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Forty-Eighth Annual Report
Receipts and Expenditures
City OF Manchester
NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING
DECEMBER ^i, 1893
TOGETHER WITH
OTHER ANNUAL REPORTS AND PAPERS RELATING
TO THE AFFAIRS OF THE CITY
MANCHESTER:
PRINTED BY THE JOHN B. CLARKE CO.
1894.
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City of Manchester.
In Board of Common Council.
AN ORDER to print the Forty-eighth Annual Report of the Receipts and
Expenditures of the City of Manchester.
Order i:n, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that the joint
standing committee on finance be, and they hereby are, authorized to procure,
for the use of the inhabitants of said city, the printing of the Forty-eighth An-
nual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester, in-
cluding the reports of the joint standing committee on finance, the city auditor,
the school board, and superintendent of schools, superintendent of water-works,
water commissioners, engineer of fire department, city marshal, overseers of the
poor, trustees, librarian, and treasurer of the city library, committee on ceme-
teries, joint standing committee on city farm, city physician, city solicitor", city
engineer, street and park commissioners, and such other matters relating to city
affairs as said finance committee may direct, the expense thereof to be charged
to the appropriation for printing and stationery.
In Board of Common Councii.. January 26, 1894.
Passed.
FRED T. DUNLAP, Presideiit.
In Board or Mayor and Aldermen. January 26, 1894.
Passed in concurrence.
E. J. KNOWLTON, Mayor.
MANCHESTER
CITY GOVERNMENT.
1893-
Mayor.
EDGAR J. KNOWLTON . . . Office, City Hall
Chosen at biennial election in November, 1890, and re-elected in November,
1892. Salary, ;^i,8oo per annum, payable quarterly. (Act of June, 1848,
section i. Chapter 223, Laws of 18S3. PubUc Statutes, chapter 47.) Resi-
dence, 533 Lake avenue. Telephone at house and office.
Aldermen.
Act of June, 1848, section i. Pubhc Statutes, chapter 48.
Ward I. Sam C. Lowell, 50 M. S. block, Mechanic street.
Ward 2. Alfred D. Maxwell, Goffstown road near Front
street, Amoskeag.
Ward 3. George W. Reed, 483 Chestnut street.
Ward 4- John P. Cronin, 260 Manchester street.
Ward 5. Richard J. Barry, 232 Lake avenue.
Ward 6. Byron Worthen, 524 Lake avenue.
Ward 7. James Lightbody, 61 Amoskeag Corporation, West
Merrimack street.
Ward S. Christian L. Wolff, 36 Clinton street.
Ward 9. William Marcotte, 506 Beauport street.
MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
President of the Common Council.
Fred T. Dunlap, 107 Russell street.
Members of the Common Council.
Act of June, 1848, section i. Public Statutes, chapter 48.
Ward i.
Joseph Tait, 4 Boyden street.
* John F. Reardon, 12 Arkvvright street.
John G. Rylander, 6^ Stark Corporation, Canal street,
t Frank X. Foster, 1382 Elm.
Ward 2.
Fred T. Dunlap, 107 Russell street.
George E. Heath, River road north, at Hooksett line.
Charles R. Holbrook, 1966 Elm street.
Ward 3.
* Harry E. Webster, 573 Maple street. .
Joseph O. Tremblay, 18 Wilson road.
Charles H, Harvey, 507 Maple street.
t David H. Burbank, 77 Ash street.
Ward 4.
Howard C. Holt, 41 1 Amherst street.
Bradley B. Aldrich, 337 Chestnut street.
Ludger E. Desrochers, 359 Amherst street.
Ward 5.
Daniel A. Murphy, 105 East Spruce street.
John J. Twomey, 91 Cedar street.
Edward F. Murray, 194 Lake avenue.
* Resigned, t Special election.
LTST OF OFFICERS.
Ward 6.
Frank H. Libbey, 23 E^x\ street.
George B. Rogers, 277 Laurel street.
William G. Landry, 390 Cedar street.
Ward 7.
* Charles A. Niven, Pleasant street, corner Franklin.
Willie D. Wheeler, 25 Grove street.
Levi K. Snow, 86 Canal street,
t J. Adam Graf, 10 Middle street.
Ward 8.
Edward F. Scheer, 135 Milford street.
George E. Fellows, 316 Milford street.
Alexander J. McDonnell, 56 Dover street.
Ward 9.
John Gildard, 646 Main street.
Joseph Dana, 672 Main street.
Oscar Knoettner, 326 Main street.
Clerk of Common Council.
George L. Stearns, 58 Myrtle street.
Salary, $200. (General Laws, chapter 46, sections 7-9. City Laws and
Ordinances, page 33, chapter 6, section 1 1 .)
City Clerk.
Nathan P. Kidder Office, City Hall
Salary, $900. The city clerk, in addition to his salary, is in receipt of fees
as registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, and as a recording officer for record
* Resigned, t Special election.
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of mortgages on personal property, of attachments of real estate, of paitnersbips
and assignments, and for recording various other legal papers. He also receives
fees for issuing dog licenses, billiard and bowling alley licenses, for certifying
records, and for various other matters.
These fees are established by the state legislature under various laws, and are
estimated to be between $2,100 and $2,500 per annmii. Chosen in convention
of City Councils in January, annually. (Charter, section 22. Public Statutes,
chapter 50. Act of 1849. City Laws and Ordinances, pages 42, 43, 68, 72,
73,84,86, 89, 114, 122, 123, 124, 166, 189.) Residence, 313 Manchester
street.
City Auditor.
James B. Straw . . . . . . Office, City Hall
Salary, $1,000. Appointed by Mayor, and approved by Board of Aldermen,
in January, annually. (Laws of 1889, chapter 287. City Ordinances, pages
44, 71, 83-88, 173.) Residence, 593 Union street.
Auditor's Clerk.
Lizzie M. Cogswell . . . Auditor's Office, City Hall
Salary, $600. Residence, 645 Union street.
City Treasurer.
Sylvanus B. Putnam Office, City Hall
Salary, $1,200. Elected in convention of City Councils in January, annu-
ally. (Charter, section 23. Act of 1856, section 4. General Laws, chapter
48, sections 3, 4. Act of 1859, section 4. City Laws and Ordinances, pages
36, 86-89, 170, 172.) Residence, 437 Amherst street.
Treasurer's Clerk.
Blanche E. Bullock . . . Treasurer's Office, City Hall
LIST OF OFFICERS. 7
Collector of Taxes.
George E. Morrill Office, City Hall
Salary, ^1,650 and fees. Elected by Mayor and Aldermen before May i,
annually. (Act of July, 1851. Act of June, 1S59, section 6. Public Statutes,
chapter 43. City Laws and Ordinances, chapter 23-) Residence, 740 Chestnut
street.
Deputy Collector of Taxes.
Edwin C. Paul . . . . Collector's Office, City Hall
Paid by collector. Appointed by tax collector with approval of Mayor and
Aldermen. (City Laws and Ordinances, chapter Ti^, section 3.) Residence,
416 Central street.
City Solicitor.
Edwin F. Jones . . Office, Patten's Block, 936 Elm street
Salary, ^800. Elected in convention of City Councils in January, annually.
(City Laws and Ordinances, chapters 4, 6, pages 70, 72.) Residence, 15 High
street. '
City Messenger.
John A. Barker . . . ... . Office, City Hall
Salary, $700. Elected in convention of City Councils in January, annually.
(City Laws and 0/dinances, chapters 4, 6.) Residence, 49 Appleton street.
Joint Standing Committees.
On Finance. — The Mayor and Alderman Lowell; Council-
men Webster, Holbrook, Niven, Holt, and Roger';.
On Accounts. — Aldermen Lowell and Worthen ; Councilmen
Fellows, Libbey, and Murray. (Meet Wednesday succeeding
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the 24th of each month. All bills must be left at the city audi-
tor's office, properly approved, not later than the twentieth of
each month.)
On Claims. — Aldermen Reed and Maxwell; Councilmen
Harvey, Twomey, and Gildard. (Meet third Friday in each
month.)
On Streets. — Aldermen Worthen and Lowell; Councilmen
Holt, Harvey, and Heath.
On Sewers and Drains. — Aldermen Wolff and Cronin ; Coun-
cilmen Heath, Landry, and Webster.
On Lighting Streets. — Aldermen Marcotte and Wolff ; Coun-
cilmen Snow, Libbey, and Holt.
On Lands and Buildings. — Aldermen Barry and Lightbody ;
Councilmen Reardon, Aldrich, and Dana.
On Fire Department. — Aldermen Cronin and Lowell ; Coun-
cilmen Rogers, Tremblay, and Snow.
On Coftwions and Cemeteries. — Aldermen Lightbody and Bar^
ry ; Councilmen Tait, Fellows, and Desrochers.
On Public Lnstruction. — Aldermen Maxwell and Reed ; Coun-
cilmen Wheeler, McDonnell, and Knoettner.
On Water-Works. — Aldermen Lightbody and Marcotte;
Councilmen Twomey, Dana, and Scheer.
On City Farm. — Aldermen Maxwell and Reed; Councilmen
Rylander, Wheeler, and Murphy.
On ILouse of Correction. — Aldermen Reed and Maxwell;
Councilmen Desrochers, McDonnell, and Murphy.
On Military Affairs. — Aldermen Reed and Wolff; Council-
men Murray, Knoettner, and Niven.
On Public LLealth. — Aldermen Maxwell and Marcotte ; Coun-
cilmen Ivibbev, Aldrich, and Gildard.
Standing Committees.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN.
On Enrolhnent. — Aldermen Barry and Reed.
On Bills on Second Reading. — Aldermen Wolff and Lowell.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 9
On Market. — Aldermen Maxwell and Reed.
On Marshars Accounts. — Aldermen Cronin and Barry.
On Licenses.^ Aldermen Worthen and Marcotte.
071 Setting Trees. — Aldermen Worthen and Lowell.
On Special Police. — Aldermen Lightbody and Marcotte.
COMMON COUNCIL.
On Election Returns. — Councilmen Tremblay, Rylander, and
Scheer.
On Bills on Second Reading.— Q,o\\\\c\\vi\tri Holbrook, Tait,
and Rogers.
On Enrollment. — Councilmen Reardon, Aldrich, and Murphy.
City Physician.
Frederick Perkins .... Office, S95 Elm street
Salary, $200. Elected by City Councils in convention in January, annually.
(Laws of 1870, chapter 99. City Ordinances, chapter 6, sections 29, ^o.) Res-
idence, 490 Lake avenue.
City Engineer.
Winfred H. Bennett Office, City Hall
Salary, $i,2CO. Chosen by City Councils in convention in January, annu-
ally. (City Ordinances, chapter 6, sections 33, 34.)
Water Commissioners.
(Chapter 70, Laws of 1871. City Ordinances, chapter 36, and Laws of 189 1,
chapter 26, page 319, act approved March 31, 1891. Chapter 183, Laws of
1893.) One commissioner elected annually by Mayor and Aldermen, in the
month of September, for a term of six years. Office at Court House, corner
Franklin and West Merrimack streets. Telephone at office, and at pump-
ing station.
Edgar J. Knowlton, ex officio.
Charles H. Manning, term expires January, 1895.
10 MA^^CHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Andrew C. Wallace, term expires January, 1S94.
Aljjheus Gay, term expires January, 1899.
Henry Chandler, term expires January, 1898.
James A. Weston, term expires January, 1897.
Charles T. Means, term expires January, 1896.
Alpheus Gay, chairman.
James A. Weston, clerk. Salary, $100. Chosen by the board
of commissioners.
Superintendent of Water- Works.
Charles K. Walker . Office, Court House, Franklin street
Salary, $1,600. Chosen by water commissioners annually. Residence, 68
South .Main street, West Manchester.
Clerk of the Water-Works.
Arthur E. Stearns . . Office, Court House, Franklin street
Salary, $1,200. Chosen by the water commissioners annually. Residence,
421 Hanover street.
Engineer at Pumping Station.
Josiah Laselle. Salary, $700, rent, fuel, and use of land.
Chosen by water commissioners annually.
Justice of the Police Court.
Nathan P. Hunt, court room at Police Station, corner Man-
chester and Chestnut streets.
Salary, $1,500. Appointed by Governor, with the advice of the Council.
(General Laws, chapter 215 ; chapter 163, sections 17, 18, 19, of the Laws of
1878, as amended by chapter 236, Laws of 1881. I'ublic .Statutes, chapter
211.) Residence, 747 Union street.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 11
Associate Justice of tlie Police Court
Isaac L. Heath .... Salary, $300 per annum
Appointed by the Governor, with advice of the Council. (Chapter 215,
General Laws, sections 2-14. Public Statutes, chapter 211. Chapter 29b,
Laws of 1 89s-)
Clerk of the Police Court.
John C. Bickford Salary, $600
Appointed by the justice of the police court. (Chapter 163, sections 17-19,
General Laws, amended by chapter 236, Laws of 1881. Public Statutes,
chapter 21 1.) Residence, 15 Ash street.
Police. *
The members of the police force are appointed by the Mayor and Aldermen,
in January of alternate years, for a term of two years, unless sooner removed
for cause. They are, by virtue of their appointment, constables and conserva-
tors of the peace, and their jurisdiction extends throughout the city. The
term of any officer elected to fill a vacancy, or to increase the number of offi-
cers, expires at the time of the next regular election. (Chapter 253, section 5,
General Laws; chapter 303, Laws of 1887; City Ordinances, pages 30, 34,
35> 37> 53> 54) 76, 102, 103, 107, 164.) Pohce station at the corner of Chest-
nut and Manchester streets.
City Marshal. •
Michael J. Healy . . . Office at Police Station
Salary, ^900. Residence, 551 Granite street. West Manchester. Telephone
at house and office.
Assistant Marshal.
John F. Cassidy .... Office at Police Station
Salary, ;^8oo. Residence, 415 Manchester street.
*See Chapter 202, Laws of 1893, appointing a police commission, to take effect Jan-
uary I, 1894.
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Captain of the Watch.
Lafayette Tebbetts. Salary, $2.50 per day. Residence, 222
Laurel street.
Day Police.
SALARY, $2.25 PER DAY.
Randall W. Bean, 77 Ash street.
Edgar Farrar, 74 Pennacook street.
Ira P. Fellows, 82 A street, West Manchester.
Olaf Ring, 8 Dean street, room 18.
Benjamin F. Lake, 732 Elm street.
John T. O'Dowd, corner Pine and Laurel streets.
Florence Sullivan, 213 Cedar street.
Night Patrol.
SALARY, $2.25 PER DAY.
Henry McAllister, 852 Elm street, room 18.
George E. Flanders, 31 Blodget street.
Henry A. Burns, 50^ Maple street.
Ira F. Davis, 38 Stark street.
Norbert Decoteau, 302 Cartier street, West Manchester.
James F. Dunn, 237 Elm street.
Lowell O. Fowler, 141 7 Elm street.
* John Hartnett, 206 Cedar street.
John J. Hurley, 270 Auburn street.
Theodore Flodin, 852 Elm street.
George A. Lovejoy, 99 Orange street.
Augustus C. Martin, 46 Parker street, West Manchester.
Henry Masse, 332 Beauport street, West Manchester
* Resigned.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 13
Kenneth McDonald, 305 Chestnut street.
Samuel L. Mitchell, 430 Manchester street.
Frank P. Moore, 41 1 Belmont street.
John F. O'Malley, 130 Merrimack street.
William Steel.
Francois Reinville, 410 Dubuque street, West Manchester.
Philip Reischer, 292 Main street, West Manchester.
Edwin A. Hutchins, 11 Mill street, Amoskeag.
Lyman Roby, 403 Lake avenue.
Gilbert A. Sackett, 589 North Main street, West Manchester.
Timothy P. Shea, 213 Auburn street.
John T. Welch, 1263 Elm street.
* Charles W. Stevens, 9 Russell street.
Janitor of Station.
Frank P. Wiggin. ^1.75 per day. Residence, i Arkwright
street.
Matron.
Miss A. B. Brown. ^415 per annum. Residence, 329 Chest-
nut street.
School Committee.
Chosen at the biennial election in November, 1S92; Mayor and president
of the Common Council members ex officio. The board of school committee
choose the clerk of the board, the superintendent of public instruction, the
truant officer, and the teachers in the public schools, and determine their
salaries. They have charge of the repairs of schoolhouses, to a limited ex-
tent, and the purchase of free text- books and other supplies, and are limited
by the appropriations of the City Councils. The salary of the committee is
$10 each.
14 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Ward i.
Charles D. Sumner, 22 Stark street.
Walter H. Lewis, 32 Stark street.
Ward 2.
George H. Stearns, 1934 Elm street.
* Charles S. Murkland, 906 Chestnut street.
fAlvin T. Thoits, 63 Harrison street.
Ward 3.
George D. Tovvne, 1 70 Lowell street.
Louis E. Phelps, 103 Walnut street.
Ward 4.
Stephen B. Stearns, 464 Amherst street.
Edwin L. Richardson, 304 Manchester street.
Ward 5.
James P. Slattery, 217 Central street.
William J. Sughrue, 61 Spruce street.
Ward 6.
Frank T. E. Richardson, 481 Lincoln street.
George W. Dearborn, 131 Massabesic street.
Ward 7.
Marshall P. Hall, 26 Market street.
Edward B. AVoodbury, i Pleasant street.
Ward 8.
Luther C. Baldwin, 157 Milford street.
Josiah G. Dearborn, 157 Milford street.
' Left the city, f Elected to fill vacancy.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 15
Ward 9.
Edward J. Doherty, 336 Beauport street.
Scott E. Sanborn, 46 Sullivan street.
Fred T. Dunlap, ex officio, 107 Russell street.
Edgar J. Knowlton, chairman, 533 Lake avenue. Office, City
Hall.
Edward B. Woodbury, clerk, salary ^100, i Manchester Cor-
poration, Pleasant street.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
William E. Buck Office, City Hall
Salary, ^2,000 first six months , ^2,300 last six months. Residence, 324
Myrtle street.
Truant Officer.
Samuel Brooks Office, City Hall
Salary, $750. Residence, 413 Beech street.
Assessors.
One assessor from each ward chosen at the biennial election in November
Paid ^2.50 each, for each day while employed in the assessment and abate-
ment of taxes. Office, City Hall. (Charter, section 25. Public Statutes,
chapter 48, section i; chapter 50, section 4; chapter 49, sections 10. 11, 12.
City Ordinances, chapter 6, section 26.) Assistant assessors, not exceeding
six, chosen by the City Councils.
Ward I. Henry Lewis, 32 Amoskeag Corporation.
Ward 2. John E. Stearns, 58 Myrtle street.
Ward 3. David O. Furnald, 384 Lowell street.
Ward 4. Harrison D. Lord, 387 Hanover street.
Ward 5. George F. Sheehan, 85 Cedar street.
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Ward 6. George H. Dudley, 159 Laurel street.
Ward 7. William T. Rowell, 14 Manchester Corporation.
Ward 8. Frank N. Daniels, 137 Milford street.
Ward 9. Lawrence F. Bradley, 568 Main street.
CHAIRiMAN OF ASSESSORS.
David O. Furnald . . ... . Office, City Hall
CLERK OF ASSESSORS.
George H. Dudley Office, City Hall
Inspectors of Check-Lists.
One in each ward, chosen at the biennial election in November. Com
pensation, $2.25 per day for each day actually employed. Office, City Hall.
(Laws of 1878, chapter 163, sections 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16,
and Chy Ordinances, chapter 14, section 9.)
Ward I. George C. Kemp, 40 Machine Shop block.
Ward 2. Charles B. Tucker, 777 Union street.
Ward 3. David O. Furnald, 384 Lowell street.
Ward 4. Harrison D. Lord, 387 Hanover street.
Ward 5. John F. Quinn, 190 Chestnut street.
Ward 6. Albert J. Peaslee, Cohas avenue, near Water-Works.
Ward 7. Joseph A. Foster, 42 Amoskeag Corporation.
Ward 8. Charles C. Tinkham, 9 Parker avenue.
Ward 9. John B. Bourque, 22 Wayne street.
Overseers of the Poor.
One in each ward, chosen at biennial election in November. The Mayor is
a member ex officio. Compensation, ^25 per annum, each; clerk of the board,
$75 per annum, determined by City Ordinances, chapter 14, section 18, as
amended by Ordinance of August 5, 1890. Meet third Wednesday of each
month in City Hall building.
LIST OF OFFICERS, 17
Ward I. William H. Maxwell, clerk, 20 Amoskeag Corpora-
tion, Stark street.
Ward 2. Thomas L. Quimby, railroad station, foot West Sal-
mon street.
Ward 3. Benjamin F. Garland, 28 Linden street.
Ward 4. George S. Holmes, 296 Hanover street.
Ward 5. Patrick Costello, 106 East Spruce street.
Ward 6. Charles Francis, Candia road, East Manchester.
Ward 7. William Marshall, 72 Amoskeag Corporation, West
Merrimack street.
Ward 8. Charles S. McKean, 495 Granite street.
Ward 9. Frank I. Lessard, 362 Dubuque street.
Edgar J. Knowlton, ex officio, office, City Hall.
Board of Health.
(City Ordinances, chapter 14, section 10, as amended. Laws of 1885, chap-
ter 165; Laws of 1887, chapter 227; Public Statutes, chapters 108, 109, no.)
One member appointed by the Mayor in January of each year, to hold office
for a term of three years. Salary, ^200 each per annum. Office, Court House,
West Merrimack, corner of Franklin street.
* George C. Hoitt, M. D., 1179 Elm street. Term expires
first Monday in February, 1897.
Joseph B. Sawyer, clerk, civil engineer, 356 Hanover street.
Term expires first Monday in February, 1895.
Cornelius F. Starr, M. D., 49 Manchester street. Term ex-
pires first Monday in February, 1894.
Herbert S. Clough, sanitary inspector, Hanover-street road.
Office, Court House, Merrimack, corner of Franklin street.
John F. Looney, sanitary inspector, 164 Auburn street. Office,
Court House, Merrimack, corner of Franklin street.
Fire Department.
The chief engineer and four assistant engineers are chosen annually, in the
pionth of January, by a majority of the City Councils in convention. The
* Resigned. Clarence W. Downing appointed August i, 1893, for unexpired term.
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salary of the chief engineer is $1,300 per annum; the assistant engineers,
each $125 per annum. They exercise the powers and perform the duties of
firewards. The said engineers constitute the board of engineers, and elect a
clerk whose compensation is $25 a year. The annual compensation of the
call members of the several hook-and-ladder, hose, steam fire engine, and
chemical engine companies is as follows: Foremen, each $115; assistant fore-
men, each $110; clerks, each ^lio; engineers, each $135 ; assistant engineers,
each $105 ; all other members, each $100; payable in equal semi-annual pay-
ments, on the first of January and July. (Laws of 1870, chapter 99. General
Laws, chapter 106. City Ordinances, chapters 6 and 12.) Five members are
permanently employed as engineers at ^76.25 per month each, and nineteen as
drivers at $68.33)/ P^"" month each, and receive no compensation as call mem-
bers. Members of the companies are appointed by Board of Mayor and Al-
dermen in the month of February, annually, on Hst presented by the board of
enoineers. The officers of each company are appointed by the board of engi-
neers.
Chief Engineer.
Thomas W-. Lane . . Office, Central Station, Vine street
Residence, 1937 Elm street. Telephone at house and office.
Fred S. Bean, clerk, 102 Orange street.
Ruel G. Manning, 52 Douglas street, West Manchester.
Eugene S. Whitney, River road north, corner West street.
Clarence D. Palmer, 366 Lake avenue.
For further information see chief engineer's report.
Trustees of City Library.
(Laws of 1854, chapter 1588. See contract with Manchester Atheneum,
printed on pages 107, loS of City Report for fiscal year ending January 31,
1855.) Board of seven trustees, one of whom is elected by Aldermen and
board of trustees in joint convention in September, anrfually. Term of ser-
vice, seven years; no salary. Two additional trustees. Mayor, and president of
Common Council, ex officio.
Lucien B. Clough, term expires October i, 1S95, 181 Walnut
street.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 19
Nathan P. Hunt, term expires October i, 1894, 747 Union
street.
Herman F. Straw, term expires October i, 1899, 607 Chest-
nut street.
Walter M. Parker, term expires October i, 1899, West Web-
ster street, corner Elm.
Isaac W. Smith, term expires October i, 1898, 1855 Elm
street.
Moody Currier, term expires October i, 1897, Ash street, cor-
ner Myrtle.
C. D. McDuffie, term expires October i, 1896, Ash street, cor-
ner Myrtle.
Edgar J. Knowlton, ex officio, 533 Lake avenue.
Fred T. Dunlap, ex officio, 107 Russell street.
Highway Surveyors.*
Elected annually in joint convention in City Councils in January.
District No. i. Raymond P. Campbell, Union street north.
Salary, %2 per day.
District No. 2. William Sanborn, 89 Pennacook street. Sal-
ary, ^1,200 per annum.
District No. 3. Fred L. Jewell, Union street beyond Clark.
Salary, $2 per day.
District No. 4. Byron E. Moore, Goffe's Falls. Salary, $2
per day.
District No. 5. Mark E. Harvey, Nutt road south. Salary,
$2 per day.
District No. 6. Ignatius T. Webster, Island Pond road. Sal-
ary, $2 per day.
District No. 7. Charles Francis, Candia road, East Manches-
ter. Salary, %2 per day.
District No. 8. George H. Penniman, Hanover street, corner
of Mammoth road. Salary, $2 per day.
* Superseded by three Street and Park Commissioners, April i, 1S93, by virtue of an act
of the legislature. See chapter 264, Laws of 1893.
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District No. 9. Lester C. Page, Derry road. Salar3s $2 per day.
District No. 10. Charles O. Phelps, 341 South Main street.
Salary, $2.50 per day.
District No. 11. Frank D. Hanscom, Goffstown road. Sal-
ary, $2 per day.
District No. 12. Eugene G. Libby, Mammoth road, city
farm. Salary, $2 per day.
Telephone at house and office of superintendent in districts Nos. 2 and 12.
Board of Street and Park Commissioners.
The City Councils in joint convention, biennially, elect one member of said
board for a term of six years. Not more than two members can be of the same
political party. Said board, consisting of three members, has full charge, man-
agement, and control of the building, constructing, repairing, and maintaining
of all the streets, highways, 'lanes, sidewalks, bridges, and pubHc sewers and
drains, and public parks and commons. (See Laws of 1893, chapter 264.)
Office, City Hall building. Open from 8 to 12 A. M., 2 to 5 p. m. Regular
meeting of the board at 2 o'clock v. u., each day. Salary of each member,
5600 per year, payable quarterly.
George H. Stearns, chairman, term expires 1898.
Leonard P. Reynolds, term expires 1896.
Horace P. Simpson, term expires 1894.
Clerk.
Appointed by commissioners. Salary, $75 monthly.
Allen E. Herrick, 91 Russell street, corner of Prospect.
Julia F. Stearns, assistant.
City Weigher.
Elected annually in convention of City Councils. Salary, jg400 per annum ;
all fees for weighing returned mr)nthly to city treasurer with sworn statement.
Stationed at city scales on Franklin street.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 21
William Bailey ...... Office, city scales
Residence, 74 Main street, West Manchester.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Joseph B. Baril 99 Bridge street
Elected annually in January by City Councils in convention. Paid by fees.
(Section 25, chapter 43, Public Statutes, and chapter 125, Public Statutes.)
Fish and Game Wardens.
(Public Statutes, chapter 130.) Elected by City Councils in convention.
John C. Higgins, 143 Orange street.
George A. Clark, 304 Central street.
Samuel S. James, 184 Laurel street.
William C. Clarke, 711 Pine, corner North street.
C. R. Hodge, 574 Hall street.
Trustees of Cemeteries.
(City Ordinances, chapter 39, sections i, 2, 3, 4.) Two trustees elected by
City Councils in convention in January, annually, for the term of four years.
Sub-trustees appointed by board of trustees.
George W. Bacon, 65 Stark Corporation, Canal street, term
expires January, 1895.
William H. Huse, Mammoth road, term expires 1895.
Nathan P. Hunt, Union street near Blodget, term expires 1894.
Bushrod W. Hill, 299 Hanover street, term expires 1894.
Stillman P. Cannon, 43 Elm street, term expires 1897.
James E. Bailey, Goffstown road near Front street, term ex-
pires 1897.
Charles H. Bartlett, 25 High street, term expires January, 1896.
John P. Young, 346 Merrimack street, term expires January,
1896.
S. B. Putnam, clerk and treasurer, 437 Amherst street.
22 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Sub-Trustees of Cemeteries.
VALLEY CEMETERY.
Alderman Richard J. Barry, 232 Lake avenue.
Councilman Liidger E. Desrochers, 359 Amherst street.
Nathan P. Hunt, 747 Union street.
Bushrod W. Hill, 299 Hanover street.
Stillman P. Cannon, 43 Elm street.
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Alderman James Lightbody, 61 Amoskeag Corporation, West
Merrimack street.
Councilman Joseph Tait, 4 Boyden street.
George W. Bacon, 66 Stark Corporation, Canal street.
John P. Young, 346 Merrimack street. „
Charles H. Bartlett, 25 High street.
AMOSKEAG CEMETERY.
Councilman George E. Fellows, 316 Milford street, West Man-
chester.
James E. Bailey, Goffstown road near Front street.
William H. Hiise, Mammoth road. East Manchester.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Byron A. Stearns. Office at the cemetery; residence, 254
Taylor street. Telephone at house and cemetery.
SUPERINTENDENT OF VALLEY CEMETERY.
Charles H. G. Foss. Office at the cemetery ; residence, 267
Lake avenue.
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERY FUNDS.
James A. Weston, chairman, 621 Maple street.
Person C. Cheney, Harrison street, corner Elm.
Edgar J. Knowlton {ex officio), 533 Lake avenue.
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Inspector of Milk.
H. F. W. Little . . . Office, rear of 13 Lowell street
Residence, 385 Lowell street. Term expires P'ebruaiy i, annually. (Public
.Statutes, chapter 127.) Appointed by Mayor and Aldermen. Salary, $300
per annum.
Inspector of Buildings.
Thomas W. Lane ... Office at Central Fire Station'
Residence, 1937 Elm street. Appointed by Board of Mayor and Aldermen,
biennially, in February. Salary, ^100 per annum. (City Ordinances, chapter
15. Laws of 1883, chapter 94. Public Statutes, page 170.) Telephone at
house and office.
Inspectors of Oil.
William Bailey . . .74 Main street, West Manchester
John Cayzer 38;^ Granite street
(Public Statutes, chapter 126, sections 25-34. City Ordinances, chapter 25.)
Paid by fees, ^ of i per cent per gallon.
Moderators.
Elected biennially. (General Laws, chapter 31, sections 3, 9; chapter 36,
section 9; chapter 44, section 7. City Ordina'-ces, page 18. See Public Stat-
utes relating to towns and cities.)
Ward I. Abial W. Eastman, 24 Amoskeag Corporation, Stark
street.
Ward 2. Scott W. Lane, 81 Sagamore street.
Ward 3. E. R. Robinson, 517 Chestnut street, north.
Ward 4- George H. Warren, 461 Hanover street.
Ward 5. Emmett Duffie, 207 Central street.
Ward 6. George W. Prescott, 350 Central street.
Ward 7. Frank A. Dockham, 18 Pleasant street.
Ward 8. Charles G. Ranno, 63 Parker street, West Manchester.
Ward 9. Alexander Taggart, 478 Beauport street.
24 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Ward Clerks.
Elected biennially. (General Laws, chapter 44, sections 10, I2. City Or-
dinances, page 18. Public Statutes relating to towns and cities.)
Ward I. Frank X. Foster, 1382 Elm street.
Ward 2. Wilson F. Higgins, 573 Pine street.
Ward 3. Samuel C. Kennard, 609 Beech street.
Ward 4. George H. Phinney, 133 Hanover street.
Ward 5. John A. Whalen.
Ward 6. Harry I. Dodge, Goffe's Falls.
Ward 7. Charles A. Foster, 44 Amoskeag Corporation, West
Merrimack street.
Ward 8. Maurice S. Lamprey, Rockland avenue.
Ward 9. Leander S. Boivin, 5 Monmouth street.
Selectmen.
Elected biennially. (General Laws, chapter i, section 27 ; chapter 12, sec-
tion 6; chapter 40, sections 2, 3; chapter 109, section 27; chapter 213, section
I. City Ordinances, page 18. Public Statutes relating to towns and cities.)
Ward i.
John H. Wales, Jr., 19 Machine Shop block. Water street.
Henry S. Perry, 24 Stark Corporation, Mechanic street.
Theophile G. Biron, 29 Arkwright street.
Ward 2.
Daniel G. Andrews, 777 Union street.
William F. Danfortlf, 21 Liberty street.
Nathaniel Doane, Jr., 103 Brook street.
Ward 3.
John Cronin, 284 Bridge street.
Samuel C. Kennard, 609 Beech street.
Joha A. Sargent, 69 Wilson road.
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Ward 4.
Fred A. Burke, 5 84 Belmont street.
Lewis W. Crockett, 443 Amherst street.
Charles F. Nallgey, 234 Manchester street.
Ward 5.
John F. Kelly, 14 Auburn street.
Dennis A. F. Murphy, 105 East Spruce street.
Jeremiah Teehan, 224 Lake avenue.
Ward 6.
Joseph N. Auger, Nutt road near Pine street.
Edward P. Cogswell, 409 Cedar street.
Harrison P. Heselton, 261 Laurel street.
Ward 7.
Hanson R. Armstrong, 58 Amoskeag Corporation, West Mer-
rimack street.
Robert Leggett, 50 Amoskeag Corporation, Canal street.
Robert Morrow, 66 Amoskeag Corporation, West Merrimack
street.
Ward 8.
George B. Barnes, 170 Walker street.
Auguste Filion, 72 Second street.
Benjamin J. Mack, 145 Boynton street.
Ward 9.
Gideon Beiisle, 335 Dubuque street.
Eusebe Gingras, 605 Main street.
Martin J. Rafferty, 450 Beauport street.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Getitlemoi of the City Councils :
In accordance with long approved usage and, I trust, with a
realization of the responsibilities which we this day assume, we
meet at this time to face the problems of municipal government
for the ensuing two years.
Before addressing you as to the needs of our city, I desire to
say a word of commendation in recognition of the faithfulness
and integrity of the retiring city government. It Avill go down
to history as a business body. The two years of its administra-
tion have been the most successful in the city's growth. We who
are their successors should emulate their zeal and earnestness in
laboring for the public good, and if we fail not to forget that
public officials are but the agents of the people, if we are guided
in our official conduct by honest convictions and a manly adher-
ence to duty, preferring these recognized virtues to methods of
expediency and time serving make-shifts, we shall merit and re-
ceive the commendations of both the public and an approving
conscience.
Municipal government is a business matter, pure and simple,
and to inject into it the virus of political bigotry and partisan-
ship is to prove false to the obligations which we have this day
assumed. I expect this city government to intrench itself upon
higher ground.
Manchester is to-day the most progressive city of the Merri-
mack Valley. There is not a civilized country to which she is
not sending the products of her mills and factories. The value
of her manufactures aggregates millions of dollars per annum,
and she takes rank among the first cities of this free land in the
importance of her industries.
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As members of the city government, I believe that we should
be ever mindful of the industrial interests of our city, encourage
them in every legitimate way, and use all honorable means to
induce others to make their prosperous homes among us, if this
can be done without detriment to interests. already here. Every
activity that provides honest employment for men and women
adds not alone to the material wealth of the community, but to
its moral and political life. By attaining to the highest standard
of efficiency as a city government, we shall offer an incentive
that will induce the settlement here of additional capital and
labor, and thereby work in unison with the public spirit, thrift,
and enterprise of the business men whose sterling, pushing quali-
ties have earned for our city the proud and enviable distinction
which she enjoys.
FINANCIAL.
The financial status of the city on the first day of January was
as follows :
Amount of bonded debt January I, 1892 ^953,850.00
Amount of cemetery bonds issued in 1892 .... 1,150.00
Accrued interest on bonded debt ...... 21,050.00
^976,050.00
AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Net cash on hand January i, 1893 $96,477.18
Taxes uncollected, list of 1892 32,139.65
Stock of Suncook Valley Railroad, estimated value . . . 14,500.00
;gi43,ii6.83
Total net indebtedness January i, 1892 ..... $873,791.65
Total net indebtedness January I, 1893 832,933.17
Decrease of net indebtedness during the year . . $40,858.48
The showing is eminently satisfactory under the policy which
has been pursued, but when we reflect that had the city, when it
contracted its bonded indebtedness, provided the means for its
payment by yearly contributions to a sinking fund, we can read-
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ily comprehend how much better its financial standing would
have been. Had this plan been followed, more than one half
of the present indebtedness would have been cancelled, and the
interest account would have been but a shadow as compared with
its present proportions.
This leads me to, at this time, renew my recommendations of
two years ago that the necessary authority be, requested from the
legislature to enable the city to meet the expense of its perma-
nent improvements by the issuance of bonds which shall, at their
maturity, be paid from the annual accumulations of a sinking
fund. This is the best financial system of municipal govern-
ment yet devised. By it the tax-payers, each year, contribute
their share towards what they are privileged to enjoy, and the
burdens of a single year, under our present system, will be spread
out through a series of years. Taxes will be reduced, if we make
this change- of policy, and we shall at the same time witness the
development of our city with a rapidity which is now not even
dreamed of.
To insure the adoption of this liberal and beneficent policy,
and to bring about a wise and economical expenditure of the
public funds, it seems to be necessary to create a department of
public works, the commissioners in charge of the same to have
the direction of work upon the streets, sewers, bridges, and pub-
lic buildings of the city, as the water commissioners now manage
their department.
During our term of service, $120,000 of city bonds, reminders
of the war period, will become due. Of this amount, $70,000
will be payable November i of the current year, and $50,000,
July I, 1S94. In refunding these bonds, I would recommend that
we provide a plan for their liquidation when they again fall due.
CITY TREASURY DEPOSITS.
It has been the practice, since the incorporation of the city,
for the money in the hands of the city treasurer and tax collector
to be placed on deposit with the several banks, without any ben-
efit accruing therefrom to the city. This money is the people's,
and they have a right to its full benefit. I would, therefore,
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recommend that the necessary steps be taken to secure for the
city a revenue from its deposits, and the banking institution offer-
ing the best security and highest premium to receive the custody
of the deposits, the award to be made annually.
VALUATION.
Since the incorporation of the city, the primitive methods of
estimating the valuation of property and assessing taxes, which
prevailed in the first half of the present century, have been fol-
lowed. Other cities have inaugurated new methods, and the re-
sult has been that thousands, and even millions, of dollars of ad-
ditional valuation have been disclosed ; as, for example, take the
city of Lowell. There is more property in Manchester than the
assessors' returns indicate. The fault is largely with the system.
As to the remedy, I would recommend that there be one
assessor elected from each ward as now, they to be known as as-
sistant assessors, and that a permanent, non-political board, con-
sisting of three members, be appointed by the Mayor, confirmed
by the aldermen, each to serve for three years, although when
first selected one would be appointed for one year, another for
two years, and the third for three years. It would be the duty of
the assistant assessors to make the canvass of property, as now,
and the permanent board would adjust the valuation, they being
cognizant of sales and all influences calculated to increase
the desirability of property in all sections of the city. One of
the indispensable helps to the work of the assessors should be
supplied in the shape of maps showing every street and the front-
age and area of every plot of land upon the same, name of the
owner, etc.
The total valuation last year was placed at $25,932,044, and in
addition to the natural increase to be expected this year, the ex-
emption on the A. P. Olzendam hosiery mill property expires
April I, which in itself will bring $60,000 of taxable property
under the eye of the assessors.
WATER-WORKS.
The most important matter with which we shall have to deal
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in connection with this department will be that of a high water
service on Oak hill.
A large section of the city is at present unprovided with city-
water and proper protection from fire, because we have not a high-
pressure service. This is most needed, however, to supplement
the present system of water-works and thereby provide means of
continuing the water supply in the event of a break in the pres-
ent system. The commissioners believe in a distinct and entirely
separate plant for the high-pressure service as a precautionary
measure, and there are many excellent reasons in support of their
conclusions.
Another need of the department is the necessity for more rap-
idly substituting iron pipe in place of that which is cement
lined. At present there are twenty-one miles of the latter yet in
service, and forty-one of iron.
STREETS.
Our streets bear evidence of steady improvement. The prac-
tice of laying stretches of concrete meets with general approval.
The method adopted during the past season of putting in a
foundation with the steam road roller promises the best results,
and is vastly superior to any other plan yet tried, as the unsatis-
factory work by other methods on Merrimack and Chestnut
streets is in evidence.
The appropriation for paving should be increased and an effort
made to pave the gutters upon our hill streets. This should be
done as a matter of economy, as the gutters would largely pro-
tect the streets and prevent their washing in time of severe rain.
Much of the paving on Elm and Granite streets needs to be
replaced. No other material seems to be sufficiently strong to
withstand heavy and constant travel. In this connection I raise
the query if the time has not come when heed should be given
as to the width of the tires of traffic wheels. Narrow tires on
heavily laden vehicles are most destructive to the maintenance of
good streets.
For several years the city government has been overwhelmed
with petitions for the laying out of new streets, the granting of
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which in many cases would result more largely in private gain
than in convenience to the public. On general principles I be-
lieve in street extensions, even into undeveloped localities if the
public welfare is thereby to be served, but has not the time ar-
rived when legislation should be secured which will enable
cities and towns in laying out streets to adopt the betterment
plan, so popular throughout the West, and assess the property
benefited its proportionate share of the expense of building the
streets ?
I furthermore believe in a law which will enable the city to
build sidewalks and assess one half of the expense to the abut-
ting property. This is the only way by which good walks can
be gained in localities where lot owners hold the traveling pub-
lic in contempt and refuse to provide satisfactory walks.
Attention is also directed to the fact that we are still at work
under the old highway district system. The districts on the
west bank of the river should be united into one, and those on
the east bank into another. Consolidation in this case is the
shortest road to the best results.
SEWERS AND DRAINS.
The actual needs of the city in this department have for years
been greatly in excess of the means at its disposal to meet them.
This must continue to be the case unless the necessary authority
be obtained to issue sewer bonds. The demand for additional
sewers and for the extension of the sewerage system comes from
all sections ; all are in need. Among the enterprises requiring
prompt attention in this department is the rebuilding of the
South Main-street sewer south of Conant street to the river, the
rebuilding of the Spruce-street sewer west of Union street, and
the building of the Auburn-street sewer.
CITY ENGINEER.
With our city expanding so rapidly in all directions there
come innumerable demands upon the engineering department.
The present force of an engineer and four assistants has not been
sufficient to keep the work as well advanced as the public conven-
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ience requires. Competent and faithful service in this depart-
ment is what is required, as on the good judgment and faithful-
ness to the best interests of the city on the part of the engineer
depends the saving or expenditure of large sums of money.
The proposed bridge across the Piscataquog river at Second
street should be built this year. It will be a great convenience
and will largely increase the taxable property in that section, in
proof of which the results accruing from the building of the Mc-
Gregor bridge are cited. With the building of the bridge at
Second street no time should be lost in replacing the present
narrow and inadequate crossing on South Main street with a
modern structure commensurate with the needs of the public.
OVERHEAD WIRES.
Many of the streets are filling up with poles which carry a net-
work of wires representing the various telegraph and telephone
companies, the fire-alarm, and the electric light service. The
poles are an incumbrance and often unsightly, while the wires
are a source of danger, and in time of fire are a positive hin-
drance to the rapid work of the firemen. The advisability of
causing these wires to be placed underground in the traffic-filled
streets is a matter which should receive thoughtful consideration.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
This department is accomplishing important and most salutary
work, and in view of the threatened visitation of Asiatic cholera
to this country, special efforts should be made to purge the city
of every vestige of filth that might lead to the propagation of
disease. The best means for keeping the city clean should be
cheerfully supplied, as it is as much the business of the health
board to adopt preventive measures as it is to fight an epidemic
after it has shown its devastating presence. We enjoy, as a city,
a remarkably low death rate, and this can be kept at the mini-
mum by strict sanitary inspection. The board should be given
control of that portion of the scavenger service pertaining to the
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collection of perishable matter, and a crematory provided for the
consumption of the waste material. It should also adopt and
enforce more stringent regulations as to plumbing, and the de-
mand upon the time of the members is now such that their salary-
should be increased.
PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
No better investment of the public funds can be made than to
devote them liberally to promoting the efiiciency of the public
schools. Good schools establish character, elevate the manhood
and womanhood of the nation, and return dividends of never-
ending good in increasing intelligence.
I would emphasize my 'former recommendations as to the
introduction of manual training. Manchester is not keeping
step with the march of events in delaying this needful adjunct to
her public schools. When so many of the youth are to devote
their energies in the future to the means of acquiring a liveli-
hood, it is essential for their well-being that they be given the
advantages of manual instruction. While the hands of the boys
are trained to expertness along industrial lines, the girls should
be taught the art of cookery.
There is need of another wing being added to the Webster-
street grammar school building ; the finishing of two additional
rooms in the Hallsville building, and the construction of a two-
room schoolhouse in McGregorville. In the northeastern por-
tion, a lot should be purchased, and a schoolhouse erected as
soon as the season will admit, in order to relieve the overcrowded
Ash-street building.
PARKS AND COMMONS.
The manner in which the five commons in the compact part
of the city have been cared for during the past two years has met
with the favor of all. These breathing places should be still fur-
ther beautified and improved, as they can be made a never-end-
ing delight throughout the summer months. They call forth the
admiration of visitors, and enforce the generally favorable opin-
ion which strangers form of our city.
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Provisions need to be made this year for more rapidly develop-
ing Derryfield and Stark parks. They have both been placed in
readiness for being worked in accordance with i)lans adopted by
the city councils.
The city's system of parks needs to be extended, and we shall
build wisely for the future if we give this subject the considera-
tion which it deserves. The southeastern section of the city will
need a common ; the Wilson Hill section will need a small com-
mon, with an observatory as its principal attraction ; the land
set aside in McGregorville for a common should be made attrac-
tive, and Rock Rimmon and its adjacent territory should be
included in the city's system of parks. The creation of these
several parks will largely increase the valuation of surrounding
property, and thereby aid materially in meeting the expenditures
of the park system.
Steps should be taken for the creation of a park commission.
CITY HALL.
I trust that this city government will be able to commence the
building of a new city hall, or make such extensive alterations in
the present structure as will convenience the public business.
The city has no better facilities for the transaction of its business
through its officials than it had forty-five years ago, and every
department has outgrown the accommodations provided.
The city clerk is compelled to do business for fifty thousand
people in a room not much larger than a closet. He should
have better accommodations, and be authorized to employ a
clerk. The assessors and inspectors of checklists are overcrowded,
and there are no provisions whatsoever for the accommodation
of the representatives in these branches of the public service from
ward nine. The health board is compelled to do business in an
open hallway. The mayor's office performs the threefold mission
of a reception room, consultation room, and aldermanic room,
and a moment's reflection will be sufficient for one to appreciate
the full force of so inconvenient an arrangement. The mayor
should have a clerk who, in the absence of the executive, who is
daily called away to the inspection of public works throughout
38 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
the city, can give the public such information as they are entitled
to receive. This clerk could also be made clerk of all commit-
tees, and the system adopted of keeping an accurate record of
the doings of the committee room. Much might be said as to
the need of extensive changes in the present city hall building,
or the construction of a new one, but I prefer that you familiarize
yourselves with the situation if you have not already done so. I
trust that early action will be taken by the appointment of a
joint special committee for the consideration of this subject, the
committee to report the result of their conclusions back to the
city government.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
There is no department of the city government which is so
closely allied to the every-day life of the community and which
is so steadily under the eye of a critical public as the department
of police. Upon the efficiency and integrity here manifested
depend alike the protection of life and property and the reputa-
tion of our city both at home and abroad.
The suggestion of two years ago, that the city should be pa-
trolled at a time when no guardianship whatever was then exer-
cised, has been most happily carried out, so that now the police
service is continuous. The department has been put on a more
metropolitan basis in other ways, but there are still many appar-
ent and pressing needs which should receive your early attention.
The expansion of the city has been so rapid, the suburban dis-
tricts filling up with a compact population, that there is a persis-
tent demand for police protection which can only be provided
by augmenting the force. The department at present is limited
to thirty-six men, all told, which is one patrolman to every six-
teen hundred of our population, while the rule is to have an offi-
cer for every one thousand inhabitants. I would therefore rec-
ommend a change in the ordinance so that there may be created
the office of lieutenant or sergeant, and that five additional
patrolmen be elected. This will enable some of the beats which
are so large that they cannot be patrolled in a manner satisfac-
tory to the public to be shortened and will admit of the police
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service being extended into quarters in need of its salutary in-
fluence.
The city marshal should be allowed by the rules to create a de-
tective department, the work of which should be performed by
one or more of the ofiicers detailed by him for this purpose.
I would also urge steps to bring about the introduction of the
police signal system. It would be a great aid to the efficiency of
the department. In every city where it has been introduced it
has proved satisfactory. The scenes of a struggling prisoner be-
ing forced and fought through the crowded streets to the station,
oftentimes urged to escape, and aided in doing so, by his friends,
who have crowded about, would be entirely done away with.
I would further recommend that a site for a stable be purchased
near the police station, this to be the headquarters for the patrol
and ambulance service of the department, and that emergency
rooms and a room for the police matron be arranged for in the
new buildings.
The regulation by which the city and assistant marshals derive
a revenue for every prisoner taken to the house of correction at
the city farm should be done away with and the compensation of
these officials fixed by their salary, which, if the change is made,
ought to be increased.
My former recommendation as to the creation of a police
commission I would at this time renew.
RAILROAD MATTERS.
The movement to bring about the extension of the Manches-
ter (S: North Weare Railroad to Henniker should receive our
hearty approval, as the consummation of the end sought means
a substantial gain to the commercial interests of the city.
It is to be regretted that complications of long standing be-
tween the two great railroad corporations centering here have
thus far proven an insurmountable barrier in the way of our city
being provided with a passenger depot befitting her present
standing, rapid development, and high destiny. Assurances have
recently been given, however, that the questions in dispute are
40 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Hearing solution, and that it is reasonable to suppose that work
upon a new depot will be commenced this year.
With the building of a new depot a plan should be provided
for doing away with the dangerous grade crossing on Granite
street.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
Not for a dozen years at least has the court docket been so
free from cases against the city as at the present time. By settle-
ments and trials at the March term of the supreme court in 1892,
all cases were disposed of with the exception of a very few which
had been of long standing, and which the plaintiffs did not bring
forward for trial. The claims against the city at the present
time for injuries received by falling on sidewalks are few, and it
is considered that there are no very bad ones.
The injustice of the application of the present law relative to
individuals recovering from cities or towns for injuries, fancied
or real, from falling upon sidewalks, receives demonstration at
every session of our courts. All efforts to have this law modified
have thus far been unavailing, but this should not prevent other
attempts being made to bring about a just enactment.
It is a pleasure to acknowledge the uniform courtesy of the
present city solicitor, whose services, from his long occupancy of
the position, have been of inestimable value to the city.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
It is with especial pleasure that we can contemplate the im-
provements of the past year and others planned by the retiring
city government. The number of permanent men has recently
been increased, fire horses recalled from street department work
and made subject to fire department service at all hours of the
day and night, and orders have been placed for an aerial hook
and ladder truck, a smaller truck for the Walter M. Fulton house,
and a new steamer. All of these will be received early the pres-
ent year, and should be followed by the construction of a hose
house on the site recently purchased in South Manchester, and
the building of an engine house in the northeastern section of
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the city. This section, rapidly growing, needs an engine house
farther north and east of the Massabesic house, and I would rec-
ommend the purchase of a lot and the erection of a house upon
the same. When this is done, the Massabesic house and site can
be sold.
I believe the time has arrived when the city should be divided
into three fire districts, each to be assigned as the territory of
one of the assistant engineers. The rule should then be adopted
that the chief engineer and his first assistant respond to all
alarms, these two with the district engineer making three engi-
neers at all fires, the remaining two members of the board re-
porting at the central station, and there remaining in readiness
for any emergency that may arise.
The fire department should be placed in the hands of a com-
mission and forever removed from the beck and call of political
parties.
BUILDING INSPECTOR.
Something should be done to make the position of building
inspector a reality, and put an end to the further construction of
fire traps. Our city has attained such growth that the building
inspector should devote his entire time to his duties as inspector,
and to carrying out the provisions of the ordinance which passed
the city councils in 1891. This would necessitate an increase in
salary, providing an office for the inspector, etc., all of which
•ought to be done.
CITY FARM.
You will early be made acquainted with the fact that the house
of correction accommodations at the farm are by no means ade-
quate to meet the demands that are made upon them. Various
plans have been suggested as to remodeling the present buildings
or building an addition to the prison. The latter seems prefer-
able. The farm, because of the house of correction adjunct, is,
necessarily, a source of heavy expense to the city, and the most
that can be done is to keep the management in economical
hands.
42 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
STREET LIGHTING.
Manchester's reputation, achieved since the adoption of the
present system of electric lighting, of being one of the best lighted
cities in New England, has been maintained. There are at pres-
ent 289 electric, 62 gas, and 70 oil lights, and many additional
electrics are needed in the suburban sections. The committee
having this department in charge will find the need of painstak-
ing care in the consideration of petitions.
CITY LIBRARY.
The usefulness of this beneficent institution should be extended
by the addition of a wing to the north side of the building which
will admit of an attractive and commodious reading-room, and,
this secured, the library should then be kept open during a stated
period on Sundays and on every week-day evening.
The interior of the building requires considerable of an outlay
in order to put it in suitable repair and make it more attractive.
There are at present 36,000 volumes on the shelves, and the
arduous task of recataloguing them has been faithfully and skil-
fully accomplished. This must necessarily result in a large
increase in the number of books circulated, as people will not be
slow to improve the increased facilities for intellectual advance-
ment such as are afforded by good reading.
The salary paid the librarian, $800 per annum, is inadequate,
as from this an assistant must be paid for evening work. Either
the librarian's salary ought to be increased, or the services of an-
other assistant secured at the expense of the library fund.
The expenses of the institution during the year just i)assed
aggregated $4,864.49. The amount expended for books and
periodicals amounted to $632.56. Of the bequests which have
been made the library, the accumulations of the Dean fund
amount to $5,803.27, the accumulated interest of the Mary E.
Elliot fund to $754.94, and the Eliza A. Eaton fund aggregates
$2,897.35.
HOSPITALS.
The alleviation of distress is a duty incumbent upon us, and.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 43
as the city grows, more attention must necessarily be given this
subject. We have no city hospital, but are favored with excel-
lent accommodations at the Elliot and Women's Aid hospitals at
a cost to the city last year of ^1,400, which amount is but a frac-
tional part of what would be necessary to maintain a city hospi-
tal. During the past year the well-equipped Sacred Heart Hos-
pital has been opened, and as it provides the same facilities for
the reception of city patients as do the other hospitals, it should
not be forgotten when the annual appropriation list is prepared.
The hospital service provided by these three institutions will be
ample for years to come, but the growth of the city will in time
create a demand which cannot be satisfied short of a large city
hospital.
PUBLIC BATH-HOUSES.
I renew my recommendation for the construction of free pub-
lic bath-houses on the river banks.
MILITARY.
Our city has reason to feel proud of its volunteer militia,
which reflects credit upon city and state alike. Several of the
companies are, however, poorly quartered, and the long talked of
state armory project is a growing need.
CITY REPAIR SHOP.
This is one of the necessities of the city. It should be in
charge of a superintendent who should have the direction of all
the repairs upon buildings owned by the city.
The outlay necessary to construct and equip a building for this
purpose would be saved the city during possibly a single admin-
istration.
PURCHASING AGENT.
The office of purchasing agent might be created, and a great
deal of money saved the city thereby. Instead of a half hundred
or more persons doing the buying, as now, and paying different
prices for the articles, the matter would be simplified by one per-
44 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
son doing all the purchasing, and there would be a responsibility
which is not now manifest.
CEMETERIES.
The two principal cemeteries, Valley and Pine Grove, are well
cared for, and afford beautiful resting-places for the remains of
those who have preceded us in knocking at the door of the great
mystery.
A plan, giving every plot and all the lots, is among the needs of
Pine Grove cemetery. Further than this, an enlargement of its
territory by the purchase of additional land is a matter ripe for
consideration.
It is gratifying to announce the beginning of a movement to
place suburban cemeteries under more thoughtful care.
During the past year authority was obtained from the city gov-,
ernment to issue $50,000 of cemetery bonds, bearing interest at
five per cent.
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC.
This question is the skeleton in the municipal closet, the most
vexatious, trying, and disturbing problem of local government.
The experience and investigations of the last two years have
but served to strengthen and more firmly fortify my heretofore
expressed views that a judicious license law, with a local option
clause, affords the best means of controlling the evil in large
communities. It is admittedly true that, with the conditions of
society existing as they do to-day, the liquor traffic cannot be
stamped out. This being so, why not divest the subject of all
sentimentality and treat it as a practical question ? A license
law would be a reformatory measure. There would be no such
profligacy and debauchery in rum drinking as are witnessed un-
der our so-called prohibitory laws. Suppose that we had a law
that made a saloon keeper's license ^1,500, limited the number
of saloons to one for every fifteen hundred inhabitants, which
placed the liquor dealer under iron-clad restrictions with refer-
ence to selling to minors or to people who are already on the
road to intoxication, and held them accountable for any violence
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 45
resulting from their dispensation of the fluid, what would be the
result ? There would be less than forty saloons in Manchester
where there are now more than three hundred, and the city
would derive a revenue of many thousands of dollars, which could
be applied to wiping out the city's debt, or for building streets
and sewers, or for any other purpose. Which is better, continue
the present reign of sentimentalism with its free rum, and the
entire community assessed to meet the experises of the pauperism
and crime which follow in its train, or a license law which will
reduce the traffic to close supervision and control, and which will
exact a revenue to lessen the burdens of taxation ? Treat this
subject as we would any business matter, and we can arrive at
but one conclusion.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, gentlemen, I assure you that I shall endeavor to
carry into our official relations the personal friendship and esteem
which I feel for each one of you.
The course of our city is onward to a grand destiny, and we
should not consider her interests from a partisan or contracted
point of view, but from the grander and broader range of her
great possibilities, seeking to accomplish that which is for the
good of the whole people, and planning and inaugurating public
enterprises with the certainty always in view that we are to have
a vast increase in our population within the next few years. Let
us administer the public trust confided to our keeping as we
would discharge an individual responsibility, remaining ever loyal
and steadfast to the city of our home, our love, and our fondest
desires. Let us, furthermore, be guided in our work by faith in
an all-wise Providence, remembering the legend which adorns
the city hall of the largest city washed by the waters of that
great inland sea. Lake Ontario, " Except the Lord keep the city,
the watchman waketh but in vain."
REPORT
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
BOARD OF Water Commissioners.
1893.
E. J. KNOWLTON, Mayor, ex officio.
Alpheus Gay, term expires January, 1899.
Andrew C. Wallace, term expires January, 1900.
James A. Weston, term expires January, 1897.
Henry Chandler, term expires January, 1898.
Charles H. Manning, term expires January, 1895.
Charles T. Means, term expires January, 1896.
Officers.
Alpheus Gay, President.
James A. Weston, Cierk.
Charles K. Walker, Superintendent.
Arthur E. Stearns, Registrar.
Josiah Laselle, Engineer at Pumping Station.
REPORT
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
To the City Councils of the City of Manchester:
Gentlemen, — The Board of Water Commissioners have the
honor to submit herewith their twenty-second annual report for
the year ending December 31, 1893, together with the report of
the superintendent covering the same period of time, to which
reference 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, 1892 .
Receipts from water rentals and miscellaneous
Received from bonds sold
Received from premium on same
Total ....
Paid interest on water bonds .
current expenses and repairs
construction .
hydrant rentals, set aside for
sinking fund
Total expenditures .
Balance unexpended
4
• $57,920.91
. 104,170.08
. 200,000.00
6,000.00
^368,090.99
$30,000.00
33,618.10
132,657.82
12,750.00
. $209,025.92
. $159,065.07
60 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Authority having been conferred upon the commissioners by
the state legislature and the action of the city councils, they
commenced as early as possible the construction of a high ser-
vice system of water-works. In May last they engaged the ser-
vices of Mr. George E. Evans, of the firm of George S. Rice &
George E. Evans, of Boston, a gentleman of experience in the
construction of similar works, as chief engineer. His report,
which states fully and in detail what has been accomplished dur-
ing the year, is appended hereto and is referred to, to save
space and repetition, as a part of this report.
The legislature at its last session authorized the city and water
commissioners to issue water bonds to the amount of three hun-
dred thousand dollars ($300,000) for the purpose of construct-
ing the high-service system of water-works and for other pur-
poses. Two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000) of these bonds
have been negotiated and the proceeds placed in the city treas-
ury.
The amount expended on the high service system is as fol-
lows :
Force main ....
Land
Pumping machinery
Reservoir ....
Pumping station and grading .
Total
$68,696.45
375-00
6,000.00
5.865.77
13,908.28
$94,845-50
This work is so far advanced in its different departments that
there is little doubt that it will be completed during the year
1894. The arrangement of pipes is such that either or both
systems can be supplied with water by the new pumps. When
this \i accomplished, the fear that has been entertained of the
possible failure of some parts of the old system, as pointed out
in previous reports, will be relieved.
Although the water in the lake has been the lowest, with one
exception, within the history of the enterprise, no lack of water
for legitimate uses has been experienced by any one during the
BOARD OF AVATER COMMISSIONERS. 51
past year. Unusual precaution has been exercised to guard
against accidents that might impair the efficiency of the water
service and to keep the works in every department in as reliable
condition as the nature of the case would admit of.
Respectfully submitted.
E. J. KNOWLTON, Mayor, ex officio,
ALPHEUS GAY,
ANDREW C. WALLACE,
JAMES A. WESTON,
HENRY CHANDLER,
CHARLES H. MANNING,
CHARLES T. MEANS,
Water Commissioners.
January i, 1S94.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the Honorable Board of Water CommissioJicrs of the City
of Manchester :
The following is the report of the superintendent for. the year
1893, which is respectfully submitted :
In this report the superintendent will confine himself to the
old service, as the chief engineer, George E. Evans, will report
progress on the new high-service system. The superintendent
bought the pipe, gates, hydrants, and branches for the high ser-
vice, had a road built from the highway to the location of the
new pumping station, and the earth taken off the ledge at the
site of the new reservoir, as was ordered by your honorable
board.
The city hired a piece of land at Fletcher's Crossing, built a
side-track, and unloaded some of the pipe there. This was the
most convenient place to be obtained, being a little less than one
mile from the new pumping station, and there was plenty of
room for unloading 20-inch pipe, which we did not have in the
old yard at Wilson street.
Nothing was gained by securing this place for unloading pipe
alone, for seven to ten dollars "a car extra was charged to shift
them out to Fletcher's Crossing, one and a half miles beyond the
yard limit at Hallsville. It was a case of necessity, however, and
probably the contractors considered it in their bids for hauling
pipe, and also for hauling material to build the pumping station,
MASSABESIC LAKE.
The water in the lake has been lower than usual the past sea-
son. The water began to go down the first of May, and kept on
lowering until the 20th of November, when the measurements
54 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
showed 26 inches below the darn, which was three inches higher
than on January i, 1881, the lowest point reached in twenty
years. The water to-day stands 20 inches below the dam.
Slight repairs have been made on the dam, canal, and gate-
house. The pumps at the station have done good work without
many repairs. Most of the pumping, as the record shows, has
been done by the Davidson pump. The following is the amount
pumped :
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
55
56 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Little work has been required on the force and supply main.
We have enough pipe on hand now to lay the force main with
2o-inch cast iron. When this is done, both pumps can run at the
same time if necessary.
RESERVOIR.
The reservoir banks have been top-dressed, and the land
around it has been manured, plowed, and cultivated. This land
has not been plowed for seventeen years, and the grass crop was
light and of a poor quality. The grounds will look enough bet-
ter to pay for the cultivation, if we do not get all the money
back that it cost.
Pipes have been extended about six miles, making the distri-
bution pipe sixty-nine miles in extent, or seventy-three miles
including the high service. Pipes have been extended in Au-
burn, Amory, Adams, Blaine, Bismark, Bartlett streets, Bedford
road, B, Belmont, Canton, Cleveland streets, Coolidge avenue.
Chestnut, Conant, Dearborn, Everett, Elm streets, Forest avenue,
Harrison, Green, Hayward, Grove, Harvard, Hevey, Hiram, Han-
cock, Hall, Jewett, Kelley, Montgomery, Myrtle streets. Mast
road, Monroe, Morgan streets, Nutt road, North, Charlestown,
Prescott, Prospect, Rimmon streets, -River road, Rockland,
Summer, Silver, Somerville, Bell, Taylor, Union, Warren, Web-
ster, Wilson, Walnut streets, making fifty-two different streets,
at an expense of about $28,000.
During the past year pipe was relaid in Amherst, Barr, Bed-
ford, Clinton, Dover, Canal, Central, Douglas, Green, Granite,
Hanover, Merrimack, Middle, Market, West, Water, and Quincy
streets. The amount of iron pipe laid in place of the cement-
lined was 9,946 feet, equal to 1.89 miles ; total cost, ^7,300.
We now have nearly twenty miles of cement pipe in the city.
The pipe for the new high service, also for the extensions and
repairs, was bought of the Warren Foundry Co. for $26.60 per
ton (2,240 pounds) delivered on the cars in the city. Last year
the price was $26.65.
The ground last winter froze to an unusual depth. The six and
eight inch pipe froze in several places, and service pipes froze at
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
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the depth of six feet. We began to thaw out service pipes the
loth day of January, and kept up the work until the middle of
March. Hydrants had to have constant care after having once
been opened, but no serious trouble resulted from frozen ones.
Forty-five hydrants set the past year on the low service, and
thirteen on the high service, fifty-eight in all.
The following is the water pressure in pounds taken at some of
the hydrants set in different parts of the city :
Elm street, c
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60 jjounds
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" Valley ...
72 "
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" Hanover
63 "
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" Pearl ....
56 -
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" Brook ....
52 "
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" Webster
44 "
Canal street
corner Granite
75 "
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Brook.
76 "
North river
road, corner Webster
53 "
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" Clark .
49 "
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62 "
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55 "
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" Brook .
50 "
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Webster .
44 "
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Clark .
43 "
Pine street,
corner Nutt road
60 "
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60 "
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Union street
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64 "
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43 "
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" Clark
37 "
Beech street
corner Shasta . . . .
54 "
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61 "
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS
Beech street corner, Cedar
52 pounds
" " " Hanover
51 "
" Bridge
45 "
" " " Brook
39 "
Harvard street, corner Lincoln .
51 "
Maple street, corner Spruce
53 "
" " " Nashua
46 -
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43 "
" " " Prospect
28 "
" Gore .
33 "
Wilson street, corner Somerville
30 "
" Valley .
46 "
" " " Spruce
50 "
" " " Hanover .
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Ashland street, corner Bridge
30 "
" Pearl
22 "
Russell street, corner Prospect
25
Belmont street, corner Somerville
25 ''
" Harvard .
26 "
" " " Auburn .
44 "
Milton street, corner Laurel
18 '•-
Belmont street, corner Concord .
4 "
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None.
" Myrtle .
20 pounds
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Lake avenue, corner Canton
26 "
Auburn street, corner Canton
18 "
South Main street, corner Milford
73 "■
Boyington road, by Huntress's .
76 "
Bedford Plains, on Boyington road
45 "
South Main street, corner Blaine
82 "
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. 78 "
" " " " Granite
74 "
Granite street, corner River
83 "
North Main street, corner Conant
70 "
" " " " Amory
61 "
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McGregor street, corner Amory .... 64 pounds
Amory street, corner Dubuque . . . . 41 "
" " '' Morgan .... 33 "
Bartlett street, corner Putnam . . . . 58 "
Front street, Amoskeag, by the brick schoolhouse 61 "
Front street, corner Dunbarton road . . . 64 "
Last hydrant on Dunbarton road . . . 36 "
On Goffstown road, last hydrant . . . 44 "
Milford street, corner Bismark . . . . 60 "
Old Mast road, corner Forest avenue . . . 41 "
" '• " " Rockland avenue . . 40 "
Wilkins street, corner Rockland avenue . . 37 "
Wilkins street, last hydrant .... 28 "
Respectfully submitted.
CHARLES K. WALKER,
Superintendent.
January i, 1894.
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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At engine house and Proctor road.
Blow-off at engine house.
Hydrant at engine house.
Lake Shore road.
Bartlett meadow.
Fletcher's Crossing to Mammoth road.
Fletcher's Crossing.
West of John Claflin's residence.
Blow-off east of C. F. Francis's residence.
Opposite James Colby residence.
Corner Oakland avenue.
Pipe laid in Orchard avenue.
F.fist of T,. M. Strnpfpi-'s rr'sidenee.
West of Mammoth road.
Candia road to reservoir.
Blow-off at Stevens' brook.
Blow-off south of Nelson street.
Blow-off south of Lake avenue.
Pipe laid in Hanover sti-eet.
Summit of hill soutli of city farm.
Blow-off south of city farm.
Opposite city farm.
Pipe laid in Bridge street.
Pipe laid in old Bridge street.
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COST OF HIGH SERVICE TO JANUARY I,
1894.
Force main .......
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Land
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Pumping machinery
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Reservoir
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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South of Clark.
Corner Pine.
Montgomery to P.artlelt.
Belmont lo Hall.
East of Canton.
A to Prince.
Amory to Sullivan.
Corner Granite.
Pine to Union.
Southward to Somerville.
Nortlnvard from Milford.
To Hiram.
Corner Merrimack.
Lake to Auburn.
West of old Amherst road.
Webster to North.
To Hiram.
Corner West.
Kelley street, northward.
To Montgomery.
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Pine to Union.
Pine to Union.
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Pipe laid in city 34.267 feet. 68 gates. 45 hydrants.
High service i9?794 " 27 " 13 "
Total S4,o6i feet. 95 gates. 58 hydrants.
Equal to 10.239 miles.
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The following places are where cement-lined pipe was taken
up and relaid with cast iron :
Streets.
Length in Feet.
Location.
Sin.
6 in.
4 in.
10
600
28
Chestnut to Pine (S" laid).
Granite to Douglas (bal.).
Granite to Central.
Bedford
529
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Canal
1,314
Market to Depot.
Clinton
Main to West
, 382
Brook to Harrison
1,306
Dover to Railroad.
597
Dover to Quincy (hal.).
Douglas to Granite.
Beech to Maple.
East of Canal
260
600
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768
Market
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West of Elm.
West of Elm.
Douglas to Parker.
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Amherst street.
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6,630
600
1,620
2,296
6,030
1,620
Total feet laid, 9,946.
Six-inch gate on Amherst street, corner Pine, was taken out
and eight-inch gate set.
Six-inch gate was taken out on West street near Clinton, and
set on Clinton, corner West.
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66 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
LOCATION OF HYDRANTS SET, 1 893.
Auburn, corner Belmont.
Bartlett, corner Putnam ; Bartlett, corner Sullivan.
Bell, corner Pine ; Bell, corner Union.
Belmont, corner Harvard ; Belmont, corner Silver; Belmont,
corner Somerville.
Bridge, corner Mammoth ; Old Bridge, corner Mammoth.
Canton, corner Auburn.
Candia road, Fletcher's Crossing ; Candia road, west of John
Claflin's residence ; Candia road, opposite James Colby's resi-
dence; Candia road, corner Oakland avenue ; Candia road, east
of L. M. Streeter's residence.
Charlestown avenue, corner Old Amherst road.
Coolidge avenue, corner Bremer.
Conant, corner Montgomery.
Elm, south of Baker.
Forest, near Dickey residence.
Green, corner Pine; Green, corner Union.
Grove, corner Pine ; Grove, corner Union.
Hanover, corner Mammoth road.
Harvard, corner Wilson.
Hiram, south of Blaine.
Jewett, corner Old Young road.
Kelley, corner Rimmon ; Kelley, corner Hevey.
Mammoth road, south of City Farm; Mammoth road, opposite
City Farm,
Mast road (old), corner Warner ; Mast road (old), near L. M.
Dickey's.
Myrtle, corner Linden ; Myrtle, corner Hall ; Myrtle^ corner
Belmont.
North, corner River road.
Nutt road, near J. N. Auger's residence.
Old Amherst road, west of Milford.
Orchard avenue, corner Candia road.
Prescott, corner Wilson.
Prospect, corner Belmont.
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Somerville, corner Wilson ; Somerville, corner Hall.
Spruce, corner Canton.
Summer, corner Hall.
Taylor, opposite Mr. Gilmore's residence.
