of the patrons of our
Bchools that their children should be excused from attending in
rainy weather, or whenever the ground is very wet. This is es-
pecially true of their feelings in regard to younger pupils attend-
ing the primary and middle schools. Secondly, the schools have
been closed more frequently in the afternoon, especially the
lower grades, for the following reasons: It has been observed
that parents will not send their children to school afternoons of
days when the schools are closed for the forenoon, if there is any-
thing about the weather that can be regarded as an excuse for
their detention ; and there may as well be no session as to have
one but half attended, in any system of graded schools, for
the teacher necessarily has to repeat the work under such circum-
stances. The schools have also been closed some afternoons,
not so much because of the severity of the weather as because it
had been noticed that pupils in general went home at noon un-
protected from rains that had originated after the opening of
school in the morning, they having left home without a thought
of preparing for bad weather. Experience has shown that under
such circumstances no considerable attendance can be secured
for the afternoon.
From facts submitted below, it may be seen that the schools
have been closed but a few times in the forenoon, comparatively,
du ring the year. The more important and major part of the
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work of the schools is done during the forenoon, and it is for-
tunate that even in bad weather conditions are usually more fav-
orable to the attendance of pupils at school upon that part of the
day.
Since the time for striking out the schools for the forenoon
was fixed, the opening of the high-school session has been made
a half hour earlier (8.15); and, in consequence, the time for sig-
naling out the schools in the forenoon (8.05) has made the ar-
rangement practically useless to the high-school pupils. I there-
fore recommend that the time for striking out the schools for the
forenoon session be changed from 8.05 to 7.45 o'clock a. m.*
All the schools have been closed during the year on account
of bad weather but one whole day, no other forenoons, and only
four other afternoons. In addition to the foregoing, the pri-
mary and middle schools have been closed three whole days,
three other forenoons, and two other afternoons.
SCHOOLHOUSE FLAGS.
Among the interesting events of the year, of great prominence
and high value, has been the furnishing of our larger schools
with the United States flag by the more notable military and
civic organizations of our city, and by the munificence of private
generosity as follows :
1. The City Training School for Teachers, February 21, 1890,
by friends of the school, through subscriptions solicited by the
janitor, Mr. Edward P. Cogswell. Mr. Cogswell is a veteran
soldier and a member of the G. A. R. He felled the tree for
the staff, and chiefly prepared it ; he claims the training-school
flag was the first to float as a schoolhouse flag in the city, first in
the county, and only third in the State.
2. The Franklin-street school, February 21, 1890, by the Can-
ton Ridgely organization — F. A. Taylor, Captain.
3. The Lincoln-street school, March 12, 1890, by the Order
of United American Mechanics — J. E. Hall, Councilor,
4. The Webster-street school, March 28, 1890, by the Sons of
Veterans — Charles S. Brennan, Captain.
* Recommendation has since been adopted.
244 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
5. The Bakersville school, March 28, 1890, by friends of the
school — through neighborhood subscriptions raised chiefly by
Mr. Edwin N. Baker.
6. The High School, Memorial Day, by the Grand Army of
the Republic — John G. Hutchinson, Commander.
7. The Ash-street school, Memorial Day, by Miss Mabel A.
Williams, a graduate of the school and daughter of General
Charles Williams.
8. The Main-street school. Memorial Day, by the Fire King
Company, — active and honorary members, — David G. Mills^
foreman. Colonel A. C. Wallace donated the staff, and the
presentation exercises were under the direction of the G. A. R.
9. The Varney school, December 24, 1890, by Colonel
George W. Riddle.
The public presentations of these flags at the several schools
were occasions of great interest and profit, and the abiding and
general concern felt by our citizens for the welfare of the public
schools was never more manifest or more beautifully expressed.
Lasting good must surely result from the daily display of our
nation's flag upon the schoolhouse. It will constantly re-
mind the teacher that the right of the school to exist at the pub-
lic expense can be maintained only by the development of its
pupils mto reputable and loyal citizens, who shall be able not
only to care for themselves but competent to uphold and propa-
gate the principles of our government. The constant display of
the flag before the pupils of our schools, together with the knowl-
edge received in regard to its history and symbolization, must
make right and inspiring impressions upon youthful minds and
hearts which time cannot efface and the threats of foes would only
materialize into acts of successful defense.
FREE TEXT-BOOKS.
The most notable event of the year affecting our schools is
doubtless the introduction and supply of free text-books and
other supplies to all pupils not previously furnished with needed
text-books and other necessary material of their own. The ex-
pense of this has been about nine thousand dollars, and the text-
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 245
books in the schools previously and still owned by pupils must
have cost their parents from three to five thousand dollars more.
Their books will gradually go out of use as the owners are ad-
vanced from grade to grade and finally leave the schools. To
supply the place of these, and keep good the furnishing already
provided, will require thirty-five hundred dollars next year, three
thousand dollars for each of the two or three years following, and
at least twenty-five hundred dollars annually thereafter.
The Committee on Text-books and Studies are entitled to
great credit for their devotion of much valuable time, great care,
and experienced financial ability, in securing for the city a
choice list of text-books upon unusually favorable terms. The
purchases of this year are, doubtless, not two thirds of what
would have been the cost to parents for the same articles.
The members of this committee, together with the clerk, con-
stitute the entire representation of wards two and three upon this
board ; and I feel sure that in expressing my own feelings I but
voice those of the board in general, when I say that for long,
conscientious, faithful, and highly efficient services in the inter-
ests of our public schools, the gentlemen from wards two and
three, all of whom are about to retire from the board of school
committee, are clearly entitled to the hearty thanks not only of
their constituents but also of the entire city.
COURSE OF STUDY.
'Owing chiefly to numerous changes of text-books made during
the year, it has become necessary to republish the course of study.
Occasion has therefore been taken to improve it as much as pos-
sible, and for this purpose I have had several recent conferences
with teachers of the various grades.
I submit the result as the conclusion of my report, as much
that the public may see the outline work of the schools as that
teachers may be governed thereby.
Respectfully submitted.
WM. E. BUCK,
Superintendent.
December 24, 1890.
COURSE OF STUDY
FOR THE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF THE CFFY OF MANCHESTER.
REVISED, 189I.
SPECIAL NOTICE TO MANCHESTER TEACHERS.
Continue to follow the course issued in 1886 in the matter of
General Directions, Music, History, and Geography, except for
classes I and L in the study of geography, till otherwise directed.
Drawing is to be continued till July, 1891, in accordance with
instructions furnished last September.
In other particulars, for which a course of study is purposed,
be guided by the following revised form.*
WM. E. BUCK,
Superintendent.
LIST OF TEXT-BOOKS.
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
Readers. — The New Franklin.
Spelter. — Harrington's Graded.
Arithmetic. — First Steps in Number, Fish's " Number One, "
the Franklin Written, and Seaver and Walton's Mental.
* It is designed to have the revised course published in due form for teachers' use, with
complete instructions, by the opening of the fall term.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 247
Geography. — Swinton's Introductory and Grammar-School.
Grammar. — Hyde's Practical Lessons and Patterson's Ele-
ments.
History. — Barnes's United States ; and Higginson's, as a
reader.
Fefimafis/iip. — Harper's Copy-Books.
Music. — Mason's Charts and Readers.
Draiving. — The American Text-Books of Art Education.
HIGH SCHOOL.
Mathematics. — Arithmetic, Wentworth's, and Crittenden's
Commercial ; Book-keeping, Meservey's ; Algebra and Geome-
try, Bradbury's and Wentworth's ; Trigonometry and Surveying,
Wentworth's.
English Language. — Grammar and Composition, Patterson's
Advanced; Rhetoric, D. J. Hill's; Studies in English, Swin-
ton's ; English Authors, Kellogg's English Literature.
Natural Sciences. — Physiology, Hutchinson's ; Physical
Geography, Guyot's ; Philosophy, Avery's ; Chemistry, Rem-
sen's ; Botany, Wood's Botanist and Florist ; Mineralogy and
Geology, Dana's Geological Story ; Astronomy, Young's.
Political Science. — Civil Government,. Young's Government
Class Book ; Political Economy, Macvane's.
History. — General, Myer's; English, Montgomery's ; Roman,
Leighton's; Grecian, Smith's.
French. — Berlitz Method and Buffet's Method ; Reader,
Super's ; Grammar, Worman's and Whitney's.
Latin. — Lesson's, Collar and Daniell's ; Grammar, Allen and
Greenough's ; Caesar, Cicero, and Virgil, Greenough's ; Prose
Composition, Jones's and Collar's.
Greek. — Lessons, White's ; Grammar, Goodwin's ; Anabasis,
Goodwin and White's; Homer, Seymour's; Prose Composition,
Jones's.
Music. — High School Music Reader, Julius Eichberg's.
Drawing. — The American Text-Books of Art Education.
248 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
REPORTS.
The custom in regard to pupils' reports and written reviews is
as follows :
Individual report cards (bearing a record of each grammar and
high school pupil's attendance, deportment, and scholarship for
the school quarter) are forwarded to parents of pupils in the High
School at the middle of the fall term and at the close of each
term ; to parents of pupils in grammar classes at the end of the
first nine weeks after the opening of the fall term, the first of
February, at the close of the winter term, and at the close of the
spring term.
WRITTEN REVIEWS.*
The written reviews are limited to the three or four weeks im-
mediately preceding the above-named dates ; and only one such
exercise is designed to be submitted in any one week, except that
the test in spelling and one in some other subject may be given
the same week. To avoid cramming and any undue nervous
excitement, pupils are not to be informed, by intimation or
otherwise, of the subject of a contemplated written review before
the time of its submission ; nor are pupils to be informed of
its occurrence earlier, than an hour and a half before the time
of the submission, and not until necessary to make apparent the
preparations therefor.
GRADATION.
High School. — Four Courses.
An English Course of either 3 or 4 years ; a Scientific Prepar-
atory Course of 3 years ; a Classical Course of 4 years ; a Col-
lege Preparatory Course of either 4 or 5 years.
* The marking of daily recitations has been left optional with teachers, in the belief that
while such marking may be helpful to the attainment of best results by some, a requirement of
it might prove a hindrance to the best work of others.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 249
Grammar School. — Four Divisions.
Divisions first, second, third, and fourth. Classes in each
division, two. Time in each division, one year; in each class,
five months. The classes in each division do distinct work.
Middle School. — Two Grades.
Grades are known as "Higher" and "Lower." Classes in
each grade, two. Time in each grade, one year ; in each class,
five months. The classes in each grade do distinct work.
Primary School. — Two Grades.
Grades are known as " Higher" and ^' Lower." Classes in
each grade, three. Time in each grade, one year and a half; in
each class, five months. The classes in each grade do distinct
v/ork.
LOWER PRIMARY SCHOOL.
classes p, q, r.
Time : First Year and a Half ; Each Class, Five Months.
CLASS R.
Reading and Spelling. — During the first few days of the
child's attendance at school, the teacher should gain the confi-
dence of the pupil by conversational exercises in regard to famil-
iar objects, — animals, pictures, sports ; things perceived by the
senses ; articles of clothing or furniture ; stories, etc.
When confidence 'has been gained and the pupil becomes free
to express his thoughts and feelings, reading from the blackboard
should be commenced. Use only script letters. The meaning
250 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
of words is first to be taught by the use of objects, pictures,
drawings, actions, stories, etc. ; then the visible signs (written
words) are to be placed upon the board singly or combined in
sentences — as the purpose may be best attained ; lastly, the oral
signs (pronounced words) are to be given. Prepositions, con-
junctions, and other unimportant words should be first taught
only in sentences. Pupils should never be permitted to read
aloud until the meaning is clear to them. Naturalness of expres-
sion is thus attained.
The work of this class is first to master, in script, all the words
upon the first twenty-five pages of Monroe's Chart, taught from
the blackboard and slate according to the method above de-
scribed ; then the printed forms of the same words are to be
taught while applied i'n reading the first twenty-five pages of the
chart, in print, from itself. Spare time should be devoted to ad-
vanced reading from the chart. (See that the elevation of the
chart is sufficient to secure proper position of the head of the
pupil when reading.)
Spelling is to be chiefly learned from exercises in •' Language,"
which see. Let all oral spelling be by sound.
Penmanship. — Upon slates the letter /; also copy-book No.
I of the Tracing Course, pupils to use well-pointed slate pencils.
Arithmetic. — Full knowledge oifive according to the Grube
system, taught by use of objects as outlined in the Teacher's
Edition of Wentworth and Reed's First Steps in Number. (See
especially, for principles of teaching, paragraphs 2, 3, and 4 of
the " Introduction," pages i and 2 ; also the last 15 lines on
page 4.)
Oral Instruction. — Familiar talks in regard to objects
around a child's home, as cat, dog, horse, mouse, knife, bureau,
clock, apple, potato, sugar, etc. ; also objects in the schoolroom.
Names of external parts of the human body taught.
Language. — Pupils are daily to copy their reading lessons
(in script) upon their slates, from the blackboard or chart — as
each is used.
The purpose of all written work in copyifig (whether from the
blackboard, chart, or book) is to accustom pupils to correct
KEPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 251
spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, b}^ unconscious imita-
tion ; also to improve their penmanship.
CLASS Q.
Reading and Spelling. — Complete the Chart ; read the
Chart Primer as far as it is a reproduction of the chart, and as
much of Davis's Beginner's Book as time permits. All new
words of each lesson should be taught from the blackboard, their
meaning being first developed as directed for " Class R." Test
the result of the development by requiring pupils to show the
proper use of words in sentences of their own invention. Pay
particular attention to position of the pupil and the book, observ-
ing suggestions on reading under general directions.*
Spelling is to be learned from exercises in both reading and
"Language," which see. Oral spelling should be hy sound ex-
cept that easy words without silent letters may be spelled by let-
ter as each is pointed out on the chart, since pupils should know
the names of all letters of the alphabet by the close of the first
year at school.
Penmanship. — Upon slates, /, //, n, m, in order, only so far
as well-nigh perfect forms are attained; also copy-book No. i of
the Tracing Course, pupils to use lead pencils.
Arithmetic. — Full knowledge of nine, taught as directed for
Class R. This comprises the substance of the entire contents of
Part I. (or the first nine chapters) of the Teacher's Edition of
First Steps in Number, including, also, the first six lessons in the
Pupil's Edition. (The lessons from the Pupil's Edition may be
presented individual members of the class by use of the cards
which are duplicates of the pages of the Pupil's Edition.)
Oral Instruction. — Conversational studies of familiar
plants, in their season, — flower, leaf, stem, and root : of prom-
inent qualities of objects, — rough, smooth ; sweet, sour ; brittle,
tough ; etc. Names and uses of external parts of human body
treated.
* As given on page 7 of the Course issued in 1886.
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Language. — Pupils are daily to copy upon their slates, in
script, what they read.
Purpose, the same as for " Class R,"
CLASS P.
Reading and Spelling. — Davis's Beginner's Book and the
New Franklin First Reader completed, their use being inter-
changeable ; * then as much of Parker's First Book (or its equiv-
alent) as time permits.
Pupils should often be required to repeat, 'from memory, the
substance of what they read.
Spelling, both by sound and letter, j somewhat extended,
words being selected from reading lessons.
(Reading, spelling, and penmanship taught as outlined for pre-
vious class.)
Penmanship. — Upon slates, ?n, x, v, w; also copy-book No.
I, of the Tracing Course, pupils to use lead pencils.
Arithmetic. — Lessons i to 44 from the Pupil's Edition of
First Steps in Number ; also, in connection therewith, the oral
instruction intended to be derived from, and given according to,
suggestions found upon those pages of the Teacher's Edition
which are indicated in parenthesis at the head of the several les-
sons above named, as found in the Pupil's Edition. (The lessons
from the Pupil's Edition may be put before the class as suggested
for Class Q.) Roman numerals to X also taught.
Oral Instruction. — Further consideration of plants, in
their season, — bud, fruit, and seed; consideration of place, —
on, above, under; before, behind; left, right, etc. Movements
and care of parts of human body treated. Injurious effect of
stimulants and narcotics on the human system impressed upon
this class, and preceding ones, by simple conversational exercises
adapted to the understanding of youngest pupils. Primary
colors taught.
Language. — Pupils are to copy upon their slates, in script,
selected sentences from their reading lessons ; and occasionally
* Keep the reading easy by using first one book and then the other, changing as frequently
as may be necessary therefor.
t By letter yr^;« memory, but not to a great extent.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 253
the simpler forms of such sentences (those containing only the
terminal mark) should be written from dictation. (Form of ter-
minal mark should be period or interrogation point.) Observe use
of letters and punctuation.
Stories from pictures required, also the reproduction of stories
told pupils. (The picture stories and the reproductions of those
told should be both oral and written.)
HIGHER PRIMARY SCHOOL.
C.ASSES M, N, O.
Time : Second Year and a Half ; Each Class, Five Months.
CLASS O.
Reading* and Spelling. — The new Franklin Second
Reader (only) twice a day, for nine weeks ; then the same as far
as convenient by use once a day, also once a day (as supplement-
ary) such readers as may be furnished. (Reading taught as sug-
gested for classes Q and P.)
Spelling is to be learned from exercises in both reading and
"Language," which see. Words for oral spelling should be
selected from reading lessons, and they should be uttered both by
sound and by letter.
Penmanship. — Copy-book No. 2 of the Tracing Course, pupils
using pen and ink. For busy work, in part, upon slates, perfect
in order the letters 0, a, c, e.
Arithmetic. — Lessons 44 to 89 from the Pupil's Edition of
Wentworth and Reed's First Steps in Number ; also, in connec-
tion therewith, the oral instruction intended to be derived from,
and given according to, suggestions found upon those pages of
the Teacher's Edition which are indicated in parenthesis at the
head of the several lessons above named, as found in the Pupil's
* Reading for higher primary classes marked as supplementary is for sight reading, only.
254 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Edition. (The lessons from the Pupil's Edition may be put be-
fore the class as suggested for Class Q.) Roman numerals to
XXX also taught.
Oral Instruction. — Plants ; work of previous classes re-
viewed with familiar plants ; comparison of them with one
another, and with those less iamiliar. (May to November.)
Place and size : direction and distance, the cardinal points of
the compass ; comparison of size, familiar objects used to de-
velop proper use of terms ; as, large, small, great, little, long,
short, larger, largest, etc. — Lessons outlined for previous classes
on the human body (under the head of oral instruction) reviewed
and extended a little. Secondary colors taught. (November to
May.)
Language. — Same as for " Class P," with more'frequent dic-
tation exercises. For these, select sentences requiring use (i) of
the period, interrogation mark, or exclamation point, as the ter-
minal mark ; and (2) of the comma in forms of address at the be-
ginning of sentences, of which the following are types : Mary,
please show me your new hat. — John, can I see you to-morrow ?
— Mother, see how it rains !
Stories from pictures and reproductions of stories told or read
(both oral and written).
CLASS N.
Reading. — The New Franklin Second Reader once a day till
completed and more difficult parts reviewed, also once a day (as
supplementary) the Young Folk's Library, Vol. V. * (Reading
taught as suggested for previous classes.)
Spelling. — As for previous class, also Harrington's Graded
Speller from page i to page 21. Review the same.
Penmanship. — Copy-book No. 2 of the Tracing Course, pupils
using pen and ink. For busy work, in part, upon slates, perfect
in order the letters r, s, /, d, q.
Arithmetic. — Lessons 89 to 149 from the Pupil's Edition of
First Steps in Number ; also, in connection therewith, the oral
* Twice a day after the Second Reader lias been completed according to requirement.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 255
instruction intended to be derived from, and given according to,
suggestions found upon those pages of the Teacher's Edition
which are indicated in parenthesis at the head of the several les-
sons above named, as found in the Pupil's Edition. (The les-
sons from the Pupil's Edition may be put before the class as sug-
gested for Class Q.) Reman numerals to L also taught.
Oral Instruction.* — Plants: different kinds of leaves, parts
and shapes of flowers. Place and size : knowledge of direction
and distance extended, cardinal points of compass reviewed;
measurement of objects in the schoolroom, their relative size
considered. — Secondary colors reviewed and commonly used
hues, tints, and shades of color (as, scarlet, crimson, pink, etc.,)
distinguished. — Lessons on human body, to afford a knowledge
of the special senses— what they are, their purpose, and how
used ; effects of stimulants and narcotics upon the senses, and the
injury their improper use produces in general also taught.
Language. * — Pupils are to write, from memory, abstracts
of stories read in their readers, and of others told or read them
by the teacher. Stories from pictures continued. Observe use of
letters and punctuation.
Dictation exercises as for the previous class, extended also by
proper punctuation in forms of address occurring in other parts
of the sentence; as, Let us run, Henry. — Will you tell me.
Aunt Sarah, what mother said ? — Be quick, O girls ! — Look at
this orange, little boy, and tell me what you see.
CLASS M.
Reading. — The New Franklin Third Reader once a day, as
far as convenient, also once a day the Young Folks' Library,
Vol. VL J (Reading taught as suggested tor previous classes.)
Spelling. — As for "Class O," also Harrington's Graded
Speller from page 21 to page 33. Review the same.
* Oral Instruction and Language are so arranged that classes N and O may be taught what
is required as one class by teachers so desiring to teach. The work assigned both classes can
thus be properly done in the given time, if suitably planned lor securing greater knowledge
and better expression from the liigher class.
t Val. v. should be com;3leted by this class, if not finishid by the previous class, and Vol
VI. should also be completed, — even though it may therefor have to be used twice a day a
part of the time.
256 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Penmanship. — Copy-book 02, special, with copies same as
those for the previous class, in review. For busy work, in part,
upon slates, perfect in order the letters //, k, /, b, p,f.
Arithmetic. — Fish's Arithmetic, number one, from page 9
to page 5 1 (omit last half of page 39), review from page 8 to
page 51. Roman numerals to C also taught.
Oral Instruction. — Plants; instruction outlined for all pre-
vious classes (N to Q) reviewed. — Place: the serai-cardinal
points of the compass taught, direction and distance reviewed. —
Color: relations of colors in rainbow, harmony and contrast of
colors. — Lessons on human body ; why we eat, offices of the
blood, how we move and breathe, why we need pure air ; effect
of stimulants and narcotics upon the blood, the conseqences por-
trayed.
Language. — Hyde's Practical Lessons in the Use of English,
First Book, for use by the teacher only as a guide in giving oral
instruction^ the first twenty-six lessons. Supplementary work,
stories (oral and written) as for classes N and O.
LOWER MIDDLE SCHOOL. ~
classes k and l.
Time : Fourth Year ; Each Class, Five Months.
CLASS L.
Reading.* — The New Franklin Third Reader, completed
and reviewed. Observe suggestions for classes Q and P.
Spelling. — As for "Class O," also Harrington's Graded
Speller from page 33 to page 48. Review the same.
Penmanship. — September to February, copy-book No. 3 ;
February to July, No. 4, both of the Primary Course.
* Supplementary reading for classes K and L, lessons fron; the Introductory Geography
and from books already furnished for supplementary reading by exercises with three books,
— as indicated on page 8 of the Course issued in 1886.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 257
Arithmetic. — Multiplication table to loo, reviewed. Fish's
Arithmetic, " Number One," from page 51 to page 83, review the
same. Roman numerals to CC also taught.
Language. — Hyde's Practical Lessons in the Use of English,
r irst Book (Parts I. and IL), for use by the teacher only as a guide
in giving oral instruction^ from page 26 to page 69. Supplement-
ary work, written abstracts oi knowledge derived from studies at
school — divisions and sub-divisions of form, human body, plants,
animals, geography, etc., etc. Written abstracts of stories told
or read also continued.
Oral Instruction. — Principal occupations of city life named
and described. Articles of domestic commerce discussed.
Plants, from May to November. (Selections from Hooker's
Child's Book of Nature, Part L, pages 13 to 67.) Animals, from
November to May. (Selections from Hooker's Child's Book of
Nature, Part IL, pages 7 to 19. Also Harper's First Lessons in
Natu'-al History and Language, Parts I. and II.) Essentials of
lessons upon the human body, as outlined for all previous classes,
reviewed ; and the same extended, as warranted by the increased
capacity of pupils.
Geography. — The Introductory, pages i to 16. 22 to 32, and
34 to 40. Review the same. (Spare time from page 40.)
CLASS K.
Reading. — The Advanced Franklin Third Reader. Observe
suggestions for previous class.
Spelling. — As for previous class, also Llarrington's Graded
Speller, from page 48 to page 65. Review the same.
Penmanship, Language and Oral Instruction. — Same as
for previous class.
Arithmetic. — Fish's Arithmetic, " Number One," from page
83 to page 116; review the same, then from page 45 onward.
Roman numerals to CCC.
Geography. — The Introductory, pages 12 to 34, and 64 to
82. Review from 64 to 82, and then advance as far as time jer-
mits.
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258 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
HIGHER MIDDLE SCHOOL.
CLASSES I AND J.
Time: Fifth Year; Each Class, Five Months.
CLASS J.
Reading. — The Fourth Reader, easier selections, taught as
suggested for classes Q and P.
Spelling. — Taught as for "Class O, " also Harrington's
Graded Speller from pages 65 to 79. Review the same, also all
'' Review " lessons in Part I.
Penmanship. — September to February, copy-book No. 5;
February to July, No. 6, both of the Primary Course.
Arithmetic. — Fish's Arithmetic, "Number One," from
page 119 to page 150 ; review the same ; Roman numerals to D
also taught. Spare time from page 150 of the arithmetic.
Language. — Hyde's Practical Lessons in the use of English,
First Book (Parts L and IL) for use by teachers only as a
guide in giving oral instruction, from page 69 to page 114. Sup-
plementary work, written abstracts of knowledge derived from
studies at school, oral instruction and otherwise, as suggested for
"Class L. "
Oral Instruction. — Principal occupations of country life
named and described. Articles of foreign commerce. Plants,
from May to November. (Selections from Hooker's Child's
Book of Nature, Part L, pages 67 to 121.) Animals, from Novem-
ber to May. (Selections from Hooker's Child's Book of Nature,
Part H., pages 91 to 171. Also Harper's First Lessons in Natural
History and Language, Parts HL and IV.) Lessons upon the
human body: the bones and joints, the muscles; effect of stim-
ulants and narcotics upon the same. (Teach essentials of treat-
ment of these subjects as found outlined in "The Human Body
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COiMMITTEE, 259
*
and its Health," by Dr. William T. Smith; use also "The
Laws of Health, " by Dr. Joseph C. Hutchinson, for such addi-
tional information as can be advantageously utilized.)
Geography. — The Introductory. Review from page 82, if
advisable. Advance to page 115 ; then review essentials from
page I to page 115, omitting pages 40 to 64.
CLASS L
Reading. — The Fourth Reader, nearly or quite completed,
taught as for the previous class.
Spelling. — As for the previous class, also Harrington's
Graded Speller, Part IL, from page i to page 25. Review the
same.
Penmanship, Language, and Oral Instruction. — Same as
for previous class.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, from page i to page
64, omitting Articles 116 and 117. (Observe notes on pages 16,
25, 35, and 48.) Review the same. Many problems from the
Drill Tables on pages 58-63, especially in final review.
Oral Arithmetic, also exercises from the Franklin Written, and
from Seaver and Walton's Mental (three books), — pages i to 14
and 31 to 43, — as directed and suggested under " Arithmetic, "
pages 9 and 10 of the course issued in 1886.
Geography. — Oral instruction on latitude, longitude, and
climate. Swinton's Grammar School, pages 12, 13, 19, and
from page 30 to page 46. Review the same. Spare time, if any,
on New Hampshire, as found in the " Supplement."
260 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
FOURTH DIVISION OF THE GRAMMAR
SCHOOL.
CLASSES G AND H.
Time: Sixth Year; Each Class, Five Months^
CLASS H.
Reading. — The Fourth Reader.*
Spelling. — Harrington's Graded Speller, Part II., from page
25 to page 49. Reviewed with next class.
Penmanship. — September to February, copy-book No. 3 ;
February to July, No. 3^, both of the Grammar Course.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages 64 to 75 and
pages 50 to 57. Review each assignment as soon as its work has
been covered, then advance from page 75 as far as time permits.
Oral Arithmetic, also, exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 43 to 62 — as directed and suggested under
" Arithmetic, " on pages 9 and 10 of the course issued in 1886.
Language. — Hyde's Practical Lessons in the Use of English,
Second Book, to Lesson XX. Supplementary work from Part
IV. f , also as suggested for Class L.
Geography. — The Grammar-School, from page 46 to page 59.
Pages 30 to 59, in review ; also New Hampshire, as found in the
" Supplement. "
Oral Instruction. — Lessons upon the human body: work
and waste, the blood, the circulation ; effects of stimulants and
narcotics upon the same. (^The foregoing to be reviewed with
the next class. For treatment of these subjects, see suggestions
in parenthesis herein given under oral instruction for " Class J.")
* The easier selections. The class is to read from Higginson's United States History twice:
a week. See suggestions for classes Q and P.
t Of Hyde's Second Book.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 261
CLASS G.
Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, and Oral Instruction. —
Same as for previous class.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages 75 to iii. Re-
view to page III from most advanced topic attained when pupils
constituted " CJass H. " Spare time in drill, from tables on
pages 122 and 123, and in reviewing essentials of arithmetic
■assigned the preceding class and this one.
Oral Arithmetic, also exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 1410 31 and 62 to 67 — as directed and sug-
gested for the previous class.
Language. — Hyde's Second Book, from page 39 to page 74.
Supplementary work as for the previous class.
Geography. — Swinton's Grammar-School, from page 62 to
page 86. Review the same. Spare time, if any, on New Hamp-
shire, as found in the " Supplement. "
THIRD DIVISION OF THE GRAMMAR
SCHOOL,
classes e and f.
Time : Seventh Year ; Each Class, Five Months.
CLASS F.
Reading. — The Fourth Reader.*
Spelling. — Harrington's Graded Speller, Part H., from page
49 to page 73. Reviewed with next class.
Penmanship. — September to February, copy-book No. 4 ;
February to July, No. 5, both of the Grammar Course.
*The more difficult selections. The class is to read from Higginson's United States History
twice a week. See suggestions for classes Q and P.
262 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages iii to 136, omit-
ting Articles 284 to 289. Review the same, then review from
page 88 to page 136. (At the opening of the fall term, begin on
page 88 and advance to page 136, then review from page iii to
page 136.)
Oral Arithmetic , also exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 67 to 90 — as directed and suggested under
"Arithmetic," on pages 9 and 10 of the course issued in 1886.
Language. — Patterson's Elements, from page i to page 37-
Review the same. Supplementary work as for " Class H. "
Geography. — Swinton's Grammar-School, from page 86 to
page III. Review the same. Spare time, if any, in reviewing
Europe.
Oral Instruction. — Lessons upon the human body : food
and water, digestion and absorption ; effects of stimulants and
narcotics upon the same. (The foregoing to be reviewed with
the next class. For treatment of these subjects, see suggestions
in parenthesis herein given under oral instruction for " Class J.")
CLASS E.
Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, and Oral Instruction. —
Same as for previous class.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages 136 to 172,
omitting Articles 375 to 385. Review the same. Spare time on
essentials of arithmetic assigned the preceding class and this one.
Oral Aritlimetic also, exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 108 to 123 — as directed and suggested for the
previous class.
Language. — Patterson's Elements, from page 37 to page
67^. Review the same. Supplementary work as for the pre-
vious class.
History. — Barnes's United States History from page 9 to
page loi. Make reading and talking lessons, only, of the first
three of the Intercolonial Wars. Review the same. Spare time,,
from page loi onward.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 263
SECOND DIVISION OF THE GRAMMAR
SCHOOL.
CLASSES C AND D.
Time : Eighth Year ; Each Class, Five Months.
CLASS D.
Reading. — The Fifth Reader.*
Spelling. — Harrington's Graded Speller, Part II., from page
73 to page 93. Reviewed with next class.
Penmanship. — September to February, copy-book No. 6;
February to July, No. 7, both of the Grammar Course.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages 185 to 209.
Review the same (see pages 250 to 254) ; then advance as far as
time permits.
Oral Arithmetic, also exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 123 to 131 and 103 to 108 — as directed and
suggested under "Arithmetic," on pages 9 and 10 of the course
issued in 1886.
Language. — Patterson's Elements, from page 67^ to page
112. Review the same. Supplementary work, — selections from
Metcalf and Bright's Language Exercises, Parts I. and II. ; from
Our Language, Part I. ; and from other similar works. See also
directions and suggestions for classes H and L. Let the selec-
tions be such as will test (and furnish needed reviews of) work
indicated for previous classes, also advance it progressively.
History. — Barnes's United States History, from page loi to
215. Review the same.
Oral Instruction. — Lessons upon the human body : respi-
ration and the voice, the nervous system ; effects of stimulants
and narcotics upon the same. (The foregoing to be reviewed
with the next class. For treatment of these subjects, see sugges-
tions in parenthesis herein given under oral instruction for
"Class J.")
* The easier selections. See suggestions for classes Q and P.
264 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
CLASS C.
Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, and Oral Instruction.
— Same as for " Class D. "
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages 209 to 224. Re-
view the same, then take pages 88 to 136 in review. Spare time
on essentials of arithmetic assigned the preceding class and this
one.
Oral Aritluiietic, also exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 131 to 139 and 90 to 103 — as directed and
suggested for the previous class.
Language. — Patterson's Elements, from page 112* to page
138. Review irom page 6752- Supplementary work as for fhe
previous class.
Geography. — Swinton's Grammar-School, from page 1 to
page 30. Review the ?ame. Also essentials of the United
States. Spare time, if any, on New Hampshire and Massachu-
setts, as found in the " Supplement. "
FIRST DIVISION. OF THE GRAMMAR
SCHOOL.
CLASSES A AND B.
Time : Ninth Year; Eacii Class, Five Months. "s
CLASS B.
Reading. — The Franklin Fifth Reader. |
Spelling. — Harrington's Graded Speller, all " Review " les-
sons and other most difficult words in entire book.
* Fall term, first review from page 67 J^ to page 112; then advance to page 138, and in
January review from page 112 to page 138.
t Or ten months in Class B for those who enter this division in February, unless they are
able to complete the course by the following July.
+ The more difficult selections. See suggestions for classes Q and P.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 265
Penmanship. — September to February, copy-book No. 8;
February to July, Meservey's Book-keeping — single entry — to
the Fourth Form.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages 254 to 260; 263
to 272; 277 to 287; 226 to 234; and 245 to 254. Review the
same by topics, or otherwise, at discretion of teacher. Selections
may be made, also, from pages 315 and 316 ; and any spare time
can be utilized in doing the elementary part of the work as-
signed the next class.
Oral Arithmetic, also exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 139 to 161 — as directed and suggested under
"Arithmetic," on pages 9 and 10 of the course issued in 1886.
Language. — Patterson's Elements, from page 138 to 177.
Supplementary work as outlined for Class D.
History and Geography. — Barnes's United States History,
from page 215 to the Constitution. Instead of reviewing the
history'^ in the spring, review Swinton's Grammar-School Geog-
raphy from page 62 onward — as soon as the history is com-
pleted. In the fall, have the history completed and reviewed by
December 25.
During the winter term, pupils (who constituted Class B in
the fall) are to review the entire Geography.
Oral Instruction. — Lessons upon the human body : the
skin, the ear, and the eye ; things to be done in cases of acci-
dent ; effects of stimulants and narcotics upon the human system,
general and particular. (The foregoing to be reviewed with the
next class. For treatment of these subjects, see suggestions in
parenthesis herein given under oral instruction for '' Class J. ")
CLASS A.f
Reading, Spelling, Penmanship, and Oral Instruction.
— Same as for previous class.
Arithmetic. — The Franklin Written, pages i to 12; 51 to
57, and 317 ; 68 to 72, and 321; 115 to 122 and 322 to 324 ;
*The few pupils who will be found prepared to enter the High School from this class will
not need a review of the history, and the rest of the class will get the review in the fall.
t Those of this class in June who return in the fall should review work of Class B from
September to February.
266 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
135 and 324; 136 to 170 and 325 to 329 ; 250 to 254 and 330
to 334>^ ; 335 to 337; 265 to 285 and 337 to 339J ; 293 to
299 ; 340 and 341 ; and 343 to 349. This re-review should be
treated with special reference to the discussion of the principles
of arithmetic.
Oral Arithmetic, also exercises from Seaver and Walton's
Mental — pages 62 to 67, 79 to 103, and 106 to 161 — asdirect-
ed and suggested under "Arithmetic," on pages 9 and 10 of the
course issued in 1886.
Language. — Patterson's Elements, from page 177 to page
223; also exercises from the Reader — explanation of subject-
matter, thorough drill in analysis and parsing of selections from
the same, weak points in grammar toned up.
Geography. — During the winter term, review the entire
geography.
Civics. — During the spring term, as yet to be directed.
268
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I. Population, etc.
II. SCHOOLHOUSES.
III. Schools.
IV. Teachers.
V. Pupils.
VI. Truancy.
VII. Finance.
VIII. School Year, 1890.
IX. High School Graduating Class. ■
X. Winners of Clarke Prizes.
XI. Organization of Committees, 1891.
XII. List of Teachers, 1891.
XIII. School Year, 1S91.
APPENDIX.
STATISTICS.
I. — POPULATION.
Population of the city by last census, 1890 . . . 43,983
Legal school age, 5 to 21.
11. — SCHOOLHOUSES.
Number of schoolhouses in use ...... 22
Number of schoolhouses not in use ..... i
(Bridge- street house, corner of Union.)
Number of schoolrooms used for day schools . . -77
(Three of the same, and six others, used for evening schools. Rooms unoc-
cupied by city for day schools are, f.vo at Spring-street house, three at Lowell-
street, and two at Bridge-street, the last two being unfit.)
Number of rooms used for High-school classes ... 6
Number of rooms used for Grammar schools . . ,21
Number of rooms used for Middle schools . . . .16
Number of rooms used for Primary schools . . .26
Number of rooms used for Partially Graded schools . . 2
Number of rooms used for L^ngraded Schools ... 6
III. — SCHOOLS.
( All for both sexes. )
Number of Hi^jh Schools
(A)
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
273
Number of combined Grammar and lower grade (Middle
and Primary) schools ....... 7
Number of combined Middle and Primary schools (Merri-
mack-street or Training school) . . , . .1
Number of schools all Primary grade ..... 5
Number of Partially Graded schools ..... 2
Number of Ungraded schools ...... 6
IV. —TEACHERS.
Male teachers in the High School
Female teachers in the High school .
Male teachers in the Grammar schools
Female teachers in the Grammar schools
Female teachers in the Middle schools
Female teachers in the Primary schools
Female teachers in the Partially Graded schools
Female teachers in the Ungraded schools .
Special teachers : One male in music the entire year, one
male in elocution f winter and spring term
Average number of male teachers |
Average number of female teachers
Male teachers in the evening schools .
Female teachers in the evening schools
Average number of male teachers in the evening schools.
Average number of female teachers in the evening schools
Male teachers in the evening Drawing schools
Average number of male teachers in the evening Drawing
schools .........
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8
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,J Exclusive of special teachers.
(B)
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DAY SCHOOLS.
Summary of the attendance npon the several grades of public
day schools for the year 1890 :
High
Grammar
Middle
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Ungraded
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different pupils.
Boys. Girls.
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Totals, 1889 \ 1,862
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Summary of the attendance upon the several grades of public
evening schools for the year 1890 :
Lowell street . . . .
Spring street
Clinton street
School street
Drawing-schools .
Totals, 1890.
Totals, 1889.
Whole number
different pupils.
Boys. Girls
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(G)
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 279
Evening-School Teachers.
Charles E. Cochran, Principal of Lowell-street school, for
boys.
Assistants, — Etta S. Dana, Mary A. Buzzell, C. A. Bohlin,
Nellie M. James, and W. J. Mooar.
Charles W. Bickford (Winter) and Frank S. Sutcliffe (Fall),
Principals of Spring-street school, for girls.
Assistants, — Emma J. Ela, Lizzie D. Hartford, Maggie Linen,
and Fannie L. Sanborn.
Frank C. Livingston (Winter) and L. H. Carpenter (Fall),
Principals of School-street school, for both sexes.
Assistant, — Nellie M. Atvvood.
Fred C. Baldwin (Winter) and Charles W. Bickford (Fall),
Principals of Clinton-street school, for boys.
Assistants, — Maude L. Kent, Emma B. Abbott, and S. C.
Kennard.
Evening Drawing-School Teachers.
John M, Kendall, Henry W. Allen, and Alphonzo H. Sanborn.
(H)
280
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GENERAL SUMMARY.
The following table presents the main features of interest per-
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years.
Date.
1881
1882
1883
1884
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
1890
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4,095
4,062
3,918
3,806
3,632
3,670
3,712
3,787
3,814
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2,086
2,061
1,924
1,891
1,812
1,817
1,806
1,862
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The whole number of different teachers employed one term or
more in the day schools, within the year, has been 86. Their
respective positions may be learned from the attendance table on
pages C, D, E, and F of the Appendix, but the various changes
made within the year can be more readily understood by an in-
spection of the following :
* Including grammar classes in suburban schools.
t Usually some pupils have annually entered from other schools. This year two have so
entered.
(I)
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
281
Teachers.
Wm. H. Furber.
Mary A. Buzzell.
Jennie L. Thompson.
Grace W. Irwin.
Josephine H. Newton
Sarah B. Paige.
Alice E. Page.
Nellie M. Atwood.
Fred C. Baldwin.
Abbie R. West.
Date of effect
of resignation.
Jan. 24.
Teachers.
Mabel J. Brickett.
Date of begin-
ning service.
Jan. 6.
June 27.
Charles W. Bickford.
, Jan.
27.
June 27.
Wm. T. Abbott.
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8.
June 27.
. June 27.
Nellie Pickering.
Gertrude F. How.
Sept.
Sept.
8.
8.
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Mabel L. Davis.
Sept.
8.
June 27.
Millie S. Morse.
Sept.
8.
June 27.
Annie B. Goodwin.
Sept.
8.
Date of effect
of transfer.
Maude L. Kent.
Georgie Kendrick.
Sept.
Sept.
8.
8.
Jan. 24.
Sept. 8.
Mary A. Seavey.
Bertha A. Young.
Sept.
Sept.
8.
8.
TRAINING SCHOOL SUB-TEACHERS.
Mabel J. Brickett. *
Annie B. Goodwin. *
Emma M. Streeter. ^
Bertha A. Young. ^^
Mary E. Moulton. f
Gertrude A. Burns. |
Georgia M. Cheney. J
* Graduated Januarj- 31, 1890.
t Graduated June 27, 1890.
t Expected to graduate January 30,
Annie M. Sleeper. |
Gertrude L. Southard. J
Mary G. Worthen. |
Mary A. Clement. ||
B. Millie Cayzer. §
Susie L. Dodge. §
Carrie E. Litch. ij
II Entered February 3, i8go.
§ Entered September 8, 1890.
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282
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
VI.— WORK OF TRUANT OFFICER.
Absentees
reported from
No. volunta-
rily returned
to
No. reported
caused to
attend
o
§
"si
o a
1^
■«! a)
O q .
O rt C3
a
3
Date.
o
3 "
"3 m
1
3"
4
4
2
5
6
5
2
"3 n
i§
1
3 "
3*0
No. other
avoidab
tained.
No. not fc
January
February
March
April
17
12
17
15
23
14
19
30
18
7
7
28
22
36
33
27
5
20
17
8
3
1
1
1
3
11
6
12
"
17
12
7
18
8
5
4
21
14
24
24
20
5
14
14
5
1
2
8
2
1
7
6
8
5
3
4
1
1
3
3
5
5
4
4
2
2
1
September ...
October
November . . .
December
1
1
Totals
172
203
27
9
107
145
14
40
30
3
January...
February .
March ....
April
May
June
September
October...
November.
December.
Totals
to
13
*i a
o s
"■2
Truants
rolled
streets
35
6
6
13
19
20
21
19
1
140
No. truants
caused
to attend
83
No. others between 6
and 16 unable,from
111 health, to attend
any school.
No. of school age
found on streets in
school hours.
a
1
o —
15
1 3
2
2
2
85
80
86
61
118
73
83
84
73
29
84
67
55
64
106
50
110
75
49
23
24
772
683
^ o
5" « "=
19
a «a
48
79
65
71
54
70
9
21
54
539
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 288
VII. —FINANCE. — 1890.
Items of Account.
Salaries of teachers
Books and stationery
Free text-boolis and supplies
Furniture and supplies ,
Repairs
Care of rooms
Fuel
Printing and advertising
Contingent expenses
Evening common schools....
Evening drawing schools
Total
Resources from
appropriations,
receipts, and
transfers. *
$46,019.08
141.35
9,005.11
606.98
4,119.76
3,522.69
3,834.25
502.28
1,125.99
1,478.57
694.89
$71,050.95
Over-drafts
of previous
years.
$614.21
31.83
145.94
130.93
113.23
295.89
223.76
$1,555.79
Expendi-
tures, 1890.
$45,404.87
141.35
9,005.11
575.15
4,119.76
3,376.75
3,703.33
389.05
830.10
1,254.81
$69,495.16
Cost of City Schools, 1890.
Expenditures, as above specified
Salaries.
Members of the school board
Clerk of the board
Superintendent of schools
Truant officer ....
Total
Receipts on Account of the Schools.
Literary fund
Non-resident tuition ....
Total
* At Close of year, after transfers had.toeen made.
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39,495.16
$170.00
100.00
2,000.00
750.00
'2,515.16
,504.70
428.75
.933-45
284 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The difference between the two totals last named is $67,581.71,
and this is therefore the amount raised by direct tax for the sup-
port of the city schools during the year. The " City Valua-
tion '' for 1890 is $24,173,240 ; and hence the rate of school tax
for the year is .00279.
The amount (^9,005.11) of the new item of expense, known as
^' Free Text-books " and made obligatory by statute law, is re-
sponsible for the increase in the general expense to the extent of
.00037 of the city's valuation. Therefore, .00279 minus .00037,
or .00242, would be the rate of school tax for 1890, if based (for
the sake of a just comparison) upon the same data as used in de-
termining the rate for last year. The rate for 1889 was .00259.
Then .00259 minus .00242, or .00017, is the diminution in the
rate this year based on the usual items of expenditure as for last
year ; and this diminution shows not only economical manage-
ment by the school board, but also that the increase in the aggre-
gate expense for the support of the schools has not kept pace
with the increase in the city's valuation.
School Property, December 31, 1890.
Furniture. — Included under this head are teachers' and pupils'
desks, chairs, settees, tables, portable blackboards, clocks, pianos
and their appurtenances, ladders, double windows, and heating
apparatus.
General Supplies. — Included under this head are ink-stands,
bells, waste baskets, thermometers, brooms, floor-brushes, dusters,
dust-pans and brushes, door-mats, pails, dippers, wash basins,
window brushes, mops, coal hods, shovels, axes, hammers, screw
drivers, and wheelbarrows.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
285
School, Buildings.
Furniture.
General supplies.
High school '.
Franklin-street —
Spring-street
Lincoln-street —
Ash-street
Main-street
Webster-street
Bakersville
Blodget-street
Lowell-street
Ti-aining school . .
Wilson Hill
School-street
Soiith Main-street
Amoskeag
Hallsville
Stark District
Golfe's Falls
Harvey District...
Youngsville
Webster's Mills . . .
Mosquito Ponci . . .
Evening Schools..
Total
$3,428.00
2,229.00
1,937.00
3,355.00
3,231.00
2,107.00
3,108.00
813.00
2-28.00
302.00
1,613.00
321.00
$23 427 00
$25.00
36.00
28.00
56.00
30.00
30.00
54.00
15.00
7.00
11.00
28.00
9.00
319.00
12.00
345.00
8.00
169.00
7.00
94.00
4.00
114.00
5.00
124.00
6.00
85.00
5.00
65.00
5.00
62.00
4.00
250.00
200.00
$585.00
Special Supplies. — Included under this head are maps, globes,
charts and chart supporters, numeral frames, slates, pencils, pen-
cil sharpeners, pens, penholders, crayon, erasers, pointers, meas-
ures, geometrical forms, compasses, and rulers.
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286
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
Grades.
Special supplies.
Unabridged dic-
tionaries and li-
brary or refer-
ence books.
Regular
text-
books.
High School
$•200.00
725.00
474.00
387.00
154.00
5.00
$535.00
225.00
175.00
150.00
75.00
$1,500.00
2,400.00
1,200.00
Primary schools
500.00
400.00
50.00
Totals
§1,945.00
$1,160.00
$6,050.00
Amount of totals in two foregoing tables . . $33,167.00
Siiperiiitendenf s Office, December jz, i8go.
Value of furniture .
$200.00
general supplies
25.00
special supplies
110.00
blank books and paper
250.00
regular text-books .
535-00
Aggregate total of personal property belonging to
city school department ..... $34,287.00
VIII. — SCHOOL YEAR.
Winter term of twelve weeks opened January 6, closed March
28. Vacation of two weeks.
Spring term of eleven weeks opened April 14, closed June 27.
Vacation of ten weeks.
Fall term of fourteen weeks opened September 8, closed De-
cember 12. Vacation of two weeks.
Number of school days in the year, as provided above by the
school board, 1S5.
Average number of days the schools were taught, 176.
(Being closed several holidays, days of " Teachers' Institutes," and half-days
on account of bad weather or insufficient heat.)
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■ REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE, 287
IX. —HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATING CLASS.
FOUR years' course.
Norwin Sherwood Bean, c. Alfred Kimball Hobbs, e.
Grace Berry, c. James Franklin McKinney, c.
Annie A. Brigham, c. Bessie Campbell Mitchell, c.
Bertha Millie Cayzer, c. Arthur Warren Morgan, col.
Mattie Sophronia Chadwick, e. Charles D. Osgood, col.
Benjamin Martin Cliandler, e. Eugene Woodbury Sargent, e.
Lucy May Choate, c. Florence Sophia Shirley, c.
Susie Lena Dodge, c. Cora Belle Simmons, e.
Susie Christine Fogg, c. Nellie Viola Southard, c.
Percy N. Folsom, col. Jennie Maud Thompson, e.
Fred W. Hall, col. Arthur Fitts Wheat, col.
Irving L. Woodman, c.
THREE years' COURSE.
Charles Joseph Adams, c. Carrie Ella Head, c.
Annie L. Blonquest, e. Harry Taylor Lovering, e.
Ellen H. Burke, e. Jennie May Morse, e.
Harriet Laura Garmon, e. Winthrop Parker, e.
Grace Lee Smith, e.
TO receive a two years' certificate.
Edith R. Mears.
C indicates Clasiical Course. Col. indicates College Course.
E indicates English Course.
X. — WINNERS OF CLARKE PRIZES
FOR EXCELLENCE IN ELOCUTION AT CONTEST, JANUARY 29, 189O.
Myra Shepard, $13. Jennie E. Patch, 5.
Edgar E. Farmer, $11. Grace A. Phillips, ^5.
Mabelle Bosher, $9. Blanche M. Folsom, ^5.
Charles Robie, ^7.
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288 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
XI. — ORGANIZATION, 1 89 1 .
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
EDGAR J. KNOWLTON, Mayor, ex officio, Chait^man.
EDSON S. HEATH,
President of the Common Council, ex officio.
Ward I. — Charles H. Manning.
Charles D. Sumner.
Ward 2. — William H.Morrison.
George H. Stearns.
Ward 3. — George D. Towne.
Louis E. Phelps.
Ward 4. — Stephen B. Stearns.
Edwin L. Richardson.
Ward 5. — James P. Slattery.
William J. Sughrue.
Ward 6. — Frank T. E. Richardson.
George W. Dearborn.
Ward 7. —Marshall P. Hall.
Edward B. Woodbury.
Ward 8. — William K. Robbins.
Luther C. Baldwin.
VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.
MARSHALL P. HALL.
CLERK OF THE BOARD.
EDWARD B. WOODBURY.
SUPERINTENQENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
WILLIAM E. BUCK.
TRUANT OFFICER.
SAMUEL BROOKS.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 289
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Finance. — The Mayor, Messrs. Heath, Hall, Woodbury, and
F. T. E. Richardson.
Salaries. — Messrs. Woodbury, Robbins, and Slattery.
Repairs, Furniture, and Supplies. — Messrs. Manning, S. B.
Stearns, and Sumner.
Text-Books, Apparatus., and Studies. — Messrs. Hall, Baldwin^
and G. H. Stearns.
Drawing. — Messrs. Baldwin, Hall, and Phelps.
Music. — Messrs. F. T. E. Richardson, Phelps, and Morrison.
Fuel and Heating. — Mr. G. H. Stearns, The Mayor, Messrs.
Heath, Manning, and Dearborn.
Examination of Teachers. — Messrs. Robbins, Morrison, and
Towne.
Attendance. — Messrs. E. L. Richardson, S. B. Stearns, and
Sughrue.
Health. — Messrs. Towne, Slattery, and Sumner.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
High School. — Messrs. Manning, Hall, Morrison, S. B.
Stearns, Robbins, and Towne.
Franklin-street School. — Messrs Woodbury, Sumner, and
Baldwin.
Spring-street and Loiuell-strect Schools. — Messrs. Towne, Slat-
tery, and Sumner.
Lincoln-street School. — Messrs. S. B. Stearns, F. T. E. Rich-
ardson, and E. L. Richardson.
Ash-street School.^ — Messrs. Phelps, Towne, and Hall.
Webster-street and Blodgef-street Schools. — Messrs. G. H.
Stearns, Morrison, and Woodbury.
Bakersville School. — Messrs. Morrison, F. T. E. Richardson,
and Wcodbury,
Varney School. — Messrs. Baldwin, S. B. Stearns, and Phelps.
Training School and Wilson Hill School. — ^Itssr^. Hall, Rob-
bins, and Phelps.
*Also of any others that may be organized on Bridge street.
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19
290 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Main-street and South Maiji-strcet Schools. — Messrs. Robbins,
Baldwin, and Dearborn.
Afnoskeag and Stark District Schools. — Messrs. Sumner, Dear-
born, and Sughrue.
Hallsville and Youngsville Schools. — Messrs. Dearborn, Man-
ning, and Sughrue.
Goffe's Falls and Harvey District Schools. — Messrs. Slattery,
G. H. Stearns, and E. L. Richardson.
Webster's Mills and Mosquito Pond Schools. — Messrs. E. L.
Richardson, Slattery, and Sughrue.
Evening Schools. — Messrs. F. T. E. Richardson, Manning,
and G. H. Stearns.
XII. — LIST OF TEACHERS.
HIGH SCHOOL. — BEECH STREET.
Master. — Albert Somes.
Sub-Master. — George I. Hopkins.
Assistants. — William T. Abbott.
Lucretia E. Manahan.
Mary Stanton.
Nellie Pickering.
FRANKLIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Principal. — Charles W. Bickford.
Assistants. — Annie O. Heath.
Jennie M. Chandler.
Carrie E. Reid.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Higher Middle. — C. Augusta Abbott.
Lower Middle. — Hattie G. Flanders.
Higher Primary. — Nellie M. James.
Lower Primary. — Ella F. Sanborn.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 291
SPRING-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Principal. — Lizzie P. Gove (4th Grammar division).