Thornton, corner Putnam ; Thornton, corner Sullivan.
Union, opposite Dana & Provost's mill.
Warner, corner Kingston.
Webster, corner Beech.
Young, corner Wilson ; Young, corner Taylor.
At pumping station, near lake.
Lake Shore road, near Latuch's land.
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79
DISTRIBUTION PIPES AND GATES LAID TO DECEMBER 31, 1893.
Size.
Feet cement-lined pipe.
Feet cast-iron pipe.
Gates.
20-inch diameter
20,,'5GO.OO
24,384
16
14- inch diameter
.0,125.00
8,298
11
12-inch diameter
7,444.00
15,883
25
10-inch diameter
3,474.75
14,432
23
8-inch diameter
5,250.00
39,177
64
6-inch diameter
55,885.50
165,177
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4-inch diameter
2,749.00
16,592
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101,488.25
283,932
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Cement-lined pipe
Cast-iron pipe .
Total pipe
614 gates.
568 hydrants.
13 air valves.
19.221 miles.
53-775 "
. 72.996 miles.
SERVICE PIPES.
Three hundred and ten service pipes have been laid this year
as follows :
301 I inch diameter .
52"
13"
14"
2 6 ." "
7,248.6 feet.
52.8 "
for Valley cemetery,
for fire sprinklers,
for fire sprinklers.
7,301.4 feet.
80
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SERVICE PIPES RELAID.
I y-z inch diameter 17.0 feet to i inch diameter 16.0 feet.
32 yi "
945-1 " to I " " 865.2 "
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32.4 " to i>4 " " 32.4 "
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36.5 " to 4 " " 36.5 "
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131. 0 " to I " " 71.0 "
11" "
22.0 " to ii^ " " 22.0 "
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21.0 " to 2 " " 21.0 "
1,205.0 feet. 1,064.1 feet.
Forty-one hundred and sixty-nine (4,169) service pipes have
been laid to date
as follows :
35 Yz inch diameter ..... 757-2 feet.
1 719 Y^ "
" ..... 45,006.6 ''
2305 I '•
58,358.8 "
22II< "
893.5 "
20 \y. "
" ..... 606.7 "
54 2 "
i>995-7 "
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57-0 "
2 3 "
16.8 "
94"
269.5 "
2 6 "
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Total len£
jth of service pipe . . . 107,961.8 feet.
Number miles
service pipe^ 20.444.
METERS.
The number of meters set during the year has been two hun-
dred and eighty-seven (287).
Total number of meters now in use, eighteen hundred and
ninety-five (1895).
The number of applications for water to date has been forty-
three hundred and thirty-three (4,333).
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
81
The income from the sale of water for
1S93 h^^ t
lows :
Received for hydrant rent .
^12
,750.00
for water by rate .
31
603-59
for water by meter
5S
103.20
for water, building purposes .
I
,033-75
from fines ....
159.60
for labor and pipe sold .
72.88
for 6-inch pipe laid, Queen
City Co
35-00
for 6-inch pipe laid, Elliott
Manufacturing Co. .
50.00
for 6-inch pipe, Kimball Car-
riage Co.
51.00
for 4-inch pipe, Dana & Pro-
vost .....
32.00
for repairing hydrant, E. C.
Blanchard
25.00
of G. G. Griffin, lease .
1. 00
of Fletcher Brown, lease
1. 00
for grass on Smith land
5.00
for grass on Mills land .
4.00
for grass on Neal land .
3.00
for molasses, by Shannon
16.56
for use of hall by Grange at
Auburn ....
50.00
of W. G. Brown, house rent
30.00
of S. G. Prescott, house rent
60.00
for old cement pipe
73-50
for cutting ice, Decourcy,
Holland & Co.
10.00
been as fol-
Total .
Abatement, $178.51.
Amount received from water rent
Amount received for bonds sold .
$91,420.08
200,000.00
;io4,i7o.o8
$291,420.08
82
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Current expenses and repairs for 1893
Construction for 1S93
Total ....
Interest for 1893
. $33,618.10
. 132,657.82
$166,275.92
. 30.000.00
$196,275.92
Receipts over expenditures
CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS
Superintendence, repairs, and renewals
Stationery and printing
Office and incidental expenses .
Pumping expenses
Repairs to darn, canal, and reservoir
Repair to buildings .
Current expenses for 1893
Service pipes ....
Distribution pipes
Fire hydrants and valves .
Meters and fixtures .
Pumping machinery and buildings
Reservoir .....
Lands .....
Construction expenses for 189,
Total ....
Co7istruction expenses :
Land and water rights
$95,144.16
NTS FOR 1893
. $29,282.43
268.22
1,422.64
• 1,885.17
649.96
109.68
$33,618.10
• ^3»937-26
■ 94,443-46
• 4,053.01
4,075.04
. 19,908.28
• 5>865.77
375-00
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$132,657.82
$166,275.92
Dam, canal, penstock, and
Pumping machinery, pumj
buildings
Distributing reservoirs
Force and supply mains
Distribution pipes
Fire hvdrants and valves
races
house, and
$63,174.14
101,399.16
127,812.81
77,408.13
89,769.02
49i>95o-93
50,198.98
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
Tools and fixtures
$10,649-35
Boarding and store houses .
919.36
Roads and culverts .
2,193.49
Supplies
550-39
Engineering ....
22,176.19
Livery and traveling expenses
2,856.64
Legal expenses ....
563-79
Grading and fencing
13,588.26
Service pipes ....
56,745-92
Meters and fixtures .
38.334-01
Total construction account to
Dec. 31, 1893
$1
150,290.57
Current expenses :
Superintendence, collecting, and re
-
pairs .....
$210,818.29
Stationery and printing , .
- 6,117.79
Office and incidental expenses .
. 20,812.48
Pumping expenses and repairs
. 4S>i24.79
Repairs to buildings .
• 2,367.95
Repairs to dam, canal, races, and res-
ervoir
4, 606. So
Current expenses to Dec. 31,
1893 $289,848.10
Interest $40,678.51
Highway expenditures . . . 14,000.53
$54,679.04
Total amount of bills approved
to date ....
Interest, discount, and labor performed
on highways, transfers, and tools and
materials sold $63,312.08
Current expenses to Dec. 31, 1893 - 289,848.1c
Total cost, exclusive of interest
and current expenses .
$1,494,817.71
$353,160.18
$1,141,657.53
84
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Interest and discount to Dec. 31, 1S93 $690,333.51
Interest for 1893 .... 30,102.00
Total interest and discount to
Dec. 31, 1893
Amount paid toward interest to Dec.
31. 1892 $548,237.00
Amount paid toward interest, 1893 . 30,000.00
$720,435-51
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
1 8 74, supplies and materials sold .
March 12, highway expenditures, transferred
from water account ....
March 17, interest and discount transferred
from water account
September i, interest and discount trans
ferred from water account
water and hydrant rent, etc.
December 29, interest transferred
December 18, one anvil sold
September 25, engine, crusher, and material
sold
water and hydrant rent, etc.
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 .....
1879, derrick sold .....
May 20, water and hydrant rent, etc. .
i875>
1875,
1876,
$578,237.00
the city treas-
$573-6i
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>ii9-55
125.00
24.00
38,879.47
43)823.30
48,873.26
1. 00
75.00
53,068.17
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
85
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water and hydrant rent, etc.
• ^57,395-2.S
sale of grass
10.00
level, transit, etc
250.00
1881
water and hydrant rent, etc.
60,154.62
sale of grass .....
10.00
derrick ......
50.00
received of G. G. Griffin ,
i.oo
1882,
water and hydrant rent, etc.
67,403.76
received of G. G. Griffin .
I.oo
of James Baldwin & Co.
175.00
from the sale of grass .
10.00
from Goodhue & Birnie
24.37
for old plank
I.oo
for use of derrick .
15.00
1883,
received of G. G. Griffin .
1.00
from sale of grass .
20.00
for water and hydrant rent, etc.
73>437-2o
18S4,
received of G. G. Griffin .
I.oo
for stone ....
5.00
from sale of grass .
10.00
from pipe sold and labor
616.20
for water and hydrant rent .
74,947.88
1885,
received from G. G. Griffin
I.oo
of B. P. Kimball, for grass .
10.00
for labor and pipe sold .
13-45
for water and hydrant rent .
80,379.67
1886,
received from G. G. Griffin
I.oo
of B. P. Kimball, for grass .
5.00
for wood ....
37.80
for labor and pipe
282.4.3
for water and hydrant rent .
74,803.76
1887,
received for labor and pipe
768.86
of G. G. Griffin .
I.oo
of C. C. Cole . . . .
•50
of B. P. Kimball, for grass .
10.00
of A. J. Crombie, for grass .
5.00
of A. Goodwin, for poles
10.00
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
1S87, received of W. G. Brown . . . .
of T. H. Risdon & Co., for freight
for water and hydrant rent
188S, received for labor and pipe
of G. G. Griffin .
of George P. Clark
of R. D. Wood & Co., (gear)
for water and hydrant rent
1889, received for labor and pipe • .
of G. G. Griffin .
of B. P. Kimball, for grass
of W. G. Brown, for rent
of James Baldwin, for pipe
of Mr. Clement, for pipe
for water and hydrant rent
1890, received of G. G. Griffin (lease)
of Fletcher Brown (lease)
of George P. Clark (lease)
of B. P. Kimball, for grass
■ of W. G. Brown, for rent
of N. W. Ellis & Co., for pipe
of J. H. Dearborn, for pipe
for water and hydrant rent
1891, received for water and hydrant rent
for labor and pipe sold .
of G. G. Griffin (lease)
of Fletcher Brown (lease)
of W. G. Brown (rent)
of Mr. Prescott (rent) .
of William Bryant (rent)
of B. P. Kimball (grass)
of G. W. Reed (grass) .
of C. H. Patten (grass)
1892, received for water and hydrant rent
for labor and pipe sold .
of T. C. Pratt, for house
for cement-lined pipe .
$25.00
15. II
79,682.70
227.33
I. GO
2,00
16.29
85>397-2o
S9.77
x.oo
2.00
50.00
65.00
•50
86,492.19
T.OO
I. CO
2.00
2.00
36.00
153-00
3540
99,232.97
76,3i3-24
200.99
1. 00
1. 00
21.00
50.00
8.00
2.00
5.00
3.00
83,067.99
45-55
100.00
94.25
BOARD OF WATER COiMMISSIONERS.
87
1S92, received of Grange, for rent
of William Prescott, for barn
for potatoes ....
for cutting ice .
of W. G. Brown (rent)
of G. G. Griffin (lease),
of F. Brown (lease)
of H. N. Hall (use of pasture)
of C. F. Whittemore (grass) .
of Charles Reed (grass)
of G. S. Patten (grass) .
of G. G. Prescott (rent)
1893, received from water rents .
for labor and pipe sold .
for old cement pipe
from Queen City Co. (laying 6-inch
pipe) ....
from Elliott Mfg. Co. (laying 6
inch pipe) ....
from Kimball Carriage Co. (laying
6-inch pipe
from Dana & Provost (laying
inch pipe)
from E. C. Blanchard, repairing
hydrant
from G. G. Griffin, lease
from F. Brown, lease
for grass on Smith land
for grass on Neal land .
for grass on Mills land .
for molasses ....
for use of hall by Grange
from W. G. Brown, house rent
from S. G. Prescott, house rent
for cutting ice on lane .
Total received for water, etc., to date
$50.00
15.00
4.00
10.00
21.00
1. 00
1. 00
20.00
4.00
4.00
7.00
30.00
90,900.14
72.88
73-50
35-00
51.00
25.00
1. 00
1. 00
1. 00
5.00
3.00
4.00
16.56
50.00
30.00
60.00
10.00
$1,386,119.78
88 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Amount appropriated to date
Amount of bills approved to date
Amount paid toward interest
Amount on hand December 31, 1S93
^840,000.00
$2,226,119.78
1,494,817.71
$731,302.07
578.237.00
$153,065.07
Uses for which Water is Supplied.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
I Jail.
23 Churches.
1 Court house,
8 Hose companies.
5 Fire-engines.
2 Hook-and-ladder.
2 Opera houses.
1 Convent.
3 City hospitals.
2 Old Ladies' Homes.
I Soldiers' monument.
1 Turner Hall.
4 Fountains.
2 Trust companies.
4 Cemeteries.
I Orphanage.
I Post-office.
I City library.
7 Banks.
9 Hotels.
I Masonic Hall.
I Odd Fellows' Hall.
I Holly Tree Inn.
3 Halls.
28 Schoolhouses.
I Battery building.
I Skating-rink.
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS.
I Hosiery mill.
1 Silver-plating.
2 Iron foundries.
2 Dyehouses.
4 Machine-shops.
6 Clothing manufactories.
8 Harness-shops.
3 Granite works.
2 Electric light stations.
4 Sash and blind shops.
I Brewery.
3 Shoe-shops.
I Gas-works.
4 Slaughter-houses.
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
89
I Brush-shop.
9 Carriage-shops.
12 Cigar factories.
I Brass and copper foundry.
I Locomotive works.
I Grist-mill.
I Soap factory.
4 Needle manufactories.
4 Beer-bottling.
3 Book-binderies.
1 Paper-mill.
2 Box makers.
6 Fish.
12 Meat and fish.
3 Meat (wholesale).
21 Livery.
I Horse railroad.
901 Private.
18 Dentists.
1 Telephone.
2 Telegraph.
3 Express.
14 Printing
I Gas.
9 Coal.
50 Barber.
9 Wheelright.
18 Blacksmith.
7 Carpenter.
2 Tinsmith.
I Copper.
3 Currying.
9 Plumber and gas and water
pipe.
4 Paint.
2 Gunsmith.
4 Auction.
32 Drug.
22 Jewelry.
I Fur.
99 Grocery.
5 Meal.
3 Hardware.
38 Boot and shoe.
90
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
3 House-furnishing goods.
20 Fancy goods.
I Wholesale paper.
5 Wholesale produce.
24 Dry goods.
12 Candy.
I Cloak.
15 Millinery.
3 Tea.
9 Furniture.
I Wholesale grocer.
1 1 Stove.
17 Gents' furnishing goods.
7 Book.
I Leather and shoe-finders.
3 Music.
3 Upholstery.
8 Undertakers.
5 Sewing-machine.
I Feather-cleaner,
I Rubber.
[4 Dining.
7 Billiard.
6 Club-rooms.
2 Bleacheries.
23 Laundries.
3 Icehouses.
12 Photographers.
SALOONS.
104 Liquor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
8 Greenhouses.
2 Band rooms. .
20 Bakeries.
2 Waste.
I Business college.
WATER FIXTURES, El
9.555 Families.
138 Boarding-houses.
12,229 Faucets.
2,367 Wash-bowls.
5,705 Water-closets.
387 Wash-tubs.
1,466 Bath-tubs.
182 Urinals.
2,594 Sill-cocks.
568 Fire-hydrants.
39 Stand-pipes.
26 Watering-troughs.
5 Drinking-fountains.
2,434 Horses.
114 Cattle.
I Public urinal.
25^ inch 76 feet.
Material on Hand.
SERVICE PIPE.
i}{ inch 292 feet.
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91
2 inch S33 ^<^et.
ij^ inch 145 feet.
T inch 1,416 feet.
^ inch 400 feet.
8,400 feet 20 in.
4,500 feet 14 in.
3,480 feet 12 in.
3,200 feet 10 in.
I 20 in.
I 14 in.
I 12 in.
4 10 in.
3 double 6 on 20.
1 double 6 on 10.
15 double 6 on 8.
2 double 8 on 8.
3 double 4 on 8.
2 double 4 on 6.
4 double 6 on '6.
4 double 4 on 4.
I 10 inch 1-8.
1 14 inch 1-8.
6 6 inch 1-8.
2 8 inch 1-8.
4 20 inch.
3 14 inch.
112 inch.
i:; 8 inch.
7,000 feet 8 in.
1,900 feet 6 in.
600 feet 4 in.
GATES.
4 8 in.
4 6 in.
8 4 in-
BRANCHES.
I single 6 on 20.
I. single 12 on 14.
2 single 6 on 14.
I single 8 on 10.
II single 6 on 8.
2 single 8 on 6.
25 single 6 on 6.
2 single 8 on 8.
6 single 6 on 12.
BENDS.
5 6 inch 1-4.
7 8 inch 1-4.
112 inch 1-8.
CLAMP SLEEVES.
15 10 inch.
50 6 inch.
5 4 inch.
92 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
WHOLE SLEEVES.
3 20 inch. 10 8 inch.
2 14 inch. 5 10 inch.
3 12 inch. 21 4 inch.
5 6 inch.
HIGH SERVICE WATER-WORKS.
To the Board of Water Commissioners of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — The following is a report of work done on the
high service water-works to January first, eighteen hundred nine-
ty-four.
In accordance with your request of May 12, I commenced on
the 15th to examine a location for the intake pipe and pumping-
station at Lake Ivlassabesic. Two places on land owned by the
city had been favorably considered, one north of and the other
south of Slager brook, on the west shore of the lake. At these
two places soundings were carefully taken to ascertain the depth
of water and nature of the material. Floats varying from three
to nine feet in length were used at each place to ascertain the
direction of the current, which proved to be from north to south.
Taking this fact into consideration, it was decided to locate as
far north of Slager brook as possible, so as to prevent taking,
directly, the water which is carried into the lake by the brook.
Four other places north of the present location, and one in the
east lake near the Massabesic House, were examined, but as these
locations would have increased the length of the force main con-
siderably, and not be on land owned by the city, it was consid-
ered that any one of them did not possess sufficient advantages
over the one selected, to incur the additional expense. As soon
as the location of the pumping-station had been fixed, the loca-
tion of the force main was commenced. Sometime previous to
this Mr. Joseph B. Sawyer, civil engineer, had surveyed several
routes, so that all the possible routes have been examined.
force main.
From the pumping-station a 20-inch cast-iron force main is
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laid in a southwesterly direction through land of the city, cross-
ing the Borough road in the hollow west of C. B. Hall's house.
From here the general direction is northwesterly and nearly
straight to the Proctor road, near the junction of the Candia
road, passing through land formerly owned by C. B. Hall and
Amos Letuch, and through land of C. H. Bartlett. From the
Proctor road to the Mammoth road the pipe is laid twenty-four
feet southerly of and parallel to the northerly line of Candia
road, as defined by the city council, December 2, 1890. In
the Mammoth road it is laid twenty-four feet east of and parallel
to the west line, excepting at one place on the city farm where a
bank wall interfered, and it is only nineteen feet from the west
line. From Bridge street it is laid in the old roadway about
twelve feet east of the Derryfield park line to old Bridge street.
From there the pipe is laid across the southwest corner of land
owned by the heirs of John J. Bell and land of the city to a
point near the proposed reservoir. In the Candia road the top
of the pipe is laid five feet below the grade of the street as estab-
lished by the city council, November i, 1892. Mammoth road
has no established grade, and the pipe is laid about four and one
half feet below the surface of the present traveled way. There
are six 20-inch gates and thirteen hydrants set on this pipe. At
each summit there is an automatic air-valve, making six in all,
and at each depression a blow-off and well has been built, except-
ing at the engine house, where the lo-inch blow-off pipe is ex-
tended into the lake. The details and location are fully shown
on plans in the water-works office. The work of laying the force
main was divided into two sections : The first section extended
from the engine house to a point in the Mammoth road opposite
Massabesic street, and included the laying of one hundred
ninety-nine feet of 20-inch pipe and connecting with the low
service pipe in Massabesic street.
For this section (No. i) seven bids were received August 7, and
the contract was awarded to Messrs. Bartlett, Gay & Young, of
this city. The amount of this contract is ^14,774.98.
Section No. 2 extended from a point in Mammoth road oppo-
site Massabesic street to a point near the reservoir site.
94 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
September 5 three bids were received, and the contract was
awarded to Moore & Co., of Boston. The amount of this con-
tract is $10,304.04.
The force main was laid to line and grade so as to reduce the
friction as much as possible, and the work is believed to have
been done in a thorough manner, and both sections were com-
pleted the last of November.
According to the terms of the contracts, fifteen percent of the
above amounts is retained for six months after the water is let on,
to make any necessary repairs.
PUMPING-STATION.
September 29 two bids were received for laying the intake
pipe, and foundations for the pumping engines and buildings.
The Head & Dowst Co., of Manchester, being the lower, the
contract was awarded to it. The foundations for the buildings
are laid in cement mortar, and were finished November 16 ; only
the granite course of the engine foundations has been laid, be-
cause the remainder is to be built of brick and cut stone laid in
cement mortar, and to obtain a solid foundation it is not in-
tended to start them until the engine-house is so far completed
that a stove may be run to heat the room and prevent the ma-
sonry from freezing.
A 24-inch cast-iron intake pipe is laid into the lake three hun-
dred and nine feet from the inside wall of the pump-well. It is
provided with a sluice gate at the end in the pump-well, and a
stop gate just outside the engine house. There is a 6-inch verti-
cal pipe connected with it which may be useful to clear the
screen at the outer end of the pipe of floating substances or an-
chor ice.
The outer end is a quarter turn with a bell-shaped mouth
twenty-nine inches in diameter. This is covered with a heavy
brass screen of three fourths inch mesh. The portion which is
above the lake bottom is supported by round piles capped with
eight-inch square timber.
To lay this pipe a coffer dam was built and the water was
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 95
pumped out, and each piece was laid to line and grade. The
bottom of the trench was mostly quicksand.
The mouthpiece is turned upward, and is at grade 139, or
eight feet below the top of the dam. November 29 the last piece
of pipe was laid. A 2-inch wrought-iron pipe was driven at the
end of the intake pipe to give its location.
At the end of the intake pipe, in the pump-well, there will be
a screen chamber, having a double set of one fourth inch mesh
copper screens.
The buildings at the pumping station consist of an engine
room, 36 feet 8 inches by 38 feet 8 inches; boiler room, 21 feet
by '34 feet, and coal room, 27 feet 8 inches by 48 feet 4 inches.
The exterior and interior is built of common brick laid in red
mortar and granite trimmings.
October 16 the contract for the engine buildings and chim-
ney was awarded to The Head & Dowst Company, of Manches-
ter, as it made the lowest bid of the three received. Consider-
able delay has been caused by not receiving the cut stone for the
underpinning. Work was commenced on the chimney October
23, and all the bricks were laid ready for the cap, November 14.
It is one hundred feet and nine inches high to the top of the
cast-iron cap, and has a separate interior core or draft flue four
feet inside diameter. The coal house is completed, the boiler
house is nearly finished and the roof is partly laid, and the en-
gine-house walls are built as high as the window sills. With
suitable weather, the roof will be put on within two weeks, as the
trusses are already framed. A bank wall, one hundred and sixty
feet in length along the lake, is being laid, and when the grounds
are graded will give ample room in the rear of the buildings.
The architectural plans for the buildings were furnished by Wil-
liam M. Butterfield, architect, of this city.
There are to be two vertical Manning boilers six feet in diam-
eter, each containing one hundred and eighty two and one half
inch tubes, fifteen feet in length. Four bids were received for
96 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
these boilers, September 13, and the contract was awarded to the
Atlantic Works, East Boston, it being the lowest bidder. The
boilers have been tested and are ready to be delivered.
PUMPING ENGINES.
A contract was made May 25, with Henry R. Worthington, of
New York city, for two Worthington high-duty pumping engines,
each having a capacity of three million gallons in twenty-four
hours when pumping against a head of two hundred and fifty-
four feet. The contractor has notified us that both engines are
ready to be shipped. The work of erecting them will commence
just as soon as the foundations are finished.
RESERVOIR.
The reservoir is located on Oak hill, just north of Derryfield
park. The dimensions are one hundred fifty-five by two hun-
dred thirty feet on the inside line of the coping and the depth
nineteen feet, and will contain four million gallons. The inside
is to be lined with cement concrete and masonry and the outside
is to be made of earth. During the fall the city excavated about
forty-five hundred cubic yards of earth and loose rock. The re-
mainder of the excavation will be in ledge. The. material is a
very poor quality of granite, having large veins of mica and
others composed largely of feldspar and some quartz. There are
many seams which will have to be filled with cement grout. So
much of the material is unfit for use in the construction, it will
add considerably to the cost, although it is hoped good building
stone will be found in the north part as the excavation pro-
gresses. After excavating the material to the ledge, it was
thought advisable to contract the remainder of the work, and on
November 15 six bids were received. The lowest bid was given
by Trumbull & Ryan, of Boston, and the contract was awarded
to them. It is intended to take out all the ledge this winter,
and at this time more than two hundred yards have been taken
out. By permission from the street and park commissioners the
refuse matter is being dumped on to the park land.
Respectfully submitted.
GEO. S. RICE & GEO. E. EVANS,
by Geo. E. Evans,
January i, 1S94. Engineer in Charge.
REPORT
OF THE
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
REPORT OF STREET AND PARK COMMIS-
SION.
To the City Councils of the City of Mancheste)- :
The Street and Park Commission herewith submit their first
annual report of the work completed under their supervision,
according to the requirements of the act of the legislature
establishing the Board.
The department of street and park commission began -its
work April i, 1893, by organizing with George H. Stearns, chair-
man, and Allan E. Herrick, clerk. The gentlemen composing
the board were G. H. Stearns, L. P. Reynolds, and H. P. Simp-
son.
The duties of this board of commissioners are set forth in the
following act of legislature passed March 29, 1893.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.
IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-
THREE.
An Act establishing a Board of Street and Park Commissioners for the City of
Manchester and authorizing said City to issue Bonds for certain Purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Court convened :
Section i. A board of street and park commissioners for the city of Man-
chester is hereby established as follows : In the month of April, 1893, the city
councils of said city, in joint convention, shall elect three citizens of said city
to be members of said board, the first of whom shall serve five years, the sec-
ond three years, and the third one year, and thereafter in the month of April
biennially, beginning in April, 1894, said city councils of said city, in joint con-
vention, shall elect one citizen to be a member of said board of street and park
commissioners, to hold the office during the term of six years from the time of
his election and until his successor is elected and qualified, unless sooner
removed.
100 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
If a vacancy occurs, the city councils of said city in joint convention shall
fill it for the residue of the term; and said city councils may remove any mem-
ber of said board at any time for cause, or when the public good may require;
and the vacancy thus created shall be filled in the manner herein before pro-
vided in case of vacancy. At no time shall more than two of said board of
street and park commissioners be members of the same political party, and they
shall receive such compensation for their services as the city councils shall de-
termine, and they shall be furnished by said city with a suitable office. In the
month of April biennially, said board shall organize with the choice of one of
its members as chairman and shall also choose a clerk who may be one of said
commissioners. Said board of street and park commissioners shall have full
charge, management, and control of the building, constructing, repairing,
and maintaining of all the streets, highways, lanes, sidewalks, and bridges, and
public sewers and drains, and of the public parks and commons in said city of
Manchester ; and shall have the expenditure of all appropriations which the
city councils of said city shall fiom year to year vote for such purposes ; and all
bills for expenditures from the appropriations voted from year to year by the city
councils for such purposes, shall be approved by said board before the same are
paid by the city treasurer.
Said board shall for such purposes have all the powers now by law vested in
the board of mayor and aldermen, the city councils, and the highway surveyors
of the various highway districts of said city. They shall appoint such subordi-
nate officers, agents, and other persons to carry out the provisions of this act as
they shall deem expedient, and fix their compensation ; and they may make
such rules and regulations for their own government and for the conduct of all
such subordinate officers, agents, and other persons, and for the control and
management of the horses, wagons, tools, buildings, and other property pro-
vided by the city councils for performing any of the aforesaid, works as they
shall deem expedient.
They shall further have power to regulate the placing of encumbrances in,
and the moving of buildings through, the streets and highways of said city,
and the construction and maintenance in, over, and along the highways in said
city of all wires, pipes, and other structures, belonging to private corporations
or individuals, which now or hereafter may be permitted by vote of the mayor
and aldermen to be placed in, over, and along said highways. They shall adopt
plans for the development and improvement of the public parks and commons,
and shall make such rules and regulations for the care thereof as they shall
deem expedient.
Said board is authorized to provide for the performance of any of said works
by contract ; and in so doing, to call for proposals for doing such work, and to
make a contract therefor, in the name and behalf of the city, with the lowest
responsible bidder, who .shall furnish proper surety for the faithful performance
of his contract. But no such contract shall provide for the expenditure of any
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 101
sum of money greater than the amount appropriated for such purposes by the
city councils.
They shall annually in the month of December send to the city councils an
estimate of the appropriations required for the maintenance of the public parks
and commons for the ensuing year, and for the building, constructing, repairing,
and maintaining of the streets, highways, lanes, sidewalks, and bridges, and
public sewers and drains in said city for the ensuing year. And they shall
make a detailed report to the city councils of the doings of said board for the
year ending December 31 of each year.
Sect. 2. The city of Manchester is hereby authorized and empowered by a
vote of its city councils to borrow money for the purposes of the following per-
manent municipal improvements, viz. : The construction of new streets, high-
ways, and bridges ; the construction of new public drains and sewers ; the de-
velopment and improvement of the public parks and commons, to an amount
not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000); and for such purpose
to issue the bonds of said city in such amounts, not exceeding in all the amount
above stated, and not exceeding in any one year the sum of one hundred thou-
sand dollars ($100,000), and for such term of years, not exceeding in all twenty-
five years, and reserving the right to redeem said bonds at any time after a
shorter number of years if in the opinion of the city councils it shall be expedi-
ent to redeem, and at a rate of interest not exceeding four per cent, as the city
councils may determine ; and said bonds when so issued shall create a valid
indebtedness and be binding on said city. The said money when so boiTowed
shall be added to the proper appropriations and shall be expended in accord-
ance with the terms of the preceding sections ; and at the time of the issue of
said bonds said city councils shall, in their vote providing for said issue, further
provide for a sinking fund for paying the same, to which sinking fund shall
be annually paid at least five per cent of the amount of bonds at that time is-
sued.
Sect. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this
act are hereby repealed so far as the city of Manchester is concerned, and this
act shall take effect upon its passage.
ROBERT N. CHAMBERLIN,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN McLANE,
President of the Senate.
Approved March 29, 1893.
JOHN B. SMITH,
Governor.
102 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Rules and Regulations of the Street and Park
Commission.
The Board of Street and Park Commissioners have full charge
and management and control of the building, constructing, re-
pairing, and maintaining of the streets, highways, lanes, side-
walks, bridges, public sewers and drains, and of the public parks
and commons, in the city of Manchester.
They have the expenditure of all the appropriations which the
city councils vote for such purposes from year to year. All bills
for expenditures from such appropriations are to be approved by
said board before the same are paid by the city treasurer. The
board has for such purposes all the powers now by law vested in
the board of mayor and aldermen, city councils, and the high-
way surveyors of the various districts of said city. They appoint
all subordinate officers, agents, and other persons to carry out
the provisions of the act by which the street commissioners are
created, and to fix their compensation.
They can make such rules and regulations for their own gov-
ernment and for the conduct of all such subordinate officers,
agents, and other persons, and for the control and management
of the horses, wagons, tools, buildings, and other property pro-
vided by the city of Manchester for tlie performing of the afore-
said works as they may deem expedient.
They also have the power to regulate the placing of encum-
brances in the streets, and the moving of buildings through the
streets and highways of the said city, and the construction and
maintenance in, ever, and along the highways of said city of all
wires, pipes, and other structures belonging to private corpora-
tions or individuals, which now or hereafter may be permitted,
by vote of the mayor and aldermen, to be placed in, over, and
along said highways.
They shall adopt plans for the development and improvement
of the public parks and commons, and shall make such rules and
regulations for the care thereof as they shall deem expedient.
The board of commissioners is authorized to provide for the
performance of any of said works by contract, and in so doing
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 103
to call for proposals for doing such work, and to make a contract
therefor, in the name and behalf of the city, with the lowest re-
sponsible bidder who shall furnish proper surety for the faithful
performance of his contract. But no such contract shall provide
for the expenditure of any sum of money greater than the amount
appropriated for such purposes by the city councils.
The important duties conferred upon the board of street and
park commissioners by law, the many persons to be affected,
and the large expenditures thereby placed in their control and
supervision, render it necessary that some specific rules should be
issued for the guidance of the public and the employees of the
city.
The rules hereby formulated will be altered, amended, or add-
ed to from time to time, as the board of commissioners may
think it necessary.
Rule i. No new highways can be built by the street commis-
sioners until the same have been legally laid out by the board of
mayor and aldermen and the construction of the same ordered
by them, and a sum of money sufficient for their completion ap-
propriated.
Rule 2. No new sewers can be built until the same have been
laid out and an appropriation for the expenditure and construc-
tion thereof provided by the city.
Rule 3. The ordinary care and repairing of sewers will be
maintained by the commissioners to the extent of the appro-
priations.
Rule 4. The commissioners can enter into no contract with
any member of either branch of the city councils to furnish sup-
plies to or do any work for the city, or with any firm of which
any member of the city councils is a partner.
Rule 5. The board of commissioners can enter into no con-
tract with any member of their own board, or with any firm in
which a member of their own board is a partner.
The following rules have been adopted by the board :
I. Any person damaging any fence erected by the city for the
protection of the highway or inclosing city lands under the
104 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
charge of or in use by the city commission, or damaging any
building in their charge, will be prosecuted to the full extent of
the law, and city employees are required to be vigilant in bring-
ing to the notice of the commission any injury so inflicted.
2. All repairs inside of buildings will be made under the au-
thority of the street commission ; outside repairs will be referred
by the commission to the city councils.
3. Before the commencement of any new sewers or new high-
ways by order of the commission the city engineer will be re-
quired to make a careful estimate of the cost of the work to be
commenced, and all the grades must be established, and land
damages, if any, to parties abutting thereon, awarded by the
board of mayor and aldermen.
4. Whenever the sum appropriated by the city councils is
nearly exhausted and there remains more work to be done on
jobs already commenced, the cost of which will exceed the bal-
ance of the unexpended appropriation, application will be made
to the city councils for more money, and the work suspended un-
til said application is granted.
5. All contracts and agreements made by the street commis-
sioners shall be in writing and signed by the parties thereto, and
a certified copy of the same furnished to the city solicitor and
city clerk.
6. A record of all bids made by contractors shall be kept by
the clerk of the board and open to examination by any city of-
ficial.
7. No sale of public property in charge of the street commis-
sion shall be made by any employee, unless so authorized by the
street commission in writing, and a return of the articles sold,
with the amount received, shall be made to the clerk of the
board and by him paid to the city treasurer. Any violation of
this rule will be the cause for immediate dismissal.
8. In all contracts or agreements made by the street commis-
sion there should be inserted an expressed condition that no
member of the city councils, or officials, or employee of the city
in any of its departments, shall be admitted to any share or part
of such contract or agreement. The payments will be made
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 105
weekly on rolls prepared and approved by the commission and
the city auditor.
9. No payment for the fraction of a week will be made in ad-
vance of the regular payment.
10. No employee shall leave his work without reporting to
the foreman.
11. All employees will be required to give strict attention to
their work during the hours of labor.
12. Any employee found intoxicated on the work or having
liquor in his possession will be promptly discharged.
13. No smoking will be allowed in the buildings or shops.
14. Foremen of the different gangs will be held responsible
for the tools and materials used under their charge, and neither
materials nor tools shall be loaned or given away under any cir-
cumstances.
15. Positively no admittance, except on business, to the city
yard, the city stables, or any other inclosures or buildings under
the care of this commission.
16. All employees under the street and park commission are
absolutely prohibited from having any interest, direct or in-
direct, in any contract for the supply of materials or labor, or in
the hire of any vehicle or team, or in any moneyed ac-
count whatsoever, other than their daily wages, in connection
with the street, sewer, and park business of the city.
17. A violation of any of the foregoing rules will be consid-
ered sufficient cause for the discharge of any employee.
18. The office of the street and park commission will be open
from 8 to 12 a. m., and from 2 to 5 p. m. A daily meeting of
the commissioners will be held at 2 o'clock p. m., except when
otherwise employed.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION DEPARTMENT APPROPRIATIONS.
Repair? of highways, new highways, watering streets, paving
streets, macadamizing streets, grading for concrete, scavenger
teams, street sweeping, bridges, city teams, sewers repaired, new
sewers, commons, Stark park, Derryfield park, snow and ice.
106 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The attention of all persons dealing with the street and park
commission is called to the following :
All orders for supplies purchased by the commission or their
agents will be written by the clerk, and all persons furnishing said
supplies are to fill in the official blank on back of written order,
giving prices of supplies in detail.
These order blanks are to be returned to the clerk by the per-
son presenting the order. In addition, the person furnishing
supplies is to make out a regular monthly bill on blanks supplied
by the commissioners, and all persons are to send said monthly bills
on or by the iSth of each month to the office of the commission.
Per order of street and park commission.
A. E. HERRICK,
Clerk.
Annual Statement.
The street and park commission commenced their work on the
first of April, 1893, and consequently the work accomplished
does not cover the entire year. The duties of this board, set
forth in the act of legislature, cover the construction and main-
tenance of sewers ; construction and maintenance of streets and
highways ; the care of all the parks and commons and improve-
ments of the same ; the power of appointing and controlling all
men and teams under the street, sewer, and park department ;
the regulating of encumbrances in, and the moving of build-
ings upon, all streets and highways; the construction and main-
tenance of all wires, pipes, and other structures ; to provide for
the performance of any of the said works by contract, etc., etc.
(See act of legislature, passed March 29, 1893.) The duties
assigned the commission cover some of the most important de-
partments, and a faithful performance of these trusts is essential
to the health and prosperity of our city.
Realizing the importance of their task, the commissioners at
once set about formulating a system of rules and regulations re-
garding the supply to the city of materials necessary to cover
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
107
the work to be done under their charge. Orders for supplies of
all kinds are now issued from the commissioners' office, and
every bill contracted by this department is checked by these
orders, a careful list of all bills being kept for reference.
The following list of contracts will show what has been done
in this line, the results showing a great saving to the city. The
contract for sewer pipe was arranged for by the street and sewer
committee, before the commission was established.
Contract, Material or Location.
Norton cement
Castings
Brick
Cesspool, corner and edge stone.
Widening Elm street
Lumber for sewers
Lumber for sewers
Bridge plank
Adams-street culvert
Lincoln-street culvert
May
July
Concreting Merrimack street j Aug.
Building approaches, Second-street
bridge Oct.
Building bank waU in Main back
street Nov.
Erecting railing, approacbes to Sec-
ond-street bridge
Building culvert on Candia road, East
Manchester
Changing front of James's stable.
Contract awarded to
Clarence Merrill.
Manchester Loco. Works.
W. F. Head & Son.
Charles Bailey.
F. S. Bodwell.
Head & Dowst, >^.
A. C. Wallace, Vi-
S. C. Forsaith Co.
Horace Holbrook.
F. S. Bodwell.
George F. Higgins.
William H. Coburn.
H. Haibert.
John Larkin.
John Proctor.
Head & Dowst.
About fifty orders have been issued to the C. H. Robie Com-
pany and George F. Higgins to concrete street crossings, side-
walks, driveways, and gutters ; over eight hundred orders given
agents of the commission to purchase supplies. Duplicates of
all orders have been filed. Bills corresponding to these orders
have been received and checked, and submitted to the commis-
sion for examination, stamped as approved, and delivered to the
city auditor.
108
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Forty-three permits to move buildings, to encumber while
erecting buildings, etc., have been issued as follows:
PERMITS TO ENCUMBEK.*
F. P. Kimball .
F. Smyth
.J. J. Abbott ...
S. T. Worth en.
William Carr..
F. P. Leavitt. .
A. L. Bixby . . .
A. L. Bixby ...
A. L. Bixbv ...
L. M. Aldrich
East side Chestnut street, near High
177 Manchester street
Block on Manchester street
20 feet, Birch street
20 ft., back street cor. Hanover and Maple
20 feet, Front street, Amoskeag
10 feet, Merrimack back street
10 feet, Welch avenue
112 Spruce street
20 ft., Laurel, 10 ft. Lake ave., back street.
J. D. Patterson j Amherst and Chestnut
P. A. Devine i 112-114 Central street
F. LaFlamme Bridge, between Ashland and Wilson —
J. C. Ray Corner Elm and Kidder
G. Blanchet Gore and Beech back street
J. B.Chase & Co I 10 feet. Brook and Maple
Head & Dowst 26 feet. Elm, near Concord
T. Dame 20 feet, Jane street
Head & Dowst Elm street, opposite Gov. Weston lot
S. T. Worthen I Prospect and Russeil
H. Leonard j 10 feet. Central street
J. E. Warren & Co Myrtle and Russell
Patrick Harrington ... Lake avenue and Elm back street
Mr. Parker [ 12 feet, Merrimack street, above Belmont
18 feet, East High street
Elm street and Myrtle
12 feet, Nashua, near Lowell
Back street, 55 Prospect street
6 feet, West Hancock street
Chestnut, corner Appleton
271-273 Chestnut street
40-42-44 Granite street
15 feet, Spruce corner Massabesic
Prospect and Linden
Cor. Spruce, Massabesic, and Hall streets.
Massabesic, betw'n Belmont and E. Spruce
120 feet. Grove street from Pine
Apr.
May
S. T. Worthen
Gordon Woodburj' .
E.T.Hardy
E.C. Jefts
Dean & Westbrook .
Mead & Mason
Emma Mitchell
Charles O'Connor. . .
N. W. Paige
S. T. Worthen
Levi W. Page
James Morrison
John W.Hart
July
Aug.
Dec.
June
PERMITS TO MOVE BUILDINGS.
Given to
Location.
Date.
A. E Gage
From Lowell to between Pine and Chest-
Apr. 29
June 2S
28
James Morrison
From Massabesic street to East Spruce. . .
From Lincoln street to Belmont
Sept. 16
"The Gymnasium" ...
Henry I. Faucher
Back street, between Pine and Union —
Nov. 27
Dec. 8
• A bond of fSOO being filed with the city clerk in each case, when permit is
granted.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 109
The work of the commission necessitates a large correspond-
ence, and 375 letters have been written on various subjects relat-
ing to the interests of the city.
An important improvement was ordered by the commission at
the commencement of their work, consisting in the return of the
time of employment of all those under their direction and charge
to the office where all pay-rolls are made out. This change has
enabled the board to control the expenditures for labor and
teams, and to keep the division of labor. During the month of
June 132 men were employed in Division 10, West Manchester;
July, 166; August, 174; average, 157.
In Division 2, which includes the thickly settled portion on
this side of the Merrimack river, during the month of June 256
men were employed; July, 313; August, 303; average, 291.
These months are taken to show the large force at work on the
construction and maintenance of streets and sewers during the
summer season under charge of the commission. The clerk of the
board attended the payments through the busy season when im-
portant work was being done, and every man's name was checked
when paid, and all discrepancies were reported to the office,
where adjustments were made.
A record of 215 daily meetings of the board of commissioners
has been made, and all petitions and complaints have been kept
and presented at these meetings. At the beginning of the year
there were 62 sewers voted to be built by the city councils ; at
the end of the year 58 sewers had been completed in whole or in
part ; 23 sewers repaired during the year. All orders, ordi-
nances, and resolutions relating to the work of the commission,
voted by the city councils, have been copied and placed on file.
New highways laid out, 50, equaling 36,666 feet. General
repairs on highways, 225 loads crushed stone; labor ^713.27;
76,100 feet turnpiked, etc. Seventeen carloads of curbing stone
received, costing by contract $1,433.69 ; 45 carloads brick, cost-
ing $1,890.00; 16 carloads of Portland sewer pipe, at a cost of
$2,529.19 ; 21 carloads of Akron sewer pipe, at a cost of $1,932. -
80. Total sewer pipe laid, 21,476 feet, equalling 4.07 miles;
total cement pipe removed and relaid with Akron, 3,160 feet.
110 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
We would refer you to the tabulated form of the street and
sewer work for further details.
On account of a large number of petitions to remove soil, rub-
bish, etc., the board established the following rule :
No person shall encumber any street or lane of the city by
throwing out sand, dirt, etc., from any cellar or excavation, or
shall place any obstruction upon said streets and lanes, without
a special permit from the office of the street commission.
The commissioners have inspected all bridges under their care.
About $1,500 was expended upon the repairs of Amoskeag
bridge ; the old timbers were removed and new stringers put in,
the entire roadway of the bridge was repTanked, and the sidewalk
entirely replaced with new timber. Granite-street bridge has
been repaired where necessary. This bridge, as well as the Am-
oskeag, will need constant care, on account of the heavy travel,
and will probably have to be replaced by iron or stone bridges
within a few years. The McGregor bridge was examined early
in the season by John Cheney, assistant city engineer, Boston,
and pronounced safe for travel. The old bridge over the Piscata-
quog river should be replaced by a stone bridge, and the road-
way widened. All the bridges in the out districts have been
examined, and repairs made when necessary.
Two sprinklers were purchased during the season, one of which
had previously been ordered by the committee on streets. The
sprinkling of our streets is an important matter during the hot
summer months, and the commissioners have insisted upon faith-
ful service, and if some streets were not kept wet it was on ac-
count of repairs on the sprinklers. The carts have been out every
day, including Sundays, and during the hot months were run
during the night.
Three fountains have been purchased and placed at the loca-
tions voted by the city councils ; one of these fountains was pre-
viously ordered by the committee on streets.
Extensive repairs have been made at the city scales and the
city yard. A new blacksmith's shop has been built, and all the
blacksmith repairs, shoeing, etc., will be done there.
The city stable in West Manchester has been repaired and ex-
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. Ill
tended, and a suitable office built for the agent in charge of
Divisions 10 and ii, George W. Cheney. The former incum-
bent, Charles O. Phelps, died July 26, 1893, having served the
city faithfully for many years, and having won the esteem of those
with whom he came in contact.
The commissioners would also place on record their apprecia-
tion of the kind consideration and thoughtfulness of the late
James B. Straw, city auditor. Always ready to give wise counsel
and to help others by his wide experience, his timely words were
appreciated, and the estimable qualities of strict honesty and
manly courage for the right will be remembered.
To all who have aided them in their work the commissioners
w:ould extend their grateful thanks.
Respectfully submitted.
GEORGE H. STEARNS,
LEONARD P. REYNOLDS,
HORACE P. SIMPSON,
Street ajid Park Cotrwiission.
A. E. Herrick,
Clerk.
Streets.
" I find, however," says Capt. Orris A. Brown, in his address
before the convention of the National League, for good roads,
held at Washington, D. C, January 17, 1893, "that the great
point in having good roads is the care of them after they are
made : this is not expensive, but it is every day work. It is ab-
solutely necessary in order to have good roads that some one
should look after them after the roads are built, especially during
and following a rain, that water may be kept off as far as possi-
ble. Again, money collected to build roads should not be con-
sidered as a tax, as it is buying what we need. A road (and the
better it is the cheaper will transportation be on it) is as neces-
sary to transportation as a horse, vehicle, or harness ; the latter
112 ANNUAL OFFICIAL KEPORTS.
three should be relieved as much as possible of wear and break-
age, and the road (cheaper tlian vehicles and teams to keep in
good order) should receive the least possible damage by making
it so as to resist wear. ' '
Manchester has over 174 miles of streets and highways, and
consequently there is great need of constant care to keep them in
repair and suitable for travel. To obtain information respecting
methods used in other places the commissioners sent to the prin-
cipal cities requesting methods of street paving, etc. Many an-
swers were returned and we give some of the points gained.
In all large cities the systems of maintenance and construction
of paving are divided into four methods, viz., turnpiking, macad-
amizing, paving, and concreting.
TURNPIKING.
No better way has been found for the outlying highway com-
mon dirt roads than turnpiking with the road machine. This
method consists in turning up both sides of a road with the ma-
chine and grading to the gutters, leaving considerable crown.
Where the soil is stony the machine cannot be used to advan-
tage.
Manchester is fortunate in possessing a number of these ma-
chines and during the last year they have been constantly in ser-
vice under the direction of the commission. The streets treated
in that way are given herewith in tabular form.
MACADAMIZING.
This method of treating streets takes its name from a noted
builder of roadways in England, McAdam, and is a favorite
method with all cities on account of its lasting qualities.
There are various ways of macadamizing adopted according to
the nature of the soil and climate, but the method found to be
the best adapted to our city consists in removing the upper soil
to the depth of a foot or more, replacing with sand, about six
inches, well rolled down, and lastly applying crushed stone vary-
ing in size from coarse to fine, rolled down with steam roller,
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 113
each course being wet down before rolling ; the last being a coat
of fine gravel or clay for a binder. Many of our streets have
been treated in this way, and with general satisfaction. (See
table.)
Much is being said at the present time in favor of different
methods of paving, and in an article appearing in the '* Cen-
tury " for October, 1893, ^^'^ ^^'^ the following :
" The different kinds of construction may be combined, re-
cording to methods, under the general distinction of block and
sheet pavements. If wearing quality is the chief requisite, as it
is commonly believed to be for streets where there is nmch heavy
drawing, no material which has yet been extensively tried is su-
perior to granite or trap rocks, used in the form of small
blocks."
Nearly all our streets where very heavy travel occurs are paved
with granite blocks, but many more need this mode of treatment,
noticeably around and leading to the railroad station.
" If solid foundations are laid, granite will stand severe and
heavy travel for fifteen years, with a wear of perhaps two inches."
" Specifications for granite pavements now usually require that
the blocks shall be rectangular in shape, with dimensions of from
3^ to 4^ inches in width, from 10 to 13 inches in length, and
from 8 to 9 inches in depth. Wood paving is being discarded
as not practical, though a few cities in the West still make use of
some variety of wood block pavement. Much attention is being
given at the present time to hard baked brick pavement, and va-
rious plants have been established in the West for the manufac-
ture of brick suitable for paving purposes. The ' Hallwood
wood block,' as it is called, seems to be the favorite, and many
cities have adopted it for their residence streets. Columbus,
Ohio, has thirty miles of brick pavement, some of which has been
laid for fifteen years, and it has stood moderate wear so well that
it has been referred to as a model for other cities."
114 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
CONCRETING.
Of late years the sheet pavement or roadway has been very
popular, and our city has swung into line by concreting a num-
ber of streets.
This method has many advantages over others, but where there
is steep grade is almost useless on account of slippery surface, es-
pecially in winter.
City engineers agree that asphalt pavements are among the
best when carefully laid. The usual plan is to excavate to solid
ground, then to lay successive layers of broken stone and fine
pebbles, heated, for a last course before spreading the asphalt,
which should be flowed upon the surface hot and brushed in with
stiff brooms. A heavy roller should be used throughout the entire
process. Asphalt is a different material from concrete, and is
imported from the wonderful " Pitch lake," near the village of
La Brea on the island of Trinidad. " The appearance of the
lake is very odd. In color it is a dark chocolate brown. In the
center of the lake is a space of several hundred square feet of
soft fluid asphalt. The surface of the lake is sufficiently firm
to support the weight of loaded carts. The asphalt is mined for
commerce from different parts of the lake to a convenient depth
of about three feet. It is easily excavated with picks, loaded into
carts, and hauled to the shore ready for shipment.
A marked peculiarity of the " Pitch lake" is that the pits or
excavations made during the day fill up during the night and in
a (gw days no trace of them can be found.
During the last year the commissioners have laid 2,092.51
square yards of concrete roadway, the locations being given un-
der the head of " Concrete roadways." In general, this method
of preparing a roadbed has met with universal satisfaction, and
the outlook is that before many years the principal streets in the
residence portion of our city will be concreted.
Sewers.
Through the wisdom of those who have preceded us Manches-
ter has been well laid out, and this fact has had much to do with
PliAl? OP
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SEWERAGE System
MANCHESTER N.H.
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STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 115
the present effective sewer system. Most of our streets have an
easy downward grade to the Merrimack river, and nature has thus
provided us with a healthful drainage.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, in laying out their
streets on which to build houses, were very careful to construct
suitable drains and subways for the health of their employees.
Thus a system of sewers was started, and the city has gradually
enlarged upon this first system until in 1888 a committee of the
city government, consisting of William S. Shannon, Leonard P.
Reynolds, John A. Bartlett, Charles A. Carpenter, and John M.
Kendall, was appointed to consult with City Engineer W. H.
Bennett and Ernest W. Bowditch, C. E., regarding an improved
sewerage system, the result of which was a complete and systematic
plan for sewerage, said plan being adopted by vote of the city
councils.
This improved plan is now followed in laying out all new sew-
ers, and a careful record is kept by the city engineer of the loca-
tion of all manholes, cesspools, lanternholes, etc.
Besides this record the commissioners during the last year have
kept all returns of materials used in construction and mainte-
nance of sewers, and at the beginning of their appointment con-
tracted for all necessary materials to cover the season's work.
In examining the outlay for sewers in other cities Manchester
is found to be among the first in the proportion of money appro-
priated for sewer extension, and if this outlay can be wisely sus-
tained for a few years our city will be second to none in her pro-
vision for the convenience and health of her citizens.
An idea of the work of the commission may be obtained from
the tables on the maintenance and construction of sewers.
Summary.
Average cost of granite paving per square yard, $2.50 to ^3.75
of asphalt " " " 2.00 to 3.50
of macadam " " " 2.00 to 3.00
of wood " " " 1. 00 to 1.75
116 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Manchester has 5.018 miles of Telford roadways, 4.363 miles
of macadamized roadways, 1.677 miles of concrete roadways,
19. II acres commons, 68 acres parks, 14.19 acres for high service
reservoir.
Commons.
Manchester became a city in the year 1846 and the idea of
setting apart special locations for " squares for the recreation,
health, exercise, and enjoyment of its citizens" was early con-
sidered, and through the liberality of the Amoskeag Manufactur-
ing Company, five "squares," or lots of land were deeded to the
city, with certain conditions, in brief as follows :
"Merrimack" and " Tremont squares," deeded January 25,
1848; " Concord square," deeded January 29, 1848 ; " Hanover
square," October, 23, 1852, and "Park square," December 20,
1884. The " squares " were deeded with the understanding that
they were never to be sold or conveyed to any corporation. No
railroad or public roads of any kind were to pass over. (Agree-
ment was made with the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company to
set aside this condition in case of Concord common, to allow pas-
sage of Chestnut street across the center of the common.) They
were to be kept free from dirt, rubbish, filth, etc., to be graded,
and not to be dug up except for ornamental purposes. The city
further agreed to plant trees, to maintain paths, erect fences, and
keep all of said "squares" in good condition. These condi-
tions have been conscientiously carried out and, in consequence,
our city to-day is rejoicing in the possession of five beautiful
parks or commons, where all may enjoy a well-earned rest from
the busy toil of the mill, shop, or office.
Great interest has always been manifested in the various plans
adopted by the several city governments for the care, improve-
ment, and adornment of these breathing places for the peo-
ple, and the experience of the last few years has proved the
advisability of caring for these open air resorts and of pro-
viding means for the enjoyment and healthful recreation of all.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
117
The rapid growth of our city calls for comprehensive meas-
ures for the welfare of its citizens, and the commission believe
that all that can be done to make our parks and commons attrac-
tive should be accomplished.
Some idea of the extent and valuation of our commons may
be obtained by the following :
Acres. Valuation, 1S92.
Merrimack common .... 5.89 $200,000
Concord common . . . . 4.48 200,000
Park common . . . . . 3.49 60,000
Hanover common .... 3.00 100,000
Tremont common . . . _ . 2.25 40.000
Totals
19. II
$600,000
The care and maintenance of the commons became part of the
duties of the street and park commission, and this board has
faithfully carried out the conditions placed upon
them.
A summary of the year's work is here given :
Flowers .......
• ^175.66
Painting .......
36.10
Paving stone
43-75
Grass seed and dressing . . . .
536-36
Repairs, tools, seats
1,227.84
Concrete .......
557-98
Labor .........
1,960.74
Total
. $4,538-43
The above items include care of skating, $
182.25, for the
month of January, 1893 ; $462.96 for wood ashes and phosphate
for dressing the lawns ; $700 paid board of water commission-
ers ; $80 for a new one-horse lawn mower, etc.
All commons have received the usual care under Agent Fuller-
ton and all repairs have been promptly attended to.
STARK PARK.
Within the last few years Stark and Derryfield parks have re-
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 119
ceived a large share of public attention and have become popular
places of resort.
The acquisition of land for Stark park was fortunate for the
city through the patriotic generosity of the Stark heirs. We
quote from the oration of Gen. Charles H. Bartlett, delivered at
the dedication of Stark park, June 17, 1893:
" The establishment of Stark park has long been a favorite
project of many of our patriotic citizens, and the public senti-
ment, long tending in this direction, first found expression in
organized movement on the 30th day of May, 1889, upon this
spot, when, on motion of Edwin P. Richardson, Esq., a commit-
tee of five, consisting of ex-Governors Person C. Cheney and
Frederick Smyth, Col. George C. Gilmore, Hon. Aretas Blood,
and the venerable Joseph M. Rowell was appointed to co-operate
with a like committee from Louis Bell Post, G. A. R., in pre-
senting the subject for the action of the city government.
" On the 2d day of May, 1890, Louis Bell Post, the commit-
tee above referred to, and many other of our citizens, joined in
a memorial to the city government praying for the purchase of
this tract of land and its use as a public park, and not merely
as a public park but emphatically as a Stark park.
"The proposition received favorable consideration, and by a
unanimous vote it was referred to the legal voters of the city to be
acted upon at the city election in the following November. An
overwhelming vote in favor of the proposition gave the city
government full power to act in the premises, and on the 3d day
of January, 1891, the city completed the purchase, and received
the conveyance from Elizabeth B. Stark and Augustus H. Stark,
lineal descendants of Gen. John Stark.
"The lot of two acres, embracing the site of the monument
and thefgrave of Stark, was conveyed by his heirs to the city on
the 14th day of January, 1876."
The work of preparing Stark park for the dedication was
among the first undertakings of the board of commissioners, and
much thought and time was spent in carrying out the details of
the plan for the laying out of the park as adopted by vote of the
city councils.
120
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
A contract was made with the Massachusetts Broken Stone
Company, of Boston, for the shipment of one hundred tons of
the celebrated Salem stone dust, used on the paths and roadways
of the Boston parks, and great pains were taken to prepare all
roadbeds and walks by removing the soil and carefully spreading
289 loads of crushed stone upon the sand foundation, adding as
a binder course the Salem stone dust, the result amply paying
for the expense and labor. The building of the approaches to
the park and interior roadways and paths was proceeded with
under the direction of the commission, and was completed as
far as possible in time for the dedication.
An account of the work accomplished is given herewith :
I
Length.
Width.
Square yards.
Cost stone.
Incident'ls.
Labor.
Total.
700*
05g
19
30
1,497
853
$216.67
$196.99
$3,640.63
$4,054.28
2,350
$216.67
$196.99
$3,640.62
$4,054.28
* Upper part.
One thousand and thirty-five feet of paved gutters were built
at the edge of the roadways, with an average width of eighteen
inches.
Four thousand one hundred and thirty-six feet of loam were re-
moved from roadways at a.h average width of nineteen feet, in
order to prepare foundation for Salem stone.
Three hundred and fifty feet of ditch have been cut for drain-
age. A valuable spring on the grounds has been cleaned out,
one hundred and fifty rhododendrons set out in the grove, one
hundred plants of mountain laurel placed in suitable locations,
lawns have been graded, rolled, and sowed down ; flower beds
provided and stone removed ; fencing built and all repairs
made. Agent Fullerton has carefully attended to the instruc-
tions of the commissioners.
It is hoped that the congress of the United States will soon
pass a bill to establish a handsome equestrian statue of the heroic
General John Stark at this place.
122 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
DERRYFIELD PARK.
The name of Derryfield has long been a familiar one to the
citizens of Manchester, as we read in the City Ordinances that,
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ten,
an act was passed by the legislature to change the name of the
town of Derryfield to that of Manchester. As it is fitting that
the name should be perpetuated, a resolution was passed by the
city government, February 12, 1890, whereby the land set apart
from the city farm, by an order passed May 7, 1889, should be
• called Derryfield park. The first section set aside contained
about sixty-eight acres, and fourteen and nineteen hundredths
acres have since been purchased for a high-service reservoir,
which should be annexed and made a part of the grounds.
The location of this beautiful park is all that could be desired,
commanding a magnificent view of the mountains to the west
and south ; it has already become a favorite resort on account of
its accessibility, its opportunities for all out-door games, its
quiet, shady groves, and its rustic beauty. To prove its popular-
ity we have only to state that during the last summer from six
hundred to one thousand people visited the park daily.
A well-arranged plan for laying out the grounds was carefully
prepared by the city engineer, and has been adopted by the vote
of the city government, and its details are being carried out by
the street and park commissioners. The plans call for a half-
mile driveway on the high ground, to be built in a circle, which
when completed will give a track that will be appreciated by all
that enjoy a carriage drive. A ten-foot walk inside could be top-
dressed with cinders and used by bicyclists. It is proposed to
utilize the interior space of this circular roadway as a boys' play-
ground, and arrangements will probably be made for a fine
coasting way in one section of the park. Ponds of various
sizes will be added, and it is hoped a boulevard one hundred feet
wide can be built running the whole length of the western
boundary of the park, which can be used as a speedway in the
winter.
There is a great demand for immediate outlay upon this park.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 123
and in view of this the commission has expended the entire ap-
propriation for the last year in building a road through the
grove, and in cleaning out the underbrush, digging a well,
arranging swings and seats, and in preparing the park for the
comfort of visitors.
The work done is represented in the following statement :
' Gravel road built, 1,435 ^^^^ ^^^S ^.nd 25 feet 6 inches wide;
twenty acres of brush cut ; a well was dug to the depth of
twenty-five feet and a pump set up ; grading and other general
work done ; one hundred and fifty rhododendrons set out, and
one hundred mountain laurels have been added for adornment to
the grounds.
There has been expended for labor of men and teams $1,066 ;
for stone, tools, hardware, and supplies $86.86, making a total of
$1,152.86.
The great growth of our city calls for a wise and generous out-
lay for our parks, as the time is not far distant when rules and
regulations will have to be enforced to a certain extent to pro-
tect these resorts from various nuisances, and park police will
have to be provided.
It is hoped that our citizens will heartily support the plans of
the commission for the permanent improvement of our parks and
commons, and prevent a resort to the "keep off the grass"
policy.
Expenses of Office.
The creation of the department of the street "and park com-
mission necessarily called for some outlay for office fixtures and
blank books of various kinds, in order to carry on the daily
business connected with the work of the board. The point em-
phasized has been efficiency.
Economy in methods has been sought, and all plans were care-
fully matured before action was taken. We submit the first
annual report to our citizens with a desire for their hearty sup-
port and kind consideration of the eff'orts of the commission.
124
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
EXPENDITURES.
Commissioners' salaries
Clerical service
Office supplies and blank books, including $ioo paid
for typewriter .
Carriage allowance
Incidentals .
Total
$1,350.00
772.90
418.14
720.00
7.40
$3,268.44
The clerk has received the following from various sources
Stark park
Derryfield park
Commons
New se\vers .
Division 5
Bridges
Macadamizing
New highway
Paving .
Miscellaneous
Deposited with city treasurer
$50.00
143-87
1.50
103.23
5-50
35-57
8.00
10.00
53-50
70.65
$481.32
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
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Inventory of City Property.
Commissioners' office, including type-writer, desks,
blank books, etc
Division No. 2, including 15 horses, dump
sprinklers, road roller, snow plows, etc.
City buildings, Franklin street
Lot on Franklin street .
Valuation of pipe on hand at city yard
Division No. 3 . . . .
Division No. 4 . . . .
Division No. 5 . . . .
Division No. 6 . . . .
Division No. 7 . ^ .
Division No. 8 . . . .
Division No. 9 . . . .
Division No. 10, including horses, carts.
Stable and lot, Division No. 10 .
Valuation of pipe on hand, Division No
Division No. 11 .
Division No. 12 .
Commons, including horse lawn mower, etc
Total
etc.
$364-30
13,871.44
12,300.00
89,312.00
1,434-67
3.20
2.50
42.91
16.15
48.55
34-47
16.05
1,848.68
1,200.00
91.32
20.50
4-74
248.60
^120,860.08
Orders Received from City Government, with Date of
Passage.
To build certain highways (3). May 2, 1893.
To build certain sewers (14). May 2, 1893.
To build sewer in South Main street. May 2, 1893.
To build sewer in Arlington street. May 2, 1893.
To extend Central street. May 2, 1893.
To macadamize Turner street. May 2, 1893.
To macadamize Beauport street. May 2, 1893.
To purchase watering cart for West Manchester. May 23,
1893.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 127
Authorizing arrangements for the dedication of Stark park,
May 23, 1893.
To erect a combination watering trough on Hanover street.
May 23, 1893.
To purchase combination watering trough and drinking foun-
tain for south side city hall. May 23, 1893.
To build certain sewers. June 6, 1893.
To build sewer in Lake avenue. June 6, 1893.
To build certain streets. June 19, 1893.
Relative to building Walnut street from Salmon to Webster.
June 19, 1893.
In relation to building Adams street from south line Liver-
more land to Clarke street. June 19, 1893.
To build certain sewers. July 10, 1893.
To concrete Chestnut street. July 10, 1893.
To erect drinking fountain. August i, 1893.
To build Second street. September 5, 1893.
To build Beech street from Gore north. September 5, 1893.
To build certain sewers. September 5, 1893.
To build sewer from Lake avenue northerly to Merrimack.
September 21, 1893.
To build certain streets. September 21, 1893.
To build Trenton street. November 7, 1893.
To procure plans and build South Main-street bridge. No-
vember 7, 1893.
To build certain sewers. November 7, 1893.
To concrete Elm east back street. November 7, 1893.
To macadamize Spruce street. November 7, 1893.
To build Concord-street sewer. November 7, 1893.
The above orders in detail are on file at the commissioners'
office.
128
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7,154.25
14,178.14
2,45.^.74
1,040.62
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159.99
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4,297.50
988.44
1,276.89
2,750.26
45.50
1,476.75
877.07
2,572.90
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41.40
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130 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Concrete Work — G. F. Higgins.
STREET CROSSINGS.
Square Price
yards, per yd
Total
cost.
Bridge, at Ashland
Hanover, at Hall (2)
Lake avenue south back, at Maple
Maple, at Spruce (2)
Spruce south back, at Maple
Elm west back, at Central
McGregor, at Amory (4)
Pine, at Lake avenue (3)
Soruce, at Pine
Cedar at Pine (3)
Cheney Place, at Elm
Belmont, at Auburn
Concord, at Beech
Concord, at Beech
Elm east back, at Pearl
Union, at Brook
Nortli, at Pine east back
North, at Chestnut
North, at Elm
$61.32
64.87
15.00
57.44
13.83
9.19
145.67
62.11
22.33
66.72
23.32
22.65
22.65
4.95
13.27
14.40
13.27
9.99
13.50
;.4S
SIDEWALKS.
Square
yards.
Price
per yd
Total
cost.
Maple, at Central
Concord square
Chestnut, at Patterson's block
McGregor, at Amory
Pine, at P. Haley's
Pine, at Lake avenue
Park square
Pine, Nos. 241-243-245
Cedar, at Pine
Laurel, at Maple
Merrimack, at Lincoln
Ceutral, at Maple
Concord, at Beech
Elm east back, at Pearl
North, at Pine east back
North, at Elm
Amoskeag bridge, at west end
128.77
430.06
141.33
4.47
19.60
15.60
24.04
28.00
16.. nO
10.00
4.00
9.40
11.00
4.90
1.80
2.00
$0.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
$57.95
193.53
63.59
7.02
10.82
12.60
7.43
4.50
1.80
4.23
4.95
2.20
.81
1.48
$384.66
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
181
ROADWAYS.
Chestnut, at Patterson's block
Merrimack, Beech to Maple...
Pine, at Spruce
Amoskeag bridge, at west end
Square Price
yards, per yd
208.50
1,713.33
151.93
18.75
2.51
Total
cost.
$156.38
1,713.33
113.95
14.06
$1,997.73
Concrete Work — Charles H. Robie Co.
STREET CROSSINGS.
LOCATION.
Square
yards.
Price
per yd
Total
cost.
Chestnut, at Brook
52.80
30.62
58.22
17.78
19.64
29.60
33.78
57.07
32.98
17.78
27.46
13.33
17.78
29.87
16.80
17 78
67.38
29.42
30.. 58
17.24
34.00
80.73
29.77
28.98
17.78
29.33
30 22
32.90
56.00
45.86
27.55
22.00
17.77
30.58
16.62
17.33
10.67
17.78
IS 67
16.22
61.33 :
61.33
26.67
17.05
29.51 1
$0.37
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
' .75
.75
.75
.75
^75
.75
.75
.75
.37
.75
.75
.75
.75
.37
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.37
.37
.37
.37
.75
.75
$19.54
Maple, at Spruce (2)
43 67
Franklin west back, at Central
14 73
Main, at Mast
'>2 ''0
West Webster, at railroad station
25.34
Adams, at Appleton (2)
42 80
Salmon, at Chestnut
Bay east back, at Salmon ...
24.74
13 34
Liberty, at Salmon
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Salmon south back, at Pine
13 34
Hanover south back, at Union
13.34
Laurel, at Chestnut
10 89
Central, at Chestnut east back
1" 94
Concord square ....
"5 50
Lowell, at Birch
11 01
Brook, at Union east back .
13 33
Chestnut, at Appleton
22 00
Bridge, at Russell
94 g7
Auburn, at Elm
34 39
North, at Elm east back
13 33
Lowell, east of Maple
12 47
Dubuque east back, at Amory
Lowell north back, at Chestnut. . ...
14.00
6 00
Pine, at Pearl (2)
Orange, at Chestnut (2)
22 69
Prospect, at Chestnut.
9 87
Elm east back, at Pearl
12 79
High, at Chestnut
22.13
132
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
STREET CROSSINGS.— Continued.
Location.
High, at Pine east back
Pine, at Pearl (2)
Orange, at Cliestnut
Myrtle, at Chestnut (2)
Prospect, at Chestnut (4)
Harrison, at Chestnut (2)
Liberty east back, at Webster
Union east back, at Gore
Walnut, at Gore
North, at Chestnut (2)
Liberty, at North
Square Price
yards, per yd.
16.20
fiO.44
30.67
61.33
115.70
61.33
17.78
17.78
$0.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
Total
cost.
$12.15
45.33
23.00
46.00
109.28
46.00
13.33
13.33
22.66
46.43
18.67
SIDEWALKS.
Chestnut, at Brook
Chestnut, at H. F. Straw's
Harrison, at Chestnut
Franklin west back, at Central ...
West Webster, at railroad station
Adams, at Appleton
Cartier, No. 218
Laurel, at Chestnut
Lake avenue, at Union
Beech, at St. Augustine church . . .
Concord square
Lowell, at Union
Chestnut, near Webster
Elm, at Welch avenue
Lowell, between Pine and Union.
Merrimack square
Merrimack square
Concord square
Park square
Valley, at Jewett
Maple, at Merrimack
Merrimack south back, at Maple. .
Laurel, at Maple
Laurel south back, at Maple
Amherst, at Vine
North, at Chestnut
Liberty, at North
Square
yards.
48.48
39.11
14.04
2.18
34.00
12.83
33.33
85.53
13.33
116.53
212.65
11.02
23.40
18.70
5.47
329.27
856.79
344.14
79.36
3.67
22.96
4.40
26.73
2.01
242.47
12.70
12.23
2,607.33
Price
per yd,
Total
cost.
$21.82
29.33
6.32
98
16.30
5.77
15.00
4.96
10.53
8.41
2.46
148.17
■214.20
86.03
19.84
1.65
10.33
1.98
12.03
.90
48.49
5.72
5.50
$868.34
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 133
ROADWAYS.
Location.
Maple, Central to Lake avenue
Rimmon, at engine house
Amherst, at Vine
Square
yards.
3,669.75
Price
per yd
$1.00
.75
.45
Total
cost.
19-2.67
1,112.83
$2,245.40
Summary.
CONCRETE LAID BY CHARLES H. UOBIE CO.
Square
yards.
Crossings
Sidewalks ....
Roadways
Miscellaneous '
1,922.8
2,607.33
3,669.75
2,048.41
Total .
10,246.29
$1,336.70
868.34
2,245.40
1,211.63
$5,662.07
CONCRETE LAID BY GEORGE P. HIGGINS.
Crossings
Sidewalks
Roadways
Miscellaneous^
Square
yards.
905.16
854.77
2,092.51
140.20
3,992.64
$656.48
384.66
$3,101.95
Total concrete laid by the city , 14,238.93 square yards ; cost, $8,764.02.
* Work voted in hy committee on lands and buildings.
From the monthly pay-roll the following shows how the cost
for new sewers has been divided :
134
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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6,222.72
9,460.96
8,630.26
7,3.52.05
6,250.14
3,041.22
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135
From the monthly pay-roll the following table shows how the
cost for repaired sewers has been divided :
Month.
Labor.
Castings,
repairs,
black-
smithing.
Brick.
Inciden-
tals.
Liimber.
Hard-
ware.
Total.
$383.52
1,034.04
1,121.35
578.84
2,497.49
$20.39
25.53
12..52
51.00
41.34
$1.33
2.05
$405.24
1 189 50
February
$1.88
32.15
.76
68.11
$126.00
1,166.02
638 83
8.23
119.84
May
$51.60
July.
171.01
524.73
187.13
306.88
695.18
132.94
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09.12
September
October
November
187 13
7.50
4.50
16.18
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314.38
705 68
139 12
Total
$7,623.11
$102.90
$126.00
$248.08
$51.60
$137.45
$8,289.14
'Transferred to new sewers account.
COBBLE GUTTER PAVING.
Streets.
Sq. yds.
No. loads.
Cost per
load.
Cost of
stone.
Cost of
labor.
Maple
Pine
Monroe
Elm, north Appleton
Union, sundry places
Lake avenue
Smith i-oad
Webster, west River road —
Laurel, east Lincoln
Belmont, south Manchester..
Amherst, near Vine
Amherst, east Maple
North and River road
Russell and Orange •
Walnut and Pearl
Lowell and Maple
Jane
Elm back, south Manchester.
Totals
47
34
25
40
17
5
11
49
65
12
8
155
32
45
11
78
13
25
$1.70
$79.90
57.80
42.50
68.00
28.90
8.50
18.70
83.30
110.50
20.40
13.60
".54! 40
76.50
18.70
132.60
22.10
42.50
$1,142.40
$65.38
50.00
40.00
60.00
35.00
8.00
24.00
101.00
80.00
15.00
11.00
369.00
68.00
78.00
24.00
152.00
25.00
40.00
Total cost of the foregoing work, ^2,387.78; an
of $0,436 per square yard.
iverage cost
136
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
PAVING RELAID.
Street. Sq. yards.
Lowell ......... 59
Granite ......... 27
Pearl .......... 11
Franklin ......... 10
Chestnut 358
Pleasant 83
Amherst ......... 30
Hanover ......... 80
Concord ......... 163
Spruce ......... 10
Laurel ......... 17
Spring 8
East High ....'..... 25
Elm 5,175
Canal 85
Washington ........ 70
6,211
Total cost of foregoing work, ^1,232.20, an average cost of
$0,198 per square yard.
REPAIRED SEWEKS.
LOCATION.
Cost material.
Cost labor.
Amberst, corner Pine. ...
$8.25
13.50
■ 10.40
4.00
1.95
10.79
8.92
$4 00
Chestnut back, between Lake avenue and Spruce
Elm back, between Concord and Amherst
8.00
6.50
East High and Jane
23.00
Elm, near Pearl ...
9.36
6.04
4.88
13.34
25.49
20 00
7.50
Salmon, near Amoskeag bridge
12.00
$115.98
$152.00
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
137
EDGE STONES SET.
Myrtle and Russell
Union and Bridge
Union and Lowell
Gore and Walnut .
Chestnut and North
Elm, north Concord
Brook and Union .
Brook and Pine .
Malvern and East High
Jane and East High
Birch, near Lowell
Pine back, near North
Appleton and Chestnut
Elm back, near Pearl
Walnut and Webster
Appleton and Adams
Pearl, near Clarke avenue
Auburn and Belmont
Russell and Arlington
Union and Appleton
Beech and Gore .
North and Elm
Lake avenue and Beech
Hall and Auburn .
Lowell, east of Pine
Pine, north of Brook
Beech and Spruce
Lake avenue and Spruce
Beech, south of Spruce
Maple and Brook .
Walnut and Pearl .
Hanover back, near Pine
Laurel and Chestnut
Bridge, near Chestnut
Feet.
i6
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49
54
80
16
18
17
35
80
16
142
28
18
18
20
175
16
16
38
16
20
18
20
21
38
18
20
28
24
75
100
50
138
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Hanover, near Pine
Brook, near Union
Elm and Kidder .
Merrimack and Lincoln
Welch avenue
Nashua
Webster
Spruce and Pine .
Manchester, near Elm
Beech and Pearl .
Elm, north of Amherst
North and Liberty
Union and Webster
Sagamore and Pine
Orange and Linden
Orange and Russell
Spruce and Maple
Brook and Chestnut
Harrison and Chestnut
Salmon and Liberty-
Pearl and Linden
Pearl and Warren
Back street near Union
Blodget and Pine .
Elm, north of Appleton
Cedar and Maple .
Lake avenue, east of Lincoln
East High, east of Nashua
Morrison
Laurel, east of Lincoln .
Elm, near Langdon
Chestnut, south of Amherst
Central, near Franklin .
Total
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
139
EDGE STONES RESET.
Streets.
Feet.
Pine, south of Lake avenue 220
Myrtle, near Elm .
60
Hanover, near Union .
30
Maple, north of Lake avenue
170
Chestnut, south of Brook
150
Pine, near Spruce
40
Central, near Pine
125
Cedar, near Chestnut .
30
Vine
250
Total
i>o7S
Total number of edge stones set or reset, 4,933 ^^^t.
Total cost of the foregoing work, $563.50; an average cost of
^0.114 per foot.
140
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
CONCRETE ROADWAYS.
STREETS.
Square
yards.
Price
per yd.
Total
cost.
Maple, from north line Central to Lake avenue
939.9
1,713.33
$1.00
1.00
$939.90
1,713.33
$2,653.23
SUMMARY.
General Work.
Macadamizing
Top-dressing
General repairs
Concreting
Crushed stone on hand .
Totals 31,122.
Square Loads
yards, stone
18,095
10,374
2,653.23
2,205
1,157
225
59,737.22
2,476.62
713.27
2,653.23
30.00
1.34
STREETS GRADED.
Adams, north Appleton
Auburn, we.st Maple
Beech, south Gore
Chestnut, soutb Amherst
Everett, south Clarke
Gore, east Beech
Green, east Pine
Harrison, east Russell
Kennard road
Liberty, south Salmon
Lincoln, south Auburn
Maple, north Auburn
Maple, nortb Harrison
Maple, at culvert
Monroe, west Elm
Orange, east Linden
Pearl, east Linden
Salmon, east Pine
Sagamore back st.,west Union
.Smyth road —
Union, south Silver
Union, south Webster
Valley, west Beech
Walnut, Webster to North
Walnut, .south North
Webster, west River road
Cut or
fill.
Both.
Cut..
Fill..
Both.
Fill ...
Both.,
Cut. . ,
Both..
Fill....
Both-
Cut...
Both ,
Fill...
Cut..
Both
Totals 44,
Cubic
yards .
3,525
34S
110
1,512
283
1,168
1,167
667
744
2,100
907
1,338
16,118
1,300
1,717
1,979
1,222
563
855
3,212
1,082
407
377
1,389
$340.00
61.25
25.00
177.00
175.00
39.25
125.50
184.00
130.17
150.00
217.00
124.00
350.00
1,665.50
235.00
275.00
265.. 50
200.25
79.00
85.00
431.00
210.00
57.00
200.00
173.50
295.00
Inciden-
tals.
$60.87
5.!i6
1.88
*100.00
25.91
4.45
20.01
19.95
11.42
12.74
128.57
15.54
22.92
t690.50
22.28
29.41
33.91
15.00
9.65
14.64
55.03
18.53
t314.33
6.45
23.79
15.23
$1,678.97
Entire
cost.
$400.87
67.21
26.88
277.00
200.91
43.70
145.51
203.95
141.59
162.74
345.57
139 54
372.92
2,356.00
257.28
304.41
299.41
215.25
88.65
99.64
486.03
228.53
371.33
208.45
197.29
310.23
$7,948.89
♦Including $100 paid J. D. Patterson for moving building,
t Including $685 paid Head & DoAvst Co. for filling.
j Including $253.20 paid F. S. Bodwell for stone.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
143
STREETS GRAVELED.
No. feet.
Ashland, north Bridge 450
Bridge, east Russell
.
630
Arlington, west of Linden
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Orange, east of Russell
.
450
Webster, from River road to
Concord 6
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Rail
road
400
Union, north Bridge .
450
Maple, north of Harrison
425
Hancock .
900
Cheney place
400
Elm street, south
.
300
Baker
150
Valley
2,250
Amherst, east of Beech
220
Pearl, east Union
300
Total
7>425
No. loads.
Calef road 100
Welch avenue
20
Elm avenue
20
Brown avenue
100
Young street
20
Cilley street
10
Nutt road .
150
Beech street
150
Willow street
50
Merrill street
30
Total
•
650
STREETS TURNPIKED WITH ROAD MACHINE.
Feet.
Appleton 1,500
Adams
1,200
144 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Feet.
Amherst ......... 500
Auburn 2,100
Blodget ......... 1,400
Brook IjSoo
Belmont ......... 400
Beech ......... 1,500
Clark ......... 1,850
Chestnut 2,400
Concord ......... 500
Central ......... 3,800
Central back street ....... 300
Cedar . . . 2,600
Elm . 3>o5o
East High ......... 2,000
Hooksett road ........ 5,500
Harrison ......... 1,750
Hall .......... 2,200
Liberty ......... 600
Laurel ......... 450
Lake avenue ........ 1,500
Lincoln . . . . . . . . . 650
Myrtle ......... 2,400
Maple ......... 600
North ......... 950
New Bridge street ....... 3,000
Old Bridge ........ 3,200
Pine .......... 9,000
Pennacook ......... 950
Prospect ......... 2,250
Sagamore ......... 800
Salmon . 950
Spruce ......... 3,400
Union ......... 6,000
Webster 2,850
Walnut 500
Total 76,100
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
GRADING FOR CONCRETE .
145
Location.
Adams, south of Clark
Arlington, west of Linden
Ash, north of Brook
Auburn, west of Maple
Auburn, west of Maple
Auburn, east of Beech
Beech, south of Gore
Beech, south of Webster
Beech, near Sagamore
Beech, south of Gore
Beacon, north of Central
Brook, east of Ash, south side. . .
Brook, east of Ash, north side. . .
Brook, west of Maple
Brook, east of Union
Belmont and Merrimack
Chestnut, south of Clark
Central, east of Beacon
Cheney place
Clark, east of Chestnut
Chestnut, south of Webster
Calef road, near Pine Grove cemet'y
East High, east of Malvern
Elm street, Bakersville
Elm, south of Auburn
Elm, north of Sagamore
Elm, south of Webster ,
East High, east of Ashland
Franklin, north of Depot
Gore, east of Beech
Gore, east of Beech
Grove, east of Pine
Harrison, east of Maple
Harrison, east of Russell
Hancock, west of Brown avenue.
Hall, south of Central
Liberty, south of Salmon
Liberty, south of Salmon
Lowell, east of Maple
Linden, south of Orange
Maple, south of Brook
Maple, south of Brook
Morrison, south of Peai-1
Maple, north of Auburn
Myrtle, east of Hall
•Myrtle, east of Hall
Maple, north of Orange
Myrtle, east of Maple
Monroe, west of Elm
Monroe, west of Elm
Monroe, west of Elm
Maple and Spruce
Myrtle, east of Elm
Malvern, south of East High. —
Merrimack, east of Hall
Orange, east of Linden
Orange, east of Linden
Orange, east of Maple
Oak, north of Orange
Orange, east of Russell
Orange, east of Russell —
Pine, south of Webster
Pearl, east of Morrison
Pearl, west of Morrison
Prospect, east of Russell
Pii»«, south of Auburn
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250
100
75
200
150
100
50
75
13
75
100
220
150
100
100
120
50
400'
800
100
100
325
250
300
100
100
100
175
100
100
100
1.50
200
75
100
100
150
100
100
135
50
150
100
200
150
100
225
300
200
100
100
500
50
100
100
200
200
300
225
130
180
50
150
50
100
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Width
in
feet.
Feet
Feet
cut.
fill.
5.5
2
8
2
2.5
1
1
1.5
1
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2
8
3
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0.5
0.5
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2.5
1.5
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3
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$48.00
16.00
49.00
25.00
27.00
9.00
4.50
8.25
8.87
4.75
13.25
100.50
40.00
10.75
10.00
27.00
4.25
54.50
26.00
13.25
12.00
290.00
21.00
1.57.00
32.00
7.50
6.00
11.40
5.00
6.75
7.50
19.50
6.50
5.00
5.25
10 00
19.00
19.50
52 00
9.25
9.75
60.00
32 50
41.00
9.00
9.75
9.00
11.25
46.00
35.00
10.00
48.75
4.25
7.00
8.00
32.00
40.00
11.25
10.50
23.00
27.37
4.75
61.00
13.00
19.25
143.00
146
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
GRADING FOR CONCRETE.— Con«nMed.
Location.
Length
in
feet.
Width
in
feet.
Feet
cut.
Feet
till.
Cost.
200
120
100
300
100
100
100
850
150
200
200
400
100
3
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8
8
8
8
4
8
8
5
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2
0.75
2
3
0.5
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1.5
1.5
$9.75
Salmon, east of Pine
15.75
19.50
10.75
15.00
"^13.00
Union, soutli of Webster
Union south of Webster
15.00
132.00
9.75
20.00
21.00
52.00
Webstfr east of Beecli
17.00
Totals
14,180
$2278.89
a d Mary Hartshorn, 470 loads sand
Benjamin Mack, 40 loads sand
labor men and teams
$47.00
4.00
1,705.81
Total $1,756.81
FENCING.
Streets. Feet.
Maple, south Auburn i?5oo
Hanover, near Mammoth road 500
Webster, east Union 250
Hooksett road 200
Sagamore . . . • • . • • '15°
Central 5°
Total 2,650
The above was built at a cost of $135.64.
STONE.
Paid Warren Harvey, for stone .... $.36-96
Frank S. Bodwell, for stone .... 16.00
Charles A. Bailey, for stone .... 352-05
Total
$405.01
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
NEW CESSPOOLS.
147
Location.
Amherst, between Elm and Vine
Amberst and Vine
Bay baclr, near Salmon
Bircb and Lowell
Calef road, near Pine Grove cemetery....
Chestnut and Concord
Chestnut and North
Chestnut and Appleton
Chestnut and Amherst, southeast corner..
Chestnut and Amherst, northeast corner..
Chestnut and Amherst back
Chestnut and Harrison
Concord common, near Amherst
Elm back, between Pearl and Orange
Elm, near Baker
Elm, near Baker, west side
Elm, between Appleton and Clarke
Elm, between Mechanic and Water
Elm, between Amherst and Concord
Gore and Walnut
Hay ward and Cypress
Harrison and Maple
Jane, near East High
Jane and Lowell
Jane, north side
Jewett
Lincoln and Amherst
Maple, between Hanover and Amherst. . . .
Maple, between Central and Lake avenue.
Maple, between Central and Lake avenue.
Orange and Russell
Salmon back, between Bay and Chestnut. .
Union, between Lake avenue and Spruce. .
Wilson and Laurel
West jMerrimack, near Elm west back
Webster, near railroad station
No.
Cost of
material.
$19.92
20.45
18.02
26.42
40.71
18.92
62.14
27.68
14.85
21.65
13.93
54.42
20.63
12.73
37.93
10.23
136.66
52.59
18.98
27.96
18.00
23.19
9.23
26.42
8.63
24.83
47.46
26.42
43.84
14.98
35.45
21.02
46.60
39.36
16.52
15.43
Cost of
labor.
45 $1,074.20
$13.00
12.00
8.00
11.00
15.00
8.00
17.00
12.00
10.00
11.00
11.00
28.00
12.00
14.00
12.00
7.00
30.00
20.00
7.50
10.00
10.00
30.00
5.00
11.00
6.00
20.00
24.00
22.00
16.00
10.00
22.00
S.OO
25.00
21.00
14.00
13.00
$525.50
148
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
REPAIRED CESSPOOLS.
Location.
No.
Cost of
materiaL
Cost of
labor.
Back street, between Cedar and Pine
Back street, between Spruce and Cedar
Back street, near Maple
Cedar, between Chestnut and Elm
Central and Maple
Chestnut, between Brook and Harrison
Cedar and Spruce
Button and Amherst
Elm back, between Orange and Pearl
Elm, near Stark park
Elm back; between Hanover and Amherst .. .
Elm back, between Lake avenue and Spruce.
Franklin, near Cedar
Granite and Elm
Harrison and Maple
Hall and Ashland
Lake avenue and Beech
Lake avenue and Elm
Laui'el back, near Maple
Lincoln, near Laurel
Lincoln and Lavirel
Maple and Amherst
Merrimack and Wilson
Merrimack, near Wilson
Merrimack and Maple
Manchester, between Elm and Chestnut
Maple, between Central and Lake avenue —
Orange back, between Pine and Union
Orange and Union
Park common
Pine and Laurel
Pine and Cedar
Pine and Central
Pearl and Morrison; Orange and Linden
Spruce and Pine
Spruce and Elm
Spruce and Union
Spring near Elm
Valley and Elm
#1.24
10.05
2.14
1.54
1.84
12.96
8.63
2.20
1.84
3.06
6.06
.60
.92
1.60
.90
1.84
.90
1.84
5. IS
5.46
.60
3.64
2..')7
1.90
3.66
9.23
7.58
14.16
5.44
.60
1.84
2.14
3.06
16.50
11.16
16.67
1.84
1.84
$2.50
7.00
2.50
2.00
2.00
7.00
4.00
2.50
2.50
6.00
3.00
2.00
1.50
4. '66
3.00
3.50
2.00
2.00
2.00
4.00
2.50
5.25
3.25
5.50
5.00
7.00
9.00
7.00
4.00
2.00
2.00
3.00
4.00
9.00
11.16
7.50
1.00
3.00
46
$175.23
$156.16
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
PIPE CULVERTS (New).
149
Street.
Size in
inches.
Length
in feet.
Cost of
material.
Cost of
labor.
10
8
8
8
15
8
18
20
$11.70
9. Oft
Amherst, north Maple
"~"
10 25
Concoicl common
Hall near Wilson ...
16
56
18
7.20
71.26
8.10
2.50
41 00
12.50
4.00
4.50
12
10
30
52
25., 50
33.80
7.00
Union, near C. & P. R. R
5.00
254
$189.96 ! !S95.75
PIPE CULVERTS (Repaired).
Street.
Bridge and Walnut
Brown avenue, old pipe
Beech, near Valley
Hanover and INUlton
Linden and Pearl, old pipe.
Malvern, near East High
Silver, old pipe
Size in
Inches.
Length
in feet.
Cost of
Material.
$4.50
2.70
8.10
Cost of
labor.
$3.75
10.00
88.50
9.50
4.00
6.00
7.00
150
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
STONE CULVERTS.
Street.
Amherst, Fairbanks's lot
Kennavd road
Union, near Concord & Portsmouth Railroad
Baker, repaired
Brown avenue, near Gerrish's tannery, wooden.
Hooksett road, repaired
River road, near Pine Grove cemetery, repaired.
Totals
Length
in feet.
Cost of
labor.
$82.25
75.00
25.00
20.00
5.00
11.00
17.00
$235.25
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
151
BRIDGES.
The following table gives the dimensions, material, and num-
ber of spans of the various bridges within the city limits.
Location.
Lengtl
in
feet.
Width
of
roadway
No. of
walks.
Width
of
walks.
Material.
Arch-
es or
spans
Amoskeag
765.S
20
1
5.5
! Wood.
3
57
22.5
2
7
Bridge st. , "McGregor and>pproaches
1,085
24
6
3
Cohas avenue, at Great Cohas
36
30.5
Stone.
2
38
20
Wood.
Derry road, near Cohas avenue
20
21
17
20.5
"
Dunbarton road, Black brook
25
17.5
"
Elm street, at railroad
89
29.5
1
4.5
"
Front street, Black brook
56.3
37.3
^
6
Iron.
Granite street, at river
465.7
32
26
21
2
'
Wood.
Island Pond road, outlet to lake
41
16.7
Main street, at Piscataquog river
Mammoth road, at Great Cohas
Mammoth road, near town line
70.5
38
20.8
18
1
5
"
„
59
20.5
11
Parker street, at railroad
53
24
2
6
Iron.
30
30
Wood.
16
20
River road, below James Cheney's. . .
6
16
.,
12
100
22
17.5
i
«
6
62
16
32 5
steel.
Second -street bridge
2
8 75
Second-street bridge
127
32.5
2
8.75
Stone bridges, 1 ; iron, 4; wood, 20; steel, 2; total, 27.
152
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ON HAND AT CITY YARD.
24-inch pipe
20-inch pipe
18-inch pipe
15-inch pipe
12-inch pipe
lo-inch pipe
8-inch pipe
Total
1 Y branch, 8 on 24 inches.
II Y branches, 8 on 20 inches.
4 Y branches, 8 on 18 inches.
79 Y branches, 8 on 15 inches.
72 Y branches, 6 on 15 inches.
86 Y branches, 8 on 12 inches.
198 Y branches, 6 on 12 inches.
96 Y branches, 8 on 10 inches.
200 Y branches, 6 on 10 inches.
25 Y branches, 8 on 8 inches.
3 Y branches, 6 on 8 inches.
3 1 2-inch quarter turns.
7 12-inch curves.
8 1 5 -inch curves.
2 traps.
21 Niggerhead cesspool grates.
8 flat cesspool grates.
6,000 sewer brick.
700 pounds manhole covers and
60 pounds pipe grates.
50 pounds lantern hole covers.
Feet
16
236
16
1.523
416
440
2,997
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 153
REPORTS FROM HIGHWAY DISTRICTS.
District No. 3.
Fred Jewell, Agent.
One hundred loads of gravel and stone chips have been used
on two miles of road repaired.
Macadamized 17 rods of roadway, i foot deep of stone, gravel,
and chips, with a topdressing of 6 inches of gravel.
From 18 to 20 rods have been filled, at an average of 3 feet,
in front of residences of Mr. Fogg and E. Boynton.
Two culverts cleaned out and relaid ; 40 rods of ditch cut
about 2 feet deep.
General repairs made when necessary throughout the district.
District No. 4.
Byron E. Moore, Agent.
The amount of road turnpiked is about ^ of a mile. Clayed
and graveled about 150 rods, repaired nearly ^ mile of road,
and amount of road widened about J^^ of a mile.
Cleared road of brush for about 4 miles. Made all necessary
repairs throughout the district, and the highways have been kept
clear of stones.
District No. 5.
Mark E. Harvey, Agent.
Gejttlemen of the Street and Park Commission :
In compliance with your orders I present to you a report of
the work done in District No. 5 during the year 1893. Owing
to the heavy fall of snow last February, and badly drifted condi-
tion of the roads, there was expended about ^240 for breaking
the roads, leaving when spring opened only about $560, with
which the following work has been done :
154
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ROADS GRAVELED.
Feet.
Weston road
85
Center road ......
105
Goffe's Falls (south road)
410
Nutt road
• . • 7^5
Dickey road
• ' ■ 925
Londonderry (old road)
• 1,425
Londonderry (new road)
■ 1,715
Total
• 5,390
Average width of graveling, 14 feet; average depth, 6 inches.
TURNPIKED.
Nutt road
Mill road
Dickey road .....
Total
Average width of turnpiking, 2 1 inches.
Feet.
130
780
875
1,785
By cut, Londonderry (new road)
" " (old road)
" Dickey road
By fill, Londonderry (new road)
Total
Cu. Yds.
118
96
26
125
365
Dug up and rebuilt one stone culvert on Londonderry new
road.
Dug up and rebuilt one culvert on Nutt road.
Dug up and rebuilt 12 feet in length of one stone culvert on
Londonderry new road.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 155
MISCELLANEOUS.
Built ^8^ feet of railing on the approaches to Cohas brook
bridge, near R. W. Flanders. Replanked said bridge with three-
inch hemlock plank. (Plank and labor charged to the appropri-
ation for bridges.)
Bushes have been cut on one mile of road. Removed loose
stone from roads tnroughout the district twice a month from May
until November. Blasted four and removed seven large boulders
from Dickey road where turnpiked.
Repaired all water-bars, dug out stones from roads, filled mud-
holes, and made all general repairs throughout the district.
District No. 6.
I. T. Webster, Agent.
Feet.
Turnpiked . . . . . . . . .2,112
Topdressed ......... 5,412
Average width of turnpiking, 24 feet.
Average width of topdressing, 12 feet.
Repaired four culverts. Cut bushes from both sides of road
fpr about 4,000 feet. Removed small stones from road several
times during season. Dumped stones on beach of lake.
District No. 7.
Charles Francis, Agent.
culverts.
Built culvert on Young road, 40' X 2}4' X 2'.
Built culvert on Haywood street, 50' X 3' X 3'.
Built culvert on Page street, 30' X i' X i'-
Built culvert on Taylor street, 40' X i' X i'-
Lengthened culvert on Valley street, 15' X 3' X 3'-
Lengthened culvert on Massabesic street, 6' X 4' X 4'
156
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
GUTTERS PAVED.
Feet.
Feet wide
Massabesic street
• 250
3
Valley street .
. 100
3
Spruce street .
. 100
3
Relaid .
• 75
Total .
NEW CESSPOOLS.
• 525
One at corner of Massabesic and Jewett streets.
One at corner of Spruce street and Old Falls road.
One at corner of Massabesic street, near shoe shop.
One on Mammoth road.
Two 3-feet curbs and 29 feet edgestone set corner Valley and
Jewett streets.
Page street
Grove street
TURNPIKED.
Feet. Feet wide.
i>55o 34
600 34
NEW STREETS BUILT.
Hay ward street, 1,200 feet long, 50 feet wide. By cut, 300'
X 2^'. By fill, 300' X 2'. Balance turnpiked.
Auburn street, 160 feet long, 50 feet wide. By cut, 31^'.
Summer street, 650 feet long, 50 feet wide. By cut, 250' X
7^2 ■ By fill) 250' X 2'. Balance cut i foot.
Prescott street, 250 feet long, 34 feet wide. By cut, 3 feet.
Graded Taylor street 500 feet. By cut, i>^ feet for 200 feet.
Balance turnpiked.
SIDEWALKS BUILT.
ummer street (both sides
Auburn street .
Feet. Feet wide.
1,300 8
320 8
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
157
Belmont street
Taylor street .
Hayvvard street
Jewett street .
Valley street .
Canton street .
throughout the distr
Feet. Feet wide.
150 8
500 8
600 8
500 8
300 8
200 8
Three fourths of a mile of bushes cut. Made general repairs
ct where most needed.
District No. 8.
George H. Penniman, Agent.
Turnpiked 25 rods in different sections of the district ; also
turn piked Bridge street from Hanover street to the top of the
hill, about one half mile.
Cleaned out gutters, repaired culvert near residence of Luther
Proctor, and filled mudholes with dirt. Grading has been done
near residence of James Benson on Candia road, by filling with
gravel. Built new culvert near residence of Sam Reed. Eighty-
five feet of Akron pipe has been laid near Noah Reed's store.
Widened road near Joseph Rand's, 15 rods long and 3 rods wide.
About 4 miles of bushes have been cut, and small stone re-
moved from the highways. Other general repairs made.
District No. 9.
Lester C. Paige, Agent.
Turnpiked
Graded
Average width of turnpiking, 12 feet.
Average width of grading, 8 feet.
Two culverts repaired and cleaned out.
Feet.
433
2,524
158
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Cut bushes, removed stone, repaired water-bars, put up io8 feet
of railing, and attended to other general repairs throughout the
district.
If the city could purchase one or two more gravel banks in
different parts of the district, it would be of benefit. The only
one we have now is nearly exhausted, besides, the expense of cart-
ing grade from one side of the district to the other is great.
District No. 10.
COBBLE PAVING.
Amory street, near Fulton engine house
Coolidge avenue
Sullivan street
Beauport street .
Cartier street
Cartier street (gutter)
West Bridge street
Walker street
Second street
Second street, from Ferry back street south
Totals
"eet.
Sq. yds
420
^63
39
13
448
174
100
27
50
10
50
22
500
194
60
18
90
24
70
23
527 668
COBBLE EDGING.
Amory street, near Fulton engine house
Coolidge avenue . . . . .
West Bridge street . . . .
Feet.
320
39
407
Total
766
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
EDGE STONES SET.
Amory, near Fulton engine house
Cartier street
Cartier street, front of No. 465
West Bridge street
Second street, Walker street south
Second street, Ferry back south
Total ....
STREETS GRADED.
159
Feet.
130
SO
93
i5t
3461
Adams
Amory
Coolidge avenue
Gates
Kelley
North Cartier . . .
Putnam
Rimmon
Sullivan
South Cartier....
Total
Length
in
feet.
145
1,050
250
eo
182
1,250
100
450
200
650
4,327
Cubic
feet.
1,450
19,600
4,500
20,8;«
1,150
4,950
2,. 500
10,833
The work on South Cartier street was a cut, all the others were fills.
160
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
STREETS GRAVELED.
Streets.
Length
in
feet.
Widtli
iu
feet.
Cubic
yards.
550
200
375
25
39
33
McGregor ....
"40
West Bridge
382
Total
1,125
1,360
NEW CESSPOOLS.
STREETS.
Cost Of
material.
Cost of
labor.
Adams, southwest corner of Beauport
Amoi-y and North Main
Barr and Douglas
Main and Mast road
Main and School
Near Fulton engine house
North Main, near Sullivan
Rimmon, near Fulton engine house.. .
Totals
$30.75
37.49
15.34
13.65
9.45
24.52
6.78
55.62
$183.00
$36.62
.37 25
8.25
13.50
8.25
34.44
11.25
34.44
I
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
CESSPOOLS REPAIRED.
161
Streets.
Arnory and Main ,
Amory and Main, northwest corner .
Amory and Main, southwest corner ,
Amory and Main, southwest corner
Adams, near Main hack
Bath and River
Douglas and Barr
Ferry and River
Granite and Quincy
Granite and Quincy
540 Granite
McGregor, near West Bridge
McGregor, near Bridge
McGregor, near West Bridge
Main and Wayne
Main, near North Main street schoolhouse.
McGregor and Amory
McGregor and Wayne
River, near Walker
Sullivan and Beauport
Winter, near Parker
Winter
Walker, near Second
Winter and Parker
No.
Totals
Cost of
material.
1.84
.61
Cost of
lahor.
$1.62
1.62
.75
e-.-iO
13.50
.62
1.62
.62
6.75
.62
6.75
2.12
1.31
2.42
3.38
2.43
2.43
5.93
3.38
1.54
6.. 50
3.08
.62
16i
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
•»800 IB^OI
$4,427.84
4.297.50
988.44
1,276.89
2,750.26
45.50
1,476.75
877.67
2 572.90
286.07
333.82
41 40
25.00
10,987.05
S
J
1
1
$378.95
16.18
3.13
g :gS : : :
t :^S : :
1
1
•jaqtnaAoji
$243.03
108.69
21.69
88.62
23.32
163 91
■■ '287^99 '
218.13
124.56
10.00
g
S
•aaqoioo
$34 00
715.97
17.50
92.62
4.25
is !g i5 i
is :| :S ;■
1
i
•jeqme^des
pes :
34 51
232.00
25 00
790.05
i
i
<
J464.68
113.50
299.00
270.26
1,772.43
26 50
230.07
293.50
5.00
o
3
i
•Xinf
i
1
i
•9anf
SC6.00
948.00
184.00
277.25
\°. ;s^ : i
;i -gS : ;
1
J
•Xbjc
§§§s .
■" 6i!88'
"2()3!62'
6.00
44 00
:§
i
•ludv
s
§ : :
d • •
216 50
125.13
226.13
16,25
66.77
. :
o
•qojBiv
4©
• \ \
204.78
265.83
122 00
i
•jCjBnjq9a
55
i
lO • •
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5
1
•XjenuBf
«& : :
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51
411
Hi
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Ml
1-
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Jil
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ii
Ii
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
163
ON HAND AT YARD, DISTRICT NO.
2o-inch pipe
1 8-inch pipe
15-inch pipe
12-inch pipe
lo-inch pipe
8-inch pipe
6-inch pipe
4-inch pipe
Total
4 Y branches, 8 on 15 inches.
9 Y branches, 6 on 15 inches.
38 Y branches, 8 on 12 inches.
10 Y branches, 6 on 15 inches.
8 Y branches, 8 on 10 inches.
16 Y branches, 6 on 10 inches.
8 old cesspool grates.
I Akron trap.
55 18-inch Akron collars.
67 1 5 -inch Akron collars.
FENCING.
Second street, near bridge, 272 feet, at a cost of $27.48.
Feet.
2
2
26
90
20
40
28
10
218
MISCELLANEOUS.
New drinking fountain on North Main street, near Amory,
labor, $41.81 ; materials, $35.01 ; total, $76.82.
Rubbling fill between the two bridges on Second street, at a
cost of $160.48.
Stone for sewers, etc., obtained from city yard on Franklin
street.
164 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
District No. 1 1.
Frank S. Hanscom, Agent.
Four miles liave been turnpiked, and large stones removed.
Twenty-five rods of road graveled. Bushes cut on both sides of
Goffstown, Straw, and Hooksett roads, and east side of Dunbar-
ton road, fourteen miles in all.
Relaid two stone culverts, each fifteen feet in length. Water-
ing trough and pipe repaired. Seventy-nine rods of fencing
built. Replanked and built new railing on Black brook bridge,
and support underneath bridge replaced. Cut made on hill east
side of bridge.
Forty-two loads of cobble paving delivered at Amoskeag
bridge for district 2. Forty tons of rough stone supplied dis-
trict 10.
The back streets in this district have been cleaned out once
a week ; gutters and cesspools cleaned out twice during season.
General repairs have been made throughout the district.
District No. 12.
Eugene G. Libbey, Agent.
Nearly all the Bald Hill road has been turnpiked, and about a
mile of the Mammoth road. Culverts and ditches cleaned out,
and one stone culvert relaid.
Bushes on both sides of the roads have been cut, and during
the winter the different highways have been broken out, and the
ice cut in the culverts, and trees cut where they were loaded with
ice and encumbered the highway.
The Mammoth road near city farm has been graded and put
in good condition where it was left in a rough state by the lay-
ing of the water pipe. It has also been widened by filling 420
feet in length, 8 feet in width, and an average of 3 feet in depth.
The general repairs throughout the district have been made.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 165
Scavenger Service Report.
Eugene G. Libbey.
The removal of all perishable waste was contracted for by the
committee on city farm, at the beginning of the season, and Mr.
Libbey having general charge of the same, suggests that a fore-
man be employed to separate the perishable matter from the rub-
bish. Very few complaints have been made in regard to neglect.
The perishable matter has been taken to the city farm and
plowed into the land. From January 9 to December i, three
teams have been constantly employed, drawing six loads a day ;
and from December i to January i, two loads a day have been
drawn. A larger territory has been covered than ever before,
and the business portion of the city has been visited every fore-
noon.
Respectfully submitted.
G. H. STEARNS,
L. P. REYNOLDS
H. P. SIMPSON,
Commissioners.
A. E. Herrick,
Clerk.
REPORT
OF THE
CITY ENGINEER.
City engineer's Department.
1893.
CITY ENGINEER.
WINFRED H. BENNETT.
FIRST ASSISTANT ENGINEER, FIELD AND OFFICE.
HARRIE M. YOUNG.
SECOND ASSISTANT ENGINEER, DRAUGHTING.
GEORGE W. WALES.
THIRD ASSISTANT ENGINEER, FIELD AND OFFICE.
HARRY J. BRIGGS.
ASSISTANTS.
GEORGE M. CURRIER, HERBERT L. WATSON,
Began April 21. June 29 to Sept. 9.
EDGAR E. FARMER, EDWARD M. STONE,
Jan. I to Sept. 9. May i to Sept 7.
J. EDWARD BAKER, EDWARD H. DOHERTY,
June 28 to June 30. Mar. 6 to Mar. 8.
TYPEWRITER AND CLERK.
A. GERTRUDE BENNETT,
-June 14 to Dec. 31.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
To His Hono7- the Mayor and Ge7itlemen of the City Councils :
Sirs, — I have the honor of presenting my eighth annual re-
port, being the fifteenth annual report of the work in the city
engineer's department, for the year ending December 31, 1893.
Expenses of the department for the year 1893, per monthly
draft :
January .
.
.
^281.40
February
300.46
March .
516.23
April .
293.64
May
581.63
June
693.32
July .
781.10
August .
491.27
September
603.33
October .
245-50
November
274-45
December
586.51
Total
$5,648.84
Appropriation
4,300.00
Amount overdrawn
$1,348.84
Average monthly draft ....
$470.73
Itemized account of expenses for the year :
For salary of city engineer ^1,200.00
salary of assistants
• 3)io5-io
supplies for office
• • 357.43
additions to office furniture
28.44
stakes and
luml
3er
.
79-13
170
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
For horse shoeing and repairs o
f wagon and harness
$68.60
street-car fares
30-55
printing reports .
express and postage .
25.00
10.93
repairing ....
13-36
expenses .
books and folios
12.99
52.00
printing
telephone .
incidentals
9-15
37-40
1.50
horse hire .
66.25
city maps, directory .
new instruments
17-50
406.51
typewriter .
127.00
Total $5,648.84
The items for salaries may be divided as follows :
For giving lines and grades for the extension and
construction of streets and sidewalks . . $306.84
plans and profiles relating to the construction of
streets and sidewalks ..... 167.80
surveys and levels for the construction of streets
and sewers ....... 383.80
giving lines and grades for, and superintending the
construction of sewers . . . . . . 199.26
plans and profiles relating to the construction of
sewers ........ 120.81
surveys, measurements, and plans for the assign-
ment of street numbers ..... 291.94
making plans for improvements other than those
mentioned in this account .... i43'io
surveys, levels, and plans, also lines and grades
given for improvements in Pine Grove ceme-
fery, including new map .... 322.78
surveys, levels, and plans, also lines and grades
given for improvements in Valley cemetery . 17.10
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
171
For surveys, levels and plans, also lines and grades
given for repairing and extending the street
railw^ay .......
collecting data, classifying accounts, and othe
work in relation to office report
lines, grades, and superintendence given for th(
construction of avenues in Stark park .
lines, grades, and superintendence given for the
construction of avenues in Derryfield park
ward five ward-room, lines and grades
N. S. Bean engine-house, plans, specifications,etc
Excelsior hook-and-ladder house, plans, specifi
cations, and measurements
copying records of highways and of streets laid
out
indexing plans and notes ....
checking notes, figures, etc.
surveys, levels, etc., at Main -street bridge .
surveys, levels, and superintendence at Second
street bridge .....
new map of city .....
new sewer map of city .....
additions made to old map of city .
lines given for water-works department
measuring and figuring concrete laid for city
attendance upon meetings of the street and park
commission and data furnished them
making plans of streets in city clerk's book of
records ......
plotting sewers in sewer book and on map
locating and putting up street signs and guide
boards .......
locating and setting stone bounds
office work, preparing notes, data, records, etc
plotting sectional maps of city
plans, lines, and grades for Elm street bank wal
$18
24
113
07
^36
26
40
22
9
II
10
10
30.00
16.25
5341
19.00
23.41
237.67
102.01
20.70
24.50
22.30
39-96
123.60
56.50
89-45
110.28
19.50
208.62
66.57
15.00
172
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
For procuring abutters' names .... $42.35
lettering and finishing plans .... 58.11
ofifice work, information given engineers and
others regarding lines, grades, sewers, etc. . 256.95
computing areas of land taken for new streets . 77-65
researches of deeds for property lines and owner-
ship 85.00
plans for and attendance upon board of aldermen
at street hearings ...... 48.00
orders and petitions written for presentation to
the city government ..... 26.88
city contracts written and data furnished for same 16.00
attendance upon meetings of the committee on
streets, and plans pertaining thereto . . 75 -oo
investigating and reporting cases to committee
on claims ....... 10.00
attendance upon meetings of the committee on
sewers and drains, clerical work, including
orders written ...... 50.00
Total $4,305.10
The following bills, charged to other appropriations, have
been certified to by this department :
LAND DAMAGES.
Lucia A. Clough, Cypress, 24,433 ^q- ft. .
Charles G. Hastings, Cypress, 11,000 sq. ft.
E. E. Bullard, B, 4,325.33 sq. ft. .
Mrs. Sydney A. Blood, Grove, 12,650 sq. ft.
Mrs. Janette P. Bartlett, Harrison, 10,625 sq.
Gen. R. N. Batchelder, Union, 32,087.50 sq.
Alonzo Elliott, Monroe, 10,360 sq. ft.
Upton, Harvey & Weston, Beech, 9,013 sq.
Ash, 9,062 sq.
Maple, 9,034 sq.
Oak, 9,090 sq.
36,199 sq. ft.
$1,221.65
1,100.00
259-52
1,012.00
796.87
1,604.37
828.80
1,809.95
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
173
J. M. Stanton, Elm, 8,466 sq. ft ^507.96
interest 15 months , . . 3^'75
This amount was more than the land figured, but he claimed
that his deed covered it and the bill was paid by vote of the
board of aldermen.
STREET SIGNS AND GUIDE BOARDS.
George B. Cressey, painting
Flint & Little, labor, etc.
Head & Dowst, posts for guide-boards
Whitten & Fifield, horse hire .
C. W. Babbitt, horse hire
$140.88
6.85
30.62
7-5°
10.00
STONEWORK.
F. S. Bodwell, west end McGregor bridge, 21.88 perch
Valley street culvert, 84.4 perch
ward 9 engine house, 137 ft. edge stone
I 3-foot circle .
base for drinking fountain, Main street
$98.46
253.20
54.80
4.50
30.00
SECOND STREET BRIDGE.
John B. Clarke Co., printing 30 specifications .
A. C. Wallace, lumber for batters ....
William H. Colburn, making fill, 12,428.11 cubic
yards .........
Charles A. Bailey, stonework, 2,300.23 cubic yards .
piling, for foundation .
Dean & Westbrook,. contractors for steel superstruc-
ture
$12.00
8.48
2,454-55
20,127.01
2,243.00
26,687.36
T. H. Tuson, postal cards ..... $0.65
A. S. Campbell & Co., 500 postals, sewer returns . 6.85
174
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
CONCRETE.
Charles H. Robie Co., 10,246.29 square yards . . ^5,662.07
George F. Higgins, 3,992.64 square yards . . 3,101.95
MISCELLANEOUS.
Head & Dowst, boards for batters .
George W. Wales, Webster street schoolhouse plans
Union Manufacturing Co., 1,000 street numbers
G. L. Theobald, moving house on Amory street eX'
tension
G. L. Theobald, lowering Fulton engine house
Total
$0.49
75.00
45.00
100.00
700.00
$71,034.09
Amount of concrete laid for the city by the Charles H. Robie
Company and George F. Higgins, as measured by this depart-
ment, 14,238.93 square yards.
Expenses for soldiers' monument :
For water ........ $300.00
For gas .........
Total
$300.00
The amount of work done by this department during the year
is as follows :
Number of orders for surveys, street lines, and grades
for sewer grades .
for paving grades
for street railway grades
for Pine Grove cemetery grades
for profile levels .
Total number of orders
1,003
107
45
2
42
72
1,271
Levels for profile for establishing grades, 82,318 feet, equal to
15.59 miles. These profiles, having three lines of levels on each
street, make a total distance actually leveled of 246,954 feet.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
175
Levels for sewer profiles
for other center profiles
in Pine Grove cemetery
in Valley cemetery
in Stark park .
in Derryfield park .
Other levels
Total levels taken .
Equal to 54.65 miles.
Levels for cross-section
Surveys of streets and street lines
in Pine Grove cemetery
in Valley cemetery
in Derryfield park
for street numbers
Other surveys .
Total surveys made
Equal to 35.28 miles.
Street lines marked on ground .
Lines of lots and avenues, Pine Grove cemetery
of lots and avenues, Valley cemetery
of avenues, Stark park
of avenues, Derryfield park
for street centers
for gutters
for curbs .
for sewers
for street railway
Other lines
Total length of lines marked on ground
Equal to 17.96 miles.
Feet.
9,816
3,162
2,400
So
8,446
2,620
15,081
288
559
Sq.
Feet.
131
.517
Feet.
120
.957
22
»930
150
I
>33o
29
>497
12
)75i
186,285
Feet.
22,912
6,090
150
9,890
4,000
9,453
13.504
2,989
19,071
400
6,466
94,925
176
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Feet
Grades set for sidewalks ^5,426
for centers
1,250
for gutters
13.504
for curbs ,
2,989
for sewers
19,071
for water-pipe .
2>7S5
for street railway tracks
400
for building streets .
3o>i75
in Pine Grove cemetery
8,998
in Valley cemetery .
160
in Stark park .
1,150
in Derryfield park
2,620
Other grades ....
2,142
Total length of grades set
Equal to 20.95 i^'iiles.
Profile measurements made
Equal to 1.84 miles.
Lot owners looked up
Equal to 9.22 miles,
110,640
Feet.
9,716
Feet.
48,666
BATTERS SET.
Elm street, bank wall.
Lake avenue, ward room.
Main west back street, bank wall.
Second street, bridge.
Second street, for rubbling.
Old lots restaked in Valley cemetery
in Pine Grove cemetery
New lots laid out in Pine Grove cemetery
Total cemetery lots laid out .
20
100
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER, 177
Street numbers assigned and put on . . . ,307
replaced ....... 25
assigned but not put on . . . -67
Total . . . • 399
GUIDE BOARDS PUT UP.
Baker street and Calef road, old post, one sign.
Baker street and Brown avenue, old post, one sign.
Bald Hill road and Bridge-street extension, new post, two
signs.
Bald Hill road and Londonderry turnpike, post set over, two
signs.
Bedford road and Rockland avenue, old post, one sign.
Brown avenue and Elm street, old post, one sign.
Brown avenue and Calef road, old post, one sign.
Brown avenue and J. P. Moore road, old post, one sign.
Brown avenue and South road, old post, two signs.
Candia road and Hanover street, old post, two signs.
Candia road and Proctor road, new post, two signs.
Candia road and Bridge-street extension, old post, two signs.
Candia road and Lake Shore road, old post, two signs.
Candia road and Londonderry turnpike, old post, two signs.
Cohas avenue at reservoir, new post, one sign.
Cohas avenue and Canal road, new post, one sign.
Corning road and Conant road, new post, two signs.
Derry road and Dickey road, rew post, one sign.
Derry road, Cohas avenue, and Webster road, new post, three
signs.
Derry road and Corning road, new post, two signs.
Dickey road and Island Pond road, new post, two signs.
Dickey road and Cohas avenue, new post, two signs.
Dow road and Goffstown road, new post, two signs.
Front street and Amoskeag street, old post, two signs.
Front street and Goffstown road, old post, two signs.
Front street and Dunbarton road, old post, two signs.
12
178 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Front street and Hackett Hill road, post set over, two signs.
Goffstown road and old road, new post, two signs.
Hanover street and Proctor road, old post, one sign.
Island Pond road and Webster road, new post, one sign.
Lake avenue and Massabesic street, old post, two signs.
Lake Shore road and Island Pond road, new post, two signs.
Lake Shore road and Proctor road, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Smyth road, new post, (wo signs.
Mammoth road and Bridge street, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Hanover street, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Lake avenue, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Candia road, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Young road, old post, one sign.
Mammoth road and Huse road, old post, one sign.
Mammoth road and Island Pond road, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Cohas avenue, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Mooresville road, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Derry road, new post, two signs.
Mammoth, Corning, and South roads, new post, two signs.
Mammoth road and Page road, post set over, one sign.
Mammoth road and new road, new post, two signs. ^
Mast road and Rockland avenue, new post, two signs.
Mast road and Amherst road, old post, one sign.
Mast road and Gove street, post set over, two signs.
Mill road and Harvey road, new post, one sign.
Merrill, Huse, Weston, and Mooresville roads, new post, two
signs.
Nutt road and Elm street, old post, tivo signs.
Nutt road and Beech street, old post, two signs.
Nutt road and Weston road, old post, two signs.
Nutt, Merrill, and Goffe's Falls roads, new post, two signs.
Salmon street and Canal street, old post, one sign.
Smyth road and Kennard road, new post, one sign.
Smyth road and Webster street, new post, two signs.
South road and road from Goffe's Falls, old post, two signs.
South Main street and Mast street, old post, one sign.
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REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 179
South Main street and Milford street, old post, one sign.
Straw road and Goffstown road, new post, two signs.
Straw road and Dunbarton road, post set over, two signs.
Webster street and Union street, old post, one sign.
Webster street and Hooksett road, new post, one sign.
Webster road, old post, one sign.
Wilkins street and Mast road, new post, two signs.
One hundred and five signs put up, 9 ready to put up, 35 new
posts set, 5 old posts reset, 130 street signs put up, 135 ready to
be put up.
Arrows are to be put on guide boards and posts painted.
Number sewer permits granted, 191.
This year, as in previous years, the city engineer has investi-
gated all cases where suits were liable to be brought against the
city, and reported to the committee on claims.
PLANS AND PROFILES MADE FOR SIDEWALK GRADES.
Central, from James Hall road westerly.
, Cypress, from Lake avenue to Massabesic
East High, from Ashland to Belmont.
Mast, from Riddle to Mast road.
Page, from Candia road to Hanover.
South Main, from Granite to Bedford line. Seven plans.
Wilton, from Main to Cartier.
• Young, from Hall to Cypress.
Total plans and profiles, 14.
SEWER PLANS AND PROFILES.
Ashland, Bridge, Harrison, and Belmont, sectional map, in-
cluding Underhill's and Elliot's land. Equaling thirteen plans.
Ash east back, from Harrison to Gore.
Auburn, from Elm to Pine east back.
Auburn south back, from Pine east back to east of Beech.
B, from Prince to Milford.
180 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Cartier, from Conant to foot of bluff.
Cass, from Lake avenue to Laurel.
Cheney place, from Brown avenue to Elm.
Chestnut west back, from Lowell north back to Bridge.
Central, from Beacon to Cass.
Dubuque, from Conant to foot of bluff.
Elm, from Elm avenue to Baker.
Elm avenue, from Elm to Calef road.
Elm east back, from Pearl to Orange.
Gore, from Beech east back to Ash east back.
Hanover south back, from Elm east back to Union.
Hay ward, from Belmont to Jewett.
Laurel, from Beacon to Cass.
Laurel, Central, Chestnut, and Beech, sectional map. Equal-
ing seven plans.
Merrimack, from Beech to east of Maple.
Merrimack, from Beacon easterly.
Orange south back, from Elm east back to Pine.
Pearl, from Elm to Elm east back.
Pine cast back, from Auburn to Auburn south back.
Rimmon, from Conant to foot of bluff.
Rimmon east back, from Amory to Kelley.
Salmon, from Pine to Walnut.
Summer, from Belmont to Massabesic.
Welch avenue, from Elm to Calef road.
Walnut, from Gore to Salmon.
Wilson Hill lots, from Lake avenue to Merrimack.
Wilton, from Main to Cartier.
Total sewer plans and profiles, 50.
NUMBERING PLANS.
Amherst, Elm to Mammoth road.
Arlington, Maple to Morrison.
Auburn, Elm to Belmont.
Bridge, Elm to Mammoth road. ,
Calef road. Baker to Webster.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 181
Canal, Merrimack south back to West Salmon.
Cedar, Elm to Belmont.
Central, Elm to Highland.
Derry, Amherst to Concord.
Dutton, Amherst to north of Concord.
Elm, Grove to Baker.
Elm, Clarke to Rowell.
Hanover, Elm to Mammoth road.
Jane, Lowell to East High.
Lake avenue, Elm to Mammoth road.
Laurel, Chestnut to Highland.
Linden, Bridge to Orange.
Merrimack, Elm to Hanover.
Myrtle, Elm to Belmont.
Nashua, Concord to Bridge.
Orange, Elm to Belmont.
Pearl, Elm to Belmont.
Pine, Auburn to Amherst.
Porter, Amherst to Concord.
River road. West Salmon to State Industrial School.
Russell, Bridge to north of Myrtle.
South, Lowell to East High.
Spruce, Elm to Hall.
Union, Nutt road to Merrill.
Union, Auburn south back to North.
Warren, Bridge to Pearl.
Numbering sheets made for new book, 589.
Total numbering plans made, 620.
MISCELLANEOUS PLANS.
Alsace, Kelley, and Morgan streets, land owned by Sullivan
and Sheehan. Copy.
Ainsworth avenue, Hayward to Young street, land of A. A.
Ainsworth. Copy. •
Beech, Maple, and Shasta streets, land of Lawrence Dowd.
Copy.
182 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Belmont, Cedar, and Auburn streets, land of F. S. and L. J.
Sloan. Copy.
Belmont street, Young to Hayward street, land of A. S.
Lamb. Copy.
Belmont and Massabesic streets, Old Falls road and Amoskeag
Co.'s line, plan of Mentor estate. Copy.
Belmont street, Young street to Concord & Portsmouth Rail-
road, land of G. W. Adams, Copy.
Calef road, Baker and Gilford streets, plan of Gilford land.
Copy.
Clay street and Ferry road, plan of Sophronia Young's lots.
Copy.
Cypress street, Auburn to Massabesic street, location of.
Elm and Spruce streets, Cilley and Mammoth roads, sectional
map. Equaling 56 plans.
Erie street and River road, land of J. K. McQuesten. Copy.
Foster avenue, Hayward street northerl^^, plan of Piatt's land.
Copy.
Hanover, Webster, Union, and Oak streets, including land of
Johnson heirs. Copy.
Jewett and Valley streets, land of J. L. Woodman. Copy.
Lake avenue. Auburn and Canton streets, and James Hall
road, land of Mead, Mason & Co., and Platts &: Sons. Copy.
Lincoln, Belmont, and Young streets and Lake avenue, land
of Elliott Manufacturing Co. Copy.
Lincoln and Young streets, land of Batchelder and Clarke.
Copy.
Main street, Conant to West Hancock, plan showing original
laying out.
Mammoth road and Porter street, land of J. A. Sheehan &
Co. Copy.
Mammoth road and Porter street, land of F. P. Sargent.
Copy.
Mammoth road, Candia road to Plooksett line, location of.
Maple and Silver streets, land of Albert Walker. Copy.
Maple and Somerville streets, land of Elliott, Johnson, Flint,
and Day. Copy.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 183
Massabesic street and Mammoth road, land of Fred Hall.
Massabesic street, Lake avenue to Belmont street, land of
Perry and Gage. Copy.
Massabesic street and Old Falls road, land of F. S. Sloan.
Copy.
Massabesic street and Chase avenue, land of John M. Hayes
heirs, Charles C. Chase, and Mary E. Chamberlen. Copy.
Nutt road and Shasta street, land of John 'Kennard. Copy.
Nutt road. Pine and Clay streets, land of B. P. Cilley. Copy.
Spruce street, Belmont street to Old Falls road, land of Perry
and Gage. Copy.
Taylor street, land of Stephen Williams. Copy.
Union, Beech, Harvard, and Shasta streets, land of Weston,
Shirley, and Bell. Copy.
Wilson street, Hayward to Young street, plan of Elliott and
Burpee's lots. Copy.
Young street, Taylor street westerly, land of William G. Cot-
ter. Copy.
Total miscellaneous plans, 90.
WORKING PLANS.
Adams street culvert. Plan and section.
Alsace, Amory to Sullivan and Sheehan's north line. Profile.
Amherst, Union to Hall. Sewer profile.
Ash, Gore to north of Sagamore. Profile.
Ash east back, Gore to Brook. Sewer profile.
Auburn street sewer. Template.
Bell, Pine to Wilson. Profile.
Boutwell, Amory to Sullivan and Sheehan's north line. Profile.
Byron, Brown avenue to Josselyn. Profile.
Calef road. Line at cemetery.
Cass, Laurel to Central. Profile.
Cheney Place, Elm to Brown avenue. Profile.
Cilley road, Nutt to Mammoth road. Profile.
Clay, Lincoln to Belmont. Profile.
Clay, Taylor to Jewett. Profile.
184 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
Columbus, Amory to top of bluff. Profile.
Congress, Amory to top of bluff. Profile.
Cumberland, Amory to top of bluff. Profile.
Cypress, Auburn to Massabesic. Location of.
Derryfield park. Profiles of avenues.
District No. lo. Plan of stable.
Dix, Lincoln to Belmont. Profile.
East Manchester schoolhouse. Data for concrete.
East Manchester schoolhouse. Profile for walks.
Elm avenue. Elm to Calef road. Sewer profile.
Elm, Brown avenue to Baker. Sewer profile.
Elm west back. Market to Mechanic. Sewer profile.
Essex, Amory to top of bluff. Profile.
Everett, Clarke southerly. Profile.
Excelsior Hook and Ladder house. Three plans of extension.
Oilman, Second to Wentworth. Profile.
Gordon Woodbury land, Myrtle to Prospect south back.
Sewer profile.
Gore, Beech east back to Ash east back. Sewer profile.
Green, Pine to Wilson. Profile.
Grove, Pine to Wilson. Profile.
Hevey, Conant to foot of bluff. Profile.
Hevey east back, Kelley to south of Wayne. Sewer profile.
Hill, Frederick to Wolf and Wagner's south line. Profile.
Howe, Lincoln to Belmont. Profile.
Joliette, Amory to Sullivan & Sheehan's north line. Profile.
Josselyn, Byron to south of Kennedy. Profile.
Kearsarge, Amory to top of bluff. Profile.
Kennedy, Brown avenue to Josselyn. Profile.
Lafayette, Amory to Sullivan & Sheehan's north line. Profile.
Laval, Amory to Sullivan & Sheehan's north line. Profile.
Lincoln-street culvert. Plan and section, detail sheet.
Liverraore land. Section for proposed sewer.
Lowell, Belmont to Mammoth road. Profile.
Mammoth road, Candia road to Hooksett line. Laying out.
Manchester, east of Chestnut. Plan of Slavton lot.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 185
Manchester at Wilson. Plan of turnout for street railway.
Manhole casting. Drawing for pattern.
Maple, Gore to north of Sagamore. Profile.
Maple, Ashland, Lowell, and Bridge, Janesville section.
Equaling nine plans.
Maple and Lowell, location of E. T. Hardy's block.
Morgan, Amory to Kelley. Profile.
Myrtle, Elm to Elm east back. Sewer profile.
N. S. Bean steamer house. Proposed changes.
Oak, Pearl to north of Sagamore. Profile.
Old Amherst road, Milford to Mast. Center profile.
Passageway, Elm westerly. Profile.
Pearl, Union to Maple. Profile.
Pine Grove cemetery. Section showing Haselton lot.
Pine Grove cemetery, Chestnut avenue. Profile.
Pine Grove cemetery. Plan of C. C. Webster land.
Prescott, Wilson to Belmont. Profile.
Putnam, Amoskeag Company's line westerly. Profile.
Rimmon east back, Kelley to Wayne. Sewer profile.
River road, Webster to Rowell. Profile.
Sagamore, Union to east of Oak. Profile.
Second, West Hancock to South Main. Profile.
Second, Cleveland to West Hancock. Showing amount of
fill.
Second-street bridge. Stone work.
Shasta, Lincoln to Hall. Profile.
Somerville, Maple to Belmont. Profile.
South Main, Blaine to Log. Plan and profile, showing
bridge.
South Main, Manchester & North Weare Railroad to West
Hancock. Profile.
Stark park. Avenue grades.
Taylor, Young to Vinton. Profile.
Thornton, Wayne to bluff. Profile.
Union, Merrimack to Amherst. Sewer profile.
Valley cemetery. Plan of Gage lot.
186 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Varney, Josselyn to west of railroad. Profile.
Webster-street schoolhouse addition. Four plans.
Welch avenue, Elm to Calef road. Sewer profile.
Wentworth, West Hancock to Harvell's line. Profile.
Wilson, Clay to Cilley road. Profile.
, Amory to top of bluff. Profile.
Total working plans, loi.
TRACINGS.
Adams-street culvert. Plan and section.
Bartlett. For road hearing.
Beech, Ash, Maple, and Oak, Johnson land. For register of
deeds.
Cass. Plan of a part of.
City farm land. Part of, for B. F. Clark.
City farm buildings. Three plans.
Colby, Lfg to West Hancock.
Dartmouth, Log to Wingate. Plan and profile.
Dearborn. Section of.
Dickey, Main to West Hancock. Plan and profile.
East Manchester, part of, for locating lots.
Elm. Bank wall at Henry Chandler's.
Frederick, Main to Merrimack river. Plan and profile.
Oilman, Second to Wentworth. Profile.
Highland park. Location of streets.
Hill, Frederick to Wolf & Wagner's south line. Profile.
Hosley, Summer to Orove.
Lincoln-street culvert. Plan and section.
Lowell, Ashland to Mammoth road. Profile.
Mammoth road, Candia road to Hooksett line. Laying out.
Manchester, east of Chestnut. Slayton lot.
Massabesic, Belmont, and Lake avenue. Showing Old Falls
road.
McGregorville, Land of Sullivan & Sheehan, McGovern, and
others.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 187
Merrimack, Pleasant, Franklin, Bedford, State, and Granite.
Land of Manchester mills.
Pearl-street schoolhouse lot. Land bought of W. H. Wliitney.
Pine, Lake avenue to Cedar. Section of.
Pine Grove cemetery. Cross section of Chapel lawn.
Pine Grove cemetery. Cross section north of Swede lot.
Sagamore, Walnut easterly. Upton, Harvey & Weston land.
Second, Piscataquog river to Harvell's north line. Plan and
profile, 2.
Second-street bridge. Stone work.
Somerville, Hall to Belmont.
Stark, Bridge, Canal, and Elm. Land of Stark Manufactur-
ing Company.
Stark park. Showing avenues.
Thornton. For road hearing.
Valley cemetery. Plan of Gage lot.
Wheelock, West Hanccck to Belknap. Plan and profile.
Woodbury, Second to Hill. Profilf.
Woodbury, Hill to South Main. Profile.
Total tracings, 42.
BLUE PRINTS.
Adams-Street culvert.
Lincoln, Wilson, Valley, and Silver. Land of Kimball Car-
riage Co.
Lincoln, Hall, Harvard, and Shasta. Land of F. M. Hoyt &
Greely Co.
Lincoln-street culvert.
Manchester Water-Works, high service. Eight plans.
Second-street bridge. Profile.
Second- street bridge. Twenty-one plans.
Second-street bridge, for Dean & Westbrook. Four plans.
Webster-street schoolhouse addition. Seven plans.
Total blue prints, 45.
188 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
City of Manchester, for licensing hack drivers.
City of Manchester, showing scavenger district. Three maps.
New map of city, showing streets.
New map of city, showing sewers.
Total maps, 6.
Sixty-six plans of streets laid out have been copied in the city
clerk's book of records.
Total of all plans made, 1,034.
Twelve plans are under way which will be completed durin g
the year.
Plans made for the establishment of grade on laid-out streets,
59,371 feet.
Plans made for the establishment of grade on streets not laid
out, 24,568 feet.
Total, 83,939 feet, equal to 15.90 miles.
The following grades have been established during the year :
Bartlett street, from Putnam to south of Sullivan. September 21.
Byron, Josselyn, Varney, and Kennedy. October 20.
Canton street, from Lake avenue to Auburn, plan 727. May 2.
Central street, from Beacon to Cass, plan 704. July 10.
Central street, from J. Hall road westerly 304 feet, plan 987.
July 10.
Green street, from Granite to Amoskeag Company's line, plan
347. May 2.
Grove street, from Pine to Beech. November 7.
Harvard street, from Beech to Maple. September 21.
Hevey street, from Kelley to Columbus avenue. July 26.
Lowell street, from Ashland to Mammoth road. November 7.
Maple street, from Lake avenue to Cilley road. June 19.
Monroe street, from Elm to River road. June 6.
Rimmon street, from Amory southerly 785 feet. October 3.
South Main street, from Milford to Boynton. May 23.
Walnut street, from Gore to Webster, plans 892 and 893. May 2
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 189
The following grades have been changed during the year :
Chestnut and Appleton streets, plans 54 and 154. November 7.
Elm street, from Appleton to Clarke, plan 52. June 6.
Maple street, from Harrison to Gore, plan 76. September 21.
Myrtle street, from Russell to Linden, plan 67. November 7.
Pine street, from Lake avenue to Young, plans 94, 95, and 96.
July 10.
190
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS BUILT
Streets.
1
Location.
Material.
Amherst south back . . . .
West of Maple
Akron
Arlington
From west of Ashland easterly
"
Arlington
From west of Ashland easterly
Portland....
Harrison to Brook
Akron
Auburn
From Elm easterly
Brick
From Pine westerly
Portland....
Pine east back to Union
,.
Auburn south back
Union to Beech
,.
Auburn south back
From Beech easterly
,1
Spruce to Old Falls road
Belmont.
Spruce to Old Falls road
.,
Belmont
Spruce to Old Falls road
Iron
Lake avenue to Central
Akron .'
„
Cheney place
Brown avenue to Elm
Portland ...
Cheney place to Welch avenue
Akron
„
Elm
„
Elm
Chestnut west back. . . .
Lowell north back to Bridge
"
Chestnut east back
From North northerly
„
Concord
From Maple east back easterly
From Summer southerly
„
Dearborn
<,
Ash east back
From Gore southerly
Portland....
Hanover
Akron
Beacon
From Hanover northerly
„
REPORT OP THE CITY ENGINEER.
191
IN 1893. — EAST SIDE.
Size in Length in Length in Man- Lamp- Y Total cost Cost
inches, feet, new. ft., relaid. holes, holes, branches. ' per ft.
1S4
117
92
2S5
712
125
128
375
540
346
290
124
19
24
249
103
397
72
50
305
319
402
20S
$113.65
I 524.74
87.44
I 10,915.595
325.17
322.307
j- 2,710.22
362.56
143.775
1,200.85
lis 6735
383.64
573.79
787.356
418 471
531.57
3.52.80
388.25
1.8313
202.50
2.0454
498.36
1.8457
286.26
1.3011
318.97
1.4699
145.325
1.4981
7433
9500
.6013
.5179
4560
4444
3734
2578
7987
9585
0114
7660
192
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS BUILT IN 1893.
Location.
Material.
Hanover south back.
Hanover south back.
Harrison..
Hay ward
High, East
South
Laurel south back...
Lowell
Lowell
Hall.....
Hall
Merrimack
Myrtle
Woodbury land ,
Pearl
Elm east back
Orange south back...
Orange south back...
Salmon
Salmon
Salmon
Salmon south back
Summer
Summei'
Walnut
Wilson Hill
Totals ,
Chestnut to west of Union.
From Oak easterly . . . .
Cypress to Jewett
3Iaple to Jane
At East High
From Union easterly . . .
Ashland to east of Hall.
From Lowell northerly ,
Beech to Maple
Elm to Elm east back
Myrtle to Prospect south back.
At Elm east back
Peai-1 to Orange south back
From Elm east back easterly..
Pine to Un ioii east back . .
East of Liberty to e. of Union e. bad
Belmont to Massabesic
Gore to Sagamore
Lake avenue to Central .
Akron
Portland .
Akron
Akron
Portland
Akron
Portland
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 193
• KAST SIDE.— CoTitinued,
Size in
inclies.
Length in
feet, new
2SS
31S
C24
102
37
101
409
105
494
256
Length in
ft. relaid.
10
164
334
356
Man-
holes.
Lamp-
holes.
Y
Branches.
Total cost.
635.19
557.57
512.45
56.52
244.18
176.425
654.12
373.60
260.84
27.73
533.21
134.37
920.47
1,388.25
557.68
Cost
per ft.
$2.2728
2.2055
1.7531
1.2908
1.1534
2 2401
1.4814
1.2784
0.9278
2.9187
2.3289
2.7730
3.2,500
1.6400
'Average cost per foot.
13
194
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS BUILT
Conant south back..
Conaut
Dubuque
Dubuque
Carroll
Carroll
Conant
Conant
Cartier
Cartier
Conant
Conant
Rimmon
Kellej'
Main west back —
Riddle
Rimmon east back.
Scliuyler
Third
West Hancock
Wilton
From A northerly
Douglas to Conant
Main to city stable
Barr to Dubuque
ronant to north of Gates.
From Milford northerly.
Beauport to Cartier
From Conant northerly,
Barr to Rimmon .
Totals.
From Conant northerly
Dubuque east back to Hevey east back
From Sullivan northerly
From Mast southerly
Kelley to Amory
Main to Beauport
From Walker southerly
Merrimack river to Dickey
From Beauport westerly
Akron
Portland .
Akron
Portland.
Akron —
Portland .
Akron...
Akron... .
Portland ,
Akron —
Portland
Akron... .
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
IN 1893.— WEST SIDE.
105
Size in
Indies.
Length in
feet, new,
159
250
240
48
474
107
309
186
273
58
274
377
41
183
422
540
304
794
565
224
76
1,002
148
Length In
ft., relaid.
Man
holes.
Lamp-
holes.
Y
branches.
$200.72
2,338.63
309.22
264.70
1,127.18
Cost
per ft.
$1.262 3
9.3545
1.2884
5.5145
1.9400
614.71
1.4566
3,141.42
5.8176
309.00
1.0164
1,264.03
1.5919
1,329.86
2.3537
431.75
1.9274
253.01
3.3290
2,868.65
2.8629
285.04
1.9259
$18,341.69 * $2.6001
Average cost per foot.
196 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
PIPE REMOVED WHERE NEW SEWERS HAVE BEEN BUILT.
Street.
Location.
Material.
Size in Length
inches, in feet.
Chestnut west back. .
Elm east back
Hanover south back.
Hanover south back.
Lowell north back to Bridge.
Pearl to Orange south back. .
Cement
Akron
Cement
Akron
Cement
Akron
9
9
12
9
10
12
9
9
15
10
301
164
507
Pine to west of Union
Nashua to Jane
208
397
Laurel south back...
Beech to Maple
705
Orange south back...
From Elm east back easterly
690
10
At East High
49
Total
3,160
I
Total 60-inch
50 X 75
20-inch
18-inch
15-inch
1 1:5 -inch
12-inch
12-inch
lo-inch
lo-inch
8-inch
• 8-inch
15-inch
12-inch
lo-inch
8-inch
SUMMARY OF SEWERS BUILT IN 1S93.
brick
inches, brick
Portland pipe
Portland pipe
Akron pipe .
Portland pipe
Akron pipe .
Portland pipe
Akron pipe .
Portland pipe
Akron pipe .
iron pipe
pipe, cesspools and connection?,
pipe, cesspools and connections
pipe, cesspools and connections
cesspools and connections
pipe,
Total sewers built in 1893
Equal to 4. 1 1 miles.
Feet.
285
712
395
878
2,602
4,224
1,059
7,965
1,344
563
24
94
10
6
724
21,716
i
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
197
Following is the total amount of sewerage in the city, January
I, 1S94:
8-inch Akron pipe
lo-inch Akron pipe
12-inch Akron pipe
1 5 -inch Akron pipe
18-inch Akron pipe
20-inch Akron pipe
24-inch Akron pipe
Total Akron pi
pe
Equal to 38.943 mil
2S.
8-inch Portland pipe, old .
12-inch Portland pipe, old .
18-inch Portland pipe, old .
Total Portland pipe, old
Equal to 0.919 miles.
lo-inch Portland pipe, ne.w
12-inch Portland pipe, new
15-inch Portland pipe, new
18-inch Portland pipe, new
20-inch Portland pipe, new
24-inch Portland pipe, new
Total Portland pipe, new
Equal to 4-137 miles.
9-inch cement pipe
12-inch cement pipe
15-inch cement pipe
18-inch cement pipe
24-inch cement pipe
16 X 24 inches cement pipe
Total cement pipe .
Equal to 7.404 miles.
Feet.
7,676
51,462
64,047
16,430
3^652
6,007
3,548
Feet.
90
3,990
770
4,850
Feet.
7,387
3,233
4,433
395
3,264
21,843
Feet.
I3'793
21,520
490
860
735
1,697
39,095
198
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
lo-inch earthen pipe .
1 2-inch earthen pipe .
Total earthen pipe
Equal to o. 704 miles.
18-inch brick sewers
24-inch brick sewers
29-inch brick sewers
36-inch brick sewers
42-inch brick sewers
44-inch brick sewers
57-inch brick sewers
60-inch brick sewers
17 X 26 inches, brick sewers
20 X 30 inches, brick sewers
22x33 inches, brick sewers
24 x 36 inches, brick sewers
26 X 39 inches, brick sewers
29^ X 44 inches, brick sewers
30 X 46 inches, brick sewers
32 X 48 inches, brick sewers
40 X 44 inches, brick sewers
50 X 75 inches, brick sewers
Total brick sewers .
Equal to 7.15 miles.
8-inch iron pipe
12-inch iron pipe
14-inch iron pipe
20-inch iron pipe
24-inch iron pipe
36-inch iron pipe
Total iron pipe
Equal to o.oSo miles.
Feet.
1,175
2,545
3>72o
Fee .