Higher Middle. — Emma L. McLaren.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Lower Middle — Fannie D. Moulton.
Higher Primary. — Nellie L Sanderson.
Lower Primary. — Lucia E. Esty.
Lower Primary. — Maude L. Kent.
LINCOLN-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Principal. — Frank S. Sutcliffe.
Assistants. — Annie W. Patten.
Isabelle R. Daniels.
Mary F. Barnes.
Annie M. Sleeper. *
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Grammar and Middle. — Nettie F. Ainsworth.
Higher Middle. — Susie G. Woodman.
Lower Middle. — Cora B. Gilford.
Higher Primary. — Theodora Richardson.
ASH-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Principal. — Fred C. Baldwin.
Assistants. — Gertrude F. How.
Mary E. Bun ton.
Bertha L. Dean.
* Third floor.
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292 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
First Floor. — Loiver Grades^
Higher Middle. — Nancy S. Eunton.
Lower Middle. — Kittie J. Ferren.
Higher Primary. — May F. Nutt.
Lower Primary. — Clara E. Woods.
Lower Primary. — Bertha A. Young.
WEBSTER-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades..
Principal. — B. S. Andrew.
Assistants. — F. Maude Joy.
Mabel J. Brickett.
Alta C.Willand.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Mixed Middle. — Eva F. Tuson.
Mixed Primary. — Lettie ]\L Smith.
BAKERSVILLE SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Principal. — Lizzie A. Burns (grammar classes).
Higher Middle. * — Lelia A. Brooks.
Lower Middle. — Carrie E. Hoit.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Higher Primary. — S. Izetta Locke.
Lower Primary. — Edith M. Stebbins.
VARNEY SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Principal. — George Winch.
Assistant. — Barbara B. Joy.
* Third floor.
REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 293
First Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Assistants. — Lillian Little (Third Division).
Maria Dickey (Fourth Division).
Grammar and Middle. — Ellen E. McKean.
Mixed Middle. — Nettie C. Woodman.
TRAINING SCHOOL.
(Merrimack street, cor. Union.)
Principal. — Caroline E. Wing.
A lower middle school (No. 15), a higher (No. 21) and two
lower (Nos. 22 and 23) primary schools, embracing first four
years of school work. Principal is assisted by members of Train-
ing Class.
MAIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor, — Mixed Grades.
Principal. — Mary W. Mitchell, (Higher Middle).
Lower Middle. — Millie S. Morse.
Higher Primary. — Mary E. Brophy.
First Floor. — Primary Grades.
Mixed Primary. — Mary A. Clement.
Mixed Primary. — Mary J. Walsh.
Lower Primary. — Kate T. Clarke.
Lower Primary. — Gertrude L. Southard.
BLODGET-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor.
Higher Primary. — Gertrude H. Brooks.
First Floor. '
Lower Primary. — Georgianna Dow.
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294 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
LOWELL-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor.
Used for evening schools.
First Floor.
Mixed Primary — Helen M. Morrill.
WILSON-HILL SCHOOL.
Lower Primary. — Huldah C. Graupner.
Lower Primary. — Ella Hope.
SOUTH MAIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Pligher Primary. — Delle E. Haines.
Lower Primary. — Annie B. Goodwin.
PARTIALLY GRADED SCHOOLS.
Amoskeag. — Nettie B. Fogg.
Mixed Primary. — Mary G. Tynan.
Hallsville. — Ella F. Barker (higher classes).
Assistant. — Abbie R. West (lower classes).
UNGRADED SCHOOLS.
No. I. Stark. — Inez M. Warren.
2. Goffe's Falls. — Georgie Kendrick.
3. Harvey. — Emma J. Ela.
4. Youngsville. — Mary A. Seavey.
5. Webster's Mills. — Genevieve B. Knight.
6. Mosquito Pond. — Olive A. Rowe.
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Music. — J.J.Kimball.
Elocution. — J. J. Hayes.
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REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 295
JANITORS.
Webster-street and Blodget-street Schools.
Michael Finley, Pearl, near Chestnut.
High School, Ash-street, and Wilson-Hill Schools.
John S. Avery, 404 Merrimack.
Franklin-street and Lincoln-street Schools.
William Stevens, 418 Central.
Spring-street and Lowell-street Schools.
William H. Morrill, 45 Pennacook.
Training School.
Edward P. Cogswell, 218 Central.
Vai'ney and Main-street Schools.
Samuel A. Hill, 86 School.
Bakersville School.
H. C. Dickey, Bakersville.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
(Open from October to March, five evenings each week.)
Lowell-street Biiildifig.
Three schools for boys.
Spring-street Building.
Two schools for girls.
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296 " ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
School-street Building.
Two schools, one for each sex.
EVENING DRAWING SCHOOL.
Open from October to March.
Spring-street Building.
Machine-drawing classes meet on Monday and Thursday even-
ings.
Architectural-drawing classes meet on Tuesday and Friday
evenings.
GRADUATES OF TRAINING SCHOOL NOT EMPLOYED AS REGULAR
TEACHERS FEB. 20, 1 89 1.
Emma B. Abbott. * Gertrude A. Burns. *
Alverta P. Barrett. * Georgia M. Cheney. *
Emma M. Streeter. * Mary G. Worthen. f
Mary E. Moulton. *
OTHERS NEVER HERE EMPLOYED IN TEACHING, WHO HAVE CER-
TIFICATES OF QUALIFICATION.
Maud Bell, Fanny L. Perry, Fannie E. Smith, Martha T.
Learnard, Lizzie M. McAfee, Hattie J. Hoyt, Evelina Davis,
William S. Harris, Hattie N. Gage, Carrie L. Barker, George F.
Drake, and Lucie G. Thompson. All certificated for grammar
and lower grades.
Helen W. Poor, Belle F. Small, Hattie M. Ellis, Hattie E.
Merrill, Alithea M. Hutchins, Amy B. Smith, Emma J. Cooper,
.and S. Louise Valentine. Certificated for middle and primary
grades.
XHL— SCHOOL YEAR, 1891.
Winter term of twelve weeks opens December 29, 1890, closes
March 20. Vacation of three weeks.
Spring term of eleven weeks opens April 13, closes June 26.
Rest of year not yet determined.
* Certificated for primary and middle grades,
t Certificated for grammar and lower grades.
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REPORT
BOARD OF HEALTH
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
To His Honor the Mayor :
The Board of Health submits its report for the year 1890.
At tlie beginning of the year the Board consisted of George C*
Hoitt, M. D., chairman ; Joseph B. Sawyer, clerk, and William
M. Parsons, M. D. On the first Monday in Febr^iary the term
of Dr. Hoitt expired, and he was re-appointed for three years. On
the same day, as by law required, the Board was reorganized, the
old officers being re-elected, and it has since remained unchanged.
EMPLOYEES.
Mr. Russell White has been employed throughout the year, and
Mr. C. H. Reed about one month in July and August, in the
ordinary work of the department. Mr. Patrick Dobbins, special
police officer, was employed twenty-two days in watching an
infected house and family.
EXPENDITURES.
The expenditures of the Board have been
Pay of employes .
Street-car fares
Stationery, postage, and express charges
Carriage hire
Printing
Traveling expenses
Fixtures
Assistance in burying dead animals
Analysis of water
^679.00
41.80
18.24
12.50
39-65
2.49
.90
10.00
28.65
•300 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Special police $3^-5°
Cleaning vault of shoe shop, 1888 .... 42-50
Posting regulations 2.75
Examination of Lake Massabesic ..... 23.50
$940.48
To this amount seven dollars may be added, that being the
amount of two bills approved by the Board in the preceding
year, but which laid over in the hands of the auditor, and were
included in the January draft.
The salaries of the members of the Board have been charged to
this account, making the whole expenditures of the health depart-
ment $1,547.48.
In the summer of 1888 the contents of a large privy-vault at
the shoe shop in Hallsville overflowed, ran into the highway, and
became a public nuisance. The proper parties were notified to
empty the vault, but they refused or neglected to do so, where-
upon the Board proceeded to abate the nuisance by having the
vault emptied. A suit to recover the cost of the work was com-
menced, and was to have been tried at the last September term of
court, but it was settled or compromised in some manner without
the consent of this Board.
WORK OF THE INSPECTOR.
Houses placarded for infectious diseases :
Scarlet fever ......... 63
Diphtheria ......... 41
Measles 298
402
In a large part of these cases it has been necessary to notify
school teachers and employers of the existence of the disease ; also
it is necessary to make a second visit to the house for the purpose
of removing the placard after the receipt of the doctor's certi-
ficate that the danger of infection has passed.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 301
Houses containing cases of typhoid fever visited . . 36
Privy-vaults inspected after being cleaned :
Cleaned by A. McDougall ...... 23
" T. Shea . . . . . . -773
" T. McKenna ...... 59a
1,388
Dead animals buried :
Swine .......... 6
Horses .......... 20
Dogs 37
Cats, hens, and skunk ....... 23
86
Other nuisances found and abated . . . . -351
SLAUGHTER HOUSE AT BAKERSVILLE,
In August last a complaint was made by Mr. N. S. Burns and
others, residents of Bakersville, of a nuisance caused by the
slaughtering and rendering works of the Manchester Beef Co.,
and a public hearing was given on the subject of the complaint.
The hearing occupied two half-days. Many witnesses were ex-
amined, the works were repeatedly visited by the Board and by
its individual members, and all practicable means were used to
arrive at the truth in the case. It appeared that earlier in the
season the establishment had been a nuisance, but that the work
was then being carried on by the use of improved methods and
apparatus by which the bad smells and noises were to a great
extent obviated. The decision was that the works did not then
create a nuisance of such a character as to require their stoppage
or removal.
The establishment has since been visited occasionally by mem^
bers of the Board, and has always been found clean and free from
anything which could be considered a nuisance injurious to the
public health.
302 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The duty of guarding against the spread of contagious diseases
among domestic animals is by statute laid on the Mayor and
Aldermen, but as tuberculosis is so closely related to the public
health of mankind it becomes the duty of the Board of Health to
take cognizance of it also.
Last autumn the disease was found or suspected in the herd
at the farm of the State Industrial School in this city. The
Mayor and Mr. Ray, the superintendent, thereupon employed F.
J. Smith, V. S., of Rochester, to examine the herd. Two mem-
bers of this Board were present by request of the Mayor and
assisted in the examination. The herd consisted of twenty-seven
animals, all of which were condemned and killed, and in every
case the diagnosis of Dr. Smith was fully confirmed by post mor-
tem examination.
The flesh of all the animals was condemned and buried by
order of the Board, thus making sure that it would not be bought
ostensibly for the rendering shop, but really for the market.
The affair created a great excitement, and the most absurd
rumors found circulation and credence ; but when, a few days
afterwards, one or two animals belonging to other herds were
condemned by Dr. Smith, and on post mortem examination
showed only very equivocal indications of the disease, the pen-
dulum of popular rumor swung equally suddenly and absurdly to
the opposite extreme, and an unwarranted feeling of security
against this insidious and dangerous disease now pervades the
community. The foremost sanitarians and biologists in the
world, together with the great majority of observant physicians,
are agreed that tuberculosis is the same disease in man and in
beast, and is communicable.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The following table gives the number of cases of contagious
diseases reported to the Board in each month, also the number of
deaths which have resulted therefrom.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
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The epidemic of measles began in the fall of 1889, there having
been one case in October, ten in November, and thirty-one in
December of that year. The table indicates that about two per
cent of the cases of that disease have been fatal ; but this is mis-
leading, because while the return of deaths is complete that of
cases is not so. Many cases of measles to which no doctor is
called do not come to the knowledge of this Board. The same is
true, although perhaps to a less extent, of scarlet fever. The law
does not, as it should, require householders to report cases of
contagious disease. The fatalities in scarlet fever have been less
than five per cent, while in diphtheria they have been twenty-two
per cent, and in typhoid fever forty-seven per cent of the number
of cases. Small-pox has been absent since 1885. Influenza or
grippe prevailed extensively in January, and to some extent in
the following months. Some statistics gathered at the close of
January showed that in a population of 13,823 persons employed
in some of the principal mills, shops, and other establishments of
the city, 4,969 had during the month been absent from work
one or more days on the plea of sickness. This indicates that
one third of the whole population suffered in that month from
the epidemic. Information from the schools, both public and
private, points to the same conclusion.
304
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
TABLE
SHOWING THE MORTALITY OF THE CITY BY DISEASES AND BY
MONTHS FOR THE YEAR 1890, COMPILED FROM
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TABLE. — Concluded.
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The number of persons whose remains were brought from
other places for interment here is as follows : January, 14 ; Feb-
ruary, ID ; March, 6 ; April, 7 ; May, 6 ; June, g ; July, 8 ;
August, 14; September, 7 ; October, 12 ; November, 8; Decem-
ber, 7. Total, 108.
The number of deaths was larger than in any former year, be-
ing nine hundred and one against seven hundred and sixty-four
for the previous year, and eight hundred and fifty-three in 1888.
The rate per thousand of population was 20.49 against 17.90 the
year before. The increase occurred mostly in the months of Jan-
uary, July, August, and September, and was due to an increase of
bowel diseases in children in the warm months, and probably to
the influenza or grippe which prevailed in January. During the
year grippe and influenza are charged with twenty deaths, and
they may have added malignity to some other diseases. There
was a noticeable increase in the number of deaths from heart dis-
eases, bronchitis, and pneumonia. The number of deaths from
consumption in January was twenty, against an average of about
eight in former years, but the number for the whole year was not
above the average.
The sixty-six deaths from causes not stated are mostly those of
children less than one year of age. Probably a large part of
these deaths were caused by diarrheal diseases, but as the regis-
308 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
tration law now stands and is administered, it appears to be no>
great obstacle to the hiding of a murder, either of infant or adult.
It would seem reasonable that in this city the body of no human
being should be buried until some competent medical man has.
given a certificate founded upon his own knowledge of the case,
or on his belief after due investigation, as to the cause of death.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
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310 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The national census taken in June last showed the'Jpopulation
of the city to be 43,983, and indicated an annual increase since
1880 of a little more than three per cent. This is slightly larger
than the annual estimates of this Board for the past four years as
given in the tables of comparisons in previous reports. In the
preceding table these estimates have been revised in the light af-
forded by the census, and are believed to be substantially correct.
It is gratifying to find the growth of the city outrunning our es-
timates. At present the increase is estimated at one hundred per
month.
SANITARY NEEDS OF THE CITY.
A brief notice of some of the more obvious of these will close
this report. Some of them are within the scope of the powers in-
trusted to this Board, and it will be our endeavor to meet them
to the full extent of our ability with the limited means at our
command. Others can only be secured by the action of other
departments of the city government, and by enlightenment of the
general public opinion.
1. We need the abolishment of a large number of privy-vaults
and stable cellars situated in the compact part of the city.
2. Abetter way of disposing of the waste of the city. The
swill is now carried away two miles from the City Hall by a con-
tractor and fed to swine. The other rubbish is collected by the
highway department and dumped into ravines and low places in
proposed streets. These dumps are nearly as foul and evil-
smelling as they were when the swill went into them. The work
of the contractor has made but slight improvement in their char-
acter. The whole mass of rubbish should be burned in a furnace
constructed for that purpose.
3. A frequent examination by a competent veterinary surgeon
of all the cows from which milk is brought into the city, includ-
ing their housing aad feeding.
4. A more enlightened and vigorous public sentiment in re-
gard to the protection of our water supply. The experience of
other cities and the researches of scientific men admonish us that
the apathy of our people in this regard is little short of criminal
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 311
negligence. The building of dwellings and boathouses with one
end hanging out over the lake, and even in some cases \i^olly on
piles standing in the water, should be stopped. The two uses of
the lake as a place of summer resort and as a source of water
supply are incompatible with each other. The city should at
once acquire a belt of land at least one hundred and fifty feet
wide, extending entirely around the lake, and on this belt no
building, either permanent or temporary, for the housing of
man or beast should be allowed.
5. Public baths, including an out-of-door place, under the
care of a competent and reliable man, during the summer
months, where the boys could learn to swim and could enjoy a
bath in safety.
6. We need above all things of a sanitary nature the dispelling
of that ignorance and apathy which tolerates filth and unclean-
ness in person and surroundings. When the community can be
made to realize that filth and decay bear as close a relation to
sickness as benzine and oily waste do to a fire, the battle will be
more than half won.
Respectfully submitted.
GEORGE C. HOITT,
JOSEPH B. SAWYER,
WM. M. PARSONS,
Board of Health of Manchester.
January, 1891.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, ETC.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND
OIL LAMPS.
No. I. Corner Cypress and Massabesic, arm.
2. Massabesic-street watering trough, pole.
3. Corner Park and Beacon, arm.
4. Corner Central and Hall, arm.
5. Corner Lake avenue and Massabesic, arm.
6. Corner Wilson and Laurel, arm.
7. Corner Merrimack and Hall, arm.
8. Corner Manchester and Hall, arm.
9. Corner Manchester and Wilson, arm.
10. Corner Hanover and Ashland, arm.
11. Corner Hanover and Hall, arm.
12. Corner Hanover and Beacon, arm.
13. Corner Concord and Ashland, arm.
14. Corner Bridge and Hall, arm.
15. Corner Myrtle and Russell, arm.
16. Corner Pearl and Linden, arm.
17. Corner Pearl and Russell, arm.
18. Corner Bridge and Nashua, arm.
19. Corner Nashua and High, arm.
20. Corner Concord and Button, arm.
21. Corner Amherst and Porter, arm.
22. Corner Hanover and Lincoln, arm.
23. Corner Manchester and Lincoln, arm.
24. Corner Merrimack and Lincoln, arm.
25. Corner Laurel and Lincoln, arm.
26. Corner Central and Lincoln, arm.
316 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 27. Corner Lake avenue and Lincoln, arm.
28. Corner Spruce and Lincoln, arm.
29. Corner Spruce and Maple, arm.
30. Corner Lake avenue and Maple, arm.
31. Corner Central and Maple, arm.
32. Corner Merrimack and Maple, arm.
33. Corner Manchester and Maple, arm.
34. Corner Hanover and Maple, arm.
35. Corner Amherst and Maple, arm.
36. Corner Concord and Maple, arm.
37. Corner Lowell and Nashua, arm.
38. Corner Bridge and Maple, arm.
39. Corner Myrtle and Maple, arm.
40. Corner Orange and Ash, arm.
41. Corner Harrison and Beech, arm.
42. Corner Myrtle and Beech, arm.
43. Corner Pearl and Beech, arm.
44. Corner Bridge and Beech, arm.
45. Corner Lowell and Ash, arm.
46. Corner Amherst and Ash, arm.
47. Corner Lowell and Beech, arm.
48. Corner Concord and Walnut, arm.
49. Corner Amherst and Beech, arm.
50. Corner Hanover and Beech, arm.
51. Hanover Square, pole.
52. Corner Manchester and Beech, arm.
53. Corner Merrimack and Beech, arm.
54. Corner Laurel and Beech, arm.
55. Corner Central and Beech, arm.
56. Corner Lake avenue and Beech, arm.
57. Corner Spruce and Beech, arm.
58. Corner Cedar and Union, arm.
59. Corner Lake avenue and Union, arm.
60. Corner Central and Union, arm.
61. Corner Laurel and Union, arm.
62. Corner Merrimack and Union, arm.
63. Corner Manchester and Union, arm.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 317
No. 64. Corner Hanover and Union, arm.
65. Corner Amherst and Union, arm.
66. Corner Concord and Union, arm.
67. Corner Lowell and Walnut, arm.
68. Corner Lowell and Union, arm.
69. Corner High and Union, arm.
70. Corner Bridge and Union, arm.
71. Corner Bridge and Walnut, arm.
72. Corner Orange and Union, arm.
73. Corner Prospect and Union, arm.
74. Corner Brook and Union, arm.
75. Corner Pennacook and Union, arm.
76. Corner Webster and Pine, arm.
77. Corner North and Pine, pole.
78. Corner Sagamore and Pine, arm.
79. Corner Blodget and Pine, arm.
80. Corner Harrison and Hazel, arm.
81. Corner Prospect and Pine, arm.
82. Corner Myrtle and Pine, arm.
8^. Corner Orange and Pine, arm.
84. Corner Pearl and Pine, arm.
85. Corner Bridge and Pine, arm.
86. Tremont Square, pole.
87. Corner High and Pine, arm.
88. Corner Lowell and Pine, arm.
89. Corner Concord and Pine, arm.
90. Corner Amherst and Pine, arm.
91. Corner Hanover and Pine, arm.
92. Corner Manchester and Pine, arm.
93. Corner Merrimack and Pine, arm.
94. Corner Laurel and Pine, arm.
95. Corner Central and Pine, arm.
96. Corner Lake avenue and Pine, arm.
97. Corner Cedar and Pine, arm.
98. Corner Auburn and Pine, arm.
99. Corner Cedar and Chestnut, arm.
100. Park Square, pole.
318 ANNUAL OFFICIAL EEPORTS.
No. loi. Corner Lake avenue and Chestnut, arm.
102. Corner Central and Chestnut, arm.
103. Merrimack Square, pole.
104. Corner Merrimack and Chestnut, arm.
105. Corner Manchester and Chestnut, arm.
106. Corner Hanover and Chestnut, arm.
107. Concord Square, east, pole.
108. Concord Square, west, pole.
109. Corner Chestnut and Concord B. S., arm.
no. Corner Chestnut and High, arm.
111. Corner Chestnut and Bridge, arm.
112. Corner Chestnut and Pearl, arm.
113. Corner Chestnut and Myrtle, arm.
114. Corner Chestnut and Harrison, arm.
115. Corner Chestnut and Brook, arm.
116. Corner Pennacook and Chestnut, pole.
117. Corner Salmon and Chestnut, pole.
118. Corner Webster and Chestnut, arm.
119. Corner Clarke and Elm, arm.
120. Corner Webster and Elm, arm.
121. Corner North and Elm, arm.
122. Corner Salmon and Elm, arm.
123. Corner Pennacook and Elm, arm.
124. Corner Brook and Elm, arm.
125. Corner Harrison and Elm, arm.
126. Langdon street, pole.
127. Corner Dean and Elm, arm.
128. Corner Prospect and Chestnut, arm.
129. Corner Orange and Elm, arm.
130. Corner Pearl and Elm, arm.
131. Elm East B. S., between Pearl and Bridge, arm.
132. Corner Bridge and Elm, arm.
133. Corner Washington and Church, arm.
134. Corner Birch and Lowell, arm.
135. Corner Lowell and Elm, arm.
136. Elm East B. S. between Lowell and Concord, arm.
137. Corner Water and Elm, arm.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS.
No. 138. Corner Vine and Concord, arm.
139. Corner Vine and Amherst, arm.
140. Corner Amherst and Elm, arm.
141. Corner Mechanic and Elm West B. S., arm.
142. Stark street, arm.
143. Corner Market and Franklin, arm.
144. Corner Market and Elm, arm.
145. Corner Hanover and Elm East B. S., arm.
146. Corner Elm and Manchester, arm.
147. Corner Dean avenue and Elm West B. S., arm.
148. Corner Elm and Merrimack, arm.
149. Middle street.
150. Corner Pleasant and Elm West B. S., arm.
151. Merrimack Square, west, pole.
152. Corner Elm and Central, arm.
153. Corner Elm and Lake avenue, arm.
154. Corner Elm and Spruce, arm.
155. Beech and Cedar, pole.
15-6. Corner Elm and Cedar, arm.
157. Corner Franklin and Granite, arm.
158. Corner Elm and Auburn, arm.
159. Corner Elm and Green, arm.
160. Corner Elm and Valley, arm.
161. Bakersville watering trough, arm.
162. Corner Summer and State, pole.
163. Corner Granite and State, arm.
164. Granite Bridge, east, pole.
165. Corner Bedford and Granite, pole.
166. Corner Canal and Granite, pole.
167. Corner Depot and Canal, pole.
168. Central between Franklin and Canal, pole.
169. Corner Bedford and Central, arm.
170. Corner Canal and Merrimack, arm.
171. Corner Canal and Middle, arm.
172. Corner Canal and Stark, arm.
173. Corner Canal and Mechanic, arm.
174. Corner Canal and Spring, arm.
319
320 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 175. Corner Canal and Bridge, arm.
176. McGregor Bridge, east, pole.
177. Corner Canal and Hollis, pole.
178. Corner Canal and Dean, pole.
179. Corner Canal and Langdon, arm.
180. Corner River road and North street, arm.
181. Amoskeag Bridge, east, arm.
182. Amoskeag Bridge, west, arm.
183. Amoskeag watering trough, pole.
184. Amoskeag brick store, pole.
185. Corner McGregor and Main, pole.
186. Corner McGregor and Bridge, pole.
187. McGregor Bridge, west, pole.
188. Corner Amory and Main, pole.
189. Corner Amory and Beauport, pole.
190. Corner Wayne and Beauport, pole.
191. Corner Marion and Main, pole.
192. Corner McGregor and Wayne, pole.
193. Corner McGregor and Putnam, arm.
194. Corner Sullivan and Main, pole,
195. Corner Beauport and Sullivan, pole.
196. Corner Main and Schuyler, pole.
197. Corner Wilton and Main, pole.
198. Corner Douglas and Main, arm.
199. Corner Douglas and Barr, arm.
200. Corner Granite and Green, arm.
201. Corner West and Granite, arm.
202. Corner Granite and Main, arm.
203. Corner Granite and Second, arm.
204. Granite Bridge, west, pole.
205. Corner School and River, arm,
206. Corner School and Third, arm.
207. Corner Second and Bath, pole.
208. Corner Ferry and River, arm.
209. Corner Ferry and Third, arm.
210. Corner Walker and Second, arm.
211. Corner Blaine and Third, arm.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 321
No. 2X2. Corner Clinton and Main, arm.
213. Corner Walker and Main, arm.
214. Corner Parker and West, arm.
215. Corner Winter and Parker, arm.
216. Corner Main and Mast, pole.
217. Corner Main and Milford, arm.
218. Corner Main and A, arm.
219. Corner Carroll and Milford, arm.
220. Corner Old Mast road and Mast, arm.
221. Corner Hall and Amherst, arm.
222. Corner Laurel and Maple, arm.
223. Corner Central and Wilson, arm.
224. Corner Harrison and Pine, arm.
225. Corner Massabesic and Belmont, pole. "■
226. Corner Union and Appleton, arm,
227. Corner Elm and railroad crossing, pole.
228. Corner Franklin and Pleasant, arm.
229. Corner Elm and Appleton, arm.
230. Corner Milford and Riddle, arm.
231. Corner Nutt road and Portsmouth railroad, pole.
232. Corner Lake avenue and Canton, pole.
233. Corner Laurel and Hall, arm.
234. Corner Beech and Brook, arm.
235. Corner Kidder and Boyden, pole.
236. Corner Myrtle and Walnut, arm.
237. Bridge and Linden, arm.
238. Corner Lowell and Ashland, arm.
239. Corner Lowell and Belmont, arm.
240. Corner Pearl and Union, arm.
241. Corner Salmon and Union, pole.
242. Water street, arm.
243. Corner Arlington and Ashland, arm.
244. Corner Orange and Oak, arm.
245. Corner Prospect and Oak, arm.
246. Corner Arlington and Russell, arm.
247. Corner Gore and Walnut, arm.
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822 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
248. Corner Laurel and Milton, arm.
249. Massabesic street — Hospital, pole.
250. Corner Lake avenue and Wilson, arm.
251. Corner Bridge and Ash, arm.
252. Hanover street, east, pole.
253. Corner Franklin and Depot, arm.
254. Corner Spruce and Union, arm.
255. Corner East High and Wilson road, pole.
GAS LIGHTS IN USE.
Appleton and Pine.
Clarke and Chestnut.
Clarke and River road.
Elm, near Ray brook.
Monroe street.
Appleton, West End.
Webster and River road.
Salmon and River road.
Salmon, between Elm and Canal.
Canal, near paper mill.
Blodget, between Elm and Chestnut.
Blodget and Chestnut.
Brook and Pine.
Prospect, between Elm and Chestnut.
Myrtle, between Elm and Chestnut.
Orange and Chestnut.
Orange, between Chestnut and Elm.
Bridge, between Chestnut and Elm.
Pearl and Walnut.
Orange and Walnut.
Orange and Beech.
Myrtle and Ash.
Pearl and Maple.
Arlington and Maple.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 323
East High and Maple.
I^owell and South.
Lowell and Jane.
Amherst and Ashland.
Concord and Hall.
Lowell and Hall.
Concord and Belmont.
Amherst and Belmont.
Amherst and Beacon.
Lowell and Beacon.
East High and Belmont.
Prospect and Russell.
Harrison and Russell.
Harrison and Oak.
Harrison and Maple.
Harrison and Ash.
Prospect and Ash.
Prospect and Beech.
Prospect and Walnut.
Belmont and Central.
Maple and Cedar.
Beech and Auburn.
Willow and Merrill,
Two lights on South Elm.
Two lights on Hancock and River road.
Auburn and Franklin.
Three lights on State.
River street, near Turner Hall.
Milford and Bowman.
Mast and Bowman.
Dover and Clinton.
Dover and Granite.
Two lights on Hancock, West of River road.
Dover and Douglas.
Douglas, half way between Main and River streets.
Two lights on Pleasant, between Franklin and Canal.
Merrimack Common.
324 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Two lights on Mechanic.
Spring street.
Hanover, near the old Post-office.
Wilson and Merrimack.
Manchester and Belmont.
Hanover and Milton.
Two lights on River road, between Hancock and Baker streets.
Hanover and Belmont.
OIL LIGHTS IN USE.
Clarke and Union.
Concord and Beacon.
East High and Hall.
Pearl and Linden.
Canal, near Amoskeag bridge.
Merrimack and Beacon.
Hanover and Mammoth road.
Lake avenue and Mammoth road.
Elm and Shasta.
Elm and Baker.
Two lights on Baker.
Douglas and West.
Douglas and Quincy.
Granite and Quincy.
Mast road and Riddle.
Carroll street.
Bowman street.
A and B streets.
Light near the Huntress gardens.
Mammoth road and Cohas avenue.
" " and Island Pond road.
" " and Cilley.
" " and Young.
" " and Candia road.
Massabesic and Old Falls road.
ELECTRIC LIGHT8, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 325
Massabesic and Taylor.
Belmont and Green.
Belmont, at A. L. Walker's house.
Belmont and Valley.
Valley and Taylor.
Valley and Cypress.
Valley and Jewett.
Cypress and Prout avenue.
Jewett and Young.
Young and Taylor.
Three lights on River road south of Blue store.
Three lights in Amoskeag.
Ten lights in Goffe's Falls.
Three lights in Youngsville.
One light on Candia road, near Noah Reed's.
One light on Candia road, near Walter Cody's house.
One light junction Lake avenue and Hanover.
One light on Island Pond road, Mill-Dam House.
ARTICLES OF AGREEMENT.
The Manchester Electric Light Company, a corporation duly
established by law and doing business in Manchester, in the
county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, and the
city of Manchester, a municipal corporation in said county and
State, acting by its special committee duly authorized by the vote
of the City Councils of said city, hereby agree as follows, to wit :
The said company, for the consideration hereinafter mentioned,
agrees for itself, its successors and assigns, at its own expense, to
provide, erect, and maintain one each at such points within the
limits fixed by the vote of said committee, October 8, 1888, to
wit : within a radius of one and one quarter miles from the city
hall, as said committee shall designate, two hundred electric
lights, to be arc lamps, of two thousand candle power each,
French measurement ; to place such a part of said lamps on
326 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
posts, andsuch a part on mast-arms as said committee s>iall des-
ignate ; to keep the same lighted from sunset to sunrise upon
every night of the year; and to use in the maintenance of said
lights the Thomson-Houston system of electric lighting.
The said city agrees to pay monthly for the said two hundred
lights provided, erected, and maintained, as above, the sum of
thirty-nine cents per night each, for all lamps placed on posts,
and thesum of forty-three cents per night each, for all lamps
placed on mast-arms, each lamp to be accepted and pay for the
same to begin as soon as it is placed in position and lighted ; but
in case any lamp for any cause shall fail to be lighted, upon such
nights and parts of nights as it shall remain unlighted, a propor-
tionate reduction in the price shall be made.
The said city further agrees that said company may erect and
maintain through and over the streets of said city, such lines, not
nearer than twenty-five feet to the ground, as may be found ne-
cessary for the convenient and economical maintenance of said
lights ; and said company agrees that the furnishings shall be of
first-class line construction, and the mast-arms shall be such as to
reach the middle line of the streets over which they shall hang,
and so permit said city to use the topmost arms of such poles or
posts as said company shall erect for its system of fire-alarm tele-
graph. And it is hereby mutually agreed that all damages or in-
juries to said lights or lines arising from fire or other unavoidable
casualty, shall be repaired by said company with reasonable dili-
gence, and shall not vitiate this contract ; and that all damages
to any person or property caused by the poles, lamps, wire, or
other apparatus used by said company, or by the use of the same,
occasioned by the negligence or want of care of said company,
or its servants or agents, shall be borne by said company ; that
all liability because of damages from the maintenance of the. sys-
tem of lighting used by said company shall rest upon said com-
pany ; that this contract shall terminate in three years from its
date; that at the termination of this contract all property used
by said company under this contract shall remain and be the
property of said company, its successors, or assigns; that in case
during the period for which this contract shall remain in force
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 327
said city shall desire more electric lights, said company will fur-
nish the same at a price not exceeding the price fixed for the two
hundred lights provided for in the foregoing ; that said city shall
have the benefit of any new improvement which may be intro-
duced, thereby reducing the expense of lighting and maintaining
said lights ; and that said company shall furnish a bond signed
by three sureties satisfactory to the aforesaid committee in the
penal sum of ten thousand dollars, conditioned by the faithful
performance of all the terms of this contract.
In witness of which we have set our hands this twenty-sixth
day of December, 1888.
[l. s.] MANCHESTER ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.,
By Andrew Robeson, Treasurer.
THE CITY OF MANCHESTER,
By Leonard P. Reynolds,
H. D. Gordon,
John M. Kendall,
Benj. Freeman,
C. M. Woodbury,
John F. Bohan,
Guy F. Whitten,
Special Committee.
BOND.
Know all men by these presents,
That we, the Manchester Electric Light Company, a corpora-
tion duly established by law and doing business in Manchester,
in the county of Hillsborough and State of New Hampshire, as
principal, and A. Elliott, N. W. Ellis, W. G. Africa as sureties,
are holden and stand firmly bound unto the city of Manchester,
a municipal corporation in said county and State, in the sum of
ten thousand dollars, to the payment of which to the said city
of Manchester, or its successors or assigns, we hereby severally
bind ourselves, our heirs, executors, and administrators, and the
successors of said Electric Light Company.
328 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The condition of the obligation is such that if the said Man-
chester Electric Light Company shall well and faithfully perform
all and singular the terms of a certain contract of even date here-
with, between the said company and the city of Manchester, for
the provision, erection, and maintenance of two hundred electric
lights for the term of three years from its date, under certain
conditions and for a certain price expressed therein, then this
obligation shall be void, otherwise it shall be and remain in full
force and virtue.
In wiiness tuhereofwt hereunto set our hands and seal this 26th
day of December, A. D. 1888.
MANCHESTER ELECTRIC LIGHT CO.,
By Andrew Robeson, Ti-easurer.
A. Elliott.
N. W. Ellis.
W. G. Africa.
Signed and sealed in presence of
Percy H. Everett.
J. H. Dearborn.
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SCHOOLHOUSES.
Inventory of Schoolhouses.
Furniture,
charts, maps,
etc.
Higli-school house and lot
Franklin -street house and lot
Spring-street house and lot
Lincoln-street house and lot
Ash-street liouse and lot
Main-street house and lot
Webster-street house and lot
Blodget-street house and lot
Bridge-street house and lot
Lowell-street house and lot
Merrimack-street house and lot
Wilson Hill house and lot
School-street house and lot
South Main-street house and lot
Bakersville house and lot
Stark District house and lot
Amoskeag house and lot
Goffe's Falls house and lot
Harvey District house and lot
Webster District house and lot
Hallsville house and lot
Youngsville house and lot
Mosquito Pond District house and lot
Park-street house and lot
Varney-school lot
Total .*.
$7,875.00
340
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OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND LOTS.
City library building and lot ! $41,000.00
City Hall building and lot | 60,000.00
City farm and permanent improvements i 34,000.00
Court house and lot I 51,000.00
Battery building on Manchester street j 18,000.00
Police station on Manchester street 43,303.77
City yard I 30,000.00
Gravel lot, Belmont street ! 1,200.00
Gravel lots, ward 8 400.00
Gravel lots, Bakersville 700.00
Gravel lots, district 8 i 150.00
City tombs (2) | 10,000.00
Total I $289,753.77
ENGINE-HOUSES.
Engine-house, stable and land. Vine street
Engine-house, North Main street, West Manchester
Engine-house, cottage, and lot, Lake avenue, corner Massabe
sic street
Engine-house and lot, Webster street, corner Chestnut street..
Hose-house, cottage, and lot. Maple street
Engine-house, Clinton street. West Manchester
Total
$47,000.00
20,000.00
19,371 .00
13,000.00
5,000.00
2,500.00
$106,871.00
PERSONAL AND OTHER PROPERTY.
stock, tools, furniture, etc., at city farm
Safes, furniture, etc., at City Hall
Street lanterns, posts, and pipes
Water pipes, wagons, and apparatus for watering streets.. .
Teams and tools for streets
Stock in Suncook Valley Railroad (face value)
Fountains (5) and water" troughs (31) on streets and comnaon
Soldiers' monument
Permanent inclosure of commons
Amoskeag bridge over Merrimack river
McGregor " " "
Granite " " "
South Main-street bridge, over Piscataquog river
Print-works bridge, over lower canal
Expended on construction of sewers
Two bridges in district No. 9
One bridge at Goffe's Falls
Total
$8,882.19
3,000.00
10,000.00
3,000.00
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3,500.00
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90,000.00
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205,171.79
2,000.00
1,000.00
$505,753.98
STATISTICS OF WEALTH, DEBT, AND TAXATION. 341
The. city has the following property devoted and restricted to the uses indi-
cated by the names below. If it was unrestricted and salable at market
prices, it could be fairly estimated at the values attached :
Valley cemetery
Pine Grove cemetery
Amoskeag cemetery.
Stark monument lot.
Concord common —
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Hanover common...
Park common
Merrimack common.
Total
$200,000.00
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Remarks. — The city guarantees the perpetual care of lots in
the cemeteries of the city to parties who pay $ioo and upward.
There are $10,950 in cemetery bonds, so-called, in the hands of
the city treasurer, which are not included in the $935,000.
(They are additions.) The water-works are valued, at a low es-
timate, to be worth $1,500,000. The city owns other property
to the extent of $1,000,000, consisting of schoolhouses, court
house, city hall building, engine-houses, city library building, etc.
Total amount of bonded debt .... $935,000
Net indebtedness for water purposes . . . 600,000
Net debt after deducting water debt . . $335,000
No indebtedness existing in other forms than are herein stated.
The assessed value of personal property . . $4,603,634
The assessed value of real estate .... $18,359,156
Total value for taxation .... $22,962,790
Tax rate, 1.9 per cent on a hundred.
Per cent of net indebtedness (excluding debt for water
purposes) to assessed valuation ..... i-459
Per cent of net indebtedness (including debt for water
purposes) to assessed valuation ..... 4-071
As shown in the assessors' books for the year 1889.
Present population, estimated ..... 42,000
Population last census, 1880 ..... 32,458
No issue of bonds has ever been contested.
The interest on the debt has always been promptly paid at ma-
turity.
None of the bonds are stated specifically as being payable in
gold.
None of the bonds can be called for redemption.
The power of the city to borrow money in relation to the
water-works is limited to the sum of $600,000 by Section 6,
Chapter 70, New Hampshire Laws of 187 1, entitled "An Act to
enable the City of Manchester to establish water-works."
STATISTICS OF WEALTH, DEBT, AND. TAXATION. 345
The receipts and expenditures of the water-works, as stated in the
Annual Report of the Board of Water Commissioners for the
year 1889, were as follows :
Balance unexpended December 31, 1888 $36,126.74
Receipts from all sources in 1889 . 86,700.46
Total ....... . $122,827.20
Appropriated to pay interest . . $36,000.00
Expended on -construction . . . 30,232.09
Repairs and running expenses . . 17,005.90
Total expenditures .... . 83,237.96
Balance unexpended .... . $39,589.21
Notwithstanding a heavy reduction in the water rates of the
past year over those of the preceding, the gross receipts of the
year 1889 show an increase over the previous year of $1,056.64.
The foregoing statements I certify to be, to the best of my
knowledge and belief, true and correct.
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
Date of report, April 22, 1890.
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STATISTICS OF WEALTH, DEBT, AND TAXATION. 347
LETTER OF THE CITY AUDITOR TO THE SUPER-
INTENDENT OF CENSUS.
Manchester, N. H., June 13, 1890.
To Hon. Robert P. Porter, Superintendent of Census, Washing-
ton, D. C. :
Sir, — I send herewith a compilation of the receipts and ex-
penditures of the city of Manchester, N. H., from the year 1880
to 1889 inchisive. Perhaps a few words of explanation in regard
to this compilation may not be considered unnecessary. In
making this compilation, as you will perceive by reference to the
Treasurer's accounts printed in the City Reports, I have in every
instance deducted from the amount of cash on hand as stated in
the said city reports, the amount of bills unpaid. This I have
done because this amount of bills unpaid is a part of the expend-
itures of the previous year, and is so placed in the city reports
simply because the last draft which the city treasurer receives in
the latter part of December, he has not had time to disburse ;
and it was the only way in which I could make out the analysis
of the receipts and expenditures of the city. I have also added
to the receipts and expenditures, the county tax each year. This
county tax forms a part of the percentage on a hundred which is
assessed and raised upon the property of the citizens of Manches-
ter, and really should appear in the treasurer's statement, but the
law holds the tax collector responsible to the county for that
amount, so the custom has been for the tax collector to take his
receipt from the county treasurer, and so the amount does not
appear in the city treasurer's report. In the city report you will
find the account headed "County Taxes," which shows the
whole matter. Now then, if you take the amount of expenditures
for any one year, say the year 1889, you will find in the treas-
urer's statement for that year, the amount of expenditures
$718,442.40; deduct from that amount the amount of unpaid
bills, January i, 1889, $37,088.16, and the sum total will be
$681,354.24; add to this the county tax, which is for that year
$40,508.54, and you will find the sum to be $721,862.78, which
348 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
agrees with the grand total of all expenditures as shown in the
compilation herewith sent you. The same statement holds true
in regard to each and every year. Take the receipts of the year
1889, as shown in the treasurer's account in the city report, and
they amount to $798,291.73 ; you take from that the unpaid
bills, January i, 1889, $37,088.16, which makes the sum
$761,203.57 ; add to that the county tax of $40,508.54 and you
have the amount of $801,712.11, which agrees with the total re-
ceipts of that year, as shown in the compilation above referred
to.
Under the head of " Sewers and Drains," especially in the
years 1882, 1883, and possibly 1887, 1888, 1889, the expenses
of construction of sewers and drains is mixed with the mainte-
nance, and I was unable to entirely separate it. The whole com-
pilation represents the best I have been able to do under all
circumstances of the case, and I trust may prove satisfactory to
you. I have placed the amount of claims and judgments recov-
ered against the city, with the legal expenses relating to sundry
suits against the city, under the clause, " Payments made under
special headings, as they arise from circumstances beyond the
control of the City Council." The water-works, the cash in the
treasury, the uncollected taxes, the schoolhouses and lots, engine-
houses and apparatus, amounting to $1,537,111.32, may be fairly
considered as available assets.
I am, very respectfully, your obedient servant,
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
P. S. — In making this compilation for various years, "inci-
dental expenses" have been analyzed and the expenditures
therein contained put under their proper headings. This work
required the examination of a large amount of vouchers in the
hands of the city treasurer, and out of these " incidental ex-
penses " were obtained the cost of a police station, three or four
engine-houses, etc. This letter is intended to be partially ex-
planatory of the process which the city auditor has found it
necessary to use in order to get the proper showing for the city.
J. B. S.
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
To the City Councils :
Gentlemen, — The City Auditor herewith submits to your
honorable body his first annual report. The duties of the office
were quite fully outlined in the communication made to the City
Councils February 4, 1890, and have been still further exem-
plified by subsequent communications, many of which are
printed in the annual city report for 1890.
It is the intention of the Auditor to perform the duties of his
office in accordance with the requirements of the law, relying
upon the intelligence and virtue of the City Councils, and the
people, to sustain that position.
Early in the year it was apparent that the labor required to
meet the demands made upon this office could not be met by
one man, and the Mayor, upon the request of the Auditor, em-
ployed Allan E. Herrick as clerk. No better selection could be
made. Mr. Herrick has proved himself to be industrious and
efficient ; his knowledge as a type-writer, stenographer, and en-
graver has been of special benefit to the city in many ways.
The Auditor recommends that his salary be increased.
WORK OF THE OFFICE.
There have been made during the year two examinations of
the Treasurer's accounts, two examinations of the City Clerk's
accounts, annual examination and settlement with the Tax Col-
lector, annual examination of water-works accounts, annual
examination of accounts of Superintendent of Pine Grove ceme-
tery, annual examination of accounts of Superintendent of Val-
352 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ley cemetery, annual examination of accounts of Superintend-
ent of City Farm, monthly examination of accounts of weigher
at city scales, quarterly examination of accounts of City Mar-
shal, semi-annual examination of accounts of Clerk of Police
Court.
About 6,000 bills against the city have been examined and
certified as " correct." All the pay-rolls for the thirteen high-
way districts, for the schools, for the fire department, the water-
works, the police department, the cemeteries, and the city offi-
cials, have been examined and certified to.
Twelve monthly drafts, amounting in the aggregate to $890,-
311.34, have been drawn on the city treasury.
Accounts have been kept with all of the appropriations, with
the Treasurer, and with the Tax Collector.
Special examinations of the accounts of J. S. Paige, weigher
at the city scales, and ex-City Marshal Melvin Jenkins, were
made, reports of which have been presented to and acted upon
by the City Councils.
Three hundred and forty letters, fifteen communications to the
City Councils, twenty orders and ordinances, and eight resolu-
tions to be presented by committees for the action of the City
Councils, and many bills due to the city from various parties
have been prepared, type-written, and forwarded to their desti-
nations.
Some type-writing has been done for the City Clerk, the
Treasurer, the Superintendent of the public schools, and the
City Engineer.
The book of deeds and mortgages, 183 in number, showing the
real estate transactions to which the city of Manchester is a
party, has been recopied by the type-writer, and an improved
index added.
Blank forms have been formulated to meet the requirements in
relation to diseased cattle, imposed upon the Mayor and Alder-
men by chapter 93 of the New Hampshire Laws of 1889.
A statement of the wealth, debt, and taxation of the city from
January i, 1880, to January i, 1890, with many other docu-
ments, has been compiled at the request of the census depart-
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR. 353
ment, and under the order of the Mayor. The city report for
1890 is the compilation of the Auditor as required by the ordi-
nance.
IMPROVEMENTS SUGGESTED.
The growth of the city within the last fifteen years has been
very large, and with it has come a large increase of the business
of city officials. The City Clerk's office has been overburdened
with the duties thrust upon it. Cribbed, cabined, and confined
in a room not much, if any, larger than a box stall, he has done
his business as well as the disadvantages under which he has la-
bored would permit. The first relief to this abused official came
in the appointment of an Auditor and the transfer of some of the
clerk's business to the auditor's office. The second relief should
come in the removal of the office to more commodious quarters,
the transfer of all fees connected therewith to the city treasury,
an increase in the present salary of the City Clerk from ^900.00
to not less than ^1,500.00, and the employment of an assistant
clerk who should also be a type-writer, and might act as clerk to
several of the prominent committees. In short, the Clerk's office
should be thoroughly re-organized. The collection of dog
licenses, sewer licenses, and all collections except those of fees,
could more properly be made the work of the Tax Collector or
the City Treasurer.
Within the time mentioned the business of the Treasurer has
increased fourfold. That honest and efficient city official, who
left his right arm at Cold Harbor, but fortunately saved his head
and left arm for still further public uses, could be greatly assisted
if by the addition of a few hundred dollars to the present salary
of the Deputy Collector of Taxes, he, the Treasurer, could mo-
nopolize the spare time of the said deputy in the service of the
Treasury. With these few changes, the collection of licenses,
etc., could then be fairly imposed upon the Treasurer's office; the
number of offices where public dues are payable would be lessened,
and in the case of sickness, or disability from any cause, of the
Treasurer or City Clerk, the public business would not be ini-
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354 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
peded. These changes in relation to fees and collections would
require the action of the Legislature.
WATER-WORKS.
The books of the water-works department are kept in a model
manner, and it is a satisfaction to the Auditor to examine such
orderly and accurate accounts.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
The accounts of the police department for the last two years
have been well and correctly kept.
CITY SCALES.
The present weigher at the city scales, William Bailey, is an
honest and efficient man, and his certificates can be relied upon
as correct. The fees for weighing were established many years
ago and need to be revised. This is an important office, as many
of the articles purchased by the city are there weighed and the
payments made in accordance therewith. The salary of the
weigher should be increased. Under a proper adjustment of the
fees the income from the city scales would probably be enlarged.
It should be stated in all contracts, verbal or written, made by
the city for fuel, hay, etc., that the certificate of the weigher at
the city scales should in all cases be affixed to the bill.
CITY FARM AND CEMETERIES.
The accounts at the city farm are well kept.
The accounts kept by the Superintendent of the Pine Grove
cemetery are correct and the method is in process of improve-
ment.
TAX COLLECTOR.
The accounts are well kept and the business of the office thor-
oughly done.
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTMENT.
The clerical methods and accounts in Districts No. 2 and No. 3
have been much improved since January i, 1890. The employ-
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR. 355
ment of a clerk and giving to him the facilities necessary for the
transaction of his business have aided much in that direction.
The system of orders and rules for goods purchased, insisted
upon by the Auditor and cheerfully complied with by the Super-
intendent, has tended still further to throw impediments in the
way of dishonest claimants.
District No. lo. — The Superintendent of this district, which
is rapidly growing in importance, has readily complied with the
requirements of this office. His accounts are few and his returns
are promptly made.
Other Districts. — Many of the outlying districts are " pocket
boroughs," a very large share of the money appropriated finding
a lodgment, perhaps necessarily, in the purse of the Superintend-
ent, or that of his family or friends. In the opinion of the Au-
ditor, the street and sewer department, expending during the
year 1890, including the lighting of streets, the sum of
^177,940.37, can never be successfully and properly managed
until it is consolidated and placed under the control of one man,
chosen solely on account of his practical qualifications and sci-
entific attainments.
EXPENDITURES. *
The expenditures relating to the work of the Auditor Imve
been as follows :
Services.
Salary of auditor ..... . <;9So.5o
clerk 406.32
$1,386.82
Furnishings for Office.
Type-writer and table, roll-top desk, bill-case, mim-
eograph, self-inking stamp, letter press, etc. . 344-31
Stationery.
Blank bills, blanks of all kinds, blank books, laws,
etc 338.06
Total . ^2,069.19
356
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The Auditor acknowledges his indebtedness to the Mayor and
many members of the late City Councils for their constant sup-
port, and to the heads of departments for their courtesy and
kindness. Knowing that the ideal is always in advance of the
realization, he submits himself to the considerate judgment of
his fellow citizens.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — I have examined the accounts of Sylvanus B.
Putnam, City Treasurer, for the year ending December 31, 1890,
and find proper vouchers for all payments, and all receipts are
duly accounted for.
The net cash on hand January i, 1890 . . $79,849.33
Receipts during the year ..... 890,014
Amount of drafts during the }ear
Net cash on hand December 31. 1S90
The cash balance taken December i
follows: :
Deposited in Suffolk National Bank
First National Bank .
Second National Bank
Manchester National Bank
Amoskeag National Bai^k
Merchants National Bank
Office safe
Gross amount of cash on hand
Deduct amount of bills unj^aid
$969,863
$890,311
79>552
$969,863
36
34
02
36
, I, 1S90, I find to be as
$8,930.00
I •'•'', 994- 39
7.295.79
27,798.67
II. 651. 58
I9-736-73
40. 1S7. 83
$134,594.99
55.042.97
Net cash on hand December 31, 1890 . . $79,552.0::
The accounts for the year ending December 31, 1890, of the
City Clerk, of the Superintendent of Schools, of the Tax Col-
lector, of the Water- Works, of the City Marshal, of the Clerk of
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR. 357
the Police Court, of the Superintendent of the Pine Grove Cem-
etery, of the Superintendent of the Valley Cemetery, of the
Treasurer of the Cemetery Trustees, of the Superintendent of the
City Farm, and of the Weighers at the City Scales, have each
and all been carefully examined and the mcome from these
sources as shown by the said books (excepting J. S. Paige) has
been deposited with the City Treasurer and appears in his ac-
counts.
Respectfully submitted.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
358 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Dr. Sylvanus B. Fufnat?i, Treasurer, in account with the
To cash on hand January i, 1890
temporary loan
bonds sold to N. H. Harris «& Co
premium on bonds sold
insurance tax
railroad tax .
savings bank tax .
literary fund
board of paupers off farm
L. M. Streeter, city farm
Joseph B. Clark estate ..
Barton &: Co. (overdraft)
J. B. Baril (overdraft) .
city teams, District No. 2
George W. Weeks .
Warren Harvey
S. G. Reed (overdraft) .
Joseph A. Poor (overdraft)
sewer licenses
New Hampshire Rubber Co. (overdraft)
A. N. Clapp (overdraft)
Charles O. Phelps (broken pipe)
Manchester Water-Works, for labor
Richard Dobbins, for labor .
W. H. Pluraer, for brick
J. B. Varick Co., goods returned
old bridge plank sold
Amoskeag Manufactur'g Co., painting bridge
West'rn Union Telegraph and Telephone Co
E. P. Johnson Co., chopping block
Timothy Shea, land sold
Edward Wagner, land sold .
F. O. Clement, old iron
^ Amotint carried forward
^109,311.83
100,000.00
100,000.00
5,670.00
3i752'25
21,443-72
68,392.94
4,504.70
2,201.57
2,432-75
12.64
15-93
1. 00
2,700.69
30.00
30.00
1. 00
3.00
1,013.40
8.00
11.66
3-9°
20.25
58-05
14.40
15.09
138.88
295.21
2,500.00
1.50
3T2-50
i,375-oo
1-79
$426,273.65
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
City of Manchester, year ending December ji ,
By unpaid bills, January i, i^
funded debt .
temporary loan
coupons, water bonds
coupons, city bonds
coupons, cemetery bonds
interest ....
paupers off farm .
city farm
city teams
highway district No. i
359
i8go.
2 an«li
4
5
6
7
8
9
ID
I I
12
new highways
land taken for new highways
w-atering streets
lighting streets
paving streets
macadamizing
grading for concrete
sewers and drains .
commons
bridges
incidental expenses
Amount carried forward
Cr.