5,725
3>i87
1,600
545
446
1,195
1,400
285
1,506
1,197
387
9,097
514
4,530
1,360
3,279
790
712
37,755
Feet.
24
24
24
62
12
277^
423
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 199
Feet.
48-inch Steel pipe 312
Equal to 0.052 miles.
Feet.
Total in all sewers 260,820^
Equal to 49.398 miles.
The following shows the amount of concrete laid for the city
in 1893 by the Charles H. Robie Company, under the direction
of the street and park commission. The measurements relating
thereto have been made by this department, and rendered as
vouchers for the same :
200
ANNUAL, OFFICIAL REPORTS.
STREET CROSSINGS.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price
pr. yd
Total
cost.
Aclams, at Appleton (2)
57.07
30.22
22.00
45. S6
17. 7S
17.33
10.67
17.78
32.90
17.78
30.58
17.24
52.80
29.33
80.73
34.00
18.67
m.oo
17.05
19.64
17.78
91.95
29.51
16.20
67.38
29.42
16.80
27.46
24.89
17.78
29.77
27.55
28.98
16.62
16.22
29.60
58.22
61.33
17.77
61.90
61.33
30.67
61.33
60.44
13.33
26.67
145.70
32.98
17.78
17.78
29.87
17.78
30.58
30.22
33.78
$0.75
"75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.37
.75
!75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.37
.75
.75
.75
.75
.37
.75
.75
.75
.37
.75
.75
.75
.75
75
.37
.75
.37
.75
.75
.37
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
$42.80
22.67
Arlington, at Russell
16.50
Auburn, at Elm
34.39
Bay east back, at Salmon
13.34
Beecb east back, at Gore
13.00
Blodget, at Pine
8.00
Bloclget south back, at Pine
13.34
Briilge, at Russell
24.67
13.33
Central, at Chestnut
22.94
12.94
Chestnut, at Brook
19.54
22.00
Concord, at Chestnut
60.65
Concord square .. .
25.50
Dubuque east back, at Amory
14.00
Elm, at Welch avenue
42.00
12.79
Franklin west back, at Central
Hanover south back, at Union ....
14.73
13.34
68.97
High, at Chestnut
22.13
High, at Pine east back
12.15
Laurel, at Chestnut (2)
50.53
10.89
Liberty, at Salmon
20 60
Liberty east back, at Webster
13.33
Lowell, at Birch
Lowell, between Pine and Union
20 66
Lowell north back, at Chestnut
6.00
Main, at Mast
22 20
Maple, at Spruce (2)
43 67
Myrtle, at Chestnut (2)
North, at Elm east back
13 33
North, at Chestnut (2)
46 43
Orange, at Chestnut
23 00
Pine, at Pearl (2)
Pine, at Pearl (2)
45 33
10.00
Prospect, at Chestnut (4)
109 28
24.74
Salmon south back, at Pine . . .
13.34
13.34
Union cast back, at Gore
13 33
Vallcv, at .lewett
22.94
Walnut, at Gore
22.66
25.34
Totals
1,922.80
$1,336.70
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
201
SIDEWALKS.
Adams, at Appleton
Amherst, at Vine
Beech, at St. Augustine's church .
Cartier, at No. 218
Chestnut, at H. F. Straw's
Chestnut, at Brook
Chestnut, near Webster
Concord square
Concord square
Elm, at Welch avenue
iranklin west back, at Central
Harrison, at Chestnut
Lake avenue, at Union
Laurel, at Chestnut
Laurel, at Maple
Laurel south back, at Maple
Liberty, at North
Lowell, between Pine and Union .
Lowell, at Union
Maple, at Merrimack
Merrimack square
Merrimack square
Merrimack south back, at Maple..
North, at Chestnut
Park square
Valley, at Jewett
West Webster, at railroad station .
13 83
242.47
1H5..5S
33.33
39.11
48.48
23.40
212.6.1
344. J4
18.70
2 18
14 04
13 33
85.. 53
26.73
3.01
12.23
.5.47
11.02
22.96
329.27
856 79
4.40
12.70
79.36
3.67
34.00
Price
pr. yd
$0.45
.20
.45
.45
.75
45
.45
.4.5
^45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.45
.25
.45
.45
Total
cost.
$5.77
48.49
52.44
15.00
29..33
21.82
10.53
95.69
86.03
8.41
fi.9S
0.32
6.00
38.49
12.03
0.90
5.50
2.46
4.96
10.33
148.17
214.20
1.98
5.72
19.84
1.65
15.30
ROADWAYS.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price
pr. yd.
Total
cost.
Amherst, at Vine
2,472.96
9.'i9.90
256.89
$0.45
1.00
.75
$1,112.83
939.90
192.67
Rimmon, at engine house
Totals
3,669.75
$2,245.40
202
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The following shows the amount of concrete laid for the city
in 1893, by the Charles H. Robie Company, under the direction
of the committee on lands and buildings and the cemetery
trustees :
Location.
City Hall
Rimmonstreet engine house
Rimmon-street engine house
Ripimon-street engine house basement
Spring-street schoolhouse
Webster-street engine house ■• —
Pine Grove Cemetery, Chessom avenue walk..
Pine Grove Cemetery, Chestnut avenue gutte.
Pine Grove Cemetery, Riverside avenue gutter
Valley cemetei-y
Valley cemetery
Valley cemeterj- ..
Totals
Square
Price
Total
yards.
pr. yd.
cost.
33.78
$0.25
$8.44
52.i.8S
.75
394.41
349.60
.45
157.32
(10.47
.45
4.71
30.2-2
.37
11.18
(42. 22
.25
10.56
230.10
.45
103.55
20.18
.75
15.14
58 2.T
.75
43.69
61.80
.75
46 35
256.70
..75
192.59
141.41
.25
35.35
86.69
.45
39.01
199.11
.75
149.33
2,046.41
Sl.211.63
The following shows the amount of concrete laid for the city
in 1893, by George F. Higgins, under the direction of the street
and park commission. The measurements relating thereto have
been made by this department and rendered as vouchers for the
same :
STREET CROSSINGS.
Belmont, at Auburn
Bridge, at Ashland (2)
Cedar, at Pine (3)
Cheney phice, at Elm
Concord, at Beech
Concord, at Beech
Elm east back, at Pearl
Elm west back, at Central
Hanover, at Hall (2)
Lake avenue south back, at Maple.
Maple, at Spruce (2)
McGregor, at Amory (4)
North, at Elm
North, at Chestnut
North, at Pine east back
Pine, at Lake avenue (3)
Spruce, at Pine
Spruce south back, at Maple
Union, at Brook
Square
Price
Total
yards.
pr. yd.
cost.
30.20
$0.75
$22.65
81.76
.75
61.32
88.97
.75
66.72
31.10
.75
23.32
30.20
.75
22.65
6.60
.75
4.95
17.70
.75
13.27
20 44
.45
9.19
86.50
.75
64.87
20.00
.75
15 00
76.58
.75
57.44
194.20
.75
145.67
18.00
.75
13.50
22.20
.45
9.99
17.70
.75
• 13.27
82.80
.75
62.11
29.77
.75
22.38
18.44
.75
13.83
32 00
.45
14.40
905.16
$656.48
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
SIDEWALKS.
203
Location.
Square
Price
yards.
pr. yd.
2.00
$0.45
16.50
.45
9.40
.45
141.33
.45
4;W.06
.45
11.00
.45
4.90
.45
10.00
.45
128.77
.45
4.47
.45
4.00
.45
3.30
.45
1.80
.45
24 04
.45
1.5.60
.45
19.60
.45
28.00
.45
854.77
Total
cost.
Amoskeag bridge, at west end.
Cedar, at Pine
Central, at Maple
Chestnut, at Patterson's block.
Concord square
Concord, at Beech
Elm east back, at Pearl
Laurel, at Maple
Maple, at Central
3IcGregor, at Amory
Merrimack, at Lincoln
North, at Elm
North, at Pine east back
Park square
Pine, at Lake avenue
Pine, at P. Haley's
Pine, at Nos. 241, 243, 245.
$0.90
7.43
4.23
63.59
193.53
4.95
2.20
4..')0
57.95
2.03
1.80
1.48
0.81
10.82
7.02
8.82
12.60
$384.66
ROADWAYS.
Amoskeag bridge, at west end
Chestnut, at Patterson's block
Merrimack, Beech to Maple. . .
Pine, at Spruce
Totals
Price Total
pr. yd. cost.
$14.06
156.38
1,713.33
113.95
$1,997.72
The following shows the amount of concrete laid for the city
in 1893, by George F. Higgins, under the direction of the com-
mittee on lands and buildings :
Square
yards.
Price j Total
pr. yd.i cost.
Varney schoolhouse.
$0.45
$63.09
204
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Summary.
CONCRETE LA.ID BY THE CHARLES H. ROBIE CO.
Square
yards.
Total cost.
1,922.80
2,607.33
3,669.75
2,046.41
$1,336.70
S68 34
Sidewalks
Totals
10,246.29
$5,662.07
CONCRETE LAID BY GEORGE F. HIGGINS.
Square
yards.
Crossings 905.16
Sidewalks 854.77
Roadways j 2,092.51
Miscellaneous 140.20
$656.48
384.66
1,997.72
63.09
Total concrete laid by the city, 14,238.93 sq. yds., $8,764.02.
SECOND-STREET BRIDGE.
Stone-work, in foundation, 2,300.23 cu. yds. . . $20,127.01
Piling, for foundation ...... 2,243.00
Steel superstructure ...... 26,687.36
Total $49>o57-37
Amount of fill, 12,428.11 cu. yds., at 19^ cents, $2,454.55.
KEPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
205
The following table gives the dimensions, material, and num-
ber of spans of the various bridges within the city limits :
Location.
Length
in
feet.
Width
of
roadway
1
No. of
walks.
Width
of
walks.
Material.
i^
Amoskeag
765.5
57
1,085
36
38
20
21
25
16.5
56.3
465.7
32
41
70.5
38
14
59
53
30
16
6
62
127
12
100
6
20
22.5
24
30.5
20
17
20.5
17.5
29.5
33
37.3
26
21
16.7
20.8
18
20
20.5
24
30
20
16
32.5
32.5
22
17.5
16
1
2
2
5.5
7
6
Wood.
Iron.
Stone.
Wood.
Iron.
Wood.
Iron.
Wood.
Steel.
Wood.
Bridge st., McGregor and approaches.
3
2
Derry road, near Cohas avenue
Derry road, near town line
1
4.5
Front street, Black brook
2
2
6
5
Granite street, at river
Harvey road, at Great Cohas
Island Pond road, outlet to lake. . .
1
5
Mammoth road, near town line
Parker street, at railroad
2
6
River road, at Goffe's Falls
River road, at Little Cohas
River road, below J. Cheney's
Second street, at 'Squog river
Second street, at 'Squog river
2
2
8.7£
8.7E
Webster road at water-works dam . .
5
Weston road, east of D. Connor's. . .
1
bridges, 1; steel, 2; iron, 4; wood, 20; total, 27.
206
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
NEW HIGHWAYS LAID OUT IN 1893.
Location.
Ainsworth ave
Alfred
Alsace
Ash
Auburn
Barry ave i
Bartlett
Beech '
Beech
Benton
Boutwell
Byion
Cass
Clay
Colby
Conant
C3T)ress
Erie
Hayward to Young
Hanover to Amherst
Aniory northerly
Gore to Amosk'g Co.'s south line..
Cypress to Piatt's avenue
Lake avenue to Cedar
Putnam southerly
No. of Gore to Amosk'gCo.'s So. line
Webster to Clarke
Jones to James Hall road
Amory northerly
Brown avenue to Josselyn
Central to Laurel
Jt'wett to Cypress
West Hancock to Log
When Width iLength
laid out. in feet, in feet.
Eyeretc
Grant
Green
Grove
Hall
Hayward —
Hosley
Joliette
Jones
Josselyn
Kennedy
Lafayette —
Lavsll
Maple
Mast
Montgomery
Morgan
Monroe
Nelson
Oak
Passage-way .
Prescott
Piout ave —
Somerville ..
Taylor
Varney
Vinton
Wayne
Wentworth . .
Willow
Wilton
Hevej' to Montgomery
Auburn to Massabesic
South Main westerly
Amory southerly
Clarke to passageway
Hanover to Mammoth road
Pine to Beech
Pine to Beech
Lake avenue to Spruce
Aitis worth's land to Belmont
Summer to Grove
Amory northerly
Nelson to R. I. Stevens's land
Byron to Varney
Brown avenue to Josselyn
Amory northerly
Amory northerly
Gore to Amosk'g Co.'s south line..
Brigham's west line to Mast road.
Conant northerly
Amory to Kelley
West of Elm to River road
•1. Hall roa t to Mammoth road —
Harrison to Amosk'g Go's So. line
Elm to Everett . .
Wilson to Hall
Hayward southerly
Jewett to Young
Manning's south line to Vinton...
Josselyn to west of C. & M. R. R. . .
Taylor to Jewett
Dubuque westerly
West Hancock to Wolf and Wag-
ner's south line
Hayward to Nutt road
Main to Cartier
Aug. 31.
July 19.
May 26.
June 9.
June 9
Nov. 29,
Aug. 31,
June 9,
Nov. 29.
Aug. 31,
May 26,
Oct. 3,
Aug. 11
Aug. 31
Nov. 16
June 26,
July 19
June 30
Nov. 16
Aug. 15
Oct. 20,
Aug. 31
July 19
June 26.
Sept. 21,
Nov. 16.
May 26,
Aug. 31,
Oct. 3.
Sept. 21,
May 26,
May 26,
June 9.
Aug. 11
June 26
May 26,
INIay 26.
Aug. 31,
June 9.
Aug. 15.
June 26.
June 6,
Aug. 11.
Aug. 31.
Oct. 3.
Aug. 31,
June 26,
Sept. 21.
June 26,
June 26,
499
212
1,700
590
967
490
816
220
1,176
240
1,693
998
208
387
220
270
876
470
575
351
990
270
1,060
4a0
1,690
562
161
922
1,690
1.698
600
1,250
400
650
3.54
509
1,388
200
461
500
478
1,058
290
1,256
370
l,54e
292
575
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 207
STREETS LAID OUT TO DATE BUT NOT BUILT.
Street.
Length
in feet.
"When laid out.
Adams, Appleton to Clarke
Ainsworth avenue, Hayward to Young
Alfred, Hanover to Amherst
Allen, Main to Coynton
Alsace, Aniory northerly ,
Amory to Kimball
Amory extension lo Bartlett
Ash, Gore northerly ,
Auburn, Maple to Lincoln
Auburn, AVilson to Belmont ,
Auburn, Cypress to Piatt's avenue
B, Prince to C
Bartlett, Amory extension southerly
Beech, north of Gore
Beech. Webster to Clarke
Bell, Wilson easterly
Belmont. Young to Clay
Benton, Jones to James Hall road
Blaine, Second to Hiram
Boutwell, Amory northerly
Byron, Brown avenue to Josselyn
Campbell, Union to Ash
Canal, 82 feet north of Pleasant to Granite. . .
Canton, Spruce to Auburn
Cass, Central to Laurel
Cedar, Wilson easterly
Central, James Hall road westerly
Central south back, Wilson to Hall
Clay, Jewett to Cypress
Cleveland, Blaine to Merrimack river
Colby, West Hancock to Log
Columbus avenue
Conant, to ^Montgomery
Cypress, Lake avenue to Massabesic
Dartmouth, West Hancock to Frederick
Dearborn, Summer to Taylor
Dickey, Main to West Hancock
Dubuque, Conant northerly
Erie, South Main westerly
Essex, Amory southerly.
Everett, Clarke sontherij'
Forest, :\Iilf ord to Old Mast road
Glenwood avenue, Mammoth road to J.Crouin's
Grant, Hanover to Mammoth road
Green, Douglas northerly
Green, Pine to Beech
Green, Wilson to Belmont
Grove, Pine to Beech
Grove, Belmont to Wilson
Grove, Taylor westerly
Hall, Hayward to Y'oung
Hall, Lake avenue to Bell
Hall, Bridge to north side of Prospect
Harrison, Russell to Belmont
Harvard, Union to Maple
Hayward, Beech to Mammoth road
Hevey, Kelley to Columbus avenue
Highland park ave., Candia rd. to Glenwood ave
Hosley, Green to Summer ,
Huntress, Albert to north of Prince
Jewett, Cilley to Weston road
Joliette, Amory northerly
Jones, Nelson to R. 1. Stevens's land
Josselyn, Byron to Varney . .
Kelley, to M. & N. W. R. R
925
499
212
700
1,700
2,800
735
590
600
2.58
1,800
220
1,176
636
1,395
240
395
1,693
1,023
550
208
665
304
471
387
1,487
220
3,110
1,400
1,300
636
574
857
600
470
575
351
1,460
2,085
1,008
96
990
809
990
809
757
125
1,890
1,466
1,518
1,190
6,000
1,165
1,007
490
648
3,650
1,690
562
161
652
( June 27, 1889.
(July 26. 1S92.
August 31, 1893.
July 19, 1893.
July 24, 1891.
May 26, 1893.
November 17, 1891.
July 26, 1892.
June 9, 1893.
July 28, 1891.
August 15, 1892.
June 9, 1893.
January I5, 1S92.
July 26, 1892.
June 9, 1893.
November 29, 1893.
August 15, 1892.
September 1, 1891.
August 31, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
May 26, 1893.
October 3, 1893.
September 26, 1892.
January 15, 1892.
August 2, 1892.
August 11, 1893.
August 15, 1892.
July 6, 1892.
June 7, 1891.
August 31, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
November )6, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
I June 26, 1893.
December 28, 1892.
August 28, 1891.
Mav 2u, 1892.
August 28, 1891.
Mav 20, 1892.
Julie 20, 1893.
November 16, 1893.
August 15, 1893.
December 16, 1890.
December 28, 1892.
October 20, 1893.
July 28, 1891.
Augu.st31, 1893.
August 15, 1892.
July 19, 1893.
September 9, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
July 6, 1892.
June 23, 1893.
June 12, 1891.
October 25, 1892.
November 18, 1892.
September 21, 1893.
July 6, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
November 16, 1893.
September 18, 1891.
November 27, 1891.
May 26, 1893.
August 31, 1893.
October 3, 1893.
June 23, 1891.
208 ANNUAL OFFICIAL RErORTS.
STREETS LAID OUT TO DATE BUT NOT BUILT.— Continued.
Length
in feet.
When hiid out.
Kennedy, Brown avenue to Josselyn —
Knowlton, Hay ward southerly
Lafayette, Amory northerly
Laval, Aniorv northerly
Liberty, North southerly
Lincoln, Cedar to Shasta
Linden, Prospect to Harrison
Longwood ave., Mammoth rd. to Woodbine t
Maple, Auburn to Cilley road
Maple. Gore northt-rly
McDuffle, Boynton to Huntress
McKinnon, Central to Pleasant
McNeil, Second to West Hancock
Merrimack, Beacon to Hanover
Mil ford, Amherst road westerly
Mitchell, Beech to Brown avenue
Montgomery, Conaiit northerly
Alorgan, Amory to Kelley
Mystic avenue, Candia road northerly
Nelson, James Hall road to Mammoth road —
Oak, Gore northerly
Oakland avenue, A. W. Palmer's to J. Cronin's
Orchard avenue, Candia road to C. & P. R. R.. .
Page, Hanover to Bridge
Passageway, Elm to Everett
Prince, Boynton to Huntress
Prospect, Derry old line to Hall
Prout avenue. Hay ward southerly
Putnam, to Dubuque
Quincy, Douglas northerly . .
Revere avenue, Candia road to C. & P. R. R
Rimmon, Conant to Gates
Rimmon, to south of Wayne
Sagamore, Union to Walnut
Salmon, Pine to Walnut
Second, Blaine to Main
Silver, Union to Maple
Somerville, Union to Hall
Somerville, Jewett to Young
Stevens, Baker southerly
Summer, Wilson to Massabesic
Tavlor, to Vinton
Trenton, Elm to Union
Union, Auburn to Nult road
Varney, Josselyn to west of C. & M. R. R
Vinton. Tavlor to Jewett
Walnut, Gore to Webster ]
Wayhind avenue. Mammoth road to Revere ave
AVayne, Dubuque westerly
Wentworlli. West Hancock southerly
West Hancock, Merrimack river westerly
Wilkins, Rockland ave. to Bedford line
Willow, Hiiyward to Nutt road
Wilson, North line of C. & P. R. K- to Clay
Wilton, Main to Cartier
Woodbine avenue, Candia road to C. & P. R. R-.
Woodland ave., C. & P. R. R. to J as. Dearborn's.
9-2-2
4S7
1.H90
1,69S
150
4,3-21
•245
1,100
4.400
GOO
4.55
192
299
1,500
517
3,000
400
650
1,200
509
600
1,.500
1,337
2,500
200
.520
400
500
3on
96
1,200
4SS
1,190
2.925
47S
300
1,480
1,058
1,348
4,: 75
290
1,2,50
2,100
562
370
1,.546
700
595
292
1,800
575
1,290
770
September 21, 1S93.
November 27, 1891.
May 26, 1893.
May 26, 1893.
April 26, 1892.
May 20, 1892.
October 25, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
November 27, 1891.
June 9, 1893.
September 18, 1891.
June 7, 1892.
August 28, 1891.
July 28. 1891.
December 16, 1890.
( October 28, 1S90.
I November 29, 1892.
May 26, 1893.
May 26, 1893.
December 28, 1892.
August 21, 1893.
June 9, 1893.
December 28, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
June 19, 1889.
August 15, 1898.
September 18, 1891.
May 29, 1889.
June 6, 1893.
June .5, 1888.
July 28, 1891.
December 28, 1892.
October 27, 1891.
September 26, 1892.
August 28, 1891.
June 12, 1891.
September IS, 1S91.
June 7, 1892.
June 7, 1892.
August 11, 1892.
November 29, 1892.
September 22, 1891,
August 31. 1893.
May 20, i892.
October 2.5, 1892.
Octobers, 1893.
Augu.stSl, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
June 23, 1893.
September 21, 1893.
November 28, 1890.
July 6, 1892.
June 23, 1893.
July 26, 1892.
June 26, 1893.
December 28, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
Equaling 25.196 miles.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
209
The following summary, compiled from tables on file in this
office, shows the extent of territory covered by the city in the
various roads, streets, avenues, and parks, and gives a good idea
of the amount of work necessary to care for them :
Length of streets
Length of walks on streets
Length of roads
Length of walks on roads
Length of avenues.
Length of walks on avenues
Total length of streets, roads, and avenues.
Total length of walks on same
Length ot streets laid out but not huilt
Length of cobble paving
Length of block paving
Length of coal tar concrete
Length of macadam
Length of Telford
Total length of improved streets
105.320
127.080
61.250
0.897
7.870
6.280
174.440
134. 2B0
25.196
0.515
1.873
1.677
4.363
5.018
13.446
Area of city, 21,700 acres or 33.906 square miles.
Area of Derryfield park
Area of Stark park
Area of Concord square
Area of Hanover square
Area of Merrimack square
Area of Park square
Area of Tremont square
Total area of parks
Total area of squares .
Acres.
68.00
30.00
4.48
3.00
5-89
3-49
2.25
98.00
19. II
!10
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SUMMARY OF SEWERAGE SYSTEM SINCE
YEAR.
li
II
-a
1
s
k
.2-n
S6
11
§1
O fH
i
o
1S80
1.62
2.18
3.37
2.54
1.73
1.56
2.15
1.44
1.73
l.Sl
3.08
3.13
3.31
18.66
20.84
24.21
23.75
28.48
30 04
32.19
33.63
35.36
38.02
39.83
42.91
46.04
49.35
$19,919.40
23,895.12
24,148.13
21,452.05
21,548.60
18S1 . ...
X885
28,122.84
44,479.15
1886
31,154.19
1889
64
153
214
191
2,003
2,067
2,220
2,434
2.625
27,513.73
39,297.97
55,409.73
39,724.65
1890
1893
51,392.15
Total cost of sewei's for 14 years, $447,951.63.
In the year i888 a plan was made by the present city engineer
for a system of sewerage embracing the entire city, this being
the first comprehensive plan ever compiled for that purpose.
Since its adoption the majority of the sewers constructed have
followed this plan ; those that have not are only temporary, and
will have to be relaid when the growth of the city demands it.
Since i888 there have been 13.99 miles built, at a cost of
^213,338.23.
Orders.
The following orders have been written by this department
for the various committees :
An Order relative to Sewer Pipe.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 211
the mayor and joint standing committee on sewers and drains
be and they are hereby authorized to contract for such quanti-
ties of sewer pipe as in their judgment the city may require for
this year, and the expense thereof to be charged to the appro-
priation for sewers and drains.
Passed February 7, 1893.
An Order relative to Second-Street Bridge.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be authorized
to have specifications prepared, call for proposals, and award the
contract for building a bridge over the Piscataquog river at Sec-
ond street, and that the expense thereof be charged to the ap-
propriation for Second-street bridge.
Passed March 7, 1893.
An Order to dispose of four Horses.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be and are
hereby authorized to dispose of the four old horses in use by the
street department of district No. 2.
Passed March 7, 1893.
An Order to purchase Supplies for District No. 2.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be and are
hereby authorized to purchase for the use of district No. 2 four
horses, a sprinkler, and a set of double harnesses, that the cost
of said horses not to exceed $200 each, and the expense thereof
to be charged to the appropriation for incidental expenses.
Passed March 7, 1893.
212 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on sewers and drains
be and are hereby authorized to construct certain sewers as
follows :
From present sewer in Beauport and Conant streets, thence
westerly in Conant to Cartier.
From Conant and Dubuque-street sewer, thence northerly in
Dubuque to the north line of Gates.
From Conant street, thence northerly in Cartier to the foot of
the bluff.
From Main and Schuyler streets, thence westerly to Beauport
through Schuyler.
From Mast street, thence southerly through Riddle to Milford.
All according to the city's plan of sewers, and the expense
thereof to be charged to the appropriation for sewers and drains.
Passed April 4, 1893.
An Order to build Certain Streets.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be and are
hereby authorized to build certain streets, as follows :
Dearborn street, from Sumner to Taylor.
Chestnut street, from Amherst south back to Amherst, as laid
out by the board of aldermen.
And the expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation
for new streets.
Passed April 4, 1893.
AN Order to build Certain Highways.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 213
the board of street commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build certain streets, as follows :
Union street, from Auburn southerly to Nutt road.
Auburn street, from Wilson easterly to Belmont.
Trenton street, from Elm easterly to Union.
Harrison street, from Russell easterly to Belmont.
Cypress street, from Lake avenue southerly to Auburn street.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
new streets.
Passed May 2, 1893.
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and sewer commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build certain sewers, as follows :
In Summer street, from Belmont easterly about 552 feet.
In Arlington street, from Ashland easterly, about 200 feet.
In Porter street, from Amherst northerly, about 250 feet.
In Chestnut east back street, from North northerly, about 300
feet.
In Gore street, from the present sewer easterly, about 270 feet.
In Ash east back street, from Gore southerly, about 270 feet.
In Walnut east back street, from Gore northerly, about 300
feet.
In Ash east back street, from present sewer northerly, about
100 feet.
In Orange south back street, to relay, about 200 feet from east
of Chestnut westerly.
In Amherst street, from Union easterly to Ashland.
To build a sewer from Spruce street near Belmont about 200
feet north.
In Kelley street, from present sewer westerly to Hevey east
back.
In Hevey east back street, from Kelley southerly to Amory.
214 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
In Myrtle street at Belmont, thence westerly'to a point about
200 feet west of Hall ; also from Myrtle street southerly through
the ravine to the Bridge-street sewer.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
sewers and drains.
Passed May 2, 1893.
An Order to build a Sewer.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on sewers and drains be
and are hereby authorized to rebuild a sewer as follows : In South
Main street from Piscataquog river to Conant street, according
to the city's plan of sewers ; and the expense thereof be charged
to the appropriation for sewers and drains.
Passed May 2, 1893.
An Order to macadamize Turner^Street.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street commissioners be and are hereby authorized to macad-
amize Turner street, in West Manchester, fromTGranite street to
Turne Hall, and the expense thereof be charged to the appropri-
ation for macadamizing.
Passed May 2, 1893.
An Order to macadamize Ikauport Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and sewer commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to macadamize Beauport street from Adams street to Sullivan
street, and the expense thereof be charged to the appropriation
for macadamizing.
Passed May 2, 1893.
REPORT OP THE CITY ENGINEER. 215
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grades as shown on the following plans be and are hereby es-
tablished as the grades for said streets :
Walnut street, from Gore to Webster, plans 892, 893.
Green street, from Granite to the Amoskeag Company's line,
plan 347.
Canton street, from Lake avenue to Auburn street, plan 727.
Passed May 2, 1893.
An Order to erect a Combination Watering- trough on Hanover
Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street commission be and are hereby authorized to erect
a combination drinking fountain and watering-trough on Hano-
ver street, between Ashland and Hall streets, and that the ex-
pense thereof be charged to the appropriation for incidental ex-
penses.
Passed May 23, 1893.
An Order to build a Sewer.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and sewer commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build a sewer in Lake avenue from a point opposite the old
Park-street schoolhouse, thence westerly to the Elm-street sewer,
a distance of about 200 feet, and the expense thereof be charged
to the appropriation for sewers and drains.
Passed June 6, 1893.
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
216 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
the grades as shown on the plan of South Main street from Mil-
ford street to Boynton street be established ; that the grade on
Elrri street be changed from what was established in 1881 by the
board of aldermen to the grade as shown on plan No. 52, said
plans being on file in the city engineer's office, and therefore that
said grades as shown be and are hereby established as the grades
for said streets.
Passed June 6, 1893.
An Order to build Certain Streets.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build certain streets as follows :
Shasta street, from Beech to Lincoln.
Maple street, from Lake avenue to Cilley road.
Canton street, from Lake avenue to Auburn street.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for new
highways.
Passed June 19, 1893.
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grade as shown on a plan of Maple street, from Lake avenue
to Cilley road, the same being on file in the city engmeer's
office, be and hereby is established as the grade for said street.
Passed June 19, 1893.
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build certain sewers as follows :
In Jewett street, from terminus of present sewer to Young.
In Dickey street, from West Hancock to South Main.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 217
in Kelley street, from Hevey east back to Joliette.
In Hevey east back street, from Amory to the boulevard.
In Monroe street, from River road to Elm.
In River road, from Webster northerly to Clarke.
In Salmon south back, from present terminus easterly about
ICO feet.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
sewers and drains.
Passed July lo, 1893.
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grades as shown on the following plans, on file in the city
engineer's office, be and are hereby established as the grades for
said streets :
Central street, from the Hall road westerly, 304 feet, plan
987.
Central street, from Beacon to Cass, plan 704.
And for changing the grade as established on Pine street to
the grade as shown on plans 94, 95, and 96, in said office.
Passed July 10, 1893.
An Order to concrete Chestnut Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized to
concrete Chestnut street, from the south side of Merrimack to the
south side of Auburn, and that the matter of macadamizing or
concreting roadbed be left to street and park commissioners, and
the expense thereof be charged to the appropriation for mac-
adamizing.
Passed July 10, 1893.
218 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
An Order to purchase Horses.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department be
and are hereby authorized to purchase a pair of horses for the use
of the fire department, and the expense thereof be charged to
the appropriation for the fire department.
Passed August i, 1S93.
An Order to estabhsh the grade of Hevey Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grade as shown on a plan of Hevey, from Kelley street
southerly to the boulevard, be and is hereby established as the
grade for said street.
Passed August i, 1893.
An Order to build Second Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build Second street, from Cleveland to South Main, and the
expense thereof be charged to the appropriation for new streets.
Passed September 5, 1893.
An Order to build Beech Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commission be and are hereby authorized to
build Beech street, from Gore northerly to the north line of the
Tilton land, and the expense thereof be charged to the appro-
priation for new streets.
Passed September 5, 1893.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 219
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build certain sewers, as follows :
In Dearborn street, from Summer to Taylor.
In Mast street, from present sewer westerly about 200 feet.
In Conant street, from Rimmon street west to Montgomery,
thence north in Montgomery 200 feet.
In Front street, from the hotel southerly to the eddy.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
sewers and drains.
Passed September 5, 1893.
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grades as shown on plan No. 76 in city engineer's office, and
established by vote, March 6, 1883, as the grade of said street, be
changed to conform to the lines as shown on said plan and rec-
ommended by the committee on streets by vote, September 20,
1893, and said new lines shall be the established grade of said
street.
Also, that the grade, as shown on plan of Bartlett street on file
in said office, be and is hereby made the established grade of
said Bartlett street, from Putnam to south of Sullivan.
Also, that the grade, as shown on the plan of Harvard street,
from Beech to Maple, be and is hereby made the established
grade of Harvard street.
Passed September 21, 1893.
An Order to build a Sewer.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
220 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
to build a sewer from Lake avenue sewer northerly through the
ravine to Merrimack street, as laid out by the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen, and the expense thereof be charged to the appro-
priation for sewers and drains.
Passed September 21, 1893.
An Order to build Certain Streets.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to build Harvard street from Union easterly to Maple, and the
expense thereof be charged to the appropriation for new streets.
Passed September 21, 1893.
An Order to establish the Grade of Rimmon Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grade as shown on plan No. 9 A in the city engineer's office
of Rimmon street from Amory, and thence in a southerly direc-
tion 785 feet, be and is hereby made the established grade of said
street.
Passed October 3, 1893.
An Order to procure Plans, Specifications, and build South
Main-street Bridge.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to procure plans, specifications, receive bids, and report back to
the city councils for a new bridge at South Main street to replace
the present bridge, the new structure to be fifty feet wide, and the
expense thereof be charged to the permanent improvement loan.
Passed November 7, 1893.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 221
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commission be and are hereby authorized to
build certain sewers as follows :
Laurel- street sewer from Hall to Beacon street.
In Liberty east back street, from Webster southerly, 225 feet.
A sewer from present sewer in Canal and Pennacook streets,
thence easterly to Union east back and North streets.
From Elm and Valley streets easterly to Belmont and Valley.
For Cass-street sewer, from Lake avenue to Central, thence
westerly in Central about 100 feet.
Passed November 7, 1893.
An Order to concrete Elm East Back Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to concrete Elm east back street, from Hanover southerly to Man-
chester, and the expense thereof be charged to the appropriation
for macadamizing.
Passed November 7, 1893.
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the grade as shown on the following plans on file in the city engi-
neer's office be and is hereby made the established grade of said
streets.
Of Grove street, from Pine to Beech.
Of Lowell street, from Ashland to Mammoth road.
That the grade as shown on plan No 67 of Myrtle street, and
dated December 5, 1882, be changed as shown on said plan.
Passed November 7, 1893.
SZZ ANNUAL. OFFICIAL REPORTS.
An Order to macadamize Spruce Street,
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, that
the street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized
to macadamize Spruce street from Wilson to Massabesic, and the
expense thereof be charged to the appropriation for macadamiz-
ing.
Passed November^;, 1893.
An Order to establish Certain Grades.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur, that the
grades as shown on plans Nos. 54 and 154 of Chestnut and Ap-
pleton streets, and passed by the city councils August 4, 1885,
be changed to conform to the new lines on said plans.
Also that the grades as shown on the plans of Byron, Josselyn*,
Varney, and Kennedy streets be and are hereby made the estab-
lished grades of said streets, said plans being on file in the city
engineer's department.
Passed November 7, 1893.
An Order to build the Concord-street Sewer.
Ordered, If the Board'of Common Council concur, that the
street and park commissioners be and are hereby authorized to
build an extension to the Concord-street sewer from its present
terminus near Maple street easterly about 150 feet towards But-
ton street, and the expense thereof be charged to the appropria-
tion for sewers and drains.
Passed November 7, 1893.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 223
The report of last year contained the following regarding sub-
urban highways and city streets that will bear repeating :
"SUBURBAN HIGHWAYS.
" The matter of defining and establishing the boundary lines of
the suburban highways still remains unsettled. Each succeeding
year is making it more difficult to re-trace and re-locate old
points, and it is but a question of time when they will be entirely
destroyed, and the correct lines become a doubtful quantity. On
many of the roads the abuttors are constantly encroaching upon
city land, thoughtlessly, perhaps, but still with each successive
improvement taking in more and more of the highway. It has
been the aim of this department to secure what data could be
had in relation to these roads, and mark the lines as fast as pos-
sible, but regular work has prevented any systematic attempt to
straighten matters out. This is a very important item, and should
receive immediate attention by providing means for a complete
survey of all the outlying roads while the points still remain.
" It hardly seems good judgment, in view of the rapid growth of
the city and the constantly increasing traffic, to narrow a four-
rod road to a fifty-foot street whenever the bounds are estab-
lished. This has been done in the past, but should not be the
future policy.
" The same may be said this year as has been said in previous
reports in regard to laying out streets twenty-five, thirty, or thirty-
five feet wide. This evil still exists, and will continue to exist so
long as there are land owners who care for nothing but to sell
every inch of land possible, regardless of whether the adjoining
streets are of sufficient width to accommodate traffic or not. We
have streets in the city, dignified by the name of avenues, where
it is impossible to turn a truck team or dray without .running
upon the sidewalks. This method of dividing land is advanta-
geous to property owners, but scarcely in keeping with modern
ideas.
224 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
" There are those, however, who keep abreast of the times, and,
recognizing the necessity of broad thoroughfares, have divided
their property accordingly. It would be better for the appear-
ance of the city if there were more of them,
" There is an urgent need of some action being taken looking
to regularity in setting apart land for streets, either by an ordi-
nance or by the appointment of a commission for that purpose.
As it is now, each land owner can put a street where he pleases,
regardless of how it compares with those adjoining as to direc-
tion or distance therefrom. By preparing a plan showing the
location of proposed streets, and compelling land owners to ad-
here to it, the city would be rid of the interminable jumble of
streets, lanes, and alleys running in all directions, confusing to
a stranger and detracting greatly from the beauty of the city and
the efficiency of the highways as means of communication.
" It is time this matter received serious attention, as each year
sees a material growth of the city in the outlying districts, and
a consequent addition of numerous narrow, crooked, and almost
useless highways called by the high-sounding name of avenues,
which are but monuments to some one's cupidity and avarice.
" Building new streets that have been laid out is quite an im-
portant matter, and one requiring the exercise of good judg-
ment. The idea is not how many yards can be built, but how
many can be built to last. It may not show up so well to an un-
thinking person, but it is more than folly to half do the work
and then have to go over it the next year and each succeeding
year. Far better to build one yard that will stand than ten that
it is impossible to haul a heavy load over.
"The practice in many cities is for the property owner who de-
sires a street through his land to build it to an established grade
before the city will accept it. They also require the land to be
given to, instead of being purchased by the city, sometimes at
exorbitant rates. They argue that as the owner derives the bene-
fit through the increased valuation of his land it is for his inter-
est to do so.
" Manchester is considerably behind the times in these two im-
portant features of economical city administration."
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 225
The sewers constructed thii- year have been under the direc-
tion of the street and park commission. The methods followed
have in the main been the same as in previous years, those
whose needs were most pressing being accommodated first.
As the plumbers and citizens in general become more familiar
with the revised ordinances relating to sewer entering, less
trouble is experienced. An improvement is also noted in the
number of returns made by plumbers. Last year out of two
hundred and fourteen permits issued, but eighty-nine returns
were made. This year one hundred and ninety-one permits
were granted and returns made of one hundred and forty-five
connections.
It would be good policy for the city to employ a competent
sewer inspector, whose duty should be to examine all connections
as they are made with the city sewers, and keep a record of the
same. He should also require the owners to show their permit
and license before allowing any work to be done. Many con-
nections are now made without permission or without paying
the entrance fee, and the city is a loser thereby. It is the inten-
tion of this department the coming season to see that the ordi-
nances are complied with in this respect.
The most important sewer constructed during the year on the
east side of the river has been the Auburn-street main. This
sewer connects with the Elm-street sewer, and is of brick, sixty
inches in diameter, to Willow street. From there it is of brick,
fifty by seventy-five inches in diameter, to Pine street. From
Pine street there is a 15-inch pipe to the back street. The re-
mainder of the sewer in Pine east back and Auburn south back
streets is of pipe, fifteen, twelve, and ten inches.
The Auburn-street sewer will act as a mam for part of the
southern section, and is designed to go as far east as Maple
street. In order to be low enough to properly drain that section
a cut of about twenty-seven feet was made between (Chestnut and
Pine streets, bringing the cost of the sewer considerably above
the average.
15
226 ANXUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
On the west side the Kelley-street main, a 20-inch pipe, has
been completed as far as Hevey east back street, with laterals on
the connecting back streets. This sewer is designed to extend
to the bluff near the Manchester & North Weare Railroad track,
a distance of about four thousand three hundred feet from Beau-
port street, necessitating a cut of twenty-six feet a portion of
the way.
The Barr-street sewer was laid through a ledge, the continua-
tion of that found last year, as was also a part of that on Conant
street. The work was slow and expensive, but urgently de-
manded by the residents of the section it drains.
The average cost per foot in district No. 2 has been ^2.51,
and that in district No. 10 has been ^2.60.
The average cost per foot in 1892 was $2.01.
In the twenty thousand eight hundred eighty-two feet of
sewers there were built eighty-four manholes and six lampholes ;
one hundred and eight cesspool connections were put in, besides
the Y branches, for nine hundred and seventy-six house con-
nections.
The number of cesspools built and repaired, their cost, and
the cost of repairs on sewers, together with other details regard-
ing sewer work, will be found in the report of the street and
park commission.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
227
The following sewers have been ordered in by vote of the city
councils, but have not been constructed :
Street.
Location.
Date ordered
Length
in feet.
May 2, 1893.
Sept. .5, 1893.
Sept. 6, 1887.
July 10, 1893.
Sept. 5, 1893.
May 2, 1893.
July 10,1893.
July 10,1893.
July 10, 1893.
June 6, 1893.
Nov. 7, 1893.
Nov. 7, 1893.
May 2, 1893.
Sept. 5, 1893.
Oct. 6, 1891
July 10, 1893.
Sept. 5,1893.
May 2, 1893.
Nov. 7, 1893.
May 2, 1893.
July 5, 1892.
July 10,1893.
July 5, 1892.
Nov. 7, 1893.
July 5, 1892.
July 5, 1892.
Sept. 21, 1893.
Extension to Montgomery —
Hall easterly
West Hancock to South Main.
Eddy to north of hotel
Myrtle to Mead I
Hall and Mead to Bridge ( •••■
Kellej- to Columbus avenue.. .
Extension to Young..
600
Dickey
850
Tbrough ravine
Hevey east baclc
Jewett.
2,050
1,500
1,200
1,.500
150
Kelley
Hall to Beacon
800
Liberty east back
Main
Mast
Granite to Piscataquog river.
Extension westerly
1,100
200
Monroe
Montgomery
Myrtle
Pennacook
Portei" ....
River road to Elm
500
Hall east and west
600
Canal to Union east back
Amherst northerly
3,000
250
Prospect
River road
Russell to Hall
1,250
1,300
400
Webster to Clarke
JbJlaine to Hiram ..
Valley
Webster
Elm to Belmont
Walnut to Beech ..
4,900
270
1 000
Wilson Hill
Central to Merrimack
550
Total
30,195
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SEWERS AND DRAINS.
Following is the report of the committee on sewers and
drains, prepared by the city engineer as clerk of the committee :
Manchester, N. H., December 30, 1S93.
Gentlemen of the City Councils :
The committee appointed by your honorable board to act as
the joint standing committee on sewers and drains would submit
the following report of the work done by them the present year:
At the opening of the season there were twenty-six orders for
sewers already voted in but not built; of these fourteen have
been completed and three partly completed- During the year
forty-one orders have received favorable action, and out of this
number seventeen have been built. At the present time there
are orders for thirty-four sewers which have passed your board
but which have not been constructed, and three that have been
partially constructed.
The committee has held sixteen meetings, as follows : Febru-
ary 10; March 3, 10, 11, 28; April 4, 19; May 18, 23; June
14, July 7, August 8, September 20, October 20, 27; November
I ; and considered thirty-one petitions.
Contracts for sewer-pipe for the year were awarded as follows :
Portland Stone Ware Company, by E. B. Winslow, twenty-two
per cent of the regular list price per foot for all sizes up to 18-
inch ; twenty-five per cent of the regular list price -per foot for
20-inch and 24-inch. George D. Goodrich, twenty-two and one
half of the regular list price per foot on all sizes, with an addi-
tional two per cent from the net of bills for ten days' cash.
Five reports were sent in to the city councils, recommending
the passage of orders authorizing the building of sewers voted in
during the year. These orders will be found in the list of orders
written by the city engineer's department.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 229
The following is a list of the petitions referred to the commit-
tee and the action taken on them. The dates of the passage of
the orders to build the same will be found in the engineer's re-
port of orders written for presentation to the city councils :
Cartier street, from Conant and Cartier, thence northerly in
Cartier, to foot of bluff. Patrick Kean. Committee voted to
submit an order to build, March 27.
Conant street, from present sewer in Conant at Beauport,
thence westerly toward Cartier, through Conant. Fred Leining.
Committee voted to submit an order to build, March 27.
Dubuque street, from Conant and Dubuque, thence northerly
in Dubuque, to north line of Gates. Herman Poehlman.
Committee voted to submit an order to build, March 27.
Riddle street, from Mast and Riddle, thence southerly to Mil-
ford, according to city's plan of sewers. Clinton H. Bixby.
Committee voted to submit an order to build, March 27.
Schuyler street, from the sewer in Main, thence westerly to
Beauport, through a street known on Amoskeag Manufacturing
Company's plans as Schuyler street. J. A. Schricker. Commit-
tee voted to submit an order to build, March 27.
Arlington street, thence easterly to Morrison, 200 feet. J. F.
Barrett. Committee voted to submit an order to build. May i.
Chestnut east back street, from the end of the Chestnut east
back sewer north of North, thence northerly in Chestnut east
back. O. D. Knox. Committee voted to submit an order to
build. May i.
Gore and Ash east back streets, from present sewer in Gore,
thence easterly in Gore, 270 feet, to Ash east back, thence south-
erly in Ash east back, about 200 feet. Michael Lyons. Com-
mittee voted to submit an order to build. May i.
Myrtle and Hall streets, from Belmont at Myrtle, thence
westerly in Myrtle to a point about 200 feet west of Hall, thence
southerly through the same to the Bridge-street sewer. Mead,
230 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Mason & Co. Committee voted to submit an order to build
and the same to include to Harrison, May i.
Porter street, from the intersection of Amherst and Porter,
thence northeasterly in Porter for a distance of 250 feet. S. S.
Piper. Committee voted to submit an order to build, May i.
Summer street, from Belmont, thence easterly 552 feet in Sum-
mer. A. N. Fosdick. Committee voted to submit an order to
build, May i.
Walnut street, from Gore and Walnut, thence northerly about
300 feet, to drain the lots on the easterly side of Walnut.
Charles L. Carpenter. Committee voted to submit an order to
build, May i.
A and B streets, commencing at the manhole at the intersec-
tion of A and B, and thence in a northerly direction, 150 feet.
Hannah Stevens. Committee voted to submit an order to build,
June 29.
Dickey street, commencing at West Hancock and Dickey,
and thenre in a westerly direction in Dickey, to South Main, ac-
cording to the city plan of sewers. Peter Kean. Committee
voted to submit an order to build, June 29.
Hevey east back street, commencing at Kelley, and thence in
- a southerly direction in Hevey east back, to the boulevard near
Wayne, being Hevey east back sewer as proposed. Xavier
Roberge. Committee voted to submit an order to build, June 29.
Jewett street, commencing at the sewer in Jewett, and thence
in a southerly direction to Young. Frank A. Smith. Commit-
tee voted to submit an order to build, June 29.
Kelley street, commencing at present terminus in Kelley, near
Dubuque, and thence in a westerly direction to Joliette, in Mc-
Gregorville. The Rimmon Manufacturing Company, by Charles
C. Hayes. Committee voted to submit an order to build,
June 29.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 231
Liberty east back street, from North northerly to Webster, in
the back street between Liberty and Union. George L. Read.
Committee voted to defer action, June 29.
Monroe street, commencing at the western terminus of Mon-
roe, and thence in an easterly direction to Elm. C. B. Little-
field. Committee voted to submit an order to build, June 29.
River road, commencing at the present sewer in River road,
at Webster street, and thence in a northerly direction in River
road to Clarke street, according to city plan of sewers. J. C.
Ray. Committee voted to submit an order to build, June 29.
Salmon south back street, commencing at the present terminus
of the sewer in Salmon south back, and thence in an easterly
direction about 100 feet. C. B. Sturtevant. Committee voted
to submit an order to build, June 29.
Adams street, commencing at Clarke and Adams and thence
in a southerly direction in Adams to the south line of the Liver-
more land. W. C. Wilson. Action deferred to secure right of
way through Livermore land, August 30.
Conant and Montgomery streets, commencing at Conant and
Rimmon, thence westerly in Conant to Montgomery, and thence
in a northerly direction in Montgomery about 200 feet. Brid-
get Twohey. Committee voted to submit an order to build,
August 30.
Dearborn street, commencing at the proposed sewer in Sum-
mer, through a highway called Dearborn, and thence in a south-
erly direction to Taylor. G. W. Dearborn. Committee
voted to submit an order to build, August 30.
Elm west back street, commencing at Market and Elm west
back, and thence in a northerly direction to Water, through Elm
west back. New Hampshire Trust Co. Referred to street and
park commissioners, August 30.
Front street, Amoskeag, commencing at the old hotel in Am-
oskeag, or beyond, and thence in a southerly direction to the
eddy, with branches as required in the Amoskeag tenement side
232 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Streets. Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, by H. F. Straw,
agent. Committee voted to submit an order to build from the
hotel to the eddy, August 30.
Mast street, from the present terminus of the Mast-street
sewer, thence westerly about 200 feet, according to the city's
plan of sewers. E. Richards. Committee voted to submit an
order to build, August 30.
Union east back street, commencing at Sagamore in Union
east back, and thence in a northerly direction to Salmon. J. E.
Floyd. Referred to street and park commissioners, August 30.
Pennacook street, commencing at the present sewer in Canal
and Pennacook, and thence in an easterly direction to the inter-
section of Union east back and North. Harrison H. Cole.
Committee voted to submit an order to build, November 3.
Liberty east back street, commencing at 225 feet from Web-
ster, in Union and Liberty back streets, and thence in a northerly
direction to the Webster-street sewer. C. H. Gile. Committee
voted to submit an order to build, November 3.
Valley street, commencing at the corner of Belmont and Val-
ley, and thence in a westerly direction down Valley, towards
Elm, to connect with the sewer already laid in Valley. Napo-
leon Bournival. Committee voted to submit an order to build,
November 3.
This comprises all that has come within the province of the
committee on sewers and drains and is respectfully submitted.
Alderman CHRISTIAN L. WOLF, Chairman,
Alderman JOHN P. CRONIN,
Councilman GEORGE E. HEATH,
Councilman HARRY E. WEBSTER,*
Councilman DAVID H. BURBANK,*
Councilman WILLIAM G. LANDRY,
Comwittee ofi Sewers and Drains.
W. H. Bennett,
Clerk of Committee.
♦Webster resigned and Burbank placed on cominittee November 7.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STREETS.
The first annual report of the committee on streets, prepared
by the city engineer as clerk of the committee, is herewith pre-
sented :
Manchester, N. H., December 30, 1893.
Gentlemen of the City Councils:
The committee appointed by your honorable board to act as
the joint standing committee on streets would submit the follow-
ing report of the work done by them and under their direction
the present year :
The committee has held sixteen meetings, as follows : Febru-
ary 10; March 3, 10, 11, 28; Apr^l 4, 19 ; May 18, 23; June 14,
July 7, August 8, September 20, October 20, 27; November 1.
Number of petitions received, 54 ; granted a hearing, 45 ; re-
ferred to street and park commission, 5 ; deferred until grade
was established, i ; given leave to withdraw, 2. Number of or-
ders presented for building streets, 13 ; for macadamizing, 3 ; for
concreting, 2.
The only work the committee has had charge of, as superin-
tendents, until its completion, was the Second-street bridge.
This work is described in detail in the following specifications
sent out March 11, 1893, ^o various bridge companies. These
specifications also include the agreement and contract which
were signed by the successful bidders after the work was let.
Proposals for Second-street Bridges.
Sealed proposals will be received by the city clerk, addressed
I
N. P. KIDDER, City Clerk,
City Hall, Manchester, N. H.
234 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
PROPOSALS FOR SECOND-STREET BRIDGES.
Until 2 (two) o'clock p. m. of Tuesday, March 28, 1S93, for the
sub and super structure of two bridges across the Piscataquog
river at Second street, according to the accompanying drawings
and specifications.
Bids for the sub-structure and for the superstructure to be
made separately.
Proposals for superstructure must be accompanied by strain
sheets, showing strains and proposed sections, also general detail
drawings, showing method of construction.
Proposals for the sub-structure shall be per yard and shall cover
all foundation and other work.
Each bid to be accompanied by certified check, payable to the
city treasurer of Manchester, N. H., in the sum of twenty-five
hundred dollars (^2,500) each for sub and super structure, as a
guaranty that the successful bidder will enter upon the contract
according to his proposal within five days from the time contract
is awarded.
Upon the execution of contract, bonds will be required in the
sum often thousand dollars ($10,000) for each part of the work
for the faithful performance of the contract.
The right to reject any or all bids is reserved.
EDGAR J. KNOWLTON,
Mayor.
Alderman Byron Worthen, Chairman,
Alderman Sam C. Lowell,
Councilman George E. Heath,
Councilman Charles H. Harvey,
Councilman Howard C. Holt,
Joint Standing Committee on Streets.
W. H. Bennett,
Clerk of Committee on Streets.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 235
Second-Street Bridge, Specifications for Sub-
Structure.
City Engineer's Office,
Manchester, N. H., March ii, 1893.
Specifications to build stone retaining walls and abutments at
Second street across Piscataquog river according to the accom-
panying plans, and as will be shown on the ground by grade
stakes and measurements.
These specifications are and intend to cover that the contrac-
tor shall do all the work, furnish all materials and supplies, in-
cluding the tools and forms, and complete the work, as shown on
the plans, to the full acceptance of the committee, and the city
engineer shall superintend the same to its completion.
All excavating to be done by the contractor to such grades as
are given on plans or on the ground to solid bottom, as required
by the superintendent in charge, and do all back filling, no back
filling to be done until the masonry has been inspected and pro-
nounced ready for back filling by the engineer.
All stone to be good solid ledge stone ; all stone in foundation
or footing courses to be large size quarry stone laid close, and
firmly, solidly, and carefully laid in courses of not less than
twelve inches thick and of the same dimensions as for the abut-
ment walls.
No pinners are allowed in face of \vall, the footing course to
be laid in good, strong hydraulic cement mortar.
Walls to be laid upon footing courses to such dimensions and
lines as indicated on the plans and shown on the ground.
All walls of abutments or wing walls and footing courses shall
be first-class masonry laid in courses, of good quarry stone laid in
cement mortar and squared to joints, beds, and faces.
The stone breaking joints at least twelve inches, and with at
least one header for every three stretchers.
No stone shall be used in the face of the wall less than twelve
inches thick, nor less than twelve inches on its least horizontal
dimensions.
236 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
All headers to run clear through wall unless otherwise directed
by the engineer.
No pinners allowed on face of wall.
The engineer may, upon the inspection of the work or the
stock, require the contractor to discard and take out any work
which may not be up to the quality called for or of the dimen-
sions required, and replace the same by such stone or stones as
shall be suitable and the same acceptable to the engineer.
The accompanying plans are made a part of these specifica-
tions, and the dimensions and distances on the same are drawn
to scale, and are also a part of the specifications.
The depths, as shown on these plans, are such that it is ex-
pected to find suitable bottom for the foundation.
The dimensions and cross sections are shown in plan for all
distances.
The bridge seat will be made of size and dimensions as shown
on plans, and the top cut to receive the superstructure.
The granite coping to be of the dimensions shown and laid to
conform to the lines and grades given, and broken to line on
back next to sidewalk, and on bottom, face, and top.
Mortar to be best hydraulic cement mortar, made by mixing
the best American hydraulic cement and clean sharp sand, in
proportion of one part cement to two parts of sand, and only
enough water for mixing the same to a thick paste.
The utmost care will be required in this cement work that it
shall not be mixed so as to allow of its setting before using upon
the work, and every space shall be thoroughly filled with mortar.
It is the intent of these specifications to insure a first-class sub-
structure in every respect, and no omissions therefrom or inter-
pretation thereof shall be construed to admit anything not up to
this standard.
Ail questions arising as to the interpretation of these specifica-
tions, or regarding the execution of the work under them, shall
be referred to the city engineer.
The work to be begun within ten (lo) days after signing con-
tract, and completed on or before Saturday, the fifteenth day of
July- 1893.
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General Specifications for a bridge over Piscataquog
River, at Second Street, Manchester, N. H.
The crossing will extend from station 4 on Cleveland street to
station 10 plus 60, as per accompanying profile, and will consist
of two iron spans over the river, upon masonry foundations, an
earth fill across the island, and an earth fill approach on city side.
The bridge to consist of two spans, one "through" span of
122 feet clear between abutments, and one "deck" span of 57
feet clear. The "through" span to be on a skew of 65 degrees
(the face of the masonry making an angle of 65 degrees with the
axis of the bridge), the " deck " span to be square. Each bridge
to have a width of 50 feet over handrails, a roadway of 32 feet
clear between guards, and two sidewalks of equal width.
The floor system of the iron spans for both roadway and side-
walks will be constructed of a permanent character, the use of
wood being excluded.
The roadway shall be cambered transversely four inches in
center, and scuppers of cast iron put in at outer edge of roadway
at intervals of not over 30 feet. These shall be long enough to
project below the roadway floor and be flush with top surface.
The sidewalks shall be arranged so that the outer edge will be
one inch lower than the inner edge, to provide rapid drainage.
The sidewalks shall, where they adjoin the roadway, have a
greater elevation than that of roadway of at least four inches,
and be edged with an efficient iron-shod guard rail.
A substantial fence of an ornamental pattern, measuring 4
feet above top of floor, shall be placed on outside of all side-
walks, and at each end of spans the fence shall terminate in orna-
mental cast-iron newel posts of appropriate pattern.
METAL STRUCTURE.
The bridges shall be proportioned to carry the following loads :
I. The weight of metal in the bridge. 2. The weight of the
flooring. 3. A moving load of 100 pounds per square foot of
surface of both roadway and footvvalks.
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Or on roadway an Aveling & Porter steam road roller of fifteen
gross tons. All members to be proportioned for the maximum
of the two kinds of moving load.
To provide for wind strains and vibrations, the top lateral
bracing in the deck span, and the bottom lateral bracing in the
through span shall be proportioned to resist a lateral force of 300
pounds for each foot of span, 150 pounds of this to be treated as
a moving load. The bottom lateral bracing in the deck span,
and the top lateral bracing in the through span shall be propor-
tioned to resist a lateral force of 150 pounds for each foot of
span.
Variations in temperature to the extent of 150 degrees shall be
provided for.
PROPORTION OF PARTS.
All parts shall be proportioned in tension by the following unit
strains :
On lateral bracing, 18,000 pounds per square inch.
On bottom flange of riveted main or cross girders, net section,
14,500 pounds per square inch.
On solid rolled beams and stringers, 15,000 pounds per square
inch.
On bottom flange of riveted floor stringers, net section, 14,-
500 pounds per square inch.
On floorbeam hangers and other similar members liable to
sudden loading, net section, 10,000 pounds per square inch.
Bottom chords and main diagonals, 15,000 pounds per square
inch.
Counters and long verticals, 14,500 pounds per square inch.
Single angles subject to direct tension must be connected by
both legs, or the section of one leg only will be considered ag
effective.
In members subject to tensile strains, full allowance shall be
made for reduction of section by rivet-holes, of a diameter one
eighth inch larger than nominal size of rivet.
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Members subject to alternate strains of tension and compres-
sion shall have each strain increased by six tenths of the least
strain, and the section proportioned to resist either strain thus
obtained by units herein given.
Compression members shall be proportioned so that the maxi-
mum load shall in no case cause a greater strain per square inch
than that determined by the following formula:
12,000 11,500
Chords, L- Web members, L=
36,oooR'' 36,oooR-
L=the length in inches between supports.
R^the least radius of gyration in inches.
No compression member, however, proportioned by the above
formula, shall have a length exceeding forty-five times its least
width.
Members subject tQ lateral and vibration strains only, unit
stresses allowed to be twenty per cent above those for main truss
members.
In beams and plate girders the compression flanges shall be
made of same gross section as the tension flanges.
The rivets and bolts connecting the parts of any member must
be so spaced that the shearing strain shall not exceed 9,000
pounds per square inch, nor the pressure upon the bearing sur-
face per square inch of the projected semi-intrados of the rivet-
hole exceed 15,000 pounds.
In the case of field riveting the above limits of shearing strain
and pressure shall be reduced one third part.
All the connections and details shall be of such strength that,
if tested, rupture would occur in the body of the member rather
than in any detail or connection. The rivets shall generally be
three fourths and seven eighths inches in diameter.
In punching, the diameter of the die shall in no case exceed
the diameter of the punch by more than one sixteenth inch.
Wherever possible rivets must be machine driven.
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No metal shall be used less than one fourth inch thick except
for lining or filling vacant spaces.
All workmanship shall be first class in every particular._
The bridges to be of soft steel, having an ultimate strength of
from 54,000 to 62,000 pounds per square inch ; elastic limit,
one half the ultimate strength; minimum elongation of 26 per
cent in eight inches.
Wrought iron may be used for the webs of plate girders, and
shall have an ultimate strength of 48,000 pounds per square inch,
an elastic limit of 26,000 pounds per square inch, and an elon-
gation of 15 per cent in eight inches.
In case this is done the shearing and bearing values of rivets
shall be taken as reduced 20 per cent.
All work before leaving shop shall be given one good coat of
raw linseed oil.
In riveting, the surfaces coming together shall each be paint-
ed with mineral paint before being riveted together.
After the structure is erected it shall be thoroughly painted
with two coats of paint, mixed with pure linseed oil, of such
color as may be directed.
The contractor shall furnish all staging and false work, and
shall erect and put in place the entire work, ready for travel.
All recesses which will retain water, or through which water
can enter, must be filled with thick paint or some waterproof ce-
ment before receiving the final painting.
GENERAL CLAUSE.
It is the intent of these specifications to insure a first-class
structure in every respect, and no omissions therefrom or inter-
pretation thereof shall be construed to admit anything not up to
this standard.
All questions arising as to the interpretation of these specifica-
tions, or regarding the execution of the work under them, shall
be referred to the city engineer.
The work to be begun within ten days of signing the con-
tract.
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Contract.
And it is hereby agreed, by and between the said parties :
First. That the specifications and drawings are intended to co-
operate, so that any works exhibited in the drawings and not
mentioned in the specifications, or vice versa, are to be executed
the same as if mentioned in the specifications and set forth by
the drawings, to the true intent and meaning of the said draw-
ings and specifications.
Second. The contractor, at his own proper cost and charges,
is to provide all manner of labor, materials, apparatus, scaf-
folding, utensils, and cartage of every description needful
for the due performance of the several works ; must produce,
whenever required by the city, all vouchers showing the quality
of goods and materials used ; and render all due and sufficient fa-
cilities to the city or its agent for the proper inspection of the
works and materials, and which are to be under their control ;
and the city may require the contractor to dismiss any workman
or workmen who they may think incompetent or improper to be
employed. The contractor shall deliver up the works to the city
in perfect repair and in good condition when complete. The
contractor shall not sub-let any of the works without consent of
the city.
Third. Should the city at any time during the progress of the
said works require any alterations of, additions to, or omissions
in the specifications or plans, it shall have the right or power to
make such change or changes and the same shall in no way in-
juriously affect or make void the contract, but the difference for
work omitted shall be deducted from the amount of the contract
by a fair and reasonable valuation ; and for additional work re-
quired in alterations the amount shall be agreed upon in writing
and such agreement shall state also the extension of time, if any,
which is to be granted by reason tlTereof.
Fourth. Should the contractor, at any time during the progress
of the said works, become bankrupt, refuse or neglect to supply
a sufficiency of material or of workmen, or cause any unreasona-
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Lie neglect or suspension of work, or fail or refuse to follow the
drawings and specifications, or comply with any of the articles
of agreement, the city or its agent shall have the right and pow-
er to enter upon and take possession of the premises, and may at
once terminate the contract, whereupon all claim of the con-
tractor, his heirs, executors, administrators, or assigns, shall
cease ; and the city may provide materials and workmen suffi-
cient to complete the said works, after giving forty-eight hours'
notice in writing, directed and delivered to the contractor, or
residence or his place of business ; and the expense of the notice
and the completuig of the various works will be deducted from
the amount of contract, or any part of it due or to become due,
to the contractor ; and in such case no scaffolding or fixed tackle
of any kind belonging to such contractor shall be removed so
long as the same is wanted for the work. But if any balance on
the amount of this contract remains after completion in respect
of work done during the time of the defaulting contractor, the
same shall belong to the persons legally representing him
but the city shall not be liable or accountable to them in any
way for the manner in which it may have gotten the work com-
pleted.
Fifth. Should any dispute arise respecting the true construc-
tion or meaning of drawings or specifications, or as to what is ex-
tra work outside of contract, the same shall be decided by the
city engineer and his decision shall be final and conclusive ; but
should any dispute arise respecting the true value of any works
omitted by the contractor, the same shall be valued by two
competent persons, one employed by the city and the other by
the contractor, and these two shall have the power to name an
umpire, whose decision shall be binding on all parties.
Sixth. The city will not, in any manner, be answerable or ac-
countable for any loss or darjiage that shall or may happen to the
said works or any part or parts thereof respectively, or for any of
the materials or other things used and employed in finishing and
completing the said works, or for injury to any person or persons,
either workman or the public, or damage to the adjoining prop-
erty, from any cause which might have been prevented by the
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contractor or his workmen, or any one employed by him, against
all which injuries and damages to persons and property the con-
tractor having control over such work must properly guard
against, and must make good all damage from whatever cause,
being strictly responsible for the same.
Seventh. The contractor will insure the building to cover his
interest in the same from time to time, as required ; and for
any loss of the contractor by fire the city will not under any
circumstances be answerable or accountable ; but the city may
protect itself by insurance to cover its interest when payments
have been made to contractor.
Eighth. All works and materials, as delivered on the premises
to form a, part of the works, are to be considered the property of
the city, and are not to be removed without its consent ; but
the contractor shall have the right to remove all surplus materi-
als after his completing the works.
Ninth. Should the contractor fail to finish the work at or be-
fore the time agreed upon, he shall pay to or allow the city, by
way of liquidated damages, the sum of twenty-five dollars per
diem for each and every day thereafter the said works shall re-
main incomplete.
This contract, made this 28th day of March, A. D. 1893, by and
between Dean & Westbrook, of the city of New York, and state of
New York, party of the first part, and the city of Manchester, a
municipal corporation in the county of Hillsborough and state
of New Hampshire, party of the second part,
WITNESSETH, That the said party of the first part contracts
and agrees to and with the party of the second part to furnish
and erect by the i6th day of September, 1893, for the party of
the second part, the superstructure for a steel bridge, at Second
street, over the Piscataquog river in Manchester, in said county
of Hillsborough, according to the accompanying specifications
marked A which are hereby made a part of this contract. All
the materials for the said bridge, except the abutments and piers,
are to be furnished by the party of the first part, and are to be of
good and suitable quality, and the work is to be done in a
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thorough and workmanlike manner. And the party of the sec-
ond part contracts and agrees to furnish, ready for the super-
structure, the abutments and piers for said bridge by the 15th
day of July, 1893. And the party of the second part hereby
contracts and agrees to pay the party of the first part the sum of
twenty-six thousand six hundred and eighty-seven and ^W dol-
lars, for the said bridge, as follows, viz. :
Fifty per cent of the contract price upon the delivery of the
steel material at Manchester and the balance upon the completion
and acceptance of the work. And the party of the first part is
not to be held responsible for unavoidable delays occasioned by
the railroads, or the elements, or strikes.
DEAN & WESTBROOK.
THE CITY OF MANCHESTER,
By E. J. Knowlton, Mayor,
Byron Worthen,
Sam C. Lowell,
H. C. Holt,
Charles H. Harvey,
George E. Heath,
Cotmnittee on Streets.
March 28, the committee met and opened the bids received
from the various companies, as follows :
Dean & Westbrook, plan A . . . . . ^26,687.36
plan B . . . . . 27,543.00
plan C 28,176.00
Boston Bridge Co., by R. H. Brown, agent . . 28,300.00
R. F. Hawkins Co., by Mace Moulton, Agt., plan A 25,983.00
plan B 26,076.00
plan C 27,633.00
plan D 26,090.00
plan E 26,160.00
Groton Bridge & Manufacturing Co., by F. H.
Works, agent, Pratt Truss . . . . . 27,830.00
Groton Bridge & Manufacturing Co., by F. H.
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Works, agent, Camel Back Truss . . . ;j;2S, 360.00
Berlin Iron Bridge Co., by George H. Sage, agent . 27,900.00
Only one bid was received for the stone work, that being from
Charles A. Bailey, of Suncook, who offered to do the work for
$8.75 per cubic yard.
The committee awarded the contract for the superstructure to
Dean & Westbrook, as per plan A, and the contract for the sub-
structure to Charles A. Bailey. Both firms gave bonds in the sum
of $10,000 each for the faithful performance of the contract.
The contract with Dean & Westbrook was signed March 28,
and that with Charles A. Bailey, April 3.
The digging was commenced April 13, and the first stone was
laid May 15. Harry J. Briggs, of the city engineer's office, was
placed in charge of the work as inspector, and saw that the terms
of the contract were faithfully carried out.
The final statement of Charles A. Bailey's bill as rendered
September 6, 1893, ^^^^ ^s follows:
To stone work on Second-street bridge, as per con-
tract, 2,300.23 cubic yards at $8.75 . . . $20,127.01
To expense of piling, 282 piles at $6 . . . 1,692.00
3,500 ft. 3-inch plank, at $22 per M. 77.00
7,OGo ft. io"xio" timbers, at $22
per M. . . . . . . 154.00
40 loads of grout and puddling, at
$1 . . .... 40.00
140 yards of rip-rap, at $2 . . 280.00
Total cost of sub-structure .... $22,370.01
Orders were given Mr. Bailey to draw on account as follows :
June 10 ........ $3,000.00
July 10 4,500.00
August 9 3>349-93
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
August 1 8
August 28
Balance, September 6
$3,000.00
5,520.08
$22,370.01
Orders were given Dean & Westbrook to draw on account as
follows :
50 per cent of amount as per contract, August 2
. $13,343-68
September 15
1,500.00
September 29
2,000.00
October 25
160.00
Balance, October 27
9,684.68
Total cost of superstructure .
. $26,687.36
Total cost of bridge ....
• $49>o57-37
The bridge was accepted by the committee October 27, 1S93.
The fill across the island and the two approaches was made
under the direction of the street and park commission.
From the testimony of engineers and others who have exam-
ined the bridge, the members of the committee feel confident
that they have secured a first-class structure, one that will be
practically indestructible and, all things considered, for durabil-
ity one that has no superior in New England.
The reason which prompted the committee to call for a per-
manent structure was the experience of the past. A bridge with
a wooden roadbed is a constant source of expense in the matter
of repairs. With the examples that are continually presenting
themselves, the committee felt justified in'calling for a bridge
that would not simply last a decade, but stand as long as such in-
destructible materials as stone, steel, brick and asphalt will hold
together.
There can be no doubt but that the building of this bridge
will duplicate the splendid development and substantial results
which are within easy remembrance as following the completion
of the McGregor bridge, and five years hence will undoubtedly
witness an increased valuation of property and investment of cap-
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ital on the south bank of the Piscataquog river, which will yield
in a single year an accumulation of taxes sufficient to meet the
entire cost of the construction of the bridge.
The demand for the Second-street bridge was quite as urgent
as was the call for McGregor bridge at the time of its construc-
tion, and that it will bring a large quantity of desirable and as
yet low-priced land into the market for building purposes is to
the great benefit and advantage of the large industrial popula-
tion of the city who are seeking homes, as well as to the owners
of said land.
All of the opposition as expressed by reputable citizens to this
enterprise came from a misunderstanding of the situation and the
position of the committee and misrepresentations to them as to
what the bridge was to cost. Happily, those who at first op-
posed it soon became its ardent supporters and heartily seconded
the efforts of the committee.
Petitions.
The following is a list of the petitions referred to the commit-
tee, and the action taken on them :
Adams Street. An order to build Adams street from the
south line of the Livermore land to Clarke street.
January 14, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Walnut Street. An order to build Walnut street from Sal-
mon to Webster street.
January 14, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Alsace Street. For a new highway from the intersection of
Amory street with Alsace, so called, on plan of lots for sale by J.
McGovern and Sullivan & Sheehan, thence northerly to the in-
tersection of Kelley with Alsace, so called, to be known as Alsace
street, according to plan No. 1025, city engineer's otfice.
John J. McGovern.
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April 19, committee voted to recommend tliat a hearing be
granted.
Alsace Street. For a new liighway from a stake on the
north line of Amory street, in the center of Alsace, thence north-
erly to a stake, about 1,700 feet to the south line of a proposed
street, according to accompanying plans.
Sullivan & Sheehan by John A. Sheehan.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Auburn Street. For a new highway from a stake on Cy-
press street, as proposed, thence easterly to a stake on Platts
avenue.
F. M. Thurber.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Boutwell Street. For a new highway from a stake on the
north line of Amory street, in the center of Boutwell street,
thence northerly to a stake, about 1,693 ^^^^j ^o the south line of
a proposed street, according to accompanying plans.
Sullivan & Sheehan, by John A. Sheehan.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
CiLLEY Street. For the discontinuance of a portion of Cil-
Jey street from a point in said Cilley street about 75 feet east
from the east line of Wilson street, or said line extended, and
the intersection of said Cilley street with the west line of Taylor
street, or said west line extended.
F. M. Hoyt.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Cilley Road. For a new highway from a point in the mid-
dle of Cilley street, or road, about 75 feet east from the east line
of Wilson street, or the same line extended, thence easterly par-
allel to Shasta street, to a point in the west line of Taylor street,
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or said line extended, about 66 feet south from the south line of
Cilley street, or road, as now laid out.
F. M. Hoyt.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Cypress Street. For a new highway from the north side of
Massabesic street and extending over the proposed Cypress street,
thence northerly to the south side of Auburn street.
F. A. Platts.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Foster Avenue. For a new highway from a stake on the
south side of Valley street, in the center of Foster avenue as pro-
posed, thence southerly to a stake on the north line of Young
street.
John A. Dunlap.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
To Purchase a Gravel Bank for the city of Manchester, of
John H. Proctor, for the use of Highway District No. 8, two
acres of land at a price not exceeding three hundred dollars, and
the expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for inci-
dental expenses.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that the petition be
referred to the street and park commission.
Grove Street. For a new highway from the intersection of
Pine stj-eet with Grove street, so called on the Amoskeag com-
pany's plan of lots, thence easterly to the intersection of Beech
street with Grove street, so called.
James Glynn.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
JOLiETTE Street. For a new highway from a stake on the
north line of Amory street, in the center of Joliette street, thence
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northerly to a stake about 1,699 f*^^^, to the south line of a pro-
posed street, according to the accompanying plans.
Sullivan & Sheehan, by John A. Sheehan.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted. •
Lafayette Street. For a new highway from a stake on the
north line of Amory street, in the center of Lafayette street,
thence northerly to a stake about 1,690 feet, to the south line of
a proposed street, according to accompanying plans.
Sullivan & Sheehan, by John A. Sheehan.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Laval Street. For a new highway from a stake on the west
line of Amory street, in the center of Laval street, thence north-
erly to a stake about 1,698 feet, to the south line of a proposed
street, according to accompanying plans.
Sullivan & Sheehan, by John A. Sheehan.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Monroe Street. For a new highway from the westerly ter-
minus of Monroe street, thence to River road, said street to be a
continuation of Monroe street.
C. B. Littlefield.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearmg be
granted.
Morgan Street. For a new highway from a stake on north
line of Amory street extension, and on the west line of a proposed
street, shown as Morgan street, on a plan of said section known
as Morgan's plan of lots in West Manchester, thence in a north-
erly direction to a stake on the south line of Kelley street.
William B. Morgan.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Prout Avenue. For a new highway from a stake on the
south side of Hayward street, and 117^ feet easterly of the east
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line of Jewett street and in the- center of Prout avenue, thence
southerly about 500 feet, according to a plan of said section
known as No. 1012 in the city engineer's office.
Walter W. Duncklee.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Watson Street. For a new highway from a stone bound on
the north line of Hampton street, and 480 feet east of the east
line of Belmont street, thence in a northerly direction about 380
feet, to a stake on the westerly line of Dearborn street, the said
line being the easterly line and parallel to Milton street, of a pro-
posed 40-feet highway.
George E. Watson.
April 19, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
CoNANT AND MONTGOMERY STREETS. For a new highway
from a stake in the center of Hevey and Conant streets, thence
westerly in the center line of Conant street, about 270 feet, to a
stake in the center of Montgomery street, thence northerly in
Montgomery street, about 400 feet, according to Amoskeag Man-
ufacturing Company's plan of lots.
Bridget Twohey.
May 18, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Erie Street. To accept and lay out a street, fifty feet wide,
in West Manchester, said street beginning at a stake on the west
side of South Main street, and proceeding in a westerly direc-
tion four hundred and seventy (470) feet, to a maple tree stand-
ing near the center of said street.
John K. McQuesten.
May 18, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Hall Street. For a new highway from a stake at the inter-
section of the center lines of Hall street and Lake avenue,
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thence southerly to a stone bound at the intersection of the cen-
ter lines of Hall and Spruce streets.
L. W. Page.
]May 1 8, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Mast Street. For a new highway from a stone bound on
the southerly line of Mast street, on the line of land of E. W.
Brigham, thence westerly to a stake in the center of Mast road
near the junction of New Mast road.
C. A. Brooks.
May 1 8, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Wayne Street. For a new highway from the intersection of
Dubuque and Wayne streets, the continuation of Wayne street,
to be extended three hundred and seventy feet, in a westerly di-
rection.
M. Bessette.
May 1 8, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Willow Street. For a new highway from a point in the
center of Willow and Young streets, being the southerly termi-
nus of Willow street, as laid out by the board of aldermen. May
9, 1869, thence southerly in a straight line with Willow street as
laid out, about 292 feet, to the center of Nutt road.
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, by H. F. Straw.
May 18, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Wilton Street. For a new highway from a stake at the
intersection of Main street with Wilton street, thence westerly
to a stake at the intersection of Cartier street with Wilton street.
Andrew J. Edgerly.
May 18, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Hayward Street. For a new highway from a stake in the
westerly line of A. A. Ainsworth's land and in the center of
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Hayward street, as already laid out, and thence westerly to a
stake on the east line of Belmont street, being a continuation of
Hayward street westerly.
A. A. Ainsvvorth.
May 23, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Prescott Street. For a new highway from a stake on the
easterly side of Wilson street, and in the center of Prescott
street, as proposed, thence easterly to a stake on the westerly
side of Hall street, as shown on a plan of said section on file in
the city engineer's office.
A. Elliott.
May 23, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
For a new highway from a stake in the Candia road, so called,
thence easterly to the Borough road, so called.
Oilman Clough.
May 23, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
AiNSwoRTH Avenue. For a new highway from Young street
northerly to Hayward street.
A. A. Ainsworth.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
BiSMARK Street. For a new highway from a stone bound at
the intersection of Milford and Forest streets, and thence in a
northerly direction a distance of six hundred and thirty-nine
feet (639), to a stake at the intersection of a proposed new
street, running at right angles, forty feet wide.
Feit Tersa.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Canton Street. For narrowing a highway from a stone
bound at the intersection of the east line of Canton street and
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the south line of Lake avenue, thence southerly to a stake on the
south line of Auburn street, said line being the easterly line of
said street.
M. E. Clough.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Cass Street. For a new highway beginning at the north
line of Central street, and thence in a northerly direction to the
south line of Laurel street.
George S. Smith.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Christopher Street. For a new highway from a stake and
stone on the east line of land of I). B. Eastman, and on the
west line of land of J. H. Groux, and thence in a northeasterly
direction about 750 feet, to the east line of the Groux land,
thence in the same course to a stake on the west side of Railroad
street.
J. H. Groux.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Everett Street. For a new highway southerly from a stake
on the south line of Clarke street, and 200 feet westerly of the
west line of Elm street, said stake being on the east line of the
street proposed, and thence in a southerly direction about 351
feet, over land reserved for a street, as shown on plan No. 463,
city engineer's office.
J. C. Ray.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Foster Avenue. For a new highway from a stake on the
southerly line of a highway two hundred and seventeen feet and
seventy-five one hundredths of a foot westerly from the westerly
line of a highv/ay called Jewett street, and in the center line of
Foster avenue as proposed, thence in a southerly direction to a
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Stake on the northerly line of a highway called Hayward street,
aiid two hundred and sixty-nine feet and two one hundredths of
a foot westerly from a stone bound on the easterly line of said
Jewett street.
John A. Dunlap.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Main Street. For a new highway from a stone bound in
the center of South Main and Mast streets, and thence in a
northerly direction to a stone bound in the center of Main and
Conant streets.
Joseph B. Sawyer.
W. H. Bennett.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Passageway, Elm to Everett Street. For a new highway
from a stake on the west line of Elm street 321 feet south of the
south line of Clarke street, and thence in a westerly direction
about 200. feet to the proposed Everett street, as shown on plan
No. 463, city engineer's office.
J. C. Ray.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Putnam Street. For a new highway from a stone bound at
the southwest corner of Putnam and Bartlett streets, as shown on
plan of the D. C. Whittemore land, No. 1026, city engineer's
office, and thence easterly to the corner of Putnam and "Whipple
streets, the above line being the south line of the proposed
street.
P. Archambeault.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Sagamore North Back Street. For grading Sagamore
north back street from Union street, thence westerly to Pine
street.
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Marquis D. Johnson.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that the petition be
referred to the street and park commission.
SoMERViLLE STREET. For a new highway from a stake on the
southerly side of Young street, and thence in a westerly direc-
tion to a stake on the easterly side of Jewett street.
H. H. Young.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Thornton Street. For a new highway southerly from a
stake on the east line of Thornton and on the south line of
Wayne street, said stake being 200 feet west of the west line
of Bartlett street, and thence in a southerly direction 1329.83
feet to a stake, said line being the easterly line of Thornton
street, as shown on plan No. 1026 in city engineer's office.
E. C. Cartier.
July 7, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Benton Street. For a new highway beginning at a stake
on the east line of the Hall road about 700 feet northerly of the
north line of the Concord & Portsmouth Railroad, and
thence in an easterly direction about 240 feet to a stake on
the westerly line of Jones street, proposed, being shown as Ben-
ton street on a plan of said section.
Oilman Clough.
August 8, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Cartier Street. For an improvement from Wayne to Sul-
livan street, the improvement being on Cartier street.
Octave J. Lemerise.
Committee voted to recommend that the petition be referred
to the street and park commission.
Jones Street. For a new highway beginning at a stake on
the north line of Nelson street, proposed, 220.3 ^^^^ west of the
west line of Mammoth road, being on the east line of Jones street,
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and thence in a northerly direction about 562 feet to a stake on
the northerly line of the premises, being shown as Jones street
on a plan of said section.
Oilman Clough.
August 8, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
Nelson Street. For a new highway beginning at a stake on
the west side of Mammoth road 74.47 feet north of the Concord
& Portsmouth Railroad, being oh the south side of Nelson street,
and thence in a westerly direction 509 feet to a stake on the east
side of Hall road, shown as Nelson street on a plan of said sec-
tion.
Oilman Clough.
August 8, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
For Relaying Paving, beginning at the canal bridge on Oran-
ite street, on the north side of the horse railroad, and relay the
paving from the canal bridge to the river bridge.
John W. Wilson.
August 8, committee voted to recommend that the petition be
referred to the street and park commission.
Turner Street. To macadamize, beginning at Granite
street, on Turner street, thence southerly to Turner Hall.
John W. Wilson.
For a Watering Trough in said city, at or near the corner
of Riddle street and Mast street in said city ; they therefore re-
quest you to put in a watering-trough at the place described.
James F. Wyman.
August 8, committee voted to recommend that the petition be
referred to the street and park commission.
Auger Avenue. For a new highway from a stake on the west
line of Nutt road, in South Manchester, and thence in a westerly
direction to the easterly side of Calef road.
J. N. Auger.
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September 20, committee voted to recommend that a hearing
be granted.
Watson Street. For a new highway beginning at a stone
bound on the north line of Hampton street, and 480 feet east of
the east line of Belmont street, and thence in a northerly direc-
tion about 380 feet to a stake on the westerly line of Dearborn
street, the said line being the easterly line, and parallel to Mil-
ton street, of a proposed 40-feet highway.
George E. Watson.
August 8, committee voted to defer action.
September 20, committee voted to recommend that petitioners
be given leave to withdraw.
SoMERViLLE STREET. For a new highway beginning at the
intersection of the center line of Somerville street and the
center line of Hall street, and thence in an easterly direction to
the intersection of the center line of Somerville and Belmont
streets.
C. K. Beadle.
August 8, committee voted that the petition be laid over for
the present.
September 20, committee voted that the petition be laid over
for the present.
October 20, committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted.
CiLLEY Road. For building to grade in said city, Cilley road
from Beech street, and thence in an easterly direction to the top
of the hill or about the line of Wilson street, produced.
Thomas Chilcotte.
October 20, committee voted to recommend that the petition
be deferred until grade was established.
For a new Highway beginning at a stake on the north line of
Concord street two hundred and seven and one half (207^^) feet
east from the passageway east of Maple street, and thence in a
northerly direction one hundred and fifty (150) feet to a stake,
said described line being the westerly line of said street.
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Mrs. H. D. Corliss.
August 8, committee voted to defer action.
September 20, committee voted to defer action.
October 20, committee voted to recommend that petitioners
be given leave to withdraw.
The following letter from the agent of the Amoskeag Manu-
facturing Company was referred to the committee :
Amoskeag Manufacturing Company,
June 21, 1893.
Hon. E. J. Knoivlton^ Mayor ^ Manchester, N. H. :
Dear Sir, — When the streets were laid out through the prop-
erty deeded to the Elliott Manufacturing Co. by the Amoskeag
Co., the names of several of the streets were changed from the
names given them on the plan, viz. :
Green street was changed to Dudley street.
Grove street was changed to Hampton street.
Bell street was changed to Newton street.
These changes were made without any notice to us. In the
case of the first two streets, Green and Grove, these names have
been used on our plan for nearly fifty years, and were referred to
in many deeds and conveyances. Bell street was a more recent
name, but that name we have used for several years, and have
made many deeds by it.
It seems to me very unfortunate that these changes should be
made, as it is liable to lead to considerable confusion, and I
would respectfully ask if possible that the original names of the
streets.be restored.
I understand, from Mr. Lane, that the reason given for making
the changes was that some streets in West Manchester have been
given the same names. Even if this be the case, it seems to me
that the names as we have used them having been so long in use,
should have given us a prior claim to their continuance.
Yours truly,
H. F. STRAW,
Asrent.
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Committee voted to recommend that the request be granted.
This comprises all the work that has come within the province
of the committee on streets, and is respectfully submitted.
Alderman BYRON VVORTHEN, Chairman,
Alderman SAM C. LOWELL,
Councilman GEORGE E. HEATH,
Councilman CHARLES H. HARVEY,
Councilman HOWARD C. HOLT,
Committee on Streets.
W. H. Bennett,
Clerk of Committee.
Stark Park.
At the beginning of the season it was decided to partially
build the avenues and walks in this park in accordance with the
plans prepared by Morton & Quimby, of Boston. Tracings were
accordingly made of the plans, and the data prepared for staking
out the same. The eastern part, or that portion east of the Stark
burying ground, was in process of being laid out as the plans
called for, when it was found that two of the main avenues would
strike two of the largest and handsomest trees in the park. By
permission of the street and park commission the plans were
altered so as to allow these trees to remain. Why this state of
things should have occurred is not known, as the designers had
an accurate location of every tree or clump of trees in the park,
furnished by this department.
Only one avenue was built, that leading direct to the burying
ground. Salem stone was used as a top-dressing over the Telford
foundation, and thoroughly compacted with the steam roller,
making an excellent roadway. The remainder was grassed over,
the ground having previously been plowed and harrowed and
the stones removed.
The park was formally dedicated June 17. Though the rain
fell copiously, thousands braved the elements and showed by
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their presence the loyalty and devotion they felt towards him
whose remains lie buried in this park, — General John Stark,
" the Hero of Bennington."
Derryfield Park.
Considerable work has been done in this park under the direc-
tion of the street and park commission. The trees that were
dead or dying have been removed, all unsightly boulders broken
up, the bushes cut, and a blind drain constructed in the grove.
Following out the plans prepared by this department, the main
avenue twenty-five feet wide through the grove was staked out
and grades given. The avenue was built, and a top-dressing of
gravel put on.
The cross-sectioning of the park commenced in December,
1889, was only taken over about half the area, the westerly por-
tion. This will have to be completed before grades can be estab-
lished on the avenues in the easterly section, as in all probability
work will be commenced on the general playground the coming
season.
Stone bounds, similar to those in Stark park, should be set at
the corners and angles to preserve the lines, as the present marks
are of wood and easily destroyed.
This park is becoming a popular resort for all classes, being
within easy reach of the street cars, and bids fair to become what
its projectors intended, the people's park.
Street Lines and Grades.
The calls upon this department for street lines and grades have
been numerous. As each year rolls by the city's growth extends,
and our work instead of being confined within easy reach of the
office, is now from one to three miles out in any direction. It
has been the aim of this department to attend to the work as
promptly as possible, and in the order received. Considerable
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trouble is occasioned by unreasonable persons who have an idea
that they have but to give an order to have it attended to imme-
diately. Oftentimes it is a week before it can be reached, and
in the meantime they besiege the office, and even carry their
complaints to the mayor that they cannot get the work done.
His Honor has invariably explained the situation to them, and
referred them back to this office.
This brings up a point advocated in former reports, that a
complete plan of a street should be prepared, showing the lines
and grades, the same to be presented for consideration at the
time the street is laid out. With this done the department could
work to better advantage, and possibly silence those who make
it a point to find fault because their wants are not attended to
immediately, regardless of the fact that the department has no
data for the work. To obviate this trouble as much as possible
extra assistants have been employed during the summer season,
and the work kept better in hand than ever before.
Numbering Books.
The growth of the city has been so extensive that the old
numbering books were inadequate to contain plans of all the
streets. Material enough was on hand, in loose sheets, to make
two more books of the same size as those in use, but as they were
on heavy mounted paper the volumes thus made would be en-
tirely too cumbersome.
It was deemed advisable to make a new set altogether, and
this was accordingly done. The new set is in three volumes,
one for streets running north and south, one for streets running
east and west, and one for West Manchester. The three volumes
contain in all one thousand three hundred and sixty-four pages,
and embrace all streets within the city limits, with blank sheets
for all probable additions for years.
In comparing the numbers it was found that in many cases
houses were bearing numbers that were incorrect. These will
be changed as time will permit without confusion to occupants.
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Pine Grove Cemetery.
Acting under orders received from the Pine Grove cemetery
trustees, the survey and plan of the grounds, abandoned in 1889,
was again taken up. The work was prosecuted with vigor and
the entire cemetery surveyed with the exception of one section,
the snow covering everthing before this was reached. A large
plan, on a scale of twenty feet to an inch, was made from these
notes.
During the winter a tracing of this will be made for the use of
the superintendent at his office. It is also proposed to make for
the treasurer, a portfolio containing the plan in sections, one on
a sheet, reserving the opposite sheet for the areas, owners' names,
and such transfers as may be made.
The remaining section will be surveyed early the coming spring
and plotted on the plans.
Committee Work.
At the first meetings held by the committees on streets and on
sewers and drains, the city engineer was elected clerk, as in pre-
vious years, and in that capacity has attended each meeting, keep-
ing a complete record of the proceedings, which are on file in
this office.
In addition meetings have been attended of the city govern-
ment, committees on Valley cemetery, Pine Grove cemetery, city
farm, lands and buildings, claims, commons, and parks, the street
and park commission, and the board of aldermen.
Besides the work before enumerated, many questions have been
answered from engineers, boards of trade, and others in various
cities throughout this country and Canada.
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.
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I also wish to acknowledge the courtesies shown by the vari-
ous heads of departments, and the co-operation of the assistants
of this department.
Respectfully submitted.
WINFRED H. BENNETT,
City Engineer.
January i, 1894.
REPORT
OF THE
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
REPORT
OF THE
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Engineer's Office, No. 8 Vine Street,
Manchester, N. H., Dec. 31, 1893.
To His Honor the Mayor and Gentle77ien of the City Councils :
In compliance with the laws and ordinances of the cit}'^, I
herewith submit my fifteenth annual report (it being the forty-
eighth of this department) giving a complete record of the op-
erations of the department for the year ending December 31,
1893, with a detailed statement of the fires and alarms that have
been responded to by a portion or all of the force, together with
the cause of such fires as far as the same have been ascertained,
with the amount of insurance carried upon the property en-
dangered, the amount of loss, and amount of insurance paid
thereon.
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 location of keys to the
same, location of hydrants, etc.
There has been an unusual number of alarms during the year,
but none of the fires proved to be of a very serious nature, that
of the John Robbie Co. being the most severe one.
There have been 59 bell alarms, two of which were second
alarms for same fires, and 47 still alarms, making a total of 106,
an excess over last year of 5, or 18 more bell alarms and 15 less
still.
268 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The property where fires have occurred has been insured to the
amount of ^363,625 ; the losses as adjusted, or estimated, have
been $88,447.90, and there has been paid $71,404.58 for insur-
ance, leaving a net amount as uncovered of $17,043.32, a very
commendable showing for the number of fires and the character
of surroundings about said fires.
THE FORCE
consists of twenty-seven permanent and one hundred and eigh-
teen call men, divided as follows :
1 chief engineer.
4 assistant engineers — call.
4 steamer companies of 14 men each — 11 permanent and 45
call — 56.
2 steamer and truck companies, 20 men each — 8 permanent,
32 call — 40.
1 aerial truck company, 15 men — 3 permanent and 12 call —
15-
2 hose companies of 12 men each — 2 permanent and 22 call
— 24.
I chemical, 5 men — 2 permanent and 3 call — 5 — one of
whom is detailed as driver of supply wagon.
Making a total of 145 men.
THE BUILDINGS
of the department are in a fair condition, and, aside from the
ordinary repairs (a few coats of paint and the like), vvill require
but little outlay.
I would recommend the sleeping quarters of Engine No. 3 on
Lake avenue be changed by transferring them to the room now
used as "company meeting-room," thus bringing the men in
front of the horses, as well as making room for two more men
that will soon have to be on permanent duty there. The change
could be made at a slight expense and would give greatly im-
proved service.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 269
As a matter of economy as well as an improvement, the en-
gine rooms of Engines Nos. 3 and 4 should be varnished and the
one of Engine No. 5 painted a lighter color.
The new station in McGregorville, after many " trials and
tribulations," has finally got settled, and since it has been low-
ered makes quite a convenient engine room, although the stable
is rather crowded and cramped.
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 hose carriage, at corner of Lake ave-
nue and Massabesic street. »
I hook-and-ladder truck at same station (transferred from Cen-
tral station).
I steam fire-engine and two-horse hose carriage with hook-
and-ladder combination, at corner of Webster and Chestnut
streets.
I steam fire-engine and one-horse hose carriage, on Rimmon
street, corner of Amory street.
I hook-and-ladder truck (new) at same station.
I horse hose carriage at Central station.
I horse hose carriage, corner Maple and East High streets.
I aerial hook-and-ladder truck at Central 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, and hardly worth put-
ting on the list.
I hand hose carriage at junction of Old Falls road and Front
street, Amoskeag.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage, Devonshire mills, Goffe's Falls.
2 exercise wagons (with pole, shafts, and three-horse hitch),
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one at Central station and one at station of Engine No. 2.
Since my last report, the first size Amoskeag steamer, and the
two ladder trucks therein mentioned, have been received and put
into commission, the new steamer taking the name, number, and
position of Engine No. 4, and that engine thoroughly overhauled
and repaired at the Manchester Locomotive Works, and placed in
station of Engine and Ladder No. 6, in McGregorville.
THE HORSES.
There are now thirty-five horses connected with this depart-
ment, and two more will soon have to be bought for Truck No.
3. A pair are at present on trial.
The pair of horses transferred from Engine No. 4 to Ladder
No. 6 are unfit for the duties required of them both on account
of age and weight, and should be exchanged for a younger and
heavier pair.
The horses were all insured by a local live stock insurance
company which closed up its business, and the policies were trans-
ferred to the Security Live Stock Insurance Company, of Boston.
Seven horses have been purchased during the year : One for
Truck No. i, in place of gray horse transferred to hose for En-
gine No. I, three for Engine No. 4, and three for Engine No. 6.
The prices paid have been more reasonable than heretofore, with
the quality of the horses equally good.
THE FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
During the past year we have added three boxes to this sys-
tem, Nos. 39, 214, 215, one of which, however, (county jail)
was purchased by the county commissioners at the expense of
the county for the protection of the jail buildings.
There has been a call for a tower striker on the East Manches-
ter schoolhouse in Hallsville, but as it was asked for only on the
ground of "striking out the schools," it was deemed best not
to place one there at the expense of this department, as there is
no necessity whatever for putting one there for fire purposes, as
no members of the department reside in that vicinity.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 271
The sleet storm of Sunday, January 29, loaded our wires so
heavily as to break our main line on No. i circuit, and our tapper
lines in four places, and the heavy storm of Sunday, December
3, broke our No. i circuit in four places, No. 5 in one, and No.
6 in one. During this storm and while the wires were being re-
paired, an alarm came in from box 6, and as a result of the
breaks only a few of the bells were struck and none of the tap-
pers, as they are struck from No. 5, which was one of the cir-
cuits down at the time.
We have set fifteen new poles, taken out fifteen gongs, and
put in seventeen during the year, painted all the boxes and the
box poles. In changing over the wires, have taken down about
five miles and put up six miles, have put up forty-one extensions
and seventy-eight cross-arms.
There are about thirty-three miles of main line wire, requiring
one hundred and eighty jars of gravity battery, and thirty-two
miles of tapper lines, requiring two hundred and forty jars.
THE FOURTEENTH ANNUAL PARADE
occurred earlier this year than usual, and was held in conjunction
with the dedication of Stark park, on June 17.
THE firemen's RELIEF ASSOCIATION.
Only one call has been made for relief on account of accident
during the year, and the funds have been increased by donations
as follows :
Cash on hand, February 14, 1893 $3,246.63
Received for menibership fees 17.00
from Rev. J. J. Lyons 10.00
Alonzo H. Weston 25.00
Clarence R. Merrill 25.00
Mrs. Thomas Morgan and sons ^.OO
A. P. Olzendam Co 2.5.00
Roger G. Sullivan 10.00
Mrs. Hannah F. Straw 10.00
Michael McCabe 5.00
Ex-Chief John H. Maynard 10.00
dividend on deposits 125.64
$3,534.27
272 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Paid Edwai-d Sargent, injury received at fire $14.00
Joseph E.Merrill, secretary 25.00
A. S. Campbell, printing ---5
Leaving a balance in treasury ot $3,493.02
RECOMMENDATIONS.
First of all, I would strongly recommend to all citizens that
they should acquaint themselves with the location of the nearest
fire-alarm box to their residence or place of business, also where
the keys are kept, which can be done by consulting the report of
this department as published in each city report, and the manner
of giving the alarm when the box is once opened, which is done
by ^^ pulling down the hook once and let go ^ It often occurs
that no thought is given to this matter until the fire starts, then
all is confusion, and no one knows where to go to give an alarm
or how to do it if they do know the locality of the box, and fre-
quently much time is lost by the lack of this knowledge.
I would recommend a double fifty-gallon tank chemical en-
gine for the West Side. The same can be placed in the station
of Engine No. 2, with little alteration in house and additional
stable room.
I would recommend exercise wagons for Engines Nos. 3, 5,
and 6, also for Hose No. 2 ; alterations in the sheds of Engine
No. 2 for the better convenience of the exercise wagon, and the
arrangement for a repair shop in the same. An arrangement for
a room for repairs at Central station, would, I think, be a great
convenience as well as saving to the department.
I would recommend the purchase of another truck at an early
date, as the transfer of Truck No. i to Truck No. 3 affords, in
many instances, the poorest ladder service we have had for years,
and while our city has been fortunate in the past, it is no guar-
antee for the future, and we should at least have sufficient appa-
ratus for our protection ; and if one will but consider, it cannot
fail to be seen that our city has extended its limits and increased
its buildings and fire risks in a much larger proportion than this
department has been increased.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 273
The hose house at South Manchester, I think, should be a
two-door house, suited for the reception of steamer, hose wagon,
and truck, later on, with, perhaps, the organization of a new
hose company at present with hose wagon, and without any re-
duction or transfer of apparatus at Central station.
While the times may not warrant the raising of salaries, I de-
sire to call the attention of the councils to the salaries paid the
assistant engineers, and the fact that their salary is less than
that paid "call-engineers" of engines. While I do not con-
sider the latter too large, I do say I think that paid the former
too small.
In concluding, I desire to extend my thanks to His Honor
Mayor Knowlton, to the committee on fire department, and
members of the City Councils for the aid and assistance they
have rendered for making this department more efficient. To
the assistant engineers and officers and men, of whom I desire to
bear testimony of their willingness and efficiency, I tender my
most sincere thanks, and shall ever feel grateful for the assist-
ance they have rendered.
Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS W. LANE,
Chief of Fire Department.
List of Fires and Alarms Responded to During 1 893,
with Losses and Insurance.
Box 71. Wednesday, January 4, 11. 11 a. m. Cottage house
at No. 151 Lake avenue, owned by Mary L. Sleeper. Cause, a
lamp exploded or v/as tipped over. Damage to building, $\o.
Insurance, ^1,000. Insurance paid, %\o. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Sunday, January 8, 5.05 p. m. Burning chimney at
No. 379 Manchester street. No damage. Used pony extin-
guisher from Steamer No. 3.
Box 24. Sunday, January 15, 1 0.1 S A. M. Two-story wooden
building in process of finishing, at corner of East Spruce and
18
274 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Belmont streets, belonging to People's Laundry Co. Cause, de-
fective chimney. Damage to building, $476. Insurance, $1,000.
Insurance paid, $476. Box pulled by member of Engine No. 3.
Box 7. Monday, January 16, 10.21 p. m. Burning chimney
at No. 17 Washington street. Needless alarm. No damage.
Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Tuesday, January 17, 3.35 a. m. Burning chimney at
No. 33 Pearl street. Chemical responded. No damage.
Box 21. Tuesday, January 17, 11.54 a. m. Three-story
wooden block on Laurel avenue, owned by Mrs. E. W. Bartlett.
Tenement occupied by John Garvey. Cause, three-years old
child threw a lighted match in the woodbox. No damage. Box
pulled by citizen.
Box 7. Tuesday, January 17, 5.06 p. m. Three-story wooden
block on Birch street, owned by Mrs. Mary Sweeney. Tene-
ment occupied by Joanna Callahan, Cause, lamp fell into wood-
box, broke, and ignited. Damage to building, $20. No insur-
ance. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Thursday, January 19, 10.15 p. m. Manure piie in
barn cellar, rear of Amherst street. Chemical responded and
used pony extinguisher. No damage.
Box 315. Saturday, January 21, 3.53 a. u. Three-story
wooden building known as the Amoskeag Hotel, on Front street,
'Skeag, owned by the heirs of Michael Linen, and occupied by
Curtis D. Joyal. Supposed to have been caused by a hot stove.
Damage to building, $4,000. Insurance, $2,000. Insurance
paid, $1,613. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Monday, January 23, 8.55 p. m. Slight fire in shed
of James F. Cavanaugh at 503 Lake avenue. Responded to by
members of Steamer No. 3, with pony. No damage.
Box 52. Friday, February 3, 12.40 p. m. Three-story brick
block at corner of Granite and Main streets, occupied for stores
and tenements, and owned by A. N. Clapp. Dr. Walter Mitch-
ell, druggist, at 344 Granite street, was mixing chemicals; the
gas aiising from the retort ignited, causing an explosion. Dam-
age to building, $60. Insurance, $12,000. Insurance paid, $35.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 275
Damage to contents, ^42.25. Insurance, $2,500. Insurance
paid, ^42.25. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 8. Saturday, February 4, 6 p. m. One story wooden
building Nos. 1258 to 1276 Elm street, owned by C. F. Morrill
and George E. Gage, and occupied by Jones & Co., at No.
1276, and Manchester Belting and Leather Supply Co., at Nos.
1268 to 1272, and others. Cause, spontaneous combustion.
Damage to building, ^346.25. Insurance, $2,500. Insurance
paid, $346.25. Damage to Jones & Co. 's stock, $601.92. In-
surance, $600. Insurance paid, $600. Damage to Leather Sup-
ply Co., $3,195. Insurance $12,000. Insurance paid, $3,195.
Box pulled by citizen.
Box 82. Friday, February 10, 5.01 a. m. One-story wooden
building, rear of 61 Hanover street, owned and occupied by
S. A. Garland, as a bakery. Fire caught from the stove. Dam-
age to building, $200. No insurance. Damage to contents,
$400. Insurance $1,000. Insurance paid, $310. Box pulled by
police.
Box 7. Saturday, February 11,5.58 a. m. Three-story brick
block Nos. 1 1 17 to 1 1 25 Elm street, owned by Kennard Bros, and
Chadwick and occupied by H. I. Faucher, grocer. The fire caught
from a kerosene stove. Damage to building, $590. Insurance,
$9,000. Insurance paid, $590. Damage to contents, $300. No
insurance. Box pulled by Officer O'Dowd.
Box 82. Sunday, February 12, 10.39 ^- m. Three-story
wooden block, rear of No. 150 Manchester street, owned by
J. Trask Plumer, and occupied by several families. Probably
caused by the carelessness of children with matches. Damage to
building, $135. Insurance, $3,000. Insurance paid, $135.
Damage to contents about $20, and no insurance. Box pulled
by police.
Still. Sunday, February 12, 11.05 ^- ^^- Burning chimney
at No. 300 Pine street. Chemical Company responded and used
pony. No damage.
Box 71. Sunday, February 12, 11.28 p. m. Two-story house
at No. 242 Union street, owned by Mrs. Emma L. Dustin, and
276 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
had been occupied by Mrs. Maloney, who was buried that after-
noon. Fire was caused by carelessness with pipe. Damage to
building, $106.50. Insurance, $500. Insurance paid, $106.
Damage to contents, $15. No insurance. Box pulled by Officer
Robie.
Box 3. Monday, February 13, 5.39 p. m. Barn on Nutt
road owned and occupied by James W. Kimball. The fire orig-
inated from some unexplained cause. Damage to building, ^100.
No insurance. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 21. Wednesday, February 15, 2.42 p. m. Four-story
wooden tenement house, at No. 121 Merrimack street, owned by
Peter Rogers, and occupied by him as a grocery store, and Mrs.
Lydia J. McGovern as a boarding-house. Cause unknown.
Damage to building, ^120. Insurance, $300. Insurance paid,
1 1 20. No damage to contents. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 213. Saturday, February 18, 2.15 a. ini. Three-story
wooden building, sash and blind works, owned' by Austin, Flint
& Day Co., and occupied by them and the B. H. Piper Co.,
manufacturers of spokes, handles, bats, etc. Cause unknown.
Damage to building, $35. Insurance on building and contents
(blanket policy), $35,000. Insurance paid, $35. Damage to
stock, $318.71. Insurance paid, $318.71. B. H. Piper's stock:
Damage, $1,507.47. Insurance, $4,500. Insurance paid,
$1,414.29. Box pulled by watchman of works.
Still. Saturday, February 25, 8.45 A. m. Burning chimney
at No. 236 Amherst street. Used pony. No damage.
Box 82. Sunday, March 5, 7.34 a. m. Three-story brick
block at No. 79 Manchester street, owned by Mary O'Connor,
and occupied by Francois God bout as a poolroom and saloon.
The fire originated from a sawdust spit-box. Damage to build-
ing, $31.35. Insurance, $3,000. Insurance paid, $31.35. Dam-
age to contents, $50. Insurance, $1,000. Insurance paid, $50.
Box pulled by Officer Lake.
Still. Saturday, March 11, 1.05 p. m. Three-story brick
block at No. 52 Stark street, owned by Amoskeag Manufacturing
Co., and occupied by Frank La Rose as a boarding-house. Slight
fire in bed. Used pony. No damage.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 277
Box 82. Saturday, March 11, 8.29 r. m. Four-story brick
block at No. 75 Manchester street, owned by heirs of John Dealy
and occupied by Daniel J. Thompson as liquor saloon. The fire
was probably caused by careless use of matches. Damage to
building, ^65. Insurance, |6, 000. Insurance paid, $65. Dam-
age to contents, ^187. Insurance, ^1,500. Insurance paid,
$18"]. Box pulled by captain of the watch.
Box 81. Thursday, March 16, 11.35 ^- ^^- Four-story brick
block at No. 978 Elm street, owned by E. K. Rowell, and occu-
pied by Patrick H. Larkin as a fruit store. Cause is unknown.
Damage ^130. No insurance. Damage to contents, ^250. In-
surance, $700. Insurance paid, $250. Box pulled by Officer
Burns.
Still. Friday, March 17, 4.45 A. M. North Main street
schoolhouse. Janitor was "cooling off" redhot poker in pile of
papers. Used pony from Engine No. 2. No damage.
Box 8. Wednesday, April 19, 6.58 a. m. Three-story brick
tenement block at 17 Clark avenue, owned by heirs of Joseph
B. Clark and occupied by several families. A bed in the tene-
ment of Joseph Guimond caught fire from some unknown cause.
Damage to bed about ^3. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Wednesday, April 19, 8.40 p. m. Burning chimney
at 195 Hanover street. Used pony. No damage.
Box 82. Thursday, April 20, 1.20 a. m. Four-story brick
block at 21 Pearl street, owned by Daniel Ready and occupied
by Dr. A. A. E. Brien as a drugstore and by several families. The
fire originated in the air box connected with the furnace. Dam-
age to building, $150. Insurance, ^15,000. Insurance paid,
$150. Damage to Brien's stock, $800. Insurance, ^3,300, In-
surance paid, $533-07. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Thursday, April 20, 5.25 p. m. Burning chimney at
Joseph L. Smith's house, at 174 Concord street. Used pony.
No damage.
Still. Monday, April 24, 4.55 a. m. Three-story brick block
owned by Manchester Corporation and occupied by Flora E.
Corliss as a boarding-house. Caused by a foul chimney. Re-
sponded with pony. No damage.
278 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Box 27. Monday, April 24, 2.21 p. m. Hedge and grass fire
on land of James Baldwin. Extinguished before arrival of de-
partment. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Thursday, April 27, 12.10 p. m. Burning chimney at
129 Manchester street. Chemical responded. No damage.
Still. Friday, April 25, 1.50 p. m. Grass fire rear 528 Gran-
ite street. Hose carriage of Steamer No. 2 responded. Used
pony. No damage.
Still. Friday, April 28, 3.45 p. m. At 1077 Elm street.
Slight fire. Extinguished by Chemical.
Box 56. Saturday, April 29, 8.22 a. m. Dryhouse of the
James Baldwin Co. on Mast road. Cause unknown. Damage
to building, ^25. No insurance. Damage to stock, $175. No
insurance. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Saturday, April 29, 1.05 p. u. Brush fire on McGregor
hill. Engine No. 2 hose carriage responded. No damage.
Still. Saturday, April 29, 6.15 p. m. Brush fire on Mast road.
Engine No. 2 hose carriage responded. No damage.
Box 8. Sunday, April 30, 10.40 p. M. Three-and-one-half
story wooden block, 1273 Elm street, owned by David H. Young
and occupied by Mrs. L. B. Perkins as a grocery and provision
store. Cause unknown. Damage to building, $45. Insurance,
$5,000. Insurance paid, $45. Damage to stock, $25. Insur-
ance, $1,000. Insurance paid, $25. Box pulled by officer.
Box 114. Thursday, May 11, ii.ioa. m. Three-story brick
schoolhouse owned by the city, located on Ash, Bridge, Maple,
and Pearl streets. Cause unknown. Damage to building, $45.
No insurance. Contents not damaged. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Thursday, May 11, i.io p. m. Brush fire at south end
of Beech street extension. Responded with Chemical and dele-
gation of men. Chemical not used.
Still. Thursday, May 11, 7.45 p. m. Burning chimney at
590 Beech street. Responded with pony. No damage.
Box 45. Friday, May 12, 3.58 p. m. Two alarms. Two one-
story buildings at 72-90 Granite street, owned by Clarence R.
Merrill and Mrs. Charles H. Hill and occupied by Clarence R.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 279
Merrill as a hay and grain store. Cause unknown. Damage to
buildings, $5,000. Insurance, $3,500. Insurance paid, $3,500.
Damage to contents, $14,000. Insurance, $11,000. Insurance
paid, $10,500. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 52. Sunday, May 21, 1.31 p. M. Storehouse and stable
rear of 120 South Main street, owned by Pettee & Adams and oc-
cupied by Adams & Tasker as a hay and grain storehouse. The
cause is supposed to be the carelessness of a smoker. Damage
to buildings, $625. Insurance, $800. Insurance paid, $596.
Damage to contents, $319. Insurance, $500. Insurance paid,
$319. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Wednesday, May 24, 12.05 p- ^^- One-story' wooden
photograph gallery owned and occupied by Desclos Bros.
Caused by explosion of gasoline. Damage, $25. No insurance.
Chemical responded.
Still. Thursday, May 25, 3 p. m. Brush fire in Kennard
woods on Hooksett road. Responded with several men.
Box 26. Thursday, May 25, 8.55 p. m. Cottage house, 267
Lowell street, owned and occupied by William Mould. Break-
ing a kerosene lamp caused the alarm. No damage. Box pulled
by citizen.
Box 4. Tuesday, May 30, 9 p. m. Wooden ten-footer, 506
Elm street, owned by Michael Kearns and occupied by Mrs.
Bridget Kearns as a second-hand clothing store. Fire caught
among some old clothes from some unknown cause, but was ex-
tinguished before arrival of department. No damage. Box
pulled by citizen.
Still. Friday, June 9, 7 a. m. Woodbox at 45 Dubuque
street. Extinguished with pony from Engine No. 2.
Box 14. Saturday, June 10, 2.49 a. m. Two-story dwelling
at 128 Orange street, owned and occupied by Mrs. Celenda A.
Morgan. The fire originated in a blind attic from some unknown
cause. Damage to buildings, $1,078. Insurance, $3,800. In-
surance paid, $1,078. Damage to contents, $520. Insurance,
$2,000. Insurance paid, $520. Box pulled by officer.
Still. Saturday, June 10, 1.50 p. m. Four-story brick block
280 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
at 22 Concord street, owned by Chandler, Riddle (heirs) & Var-
ney and occupied by Charles L. Fitzpatrick as a printing-office,
and by several families. The fire originated from the ignition of
benzine used in washing type. No damage to building. Dam-
age to contents, ^25. Insurance, ^700. Insurance paid, $25.
Box 82. Saturday, June 10, 11. 51 p. m. Three-story wooden
block at 1 147 Elm street, owned by A. H. Weston and occupied
by Augustine Halli. The fire was caused by one of the men
breaking a lamp in a room in second story. Damage to build-
ing' $95- Insurance, $500. Insurance paid, ^95. Damage to
contents, ^50. Insurance, $800. Insurance paid, $50. Box
pulled by citizen.
Still. Tuesday, June 13, 10.12 p. m. Burning chimney at
Old Hotel, in 'Skeag, corner of Front street and Old Falls road.
Used pony. Damage slight.
Still. Tuesday, June 20, 9.46 a. m. Burning paper in fur-
nace under New Hampshire Trust Co. No damage. Chemi-
cal responded.
Still. Thursday, June 22, 11. 15 a. m. Burning chimney in
Corcoran's block, 133 Central street. No damage. Used pony.
Box 62. Sunday, July 2, 2.30 p. m. Brush fire near Josselyn
Furniture Works. No damage. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Sunday, July 2, 8 p. m. Burning chimney at 18 Mer-
rimack back street. Used pony. No damage. Chemical re-
sponded.
Still. Tuesday, July 4, 12.40 a. i\i. Fire in a pile of rub-
bish in rear of Thomas Kelley's fruit store at 1073 Elm street.
Chemical responded. No damage.
Box 6. Tuesday, July 4, 5.03 a. u. Four-story brick block
at 19 Hanover street, owned by N. S. Clark and occupied by
Clark & Estey as a millinery and fancy goods store. Damage to
contents, $2,675. Insurance, $13,250. Insurance paid, $2,675.
Still. Tuesday, July 4, 5.10 a. m. Slight fire in fence of J.
W. Fellows, corner Lowell and Beech streets. Hose No. 2 re-
sponded. Damage slight.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 281
Still. Sunday, July 9, 9.30 a. i\l Burning chimney at 180
Lake avenue. Responded with pony. No damage.
Still. Sunday, July 16, 12.14 i'- ^i- Kimball Bros.' shoe-
shop, Hallsville. Unadjusted thermostat. Responded to by
Engine No. 3.
Box 15. Tuesday, July 18, i.iop. m. Three-story wooden
block on Pearl street, owned by heirs of John M. Hayes. Fire
started in woodbox from a spark from the stove. Damage slight.
Box pulled by citizen.
Box 21. Wednesday, July 19, 9.24 a. m. St. Anne's Cath-
olic church at corner Merrimack and Union streets. A fire was
discovered in the altar during the progress of a funeral, the cause
unknown. Damage to contents, $140. Insurance, $20,000. In-
surance paid, $140. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Thursday, July 20, 3.30 p. m. Grass fire on River
road north. Responded to by members of Engine No. 5. No
damage.
Still, Friday, July 21, 9.55 a. m. Chemical called to brush
fire east of reservoir. No damage.
Still. Friday, July 21, 11.55 ^- ^^- Chemical called to same
fire on Ledge road.
Box 113. Friday, July 21, 3.18 p. m. Some excited person
gave alarm for same fire. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Friday, July 21, 4.15 p. m. Grass fire on River road
north caught from sparks from locomotive. No damage. Re-
sponded to by members of Engine No. 5.
Still. Saturday, July 22, 2 p. m. Grass fire on Mrs. J. A.
Head's land near bobbin shop on Mast road. Engine No. 2 re-
sponded with hose carriage. No damage.
Box 4. Saturday, July 22, 12.55 p- ^- Tenement block at
68 Lake avenue, owned by W. E. Prescott and occupied by Jo-
seph Grenor. Tapers placed at the head of a dead child ignited
sheet. No damage. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Friday, July 28, 12.55 p. M. Rear of Opera House,
caused by painter's carelessness in leaving oily wast^ in waste
pipe. No damage.
282 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Box 53. Wednesday, August 9, 8.50 p. m. Burning chimney
in Wallace block. No damage. Needless alarm. Box pulled
by citizen.
Box 71. Saturday, August 26, 12.55 ^- ^^- Barn situated at
151 East Spruce street, owned and occupied by Thomas F. Glan-
cy. The fire originated in the hayloft from some unknown
cause. Damage to building, $429. Insurance, $800. Insur-
ance paid, ^429. Damage to contents, $75.70. Insurance, $1,-
400. Insurance paid, $75.70. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 82. Saturday, August 26, 9.46 p. m. Tenement block
at 1 153 Elm street, owned by Riddle heirs and occupied by John
St. Petre. Lamp exploded. No damage. Box pulled by cit-
izen.
Box 3. Saturday, September 2, 8.32 p. m. Wood yard ofDe
Courcy, Holland & Marshall, corner of Elm street and Nutt road.
Fire originated under a circular saw bench, probably from spon-
taneous combustion. Damage slight. Damage to building, $7.
Insurance, $1,500. Insurance paid, $7. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Wednesday, September 6, i p. m. Brush and peat in
Stark's swamp. Engine No. 2 responded. No damage.
Still. Tuesday, September 12, 8.10 p. m. Slight blaze of
burning rags used for cleaning in T. F. Fifield's grocery store at
57 Hanover street. No damage.
Box 71. Wednesday, September 13, 11.40 a.m. Dwelling-
house at 165 Cedar street, owned by Michael Murry and occu-
pied by Jere. J. Healy. The fire was confined to a closet in sec-
ond story of Healy's tenement, })robably caused by a smoker's
pipe. Damage to building, $24. Insurance, $1,200. Insurance
paid, $24. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 321. Thursday, September 14, 6.56 p. m. Burning chim-
ney in house owned by C. A. Wallace at 371 Cartier street. No
damage. Needless alarm. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 313. Monday, September 18, i.io p. m. Two-story ten-
ement house at 25 Marion street, owned by Frank C. Livingston
and occupied by Frans Rousseault. Caused by smoking in bed.
Damage slight. Box pulled by citizen.
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REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 283
Box 54. Tuesday, September 19, 4.57 p. m. Hen-house in
rear of 58 A street, 'Squog, owned by Edmund Y. Harwood.
Caught from burning hay saturated with kerosene. Damage to
buildings, $30. No insurance. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 4. Friday, September 22, 1.19 P. m.' Burning chimney
at 569 Elm street (rear), owned by Michael Connor. No dam-
age. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 4. Second alarm pulled immediately. Tuesday, Sep-
tember 26, 2.08 P. M. Barn near corner of Elm and Auburn
streets, owned by Thomas Hobbs. The fire originated from some
unknown cause and damaged the block near by. Owing to the
combustible material in that locality a second alarm was given.
Damage to barn, $500. Insurance, $400. Insurance paid, $40°-
Damage to block, ^48.50. Insurance, ^2,100. Insurance paid,
^^48.50. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 21. Tuesday, September 26, 10.53 p. m. Barn in back
street between Laurel and Central, Pine and Chestnut streets,
owned by W. C. Blodgett and occupied by Charles Brooks and
Mrs. Gauthier for storage. Cause unknown. Damage to barn,
;^5o, fully covered by insurance. Damage to contents, ^25, fully
insured. Box pulled by Officer O'Dowd.
Still. Friday, September 29, 8.30 p. m. Burning chimney
at 22 Concord street. Used pony. No damage.
Still. Saturday, September 30, S.43 a. m. Burning chimney
at rear of 189 Manchester street. Used pony. No damage.
Still. Tuesday, October 10, 6.10 p. m. City dump south of
Beech street. Engine No. 3 responded with hose carriage.
Still. Wednesday, October 11, 8. 40 a. m. City dump, south
Beech street. Engine No. 3 responded with hose carriage.
Box 51. Saturday, October 14, 9.32 a. m. Burning chimney
corner Bath and Turner streets, West Manchester. No damage.
Needless alarm. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Monday, October 16, 7.14 p. m. Burning chimney at
47 Church street. Used pony. No damage.
Box 82. Saturday, November 4, 12.58 p. m. Three-story
tenement block at 38 Lowell street, owned by Michael McCabe
284 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
and occupied by P. D. Noel. Fire caught from defective chim-
ney. Damage to building, $15. No insurance. Box pulled by
citizen.
Box 313. Wednesday, November 8, 4.28 a. m. Four-story
tenement block, rear 25 Marion street, owned by F. C. Living-
ston and occupied by Mrs. Jerome St. Lawrence and seven other
families. The fire was probably caused by rats and matches.
Damage to buildings, $105.50. Insurance, $4,500. Insurance
paid, $105.50. Damage to contents, $25. No insurance. Box
pulled by officer.
Still. Wednesday, November 8, 7.45 a. m. Burning chim-
ney at 51 Douglas street. Engine No. 2 responded. Used pony.
No damage.
Box 4. Saturday, November 11, 4.20 p. m. Tenement block
at No. 220 Chestnut street, owned by Patrick J. Horan and oc-
cupied by several families. Cause unknown. Damage to build-
ing, $300. Insurance $2,000. Insurance paid, $300. Damage
to contents, $100. No insurance. Box pulled by citizen.
Still. Monday, November 13, 6.20 p. M. Burning chimney
at corner of Elm and Lowell streets, in Martin's block. Used
pony. No damage.
Still. Tuesday, November 14, 4.20 p. m. Tar kettle on
Spring street boiled over and caught fire. Extinguished by
chemical engine.
Box 21. Wednesday, November 15, 8.10 p. m. Barn in rear
of No. 158 Lake avenue, owned and occupied by Jeremiah Ha-
ley. Cause unknown. Damage to building, $65. Insurance,
$100. Insurance paid, $65. Damage to contents, $25. No in-
surance. Box pulled by citizen.
Box 82. Friday, November 24, 6.17 p. m. Four-story brick
block at No. 1094 Elm street, owned by Elliot and Means, and
r.ccupied by Joel Daniels as a paint store, and others. The fire
originated in the basement from spontaneous combustion. Dam-
age to building, $60. Insurance, $25,000. Insurance paid, $53.
Damage to stock. $400. Insurance, $4,500. Insurance paid,
$380.98. Box pulled by citizen.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 285
Still. Monday, November 27, 7.45 a. m. Burning chimney
at No. 415 Granite street. Responded to by engine No. 2 and
extinguishers. No damage.
Box 6. Monday, December 4, 2.15 a. m. Switch-board of
Western Union Telegraph Co. Caused by cross with electric
light wires, owing to sleet storm. Damage slight. Box pulled
by Officer Lovejoy.
Box 6. Monday, December 4, 10.39 p. M. Three-story brick
block at Nos. 864-884 Elm street, owned by Eben Ferren and
New Hampshire Insurance Co., and occupied by John Robbie
Co., Stephen Piper, and others. Fire originated in the basement
from some unknown cause. Damage to Ferren building, $1,300.
Insurance, $4,000. Insurance paid, $1,300. No damage to New
Hampshire Insurance building. Damage to Robbie's stock,
;^4i, 990.75. Insurance, $73,500. Insurance paid, $34,569.98.
Damage to Piper's stock, $200. Insurance, $1,500. Insurance
paid, $2oo. Box pulled by Officer Lovejoy.
Still. Tuesday, December 5, 8.54 p. m. Burning chimney
at No. 135 Amherst street, in block owned by Dr. Hiram Hill.
Box 313. Friday, December 8, 8.57 a. m. Three-story wood-
en block at Nos. 38-42 Marion street, owned by Mrs. W. I. Sar-
gent and occupied by Moise Samore, Joseph Breaux, David
Lestage, A. F. Beck, Peter Lemay, and Isia Demise. The fire
originated in the ceiling of the tenement occupied by Moise
Lamore. Damage to building, $1,400. Insurance, $3,000. In-
surance paid, $1,400. Damage to contents, $500. No insur-
ance. Box pulled by Officer Fellows.
Box 21. Friday, December 29, 8.04 p. M. Burning chimney
at No. 67 Central street, in block owned by Oliver B. Green.
No damage. Needless alarm. Box pulled by officer.
Number of bell alarms ....... 59
Number of still alarms ....... 47
Total 106
286 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Amount of insurance on property endangered . $363,625.00
Aggregate losses for 1S92 ..... $88,447.90
Amount of insurance paid ..... 71,404.58
Net loss not covered by insurance . . $17,043.32
Number and Location of Alarm-Boxes and Keys.
No. 3. Blood's lower shop. Keys at offices of gas-works,
county jail, DeCourcy, Holland & Marshall, and Charles H.
Hutchinson's shop.
No. 4. Corner of Spruce and Elm streets. Keys at Hotel
Oxford, L. B. Bodwell & Co.'s, Palmer & Garmon's, Horse Rail-
road stables, and W. C. Blodgett's office.
No. 5. Corner of Merrimack and Elm streets. Keys at Teb-
betts & Soule'sand Currier's drug-stores, and Manchester House.
No. 6. City Hall. Keys at Holland's and Thurston's drug-
stores, and J. A. Riddle's office.
No. 7. Police station, corner of Manchester and Chestnut
streets. Keys at city marshal's office, and with all police officers.
No. 8. Corner Elm and Hollis streets. Keys at Smith &
Co.'s and Colby's drug-stores. Partridge Bros.' grain store, and
E. V. Rowe's residence, 1261 Elm street.
No. 9. Corner of Elm and Webster streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Mrs. H. D. Corliss, J. Freeman Clough, J. B. Jones,
and station of Engine No. 6.
No. 12. Corner of North and Pine streets. Keys at residences
of William C. Clarke, George Emerson, and Walter A. Green.
No. 13. Corner of Brook and Chestnut streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Welcome Jencks and Lewis Simons, No. i Senter's
block, and Chase & Gate's grocery store.
No. 14. Corner of Prospect and Union streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Mrs. W. Ireland, Mrs. George W. Riddle, D. J. Ad-
ams, E. L. Bryant, and A. H. Olzendam.
No. 15. Corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Mrs. Willie H. Dodge and Ervin S. Lyford.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 287
No. 1 6. Corner of Lowell and Union streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Rt. Rev. Bishop Bradley and R. R. Hassam.
No. 17. Corner of Amherst and Beech streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Mrs. H. P. Watts and Michael Connor,
No. 18. Corner of Manchester and Maple streets. Keys at
residences of the late H. E. Stevens, A. N. Baker, and Mrs. Wil-
liam 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
station of Engine and Ladder No. 3.
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 Mc-
Crillis's carriage shop, George 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 HoUis streets. Blood's shop.
Keys at office, Amory Mills, Langdon Mills watch-rooms.
No. 32. Langdon Mills block, corner of Canal and Brook
streets. Keys at the Amoskeag Paper Company's mill, Langdon
watch-room, and Electric Light station.
No. 34. Jefferson Mill. Keys at watch-room and pumping
station.
No. 35. Stark Mills. Keys at watch-room.
No. 36. Amory Mills. Keys at watch-room.
No. 39. Hillsborough county jail. Keys at office.
No. 41. Amoskeag Mills. Keys at watch-room.
No. 42. Manchester Mills. Keys at watch-room.
288 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 43. Olzendam's Mill. Keys at watch-room.
No. 45. The S. C. Forsaith Co.'s shops. Keys at freight
depot and S. C. Forsaith Co.'s office.
No. 51. Corner of Walker and Second streets. Keys at stores
of F. Riedel and William Weber.
No. 52. Barr's brick block, 'Squog. Keys at Fradd & Co.'s
and A. N. Clapp's store, Merrimack House, and Engine No. 2
house.
No. 53. Wallace's steam mill. Keys at Wallace's office, I. R.
Dewey's tenement block, and Ranno Harness Co's.
No. 54. Corner of A and Bowman streets. Keys at residences
of Lord sisters and Neil Fullerton.
No. 56. Baldwin's bobbin shop. Keys at Baldwin's office
and residences of J. C. Smith, E. P. Littlefield, and with watch-
man at works.
No. 61. Corner of River road and Hancock street, Bakers-
ville. Keys at Mary Stack's saloon, True W. Jones Co.'s brew-
ery, residence of H. F. Dillingham, and store of John A. Kane.
No. 62. Gerrish Wool and Leather Co.'s, River road. Keys
at tannery and residence of Edwin Kennedy.
No. 71. Corner of Cedar and Pine streets. Keys at the resi-
dences of T. Collins, Daniel Sheehan, Thomas J. Smith, and
store of J. J. Tooney.
No. 72. Corner of Lake avenue and Lincoln street. Keys at
residences of the late Austin Jenkins, James Briggs, and
Clarence D. Palmer.
No. 73. Corner of Beech and Cedar streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Rev. J. A. Chevalier and Timothy Carr.
No. 81. Central Fire Station, Vine street. Keys at all the
engine-rooms.
No. 82. Old City Hotel, corner Lowell and Elm east back
streets. Keys at Syndicate Furniture Co.'s, Lowell-street stable,
Nichols's stable, and Fames Bros.' drug store.
No. 112. Corner of Sagamore and Union streets. Keys at
residences of W. T. Stevens, W. A. Clarkson, M. D. Johnson,
and Charles F. Chase.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 289
No. 113. Corner of Oak and Prospect streets. Keys at resi-
dences of William B. Abbott, W. N. Johnson, and E. M.
Topliff.
No. 114. Corner of Pearl and Ash streets. Keys at resi-
dences of A. P. Olzendam, G. A. Olzendam, W. S. Shannon,
and John J. Bennett.
No. 212. Shoeshop, 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, junction
of Portsmouth Railroad. Keys at oflBces of Austin, Flint & Day
and Dana & Provost.
No. 214. Elliott silk mill, corner of Wilson and Valley streets.
Keys at office and watchroom of mill and at Truax & Truax's
foundry.
No. 215. Hoyt & Co.'s shoeshop, corner of Lincoln and Som-
erville streets. Keys at offices of shoeshop and Kimball Car-
riage Co. and residence of H. J. Robinson.
No. 312. Corner of Putnam, Main, and McGregor streets.
Keys at residences of James Spence (309 Main street), Thomas
Bolton, and gate of No. 1 1 mill.
No. 313. Corner of Amory and Main streets. Keys at resi-
dences of Allen Dean and Lawrence M. Connor, Bouthillier &
Gingras's drug store, Miville & Co.'s drug store, and gate of No.
II mill.
No. 314. P. C. Cheney Co.'s paper mill. Keys at office,
Randall & Co.'s store, and Independent Hose house.
No. 315. Old Brick Store at 'Skeag. Keys at Flanders's store,
Independent Hose house, and D. L. Robinson's residence.
No. 321. Corner Beauport and Wayne streets. Keys at Holy
Angels' Convent, the Brothers' School, and residences of E. H.
Doherty and Rev. Father Hevey.
No. 511. Corner of Douglas and Green streets. Keys at res-
idences of Amelia Davis, William A. Tufts, and James Kearns.
No. 513. Corner of Milford and Carroll streets. Keys at
290.
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
residences of J. W. Abell, James Ward, and Mrs. Elizabeth
Ward.
Also, keys will be found in the hands of all regular police.
The true time 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.
Chemical Engine and chief engineer's office
Chief Engineer Lane's residence
Assistant Engineer Whitney's residence
Assistant Engineer Whitney's office
Engine No. 2 .
Engine and Ladder No. 3 .
Engine No. 5 .
Engine and Ladder No. 6
Hose No. 2 . . .
64-3
64-4
34-4
39-3
64-2
64-5
64-6
64^7
1 1 6-4
Instructions to Key-holders and Citizens.
1. 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
corner or nearest house.
2. Key-holders, upon the discovery of a fire, or positive in-
formation 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
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 291
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.
292
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
TABLE
SHOWING THE APPARATUS CALLED TO DIFFERENT BOXES ON FIRST, SEC-
OND. AND THIRD ALARMS.
Engine.
Ist R. 3
l8t R. 2-3
Ist R. 2-3
Ist & 2d R.
1st R. 3
1st & 2d R. 5
1st R. 5
5
Ist R. 5
Ist R. 5
15 lst&2dR.5
16 IstR. 5
17 lstR.3
18 IstR. 3
21 IstR. 3
23 IstK. 3
24 IstR. 3
25 IstR. 3
26 IstR. 3
27 IstR 3
Ist R. 6
1st R. 5
1st & 2d R. 5-6
1st & 2d R. 5-6
1st & 2d R. 5-6
1st R. 3
1st & 2d R. 2-3
Ist & 2d R. 2-3
1st R. 2-3
2-3
41.
42.
43.
45 1 Ist &2d
51 1 2-6
52 ! 2-6
53 2-6
54 ' 2-6
56 1 2-6
61 1st R. 3
62 IstR. 3
71.
82.
112.
113.
114.
212.
213.
214.
215.
312.
313.
314.
315.
321.
511.
513.
1st R. 3
IstR. 3
1st R. 3
1st & 2d R.
Ist & 2d R.
1st R. 5
Ist R. 5
1st R. 5
Ist R. 3
1st R. 3
1st R. 3
Ist R. 3
1st R. 2-6
Ist R. 2-6
5-6
5-6
2-6
2-6
2-6
Second Alarm.
2dR.2
2dR.
2dR.
2-3
2dR.
3
2d R.
2dR.3
3
2d R. 3
2d R.5
2dR.
2d R. 2
2dR.
2dR.
2dR.
2d R.5
2dR.
2d R. 5
2dR. 6
2-3
2-3
2-3
2dR.2
5-6
5-6
2dR.6
5
1st R.3
1st R.3
1st R.3
IstR.
1ft R.3
2dR.2
2d R. 2
2dR.
2dR.
2dR.
5
5-6
2dR.
2dR.
2d R.3
2dR.
2dR.
2dU.
3
2dR.
6
2d R.5
6
2d R.5
6
IstR 2
6
IstR.
fi
1st R.6
6
IstR.
6
IstR.
Third Alabm.
?,
6
2
6
2
1
9.
3
3
3
3
5-6
2-5-6
2-6
2-3-6
2d R.2-3-6
2d R.2-3-6
2-6
2-6
2-6
2-6
2-5-6
5-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
2-6
2-5-6
2-3
2-3
5
6
2dR. 5
2dR. 5
2dR. 5
2d R. 3-5
2dR. 5
5-6
5-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
2-6
2
2-3-6
2-3-6
2-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
2-5-6
3
3
2dR. 3
2dR. 2-3
2d R. 3
2d R. 3-5
2d R. 3-5
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 293
Rules and Regulations in regard to Responding to
Fires and Alarms.
The following rules have been adopted by the board of engi-
neers, and the fire department will strictly comply until other-
wise ordered, and will attend alarms of fire as per running card.
RUNNING RULES.
Whenever an alarm is sounded, the members of all companies
not called to that box will report to their respective company
quarters, and there remain until dismissed by the signal on the
bells or by an engineer in charge.
In case companies on their first run have responded to an
alarm, companies on their second run to the box from which the
alarm has been sounded, will answer all first-run boxes of the
absent companies ; and in case engines are out that would re-
spond to another box, then third-alarm companies will respond.
In case of an alarm from a box that does not call for a third
alarm, companies on their second run will then answer to all
other boxes.
Whenever two trucks answer to first alarm, the other truck Avill
answer to all other boxes.
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. Whenever a horse lags or gives out, drivers
should then give others the right of way, so as not to delay the
rest of the apparatus. No running by will be allowed, ex-
cept IN CASE OF ACCIDENT, UNDER PENALTY OF DISMISSAL OF THE
DRIVER FROM THE DEPARTMENT.
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.
Engineers of steamers will not run over eighty (80) pounds
water pressure, except when orders are received from a member
of the board of engineers or of the officer in command of the
company.
294 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
WHISTLE SIGNALS.
The following code of signals will be observed by members of
the department :
For captain, or officer in command of company, one long
whistle.
For coal, two long whistles followed by as many short whis-
tles as indicate the number of the engine.
To limber up, three long whistles.
THIRD alarm.
On THIRD alarm all apparatus will respond.
GENERAL ALARM.
In the event of a fire of such magnitude that second and third
alarms are needed, a general alarm will be given by striking ten
BLOWS, in which case all companies will respond.
SPECIAL CALLS ON FIRE ALARM.
When more apparatus is wanted without giving a second or
third alarm, the following special calls will be given :
2 — I for Engine i. i — i — i for Aerial Truck.
2 2
' " 2.
3 — 3 for Truck 3
2—3
' " 3-
3—6 " " 6
2—4
4-
4 — I for Hose i.
2—5
' " 5-
4—2 " '' 2.
2—6
' " 6.
4—3 " " 3-
Companies answering "special calls" will wait thirty sec-
onds before leaving quarters to prevent mistakes.
OUT OF TOWN CALLS.
' For a fire out of the city 2 — 2 — 2, in which case all companies
will assemble at their respective quarters and await orders.
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ALL OUT SIGNAL.
Two blows on the bells, which dismisses all members at com-
pany quarters.
TEST SIGNAL.
One blow at 12.30 noon.
SCHOOL SIGNALS.
I — I with fifteen seconds between blows closes primary and
middle schools.
2 — 2 with fifteen seconds between the 2's closes all the schools.
Time for giving same, 7.45 a. m., 11.30 a. m., or 1.15 p. m.
Rules for Exercising Horses.
It shall be the duty of the drivers of engines, hose carriages,
hose wagons, hook and ladder trucks, and all other apparatus
connected with this department, to exercise their horses every day,
weather permitting, except Sunday, with the exception of engines
having " first " and " second runs," and in such cases must ex-
ercise on days of " second run," and the same to be done with-
in the following limits :
CENTRAL STATION.
North to Pearl street. East to Union street.
South to Merrimack street. West to Elm street.
NORTH MAIN STREET STATION.
North to Adams street. East to Main street.
South to Granite street. West to Dubuque street.
LAKE AVENUE STATION.
North to Manchester street. East to Belmont street.
South to Summer street. West to Maple street.
296 ANNUAL OFFICIAL EEPOKTS.
MAPLE-STREET STATION.
North to Myrtle street. East to Linden street.
South to Hanover street.' West to Union street.
WEBSTER-STREET STATION.
North to Clarke street. East to Union street.
South to Pennacook street. West to Elm street.
RIMMON-STREET STATION (mCGREGORVILLE).
North to Amory street. East to Beauport street.
South to Wayne street. West to Rimmon street.
Drivers must confine themselves to the above, and in no case
take their horses beyond the prescribed limits, except for shoeing
or in case of fire, without permission from the chief or an assist-
ant engineer.
In exercising care must be taken to avoid colliding with other
teams. In approaching corners, crossings, horsecar tracks, and
in going down grades the speed of the horses must be checked.
In case of an alarm use gong freely while returning to quarters.
Any driver violating these rules will be liable to suspension or
discharge.
The Sleeping Apartments.
The permanent men shall exercise a careful supervision over
the sleeping apartments, see that the rooms are put in order and
the beds made as early as ii o'clock a. m., and that the bedding
is changed at suitable intervals. The occupants of each bed will
be held responsible for the cleanliness of the same, and held
strictly accountable for any damage to either bed or bed clothing
through carelessness. After lo o'clock p. M. occupants shall re-
frain from loud talking or in any manner disturbing the rest of
any who have retired.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 297
Absence from Station.
No permanent member shall leave his station to visit any sec-
tion of the city without permission of the chief or an assistant en-
gineer, or leave the city, or be granted leave of absence, without
notifying the chief engineer and procuring a substitute to his ac-
ceptance, and the substitute shall be on duty before the applicant
leaves his post.
Any call member expecting to be absent from the city shall notify
the captain of his company, and before leaving the city shall pro-
cure a substitute satisfactory to said captai7i.
Any member of the department not complying with the above
rules shall be liable to suspension or expulsion from the depart-
ment.
Entering Buildings witii Line of Hose.
All hose companies are instructed not to enter any building
with a line of hose unless the stop nozzle is closed, except in cases
where they can see the fire, and when their streams will reach it
without damage to other property.
Steamer companies are not to enter a building with a line of
hose without orders unless fire can be seen.
Captains of the several companies will be expected to report
any violation of the foregoing rules to the board of engineers.
ESTIMATED VALUE OF PROPERTY.
Engine No. 1 .
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I extra first-size Amoskeag steamer
I one-horse hose-wagon .
3 gray horses for steamer .
I gray horse for hose-wagon
4 swinging harnesses
$4,000.00
400.00
685.00
225.00
200.00
298
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS
I pair double harnesses (for street
I single harness (for street work)
2,000 feet fabric hose
100 feet three-inch leather hose
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc.
Tools, furniture, and fixtures
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
.'ork)
S50.00
40.00
1,200.00
50.00
60.00
200.00
200.00
S7, 310.00
Engine No. 2.
LOCATED AT NORTH MAIN STREET, SQUOG
I second-size Amoskeag steamer
$4,000.00
I combination hose-wagon
600.00
I exercise wagon, poles, shafts, and 3-horse hitcl
340.00
3 bay horses for steamer ....
617.00
I pair gray horses for combination .
534.00
3 street harnesses, 2 at ^40, i at $20
100.00
5 swinging harnesses ....
250.00
I single cart ......
75.00
I two-horse cart .....
60.00
I double sled
60.00
I single sled
40.00
00 feet fabric hose
1,500.00
Stable fixtures and blankets
94.00
Furniture, fixtures, carpets, etc.
466.00
Firemen's suits and badges
150.00
Total amount
$8,886.00
Engine and Ladder Co. No. 3.
LOCATED ON LAKE AVENUE, CORNER MASSABESIC
STREET.
I second-size Amoskeag steamer
$3,500.00
I two-hq,rse truck and equipments
1,700.00
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299
I three-horse hitch attachment (extra)
I pair black horses ....
I single horse .....
3 street harnesses, 2 at $50, i at $40 .
5 swinging harnesses
I four-wheeled Amoskeag hose-carriage
I double cart .....
I single cart .....
I single sled .....
2,500 feet fabric hose ....
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc.
Beds, bedding, carpets, hall furniture, etc.
3200.00
417.00
150.00
140.00
250.00
600. 00
125.00
40.00
40.00
1,^00.00
50.00
575-00
Total amount
[Note.— Horses for truck on trial, not yet purchased.^
$9,287.00
Engine No. 4.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I first-size Amoskeag steamer .
34,200.00
I hose-wagon ....
400.00
3 horses for steamer .