$29,462.50
99,900.00
100,000.00
34,177.00
15,771.00
567-50
555-57
4,336-46
7,467.30
5,246.19
199.25
11,807.87
499-75
486.75
498.80
1,308.03
792.73
536.81
3'357-oi
1,064.50
299.80
194-15
9'575-6i
358-16
7>593-oo
41,099.64
6,633-75
20,925.52
5,089.86
39,297.97
4,214.03
3,879.68
17,441.26
^474,637.45
360
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Dr.
Sylvanus B. Putnam, Treasurer^ in account with the
Amount brought fonvard .
^426,273.65
To C. W. Strain, land sold
$50.00
Matthew McDonald ....
10.00
Pine Grove Cemetery, lots sold
2,600.00
B. A. Stearns, superintendent
1,783-37
. George A. Durgin (overdraft)
40.00
C. H. G. Foss, superintendent
1,300.00
fire department
4,699.47
John Leonard (overdraft)
6.00
D. B. Varney (overdraft)
20.00
police department ....
6,939-57
City Hall
-^ .
2,410.00
John P. Mullen
4.00
water-works .
90,463-37
P. Harrington
30.00
George H. Dudley
40.00
Joseph Gillott &: Son
7-55
dog licenses
1,361.16
billiard tables
37-5°
old bills unclaimed
678.95
show licenses
190.50
rent of tenements
461.63
city scales
502.31
tuition
42S.75
E. W. Brigham
38-50
milk licenses
49-50
trustees cemetery fund
2,900.00
Manchester Shoe Manufacturing Co.
21.25
James Bros, (overdraft)
2.00
interest on taxes .....
342.44
taxes for the year 1885
14.72
'•' 1886
12.34
" 1887
17.00
Amount carried forward
$543>735-53
REPORT OF THE CITY
AUDITOR.
361
City of Manchester, year ending December 31, i8go. Cr.
Amount brought forivard . . . .^474,637.45
By Pine Grove cemetery
$5>oi7-54
Valley cemetery .
2,789.86
fire department
41,409-53
fire-alarm telegraph
1,585-43
hydrant service ....
18,080.00
police department
37,096.16
City Hall ....
2,741.79
printing and stationery
2,058.18
Repairs of buildings
4,443-87
city library ....
4,239.88
abatement of taxes
2,999-39
discount on taxes .
11,265.25
state tax . . • • •
63,435.00
county tax ....
46,032.47
city officers' salaries
16,509.41
Water-Works
33,403-69
decoration of soldiers' graves
374-27
Stark monument square
8,060.75
Women's Aid and Relief Hospital
400.00
W. C. T. U. Mercy Home .
500.00
Elliot Hospital, two free beds
600.00
repairs of schoolhouses .
4,119.76
new schoolhouse .
43,704.11
fuel
3,703-32
furniture and supplies .
575-15
books and stationery
141-35
printing and advertising
389.05
contingent expenses
830.10
care of rooms
3,376.75
mechanical drawing school
694.89
teachers' salaries .
45,404.87
evening school
1,254.81
Amount carried forward
. S881, 874.08
362 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
Dr. Sylvanus B. Putnam, Treasurer, in account with the
Amount brought forward .... ^543,735-53
To taxes for the year 1888 . . . . $118.55
" " 1889 .... 12,401.32
" " 1890 .... 443,070.46
$999,325-86
Unpaid bills, January i, 1891 . . . 55,042.97
Total $1,054,368.83
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
363
City of Manchester, year ending December ji, i8go.
Cr.
Amotint brought forward .
By new text-books, free ....
. $881,874.08
$9,005.11
engineers' department ....
3,221.89
scavenger teams
health department ....
indigent soldiers .....
15,958.46
1,557.38
737.82
street sweeping
mayor, incidentals ....
1,237.08
188.00
new city stables
5,994.02
Cash on hand, January i, 1891
^919,773-84
134,594.99
Total
$1,054,368.83
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM,
City Treasurer.
364 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STATEMENT OF THE MUNICIPAL RECEIPTS AND
EXPENDITURES OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER,
N. H., FOR THE YEAR 1890.
RECEIPTS.
Jan. I, 1890, balance of cash on hand $109,311.83
Less amount of unpaid bills , . 29,462.50
Net cash on hand .... . $79,849.33
Received from :
tax on the city $455,634.39
the Sta*- on insurance,
railroai savings bank,
and litei y fund taxes '98,093.61
Costs and inte.est on taxes 342-44
$554,070.44
Less discount on
taxes . $11,265.25
abatement on
taxes . 2,999.39
state tax' . 63,435.00
county tax . 46,032.47
123,732.11
Net amount of taxes for
municipal purposes . . . $43o>338.33
Received from court fines and costs . 6,939.57
city farm . $2,462.32
Hillsborough
county . 2,201.57
4,663.89
Received from licenses :
To enter sewer . . $1,013.40
keep dog . . . 1,361.16
MUNICIPAL RECEIPTS. 365
To sell milk . . . $49.50
keep billiard table . 37-5°
For shows and exhibitions 190.50
$2,652.06
Received from rents .... 2.871.63
Water-Works . . 50,463 37
Pine Grove
cemetery . $4,423.37
Valley ceme-
tery . 1,300.00
5.723-:W
city scales . . 487.45
street depart-
ment teams $2,700.69
fire departm't
teams . 4,699.47
7,400. 16
428.75
MISCELLANEOUS.
Rei cived from tuition
land sold
^1,747-50
premium on
bonds
5,670 00
judgment
recovered
2,500.00
other miscel-
1 a n e u s
sources
3S2.80
unpaid bills
covered
into treas'y
678.95
10,979.25
Received from bridges . . . 434 09
temp o r a r y
loan . $100,000.00
water bonds
re-funded 100,000.00
cemet'y b'ds 2,900.00
202,900.00
Total amount of receipts for the year 1890 $766,281.92
$846,131.25
366
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
EXPENDITURES.
1S90.
Paid interest on water bonds
$34,177.00
interest on city bonds
15,771.00
interest on cemetery bonds .
567-50
interest on temporary loan .
555-57
$51,071.
07
funded debt, water bonds of July
i> 1874
199,900.00
temporary loan of 1890
100,000.00
199,900
00
printing and stationery
$2,058.18
incidental expenses
17,380.91
mayor's incidentals
188.00
city officers' salaries
13,489.41
city hall . . . . .
2,741.79
35,85s
.29
Paid for street and sewer department :
on thirteen highway districts
$21,045.45
new highways
9,075.61
land damages
858.16
sprinkling . . . .
7>593-oo
•
paving . . . .
6,633.75
macadamizing
20,925.52
grading for concrete
5,089.86
scavenger teams
15,958.46
street sweeping
1,237.08
lighting streets
41,099.64
bridges . . . .
3,879.68
city teams . . . .
5,246.19
sewers and drains .
39,297-97
177,940
37
Paid for engineers' department
3,221
89
health "
i>557
38
School department :
Paid for repairs on schoolhouses .
$4,119.76
fuel . . . .
3-703-32
MUNICIPAL EXPENDITURES.
867
Paid for furniture and supplies .
$575-15,
books and stationery
141-35
printing and advertising
389-05
contingent expenses
830.10
care of rooms
3>376-75
evening schools
1,254.81
teachers' salaries
45,404.87
school committee and truant
officer . . . .
1,020.00*
superintendent's salary .
2,000.00*
evening schools, mechanical
drawing . . . .
694.89
free text-books
9,005.11
$72,
515-^6
Paid for city library, maintenance
$3,239.88
books .
1,000.00
4,
239.88
Paid for fire department
$41,409-53
fire-alarm telegraph
1,585-43
hydrant service
18,080.00
61,
074.96
Paid for police department .
37
,096.16
Public buildings :
Paid for repairs . . . . .
$4,443-87
new city stables
5,994.02
new schoolhouse (Varney)
43,704.11
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142. 00
Paid for water-works, maintenance
$22,088.82
construction
11,314.87
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Public places :
dd on commons ....
$4,214.03
Stark monument square, main-
tenance ....
60.75
Stark monument square, land
8.000.00
Pine Grove cemetery
5'Oi7-54
* {3,020 deducted from city officers' salaries and added to school department.
368 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid on Valley cemetery
^2,789.86
Amoskeag cemetery , .
60.35*
$20,142.53
Charity, philanthropy, patriotism :
Paid for paupers off the farm
^4,336.46
city farm ....
7.467-30
Women's Aid and Relief So-
ciety .....
400.00
free beds, Elliot Hospital
600.00
Woman's Mercy Home
500.00
indigent soldiers .
737.82
decoration of soldiers' graves .
374-27
14,415.85
Total expenditures for the year 1890 . . $766,579.23
Cash on hand December 31, 1890 $134,594.99
Less amount of bill unpaid . . . 55,042.97
Net cash on hand January i, 1891 . . . 79,552.02
-131-25
* $60.35 taken from incidental expenses account and added to Amoskeag cemetery.
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INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $15,000.00
RECEIPTS.
Received from Western Union Telegraph
Company, in settlement of suit $2,500.00
from E. P. Johnson, for chop-
ping block . . , . 1.50
from Edward Wagner, first pay-
ment for land . . . 100.00
from Edward Wagner, balance
for land .... 1,275.00
from F. O. Clement, for old iron 1.79
from Charles W. Strain, on ac-
count of land . . . 50.00
from Timothy Shea, first pay-
ment for land . . . 100.00
from Timothy Shea, balance for
land ..... 212.50
from Matthew McDonald, on
account of land . . . 10.00
4,250.79
Transferred from reserved fund . . $2,293.20
'' " '^ " . . 1,724.46
4,017.66
Balance overdrawn, paid from money not otherwise
appropriated ....... 254.40
$23,522.85
EXPENDITURES.
FOR RETURN OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES.
Paid O. D. Abbott .... $10.00
D. S. Adams .... 4.00
E. Bernier ..... 8.50
C. W. Downing .... 6.75
E. B. Dunbar .... 3.25
374
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
id C. E. Dodge
^24.25
C. W. Dodge
5-25
C. M. Dodge
5.00
L. French
9-25
L. M. French
1S.25
L. B. How .
3-75
William Holland
•50
J. A. Jackson
12.00
M. G. Kean .
IO-75
N. P. Kidder, 9 28 deaths at 15c.
139.20
N. P. Kidder, 873 births at 15c.
130-95
N. P. Kidder, 512 marriages at 15c
76.80
J. S. Mahoney
2-75
J. E. Laiiouette
38-75
J. W. D. MacDonald .
27-75
Jacob W. Mooar .
I. DO
George W. Nutter
27.50
J. E. E. Roy
3-5°
C. B. Sturtevant .
3-75
E. Sylvain ....
25-75
J. Sullivan ....
29.50
Thomas Wheat
8.50
Charles F. Flanders
21.75
John Ferguson
33-50
Georgianna Wilsor
.
■25
.70
LABOR OF MEN AND TEAMS, DISTRICT NO. 2., AS PER PAY-ROLLS.
Paid, January .
$50.00
February
28.93
March . . . .
21.00
April . . . .
28.50
May . . . .
45-93
June
105.49
July . . . .
350.18
August . . . .
574-13
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, 375
Paid, September ..... $153.61
October . . . . . 301-72
November ..... 1 8 1.63
December . . . . . 76.11
DISTRICT NO 10.
Paid, November .....
DAMAGES AND JUDGMENTS.
Paid Samuel Amsden, damage to house by
blasting ..... $3-oo
Joseph Allen, injuries at the city farm 20.00
Sarah B. Bean, on execution . . iS.ii
Sarah B. Bean, on execution . 2,487.88
Michael Burns, damage to person on
Cedar street .... 150.00
W. B. Corey & Co., damage to team 23.59
Mary Carey, damage to person on
Chestnut street .... 300.00
Margaret Kelley, on execution . 257.12
Mary Kildea, on execution . . 713-30
J. B. Moore, changing grade of
highway .... 300.00
Clara Moore, on execution . . 1,303.94
Clara Moore, on execution . . 23.59
Florence O'Leary, damage to per-
son ...... 700.00
Orrin River, damage to wagon . .75
George S. Smith, four sheep killed
by dogs ..... 12.00
Charles F. Read, damage to horse 75-oo
Luther W. Hall, on execution . 548.09
M. E. Kean, for attendance on Po-
lidor Beausoliel . . . 30.00
;i,9i7.23
5,966.37
376 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
LEGAL EXPENSES.
Paid D. S. Adams, services, expenses,
etc., in Moore and Kildea cases. $137.00
J. F. Briggs, services and expenses,
Manchester 7's. Western Union
Telegraph Company . . 40.00
Campbell & Williams, printing note
and letter heads for the city so-
licitor ..... 5.15
John F. Cassidy, expenses to Frank-
lin, N. H., and summoning wit-
nesses at Franklin . . ' . ly-S?
James M. Collity, expert services,
etc. ..... 60.00
James M. Collity, medical attend-
ance on Erwin Hill . . . 30.00
Hillsborough County Commission-
ers, services hearing L. W. Hall
vs. Manchester . . . 71 -45
Hillsborough County Commission-
ers, services in the road hearing
of the P. C. Cheney Co., and
others ..... 339-8o
J. G. Hutchinson, witness fees and
services in summoning same, in
Bean case .... 8.79
J. G. Hutchinson, witness fees and
services in Moore vs. Manches-
ter 17.74
J. G. Hutchinson, serving notices,
and expenses. Parsons case . 8.10
Warren Harvey, seven and one half
days' service and team, in Goffs-
town road case . . . 39'00
D. F. Healy, services and witness
fees, Kildea vs. the City of
Manchester . . . . 5.22
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 377
Paid W. H. Hackett, clerk U. S. cir-
cuit court, fees in Western Un-
ion Telegraph case . . . $6.00
E. F. Jones, cash paid T. D. Luce,
copy 4-5°
E. F. Jones, expenses in L. W.
Hall case . • . . . . 3.06
James Brothers, horse and buggy . 2.00
E. T. James, horse and buggy for
solicitor ..... 3.00
E. T. James, horse and buggy for
C. H. Reed .... 5.00
George A. Lovejoy, witness fees . 1.37
A. J. Mayhew, witness fees . . 1.37
E. F. McQueston, services in Bean
case . . . . . 65.00
C. H. Reed, services in Goffstown
road hearing .... S5.50
C. H. Reed, teams of E. T. James,
Goffstown road hearing . . 11 .00
C. H. Reed, five days' service in
Moore vs. Manchester
C. H. Reed, two days' services in
matter of sheep killing
Town of New Boston, fees, etc., in
P. C. Cheney Company road
hearing . . . • .
Town of Goffstown, fees, etc., in
P. C. Cheney road hearing
Town of Weare, fees, etc., in P. C.
Cheney road hearing
W. W. Wilkins, services, etc., in
Clara Moore case
W. W. Wilkins, services, etc , in
Mary Kildea case
Harry S. Lovering, deposition, in
case of Golden 71s. Manchester .
11.25
4-5°
26.05
2574
21.52
60.00
35-00
4.00
378 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid David Perkins, services in relation
to Cypress street . . . $10.00
C. C. Harriman, services in the
matter of Cypress street . . 15-24
CITY COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES.
Paid C. H. Simpson, use of hack for
inspectors in posting check-lists $3-00
Hattie E. Daniels, for typewriting 2.89
H. W. Herrick, work and expense
on drawing of city hall . . 17.00
E. T. James, for carriage hire . 16.00
James Brothers, carriage hire . 75 -oo
New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co 51-44
George VV. Reed, hack hire . 10.00
J. A. Shatswell, i vol. encyclo-
pedia of law. Mayor's office . 6.00
U. D. Tenney, varnishing portrait
of Gen. Stark .... i.oo
E. V. Turcotte, hacks . . . 10.00
Guy F. Whitten, teams in 1889 . 12.00
Whitten & Fifield, carriage hire . 110.25
Whitten & Fifield, carriage hire . 21.50
James Brothers, horse and buggy,
city messenger . . . 6.50
James Brothers, horse and buggy,
Mayor to city farm ... 3.50
James Brothers, two hacks, com-
mittee on streets . . . 10.00
E. T. James, two hacks, commit-
tee on streets .... 10.00
E. T. James, two hacks, committee
on lighting streets . . . 10.00
E. T. James, horse and buggy, to
lower cemetery . . . 2.00
U, 181. 22
$37808
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 379
EXPENSES OF THE CITY LIBRARY.
Paid Thomas A. Lane, labor and ma-
terial for the city library .
D. A. Simons for one table .
John A. Barker, care of boiler at
city library ....
Henry Parker, work on and around
city library ....
Robert Clark, work on and around
city library . . . . 39-25
^I,
,80
2,
75
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.00
DISEASED CATTLE, ETC.
Paid D. C. James, examination of Cole's
horse . . . . . . $2.00
Maxwell & Campbell, isolating and
killing diseased cattle . . 38-5°
James Bros., examining Chenette's
horse . . . . . 2.00
J. Blakely, visit and opinion on
Chenette's horse . . . 5.00
J. L. Golden, examination of Che-
nette's horse .... 2.00
Wm. E. Moore, printing blank
forms, diseased cattle . . 12.00
Jabez Alexander, examination of
diseased horses . . . 2.00
Jabez Alexander, horse and expense
for team . . . . 6.00
Jabez Alexander, expense and ap-
praisal, horse of Henry Cole . 4.00
George H. Bailey, V. S., for ser-
vices ..... 50.00
Henry Cole, killing and burying
horse ..... 3.00
$182.30
380 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid James Cavanaugh, examination
and appraisal of horse of Henry
Cole ..... ^2.00
H. Fox Davis, et al, fees as aprais-
ers of C. H. H. horse . . 6.00
Mrs. H. L. Robinson, value of
horse killed .... 50.00
Dr. F. I. Smith, four days/ expert
service and expenses . . 46.50
D. C. Whittemore, examination of
Lovering's horse . . . 3.00
James B. Straw, expenses to Con-
cord to see state treasurer . . 1.28
Tom W. Robinson, services as ap-
praiser of diseased cattle at the
State Industrial School . . 5.00
Robert E. Wheeler, killing dis-
eased cattle at the State Indus-
trial School . . . . 10.00
Robert E. Wheeler, appraising and
killing diseased cattle at Rowell's 2.00
Robert E. Wheeler, appraising and
killing diseased cattle at J. O.
Clark's ..... 2.00
Robert E. Wheeler, killing dis-
eased cattle at the State Indus-
trial School . . . . 3.00
Robert E. Wheeler, appraising and
killing diseased cattle at J. O.
Clark's ..... 2.00
F. I. Smith, one and one half days'
■ service at the State Industrial
School, hotel and R. R. expense i?-5o
H. Fox Davis, services as apprais-
er, Frank Hutchinson's cattle,
et al . . . . . 5- 00
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 381
Paid H. Fox Davis, services as apprais-
er at J. O. Clark's . . . $5-oo
H. Fox Davis, services as apprais-
er at C. W. Rowell's . . 5.00
Benjamin C. Dean, one cow killed,
appraised at . . . . ' 43-33
J. Blakely, V. S., visit to C. H.
Hutchinson's horse, glanders . 5.00
J. A. Alexander, V. S., services as
examiner, appraiser, etc., at State
Industrial School . . . 52.00
J. Alexander, V. S., services as
examiner, appraiser, etc., of
Rowell's, Clark's, Quimby's,
Preston's, and Weber's cows and
oxen, at State Industrial School
J. Otis Clark, two cows killed
Robert J. McGuire, examining
diseased cattle of O. Clark
C. W. Rowell, 2 cows killed
29
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70.
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CITY SCALES.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., fuel for city
scales ..... ^12.00
J. S. Paige, salary as weigher . 151-09
J. B. Varick Company, 2 pad-
locks . . . . . 1.50
Frank H. Crawford, .salary as
weigher 73.32
William Bailey, salary as weigher 75-56
Pike & Heald, stove and stove-
pipe, etc., city scales . . 13-88
MILK INSPECTOR.
Paid Daily Press Publishing Company,
advertising milk inspector's no-
tice ..... $8.67
i577-ii
^327-35
382 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid C. B. Littlcfield, for milk inspec-
tor's tools .... $16.15
C. B. Littlefield, for one year's ser-
vices, 1889 .... 150.00
L. B. Bodwell, wood for city scales 3.25
J. Frank Robinson, microscopic
examination of milk . . 16.00
John B. Clarke, advertising notice
of milk inspector, four squares,
one week . . . . 9.00
RELATING TO THE STREETS.
Paid Temple & Farrington Company,
1889, six time-books for Dist. 2 10.70
pens, paper,rubber,ink, etc., Dist. 2 10.99
J. B. McCrillis & Son, sharpening
tools, repairing cart, etc., Dist. 2 2.15
Temple & Farrington Company,
pens, paper, and time-books . 9.95
Concord Railroad, freight of desk .70
W. P.Goodman, stationery . 3.25
Thomas A. Lane, 23 heavy dippers,
for watering troughs . . . 4.60
Thomas A. Lane, 38-foot chain, for
watering trough . .. . .76
Thomas A. Lane, labor, two men
seven hours, for watering trough 3.50
Thomas A. Lane, labor on two gas
lanterns, Elm back street . . .60
Thomas A. Lane, repairing watering
trough, Amoskeag . . . 1.88
Thomas A. Lane, labor on watering
trough, Bakersville . . . 1.65
Thomas A. Lane, i double swing
heavy bracket . . . . 2.00
Thomas A. Lane, labor . . . 1.65
Thomas A. Lane, pipe, fittings, etc. .90
$203.07
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 383
Paid W. H. Vickery, i spring lock and
keys, District No. 2 . . . $'^■^5
Water-Works, water for troughs . 796.50
T. A. Lane, labor on trougli, Ba-
kersville ..... .40
Hartford S. B. Inspection &: Insur-
ance Co. for insurance on boiler
at stone crusher . . . 22.50
Warren Harvey, stone culvert across
Massabesic street, as per contract 971.00
Drake & Parker, lime and salt . 1.85
J. J. Abbott, paint and labor on
urinals and fountains . . . 7. 48
L. M. Aldrich, labor and materials,
making tree boxes and placing
them ..... 94- 41
Charles H. Robie, repair'g concrete
at Lincoln-street schoolhouse :
221.7 yards at 45 cts, ^99.76 ) ^ .
307 yards at 25 cts, 76.75 ) ' '•^
A. D. Gooden, use of water'g trough
on Park street .... 3.00
C. H. Wood, painting numbers . 1.50
Granite State Plating Co., 3,000
street numbers . . . . 135 00
George H. Holbrook, 40 days' work
on trees, from June ti to Sept. 22 100.00
George H. Holbrook, for iron rods,
washers, and trucking ladders . 3.00
F. S. Bodwell, 17}^ feet of curb-
stone* ..... 17-50
F. S. Bodwell, I step* . . 9.00
F. S. Bodwell, i step* . . . 17.00
F. S. Bodwell, 5 men setting over
steps* . . . . . 10.00
F. S. Bodwell, I load of stone* . 3.00
* At James Baldwin's house.
384 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Charles A. Bailey, 252 feet of edge-
stone, at 40 cents . . . $100. So
Charles A. Bailey, 2 circular stones,
at $3 . . . . . 6.00
curbing in front of the North
Main-street schoolhouse
Thomas A. Lane, materials and
labor in taking down and re-
building fence on Massabesic
street . . . . . 13-22
Thomas A. Lane, 190 feet Akron
pipe, 4 feet 5-in. bends, i ft. 5-
in. Y, at new city stables . . 14-07
Charles H. Robie, concrete work
around James Baldwin's resi-
' dence, sidewalk, 1,396^ square
feet; 155.16 square yards . . 69.82
Charles H. Robie, for concreting
driveways, 172.87 square yards . 112.35
ASSESSORS.
Paid J. G. Dearborn, P. M., postage
stamps . . . . . $2.00
A. J. Lane, use of transfer book . 10.00
Union Publishing Co., Assessors'
notice, 2^ squares 13 t . . i3-5o
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid George E. Morrill, collector, paid
for distribution tax bills . . ^68.28
George E. Morrill, collector, paid
Republican Press Association, for
advertising sale of non-resident
lands ..... 5.10
Union Publishing Co., advertising
tax collector's notice . , . 23.35
$2,742.44
$25.50
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 385
Paid John B. Clarke, advertising sale of
non-resident lands . . . $18.00
John B. Clarke, advertising tax col-
lector's notice . . . . 30.00
J. C. Nichols & Son, horse and
buggy 4-5°
$149-23
AMOSKEAG CEMETERY.
MEDICAL ATTENDANCE.
Paid Dr. J. F. Brown, medical attend-
ance on Mr. Savory . . . $23.75
Dr. C. W. Downing, medical at-
tendance on sundry cases . . 6r.oo
Dr. George W. Nutter, attendance
on Mr. Bugher . . . . i.oo
Dr. C. W. Downing, dressing wound
for Albert Burns, etc., James
Plumpton, extra service . . 18.75
Paid Hiram Stearns, 8 days' work at
Amoskeag cemetery . . . $12.00
R. P. Stevens & Co., resetting 20
headstones, Amoskeag cemetery 25.00
Anson McGaffey, 7}^ days cutting
grass in Amoskeag cemetery . ii-35
Water-Works, water for Amoskeag
cemetery . . . . . 12.00
POLITICAL EXPENSES.
Paid John B. Clarke, printing 472 check-
lists and warrant blanks for eight
wards $288.50
John B. Clarke, printing 800 no-
tices, etc. ..... 4.20
25
;io4.5o
>o-35
386
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., print-
ing 49 blank books for inspectors
Isaac Whittemore, services of horse
and carriage 7 days canvassing
ward 6 .
G. H. Dudley, materials and labor
in wardrooms Nos. 2 and 6
John B. Clarke, printing oaths,
posters, and voters' certificates
for inspectors of elections
John B. Clarke, printing additions
to check-lists and changes
Edwin C. Richardson, return to
city clerk and postage
E. V. Turcot te ....
L. N. Dufrain, cleaning out ward
6 wardroom ....
George H. Holbrook, labor, lum-
ber, etc., at ward 6 wardroom .
Harrison D. Lord, team to post lists
People's Gas-Light Co., gas in
wardroom, Lake Avenue .
8.75
12.32
6.50
5.00
1.30
10.00
2.50
22.43
2.00
1.68
^377-i8
PERAMBULATION OF TOWN LINES.
Paid Whitten & Fi field for team, peram-
bulating line between Manches-
ter and Goffstown, Auburn,
• Londonderry, and Bedford
Harrie M. Young, 2 days' labor
perambulating
W. H. Bennett, shoeing horse
Harrie M. Young, 3 J days peram-
bulating town lines .
W. H. Bennett, perambulating town
lines, and setting stone bounds
^8.50
4.00
2.50
6.50
34.85
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 387
Paid F. S. Bodwell, stone bounds for re-
marking town lines, $16.00;
Manchester's share , . . $7-75
CITY auditor's office.
Paid J. B. Sanborn, General and Ses-
sion Laws .... $18.25
Charles A. Hoitt & Co., for 8 chairs,
2 iron cuspidors, for auditor's
office 18.75
J. B. Varick Co., i copying-press
and stand for the auditor's office 23.50
A. E. Herrick, clerical labor for
mayor and city auditor . . 406.52
Hammond Typewriter Co., i
drop cabinet .... 20.00
Thorp & Adams Co., for i mime-
ograph ..... 29.50
Hammond Typewriter Co., mani-
fold paper, carbon, etc. . . 5.28
Keeler & Co., for i walnut desk . 50.00
Paid J. W. Williams & Co., for i cut-
out machine, treasurer's office . $20.00
Goodwin &. Mclvers, for use of
blocking under hose house . 15 00
Head & Dowst, repairs, etc., on
pest house . . . . ^3-45
B. W. Robinson, building chim-
ney at court house . . . 17-51
Gilman B. Hoyt, recording deed . i.oo
Dana W. King, abstract of titles . 5.73
John A. Barker, extra night ser-
vice December 16 and 17 . 4.00
$64.10
171.80
388
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Charles E. Lord, labor, lime, etc.,
at city stables ....
Water-Works, water for Women's
Aid Hospital, April to January
Water- Works, water for Women's
Aid Hospital ....
W. B. Corey, trucking diver's tools
Dana W. King, copying 2 deeds .
James R. Carr, setting glass .
Timothy Shea, cleaning vault
Campbell & Williams, printing
certificates, etc., for inspector
of weights and measures .
A. M. Eastman, brooms and match-
es for city messenger
John Kendall, 19 days' work,
drawing plan for city farm
buildings
Sampson, Murdock & Co., 6 maps
of Manchester for census .
G. W. Varnum, 2 days clearing up
around court house .
American Bank Note Co., furnish
ing blank water bonds
J. B. Varick Co., 41 square feet
screen cloth
First N. H. Battery, powder, etc.
Fourth of July, 1890
J. K. Rhodes, services as city mes
senger 14 days
B. W. Robinson, horse i day
D. C. Whittemore, use of land for
road . . . .
F. S. Sutclifife, use of piano and
moving same, for school festival
Simon Dodge, making guide-posts
and placing same
30-59
10.98
1.50
1.08
1. 00
3-5°
5.00
57.00
1.50
3.00
180.00
1.03
38.58
24.50
1.50
20.00
9.00
5.00
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 389
Paid town of Goffstown, tax on land . $1-67
G. F. Bosher, advertising and sell-
ing lot, corner Douglas and
West streets . . . . 25.00
G. F. Bosher, advertising and sell-
ing lot and house on Maple street 25.00
E. T. James, horse and buggy for
Reed to pond . . . . 3.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid A. R. Ingham, eleven dinners at
50c, at the laying out of the ex-
tension of the Manchester Street
Railway to the Massabesic pond 5.50
Sampson, Murdock & Co., twenty
Manchester directories . . 40.00
Mrs. E. E. Patch, tax returned,
taxed to other parties . . 5.70
G. A. Alger, tax rebated . . 87.93
George S. Clough, tax on Oberlin
Levasseus rebated, duplicate tax ^3-3^
N. P. Kidder, for making city re-
port, 1889 .... 150.00
. $840.62
Total expenditures ..... $17,441.26
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to new schoolhouse $900.00
Amount transferred to printing and sta-
tionery . . .... 1,654.09
Amount transferred to sewers and drains 2,456.04
Amount transferred to fire-alarm telegraph 29 3. 85
Amount transferred to city teams . . 47 7-6 1
Amount transferred to Mayor's inciden-
tals ....... 300.00
$6,081.59
$23,532.85
390
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
INTEREST.
Appropriation raised by tax
Transfers, Water-Works
^17,000.00
36,000.00
$53,000.00
EXPENDITURES.
Paid George B. Chandler, on tempo-
rary loan .....
George B. Chandler, on tempo-
rary loan .
Manchester National Bank, tem-
porary loan
coupons on water bonds
coupons on city bonds
coupons on cemetery bonds
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$194-45
166.67
194-45
34,177.00
15,771.00
567-50
ii,o7i.o7
1,928.93
5,000.00
TEMPORARY LOAN.
Received from National Revere bank, Boston,
Mass., on note dated May i, 1890
from George B. Chandler, or order, on
note dated May i, 1890
from George B. Chandler, or order, on
two notes dated June 14, 1890
Paid, July 11, 1890, to the National Re-
vere Bank, Boston, Mass., note
dated May i, 1890 . . . $25,000.00
$25,000.00
25,000.00
50,000.00
$100,000.00
RESERVED FUND.
391
Paid, July 1 1, 1S90, to George B. Chand-
ler, or order, note dated May
I, 1890 ..... ^25,000.00
July 14, 1890, to George B. Chan-
dler, or order, notes dated June
14, 1890 ..... 50,000.00
$100,000.00
FUNDED DEBT.
Received from water bonds re-issued
Paid water bonds redeemed . . $
balance outstanding
,900.00
100.00
$100,000.00
,100,000.00
RESERVED FUND.
Appropriation raised by tax .
,20,000.00
RECEIPTS.
Received from city scales, J. S. Paige
e^ a/.
^487-45
from show licenses, N. P. Kid-
der .....
190.50
from rent of tenements, N. P.
Kidder ....
461.63
from milk licenses, H. F. W.
Little ....
49.00
from milk licenses, C. B. Little-
field
50.00
from dog licenses, N. P.
Kidder ....
1,361.16
from billiard table licenses, N.
P. Kidder
37-50
from premium on w a t e r
bonds, N. W. Harris &
Company ....
5,670.00
392 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Received from interest on note from
J. S. Paige . . . $14-86
from unpaid bills covered
into the treasury . . 678.95
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from interest . . $1,928.93
Amount transferred from printing and
stationery ...... 795-91
Amount transferred from indigent sol-
diers . ...... 262.18
Amount transferred from interest on
taxes. ...... 34244
Amount transferred from abatement of
taxes. ...... .61
Amount transferred from Mayor's inci-
dentals 112.00
Amount transferred from funded debt . 100.00
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No, I IOO-75
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 2 252.13
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 4 .25
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 5 13-25
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 6 1.20
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 8 8.27
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 9 35.98
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. II 10.50
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 12 .20
),ooi.o5
RESERVED FUND. 393
Amount transferred from highway dis-
trict No. 13 ^5.85
Amount transferred from land taken for
highways . . . . . . 141.84
Amount transferred from bridges . . 480.72
Amount transferred from city teams . 432.11
Amount transferred from fire alarm tele-
graph ...... 21.81
Amount transferred from firemen's parade 500.00
Amount transferred from police depart-
ment ...... 843.41
Amount transferred from new city stables 5.98
Amount transferred from Water- Works . 9,711.47
Amount transferred from Stark Monu-
ment square . . . . . 39-2 5
Amount transferred from Pine Grove
cemetery . . . . . . 654.22
Amount transferred from Valley cemetery 80.59
Amount transferred from receiving tomb 399-39
;i7,28i.24
Amount transferred to balance from
money in treasury not specifically ap-
appropriated i, 9 73-45
^48,155-74
EXPENDITURES.
Paid W. C. T. U. Mercy Home .... ^500.00
Amount transferred to free beds, Elliot
Hospital ..... $600.00
Amount transferred to new city stables 6,000.00
Amount transferred to sewers and drains 5,000.00
Amount transferred to sewers and drains 10,951.58
Amount transferred to decoration of sol-
diers' graves . . . . . 74-27
Amount transferred to incidental ex-
penses ...... 4,017.66
394
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Amount transferred to macadamizing .
Amount transferred to scavenger teams
Amount transferred to street sweeping
Amount transferred to health depart-
ment ......
Amount transferred to discount on taxes
Amount transferred to highway dis-
trict No. II .
Amount transferred to new schoolhouse,
West Manchester
Amount transferred to fuel .
Amount transferred to teachers' salaries
Amount transferred to City Hall .
Amount transferred to city officers
salaries .....
Amount transferred to highway dis
trict No. 7 . . . .
Amount transferred to highway dis
trict No. lo .
Amount transferred to new highways
Amount transferred to watering streets
Amount transferred to paving streets
Amount transferred to grading for con
Crete .....
Amount transferred to lighting streets
Amount transferred to engineers' depart
raent .....
Amount transferred to fire department
Amount transferred to hydrant service
Amount transferred to repairs of build-
ings
Amount transferred to commons .
Amount transferred to paupers off the
farm ......
Amount transferred to city farm .
$2,922.52
3.958-46
37.08
13413
1,265.25
75.00
3.779-61
7-45
1,801.94
327.79
259.41
8.03
57-OI
75-6i
93.00
1.133-43
1,089.86
99.64
1.797-35
80.00
443-87
204.03
134.89
1,004.98
$47,655-74
S155-74
CITY HALL. 395
CITY HALL.
RECEIPTS.
Received from N. P. Kidder, rent of
stores . . . . . .$1,717.50
Received from N. P. Kidder, rent of
stores ...... 90.00
Received from N. P. Kidder, rent of
stores ...... 602.50
Received from J. P. Mullen, old carpet 4.00
$2,414.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund 327.79
EXPENDITURES.
PUBLIC COMFORT.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., for 12
sheets of sandpaper . . . $0.10
Thomas A. Lane, labor on urinal i.io
Thomas A. Lane, labor on public
comfort . . . . . 1.55
Manchester Heating & Lighting
Co., 15 pounds waste yarn . 2.25
FUEL AND LIGHTS.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co. . . $321.58
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 25 tons of
coal ..... 162.50
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 56 615-
2000 tons at $6.25 . . . 353-84
Paid G. H. Dudley, for repairing doors
at the City Hall . . . ^0.50
12,741.79
17-92
35
■35
5.00
396 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid G. H. Dudley, for two small signs ^i.
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
snow shovel ....
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
sidewalk cleaner ... .40
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
14- inch duster . . . . 1.40
Manchester Hardware Co., for
sperm oil, emery cloth, etc. . 1.23
Manchester Hardware Co., for
glass 1.26
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
16-inch ostrich duster . . 1.75
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
snow shovel ....
J. B. Varick Co., for 50 feet ^-
inch rubber hose
Thomas A. Lane, gas fixtures, etc.,
school committee room . . 18.48
Thomas A. Lane, gas fixtures, etc.,
school committee room . . 23.84
Thomas A. Lane, packing faucets,
engineer's office ... .30
Thomas A. Lane, 4 opal globes.
City Hall . . . . i.oo
Thomas A. Lane, labor on gas in
entry ..... .40
Thomas A. Lane, labor in com-
mon council room, taking down
fixtures ..... .60
Thomas A. Lane, 3 ^-inch caps .09
Thomas A. Lane, stock and labor
on City Hall . . . . .90
Thomas A. Lane, stock and labor,
common council rooms, etc. . io-37
Thomas A. Lane, labor and pack-
ing sill cock .... .45
CITY HALL. 397
Paid Thomas A. Lane, labor on water
leak ^i-oo
Thomas A. Lane, labor on closets
and material .... 4-38
Thomas A. Lane, labor on water .75
Thomas A. Lane, labor on keys,
etc 7-68
Mary Shiney, labor at the City
Hall, washing, etc., 586 hours
at 20 cents . . . . 117.20
J. J. Abbot, painting school com-
mittee room, auditor's office,
and public comfort . . . 78.27
A. M. Eastman, 6 brooms . . 1.50
A. M. Eastman, for brooms and
matches . . . . • i-8o
Flint & Little, lumber, 84 feet . 2.52
Flint & Little, hardware . . 1.72
Flint & Little, 16^ hours labor 4.62
J. W. Gould, paper hanging . 9.12
Head & Dowst, lumber, hardware,
labor, etc., school committee
room 230.62
Head & Dowst, materials and la-
bor, for table, school commit-
tee room . . . . 47-57
Thomas A. Lane, for piping water-
closet, etc., in school commit-
tee room . . . . 42 43
Keeler & Co., 2 5-foot walnut
desks, for school committee and
superintendent of District No. 2 100.00
Temple & Farrington Co., room
paper, school committee room 56.62
Weston & Hill, carpet border for
auditor's office . . . 4-o7
Weston & Hill, carpet, etc., for
school committee room . . 128.83
398
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid, carpet and rug for mayor and al-
dermen's room . . . ^ii8.88
James R. Carr & Co., setting glass r.oo
George L. Young, slate and labor 17-07
A. M. Finney, cleaning carpets 4.05
A. M. Finney, cleaning roping,
common council room . . 5-09
A. M. Finney, cleaning and lay-
ing roping . . . . 5.39
Charles E. Lord, mason work and
stock 23.75
Charles E. Lord, mason work and
stock 33.55
Water-Works, for water . . 643.80
W. H. Vickery, for keys . . 5.00
J. Y. McQueston & Co., oak desk,
city engineer's office . . 50.00
C. H. Wood, painting tin sign,
city clerk's office . . . 2.75
New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co. . . . . 6.34
New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co. (Sept.) . . . 6.^;^
New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co. (Oct.) . . . 6.34
New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co. (Dec.) . . . 6.34
Pike & Heald, 5 mops . . .69
Pike & Heald, materials and labor
on roof, water-closets, etc. . 15-97
Pike & Heald, plumbing and ma-
terials (gas) in auditor's office . ^3-43
Pike & Heald, labor on roof . 2.15
Pike & Heald, plumbing and ma-
terial . . . . . 1.77
E. J. Williams, cement, labor, etc.,
on roof ..... 7.96
PRINTING AND STATIONERY. 399
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, i window
screen, auditor's office . . $o-5o
L. K. Mead, i cake C. B. soap,
city clerk's office ... .25
L. M. Aldrich, iron work, screws,
nails, and labor . . . 1.60
J. S. Holt & Co., 30 gallons soap 3.75
George H. Holbrook, lumber on
desk, etc. .... 4.75
^1,898.87
Total expenditures ..... ^2,741.79
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . . ^1,200.00
Transferred from incidental expenses . . . 1,654.09
$2,854.09
EXPENDITURES.
ASSESSORS.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., for
blank tax books . . . $105.00
Temple & Farrington Co., pens,
penholders, ink, etc. . . 6.40
Temple & Farrington Co., 2 direc-
tories ..... 4.00
Temple & Farrington Co., i Pam-
phlet Laws .... I. GO
Temple & Farrington Co., i blank
book ..... 2.00
Temple & Farrington Co., pencils,
blotting paper, etc., . . 5.63
John B. Clarke, advertising assess-
ors' notice, 2 in. 13 times . iS-oo
$139-03
2.50
I.50
400 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CITY CLERK.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., i blank
book $13-50
Temple & Farrington Co., 500
letter heads ....
Temple & Farrington Co., i can-
vas cover ....
Temple & Farrington Co., index,
ink, etc 3.50
Temple & Farringion Co., rubber
bands, blank book, etc. . . 5.65
Temple & Farrington Co., 500 No.
9 envelopes .... 2.00'
Temple & Farrington Co., record-
books and covers . . . 19-25
Temple & Farrington Co., 2 rul-
ers, rubber bands, etc. . . 1.48
Temple & Farrington Co., rubber
bands, blanks, etc. . . . 5.39
Campbell & Williams, 50 blanks
ruled to order .... 3.50
Campbell & Williams, 600 copies
city ordinances . . . 4.50
Campbell & Williams, 3,000 blanks
for returns of deaths, etc. . 23.50
Campbell & Williams, 500 com-
missions and ordinances . . 3.75
A. S. Campbell & Co., bills of
sale, burial permits, etc. . . 7.75
A. S. Campbell & Co., dog licenses
and ordinances
A. S. Campbell & Co., printing
1,200 blanks of various kinds . 14-50
A. S. Campbell & Co., burial per-
mits, etc. .... 5.00
A. S. Campbell & Co., 200 ruled
blanks, and marriage reports . 2.75
5-25
PRINTING AND STATIONERY. 401
Paid John B. Clarke, advertisement, set-
ting fires, 9 squares, one week . $16.25
Manchester post-office, fifty postal
cards ..... .50
Pike cv Heald, 2 tin boxes . . 3.90
C. H. Wood, lettering 2 tin boxes .60
$146.52
CITY TREASURER.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., envel-
opes, etc. . . . . $4-25
Temple & Farrington Co., pay-
roll sheets .... 6.00
Temple & Farrington Co., receipt
book, pens, and rubber bands . i5-oS
Temple & Farrington Co., i blank
cash book and cover . . 7.00
Temple & Farrington Co., pay en-
velopes ..... 2.50
Temple cS: Farrington Co., pay-
rolls, etc. .... 6.75
Temple & Farrington, envelopes,
rubber bands, penholders . . 7.45
Novelty Advertising Co., i atlas
dater ..... i.oo
F. Pratt, Jr., pens and ho^Jl's 2.20
Manchester post-office, postage
stamps ..... 3.00
Thomas H. Tuson, printing 1,000
treasurer's receipts . . . 2.50
Cincinnati Ink Co. . . . .50
J. J. Jones, I improved dating
stamp ..... 4.00
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., i mem-
orandum book . . . $0'5o
$62.23
26
402 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Temple ^: Farrington Co., i tax
receipt book ....
$8-75
Temple & Farrington Co., interest
table
I. GO
Temple &: Farrington Co. . pencils
and paper ....
.70
Temple &: Farrington Co.. 6
blocks . . . . .
.50
Temple &: Farrington Co., index
and penholders
.45
John B. Clarke, printing 2,000 tax
receipts .....
20.00
John B. Clarke, 20,000 summons
20.00
Manchester post-office, i ,000
stamped envelopes .
21. Sc
AuorroR.
Paid Temple &: Farrington Co., 100
pay-roll sheets
$8.15
Temple .k Farrington Co.. 4 blank
books
4-60
Temple & Farrington Co., 50
drawers for bills . . . 21.0c
Temple & Farrington Co., i blank
book . ^^ . 9.00
Temple &: Farrington Co., pens,
ink. paper, etc. . . . 12.52
Temple & Farrington Co.. 2 Pam-
phlet Laws . . 2. CO
Temple 6c Farrington Co., copy-
books ..... 5.CC
Temple & Farrington Co., envel-
opes, mucilage, etc. . . . 4.67
Temple &: Farrington Co., blanks,
etc. ..... 9.62
Temple &: Farrington Co.. 129
ruled sheets .... 2.35
PRINTIN(; AND STATIONERY. 403
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., 500
large stamped envelopes . . Si 3.00
Temple & Farrington Co., ink, etc. .65
Temple ivr Farrington Co., station-
ery 52.40
Temple & Farrington Co., 500
ruled sheets, 2 typewriter rib-
bons, ink, pens, pencils, etc. . 8.72
John B, Clarke, blanks, bill heads,
etc. . . ... 33-00
John B. Clarke, printing 6,000
bills, 8^4 X 7, ruled to order . 27.00
John B. Clarke, printing 300 bills,
8}4 X 7, red line notice . . 4.50
John B. Clarke, printing 150 state-
ments bonded debt . . . 7.50
John B. Clarke, printing 1,000
billheads, jix8}4 • • • S.50
John B. Clarke, printing 400 lists,
wealth, debt, taxation . . 41.00
John B. Clarke, printing 500 half-
letter heads .... 2.00
John B. Clarke, printing 550
blank bills, etc. . . . 12.00
John B. Clarke, printing 500 half-
letter heads .... 1.50
John B. Clarke, printing 1,000
bill heads .... 9.00
John B. Clarke, printing 100 ap-
propriation blanks . . 6.50
Manchester Hardware Co., paper
shears, duster, etc. . . . 5.83
Novelty Advertising Co., i lever
self-inking stamp . . . 7.00
Hammond Typewriter Co., 1 type-
writer, supplies, etc. . . 100.34
404 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Hammond Typewriter Co., car-
bons, shields, blotters, etc. . ^S-oo
Hammond Typewriter Co., record
ribbon, oil ... . 1.20
Hammond Typewriter Co., envel-
opes, shields, carbon . . 3.50
Hammond Typewriter Co., i type-
writer brush . . . . .12
Hammond Typewriter Co., i iron
stand, I record ribbon, No. 2
type wheel, carbon paper . . 11-50
Hammond Typewriter Co., 3 reams
of paper, etc., .... 5.65
Hammond Typewriter Co., 2 type
wheels, Nos. 2 and 4 . . 10.00
Hammond Typewriter Co., 3 rib-
bons ..... 6.00
Hammond Typewriter Co., 2 reams
legal, ruled .... 2.80
Manchester post-ofifice, 150 2-cent
stamps ..... 3.00
Head & Dowst, materials and labor
on bill case . . . . 16.97
Thorp & Adams Manufacturing
Co., I desk rack . . . 2.00
Albert Hilcken, i blank book . 5.00
Albert Hilcken, i blank book . 5.00
Albert Hilcken, i portfolio . . 2.50
SUNDRIES.
Paid John B. Clarke, printing 1,500 city
reports, etc $632.60
John B. Clarke, printing 1,000
half-letter circulars, scavenger . 4.50
John B. Clarke, printing 100 half-
letter circulars, on card . . .75
^499-59
PRINTING AND STATIONERY. 405
Paid John B. Clarke, printing, advertis-
ing water-works bonds [7 sq. 4 1.] $1 1-75
John B. Clarke, printing, advertis-
ing scavenger ordinance . . 28.83
John B. Clarke, printing, adver-
tising amendment to chapter 14
[4^ in. 3t & I taw] . . 11-50
John B. Clarke, printing, advertis-
ing amendment to chapter 6 [4}^
in. I taw] . . . . ii'iS
John B. Clarke, printing, advertis-
ing ordinances [38 in. 3 t] . 58-5°
John B. Clarke, binding 12 re-
ports, Morocco . . . 36.00
John B. Clarke, binding 34 re-
ports, half-roan, lettered on side 51-00
John B. Clarke, binding 54 re-
ports, half-roan, seal on side . 67.50
John B. Clarke, printing, advertis-
ing proposals for city stables . 9.00
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising ordinances, i column 3 w. 20.00
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising ordinances 3 Sat. . . 12.00
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising proposals, city stables i w 7.50
Union Publishing Co., advertising
proposals, city stables . . 10.50
Union Publishing Co., advertising
amendments to ordinances i col.
3 t . . . . . . 60.00
Union Publishing Co., advertising
garbage team service, 8 sq. 3 t . 16.00
Union Publishing Co., advertising
bond sale, 4 sq. 4 t. . . . 10.00
Union Publishing Co., advertising
proposals for sewer pipe . . i5-oo
406
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. G. Ellinwood, photographing
buildings for city report, 1890 .
William E. Moore, printing labels
for photographs
H. W. Herrick, labor and materials
mounting- . . , ,
Total amount of expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$39-5°
3-50
20.00
$i:i37-o8
$2,058.18
795-91
MAYOR'S INCIDENTALS.
Amount transferred from incidental expenses .
EXPENDITURES.
$2,854.09
SUNDRIES.
Paid H. Giebel, decorating City Hall,
St. John's Day
Whitten & Fifield, hacks
John B. Clarke, advertising, Law-
rence sufferers ....
John B. Clarke, 500 envelopes
D. B. Varney, telephone, extra, to
Lawrence ....
telegram to Dr. Bailey
paid use of team for the year 1890
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising, Lawrence sufferers .
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$30.00
15.00
4-5°
1. 00
•25
•50
133.00
3-75
; 1 88.00
112.00
CITY officers' salaries. 407
CITY OFFICERS' SALARIES.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $15,500.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . $259.41
from truant officer . . 750.00
EXPENDITURES.
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Paid David B. Varney, mayor . . $1,800.00
Nathan P. Kidder, city clerk . 900.00
Sylvan us B. Putnam, city treasurer 1,200.00
James B. Straw, city auditor . 980.56
Edwin F. Jones, city solicitor . 745 00
Jesse B. Pattee, clerk of the com-
mon council .... 200.00
Inspector of Buildings T. W. Lane 100.00
City Messenger John A. Barker . 699.96
City Messenger John A. Barker,
extra services .... 4.00
MODERATORS.
Paid S. P. Cannon, ward i, 1889 and
1890 $3-oo
N. Nichols, ward 2, 1889 and 1890 3.00
Lyman W. Colby, ward 3, 1889
and 1890 .... 3-00
John C. Bickford, ward 4, 1S89
and 1890 .... 3.00
J. J. McAllister, ward 5, 1889 and
1890 ..... 3.00
Clarence D. Palmer, ward 6, 1889
and 1890 .... 3.00
1,009.41
$16,509.41
$6,629.52
408
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Ira W. Stearns, ward 7, 1889 ^'""^
1890 ..... $3-oo
John W. Wilson, ward 8, 1S89
and 1890 .... 3.00
WARD CLERKS.
§24.00
Paid Frank X. Foster, ward i, 1890
D. C. Smith, ward 2, 1889 and
1890 .....
F. O. Moulton, ward 3, 1889 and
1890 .....
E. L Richardson, ward 4, 1889
and 1890 ....
Thomas Howe, ward 5, 1889 and
1890 .....
Wm. H. Sleeper, ward 6, 1889 and
1890 .....
Fred W. Pillsbury, ward 7, 1889
and 1890 ....
Charles G. Ranno, ward 8, 1889
and i8qo ....
$5.00
^75-oo
INSPECTORS OF CHECK-LIST.
Paid Wm. B. Stearns, ward i, 39 days
at $2.25 ....
I87.75
B. L. Hartshorn, ward 2, 35 days
at ^2.25
78.75
D. 0. Furnald, ward 3, 30 days at
$2.25
67.50
H. D. Lord, ward 4, 64 days at
^2.25
144.00
M. F. Lawler, ward 5, 30 days at
$2.25
75.00
Isaac Whittemoie, ward 6, 57 days
^t$2.25
128.25
CITY officers' salaries. 4.09
Paid "Jos. A. Foster, ward 7, 34 days at
^2.25 $576-50
Charles C. Tinkham, ward 8, 49
days at $2.25 .... 110.50
Arthur Provost, as interpreter, 7
days at $2.00 . . . . 14.00
SUPERVISORS.
Paid Wm. C. Knowlton, ward i, 4
days at $1.75 .... $7-oo
F. W. McKinley, ward i, 4 days
at ^1.75 7-00
Fred C. Hale, ward 2, 4 days at
$1-75 7-00
John Dowst, ward 2, 4 days at
$1-75 7-00
H. F. W. Little, ward 3, 3 days at
$1.75 5-25
D. H. Young, ward 3, 3 days at
$1-75 5-25
Charles H. Uhlig, ward 4: 5 days
at $1.75 8-75
Charles H. Flagg, ward 4, 5 days •
at $1.75 8.75
John J. Minton, ward 5, 6 days at
$1-75 ^°-5o
J. H. Slater, ward 5, 6 days at
$1-75 10-50
J. S. Hutchinson, ward 6, 6 days
at $1.75 10.50
Wm. C. Blodgett, ward 6, 6 days
at $1.75 10.50
W. T. Payne, ward 7, 4 days at
$1-75 7-00
John W. Davis, ward 7, 3}^ days
at $1.75 6.13
32.25
410 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John Martin, ward 8, 7^4 days at
$i-75 $13-12
Charles H. Hodgman, ward 8, 7^
days at ^1.75 . . . . 13-12
SELECTMEN.
Paid Lees Ward, ward i, 1889 and 1890 $5-o°
George C. Kemp, ward i, 18S9
and 1890 ..... 5.00
Amasa S. Hilands, ward i, 1889
and 1890 .... 5-co
D. G. Andrews, ward 2, 1889 ^'""^
1890 ..... 5.00
C. R. Holbrook, ward 2, 1889 and
1890 ..... 5.00
Harry P. Ray, ward 2, 1889 and
1890 ..... 5.00
David Thayer, ward 3, 1889 '^^^'^
1890 ..... 5.00
Charles F. Garland, ward 3, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
Wm. H. Darling, ward 3, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
George E. Richards, ward 4, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
J. F. Gillis, ward 4, 1889 and
1890 ..... 5.00
J. H. Mann, ward 4, 1889 and
1S90 ..... 5.00
Martin J. Harney, ward 5, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
Charles J. Woods, ward 5, 1889
and 1890 . . . . 5.00
Patrick C. Campbell, ward 5, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
$137-37
CITY officers' salaries.