600.00
I horse for hose-wagon
133-00
I pair street harnesses
40.00
4 swinging harnesses
200.00
2,100 feet fabric hose
126.00
Hall furniture, beds, bedding, etc.
275.00
Stable fixtures and blankets
75.00
Firemen's suits and badges
150.00
Total amount
$7,333-00
300
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Engine No. 5.
LOCATED ON WEBSTER STREET, CORNER CHESTNUT.
I third-size Amoskeag steamer
. $3,600.00
I combination hose reel and ladder .
1,000.00
I pair bay horses . . . .
534.00
I pair gray horses .
400.00
2 double carts .
150.00
2 double sleds ....
100.00
2 pairs swinging harnesses
200.00
2 pairs street harnesses
150.00
GO feet fabric hose
1,500.00
Furniture, fixtures, tools, etc.
175.00
Stable fixtures and blankets
80.00
Firemen's suits, badges, etc.
150.00
Total amount
• ^8,039.00
E. W. Harrington Steam Fire Engine.
STORED AT CLINTON STREET ENGINE HOUSE.
Old U tank Amoskeag engine (may be worth for ex-
change) $500.00
Engine and Ladder No. 6.
LOCATED AT CORNER AMORY AND RIMMON STREETS.
I second-size Amoskeag steamer . . . $3,500.00
I hook and ladder truck (with Bangor extension) 1,680.00
1 one-horse carriage 600.00
2 gray horses for steamer ..... 400.00
2 bay horses for truck 267.00
I gray horse for hose-carriage .... 200.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
301
5 swinging harnesses
2,000 feet fabric hose
Hall furniture, carpets, beds, bedding, etc
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc.
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
$250.00
1,200.00
375-00
85.00
187.00
;8, 744.00
Hose No. 1.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I four-wheeled Amoskeag
hose-carriage
$600.00
2 horses ......
534-00
2 single harnesses
70.00
I single cart
40.00
I single sled .
40.00
I hose sled
20,00
2,500 feet fabric hose
1,500.00
1,000 feet leather hose
500.00
Furniture and fixtures
200.00
Stable fixtures and blankets
50.00
Firemen's suits and badges
175.00
Total amount
$3,729.00
1
^ose
No.
2.
LOCATED ON MAPLE STREET, CORNER EAST HIGH.
I four-wheeled Amoskeag hose- carriage
$600.00
I bay horse ......
150.00
I street harness
30.00
I swinging harness
50.00
I single cart
50.00
I single sled ......
30.00
302
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
2,000 feet fabric hose
2, 000 feet leather hose .
Furniture and fixtures
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
$1,200.00
800.00
100.00
175.00
$3,185.00
Hook-and-Ladder No. 1
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
I aerial hook-and-ladder truck .
3 horses .....
1 pair exercise harnesses .
3 swinging harnesses
2 extra Bangor extension ladders
7 rubber blanket covers .
Furniture and fixtures
Bed, bedding, and furniture .
Stable fixtures and blankets
Firemen's suits and badges
Total amount
$4,200.00
800.00
30.00
150.00
360.00
168.00
200.00
40.00
60.00
280.00
$6,2
.00
Chemical Engine No.
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
$2,250.00
534-00
50.00
100.00
75.00
50.00
35-00
$3,094.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
303
Supply Wagon.
supply wagon, with boxes and engineers' lanterns . $250.00
Spare Hose.
AT CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
800 feet leather hose .....
1,300 feet fabric hose .....
Total amount .....
$400.00
780.00
$1,180.00
Exercise Wagon.
CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
I four-wheeled exercise wagon with pole, shafts, three-
horse hitch, and coal boxes ..... $350.00
Engineers' Department.
5 fire hats ....
5 engineers' white rubber coats
Furniture and fixtures
Total amount
$10.00
37-50
175.00
$222.50
Independent Hose Company No. 5.
LOCATED AT CORNER OF OLD FALLS ROAD AND FRONT STREET
1 four-wheeled hose-carriage
800 feet leather hose .....
2 hose-pipes, spanners, etc. ....
Furniture and fixtures .....
$400.00
300.00
40.00
10.00
Total amount
$750.00
304 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Goffe's Falls Hose-Carriage.
LOCATED AT DEVONSHIRE MILLS.
1 two-wheeled hose-carriage ....
300 feet fabric hose .....
2 hose-pipes ......
Total amount
Sleeping-Hall.
AT CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
7 beds, bedding, wardrobes, etc.
$30.00
100.00
10.00
$140.00
$275.00
Extra Horse.
I horse at Central station for spare duty .
Fire-Alarm Telegraph.
$200.00
At cost, including additions previous to
1885
$21,625.00
Remodeling in 1885. .....
6,000.00
Additions in 1886
775.00
in 1887
375-00
in 1888
S75-0O
in 1889
430.00
in 1890
300.00
in 1891
280.00
in 1892
150.00
in 1893
500.00
" Individual Tapper " system
3,000.00
Wire, ladders, arms, brackets, etc.
125.00
Total
• ^.34,135-00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
305
Recapitulation.
Engine No. i
Engine No. 2
Engine and Ladder No. 3
Engine No. 4
Engine No. 5
Engine and Ladder No. 6
Harrington Engine (old)
Hose No. I .
Hose No. 2 .
Hook and Ladder No. i
Chemical Engine No. i
Supply wagon
Spare hose .
Exercise wagon (Central station)
Engineers' department
Independent Hose No. 5
Goffe's Falls Hose-Carriage
Sleeping Hall (Central station)
Extra horse ....
Fire-Alarm Telegraph
Total ....
^7,310.00
8,886.00
9,287.00
7>333-oo
8,039.00
8,744.00
500.00
3,729.00
3,185.00
6,288.00
3,094.00
250.00
1,180.00
350.00
222.50
750.00
140.00
275.00
200.00
34,135.00
^103,897.50
Names and Residences of the Members of the Fire
Department.
BOARD OF ENGINEERS.
Thomas W. Lane
Fred S. Bean
Ruel G. Manning. . . .
Eugene S. Whitne.y..
Clarence D. Palmer
Chief
Asst. and clerk
Assistant
Occupation.
Machinist
Carpenter . . .
Supt. Elec. Light
Marble dealei
1937 Elm.
102 Orange.
55 Douglas.
N. River road
366 Lake ave.
306
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1.
House, 2S Vine Street.
Rank.
Occupation.
Resilience.
7 Charles F. McCoy
Captain
Machinist
50 M. S. B.
8
Frank E. Steams
Lieutenant
Paper hanger . . .
389 Lake ave.
14
6
Edgar A. Young
CliarlesF. Hall
Clerk
Clerk.
Engineer
Machinist
28 Vine.
13
Joseph H. GouUl
Asst. Engineer
1087 Elm.
11
Charles H. Rogers ....
Driver engine..
Teamster
28 Vine.
12
Artemas C. Barker —
Driver hose....
28 Vine.
43
Frank B. Marston
Hoseman
Carpenter
14M. S. B.
17
Henry C. Parsons
Auctioneer
6 Prospect.
15
Thomas J. Wyatt
Carpenter
973 Elm.
19
Henry A. Boone
Machinist.:
2t M. S. B.
18
James L. Brock
Tinsmith
21 Market.
9
Lewis G. Bryant
Carpenter
31 M. S. B.
10 1 Lucius M. Rollins ....
"
Holder.
174 Concord.
ENGINE COMPANY NO. 2.
House on North Main Street, 'Squog.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
67
David G.Mills
607 Granite,
71
Charles G. Ranno
Lieutenant: —
Harness-maker .
63 Parker.
76
120
Jeremiah Lane
Harry C. Morrill
Clerk and dri-
ver engine . :
Engineer
Teamster
Machinist
210 Main.
226 Main.
119
Stephen Thomes
Asst. engineer.
Carpenter
55 Douglas.
69
Arthur W. VVhitcomb.
Driver of hose.
Teamster
151 Douglas.
T>.
Samuel A. Hill
Hoseman
Janitor
86 School.
Robert J.Hill
Carpenter
Machinist
77
Daniel B. Emery
Williams.
73
Charles S. Cousins...
Harness-maker..
323 Douglas.
74
Thomas C. Foote
AVool sorter
56 N. Main,
66
Joseph H. Alsop
"
Wool waste sort'r
54 Douglas.
70
Chas. M. Tewksbury..
Freight handler.
Engine-house.
68
George P. Ames
Asst. Supt. Sts...
226 Main.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
307
ENGINE AND LADDER COMPANY NO. 3.
House on Lake Avenue, corner Massabesic.
-d 6
NAME.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
86
Frank F. Porter
Captain
Manufacturer . . .
330 Spruce.
S?.
Lyman W. Piper
Ernest E. Hubbell
8S
Clerk
Carpenter
Machinist
417 C(intv<t\
121
George B. Forsaith —
Engineer
Engine-house.
122
John P.Walker
Asst. engineer
352 Lake ave.
87
George H. Wheeler . . .
Driver engine..
Teamster
Engine-house.
81
William S. McLeod...
Driver hose...
„
Engine-house.
88
132Massabesic.
■
366 Lake ave
80
Ernest L. George
Charles H.Colburn....
Clerk
H
<'
Carpenter
294 Laurel.
85
WHIP. Emerson
294 Laurel.
89
Parker R. Brown
<i
Clerk
422Merrimack.
78
George Dunnington.. .
"
Harness-maker .
510 Wilson.
79
Louis N. Duf rain
"
Plumber
373 Hall.
ENGINE COMPANY NO. 4.
House, No. 26 Vine street.
Id
NAME.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
20
Lucius B. Snelling
Captain
Pharmacist
103 Walnut.
28
John H.Wales, Jr
Lieutenant —
Machinist
19 M. S. B.
33
Thomas W. Lane, Jr. .
Clerk
Electrician .
1937 Elm
21
Edgar G. Abbott
Engineer
Machinist
20 Vine.
33
Benj.R. Richardson..
Asst. Engineer
12 Mechanic.
31
Frank J. Dustin
Driverengine..
Teamster
20 Vine.
29
Ellsworth V. Rowe. . . .
Driver of hose.
Manufacturer. ..
20 Vine.
22
Walter A. Clarkson. . .
Hoseman
Carpenter
98 Sagamore.
„
86 Prospect.
20 Vine.
27
Edward Sargent
"
Machinist
?4
«
Clerk
258 East High.
26
Irving S. Bryant
"
Second-hand ....
112 Pearl.
30
Clarence R.Merrill...
"
Grain dealer....
414Merrimack.
23
George Thompson ....
"
Clerk
63 Arlington.
308
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ENGINE COMPANY NO. 5.
House, No. 44 Webster Street.
¥
NAME.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
49
101
46
43
Charles W. Brown....
Milo B.Wilson
Woodbury Davison . . .
Daniel W. Morse
Captain
16 Hazel.
48 Blod^et.
Clerk
817 Union.
Engineer
Engineer
1419 Elm.
10-3
135
Walter Morse
Asst. engineer.
Driver engine.
Machinist
Teamster
831 Union.
ErailH. Smith
44 Webster.
134
Henry S. Reed
Driver hose . . .
44 Webster.
123
George R. Simmons . . .
Hoseman
Machinist
82 Pennacook.
47
95
41
Russell L. Cilley
Edward H. Clough ....
Arthur A. Smith
,1
859 Chestnut.
Blacksmith
11 W. Applet'n
126
Alvin McLane . . ....
.,
Carpenter
15 Liberty.
99
Joseph I. Risvold
"
Machinist
130 Myrtle.
108
Edwin L. Towle
"
Clerk
63 Webster.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
309
ENGINE AND LADDER COMPANY NO. (
House on Amory and Rimmon Streets.
a.
-o o
1^
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
128
George A. Whitney. ..
Captain
Manufacturer
79 Conant.
129
130
Lieutenant...
Machinist
Section hand ...
624 Main.
169 Cartier.
Thomas E. Gorman...
I'll
239 Beauport.
Rimmon.
132
Edwin E. Weeks
Engineer
Machinist
133
Alcide Provencher . . .
Asst. engineer.
1275 Elm.
134
Alphonso E. Foster...
Driver engine.
Carpenter
Rimmon.
^'\'^
George A. Cann
Henry C. Crosby
136
Driver truck..
Teamster
Rimmon.
137
Fred S.Morrill
Hoseman
Belt-maker
58 Douglas.
13S
Thos F Fitzsimnaons
,,
Painter
258 Beauport.
114 School.
139
Arthur A. Lamoreaux
«
Grocer
140
Frank W.Tibbetts....
Section-hand . . . .
312 Cartier.
141
Jobn J. Conroy
Blacksmith
268 Beauport.
142
Frank St. John
Marble finisher..
5 Barr.
143
Henry Stein .. ....
Blacksmith. . . .
Hevey.
516 Beauport.
144
Arthur Provost
"
Wool sorter
145
Bruno Beliveau
Meat cutter
596 Main.
146
HeberC. Sleeper "
Machinist
4 Monmouth.
147
James A. Parley "
"
385 Dubuque.
310
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
HOSE COMPANY NO. 1.
House, No. 26 Vine Street.
52
Name.
Charles B. Frencli.
Joseph E. Merrill.
Frank D. Burleigh.
Walter L. Blenus. .
George H. Poiter..
Albert A. Puffer...
John E. Sanborn..
Samuel W. Patten .
George I. Ayer —
Edwin W. Merrill .
Henry Gray
34 Charles J. Wiley ..
Captain
Lieutenant .
Clerk
Driver
Hoseman....
Occupation.
Carpenter ....
Currier
Carpenter
Teamster
Carpenter ...
Rallr'd employee
Carpenter . . .
Belt maker . .
Electrician...
Clerk
39 M. S. B.
21 Ash.
1405 Elm.
26 Vine.
279 Laurel.
499 Beech.
274 Laurel.
3M. S.B.
28 M. S. B.
21 Ash.
Machinist [ 7 M. S. B.
Mechanic 1 Elliot & Means
1 block
HOSE COMPANY NO. 2.
Rouse on Maple Street, corner East High,
¥
NAME.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
54
JohnF. Seaward
Captain
Carpenter
27 Warren.
55
Revilo G. Houghton . .
Lieutenant —
Gas fitter
288 Bridge.
58
Henry G. Seaman —
Walter Seaward
Clerk
Carpenter
Teamster
14 South.
57
Driver
521 Maple.
59
Jos. W. Batchelder . . .
Hoseman
Carpenter
467 Maple.
64
,,
Clerk
211 Bridge.
65
63
Julien B. Huntley
"
36 Dutton.
60
Charles W.Powell....
Carpenter
540 Maple.
61
Addison Seaward
2.50 East High
56
63
Arthur B. Merrill
James A. Rogers
"
"
C02 Hall.
761 Beech.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
311
CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1.
Rouse, No. 8 Vine Street.
-c 6
1^
NASUE.
Bank.
Occupation.
Residence.
116
George N. Burpee
Captain
Electrician
19 Ash.
117
Warren F. Wlieeler. . .
Clerk & driver
Teamster
8 Vine.
lis
Frank H. Harvey
Pipeman
546 Chestnut.
116
Edward A. Sears
Fireman
Electrician
r. 247 Concord.
44
Benjamin C. Cann*. . .
"
Teamster
542 Chestnut.
■ Detailed as driver of supply wagon.
HOOK-AND-LADDER COMPANY NO.
House, No. IS Vine Street.
h
NAME.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence,
91
Jerome J. Lovering . .
Captain
Carpenter
300 Pine.
46 Stark.
90
Henry Johnson
Clerk
Steam-fitter
508 Hall.
Charles M. Denyou . . .
18 Vine.
96
Barber
100 Blodget.
98
John N. Chase
Overseer
268 Bridge.
„
,,
Carpenter
i„
Harrison H. Cole
45 M. S. B.
109
George M. Jones
Gardener
25 Prospect.
97
107
Charles W. Bailey....
Carriage maker
Manufacturer . .
Linden corner
Orange.
38 Vine.
113
Charles H. Laxon
Carpenter
20 M. S. B.
106
Charles Edgar
16 M. S. B.
105
JohnT.Gott
93
Charles H. Gile
Carpenter
56 Stark.
100
Fi'ank M Fi'isselle
Reporter
346 Manchestr.
112
Charles A. Butterfleld
Carpenter
1152 Elm.
118
Frank A. Pherson
Machinist
18 Vine.
312 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Location of Hydrants.
As per water commissioners' report up to January i,
Amherst, northwest corner of Vine.
Amherst, southwest corner of Chestnut,
Amherst, northwest corner of Pine.
Amherst, northwest corner of Union.
Amherst, northwest corner of Walnut.
Amherst, northwest corner of Beech.
Amherst, northwest corner of Maple.
Amherst, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Amherst, northwest corner of Ashland.
Amherst, northwest corner of Hall.
Amherst, northwest corner of Belmont.
Appleton, northwest corner of Elm.
Appleton, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Appleton, northwest corner of Pine.
Appleton, northwest corner of Union.
Arlington, northwest corner of Cross.
Arlington, northwest corner of Warren.
Arlington, northwest corner of Ashland.
Ash, front of No. 32.
Auburn, corner of Franklin.
Auburn, northeast corner of Elm.
Auburn, front of No. 40.
Auburn, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Auburn, northwest corner of Adams.
Auburn, northwest corner of Union.
Auburn, northwest corner of Beech.
Auburn, northwest corner of Maple.
Baker, corner of Elm.
Baker, corner of River road.
Baker, corner of Calef road.
Baker, corner of Nutt road.
Bay, corner of Salmon.
Bedford, northwest corner of Granite.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 313
Bedford, near No. 36 M. P. W. corporation.
Bedford, northwest corner of Central.
Beech, northwest corner of Park.
Beech, front of No. 584.
Belmont, near No. 345.
Belmont, corner Young.
Belmont, near Coffin residence.
Birch, northwest corner of Lowell.
Birch, northwest corner of Washington.
Blodget, front of primary school house.
Blodget, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Blodget, northwest corner of Pine.
Blodget, northwest corner of Union.
Bridge, front of No. 26.
Bridge, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Bridge, northwest corner of Union.
Bridge, northwest corner of Walnut.
Bridge, northwest corner of Beech.
Bridge, northwest corner of Ash.
Bridge, northwest corner of Maple.
Bridge, near No. 242.
Bridge, northwest corner of Russell.
Bridge, northwest corner of Linden.
Bridge, corner of Ashland.
Bridge, corner of Hall.
Brook, northwest corner of P. Adams's lot.
Brook, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Brook, northwest corner of Pine.
Brook, northwest corner of Union.
Brook, northwest corner of Beech.
Brook, northwest corner of Ash.
Calef road, near Patrick Harrington's.
Calef road, near D. T. Smith's house.
Canal, near east corner of Depot.
Canal, near office door M. L. W
Cedar, corner of Elm.
Cedar, front of No. 36.
314 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Cedar, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Cedar, northwest corner of Pine.
Cedar, northwest corner of Union.
Cedar, northwest corner of Beech.
Cedar, northwest corner of Maple.
Cedar, northwest corner of Lincohi.
Central, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Central, northwest corner of Pine.
Central, northwest corner of Union.
Central, near gate, Merrimack square.
Central, northwest corner of Beech.
Central, northwest corner of Maple.
Central, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Central, front of No. 374.
Central, northwest corner of Wilson,
Central, northwest corner of Hall.
Central, corner of Cass.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Lowell.
Chestnut, opposite High.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Pearl.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Orange.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Myrtle.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Prospect.
Chestnut, northwest corner of Salmon.
Chestnut, opposite Henry Chandler's lot.
Clarke, corner of Elm.
Clarke, corner of Adams.
Clarke, corner of Union.
Concord, corner of Elm.
Concord, opposite Vine.
Concord, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Concord, northwest corner of Union.
Concord, northwest corner of Walnut.
Concord, northwest corner of Beech.
Concord, northwest corner of Maple.
Concord, northwest corner of old Amherst.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 315
Concord, northwest corner of Ashland.
Concord, northwest corner of Hall,
Concord, northwest corner of Belmont.
Cypress, south end of street.
Cypress, at Manchester shoeshop.
Dean, northeast corner of Canal.
Dean, northwest corner of Elm.
Depot, northeast corner of Elm.
Elm, opposite foot of Manchester.
Elm, northwest corner of Salmon.
Elm, northwest corner of Cove.
Franklin, opposite Middle.
George, corner of.
Gore, corner of Beech.
Gore, corner of Maple.
Gore, corner of Ash.
Granite, northwest corner of Elm.
Granite, near Franklin.
Granite, northeast corner of Canal.
Granite, east end of Granite bridge.
Grove, corner of Elm.
Grove, in East Manchester,
Hancock.
Hancock, near shoeshop.
Hancock, northwest corner River road.
Hancock, near brewery.
Hanover, corner of Elm.
Hanover, front of Opera House.
Hanover, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Hanover, northwest corner of Pine.
Hanover, northwest corner of Union.
Hanover, northwest corner of Beech.
Hanover, northwest corner of Maple.
Hanover, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Hanover, northwest corner of Ashland.
Hanover, northwest corner of Hall.
,316 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Hanover, northwest corner of Belmont.
Harrison, opposite No. 15.
Harrison, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Harrison, northwest corner of Pine.
Harrison, corner of Union.
Harrison, northwest corner of Beech.
Harrison, northwest corner of Maple.
Harrison, northwest corner of Oak.
Harrison, northwest corner of Russell.
Harvard, corner of Lincoln.
High, corner of Ashland.
High, corner of South.
High, fifty feet east of Wilson road.
High, corner of Hall.
High, corner of Belmont.
Hollis, northeast corner of Canal.
Hollis, northeast corner of Hobbs.
Hollis, northwest corner of Elm.
Jewett, corner of Massabesic.
Kidder, northeast corner of Canal.
Kidder, northeast corner of Hobbs.
Kidder, northwest corner of Elm.
Kidder's court, northwest corner of Elm.
Lake avenue, near No. 36.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Union.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Maple.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Lake avenue, northwest corner of Wilson.
Lake avenue, corner of Cass.
Lake avenue, east end, near Hastings residence.
Langdon, northwest corner of Elm.
Langdon, northeast corner of Canal.
Laurel, near corner of Chestnut.
Laurel, northwest corner of Pine.
Laurel, northwest corner of Union.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 317
Laurel, northwest corner of Beech.
Laurel, northwest corner of Maple.
Laurel, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Laurel, near No. 244.
Laurel, northwest corner of Wilson.
Laurel, near Belmont.
Laurel, northwest corner of Milton.
Laurel, northwest corner of Beacon.
Laurel, near Tierney residence.
Lowell, northwest corner of Beech.
Lowell, northwest corner of Ash.
Lowell, northwest corner of South.
Lowell, front of No. 276.
Lowell, northwest corner of Wilson road.
Lowell, northwest corner of Ashland.
Mammoth road.
Manchester, corner of Elm.
Manchester, front of James Bros.' stable,
Manchester, northwest corner of Central.
Manchester, northwest corner of Pine.
Manchester, northwest corner of Union.
Manchester, northwest corner of Beech.
Manchester, northwest corner of Maple.
Manchester, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Manchester, northwest corner of Wilson.
Manchester, northwest corner of Hall.
Manchester, northwest corner of Belmont.
Maple, northwest corner of Lowell.
Maple, front of No. 350.
Market, near Canal.
Market, near second back street west of Elm.
Market, northwest corner of Elm.
Massabesic, northwest corner of Old Falls road.
Massabesic, southeast corner of Taylor.
Massabesic avenue.
Massabesic, near Mammoth road.
818 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Mechanic, northeast corner of Canal.
Mechanic, near second back street west of Ehn.
Mechanic, northwest corner of Ehn.
Merrimack, corner of Ehn.
Merrimack, opposite gate, Merrimack square.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Pine.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Union.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Beech.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Maple.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Merrimack, near No. 362.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Wilson.
Merrimack, northwest corner of Hall.
Merrimack, near Belmont.
Merrimack, northeast corner of Beacon.
Middle, northeast corner of Canal.
Middle, near No. 67 Amoskeag corporation.
Monroe, northwest corner of Elm.
Myrtle, opposite No. 33.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Pine.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Union.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Walnut.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Beech.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Ash.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Maple.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Oak.
Myrtle, northwest corner of Russell.
North, northwest corner of Bay.
North, northwest corner of Chestnut.
North, northwest corner of Pine.
North, corner of Liberty.
Orange, opposite Clark's avenue.
Orange, northwest corner of Pine.
Orange, northwest corner of Union.
Orange, northwest corner of Walnut.
REPORT OP THE FIRE ENGINEER. 319
Orange, northwest corner of Beech.
Orange, corner of Ash.
Orange, corner of Maple.
Orange, corner of Oak.
Orange, corner of Russell.
Orange, corner of Linden.
Orange, corner of Hall.
Pearl, northeast corner of Elm.
Pearl, northwest corner of Clark's avenue.
Pearl, northwest corner of Pine.
Pearl, northwest corner of Union.
Pearl, corner of Beech.
Pearl, corner of Walnut.
Pearl, northwest corner of Ash.
Pearl, northwest corner of Maple.
Pearl, northwest corner of Oak.
Pearl, northwest corner of Russell.
Pearl, northwest corner of Linden.
Pearl, northwest corner of Ashland.
Pearl, northwest corner of Morrison.
Pennacook, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Pennacook, northwest corner of Pine.
Pennacook, northwest corner of Union.
Pine, near Road House.
Pine, northwest corner of Lake avenue.
Pine, northwest corner of Concord.
Pine, northwest corner of Lowell.
Pine, northwest corner of High.
Pine, northwest corner of Bridge.
Pleasant, northeast corner of Canal.
Pleasant, near No. 35 Manchester corporation.
Pleasant, northwest corner of Franklin.
Pleasant, northwest corner of Elm.
Prospect, between Elm and Chestnut.
Prospect, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Prospect, northwest corner of Pine.
320 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Prospect, northwest corner of Union.
Prospect, northwest corner of Wahiut.
Prospect, northwest corner of Beech.
Prospect, northwest corner of Ash.
Prospect, northwest corner of Maple.
Prospect, northwest corner of Oak.
Prospect, northwest corner of Russell.
Prospect, corner of Linden.
Prospect, corner of Hall.
Reservoir, on force main.
River road (north), north of Webster.
River road (north), corner of Clarke.
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 Pine.
Sagamore, corner of Union.
Salmon, corner of Union.
Shasta, corner of Elm.
Shasta, corner of River road.
Shasta, corner of Beech.
Silver, corner of Union.
Silver, corner of Beech.
Silver, corner of Lincoln.
Silver, corner of Wilson.
Somerville, corner of Union.
Somerville, corner of Beech.
Somerville, corner of Maple.
Spring, northeast corner of Canal.
Spring, northwest corner of Charles.
Spring, northwest corner of Elm.
Spring, corner of Elm.
Spruce, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Spruce, northwest corner of Pine back.
Spruce, northwest corner of Union.
Spruce, between Chestnut and Elm.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 321
Spruce, northwest corner of Beech.
Spruce, northwest corner of Maple.
Spruce, northwest corner of Lincoln.
Spruce, northwest corner of Wilson.
Spruce, northwest corner of Belmont.
Spruce, near T. J. Perry's house.
Stark, northeast corner of Canal.
Stark, near No. 13 Stark corporation.
Stark, northwest corner of Elm.
State, northwest corner of Granite.
State, opposite No. 57 Manchester corporation.
State, opposite No, 13 Manchester corporation.
State, corner of West Central.
Summer, corner of Elm.
Summer.
Taylor, corner of Young road.
Union, northwest corner of Lowell.
Union, northwest corner of High.
Valley, northwest corner of Elm.
Valley, northwest corner of Willow.
Valley, northwest'corner of Beech.
Valley, northwest corner of Wilson.
Valley, northwest corner of Belmont.
Valley, northwest corner of Taylor.
Valley, northwest corner of Cypress.
Valley, northwest corner of Jewett.
Valley, 150 feet east of J. L. Woodman's.
Vine, opposite Central station.
Walnut, northwest corner of Lowell.
Walnut, opposite No. 79.
Walnut, northwest corner of Sagamore.
Water, near No. 38 Amoskeag corporation.
Water, northwest corner of Elm.
Webster, at railway station.
Webster, noi-theast corner of River road (north).
Webster, northwest corner of Elm.
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322 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Webster, northwest corner of Chestnut.
Webster, corner of Adams.
Webster, northwest corner of Union.
Webster, corner of Walnut.
West Auburn, northeast corner of Canal.
West Bridge, northeast corner of Canal.
West Bridge, northeast corner of Hobbs.^
West Bridge, northwest corner of Elm.
West Brook, northeast corner of Canal.
West Brook, northwest corner of Elm.
West Cedar, northeast corner of Canal.
West Cedar, northwest corner of Elm.
West Central, northeast corner of Canal.
West Central, corner of Franklin.
West central, northwest corner of Elm.
West Merrimack, northeast corner of Canal.
West Merrimack, near iii Amoskeag corporation.
West Merrimack, northwest corner of Franklin.
West Merrimack, northwest corner of Elm.
West Pennacook, northwest corner of Elm.
Wilson, corner of Lake avenue.
Young, corner of Elm.
Young, northwest corner of Beech.
Young, corner of Maple.
Young, 96 feet east of R. N. Batchelder's.
Young, corner of Jewett.
Young road.
PISCATAQUOG AND MCGREGORVILLE.
A, corner of South Main.
A, near No. 73.
A, northwest corner of B.
Adams, corner of Main.
Adams, corner of Beauport.
Amory, corner of Beauport.
Amory, near Dubuque.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 323
Amory, corner of Rimmon.
Amory, corner of Hevey.
Amory, corner of Montgomery.
Amory, corner of Lafayette.
Amory, corner of Morgan.
Bath, corner of River.
Bath, corner of Shirley.
Bedford road, near Huntress's.
Bennington, corner of Main.
Blaine, corner of Wayne.
Blaine, corner of Cleveland.
Blaine, east end of street.
Bowman, opposite cemetery.
Boynton road, 300 feet south of Hartshorn's.
Boynton road, east of Colley pond.
Boynton road, corner of Grant.
C, corner of Bedford road.
Cartier, corner of Sullivan.
Cartier, corner of Putnam.
Carroll.
Cleveland, northwest corner of Second.
Clinton, corner of Dover.
Clinton, corner of South Main.
Conant, corner of Cartier.
Conant, corner of Dubuque.
Conant, corner of Rimmon.
Dartmouth, corner of O'Neil.
Douglas, corner of Quincy.
Douglas, corner of Green.
Douglas, corner of Barr.
Douglas, corner of West.
Douglas, corner of Main.
Douglas, east of Main.
Ferry, corner of Main.
Granite, corner of Quincy.
Granite, corner of Green.
324 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Granite, corner of Barr.
Granite, corner of West.
Granite, corner of Dover.
Granite, corner of Main.
Granite, corner of Shirley.
Granite, corner of River.
Highland, between Wilkins and Mast.
Kelley, corner of Beauport.
Kelley, corner of Cartier.
Kelley, corner of Dubuque.
Main, near Milford.
Marion, corner McGregor.
Mast, corner of South Main.
Mast, corner of Bowman.
Mast, between Bowman and South Main.
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.
McDuffie, corner of Boynton road.
McDuffie, corner of B.
McGregor, near Johnson block.
McGregor, opposite " Reed " house.
Milford, southwest corner of South Main.
Milford, southeast corner of Bowman.
Milford, corner of old Bedford road.
Milford, corner of Bismark.
Patten, corner of Ferry.
Prince, corner of Boynton road.
Prince, corner of B.
Putnam, corner of Main.
Putnam, corner of Beauport.
Putnam, corner of Dubuque.
Riddle, near Mast.
School, corner of South Main.
School, opposite schoolhouse.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 325
School, corner of River.
Shirley, northwest corner of Walker.
Shirley, southwest corner of Ferry.
Sullivan, corner of Main.
Sullivan, corner of Beauport.
Temple, corner of Main.
Walker, corner of River.
Walker, corner of Patten.
Walker, corner of Parker.
Walker, near corner of South Main.
Wayne, near G. Belisle's house.
Wayne, near corner of Beauport.
Wayne, near corner of Main.
Wilkins, northwest corner of Highland.
Wilkins, northwest corner of Mast.
Wilkins, opposite Tirrell residence.
Wilkins, near Carswell residence.
Winter, corner of South Main.
AMOSKEAG.
Dunbarton road, corner of Front.
Dunbarton road, near L. D. Colby's.
Goffstown road, four hydrants.
Main, at Robinson's slaughter-works.
Main, near brick schoolhouse.
Main, corner of Goffstown road.
Main, opposite the John E. Stearns house.
Main, near the Hiram Stearns house.
Mill, near paper-mill.
Mill, corner of Main.
Varnum, corner of Main.
In addition to the above, there are four 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.
Total number, 508.
REPORT
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
REPORT
OF THE
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
To the City Councils, the School Board, and Citizens :
In accordance with a recent vote of the Board of School Com-
mittee, it is expected that the Annual Report of the Superintend-
ent of Public Instruction for 1893 will be prepared with some
reference to its fitness for adoption by the School Committee as
its Report upon the Public Schools to the City Councils.
The foregoing form of address is therefore deemed pertinent,
and, in its fullness, especially because all boards of municipal
control are servants of the people.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
The number of school buildings belonging to the city which
have this year been occupied by day schools is 22, and their
total value, including land and furniture, is estimated at ^475,000.
These buildings contain 107* rooms, of which, during the fall
term, 98 have been occupied by day schools. Of the remaining
9 rooms, 2 in the Hallsville house have not been used ; 2 in the
Spring-street house and i in the Lowell-street house have been
used for evening schools; i in the Lowell-street house for the
manual training school ; i in the Webster-street house for a reci-
tation room ; and in the Merrimack-street house, occupied as a
training school for teachers, 2 rooms are used by the sub-teach-
ers' classes for library and recitation purposes.
* Eight of these are temporary, necessitated by an overcrowding of the schools in the
Webster, Lincoln, Bakersville, and Ash-street buildings, — where rooms have been divided by
temporary partitions.
330 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
]\Iuch-needed additional school room will soon be provided
by the completion of a four-room building on Pearl street, and
of a wing for two rooms on the south end of the Webster-street
house. Use of one of the vacant rooms at Hallsville is imme-
diately needed, and the other is likely to be needed before the
close of 1S94. The growth in this part of the city has been
wonderfully rapid, and, continuing two years longer, there may
be occasion for again using the old schoolhouse in this section.
In West Manchester the schools are all full, and the School-
street lot may ere long be needed for day school purposes. The
present house upon this lot does fairly well for evening school
use, and it is much needed for this purpose, the old engine house
on Clinton street being unfit for evening schools. There is
pressing need in this section for schools upon the lot bought for
a schoolhouse in ward nine.
There is also as much need of more school room for the relief
of the Lincoln-street and Wilson Hill schools as there has been
for the relief of the Ash-street building, which will soon be
largely provided by the completion of the new house on Pearl
street. There have, throughout the year, been > two schools on
the third floor of the Lincoln-street house, as likewise in the
Ash-street house ; and the Wilson Hill house has again been over-
crowded, the same as annually for several years past. The Train-
ing School, in this vicinity, has this year also been somewhat
overcrowded. For the relief, then, of the Lincoln-street, Wil-
son Hill, and the Training School, I recommend the erection of
a six-room schoolhouse in close proximity to the Lincoln-street
building, in order that the primary pupils to be put in such a
house may go to school with, and have the care of, their older
brothers and sisters in the higher grades at the Lincoln-street
school. The new building could house the two primaries now
in the Lincoln-street building, the two primaries in the Wil-
son Hill building, and the surplus of primary pupils in the
Training School. Thus four, probably five, of the six rooms in a
new house in this locality would be occupied at once, and the
two rooms now occupied by primary schools in the Lincoln
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 331
Street house would be available for the two schools now on the
third floor of this house. Besides, the ninety pupils required to
attend at Wilson Hill would be provided with much more whole-
some quarters.
Notwithstanding the provision made for the relief of the Ash-
street school, by the erection of the Pearl-street house, it can be
clearly shown that there is need, for the full relief of the Ash-
street house, of at least one room for primary pupils upon the lot
at the corner of Bridge and Union streets ; and, in the absence
of it, either one school may have to be continued on the third
floor of the Ash-street house or else pupils of lowest primary grade
who live, as it were, under the eaves of the Ash-street house may
be obliged to attend school in the new house on Pearl street.
There will be over sixty pupils of primary grade to attend the
latter house, as soon as ready, who live east of Russell street ;
and it is by the removal of these, who now constitute the mass of
two of the four primary schools in the Ash-street house., that it has
been expected the two schools on the third floor of this house
would be accommodated in the lower rooms. The expectation
may yet be realized, especially if those who are sure to crowd the
two primary schools which are to remain at the Ash-street house
do not live so far west of Russell street that some of them can-
not be sent to the new house on Pearl street.
It will be seen from all that has been said upon the need of
more school room, east of the river, that the greater need is in
the vicinity of the Lincoln-street school, though further provi-
sion near and west of the Ash- street house cannot long be de-
layed.
ORGANIZATION.
The average number of schools for the entire year has been
96, as follows: The equivalent of 8 in the high school build-
ing; 26 grammar-school divisions (i more than last year); 18
middle schools (one more than last year) ; 36 primary schools,
also another for two terms, or 37 primaries in all (four more than
last year) ; 2 partially graded ; and 5 ungraded, or suburban.
332 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Four rooms in the Training School have been cared for by its
principal, * and hence the average number of regular teachers
having direct charge of the 96 schools during the year has been
93. In addition to these, there have been employed 6 assistant
teachers, — 5 of them in grammar masters' rooms, and i in the
Training School for Teachers, — also 3 special teachers who have
had direction of the work in all the schools in music, drawing,
and manual training, — though only for one term in manual
training. This is equivalent to the employment of loi teachers
for the present year. Last year 86 regular teachers, the equiv-
alent of I master's assistant for the year, and 2 special teachers
of music and drawing were employed, a total of 89 teachers ;
there has, therefore, been employed this year an excess of 12
teachers over the number employed last year, 6 of the 12 for the
direct charge of six new schools and the other 6 as principals'
assistants.
This year's additional grammar division is reckoned by calling
the fourth division for two terms on the third floor of the Ash-
street house and the one for one term at Hallsville equivalent to
one division for the entire year. The additional middle school
was organized, in January, in the Lincoln-street house, and the
four additional primary schools as follows : One in the Webster-
street building ; one in the Ash-street house ; one at Hallsville,
each for one term, and therefore eqivalent to one school for the
entire year; one in the Varney school house, and two other pri-
mary schools are reckoned from the gains made over last year at
Webster street and Goffe's Falls, — all of which are shown in the
statistical table on pages E and F of the Appendix to this report.
While the number of schools has increased by only 6 over the
number of last year, the increase in the number of pupils has
been 477, or an average of 79 pupils for each of the 6 new
schools, — though, of course, they have not been so distributed.
Last year the total enrollment of different pupils in all the (89)
public day schools was 4,298, or 48 pupils per school. This year
♦Assisted by a principal's assistant, and by the young ladies constituting the sub-teachers'
classes.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 383
the enrollment has been 4,745, or 50 pupils per school, the aver-
age number of day schools for the year being 96.
Though the average number of teachers employed for the pres-
ent entire year has been but loi, there have been employed dur-
ing the/rtt// term 104 teachers ; and, in order that the present
organization of schools may be seen and fully understood, I pre-
sent a list of the schools and of their teachers, — together with
interesting data pertaining to teachers, — as follows :
Explanation. — Classes A to H, inclusive, signify grammar
grades ; I to L, middle-school grades ; and M to R, primary
orades.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 339
The number of schools will probably need to be increased
early in 1894, by the opening of one or two new schools ; and, if
the ratio of the last two years in the increase of pupils is main-
tained, it is likely that the whole number of teachers employed
will be one hundred and eight or ten before the close of 1894.
EXPENSES.
In addition to the increased appropriation that will be needed
for the payment of teachers' salaries, there will doubtless be
need of at least $5,000 for text-books and other free supplies ;
because, first, the appropriation for this year has been insuffi-
cient by many dollars, notwithstanding certain books and other
much-needed appliances have not been procured ; because, sec-
ond, many of the general supply of text-books, first obtained in
1890, are in a dilapidated condition and any further use of a con-
siderable number of them is impossible ; because, third, there is
fair probability that there will be an increase of two or three
hundred pupils over the enrollment of this year, which has been
the largest in the history of the city.
The cost of the schools for the present year has not, at this
writing, been fully ascertained. It has, doubtless, been more
than for any previous year, for the number of pupils, teachers,
and schools has been greater than ever before; and there have
been large expenses which are unusual, — the purchase of several
new pianos, the exchange of fourth music readers, and the con-
struction of an L (containing two much-needed rooms) at the
rear of the training-school building, of which the last should not
have been charged to the appropriation for the support of
schools. A comparison of the cost of our schools with the ex-
penditure for schools in other New England cities would show
that, while ours is greater than in some of these, it is less than in
most which are of the size, importance, and wealth of Manches-
ter. Personally knowing, as I do, that those having control of
the expenditure of our city's funds for school purposes are pains-
taking in their efforts to have these funds economically, wisely,
and only necessarily expended, I can but feel that the tax of less
than three mills per dollar of the city's valuation will not be
340 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
begrudged by any class of our citizens having at heart the good
of the public schools.
It is, indeed, much to be regretted that our teachers' salaries
are not sufficient to enable us to retain all who are good. Five
of those among our best have this year withdrawn from our corps
of teachers to accept positions not far away at higher rates of sal-
ary; and the corps has annually been depleted for several years,
to a greater or less extent, for the same reason.
The school committee should have at its disposal, annually, a
sum of money sufficient to enable it to provide for an enrollment
of all children in the city of school age. The assessors have not
attempted it for two or three years, discouraged because (when
most faithful) they could not find as many children as were en-
rolled in the schools of the city. The assessors declare that many
of the foreign and more ignorant families cannot be made to be-
lieve otherwise than that the enrollment of their children is for
the purpose of taxation, and that parents therefore refuse to re-
port the names and number of their children. A complete list
of all children of school age in the city is greatly needed. With-
out such a list it cannot be ascertained whether all attend school
as required by law. Other agents than those who assess the taxes
could probably procure a census of the children of school age
that would be practically full and correct. May not an appro-
priation for this purpose be obtained ?
TEACHERS.
In addition to the teachers named in the list which has been
presented to show the organization of the schools for the fall term,
twelve others have taught in our schools within the year, as fol-
lows : Mr. Willis B. Moore, assistant in the High School ; Mr.
Fred C. Baldwin, Miss Jennie M. Chandler, and Miss Annie B.
Goodwin, in the Ash-street school; Mrs. Cora M. Sanborn and
Miss Rose Dearborn, in the Webster-street school ; Miss Maude
L. Kent, in the Spring-street school ; Miss Amelia L. Graupner,
in the Franklin-street school ; Miss Annie M. Sleeper, in the
Lincoln-street school ; Miss Viola E. McClure, Miss Nettie C.
Woodman, and Miss Ruth McClure, in the Varney school.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 841
Mr. Moore withdrew to become principal of an academy in
Maine. Mr. Baldwin, Mrs. Sanborn, and Misses Chandler,
Goodwin, and Kent are the five previously alluded to as among
the best of our teachers who were called elsewhere at higher sal-
aries. Misses Graupner, Sleeper, and Woodman were also good
or excellent teachers, and have been wisely selected upon their
merit for personal companionship in the most sacred of life's re-
lations. I am not definitely informed of the positions occupied
by the others who have withdrawn from our corps of teachers
within the year. Now, at the close of the year, has come the res-
ignation of Miss C. Augusta Abbott, who for a generation has
faithfully and earnestly taught hundreds that will recall with great
pleasure their school days as spent with Miss Abbott.
The items in the tabulated list of teachers which are calculated
to indicate the general fitness of the corps for the work it is un-
dertaking will, I trust, receive more than passing attention ; for
in the list are the names of those who have faithfully devoted all
their faculties and energies, during the better part of their lives,
to the improvement of the youth of our city, while the prepara-
tion for the teacher's duties which has been made by the mem-
bers of the corps in general promises much for the future good of
our schools. It gives me pleasure also to add that the true spirit
of the ideal teacher has in no previous year so largely prevailed ;
and, as a consequence, a good degree of progress has been made
throughout the schools.
It may be seen from the reports made to me by the principals
of the larger schools in what particulars they have severally en-
deavored to improve the work under their immediate charge.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
The evening drawing school continues to meet the needs of
the various classes of mechanics, and of young men looking for-
ward to mechanical lines of work and study. The school is just-
ly very popular, and its full classes are receiving useful and prof-
itable instruction.
The evening schools affording instruction in the common-
342 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
school studies are also profitable. Their chief work consists in
teaching large numbers of adults, mostly of foreign birth, how to
speak and read the English language.
When it is seen with what devotion many of these persist in
the work, there can be no question of their intention to become
permanent American citizens ; and, when it is considered how
largely this element is entering the life of New England, and how
important it is that its influence should have the right direction,
there can be no doubt of the usefulness of the evening schools in
affording their pupilage the means necessary to a proper under-
standing of the duties they owe their adopted country.
DRAWING AND MANUAL TRAINING.
The work in drawing has been systematically, progressively,
and efficiently carried forward during the year. Drawing and
the work done supplementary to it, in paper-cutting, paper-fold-
ing, and in clay-modeling, most largely in the lower grades, has
constituted, together with penmanship, all the manual training
done below the second grammar division.
The boys of the first and second grammar divisions have, dur-
ing the fall term, done shop work in a room fitted up for the pur-
pose in the old high school building on Lowell street.. While
the boys have been engaged in this work, the girls belonging to
the same classes have at their schoolrooms, to a greater or less ex-
tent, taken lessons in sewing, under the direction of one of the
regular teachers selected for the purpose by the master of the
school.
The boys in their shop work have been taught by a competent
and experienced instructor, Mr. Fred E. Browne, of Concord ;
and they have attained suprisingly excellent results, considering
they have had but one term's training. The work of the girls
in sewing has been such as to signify they could rival the boys in
exactness and excellence of results if they could have the work in
sewing systematized and supervised by a skilled instructor.
Believing in the wisdom of teaching sewing in the schools to
other than the higher grammar grades, I recommend that a com-
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 343
petent supervisor of sewing be employed to prepare and put into
effect a course of study and work in sewing, for both boys
and girls, in the higher primary and lower middle schools, and
for girls in the higher middle and all grammar grades. The boys
in the higher middle and third and fourth grammar divisions
might at the same time (one hour a week) take lessons in Kil-
born's course of knife work, preparatory to the shop work they
will do as first and second division grammar pupils. In a few
years, under such an arrangement, the girls would be well ad-
vanced in sewing by the time they reach the second grammar
division, and during the last two years of the grammar course
they could take cooking.
NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS.
Education is a process of development, and schools are de-
signed to be so organized as to afford the most favorable condi-
tions for the wisest and highest development of their individual
members. Primarily, the development depends upon the self-
activity of the mind ; but the degree of this activity, as well as
the direction of it, is largely determined by surrounding condi-
tions. Hence the far greater and more important part of one's
education is gained after school days are over. May it not there-
fore be wise more closely to connect the environments of life
with those of school by including studies which will throw the
greatest amount of light on the environments of life .?
There are certainly no environments in life that exert a great
influence upon thought and character which are more interesting
than our physical environments. "These include the mineral,
vegetable, and animal kingdoms ; the physical features of land
and water ; the physical heavens ; and the forces that underlie
the phenomena of nature in general. These must be interpreted
to the child by the school, else they will remain a mere enigma
to him all through life and fail of exerting their educating influ-
ences upon his mind and character." Hence the propriety and
necessity of including in the course of study instruction in at least
the elements of the natural sciences, and unless such instruction
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is given in the primary and middle schools two thirds of the
whole number of pupils in all our schools will fail of receiving
any part of it. Considerable instruction in elementary science
can be adapted to the understanding of the pupils in these lower
grade schools, but " the pedagogical value of such instruction is
not to be measured by the knowledge acquired, nor so much by
the amount of discipline gained as by the fact that it reveals and
interprets nature in such a way that the process of development,
which the teaching of the sciences merely begins in school, will
be continued afterwards by nature herself all through life."
How blindly are most of us going through life, merely for the
lack of a little training in early years in learning how to observe !
All who examined the educational exhibits made by our schools
last June must be convinced of the ability of even quite young
children successfully to study nature, and all who directed the
work of the children in such study know that nothing of more
absorbing interest was ever before introduced in our .schools or
taken with greater profit, the results and the little time devoted
to such study being both considered. What has been done in this
direction has been permissive, not required, consequently with
varying degrees of extent and thoroughness. I therefore recom-
mend a revision of the course of study which shall provide for a
proper and systematic course of instruction in elementary science
through all grades of our schools; and, likewise, for the intro-
duction of books of history, biography, and classical literature,
to be used as supplementary reading matter and for more critical
study at certain stages, in connection with language work, in the
higher grades.
Children need other reading than that furnished by the school
reader. It is well known to teachers, at least, that children have
a taste for and ability to appreciate much higher grades of read-
ing matter than is usually accredited them. Margaret Fuller,
Harriet Martineau, Franklin, Lincoln, Faraday, and many other
noted men and women have borne testimony to the belief that
much of their eminence and success was due to sentiments and
instruction which they derived from strong books read and rel-
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 345
ished in childhood. Indeed, it is not an uncommon thing to find
those in nearly every community, though belonging to the gen-
eration fast passing away, who tell of the tone and character giv-
en their lives by the virility of the matter which constituted their
reading in childhood. Fortunately, in recent years there has
been much attention given this matter ; and it is now easy to find
abundant material selected from writings of the best standard au-
thors, which has been arranged and bound with reference to its
adaptability for use in the various grades of school. Failure to
afford the children in our schools some acquaintance with the
best literature would probably result in the failure of many of
them ever to know even as much of it as that it exists.
Likewise in the matter of history ; for it no longer exists even
as a reader in our schools below the grammar grades. It was
shown in last year's report that not more than one third of those
who enter the primary schools ever reach the grammar grades.
Hence the larger part of the pupilage of our schools goes out into
life with no other knowledge of the history of their country than
what is gained from the few simple stories told them by their
teachers ; and the opportunity of familiarizing a large class with
something of the literature of the history of the country which
they will soon help to govern, as well as with many of the facts
of that history, is forever lost. How great the loss when we
think of what inspiration from records of noble lives and deeds,
what love of home and country, and what loyalty might be in-
culcated ! The means, too, for this is at hand, for historical sto-
ries for children of the ages of those in our primary and middle
schools abound in the market, well written in simple language
and attractively illustrated. The supplies generously furnished
for this work in former years are worn out, and therefore worth-
less.
There is need, then, of a large supply of books of history and
literature, because all grades of our schools from high to primary
are comparatively destitute. In such times as are now upon us
I do not like to advise anything requiring additional expense,
but of the many excellent things said by Rev. Dr. Murkland in
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his report to the City Councils, a year ago, he said nothing more
true than this : "In educational matters, above all else, the wis-
est expenditure is the truest economy." A thousand dollars now
expended for histories and classical literature, to teach hundreds
in our schools love of country and loyalty to her, also the noble
and inspiring truths taught by foremost writers of prose and po-
etry, may easily be believed to save us a million dollars a genera-
tion hence by effecting the difference between those who, in case
of internecine strife, would take up arms for the right or wrong
side, or between those who in civil life would seek positions of
trust for the purpose of saving the credit of the state or for the
sake of an opportunity to rob her ! Let us ask for a reasonable
appropriation for the subject in question.*
* Since the foregoing was written, a good supply of the works in question has been
furnished the schools.
TEACHERS' REPORTS.
In compliance with my request of certain teachers for a
statement of the condition, progress, and needs of the schools
under their charge, they have furnished reports, particularizing
largely in accordance with suggestions made in the following
form of request :
Office of Superintendent of Schools,
Manchester, N. H., November 25, 1893.
To Masters of Granwiar Schools :
Believing you can afford information in regard to the condi-
tion and needs of the schools of which you have charge that would
be interesting to the public, and that might also aid those in au-
thority over the schools in their efforts to improve them, I cor-
dially invite you soon to afford me such information as seems
most pertinent to the occasion, in order that it may be inserted
in the annual school report for the current year.
Permit me to suggest to those of you who have been given su-
pervisory powers over all the schools in your building, that some-
where in the course of what you present you indicate somewhat
particularly the number of hours you have', daily or weekly, this
year personally devoted to the direct instruction of pupils and
the distribution of your time in such work; also what portion of
it has been put upon regular and what upon special work, as well
as the nature of any special work, or of special efforts upon reg-
ular work, and the grades of school in which chiefly done.
You might also wisely mention, I think, the number of pupils
in your building who have within the year been doubly promoted,
or "skipped, a class," and state in which quarter of the higher
class the majority of doubly promoted pupils have ranked.
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I am not ignorant of the general influence which you have ex-
erted, nor of the more pronounced particulars, whereby you have
severally improved the schools in your charge since you were
granted supervisory powers ; but you can more fully specify the
essential particulars, and I am sure both the members of the
school board and the public in general will be glad to learn from
you the advantages that have accrued to your several schools in
consequence of the additional opportunities and powers granted
in making you supervisory i:)rincipals.
Respectfully yours,
WILLIAM E. BUCK,
Superintetidetit.
The following reports from grammar masters are presented in
the order of seniority of said masters' services in our public
schools.
Report of Mr. Sutcliffe, Master of the Lincoln-street
School.
In accordance with your request for information in regard to
the condition and needs of the Lincoln-street grammar school, I
respectfully offer the following report :
The relations of the principal to all the schools in the building
having been materially modified by granting him supervisory
powers, permit me to somewhat definitely outline the efforts
made to effect a permanent improvement in them all. The fund-
amental idea has been to employ the whole teaching power for
the uplifting of all ; to cultivate the personal knowledge of the •
individual pupil ; to incite the enthusiasm of teacher and pupil
alike for more exact and therefore better work, and to establish
those pleasant relations between teachers and pupils that enable
the instruction given to be as cheerfully as profitably received.
On this principle, the master has during the past term personally
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OP SCHOOLS. 349
instructed in six different grades one hundred and twenty-five
different pupils in those subjects known to be of practical im-
portance. The same method of instruction in penmanship in
all the grades is now in operation, and we confidently expect,'
after one year's work, a marked improvement in style and
rapidity.
A graded course of selections for rhetorical purposes, from
the works of those authors generally accepted as the best, has
been prepared with the aid of the teachers, which we hope will
direct the attention of the pupils to purer forms of literature.
In t^e higher grades where the subject of United States history
is taught a similarly graded course of supplementary reading has
been arranged. This merely suggests good books to read on
that subject without being able to provide them when the inter-
est of the scholar is turned in that direction. In short, the ma-
terial for supplementary reading in the higher grades is inade-
quate. Our attention might well be directed to the formulation
of some plan for the establishment and maintenance of a school
library.
The approximate number of different pupils belonging to the
school throughout the year has been four hundred twenty-five,
divided into nineteen grades. The average number of pupils
who have failed of a promotion, in each grade, has been two.
With our system of semi-annual promotions there would be a
total of seventy-six for the year who, for various reasons, have
been deprived of advance instruction for six months. Of this
number, sixty to seventy-five per cent could have received this
instruction if it had been possible to give them the neces-
sary individual attention. A teacher employed for the sole pur-
pose of giving this individual instruction to all those doubtful
cases would, I believe, accomplish the indicated result, which
would be equivalent to advancing a class of twenty-five pupils
every semester. The work of the school in general, both in
character and scholarship, has improved and, in conclusion,
allow me to thank you for your many suggestions and helpful
advice.
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Report of Mr. Winch, Master of the Varney School.
The past year's work has been such as to encourage many of
those most directly concerned. It has been marked by a large
growth in attendance, there having been registered 175 different
boys and 206 different girls during the last term.
Since being made supervising prmcipal, I have regularly
taught three classes in the first division, one in the second divi-
sion, and one or two in the lower grades, making about four
hours' regular class instruction each day. The subject taught in
the lower grades has been varied and taken up with the purpose
to unify the work of the different rooms in instruction in the
several studies, and also develop the work so that one study
would be helpful to another and the proper correlation of the
different branches understood by the teachers, and thus elevate
the character of the work in all departments. To this end I
have taken one subject each semester as a specialty and also
developed the co-ordination of each teacher's work with the one
in adjoining grades. One semester I worked upon arithmetic,
another upon geography. In this the teacher adopted the fol-
lowing outline and used it as the order of studying any political
division, thereby seeking to form habits of study and recitation
in the first of their study of the subject which would be used
throughout ; and its helpful influence has been quite noticeable.
1. Position, — On the earth, to others, boundary.
2. Outline, — General shape, mountains bounding; rivers
bounding ; coast, bays, gulfs, capes, etc.
3. Surface, — First, general; second, particular, — mountain
systems, ranges, slopes, peaks, plains, plateaus ; third, peculi-
arities.
4. Drainage, — Water- sheds, river systems, rivers, tributaries,
lakes, usefulness.
5. Climate, — Zone, seasons, winds, water, mountains.
6. Natural products, — First, animal ; second, vegetable ;
third, mineral.
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7. Industries, — Agriculture, manufacture, mining, etc. ; give
lists of each.
8. Commerce, — First, kinds, — foreign, domestic, railroad,
ocean ; second, extent ; third, imports ; fourth, exports.
9. People, — Race, life, religion, habits.
10. Government.
11. Cities, — Locate definitely.
12. Add special things of importance and interest, sometimes
history.
For states and groups, as above, except of Nos. 5 to 10, take
what is of local application.
In conducting this work I have occasionally found pupils who
were better developed than others, and equal to more advanced
work. Fifteen such have been advanced, or doubly promoted,
at time of promotion, and all such now rank in the first third of
their respective classes. This has had a helpful influence upon
the general work and ambition of all the scholars.
This year I have introduced elementary science into all the
rooms, taking one half hour a week. The work in every case
furnishes topics for oral and written language work, and some are
supplementary to the geography. Common things, phenomena,
and forces are chosen, and arranged so that geology is the principal
one in the first division ; physics and chemistry in the second
division ; zoology in the third ; botany in the fourth ; while the
lower grades take the things around us, and may be from any of
the above sciences. Much interest has been shown in this work,
and it naturally contributed to increase the interest in all the
other work. I have in all this had the most hearty co-operation
of the teachers, and of late we have had a reading circle, where
in reading the author we have found many questions to discuss
which have been helpful.
Sloyd and sewing have been in the last term's curriculum, and
the interest they have created in school will more than compen-
sate for the time weekly devoted to them, — one hour and a half.
Leading educators now recognize the relationship of one study
to another as of great importance; that school work is not many
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Studies, but rather that all are a unit and the whole work is to
produce a developed and intelligent citizen rather than a gram-
marian or a mathematician.
It is with such ideas and purposes that I have directed the
work of the school.
Report of Mr. Andrew, Master of the Webster-
Street School,
I submit the following in regard to Webster school, as re-
quested by you.
The temporary arrangement in two of the rooms affects the
heating, lighting, and ventilation of four very materially, but
with the addition in process of erection these faults will be re-
moved, and with the intended perfecting of the sanitary part
the Webster school will be one of the bett lighted and ventilated
buildings in the city, above the basement. The basement on the
east side is a cold, dreary place, and some arrangement should be
made for heating it. There is no hall in this building, though
one is very much needed, and I would suggest that some action
be taken the coming year towards procuring one.
The grounds about the school building have been very much
improved by grading and planting of trees (the trees that have
died will be replaced by others in the spring, as they were guar-
anteed for one year), which are thoroughly appreciated by res-
idents, teachers, and pupils. The educational value to the
children more than repays the money expended. The sugges-
tion recently made in one of the daily papers, of increasing the
size of the playground, was very timely and some action should
be taken before too late, as everything should be done to encour-
age children to take vigorous exercise in the open air, — their
physical, mental, and moral well being depend upon it.
The past year has seen a number of changes in the corps of
teachers. Two new rooms have been added and three teachers
have taken other positions at increased salaries, making five new
teachers that have been placed in this school.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 353
The school has been very fortunate in the selection of these
teachers, as they are progressive and ambitious, always loyal and
willing to work for the best interests of the school, and parents
and pupils are to be congratulated in the choice made by the su-
perintendent and school board.
Owing to the hearty co-operation of all the teachers, the school
has not felt the detrimental effects usually attendant upon such a
change but is upon a more prosperous basis than ever before.
The supervisory power given the principal has had marked
benefits in many ways, as it gives an opportunity to create a unity
of purpose among the teachers and gives the principal a closer
acquaintance with the child and a knowledge of its needs. This
knowledge of the child is given to its teacher, as it progresses
from room to room, often being the means of its advancement
one to two terms, and sometimes a year, which has occurred this
last term, when three were promoted from class D to class B. The
rank taken by those promoted generally justifies the promotion,
for their work is usually equal to if not above the average of the
class into which they were promoted.
Having fifty pupils and the same as three classes in his room,
the principal's time has necessarily been limited in supervisory
work, being able to devote only about one hour daily in the
other rooms.
Before closing I should like to call attention to one or two
subjects that have been suggested to me in my work. I wish
something might be done in simplifying questions in. arithmetic ;
many of them are too complex, or beyond the comprehension
of the pupil, and are no more educational than puzzles or conun-
drums. The four fundamental operations should not be lost sight
of, for they are in constant use throughout life. Simplicity in
questions should be the rule, so that accuracy may never be sac-
rificed, and the application of principles may be understandingly
used. Some of my suggestions in regard to arithmetic might
be applied to the subject of spelling. I have mentioned these
two studies, as teachers are more likely to confine themselves to
the text-book in these than others in the course.
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One of the chief duties of a teacher should be to create a de-
sire for good reading. The subjects of history and geography-
are admirably suited for this purpose. But unless the study is
extended beyond the text-book it becomes dry and barren of good
results, and this cannot be done unless the pupil devotes some
part of every day, out of school hours, to these studies. I think
it might be well if it were understood by the pupils that after
reaching the grammar grade they would be expected to have a
home lesson which should be either history or geography.
The habit of devoting a part of each day at home to reading
for a definite purpo:e will certainly have a marked influence upon
the child all through life.
Report of Mr. Bickford, Master of the Franklin-Street
School.
In accordance with your request you will find indicated below
the work that I have attempted during the past year.
An assistant was given to the school February i, 1893.
That the class attempting to graduate should not be handi-
capped to any extent I continued almost wholly to instruct it,
and, in addition, introduced and taught a uniform system of
gymnastics in the grammar grades. I have also devoted a por-
tion of each day to teaching the full arm movement in writing.
A change of assistants at the beginning of the fall term has
rendered my presence necessary in the first division a good por-
tion of the time.
The following has been my program: 8.45, devotionals and
singing; 9.05, ; 9-15? geography, class I; 9.40, arithme-
tic, class B ; 10.15, recess ; 10.35, history, class B ; ^-3°' histo-
ry, class C; 2.05, language, class I; 2.30, recess; 2.40, read-
ing, class B; 3.10, penmanship, class B. (Unavoidable inter-
ruptions excepted.)
Practically an hour a day has been devoted to the higher
middle school in an endeavor to make more progressive the
course of study and to give the fourth grammar scholars a better
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 355
Start. The test of this work will be their fitness for advanced
work in February, 1894.
The physical exercises have been continued durin<,f the past six
months.
The attempt at the full arm movement has been continued by
the teachers and aided by special lessons by myself. I have also
given special instruction in language in each grade above the
lower middle, in description, story writing, and reproduction.
This covers the work of a supervisory nature attempted by me
during the past year.
Report of Mr. Huse, Master of the Hallsville School.
In reply to your invitation for a report I beg leave to make
the following statements :
All newly organized schools necessarily work at a disadvan-
tage. There are certain regulations very necessary in graded
schools that cannot be enforced in smaller ones. Scholars accus-
tomed to the necessary freedom of a small building with no base-
ment find it difficult to acquire that behavior in and respect for
the school building that can be acquired in one with a basement
and other necessary parts of a modern schoolhouse. We are
further handicapped in our work by the changes in attendance
and the constant accessions of new scholars. Dependent upon
the new industries of East Manchester for its growth, our school
has increased from seventy-nine two years ago to two hundred
thirty-six pupils at the close of last term.
This school has for years had more cases of tardiness than any
other school in Manchester. A circular letter, printed and sent
to every family at the beginning of last term, resulted in much
improvement, especially in the higher grades. In response to an
urgent invitation in the same letter more parents and friends of
the school have visited it, I think, than during any other term of
its history.
But two pupils in the grammar grades have been doubly pro-
moted the past year. One of these stands at the head of her
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present class, and the other was in the highest quarter when she
moved to another school precinct.
In the line of deportment I think I can truthfully say that on
the whole the school has improved during the year that is past.
My personal endeavor has always been to do all in my power to
promote self-government on the part of the pupils, and I have no
reason to be discouraged in the results.
If there are good reasons for ringing out the other schools on
stormy days they are doubly good for this school. The average
distance that the pupils travel is greater than in any other gram-
mar school, and not a pupil can walk from his home to the school
on a good sidewalk. In storms he wades through mud or slush.
Few can hear the bells on the other buildings. The rest come
through the storm with wet feet and clothes, only to find no teach-
ers present, and then are obliged to go home in the same condi-
tion.
Not being provided with an assistant in my own room it is im-
possible for me to do much regular work or supervision in the
other rooms. Ten minutes a day have been spent for one term
in teaching music in the second division. This is the extent of
it. I have formulated a number of plans by which I am confi-
dent that the efficiency of the school can be increased, but I can-
not at present put them into practice.
I can but bear testimony to the earnest work of all teachers as-
sociated with me.
Report of Mr. King, Master of the Ash-street School.
In accordance with the invitation of the superintendent of
public instruction, I respectfully submit my report of the Ash-
street school. It must necessarily be confined to the past fall
term, which marks my connection with the school.
The term opened with four hundred and thirty-four pupils in
the ten rooms now occupied, including the two rooms on the
third floor.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 357
Teachers and scholars alike hail with joy the prospect of the
opening of the Pearl-street house, which will relieve us of the
compulsory resort to the third floor of the Ash-street school.
We have at present eighty children about equally divided be-
tween the lower primary and higher primary grades, who can be
transferred to the Pearl-street school, and still leave the eight
regular rooms of the Ash-street school full. It appears that both
buildings will soon be fully occupied.
Our building and yard are most excellently planned. In-
doors we have the very best light, ample heat, as has been proved
this month, and a system of ventilation quite satisfactory. Our
yard is roomy, furnishing aft opportunity for open-air exercises,
so valuable for school children. Indeed, it seems that the pupils'
work during the last half of the session is greatly improved by
the out-door recess.
The efforts of the teachers are particularly marked by earnest-
ness and faithfulness. I cannot speak too highly of their cheerful
willingness to work.
The interest of the scholars is continual. It has never been
my pleasure to have children with such beautiful minds and pure
characters.
My time during school hours has been spent almost entirely in
the class-room. I have spent a great deal of time in observing
the work of scholars and teachers, in order that I might inti-
mately know the purpose and capacity of the pupils, and the
method and skill of the teachers. I have personally conducted
regular recitations one and one half hours daily in the classes of
the first grammar grade, about one hour a day in the other classes,
and I have spent three quarters of an hour daily upon special
work in some one or more of all classes. My special work has
been confined, thus far, to minerals. I have conducted regular
and special exercises in each class. My work has been, apart
from that in the highest grade, more particularly in the lower
rooms, where I have directed my efforts to reading, writing, and
number. These and other subjects have received attention in
other grades.
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Double promotions have not been brought to my attention.
This matter will be settled three weeks before the midwinter pro-
motions. I feel quite sure of the desirability of this method of
advancement, judging from past experience.
The manual training lessons have been cheerfully and persist-
ently attended by my boys, and I trust they have been of great
good to them. Those of us who have taken similar courses can-
not refrain from heartily indorsing this department of school
work. It is hoped that we may have sewing or some form of
manual training for girls, which will satisfy the present longing
entertained by them for manual work, and at the same time ena-
ble us to carry* on our work more systematically.
I am asked to present any information pertinent to the occa-
sion regarding the needs of the school over which I have charge,
that might help those in authority over them in their efforts to
improve them. My particular remarks are formulated from the
more general.
I think we should fully accept as the object of the grammar
school the fitting of the boys and girls for life, and at the same
time for the high school. The number of pupils who enter the
high school varies, of course, with the purpose of the pupil and
his financial environment, and the number of high school schol-
ars who enter college varies accordingly. There are grammar
schools in this city, as in almost every city, that send fewer schol-
ars to the high school than the Ash-street school sends, and com-
paratively none of the former ever go to college. From no
grammar school do all go to the high school, and vastly fewer to
college. Since this large number of children never go to school
anywhere after graduating from the grammar school, and still
others are not graduated, how important it is that our grammar
schools furnish a broadly suggestive education. I would not leave
out the idea of fitting for the high school, for that institution
owes its success, quite largely, to the grammar school, and can
blame the grammar scliool, in many cases without reproach, for
failure to fill, more successfully, its important part in our public
school system.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 359
By a suggestive education, I mean the elements of science, his-
tory, literature, etc. Not so much mere elementary knowledge,
but the development of an interest and of right self-activity that
will enable the child to delight in investigating the world's best
literature, that university accessible to all, and thus furnish him
the impetus to an honorable life and the key to its unbounded
pleasures.
We hope for the time when the necessary funds may be found
for furnishing us a course in reading from our best literature, and
from historical and geographical readers.
We hope for a valuable school library and a small museum of
natural history. Either of these could be greatly helped in their
formation by pupils and, once started, easily perpetuated by
them.
Our pupils can become quite familiar with the elements of
English history and standard literature, if furnished such reading
matter for the time now devoted to the regular reading lesson.
The high school would then have more time in which to fit its
pupils for college.
I am inclined to think that the requirement of preparing one
lesson at home, by scholars of the first grammar grade, would
prove of advantage. I know that children need a great deal of
playtime and freedom from care, and that the girls especially are
busy with their music and household duties ; yet I often debate
upon the question, "Would it not be better to require home
study to the amount of one half hour each day ? "
There are some subjects that cannot be prepared at home.
Supposing, however, that each child in the first grammar grade
were provided with one more good text-book in history, making
two books to each pupil, and he were required to study about
thirty minutes each day at home. In school, he might devote
his study period of thirty minutes to a delightful perusal of a
number of more extensive writings, thus making the history les-
son much more interesting and helpful. By following this
method, what a beautiful mine of historical wealth could be
brought before the class. At the same time a more gradual
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change from the grammar-school study period to that of the high
school could be made.
Report of Miss Wing, Principal of Training School
for Teachers.
The annual report of the Training School is herewith sub-
mitted :
The conditions for admission, times of entering, and general
regulations remain unchanged.
At present there are eleven sub-teachers in the training class.
Those who entered in February, 1893, have devoted the year to
the consideration of methods. The last six months of the course
will be spent in the study of- theory and practice in teach-
ing, and history of education, in the reading of educational
papers and the discussion of the same. The results have been so
satisfactory I deem it advisable to continue the work in this way.
By vote of the school board there has been erected during the
past year an addition to the school building. This consists of
two rooms, one of which is used for a library or reading room,
and the other as a recitation room for the normal class. The
work of the school is greatly facilitated by this much needed im-
provement. More work and better work can be done with suit-
able accommodations, and the benefit derived in the short time
these rooms have been in use, fully justifies the additional ex-
pense. The work has been further aided by the employment,
since September, of Miss Annie W. Cofran as assistant principal.
Heretofore the entire responsibility of the normal work, the gen-
eral care of the building, and the individual work with pupils
has devolved upon the principal. No one person can satisfy so
many demands in a thorough manner. The aims of the school
can be much more satisfactorily attained by the employment of
a second teacher, and the school board must be fully assured that
an assistant is a necessity to the best conduct of the school.
The calls upon the training school for substitutes to fill tempo-
rary vacancies have been met in this, as in other years, by supply-
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 361
ing teachers from either of the three classes. This necessity,
although inevitable, is to be regretted, as the work of the school
is considerably hindered thereby.
A much greater inconvenience is suffered, however, if teachers
who have not been in the school long enough to finish the course
are elected to fill vacancies permanently more than a month be-
fore the time for their graduation.
The school library is already supplied with a good number of
educational works and books of reference. Other books are
needed, however, and an appropriation is desired for more sup-
plies for the teachers in their regular work. Additional work
in nature study demands not only additional books but appa-
ratus as well.
The, liberality of the committee in their readiness to supply all
necessary aids for the work of the school, is thoroughly appreci-
ated. It is hoped that the progress of the school may justify all
appropriations for its maintenance.
Report of Mr. Somes, Master of the High School.
In compliance with your request I submit the following report
of the condition of the High School :
The different departments of the school are well organized,
and are doing creditable work.