411
Paid George B. Rogers, ward 6, 1889
and 1890 .... $5-oo
Jerome B. Titus, ward 6, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
P. D. St. Germain, ward 6, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
George D. Smith, ward 7, 1889
and 1890 .... 5.00
S. F. Claflin, ward 7, 1889 and
1890 5-00
W. D. Wheeler, ward 7, 1S89 and
1890 S-oo
H. J. Hatch, ward 8, 1889 and
1890 5.00
Victor Sancoucie, ward 8, 1889
and 1890 ..... 5.00
Jos. A. Heon, ward 8, 18S9 and
1890 2.50
Jerome B. Titus, selectman, for
year ending January i, 1890 . 2.50
W. H. Sleeper, clerk, for year end-
ing January i, 1890 . . 5.00
overdraft ..... 60.50
$185.00
CITY PHYSICIAN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Paid C. W. Downing, city physician .
D. B. Varney, chairman, ex officio
William H. Maxwell, ward i
Thomas L. Quimby, ward 2
James Sutcliffe, ward 3
Benjamin F. Garland, ward 3
George S. Holmes, ward 4 .
Thomas H. Mahoney, ward 5
Charles Francis, ward 6
David W. Anderson, ward 7
Horatio Fradd, ward 8
)200.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
6.25
18.75
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
412
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid William H. Maxfield, clerk . . $75-oo
Judith Sherer, matron at the pest-
house for year 1890 . . . 360.00
Judith Sherer, matron at the pest-
house I month, December, 1889 30.00
SCHOOL OFFICERS AND BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Paid William E. Buck, superintendent
of schools ....
Samuel Brooks, truant officer
D. B. Varney, chairman, ex officio
C. H. Manning, ward i
J. L. Sanborn, ward i .
Benjamin C. Dean, ward 2 .
William C. Clarke, ward 2 .
Nathan P. Hunt, ward 3
James E. Dodge, ward 3
Stephen B. Stearns, ward 4 .
John F. Cahill, ward 5
James P. Slattery, ward 5
F. T. E. Richardson, ward 6
Charles G. Dodge, ward 6 .
Edward B. Woodbury, ward 7
Marshall P. Hall, ward 7
Luther C. Baldwin, ward 8 .
William K. Robbins, ward 8
J. F. Frost, president of the com-
mon council, ex officio
James E. Dodge, clerk of school
board . . . . .
$2,000.00
750.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
TO. 00
10.00
10.00
$3,020.00
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
Paid Henry Lewis, ward i, assessor . $144.50
John E. Stearns, ward 2, assessor . 165.00
D. O. Furnald, ward 3, assessor . 705.00
CITY officers' salaries. 413
Paid H. D. Lord, ward 4, assessor . $250.00
John Ryan, ward 5, assessor . 165.00
George H. Dudley, ward 6, assessor 410.00
A. J. Dickey, ward 7, assessor . 142.50
Frank T. Provost, ward 8, assessor 147-50
E. W. Brigham, assistant assessor 257.50
P. A. Devine, assistant assessor . 25.00
W. G. Furnald, assistant assessor . 102.50
Hiram Forsaith, assistant assessor 57-5°
Nicholas Nichols, assistant assessor 287.50
H. F. Stone, assistant assessor . 30.00
Isaac Whittemore, assistant assessor 45-oo
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
Paid Joseph Z. A. Adam, interpreter . 20.00
C. A. U. Ouillet, interpreter . 30.00
Isaac Whittemore, 13 days, horse
and carriage at $1.25 . . 16.25
John E. Stearns, 3 days, horse and
carriage at $1.25 . . . 3.75
D. O. Furnald, expenses to C^lon-
cord two limes . . . 1.44
CITY WEIGHER.
CITY TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid George E. Morrill, quarter ending
February 28, 1890 . . . $200.00
George E. Morrill, quarter ending
June I, 1890 .... 200.00
George E. Morrill, balance of sal-
ary as collector of taxes for year
1889 ..... 850.00
George E. Morrill, commission on
old taxes . . • . . . ^°-33
$3005-94
Paid Jonathan S. Paige, 3 months' salary, from Jan.
I to March 31, 1890 ...... $100.00
414 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid George E. Morrill, 6 months' sal-
ary, ending November 30, 1890 $400.00
$1,660.33
$16,509.41
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. i.
Appropriation raised by tax .... $300.00
EXPENDITURES.
Paid J. C. Ray, labor of men and teams.
State Industrial School . . $130.50
J. C. Ray, 2g3/^ days services as
road surveyor . . . . 59-5°
. $190.00
Paid J. C. Ray, 35 loads of gravel at
15 cents ....
J. C. Ray, 12 posts at 15c. .
J. C. Ray, 135 feet of lumber
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
HIGHWAY DISTRICTS NOS. 2 AND t,
Appropriation raised by tax
RECEIPTS.
Received from George W. Weeks
Received from Warren Harvey, use of
derrick ......
$5-25
1.80
2.20
9-25
$199-25
100.75
$300.00
2 AND
■^
$
12,000.00
$30.00
30.00
$:
60.00
12,060.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICTS NOS. 2 AND 3.
415
EXPENDITURES.
Paid pay-roll, labor of men and teams
for the month of January .
for the month of February
for the month of March
for the month of April
for the month of May
for the month of June
for the month of July
for the month of August
for the month of September
for the month of October
for the month of November
for the month of December
William Sanborn for November and
December 1889, ^"^ January
1890 .....
in district prior to February, 1890 :
Edward N. Baker superintend-
ent, for 25 days labor .
H. C. Dickey, 6 days labor, at
^1-50
A. McDougal, self and two-horse
team .....
Martin Fitzgerald, labor of self
et al. as stonecutters, at sundry
places, as per bill (cesspool
stone, etc.) ....
;^56o.23
619.72
714.98
1,035.65
859.67
804. II
971.92
864.68
1,163.07
869.46
755-58
1,449.80
300.00
50.00
g.oo
32.00
73-40
ill, 097. 27
Paid J. Hadlock, for road machine . $16.50
J. B. Varick, brackets, waste basket,
etc. . . . . . 1.27
$!•
08
'75
I.
25
•50
II
.00
5
.00
I
•25
416 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. B. Varick, 21^^ pounds steel
crow bar ....
J. B. Varick, i No. 8 plow cleaver
y, B. A^arick, blacksmith's hammer
J. B. Varick Co., for i fiber pail .
J. B. Varick Co., for i dozen shovels
J. B. Varick Co., for i dozen street
hoes .....
J. B. Varick Co., for i set of stencil
figures and letters
J. B. Varick Co., for i dozen Ames
round point shovels . . 11.00
J. B. Varick Co., for 3 i6-toolh
steel rakes . . . . 1.50
J. B. Varick Co., for J^ dozen
Ames L. H. Rd. Pt. shovels . 4.00
J. B. Varick Co., for pail and dipper .80
J. B. Varick Co., for one dozen
street hoes . . . . 5.50
J. B. Varick Co., for i 14-inch
Wilder thermometer . ■ . i.oo
J. B. Varick Co., for i broom . .25
Killey & Wadleigh, for i dozen
square pointed shovels . . 10.00
Killey & Wadleigh, for J dozen
round point shovels . . . 5.25
Killey &: Wadleigh, for i T square .50
Killey & Wadleigh, for i dozen
O. H. Shovels .... 10.00
Killey & Wadleigh, for 2 mattocks 2.00
Killey «Sj Wadleigh, for 2 handles .40
Killey & Wadleigh, for i dozen
street brooms .... 6.00
Killey & Wadleigh, for i dozen
heavy brooms .... 4.50
■ Killey & Wadleigh, for 2 dozen
brooms ..... 12.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICTS NOS. 2 AND 3. 417
EXPLOSIVES.
50
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, for i dozen
hoes .....
Killey & Wadleigh, for i dozen
snow shovels . . . . 3.50
Killey &r Wadleigh, for 2 dozen oak
pick handles . . . . 1.13
John B. Varick, tools . . . 8.13
Manchester hardware Co., for 112-
tooth steel rake ... .40
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
pair of shears .... i .00
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
basket ..... 1.50
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
dozen pick handles . • . 4.00
Manchester Hardware Co., for 132
lbs. coil chain .... 7.92
Manchester Hardware Co., for 3
lanterns with red globes . . 2.10
Manchester Hardware Co., for 2
oak stable pails . . . i.oo
Manchester Hardware Co., for i 2-
foot rule ..... .40
Manchester Hardware Co., for 2
mattocks ....
Manchester Hardware Co., for 5
scoop handles ....
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
scythe and snath
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
stone .....
1.50
Paid J. B. Varick Co., for powder . ^7-02
J. B. Varick Co., for fuse . . 1.78
J. B. Varick Co., for 504-foot fuse 1.50
5153-73
$10.30
27
418 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUNDRIES.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., on Vine
street . . . . . $61.60
John J. Bell, rent of office . . 58.00
Thomas A. Lane, fountain in Dean
avenue ..... .60
Thomas A. Lane, gas light. Elm
back street . . . . i.io
Thomas A. Lane, pipe and fittings 8.87
Thomas A. Lane, labor on lantern,
back of engine-house . . .25
J. B. Varick Co., for 15 pounds of
wire spikes .... .53
J. B. Varick Co., for bolts . . .25
J. B. Varick Co., for 2^ gallons of
kerosene oil . . . . .30
J. B. Varick Co., for hardware . 8.80
J. B. Varick Co., for y^ dozen
Belknap axle paste . . . 1.20
Killey & Wadleigh, i bottle of
glue . . . . . .12
Killey & Wadleigh, bolts, wire,
tallow, etc. .... .39
Killey & Wadleigh, for sponges . .50
Killey &: Wadleigh, for 5 pounds
glass and putty ... .40
Manchester Hardware Co., for
leather washers, axle grease, and
road machinery steel
Manchester Hardware Co., for 64
pounds I -inch oct. cast steel
Manchester Hardware Co., for 15
pounds 4-penny nails at 3^
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
ball of twine ....
Manchester Hardware Co. for wire,
spikes, washers, etc.
68
53
50
29
HIGHWAY DISTRICTS NOS. 2 AND 3. 419
Manchester Hardware Co., for re-
pairs on curry comb . . $^■'^5
Manchester Hardware Co., for wire,
spikes, nails, etc. . . . 1.83
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
brush ..... .10
Manchester Hardware Co., for 25
pounds steel wire spikes . .88
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., for
Georgia Pine, machine, steel,
and labor, for road roller . 7.70
George W. Reif, for black walnut,
Michigan pine, and labor . . 2.56
Temple & Farrington Co., for blank
books, time books, pens, books 30-30
J. Stickney, for i pound rubber
bands . . ... . .75
Eager & Rand, for I- gross matches .14
Head & Dowst, for lumber and
labor on table . . . 19-42
Burns & Poor, for i barrel Cumber-
land coal, on Lake avenue and
Wilson streets . . . . 1.25
Boston & Maine R. R. for freight . 3.64
Manchester horse R. R. for 100
tickets ..... 4.80
E. T. James, for horse and carriage
hire ..... 40.25
Heath & Stevens, for labor and
lead, district 3 . . . 1.50
Stark Mills, for use of wagon from
July I, to August 16 .# . 20.00
Pike & Heald, for solder pail . .10
L. N. Westover .... .40
^288.66
420
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR,
BLACKSMITHING AND REPAIRS.
Paid John T. Beach, materials and labor
on tools, teams, etc.
G. H. Booth, blacksmithing
Joseph O. Tremblay .
Sanborn Carriage Co., welding 4
links in chain ....
W. H. Vickery, 4 keys, etc.
L. M. Aldrich, setting vials in
levels .....
L. M. Aldrich, filing saws [5]
Flint iS: Little, 3 glasses and repair-
ing level .....
Thomas Hickey, sharpening 2 bars
329-79
5-5°
6.60
.20
1-95
•S5
1.60
.62
.20
$47-3^
MATERIALS.
Paid D. Connor, 25 loads paving-stones
at 25 cents, for Welch avenue . $2.50
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., So
feet sheathing, 9 feet crown mold-
ing, and 13 feet clear spruce,
planed ..... 2.65
Eager & Rand, 16 gallons of oil . 2.08
Eager & Rand, 50 gallons of oil . 6.50
Eager & Rand, i box of salt . .20
Eager & Rand, 15 gallons of oil . 1.95
Eager & Rand, tallow . . . 3.25
Eager & Rand, soap . . . .15
Eager &^Rand, 5 gallons of oil . .65
Eager &: Rand, 2 dozen *»vicks . .20
Thomas L. Thorpe, 50 lbs. No. i
cop waste .... 5.00
Head & Dowst, for 442 loads of
gravel ..... 93-7°
Head (S: Dowst, 2 loads of stone . 3.50
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 4.
421
Paid F. S. Bodwell, i stone hitching
post .....
Joseph A. Poor, 40 loads of gravel
Horace Willey, labor and gravel
in widening highway
Addison Gray, 511 loads of gravel
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 510
feet spruce at ^17
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund .
$9-5°
4.00
15.00
51.10
8.67
;2io.6o
. $11,807.87
252.13
Si2,o6o.oo
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 4-
Appropriation raised by tax
EXPENDITURES.
PAY-ROLL.
Paid R. N. Whittemore, team, etc..
$415-75
Ira Moore
3.00
J. Burgess
42.75
William Buckley ....
3.00
Byron Moore ....
10.00
W. Burgess
15.00
C. C. Webster, team, etc.
8.00
Edward R. Wood
2.25
Total expenditure ....
$499-75
Balance
•25
500.00
422
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 5.
Appropriation raised by tax ....
EXPENDITURES.
Paid labor of men and teams as per pay-
roll
$6.50
Mark E. Harvey, superintendent .
70.50
Frank Platts
2.25
E. R. Hill ....
8.63
Shirley Merrill
3.00
W. P. Merrill ....
1.50
Oliver Merrill
13.12
John Kearns
3.00
Mrs. Mary Cressey
7-5°
W. W. Dickey .
7-50
E. S. Harvey
1.50
Timothy Kearns .
57-76
Henry Golden
S0.25
Charles Pierce
3-75
Charles Wheeler, as per pay-roll
6.00
TEAMS.
Paid labor of teams, as per pay-roll
$5.00
Mark E. Harvey, superintendent
1 16.00
W. W. Dickey .
41.00
C. N. Harvey
6.00
E. S. Harvey
•75
BRIDGES.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Company,
32 feet spruce joist at ^17 .
$272.76
168.75
^o-54
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 6. 423
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Company,
939 feet hemlock plank at $14 . $^3.15
J. B. Varick Company, 10 pounds
6-penny nails .... .30
$13-99
Paid Libbey Brothers. 53 loads of gravel $5 -3°
Libbey Brothers, 10 loads of gravel 1.00
Charles Wheeler, 21 loads of gravel 2. 10
Charles Wheeler, 68 loads of gravel 6.80
Mark E. Harvey, 103 loads of
gravel . . . . . 10-30
25.50
Paid J. B. Varick Company, i Doe cut-
ter point . . . . . $0.65
J. B. Varick Company, i pick-
handle ..... .20
R. W. Flanders, blacksmithing . 4.90
5-75
Total expenditures ..... ^486.75
Balance transferred to reserved fund . . . 13-25
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NUMBER 6.
Appropriation raised by tax ....
EXPENDITURES.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
A. J. Peaslee, superintendent . $107.00
Fred L. Peaslee . . . . 29.60
424
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
id Fred Keniston
^4-88
Greenleaf Coleman
13.00
I. T. Webster
7.S7
E. J. Matott
9.00
F. L. Blaisdell .
54-76
Bert Webster
6.3S
John Emerson
8.63
Jonas Tirrell
7-13
Peter Matott
7.12
H. Corning
7-87
Peter CuUom
1.50
A. CuUom .
1.50
James Lynch
1.50
Ely Gilbert .
1.50
$269.34
TEAMS.
Paid for teams, as per pay-roll
Fred I^. Peaslee .
D. H. Dickey
Greenleaf Coleman
John S. Webster .
I. T. Webster
David Dickey
^30-75
73-5°
22.00
32.00
34.00
28.31
5-25
225.81
SUNDRIES.
Paid John B. Varick Company, for i
Doe plow point, No. 3
James Morrison, sharpening picks
J. S. Webster, covering-stone for
culvert .....
Total expenditure
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$o-55
1.60
1.50
3-65
^498.80
1.20
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 7. 425
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NUMBER 7.
Appropriation rai'^ed by tax .... $1,300.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . . . S.03
^1,308.03
EXPENDITURES.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, January ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, February
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, March ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, April ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, May ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, June ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, July ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, August . . .
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, September
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, October ....
labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls, November
Paid Head & Dowst, 257 feet spruce
boards $4-ii
Paid J. B. Varick Co., 2 Doe E No.
5 plow-points . . . $i-4o
51-87
72.24
425-7.5
I84.II
294.69
6.00
"5-99
19.50
31.00
15-50
^1-238.77
426 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. B. Varick Co., 2 Doe E No. 5
plow-points . . . . $1-40
J. B. Varick Co., ^ dozen pick-
handles . . . . . T.OO
J. B. Varick Co., i barrow . . 2.00
J. B. Varick Co., 3 lanterns with
ruby globes . . . . 3.00
J. B. Varick Co., 2 ruby globes . 1.50
Killey «S: Wadleigh, i cesspool
scoop ..... .85
III. 15
Paid Charles Still, 22 loads of paving-
stone ..... $33-oo
F. S. Bodwell, I load covering-
stone ..... 3.00
^36.00
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid Welcome & Son, for blacksmithing $16.50 $16.50
SUNDRIES.
Paid John B. Varick Co., 6 pounds 10-
penny nails .... $0-15
T. A. Lane, 4 heavy dippers . .80
T. A. Lane, lo-foot chain . . .20
T. A. Lane, 3.7 feet J inch E. pipe .25
T. A. Lane, cutting . . . .10
$1-50
Total expenditures ..... $1,308.03
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 8.
RECEIPTS.
Appropriation raised by tax . ... $800.00
From Samuel G. Reed, overdraft .... i.oo
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 8.
427
EXPENDITURES
LABOR OF MEN AND TEAMS, LEVI J. PROCTOR, SUPER 'N
Paid Levi J. Proctor, superintendent
$168.50
Samuel McDonald
37.12
Robert I. Stevens
1.50
Charles E. Richardson .
10.50
J. H. Proctor
38.25
George W. Lawrence
3.00
A. J. Haselton
75.00
John Shea .
4-5°
Charles Spofford .
25.12
Elmer Reed
46.87
George Davis
10.12
John Foley .
5.62
Dennis Shea
12.75
George Spofford .
10.12
James M. Crombie
12.00
Willie Clancy
12.00
Benjamin P. Kemell
1.50
TEAMS.
Paid Levi J. Proctor, supt. .
$177.00
George Smith
23.00
Amos LaTouch ....
59.00
S. G. Reed ....
8.00
J. H. Proctor
35'Oo
Manchester Hardware Co., i E 4
plow-point ....
Manchester Hardware Co., i E 4
plow-point, with cutter
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 round
pointed shovels
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 steel
rakes .....
.70
.90
1.86
1.30
$474-47
428
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., i E 4
plow-point .... $0.70
Manchester Hardware Co., i E 4
plow point, with cutter . . .90
J. B. Varick Co., 2 bush scythes . 1.20
J. B. Varick Co., 2 14-tooth steel
rakes ..... .80
BLACKSMITHING AND SUNDRIES.
Paid H. F. Thompson, sharpening drills,
picks, etc. .... ^5'2o
Head & Dowst, 50 feet drag plank 2.00
J. B. Varick Co., 20 4)4 x }4 inch
carriage bolts .... .70
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund . . . .
110.36
$7.90
792-73
8.27
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 9.
Appropriation raised by tax .
Amount transferred from bridges
500.00
72.79
EXPENDITURES.
•
LABOR OF MEN.
Paid Alfred Boyce
$123.00
* N. W. Paige
7.00
E. Corning
55-11
L. C. Paige
2.25
G. W. Carr
9.00
Oliver Merrill
35-62
172-79
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 9.
429
Paid Luther Healey .
^24-37
William Carr
5.62
Wesley Platts
6.75
George McQueston
16.50
Mrs. Rebecca Garmon
5-25
George Dunbar .
2.50
LABOR OF
TEAMS.
Paid Alfred Boyce
$137.62
G. W. Carr
8.15
William Carr
4-05
Mrs. Rebecca Garmon .
3-75
George Dunbar .
2.50
1292.97
$156.07
Paid Manchester Hardware Co. for i ax
Manchester Hardware Co. for i
mattock and handle
Manchester Hardware Co. for 2
round-point shovels .
$0.38
.90
1.86
.14
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 5,198
feet 3-in. hemlock for bridge
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 kegs
6-penny cut spikes .
Manchester Hardware Co., barbed
wire, etc. ....
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
2.77
4.20
7.66
$84.63
$536-81
3598
172-79
430
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. lo.
Appropriation raised by tax
Amount transferred from reserved fund
^3,300.00
57-OI
$3,357-01
EXPENDITURES
LABOR OF MEN AND TEAMS.
Paid pay-roll, labor of
men and teams :
for January
^64.00
for February
124.65
for March
207.88
for x\pril
296.00
for May .
447-31
for June .
637.81
for July .
726,50
for August
253-64
for September .
184.53
for November
29.50
for December .
7113
$3,042.95
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 6 snow
shovels $1-50
Manchester Hardware Co., 9 street
hoes ...... 4.50
Manchester Hardware Co., i dozen
sledge handles .... .75
Manchester Hardware Co., 4 canal
barrows ..... 10.00
Manchester Hardware Co., tools . 8.07
Killey & Wadleigh, 6 scoop han-
dles 2.38
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 10. 431
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, i bent fork
handle $o-i5
Killey & Wadleigh, i8 hoe handles 3.75
Killey & Wadleigh, 18 Harvey's
picks ..... 19-50
Killey & Wadleigh, 4 brooms . 2.17
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 brooms . i.oo
Killey & Wadleigh, i cesspool
scoop ..... .75
Killey & Wadleigh, i dozen square-
pointed shovels . . . 10.00
Killey & Wadleigh, i padlock . .90
Killey & Wadleigh, i saw . . 2.00
J. Stickney, 2 oil suits at $2.25 . 4.50
J. Stickney, 2 rubber hats, at $0.75 1.50
A. N. Clapp, 2 ax handles . . .40
A. N. Clapp, I pail ... .10
A. N. Clapp, I ax . . . .90
A. N. Clapp, 2 pails ... .60
D. F. Cressey, i snow plow . . 5.00
George L.- Robinson, i pair pure
gum rubber boots . . . 3.25
^83.67
LUMBER, STONE, ETC.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 2,231
feet spruce plank at $17 . . ^37-93
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 1,053
feet spruce plank at $17 . . i7-9o
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 214
feet spruce boards, i x 8 at $17 . 3.64
Thomas Holbrook, for 2 So loads
of gravel at 15 cents . . 42.00
D. F. Cressey, for sharpening
picks, etc. .... 7.40
A. C. Wallace, 1,120 feet 3-in.
hemlock plank, at $14 . . 15.68
432 REPOKT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. K. McQueston, 50 loads of
gravel . . . . . $5-oo
Head &: Dowst, 194 loads of
gravel ..... 19.40
George W. Riddle, 84 loads of clay
at 17 cents .... 14.28
SUNDRIES.
$16
Paid People's Gas-Light Company . ^4-28
T. A. Lane, for 12 feet suction
hose, putting on couplings . 21.75
Manchester Hardware Co., 3 E
No. 3 plow points . . . i.So
Manchester Hardware Co., i No. 5
plow clevis .... .65
P. Duval, for filing 6 saws . . 1.20
J. F. Wyman, wood and coal . i.voo
Temple &: Farrington Co., pens
and ink ..... i9-74
A. N. Clapp, 25 pounds spikes . .80
A. N. Clapp, I gallon of oil . .15
A. N. Clapp, nails, sandpaper, etc. .39
A. N. Clapp, 2 gallons of oil . .30
A. N. Clapp, 20 spikes . . .60
A. N. Clapp, I gallon of oil . .15
Charles S. Fisher, 3 keys . . .35
J---3
§67.16
Total expenditures ... . . $3,357-oi
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 11.
Appropriation raised by tax . .... §i,oco.oo
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . 75 00
$1,075.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 11.
433
EXPENDITURES.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
January ..... $62.75
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
December
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid G. R. Person, sharpening picks
Joseph Greenwood, sharpening
picks .....
42.25
62.75
89. 00
159-75
428.00
81.50
6-75
72.25
1:6.30
3-25
11,005.00
■55
Paid Head & Dowst, 300 feet spruce
plank .....
C. H. Hutchinson, i grate, 98 lbs.
at 3 cents .....
Pettee & Adams, i bbl. N. cement
David Wells, 40 chestnut posts at
15 cents .....
2.94
1-45
6.00
$15-49
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 6
shovels .....
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 steel
rakes .....
Manchester Hardware Co., 4 picks
28
1.25
4.60
434 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 4 pick
handles ..... ^0.67
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 red
lantern globes .... .67
Manchester Hardware Co., 6 extra
pick handles .... i.oo
Manchester Hardware Co., 4 red
lantern globes .... 1.34
Manchester Hardware Co., 6 round-
point shovels .... 5.58
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
No. 8 landside D. on plow . 1.15
Manchester Hardware Co., for i
No. 8 in. coulter . . . 2.75
J. B. Varick Co., for 2 stone pick-
ers . . . . . . 1.20
J. B. Varick Co., for 3 street
brooms .....
J. B. Varick Co., 6 pick handles .
J. B. Varick Co., 6 contractor's
picks .....
J. B. Varick Co., 6 pick handles
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
1-25
1.00
5.00
1.00
$34-46
$1,064.50
• ■ •
10.50
51,075.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 12.
Appropriation raised by tax .... . $300.00
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR.
Paid city farm $ 193-75
George Greeley .... 5.25
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 13. 435
Paid Melvin Hall .... $8.00
E. Kendall 5.25
Michael Lowe .... 9.50
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 40
hours' labor on road fence . 16.00
^237.75
Paid J. H. Colburn and team . . ^16.00
James Nutt and team . . . 16.00
John Proctor and team . . 11.00
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 237
lbs. of iron, on r'd fence . . ^10. 11
Manchester Hardware Co., 3 dozen
42 X 7-16 carriage bolts . . .09
John Moss, use of watering trough
for 1889 and 1890 . . . 6.00
Palmer & Garmon, brimstone, and
labor on fence . . . . 2.85
$43.00
^19.05
Total expenditures .... . $299.80
Balance transferred to reserved fund . . . .20
HIGHWAY DISTRICT No. 13.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . $200.00
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR.
Paid J. H. Campbell . . . . $22.00
F. Jewell . . . . . 32.25
436 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. Jewell $30. 75
A. Jewell . . . . . 17-25
L. Campbell .... 3.75
Eben Carr .... 1.50
Paid H. Willey
$10.00
L. Campbell ....
28.00
A. B. Campbell ....
8.00
Mrs. J. P. Fellows
20.25
GRAVEL.
Paid H. Willey & Co., gravel
$11.00
H. Willey & Co., stone
2.00
Wm. Campbell ....
7.40
EXPENDITURES.
$107.50
$66.25
$20.40
Total expenditures .... . $194.15
Transferred to reserved fund . . . . - 5-85
$200.00
NEW HIGHWAYS.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . $9,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . 75-6i
,075.61
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-rolls, District No. 2 :
January ..... $278.49
February .... 302.42
March . . . . . 218.79
NEW HIGHWAYS.
437
April
$703-15
May
1,610.85
June
i»i33-37
July
602.92
August
286.00
September
534.49
October .
479-75
November
312.86
December
md teams, per pay-roll,
5.00
Paid labor of men i
District
April
.
175.00
August
.
75.00
October .
.
191.00
Paid labor of men
and teams, per pay-
roll, district No. lo .
829.18
5,468.09
George Whitford, building Beau-
port street on contract
Walter Neal, labor of self and four
men on fence ....
Marshall & Underbill, stone work
and filling, as per contract with
Mayor and committee on streets
26.00
150.00
$1,270.18
$676.00
Paid J. Hadlock, road-machine . . $258.00
Manchester Hardware Co., i dozen
sledge handles ... 2.25
Manchester Hardware Co., i dozen
square-point shovels . . . n-iS
Manchester Hardware Co., i black
C. wrench .... .69
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 E.
No. 5 Doe plow points . . 1.50
438 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 3 E.
No. 5 Doe plow-points . . $2.25
Killey & Wadleigh, i 15-inch
Goes screw wrench . . . i.oo
Killey & Wadleigh, i padlock . .20
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 2-galloncans .80
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 dozen pick
handles ..... 2.50
J. B. Varick Co., i dozen D. han-
dles, round-point shovels . 8.00
J. B. Varick Co., i E. No. 8 plow 18.00
J. B. Varick Co., i plow handle . .75
J. B. Varick Co., 6 No. 8 plow-
points . . . . . 5.70
J. B. Varick Co., 2 mattocks . 1.50
J. B. Varick Co., i pair dividers .40
J. B. Varick Co., 2 mattocks and
2 handles .... 2.24
J. B. Varick Co., 4J gallons ker-
osene oil . . . . .54
J. B. Varick Co., round iron steel
nails, etc. . . . . .31
J. B. Varick Co., 11 pounds Oct.
cast steel . . . . 1.65
J. B. Varick Co., i saw blade . .75
J. B. Varick Co., i Doe E. No.
8 moldboard .... 4.80
J. B. Varick Co., i Doe E. No. 8
plow-point .... .90
J. B. Varick Co.,
plow-points
J. B. Varick Co.
point shovels .
A. N. Clapp, for tools
2 Doe E. No. 5
1.50
, 6 Ames round-
4.00
ools .
3.22
$334- 60
NEW HIGHAVAYS. 439
EXPLOSIVES.
id Killey & Wadleigh, i roll blast-
ing wire .....
^0.50
Killey & Wadleigh, 9 pounds of
powder .....
1-35
Killey & Wadleigh, 150 plat, fuse
7-3°
Killey & Wadleigh, 4 pounds blast-
ing powder ....
.60
Killey & Wadleigh, 25 feet fuse .
•i.S
Killey & Wadleigh, 100 pounds
No. I forcite ....
45.00
Killey & Wadleigh, 100 pounds
No. I forcite ....
45.00
Killey & Wadleigh, forcite, powder.
and fuse ....
90.12
Killey & Wadleigh, 125 pounds
powder
1.88
Killey & Wadleigh, 100 feet W.
P. fuse
.60
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., i pair
hinges and screws, . . . $0.10
Manchester Hardware Co., i hinge,
hasp, and screws . . . .10
Killey & Wadleigh, 5 pounds of
waste ..... .50
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 gallons lard
oil ..... . 1.50
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 gallons ker-
osene oil .24
Killey & Wadleigh, i gallon ker-
osene oil . . . . . .14
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 gallons ker-
osene oil . . . . . .24
$192.50
440 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, 2 gallons ker-
osene oil .... $0.24
Killey & Wadleigh, for i^ pounds
Eagle packing .... .79
J. B. Varick Co., 35 pounds Oct.
cast steel . . . . . 5.25
J. B. Varick Co., 2 gallons ker-
osene oil .... .36
J. B. Varick Co., 2 gallons ker-
osene oil .... .24
A. N. Clapp, for oil . . . 3.03
REPAIRS.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 66J
hours' labor on road rollei . ^26.60
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 9
pounds Norway iron . . .39
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., repair-
ing copper tube . . . 1.75
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 48
feet lumber, pointed . . 1.20
Thomas A. Lane, i gauge glass and
4 packings . . . . .27
Thomas A. Lane, 12 feet, 2-inch
canvas hose, for steam drill . 5.40
Thomas A. Lane, labor, etc. . 1.98
Thomas A. Lane, 5 pounds sheet
rubber ..... 2.00
9^ pounds fine marline . . 1.73
Thomas A. Lane, 25 feet 6-inch
ply steam hose . . . 17.00
Thomas A. Lane, labor on hose
and winding .... 7.15
Thomas A. Lane, pipe, nips,
valves, etc. . . . . 5.74
George W. Rief, lumber, nails,
and labor .... 3.23
$12.73
$74-44
DAMAGES FOR LAND TAKEN FOR HIGHWAYS. 441
Paid Concord Railroad, freight on steel
edges . . . . . $0.25
Concord Railroad, freight on road
scraper ..... 6.66
Boston & Maine Railroad, freight
on spindle . . . . .55
;7.46
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid J. Tremblay, sharpening drills, etc. ^7-4o
N. Decoteau, sharpening drills, etc. 4.55
G. H. Booth, sharpening picks,
etc. ..... 4- 20
D. F. Cressey, sharpening tools,
etc 23.46
$39.61
Total expenditures ..... ^9,075.61
DAMAGES FOR LAND TAKEN FOR HIGHWAYS.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $1,000.
EXPENDITURES.
DAMAGES AWARDED BY MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Paid Daniel Fogg, land damage on
River road, Anioskeag village $9-33
William Stearns, land damage on
River road, Amoskeag village 22.50
Hiram Stearns, land damage on
River road, Amoskeag village 8.88
Martha Stearns, land damage on
River road, Amoskeag village 18.06
442
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Ruth Stearns, land damage on
River road, Amoskeag village ^40.83
Clarence Stearns, land damage on
River road, Amoskeag village 23.25
Mrs. Welch, land damage on River
road, Amoskeag village . . 36-37
James M. Webber, land damage on
River road, Amoskeag village 48-94
Henry Sachs, for land damage . 500.00
^708.16
Paid Charles N. Heald for land, as per
deed of August 15, 1890 .
Charles P. Cummings, for land
deeded to city, August 21, 1890,
and for release of same date
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$100.00
50.00
$150.00
$858.16
141.84
$1,000.00
WATERING STREETS.
Appropriation raised by tax
Amount transferred from reserved fund
17,500.00
93.00
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR OF MEN AND TEAMS.
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, district
No. 2, April
$170.00
1,593-00
WATERING STREETS.
443
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, district No. 2,
May ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, June ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, July ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, August
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, September ...
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, October
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, November .
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
2, December ...
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, April ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, May ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, June ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, July ....
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, August
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, September .
labor, as per pay-roll, district No
10, October
^193.98
232.00
840.99
487.50
341-25
71-37
III. 38
99.62
32.00
68.00
130.00
252.00
247.00
157.00
,444.09
Paid Manchester Water-Works, for water
for April .....
Manchester Water-Works, for water
for June .....
720.00
444
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Water-Works, for water
for September .... ^700.00
Manchester Water-Works . . 265.50
Manchester Water-Works . . 700.00
REPAIRS.
Paid T. A. Lane, labor on fountain,
Dean avenue .... $0.60
T. A. Lane, i coupling and labor,
watering troughs . . . 1.16
T. A, Lane, labor on stand-pipes
in April ..... 9.00
T. A. Lane, labor and materials on
watering troughs, May . . 2.89
T. A. Lane, labor and materials,
watering troughs and fountains 13-68
T. A. Lane, labor and materials,
stand-pipes .... 12.89
T. A. Lane, labor and materials,
stand-pipe, Parker street, dis-
trict 10 .... . 16.47
T. A. Lane, 8 2-inch globe valves,
district 10 .... 22.74
T. A. Lane, 2 2-inch globe valves,
district 10 .... 7.81
T. A. Lane, labor on stand-pipes,
district 10 .... 8.25
T. A. Lane, labor on fountain, dis-
trict 10 .53
T. A. Lane, piping, labor and ma-
terials, Weston & Hill fountain 12.90
T. A. Lane, labor on trough, at
Head & Dowst's . . . 1.33
T. A. Lane, labor on stand-pipe,
near Gov. Weston's house . .60
T. A. Lane, labor on stand-pipe,
Pennacook and Pine, Walnut
and Harrison .... 2.25
$3,065.50
WATERING STREETS. 445
Paid T. A. Lane, labor on Currier
fountain $0.40
T. A. Lane, labor, dippers, pipe,
etc., on watering troughs . . 11. 81
T. A. Lane, labor on watering
trough, South Manchester, etc. 3.19
T. A. Lane, 2 heavy dippers, etc. .92
T. A. Lane, labor, hemp packing
for watering troughs, etc. • 6.21
T, -A. Lane, labor, plumbing ma-
erials on watering troughs . 2.38
T. A. Lane, labor, stand-pipe . 4.10
T. A. Lane, 4 dippers and labor
on same . . . . . 1.55
T. A. Lane, labor and materials
on troughs and fountains, No-
vember 5 to 14 . . . 12.24
T. A. Lane, labor and materials
in district No. 10, November 8 7.71
T. A. Lane, labor on fountains, in
district to .... 1.05
T. A. Lane, labor and materials
on troughs and fountains . . ^3-5^
L. Wolf, repairs on watering
troughs, etc 7.70
■i Manchester Locomotive Works, i
gate dome, 98 pounds . . 2.94
Pike & Heald, 10 pounds of cop-
per, at 30 cents . . . 3.00
Pike & Heald, 4 pounds of solder,
at 20 cents .... .80
Pike & Heald, 3 leather tubes, at
$2.50 7-5°
Pike & Heald, 2 days' labor, 2
men repairing at $5.50, on
sprinklers .... 11.00
Pike & Heald, materials and labor
repairing sprinklers . . . 2.27
446 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son, iron work
and materials, sprinklers, June
and July, 1890 . . . $97-58
J. B. McCrillis & Son, painting
and lettering sprinklers and
iron work, etc., on sprinklers,
April 23.45
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs on
water cart . . . . 11.22
John T. Beach, wood tank for
sprinkler No. 3 . . . 50.00
John T. Beach, wood frames . 24.00
John T. Beach, 30 long bolts . 3.00
John T. Beach, taking off old iron,
repairing irons and ironing
tank ..... 55'Oo
John T. Beach, taking off springs,
repairing and putting on . . 6.00
John T. Beach, 2 new tires, re-
pairing wheels, and tri-bolt . 10.00
John T. Beach, 76 carriage bolts,
and 2 bolts, ^-inch . . 4,65
John T. Beach, repairing 2 neck
yokes, links, staples, etc. . . 1.25
John T. Beach, repairing gate
valves, making connections, etc. 7.00
John T. Beach, drilling holes in
axles, and putting in pins . . 1,00
.John T. Beach, 2 hoops on turret
and fitting on . . . . 1,00
John T. Beach, materials and la-
bor, draw hooks, etc. . . 18.26
John T. Beach, repairing wood
and iron work. Monitor No. i . ii'85
John T. Beach, painting Monitor
No. I .... . 27.00
John T. Beach, painting Monitor
No. 2 .... . 27.00
PAVING STREETS. 447
John T. Beach, repairing wood
and iron work, Monitor No. 2 $10.85
John T. Beach, other repairs . 10.00
D. F. Cressey, repairs on water
cart, district No. 10 . . . 6.25
G. A. Durgin, mending, painting,
and varnishing street sprinkler 20,00
A. FiUon, repairing water cart,
district No. 10 ... 10.50
A. Filion, crown for water cart,
district No. 10 . . . . 1.50
H. C. Ranno & Son, rubber spring
and pair straps . . . . 2.10
A. H. Stark, painting sprinkler . 27.00
goso.pi
NEW WATER CARTS.
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son, i new water cart, as
per contract ...... |i4oo.oo
SUNDRIES.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., i 30-foot wire-
spring cushion on water cart . . . $2.50
PAVING STREETS.
Appropriation raised by tax . . . $5,500.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund i)i33'75
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR.
Total expenditures ..... $7,59300
>.633-75
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-roll. District No. 2
January ..... $17.00
March 8.25
April ..... 164.74
448
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
May
$397-54
June
269.54
July . . .
426.65
August
242.24
September
427.68
October .
320.93
November
179-73
December
24.50
$2,478.80
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. lO.
Paid men and teams, as per pay-rol
I:
April ....
^17.86
May ....
39.00
June ....
19-15
July ....
63.88
August ....
143-33
September
119.38
October ....
232.46
November
333-81
December . . .
30.00
$998.87
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 7.
Paid men and teams, as per pay-roll . $50.00
men and teams, as per pay-roll, Oc-
tober 80.96
$130.96
Paid George Rivers, 9 loads of paving-
stone $14-40
John B. Clarke, 21 loads of pav-
ing-stone .... 21.00
Ebenezer Hartshorn, 45 loads of
paving-stone .... 27.00
PAVING STREETS. 449
Paid J. H. Proctor, i6 loads of paving-
stone ..... $25.60
J, L. Fogg, 18 loads of paving-
stone ..... 18.00
Josiah Carpenter, 25 loads of pav-
ing-stone .... 13-00
P. McQuillan, 67 loads of paving-
stone ..... 107.20
Mead & Mason, 12 loads of pav-
ing-stone .... 18.00
Charles A. Bailey, 133 feet, at 80
cents, paving-stone, corner Han-
over and Chestnut . . . 106.40
Charles P. Still, 65 loads of pav-
ing-stone .... 97-50
29
450
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
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MACADAMIZING.
Appropriation raised by tax
Transferred from reserved fund .
Transferred from reserved fund .
Received from Jos. A. Poor (overdraft)
$18,000.00
350-78
2,571-74
3.00
$20,925.52
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 2.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
January .
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
June
July
August
October .
November
LABOR, DISTRICT NO
^73-85
I 10.84
201.49
696.29
i»58i.77
1,736.82
2,288.17
2,501.50
2,390.04
1,314.02
914.28
32.62
$13,841.69
$8.00
16.63
21.00
269.78
1,030.20
^i,345-6i
Paid D. W. Atwood, 204,380 lbs. of
stone .....
$51-09
MACADAMIZING. 453
Paid J. A. Brown, 3,610 lbs. of stone $0.90
Frank Bodwell, 15 loads of stone 22.50
George W. Butterfield, 140,130
lbs. of stone . . . . 35-oi
E. W. Butterfield, 231,465 lbs. of
stone ..... 57.84
D. Butterfield, 247,885 lbs. of
stone ..... 63.41
C. E. Buswell, 142,855 lbs. of stone 35- 70
George F. Barnard, 131,320 lbs.
of stone ..... 32.82
J. L. Fogg, 13 loads of stone . 25.27
J. L. Fogg, 45,210 lbs. of stone . 11.42
F.'R. French, 64,450 lbs. of stone 16. 11
E. B. Fellows, 221,335 lbs. of
stone 55.31
James Fullerton, 311,080 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 77-77
Josiah Carpenter, 126 loads of
stone ..... 37-So
Cavanaugh Brothers, 4,350 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 1.08
City farm, 288,800 lbs. of stone . 98.89
H. Holbrook, 498,170 lbs. of
stone ..... 124.52
H. L. Kimball, 449,466 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 1 2 1. 41
M. Lemaux, 4,560 lbs. of stone . 1.14
William McDougall, 55,450 lbs.
of stone ..... 13-85
George H. Penniman, 885855 lbs.
of stone . . . . . 22.21
H. S. Plummer, 184,830 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 46.19
L. J. Proctor, 19,690 lbs. of stone 4.92
J. H. Proctor, 37,005 lbs. of stone 9.25
Palmer & Garmon, 39,880 lbs. of
stone ..... 9.97
454 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Palmer & Garmon, 9 hours' work
cutting stone coping, horse rail-
road transfer station . . $3- 60
Palmer & Garmon, 18 loads of
chips ..... 11.68
A. Peltier, 87,170 lbs. of stone . 21.79
Charles H. Robie, 318,880 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 79-71
F. Sheer, 134,720 lbs. of stone . 33-67
Jos. Tirrell, 625,330 lbs. of stone 157-95
H. Willey, 142,685 lbs. of stone 35-67
C. C. Webster, 37,370 lbs. of stone 9.33
F. B. Worthley, 362,620 lbs. of
stone ..... 90.64
W. Campbell, 105,270 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 26.31
Mead & Mason, 76,685 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 19-17
Kennard Brothers, 46 loads of
stone . . . . . 13-80
Kennard Brothers, 1,040 lbs. of
stone ..... 2.51
F. M. Barnard, 62,500 lbs. of stone 15-62
L. W. Bartlett, 180,240 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 45 -05
Warren Harvey, 224,670 lbs. of
stone . . . . . 32.12
Warren Harvey, 5 loads of stone 6.25
Head & Dowst, 94 loads of stone * 47.00
Joseph A. Poor, 4 loads of stone
at 25c. ..... 1. 00
C. H. Tirrell, 109,995 ^bs. of
stone . . . . . 27.49
Manchester Street Railway Com-
pany, 5,470 lbs. of stone . . 1.36
Marden & Woodbury, 21 loads of
stone chips, at 75c. . . . ^5-75
MACADAMIZING. 455
Paid Addison Gray, 35 loads of stone,
at 25c. .... 18.75
Paid Water-Works, water for the crusher,
etc. ......
Paid People's Gas-Light Company, 2
4-6 chaldrons coke . . . $24.00
E. P. Johnson Company, coal for
road-roller and steam-drill . i3-S5
E. P. Johnson Company, 3 barrels
Cumberland coal ... 3.75
E. P. Johnson Company, coal for
road -roller . . . . 28.80
E. V. Turcotte, 2 cords of wood 7.00
CONCRETING.
Paid Charles H. Robie, 253 gallons of
pitch, at lie. . . . . $27.83
Charles H. Robie, labor of 2 men
one day ..... 4.00
Charles H. Robie, use of kettle,
brushes, etc., for 20 days . 2.50
Charles H. Robie, concrete cross-
ing, Hanover- and Chestnut,
26.05 sq. yds., at 75c. . . 19.54
Charles H. Robie, concrete cross-
ing, Hanover and Chestnut,
30.22 yds., at 75c. . . . 22.66
Charles H. Robie, concreting
Chestnut street, 930.89 yds., at
75c 698.17
Charles H. Robie, work on Merri-
mack street, 2,100.64 yds., at
75c 1,575-48
$1,682.60
;77.io
$2,350.18
456
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
EXPLOSIVES.
Paid Killey & Wadleigh :
400 pounds No. I forcite .
$180.00
300 plat, fuse .
12.00
300 pounds No. I forcite
135-00
100 plat, fuse .
4.00
150 pounds forcite .
67.50
200 feet plat, fuse .
8.00
350 feet plat, fuse .
14.00
223 pounds forcite .
100.35
Paid J. B. Varick Co., 25 feet yEtnaTuse .89
25 6-foot fuses
.89
TOOLS.
Paid Killey & Wadleigh :
2 mattocks .....
$2.00
2 handles ....
.42
4 fiber pail covers .
t.20
Tools of various kinds
15.98
2 dozen 34-inch Hick sledge handles
4.00
Paid Manchester Hardware Co :
I fiber pail ....
•50
I fiber pail cover . ...
•25
I doz. square-point Ames shovels
II. 15
I doz. round-point Ames shovels
II. 15
34 pounds steel bars
2.38
I 12-inch wrench
•55
I 2-foot rule ....
•15
[ hammer .....
.50
I screw plate ....
2-75
I doz. sledge hammer handles .
2.00
Paid J. B. Varick Co. :
Files and file handles
.69
Wheelbarrow trays .
9.00
I thermometer ....
•25
I steel square .
.
.
.70
122.63
MACADAMIZING.
457
lid J. B. Varick Co. :
I pair of dividers
$0.85
I spoke shave .
•25
I chisel ....
•37
I gauge ....
.62
I 5-16 Russell Jennings
•25
I dozen sledge handles
2.00
I mallet ....
.40
I paint brush .
•30
I oiler ....
•30
2 electric axes .
1.40
2 handles . . . ' .
•50
2 doz. pick handles .
I. GO
5 doz. 30-inch sledge hammei
• handle?
> 1. 00
Ax and handle
•95
I water pail
•50
I dozen sledge handles
2.00
I hammer
.60
I oil can ....
.40
2 pails ....
.60
I 8-inch Baxter wrench
•75
I engine oiler .
1.60
I brass oiler
■ -5°
I cast steel bar, 26 pounds
3-9°
I 50-foot tape measure
.60
I saw set .
•75
J dozen sledge handles
1. 13
2 dozen 6- pound contractor's
picks
20.00
2 dozen pick handles
.
4.00
lid Chas. H. Hutchinson, one swing
jaw, 15x9, complete .
•
70.00
1183. 14
LUxMBER, CASTINGS, AND REPAIRS.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. :
2 cyl. ring castings, 33 pounds, at 3^0 ^1.16
41 hours' labor on same, road-roller 16.40
3 pounds spring steel ... .75
458
REPORT OP THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. :
9 pounds of Babbitt, at 32c
I pound 5-8 Macb. steel .
115 pounds 4-inch Mach. steel at 7c
4 pounds ig-inch Mach. steel .
542- hours' labor for crusher
' li inches coupling .
iT-inch nipple ....
4 hours' labor on crusher engine
100 feet ^-inch lacing
28 feet spruce, P. 4 S.
50 chestnut posts, city yard
196 feet spruce plank and joist, ^18
400 feet spruce plank and joist, ^17
50 feet sheathing, ^25
48 feet spruce joist and plank, at 20c
150 feet sheathing, at 25 cents .
12 feet spruce joist, P. 4 S.
2^ pounds machinery steel
1 tripod weight
2 pounds rubber packing .•
I cylinder buffer. No. 3 drill .
14 hours' labor ....
250 feet random spruce, at ^11
700 feet matched spruce, at $16
362 feet spruce timber, at ^17
8 feet finish, at ^25 .
2,000 spruce shingles, at ^2
128 feet spruce timber, at ^17
60 feet sheathing, at $25 .
50 feet random spruce, at ^11
75 feet matched spruce, at $16
Y-z M. spruce shingles, at ^2
II feet long strap furring .
15 feet finish
96 feet spruce 3x4, sawed, $17
^ hour's sawing
$2.88
.07
8.05
.28
21.80
•03
.02
1.60
1-25
.70
7-5°
3-53
6.80
1.25
.96
3-75
•30
.18
4-50
•50
1.60
5.60
2-75
11.20
6. 1 1
.20
4.00
2.1S
1.50
•55
1.20
1. 00
•05
■Z^
1.63
•30
MACADAMIZING.
459
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co
302 spruce boards and plank
Cast iron key for crusher .
Express paid on same
4 cap screws
4 feet ^-inch pipe .
42 feet lo-inch double leather belt
I pulley, 58 pounds .
1 P. S. shaft, 12 pounds
2 i-inch ped. boxes .
One half pound steel .
18 pounds boiler plate
52 hours, labor .
96^ hours, labor on steam boiler
I 2-inch flue cleaner
160 pounds machinery steel
4 pounds machinery steel .
Coupling, bushing, etc., etc.
\y^ pounds Babbitt .
4 hours' labor, crusher engine
I hour's labor, crusher engine
3 brass castings, crusher engine
2^ hours' labor, crusher engine
117 feet oak posts, 5x5
7 hours' labor on wood rolls
8^ hours' labor on ledge whistle and
bolts ....
10 pounds machinery steel, whistle
and bolts ....
8 nuts, whistle and bolts .
395 pounds iron for wheelbarrows
92 hours' labor . . .
25 pounds Babbitt on crusher .
10 pounds machine steel, crusher
41^ hours' labor on engine
I hour's labor on crusher .
9 hours' labor on crusher .
$5-14
1-75
•50
.20
.24
54.18
2.32
.72
2.20
.04
i.oS
20.80
38.70
11.20
.28
5-74
.48
1.60
.40
1.05
1. 00
2-93
2.80
3- 40
.70
.21
11.85
36.80
6.25
.70
16.70
.40
3.60
460 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. :
2 3^ -inch gauge cocks . . , ^2.50
Refined iron, 30 pounds, at 3 cents . .90
^}4 hours' labor, at 40 cents . , 1.40
I sheave wheel for hoist [September] 3.50
Express . . . . , . .^^
I new top sheave, for Weston hoist
[October] ..... 3.50
Express ...... .55
Pulley, 12 X 7, 35 pounds, at 4 cents . 1.40
5 hours' labor on crusher . . . 2.00
Paid Farrell Found. Machine Co.'s account :
1 pair 15 X9 plates, 660 pounds . 23.10
Planing plates ..... 3.00
2 pairs 15 X 9 plates, 1,359 pounds . 47-5 7
Planing same ..... 6.00
Paid Charles H. Hutchinson's account :
3 glasses, for duffer's oilers . . i.oo
9 hours' labor drilling shanks on C. . 3.60
Labor and materials on steam-roller . 12.16
Labor, ^ hour on safety plug . . .20
Labor and grates on steam-roller . 6.27
Labor and materials on steam-roller . 8.80
Paid Thomas A. Lane's account :
50 feet ^-inch hose, coupled . . 6.00
Labor of 2 men . . . . 5.68
3 globe valves, ^-inch ... 2.25
Labor on pump . . . . 1.05
Pipe, fittings, rubber packing, etc. . 5.35
25 feet 6-ply steam hose, wound . 20.75
17^ pounds rubber packing . . 4.38
300 feet 4-ply hose .... 60.00
Paid T. A. Lane :
Fittings, pipe, and labor . . . 3.34
6 10 x-| gauge glasses ... .90
245 feet i-inch pipe . . . . i4-7o
Labor ...... 8.25
MACADAMIZING.
461
Paid T. A. Lane :
19 feet I -inch pipe ....
20 feet I -inch 4-ply extra hose .
Fittings ......
I injector for steam-drill .
Labor ......
Glass for oiler, gauge-glass, and 4 gas-
kets
25 feet i-inch6 ply steam-hose, wound
labor ......
Paid Jere. Hodge, y^ window-sash
Thos. L. Thorpe, 100 lbs. bagging
25 lbs. cop-waste
L. M. Aldrich, filing 2 saws and
repairing level, etc. .
J. O. Tremblay, sharpening picks,
etc. ......
SUNDRIES.
Paid Joseph Quirin, Aug. 24, 1889, 10
lbs. oatmeal
Eager & Rand, 10 gallons kerosene
oil . . . .
Paid Killey & Wadleigh :
Oil-can, trays, and chain-wheels
I No. 3 rocker ....
3 rocker-pins ....
Nails, tarred paper, etc.
3 lbs. tallow ....
Paid Manchester Hardware Co. :
i^ pair 6-inch light hinges
nails, screws, and barrel-bolts .
wire nails ....
Paid J. B. Varick Company's account
Band-iron, bolts, and washers .
Screws, bolts, and varnish
Screws, files, wire nails, bolts, etc.
Band-iron, steel, washers, etc.
$1
14
5-
00
4
12
9
60
2
20
72
22
75
55
70
2.50
6.30
$0.50
1.30
20.85
I. GO
1.25
10.07
•93
7-3°
1.96
^5-77
14.46
^683.03
462
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
1 Holroye top and die
2 files .....
Band-iron, strap hinges, wire nails,etc
6 bolts, 2^ X 5-16 .
Turpentine, car-bolts, and washers
Bolts, sand-paper, etc.
Ivory black, chrome yellow, etc. , road
roller .....
2 axe-wedges ....
Rubber packing, sperm-oil, files, etc
Oil, wood wedges, etc.
1 ps. gravel-screen, to order
2 lbs. wire staples
5 gallons cylinder oil
Nails, bolts, turpentine, etc.
Bolts, lacing, etc.
Hoop iron, etc.
15 feet 14-inch Lea belting
Oil, tallow, copper tacks, etc.
5 gallons cylinder oil
Rubber-packing, tarred marline, etc
5 gallons cylinder oil
12^ feet leather belting .
I pint LePage's glue
Belts, copper tacks, oil, etc.
Tallow and oil .
Oil, elevator, bolts, lacing, etc..
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 2
hours' labor for city engineer's office
George W. Rief, i gallon belt-
dressing .
Boston & Maine Railroad, freight
on castings . . . .
Pike & Heald, 3 water-dippers
0.85
.80
5-49
.09
2.05
4-25
.10
9.67
5.00
. 10
3-75
3-76
1.98
7.22
13.80
3-75
9.27
3-75
•77
•35
5-33
7.89
37-27
.80
2.50
1-54
•37
5209.54
Total expenditures
$20,925.52
GRADING FOR CONCRETE.
463
GRADING FOR CONCRETE.
Appropriation raised by tax
Transferred from reserved fund
^4,000.00
1,089.86
1:5,089.86
EXPENDITURES.
Labor of men and teams, per pay-roll. District No. 2
January $743-9^
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October .
November
December
267.20
263.38
97
48
160.
.SI
^36-
86
116
49
73
01
116.68
184
86
5^
13
408.55
$3,086.06
Labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 10
January . . . . . ^216.39
February .
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
132-93
70.38
85.62
97-50
163.03
131. 14
183.00
185.09
71.94
181. 13
279.25
11,797.40
464
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 7
June
September
October .
525.00
21.00
75.00
SAND AND GRAVEL.
Paid E. Hartshorn, 205 loads of gravel ^20.50
E. Hartshorn, 104 loads of sand 10.40
Charles H. Robie, 260 loads of
gravel, sanding sidewalks . 26.00
$56.90
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, 2 dozen No. 2
steel scoops .....
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. H. Wiggin, 20 bushels of salt .
Total expenditures
^20.00
•50
$8.50
$5,089.86
SCAVENGER TEAMS.
Appropriation raised by tax
Amount transferred from reserved fund .
$12,000.00
3.958-46
$15,958.46
EXPENDITURES.
Labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 2 :
January ..... $1,045.88
February ..... 730.36
March ..... 1,042.01
April 1,241.29
SCAVENGER TEAMS.
465
May
$844-63
June
791.00
July
1,046.75
August
786.30
September
1,058.79
October .
1,010.71
November
925-25
December
986.38
$11,509-35
Labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 10 :
February .
146.63
March
152. 88
April
226.62
May
173.00
June
144.24
July
180.00
August
148.00
September
177-50
October .
135-95
November
141.00
December
185-75
$1,998.11
ON CONTRACT AS SCAVENGER.
Paid Timothy Shea, on contract as scav-
enger, first quarter . . . $1,225.00
Timothy Shea, contract as scav-
enger, second quarter . . 1,225.00
$2,450.00
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, for 2 16-inch
steel rakes .....
Total expenditures
30
$15,958.46
466
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STREET SWEEPING.
Appropriation raised by tax
Transferred from reserved fund
,1,200.00
37.08
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 2.
;i,237.oJ
Paid labor of men and teams as per pay-roll :
February $57-39
April
257.00
May
136.23
June
234.30
July
116.24
August
156.81
September
54.13
October .
81.98
$1,094.08
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. ID.
Paid labor of men and teams as per pay-roll :
April $33-oo
August 36.00
November . . . . 36.00
$105.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid S. A. Felton & Son, i revolving
street scraper, refitted
Killey & Wadleigh, i dozen street
brooms ......
6.00
$38.00
Total expenditures .
;i, 237.08
LIGHTING STREETS. 467
LIGHTING STREETS.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . $41,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund ... . 99-64
$41,099.64
EXPENDITURES.
MANCHESTER ELECTRIC LIGHT COMPANY, ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
1890. Charges. Discounts.
December 25 to January 25, 198,
31 nights at 40c. . . . $2,639.34
December 25 to January 25, 49,
31 nights at 39c. . . . 592-41 ^25.67
January 25 to February 25, 198,
31 nights at 43c. . . . 2,639.34
January 25 to February 25, 49,
31 nights at 39c. . . . 592.41
January 25 to February 25, i, 15
nights at 43c. . . . 6.45 2.15
February 25 to March 21, 199, 24
nights at 43c. . . . 2,053.68
February 25 to March 21, 49, 24
nights 39c. . . . . 458-64 2.97
March 21 to April 21, 199, 31
nights at 43c. . . . 2,652.67
March 21 to April 21, 49, 31
nights at 39c. . . . 592.41 .62
April 21 to May 21, 199, 30
nights at 43c. . . . 2,567.10
April 21 to May 21, 49, 30
nights at 39c. . . . 575-3° i-4i
May 21 to June 21, 203, 31
nights at 43c. . . . 2,705.99
May 21 to June 21, 45, 31
nights at 39c. . . . 544-05
468 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
May 21 to June 21,2, i night
at 39c ^0.78 $1.20
June 21 to July 21, 203, 30
nights at 43c. . . . 2,618.70
June 21 to July 21, 45, 30
nights at 39c. . . . 526.50
June 21 to July 21, i, 24 nights
at 43c- .... 10.32
June 21 to July 21, 2, i night
at 39c .78 26.86
July 21 to August 21, 203, 31
nights at 43c. . . . 2,705.99
July 21 to August 21, 46, 31
nights at 39c. . . . 556.14
July 21 to August 21, I, 14
nights at 43c. . . . 6.02
July 21 to August 21, 2, I night
at 39c .78 21.50
August 21 to September 21, 202,
31 nights at 43c. . . 2,692.66
August 21 to September 21, 48,
31 nights at 39c. . . . 580.32
August 21 to September 2 1, 1,^26
nights;at43C. . . . ir.i8
August 21 to September 21, 3,
I night at 39c. . . . 1.17 10.75
September 21 to October 21,
205, 30 nights at 43c. . . 2,644.50
September 21 to October 21, 47,
30 nights at 39c. . . . 549.90 44.35
October 21 to November 21,
205, 31 nights at 43c. . . 2,732.65
October 21 to November 21, 47,
31 nights at 39c. . . . 568.23
October 21 to November 21,1,
13 nights at 43c. . . . 5.59 138.23
LIGHTING STREETS.
469
November 21 to December 21,
207 nights at 43c.
November 21 to December 21,
46, 30 nights at 39c.
November 21 to December 21,
I, 10 nights at 39c.
Total discounts deductedj
Net exj)eaditures
$2,670.30
538-20
3.90 $18.52
,042.40 $294.23
294.23
$37,748.17
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., for gas :
December . . . .
$128.66
January . . . . .
120.54
February . . . .
103.46
March . . . . .
104.02
April ^ . . .
94-36
May ....
81.06
June ....
73-78
July ....
70.28
August ....
82.46
September
91.70
October ....
112.00
November
115-50
CARE OF GAS-LIGHTS.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., lighting, extinguish-
ing, care of 141 street lights :
28 nights, December . . . $150.70
January
February
March .
April .
May
June
152-85
149.83
154-30
148.93
154-03
146.97
;i, 177-82
470
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
July .
August .
September
October
November
SUNDRIES.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co. :
Oil, whisky, matches, etc. .
3 barrels of oil .
2 boxes of glass
I -gallon kerosene oil can .
^-gallon kerosene oil can
2 I -gallon whisky cans
Cash paid C. H. Hutchinson, red
lanterns ....
Labor on lanterns [Lane]
Changing posts, 3 men i day .
Use of team i day
Setting lantern frames on posts [Lane
y2 day] ....
Use of team ^ day .
I gallon of whisky .
3 barrels of kerosene oil .
Paid C. H. Hutchinson
10 hours' labor on oil lights
4 barrels kerosene oil
Repairing lanterns [Hutchinson]
y^ gallon sperm oil .
Setting gas post, West Appleton street
Labor on oil lights .
Removing gas post, Hanover street
Labor on oil lights .
Changed lamp post. Granite street
8 barrels of oil .
12 sheets tin for lanterns, xxxx .
$i43'83
158.16
148.62
165.16
142.61
^30.36
15-49
4-95
•50
•25
2.00
9-57
4.00
8.50
3.00
2.00
1.50
1.40
15-95
.66
2.50
20.40
2.20
•50
3.00
2.00
1.50
1. 00
3-45
38.60
3-84
$1,815.99
LIGHTING STREETS.
471
^ box 12x14 glS'SS • • • • ^1-38
12 sheets XXX tin for lanterns . . 1.56
2 street-lighting torches . . . 8.00
Express on same . . . . .15
I 5 -gallon kerosene oil can . . 1.25
Repairing oil lights, Candia road . 3.50
Repairing oil lights, Amoskeag road 1.50
Removing lamp post, Hanover and
Cnestnut streets . . . . 1.40
Setting 3 oil lights, River road . 2.90
Repairing lanterns .... 3.00
Repairing oil lights, Candia road . 4.00
Repairing lanterns . . . . 1.50
Removing lamp post, Chestnut street 3.00
8 barrels kerosene oil . . . 39- 1 3
Paid Eager & Rand, matches . . 4.99
I gallon whisky . . . . 1.40
Paid Nathan A. Sleeper, setting glass,
last six months in 1889 and for
the year 1890 .... 3.55
Clark M. Bailey, for 49^^ dozen
burners and chimneys . . 57-5o
Clark M. Bailey, for wicks . . . 2.65
J. B. Varick Co., i oil can, 6
pounds cotton waste . . . 1.60
Clark M. Bailey, burners, chim-
neys, and wicks . . . 33-75
Thomas A. Eane, labor on lanterns .83
Total expenditures .....
BRIDGES.
Appropriation raised by tax ....
RECEIPTS.
Received from Henry Buldec, for old
plank .... $30.00
$357-66
^i, 099. 64
L, 000.00
472
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Received from Louis Dandoin, for old
plank .... $2.50
from L. B. Bodwell & Co.,
old plank . . . . 20.35
fromW. J. Freeman, old plank 3.75
from Timothy Shea, old plank 47.00
from Peter Riley, old plank . 2.50
from Joseph Nichols, old
plank .... 2.40
Received from J. N. Chase, for chopping
block, etc, . . . ^8.45
from Head & Dowst, for old
plank . . . . 16.43
from Jos. Tirrell, for old plank 3- 00
from Mark E. Harvey, for old
plank . . . . 2.50
from Amoskeag Manuf. Co.,
Yi expense painting McGre-
gor bridge .... 295.21
EXPENDITURES.
February
March .
April
May
June
July
September
October .
December
Paid labor of men and team
May
June
90.24
102. 12
55-3°
23-75
38.25
22.00
M-37
103-50
233-47
$434-09
.434-09
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 2
January . . . . . ^32.00
, per pay-roll, District No. 5 :
. . . S0.88
.50
$715.00
LIGHTING STREETS. 473
July . . . . ' . ^4-75
November . . . . 4.62
$10.75
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 7 :
May $21.00
August . . . . . 20.00
$41.00
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay roll, District No. 10:
June . . . . . ^2.00
August 35.00
$37.00
Paid J. M. Crawford, sched. for com-
mittee on streets, McGregor
bridge, 1889 .... $5.00
W, Neal, labor of self and 4 men . 274.91
W. Neal, 14^^ days' labor of team,
Amo.skeag bridge . . . 21.75
W. Neal, labor, etc., on Granite
bridge . . . . . 123.25
W. Neal, labor, etc., on Canal
bridge . . . . . 117.00
Paid A. C. Wallace, 222 feet oak,
3 X 6, $22^ . . . $4.99
A. C. Wallace, 6,7 1 7 feet oak plank,
3-i"ch 151-13
A.J. Sawyer, 53,510 feet 3-inch
hemlock plank, $11.70 . . 626.06
A. J. Sawyer, 2,412 feet hemlock
plank, 3-inch . . . . 28.22
A. J. Sawyer, 10,281 feet hemlock
plank, 3-inch, $11.70 . . 120.28
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. :
36 feet of spruce at $17 . . . .91
|i54i-9i
474
REPORT or THE CITY AUDITOR.
2,0 1 6 feet of spruce at ^18
26,748 feet of hemlock at ^14 .
99 feet of Georgia pine
I piece strip furring, 16 feet long
246 feet Georgia pine 3x12
28 feet spruce, 3x4, sawed
Yz hours sawing
1,089 feet hemlock plank, 3-inch, Dist
5
Paid M. A. Wason, 22 M. long shingles
at $4.50 ....
1,904 feet 2 X 3 joists for Amoskeag
bridge ....
^36.29
374.48
. 396
.10
9.84
.70
.20
15-25
99.00
0*
&
22.84
$1,493-95
Paid National Paint Works, 6 barrels
Asphaltum paint
Boston & Maine R. R., freight on 6
barrels paint ....
Western Union Telegraph Co.,
telegram to Williamsport, Pa. .
J. J. Abbott, painting McGregor
bridge .....
J. J. Abbott, painting canal bridge.
Bridge street, railroad bridge,
Parker street
$204.76
11-57
•50
429. 1 1
67.40
$713-34
SUNDRIES.
Paid W. Neal, for spikes, etc. . . $i-55
J. B. Varick Co., 10 pounds 6-
penny nails .... .30
J. B. Varick Co., i turn buckle . .63
J. B. Varick Co., 23 pounds
6o-penny cut nails ... .69
LIGHTING STREETS.
475
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 23 kegs
6-penny wire spikes .
Manchester Hardware Co., 66
pounds 6-penny wire spikes
Manchester Hardware Co., i broom
Manchester Hardware Co., i keg
7-penny wire spikes .
A. J. Sawyer, trucking hniiber at
65c
A. J. Sawyer, trucking old plank .
A. N. Clapp, keg of nails, $2.75, 6
pounds spikes, $1.80
John W. Wilson, trucking 6 bar-
rels paint ....
Alphonzo Boyce, lumber, stone,
labor, etc., as per contract,
Dist. No. 9 . . . .
Alphonzo Boyce, culvert in district
No. 9, pe. contract .
T. A. Lane, repairing iron braces,
McGregor bridge
T. A. Lane, 1 2 pounds Norway iron,
22 hours labor
Killey & Wadleigh, nails, washers,
zinc, etc. ....
Total expenditures .
$68.50
1.88
•45
25
00
55
34
24
150.00
10.00
3.00
IO-55
11.60
$326.73
5,879.68
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to district No. 9
Amount transferred to reserved fund
Balance ....
$72.79
480.72
;3-5i
.90
.434.09
476
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CITY TEAMS.
Appropriation raised by tax
RECEIPTS.
Received from team labor . . . .
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from incidental expenses
,2,500.00
2,700.69
477.61
^5^678.30
EXPENDITURES.
id labor of men and teams, per pay roll, District No. 2 :
January .
$191.50
February
155
12
March
190
37
April
256
87
May
85
88
June
88
3S
July . .
94
50
August .
63
00
September
104
43
October .
81
50
November
74
38
December
199
37
^1,585-30
OATS, CORN, FEED, HAY, STRAW.
Paid Pettee & Adams :
315 bags of oats
1^283.59
29 bags of corn
28.43
4 bags of feed ....
3.60
170 pounds of bran .
2.04
4 bags of feed ....
3.68
2 bags of feed ....
1.84
8 bags of feed ....
6.80
CITY
TEAMS.
200 pounds of bran .
$1.80
1 4 bags of feed
.
12.32
75 pounds of bran .
.70
10 bags of feed
11-95
660 pounds of bran .
.
7.70
1,114 pounds of hay
10.01
2,109 pounds of hay
1S.99
759 pounds of hay .
.
6.83
18 pounds of hay
1.62
985 pounds of rye straw .
9-85
2,321 pounds of rye straw
22.18
2,125 pounds of rye straw
20. 19
Paid Leonard Rowe, 2,065
rounds of
hay
17-55
Leonard Rowe, 4,075
pounds of
hay at $17
34-64
D. Butterfield, 2,310
rounds of
hay at $18
20.79
L. Shelters, 324 pounds
of hay at
^18 ...
2.85
C. D. Welch, 13,695
rounds of
hay at ^18
.
123.24
C. D. Welch, 2,180 pounds of hay
at $18 . . .
19.62
Paid City Farm :
6,785 pounds of hay at $17
57.66
5,160 pounds of hay at ^17
39-42
6,145 pounds of hay at ^18
55-3°
9,655 pounds of hay at $1']
82.05
3,375 pounds of hay at $18
30-37
1,096 pounds of hay .
9-85
Paid Merrill & Freeman :
191 bags of oats
176.21
22 bags of corn
24.84
20 bags of feed
20.51
75 pounds of feed
•75
2,281 pounds of hay .
20.53
3,350 pounds of straw
33-50
477
478
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Partridge Brothers :
.202 bags of oats . '. . .
^203-55
25 bags of corn ....
28.60
470 pounds of feed ....
5-05
15 bags of feed ....
16.85
4,587 pounds of hay
42.37
3,131 pounds of straw
36-37
Paid J. A. Brown, 1,870 pounds hay .
14.96
H. A. Horton, i ton of carrots .
16.00
Paid Drake & Parker :
50 bags of oats ....
47.00
I bag of corn .....
1.25
4 bags of feed ....
4.80
4 bags of ground feed
4.80
150 pounds shorts ....
1.58
Paid James W. Nutt, 1,745 pounds hay
13.96
Parker R. Brown, 17 bags of oats
12.24
Parker R. Brown, 2,079 pounds
rye straw .....
19-75
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid J. F. Woodbury, shoeing horses .
;^2i9.4o
J. 0. Tremblay, shoeing horses .
84.40
HARNESS AND REPAIRS.
Paid Frederick Allen :
I can of oleo .....
$o-75
I harness ......
65.00
2 straps
•75
Repairing harness, oleo, etc.
28.80
I horse cover .....
3-75
2 team collars, ;^io.oo, 3 blankets.
^6.75
16.75
Hame straps, rosettes, repairing har-
ness, etc
29.60
51,694.93
$303.80
CITY TEAMS. 479
Paid N. T- Whalen, repairing, oiling,
blacking harnesses, etc. . . $36.05
F. N. McLaren, i blanket . . 4.50
F. N. McLaren, i rubber horse
covering ..... 6.25
F. N. McLaren, reins, repairing
harness, etc. . . . . i5-S4
W. H. Adams, repairs on harnesses .95
$208.69
REPAIRS ON CARRIAGES.
Paid John T. Beach, repairs on teams . $107.32
Sanborn Carriage Co., repairs on
teams 5.35
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs on
carriages and materials . . 235.56
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. A^arick Co., sandpaper,
Norway iron, etc. . . . $31.25
John B. Varick Co., chain, screws,
staples, snaps, wire nails, etc. . 13-76
John B. Varick Co., chain, screws,
staples, snaps, wire nails, etc. . 25.98
Manchester Hardware Co., chain,
links, curry comb, brush, bolts,
sponges ..... 10.96
Manchester Hardware Co., castile
soap, whip and socket, curry
combs, brooms .... 7.50
Manchester Hardware Co., i
sponge ..... .40
Killey & Wadleigh, 2 stubble
brooms ..... .90
Killey & Wadleigh, butcher knives,
broom, axes, etc. . . . 8.15
$348.2:
$98.90
480
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL SERVICES.
Paid J. Blakely, V. S., Dec. lo, 1889,
and March 22, 1890 . . $6
J. Blakely, V. S., visits and dress-
ing foot daily and operating on
grey horse, punctured with gath-
ered nail .....
A. E. Dodge, V. S., 4 visits and
medicine .....
Jabez Alexander, V. S., medical
services .....
D. S. Kimball, 2 sets of bandages,
I boot .....
Ellinwood & Co., i dozen El-a-
tol, (disinfectant)
Edward H. Currier, medicine
Z. F. Campbell, medicines .
John Holland & Co., prescrip-
tions in Dec, 1889 .
Snelling & Woods, medicines
John Lucy, operation on 6 horses
35-00
4-25
52.00
4-5°
4-50
S-74
2.50
2.40
6.00
$123.89
Paid Pettee & Adams, ^ bushel of rock
salt $0.25
Drake & Parker, i bag of salt . .75
Drake & Parker, 3 casks of lime . 3.30
Manchester Hardware Co., 25 feet
2-inch rubber hose . . . 2.50
Eager & Rand, salt and ginger . .50
Eager & Rand, 2 sugar barrels . .30
J. Stickney, 4 yards rubber cloth . 2.40
Head & Dowst, sapling spruce,
etc 5.79
Head & Dowst, lumber, etc., city
yard ..... 18.99
CITY TEAMS. 481
Paid Head & Dowst, lumber, etc., city
stables . . . . . $8-75
L. N. Westover, lumber, labor,
etc., on teams .... 25.64
F. L. Proctor, 7 gallons axle oil . 3.86
James Kelleher, 5 months' rent of
stable ..... 20.00
James Kelleher, 6 months' rent of
stable to Nov. 30, 1890 . . 28.50
Wheeler & Rogers, clipping
horses ..... 2.00
Pike & Heald, i pail ... .65
Pike & Heald, stoves, pipe, and
plumbing at city stables . . 107.44
Pike & Heald, stoves, pipe, and
* plumbing at city stables . . 3^-79
L. M. Aldrich, pipe, blacksmith-
ing, etc., .... 5.15
D. H. Maxfield, paid express on
cutters, road-machine . . .40
D. H. Maxfield, paid express on
whififletree springs . . . .40
E. J.Williams, materials and labor
on crusher building and steam-
roller shed . . . . 11-51
Thomas A. Lane, piping and labor 2.18
W. H. Vickery, for keys . . 2.05
E. T. James, horse and wagon from
July 30 to September 22 . . 23.75
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 150
feet matched boards . . 2.40
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 18
feet finished boards . . .45
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 5 bar-
rels sawdust .... .50
Clough & Co., I pair steel gray
horses ..... 550.00
31
482
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co., telephone, city stables
Water-Works, water at new stable
Transferred to reserved fund
$9-5°
IO-75
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
Appropriation raised by tax ....
RECEIPTS.
Received from N. H. Rubber Co. (over-
draft) . . . .
from A. N. Clapp (overdraft)
from N. P. Kidder, sewer
licenses ....
from C. O. Phelps, sewer pipe
from water-works, labor on
sewer ....
from Richard Dobbins, freight
and labor.
from W. H. Plummer for 1800
brick ....
from J. B. Varick Co., explo-
sives returned .
$8.00
11.66
1,013.40
3-9°
20.25
58.05
14.40
15.09
TRANSFERS.
Transferred from appropriation :
For reserved fund
^5,000.00
For incidental expenses
2,456.04
For reserved fund
5>205.5i
For reserved fund
3,854.28
For reserved fund
1,891.79
$882.45
432.11
$5>678.3o
$20,000.00
$1,144.75
$18,407.62
$39652-37
SEWERS AND DRAINS,
483
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 2.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
January .
^235.42
February
85.06
March
• ■ 301-85
April
724.96
May
1,918.58
June
2.037.54
July
• 3>482.64
August .
2,637.87
September
2,437-13
October .
1,493.98
November
1,181.42
December
296.62
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. ID.
Paid labor of men and teams as per pay-roll :
January .
$43.91
February
19.44
March
60.63
April
70.38
May
1,396.90
June
1,676.81
July . . .
2,053.68
August
1,845.46
September
• 1,783-48
October .
842.17
November
333-3^
December
27.87
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 7.
Paid labor of men and teams as per pay-roll :
July $62
62
1516,833.07
510,154-11
)2.62
484
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Dodge & Straw, 2 pairs men'
rubber boots
^4-80
J. Stickney, 2 pairs pure gum rub
ber boots
6.00
G. W. Dodge, 6 pairs rubber boot
5 15-30
H. M. Fletcher, i dozen picks
8.50
Pike & Heald, 6 scoops
4-50
Paid Killey & Wadleigh's account :
^ dozen scoop-handles .
2.38
2 cesspool scoops
•75
6 stable pails ....
2.75
I plumb bob ....
.10
4 round-point shovels
2.60
I dozen stable pails .
2.75
I gimlet
. 10
I level glass ....
.10
I tape-measure
.60
Yn dozen globe lanterns .
4-63
I level glass ....
.08
I Morrill saw-set . . . ,
1. 00
ij^ dozen heavy picks
19.50
i^ dozen hickory pick-handles
Z-Z^
^ dozen round-point shovels .
3-50
Yi dozen square-point shovels .
3-34
2 L. H. round-point shovels
1.08
24)^ lbs. drills
4.41
bY\ lbs. shims and wedges
1.25
I striking-hammer, 3^ pounds .
1.05
I handle
.10
43 lbs. I -inch rope .
7.10
2 Piper pail covers .
.60
I No. 2 brass oiler .
.20
15^ lbs. striking hammers
2.48
6 handles
.90
Tools
28.67
SEAVBRS AND DRAINS.
485
Paid Manchester Hardware Company's account
I scoop
^0.75
6 8-lb. picks, at ^1.15
6.90
6 pick-handles ....
1.20
2 street hoes ....
1.20
I padlock ....
.65
3 dozen round-point shovels
33-45
6 2-foot rules ....
.60
4 canal-barrows
10.00
2 50-foot tape-measures
4.68
9 tubular lanterns
3-75
I red lantern globe .
•50
2 lantern reflectors .
.40
1 No. 4 hand ax . . .
1. 00
1 2 round-point shovels
II. 15
I 5-foot tape-line
.40
6 red globes ....
2.00
2 hardware pails
1.24
6 8-foot scoop-handles
2.52
I padlock ....
.40
2 7^ -lb. striking-hammers (district
No. 10) ....
3.00
I dozen red globes .
4.00
I hoe handle ....
•IS
2 paint brushes
2.20
3 stable pails ....
•75
I fiber pail . . . . .
•50
I 5-foot tape-line
2.50
Tools
17.47
Paid John B.. Varick Company's accoui
t:
I dozen pick-handles
2.00
I dozen round-point shovels
8.00
I fiber pail
•50
2 dippers ....
.20
6 swivel harness-snaps
-65
6 square-point shovels
5-50
6 round-point shovels
5^5o
486
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
2 handles ....
^0.20
12 6-lb contractor's picks
10.00
12 pick handles
2.00
I level
2.00
I Maydoe harrow
2.50
3 red lantern globes .
2.25
3 lantern burners
2-55
2 tape-measures
.60
2 pulp waterpails
1. 00
2 tin dippers ....
.10
I trowel .....
.60
4 lantern globes
.40
4 contractor's picks .
■3-50
6 pick handles . . . .
1. 00
12 square-point shovels
11.00
I trowel .....
.60
15 lbs. No. I Manilla rope
2.25
3 L. H. round-point shovels
2-75
I gimlet .....
.10
I gimlet .....
•05
I level glass ....
.10
6^ pounds ^-inch Manilla rope
1.08
6 sledge hammer handles .
113
I part to level . . . . .
.10
3 red lantern globes
I. So
12 pick handles . . . .
2.00
I 50-foot tape measure
•75
3 sledge handles . . . .
•50
36 pounds ^-inch man ilia rope
5-76
2 ax handles . . . . .
.40
2 paint brushes . . . .
1.50
Hardware
23-55
Paid J. Stickney :
2 pair rubber boots . . . .
5-85
I oil suit
2.25
I pair of overalls . . . .
1.25
2 oil coats . . . . .
2.50
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
487
I pair No. lo rubber boots
$3.00
I pair oil overalls [district lo]
1.25
Paid New Hampshire Rubber Co., i
[
pair hip boots .
4.00
George L. Robinson, i pair rubber
boots ....
3-25
George L. Robinson, i pair hip
boots ....
3-5°
EXPLOSIVES.
Paid J. B. Varick Co. :
50 feet water-proof fuse .
•37
26 feet cotton fuse .
•13
iSyz pounds ^tna cartridges .
5-92
50 pounds 4- foot fuse
1.50
25 pounds 6-foot fuse
.89
Forcite, fuse, etc.
24-95
Paid Killey & Wadleigh :
^^ feet platinum fuse
1.32
50 feet platinum fuse
2.00
100 pounds No. I forcite
45.00
50 pounds No. 2 forcite .
20.00
250 feet platinum fuse
10.00
4 pounds blasting powder
.60
50 pounds No. 3 forcite .
12.50
50 feet platinum fuse
2.00
100 feet platinum fuse
4.00
42 J pounds No. 3 C. forcite
10.63
50 feet platinum fuse
2.00
Forcite, fuse, etc.
266.26
5 pounds forcite No. i
2.25
Paid Manchester Hardware Co. :
20 pounds of powder
5.00
50 feet platinum fuse
2.00
No. 3 forcite . . • .
10.50
32 feet platinum fuse
1.28
I38I.I6
488
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SEWER-PIPE.
Paid Thomas A. Lane, for Akron pipe,
per contract .... ^3,014.24
Richard Dobbins, for iron pipe,
per contract .... 1,962.00
MATERIALS, LABOR, SEWER-PIPE, AND IRON PIPE.
Paid Thomas A. Lane :
1 diaphragm for Edson pump . . $2.75
Labor fitting Edson pump . . .60
Repairing suction hose ... i.io
Labor on Edson pump ... i.io
3 pipes for Edson pump . . . 1.50
Repairing suction hose . . . i.io
2 8-inch Akron curves . . . 1.35
I Edson diaphragm ... 2.75
Labor on pumps . . . . i.io
12 feet suction hose . . . . 21.00
3 barrels of coal, at 45 cents . . 1.35
15 pounds of hemp, at 18 cents . 2.70
Fire clay ...... .65
150 pounds caulking lead, at 4}i cents 6.19
16 bags .80
Blacksmithing ..... .75
Labor on sewer, Massabesic street, 2
men 6.8 days, at ^5 per day .
Edson diaphragm
Labor on pump
Akron pipe and curves, district 10
Copper wire ....
Labor on suction hose
I 8-inch Akron ell .
I 12 X 10 Akron pipe
I diaphragm for Edson pump .
Labor .....
I diaphragm ....
34.00
2.25
.60
11.32
.20
1. 10
.72
1-54
2.25
•75
2.25
$4,976.24
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
489
Labor
Labor on broken water-pipes on sew
ers
I ^-inch branch union
Labor
5^ feet I -inch pipe
I I -inch elbow, R. &. L.
I I -inch E. coupling
Labor
6 6-inch Akron curves
3 8-inch Akron curves
8 8-inch Akron curves
72 feet 6-inch pipe .
Less 60 per cent discount
$6.60
• 5- 40
14.40
21.60
$48.00
28.80
Pipe, materials and labor
Paid J- B. Va'rick Co., hardware
Pike & Heald, repairing lanterns,
etc. .....
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs and
blacksmith work
H. C. Ranno & Son, braiding
rope, etc. ....
Paid C. H. Hutchinson :
I cover, 103 pounds at 3c.
2^^ pounds brass pins at 30c. .
1 grate and trap, 171 pounds at 3c. .
2 traps, 2 grates, i solid cover, 524
pounds at 3c.
2^ pounds brass pins
6 grates, 595 pounds at 3c.
I trap, 70 pounds at 3c. .
I J pounds of iron at 3c. .
6 traps, 450 pounds at 3c.
4i pounds brass pins at 30c.
$0.90
.70
.10
1.80
.61
.12
.12
1.6^
19
20
66,
37
7
13
45
8
35
3-97
3-09
•75
5-13
15-72
•75
I7-8S
2. 10
■05
^3-5°
1-35
490
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
6 traps, 2 grates, manhole and cover,
1,147 pounds at 3c. .
Manhole and cover, 435 pounds at 3c.
2? pounds of brass pins at 30c.
45 J hours' labor drilling traps, grates
Iron ......
Castings, 1,594 pounds at 34C.
Castings, 6 ps., 108 pounds at 3]c. .
Iron, 62 pounds at 3c. .
2 square grates, 147 pounds $4.78
Less 7 pounds old iron . .42
Boiler plate ....
3 traps, 224 pounds at 3c.
3 traps, 226 pounds at 3c.
3 grates, 289 pounds at 3c.
8 hours drilling at 40c.
li hours drilling castings at 40c. •
3 hours drilling and filing at 40c.
10 J hours on staples, for grates, etc
II hours' labor on grate pattern
3 brass pins for traps
3 brass pins, 12 J pounds brass .
25 hours repairing manhole pattern
loj hours drilling, riveting traps, etc.
Manhole and cover, 1,061 pounds at
3c. (d. 10) .
Manhole and cover, 520 pounds at 3c
Manhole and trap, 585 pounds at 3c
8 traps and 13 grates, 1,884 pounds at
3c
Manhole castings, 405 pounds at 3c
Manhole castings, 402 pounds at ^c
2 manholes and 2 covers, 1,052 at 3c
1 grate casting, 93 pounds at 3c.
2 cover castings, 195 pounds at 3c.
92 pounds of iron
$34-4^
14-55
■75
18.10
.28
51-78
3-51
.20
4-36
•63
6.72
6.78
8.67
3.20
.60
1.20
4.20
4.40
.90
•45
I. CO
3.60
3^-83
15.60
^7-55
56-52
12.15
1 2.06
31-56
2-79
5-85
•29
SEWERS AND DRAINS. 491
4 manholes aiid 3 covers, 2,054
pounds at 3c. . . . . ^61.62
8 grate castings, 770 pounds at 3c. . 23.10
I manhole, 430 pounds at 3c. . . 12.90
I manhole and cover, 540 pounds at
3c. ...... 16.20
6} hours drilling traps ... 2.60
4 hours blacksmithing on trap hooks 1.60
Manholes, grates and other castings,
11,689 pounds at 3c. • • • 35°-67
Brass pins, 8i pounds at 30c. . . 2.55
9J pounds of iron .... .31
49 hours' labor drilling traps, etc. . 19.60
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works, 3
grates, 315 pounds at 3c . . 9.45
Warren Harvey, 2 loads of stone . 8.00
Warren Harvey, i load of cover-
ing-stone ..... 6.00
Warren Harvey, 6 men J day
each ..... 9.00
Warren Harvey, h day, team . 2.00
Concord & Montreal Railroad, ma-
terial and labor furnished, grad-
ing around new sewer . . 235.26
$1,392.88
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid John Welcome, sharpening drills $5- 17
James Morrison, sharpening drills
and picks . . . . 8.49
D. F. Cressey, district No. 10,
sharpening tools, etc. . . 272.66
Leander Pope, sharpening tools,
etc. . . . . . 14-65
J. O. Tremblay, sharpening tools,
etc. 8.30
Willey & Rowe, sharpening tools,
etc. 11-50
;2i-77
492
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CEMENT, BRICK, STONE, AND LUMBER.
Paid Mrs. F. E. McKean . . . ^9.40
Paid Merrill & Freeman's account :
680 163-300 barrels Norton cement 980.55
23 barrels Portland cement . . 69.00
I barrel Portland cement . . 3.00
80 barrels Norton cement . . 116.00
1 barrel lime . . . . . 1.05
2 barrels Norton cement . . . 2.90
Paid Pettee & Adams, 35 barrels cement 53-9°
W. F. Head & Sons, 231 M. brick 1,501.50
W. F. Head & Sons, 28 M. brick,
at ^6.50 ..... 182.00
W. F. Head & Sons, 42 M. brick 273.00
F. S. Bodwell, 30 cesspool-stones
at $2.75 82.50
F. S. Bodwell, curbstone, corner
Hanover and Chestnut streets 5.50
F. S. Bodwell, labor . . . i4-43
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Company's account :
5,486 feet spruce lumber . . 143-26
28,196 feet spruce lumber, ^17 . . 479.20
56 chestnut posts .... 8.40
6,070 feet spruce, $17 . . . 103.19
1,508 feet hemlock boards . . 22.12
935 feet spruce . . . . 15-89
Sundry other small lots . . . 24.80
Paid Jere. Hodge, sapling, screws, and
labor . . . . . 12.80
A. C. Wallace, 200 feet clear pine,
at;^3o ..... 6.00
A. C. Wallace, 3,980 feet spruce,
at ^18 67.66
$4,178.05
SEWERS AND DRAINS. 493
Paid Concord Railroad, freight on brick
and sewer- pipe . . . $278.80
Boston & Maine, freight on sewer-
Pipe 24.55
Paid Walter Neal, labor of self and men $12.00
T. L. Thorpe, 401 lbs. sacking . 12.06
H. Hartshorn, 19 loads mortar
sand 4-75
J. B. Varick Co., bolts, washers,
band-iron, rope, battery-wire,
sperm oil, etc. . . . 16.31
Killey & Wadleigh, nails and other
hardware . . . . ii-93
Manchester Hardware Co., cop-
peras, steel wire, nails, hinges,
etc. ..... 12.82
Hallsville Grocery Store, kerosene
oil . . . . . . 2.72
A. N. Clapp, hardware, oil, nails,
etc. ..... 61.76
John B. Clarke, advertising pro-
posals for sewer-pipe . . ^o-75
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., rub-
ber packing for steam-drill . 3.00
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., ex-
press on above ... .35
S. M. Worthley, oil, etc. . . 9.04
J. Stickney, 10 yds. 56-inch white
duck ..... 2.50
J. Stickney, repairing leather hose 4.00
J. Stickney, i oil suit, delivered to
Mr. Phelps .... 2.25
Eager & Rand, kerosene oil . 8.43
503-35
494 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Eager & Rand, oatmeal, salt, soda,
alum, ginger, etc. . . . $10.97
Pettee &: Adams, 125 sacks . . 8.50
Joseph Quirin, 123 lbs. oatmeal . 6.15
Joseph Quirin, 2 dozen lamp-wicks .20
D. B. Varney, 3 railroad fares to
Lowell and return, to see about
iron sewer-pipe . . . 4.86
Whitten & Fifield, teams and hacks 22.50
Merrill & Freeman, 113 sacks . 4.52
A. Gorman, 13^ gallons oil . 1.89
A. & D. M. Poore, 400 lbs. Cum-
berland coal . . . . 1.20
I.. M. Aldrich, materials and labor
on tools . . . . . 6.58
T. F. Fifield, 20 gallons kerosene
oil . . . . . . 2.80
Manchester Street Railway, i pack-
age horse-car tickets . . 4.50
George Ames, horse-car fare, carry-
ing battery to and from Granite-
street sewer .... 9.50
J. J. Abbott, 2 lights, 24 x 28, and
setting, broken by blasting . 2.50
Head & Dowst, 7 feet ^-inch
sheathing . . . . .18
George C. Lord, 15 gallons of oil 2.10
$263.62
Total expenditures ..... $39,297.97
Balance . 254.40
^39>552-37
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation raised by tax .... $3,000.00
Transferred from the reserved fund . . . 221.89
$3,221.89
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. 495
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR.
Paid W. H, Bennett, city engineer . $900.00
W. H. Bennett, city engineer . 270.00
Harry T. Briggs, 6 days at $1.75 10.50
J, M. Kendall, 3^^ days at $3 . 10.50
John J. McDonough, 240 days at
$1.25 300.00
John J. McDonough, 36)2 days at
$1-25 45-63
George W. Wales, 277 days at
^1-75 484-75
Harrie M. Young, 313^ days at
$2 627.50
• $2,648.88
SUPPLIES AND OFFICE EXPENSES.
Paid W. H. Bennett :
Cash paid for binding and sewing
maps ...... $6.00
Horse-car fares, express charges, and
atomizing-tube for office
Postage stamps and cards .
Expenses in reference to sewer com-
mittee ......
Horse-car fares in April, May, and
June
Horse-car fares from July to Dec. 27,
1890 ......
I pencil sharpener for office
Paid H. M. Young :
Copy of court record
Express on paper, etc.
Boat hire .....
Repairs of tapes
Paid James W. Queen & Co., drawing
paper 25.95
1.60
2.00
2.60
3-70
6-35
1-75
•25
•Z2,
-25
3-50
496 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid James W. Queen & Co., pencils
and India ink . . . . $6.75
Frank H. Challis, 2,000 envelopes 6.00
Frank H. Challis, 2,000 letter
heads 6.75
Pike & Heald, i glass dish . . .15
Frost & Adams, drawing paper . 6.45
Frost & Adams, drawing paper . 8.85
J. Stickney, 5 yards 50-inch black
duck . . . . . 1.75
Albert Hilcken, 3 portfolios at
$6.50 19.50
Joel Daniels & Co., 2 rolls blue
process paper . . . . 6.00
Paid E. R. Coburn & Co. :
Haskell's Engineer's Handbook . 3.00
5 quires drawing paper . . . 19-70
T quart ink, i binder, 2 record books 3.05
Pencils, ink, etc. . , . . 5.78
Paid George Blanchett, 135^ yards
bleached cotton . . . 15-88
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
1 blank book ..... 6.25
12 blank books .... 6.60
2 blank books . . . . . 2.00
Ink, mucilage, paper, etc. . . 9.13
Paid Walter Blenus, repairing tapes for
city engineer . . . . 2.80
Weston & Hill, 5 yards flannel . 1.25
J. B. Varick Co., draftsman's
scale, cutting pliers, sponge,
tacks, and other hardware . 7.18
Head & Dowst, repairing transit
box .45
Head & Dowst, 3 hours' labor, ^/^
dozen 3-inch R. H. screws . .80
>2oo.35
ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT. 497
TEAM AND TEAM EXPENSES.
Paid H. M. Young, horse and carriage,
I day . . . . . $2.50
J. B. McCrillis & Son, 4 bolts, i
check-loop, and screw-up . . .40
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairing
wagon . . . . . 1. 00
John F. Woodbury, shoeing horse 9.50
John T. Beach, repairing team . 15-90
George W. Reed, use of horse and
wagon, Nov. and Dec, 1889 . 7.50
Thomas P. Riley, repairing and
oiling harnesses, Dec, 1889 . 5.60
Whitten & Fifield, use of team de-
livered to city engineer . . 232.00
A. H. Stark, painting wagon . 13-00
Frederick Allen, repairing saddle
and bridle .... .35
$287.75
SUNDRIES.
Paid Charles H. Wood, painting street
numbers and signs . . . $11 -55
John B. Clarke, printing 125 re-
ports 25.75
Manchester Hardware Co., i
scratch-awl, 3 ax handles, i 2-
foot rule . . . . . 1.20
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.,
sharpening transit rods . . .50
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 15
Pieces spruce, 2x3, sawed and
pointed ..... .85
John F. Gillis, 2 pair long-legged
rubber boots .... 8.00
Flint & Little, butts, bolt, 3^^
hours' labor in office . . r.i^
498
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Head & Dowst, lumber and labor
Jere. Hodge, 2,000 pine grade
stakes .....
Jere. Hodge, stair rail, etc. .
Thomas A. Lane, pipe, swing
joints, heavy brackets, etc., in
city engineer's office
Thomas A. Lane, 2 rail brackets .
Thomas A. Lane, 2 rail brackets .
Total expenditures
$12.43
18.00
1.24
3.26
•50
•50
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation raised by tax
RECEIPTS.
Received from Manchester Shoe Co., for
cleaning vaults .....
Received from James Bros, (overdraft)
S21.25
2.00
TRANSFERS.
Transferred from reserved fund
Transferred from reserved fund
$2.46
131.67
EXPENDITURES.
LABOR OF HEALTH OFFICER AND OTHERS.
Paid William M. Parsons, health officer,
one year's service, to Feb. i,
1890 ..... ^200.00
G. C. Hoitt, services i year, to
Feb. I, 1890 .... 200.00
$84.91
;,22i.<
$1,400.00
^23.25
$134-13
$1^557-38
g200,
.00
2,
,00
I,
,00
38.50
54.
00
622.
,00
Paid E. T. James, horse and buggy for
use of C. H. Reed, putting up
notices at pond . . . $5-oo
James Bros., use of team . . ii-5o
Fred T. Partelow, 5 hours' use of
boat ..... 7.50
Whitten & Fifield, horses and
double sleigh . . . . 3.00
Russell White, for horse railroad
fares . . • . . . 5 1 • 7°
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. B. Sawyer, postage, envelopes,
.stationery , . . . ^11.25
ii, 317-50
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 499
Paid J. B. Sawyer, services i year, to
Feb. I, 1890 .... 5
Daniel Harriman, i day's service
E. V. Turcotte, services
P. Dobbins, services 22 days as
special police, Goffe's Falls
Charles H. Reed, 24 days' service
Russell White, 311 days' service .
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., station-
ery ^1.87
H. E. Daniels, typewriting . . .90
Campbell & Williams, printing
placards . . . . . 2.00
A. S. Campbell & Co., printing
notices, etc. . . . . 18.25
John B. Clarke, printing licenses 4-S°
John B. Clarke, printing 150 re-
ports . . . . . 14.00
^1-52
$78.70
500 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. B. Sawyer, express charges and
lantern ..... $o-55
J. B. Sawyer, traveling expenses . 2.49
J. B. Sawyer, express charges, etc. 4.97
L. M. Aldrich, i box . . . .50
Edmund R. Angell, analysis of
water, in 1889 . . . 12.75
Edmund R. Angell, analysis of
Avater . . . . . 15-90
Timothy Shea, cleaning vault at
shoe-shop, 1888, by order of
the board of health . . . 42.50
F. X. Chenette, for removing
dead horse .... 4.00
H. W. Sawyer, distributing and
posting bills .... 2.75
Thomas Francceur,services in bury-
ing dead animals . . . 6.00
George Fletcher, expenses attend-
ing examination of Massabesic
lake . . . . . 16.00
$119.66
Total expenditures .... . $Ij557-38
REPAIRS OF SCHOOLHOUSES. •
Appropriation raised by tax .... $3,700.00
Balance unexpended on last year .... 264.27
RECEIPTS.
Received from P. Harrington, old fence
at Webster-street schoolhouse . . $30-00
Received from G. H. Dudley, for old
furniture sold ..... 40.00
REPAIRS OF SCHOOLHOUSES. 501
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from furniture and
supplies .... ^136.98
transferred from books and sta-
tionery . . . . 1 6 1. 41
transferred from evening schools 2 1 .43
transferred from tuition . . 202.27
EXPENDITURES.
MASON WORK.
PAINTING.
Paid R. Landers, materials and mason
work on school building . . $111.76
B. W. Robinson, materials and
mason labor on Youngsville
schoolhouse .... 90'59
B. W. Robinson, 5^ days' mason
labor at Main-street school-
house ..... 22.62
B. W. Robinson, whitewashing
and kalsomining and other la-
bor on seventeen schoolhouses 213.37
John J. Bennett, labor, mortar, and
brick, at Franklin-street school-
house . . . . . 1.75
Paid J. J. Abbott, painting in 10 school-
houses, setting glass . . . $122.03
John A. Sargent, painting, glazing,
etc. ...... 231.71
$522.09
$4,556-36
$440.09
;3-74
502
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR,
CLEANING VAULTS.
Paid S. H. Webster, for cleaning vaults
district No. 6 .
T. McKenna, for cleaning vaults
city .....
C. C. Webster, for cleaning vaults
Harvey District and Goffe's Falls
J. H. Proctor, for cleaning vaults
and shed .....
WOOD WORK.
Paid Head & Dowst, 75 feet pine, 5
hours' labor at Ash-street school
house ....
Smead ventilating system, Web
ster-street schoolhouse
G. H. Dudley, labor, hardware
lumber, and other materials
Smead Heating & Ventilating Co.
to amount of contract for intro-
duction of dry-closets into the
Webster-street schoolhouse
J. A. Swasey, putting blackboard
surface on new wooden boards
in high-school building
Paid Amoskeag Manf. Co. :
I window sill, Webster-street school-
house ......
51 feet i-inch sapling pine, Ash street-
schoolhouse . . . . .
99 feet I }^ -inch sapling pine, Ash-
street schoolhouse . . . .
30 feet 2-inch sapling pine, Ash-street
schoolhouse . . . . .
802 feet spruce sheathing .
5-5°
6.00
$4-25
855.80
1,286.45
500.00
37.00
.92
178'
•54
20.05
12.50
REPAIRS OF SCHOOLHOUSES. 503
Paid George Holbrook, labor, lumber,
hinges, zinc, etc., on cover to
scuttle. Franklin-street
153-43
82.70
63-52
105.63
PLUMBING AND IRON WORK.
Paid Pike & Heald, for work on furnaces ^30.00
D. J. Adams, fitting keys, repairing
sharpeners, etc. ... .80
S. C. Austin & Bro., labor and
materials for lightning-rods on
Ash-street, Webster-street, and
Lincoln-street schoolhouses . 48.00
Paid T. A. Lane, plumbing, piping, etc. :
In Main-street schoolhouse
In Lincoln-street schoolhouse .
In Franklin-street schoolhouse .
In other schoolhouses
Paid Amoskeag Manuf. Co., forging and
labor on flag poles . . . ^^6.55
Amoskeag Manuf. Co., desk-stand,
stoves, etc. .... 46-17
Pike & Heald, stoves, brooms, etc. 21.18
George H. Holbrook, labor on
windows at Webster-street school-
house ..... 1.50
Higging Bros. Co., reseating chairs
(5) 3-75
Temple & Farrington Co., rings,
shades, etc., Youngsville school-
house . . . . . 7-14
J. S. Avery, setting glass, etc. . 2.55
Emma J. Ela, setting glass, etc., 2
squares . . . • • -72
^2,709.79
^484.08;
^99-56-
Total expenditures ..... ^4,119.76
504 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to fuel .
$370-65
transferred to printing and
advertising
49.00
transferred to contingent ex-
penses
16.93
•
$436.58
Balance ....
$4,556-34
.02
EXPENDITURES.
Paid E. p. Johnson Co., 12,000 pounds
of coal at $'] per ton . . ^42.00
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 145,115
pounds coal at $6.50 per ton . 471.62
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 865,225
pounds coal at $6.25 per ton . 2,703.83
L. B. Bodwell & Co., i ton of egg
coal, Clinton street . . . 6.25
Amount overdrawn on last year . 130-93
$4,556-36
FUEL.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . $3,200.00
TRANSFERS.
Transferred from furniture and supplies $256.15
from repairs of schoolhouses 370.65
from reserved fund . . 7.45
$634.25
$3^834-25
$3'354-63
FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES.
505
CHARCOAL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 4 barrels of
charcoal .....
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 2 barrels of
charcoal .....
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., i cord of
hard wood ....
Cleaves N. Harvey, wood and saw-
ing (48 cords hard, 18 pine) .
E. C. Haskell, i load of wood
Augustus Brown, sawing wood.
Franklin-street and Amoskeag
schoolhouses ....
$7.00
460.02
2.00
7-50
$476.52
3.834-25
FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES.
Appropriation raised .by tax
Balance (overdraft)
$1,000.00
.11
$1,000. II
EXPENDITURES.
CHEMICAL APPARATUS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid Educational Supply Co., i large
Kipps' apparatus . . . $6.00
Tebbetts & Soule, test tubes, chem-
icals, apparatus, supplies . . 18.21
E. S. Ritchie &: Son, apparatus and
supplies . . , . . 96-13
506 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Albert Somes, railroad fares to
Boston for self and G. I. Hop-
kins ..... $5-2o
freight and cartage on apparatus . . 75
HARDWARE.
FURNITURE.
Paid Killey & Wadleigh, i dozen
feather dusters . . . ^3-25
Killey & Wadleigh, feather dusters,
sponges, brooms, etc. . . i7-85
Manchester hardware Co., snow
shovel, feather dusters, waste
baskets, shipping tags, floor
brushes, step-ladder, hemp
twine, and other kinds hardware
Pike & Heald, dust pans, ash hods,
wire mats, brooms, etc.
J. B. Varick Co., 3 No. 14 floor
brushes, i shovel
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., sta-
tionery ^^-33
W. P. Goodman, rubber band and
note cap ..... .98
Novelty Advertising Co., block
card boards .... 3.90
John B. Clarke, i ream of paper . 3.00
92.
51
215-
,19
6.
30
Paid Charles A. Hoitt & Co., 6 wood
chairs ;^5-r5
Higgins Brothers Co., i cherry
chair ..... 2.25
^126.29
$335-1°
;^26.2i
FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES. 507
Paid Higgins Brothers Co., use of 35
folding chairs, Opera House, for
graduating class . . . $i-5°
Winchester Furniture Co., 52 sq.
ft. of slate . . . . 11-96
S. E. Butterfield, goods . . 3.00
R. D. Gay, window shades . . 6.00
H. C. Dickey, work on portable
seat 2.30
J. L. Hammett, 2 dozen 3-foot
blackboard pointers ... 1.80
Ginn & Co., 2 new 2d music
charts . . . - • • 15-25
Everett O. Fisk & Co., map of
Europe, map of Russian Em-
pire .....
"The Kitchen," 2 bracket lamps
at Bakersville schoolhouse . . .59
SUNDRIES.
8.00
Paid Harley & Robbie, ribbon, high-
school diplomas . . . ^10.10
W. H. Elliott, for 4 pitch-pipes i.oo
John Kane . . • • 1-15
W. H. Vickery, for 4 keys and re-
pairs on locks and keys . . 1.50
A. A. Jenkins, for tuning pianos at
6 schoolhouses . . . 9.50
R. E. McKean, chamois bag for
telescope at the High School . 3.50
H. L. Hall, repairing clock at Ash -
street school .... i.oo
Henry W. Allen, repairing draw-
ing instruments, High School . 2.00
$57.80
^29.75
Total expenditures .... . $575-i5
508
KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to fuel . . . ^256.15
Amount transferred to repairs of school-
houses . . . . . . 136.98
Balance overdrawn January i , 1 890 (ex-
pended in 1889) ....
$393-13
31-83
$1,000.11
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Appropriation raised by tax .
Balance from last year, unexpended
EXPENDITURES.
^400.00
IOI.I9
$501.19
Paid W. E. Buck, cash paid for i set
People's Cyclopedia for the
Hallsville school
W. E. Buck, cash paid for postage
Ginn & Co., music books .
W. P. Goodman, record book and
stationery ....
Manchester post-office, postage
and envelopes for the use of
schoolboard ....
Temple & Farrington Co., sta-
tionery .....
Temple & Farrington, Co., sta-
tionery, envelopes .
Balch Brothers, i set Redpath's
History, high-school library
)20.00
10.00
2.50
4.14
17.20
16.01
8.00
20.00
PRINTING AND ADVERTISING. 509
Paid Novelty Advertising Co., 6 sheets
cardboard and cutting . . ^0.40
Houghton & Mifflin, Riverside
literature . . . . 5.20
• Prang Educational Co., color
boxes, Whatman paper, 100
pads ..... 37-9°
Total expenditures
•
^141-35
TRANSFERS.
)unt transferred to printing and
advertising
$22.03
transferred to contingent ex-
penses ....
176.40
transferred to repairs of school-
houses ....
161. 41
$359-84
501.19
PRINTING AND ADVERTISING.
Appropriation raised by tax .... . $400.00
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from books and sta-
tionery ....
$22.03
transferred from repairs of
buildings ....
49.00
transferred from tuition
21.25
$92.28
Balance
10.00
EXPENDITURES.