The number of students who enter college from our High School
is larger than public High Schools usually prepare, and the stand-
ing maintained by our scholars in college does us credit. The
colleges where our scholars enter express satisfaction with our
preparatory work.
We are well supplied with apparatus. We have an excellent
chemical laboratory, and if we had a well-arranged physical lab-
oratory, our facilities for science teaching would be excellent.
Since the employment of a special teacher of drawing, the
work in that department has been much improved, though our
teacher labors under the great disadvantages of large classes and
362 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
a small recitation room. Better results would be accomplished
if the teacher of drawing could be at the school a longer time
each day.
More instruction should be given in English in this school
than can be given with the present corps of teachers. One day
in each week we omit all other recitations for an hour, and de-
vote the time to work in composition. Instruction given in this
way must be disconnected and fragmentary and of comparatively
little value. No teacher would expect to accomplisli much in math-
ematics, science, or languages if he could meet his class but once a
week. Either we should have a teacher of English, or more teachers
should be employed, so that the work in English may be divided
among all the teachers, and that they may meet their classes more
often than once a week. I think three exercises a \yeek during
the entire course, to include instruction in grammar, composi-
tion, rhetoric, and literature, is no more than a subject so im-
portant as English should receive. To make our weekly exer-
cises more profitable, I have arranged a short course in reading
from American authors, and have asked the board for books
enough to supply two classes. Though the committee to whom
my request was referred approved of my plan, lack of funds pre-
vented the purchase of the books at the time I asked for them,
but I trust we may have them at the beginning of the next term.
Each year the number of pupils in the High School has in-
creased, till this year we have had two hundred and sixty-six.
With this number the building is very much crowded, and every
available room has to be used for a recitation room. With in-
sufficient light in the study room, no system of ventilation, and
a heating apparatus which does not heat the building on cold
days, our schoolhouse is not only inconvenient but uncomfort-
able. I earnestly call the attention of the school board to the
condition of our building.
Report of Mr. Kimball, Special Teacher of Music.
In taking a retrospective view of the study of music in our
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 363
schools the past year, I am pleased to state there has been uni-
versal interest manifested. In the high school the practice has
been from the most eminent composers, and the results have been
most gratifying. The school is able to sing at sight any choral
music.
The grammar schools have made quite an advance in reading
four part harmony. I have been highly delighted with the prog-
ress and interest shown by both teachers and pupils in the work.
In some grades I have given selections to sing at sight in four
parts, and they have surprised me by reading it so rapidly.
The middle schools have done well, considering the very short
time allowed them each day. They have followed the course of
study and been faithful in their work. I am sorry to add there
are a few exceptions.
The primary schools are doing their work very well, in scale
and dictation exercises, in placing the pitch names upon the staff,
and in reading the same. Their progress is quite up to the grade
work. The number of schools having increased the past term, it
has been impossible to give the lower primary grades their usual
lessons, but the teachers of this grade have met me once a month
at the high school building, where I have instructed them in the
lessons to be given their pupils. They have been very punctual
in attending these meetings and taken a great deal of interest in
the lessons. I have inspected their work as far as my time would
permit and find the teachers have been quite successful in impart-
ing my instructions.
I would advise holding a musical festival every four years. It
is an incentive for more faithful work by both teachers and pu-
pils, and also gives to the public the result of my work in the
public schools. I wish to add here that it would please tne if the
members of the school board, citizens, and parents of the schol-
ars would oftener visit the schools while I am giving the usual
instruction in music. I would also suggest that there might be
a more thorough examination in music of the applicants as teach-
ers in our public schools.
364 AXNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Report of Miss Emmins, Special Teacher of Drawing.
During the year ending December 31, 1893, steady advance
has been made in the study of drawing. Drawing, as taught, is
divided into three departments, construction, representation, and
decoration. Construction and decoration, while not by any
means neglected, have received far less attention than has repre-
sentation. The aim has been to train the pupils in the quickest
possible manner to accurate observation and free expression of
what they have observed. Free-hand drawing is one of the most
valuable educational means of thought expression, developing in-
dividual power because it depends on trained observation, trained
will, and trained hands. Drawing free-hand from objects, be-
sides developing the powers of observation, has also awakened
ideas of beauty and proportion, and, by taking advantage of the
interest of children in real things, the creative powers are stimu-
lated.
As the aesthetic element could not be cultivated to any extent
by the manufactured objects which the pupils had to draw from,
the principal objects of study were flowers, single leaves, sprays
and branches of leaves, growing plants, fruit, and vegetables.
The type-forms and related objects were also drawn.
Great advance has been made this year in freedom and spon-
taneity of drawing. In all grades the quality of line has been
much improved. In many classes the hard labored lines have
. given way to the soft, gray lines drawn with one free stroke. This
labored drawing with short strokes has been difficult for the old-
er pupils to overcome. In all classes the majority of pupils now
grasp pencils far from point and draw with a free movement
from the shoulder and with long strokes. Artistic rendering has
been attempted very successfully this year, whereas a year ago it
was found to be impossible, thus proving to the pupils the advan-
tage of free over labored movement. In the three upper grades
lead pencil shading was a great stimulus to many pupils and
helped more than any other means to promote free-arm move-
ment, and the free-arm movement in turn helped the artistic ren-
dering. Frequent drills in free-arm movement have been given
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 365
for two years, but in the upper grades the relapses were many till
about March, 1893. Since September less attention has been
given to it, for it is gradually becoming a habit.
This year more time than before has been given to appearance
drawing in the primary grades, with better results in less time
than in the middle grades two years ago. Children's observing
powers are soon blunted with exclusive study of facts, so from the
first, appearances are studied at the same time as facts. In the
lower primary free-arm movement and pencil drill are taught
from the second week of entering school, using blackboard and
paper ; and objects circular in section are those studied for ap-
pearances to be drawn on paper in this class. All twelve type-
forms, and objects related to them, are drawn in the higher pri-
mary, and simple groups also, as sphere on cube, ovoid on square
prism, tumbler and apple, etc.
Simple pencil measurements and blocking-in by straight lines
from fruit, vegetables, and leaves are first practiced in lower mid-
dle grade, advancing to groups in higher middle. In the latter
grade manufactured objects and type-forms are used in groups at
times. Objects are placed at a distance, proportional pencil
measurement is first used, drawings are made by first blocking in
the masses, from the whole to the parts. In the fourth division
grammar, sprays of leaves are added to the objects of study in the
grades preceding. So far the drawings are outlines, but in the
three upper grades light and shade are represented to some ex-
tent and laws of good composition in grouping are taught. From
the single leaves and sprays of the lower grades we advance here
to flowers, branches, and whole plants in flower, as well as the
type-forms and related objects.
Manual training is carried on by sewing, modeling in clay,
and paper folding in the primary grades, and by cutting and past-
ing in all the grades. From the lower middle grade up, patterns
of type-forms and similar objects are thought out, cut from stiff
paper and pasted. In the second division grammar geometry
was applied, each pupil selecting several objects based on type-
solids and originating patterns for them, afterwards making in
366 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
cardboard, etc. The originality that was diaplayed and the
thought and reasoning that were developed proved this to have
been very valuable.
Color has been taken up this year but Only started, as has his-
toric ornament. Design has been taught to a limited extent in
all grades, and colored paper has been used to show forth many
of the designs.
In the high school scholars take either free-hand or mechani-
cal drawing, the latter comprising machine and architectural
drawing. From January to the end of June the classes in free-
hand worked almost wholly at light and shade from casts and ob-
jects. The medium mostly used was charcoal point. Some
drawing from casts and objects in lead pencil outline was done,
and design, surface and balancing, was taught. The progress
made was very satisfactory, especially in the study of values in
light and shade. From. January through June the architectural
classes copied mostly, but since September the majority of pupils
in architecture have been at work on original plans for a cottage
house. The classes in machine drawing draw from objects and
copies. All pupils taking mechanical drawing first take a course
in the necessary geometric problems. Inking-in is taught from
the first. T squares, angles, boards, etc., are used. The sopho-
more and junior classes in free-hand, after a year's study of light
and shade by medium, charcoal, have since September been
working in water color from casts and objects. The freshmen
work in charcoal in the free-hand division. The work in the
high school is quite as g®od as it can be under the present con-
ditions which necessitate individual instruction, sometimes to a
class of forty in a fifty-minute lesson, comprising pupils from all
three grades and in all four subjects, charcoal, water color, archi-
tectural and machine drawing.
On the whole, drawing at the present time may be said to be
in a healthy, growing state. The advance to the full course
would be still more rapid if drawing was used more to help the
other studies and be in turn helped. Only in a few schools is
drawing yet so used, and in those schools the regular drawing is
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 367
also the best. I have urged this earnestly, knowing that but to
try it was to be convinced ; and I am glad to say that the belief
in the educational value of this graphic mode of expression is
gradually gaining ground. It has been hard to dispel the im-
pression that because faulty, this free mode of expressing ideas
should be rejected. Time would mend that. Another hopeful
sign is the beginning of a systematic adornment of the school-
rooms wdth reproductions of good works of art, — that is, with
casts and photographs of famous masterpieces, etc. The children
of the Hallsville school have subscribed a sum towards the adorn-
ing of their own room, the master's, and, doubtless, other
schools will join the movement which is spreading through the
country under the name of the Public School Art League. Much
interest has been taken by the Manchester teachers in this move-
ment.
The needs for the coming year are : First, more direct super-
vision ; second, a larger drawing-room for the high school ; and
third, additional time in all the grades for the manual training
which is pursued in connection with drawing.
If from each of the larger buildings, where there is a master's
assistant, and therefore one more teacher than rooms in the
building, one teacher having a predilection for drawing could be
dismissed one afternoon every fortnight, to meet and draw with
the special teacher, at the drawing-room of the high school, and
so receive a broader training, and thus be especially helpful to
his or her building, being always present to give advice, show
other teachers, and conduct drawing lessons with the teachers
after school at stated times, the regular teachers to give the les-
sons to their respective classes, the arrangement would leave the
special teacher more time at the high school, • which is much
needed under present conditions, and permit more time to be
given other schools where there is not an extra teacher, besides
affording a training in drawing to teachers which under present
arrangements is not possible. Turns could be taken (in the
buildings having supervisors), so that no extra strain should come
368 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
on one, and others could receive extended instruction by this
method.
As to extra time for the manual training, twenty minutes in
primary, twenty-five minutes in middle, and thirty minutes in
grammar grades weekly, would suffice.
Report of Mr. Brown, Master of the Maniaai Training
School.
In compliance with your request, I make you a brief report on
the equipment and work of the manual training school for the
only term of its existence.
The equipment of the school is as follows: Twenty-three
benches, fourteen of which are in the Lowell-street schoolhouse,
five in the Varney school, and four in the Hallsville school.
Each bench is supplied with a 20" jointer, 15" fore-plane, 8"
smoothing-plane, 7" block-plane; 24" splitting-saw, 22" panel-
saw, 10" back-saw; 6 chisels (sizes }^" , yk" , y^," , %", 1" , T-}i");
a marking gauge; a No. 12 hammer; a 6" tri-square ; a 6" T
bevel-square; a No. no Spofford bit-brace; an oil stone and
can; a screw driver, mallet, and rule. There is also a sufficient
number of drawing boards and T squares for the accommodation
of the school. Blue prints are made and mounted on cardboard
for each piece of work to be executed, as fast as needed.
The interest of the pupils in my department is very gratifying ;
also the interest and attention of the masters of the several
schools from which pupils come to my school. The attention of
the grammar masters acts as a stimulus to pupils, and enables the
masters more effectively to connect the work of my department
with the studies taught in the common schools.
On account of delay in securing the equipment of the manual
training school, about three weeks of valuable time were lost ;
but, notwithstanding this loss, the amount and quality of the
work done afford great encouragement. I have never had better
classes in my department than I have had here, not even when
the classes have had a liberal sprinkling of second-year pupils.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 369
The Lowell-Street room has fifteen electric lights, one at each
bench, and one for use of the instructor. The school will very-
soon require a small outlay for further equipment. Its present
quarters are far too crowded, and, if I am not mistaken, the
school will soon need more extended and better facilities.
Conclusion.
In conclusion I may properly remark that what I wrote in an
earlier part of this report, under the head of " Needed Improve-
ments," was written several days before any of the masters for-
warded me a report. Therefore it is because of common beliefs
that the masters and myself are so largely in accord in regard to
the advisability of teaching the elements of science in the schools,
and of providing pupils quite freely with books of standard liter-
ature and of historical research.
To pay such attention in the High School to instruction in the
use of the English language as is outlined in the report of the
master, would properly supplement and round out the improve-
ments made during the last year or two in teaching this branch
in the lower grade schools, and I again unite with the master in
earnestly urging that means for practically working out the plan
may be soon procured.
In regard to excessive difficulties in arithmetic, to which refer-
ence has been made in one of the grammar masters' reports, it
may be said that when the course of study was last revised the
teachers of the various grades were consulted in this matter, and
the relief that then appeared necessary was granted. However,
greater attention to teaching the more important branch of lan-
guage, and the instruction afforded in natural science and in
manual training, require time; and it will be wise to find it for
the latter subjects, to the exclusion from the course of study of
the impractical problems in the arithmetic and of the lesser im-
portant details in the geography.
With many thanks to the teachers for their cordial co-opera-
370 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
tion, to the members of the school board for wise counsels and
unanimous support, and to many citizens for encouraging words
and kindly suggestions, I submit the foregoing as my report of
the public schools of this city for the year eighteen hundred and
ninety-three.
WILLIAM E. BUCK,
Superintendent.
APPENDIX.
I. Population, etc.
II. SCHOOLHOUSES.
III. Schools.
IV. Teachers.
V. Pupils.
VI. Truancy.
VII. Finance.
VIII. School Year, 1893.
IX. High School Graduating Class.
X. Winners of Clarke Prizes.
XI. Organization of Committees, 1894.
XII. List of Teachers, 1894.
XIII. School Year, 1894.
APPENDIX.
STATISTICS.
I.— Population.
Population of the city by last census, 1S90 . . 43,983
Legal school age, 5 to 21.
II.— Schoolhouses.
Nuiiiber of schoolhouses in use . . . . . .22
Number of schoolhouses not in use ..... i
(Old house in Hallsville.)
Number of school rooms used for day schools * . . .98
(Three of the same, and six others, used for evening schools. Rooms un-
occupied by city for day schools are two at Spring-street house, and three at
the Lowell-street house.)
Number of rooms used for High-school classes .
Number of rooms used for Grammar schools * .
Number of rooms used for Middle schools .
Number of rooms used for Primary schools *
Number of rooms used for Partially Graded school
Number of rooms used for Ungraded schools
III. -Schools.
(All for both sexes.)
Number of High schools (Buildings)
(None exclusively Grammar.)
* Some of them for a single term, only.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
373
Number of combined Grammar and lower grade (Middle
and Primary) schools . . . . . . .10
Number of combined Middle and Primary schools . . 2
Number of schools all Primary grade .... 4
Number of Ungraded schools ...... 5
IV.— Teachers.
Male teachers in the High school ..... 3
Female teachers in the High school ..... 5
Male teachers in the Grammar schools .... 6
Female teachers in the Grammar schools*. . . 25
Female teachers in the Middle schools * ... . 19
Female teachers in the Primary schools f . . . -34
Female teachers in the Partially Graded schools . . 2
Female teachers in the Ungraded schools .... 5
Special teachers | ........ 2
Average number of male teachers § . . . . -9
Average number of female teachers § .... 90
Male teachers in the evening schools ..... 8
Female teachers in the evening schools . . . .12
Average number of male teachers in the evening schools . 6
Average number of female teachers in the evening schools . 7
Male teachers in the evening Drawing schools ... 2
Average number of male teachers in the evening Drawing
schools ......... 2
* Five of the 25 are masters' assistants, and i of the 19 is assistant to the principal of the
training school.
t Three of the 37 primaries were in the training school. They had no regular teachers, be-
ing taught by sub-teachers under the direction of the principal, who, for convenience, is
reckoned among the middle-school teachers.
+ Another, also, for one term.
§ Exclusive of special teachers.
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DAY SCHOOLS.
Summary of the attendance upon the several grades of public
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Grades.
Whole number
different pupils.
High
Grammar
Middle
Primary
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Ungraded
Totals, 1893
Totals, 1892
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422
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Spring street
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REPORT OP THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 881
Evening School Teachers.
Charles E. Cochran, principal of Lowell-street school, for
I)oys.
Assistants — David Eckvall, Arthur W. Morgan, William J.
Mooar, Fannie L. Sanborn, Gertrude A. Burns, Honorie J.
Crough, and Mary A. Walker.
Louis H. Bailey (Winter), and Etta F. Boardman (Fall), prin-
cipals of Spring-street school, for girls.
Assistants — Lizzie D. Hartford, Maggie Linen, Minnie E.
Ellinwood, and Cora M. Farmer.
L. H. Carpenter, principal of School-street school, for both
sexes.
Assistants — Mary A. Clement, Isabel Esty, and Lottie M.
Clement.
Evening Drawitig-School Teachers.
John M. Kendall and Henry W. Allen.
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GENERAL SUMMARY.
The following table presents the main features of interest per-
taining to the attendance upon the public schools for the last ten
years.
.3,918
3,806
3,712
3,787
3,814
4,071
4,775
Whole No.
belonging.'*
Boys. Girls
1,924
1,891
1,812
1,817
1,806
2,003
2,181
2,445
1,994
1,915
1,820
1,853
1,906
1,925
1,933
2,068
2,117
2,330
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2,872
2,645
2,725
2,430
2,698
2,475
2,711
2,468
2,768
2,500
2,801
3,581
2,795
2,536
2,940
2,689
3,130
2,837
3,425
3,111
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71
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61
88
80
58
101
96
73
121
114
83
120
101
69
116
103
67
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127
78
*In comparing the pupilage and cost of the schools for any year since 1877 with any
year prior to 1878, the following facts should receive full consideration : In the reports issued
prior to 1869, so also in the report for 1876, no care was taken to exclude duplicate enrollments ;
and, as a consequence, the number of different pupils represented in the schools for each of the
years prior to 1S69, as well as fo' the year 1876, is very erroneous. From certain data at hand,
It is likely that the number given for each of the years in question is about 1,000 too large. It is
perfectly evident, from the statistical tables in the reports for the years named, that duplicate
enrollments were not excluded. As a result of the failure to exclude such enrollments, all
pupils enrolled in any grade of school at the opening of the year and passing by promotion
to a higher grade before the close of the year would be doubly reported. And as whole
classes, substantially, from every grade in every part of the city become doubly enrolled at the
time of the mid-year promotions, likewise most pupils who change their residence, it is readily
seen how largely erroneous the reports must be that do not provide for the exclusion of all
re-enrollments.
For many years this matter, and the importance of it, has been well understood; and its
failure to receive attention in 1876 was doubtless accidental. See footnotes on page 51 of
the Report for 1S73, prepared by Superintendent Edgerly ; likewise page 45 of the Report for
1S75, prepared by Superintendent Dearborn; and, also, pages i;o and 51 of the Report for
1877. In consequence of the change mentioned in the last-named report, the only item of
attendance records reported for the years prior to 1S78 which can with reliability be com-
pared with those reported since 1877 is the "Average Daily Attendance," and this item is
evidently far from right (as given in the report) for 18O6. Since 1877, all of the several
items of attendance record have been based upon uniform data.
t Including grammar classes in suburban schools.
I Usually some pupils have annually entered from other schools. This year eight have so
entered.
§ Exclusive of special teachers.
(K)
REPORT OF TEE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
383
CHANGES IN CORPS OF TEACHERS.
The whole number of different teachers employed one term or
more in the day schools, within the year, has been 113. Their
respective positions may be learned from the attendance table on
pages C, D, E, F, G, and H of the Appendix, but the various
changes made within the year can be more readily understood by
an inspection of the following :
Date of effect of
Date of begin-
Teachers.
resignation.
Teachers.
ning service.
Ruth McClure.
June 2.
Josephine L. Riddle
April 10.
Fred C. Baldwin.
" 23.
Guy F. Cox.
Sept. II.
Jennie M. Chandler
Albert F. King, Jr.
Annie B. Goodwin.
" "
Louis H. Bailey.
Amelia L, Graupner
iC ii
Abbie E. Wilson.
Cora F. Sanborn.
" ''
Helen E. Frost.
Rose Dearborn.
" "
Mary E. Murphy.
Willis B. Moore.
Sept. I.
Edith L. Turner.
Bessie E. Dodge.
Annie R. Corson.
Lottie M. Clement.
M. Minnie Sturtevant. " "
Nellie M. Smith.
" 15.
Jean Gillan.
Oct. 2.
Florence M. Griffin.
" "
TRAINING
SCHOOL.
Sub-teachers.
Graduated.
Sub-teachers.
Entered.
Mabel R. Brown. J
m. 27, '93.
Cora M. Farmer. Jan. 30, '93.
Lucy M. Choate.
" "
Mary F. Fay.
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Mary J. Corcoran.
"
Clydie M. Flanders.
"
Annie R. Corson.
"
Emma B.Abbott. Sept. ii,'93.
Alfreda Hall.
"
Lenora J. Clough.
" «
Mertie C. Hawks.
" "
Dora M. Martin.*
u
Carrie E. Head.
Marcia M, Moore.
" "
* Deceased.
(L)
384
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Sub-teachers. Graduated.
Mary S. Richardson. Jan. 27/93.
Josie L. Riddle. " "
M. Min. Sturtevant. " "
Annie R. Corson. June 23, '93.
Bessie E. Dodge. " "
Bertha L. Kemp. Jan. 26, '94.
Nellie C. Parker.
Nellie M. Smith.
Sub-teachers. Entered
Hellen Morison. Sept. 11,
Maud L. Smith. "
Mabel L. Howe. Jan. 29,
Amy K. Northrup. "
Lizabell Savory . "
Helen E. True.
Hattie S. Tuttle.
Hattie O. Willand. "
VI —Work of Truant Officer.
January. . .
February .
March
April
May
June . .. .
September
October . .
November
December .
Totals
Absentees
reported
from
No. volun-
tarily re-
turned to
No. reported
caused to
attend
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(M)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
385
January . .
February .
March . . .
April
June
September.
October . . .
November .
December
Totals 54
No. truants
caused
to attend
•2S
VII.— Finance.— 1893.
Items of Account.
Resources from
appropriations and
transfers.
Expenditures, 1S93.
Salaries of teachers
Books and stationery
Free text-books and supplies
Furniture and supplies
Repairs
Care of rooms
Fuel
Printing and advertising
Contingent expenses ,
Evening common schools
Evening drawing schools
Manual Training
Totals
25
(N)
§59,437.65
71.93
4,456 68
925.27
5,263.08
4,135.69
5,180.15
411.80
2,137 21
1,257.20
532.37
1,091.56
$59,437.65
71.93
4,456.68
925 27
5,263 08
4,135 09
5,180.15
411.80
2,137.21
1,257.20
532.37
1,091.56
$84,900.59
$84,900.59
386
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
COST OF CITY SCHOOLS.*
Expenditures, as above specified
Salaries.
Members of the school board
Clerk of the board
Superintendent of schools
Truant officer
Total
Receipts on Account of Schools
Literary fund .....
Non-resident tuition f . . .
Sale of text-books .....
Total
Net amount raised by taxation
The city valuation for 1893 is ^27,377,366
rate of school tax for the year is 80,408.07 -
.00220 -f. Last year the rate was .00276 -j--
$84,900.59
$200.00
100.00
2,150.00
750.00
$88,100.59
. $6,940.42
518.87
233.23
• $7,692.52
. $80,408.07
and hence the
27>.377. 366, or
Vlll.-School Year.
Winter term of twelve weeks opened January 2 ; closed March
24. Vacation of two weeks.
Spring term of eleven weeks opened April 10 ; closed June 23.
Vacation of eleven weeks.
Fall term of fourteen weeks opened September 11 ; closed De-
cember 15. Vacation of two weeks.
* See foot-note marked • on page (K) of this appendix.
t Including $76.12 (school taxes for '92 and '93) received from Londonderry.
(O)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 387
Number of school days in the year, as provided above by the
school board, 185.
Average number of days the schools were taught, 175.
(Being closed several holidays, days of "Teachers' Institutes," and half days on account
of bad weather or insufficient heat. )
IX.— High School Graduation.
Program.
Salutatory, with Essay, " The Age of Progress." —
Annie Riddle Flint
" Huntsman's Chorus " Weber
Class History . . . . .
Class Prophecy . . . .
Chorus, "Who will o'er the Downs?
Class Oration, " Nature and Man " .
Piano Trio, " Tancredi "
Class Poem
Valedictory, with Essay,
" Bridal Chorus"
Award of Diplomas .
Chorus — Class Ode.
Agnes Hunt
. Austin Stearns
Be Pearsall
Walter French Buck
Rossini
Misses Goggin, Burnham, and Boutwell
Mertie Alice Emerson
■'A Purpose in Life " . Hellen Morison
F. H. Cowen
. Rev. Charles S. Murkland
Graduates.
FOUR YEARS CLASSICAL COURSE.
Florence Lund Abbott.
David Burns Bartlett.
Moodybell S. Bennett.
Walter French Buck.
Blanche Ethelynde Bullock.
Gertrude Wells Clarke.
Austin Waldo Flint.
Annie Frances Goggin.
Alice Maud Lamprey.
Winona Matilda Martin.
May Euphemia Maynard.
Hellen Morison.
(P)
388 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Mertie Alice Emerson. Fred Alvin Phelps.
Annie Riddle Flint. Arthur Perry Senter.
William Arthur Stevens.
THREE years' ENGLISH COURSE.
Lenora Jennie Clough. Dora May Martin.
Maude Francis. George Edward Putnam.
Harlin Blake Heath. Maud Leona Smith.
Blanche Estelle Hicken. Henry Butler Stearns.
Charles Ephraim Lamper. George Walter Whitford.
COLLEGE COURSE.
Henry W. N. Bennett. David P. Eckvall."
Edith Gerrish Boutwell. Agnes Hunt.
Gertrude Elizabeth Burnham. Gracie Maria Page.
Herman Christophe. Harriet Houghton Richardson.
Austin Stearns.
FOUR years' ENGLISH COURSE.
Lula Ethelyn Hatch. Amy King Northrup.
Marcia Mae Moore.
SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
Israel Aubey. Herman Wellington Colby.
TWO years' CERTIFICATE.
Emma Blanche Abbott. Maud Alma Bailey.
SPECIAL COURSE.
Louise Corinne Gazaille. Marion Edna Josselyn.
(Q)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
389
HONOR SCHOLARS.
Classical Course
College Course
Four Years' English Course
Three Years' English Course
Scientific Course
. Hellen Morison
Edith Gerrish Boutwell
. Lula Ethelyn Hatch
Dora May Martin
Israel Aubey
X.— Winners of Clarke Prizes
FOR EXCELLENCE IN ELOCUTION AT CONTEST, JANUARY 28,
[893.
Euphemia J. Durgin, $i6.
Anson G. Osgood, ^12.
S. Grace Crosby, $10.
Louise C. Gazaille, $S.
Harry G. Annan, $6.
J. Etta Doherty, ^4.
Goldie M. Martin, ^2.^
Lizzie M. Grant, ^2.*
XI.— Organization, 1894.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
EDGAR J. KNOWLTON, Mayor, ex officio, Chairman.
FRED T. DUNLAP,
President of the Common Council, ex officio.
Ward I.
Charles D. Summer.
Walter H. Lewis.
Ward 2.
George H. Stearns.
Alvin T. Thoits.
Ward 3.
George D. Towne.
Louis E. Phelps.
Ward 4.
Stephen B. Stearns.
Edwin L. Richardson
Ward 5.
James P. Slattery.
* A school prize, awarded the better of the two from each school not winning one of the six
prizes offered those most meritorious.
(R)
390 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
William J. Sughrue.
Ward 6. Frank T. E. Richardson.
George W. Dearborn.
Ward 7. Marshall P. Hall.
Edward B. Woodbury.
Ward 8. Luther C. Baldwin.
Josiah G. Dearborn.
Ward 9. Edward J. Doherty.
Scott E. Sanborn.
VICE-CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.
MARSHALL P. HALL.
CLERK OF THE BOARD.
EDWARD B. WOODBURY.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
WILLIAM E. BUCK.
superintendent's CLERK.
FANNIE L. SANBORN.
truant officer.
SAMUEL BROOKS.
standing committees.
Finance. The Mayor, Messrs. Dunlap, Hall, Woodbury, F. T.
E. Richardson.
Salaries. Messrs. Woodbury, Slattery, Sumner.
Repairs, Furniture, and Supplies. Messrs. S. B. Stearns, Sum-
ner, Baldwin.
Text-Books, Apparatus, and Studies. Messrs. Hall, Baldwin,
G. H. Stearns.
(S)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 391
Drawing. Messrs. Baldwin, Hall, J. G. Dearborn.
Music. Messrs. F. T. E. Richardson, Phelps, Lewis.
Fuel and Heating. Mr. G. H, Stearns, the Mayor, Messrs.
Dunlap, G. W. Dearborn, Phelps.
Examination of Teachers. Messrs. Towne, Thoits, J. G. Dear-
born.
Attendance. Messrs. E. L. Richardson, Doherty, Sughrue.
Health. Messrs. Towne, Slattery, Sanborn.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
High School. Messrs. Thoits, Hall, S. B. Stearns, Towne,
Phelps, Slattery, J. G. Dearborn.
Franklin-street School. Messrs. Woodbury, Sumner, Baldwin.
Spring-street and Lowell-street Schools. Messrs. Towne, Slat-
tery, Sughrue.
Lincoln-street School. Messrs. S. B. Stearns, F. T. E. Richard-
son, E. L. Richardson.
Ash-street School.* Messrs. Phelps, Towne, Hall.
Webster-street and Blodget-street Schools. Messrs. G. H.
Stearns, Thoits, Slattery.
Bakersville School. Messrs. Sumner, F. T. E. Richardson,
Lewis.
Varney School. Messrs. Baldwin, J. G. Dearborn, Thoits.
Training School. Messrs. Hall, Phelps, G. H. Stearns.
Wilso7i Hill School. Messrs. Lewis, Sanborn, E. L. Richard-
son.
Main-street and South Main-street Schools. Messrs. J. G. Dear-
born, Baldwin, Sanborn.
Amoskeag and Stark Schools. Messrs. Slattery, G. W. Dear-
born, Doherty.
Hallsville and Youngsville Schools. Messrs. G. W. Dearborn,
E. L. Richardson, Sughrue.
Goffe's Falls and Harvey Schools. Messrs. Sughrue, Lewis,
Doherty.
♦Also of any others that may be organized on Bridge street.
(T)
392 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Webster's Mills and Mosquito Pond Schools. Messrs. E. L.
Richardson, Sughrue, Woodbury.
Evening Schools. Messrs. F. T. E. Richardson, G. H. Stearns,
Sumner.
XII.— List of Teachers.
HIGH SCHOOL. — BEECH STREET.
Master. Albert Somes.
Sub-Master. George I. Hopkins.
Assistants. Guy Wilbur Cox.
Mary Stanton.
Nellie Pickering.
Mary H. Cutler.
Camille Benson.
Mary A. Hawley.
FRANKLIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Master. Charles W. Bickford.
Master's Assistant. Nellie M. Smith.
Assistants. Carrie E. Hoit.
L. May Choate.
Carrie E. Head.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Higher Middle. Nellie C. Parker.
Lower Middle. Hattie G. Flanders.
Higher Primary. Nellie M. James.
Lower Primary. Susie L. Dodge.
ru)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 393
SPRING-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Principal. Lizzie P. Gove.
Higher Middle. Emma L. McLaren.
First Floor. — Lotver Grades.
Lower Middle. Fannie D. Moulton.
Higher Primary. Nellie L Sanderson.
Lower Primary. Lucia E. Esty.
Lower Primary. Florence M. Griffin.
LINCOLN-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Master. Frank S. Sutcliffe.
Master's Assistant. Annie W. Patten.
Assistants. Isabelle R. Daniels.
Mabel J. Brickett.*
Mary J. Corcoran.
Mary F. Barnes.
Josephine A. Mitchell.*
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Higher Middle. Nettie B. Fogg.
Lower Middle. Susie G. Woodman.
Higher Primary. Cora B. Gilford.
Mixed Primary. Theodora Richardson.
ASH-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Graaes.
Master, Albert F. King, Jr.
Master's Assistant. Mary E. Bunton.
* Third floor.
(V)
394 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Assistants. Mary Hickey Dowd.
Mabel Ruth Brown.
Edith S. Dole.
First Floor. — Lotuer Grades.
Higher Middle. Emma J. Cooper.
Lower Middle. Kittie J. Ferren.
Higher Primary. May F. Nutt.
Lower Primary. Bertha A. Young.
WEBSTER-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Master. B. S. Andrew.
Master's Assistant. Abbie E. Wilson.
Assistants. Helen E. Frost.
Alta C. Willand.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Higher Middle. Eva F. Tuson.
Lower Middle. Edith L. Hammond.
Higher Primary. Jean Gillan.
Lower Primary, Mary E. Murphy.
BAKERSVILLE SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Principal. Lizzie A. Burns.
Assistant. Lelia A. Brooks.*
Higher Middle. Issa May Tuttle.
Lower Middle. Augusta S. Downs.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Higher Primary. S. Izetta Locke.
Lower Primary. Annie Brigham.
(W)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 395
VARNEY SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Grammar Grades.
Master. George Winch.
Master's Assistant. Barbara B. Joy.
Assistant. Lillian Little.
First Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Assistants. E. Maria Dickey.
Ellen E. McKean.
Millie S. Morse.
Higher Middle. Mary E. Moulton.
Lower Middle. Mary A. Seavey.
Higher Primary. Mary J. Walsh.
HALLSVILLE SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Master. William H. Huse.
Assistant. Ella F. Barker.
Higher Middle. Olive A. Rowe.
First Floor. — Lower Grades.
Lower Middle. Mary G. Worthen.
Higher Primary. Bertha L. Kemp.
Lower Primary. E. Alfreda Hall.
Lower Primary. Annie R. Corson.
TRAINING SCHOOL.
(Merrimack street, corner Union.)
Principal. Caroline E. Wing.
Head Assistant. Annie W. Cofran.
The principal is also assisted by the sub-teachers, /. e., mem-
bers of the training class. The school embraces the first four
(X)
396 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
years of school work, in the following grades : Lower Primary,
Higher Primary, and Lower Middle. There are four rooms,
two of lower-primary grade.
MAIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor. — Mixed Grades.
Principal. Mary W. Mitchell.
Lower Middle. Mary E. Brophy.
Higher Primary. Gertrude A. Burns.
Mixed Primary. Lottie M. Clement.
First Floor. — Primary Grades.
Mixed Primary. Mary A. Clement.
Lower Primary. M. Minnie Sturtevant.
Lower Primary. Kate T. Clarke.
Lower Primary. Gertrude L. Southard.
BLODGET-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor.
Higher Primary. Gertrude H. Brooks.
First Floor.
Lower Primary, Edith M. Stebbins.
LOWELL-STREET SCHOOL.
Second Floor.
Lower Primary. Mary S. Richardson.
First Floor.
Higher Primary. Helen M. Morrill.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OP SCHOOLS, 397
PEARL-STREET SCHOOL.
Higher Primary. Mary G. Tynan.
Lower Primary. M. Clara Hawks.
WILSON HILL SCHOOL.
Lower Primary. Huldah C. Graupner.
Lower Primary. Ella Hope.
SOUTH MAIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Higher Primary. Delle E. Haines.
Lower Primary. Georgia M. Cheney.
PARTIALLY GRADED SCHOOLS.
Amoskeag. Lettie M. Smith.
Mixed Primary. Edith L. Turner.
Goffe's Falls.* Georgie Kendrick.
Mixed Primary. Bessie E. Dodge.
ungraded schools.
No. I. Stark. Inez M. Warren.
2. Harvey. Emma J. Ela.
3. Youngsville. Louis H. Bailey.
4. Webster's Mills. Josephine L. Riddle.
5. Mosquito Pond. Nellie M. Atwood.
special teachers.
Music. J. J. Kimball.
Drawing. Charlotte J. Emmins.
Manual Training. Fred E. Browne.
(Z)
398 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
(Open from October to March, five evenings each week.)
Low ell- Street Building.
Three schools for boys.
Spring-Street Building.
Two schools for girls.
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.
JANITORS.
High School and Ash-street School,
John S. Avery.
Lincoln-street and Wilson Hill Schools.
William Stevens.
Webster-street and Blodget-street Schools.
C. M. Whitney,
(AA)
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 399
Spring-street and Lotuell-street Schools.
William H. Morrill.
Training School and Franklin-street School.
Edwar^ P. Cogswell.
Varney and South Main-street Schools.
H. G. Batchelder.
Main-street School.
William F. Connor.
Bakersville School.
H. C. Dickey.
Hallsville School.
William H. Newry.
Anwskeag School.
James E. Bailey.
XIII.- School Year, 1894,
Winter term of twelve weeks opens January i, closes March
23. Vacation of two weeks.
Spring term of eleven weeks opens April 9, closes June 22.
Vacation of eleven weeks.
Fall term of fourteen weeks opens September 10, closes De-
cember 14.
(BB)
400
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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REPORTS
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES
AND
CEMETERY FUNDS.
REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE CEMETERY FUNDS.
To the City Cmiticils of the City of Mancheste?- :
Gentlemen, — The Trustees of the Cemetery Fund have the
honor to present herewith their fourteenth annual report, embrac-
ing the report of their treasurer, which shows in detail the finan- '
cial operations for the year ending December 31, 1893, as well as
the condition of the fund at the present time.
Very little work has been attempted the past year beyond the
usual care of the lots endowed in perpetuity. The income has
been sufficient to do this and leave a handsome surplus which it
is the policy of the trustees to allow to accumulate to a moder-
ate extent, in order that they may be prepared to meet any emer-
gency that may suddenly arise, and also to undertake improve-
ments of a more permanent nature as well as to beautify the
grounds in a special way to such a degree as the funds will allow.
The wisdom of the creation of this trust and the conditions
provided therefor by the city councils at its inception, appears to
have been vindicated by the ready response given by lot owners
in availing themselves of its provisions. As time rolls on, the
funds will naturally increase in amount and it is hoped to such
an extent that the trustees will not lack for means to keep the lots
in a condition that will be most gratifying to their owners and
representatives.
Respectfully submitted.
E. J. KNOWLTON, Mayor, ex officio,
P. C. CHENEY,
JAMES A. WESTON,
Trustees of Cetnetery Fund.
January i, 1894.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Trustees of the Cemetery Fund :
Gentlemen, — I herewith transmit to you the eleventh annual
report of the funds received and expenses paid to December 31,
1893, embracing also the year 1892, which by mistake was omit-
ted in the printed report of 1892.
Pine Grove Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand J;
ary i, 1892 ....
$i3>774-97 $13)774-97
Received during the year 1892 :
From J. I. Whittemore and I. W. Darrah
^180.00
John A. Bartlett .
97.46
George H. True .
83.72
Daniel Farmer estate
134-36
Andrew Mungall .
97.46
Emily D. Norris .
83.72
Elizabeth Philbrick
200.00
N. S. Bean ....
83-73
Charles H. Stearns
83.72
Eliza A. Kimball .
149.56
Henry N. Hall .
83.72
Thomas B. Spencer
149.47
Frances B. Pettee .
83.72
Leonard French estate .
120.64
George Byron Chandler
276.60
Henry Chandler .
276.60
Alonzo Elliott
149-47
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERY FUNDS. 407
From Clark M. Bailey .
Horace Pettee
James A. Weston .
Person C. Cheney
Received during the year 1893
From Mrs. Levi Houston
Andrew Burton
George W. Haselton
Eva F. Tuson
Mrs. Persis L. Wilkins
Alma E. Jackson .
Joseph T. Ward
A. L. Walker
Clara A. Walker
John Kennard
Samuel Kennard
Mrs. Dimond Kennard
Joseph F. Kennard estate
Mrs. Ellen C. Clark
Mary S. Ann is
Sarah S. Reynolds
William Perkins estate .
Mary D. Perkins
J. Frank Perkins
Ida H. Towle
Robert E. McKean
Total permanent fund .
Income on hand January i, 1892 .
Income received during the year 1892
Income received during the year 1893
$180.00
83.72
100.69
160.00
$104.30
97.46
312.00
225.00
,55^-25
144.00
391-41
500.00
$2,858.36
171.25
131-25
150.00
100.00
50.00
89.76
$3
017
.68
$19
651
.01
$616.75
676.11
834.41
$2
127
.27
408
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Expenses paid in 1892 :
C. C. Webster ....
$18.12
Daniel Callahan ....
7-5°
Manchester S. & R. Co.
20.00
S. A. Blood
32-50
E. T. James
36.56
J. B. Varick Co
49-75
B. A. Stearns, superintendent
352-50
Mrs. C. H. Robie . . . ' .
18.57
Expenses paid in 1893 •
J. B. Varick Co. - .
1S.17
E. T. James .....
51.98
S. A. Blood
34-05
B. A. Stearns, superintendent
402.15
C. C. Webster ....
4.00
William E. Moore ....
2-75
Total expense for 1S92 and 1893
$1,048.59
Cash on hand December 31, 1893 .
. 1,078.68
$2
127.27
Valley Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand January i, 1892 $4,600.00
Received during the year 1892 :
From Samantha R. Kelley . $200.00
Sophronia L. Stark estate . . 200.00
Imogene Wyman estate . . . 300.00
Abbie E. Piper estate . . . 150.00
James W. Pettigrevv estate . . 200.00
George F. Spaulding . . . 50.00
Olive P. Noyes estate . . . 175.00
Calvin and Elizabeth Bates estate . 90.00
$1,365.00
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERY FUNDS. 409
Received during the year 1S93 :
From Jennie E. French estate
$213.75
Mrs. Harriett James
289.50
Mrs. John Houston
.
213.00
Benjamin S. Gray
262.9S
$979-23
Total permanent fund .
.
$6,944.23
Income on hand January i, 1892
$398-36
Income received during the year
1892 .
224.37
Income received during the year
1893 .
280.52
Total income ...... $903.25
Expenses paid in 1892 :
R. P. Stevens &: Co. .... 5175.00
C. H. G. Foss, superintendent . . 129.32
Palmer & Garrnon . . . . 2.25
Expenses paid in 1893 '•
C. H. G. Foss, superintendent . . 133-66
Total expenses for 1892 and 1893 $440-23
Cash on hand December 31, 1893 . . 463.02
$903-25
Piscataquog Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand January i, 1892 $300.00
Total amount of permanent fund on hand December
3i> 1893 300.00
Income on hand January i, 1892 . . $22.08
Income received during the year 1892 . 15.00
Income received during the year 1893 . 15-00
Total income ...... $52.08
410 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Expenses paid as follows :
C. A. Rowell ^6.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1893 . . 46.08
$52.08
Merrill Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand Jan-
uary I, 1892 ..... 5200.00
Total amount of permanent fund on hand December
31, 1893 $200.00
Income on hand January i, 1892 . . $4.00
Income received in the year 1892 . . 10.00
Income received in the year 1893 . . 10.00
Total uicome on hand December 31, 1S93 . . $24.00
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM,
Treasurer of the Cemetery Fmid.
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 years 1892
and 1893, ending December 31, 1893, ^"^^ I ^^^^ ^^^ same cor-
rect and properly vouched. I have also examined the secu-
rities in which said fund is invested, and find as follows :
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.
5 per cent, 1913 ..... $14,700.00
1943 5,000.00
Cash on hand . ' . . . . 151-01
$19,851.01
Total amount of permanent fund .... $19,851.01
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERY FUNDS. 411
VALLEY CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.
5 per cent, 1913 ..... $4,800.00
1943 ..... 1,000.00
Cash on hand ..... 944-23
$6,744.23
Total amount of permanent fund .... $6,744.23
PISCATAQUOG CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.
5 per cent, 1913 ..... $300.00
Total permanent fund .... . . $300.00
MERRILL CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.
5 per cent, 1913 ..... $200.00
Total permanent fund .... . . $200.00
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES.
Pine Grove Cemetery.
The sub-trustees of the Pine Grove Cemetery have the honor
to submit the following report :
The past year has been no exception to the previous history of
this cemetery in the matter of rapid development and improve-
ment, and it has already become in its general outlines and ap-
pearance a noble and beautiful tribute to our beloved and hon-
ored dead.
The multiplication of beautiful and elaborate monuments con-
tinues not only upon our perpetual care lawns but upon other
lots in all parts of the grounds. The fact, however, that the
purchasers of perpetual care lots have the assurance that their
surroundings will always be in harmony and keeping with their
own gives to these lots a preference that will always secure to
them a ready market, notwithstanding their increased cost.
The future wants of the city in cemetery accommodations have
been constantly kept in view, and the purchase during the past
year of the Webster place has made an addition to our former
facilities of a most important and desirable character. This
purchase exhausts our opportunities for expansion to the south-
ward, and while the wants of the city for the immediate future
are provided for, an extension to the northward will ultimately
become a necessity and provision should be made for it whenever
a favorable opportunity occurs.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES.
413
During the year about i,ooo feet of border on the east side of
the cemetery have been graded and converted into an attractive
lawn.
Riverside avenue has been regraded and a concrete gutter put
in its entire length. Two hundred and fifty feet have also been
put in on the east side of the cemetery.
JAMES LIGHTBODY,
GEORGE VV. BACON,
JOSEPH TAIT,
C. H. BARTLETT,
Committee.
Superintendent's Account.
Manchester, N. H., December 29, 1893.
To the Trustees of Fine Grove Cemetery :
In obedience to your requirements I herewith submit a report
of all money received by me, from January i to December 29,
1893, from the following sources :
RECEIPTS.
Deposit on lots
$590.00
Interments
516.00
Removals
36.00
Water-rents
610.00
Labor on lots ......
704.50
Logs and wood
116.37
$2,572.87
MISCELLANEOUS.
Number of restricted lots sold . . . .
52
restricted lots unsold . . . .
190
ordinary lots sold . . . .
4
ordinary lots unsold . . . .
9
414
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Number of interments
. 264
removals .....
10
loads of loam used
• 325
loads of clay used
• 175
yards of concrete
. . 376f
feet of iron fence put in
204
All money received by me has been paid to the city treasurer,
for which I hold his receipts.
Respectfully submitted.
B. A. STEARNS,
Superintendent.
Valley Cemetery.
The sub-trustees of the Valley cemetery respectfully submit the
following report for the year 1893 '•
Superintendent's Account.
Appropriation
. $3,000.00
Tomb fees
350-25
Interments and removals ....
221.00
Care and water
875.00
Labor and materials .....
554.11
Amount transferred from reserved fund .
79-50
$5,079.86
EXPENDITURES.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll .
. $1,902.24
Wadleigh Hardware Co., hardware
18.35
Joseph Brown, loam . . . .
22.80
B. F. Bascomb, team . . . .
103.50
M. N. Badger, manure . . . .
12.66
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES.
415
Paid F. G. Riddle, printing
$1-75
S. S. Piper, postage ....
4-36
L. M, Aldrich, lumber and labor .
2.76
DeCourcy, Holland & Marshall, loam
6.00
J. B. Varick Co., hardware .
29.63
P. 0. Woodman, turf and loam
30-05
Charles Reds, bulbs ....
2.08
Peter Harris . . . . ' .
.40
Adams & Tasker, Portland cement
2.90
Pike & Heald, pipe and hose .
357-93
Head & Dowst, land ....
62.75
F. M. Shaw, loam .....
4.00
William Carr, loam ....
7-50
M. S. & R. Co., phosphate .
10.00
Palmer & Garmon, stonework
36.80
J. D. Patterson, loam ....
3-5°
H. H. Huntress, plants
11.95
B. W. Robinson, chimney
8.29
J. Francis, plants
42.20
J. Choate & Co
3-OI
A. G. Hood, plants ....
14.00
C. H. Robie Co., concrete
223.69
S. C. Dwinnells, rake ....
-75
Manchester Hardware Co., hardware
1. 00
Manchester Water-works
64.65
S. L. Bixby, repairing buildings .
58.91
Temple & Farrington Co., stationery
2.74
Syndicate Publishing Co., printing
2-75
- J. B. Clarke Co
8.00
Ray Brook Garden Co., plants
15.60
$3^°79-5°
Paid S. B. Putnam, city treasurer .
2,000.36
^5,079.86
During the year much has been done for the general improve-
ment of the cemetery. The valley near the Elliott and Gillis
416 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
tombs has been graded. The east bank has been graded and
turfed.
The walk leading from the valley to Pine path has been con-
creted.
The grading of the south bank of the valley has been contin-
ued and about five hundred loads of sand have been used. We
expect the completion of the bank this year. The avenue in
front of the receiving tomb has been concreted, an iron fence
erected in front, giving a finished look around the tomb.
The building on the east side of Chestnut entrance has been
repaired and a chimney erected.
A change in water supply has been made, water being now
taken from Pine-street main in a three-inch pipe to the cellar
under the office, where the meter is located, and from there in a
two-inch pipe to each avenue. When completed it will give bet-
ter pressure and will be a decided improvement.
There have been several monuments erected, the most notice-
able that of Mrs. Joseph H. Haynes. The lot owners and the
public generally take a larger interest each year in this cemetery.
There have been 73 interments and 99 bodies have been
placed in the tomb.
The cemetery has been under the charge of C. H. G. Foss.
The sub-trustees have inspected the work and believe it has
been faithfully and well performed, and they especially commend
Mr. Foss for his fidelity, his courtesy, and his ability.
Respectfully submitted.
RICHARD J. BARRY,
BUSHROD W. HILL,
LUDGER E. DESROCHERS,
S. P. CANNON,
Slid- Trustees of Valley Cemetery.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Trustees of Cemeteries :
Gentlemen, — I herewith present to you my annual report of
the money received by me during the year ending December 31,
1893:
Pine Grove Cemetery.
Number of deeds delivered during the year, forty-nine.
To cash received for the samp . . $1,785.73
interest ...... 10.92
cash received from superintendent . 1,982.87
Cr.
By treasurer's receipts .... $1,796.65
superintendent's receipts . . . 1,082.87
$3>779-52
$3>779-52
Valley Cemetery.
To cash received from superintendent . . . $2,000.36
Cr.
By treasurer's receipts . . • . . . . $2,000.36
All money received by me has been turned into the city treas-
ury, for which I have the proper vouchers from the city clerk.
I have in my hands ready for delivery thirty-eight deeds,
which, with a few exceptions, will be taken very soon. On No-
418 , ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
vember 21.. 1S90, a vote was passed revoking the contract for a
lot purchased by John Nelson Corey, he having failed to com-
plete the payment for the same. The lot has been sold to Jen-
nie F. Holmes, but the deed has not been delivered. There are
a few of such cases that will have to be disposed ot in the same
manner and perhaps it would be well to attend to them very
soon.
Most respectfully submitted.
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM,
Treasurer.
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts of Sylva-
nus B. Putnam, treasurer of the trustees^'of cemeteries, and find
the same correctly cast and properly vouched for.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
REPORT
OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
REPORT
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of
Manchester :
In compliance with the ordinance of said city, the Overseers
of the Poor herewith present their annual report for the year 1893.
The whole number of families that have received more or less as-
sistance off the farm during the year has been eighty, consisting
of two hundred and forty-four persons, all of whom have a settle-
ment in this city. Seven of this number died during the year.
The whole number of paupers supported at the city farm during
the year has been three more or less of the whole time. The
whole number of paupers supported at the county farm during
the year has been five, at a cost of two dollars per week for each
person. The whole number of persons supported at the state
Industrial School during the year has been one, at a cost of one
dollar and fifty cents per week. The whole number of paupers
supported at the Manchester Children's Home during the year
has been two more or less of the whole time, at a cost of one dol-
lar per week for each person. This amount doesn't include
clothing. The whole number of paupers supported at the St.
Patrick's Orphans' Home has been two, at a cost of one dollar
per week for each person. The whole number of persons sup-
ported at the St. Patrick's Old Ladies' Home has been one, at a
cost of two dollars per week. The whole number of paupers sup-
ported at the Orphans' Home, Franklin, N. H., has been one, at
a cost of one dollar per week, clothing included. There has
422
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
been only one case of destitution come to the knowledge of the
overseers of the poor during the year, namely, William McKel-
vie, who was found dead on Park common last August. Sup-
posed to have starved to death. The criticism of the case'at the
time by the city press was uncalled for, as the overseers of the
poor were not aware that said McKelvie was in need of assist-
ance.
The overseers of the poor have given and allowed eight hun-
dred and four orders to the paupers off the farm during the year,
chiefly for groceries, fuel, medicine, board,[clothing, and emer-
gencies.
The amounts allowed to the several persons who applied for
assistance from time to time from the several wards during the
year, were as follows :
vvaiu 1
Ward 2
250.24
Ward 3
441.19
Ward 4
1,000.84
Wards
2,254.34
Ward 6
582.63
Ward 7
135-03
Ward 8
S25.ll
Ward 9
265.61
$5,790.46
MISCELLANEOUS BILLS ALLOWED.
State Industrial School, board of inmates $1,639.49
Board and care of Jesse Langley and
family ...... 50.41
Board and care of Arthur Punt and family 7.00
Books, stationery, and printing . . 36.44
Total cost for the year ....
$1^33-34
$7,523-80
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. 423
Cash received as follows :
From county of Hillsborough, board of
inmates of Industrial School . $1,631.78
county of Hillsborough, board of
Jesse Langley and family . . 50"4i
town of Walpole, board of Arthur
Punt and family . . 7.00
— $1,689.19
Total expenses ...... $5,834.61
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Wm. H. Maxwell,
i. l. quimby,
Frank I. Lessard,
B. F. Garland,
C. S. McKean,
Wm. Marshall,
Patrick Costello,
Charles Francis,
G. S. Holmes,
Overseers of the Poor for the City of Manchester.
A true copy. Attest :
William H. Maxwell,
Clerk.
To the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of
Manchester :
In compliance with chapter 81, sections i and 2, Laws of the
state of New Hampshire, passed at the June session, 1889, the
overseers of the poor herewith present their annual report under
the head of "x\id to Soldiers and Sailors and their dependent
Families."
The whole number of indigent soldiers and sailors who have
had more or less aid during the year has been seven, consisting
424 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
of seven families, all of whom have a settlement in this city, at a
total cost of two hundred and forty-six dollars and twenty-five
cents.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
WiM. H. Maxwell,
I. L. QUIMBY,
B. F. Garland,
G. S. Holmes,
Patrick Costello,
Charles Francis,
Wm. Marshall,
C. S. McKean,
Frank I. Lessard,
Overseers of the Poor for the City of Manchester.
*A true copy. Attest :
WiLLiAiNi H. Maxwell,
Clerk.
REPORT
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON
. CITY FARM.
REPORT
JOINT STANDING COMMITTEE ON CITY
FARM.
To His Honor the Mayor and City Councils of the City of Man-
chester :
Gentlemen, — The Joint Standing Committee on City Farm
hereby submit to you their annual report for the year ending De-
cember 31, 1893.
Having fairly and impartially appraised all personal property
at the farm, we find the summary as follows :
Live stock
Wagons, carts, and team furnishings
Farming implements
Hay, grain, and produce .
Household furniture
Provisions and fuel ....
$2,230.00
i'3i5-3o
763-50
4,372.30
2,227,,82
611.96
Cr.
By cash receipts of the farm
permanent improvements
bills receivable .
increase in stock
Total expense, $8,969.85.
Total number weeks' board, 2,990.
11,520.88
$2,865.54
1.529.60
44-25
4,978-20
$9,417-59
42^
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
1,500
bushels.
700
Cl
34,095 pounds.
12,310
"
4,580
"
175
bushels
13
tons.
19
bushels.
15
u
50
"
125
u
406
l(
250
u
Following is a list of crops harvested the past season, not in-
cluding the amount used during the summer and fall :
Field corn
Potatoes .
Red mangolds
Yellow mangolds
White mangolds
Carrots .
Cabbage
Pop corn
Beans
Sweet corn
Blood Beets .
Oats
Turnips .
This account begins February 11, 1893, when the new super-
intendent, Eugene G. Libbey, took charge of the farm. At
this time the stock was run down and hence a large increase in
stock which appears in the report from that time until December
31 of the same year.
We have made some very much needed improvements in the
prisoners' quarters this year. There have been built large prison
rooms, one for sleeping apartment and one for them to sit around
in, for noticeably there is not much for them to do especially in
the winter months. The sanitary arrangements have been
greatly improved ; water-closets have been put in and connected
with the sewer; and, also, quite a large bath-room for the pris-
oners, with three separate bath tubs. The tool house has been
moved fifty feet south, and a good vegetable cellar put under the
same. The city swill and garbage has been all carted to the
farm and spread on the land, and some of the best of the swill
has been fed to the hogs, which will give quite a good profit
when the time comes to see the results. The committee are very
REPORT OP COMMITTEE ON CITY FARM. 429
well satisfied with the management of Superintendent Libbey,
and indorse his methods in carrying on the farm.
Respectfully submitted.
A. D. MAXWELL,
GEORGE W. REED,
JOHN G. RYLANDER,
W. D. WHEELER,
D. A. MURPHY,
Joint Standing Committee on City Farm.
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.
To the City Councils :
Gentlemen, — The City Solicitor submits the following report
for 1893 :
Of the cases in court to which the city was a party pending at
the beginning of the year, several were disposed of without trial
in a manner believed to be beneficial to the city's interests. No
jury trials were had during the past year.
The following cases, previously reported, were pending in
court December 31, 1893, viz. : Campbell &= Maxwell n. Man-
chester^ Manchester v. M. J. Jenkins and bondsmen, Augusta
Cjtrrier v. Manchester, Mary Dickey v. Manchester, D. H.
Dickey v. Manchester, C. H. Bodwell v. Manchester, T. E. Mc-
Derby v. Manchester, fanet B. White v. Manchester, S. Wood-
mati V. Manchester, Manchester v. Warren ^ Beede, The matters
arising from controversy over new passenger station, Batchelder
6^ Clark y. Manchester, Executrix of John S. Woodman v.
Manchester, Petition of D. C. Whittemore and others.
The appeal of Kimball Carriage Co. from taxation was de-
cided by the supreme court at the law term in favor of the city.
The petition of P. C. Cheney Co. and others for a new high-
way was abandoned by petitioners.
During the year the following suits were begun and are now
pending : Elvira Severance v. Ma?ichester, Mary E. Reed v.
Manchester, Charles Williams v. Manchester, in the supreme
court for Rockingham county ; Charles Willia?ns v. Manchester,
D. W. Perkins v. Manchester, G. H. Dunbar v. Manchester, W.
E. Du7ibar V. Manchester, Rebecca Gannon v. Manchester, Gam-
ble V. Manchester, in the supreme court for Hillsborough county,
— all for damages to real estate caused either by alleged flowage or
diversion of water by the city water- works system.
434 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Alice Chamberland \ . Manchester, James A. Nealv. Manches-
ter, and Carl C. Koehler v. Manchester^ in supreme court for Hills-
borough county, for injuries occasioned by alleged defective
highways. In these three actions the city has summoned in. third
parties to defend, they being ultimately responsible for the
damages.
Executrix of H. C. Canney v. Manchester^
A suit for damages for personal injuries to Dr. Canney, owing to
alleged defective highway, from which injuries it is claimed he
died.
Aretas Blood and others v. Manchester,
A petition to set aside the contract with the Manchester Elec-
tric Light Company for electric lighting.
J. T. Do7iahite v. Manchester,
A suit to recover interest on the purchase price of land bought
for a schoolhouse lot in McGregorville.
S. H. Dunbar v. Mafichester,
A suit in trespass for laying a highway, Belmont street, through
plaintiff's land without notice.
Hannah E. Welch and otJiers v. Ma7ichester,
For damages caused by changing grade of Front street, in Am-
oskeag.
The following appeals from awards of damages by the mayor
and aldermen in laying out or changing grade of highways :
Ediuidge Eno v. Manchester, Louis St. John v. Manchester,
Joseph Trudeau v. Manchester, George F. Vance v. Manchester,
Charles P. Still v. Manchester, Flora A. Woodman, executrix, v.
Manchester, A. Sevigny v. Manchester, William E. Moore v.
Manchester, Lucie A. Clough v. Manchester, and 6". S. James and
others v. Manchester.
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR. 435
The solicitor would report that the number of cases for per-
sonal injuries owing to defective highways has not been so small
for many years, but two bad or dangerous cases being now on
the docket. This class of cases will be rendered still smaller by
the change in the highway damage law effected at the last session
of the legislature. It will, however, be for the interest of the
city to take as thorough care of its streets as before the change
in the law or the old law is liable to be re-enacted by the next
legislature.
There is a new field of litigation now opening up before the
city, which in the number of actions and amounts involved will
be as great as has ever yet been developed. I refer to the mat-
ter of claims for damage by flowage and other diversions of the
water of Lake Massabesic and Cohas brook by the water-works
system of the city. I would suggest that more care ought to be
exercised by boards of mayor and aldermen in the laying out of
new highways, in the matters of giving proper notice to owners
and of awarding damages for land taken, than has been the case
in the past. Many cases are taken to the court, and in most of
them the city has no defense, on account of defective notice to
interested parties, and is subjected to both damages and costs,
which might be avoided by more careful attention to the things
suggested above. These two causes, the water-works and appeals
from land damages, it will be seen are at the bottom of most of
the suits now pending, and under existing law would seem to be
the main source of immediate future litigation.
The solicitor has attended, to the best of his ability, to all the
various duties of his office. He would return his thanks to
your body for the confidence which a re-election has shown, and
would express his acknowledgments for the courteous treatment
received by him at the hands of all the city officials with whom
his duties have brought him into contact.
Respectfully submitted.
EDWIN F. JONES,
City Solicitor.
REPORT OF THE CITY PHYSICIAN.
REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIAN.
To His Ho7ior the Mayor atid Gentlemen of the City Councils :
I herewith submit my report of such of the city poor as came
under my care for the year ending December 31, 1893 :
Number of calls made, 1,530 ; number of cases treated, 94.
Diseases treated : Alcoholism, i ; bronchitis, acute, 3 ; bron-
chitis, chronic, 4; confinement, 2; constipation, chronic, 3;
cystitis, i; delirium tremens, 13; epilepsy, 2; erysipelas, 3;
heart disease, 3 ; insane, 3 ; la grippe, i ; marasmus, i ; phthi-
sis pulmonalis, 4 ; pneumonia, 6 ; pleuritis, 2 ; prolapsus recti,
2 ; rheumatism, i ; retention of urine, i ; senile debility, 2 ;
scarlatina, 5 ; tonsilitis, 2.
Cases requiring surgical treatment, 29 : Fracture of both bones
of leg, 2 ; fracture of ribs, i ; fracture of femur, i ; colles frac-
ture of wrist, I ; dislocated shoulder, 3 ; sprained ankle, i ; lac-
erated wounds of face, 5 ; lacerated wounds of scalp, 8 ; incised
wound of arm, 4; strain of ligamentum nuchje, i ; crushed fin-
ger, I ; palmer abscess, i.
Number of deaths, 6 : Pneumonia, 4 ; delirium tremens, i ;
phthisis pulmonalis, i.
FREDERICK PERKINS, M. D.,
City Physician.
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR.
REPORT OF MILK INSPECTOR.
To His Honor the Mayor and the Board of Alderjuen of the City
of Manchester :
I herewith submit a report for the year 1893 :
The samples taken during the year have proved of good qual-
ity, and the method of obtaining the samples has been the same
as pursued during the previous three years, and entails a large
amount of night work, as the hours from midnight to daylight
prove the most feasible for this work, and the samples which are
gathered in this way are all tested in the early part of the day,
while the milk is in the best condition. Each sample is tested
for the purpose of ascertaining the amount of butter fat, the spe-
cific gravity, and total solids it may contain, and to prove the
test to which these samples are submitted, a cream test is made
by using a testing jar scaled for this purpose, which should always
correspond to the reading of the lactoscope.
The men engaged in furnishing the supply of milk which
comes to this city are found to be taking more pains to ascer-
tain the quality received by them, and this method faithfully fol-
lowed will insure a better quality of milk, and consequently give
better satisfaction to the consumer. The arrangements for
obtaining a supply have tended to counteract any considerable
shortage that might occasionally occur. During the fall and ear-
lier portion of the winter the supply was short, owing partially to
the fact, perhaps, that the low price paid to the farmers discour-
aged a few, who sold their cows and devoted their time and at-
tention to other farm products ; but the shortage has, in a meas-
ure, been met by some of the milkmen, who have availed them
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selves of the opportunity of having milk set off for them at the
railroad station from the milkcars of Hood & Sons, of Derry, and
Whiting & Sons, of Wilton, whose cars, as usual, have passed
through the city each day ; but in this there was a disadvantage
shown at times, as the amount that could be spared from the cars
was somewhat limited when there was a shortage in Boston, to
which city these cars were sent.
There has been a decrease in the number of routes during the
past year, owing partially, perhaps, to the depression in business,
and to the fact that the owners found the trouble of putting out
a few cans of milk unprofitable. The price has thus far remained
at five cents a quart, although a few endeavored to get six cents
during the winter months.
There are now 103 routes which come into the city from all
directions, but principally from four towns, Bedford and Goffs-
town furnishing the larger part, Hooksett and Londonderry com-
ing next, and considerable being brought from Auburn and Can-
dia. These routes distribute daily 19,720 quarts of new milk and
3,556 quarts of skimmed milk. The estimated number of cows
to produce this quantity of milk is 2,897.
The number of licenses issued during the year ending January
31, 1894, was 127, which amounted to ^63.50. There have
been fewer changes among the routes than usual during the year
and more than the usual number of changes among the stores
handling milk.
No cases of tuberculosis within the city limits or from the herds
in the adjoining towns from which our milk supply is largely ob-
tained have been reported to this oflSce, and it is presumable that
a much stricter watch has been kept by the farmers over the herds
in their possession, as they have no doubt learned from past ex-
perience that a prompt detection of the prevalence of this dis-
ease, and its removal as quickly as possible, is by far the safest
method to pursue. The disease has been reported from sections
of the country farther away, but nothing very near us.
The following facts from a noted veterinary surgeon on the
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR. 445
subject of" Tuberculosis in Cows," and published in the " Yan-
kee Blade," are well worth preserving. He says :
" The danger of milk from tuberculous cows increases with the
hot weather, and there is no way of spreading this disease so gen-
erally in a city in summer time as through the consumption of
milk from emaciated and diseased cows. No other animal is ca-
pable of bearing the disease so long without exhibiting evidences
of it as the domesticated bovine, and for this reason it is difficult
to ascertain the source of tuberculosis in many cases. The nor-
mal temperature of the cow is 102 degrees, and this high temper-
ature makes it possible for her to endure the processes without suf-
fering to any great extent. It is rarely that the human tempera
ture rises much above this during the stage of active tuberculiza-
tion.
" Dairymen therefore often see their cows performing their
functions properly and yet tuberculosis is present without their
knowledge. The disease is only ascertained by them when the
animal is sick and grows thin, and yields small quantities of milk.
The fact is, when tuberculosis develops so far as to make the cow
emaciated there is no danger from the milk for it is entirely dried
up and none is given. The danger is from the animals when
they are in apparent good health."
But few complaints have been made by customers to this office
during the year, and those were at once attended to and the cause
explained to the satisfaction of each party.
The sum of $55 due the city from the supreme court as a milk
fine, and which had been apparently lost, was looked up by the
milk inspector, who found upon examination of the court rec-
ords that the sum had been paid to the county commissioners of
Hillsborough county, who, upon learning the facts, paid the
amount over to the city.
Under section 23, chapter 127, Revised Statutes, it becomes
the duty of the milk inspector to prosecute all cases where com-
plaints are made regarding the unlawful sale of adulterated but-
ter, oleomargarine, or imitation cheese, whenever any one fur-
nishes to him satisfactory evidence thereof. Consequently, upon
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satisfactory information being furnished that oleomargarine was
being sold in a condition contrary to chapter 127 of the Revised
Statutes, I purchased a ten-pound tub of the article of Swift &
Co. June 8, 1893, and June 14, in company with Inspector
O'Dowd, of the police department, I visited Swift & Co.'s store-
house, where was found a large lot, composed of packages of dif-
ferent sizes, which was kept for sale, and a sample of this lot was
examined, and a record of the visit made, and on June 15 the
driver of one of the wagons of Swift & Co. was found taking
orders for oleomargarine, and at the September term of the
supreme court three indictments were found by the grand jury
against Swift & Co., and upon coming to trial the jury rendered
a verdict of guilty. Exceptions were taken by the representative
of Swift & Co., on the ground of the unconstitutionality of the
law of New Hampshire as conflicting with the United States law,
and one of the cases was carried. up to the law term as a test case,
the question of the unconstitutionality to be decided by the full
bench of the judges of the supreme court ; and upon their deci-
sion, which is now pending, and which may not be rendered
before June, 1894, the remaining cases will be decided. The
indictments in each case were upon the ground that the article
sold was not of a pink color, as the law of New Hampshire re-
quires. Pending this decision further action is by advice de-
ferred. By direction of his honor the mayor, Marshal Healy, of
the police department, was requested to render me any assistance
that I might require; and through the courtesy of the marshal,
Inspector O'Dowd was detailed to assist me in visiting the store-
house and gaining access to the article in question, and to the
marshal and Inspector O'Dowd I am under obligations for the
courtesies extended and services rendered.
Very respectfully,
H. F. W. LITTLE,
Milk Inspector.
REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL
REPORT OF THE CITY MARSHAL,
Manchester, N. H., January i, 1894.
To His Honor the Mayor, and Getitlemen of the City Coufici/s :
Gentlemen, — I have the honor to submit my second annual
report of the police department for the year ending December
31, 1893, and a synopsis of the work performed.
Twenty-one hundred and fifty-nine (2,159) arrests have been
made and arraigned before the poHce court during the year, as
follows :
Assault, 120; aggravated assault, 2; assault on officer, 9;
abortion, i ; adultery, 5 ; common seller of spirituous liquor, i ;
animals running at large, i ; breaking and entering, 27 ; bigamy,
I ; bastardy, i ; bathiijg and swimming, 7 ; begging, 2 ; carry-
ing concealed weapons, 2 ; cruelty to animals, i ; distributing
cards in streets, 2; drunk, 1,500; disorderly conduct, 18; de-
facing buildings, 3 ; disorderly house, 2; cleaning privy vault
without a license, i ; disturbing religious meetings 4 ; idle per-
son, 2; evading carfare, 2 ; injuring personal property, i ; com-
mon street walker, 3 ; embezzlement, 3 ; breaking glass, 2 ;
fornication, 10 ; fast driving, 9 ; driving on sidewalk, 2 ; gam-
bling, 5 ; selling malt liquor, 3 ; keeping malt liquor for sale,
107 ; keeping spirituous liquor for sale, 22 ; keeping malt liquor
for sale, 2d offense, 11 ; keeping spirituous liquor for sale, 2d
offense, 2; keeping open Sunday, 32; obtaining money under
false pretense, i ; over-driving, i ; larceny from the person, 8 ;
larceny, 125 ; peddling without a license, 7 ; bound over to keep
the peace, i ; maintaining a lottery, i ; maiming, i ; lascivious
behavior, i; malicious injury, 2; noise and brawl, 30; obscene
and profane language, i ; obtaining goods by false pretenses, i ;
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obstructing officer, 2 ; passing counterfeit coin, 2 ; keeping a
gambling house, i ; having counterfeit coin in possession, i ;
offering to pass counterfeit coin, i ; permitting minors in saloon,
I ; rape, i ; attempt at rape, i ; putting salt on horse railroad
track, 3 ; receiving stolen goods, i ; running away from house
of correction, 9 ; present when gambling, i ; stealing a ride, i ;
selling liquor, 9 ; stubborn child, 3 ; truants, 5 ; tramps, 2 ; per-
mitting gambling, i ; uttering a forged check, i ; uttering a
forged order, i. Total, 2,159.
The foregoing cases were disposed of as follows :
Paid costs, 6; paid fine imposed, 684; committed to the
house of correction for non-payment of fines, 859 ; committed
to the house of correction on sentence, 93 ; committed to jail for
non-payment of fine, 62 ; committed to jail on a sentence, i ;
committed to the State Industrial School, 18; bound over for
their appearance at the supreme court, 67 ; committed to jail,
bail not furnished, 90 ; committed to the county house of cor-
rection, at Wilton, 52 ; continued for sentence, 52 ; sentence sus-
pended, 85; appealed, 16; nol pressed, 24; discharged, 2>^ ;
nol pressed on payment of costs, i ; on file, 13. Total 2,159.
Whole number of arrests, 2,671 ; whole number of females,
265; whole number of males, 2,406; whole number admitted
for lodging, 1,988.