Balance overdrawn (expended in 1S89) . . $113.23
510 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co., 200 postals
and printing same . . . ^2.75
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tizing teachers' examinations, 2I
inches 4 days .... 5.00
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising examination of teachers
and pupils .... 12.25
Union Publishing Co., advertis-
ing teachers' examinations, 3
squares, 4 times . . . 7.50
Union Publishing Co., advertis-
ing teachers' examinations, 5
sq., daily 6, w. 2 t. . . 25.00
Paid John B. Clarke :
Advertising teachers' examination, 5
sq. 4 t. (Jan. 15) . . . 9.25
400 reports, 66 pages and cover . 41.00
Advertising teachers' examinations, 50
L, w. 2 t., d. 6 t. (July3i) . . 32.75
Printing circulars of all kinds, blank
forms of all kinds, and postal cards,
bill headings, etc.,- used in the su-
perintendent's office . . . 210.55
Printing 400 music programs and
dates ...... 7.75
Blank-book orders, 200 leaves . . 4*00
1,500 report cards (November) . 12.50
Blanks 18.75
^389-05
Total expenditures for 1890 ... . ^502.28
CONTINGENT EXPENSES. 511
CONTINGENT EXPENSES.
Appropriation raised by tax .... |Soo.oo
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from books and sta-
tionery . . . . ^176.40
transferred from repairs of
schoolhouses . . . 16.93
transferred from tuition . . 132.66
1325-99
$1,125.99
EXPENDITURES.
FREIGHT, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid Jones's city and baggage express,
freight and truckage . . $40.09
John S. Avery, setting 7 lights of
glass at High School . . 2.90
S. A. Hill, setting glass and win-
dow cord, repairs ... 6.13
Carl E. York, washing-powder and
soap ..... 3.64
C. A. Hoitt, repairing 3 chairs . 2.00
J. G. Jones, freight bills and
trucking . . . . 8.18
WATER AND CiAS.
Paid Water- Works, for water . . $336.90
People's Gas-Light Company, for
gas 164.36
Paid Charles H. Manning, expense to
Milford, Mass., and return, in
quest of high-school assistant $7- 20
)2.94
$501.26
512 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid W. C. Richardson, moving settees
from City Hall and Webster-
street schoolhouse to engine-
house on Webster street, and
back again .... $12.58
E. T. James, horse and carriage
for committee ....
A. A. Jenkins, tuning pianos
Higgins Bros., use of 35 chairs at
school festival, Opera House
Higgins Bros., labor draping flag
W. Heron, Jr., writing diplomas
W. E. Buck, carriage hire and
other expenses
J. M. Kendall, cartage of models,
evening drawing schools .
William H. Vickery, for keys
Lizzie M. Cogswell, labor on ac-
count of free text-books, superin-
tendent's office
C. A. Trefethen, repairing clocks
C. A. Trefethen, clock for superin-
tendent's office . . . 4.50
F. P. Colby, moving pianos at 3
schoolhouses .... i4-5o
Manchester Opera House Co., for
use of Opera House i night . 25.00
B. N. Wilson, services as door-
keeper at Opera House, high-
school graduation . . . i.oo
J. B, Varick Co., 40 lbs. Manilla
rope (i inch) .... 6.40
6. CO
19.00
1.50
.80
27-35
82.32
•95
.80
50.00
6.00
„S265.9o
Total expenditures ..... $830.10
Balance overdrawn (expended in 1889) • •295.89
$1,125.99
CARE OF ROOMS. 51S
CARE OF ROOMS.
Paid appropriation raised by tax . . . . $3,300.00.
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from tuition . . $86.76
Amount transferred from evening school,
mechanical drawing . . . 135-93
EXPENDITURES.
Paid J. S. Avery, janitor of High, Ash,
and Wilson Hill schoolhouses $600 00
James E. Bailey, janitor of Amos-
keag schoolhouse from Decem-
ber 24, 1889, to September 20,
1890 ..... 167.87
Alverta P. Barrett, janitor Harvey
District, at $1.50 per week . 18.00
Ella F. Barker, at Hallsville, at
$1.50 per week
E. P. Cogswell, at training school
H. C. Dickey, Bakersville school-
house .....
D. S. Dunbar, at Mosquito Pond .
H. H. Proctor, at schoolhouse, Dis-
trict No. 8 . . . .
Emma J. Ela, at Harvey District
V. W. Fairbanks, at Webster-street
and Blodget-street schools, i wk. io-5o
Michael Finley, at Webster-street
and Blodget-street schools, to
September 30, 1890 . . . 391. 68
33
57-
oo-
5°-
oS
50-
08
20.
00
5'
■25
29.50
$3,522.69,
514 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Ruby Fox, at Youngsville school-
house ^15-00
Samuel A. Hill, at West Manches-
ter schoolhouse (12 months) . 525.00
William H. Morrill, at Spring-street
and Lowell-street schoolhouses
(11 months) .... 35o-o4
Frank Quartz, at Goffe's Falls . i4-5o
A. M. Robinson, at Stark District 40.25
William Stevens, at Lincoln and
Franklin schools (12 months) . 600.00
Mrs. M. Tracy, cleaning at Web-
ster's Mills schoolhouse . . 3.50
Otis L. Webster, at Webster's Mills 16.00
Dollie R. Webster, at Webster's
Mills 5.50
Mrs. Peter Fish, cleaning at the
Hallsville schoolhouse . . 1.50
Mrs. Nathan Sleeper, cleaning at
the Hallsville schoolhouse . 2.50
Inez M. Warren, cleaning school-
house. Stark District . . 3.00
Total expenditures in 1890 .... ^35376.75
Balance overdrawn, January 1, 1890,
(expended in 1889) ...... i45j94
^3,522.69
EVENING SCHOOLS.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $1,500.00
EXPENDITURES.
SALARIES.
Paid Frank C. Livingston, 23 evenings
at $2.20 ..... $50.60
F. C. Baldwin, 23 evenings at
$2.20 ..... 50.60
EVENING SCHOOLS. 515
Paid Maud L. Kent, 23 evenings at
$1.00 ^23.00
Chas. E. Cochran, 88 evenings at
$2.20 193-60
Etta S. Dana, 88 evenings at 90c. 79.20
Mary A. Buzzell, 5 evenings at 90c. 4.50
Cora M. Dearborn, i evening at
^1-50 ^-5°
Chas. W. Bickford, 88 evenings at
^2.20 193-60
Emma J. Ela, 27 evenings at ^i. 00 27.00
Lizzie Hartford, 28 eveningsat 90c. 25.20
Lizzie Hartford, 45 evenings at
$1.00 ..... 45-00
Maggie Linen, 22 evenings at 90c. 19.80
Emma B. Abbott, 17 evenings at
90c. 15.30 •
Nellie M. Atwood, 23 evenings at
$1.00 ..... 23.00
C. A. Bohlin, 45 evenings at 90c. 40.50
L. H. Carpenter, 37 evenings at
$2.20 ..... 81.40
Nellie M.James, 33 evenings at 90c. 29.70
Samuel C. Kennard, 31 evenings
at ^i.oo ..... 31-00
Maggie Linen, 30 evenings at 90c. 27.00
Wm. J. Mooar, 36 evenings at 90c. 32.40
F. S. Sutcliffe, 45 evenings at
^2.20 ..... 99.00
Fannie L. Sanborn, 35 evenings at
90c 31.50
^1,124.40
JANITORS.
Paid Wm. H. Morrill, services as janitor ^62.60
Samuel A. Hill, services as janitor
cleaning Clinton-street school-
house ..... 25.90
•50
516
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Wm. P. Goodman, i dozen copy-
books, No. 5 . . . .
PRINTING.
Paid Union Pub. Co., advertising even-
ing schools 6 times .
John B. Clarke, advertising even-
ing schools 6 times .
John B. Clarke, printing placards
Daily Press Pub. Co. .
$0.96
$14-00
5-25
8.00
^0.96
$37-45
Paid People's Gas Light Co. . . $3-5°
Total expenditures for 1889 . . . .
Balance overdrawn last year (expended in 1889)
Amount transferred to repairs of schoolhouses
•5»
1,254.81
223.76
21.43
$1,500.00
EVENING SCHOOL, MECHANICAL DRAWING.
Appropriation raised by tax .
Balance unexpended last year
5600.00
351-66
5q';i.66
EXPENDITURES.
SALARIES. ,
Paid J. M. Kendall, for services .
H. W. Allen, for services .
A. H. Sanborn, for services
ii4i.oo
229.25
143-50
;i3'75
EVENING DRAWING SCHOOL. 517
JANITOR.
Paid W. H. Morrill, for services . ^23.40
Paid E. R. Coburn, drawing paper and
T squares , . . . $22.88
E. R. Coburn, drawing paper, 2
reams . . . . . 36.00
Jones's city and baggage express,
moving models . . . i.oo
Temple & Farrington Co., 800
sheets paper printed in checks . 5.75
TRANSFERS.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, 47 hours' labor . ^11.75
L. M. Aldrich, lumber, paint, etc. 12.68
L. M. Aldrich, lumber and labor 17.26
Union Publishmg Co., advertising
evening schools, mechanical
drawing, 5 sq. 5 t. . . . 15-00
John B. Clarke, advertising even-
ing schools, mechanical draw-
ing 15-67
John B. Clarke, printing cards, etc. 9.25
Daily Press Publishing Co. . . 10.50
Amount transferred to care of rooms . $135 -93
Amount transferred to teachers' salaries 120.84
$23.40
:.6'.
Total expenditures for 1S90 . . . . 694.89
^256.77
$951.66
518
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
TEACHERS' SALARIES.
Appropriation raised by tax .
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from evening
school, drawing . . $120.84
transferred from free text-books 2.44
transferred from reserved fund 1,801.94
j,ooo.oo
Balance paid from money in treasury,
wise appropriated
not other-
551,925.22
93.86
$46,019.08
EXPENDITURES.
teachers' pay-roll.
Paid for the month of:
January .
February .
March
April
May
$4,175-05
4,616.53
4,611.59
4,257-23
4,655-18
June
August
September
October ,
November
December
• 4,727-41
50.00
4,406.75
. 4,730-88
4,599-48
4,574-77
$45,404-87
614.21
Amount overdrawn (expended in 1889)
$46,019.08
FREE TEXT-BOOKS. 519
TUITION.
To balance from l^st year . . . $14.19
W. E. Buck, superintendent, fees col-
lected of sundry pupils . . 428.75
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to repairs of school-
houses .... $202.27
transferred to printing and ad-
vertising . . . . 21.25
transferred to contingent ex-
penses .... 132.66
transferred to care of rooms . 86.76
EXPENDITURES.
TEXT-BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid F. M. Ambrose . . . . «=;8.oo
FREE TEXT-BOOKS.
Paid Warren P. Adams . . . $483.20
American Book Co. . . . 377>4o
Boston School Supply Co. . . 12.75
^2.94
^442-94
FREE TEXT-BOOKS.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $9,000.00
RECEIPTS.
Received from Gillott & Sons (overdraft) . . $7-55
.007-55
$58.00.
520
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. S. Barnes & Co.
^251.30
Clark & Maynard
42.00
E. R. Coburn & Co. .
148.48
D. C. Colesworthy
'43.60
John B. Clarke
96-35
Joel Daniels & Co.
77.72
Dion & Co.
30.46
Effingham, Maynard & Co.
87.96
Faunce Linus
10.00
Frost & Adams
2-34
Ginn &: Co.
1,322.75
Gillott & Sons
50-33
W. P. Goodman . . . .
66.58
J. L. Hammett . . . .
435-28
D. C. Heath & Co. .
204.42
Henry Holt & Co.
86.11
Harper & Brother
152-15
H. Hume ....
330-45
J. J. Holland & Co. .
5-95
Holden Book Cover Co.
188.17
Ivison, Blakeman & Co.
381.30
N. T. Joy .
10.75
King & Merrill .
189.74
Chas. H. Kilburn
36-35
Lee & Shepard .
69.34
Leach, Sherwell & Sanborn
10.20
J. B. Lippincott & Co.
866.75
Novelty Advertising Co.
11-35
Porter &: Coates .
45-30
G. S. Perry ....
102.85
Reynolds & Reynolds Co. .
86.23
A. C. Stockin
321.20
Salisbury Manuf. Co. .
17.00
Silver, Burdett & Co. .
127.35
Carl Schoenhof .
110.92
J. Stickney ....
.60
Willard Small .
12.76
CITY LIBRARY.
521
Paid Thompson, Brown & Co.
^200.98
The Prang Educational Co.
598.01
Thorp & Adams Manuf. Co.
18.00
C. P. Trickey ....
4.40
W. Ware & Co
1,004.30
Houghton, Mifflin & Co.
5.10
Manchester Heating and Lighting
Co
7-56
University Pub. Co.
4.17
$8,806.26
LABOR.
Paid J. G. Jones, truckage, etc.
^32-25
H. E. Daniels, type writing
•85
Lillian Gray, labor
3-3°
Lillian Stearns, labor .
•95
Fannie L. Sanborn, labor
99-5°
Maud L. Kent, labor .
2.00
Lizzie Cogswell, labor .
60.00
$198.85
Total expenditures for 1S90
.
$9,005.11
Amount transferred to teachers' salaries
2.44
^9'Oo7-55
CITY LIBRARY.
Balance unexpended January 1, 1890 .
$2,628.05
Appropriation . •.
4,000.00
Appropriation for catalogue .
.
2,500.00
Appropriation for new books
*
1,000.09
$10,128.05
EXPENDITURES.
LIBRARIAN AND ASSISTANT.
Paid Mrs. M. J. Buncher, librarian
Alton F. Payne, assistant librarian
5000.00
335-72
ii, 135-72
522 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CATALOGUE.
Paid C. A. Durfee .... $748.00
Mary P. Stone .... 20.33
John B. Clarke,printing catalogue.
and corrections . . . 84.00
Temple & Farrington Co., card-
board, gummed letters and figures
for catalogue . . . • 20.00
Head & Dowst, lumber and labor 2.67
RE-BINDING AND RE-SEWING.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.,re-binding
and re-sewing . . . • $^5^-9''^
NEW BOOKS.
Paid trustees, to be expended for new
books $1,000.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., binding
books, etc. . . , . $194-85
GAS, WATER, FUEL, AND INSURANCE.
Paid L. B. Clough, agent, insurance of
$10,000 on library contents . $100.00
L. B. Bodvvell & Co., .1 cord of
hard pine slabs . . . 5.00
L. B. Bodvvell & Co., 15 pounds
ice daily, May 30 to September
18, 1889 8.50
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 15 pounds
ice daily, June 19 to September
5, 1890 4-12
$875.00
$156.91
$1,000.00
;^i94-85
CITY LIBRARY. 523
Paid Water- Works, for water for the year
1890 ^32-00
People's Gas-Light Co. . . 216.86
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 89,690
pounds of egg coal . . . 280.28
^646.76
NEWSPAPERS.
Paid John B. Clarke, "Daily Mirror,"
from April i, 1889, to April i,
1890 $6.00
Paid John B. Clarke, printing 200 an-
nual reports . . . . $11.00
Temple & Farrington Co., paper,
pens, ink; blotting paper, blank
books, and other stationery . 67.91
C. F. Livingston, printing 21,500
book covers . . . • 21.50
C. F. Livingston, cover paper,
freight, cartage of same . . ii8-S5
N. P. Hunt, expenses to Boston to
buy books .... 4.00
N. P. Hunt, postage . . . 1.68
^224.64
Total expenditures for 1890 ... . $4,239.88
Balance to new account .... . 5,888.17
$10,128.05
524
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation raised by tax .
RECEIPTS.
Received from district 2, for team la-
bor from January to August
30, 1890 .... $2,355.72
from district 2, for team labor 1,026.00
Received from district 10, for team la-
bor, January to August 30,
1890 .
from district 10, for team la-
bor .....
Received from John Lennon (overdraft)
TRANSFERS.
Transferred from reserved fund
Balance ......
EXPENDITURES.
SERVICE.
Paid Thomas W. Lane, chief engineer .
Fred S. Bean, assistant engineer .
Ruel G. Manning, assistant en-
gineer . . . . .
Eugene S. Whitney, assistant en-
gineer . . . . .
Clarence D. Palmer, assistant en-
gineer .....
Clarence B. Merrill, engineer
Fred S. Bean, clerk
5810.50
507-25
;,ooo.oo
^3>38i-72
11,317-75
6.00
^i»797-35
.10
;4i,502.92
;i,ooo.oo
125.00
125.00
125.00
62.50
62.50
25.00
;i, 525.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
525
Paid 1 8 teamsters and engineers, as per pay-rolls :
January .
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October .
November
December
call , members, Amoskeag Steam
Fire Engine Co., for the year
1890 .....
extra duty, 2 men, July 3 and 4 .
call members. Fire King Steam
Fire Engine Co., for the year
1890 .....
extra duty, 2 men, July 3 and 4 .
call members, N. S. Bean Steam
Fire Engine Co., for tlie year
1890 .....
extra duty, 2 men, July 3 and 4 .
call members, Merrimack Steam
Fire Engine Co., for the year
1890 .....
extra duty, 4 men, July 3 and 4 .
call members, Gen. Stark Steam
Fire Engine Co., for the year
1890 .....
extra duty, 4 men, July 3 and 4 .
call members, Chemical Engine
Co., for the year 1890
extra duty, 4 men, July 3 and 4 .
$900.75
964.50
939-5°
955-00
924.00
924.00
913.00
913 50
922.25
954-25
1,001.00
1,010.00
;i,476.66
8.00
1,385.00
8.00
1,456-25
8.00
1,460.00
8.00
1,485.00
8.00
435- 00
8.00
-II;32I-7S
626
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid call members, Massabesic Hose
Co., for the year 1890 . . $1,245.00
extra duty, 4 men, July 3 and 4 . 8.00
call members, Pen nacook Hose Co.,
for the year 1890 . . . 1,245.00
extra duty, 4 men, July 3 and 4 . 8.00
call members, Excelsior Hook and
Ladder Co., for the year 1890 . 1,935.00
A. E. Foster, 14 days driving . 21.00
Thomas Brown, 16 nights doubling
driver, Pennacook Hose Co.
No. I .... . 4.00
John Burke, 8 nights driving
doubling horse. Chemical . . 2.00
Henry Crosby, extra driving . ii-75
A. B. Cushing, extra driving, 7
days . . . . . 12.25
George W. Dimick, driving for
Steamer No. 3, 17 nights
extra ..... 4.25
John T. Gott, 2 days driver Hose
No. I, at $1.75 . . . 3.50
Henry C. Parsons, 45 days driving
back-street team . . . 67.50
Benjamin R. Richardson, i day
driving Hose No. 2 . . . 1.50
Benjamin R. Richardson, 14 days
engineer. Chemical Engine Co. 21.00
H. S. Reed, driving .supply-wagon
at 2,6 alarms .... 36.00
John Shea, driver of hose for
Steamer No. 2, i day, 2 nights 2.50
John Shea, driving 'Squog horse
5 days 7.50
vStephen Thomas, 14 nights as
doubling driver, on Fire King
No. 2 .... . 3.50
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
527
Paid Stephen Thomas, 6 days' labor on
boiler .....
George E. Varnum, driver Steamer
No. 2 (i week)
Edwin E. Weeks, 25 1/^ days, en-
gineer of Merrimack Steamer
No. 3
Henry A. Brown, use of horse for
doubling, chemical engine
John K. Wilson, 51^ days' labor
at Vine-street station
John K. Wilson, lumber and hard-
ware .....
John K. Wilson, lumber and labor
$6.00
12.50
44-52
1 1. 00
15-75
6.40
21.63
^12,502.96
Paid Mrs. G. H. Wheeler .
Mrs. G. B. Forsaith .
Mrs. S. B. Batchelder .
Mrs. M. H. Hulme
FURNITURE, ETC.
Paid D. A. Simons, 3 iron cuspidors
and I dozen mugs
D. A. Simons, 2 towel-racks
Paid Weston & Hill:
Crash ......
I dozen pillow-cases, i dozen sheets,
flannel, silk, making and hanging
curtains, rubber mats, etc.
I dozen pillow-slips .
Crash and towels
Matting and laying for Pennacook
Hose No. I .
Yz dozen pillow-cases for Chemical
Engine Co., 17^3 yds. 5-4 inch
matting, zincing ends
^a.oo
14.00
5-45
32.80
^2.88
.90
2.38
23.90
2.00
5-13
10.30
1S.22
50.25
528
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
65^ yds. matting, zincing ends . $53-i3
Zincing . . . . . . 1.50
18^ yds. matting, zincing ends . 17.48
Rubber mat ..... 2.00
4 yds. opaque, fixtures, etc. . . 2.34
Charles A. Hoitt & Co., i wardrobe 13-00
Charles A. Hoitt & Co., i dressing-
case . . . . . . 9.00
Charles H. Colburn, 11 window and
door screen? and fitting same, for
Lake-avenue engine-house . . 14.00
Charles H. Colburn, castings and
labor on stall doors, at Merrimack
steam fire engine house
Jere. Hodge, 5 radiator boards, at
Lake-avenue engine-house
Paid Head & Dowst :
Lumber and labor ....
242 feet pine, Webster-street engine-
house ......
Lumber and labor, etc., for Lake-
avenue engine-house
Lumber and labor, etc., at Webster-
street engine-house
Paid C. H. Hutchinson, il hours' labor
C. H. Hutchinson, planing weight,
Vine-street engine-house, cast-
ings, stand-pipe, etc. . . 5-26
Temple & Farrington Co., making
and hanging shades, N. S. Bean
engine company . . . 10.66
J. K. Wilson, labor, lumber and
hardware . . . . . 35 -30
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid John B. Clarke, printing 250 re-
ports ..... ;^3o.oo
5-52
3-5°
7-30
9.68
45-5^
51-71
.60
^353-2o
FIRE DEPAKTMENT.
529
Paid John B. Clarke, envelopes, etc. . $20.05
John B. Clarke, 300 envelopes . 7.50
Temple & Farrington Co., sta-
tionery . . . . . 4.50
L. T. Mead, ink, letter paper and
record book . . . . 4.12
WATER, GAS, AND TELEPHONE.
Paid Water-Works, for water
^980.29
People's Gas-Light Co., for gas .
797.72
New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co., telephones, etc.
220.27
FUEL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
i^ cords of wood ....
$9.00
58,830 pounds of coal, at $6.50
191.20
302,665 pounds of coal
1,062.71
I cord of slab wood
5.00
2 barrels charcoal ....
1. 00
Paid Neil Fullerton, 12 cords cleft pine
wood . . . . .
54.00
Neil Fullerton, i]^ cords hard
wood .....
9.00
A. Nolette, sawing and putting in
wood
2.50
John Lenard, sawing and splitting
wood .....
12.00
Stephen Gardner, splitting wood .
15.00
S. L. Flanders, ijA cords of wood
10.38
TRUCKING AND FREIGHT.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad for
freight
$0.90
Con«ord Railroad, for freight
14.69
John W. Wilson, for trucking
12.85
J. G. Jones, for trucking
•50
17
^1,998.28
'1. 371-79
;28.94
630
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Plumer & Holton, 14 reefer coats ^122.50
A. R. Gage, i pair gray horses . 400.00
Cavanaugh Bros., span of gray
horses . . . . • 650.00
Eureka Fire Hose Co., 3,000 feet
hose 1,800.00
Samuel Eastman & Co., 3 Perfec-
tion nozzles and holders . . 105.00
Paid Cornelius Callahan Co. :
2 Regan plaster-hooks and poles . 20.00
2 shut-off nozzles .... 30.00
2 flexible pipes . . . . . 30.00
5 white rubber surf coats . . . 37-5°
3 sets call couplings .... 10.50
Nickel plating 2 snaps . . . • 1.25
2 Baltimore snaps . . . . 5.00
2 extinguisher holders . . . 20.00
1 14-inch gong striker . . . 6.00
2 belts ...... 30.00
I HoUoway extinguisher . . . 26.00
Paid Dennis Kerwin, soap and soapine 16.15
J. H. Wiggin & Co., ammonia
and sugar . . . . 2.77 .
D. Milton Goodwin, i dozen
H. brooms .... 4.50
L. M. Aldrich, mending pike pole .25
A. S. Jackson, i dozen spanners . 5.15
J, Hinman, 6 dozen bottles and
corks, for fire extinguishers . 5.00
Manahan Manufacturing Co., i
dozen ladder hooks and express 12.30
Sanborn Carriage Co., i straight
hydrant wrench, etc. . . 1.55 *
Sanborn Carriage Co., 37 brackets,
steel stride bar, etc. . . . 17.10
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
531
Paid J. J. Abbott, setting glass .
James R. Carr, painting and glaz-
ing
S. L. Flanders, oil, chimneys, etc
Charles H. Hutchinson, labor on
Stark hose wagon
D. M. Poore, for 3 boxes of salt
H. Fradd, matches and oil .
H. Fradd, 125 pounds bran
Peter Milon, varnishing 2 wheels
Merrimack steam fire engine
A. S. Jackson, for 6 squilgees
A. S. Jackson, for 2 sets ax holders
A. S. Jackson, for 6 globes, i ruby
Scollay & Rich, for polish, etc.
J. A. W. Bird & Co., i barrel
bicarbonate of soda
Merrimack Chemical Co., 6 car
boys vitriol ...
Geo. C. Lord, matches, soapine,
oil, and wicks . . . .
$6.14
16.53
2.23
2.10
.60
•30
1.38
2.50
7-50
4.00
12.00
10.85
15-93
13-45
.80
^3»454-83
PLUMBING AND REPAIRS.
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works
$582.69
Pike & Heald
.
38.88
Thos. A. Lane
HARDWARE.
219.31
Paid Killey & Wadleigh
. . .
$69.98
J. B. Varick Co.
.
2.29
Manchester Hardware
Co. .
128.67
$840.88
$200.94
582 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
MEDICAL AND SURGICAL.
Paid EUingvvood &: Co., i barrel
"El-a-tol" .... $12.00
Snelling & Wood, arnica, horse
medicine, alcohol, etc. . . 38-55
Edward H. Currier, i}4 dozen of
Williams' Sure Cure . . . 10.50
A. W. Baker, dental work on 7
horses ..... i^.oo
J. Blakely, services as veterinary
surgeon ..... 91-50
George H. EUinwood, veterinary
dentistry ..... 4.00
Frank L. Way, for arnica . . .85
Z. Foster Campbell, horse med-
icine, powders, liniment, etc. . 20.91
CARRIAGE WORK AND CARRIAGE REPAIRS.
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs
and other carriage work . . $554-88
J. B. McCrillis & Son, i platform
spring wagon ....
375-00
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs, etc.
84.82
Sanborn Carriage Co. .
23.40
A. Filion
13-50
J. B. McCrillis & Son, i combi-
nation hose wagon .
800.00
John T. Beach, N. S. Bean hose
wagon
400.00
KLACKSMITHING.
id Thomas Hickey ....
$22.00
D. F. Cressey ....
95-35
Mahaney & McSweeney
260.78
$192.31
$2,251.60
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 533
Paid Jos. O. Tremblay . . . $118.75
John F. Woodbury & Co. . . 147-90
Alonzo E. Gage, shoeing . . 4.00
Welcome & Sons, springs on new
yol^e 4.75
I653.53
1-75
HAY AND GRAIN.
Paid H. Fradd & Co., 40 bags of oats .
H. Fradd & Co., 175 pounds of
bran .....
Wm. Clark, 13,685 pounds of hay 111.61
Moore & Preston, 885 pounds of
straw . . . . . 7.97
G. W. Butterfield, 1,620 pounds of
liay 14.58
Daniel Butterfield, 19,075 pounds
of hay . . . . . 166.15
L. Rowe, 2,260 pounds of hay . 19-31
C. H. Rogers, 200 pounds rye
straw ..... 2.20
G. E. Lane, 980 pounds of hay . 8.82
Mary Cressey, 1,485 pounds of hay ^3-3^
Chas. D. Welch, 10,970 pounds
of hay . . . . . 98-73
John L. Woodman, 12,385 pounds
of hay 1 1 1.46
L. Shelters, 25,063 pounds of hay 219.35
Pettee & Adams, oats, bran, etc. . 424.95
Drake & Dodge, oats and meal . 40-95
Parker R. Brown, oats . . . 19-44
Drake & Parker, oats, shorts, etc. 295.81
Merrill & Freeman, oats, bran, etc. 278.36
Partridge Brothers, oats, bran, etc. 791-37
City farm, 26,615 pounds of hay . 231.79
C. M. Wheeler, 4,375 pounds
carrots ..... 39-38
534
REPORT OP THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid T. L. Emery, hay . . . ^37-87
A. D. Haynes, 6,980 pounds of
hay 55. 84
HARNESSES AND HARNESS REPAIRS.
Paid Thomas P. Riley, i pair of reins
(December, 1889) . . . $3-50
W. H. Adams, harness repairing,
etc. ...... 202.20
Charles E. Berry, 2 pairs harnesses 40.00
Charles E. Berry, 2 collars, box,
repairing hames . . . 26.25
Charles E. Berry, 4 pole snaps . 5.00
Granite State Plating Co., plating
rein snaps, check chains, ro-
settes, etc. .... 4.65
Paid H. C. Ranno & Son :
I Baker blanket .... 4.00
5 patent flail whips .... 10.00
I canvas cushion .... 2.75
1 large nickel-ring bit . . . 3-oo
2 Salem collars . . . . . 13-00
I bridle ...... 2.50
22 celluloid rings . . . . 4-3°
1 pair exercise harnesses . . . 40.00
2 Boston truck collars . . . 9-oo
New pieces and repairs . . . 83-55
I dozen 7-8 inch Ger. snaps . . .35
I dozen i-inch Ger. snaps . . .35
I set English wool bandages . . 2.25
I pair Kersey stable blankets . . 10.00
Paid Frederick Allen :
Oleo, blacking, etc. . . . *32-35
I pair heavy double harnesses . 75 -oo
Repairing harnesses, blankets, etc. 8.90
Paid D. S.Kimball, polish, rosettes, etc. 8.70
;, 023.05
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
535
Paid H. C. Ranno & Son :
I pair 90x96 Fawn street blankets . $14.00
1 leatherine street blanket . . 3.00
2 hame straps, 70c., 3 cans oil and
dressing . . . . . 1.95
26 celluloid rings .... 7.20
I whip, $1, I pair breeching straps . 2.50
I double swing harness . . . 50.00
Repairing and altering harness to
double ..... 17-50
Repairing pair of swing collars . 2.00
1 1 2-inch double pole strap . . 4.50
Repairing harness .... 2.75
2 Kersey stable blankets . . . 10.00
3 surcingles 2.55
2 whips . ..... 4.00
I pair nickel trimmed swing harnesses 100.00
3 swing collars .... 3.75
1 collar, 2 halters, bridle attachment 9.50
Repairing plow harness, etc. . . 3.75
2 wool blankets .... 15.00
2 Salem collars .... 13-00
Labor and strapping on hose wagon . 3.75
2 brushes ...... i.oo
LABOR OF MEN AND TEAMS.
Paid labor of men and teams from District No.
I863.30
jtxiiua.1 y
February .
39.50
March
. ■ . . . 39.00
April
33-75
May
28.50
June
28.50
July
63.50
August
66.00
536 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
September . . . . $57-75
October .... 31-50
November . . . . 52.12
December . . . . 43- 50
Paid E. G. McKean, rent of stable 2
weeks ..... $2.00
James Brothers, use of hack . 5.00
Joint Standing Committee on fire
department, Frank A. Lane,
chairman, expenses of said com-
mittee to Lawrence, Haverhill,
Worcester, and Boston, in the
interest of the aerial truck and
combination wagon :
Fares-. .... 21.72
Hotel and meals . . . 16.05
C. A. Trefethen, repairing clocks 9.00
Wheeler &: Rogers,* clipping horses 42.00
Jos. Breault, use of hack convey-
ing injured fireman to his resi-
dence ..... 2.00
Thomas W. Lane, cash paid ex-
press at sundry times
C. P. Trickey, blank books, etc.
George Gagnon, assisting steamer
to fire .....
Total expenditures for 1890 .
Amount transferred to fire-alarm telegraph
$590.12
8.65
3.21
1. 00
$110.63
$41,409.53
93-39
^I, 502.92
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH. 537
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... ^1,200.00
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from incidental ex-
penses $293.85
Amount transferred from fire department 93-39
$387.24
Received from D. B. Varney (overdraft) . . 20.00
$1,607.24
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Thomas W. Lane, Jr., 167 days at
$1-50 $250.50
Thomas W. Lane, Jr., 77 days at
$1-75 134-75
George E. Badger, 17 days at $1.25 21.25
Henry C. Parsons, 26 days at ^1.50 39-oo
$445-50
Paid Mason, Chapin & Co., 5 barrels of
blue vitriol, 2,500 at S/i^- ■ $i3''-25
Mason, Chapin & Co., 6 barrels of
blue vitriol, 2,859 ^^ 4j^c. . 139-38
W. H. Darling, 522 zinc castings
at 35c 182.70
Paid D. B. Varney :
106 zinc castings at 35c. . . . 57-io
381 zinc castings at 35c. . . . 98-35
8 composition castings at 35c. . . 2.80
2 J sheets of copper at 30c. . . .75
Paid J. B. Prescott & Son, 100 standard
zincs ..... 25.10
538
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manhattan Electric Supply Co. :
200 copper connections . . . $11.90
3 experimental coils .... 1.80
24 binding posts .... 1.73
Bell, switches, etc. .... 4.30
Paid J. H. Runnell & Co., jars, line,
tapping clamp, etc. . . . 13.33
Paid Rogers & DeCrow :
500 pony glass insulators, etc. . . i7-75
Lightning arresters .... 6.00
2 fire-alarm signal boxes . . . 250.00
50 main keys at 25c. . . . . 12.50
Paid American electric works, rubber,
etc 49.43
Washburn & Moen Manuf. Co.,
2ioi feet copper wire at i8^c. 39-47
Electric Gas-Lighting Co., i No.
2 screw driver .... .34
Electric Gas-Lighting Co., other
tools ..... To-39
Killey & Wadleigh, paints and oils
and hammer handles . . 6.68
Manchester Hardware Co., wire
nails, washers, and other hard-
ware ..... 12.59
C. H. Hutchinson, i pound iron
and labor on pins . . . 2.03
Sanborn Carriage Co., 7 tripods
and welding feet on two . . 6.10
Sanborn Carriage Co., making
over bolt, and other blacksmith-
ing ...... 6.20
Pike & Heald, soldering . . .85
J. Brodie Smith, renewing battery,
2 auto-burners, and other work
and materials .... 23.90
Head & Dowst, 266 feet spruce,
and labor ..... 7.52
$1,122.25
firemen's parade. 539
FREIGHT AND TRUCKAGE.
Paid Concord R. R., freight . . $3-4o
Boston & Maine R. R., freight . 4.03
John W. Wilson, truckage . . 1.75
$9.18
Paid James Brothers, team . . . ^8.50 $8.50
Total expenditures for 1890 . . . ^1,585.43
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to reserved fund . . . 21.81
^'1,607.24
HYDRANT SERVICE.
Appropriation raised by tax .... $18,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . 80.00
;^i8,o8o.oo
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Water-Works, for water :
ist quarter ..... ^4,390. 00
2d quarter
3d quarter
4th quarter
Total expenditures for 1890
4,550.00
4,550.00
4,590.00
$18,080.00
FIREMEN'S PARADE.
Appropriation raised by tax .... $500.00
Transferred to reserved fund . . • . 500.00
540
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation raised by tax ....
RECEIPTS.
Received from H. W. Longa :
Fines and costs
Fines and costs
Fines and costs
Fines and costs
51,616.92
1,389.22
1,527.78
1.238.39
Received from J. C. Bickford :
Clerk fees .....
^82.82
Clerk fees .....
496.36
Clerk fees
i75'34
Clerk fees .....
412.74
EXPENDITURES.
SERVICES.
Paid N. P. Hunt, police justice .
$1,500.00
I. L. Heath, associate justice
84.00
John C. Bickford, clerk
600.00
H. W. Longa, marshal
900.00
John F. Cassidy, assistant marshal
800.00
night patrol .....
20,349.00
day patrol
4,826.25
extra time of regular and special
patrol .....
2,249.54
Thomas Francoeur, as janitor
619-33
Miss A. B. Brown, matron .
365.00
GAS, FUEL, AND WATER.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., for gas . $742.60
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
20 tons of coal at $6.50 . . . 130.00
[1, 000. GO
;>772 31
$1,167.26
$37,939-57
12,293.12
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
541
II tons of coal at ^6.50 .
6 J cords of Hard wood
II 2" cords of hard wood .
52.8075 tons coal at ^6.25
Paid A. C. Wallace, i cord of wood
Water- Works, for water
L. B. Bod well & Co., 20 pounds
ice daily from May 8 to Oct. 31
45-5°
73-50
330-05
1-75
32115
15.20
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
Paid New England Telephone and Tele-
graph Co., use of telephones at
Central and Clinton-street sta-
tions, and tolls . . . $157-78
Western Union Telegraph Co.,
for telegrams . . . . 4° -39
!i. 731-25
ii98.i7
Paid D. H. Morgan, use of team
Whitten & Fifield, use of team
John N. Foss, use of team .
James Brothers
E. T. James
J. C. Nichols, use of teams .
$6.00
1. 00
4.00
2.25
151.00
3-25
FEEDING PRISONERS.
Paid Daniel Davis, for rations . . $117.00
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid John B. Clarke :
Criminal dockets and blank writs for
police court ..... $52.25
Printing 200 annual reports . . 16.00
Sundry advertisements . . . 31-50
$167.50
;ii7-oo
542 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Blanks, letter headings, etc. . . ^4i-75
I, ooo envelopes, 500 printed . . 2.75
Paid advertising notice to license dogs
(1889) ...... 21.50
advertising notice to license dogs 21.00
Paid Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising notice to license dogs . iS-oo
E. R. Coburn & Co., letter paper,
ink, etc., for police court . 5.17
Temple & Farrington Co., station-
ery for police court . . . 3.63
Temple & Farrington Co., sta-
tionery for marshal . . . 14-23
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co. : .
Police court docket, mittimus . . 8. 90
Blanks for court .... 25.00
Blank writs for marshal . . . 18.75
Blank writs and civil docket . . 6.50
Paid Campbell & Williams, civil dockets 19.00
Paid Thomas D. Luce, appeals certificate
to police court .... $4.00
labor of men and teams in district
No. 2 .... . 6.25
H. W. Longa, cash paid for wit-
ness' fees, teams, etc. . . 116.97
David Perkins, officers' fees on two
complaints .... 3.24
J. F. Cassidy, expenses to Boston
and return . . . . 5.00
Longa & Cassidy, conveying pris-
oners to the house of correction 784.00
Thomas Francoeur, killing 38 dogs 22.50
Ada Francueur, caring for lost chil-
dren ..... 13-00
502.93
POLICE DEPARTMENT. 543
Paid Ada Fiancoeur, washing towels,
blankets, etc. .... $69.00
Mrs. Filibert, scrubbing and clean-
ing 102.65
L. W. Colby, photographing crim-
inals ..... 8.00
Patrick Scollard, brooms, brushes,
matches, crackers, etc. . . 42.23
Clark M. Bailey, 2 cases of toilet
paper . , . . . 20.00
Clark M. Bailey, 15 pounds mop
yarn, 400 paper bags, etc. . 3.07
A. J. Wheeler, repairing police
belts ..... .40
W. H. Vickery, keys, repairing
locks, etc. .... 2.20
R. D. Gay, awnings and netting . 30.00
D. Evans iS: Co., i gross coat but-
tons ..... 10.00
D. Evans & Co., i gross vest but-
tons ..... 5-00
D. Evans &: Co., i gross small
buttons . . . . . 5- 00
R. D. Martin, engraving police
badge 3.00
J. Y. McQueston & Co., 2 cotton
mattresses .... 7.00
J. Y. McQueston & Co, 2 pairs of
pillows ..... 3.00
J. Y. McQueston & Co., other
supplies ..... 17.00
Carl E. York, brushes, brooms,
coffee, sugar, etc. . . . 18.89
Carl E. York, soapine . . . 4.93
Cark E. York, crackers . . i9-39
Novelty Advertising Co., stamp
and outfit .... .40
544 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Geo. Blanchet, gingham, crash,
towels, thread .... $5- 7°
Geo. D. Towne, M. D., services
in case John Moore . . . ' i-5o
Chas. E. Dodge, call in case of
John Brown .... 3-oo
John J. Holland, prescriptions,
ammonia, insect powder, etc.
(1889 and 1890) . . . 38.90
Lewis K. Mead, i carboy of am-
monia, bath brush, hairbrush,
comb, etc. .... 34-03
Ellingwood & Co., A gross El-a-tol
(disinfectant) .... 25.00
Mary A. Gorman, salt, crackers,
ivorine, and matches . . 7.48
Killey & Wadleigh, one 22 feather
duster ..... 2.00
Killey & Wadleigh, i night latch .75
J. B. Varick Co., pails, brush,
mop stick, coal sieve, lock, ham-
mer handles, sperm oil, feather
duster, and other hardware, ax
handle, i dozen brooms, paper
bags, etc 31.58
Chas F. Sprague, cotton and crash 3.10
J. F, Conway, repairs on broken
carriage . . . . . 4.50
Geo. W. Rief, 630 pounds coco-
bolo wood, all for billies . . 25.20
Geo. W. Rief, labor and freight 21.84
Geo. W. Rief, 26 long billies . 32.50
• Jos. E. Power, 35 police badges 61.25
D. Evans & Co, 3 gross M. P.
coat buttons . . . . 20.00
T. L. Thorpe, 55 pounds waste . 2.50
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
545
id Boston & Maine Railroad, for
freight
$0.84
J. H. Cram
•75
C. W. Downing, medical services
at sundry times
49-5°
Robitaille Brothers
8.26
John W. Wilson, trucking .
•50
REPAH^S.
$1,706.80
Paid J. J. Abbott, painting . . $309.18
L. M. Aldrich, labor, putty, glass, "
knobs, lumber, blacksmithing . 39 -08
Pike & Heald, labor and materials 11-85
Chas. E. Lord, mason work, white-
washing, etc. .... 60.55
M. J. Coleman, repairs on water-
closets, etc. . . . . 21.67
Thomas A. Lane, plumbing . 80.90
Pettee & Adams, lime and cement .81
James P. Finn, paint and labor . 12.52
C. E. Longa, electrical bell and
putting in the same . . . 5.53
John DriscoU . . . . 17.80
Albert N. Nettle ... 2.50
L. Wolf, repairs at Clinton-street
station . . . . . 17.00
Total expenditures for 1890 ...
Amount transferred to reserved fund .
$579-39
$37,096.16
843.41
35
$37>939-57
546 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
• REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . $4,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . . 443-87
EXPENDITURES.
ENGINE-HOUSES.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paints, paper, and
labor . .. . . . $111.09
Pike & Heald, materials for and
labor on gutter, etc. . . 10.59
John K. Wilson, 150 feet chair
rail, 20 hours' labor, painting . i5-5o
C. H. Hutchinson, 125 hours' la-
bor on clock. Fire King en-
gine-house .... 5.00
F. J. Dustin, paints, oil, etc. . ii-37
Chas. H. Colburn, chair rail and
labor 5.55
Temple &: Farrington Co., 156
feet molding, putting up . . 17.88
Thos. A. Lane, plumbing and ma-
terials ..... 91-71
Thos. A. Lane, steam contract
for bath-room, etc., in Chemical
engine-house .... 250.00
Thos. A. Lane, materials and la-
bor on boiler, Vine-street en-
gine-house . . . . 5^.22
J. B. Varick Co., paints, brushes,
etc., N. S. Bean stables . . ii-37
Geo. L. Young, labor, composi-
tion, felt, Fire King engine-
house ..... 4.88
W443-87
REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS. 547
Paid Louis Wolf, labor and stock in re-
pairing water-pipe, putting in
ventilators, registers, etc. . . jg 11.90
Head & Dow&t, amount as per
contract for changes and addi-
tions to the N. S. Bean steam
fire engine house . . . 2,490.00
Head & Dowst, lumber, labor, and
hardware at various engine-
houses ..... 229.87
Head & Dowst, lumber, labor, and
iiardware, N. S. Bean engine-
house ..... 42.36
Chas. E. Lord, mason labor, etc. . 2.50
A. C. Wallace, 50 feet chestnut,
Fire King engine-house . . 1.25
CITY LIBRARY.
Paid J. J. Abbott, glass and setting . $0.50
James R. Carr & Co., setting
glass . . . . 2.50
Frank F. Gate, labor cutting lawn,
cleaning windows, sweeping
sidewalks, etc. . . . i^.oo
R. Landers, slate, zinc, cement,
labor, etc., repairing roof . 9.92
Thos. A. Lane, plumbing . . 33-53
Thos. A. Lane, i valve, pipe, and
labor ..... 1.40
George Holbrook, labor on door
and springs . . . . 1.75
George Holbrook, labor and cord
for city library . . . 8.25
564.04
$71-85
548
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
COMMON COUNCIL ROOM.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paints, paper, and
labor .....
Chas. E. Lord, mason labor, etc.
PUBLIC COMFORT.
Paid Thomas A. Lane, plumbing
BATTERY BUILDING.
Paid George L. Young, labor, zinc,
nails, and solder
POLICE STATION.
Paid Head & Dowst, expense of flag-
pole, finishing, painting, and
putting up the same
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 2.
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, District No. 2
^66.09
33-15
^15.46
$19.18
$99.24
$15-56
$19.18
$55-86
155-86
jauucny . . . . .
February
47.00
March ....
21.00
April ....
25-50
May
21.00
June ....
32-63
July ....
27.00
August ....
21.00
September
25-50
October ....
21.00
November
21.00
December
25.50
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, district
No. 10, in September . . . .
$345-26
99-03
NEW CITY STABLES. 549
Paid Drake & Dodge, 5 casks of lime, 2
bags C. F. salt . . . $7-°o
Killey & Wadleigh, 3 lights of
glass, I dozen rubber washers . .26
Killey & Wadleigh, i extra roll
for I Vic. hanger ... .25
J. B. Varick Co., lock, harness
hook, strap hinges, etc. . . 2.57
Paid George Holbrook :
Labor on bronze door-latch, city en-
gineer's office .... 3.25
603 feet oak plank, 20 pounds spikes,
trucking, 29 hours' labor . . 32.92
Work, nails, etc., at sundry buildings 3.30
Paid Whitten & Fifield, span and dou-
ble sleigh, for committee on
lands and buildings . . . 3.00
Lovejoy & Stratton, repairing,
winding, and care of clocks on
all schoolhouses and other public
buildings, for the year 1890 . 3i7-So
D. F. Cressey, bolts for shed to
store sand .... 3.90
$373-95
Total expenditures for 1890 . . . ^4,443.87
NEW CITY STABLES.
Amount transferred from reserved fund
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Mead, Mason & Co., on contract
for building .... $2,500.00
550 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Mead, Mason & Co., balance con-
tract for building . . . $3,306.00
Charles H. Robie, 314.04 yards
concrete in basement . . 157.02
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., lum-
ber for grain boxes, etc. . . 27.78
Head & Dowst, lumber, door
jambs, etc. . . . . 3.22
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$5,994.02
5-98
NEW SCHOOLHOUSE, WEST MANCHESTER.
Balance unexpended last year .... $9)185.75
Appropriation raised by tax .... 30,000.00
RECEIPTS.
Received from E. W. Brigham, for stone steps . $38.50
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from incidental ex-
penses, for school furniture . $900.00
transferred from reserved fund,
to balance . . . 3,579.61
transferred from reserved fund,
for school .... 200.00
$4,679.61
$43,903.86
EXPENDITURES.
FURNITURE.
Paid Head & Dowst, 130 hours putting
down school desks . . . $32.50
Grand Rapids School Furniture
Company .... 963.80
$996.30
NEW SCHOOLHOUSE, WEST MANCHESTER.
551
BUILDING.
Paid Head & Dowst, on contract :
May
^4,500.00
June .....
3,000.00
July
7,500.00
September ....
7,300.00
October
4,100.00
November ....
1,500.00
December ....
9,385.00
$37,285.00
Bill of extras, — timber, bolts, and la-
bor changing trusses
$107.90
On account of excavation and foun-
dation ......
1,500.00
C T f\r\l rtCi
Paid Head & Dowst :
3 days' labor on stairway partition $7-5°
189.14 perch of stone, foundation be-
low grade . . . . . 756.56
165.4 days' excavation, below grade 248.00
15,100 brick ..... 214.42
$1,226.48
Paid Union Publishing Co., advertising
proposals to complete cchool-
house in West Manchester
$20.00
GRADING.
Paid pay-roll, district No. 10, labor of
men and teams, grading lot, etc.
i29.i8
$629.18
552
KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
architect's COMPENSATION'.
Paid Fred W. Stickney, for plans . $500.00
Fred W. Stickney, on commission 400.00
Fred W. Stickney . . . 1,039.25
Total expenditures in 1890
Balance carried to new account
$1,939-25
^43,704.11
199-75
$43,903-86
COMMONS.
Appropriation raised by tax .
Amount transferred from reserved fund
Balance overdrawn
$4,000.00
204.03
10.00
$4,214.03
EXPENDITURES.
REPAIRS AND GENERAL EXPENSES.
Paid John A. Sargent, lampblack and
green paint . . . . $4.38
John J. Abbott, paint and labor . 16.47
John B. Varick Co., lawn-mower,
hardware, clover seed, etc. . 64.06
Killey & Wadleigh, cylinder for
14-inch lawn-mower . . 2.95
Pike &: Heald, materials and
plumbing . . . . 5.92
W. H, Vickery, repairing and
sharpening lawn-mowers . . 4.00
D. J. Adams, grinding, cleaning,
etc., lawn-mowers . . . i.oo
COMMONS. 553
Paid C. H. Hutchinson, I casting,cover,
178 lbs. at 3c $5.34
C. H. Hutchinson, labor on lawn-
mowers . . . . . 19-94
L. M. Aldrich, lumber, labor, etc. ^3-^3
John J. Bennett, brick, cement,
and labor .... 3.20
Thomas A. Lane, materials and
labor plumbing . . . 42.12
Jere. Hodge, lumber and grade-
stakes . . . . . 13 62
Temple & Farrington Co., i time-
book ..... .50
^196.63
WATER AND MACADAMIZING.
C. H. Robie :
New walks in Merrimack common,
72.55 sq. yds., at 45c. . . . $32-64
Re-covering walks in Merrimack com-
mon, 1,394.66 sq. yds., at 25c. . 348.66
Other concrete work . . . 289.59
Concrete work in Concord common,
f,892.45 sq. yds.,at 25c. . . 473-ii
Paid Water-Works, for water for )'ear . 300.00
FLOWERS, LOAM, ETC.
Paid J. S. Holt & Co., 160 bushels of
ashes at 15c. .... $24.00
Lewis Coir, 1 10 loads of loam . 99.00
Crombie & Patten, 23 maple trees
for Merrimack common . . 23.00
Crombie & Patten, i elm tree for
Park-street common . . i.oo
Crombie & Patten, i rock maple
for Hanover common . . i.oo
$1,444.00
554
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid F. S. Worthen & Son, flowers on
Hanover common .
Flanders & Hood, flowers on Fre-
mont common
H. H. Huntress, flowers
D. H. Young, manure
John J. Silva
Cavanaugh Brothers, sand
$27.43
38.84
74-05
3.00
30.00
46.75
$368.07
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 2.
Paid labor of men and teams,
as per pay
-roll :
January .
February .
March
$6.13
37-25
57-18
April
May
54-25
204.80
June
July
143.68
20.00
August
September
October .
384.43
227.25
62.25
$1,197.22
Paid labor of men and teams, per common's pay-roll
April
May
$83.75
144.00
June
July . .
August
September
October .
November
157.62
148.75
105.00
191.99
104.75
72.25
$1,008.11
Total expenditures for 1890
^21403
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
555
STARK MONUMENT SQUARE.
Paid appropriation raised by tax .
Transferred from Water- Works .
ISico.oo
8,000.00
58,100.00
EXPENDITURES.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per common's pay-roll:
June
July ..
August .
October
November
Paid Stark heirs, for land
Transferred to reserved fund
$7-25
8.75
12.75
7-75
24.25
$60.75
8,000.00
39-25
g8,ioo.co
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Appropriation raised by tax
Balance on hand January i, 1890
!i,ooo.oo
548.59
RECEIPTS.
Received from B. A. Stearns, superintendent, from
sale of lots .... . . $1)783.37
from S. B. Putnam, treasurer of trustees
of cemetery funds .... 2,600.00
from George A. Vergin (overdraft) . 40.00
$5)971-96
556
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
EXPENDITURES
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per
Pine Grove
cemetery pay-rolls :
January ....
$190-57
February
190
23
March
190
47
April
281
45
May
317
46
June
383
65
July .
382
34
August .
300
57
September
351
83
October .
279
13
November
274
51
December
207
70
Paid Byron A. Stearns, 29 days' worl,
of team, from December 23
,
1889, to January 25, 1890
43-50
PLANTS, TREES, LOAM, AN
D CLAY.
Paid H. H. Huntress, flower plants
$50.00
J. Woodman, for
97 lo
ads of loam
145
50
Waterman Smith, 1,250 feet turf
at i^c i8-75
George H. Folsom, 45 rock maple
trees . . . . . i5-oo
A. Turcotte, 5 loads of loam . 7.50
C. C. Webster, 158 loads of clay . 158.00
Frank Emerson, 212 loads of loam 371-00
COAL, WATER, TELEPHONE, ETC.
Paid John Driscoll, stove brush and
blacking, large water-pot and tin
dippers ..... ^
$3,393-41
$765-75
■57
PINE GROVE CEMETERY. 557
Paid Darwin A. Simons, 2 cuspidors . $0-7°
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 6 tons egg
coal ..... 40.50
Water-Works, for water from
October i, 1889, to Octol^er r,
1890 ..... 300.00
New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co., use of telephone . 48-25
Moore & Preston, 5 70-2,000 tons
coal at $6.25 .... 33-98
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Paid Wm. E. Moore, 2 blank books . $6.50
Wm. E. Moore, 100 postals and
printing same . . . . 2.50
Wra. E. Moore, printing note
heads ..... 2.50
Temple & Farrington Co., paper,
ink, rubber bands, and other sta-
tionery ..... 8.19
Byron A. Stearns, postage and
envelopes .... 3.29
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid Head & Dowst, lock, keys, knobs
and labor, lumber, brick . . ^23.12
N. Whalen, straps and repairing . 3.25
John T. Beach, repairs on team . 45-5°
J. J. Abbott, painting and varnish-
ing 4-5°
John B. Varick Co., oil, nails,
hose coupling, window brush,
grass seed, phosphate, etc. . 66.31
Pike & Heald, plumbing and
materials . . . . 74-29
^22.98
558 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Jere. Hodge, grade stakes, nails,
and labor . . . . $14-63
C. W. Anderson &: Co., repairing
clocks . . . . . 2.00
Timothy Shea, cleaning vault . 3.00
J. Stickney, rubber overcoat and
blanket . . . . . 9.00
C. H. Hutchinson, 2 cast stands
finished . . . . . 1.20
J. H. Wales, materials and labor
for chimney .... 4.00
Palmer & Garmon, 100 graves
numbered, stones and labor . 47- 15
GENERAL EXPENSE.
Paid J. C. Nichols & Son, carriage hire
for committees
Geo. W. Reed, carriage hire for
committees ....
James Brothers, use of team
Henry H. Huse, services as clerk,
and for making the annual
report .....
E. T. James, use of teams .
Henry P. Hunter, clerk for com-
mittee .....
G. R. Vance & Co., i hanging
lamp and bracket .
Total expenditures for 1890
Amount transferred to reserved fund
Balance ......
^297.95
2.00
4.00
50.00
4.00
25.00
1-45
$107.45
$5.'Oi7-54
•
654.22
.
300.20
;,97i.96
VALLEY CEMETERY.
559
VALLEY CEMETERY.
Appropriation raised by tax
Balance unexpended last year
Received from C. H. G. Foss, superintendent
$1,500.00
70-45
1,300.00
$2,870.45
EXPENDITURES
LABOR.
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, at cemetery
January . . . . .
^71-25
February
52-75
March .
51-50
April
140.45
May
197-50
June
196.20
July .
277.86
August .
208.42
September
231.77
October .
166.57
November
166.58
December
105.25
Paid George Piper, team labor
96.00
B. F. Bascom, team labor 5! day
3 '23.00
- $1,985-10
WATER, TURF, SAND, ETC.
Paid George Piper :
Turf and sand $i8-37
Stone ...... 8.00
37 loads of sand .... 7.40
5 loads of stone .... 3.75
Team 23<( days .... 11.00
Paid Water-Works for water, from Oct.
I, 1889, to Oct. I, 1890 . . 35.55
Timothy Carr, 7 loads of loam . 7.00
C. C. Webster, 266 feet of turf . 7.98
560
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid George Whitford, 335 loads of
filling §67.00
Peter Woodman, 850 feet of turf . 10.00
Peter Woodman, 73 loads of loam 36-50
J. Francis, flower plants . . 81.87
C. H. G. Foss, cash paid for flow-
ers, shrubs, etc. . . . 7.12
Killey & Wadleigh, fertilizers,
grass seeds, etc. . . . 25.81
Paid J. B. Varick Co. :
1 lawn-mower . . . . . 6.90
50 feet j4-mch. rubber hose . . 4.00
75 feet ^-inch rubber hose . . 6.75
Fertilizers, grass seed, etc. . . 28.73
Nails, brush, etc. .... .69
Paid F. X. Chenette, 107 loads of filling 21.40
F. X. Chenette, team i^ days . 4.25
C. H. Chase, evergreens . . 4.00
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
Filing 2 saws ..... .40
2 door frames . . . . . i.oo
3 screen doors ..... 9.00
7 coffin boxes ..... 6.40
Paid B. F. Bascom, 3 loads of loam . 3.00
S. W. Blood, 37 loads of loam . 18.50
STATIONERY.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., blank
book and stationery . . . §4- 19
F. G. Riddle, 300 receipts, printed
and bound . . . . 1.75
Campbell & Williams, 200 receipts 1.25
LABOR, DISTRICT NO. 2.
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, District No. 2 :
February ..... $4- 00
April 53.87
$442.37
^7-19
RECEIVING TOMB. 561
June ^23.13
July 61.38
REPAIRS, EXTENSIONS, TOOLS, ETC.
Paid Pike & Heald, plumbing and ma-
terials ..... ^53.12
Palmer & Gannon, lead and stone
work . . . . , 5.60
J. J. Abbott, paints and painting 7.68
C. H. Hutchinson, repairs on
gate, etc. .... 2.83
Thomas A. Lane, Akron pipe,
plumbing on extension of water-
works, labor on urinal . . 80.93
G. W. Dodge, rubber boots, i pair 2.50
Manchester Hardware Co., 4 lawn
rakes ..... 2.00
Head & Dowst, 189 loads of grav-
el and grading ....
Head & Dowst, 2 loads of stone .
Pettee & Adams, ^ barrel cement
Total expenditures for 1890 .
Amount transferred to reserved fund
;^i42. 38
56.41
1. 00
■75
$212.82
^2,789.86
80.59
$2,870.45
RECEIVING TOMB.
Balance unexpended from last year . . . $399-39
Transferred to reserved fund .... 399-39
36
562
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
WATER-WORKS.
Balance on hand January i, 1891
$39'589-i5
RECEIPTS.
ipts from water rents
$89,970.80
fines
151.80
labor, and pipe sold
298.77
sale of grass .
2.00
G. G. Griffin, lease
1. 00
George P. Clark, lease
2.00
Fletcher Brown, lease
I. CO
W. G. Brown, rent
36.00
c/*^^ Ik f\ ^ '^ -1
^90,403.37
$130,052.52
EXPENDITURES
GENERAL EXPENSES.
Paid Charles K. Walker, superintendent :
Salary ...... $1,500.00
Gas 38.78
Two directories .... 4.00
Express ...... 9.05
Postage stamps . . . . 20.13
Repairing chairs .... 2.25
Car fare . . . . . . i.oo
Sundries ..... 6. (yd
Paid Burnham & Brown, counsel fees . 5.00
Jos. B. Sawyer, for services as civil
engineer, and for expenses and
cash paid for recording deeds . 620.40
M. M. Tidd, for services and
report on high-pre.ssure service 359.60
Town of Auburn, taxes . . 20.88
Town of Auburn, one half expense
rubbling shore . . . 21.05
WATER-WORKS.
568
Paid E. R. Angell, analysis of water .
John N. Foss, team to station
Thomas M. Freeman, team to
station .....
E. T. James, team
James Brothers ....
Paid Geo. Fletcher & Co. :
24 dinners .....
Lunch . . ...
Steamboat use ....
Paid A. R. Ingham, 9 dinners
A. R. Ingham, 4 dinners for horses
George E. Morrill, auditing Water-
Works account, 1889, 4}4 days
at ^5 per day ....
J. Y. McQueston & Co., 6 chest-
nut chairs ....
New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co., use of three tele-
phones .....
H. I. McQuade, repairing tele-
graph at pumping station
James A. Weston, clerk of board
of water commissioners .
^6.25
2.00
9.00
66.50
35-5°
36.00
4.00
20.00
9.00
2.00
22.50
3.00
108.00
4-5°
50.00
$2,987.05
DAMAGES.
Paid N. S. Bean S. F. Engine
Co., for
pumping out cellar .
$8.60
J. J. Abbott, glass and
setting, at
Webster block
4.60
Mrs. E. Boudreau
5.00
Leander Boudreau
16.00
Norman H. Colby
300.00
Thomas Carey
5.00
Thomas Corcoran
75.00
Joseph Drapeau .
6. CO
564
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. Dauphine
^5.00
P. Flatterly
10.00
Mrs. C. Gallagher
10.00
Mrs. L. Lavaler .
5.00
Michael Leighley
5.00
Mrs. R. Mandleshon .
5.00
Thomas H. Mahoney .
10.00
Renker& Scheer
15.00
Chas. H. Robie, concrete work on
Main-street engine-house
38.51
Chas. H. Robie, concrete work on
Manchester street .
22.95
Thos. H. Tuson
24.10
Geo. W. Webster
25.00
$595-76
Paid T. J. Crombie, for land
A. F. Fox, buildings and lease
J. P. Grififin, for land .
George W. Reed, for land .
Charles H. Reed, for land .
5243-75
875.00
47.00
900.00
225.00
$2,290.75
METERS, GAUGES, GATES, PLUMBING MATERIALS, ETC.
Paid American Steam Gauge Co., guages
Chapman Valve Co., gates .
Gilchrist & Gorham, plumbing
materials ....
Hays Manufacturing Co., stop-
cocks and service boxes .
Thomas A. Lane, plumbing mate-
rials .....
Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Co.,
10 hydrants ....
National Meter Co., for meters .
Thomson Meter Co., for meters .
|2I
50
488
10
191
06
380
65
88
37
352
00
2,827.50
147.40
WATER-WORKS.
565
Paid Union Water Meter Co., for meters
and repairs .... ^261.20
Walworth Manufacturing Co., cor-
poration cocks, etc. . . 181.83
W. H. Ward & Co., corporation
cocks and bands . . . 50.00
$4,989.61
BRICK, CEMENT, LUMBER.
Paid Pettee & Adams, cement
Parker & Jencks, hemlock boards
D. I. Mahoney, lumber, meter
boxes, etc. ....
Mills & Sturtevant, lumber, posts,
etc. ......
Head & Dowst, brick and lumber
J. Hodge, lumber and boxes
Parker R. Brown, cement and
wood .....
$36.90
8.66
236.85
134-14
19-45
14-85
8-55
$459-40
IRON PIPE, CASTINGS, ETC.
Paid Builders Iron Foundry, iron pipes,
reducers, branches . . . $618
Boston Lead Manufacturing Co.,
100 pounds of fine solder . 15
Chadwick Lead Works, lead pipe
and pig lead . . . . 874
Holyoke Hydrant Iron-Works, 20
hydrants ..... 6S0
P. C. Holmes & Co., two bevel
wheel rims . . . 158
McNeal Pipe and Foundry Co.,
for pipe 3,oor
Manchester Locomotive Works,
materials and labor . . . 407
73
75
96
GO
66
54
54
566 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Pennichuck Water- Works, iron
pipe $17-70
Whittier Machine Co., water gates
and pipes, coated with adamanta 602.04
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., picks,
barbed wire, etc. . . . $38.08
J. B. Varick Co., nails, strap
hinges, staples, oil, bolts, butts,
paints, solder, pick handles, lan-
terns, measuring tape, sponges,
packing, etc. . . . . 195-69
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid D. F. Cressey, sharpening picks,
drills, chisels, etc. . . . $38.80
A. Filion, repairing pipe wagon . 19-50
FREIGHT AND TRUCKAGE.
Paid Concord Railroad Corporation . $520.49
J. W. Wilson, truckage . . 25.00
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co., note heads,
postals, etc. .... $9-25
Campbell & Williams, 2,900 water
notices, 1,000 postals printed . 31-50
John B. Clarke, printing 500 re-
ports, 32 pages . . . 28.50
John B. Clarke, 800 pamphlets, 20
pages, and covers . . . 32.00
John B. Clarke, advertising sundry
notices ..... 10.50
176.92
$233-77
$58-30
$545-49
WATER-AVORKS. 567
Paid E. R. Coburn & Co., envelopes,
rubber bands, paper, ink, etc. . ^19-15
Daily Press Publishing Co., adver-
tising water bills ... .So
Temple & Farrington Co., blocks,
pencils, and other stationery . 5.64
Thomas Tuson, 14,050 meter and
rate bills .... 45.80
$183.14
Paid Austin, Flint & Day, for 22 loads
of wood ..... $7-15
Burns & Poore, for coal and wood io-37
Moore & Preston, 81 tons of coal
(egg) 59-63
J. F. Wyman, wood ... 4.70
Geo. Whitford, wood . . . 21.00
E. P. Johnson Co., 46 tons
Draper egg coal . . . 322.00
E. P. Johnson Co., 4 400-2000
tons coal (stove) . . . 30- 45
TOOLS, SUPPLIES, AND REPAIRS.
Paid P. C. Cheney Co., 60 pounds No.
I wiping waste . . . $4-8o
City of Manchester, 132 days'
work . . . . . 20.25
Cavanaugh Brothers, 23 loads of
sand 5.75
John Driscoll, tin cup, washdish,
etc. ..... 1.60
Eager & Rand, oil, soap, brooms,
etc. ..... 3.10
Edson Manufacturing Co., 15 feet
suction hose, 3-inch . . 23.52
$455-3°
568 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. A. G. Holmes, labor, window
frames, sash, etc. . . . $187.90
C. H. Hutchinson, labor and ma-
terials furnished . . . 165.06
Dennis Kerwin, h barrel tallow,
124 pounds at 6c. . . . 7.44
L. L. Lord, tools . . . ii-o5
Leonard & Ellis, 985 gallons burn-
ing oil 19.75
Pike & Heald, materials and labor 70.61
J. Brodie Smith, renewing battery,
etc. ..... 5.92
J. Stickney, 4 oak leather pack-
ing ..... 20.00
Seeley Brothers, 5 gallons marine
black ..... 6.50
Summer & Goodwin, calking
irons, ladle, etc. . . . 11.00
Sewell & Day Cordage Co., jute
packing . . . . . 48.62
Stark Mills, for use of 2-horse
wagon ..... 150.00
Taunton Locomotive Manufactur-
ing Co., one melting furnace . 18-50
Vacuum Oil Co., 103^2 gallons
cylinder oil . . . . 67.28
G. R. Vance & Co., 6 galvanized
iron pails . . . . 6.00
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. :
1 crown gear, 125 feet, and finishing,
planing, shrinking on wrought iron
hook, with royalty . . . 180.00
2 steel splines, 2 steel backers . . 5.20
Labor on drills .... 3.50
^1,043-35
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM.
569
LABOR OF MEN AND TEAMS, AS PER PAY-ROLLS.
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-rolls :
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October .
November
December
$1,046.19
899.41
964.24
984.59
1,047.54
1,103.82
i>326.33
1,017-53
1,372.90
1,103.69
1,107.69
1,133.42
Paid labor of men and teams, per pay-roll, district
No. 2, September .....
Total expenditures for 1890 ....
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred to interest . . $36,000.00
transferred to reserved fund . 9,711.47
transferred to Stark Monument
square .... 8,000.00
Balance
$13. 107-35
77-50
^33'403-69
^53.71^-47
42,937-36
^130,052.52
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $2,000.00
Received from county of Hillsborough, for board of
paupers ........ 2,201.57
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . . 134-89
^336-46
570
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
EXPENDITURES.
GROCERIES.
Paid G. W. Adams, groceries
Charles H. Clark, groceries .
Allen N. Clapp, groceries
L. Dowd, groceries
Eager & Rand, groceries
H. Fradd & (^o., groceries .
T. F. Fifield, groceries
Griffin Bros., groceries
Patrick Harrington, groceries
O. D. Knox, groceries
Michael Kearns, groceries
Michael Kenney, groceries .
George C. Lord, groceries
Thomas H. Mahoney, groceries
John McKean, groceries
McQuade Bros., groceries
D. M. Poore, groceries
Robitaille Bros., groceries
Patrick Ryan, groceries
W. F. Sleeper & Co., groceries
Town of Enfield, groceries .
Carl E. York, groceries
B. Bresnehan, groceries
D. A. Shanahan, groceries
WOOD AND COAL,
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., for fuel
Fred T. Dunlap, for fuel
S. L. Flanders, for fuel
Patrick Healy, for fuel
Thomas Kelley, for fuel
Moore & Preston, for fuel
E. P. Johnson Co., for iuel
F. X. Chenette, for fuel
William Smith, V-, cord of wood
§44.00
22. 10
44.00
10.00
60.00
24.16
95.00
221.00
87.00
5.00
3-9°
40.00
12.00
1 14.00
16.00
88.00
15-49
24.96
86.00
10.00
2.72
5.00
8.00
12.00
^19-50
42.30
7.87
12.00
40.00
2.00
7-25
2.00
4.00
$i>o5o-33
$136.92
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM.
571
CARE AND BOARD
Paid county of Hillsborough
Mrs. William Chase
DeCourcey & Holland
Cordelia A. Farwell
A. D. Hatch
Ellen J. Maycock
New Hampshire Asylum for the
Insane
Joseph Rivard
State Industrial School
John D. Welcome
$56.00
1 20.00
3.00
6.69
120.00
65.18
104.68
67.00
2,271.43
116.00
$2,929.98
Paid F. L. Downs, for shoes
Plumer & Holton, hose
Weston & Martin, i wool shirt
MEDICINE.
Paid Eames Brothers .
I^ane & Co.
Lewis K. Mead .
J. J. Holland & Co.
A. D. Smith
Si. 50
1.50
1.50
!i2.75
8.00
20.00
5-5°
■75
•50
SUNDRIES.
Paid John B. Clarke, blank bills .
C. W. Downing, certificate of in-
sanity (2 cases).
L. Melville French
H. D. Lord, house rent
David Moore, rent
H. P. Marshall, conveying, at dif-
ferent times, two insane paupers
to asvlum ....
^8.75
6.00
3.00
6.00
572
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., for 8
directories ....
F. L. Wallace & Co., burial ex-
penses .....
Charles F. Flanders, certificate of
insanity .....
Thomas F. Collins, burial of H.
Donovan ....
E. V. Turcotte, burial expenses .
Total expenditures for 1890 .
$16.00
67.00
3.00
25.00
10.00
$167.63
^336-46
CITY FARM.
Appropriation raised by tax
$4,000.00
RECEIPTS.
Received from L. M.
city farm, as follows
Hay sold
Potatoes
Pigs
Fines
Labor
Straw
Butter
Lard
Eggs
Stone
Cabbage
Beets
Hides
Veal ,
Chickens
Streeter, superintendent of
5856.84
464.63
253.00
208.12
193-75
115.22
43-24
33-00
12.55
98.89
50.75
16.56
15-43
8.46
CITY FARM.
573
Pork
Cream and milk
Hams sold
Rhubarb
Squash
Parsnips
Corn
Beans
Carrots
Weighing hay
Old iron
Dandelions
Use of boar
Use of bull
Grass
Turnips
Board of sow
Received of the estate of J. B. Clark
of Otis Barton (overdraft)
of J. B. Baril (overdraft)
Transferred from reserved fund .
EXPENDITURES.
HOUSE AND FARM LABOR.
Paid L. M. Streeter, superintendent
Mrs. Mary E. Streeter, matron
George W. Bailey
Lucy Bunker
Thomas Burke
Arthur Bancroft
Thomas Barker
Edward Burke
Annie Cook
Wm. Cheney
Levi Colwell
^8.25
6.70
365
7-95
7-54
2.48
1. 00
1.50
1.25
4.40
5-74
2.25
2.00
1. 00
2.00
•85
•75
ii2.64
15-63
1. 00
;5oo.oo
300.00
129.00
6S.61
85-05
82.65
1-35
16.00
4.94
10.66
4.00
S2, 432-75
29-57
1,004.98
$7>467-30
574
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Mary Clark
$21.25
Alfred Corey
2.62
W. E. Davis
87.00
Wra. Day
16.00
J. B. Ensworth .
40.00
Mrs. T. J. Estes .
100.74
Thomas J. Estes .
185.95
C. Estes
2.58
Will. Fowler
26.66
James Francceur .
7.00
John Gilbert
25.86
Michael Godfrey .
1.25
Patrick Healy
5.00
Kate Houghton .
64.29
Hannah Hackett .
47-82
H. D. Judkins .
16.13
L. A. Lannon
20.00
Michael Lowe
2.00
Chas. L. Lyford .
10.00
Peter McQuillan .
42.00
Nettie A. Merrill .
8.38
Frank Merrill
16.90
James H. Martin .
5.00
Kate Proctor
31-71
Levi J. Proctor .
48.65
John Proctor
39-5°
Will. C. Rogers .
9.87
Hattie A. Rever .
21.78
H. W. Schimmell, Jr.
32-50
Jennie Sargent
6.88
Mary Smith
78.70
W. K. Stockdale .
9.00
G. D. Sanborn .
60.99
Edward Tilton, cutting
ice .
10.00
C. W. Pike
80.00
Patrick Murphy .
1. 00
Warren Harvey .
•
4.00
$2,391.27
CITY FARM.
575
Paid Moore & Preston :
10 tons stove coal .... ^75-oo
1 barrel Cumberland coal . . . i.oo
30 925-2,000 tons furnace coal . 179-73
Paid Burns & Poore, 9 tons of egg coal
at $6.85 61.65
Burns & Poore, i barrel Cumber-
land coal .... 1.00
CLOTHING AND DRY GOODS.
Paid Barton & Co., crash, cambric,
prints, cottons, etc. . . . $83.97
George Blanchet, drilling, ging-
ham, etc 53.79
Clark & Estey, socks, drawers,
needles, etc. . . . . 61.77
Charles F. Sprague, check, cottons,
etc 9.30
H. M. Moody, jumpers, overalls,
coats, caps, umbrella, collars,
straw hats, etc. .... 53-3°
Paid James A. Folsom :
Overalls, suits, and hat . . . 16.00
2 pairs of pants .... 2.50
5 vests 3.75
11 jumpers . . . . . 5.50
Paid Weston & Hill, 92^4^ cottons at
7^ cents ..... 6.92
G. W. Dodge, boots, shoes, etc. . 29.30
F. L. Downs, boots, shoes, etc. . 35- 00
Fred C. Dow, boots, shoes, etc. . 11.87
Wingate & Gould, shoes, etc. . 28.80
Burke Bros., calf shoes . . 2.00
H. B. Fairbanks, 5 pairs of shoes 3.75
;i8..-.8
to?. 52
576
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Paid Bartlett & Thompson, 366 pounds
of beef at 7 cents . . . $25.62
G. W. Batchelder, 22 bushels of
potatoes at 95 cents . . . 20.90
C. E. Cox, beef .... 280.52
A. N. Clapp, oil . . . . 25.75
Eager & Rand, groceries . . 22.62
A. G. Grenier, groceries . . 114.84
George H. Hubbard, tobacco . 103- 79
Hardy & Co., groceries , . 56.86
McQuade, Bros., groceries . . 172.27
Manchester Beef Co., beef and lamb 26.21
E. S. Newton, lobsters, oysters,
fish, etc 34- 6 1
J. H. Pierce & Co., groceries . 99-85
Public Market, S. P. Pike & Co.,
beef and provisions . . . 83.57
Joseph Quirin, groceries . . 8.13
Tom W. Robinson, beef . . 77-33
L. Shelters, onions, potatoes, and
flour ..... 114-99
R. G. Sullivan, smoking tobacco . 19-44
J. H. Wiggin, groceries . . 113.02
Carl E. York .... 62.49
Drake & Parker, 24 barrels Pills-
bury' s best flour . . . 180.30
Merrill & Freeman, 3 barrels Roll-
er Queen flour . . . . 15-45
E. M. Slayton, 40 bushels of pota-
toes 32.00
Manchester Provision Co., 3 pork
barrels . . • • • 3- 00
Manchester Provision Co., 17
pounds Bologna saugages . . 1.02
Manchester Provision Co., other
provisions .... 4.50
CITY FARM.
577
Paid N. H. Brewing Co., barrels, etc.
George C. Lord, provisions .
$15.92
51,715-30
FURNITURE AND COOKING UTENSILS.
Paid Dunmore & McQuarry, for one 6-
gallon jar . . . . $1.00
F. E. Nelson, crockery, knives and
forks, kitchen utensils . . 39-9^
D. A. Simons, platters and bakers 12.66
C. A. Trefethen, watchman's clock 80.00
C. A. Trefethen, forks, knives,
spoons, and alarm clock . . 10.00
Weston & Hill, carpet and thread 8.44
Paid Higgins Brothers :
I dark pine chamber suit . . . 15-00
I spring bed ..... 3.00
1 excelsior mattress . . . . 2.00
27 yards carpeting . . . . i7-55
2 skeins thread .... .06
3 sham holders . . . . 1.50
I spring bed ..... 3.00
;t94.i2
SERVICES AND MEDICINES.
Paid Jabez Alexander, V. S., services,
and medicines to animals . $14.00
J. B. Baril, insect powder, etc. . ii-95
E. H. Currier, expectorant . . i.oo
Eames Bros., prescriptions . . 5.85
Dr. L. M. French, visit . . 3.00
J. J. Holland, prescriptions . 1.90
J. N. Lacourse & Co., medicines 1.63
L. K. Mead, prescription . . .35
$39.68
37
578
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Cavanaugh Bros., i span of brown
mares ..... ^500.00
John L. Woodman, i boar . . 6.00
$506.00
FERTILIZERS, SEEDS, ETC.
Paid Aretas Blood, 5 cords of manure
at $3.50 $17-50
Bartlett & Dow, i ton Mapes Po-
tato Fertilizer . . . . 45 -oo
James P. Elliott, 2 bushels yellow-
eyed beans .... 7.00
John N. Foss, 23 cords of manure
at $3.50 80.50
James H. Gregory, vegetable seeds 8.50
May Brothers, 2 cherry and 2
plum trees, 8 grape and 24
blackberry vines . . . 16.25
P. J. Page, 3 loads of manure at
$1-50 4-5°
L. B. Putnam, 4 loads of manure
at $2 . . . ' . . 8.00
Killey & Wadleigh, 1,000 pounds
Bradley's X. L. Phosphate . 18.00
HARDWARE.
Paid Killey & Wadleigh :
252 pounds galvanized wire at 5fc. . $14.49
126 pounds galvanized wire . . 7.25
I mowing-machine sharpener . . 5.75
I champion horse-rake . . . 24.00
Other hardware .... 42-33
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., paint,
varnish, tools, and hardware . 61.17
S205.25
CITY FARM.
579
Paid J. B. Varick Co., plow-points,
coffee mill, etc. . . . $12.50
B. Varick Co., Yankee plow, 2
hog scrapers . , , . 13-00
HAY, GRAIN, AND OTHER FEED.
Paid Parker R. Brown, bran, rye meal
oats, etc. ....
Merrill & Freeman, bran, oats
meal, middlings
Partridge Brothers, oats, meal
middlings, etc.
Pettee & Adams, bran, oats, meal
middlings, etc.
$32-19
467-51
53-35
146.02
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid Pettee & Adams, i cask of lime,
100 pounds of cement
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., laths,
lumber, and labor on windmills
C. H. Hutchinson, nuts, screws,
bolts, and labor on boiler '
Head &: Dowst, 1,000 feet spruce
boards .....
Head & Dowst, 200 laths .
Head &: Dowst, 600 feet hemlock
boards .
Thomas A. Lane, materials and
plumbing ....
Manchester Heating and Lighting
Co., stove grates, repairs .
Pike & Heald, stove grate, zinc
etc. ....
Pike & Heald, dippers, kettles
and repairs
$2.00
15.00
33-94
15.00
•52
8.40
36.29
23.08
3-87
3-05
$180.49
$699.07
580
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOB.
Paid D. L. Stevens, deputy sheriff, 8
feet stable gutter
L. N. Westover, lumber and la-
bor .....
J. J. Abbott, paints
George Holbrook, 9 hours' labor
at stable .....
A. C. Wallace, lumber
49-43
13-30
2.50
8.62
$216.20
BLACKSMITHING, HARNESSES, ETC.
Paid J. H. Cram, shoeing horses and
oxen . . . . .
F. N. McClaren, sponges, dusters,
and repairing harnesses
F. N. McClaren, 2 collars, halters,
repairing harness, etc.
J. B. McCrillis & Son, painting
wagon, neckyoke, setting 4
tires, etc. . . . .
Paid H. C. Ranno & Son :
I pair heavy team harnesses
I pair leather fly nets
Stable blanket, and one pair street
blankets ....
Leatherine blankets .
Paid Thomas P. Riley, robe, whip, and
axle grease
J. O. Tremblay, shoeing horses
P. D. St. Germain
$76.25
11-95
27.50
35-54
65.00
3.00
10.50
1.50
12.75
4.00
•75
$248.74
Paid New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co., use of telephone . $38.50
J. O. Burbank, 150 printed envel-
opes . ... .85
INDIGENT SOLDIERS. 581
Paid Clough & Co., 2 boxes . . ^1.20
Win. C. Chase, 108 pounds wash-
ing powder .... 7.56
Concord Railroad, freight . . 2.60
John B. Clarke, 25 i ruled sheets 2.50
C. W. Leonard, disinfectants . i5-75
R. D. Martin, rubber stamp , i.oo
F. P. Proctor, axle oil . . .68
E. P. Richardson, agent, $10,000
insurance in the Manufacturers
«& Merchants' .... 200.00
G. G. Richardson, buttons,
needles, stove polish, etc. . i9-i7
Temple & Farrington Co., paper,
pens, ink, order book . . 15-20
Temple & Farrington Co., room
paper, etc. . . . . 2.04
Union Publishing Co., advertising
pigs for sale . . . . 7.60
A. C. Wallace, 4 loads of sawdust 4.00
L. M. Streeter, postage stamps,
machine needles, expenses to
Boston and return, expenses to
Wilton, return, etc. . . . 26.63
Total expenditures for 1890 ... . 1^7,467.30
INDIGENT SOLDIERS.
Appropriation raised by tax ... . . ^1,000.00
EXPENDITURES.
HOUSE RENT.
Paid Agnes Linen .... $15.00
D. Moore ..... 27.00
W. C. Blodgett .... 6.00
582
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CLOTHING.
Paid Chalifoux & Co. .
George L. Robinson
^3.00
2.00
GROCERIES.
Paid G. W. Adams, groceries
^124.00
Allen N. Clapp .
4.71
Griffin Bros.
276.00
McQuade Bros.
3.00
Thomas H. Mahoney .
24.00
E. W. Perkins .
7-75
W. F. Sleeper & C^o. .
20.00
George C. Lord .
8.00
$467.46
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co.
F. T. Dunlap
E. P. Johnson Co.
CARE AND BOARD.
Paid Mrs. N. Cook
Daniel Sullivan .
Paid L. K. Mead
MEDICINE.
SUNDRIES.
Paid O. D. Abbott, certificate of in-
sanity . . . . .
C. W. Downing, certificate of in-
sanity . . . . .
!i7-25
16.28
8.00
582. 00
78.00
$4-65
3-. 00
$41-53
$160.00
14-65
MILITIA. 583
Paid G. W. Nutter, expenses to Con-
cord at7d return . . . $5-i8
$11.18
Total expenditures for 1S90 .... ^737.82
Amount transferred to reserved fund . . . 262.18
$1,000.00
WOMEN'S AID AND RELIEF HOSPIIAL.
Appropriation raised by tax .... 5400.00
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Women's Aid and Relief Hospital $400.00
FREE BEDS, ELLIOT HOSPITAL.
Amount transferred from reserved fund
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Elliot (Hospital .... $600.00
^UUW.VJW
MILITIA.
Appropriation raised by tax
$900.00
EXPENDITURES.
Balance . . . . ' .
$900.00
$900.00
584 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
DECORATION OF THE SOLDIERS' GRAVES.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $300.00
TRANSFERS.
Transferred from reserved fund . . , . . $74.27
EXPENDITURES.
Paid J. G. Hutchinson, commander of Louis Bell
Post, for bills paid sundry persons, as follows :
PRINTING.
Paid Frank H. Challis, for printing . $11.25
CARRIAGE HIRE.
Paid W. J. Freeman, for two barges and
hack ..... $12.00
F. X. Chenette, for two barges and
one barouche .... 17.00
E. T. James, landau in parade . 4.00
Whitten & Fifield, two hacks . 8.00
C. H. Simpson, two hacks . . 8.00
Joseph Shiney, team . . . 1.50
John N. Foss, hack . . . 4.00
J. C. Nichols & Son, 6 hacks . 24.00
E. V. Turcotte, i hack . . 4.00
MUSIC AND SINGING.
Paid Unitarian choir, for services . $15.00
committee on St. Joseph's ceme-
tery, by D. S. Healy . . 10.00
Manchester Military Band, First
regiment . . . . 75 -oo
^374-27
;ii.25
52.50
INTEREST ON TAXES. 585
Paid War Veterans' Drum Corps . . $15.00
G. A. R. Quartet, services . . 7.00
Manchester City Band . . 50.00
Paid cash paid for stamped envelopes,
postage stamps, postal cards, etc. $9. 1 7
Higgins Bros., use of chairs . 2.25
First Light Battery, powder . io-35
H. H. Huntress, buttonhole bou-
quets ..... 12.50
Hartley E. Vaughn, use of 20
settees . . . . . 1.50
Hartley E. Vaughn, 25 headstones i.oo
Palmer & Garmon, 25 flagstones . 17-25
W. W. Bennett, services, etc., at
hall ..... 3-00
Clarence A. Hart &. Co., decora-
tive merchandise . . . 43-oo
E. P. Richardson, in part, for bill
of C. C. Colby . . . 8.50
I172.00
$108.52
Total expenditures for 1890 . . . • . $374.27
INTEREST ON TAXES.
RECEIPTS.
Received from George E. Morrill, collector of taxes $342.44
TRANSFERS.
Transferred to reserved fund . . $342.44
$342.44
586 EEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
ABATEMENT OF TAXES.
Appropriation raised by tax .....
EXPENDITURES.
Paid sundry persons on taxes abated . $2,999.39
^2,999.39
Amount transferred to reserved fund . . . .61
$3,000.00
DISCOUNT ON TAXES.
Appropriation raised by tax ..... $10,000.00
TRANSFERS.
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . $1,265.25
$11,265.25
EXPENDITURES.
Paid sundry persons, discount on taxes $11,265.25
^11,265.25
STATE TAX.
Appropriation raised by tax .... $63,435.00
EXPENDITURES.
Paid Solon A. Carter, state treasurer . $63,435.00
$63,435-00
APPROPRIATIONS.
587
COUNTY TAX.
Appropriation raised by tax . . . . $40,508.54
Balance paid from money in the treasury not spe-
cifically appropriated ..... 5,523.93
EXPENDITURES.
Paid E. F. Jones, county treasurer . ^46,032.47
,032.47
$46,032.47
RESOLUTION RAISING MONEY AND MAKING APPRO-
PRIATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1890.
CITY OF MANCHESTER.
IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Conunon Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the sum. of four hundred fifty nine thousand seven hun-
dred forty-three and 54-100 dollars ($459,743.54) be raised for
the use of the city for the year 1890, by tax on the polls and es-
tates liable to be taxed therein, which, together with such unap-
propriated money as may be now in the city treasury, or may
hereafter come into it, shall be appropriated as follows :
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Interest ....
Reserved fund
Printing and stationery
Incidental expenses
City officers' salaries
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTS
Highway District No. i
ENT.
,17,000.00
20,000.00
1,200.00
15,000.00
15,500.00
$300.00
12,000.00
588
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District No
4
5
6
7
8
9
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12
13
New highways
Damage for land taken for h
Watering streets .
Lighting streets
Paving streets
Macadamizing streets
Grading for concrete
Sewers and drains
Bridges
City teams .
Scavenger teams .
Street sweeping
ghways
Engineers' department
ENGINEERS DEPARTMENT
^500.00
500.00
500.00
1,300.00
800.00
500.00
3,300.00
1,000.00
300.00
200.00
9,000.00
1,000.00
7,500.00
41,000.00
5,500.00
18,000.00
4,000.00
20,000.00
4,000.00
2,500.00
12,000.00
1,200.00
53,000.00
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Health department
$1,400.00
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Repairs of fchoolhouses
Fuel ....
Furniture and supplies .
Books and stationery .
Printing and advertising
Contingent expenses
53,700.00
3,200.00
1,000.00
400.00
400.00
800.00
APPROPRIATIONS.
589
Care of rooms ....
Evening schools ....
Teachers' salaries ....
Truant officer ....
Evening school, mechanical drawing
New text-books, free
CITY LIBRARY.
City library
Catalogue, city library
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Fire department .
Fire-alarm telegraph
Hydrant service .
Firemen's parade
Police department
POLICE.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Repairs on buildings .
New schoolhouse, West Manchester
$3,300.00
1,500.00
44,000.00
750.00
600.00
9,000.00
,4,000.00
1,000.00
,35,000.00
1,200.00
18,000.00
500.00
;i,ooo.oo
$4,000.00
30,000.00
PUBLIC PLACES.
Commons ........ $4,000.00
Stark Monument square . . . . . 100.00
Pine Grove cemetery ...... 1,000.00
Valley cemetery . . . . . . . 1,500.00
PATRIOTIC, CHARITABLE, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Paupers off the farm ...... $2,000.00
City farm ........ 4,000.00
Indigent soldiers and their dependent families . 1,000.00
Women's Aid and Relief Hospital . . . 400.00
Decoration of soldiers' graves .... 300.00
Militia 900.00
590
REPOKT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
TAXES.
Abatement of taxes
Discount on taxes
State tax
County tax
^3,000.00
10,000.00
63.435-00
40,508.54
^545.493-54
And that the sum of thirty-six thousand dollars be transferred
from Water- Works to interest.
The estimated receipts for the year are
Amount to be raised by tax
Insurance tax
Railroad tax
Savings bank tax .
Literary fund
S459. 743-54
3,650.00
17,000.00
61,600.00
3,500.00
?545. 493-54
In Board of Common Council. February 4, 1890.
Passed.
JOHN F. FROST, President.
In Board of Mayor and Aldermen. February 4, 1890.
Passed.
D. B. VARNEY, Mayor.
TABULAR STATEMENT OF TAXATION.
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REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
VALUATION AND TAXES.
The amount of taxes assessed on the polls and on the real and
personal estate, within the city of Manchester, N. H., for the
year 1890, was as follows, viz. :
Valuation.
Real estate* . . $19,966,570
Personal property . . 3,234,370
Overlay . . . ...
Manchester Building As-
sociation f . . 34,500
Rate per $1,000.
Tax.
$19.10 $381,361.48
19.10 61,775.57
4.19
10.00 • 345.00
No. of polls, 9,723
$23,235,440
972,300
19.10
Totals . . . $24,207,740
Special tax on 710 male dogs . . @ $1.00
Special tax on 51 female dogs . . @ 2.00
Total . . ■
$443,486.24
18,570.93
$462,057.17
710.00
102.00
$462,869.17
The share distributed to Manchester of the amount of the tax
assessed, as per returns made by the corporations to state treas-
urer :
On railroads
On savings banks
On insurance companies
On literary fund .
Grand tax total .
$21,443
68,392
3.752
4,504
$560,962
72
94
25
70
78
Appropriated and assessed in 1890
For city appropriation
For state tax ....
* Includes tax on factories and machinery.
t See Laws of 1889, Chapter 12.
$441,550-00
63:435-00
TAXES DUE AND UNCOLLECTED.
593
For county tax .
Overlay^ .
Grand tax total
$40,508.54
15,469.24
. I560.962.78
For further information in relation to taxes collected by the
State, see State Treasurer's Report of June i, 1890.
TABLE OF TAXES DUE AND UNCOLLECTED.
Taxes of 1883.
Taxes of 1884.
Taxes of 1885.
Taxes of 1886.
Taxes of 1887 .
Taxes of 1888.
Taxes of 1889.
Taxes of 1890.
Due June 1,
1890, assessed
in 1890.
$1,170.10
1,397.21
1,222.85
1,278.81
1,189.44
1,721.07
494.45 I
13,473.15 I
462,869.17
Discounts
and abate-
ments, 1890.
$1,915.08
12,265.37
Collected in
1890.
$14 72
12.34
17.00
118.55
10,485.64
430,805.09
$484,816.25 $14,181.05 $441,453.34 $29,181.86
Due Dec.
31, 1890.
$1,170.10
1,397.21
1,208.13
1,266.47
1,172.44
1,602.52
1,566.28
19,798.71
*This consists of $3,125.63 assessed by the local assessors under the provisions of General
Laws, Chapter 57, Section 4; and the sum of 112,343.61 in the amount received from rail-
roads, banks, insurance companies, and literary fund above the amount estimated by the city
councils.
38
594 eeport of the city auditor.
Tax Valuations, Etc., from 1846 to 1890, Inclusive.
Year.
Valiaation.
Taxes. No. Polls. Poll Tax. Val. of Poll.
1846 .
1847 .
1848 .
1849 .
1850 .
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 .
$3,187,726
4,488,550
4,664,957
5,600,049
5,832,080
6,906,462
6,795,682
6,995,528
8,237,617
8,833,248
9,244,062
9,983,862
10,259,080
9,853,310
9,644,937
9,343,254
8,891,250
9,597,786
9,517,512
9,478,368
10,050,020
10,101,556
9,929,072
10,205,303
10,710,252
11,365,162
11, .542,632
12,001,200
12,716,892
14,195,102
15,309,348
15,605,918
15,912,234
17,482,132
17,735,990
17,943,308
19,175,408
20,055.986
20,013,032
21,137,464
21,379,384
21,905,476
22,162,928
22,962,790
24,207,740
$22,005 95
24,953 54
39,712 53
44,979 92
48,974 23
51,798 47
54,379 45
61,545 81
62,022 44
71,952 09
114,214 88
84,862 98
78,210 85
81,368 01
86,804 87
99,104 96
84,827 45
96,233 86
142,815 98
209,696 20
245,567 19
207,4.57 39
208,783 07
254,022 43
234,047 63
236,639 74
259,196 67
300,768 00
312,835 95
315,131 29
248,900 93
246,573 46
276,873 32
264,406 73
263,812 17
316,462 26
312,673 82
332,741 72
361,401 61
345,260 15
347,009 31
373,138 90
432,914 45
437,092 69
462,869 17
1,808
S2 10
$300
2,056
1 68 i
300
2,688
2 58
300
2,518
2 47
300
2,820
2 37
300
2,910
2 25
300
2,745
1 92
240
2,907
1 82
240
2,814
1 80
240
3,725
1 94
240
3,760
2 96
240
3,695
2 04
240
3,695
1 83
240
3,495
1 92
240
3,651
2 16
240
3,974
2 40
240
3,071
2 21
240
2,995
2 40
240
3,168
3 50
240
3,176
6 18
240
4,114
5 50
240
4,170
4 61
240
4,583
2 85
150
4,709
3 72
150
4,959
3 27
150
5,404
8 12
150
5,911
2 24
100
6,212
2 50
100
6,219
2 46
100
6,227
2 22
100
6,295
1 62
100
6,341
1 58
100
6,477
1 74
100
6,633
1 50
100
7,219
1 48
100
7,574
1 76
100
7,831
1 62
100
7,944
1 65
100
8,143
1 75
100
8,157
1 63
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8,602
1 62
100
8,996
1 70
100
9,344
1 95
100
9,527
1 90
100
9,723
1 91
1 100
ACCOUNT OF THE COLLECTOR OF TAXES.
595
SETTLEMENT OF THE ACCOUNT OF GEORGE E.
MORRILL, COLLECTOR OF TAXES, JUNE i, 1890.
Tax list, 1S85
1886
1887
1 888
Amount out-
standing June
I, 1888.
Amount
collected.
Balance out-
standing June
I, 1S90.
$1,222.85
$14-72
$1,208.13
1,278.81
12.34
1,266.47
1,189.44
17.00
1,172.44
1,721.07
118.55
1,602.52
Cr. by receipt of treasurer, No. 71
Literest collected, 1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
Cr. by receipt of treasurer
DR.
1889.
To resident list .
non-resident list
voluntary taxes
CR.
1889.
By casli paid city treasurer,
per receipts
cash paid county treasur-
er, per receipts .
discounts
abatements
unpaid taxes June 1,1890
$162.61
162.61
$4.76
3-69
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11.86
;iS.6o
$342.44
342.44
$435-928.7T
1,363-98
494.45
$382,332.87
40.508.54
10,330.20
2,849.25
1,566.28
$437,587-14
;7, 587-14
596 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
- City of Manchester to George E. Morrill.
DR.
To salary for the year ending June
I, 1889 .... ^1,650.00
commissions on old taxes . . '^'^•33
$1,660.33
CR.
By cash paid by treasurer, on ac-
count of salary . . . ^800.00
balance, by treasurer, as per bill 860.33
^1,660.33
Manchester, N. H., June 20, 1890.
I hereby certify that I have examined the account of George
E. Morrill, tax collector of said Manchester, and find the same
correct and as above stated.
JAMES B. STRAW,
G'ty Auditor.
BONDED DEBT.
597
TABULAR STATEMENT OF BONDED DEBT, CITY OF MAN-
CHESTER, N. H., FROM JANUARY 1, 1890, TO
DECEMBER 31, 1890.
$70,0 00 is-
Six per
cent to
build
water-
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sued Oct.
Issued July
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1, 1881,4
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per cent, to
cent, water-
cemetery
sued July
build Mc-
works.*
bonds, t
1,1864. Six
Gregor
per cent, to
bridge.
fund debts.
1890
$400,000
$200,000
$13,850
$120,000
$60,000
] ssued
April 1, 1885,
4 per
cent, to fund
debts.
$155,000
Total.
$948,850
Amount of
6 per cent
bonds
due and
paid.
$99,900*
$100,000
$948,850
Amount of
6 per cent
water bonds
on which
interest has
ceased, not
yet presen-
ted for
payment.
$100
• $400,000, water bonds, issued January 1, 1872; $100,000 of these bonds re-
funded January 1, 1887.
* $200,000, water bonds, issued July 1, 1874; $100,000 of these bonds re-funded
July 1, 1890. ,
t$2,200, cemetery bonds, issued in 1884, and other additional bonds each year.
The city guai-antees the perpetual care of lots in the cemeteries. Bonds
payable July 1, 1913.
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Remarks. — The city guarantees the perpetual care of lots in
the cemeteries of the city to parties who pay $ioo and upward.
There are ^13,850 in cemetery bonds, so called, in the hands of
the city treasurer, which are not included in the 1^935,000.
Total amount of bonded debt, including cem-
etery bonds ....... $948,850. 00
Net indebtedness for water purposes . . . 600,000.00
Net debt after deducting water debt .
As shown in the assessors' books for the year
1890 :
The assessed value of personal property, includ
ing poll tax ......
The assessed value of real estate
Total value for taxation
Tax rate, 1.9 1 per cent on a hundred (excep
$34,000 taxed at i per cent).
Per cent of net indebtedness (excluding debt for
water purposes) to assessed valuation
Per cent of net indebtedness (including debt for
water purposes) to assessed valuation
Population, census of 1890 . . . .
Population, census of 1880 . . . .
Increase of population in ten years .
$348,850.00
$4,241,170.00
19^966,570.00
524,207,740.00
1. 441
3-919
43.9S3
32,458
ii'525
No issue of bonds has ever been contested.
The interest on the debt has always been promptly- paid at
maturity.
None of the bonds are stated specifically as being payable in
gold.
None of the bonds can be called for redemption.
The power of the city to borrow money in relation to the
water-works is limited to the sum of $600,000 by section 6,.
chapter 70, New Hampshire Laws of 1871, entitled " An act to
enable the city of Manchester to establish water-works."
BONDED DEBT.
601
STATEMENT OF THE ANNUAL INTEREST CHiVRGE ON THE BONDED
DEBT.
Year.
*Six per
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1890..:
$27,000
$6,000
$623.75
$7,200
$2,400
$6,200
$49,423.75
SUMMARY OF CITY DEBT.
Amount of bonded debt January i,
1890 ^945,950.00
Amount of cemetery bonds issued in
1890 ...... 2,900.00
Amount of water bonds re-issued . 100,000.00
Accrued interest on bonded debt . 21,277.50
Water bonds paid in 1890
Total indebtedness, Jan. i, 1891
AVAILABLE ASSETS.
11,070, 127. 50
99,900.00
170,227.50
Net cash on hand January i, 1891
Taxes uncollected, list of 1890
Stock of Suncook Valley Railroad,
estimated value
Total net indebtedness .
$79,552.02
19,798.71
12,500.00
;iii,85o.73
,376-77
* $400,000, water bonds, issued January 1, 1872; $100,000 re-funded at 4 per
cent, January 1, 1887.
* $200,000, water bonds, issued July 1, 1874; $100,000 re-funded at 4 per cent,
July 1, 1890.
$60,000, bridge bonds, issued July 1, 1881, at 4 per cent.
$155,000, bonds issued April 1, 1885, at 4 per cent.
$70,000, bonds to fund debts, issued October 1, 1863, and are due November 1,
1893.
$50,000, bonds to fund debts, issued July 1, 1864, and are due July 1, 1894.
$2,200, cemetery bonds, Issued in 1884, and other additional bonds, each suc-
ceeding year. The city guarantees the perpetual care of lots in tlie ceme-
teries.
Bonds payable July 1, 1913, to the trustees of cemetery funds; not nego-
tiable.
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REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY.
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REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY.
SCHOOLHOUSES
High schoolhouse and lot
Franklin-street schoolhouse and lot
Spring-street schoolhouse and lot
Lincoln-street schoolhouse and lot
Ash-street schoolhouse and lot
Main-street schoolhouse and lot .
Webster-street schoolhouse and lot
JBlodget-street schoolhouse and lot
Bridge-street schoolhouse and lot
Lowell-street schoolhouse and lot
Merrimack-street schoolhouse and lot
Wilson Hill schoolhouse and lot .
School-street schoolhouse and lot
South Main-street schoolhouse and lot
Bakersville schoolhouse and lot .
Stark district schoolhouse and lot
Amoskeag schoolhouse and lot
Goffe's Falls schoolhouse and lot .
Harvey District schoolhouse and lot
Webster's Mills schoolhouse and lot
Hallsville schoolhouse and lot
Y'^oungsville schoolhouse and lot .
Mosquito Pond schoolhouse and lot
Park-street schoolhouse and lot
Y'arney schoolhouse and lot
550,000.00
20,000.00
16,000.00
50,000.00
58,000.00
23,000.00
17,500.00
3,500.00
4,000.00
7,000.00
15,985.00
3,300.00
5,000.00
2,800.00
15,000.00
3,000.00
3,700.00
3,600.00
2,500.00
600.00
3,500.00
1,400.00
1,200.00
8,500.00
50,000.00
,085.00
ENGINE-HOUSES.
Engine-house, stable and land, Vine-street .
Main street, West Manchester .
Cottage and lot, Lake avenue, corner
of Massabesic street
;47,ooo.oo
20,000.00
19,371.00
606
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Engine-house and lot, Webster street, corner Chest-
nut ......
Clinton-street, West Manchester .
Hose-house, cottage and lot . . . .
^13,000.00
2,500.00
5,000.00
$106,871.00
OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND LOTS.
City library, building and lot
City hall, building and lot .
City farm and permanent improvements
Court-house and lot ,
Battery building on Manchester street
Police station on Manchester street
City stables and city yard
Gravel lot, Belmont street .
Gravel lots, ward 8
Gravel lots, Bakersville
Gravel lots, district No. 8 .
$41,000.00
60,000.00
34,000.00
51,000.00
18,000.00
43,300.00
36,000.00
1,200.00
400.00
700.00
150.00
$285,75000
PERSONAL PROPERTY OWNED BY THE CITY.
Property in care city engineer .... $848.24
in care the chief engineer of fire dept. . 91,096.00
in care superintendent highway dist. No. 2 25,000.00
in care superintendent highway dist. No. 10 666.85
in care superintendent of schools . . 34,287.00
in care city messenger .... 2,759.00
in care city marshal and janitor . . 1,970.25
in care superintendent of city farm . 10,139.40
in care trustees of city library . . 27,332.90
in care superintendent of Pine Grove
cemetery ...... -48-35
in care superintendent of Valley cemetery 106.00
Stock in Suncook Valley R. R. in care city treas. 50,000.00
Personal property in care of city weigher . . 1,000.00
REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY.
607
Uncollected taxes in 18S9
Uncollected taxes in 1890
Net cash in the treasury, December 31
1890
$1,566.28
19,798.71
79.552-02
$346,371.00
OTHER REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OWNED hV CITY.
Soldiers' monument .....
Permanent inclosure of commons
Amoskeag bridge over Merrimack river
Fountains and water troughs on streetsand common
Two city tombs ......
McGregor bridge .....
Granite bridge ......
South Main-street bridge over Piscataquog river
Print-Works bridge on Granite, over lower canal
Two bridges in highway district No. 9
One bridge at Goffe's Falls ....
Expended on construction of sewers
PARKS AND CEMETERIES.
Valley cemetery, 19.7 acres .
Pine Grove cemetery, about 64 acres*
Amoskeag cemetery, 1.05 acres
Stark park, 28 acres
Derryfield park, 76 acres
Concord common, 4.48 acres
Tremont common, 2.25 acres
Hanover common, 3 acres .
Park common, 3.49 acres
Merrimack common, 5.89 acres
WATER-WORKS.
Real estate and personal property of Water-Works
at cost price .......
* 16 acres have since been purchased.
$25,000.00
10,200.00
25,000.00
3,500.00
10,000.00
90,000.00
25,000.00
IO,OOO.OD
5,000.00
2,000.00
1,000.00
244,470.00
$451,170.00
$200,000.00
40,000.00
4,000.00
9,000.00
25,000.00
200,000.00
40,000.00
100,000.00
60,000.00
200,000 00
$878,000.00
$958,140.09
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REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
RECAPITULATION.
Real estate owned by the city, schoolhouses
Real estate owned by the city
Real estate owned by the city, engine-houses
Water-Works at cost price . . . .
Personal property owned by the city
Other real and personal property
Parks and cemeteries . . . . .
PROPERTY ACCOUNT.
Inventory of assets December 31,
1889 j?2, 373, 424.00
Cemeteries and commons, Decem-
ber 31, 1889 . . . 845,000.00
,085.00
285,750.00
106,871.00
958,140.09
346,371.00
451,170.00
878,000.00
5^395. 387-09
Total valuation .
Inventory of assets December 31, 1890
Gain in valuation
53,218,424.00
3,395'387-oo
$176,963.00
Inventories of personal property in the care of the superinten-
dents, trustees, and heads of departments have been taken, result-
ing in the increase above stated. Some of that increase may be
stated as follows: Varney school, $43,250; new city stables,
^6,000 ; expended on sewers, $39,298 ; Stark park, land pur-
chased, $8,000 ; Derryfield park, which was taken from the city
farm, $25,000, but the remaining land is estimated to be worth
$41,000, and the old valuation is not changed ; city library,
books, furniture, etc., not included in the inventory of 1889,
$27,332.90; superintendent of schools, $26,412, the increase
owing to the free-text book law, and the furnishing of many
■new schoolhouses since the taking of the previous inventory.
The details of these inventories are on file in the auditor's office.
The city-hall building, valued at $60,000, is considered by good
judges of real estate as worth on the market $150,000 ; while
the Water-Works would sell readily at $1,500,000.
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITY COUNCILS. 609
COMMUNICATIONS OF CITY AUDITOR TO THE
CITY COUNCILS.
To the City Councils of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — Having been "appointed b}- the Mayor and
approved by the Board of Aldermen, as a competent person to
act as auditor of the city for the year following my appointment
and until my successor is appointed and qualified, " and having
accepted said office in accordance with the law and the ordinance
relating to the same, allow me in this communication to your
honorable body to tender rny thanks for the honor conferred,
and to express a hope that with your cordial support the duties
of the auditor's office maybe performed in a satisfactory manner.
It is among the prescribed duties of the auditor that " he shall
carefully examine all accounts and bills against said city and
shall approve no such bill or account unless the same shall be
accompanied by a certificate of the Mayor or some other city
official, committee, or agent, authorized in behalf of said city to
make the contract, or cause the expenditure to be made, upon
which such account or bill is founded, that the same is correct ;
and no such bill or account shall be paid by the city treasurer
until said auditor has approved it as correct. "
It is the duty of ah auditor to examine all matters of law and
fact which affect the question of indebtedness before him (see
Moulton vs. Parker & Young, 35 N. H. R. 92), and make report
thereon. In view of the importance of these duties and of the
many persons who may be affected thereby, I deem it proper to
call the attention of the City Councils, city officials, and the pub-
lic to some of the legal conclusions and specific rules that may
govern the future decisions of the auditor and the business meth-
ods of the office. The principle is a plain one, that the public
trusts or powers devolved by law or charter on the City Councils
of Manchester, N, H., to wit, all the powers of towns to be ex-
ercised by it at such times, under such restrictions and in such
manner as the laws direct (Dillon's Municipal Corporations,
39
610 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
section 96, vol. i), cannot be delegated to others. By the Gen-
eral Laws, chapter 46, section 13, " no member of either branch
[of the City Councils] except the Mayor shall receive any com-
pensation for his services or shall hold any office or agency cre-
ated during his continuance in office."
And by section 14, " the executive powers of the city and the
administration of police, except where vested in the mayor, shall
be exercised by the mayor and aldermen ; and they shall have
the powers and do and perform all the duties which the select-
men of towns have, are authorized, or required to do or perform
in regard to their towns, unless it is otherwise provided by law."
Hence it follows that any new work to be done or public im-
provement to be made, can be commenced and carried on only
upon the order of the City Councils, stating specifically the work
to be done or the improvements to be made, and appropriating
money for the same. It is essential for the purpose of accuracy
and clearness of statement in the accounts of the city, that an
account in each case with said improvements should be opened
and such specific appropriation charged directly to such account,
either by transfer from some annual appropriation or by loan, as
the City Councils may direct. It also follows that joint standing
committees possess advisory powers only ; they cannot legally be
endowed with executive or legislative powers by ordinance or
resolution of the City Councils, as by General Laws, chapter 48,
section ic, par. 14, "no by-law or ordinance shall be repugnant
to the constitution or laws of the State. " No member of either
branch of the City Councils can enterin to any verbal or written
contract to furnish supplies to, or do any work for the city. Any
firm of which a member is also a member of the City Councils, is
included in this prohibition. No city official, or department, or
board of officials having legal power to expend money for the
benefit of the city can purchase of or contract with themselves,
with any one of the board, or with any firm of which one of said
officials is a member.
The following, from Judge Dillon's text-book on Municipal
Corporations, vol. i, page 436, section 444, with the reported
decisions of the courts as there noted, gives in apt language the
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITY COUNCILS. 611
reasons for the last two statements : " It is a well established and
salutary rule in equity that he who is intrusted with the business
of others cannot be allowed to make such business an object of
pecuniary profit to himself. This rule does not depend on rea-
soning technical in its character, and is not local in its applica-
tion. It is based upon principles of reason, of morality, and of
public policy. It has its foundation in the very constitution of
our nature, for it has been authoritatively declared that a man
cannot serve two masters, and is recognized and enforced wher-
ever a well regulated system of jurisprudence prevails. One
who has power, owing to the frailty of human nature, will be too
readily seized with the inclination to use the opportunity for se-
curing his own interest at the expense of that for which he is en-
trusted. It has, therefore, been said that the wise policy of the
law has ' put the sting of disability ' into the temptation as a de-
fensive weapon against the strength of the danger which lies in
the situation. This conflict of interest is the rock, for shunning
which the disability under consideration has obtained its force,
by making that person who has the one part intrusted to him
incapable of acting on the other side, that he may not be seduced
by temptation and opportunity from the duty of his trust. The
law will in no case permit persons who have undertaken a char-
acter or a charge to change or invert that character by leaving it
and acting for themselves in a business in which their character
binds them to act for others. The application of the rule
may in some instances appear to bear hard upon individuals who
had committed no moral wrong ; but it is essential to the keep-
ing of all parties filling a fiduciary character to their duty to pre-
serve the rule in its integrity, and to apply it to every case which
justly falls within its principle. The principle generally applica-
ble to all officers and directors of a corporation is that they can-
not enter into contracts with such corporations to do any work
for it, nor can they subsequently derive any benefit personally
from such contract. To deny the application of the rule to
municipal bodies would be to deprive it of much of its value ; for
the well working of the municipal system, through which a large
portion of the affairs of the country are administered, must de-
612 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
pend very much upon the freedom from abuse with which they
are conducted. It is obvious that nothing can more tend to
correct the tendency to abuse than to make abuses unprofitable
to those who engage in them, and to have them stamped as
abuses."
Every bill against the city shall specify the particular appro-
priation to which the same should be charged ; and the moneys
paid by virtue of the auditor's certificate thereon should be
charged to such appropriations only.
No part of any appropriation shall be applied to the purchase
of or payment for any articles except such as the Mayor and Al- .
dermen, or the Mayor, or the official or head of the department
having the charge of the work for which said appropriation is
made, shall deem necessary and proper to carry on the said work,
and shall by written order direct to be procured and charged to
such appropriation. All bills against the city requiring meas-
urements either of dimensions, quantity, or weight, should con-
tain a full, clear, and correct statement of such measurements.
When deemed necessary, such bills will be referred to the city
engineer for his measurement and sworn certificate thereto.
Extraordinary repairs involving a large expenditure of money
should in all cases be submitted to the City Councils, and a spe-
cial appropriation made therefor.
The following parties are authorized by law or ordinance to
make expenditures, within the scope of their powers, for their re-
spective departments :
For fire department and fire-alarm telegraph, the chief engi-
neer, to be submitted monthly to the approval of the board of
engineers ; for police department, city marshal ; for police court,
police judge ; for water- works department, superintendent, sub-
ject to the rules of the board of commissioners and the ordi-
nances relating thereto; for city farm, superintendent; for over-
seers of the poor, each overseer, subject to the rules of the board
of overseers, and their monthly review and approval ; for schools,
superintendent, or such person as the board of school committee
may designate, bills to be approved by the board monthly ;
for streets, sewers, and other work under these departments,
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITY COUNCILS, 613
superintendent of each district, under control of Mayor and
Board of Mayor and Aldermen ; for city clerk's office, treasurer's
office, tax collector's office, assessors' office, auditor's office,
incidental expenditures, city physician, city messenger, city so-
licitor, city engineer, Mayor ; for cemeteries, board of trustees
(to consist of citizens not members of the City Councils) ; for
city library, board of trustees ; for health department, the
board of health, subject to approval of mayor. It may be stated
as a general rule that all subordinate officials are under the super-
vision and control of the Mayor, subject to such limitations and
restrictions as the Board of Aldermen, acting as a board, may re-
quire.
In every bill presented to the city auditor for consideration,
the following points will be considered and passed upon, and in
all questions involving doubt the opinion of the city solicitor
will be requested :
1. Is the subject-matter of the bill under examination within
the scope of the powers conferred by the legislature on the city
government ?
2. Is the bill certified by the party legally authorized to make
the contract or cause the expenditure to be made ?
3. Has an appropriation been made to meet the expenditure,
and is there a balance unexpended sufficient to pay this bill ?
4. Are the number of articles in the bill, or the measurements,
either of dimensions, quantities, or weights, correctly and fully
stated, and is the proof of the delivery to the city of the whole
amount charged sufficient?
5. Is the price charged a fair market price, or is it so largely
in excess as to require the attention of the City Councils to be
called to the same ?
6. Is the bill written in a fair, legible hand, correctly cast, and
on paper of sufficient length and width to admit of its proper
backing and filing ?
7. If the bill is in part payment of a contract, the date and
the total amount of the contract, the amount already paid, the
amount of the work not yet completed, and the per cent retained,
(if any) must be stated on the bill.
614 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
8. Any otlier inquiries in matters of law and fact which af-
fect the question of indebtedness before the auditor.
9. Approval, rejection, or suspension for further information,
or correction, as the circumstances in each case may require.
The foUowmg bills presented to the city auditor January 24,
1890, have been rejected on the ground that " the sting of disa-
bility " is present in them all.
In consideration that the common law of agency has not here-
tofore been strictly applied by any of the City Councils that have
existed since the organization of the city government in 1846,
and that the parties to these contracts have parted with their
property at fair prices, and for the benefit of the city, I would
advise that these contracts and any other contracts made prior to
February i, 1890, be ratified by a vote of the City Councils (if
they have the power), and the auditor be instructed to pass the
same. (Here follows a list of bills, amounting in the aggregate
to ^547.28, due sundry persons who were members of the City-
Councils, overseers of the poor, etc.)
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
February 4, 1890.
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester :
Gentlemen, — The city auditor has before him for consid-
eration a bill against the city of Manchester, of which the follow-
ing is a copy :
The City of Manchester, N. H., to Joint Standing Committee
on Fire Department, Dr.
To expenses of joint standing committee on fire department to
Lawrence, Haverhill, Worcester, and Boston, in the interest of
the aerial truck and combination wagon :
Fares $21.72
Hotel and meals . . . . . . .16.05
Total $37-77
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITf COUNCILS. 615
This bill is approved by the Mayor and the chairman of the
joint standing committee on fire department. The auditor is in-
formed that this bill includes the expenses of six persons, the
committee (five), and the chief engineer of the fire department
(one). The auditor infers that the gentlemen who contracted this
expenditure believed themselves authorized to do so by the
order that passed the Common Council April i, 1890, and was
approved by the Board of Aldermen May 6, 1890, " To purchase
a combination hose wagon for use in West Manchester, " and
that the expenditure was necessary for the proper performance of
the duty devolved upon them by the order of May 6, 1890. All
orders passed by the City Councils authorizing a ministerial act
to be performed by its agent or agents must be strictly construed,
and the act to be done must be specifically stated. It is a matter
of doubt in the mind of the auditor whether or not the appoint-
ment of any member, or any number of members of the City
Councils on a committee authorized to perform executive or
ministerial acts can be made without a violation of section 13,
chapter 46 of the General Laws of New Hampshire. The
Mayor is the chief executive officer of the city, and the chief
engineer of the fire department is his subordinate officer. They
are both paid officials, appointed for the express purpose of
doing just such executive business as was enjoined on this com-
mittee, and their executive responsibilities should not be ren-
dered nugatory by being dissipated over a large number of
persons. If it was necessary for the committee appointed by the
resolution of May 6 to visit four cities in our sister state of
Massachusetts, in order to " purchase a combination hose wagon,"
and to take with them the chief engineer of the fire department,
some words should have been used in the resolution giving
specific authority for such an excursion, and providing for the
payment of the expenses by the city. It will be judicious and
save the auditor much inconvenience if such expenditures are
in all future cases first submitted to the action of the City Councils
before they are incurred by the committee.
This bill cannot be certified as "correct" by the auditor
616 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
until it has been ratified and confirmed by vote of the City
Councils. Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
June 3, 1890.
To the City Councils of Mmichester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — The auditor herewith submits for your consid-
eration the bill of against the city of Manchester,
for three perfection nozzles and holders, Nos. 509, 510, 511, at
$35, $105, " purchased by order of the joint standing committee
on fire department. " I am not aware of any order passed by the
City Councils authorizing the purchase of the nozzles and hold-
ers above described.
The board of engineers have the authority of firewards, and
by chapter 106, section 11, "the chief fireward shall keep, or
cause to be kept, in order all apparatus provided by such town for
the extinguishment of fires." They have no power conferred
upon them by law or ordinance to purchase new apparatus of any
kind. The joint standing committee on fire department have
advisory powers only. This bill cannot be certified as " correct "
by the city auditor without ratification by the City Councils. It
will save the auditor, and all other parties, much trouble and
inconvenience, if the authority to purchase new apparatus is
obtained of the City Councils, before the contract is made.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
Manchester, N. H., July i, 1890.
To the City Councils of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — The city auditor has rejected the following
bills against the city :
, foreman ...... $28.75
, hoseman ..... 50.00
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITY COUNCILS. 617
— , assistant foreman . . . . $55.00
— , hoseman . ■. . . . 25.00
The above named parties at the time these bills were con-
tracted were members of the City Councils, and the first three
named are still acting as such. When these parties accepted and
were qualified as aldermen and members of the Common Council
and acted and continued to act as such, they were legally dis-
qualified from holding any office or agency created during their
term of service, or any office of profit. (See General Laws of New
Hampshire, chapter 46, section 13, and chapter 48, section 2.)
" It is a well established and salutary rule in equity, that he who
is intrusted with the business of others cannot be allowed to
make such business an object of pecuniary profit to himself. "
See Dillon's Municipal Corporations, vol. i, p. 436, sect.
444. " This rule does not depend on reasoning technical in its
character, and is not local in its application. It is based upon
principles of reason, of morality, and of public policy. It has
its foundation in the very constitution of our nature, for it has
been authoritatively declared that a man cannot serve two masters,
and is recognized and enforced wherever a well regulated system
of jurisprudence prevails." These claims founded upon transac-
tions prohibited by law are illegal and void in their inception
and cannot be made valid by ratification of the City Councils.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
Manchester, N. H., July i, 1890.
To tlie City Councils of Manciiestcr, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — Your attention is herewith called to the fact
that the following appropriations are overdrawn to the respective
amounts placed against each :
Printing and stationery . . . . , . 65654.09
Sewers and drains ...... 2.456.04
Fire-alarm telegraph ...... 293.85
City teams ........ 477-6i
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Fuel, school department . . . . . ^241.65
Printing and advertising, school department . . 22.03
Contingent expenses, school department . . 106.42
Chapter 48, section 6, of the General Laws of New Hamp-
shire says : "The city councils shall take proper care that no
money be paid from the city treasury, unless previously granted
and appropriated." Section 4, chapter 3 of the City Ordinances,
says : "Whenever any appropriation shall be expended, the city
clerk shall immediately give notice thereof to the mayor, to the
city councils, and to the committee on accounts, which commit-
tee shall pass or allow no claim or account chargeable to any
head or appropriation which is expended, until the city coun-
cils shall have provided the means of paying the same." Sec-
tion 4 of the ordinance relating to the duties of the city audi-
tor, approved January 7, 1890, says : "In case there are bills or
accounts which said auditor shall not approve, he shall present
them to said committee on accounts, with his reasons for refusing
to approve the same. Said committee on accounts shall not cer-
tify any such bill or account which has not been approved by the
auditor, and no such bill or account shall be paid by the city
treasurer until said auditor has approved it as correct, in addition
to the other indorsements heretofore required."
After a full and careful consideration of the requirements of
the Laws and Ordinances, as above stated, the city auditor has
arrived at the conclusion that duty requires him to withhold his
signature in future from all bills against any appropriation where
the amount of the appropriation is expended.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
Manchester, N. H., September 2, 1890.
To the City Couniils of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — The following bills have been presented to the
city auditor, approved by the chief engineer of the fire depart-
ment, and indorsed " Firemen's Annual Parade."
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITY COUNCILS. 619
To dinner for 413 at 65c. each $277.45
Cash paid for postage, on account firemen's annual
parade ......... 3.50
Services of band at firemen's annual parade . . 52.00
Printing 300 invitations, two lots .... 3.25
300 envelopes ........ .90
175 circulars to firemen ...... 2.75
150 cards ......... i.oo
500 programs, line of march ..... 3-oo
Making in all the sum of .... . $343.85
In 1 87 1 the City Councils made for the first time an annual ap-
propriation of $300 for firemen's annual parade, and since then
have made each year, up to and including the year 1889, a like
amount for the same purpose. In the present year the appro-
priation is $500. The total amount paid by the city for the last
nine years is $2, .7 79. 68.
The city auditor is unable to find the slightest legal basis on
which an appropriation, covering such expenditures as are pre-
sented in the foregoing bills, can be made. Chapter 106 of the
General Laws of New Hampshire relating to the powers and
duties of the firewards, contains no provisions that by the most
liberal construction can be made to sanction such expenditures.
In Gove vs. Epping, 41 N. H. 539, Doe, judge, says :
'* The power of towns to raise and appropriate money is derived
solely from statutory provisions, which restrict the power to cer-
tain specified objects and other necessary charges."
" Votes to raise or pay money for purposes other than those
prescribed by statute are void, and towns cannot be compelled,
and generally will not be permitted, to carry such votes into ef-
fect." It is not left to the unrestricted and irresponsible discre-
tion of towns to vote gifts or to select donees ; their charity is a
duty defined, commanded, enforced, and regulated, and the objects
of it are designated by law. A majority cannot dispose of the prop-
erty of a minority in an unlimited manner." The expenditures
represented by these bills are not necessary for the extinguish-
ment of fires, for the care or repair or protection of the property
620 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
of the cit}'. The feeding of a multitude on special invitation
can not be regarded as essential to the discipline of the firemen.
The City Councils cannot ratify and thereby make legal that
which is illegal in its inception.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
Manchester, N. H., October 31, 1890.
To the City Councils of Manchester, N. H.:
Gentlemen, — The following appropriations are overdrawn to
the amount placed against each. (Here follow sundry appropria-
tions with the amount overdrawn placed against each.)
The necessity for a transfer to each appropriation to balance
the overdraft, need not be dwelt upon. If further expenditures
are to be made on sewers and drains, an amount sufficient to cover
those expenditures should be transferred. The power possessed
by the City Councils to limit the expenditures of the city govern-
ment in all of its departnients lies chiefly in its right to give or
to withhold supplies. This power is conferred upon it by the
State and cannot be legally delegated to any other person or per-
sons. (Gillis vs. Bailey, 21 R. 149). Section 12, chapter 30
of the ordinance of the city relating to water-works, says : "All
money received on account of water-works shall be paid weekly,
or oftener, into the city treasury, and a receipt taken for the
same ; and all moneys paid into the treasury on account of said
works shall be placed to the credit of the water-works, and shall
not be paid out except under the provisions of section 6." " All
bills for expenditures for the water-works shall be approved by
the board of water commissioners or by some person by them des-
ignated, examined by the city auditor, and allowed by the com-
mittee on accounts, before they are paid by the treasurer." " Sec-
tion 8. The board of w^ater commissioners shall have no
power to expend any money, or to incur any debt, or commence
any work that shall require any money beyond the amount of ap-
propriations made by the city councils." The board of water
COMMUNICATIONS TO CITY COUNCILS. 621
commissioners have in the past acted upon the presumption that
section 12 was an appropiation made by the City Councils, and
have expended large sums of money for the extension and repairs
of the water-works without obtaining from the City Councils any
further specific authority. In fact, the board has acted as an in-
dependent body, not bound like the school committee, the en-
gineers of the fire department, the superintendent of streets, and
other subordinate officials, by specific appropriations made for
certain specific well-defined purposes, but has had, and now has,
the entire receipts of the water-works at its disposal. These re-
ceipts now amount annually to a sum exceeding ^So,ooo, and are
yearly increasing. The city auditor is of the opinion that sec-
tion 12 is not a legal appropriation, and that the City Councils
have no power to delegate to others discretionary powers con-
ferred upon them by the Legislature. The auditor submits for
your consideration an ordinance in amendment of said section 12,
which, if passed by your honorable body, will remove all legal
doubts herein raised, and place the board of water commission-
ers in their proper legal relations with the City Councils.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor,
Manchester, N. H., October 7, 1890.
To the City Councils of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — In the bills of the Manchester Water-Works for
the month of December, 1890, presented to the city auditor for
his approval are the following :
(Here follows a list of bills for attendance upon meetings of
board of water commissioners, amounting in all to the sum of
$609.)
The auditor is unable to find any legal foundation for these
charges and is therefore compelled to withhold his approval.
Section 3, chapter 30 of the ordinance relating to water-works,
provides that " the board of water commissioners shall have
power to appoint a superintendent and all subordinate agents and
622 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
assistants, and may fix their compensation." On the subject of
the compensation of the water commissioners the laws and ordi-
nances are silent. The auditor finds no record in the printed
city reports of any compensation being paid to a water commis-
sioner prior to 1880.
Respectfully submitted,
JAMES B. STRAW, City Auditor.
RE-FUNDING OF WATER BONDS.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution in regard to water bonds.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
the city of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That for the purpose of re-funding the water bonds, due July i,
1890, the Mayor and the joint standing committee on finance
be and are hereby authorized and empowered to issue water
bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000),
payable July i, 19 10, and bearing interest at a rate not exceed-
ing four per cent, and the Mayor and city treasurer are hereby
authorized to sign said bonds for and in behalf of the city.
[Passed April i, 1890.]
LETTER TO N. W. HARRIS & CO.
Manchester, N. H., June 19, 1890.
N. If. Hai-ris &= Co., Boston, Mass. :
Gentlemen, — Your bid of $105,670 for $100,000 Manchester
bonds, as per circular sent you, is accepted. We will furnish you
^ny satisfactory papers such as you may require, or if you wish to
RE-FUNDING WATER BONDS. 623
send a man here to investigate matters, we shall be happy to fur-
nish him with all the necessary information.
I am, yours respectfully,
D. B. VARNEY, Mayor.
Per J. B. S.
BIDS FOR WATER BONDS.
List of bids for ^100,000 water bonds re-issued July i, 1890,
city of Manchester, N. H. Bids made June 18, 1890.
N. W. Harris & Co., Boston, Mass., bid ^105,670.
R. L. Day & Co., of Boston, Mass., bid ^105,176.
N. H. Trust Co., Manchester, N. H., bid $103,000.
Amoskeag National Bank, Manchester, N. H., bid $104,390.
Adams, Blodgett & Co., Boston, Mass., bid $103,125.
At a meeting of the finance committee of the city of Manches-
ter, a quorum being present, the bids were opened for the one
hundred thousand dollars four per cent twenty-year water-works
bonds, and said bonds were awarded to N. W. Harris & Co., of
Boston, for one hundred five thousand six hundred and seventy
•dollars ($105,670), and same is hereby confirmed.
GEORGE C. CHASE,
D. E. VARNEY,
W. B. STEARNS,
E. S. HEATH,
Finance Committee of City of Alanchester, N. H.
FROM THE GENERAL LAWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
CHAPTER 37.
Section 16. Any town may fund its debt, by vote of any legal
meeting, and any such indebtedness may include the bounty of
the general goverment to volunteers, conscripts, or substitutes
which such town has assumed and paid for the purpose of filling
its quota. And any town that may have funded its debt, or any
624 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
part thereof, may at any legal meeting ratify and confirm the
same, and may issue bonds payable at such time and place as they
may by vote authorize, with coupons for interest, payable an-
nually or semi-annually, in gold or other lawful currency, at a
rate not exceeding 6 per cent.
CHAPTER 44.
Section i. All cities now or hereafter incorporated, shall
have, exercise, and enjoy all the rights, immunities, and privi-
leges, and shall be subject to all the duties incumbent upon or
appertaining to the town corporations to which they succeed.
CHAPTER 48.
Section i. All the powers vested by law in towns, or in the
inhabitants thereof, shall be exercised by the city councils by
concurrent vote, each board having a negative upon the other.
CHAPTER 70.
An Act to enable the city of INIanchester to establish water-
works.
Section 6. Said city is authorized to levy taxes to defray the
expense of such water-works, and to borrow money therefor, not
exceeding in the whole the sum of six hundred thousand dollars,
and to issue the notes, bonds, or obligations of said city therefor,
payable at such time and at such rate of interest as the city
councils of said city shall determine ; and such notes, bonds, and
obligations shall be legal and binding on said city. — Laws of
i8ji.
WATER BILLS AGAINST THE CITY FOR THE YEAR 1S90.
HYDRANTS.
January ....... $4,390.00
April ....... 4,390.00
July 4o5o-oo
October ....... 4,550.00
$17,880.00
ANNUAL CITY WATER BILL.
625
FIRE DEPARTMENT,
January
April
July
October
January
April .
July •
October
January
April
July
October
January
April .
July .
October
January
April .
July .
October
January
April .
July .
October
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
WATER TROUGHS.
SPRINKLING.
CITY HALL.
$274-63
255-73
292.78
208.93
S53-IO
91-95
93-45
53-40
!i23.45
150-30
118.05
68.55
$265.50
265.50
265-50
265-50
,050.00
680.00
720.00
720.00
$167-85
156.00
156.00
171.60
,1,032.07
J291.90
$460.35
11,062.00
$2,780.00
40
$652.05
626 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STONE CRUSHER.
January ......
April * .
July •
October ......
City library, annual bill, April
Pine Grove cemetery, annual bill, October
Valley cemetery, annual bill, October
Amoskeag cemetery, annual bill, October
Fountains, cemetery, annual bill, October
$7-50
7-5°
7-5°
7-5°
$30.00
16.00
300.00
35-55
12.00
$■
300.00
24
,851.92
ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS
PASSED IN 1890.
City of Manchester,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance in amendment of Chapter 14, Section 27, of the
Laws and Ordinances.
That chapter 14, section 27, of the Laws and Ordinances, be
amended by inserting after the word "payments" in the third
line thereof the words, "The superintendent of highways in
district number ten shall receive two dollars and fifty cents
per day, payable monthly," so that said chapter shall read as
follows: "The superintendent of highways in district number
two shall receive twelve hundred dollars per annum, to be paid
in equal monthly payments, the superintendent of highways in
district number ten shall receive two dollars and fifty cents per
day, payable monthly, and in each of the other districts two
dollars per day for each day actually employed, payable monthly."
Passed to be ordained May 6, 1S90.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
An Ordinance to amend Section 6, Chapter 14 of the Ordi-
nances of the City of Manchester, in relation to the duties
and compensation of City Officers.
628 ORDINANCES.
Section i. Section 6 of chapter 14 of the Ordinances of the
City of Manchester is hereby amended by striking out the word
"five" and inserting instead thereof the word "eight," so that
said section as amended shall read as follows : " Section 6. The
city solicitor shall receive in full for his services as city solicitor
and for all the duties appertaining to said office the sum of eight
hundred dollars per annum, to be paid in equal quarterly pay-
ments."
Sect. 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed to be ordained June 3, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance establishing a Scavenger Service.
Section i. The scavenger service of the city shall be under
the general control of the mayor and aldermen, and shall be per-
formed by the superintendents of highways in their respective
districts, or such other persons as said board shall from time to
time contract with for that service.
Sect. 2. Each superintendent or contractor shall cause all the
compactly built portion of his district to be regularly and fre-
quently visited by suitable men and vehicles for the removal of
all rubbish, waste, and noxious or unsightly matter found in any
street, lane, or public place, and the removal of all such matters
and things which may for that purpose be placed upon, or con-
venient to, any street or lane, in the manner and at the time
hereinafter specified. He shall carry them to such location
distant from the compact part of the city as the mayor and
aldermen may designate, and shall there make such disposition
of them by burning, burying, or otherwise, as said board may
direct.
Sect. 3. Ashes, earth, brick, and lime, rubbish and other
innoxious and imperishable waste, shall be collected separately
from perishable waste, and when so collected may be used for
filling new streets or low ground.
ORDINANCES. 629
Sect. 4. Every person owning, occupying, or having the
care of any building, premises, or business located in the com-
pact part of the city in which any perishable or burnable waste,
whether of vegetable or animal origin, is produced, shall pro-
vide and keep a suitable vessel in which all such waste shall
be deposited ; and no water, earth, ashes, stones, or brick
shall be mingled therewith. All ashes and other imperishable
waste which may properly be removed by the scavenger depart-
ment shall be placed in a separate receptacle, and no perishable
or burnable waste shall be deposited therewith. Each of said
receptacles, with its contents, shall be set out upon the back
street, or upon the edge of the sidewalk, in the morning of the
day on which the scavenger teams are to pass through the street
for the removal of that kind of waste.
Sect. 5. Any person violating any provisions of the preced-
ing sections shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding ten
dollars.
Passed to be ordained June 3, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance relating to throwing paper and other rubbish
into public streets and commons.
Section i. No person shall, in any public street or common
in the city of Manchester, distribute to other persons there being
or passing, any handbills, cards, or papers, and no person shall
sweep into, throw, place, or drop in any public street or common
any cards, paper, or any offensive or noxious or refuse liquid or
solid matter or substance. But this section shall not be con-
strued to prohibit the selling of newspapers upon the public
streets or commons.
Sect. 2. Whoever violates any of the provisions of the fore-
going section shall be punished by a fine not exceeding ten
dollars.
Passed to be ordained July i, 1890.
630 ordinances.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance in relation to the pay of Overseers of the Poor.
Section i8 of chapter 14 of the Ordinances of the city of Man-
chester is hereby amended by striking out the words " to be paid
at the expiration of their term of office" and by inserting in-
stead thereof the words "per annum," so that said section as
amended shall read : "Section 18. The overseers of the poor shall
receive in full for their services the sum of twenty-five dollars
each per annum. " And this ordinance shall take effect upon its
passage.
Passed to be ordained August 5, 1890.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance in relation to the duties of the Assistant City
Marshal.
It shall be the duty of the assistant city marshal, in addition
to the duties now by law and ordinance upon him imposed, to
investigate all cases of claims against the city, to ascertain the
circumstances of all accidents happening, and all other matters
of a similar nature, when so directed by the mayor, and make
report to the mayor- of his investigations in every case, for
which service no additional compensation, beyond the salary now
fixed by ordinance, shall be paid.
Passed to be ordained September 2, 1890.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance changing the name of a street.
That the street on the east side of the Merrimack river, known
as the " River road, " shall be called and known as Brown ave-
ORDINANCES. 631
nue, commencing at junction of River road south, so called, and
Elm street, thence southwesterly to Goffe's Falls, and now known
as River road south.
Passed to be ordained December 2, 1S90.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
An Ordinance in amendment of Section 12, Chapter 30, of the
Ordinances of the city, relating to Water- Works.
That section 12, chapter 30 of the Ordinances of the city, re-
lating to water-works, be amended so as to read as follows :
"Sect. 12. All moneys received on account of the water-
works shall be paid weekly, or oftener, into the city treasury,
and a receipt taken for the same, and shall be subject to appro-
priation by the city councils for any legal municipal expenditure.
The board of water commissioners is hereby required to submit
to the finance committee each year, on or before the third Tues-
day in November, their estimate of the receipts of the water-
works for the ensuing municipal year, the amount required for
current expenses, ordinary repairs, interest on water bonds, and
the annual construction expenses. They shall also make in de-
tail all such further statement of matters relating to the extension
or improvements of the water-works, which may, if voted by the
city councils, require an appropriation for the construction ac-
count larger than the ordinary annual construction expenses.
All expenditures shall be charged to the appropriation to which
they properly belong, and no transfers shall be made from one
appropriation to another without a vote of the city councils au-
thorizing the same. This amendment shall take effect Novem-
ber I, 1890.
Passed to be ordained January 2, 1891.
632 RESOLUTIONS.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
An Ordinance relating to repeal of Section lo of Chapter 28 of
the City Ordinances.
That section 10 of chapter 28 of the City Ordinances, relating
to discount on taxes, be and is hereby repealed.
This act shall take effect on its passage.
Passed to be ordained March 3, 1891.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one.
An Ordinance in amendment of Section 22, Chapter 30 of the
Ordinances, relating to Water-Works.
That section 22, chapter 30 of the City Ordinances, be
amended so as to read as follows: "Section 22. The sum of
($5,000) five thousand dollars annually shall be paid by the
city for water for fire and other purposes, and shall be charged to
hydrant service and credited to water-works receipts. "
No other charge shall be made against the city for use of water.
This amendment shall take effect from January i, 1891.
Passed to be ordained March 3, 1891.
City of Manchester.
IN THE year one THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
Resolution relative to Temporary Loan.
Resolved hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That for the purpose of paying such claims against the city as
may fall due before the ist day of July, 1890, the mayor be ^
RESOLUTIONS. 633
authorized to make a temporary loan, for the use of the city, of a
sum not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars, giving for the
same the notes of the city, signed by the mayor and counter-
signed by the city treasurer, said notes to be paid before the
1 2th day of July, 1890.
Passed February 4, 1890.
City of Manchester,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relative to discontinuance of a portion of Hooksett
road, so called.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That so much of the old Hooksett road, so called, as lies
between the intersection of Pennacook street with said road on
the south, and its intersection with Webster street on the north,
be discontinued, and that the mayor, in the name of the city, be
authorized to apply to the court for its approval and discontin-
uance.
Passed February 4, 1890.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relating to City Auditor's Report of February 4,
1890.
Resolved hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
Resolved, that the contracts or bills mentioned in the city
auditor's report of February 4, 1890, in consideration of the rea-
634 RESOLUTIONS.
sons therein suggested, be and hereby are ratified and confirmed,,
and that the city auditor is requested to certify the same to the
city treasurer for payment.
Passed February 12, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relative to Derryfield Park.
Resolvedhy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Comman Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the land at city farm lately set apart for a public park
by the city government, be known as Derryfield Park.
Passed February 12, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and NINETY.
Resolution relating to a Reward for the conviction of parties
setting fires.
Resolvedhy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That a reward of fifty dollars be and the same hereby is
offered for the detection and conviction of any person or persons
who maliciously or through criminal carelessness shall set fires in
any forest, wood lot, sprout lot, pasture, field, or any other place
within the limits of the city of Manchester, said reward to be
paid to any person who shall furnish the evidence which shall
lead to such detection and conviction, upon proof satisfactory to
his honor the mayor, that his evidence led to the conviction of
any offender by the court ; the expense authorized by this re-
RESOLUTIONS. 635
solution to be charged to the appropriation for incidental expen-
ses, and the city marshal is hereby intrusted to see that the
rewards hereby authorized are properly posted or otherwise
advertised.
Passed March 4, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relative to the Kimball Carriage Company.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
Whereas, " The Kimball Carriage Company," a corporation
duly established by law with a capital of thirty thousand dollars,
desire to locate their factory and carry on their business in the
city of Manchester, providing sufficient inducements are given
them by the city government ; therefore.
Resolved^ that if the said Kimball Carriage Company will
locate and establish their business in this city, that the factory
and real estate on which the same is located, and the machinery
therein and other property necessary in conducting said business,
shall be exempt from all taxation for a period of ten years
from April i, 1890.
Passed April i, 1890. '
City of Manchester.
IN the year ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
Resolution relative to Water Bonds.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
the City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That for the purpose of re-funding the water bonds due July
I, 1890, the mayor and the joint standing committee on finance
636 RESOLUTIONS.
be and are hereby authorized and empowered to issue water
bonds to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars (;^ioo,ooo),
payable July i, 1910, and bearing interest at a rate not exceeding
four per cent, and the mayor and city treasurer are hereby
authorized to sign said bonds for and in behalf of the city.
Passed April i, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relating to the purchase of the Stark land for the
purposes of a Public Park.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Conncil of
the City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the proposition to purchase the Stark land, consisting
of about 27 acres, on which it is proposed, in the bill now pend-
ing before the Congress of the United States, to erect an eques-
trian statue in memory and in honor of that Revolutionary hero,
Major General John Stark, and to convert the same, under cer-
tain restrictions, to the purposes of a public park for the city
of Manchester, meets with the hearty concurrence of this
council.
Resolved, that the Selectmen in the several wards of the city
are hereby required to insert an article in their respective war-
rants at the next annual meeting, to take the sense of the legal
voters as to their approval or disapproval of the foregoing propo-
sition to purchase said land for the purposes stated, as required
in section 4, chapter 49 of the Laws of the State of New
Hampshire, and that the mayor and city solicitor be appointed
a committee to see to the proper carrying out of this matter.
Passed May 2, 1890.
RESOLUTIONS. 637
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relative to the death of ex-Mayor John Hosley.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
the City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the members of the city councils have learned with pro-
found regret of the recent death of Hon. John Hosley, three
times the mayor of this city and for many years connected with
its government in other capacities ; and they desire to express
their sense of the great loss which this city has sustained in the
death of one who ever had its interests at heart, whose pride
in the progress of Manchester was the strongest, and whose
influence was always given to the advancement of its best wel-
fare. He was a man of most rugged honesty, of great cheer-
fulness and courtesy, of unusual executive ability, and in the
administration of the city's affairs was impartial, able, and suc-
cessful. When holding public station he was devoted to his
duty to the public ; when in private life he was a good citizen ;
and at all times he was an upright and conscientious man.
Resolved, that the members of the city councils extend their
heartfelt sympathy to his bereaved family ; that these resolu-
tions be spread upon the records, and the city clerk instructed
to transmit a copy to the family of the deceased.
In Joint Convention of the City Councils. May 6, 1890.
Passed unanimously.
D. B. VARNEY, Mayor.
City of Manchester.
IN THE year one THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
Resolution providing for an Appropriation for the Contingent
Expenses of the Mayor's Office.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the sum of three hundred dollars be and the same is here-
by transferred from the appropriation for incidental expenses, to
638 RESOLUTIONS.
be held as a special appropriation for t|ie contingent expenses of
the mayor's office; and the city clerk is instructed to open an
account for such appropriation, and his honor the mayor is
hereby authorized to draw from such account for the necessary
contingent expenses of the mayor's office, and his approval of
such bills shall constitute a sufficient certificate thereof.
This resolution shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed June 3, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution providing for two beds at the Elliot Hospital.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and C'ommon Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the sum of six hundred dollars be paid to the trustees of
the Elliot Hospital for the support of two beds in said hospital
for the term of one year after such payment, for the use of such
persons as may be sent to it by the direction of his honor the
mayor ; and the sum of six hundred dollars is hereby transferred
from the reserved fund and made a special appropriation for the
foregoing purpose.
Passed June 3, 1890.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
Resolution authorizing the Mayor to sell a Lot of Land on
Maple street at public auction, and sign deed of the same to
purchaser in behalf of the city.
Resolved hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the mayor is hereby authorized to sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, a lot of land now owned by the city, and
KESOLUTIONS. 639
situated in Manchester, N. H., bounded and described as follows :
Beginning at a point on the east line of Maple street, and one
hundred feet north of the north line of Brook street, thence
northerly by east line of Maple street fifty (50) feet, thence at
right angles to Maple street easterly one hundred (100) feet,
thence southerly, parallel to Maple street, fifty (50) feet, thence
westerly, at right angles to Maple street, one hundred (100) feet
to the place of beginning, and containing five thousand (5,000)
square feet ; said premises being the same conveyed to the city by
Horace P. Simpson and Mary B. Simpson, by their deed dated
the eleventh (nth) day of November, 1885 '> ^^''d the Mayor is
further hereby authorized to sign the deed of the same, in behalf
of the city, to the purchaser thereof.
Passed July i, 1890..
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relating to purchase of horses for use at City Farm.
Resolved hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the mayor and joint standing committee on city farm be
and are hereby authorized to purchase a pair of horses for use at
said city farm.
Passed July i, 1890.
City of Manchester.
In the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relating to New City Stables.
Resolved \)y the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and
buildings be and hereby are duly authorized to receive proposals
640 RESOLUTIONS.
and make contracts for the buildin^j; of new city stables on the
lot of land now owned and occupied by the city on Franklin
street, according to the plans and specifications reported by said
committee, said contract to be subject to the subsequent ratifica-
tion or rejection of the city councils. The sum of six thousand
dollars is hereby transferred from the reserved fund to the account
of " New City Stables, " and the expenditure in relation thereto
is not to exceed the amount appropriated by this resolution.
Passed July i, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relating to contract for new City Stables.
That the proposal of Mead, Mason & Co. is hereby accepted
and the contract with said firm ratified and confirmed, and the
mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings are
hereby authorized to sign all necessary papers for the completion
of said contract in behalf of the city.
Passed to be ordained July 22, 1890.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and NINETY.
Resolution authorizing the Mayor to sell a lot at the corner of
West and Douglas streets at public auction, and sign the deed
of the same to the purchaser, in behalf of the city.
Resolved hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the mayor is hereby authorized to sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, a lot of land now owned by the city and
situate in Manchester, N. H., and bounded as follows : Begin-
ning at a stake standing forty feet north 79 ^ degrees west
from the southwest corner of a piece of land sold by Peter O.
RESOLUTIONS. 641
Woodman to Ruel Fellows ; thence north 79^ degrees west
fifty feet to a stake ; thence north nine degrees east about one
hundred and ten feet, to a line formerly dividing Goffstown and
Bedford ; thence east by said dividing line about fifty feet to the
line of West street; thence southerly by the line of West
street to the bound first mentioned. The mayor is further
hereby authorized to sign the deed of the same, in behalf of the
city, to the purchaser thereof.
Passed August 5, 1890.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety.
Resolution relating to sale of land on east side of Ash street.
Resolved hy the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the mayor be and hereby is authorized to sell at public
auction, and to the highest bidder, the following bounded and
described piece of land situated in said Manchester : Beginning
at the intersection of the south line of Lowell street and the east
line of Ash street, and thence in an easterly direction on the line
of Lowell street (5.22) five and twenty-two hundredths feet to a
stone bound, there making an angle of 90 degrees 37 min-
utes to the south (23.55) twenty-three and fifty-five one-hun-
dredths feet to a stone bound ; thence southeasterly, making an
angle of 239 degrees 23 minutes, thirty and eleven one hun-
dredths feet, to land now or formerly owned by John Davis, Jr. ;
thence southwesterly, by an angle of 88 degrees 15 minutes, thirty
and ninety-four one-hundredths feet ; thence southeasterly, by an
angle of 272 degrees 32 minutes, thirty-two and seven tenths feet
to land now or formerly owned by J. C. Hoyt ; thence south-
westerly, by an angle of 85 degrees 42 minutes, about eighty feet,
to east line of Ash street ; thence northerly by east line of Ash
street (147.6) one hundred forty-seven and six tenths feet, to
point first mentioned ; said land containing about twenty-eight
642 RESOLUTIONS.
hundred seventy-five and one half square feet, reference being
made to plan No. 472 in city engineer's office. The mayor is
further authorized, in behalf of the city, to sign a conveyance to
the purchaser.
Passed August 5, 1890.
City of Manchester.
jn the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety,
"Resolution to exempt West Side Company from taxation.
.Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That whereas, the West Side Company, for the purpose of
establishing a new industry in the city of Manchester, propose
to erect a factory in which to carry on the business of manufac-
turing shoes and other articles, on a tract of land situate in
West Manchester, bounded westerly by an extension of Second
■street, southerly by West Hancock street, easterly by the land of
the New Hampshire Improvement Company, and northerly by
the Piscataquog river, containing about 38,000 square feet ;
therefore,
Resolved, that said land, the buildings erected thereon by the
West Side Company, and the machinery therein, and the capital
and property of the parties who are to occupy said land and
buildings and to carry on the manufacturing business therein,
shall be exempt from taxation for the term of ten years from the
first day of January, 1891 ; providing the amount invested in
said buildings, machinery, capital, and property shall not be less
than twenty-eight thousand dollars.
Passed to be enrolled September 16, 1890.
ORDER. 643
CiTV OF Manchester.
IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY.
Resolution relating to Manchester & North Weare Railroad.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That we heartily sanction the effort to be made before the
Legislature of 1891 to bring about the re-laying of the rails on
the Manchester &: North Weare Railroad, so called, between
the present terminus of the railroad in Weare to the village in
Henniker, and believe that the realization of this would redound
greatly to the benefit of our city. This being the fact, we
respectfully ask of our senators and representatives elect the
consecration of their best efforts to bring about the accomplish-
ment of this important measure.
Passed December 2, 1890.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to the purchase of land for a Public Park.
Ordered, if the board of ma3'or and aldermen concur, that the
mayor be and hereby is authorized to purchase of the Stark
heirs the Stark land, so called, subject to the conditions herein-
after named, and bounded and described as follows : Northerly
on land of the State of New Hampshire, known as the Industrial
School premises ; westerly by land of the Concord Railroad ;
southerly by land of Elizabeth B. Stark ; easterly by the River
road, so called, reserving the land now owned by said city ;
also all the right and title of the grantor in the land westerly of
said west line and east of the Merrimack river, subject to the
Amoskeag Company's right of flowage ; also another piece of
land, bounded as follows : Northerly by land of Augustus H.
644 ORDER.
Stark ; westerly by land of the Concord & Montreal Railroad ;
southerly by land formerly owned by the late George Clark ;
easterly by the River road (excepting and reserving the land
now owned by said city, containing 12.961 acres); also all
the right and interest of the grantor in the land between said
western line and the Merrimack river ; said premises to be sub-
ject to the Amoskeag Company's rights of flowage. Said con-
veyances are to be upon the following conditions: r. Said
premises are to be used as a public park only, and not to be
conveyed by said city, except to the State of New Hampshire^
or the United States of America, for the same purpose ; 2. No
buildings are to be erected on said premises except such as may
be deemed necessary and appropriate for the purposes of said
park ; 3. Said city is to expend at least ^300 per annum for
care of and improvements thereon, on the average. Said prem-
ises are the same referred to in the resolution of the city councils
dated May 2, 1890, and on the purchase of which the approval
of the legal voters was given at the last annual election as re-
quired by section 4, chapter 49 of the Laws of the State of
New Hampshire. The sum of eight thousand dollars ($8,000)
is hereby transferred from water-works to Stark Monument
Square, for the payment for said land.
Passed January 2, 1891.
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
I.
2.
3-
4-
5-
6.
7-
8.
9-
lO.
II.
12.
13-
14.
15-
16.
17-
18.
19.
20.
21.
22.
23-
24.
Ash-street Schoolhouse
Amoskeag District Schoolhouse
Bakersville Schoolhouse
Blodget-street "
Franklin-street "
Gcffe's Falls "
Hallsville
High Schoolhouse
Harvey District Schoolhouse
Lincoln-street "
Lowell-street "
Main-street "
Merrimack-street Schoolhouse
Mosquito Pond Schoolhouse
Park -street Schoolhouse
School-street "
South Main-street Schoolhouse
Spring-street Schoolhouse
Stark District Schoolhouse .
Varney Schoolhouse, W. M.
Webster's Mills Schoolhouse
Webster-street Schoolhouse
Wilson- hi 11 "
Youngsville "
Engine-Houses
25. Central Fire Station — Vine Street
26. Clinton-street Station ....
27. Fire King Station — North Main Street
28. Gen. Stark Station — Webster Street
29. Independent Hose House — Amoskeag
PAGE
271
271
235
271
235
238
227
235
238
238
271
227
271
238
235
227
227
235
271
227
238
235
227
238
93
93
93
147
93
646
LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.
30. Merrimack Engine-house — Lake Avenue
31. Massabesic Hose — Maple vStreet
Other City and Public Buildings
32. Battery Building — Manchester Street
^;^. City P'arm Buildings — Mammoth Road
34. City Hall Building — Elm Street
35. County Jail — Willow Street
36. Court House — Franklin Street .
37. Government Building, Post-office, etc. — Hanover Street
38. City Stables and City Scales — Franklin Street
39. Police Station — Manchester Street
40. Pumping Station — Cohas Avenue
41. Soldiers' Monument — Merrimack Square .
42. State Industrial School — River Road North
O. City Library — Franklin Street .
44. Derryfield Park
147
147
147
3
3
3
147
329
407
3
3
3
407
147
49
INDEX.
INDEX
A
PAGE
Advertising and Printing 509
Abatement on Taxes 586
Address, Mayor Varney . .. 17
Assets, statement of, from 1880 to 1889 Inclusive 338
Inventory of, 1889 339-341
Annual Interest charge oii Bonded Debt, 1880 to 1889 inclusive 346
Auditor, City, report of 350
Appropriations for 1890 by City Councils 587-590
Auditor, Communications of 609-622
B
Bridges 471
Books and Stationery 508
Buildings, repairs of 546
Board of Water Commissionex-s, organization of. 22
report of 23
Health, report of 299
Bonded Debt, statement of, 1880 to 1889 inclusive 337
Tabular statement of, for 1890 597
Detailed " " " " 342,598,600
Buildings, Public, occupied by private parties 602-604
Bonds Re-lunded, Letter, etc., relating thereto 622, 623, 624
Bonded Debt, Annual Interest Charge from 1880 to 18S9 inclusive 346
c
City Hall 395
Citj' OlHcers' Salaries 407
City Teams 476
Contingent Expenses 511
Care of Rooms 513
City Library 521
Commons 552
Cemeterj', Pine Grove 555
Valley 559
City Farm 572
650 INDEX.
County Tax 587
City Officials, List of 3-14
Engineer, report of 51
Engineer's Department, organization of 50
Library, repoi't of Trustees of 147
Treasurer's report 154-15S
Librarian's " 159-162
Donations to 163-174
Cemeteries, report of Sub-Trustees of Valley 177
Pine Grove 179
Treasurer 184
Fund of, report of Trustees 186
City Farm , report of Joint Standing Committee 201
Solicitor, report of 207
Marshal, report of 319
Committee, School, report of 231
Contract with and bond of Manchester Electric Light Co 325
Census, Letter to Hon. R. P. Porter 347
City Auditor's report 350
Treasurer, repoi't of 358
Communications of City Auditor 609-622
City Ordinances ana Amendments t;27-633
Councils, Resolutions and Order 632-644
Stables, new 549
D
Debt, Payment of Funded 391
Decoration of Soldiers' Graves 584
Discount on Taxes 586
Debt, Bonded, Statement of, 1880 to 1889 inclusive .337
Tabular Statement of, for 1890 597
, Detailed Statement of, for 1890 342
E
Engineer's Department 494
Expenses, Incidental 373
Mayor's 406
Contingent 511
Evening Schools 514
School, Mechanical Drawing 516
Electric Lights, Location of 315
Light Company, Contract with, Bond of 325
Engravings of Public Buildings, list of 645
Elliot Hospital 583
F
Fund, Reserved 391
Fuel 504
Furniture aud Supplies 505
Free Text-Books 519
INDEX. 651
Fire Department 524
Fire-Alarm Telegraph 537
Firemen's Parade 539
Farm, Paupers off. 569
Free Beds, Elliot Hospital 5S3
Fire Department, report of Chief Engineer 93
Value of Personal Property 118-124
Names and Residences of Members 125-132
Farm, City 572
a
Grading for Concrete 463
Graves, Decoration of Soldiers' 584
Gas Lights, Location of 322
H
Highway District No 1 *1*
2 and 3 414
4.. 421
5 422
6 423
7 425
8 426
9 428
10 430
11 432
12 434
13 435
Highways, New 436
Land taken for 441
Watering 442
Paving 447
Macadamizing 452
Grading for Concrete on 463
Scavenger Teams 464
Sweeping 466
Lighting 467
Bridges 471
City Team8 476
Sewers and Drains 482
Health Department 498
Hydrant Service 539
Hospital, Women's Aid and Relief 583
Elliot, Free Beds 583
Highway Districts, reports of Surveyors 70-89
Hydrants, Location of 132-144
Health, Board of, report of 299
Interest 390
Incidental Expenses 373
Indigent Soldiers 581
652 INDEX.
Interest on Taxes 585
Inspector, Milk, report of 213
Inventory of Assets for 1889 339-341
Interest, Annual, on Douded Debt, 1880 to 1889 inclusive 346
Interest, Annual Cliarge, Bonded Debt for 1890 601
L
Loan, Teniporarj' 390
Laud taken for Highways 441
Lighting Streets 467
Library, City — 521
Location of Electric Lights .. 315
of Gas Lights 322
of Oil Lamps 324
List of Water Bills against the City for one year 625
List of Engravings of Public Buildings 645
M
Mayor's Incidentals 406
Macadamizing Streets 452
Militia 583
Milk Inspector, report of '. 213
Marshal, City, report of 215
Manchester Electric Light Co., Contract with and Bond of 329
Municipal Receipts and Expenditures for 1890 (net) 364
N
New Highways 436
New City Stables 549
New Schoolhouse, West Manchester 550
Officials, City, Salaries of 407
Order to Print Forty-fifth Annual Report 2
Organization of Board of Water Comniissioners 22
Overseers of the Poor, report of 195
Oil Lamps, Location of 324
Ordinances, City, Amendments of 627-633
Relating to Pay of Superintendent, District 2 and District 10 627
Relating to Salary of City Solicitor 627
Establishing a Scavenger Service 628
Relating to Throwing Paper, etc., into Streets, etc 629
Relating to Pay of Overseers of Poor 630
Relating to Duties of Assistant City Marshal 630
Changing Name of River Road to Brown Avenue 630
Relating to Water- Works 631, 032
Repealing Discount on Taxes 632
Oi'der Authorizing Purchase of Stark Land 643
Organization of School Board for 1891 288
INDEX. 653
Payment of Funded Debt 391
Printing and Stationery 399
Paving Streets 447
Printing and Adv-ertising 509
Police Department 540
Pine Grove Cemetery 555
Paupers off tlie Farm 569
Property Account, Real and Personal 605-608
Public Buildings occupied by Private Parties 602-604
Public Buildings, List of Engravings of. 645
R
Reserved Fund 391
Repairs of Sclioolhouses 500
Rooms, Care of 513
Receiving Tomb 561
Report of Board of Water Commissioners 23
Superintendent of Water-Works 36
City Engineer 51
Highway District Surveyors 70-89
Chief Engineer Fire Department 93
Trustees of City Library 147
Committees on Cemeteries 177
Sub-Trustees of Valley Ceruetery 177
Pine Grove Cemetery 179
Treasurer of Cemeteries Ig4
Trustees of Cemetery Fund 186
Overseers of the Poor 195
Joint Standing Committee on City Farm 201
City Solicitor 207
Milk Inspector 213
City Marshal 219
School Committee 231
Superintendent 235
Board of Health 299
Receipts and Expenditures from 18S0 to 1889 inclusive 320-326
Report of City Auditor 350
Treasurer 358
Receipts and Expenditures, Municipal, for 1890 (net) 364
(gi'oss) 369
Resolutions and Order of City Councils 632-640
Relating to Temporary Loan 632
Discontinuance of Hooksett road 633
Auditor's Report, February 4, 1890 633
Relative to Derryfleld Park 634
Relating to Conviction of Parties Setting Fires 634
Exempting Kimball Carriage Co. from Taxation 635
Relative to Water Bonds, Re-funding 635
Relating to Stark Land Purchase 636
Death of ex-Mayor Hosley 637
654 INDEX.
Resolutions Providing for Mayor's Incidentals 637
Relating to Elliot Hospital 638
Authorizing Sale of Land, Maple Street 638
Relating to Purchase of City Farm Horses 639
Building of City Stables 639,640
Authorizing Sale of Land on Douglas Street 640
East Side Ash Street 641
Exempting West Side Company from Taxation 642
Relating to Manchester & North Weare Railroad 643
Repairs of Buildings 546
Real Estate owned by the City 605-608
Salaries of City Officials 407
Scavenger Teams 464
Street Sweeping 466
Sewers and Drains 482
School Department 227
Schoolhouses, repairs of 500
Supplies and Furniture 505
Stationery and Books 508
Salaries, Teachers' 518
School, Evening, Mechanical Drawing 516
Stables, New City 549
Stark Monument Square 555
Soldiers, Indigent 581
State Tax 586
Solicitor, City, report of 207
School Committee, report of 231
School Superintendent's report 235
Statistics of Wealth, Debt, and Taxation 330-348
Statement of Bonded Debt from 1880 to 1889, inclusive 337
Assets from 1880 to 1SS9, inclusive 338-341
Total Taxation for 1890 592
Public Buildings occupied by Private Parties 602-604
School Statistics 272
School Attendance 274
T
Temporary Loans 390
Text- Books, Free 519
Teachers' Salaries 518
Tomb, Receiving 561
Taxes, Interest on 585
Abatement of 586
Discount on 586
Tax, State •••• 586
Tax, County 587
Treasurer, City, report of 358
Taxation 586-593
Appropriations for 1890 587-590
INDEX. 655
Taxation by Koard of Assessors for 18!)0 5i)l
Statement of total 592
Table of Taxes due ami uncollected 593
V aluations from 184G to 1890, inclusive 594
Settlement of Tax Collector's account to June 1, 1S90 595
Tuition 519
Teams, City 476
A"
Varney SchooUiouse , 550
Valley Cemetery 559
Valuation and Taxes 592
w
Watering Streets 442
Water-Works, Superintendent's report 26
Women's Aid and Relief Hospital 583
Water- Works, Commissioners' ]-eport 23
Water- Works, Appropriation account 5(i2
Water Bills against the City for one year, list of 625
Water r.onds, Refunding of 022, (i23, 624
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