The miscellaneous work performed by the department during
the year is as follows :
■ Accidents reported, 26 ; assisted out of town officers, 63 ;
buildings found open and secured, 582 ; cases investigated,
1,010; cases cruelty to animals investigated, 26; defective streets
and sidewalks reported, 137; disturbances suppressed, 1,040;
dogs killed, 36; dogs lost, and found, 37 ; dangerous dogs, no-
tice served to owners, 34 ; fires discovered and alarms given, 24 ;
fires extinguished without an alarm, 31 ; injured and sick persons
assisted, 146; intoxicated persons taken home, 377; lights ex-
tinguished in buildings, 107; lights furnished for dangerous
places, 322; lost children restored to their parents, 138; money
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or other stolen property recovered, ^7,290.89; money or other
lost property recovered, ^4,473.24; nuisances abated, 73; search
warrants for liquor served, none found, 12; search warrants for
stolen goods served, 103 ; stray teams put up, 431.
The sum of six thousand nine hundred forty-one dollars and
thirty cents (^6,941.30) has been received for fines and costs
imposed by the police court for the past year, and the same has
been paid by me to the city treasurer, whose receipts I hold for
the sanie.
With the present number of men we have given the city what
I am pleased to term the best possible protection. The men
have been vigilant and energetic. They have patroled a great
deal of territory, and have done invaluable good in preventing
burglaries, serious disorders, and in arresting violators of the law.
There was recovered during the year $11,764.13 worth of lost
and stolen goods, which was turned over to the proper owners.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion I desire to state that during the year it has been
my sole aim to increase the efficiency and discipline of the force,
to enforce the ordinances of the city and state laws coming under
the jurisdiction of the police, and to carry out the orders and
instructions of the board of mayor and aldermen. I thank each
member of the board of mayor and aldermen for the advice and
support I have received from their hands.
Respectfully submitted.
M. J. HEALY,
City Marshal.
REPORT
BOARD OF HEALTH.
REPORT OF BOARD OF HEALTH
To His Honor the Mayor :
The Board of Health submits the following as its report for
the year 1893 :
The personnel of the board at the beginning of the year was
as follows : George C. Hoitt, M. D., chairman, Joseph B. Saw-
yer, clerk, and Neil F. Starr. The term of Dr. Hoitt expired on
the first Monday in February. He was reappointed, and on that
date the board held its annual meeting and re-elected the old of-
ficers. Dr. Hoitt resigned August i and Clarence M. Downing,
M. D., was appointed to fill the vacancy. August 8 the board
met and elected Dr. Starr chairman. He accepted, and served
in that capacity for the remainder of the year. The board also
adopted the following resolution :
Resolved, That we notice with regret the resignation of Dr. George C. Hoitt,
late president of this board, and we hereby extend to him our heartfelt thanks
for his services during the past eight and one half years in promoting the work
of the board, and our best wishes for his future welfare.
EXPENDITURES.
Salaries, members of the board
^700.00
Pay of inspectors, patrolmen, etc. .
2,029.88
Printing, stationery, etc
65.14
Legal expenses
25-77
Street-car fares . . . ...
38.10
Postage and envelopes
53-3<^
Furniture and tools
70.85
Carriage hire
40.00
Board and care of persons committed to city hospi
tal
68.31
456
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
City hospital, furniture .
$18.68
Analysis of water .
54-3°
Traveling expenses
28.06
Boat and care of same .
30-50
Disinfectants, etc. .
1346
Burying dead animals .
.4.00
Office, care and expense of
9.82
Sundries
3.20
^3.253.43
INSPECTORS.
Herbert S. Clough and John F. Looney have been retained as
inspectors during the past year and their work has shown that
improvement which would be expected from a year's added
experience. We believe they conduct the affairs under
their control with efficiency and good judgment. Benjamin
Freeman and Dennis Connor were secured as extra inspectors,
and assisted in the house to house inspection which was made of
the city in the spring and early summer. They served from
April 26 to July i, and received $2 per day, each. Charles Lang-
maid was employed as sanitary inspector at Lake Massabesic from
the 23d of June until October i. He also received $2 per day.
From personal observation and such information as came from
people stopping at the Lake, we are satisfied that he worked faith-
fully and intelligently and accomplished much good with but lit-
tle friction. He was assisted at times by Inspectors Looney and
Clough. The work of all the inspectors is given in detail in
their report.
The board has been obliged to supplement the inspectors' ef-
forts with written orders but 126 times as against 259 times in
1892. This seems to show, that the offenders have a greater re-
spect for their authority and also a gain in the sanitary condition
of the city. Only two prosecutions were found necessary in the
police court. The board was successful in both.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 457
HOUSE TO HOUSE INSPECTION.
The house to house inspection was commenced as early as
practicable in the spring, and all the yards, alleys, barns, out-
houses, cellars, and water-closets in the thickly settled part of the
city were examined, and in all cases where it was deemed neces-
sary the owners or agents were ordered to place them in proper
condition. While the general condition of the city was nothing
nearly as bad as in 1892, yet enough bad places were found to
prove that "eternal vigilance is the price of safety." The same
ground will be gone over again this season. The fact that the
inspectors are expected acts as a spur upon many people who
would otherwise be negligent.
VAULTS AND VAULT CLEANING.
John T. Gott and Timothy McKenna were licensed as vault
cleaners. Taken as a whole the work was better done than dur-
ing the preceding years. They responded with alacrity to any
suggestions made by the inspectors, and the complaints made
against them were less than heretofore. The work we believe to
be done with as little annoyance to the public as is possible con-
sidering its nature. Mr. Gott cleaned 987 vaults and Mr. Mc-
Kenna 540 during the year. Twenty-one vaults were cleaned by
the owners after having secured a special permit from the board
for that purpose.
The barbarous idea that it is only necessary to clean a vault
when it has become too full to longer hold its contents seems to
be deep-seated in the minds of many people. The inspectors,
by keeping a record of the time of cleaning the year before, dis-
covered that several owners were in the habit of allowing their
vaults to run two or more years without cleaning, and they con-
sidered it quite a hardship when the rule that all vaults should
be cleaned at least once each year was enforced. Their protests
were unheeded, however, and nearly every vault in the thickly
settled part of the city was cleaned last year. The rule as to the
time and manner of cleaning a vault has also been disregarded
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somewhat by people who preferred to do the work themselves in
their own way. One man paid almost $20 fine and costs in po-
lice court for breaking this rule last season, and since then the
rule has been obeyed to a greater extent.
DISCONTINUANCE OF PRIVY-VAULTS.
The substitution of water-closets for privy-vaults has been
pushed as fast as circumstances would permit. The immense
number of new buildings erected last season caused plumbers and
carpenters to be in demand, and it was not always possible to
have the work done as promptly as the board intended. The
financial stringency also affected the work to some extent. It is
not the desire of this board to be unreasonable or unjust, and in
such times as came upon us last summer, the board considered it
best to be lenient where such action would not be a positive dis-
advantage to the general health. In all cases where such leni-
ency was shown, the inspectors were ordered to see that the
vaults were cleaned often and kept in as good condition as pos-
sible. The list of places where changes were made is given in
the inspectors' report. The work will be pushed again the com-
ing season.
Much time has been spent by the board in an endeavor to for-
mulate a set of plumbing regulations, and before this is printed
such a set will probably have been adopted. Such rules to be of
any benefit must be quite a radical departure from the standard
in use in many houses and blocks in this city. The safety and
health of the people have of course been the first consideration.
The expense that such rules make necessary was also considered
and they were made as simple and free from expensive require-
ments as was possible. The test of time and use may show some
minor defects, but we think in the main they will be found
correct.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH, 459
The unsewered streets have continued to make some trouble,
although to a less extent than in former years. Peoi)le are be-
ginning to realize that sewage is fully as dangerous as night soil
and that if left on the surface of the ground it is quite as sure to
cause sickness. They are also better informed as to the duty the
law imposes upon them in regard to its care. To a great extent
when there is no sewer, property owners make an honest effort to
" convey it away under ground or in some other way that will
not be offensive."
Cemetery brook, at the beginning of the year, was polluted by
sewage from houses on the south side of Auburn street. The
building of a sewer in the back street relieved this difficulty, as
all who were polluting the brook promptly entered the sewer.
A branch of the brook coming from east of the siljc mill was also
polluted with sewage from the mill and several blocks in the
vicinity. Cesspools have been provided in most cases, and within
a short time Cemetery brook will be free from sewage. This
brook was, so far as we know, the only one which was polluted by
sewage, and the city is to be congratulated that the brook nui-
sances are abated. That section of the city which is growing up
about the Hoyt shoeshop is calling for sewers, and it is to be
hoped that the city government will at no distant day provide
some way for the disposal of the sewage in that vicinity.
THE GARBAGE QUESTION.
The back streets have been kept in better condition since be-
ing placed in charge of the street and park commission and those
gentlemen deserve credit for the energy they have shown in their
efforts to handle this serious municipal problem. The swill con-
tract was let at a living price to the city farm and the service has
been much better, fewer complaints having come to the office
and many of those being such that the householder was shown
to be the party at fault. The city dumps have been complained
of only a few times and then the complaints were due to odors
caused by fire. These fires seem to be one of the evils attend-
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ant on the piling up of great masses of refuse. Spontaneous
combustion will sometimes occur, even with the most careful
handling. From several inspections we are satisfied that the
dumps are cared for with as little annoyance to the public as the
nature of the material composing them will permit. The board
reaffirms its previous opinion that the only proper way to dispose
of these wastes is cremation. The furnaces now in use in other
cities are costly both in construction and operation. Great heat
and quick combustion are the working principles of all furnaces
that have come to our notice, and the destruction of the largest
amount of material in the shortest space of time seems to be the
only consideration. A great deal of the waste matter which is
deposited at the dump is fuel. Paper, grass and weeds, boxes,
barrels, and unburnt coal in coal ashes will all burn. It seems
as though some furnace might be constructed which, with this
material as fuel, would destroy the swill and perishable matter.
There might not be so great a degree of heat generated, but so
long as the stuff was destroyed the result would be attained and
the wear of the furnace and the cost of operating would be small.
In a few years more the gullies in the southeastern section of the
city will be entirely filled and the question of the disposal of
waste will become most serious. It is to be hoped that a furnace
which can be operated at a reasonable expense will have been
invented by that time.
THE WATER SUPPLY.
The citizens of Manchester are justly proud of the pure water
with which the city is supplied, and they should be truly thank-
ful that nature has so placed the city that this great necessity
comes to it pure and sparkling instead of being contaminated
with filth and disease. It is incumbent on the board of health
to see that this supply remains unpolluted, and pursuant to that
purpose the board last summer elected an inspector to act as
patrol at Lake Massabesic. From personal observation and re-
port we are satisfied that the cottagers as a rule do not pollute
the lake. Many of them use the water taken from the lake in
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 461
front of their houses for domestic purposes. It is a poor sort of
a man that will foul his own well, and most of the cottagers are
people of intelligence who respect the laws of sanitation and dis-
pose of all wastes in such a way that the lake remains unpolluted.
Sometimes, however, a person is found so low down in the scale
of decency that he uses the lake as a wash or bath-tub and feeds
the fishes with his swill. It is these people who make an inspec-
tor a necessity. They are few in numbers but they are there and
need looking after.
By the inspector's report it will be seen that several of the
cottages are so located that they either touch the water or are
close to it. While we think that as a rule the cottages do no
harm, yet we do feel that all houses should set back a reasonable
distance from the water so as to remove any possible chance of
contamination by a careless or ignorant occupant.
There are sections about the lake that never should have
been occupied by cottages, and having been so occupied it would
be well to have them vacated as soon as possible. The hotel
business ought not to be conducted on land so close to the water
as that occupied by the Lake View House. The landlord un-
doubtedly endeavors to prevent any pollution, but he caters to
many people and it would be much safer if his hostelry was back
a few hundred feet instead of being close to the shore. There is
a section of land west of this hotel about the mouth of the Neil
brook which should also be condemned, and the buildings torn
down. Two of these buildings are built over the brook. The
land is low in the immediate vicinity, and any drainage from the
buildings must in time of high water find its way into the lake.
The stables of the Lake View House are much too near the
brook in question. If any land is to be condemned, the board
would be pleased to see this place one of the first to be seized
upon.
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The threatened cholera visitation did not materialize. Its
failure to produce disastrous results in this country was due, how-
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ever, to the sanitary principle that " an ounce of prevention is
worth a pound of cure." This law was most ably executed by
the United States Marine Hospital service, and ihe boards of
health of our seaport towns and cities. While this board took
no part in the actual fight, it has a right to rejoice that the work
for which it stands achieved so notable a victory. The agitation
of the subject was of immense benefit to us from the increased
interest it created in sanitation, and the general cleaning up it
induced among our citizens. Had it come here we are satisfied
the city was in good sanitary condition, and it would probably
have been confined to a very few cases.
The following table shows the number of cases of contagious
diseases reported during each month in the year, together with
the total number of deaths resulting therefrom.
Diseases.
S3
•-I
1
§•
S
a
*-5
p
<
s
®
p.
s
o
s
1
1
1
i
I
Diphtheria
1
11
1
15
4
1
3
8
1
24
3
2S
2
23
2
2
29
3
6
6
17
2
21
4
27
11
13
no
79
212
408
1
Scarlet fever
18
6
12
36
11
69
80
5
3
22
30
3
14
13
30
5
11
79
95
F>
Typhoid fever
Measles
Total
15
2
0^
From this table it will be seen that the city was again fortu-
nate in having no severe epidemic. The number of deaths,
twenty-three, is less than one for each* two thousand of popula-
tion.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
463
For the purpose of comparison the following table, which gives
the number of contagious diseases reported for the last seven
years, and the number of deaths from those diseases during the
past nine years, will be found useful.
1S85
18S6,
1887,
1888,
1889.
1890
1891,
1892
Diphtheria.
Scarlet
fever.
Typhoid
fever
* No returns.
By this table it is shown that diphtheria and measles decreased,
the deaths from each being less than in any year since the organ-
ization of the board. Scarlet fever and typhoid fever show a
decided increase. Just why this should be so in the case of scar-
let fever it is hard to say. The usual precautions were taken in
all cases, and in those cases where it was impossible to secure
isolation the sick ones were removed to the city hospital for con-
tagious diseases.
The increase in the number of cases of typhoid fever is, we
think, more apparent than real, due probably to the better re-
porting of the physicians. An economy which disregards the
simplest of sanitary laws is, we think, responsible for part of our
typhoid. There is a class of people who for the sake of saving
fuel live almost wholly in the kitchen and adjacent rooms. They
batten the windows, and such doors as are not almost constantly
464 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
used, with rags, and thus close every avenue by which pure air
could enter. Rooms up stairs or not convenient to the kitchen
fire, are deserted. Crowded into one half the space they should
occupy, the family live, and the smells generated in such a place
are something awful. They don't mind that, however, but
breathe the same air over and over again, keep warm, and Save
wood. Some member of the family, who is perhaps already in an
enfeebled condition, falls sick. He isn't moved to an apartment
where he can get pure air, because he might take cold. Under
such conditions it is only a question of a short time when typhoid
develops. Then what Prof. Sedgwick calls secondary infection
gets in its work. The nurse is generally the cook, and cleanli-
ness is not a strong point with her. She oftentimes attends to
the patient's wants and, without washing her hands, prepares
food. In this way the excreta of the patient find their way into
the victuals, and the whole family become infected. These con-
ditions have existed in three families during the past year, where
the total number of cases of typhoid fever reported was fourteen,
and six deaths resulted therefrom. In all these cases the tene-
ments were provided with fair sanitary arrangements, and had
the families occupied the rooms at their disposal it is probable
there would have been no sickness among them. This over-
crowding is hard to discover, as the inspector when he calls finds
the number of rooms sufficient for the number in fanlily. As the
younger members of the family sleep on the floor the number of
beds is not large in the rooms in question, so that the indications
tally with the story told. The only remedy seems to be educa-
tion, and a bitter experience with sickness and death has more
effect than the admonitions of the inspectors. So far the families
seem to be the only sufferers, and we are hopeful that all cases
will be discovered before outsiders become infected.
THE HOSPITAL FOR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.
The experience of the past year has demonstrated more strongly
than ever the need of some suitable building for a contagious dis-
ease hospital. It is almost impossible to secure complete isola-
REPORT OF THE BOARD OP HEALTH. 465
tion of a patient in some places, and when secured it is equally
impossible to enforce it unless officers are set to watch, a proceed-
ing which would be expensive and unsatisfactory. Cases which
occur in such localities should be moved to some suitable place.
The present house was not built for any disease but small-pox,
and therefore is not properly arranged for a general hospital for
such cases. Last year it was necessary to occupy it for diseases
other than small-pox four times. The patients are not put into
any rooms which have been occupied by small-pox patients, but
should a case of small-pox occur while patients sick with other
diseases are confined there, the board would feel that its duty lay
in securing some other house for the small-pox. The present
house, standing as it does in Derryfield park, will at no distant
day have to be moved, and the board would recommend that a
building be erected with a wing for each contagious disease, so
that each could be isolated from the others. Such a building
need not be ornamental, elaborate, or expensive. The ventila-
tion, drainage, light, and all things which tend to make it com-
fortable, convenient, and healthy should receive the greatest
attention, but the plainer it is, both inside and out, the better is
it adapted to the uses for which it is designed. It should be
located as near the thickly settled part of the city as is consistent
with safety to our citizens. Its cost for construction and main-
tenance need not be large, and such buildings wherever they have
been erected have paid for themselves many times over by the
prevention of sickness and death. Miss Judith Shearer, the ma-
tron at the present house, has cared for those in her charge faith-
fully and kindly, and fulfilled all her duties to the satisfaction of
this board.
The mortality table given with this report is as full and accu-
rate as the returns from which it was compiled will allow. What
we have said heretofore about the death returns we reaffirm now.
Out of the 1,041 deaths reported last year 199 were returned with
no cause. Nearly one in five of all the people who died last
year were unattended by a physician. This is 23 more than last
30
466 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
year, which seems to indicate that in this respect, at least, we
are traveling towards barbarism rather than civilization. Al-
though these returns are not in charge of the board, and they are
in no way responsible in the matter, yet they have prepared an
ordinance and presented it to the city government, which is in-
tended to remedy tliis difficulty. We believe it will accomplish
the end for which it is intended.
Some of our physicians have grown careless in their statements
as to the cause of death and are not always careful to make them
full and accurate. For example, one return signed by an M. D.
gave the cause as " mort subite " (sudden death)! We would
ask all physicians to be as careful and correct as possible, so that
next year we may be able to present a table which will be a
credit instead of a disgrace to the report in which it is printed.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 467
TABLE
SHOWING THE MORTALITY OF THE CITY BY DISEASES AND BY
MONTHS FOR THE YEAR 1893, COMPILED FROM
THE RECORDS OF THE CITY REGISTRAR.
Causes of Death.
5
§
s
p
9
1
&
g
6
5
1-5
1-5
i
B
<
S
s.
a
CO
1
1
c
o
>
0
1
s
Accident
1
....
i
1
1
....
1
1
\
2
2
5
<t fall
....
j
1
'
I
4
1
" killed by cars...
1
:."i:":.
1
1
" pneumonia, and
peritonitis ....
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
I
1
1
Apoplexy
1
2 5
1
1
1
1
1
"i
12
Asphyxia
Brain disease of
1
1
1
....j .
Brain, disease of, and gen-
'
Brain abscess of
1
2
" embolism of
1
1
1
1
1
1
'
1
1
1
4
2
1
2
1
3
1
3
2
13
Bright's disease, pneumo-
Broncliitis
3
4
1
1
3
1
1
"i'
2
1
....
1
3
?=)
" " & old age..
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Broncliiti.s, capillary, and
1
Bronchitis, chronic
1
1
1
J,
Bowels, obstruction of
1
1
2
Cancer . .
2
1
'
1
1
1
1
^f,
" of liver '
1
" " " & stomach
1
1
1
]
....
'.'..'.
1
1
1
1 1
1 ....
" of womb i.
Calculus, obstruc'n bowels
Cardiac malformation
1
1
....
468
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
TABLE. — Continued.
Causes of Death.
i
K
•-5
ft
<
6
c
3
i
3
<
1
s
J
O
1
s
>
0
1
1
Cerebral atrophy 4& I'heu-
matic fever
1
\
Childbirth
1
Cholera morbus
1
1
1
6
2
" infantum ....
2
2
2
14
35
26
1
Cholera infantum and in-
flammation of brain
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
1
Cough, whooping
1
2
1
" membranous
1
1
1
2
Cystitis, chronic
Debility
1
7
1
1
2
1
3
2
3
2
5
"2*
4
2
1
2
Dentition
7
1
....
1
" and shock
1
Diarrhea .
2
2
Diarrhea, chronic, and in-
flammation of bowels.
^
1
Diarrhea and dropsy
" dyspeptic
l'
1
1
1
Dislocation of cervical
vertebrae (accident)
1
1
Dropsy
" and bronchitis. .. .
1
1
1
1
1
Drow ed . . . . . .
i
1
2
1
2
^
Dyspepsia
1
1
Encephalitis
1
1
1
1
■^
1
" chronic
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
...
1
1
Epilepsy, hystero- .. .
1
2
1
1
1
Exhaustion ....
1
2
Exhaustion following in-
testinal obstruction
Fever, cerebro-spinal
1
2
1
1
& meningi's
" typhoid
Fistula & blood poisoning.
Gangrene
1
1
3
1
2
2
3
3
1
1
1
Gastritis
1
1
1
....
1
1
" & nervous exha'n
1
...
Gastro-enteritis
Grippe
.
1
.■•■
2
1
2
Heart, disease of
Heart disease, aortic ste-
nosis and regurgitation.
1
2
5
1
2
:..
1
7
..'.
1
4
29
1
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 469
TABLE.— Continued.
Causes of Death.
ci
D
a
1-5
>>
S
3
<
1
S3
3
-5
6c
s
<
u
a
1
CO
1
0
1
a
«
%
%
s
^
1
1
1
....
%
1
1
" hypertliophy of
1
1
. . . .
1
" trouble .
1
" rheumatism of
1
Heart, valvular disease of,
1
Heart, valvular disease of,
and congestion of lung's
1
1
"2
Heart, valvular disease of,
and rheumatism
....
1
1
?
T
1
1
1
R
Hemorrhage, cerebral,aQd
exposure
1
1
1
<
" of lungs
1
Hepatitis, acute, and ex-
1
Hj'drocephalus
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
2
1
I
Inflammation of bowels. . .
1
Influenza and chronic ca-
1
1
Lacli proper care & food,
1
1
1
Liver, disease of
i
2
1
1
1
1
" " " & dropsy
1
" cirrhosis of
1
1
1
1
i'
1
1
1
1
Lungs, congestion of and
Lungs, inflammation of ..
1
....
1
1
1
1
Malarial poisoning ...
....
" " & grippe
Malnutrition
1
2
1
1
"3'
'2'
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
" senile
1
" and dentition.. .
Measles
1
1'
"i"
1
1
2
2
1
1
1'
1
" cerebro-spinal.
1
1
3
470
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
TABLE. — Continued.
Causes OF Death.
2
i
•-5
P.
<
i
1-5
1
1
s
1
0
O
1
s
o
"A
o
0
■^
1
Meningitis, tubercular
1
2
'
1
Myelitis
1
....
1
7
2
1
19
13
2
9
1
7
4
26
4
24
4
29
2
20
3
11
2
11
Old age
27
" and moist gangrene
1
1
1
1
1
....
1
....
1
1
1
2
" intestinal
1
& cerebral hem-
1
" and tubercular
1
1
1
1
.1.
1
1
Pernicious anaemia and
1
6
1
Plitlu^is, pulmonary
Pbthisis, pulmonary, and
10
5
10
4
4
10
3
5
9
1
6
"
79
2
2
1
4
1
41
Pneumonia .
4
....
3
4
2
3
1
3
5
12
" & fractured thigh
" and heart failure
" and bilious fever
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
....
1
1
....
1
1
1
1
"i'
2
3
....
2
1
1
1
1
1
4
1
Stomach, inflammation of
1
1
1
4
1
70
1
5
1
1
1
2
1
"l
4
Still-born
2
8
7
13
1 4
9
4
2
9
7
1
1
1
1
1
" acute
1
1
and peritonitis
1
1
1
12
3
1
1
1041
Unknown
1
2
2
1
2
1
3
2
1
Violence
1
1
75
75
70
85
69
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7'»
90
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
471
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472 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The failure to give the children proper care is again shown by
the fact that 527 of the deaths were of children under 5 years of
age, and this bad showing is responsible for the fact that our
death rate still continues in the neighborhood of 20 to each
1,000 of population. Carelessness and neglect are the causes of
much of this, and until parents can be roused to a realization of
their responsibility in the matter the slaughter of the innocents
will continue. This board with its limited resources cannot pro-
vide such means for the enlightenment and instruction of mothers
as would be necessary to remedy the difficulty. Education and
civilization will in time come to our aid, but until they do we
can only continue to deplore the sad fact that such a state of
affairs exists.
The fact that the rate for zymotic diseases shows a steady de-
crease since the organization of the board in 1885 is good ground
for believing that we are accomplishing the work which we have
been set to do, and while we know that much yet remains we
also remember that many things which were once allowed would
not now be tolerated for a day in our city. Many bad places
have been made good and all have been made better, and we are
satisfied that a steady and rapid gain in sanitation has followed
our efforts. We thank Your Honor and the heads of the differ-
ent departments who have been uniformly attentive and courte-
ous in aiding our efforts and granting our requests.
CORNELIUS F. STARR,
JOSEPH B. SAWYER,
C. W. DOWNING,
Board of Health of Manchester.
INSPECTORS' REPORT.
Gentlemen of the Board of Health :
We submit the following as our report for the year 1893.
Benjamin Freeman and Dennis Connor were employed fifty-
seven days each and their work is reported with ours.
Vaults and privies inspected ...... 2,996
Vaults and privies inspected after cleaning . . . 1,1-77
Water-closets inspected 2,425
Yards and alleys inspected ...... 1,781
Cellars inspected ........ 3,429
Sheds and outbuildings inspected 288
Tenements inspected ....... 235
Barns and barn cellars inspected . . . . .321
The following were ordered cleaned and repaired :
Vaults cleaned 409
Yards and alleys cleaned . . . . . .196
Cellars cleaned 584
Barn cellars cleaned • loi
Sheds cleaned ........ 6
Tenements cleaned 40
Water-closets cleaned and repaired . . . . .252
Vault covers repaired 79
Privies cleaned 66
Four hundred and thirty-two complaints were investigated,
and in 257 cases a remedy was provided. In the other 175 cases
there was no cause, or the cause was of such a nature as to be be-
yond our control.
Sinks or sink pipes were found leaking or defective to the
474 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
number of 28S, and were ordered repaired. In 8 cases the own-
ers were ordered to provide traps.
Drain pipes were found open at the end where the sink pipes
enter them to the number of 235. These openings were ordered
closed, and in most cases the orders were obeyed. Sink water
was found running on the surface of the ground in 54 places, and
the owner was made to enter the sewer or provide a cesspool.
Three thousand three hundred calls were made and 905 letters
written in pushing the work of the department.
Fifty-seven swine were discovered being kept in such a place
or condition as to make a nuisance, and they were removed.
The tenants in 92 blocks were warned against throwing swill
into the streets.
Latrines were inspected 27 times, and 2 were ordered cleaned.
Forty-four nuisances not otherwise classified were found and
abated.
The teams and rigging of the vault-cleaners were inspected 43
times.
Eighty-eight dead animals were buried or disposed of so as not
to be offensive.
Twenty-eight complaints against the scavenger service were
received, the proper parties notified, and relief given.
Fourteen inspections were made of slaughter houses, etc.
Seven cesspools were complained of, and the superintendent of
streets was ordered to flush or repair them.
Hens were found in the cellar at four places, and were ordered
removed.
Samples of water from 16 wells were sent away for analysis,
and in 7 cases the water was found bad, and the use of it discon-
tinued.
'•• Special permits were given to clean 21 vaults.
Weekly reports were sent to the State Board of Health at Con-
cord, and also to the U. S. Marine Hospital Service at Washing-
ton, D. C.
A statement of mortality was compiled each month, and copies
sent to 209 different boards of health, physicians, etc.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 475
One hundred and twenty-six legal notices have been made out
and served, and the proper returns made.
A census of the section in McGregorville bounded by Mc-
Gregor, Main, and Amory streets, was taken. Twenty-nine
blocks were found containing by night, 2,160 persons; by day,
1,147. Two hundred and eighty-nine children \vere found under
5, and 269 that attended school.
Contagious or infectious diseases reported :
Measles cases . . . . . . . . .212
Scarlet fever cases no
Typhoid fever cases 79
Diphtheria 8
408
Sanitary inspections made, 235.
Houses placarded, 224.
At 72 places disinfectants were not being used, and they were
ordered.
Sixty people who were living or boarding in infected houses
were required to live elsewhere or cease employment until all
danger from contagion had passed. Twenty-seven children who
were attending school under the same circumstances were kept at
home. Fifteen rooms or tenements were fumigated. Three
funerals were attended to see that the remains were not exposed.
Seven persons suffering from contagious diseases were conveyed
to the city hospital for contagious diseases. Over 1,400 pam-
phlets issued by the State Board of Health have been distributed
in the localities where contagious diseases existed.
"One hundred copies of report of the State Board of Health
were received and distributed.
Water-closets have been substituted for vaults or barn cellar as
follows :
Amherst ......... 24
Amory ......... 3
Appleton . . 5
Ash 3
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Ashland
Auburn
B
Bath .
Beauport
Beech .
Behiiont
Birch .
Blaine .
Blodget
Bowman
Bridge .
Cartier
Central
Chestnut
Cleveland
Conant
Concord
Douglas
Dubuque
Elm .
Fourth .
Granite
Harrison
Hanover
High .
Jane
Lake avenue
Laurel .
Lowell .
Main .
Manchester
Maple .
Marion
Massabesic
Mast .
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
477
McGregor
Merrimack
Milford
Morrison
Myrtle .
Nashua
Orange
Parker .
Pearl .
Pennacook
Pine .
Prospect
Riddle
Rimmon
Sagamore
Salmon
School .
Schuyler
Second
Spruce .
Summer
Third .
Union .
Valley .
Walker
Walnut
Washington
Wayne
West .
Wilson
Wilson road
Winter
99
31
6
3
2
8
7
I
4
3
12
2
I
2
I
2
9
12
7
4
3
3
3
3
2
847
Charles Langmaid was employed 123 days as sanitary patrol-
man at Lake Massabesic. On Sundays and such days as large
478
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
crowds were expected he was aided by the sanitary inspectors,
they serving fifteen days in all.
The work done was as follows :
Houses, buildings, and surroundings inspected . . 157
They were distant from the lake as follows :
Touching water or shore at high-water mark
Ten feet or less back .
Between 10 and 20 feet back
20 " 50
" 50 " 100 "
Over 100 feet back
Privies connected with them were located as follows :
Touching the water
18 feet from shore
25 " " "
50 - " "
Between 50 and 100 feet
100 feet from shore
Over 100 feet- from shore
No privy
The sink water was cared for as follows :
10 feet or less back
Between 10 and 25 feet back
" 25 " 50 " "
50 " lOO "
Over 100 feet back
No sink or dry sink
In cases where there is no sink the people said they threw the
slops more than 100 feet from the water.
* Well water was used at 37 cottages. Lake water was used by
the others.
The yards at 16 places were found to contain some rubbish
and dirt, and in a few places the swill was thrown from the win-
dows or doors.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH,
479
Forty-three
stables
were
found
3 feet from
water
75 " "
"
ICG "
"
150 " "
"
200 " "
I
4
17
12
9
Eight boat houses were found standing over or in the
A brook running into the lake runs under two houses.
Sink water was found on the surface of the ground in 1 1 places
and the nuisance was abated.
Six hundred and two dead fish were removed from the lake or
the shore, and i dead bird.
One dead dog and 3 dead snakes were cared for.
Swill and garbage, including old clothes, tin cans, etc., were
removed at 105 places.
Tvventy-one picnics were attended.
Three privies were moved which had been built too near the
water.
Quite a large pile of sawdust was also cared for.
Two privies were ordered cleaned.
Fifteen persons who were in bathing were driven out and sev-
eral were stopped before entering the water.
People were warned 45 times as to polluting water.
Seven people were caught washing clothes in the lake.
The privy spoken of as touching the water is provided with a
water-tight tank for a vault.
A building which stood near the water and was being used as
a privy was torn down with the consent of its owner.
We desire to express our thanks to the honorable board for the
kindness and courtesy extended to us, as well as the promptness
with which they have supplemented our efforts, also to all
others who have aided us in the discharge of our duties. "'
HERBERT S. CLOUGH.
JOHN F. LOONEY.
^REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY.
REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY.
To the City Coimci/s of the City of Manchester :
The Trustees of the City Library herewith present their forti-
eth annual report of the affairs of theiibrary, and, accompany-
ing 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 of the funds in
their possession and under their control ; and also the report of
the librarian made to the board, giving in detail the operation
and statistics of the library for the year, and the condition of the
property under her charge at the close of the year.
The report of the treasurer shows that during the year the sum
of eleven hundred and forty-five dollars and sixty-five cents has
been expended for the purchase of books and the sum of two
hundred and fifteen dollars and thirty-four cents for the purchase
of periodicals, making a total expenditure for both these pur-
poses of thirteen hundred and sixty dollars and ninety-nine cents.
Of the amount expended for the purchase of books the sum of
one hundred and thirty-six dollars and forty-seven cents was ex-
pended in the purchase of books to replace those worn out and
withdrawn from circulation. The balance in the hands of the
treasurer at the close of the year of the amount appropriated by
the city councils for the purchase of books was eight hundred
and ninety dollars and thirty-nine cents.
The balance of the accumulated income of the Dean fund at
the end of the year was six thousand three hundred and fourteen
484 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
dollars and fifty-seven cents. No purchase of books "has been
made from the income of this fund during the year.
The accumulated income of the Mary E. Elliot fund at the
close of the year was eight hundred and sixty-five dollars and ten
cents.
The amount of the legacy of Mrs. Eliza Eaton paid to the
trustees during the year 1892 was twenty-eight hundred and
eighty-seven dollars and eighty cents. There was received as in-
terest on this amount during the year 1892 the sum of nine dol-
lars and fifty-five cents, and during the last year the sum of sev-
enty-seven dollars and twenty-four cents, making the total amount
of this fund twenty-nine hundred and seventy-four dollars and
fifty-nine cents. By vote of the trustees the mterest of the fund
is to be added to the principal received till principal and inter-
est shall amount to three thousand dollars, which sum is then to
be considered as principal of the fund and the income thereafter
to be expended for the purchase of books.
The expenditures for the incidental expenses of the library for
the past year were four thousand one hundred and forty-nine dol-
lars and sixty-two cents, which amount includes the sum of thir-
teen hundred and fifty-nine dollars and eight cents expended for
the preparation of the new catalogue. Of this latter amount the
sum of six hundred and fifty-nine dollars and sixty-three cents
was paid for materials and work for the card catalogue.
From the report of the librarian it appears that the library has
been open for the delivery of books three hundred and six days,
during which period the number of books delivered for home use
was fifty-five thousand two hundred and ninety-five, being an av-
erage of about one hundred and eighty per day. In addition to
this number delivered for general circulation, eight thousand two
hundred and three volumes were delivered for use in the reading
room, an average of about twenty-seven per day. The total
number of books delivered during the year for both these pur-
poses was sixty-three thousand four hundred and ninety-eight, an
average of about two hundred and seven a day. As compared
with the preceding year the circulation for home use shows a de-
KEPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 485
crease of five hundred and seventy-nine volumes, while the num-
ber delivered for use at the library shows an increase of three
hundred and fifty-seven. The total circulation is two hundred
and twenty-two less than the year preceding.
Seventy-six different periodicals have been regularly received
at the library during the year, — fifty-seven by purchase and nine-
teen by donation, — and as the respective volumes have been com-
pleted they have been bound and placed upon the shelves for cir-
culation.
During the year eighty-seven volumes have been taken from
the shelves and withdrawn from circulation, having become so
worn as to be unfit for further service. Of this number and of
others retired from circulation in previous years one hundred and
seventy-three volumes have been replaced at a cost of one hun-
dred and thirty-six dollars and forty-seven cents.
The number of volumes in the library at the date of the last
report, including maps and pamphlets, was thirty-six thousand
and sixty-eight. There have been added during the year by pur-
chase eight hundred and twenty-six volumes, by donation two
hundred and eight volumes, and one hundred and two volumes
of periodicals have been bound, makmg the number of bound
volumes in the library at the end of the year thirty-six thousand,
four hundred and eighty-six, and the total number, including six-
teen maps and seven hundred and two pamphlets unbound, thir-
ty-seven thousand two hundred and four.
A large number of pamphlets have been received at the library
during the year which do not appear in the accessions reported,
as they have not yet been classified preparatory to binding in
volumes of convenient size.
Accompanying the report of the librarian is a list of books pre-
sented to the library during the year, with the names of the per-
son presenting them so far as known. The trustees have caused
due acknowledgment to be made in behalf of the city to all who
have in this manner manifested their interest in the increase and
prosperity of the library.
In September last Mrs. M. J. Buncher, who for fifteen and a
486 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
half years had acceptably filled the position of librarian, tendered
her resignation, to take effect upon the election of her successor.
The trustees regret that ill health and advancing years have
compelled Mrs. Buncher to relinquish the position the has so
long and so faithfully filled, and they desire in this report to
place on record their appreciation of the fidelity to duty and con-
scientious endeavor for the accommodation of the patrons of the
library she has always manifested during her long term of service
as librarian.
The position made vacant by the retirement of Mrs. Buncher
was filled by the election of Miss Kate E. Sanborn, of Franklin.
Miss Sanborn was highly recommended by some of the best li-
brarians in the country as being peculiarly qualified by education
and experience to fill the position of librarian. She was em-
ployed for eight years as assistant librarian in the Boston Athe-
neum, under C. A. Cutter, the efficient librarian of that institu-
tion. For the past three years she has been assistant librarian
in the Mercantile Library Association at St. Louis, going to the
latter place upon the recommendation of Mr. Cutter. In both
of these places she has displayed marked ability in the discharge
of the duties of the positions held and earned the warm commen-
dation of the officials in charge of the institutions with which
she was connected. The trustees entertain no doubt but Miss
Sanborn will prove a competent and progressive librarian, and
will bring the affairs of the library to the highest state of effi-
ciency practicable.
The trustees greatly regret that the publication of the new
catalogue has been so long postponed, but considering the cir-
cumstances of the compilation of the manuscript the delay could
not well be avoided. As soon as the compiler reported that he
had finished the compilation of the manuscript, an agreement
was made with him that this manuscript should be submitted to
the examination of an expert, familiar with the preparation of
catalogues of libraries, to determine whether the manuscript was
properly compiled and ready for printing, and that any revision
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 487
recommended should be made by the compiler at his own ex-
pense.
The manuscript was subsequently examined by an expert cat-
aloguer under this agreement, and a critical report thereon was
made to the trustees. The report was of such a character as to
cause grave doubts in the minds of the trustees as to the expedi-
ency of printing the catalogue in its present condition, and after
consideration it was finally determined to postpone its publica-
tion until the new librarian, who has had a large experience in
compiling catalogues, should have an opportnnity to examine
the work and superintend its publication. Miss Sanborn on as-
suming her duties as librarian at once gave this matter her atten-
tion, and is now engaged in putting the manuscript into proper
shape preparatory to its printing.
The card catalogue, which was being prepared in connection
with the new catalogue, has been completed during the year and
placed in cases in the library rooms for the use of the patrons of
the library.
The trustees desire to express their acknowledgments to the
members of the city councils for their cordial co-operation in
matters relating to the library and the courtesy and consideration
with which all suggestions of the trustees for its improvement
have been received and carried out.
April i6, 1894.
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.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees of the City Library :
The treasurer of the board presents the following account oi
the receipts and expenditures by the board of the funds received
on account of the library :
1893.
Dr.
Jan.
I.
To balance of appropriation,
etc
$1
,168.40
Feb.
9-
Mrs. M. J. Buncher, fines,
catalogues, etc.
82.98
Sept.
6.
appropriation for books for
1893 . ■ . .
I
,000.00
Jan.
To balance of income of Dean
fund ....
^5,803.27
income of Dean fund
108.00
April
income of Dean fund
interest on accumulation of
income ....
income of Dean fund
60.00
.64
108.00
July
interest on accumulation of
income
234.66
Jan.
To Mary E. Elliot fund .
balance of interest on Mary
E. Elliot fund
$2
,000.00
754-94
April
interest on Mary E. Elliot
fund ....
interest on accumulation of
fund ....
80.00
30.16
$2,251.38
$6,314.57
$2,865.10
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 489
Jan. I. To Eliza A. Eaton fund . $2,887.80
balance of interest on Eliza
A. Eaton fund . . 9.55
April I. interest on Eliza A. Eaton
fund . . . . 77.00
interest on accumulation of
income .... .24
1893.
Jan. 6
Feb.
13
March 3
7
31
April 8
May 3
June 3
14
17
July 5
II
13
15
18
Paid New England News Co., periodicals
Boston Book Co., periodicals .
G. G. Furnel, books
George H. Polley & Co., periodicals
Frank B. Webster Co., periodicals .
Sampson, Murdock & Co., books
Microscopical Publishing Co., peri-
odicals
New England News Co., periodicals
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
Central Law Journal Co., periodicals
New England News Co., periodicals
W. B. Clarke & Co., books
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
New England News Co., periodicals
New England News Co., periodicals
D. Appleton & Co., books
Lawyers' Co-operative Publishing
Co., books ....
Little, Brown & Co., books
New England News Co., periodicals
Little, Brown & Co., books
New England News Co., periodicals
George E. Littlefield, books
Little, Brown & Co., books
Little, Brown & Co., books
$2,974-59
;i4,4o5.64
Cr.
$14.90
5.00
1.08
6.00
1. 00
2.00
1.50
10.21
375-71
5.00
13.62
8.71
32.18
10.79
14.65
5.00
5.00
2.00
13-52
2.00
II. 01
6.30
3-75
5-5°
490
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
27.
27.
27.
Dec. II.
12.
12.
ir
I
19.
20.
21
3°-
Paid New England News Co., periodicals
Little, Brown & Co., books
New England News Co., periodicals
Little, Brown & Co., books
H. L. Robinson, books .
New England News Co., periodicals
S. F. Claflin, books .
W. J. Campbell, replaced books
Hessling & Spielmeyer, books .
George E. Littlefield, books
S. C. Gould, books .
New England News Co., periodicals
Little, Brown & Co., books
W. B. Clarke & Co., books
W. B. Clarke & Co., replaced books
Boston Society of Natural History,
periodicals ....
Little, Brown & Co., books
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
W. B. Clarke & Co., replaced books
George E. Littlefield, books
New England News Co., periodicals
James H. Lamb, books .
W. B. Clarke & Co., replaced books
W. B. Clarke & Co., books .
Boston Book Co., periodicals .
D. C. Heath & Co., books
Boston Book Co., periodicals .
By balance of appropriation
balance of Dean fund .
Mary E. Elliot fund and interest .
Eliza A. Eaton fund and interest
3-5°
9-33
2.00
1-25
9.91
1. 00
26.00
2.70
2.25
2.00
14-57
4-25
414.22
100.79
3.00
2.00
68.63
4.44
22.46
12.26
14.00
5-24
18.47
43.00
1.22'
1. 00
890.39
6,314-57
2,865.10
2,974-59
$14,405.64
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 491
The expenditures for the incidental expenses of the library for
the year ending December 31, 1893, the bills for which have
been paid by the city treasurer upon the approval of the commit-
tee on accounts of the board of trustees, the items of which may
be found in the annual report of the city, are as follows :
Services of librarian $800.00
Services of assistants to librarian
Fuel
Gas .
Insurance
Binding .
Re-binding
Supplies .
Printing .
Newspapers
Water
Incidentals
Catalogue
Card catalogue
604.25
478.47
228.48
125.00
145-65
175-36
192.26
11.00
6.00
16.00
8.07
699.45
659-63
$4,149.62
RECAPITULATION.
Balance December 31, 1892
Appropriation for 1893 .
Paid trustees for purchase of books .
Paid incidental expenses .
Balance of appropriation Dec. 30, 1893
$4,293-45
4,500.00
$8,793.45
$1,000.00
4,149-62
3,643-83
$8,793.45
Respectfully submitted.
NATHAN P. HUNT,
Treasurer of the Trustees of the City Library.
492 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
December 30, 1893.
We have examined the foregoing report, and find the same
correctly cast and properly vouched.
E. J. KNOWLTON,
L. B. CLOUGH.
Committee on Accounts of City Library.
December 30, 1893.
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 fortieth annual report
city library :
Whole number of accessions December 31, 1892
Added during the year :
By purchase ..... 826
By gift 208
Periodicals and papers bound . . 102
Whole number at present
Maps .
Pamphlets .
Bound volumes .
16
702
36,486
Number of periodicals and papers regularly received
by purchase .....
Number by gift .....
Number of days open to the public for reading and
distribution of books ....
Number of volumes delivered for home use
Average per day .....
Largest number any one day, — March 25
Largest number any one month, — March
Smallest number any one month, — June .
Number delivered in the reading-room
Average per day .
Number of cards used on deposit
of the
36,068
1,136
37,204
57
19
306
55,295
180
454
5,652
4,116
8,203
27
6
494
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS
Number of cards issued during the year .
Whole number issued since new registration
Number of cards relinquished during the year
Postals sent to delinquents
Worn-out books removed from circulation
Number of volumes replaced .
Missing volumes returned during the year
Volumes lost and paid for . . .
Volumes missing, not yet accounted for .
Number of books repaired at the bindery
Number repaired and covered at the library
Balance of cash on hand December 31, 1892
Amount received from Jan. i to Dec. 31, 1893:
For fines ...... gi 10.73
For finding lists, 46 at loc. . . 4.60
One book lost and paid for . . . .67
9,084
74
373
87
173
3
4
549
7.302
Paid N. P. Hunt, treasurer
$116.00
$198.98
82.98
Paid for expressage and incidentals
Total cash on hand
$116.00
55-80
$60.20
DONATIONS TO THE CITY LIBRARY.
,893.
Heirs of John B. Clarke, Manchester.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. 16
vols. 8vo.
Atlases accompanying Official Records. Nos. i to 16.
James B. Straw, City Auditor, Manchester.
Ten Municipal Reports from various cities in the United
States. 8vo.
Manchester Annual Reports for the year 1892. i2mo.
Right Rev. Bishop Bradley, Manchester.
History of the Catholic Church in the United States. Vol.
4. 1844-66. 8vo.
Dr. Albert Pick, Manchester.
Medical News. Vols. 60 and 61. 1892. 4to.
American Journal of Science. Vol. 103. 1892. 8vo.
Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases. Vols. 17 and 18.
And 17 medical pamphlets.
William E. Moore, Manchester.
The Genealogy of the Tuck Family of Hampton. 1638-
1877. By Joseph Dow. 8vo.
Hon. John C. Linehan, Commissioner.
Annual Report of the New Hampshire Insurance Commis-
sion for 1893. Svo.
496 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
State Board of Health, New Hampshire.
Annual report for the year 1892. 8vo.
George C. Gilmore, Esq., Manchester.
Library Journal. Vol. 17. 1893. 8vo.
National Society of the Sons of the Revolution, Special Con-
gress, February, 1893.
H. W. Eastman, Secretary.
Manchester Board of Trade Journal. Vols. 2 and 3. 4to.
Rev. Thomas A. Dorion, Manchester.
Petite Histoire de la Vie des Papes. 1890. i6mo.
Mon Voyage a Tracadie. Par Louis Martin. 1891.
Le Naufrage de 1' Annie Jane. L' Histoire des Missions
Franco-Canadiennes. Par Marc Ami. 1892.
Le Reveil. Vol. i, pts. i to 5. 1893.
Catechisme ou Lecons sur I'Histoire et les Doctrines de
I'Eglise Methodiste Episcopale. Pt. i. 9 pamphlets.
Denis A. Holland, President, Manchester.
Second and Fourth Annual Reports of the Society of St.
Vincent de Paul. 2 pamphlets.
S. C. Gould, Manchester.
Notes and Queries for the year 1893. Vol. 9.
Annual Report of the Grand Lodge, Knights of Honor.
1893. Pamphlet.
S. D. NiCKERSON, R. G. Sec, Boston.
Proceedings of the M. W. Grand Lodge of Masons of Mass.
1892-93. 4 pamphlets.
George P. Cleves, Concord, N. H.
In Memoriam. John James Bell. By Judge J. W. Fellows,
Manchester. Pamphlet.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 497
Frank W. Hackett, Portsmouth.
Memorial Address delivered before the Storer Post No. i,
G. A. R., May, 1892. Pamphlet.
D. Eldridge, Boston.
History of the Growth of the Co-operative Banks and Build-
ing Associations from 1S77 to 1893. Pamphlet.
Judge N. P. Hunt, Manchester.
Dartmouth College Catalogues for the years 1S20, 1832,
and 1834. 3 pamphlets.
M. R. Hamilton, State Librarian, N. J.
New Jersey Archives. Vol. 17. 1756-68. 8vo.
William A. Pulle, Jr., Chief of Bureau of Statistics.
Fourth Biennial Report. 1891-92. 8vo.
PrES. J. G. SCHUMAN.
Proceedings, Addresses, etc., at the Inauguration of J. G.
Schuman to the Presidency of Cornell University, Ithaca,
N. Y. 1892. 8vo.
Col. Daniel Hall, Dover, N. H.
Commemorative Addresses on the Life of Abraham Lincoln,
John P. Hale, and others. 1892. 8vo.
Hon. Joseph Kidder, Manchester.
Nineteen pamphlets. Proceedings of the R. W. Grand
Lodge of the New Hampshire I. O. O. F.
Herbert E. Messinger, Manchester.
Six volumes of Juvenile Books. i6mo.
Ladies.' Review Club, Manchester.
Review of Reviews, for the year 1892. 2 vols. 8vo.
498 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
James E. Dodge, Auditor.
Municipal report of the city of Boston for the year 1892-
93-
City Council, Chicago.
Seventeen annual reports of the Department of Public Works
of the city of Chicago. 8vo.
Royal Commission, Chicago Exposition.
Official Catalogue of the British Section. 1893. i2mo.
William J. Campbell, Philadelphia.
The Bench and the Bar of Philadelphia. A Legal Directo-
ry. 1893. 8vo.
Board of Trade, New Bedford.
New Bedford of Today. Statistics of its General History.
1893.
E. M. Bo\vman, City Clerk, Nashua.
Annual Report of the Municipal Government for the year
1892. i2mo.
Children's Aid Society, New York.
Annual reports for the years 1892 and 1893. 2 pamphlets.
Children's Hospital, Boston.
Twenty-fourth Annual Report. December, 1892. Pam-
phlet.
Home for the Aged, New Hampshire.
Report of the New Hampshire Centennial Home for the
Aged. Concord, N. H. 1892. Pamphlet.
Soldiers' Home, Tilton, N. H.
Second Report of the Board of Managers for the years 1891
and '92. 2 pamphlets.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 499
Sacred Heart Hospital, Manchester.
First Annual Report. September, 1893. Pamphlet,
W. C. T. U., Manchester.
Twentieth Annual Report, for the year 1893. Pamphlet.
Thomas W. Lane, Chief Engineer.
Report of the Manchester Fire Department, for the year
1 89 2. Pamphlet.
H. W. Russell, Manchester.
Tribal Directory of the Improved Order of Red Men, for
the Reservation of New Hampshire. 1893.
Herbert Walsh, Corresponding Secretary.
Indian Rights Association, " Civilizaton among the Sioux
Indians. ' ' Pamphlet.
Charles F. Livingston, Manchester.
Easter Sermon, Delivered by Rev. C. W. Heizer, April 17,
1892. Pamphlet.
Reports from Librarians and Boards of Trustees.
Brookline, Mass. Thirty-sixth Annual Report of the Free
Public Library. 1892. Pamphlet.
Brooklyn, N. Y. Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the Brook-
lyn Library. March, 1893. Pamphlet.
Baltimore, Md. Peabody Institute. Annual Report for the
year. June i, 1893. Pamphlet.
Birmingham, Eng. Thirty-first Annual Report of the Free
Public Libraries. 1892. Pamphlet.
Boston, Mass. Forty-first Annual Report of the Public
Library. 1892. Pamphlet.
Bromwich (West), Eng. Hansworth Public Library Re-
port. March, 1893. Pamphlet.
Bridgeport, Conn. Twelfth Annual Report of Free Library
and Reading-room. 1892. Pamphlet.
500 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Burlington, Vt. Fletcher Free Library. Report for the
year 1892. Pamphlet.
Cincinnati, Ohio. Annual Report of Public Library.
June 30, 1892-93. Pamphlet.
Clinton, Mass. Annual Report of the Bigelow Free Library.
1892. Pamphlet.
Cleveland, Ohio. Twenty-fourth Annual Report, for 1892.
Pamphlet.
Chicago, 111. Twenty-first Annual Report for June, 1893.
Pamphlet.
Detroit, Mich. Twelfth i\nnual Report of the Library
Commission. 1892. Pamphlet.
Dover, N. H. Annual Report for 1892. Pamphlet.
East Rochester, N. H. First Report of the Board of Li-
brary Commissioners of New Hampshire. December,
1892. Pamphlet.
Fairhaven, Mass. Dedication of Millicent Library, and
Finding List. 1893. ^ pamphlets.
Fall River, Mass. Annual Report for 1892. Pamphlet.
Grand Rapids. Complete Catalogue of the Public School
Library. Published October, 1892. 8vo.
Germantown, Phil. Report of the Friends' Free Library
and Reading-room for 1892. Pamphlet.
Jersey City, N. J. Second Annual Report of the Free
Library. 1892. Pamphlet. Library Record for the
year 1893 and Supplement No 2 to Finding List.
Lawrence, Mass. Annual Reports of the Free Library for
the years 1891 and 1892. Bulletins for the year, 11, 12,
13, and 14. 6 pamphlets.
Lynn, Mass. Thirteenth Annual Report, for the year
1892. Pamphlet.
Maiden, Mass. Fifteenth Annual Report of Public Li-
brary. 1892. Pamphlet.
Melrose, Mass. Report of Trustees of Public Library for
1892. Pamphlet.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 501
Minneapolis, Minn. Annual Report of Free Library for
the year 1892. Pamphlet.
Natick, Mass. Twentieth Annual Report of the Morse In-
stitute. 1892. Pamphlet.
New Haven, Conn. Sixth Annual Report of the Public
Library. History of Founding the Library and Rules
Governing its Use, etc. 2 Pamphlets.
Newark, N. J. Fourth Annual Report of Free Public Li-
brary. 1892. Pamphlet.
Newton, Mass. Annual Report of Newton Free Library,
for the year 1892. Pamphlet.
New York. Report of the Maimonides Library and Read-
ing-room, for the year 1892. Pamphlet.
Peabody, Mass. Forty-first Annual Report of Peabody In-
stitute. 1892. Pamphlet.
Philadelphia. Library Company Bulletin No. 31. Sep-
tember, 1893. Pamphlet. Apprentices' Library Com-
pany, Annual Report for 1892-93. Bulletin No. i, 1893.
2 pamphlets.
Providence, R. I. Fifteenth Annual Report of the Free
Library. 1892. Pamphlet.
San Francisco, Cal. Report of the Mercantile Library As-
sociation for 1892. Pamphlet.
Scranton, Conn. Second Annual Report of the Public
Library. 1892. Pamphlet.
Springfield, Mass. Report of the City Library Association.
May, 1893. Bulletins Nos. i to 12. Vol. 6. 1893.
St. Louis, Mo. Annual Report of Public Library. 1892.
Pamphlet.
Salem, Mass. Report of Salem Public Library for the year
1892. Pamphlet.
Swansea, Wales. Annual Reports of the Public Library
and Gallery of Art Committee, for the years 1891-92
and 1892-93. 2 pamphlets.
Waterbury, Conn. Report of the Board of Agents of the
Silas Bronson Library, for 1891 and 1892. 2 pamphlets.
502 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Worcester, Mass. Thirty-third Annual Report of the Free
Pubhc Library. 1S92. Pamphlet.
Windham, N. H. Reports of the Town of Windham, iir-
cluding the Reports of the Nesmith Library, for 1S87 ^.nd
1892. 2 pamphlets.
Universities and Colleges.
Amherst College : Catalogue for 1892-93. Pamphlet.
Cornell University : Register for 1892-93. Pamphlet.
Dartmouth College : Catalogue for 1892-93. Pamphlet.
Harvard University: Report for the years 1S91-92 and
1893-94. 2 vols. i2mo.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology : Annual Catalogue
for 1892-93. Pamphlet. Courses in Electrical Engi-
neering and Physics. Pamphlet.
Pennsylvania University: Catalogue Announcement, 1892
-93. Report of the Provost for three years ending Octo-
ber I, 1892. 8vo.
University of California: Register for the year 1892-93.
Berkeley, Cal. Pamphlet.
Wilmington Institute : Thirty-sixth Annual Report. 1893.
Pamphlet.
Unknown.
Party and Patronage. Address by George William Curtis
before the National Civil Service Reform League, Balti-
more, April, 1892. Pamphlet.
Objections, Legal and Practical, to our National Currency
System. By Francis A. Brooks, Boston. 1893. Paii}-
phlet.
The Scholar and the State. Oration delivered before the
Phi Beta Kappa chapter of Harvard University. Pam-
phlet.
From the Several Publishers.
" Weirs Times." M. W. Calvert, publisher, Weirs, N. H.
KEPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 503
For the tourist season of 1893. Folio.
"The Worcester Council" (The Board of Trade). F. S.
Blanchard & Co., publishers, Worcester, Mass. For 1893.
4to.
" Plymouth Record." Record Publishing Co., Plymouth,
N. H. For 1893. Folio.
"Travelers' Record." Travelers' Insurance Co., Hartford,
Conn. For the year 1893. 4'^o-
"Le National" (French Daily). Benjamin Lenthier, pub-
lisher, Manchester, N. H. For 1893. Folio.
"The Recorder." Michael R. Sullivan, publisher, Man-
chester, N. H. For the year 1893. Folio.
" Saturday Telegram." William M. Kendall, publisher,
Manchester, N. H. 1893. Folio.
" Massabesic Gem." Wallace Stone, publisher. For the
tourist season at the Lake. 1893. 4to.
"The Northwest." Illustrated Monthly. E. V. Smalley,
publisher, St. Paul, Minn. For the year 1893.
"Home Market Bulletin." Boston, Mass. For the year
1893. Vol. 5. 4to.
"Echo." Published by the senior class of the Manchester
High School. Vol. 4. 1893. 4to.
" Daily Union."
• united st.4tes government.
State Department.
Commissioners' Reports of the Universal Exposition in
Paris in 1889. 6 vols.
Foreign Relations of the United States, 1891-92. 2 vols.
Consular Reports from November, 1892, to July, 1893. 9
numbers, completing Vols. 40 and 41.
Special Consular Reports. 3 numbers, completing Vol. 8.
1893.
United States Commission, Centennial Exposition. Mel-
bourne. 1888. 8vo.
504 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
International American Conference. 4 vols. 8vo.
Report of Postmaster General for 1891-92. 4V0.
Interior Department.
Official Gazette of the Patent Office for the year 1893.
Register of the Department of the Interior. 1893. 8vo.
Report of the Transportation Business in the United States.
3 numbers. 4to.
Statistics of the Six Nations of Indians of New York and
the Moqui Pueblo Indians of Arizona and Mexico. By
Thomas Donaldson, Special Agent. Two bulletins. 4to.
Report of the Rivers of the Mississippi Valley and the Great
Lakes. By Henry Adams, Special Agent. 4to.
Report of the Secretary of the Interior, accompanied by
nine miscellaneous pamphlets, viz., Reports of Superin-
tendent of Hot Springs Reservation, United States In-
spector of Coal Mines of Utah, Director of the Union
Pacific Railroad, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, etc.,
etc.
Bureau of Education, Descriptive Catalogue of various ex-
hibits at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago. 1893.
Bureau of Commerce and Industry. 2 vols, and 6 pam-
phlets.
Report of Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb.
1892. Pamphlet.
Report of the Commissioner of Education for 1884-85 and
1889-90. 3 vols. Circulars of Information. 3 numbers.
1892-93.
Statistics of Public Libraries in the United States and Can-
ada. By William Flint. 1893. 8vo.
Handbook of University Extension. By George F. James,
General Secretary. 8vo.
Education in Alaska, 18S9-90, and Introduction of Rein-
deer into Alaska. By Sheldon Jackson, Agent. 2 pam-
phlets.
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 505
Report of Commissioner of Patents. 1892. 8vo.
Receipts and Distribution of Documents. 1891-92. Pam-
phlet.
Official Congressional Directory for 1893. ^vo.
War Department.
Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.
Vols. 40 to 42 inclusive, with parts. 9 vols. 8vo.
Atlases accompanying Official Records, parts 11 to 23, in-
clusive.
Alphabetical list of additions to the War Department Library
from 1884. 8vo.
Report of Maj. Richard Dalafield on the Art of War in
Europe in i8.'54-55-56. 4to.
Report of Maj. Alfred Mordecai on the Ordnance Depart-
ment, 1855-56. 4to.
Treasury Department.
Report of the Operations of the Life-Saving Service for the
year, June, 1891. 8vo.
Department of Agriculture. %
Weather Bureau. Bulletins Nos. 6 to 10 inclusive. 1892
-93-
Division of Ornithology and Mammalogy. The Hawks and
Owls of the United States in relation to Agriculture, i
vol. 8vo.
Bulletin No. 2. Bird Migration in the Mississippi Valley.
By W. W. Cook. 8vo.
Report of the United States Fish Commissioner for the year
1888-89. Bulletin No. 10. 1890. 2 vols. 8vo.
Report of the Statistician, Nos. 92 to 100 inclusive. 1892.
8vo.
Department of Labor.
Report of the Commissioner of Labor. Vol. 7, parts i, 2,
and 3. 3 vols. 8vo.
506 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Special reports. Vols, i to 6 inclusive. 1892-93. 8vo.
Viz.: On Labor Laws ; Wages, Time, and Earnings ; Tex-
tiles and Glass ; Cost of Productions ; The Phosphate In-
dustry ; The Gothenburg System of Liquor Traffic; etc.
Smithsonian Institution.
Reports of the Board of Regents for the years 1890 and 1891.
2 vols. 8vo.
Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Vol.
14, parts I and 2. 2 vols. 1891. 8vo.
Smithsonian Collections. Vols. 34 and 36. 8vo.
Bulletins Nos. 39 and 40.
United States Congress.
Public Documents of regular set, loi vols., of the Fifty-
first, Fifty-second, and Fifty-third Congresses, including
two Atlases, viz., The Growth of Industrial Art, and Ge-
ology of the Eureka District, Nevada.
Respectfully submitted.
Mrs. M. J. BUNCHER.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, ETC.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL
LAMPS.
No.
Electric Lights in Use.
I. Cypress and Massabesic,
arm.
2. Massabesic-street watering-trough,
pole.
3. Park and Beacon,
arm,
4. Central and Hall,
5. Lake avenue and Massabesic,
6. Wilson and Laurel,
7. Merrimack and Hall,
8. Manchester and Hall,
9. Manchester and Wilson,
10. Hanover and Ashland,
II. Hanover and Hall,
12. Hanover and Beacon,
13. Concord and Ashland,
14. Bridge and Hall,
15. Myrtle and Russell,
16. Pearl and Linden,
17. Pearl and Russell,
18. Bridge and Nashua,
19. Nashua and High,
20. Concord and Button,
21. Amherst and Porter,
22. Hanover and Lincoln,
23. Manchester and Lincoln,
24. Merrimack and Lincoln,
25. Laurel and Lincoln,
510 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 26. Central and Lincoln,
27. Lake avenue and Lincoln,
28. Spruce and Lincoln,
29. Spruce and Maple,
30. Lake avenue and Maple,
31. Central and Maple,
32. Merrimack and Maple,
33. Manchester and Maple,
34. Hanover and Maple,
35. Amherst and Maple,
36. Concord and Maple,
37. Lowell and Nashua,
38. Bridge and Maple,
39. Myrtle and Maple,
40. Orange and Ash,
41. Harrison and Beech,
42. Myrtle and Beech,
43. Pearl and Beech,
44. Bridge and Beech,
45. Lowell and Ash,
46. Amherst and Ash,
47. Lowell and Beech,
48. Concord and Walnut,
49. Amherst and Beech,
50. Hanover and Beech,
51. Hanover square, pole.
52. Manchester and Beech, arm.
53. Merrimack and Beech,
54. Laurel and Beech,
55. Central and Beech,
56. Lake avenue and Beech,
57. Spruce and Beech,
58. Cedar ai\d Union,
59. Lake avenue and Union,
60. Central and Union,
61. Laurel and Union,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 511
No. 62.
63-
64.
65-
66.
67.
68.
69.
70.
71-
72.
73-
74-
75-
76.
77-
78.
79-
80.
81.
82.
83-
84.
85.
86.
87.
Merrimack and Union,
Manchester and Union,
Hanover and Union,
Amherst and Union,
Concord and Union,
Lowell and Walnut,
Lowell and Union,
High and Union,
Bridge and Union,
Bridge and Walnut,
Orange and Union,
Prospect and Union,
Brook and Union,
Pennacook and Union,
Webster and Pine,
North and Pine,
Sagamore and Pine,
Blodget and Pine,
Harrison and Hazel,
Prospect and Pine,
Myrtle and Pine,
Orange and Pine,
Pearl and Pine,
Bridge and Pine,
Tremont square,
High and Pine,
Lowell and Pine,
Concord and Pine,
Amherst and Pine,
Hanover and Pine,
Manchester and Pine,
Merrimack and Pine,
Laurel and Pine,
Central and Pine,
Lake avenue and Pine,
Cedar and Pine,
pole,
arm.
pole,
arm.
512 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 98. Auburn and Pine, arm.
99. Cedar and Chestnut, "
100. Park Square, pole.
1 01. Lake avenue and Chestnut, arm.
102. Central and Chestnut, "
103. Merrimack square, pole.
104. Merrimack and Chestnut, arm.
105. Manchester and Chestnut, "
106. Hanover and Chestnut, "
107. Concord square, east, pole.
108. Concord square, west, "
109. Chestnut and Concord back, arm.
no. Chestnut and High, "
111. Chestnut and Bridge, "
112. Chestnut and Pearl, "
113. Chestnut and Myrtle, "
114. Chestnut and Harrison, "
115. Chestnut and Brook, "
116. Pennacook and Chestnut, pole.
117. Salmon and Chestnut, "
118. Webster and Chestnut, arm.
119. Clarke and Elm, "
120. Webster and Elm, ■ "
121. North and Elm, "
122. Salmon and Elm, "
123. Pennacook and. Elm, "
124. Brook and Elm, "
125. Harrison and Elm, "
126. Langdon, pole.
127. Dean and Elm, arm.
128. Prospect and Chestnut,
129. Orange and Elm,
130. Kidder and Elm,
131. Elm east back, on Pearl,
132. Bridge and Elm,
133. Washington and Church,
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 513
No. 134. Birch and Lowell, arm.
135. Lowell and Elm,
136. Elm east back, between Lowell and Concord,
137. Water and Elm,
138. Vine and Concord,
139. Vine and Amherst,
140. Amherst and Elm,
141. Spring and Elm west back,
142. Stark,
143. Market and Franklin,
144. Market and Elm,
145. Hanover and Elm east back,
146. Elm and Manchester,
147. Dean avenue and Elm west back,
148. Elm and Merrimack,
149. Merrimack and Franklin,
150. Middle,
151. Merrimack square, west, pole
152. Elm and Central, arm
153. Elm and Lake avenue, "
154. Elm and Spruce, "
155. Beech and Cedar, pole.
156. Elm and Cedar, arm,
157. Franklin and Granite,
158. Elm and Auburn,
159. Elm and Green,
160. Elm and Valley,
161. Bakersville watering-trough,
162. Summer and State, pole
163. Granite and State, arm
164. Granite bridge, east, pole
165. Bedford and Granite, "
166. Canal and Granite, "
167. Depot and Canal, "
168. Central, between Franklin and Canal, "
169. Bedford and Central, arm,
514 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 1 70. Canal and Merrimack, arm.
171. Canal and Middle, "
172. Canal and Stark, "
173. Canal and Mechanic,
174. Canal and Spring, "
175. Canal and Bridge, "
176. McGregor bridge, east, pole.
177. Canal and Hollis, "
178. Canal and Dean, "
179. Canal and Langdon, arm.
180. River road and North, "
181. Amoskeag bridge, east, ^ "
1 82. Amoskeag bridge, west, "
183. Amoskeag watering-trough, pole.
184. Amoskeag brick store, "
185. McGregor and Main, "
186. McGregor and Bridge, "
187. McGregor bridge, west, "
188. Amory and Main, "
189. Amory and Beauport, "
190. Wayne and Beauport, "
191. Marion and Main, "
192. McGregor and Wayne, "
193. McGregor and Putnam, arm.
194. Sullivan and Main, pole.
195. Beauport and Sullivan, "
196. Main anil Schuyler, "
197. Wilton and Main, "
198. Douglas and Main, arm.
199. Douglas and Barr, "
200. Granite and Green, "
201. West and Granite, ''
202. Granite and Main, "
203. Granite and Second, "
204. Granite bridge, west, pole.
205. School and Turner, arm.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 515
No.
206. School and Third,
arm.
207. Second and Bath,
pole.
208. Ferry and Turner,
arm.
209. Ferry and Third,
"
210. Walker and Second,
"
211. Blaine and Third,
"
212. Clinton and Main,
"
213. Walker and Main,
it
214. Parker and West,
t(
215. Winter and Parker,
a
216. Main and Mast,
pole.
217. Main and Milford,
arm.
21S. Main and A,
"
219. Carroll and Milford,
"
220. Old Mast road and Mast,
((
221. Hall and Amherst,
"
222. Laurel and Maple,
"
223. Central and Wilson,
"
224. Harrison and Pine,
"
225. Massabesic and Belmont,
pole.
226. Union and Appleton,
arm.
227. Elm and railroad crossing,
pole.
228. Franklin and Pleasant,
arm.
229. Elm and Appleton,
((
230. Milford and Riddle,
(t
231. Nutt road and Portsmouth railroad.
pole.
232. Lake avenue and Canton,
"
233. Laurel and Hall,
arm.
234. Beech and Brook,
((
235. Kidder and Boyden,
pole.
236. Myrtle and Walnut,
arm.
237. Bridge and Linden,
"
238. Lowell and Ashland,
((
239. Lowell and Belmont,
"
240. Pearl and Union,
((
241. Salmon and Union,
pole.
516 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No.
242. Water,
arm.
243. Arlington and Ashland,
"
244. Orange and Oak,
u
245. Prospect and Oak,
"
246. Arlington and Russell,
"
247. Gore and Walnut,
"
248. Laurel and Milton,
"
249. Massabesic — Hospital,
pole.
250. Lake avenue and Wilson,
arm.
251. Bridge and Ash,
"
252. Hanover and Highland,
pole.
253. Franklin and Depot,
arm.
254. Spruce and Union,
"
255. East High and Malvern,
"
256. Beech and Auburn,
pole.
257. Kidder and Whitney,
"
258. Valley and Jewett,
iS
259. Concord and Derry,
li
260. Auburn and Union,
"
261. Harrison and Walnut,
arm.
262. West Hancock and Second,
pole.
263. Douglas and West,
"
264. Hooksett road, Amoskeag,
"
265. Prospect and Ash,
arm.
266. Salmon and Canal,
pole.
267. Harrison and Russell,
"
268. Gates and Dubuque,
"
269. Parker and Elm,
"
270. Auburn and Maple,
"
271. Salmon and Pine,
"
272. Appleton and Adams,
"
273. Clark and River road,
arm,
274. Amoskeag eddy, south.
pole.
275. Elm east back, between Spruce and Cedar,
"
276. Cass and Lake avenue,
K
277. Riddle and Mast,
"
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 517
No. 278. Brown avenue and Baker, arm.
279. Brown avenue and Hancock, pole.
280. Clark and Union, arm.
281. Prospect and Linden, pole.
282. Brook and Maple, "
283. Brook and Hazel, "
284. Webster and Walnut, "
285. Chestnut and Ray brook, , "
286. Webster and River road, "
287. Market and Canal, arm.
288. Concord and Beech, "
289. Pearl and Morrison, pole.
290. Concord and Hall, arm.
291. Merrimack and Belmont, "
292. Spruce and Beacon, "
293. Belmont and Grove, "
294. Bowman, "
295. Amory and Rimmon, pole.
296. Manchester and Milton, "
297. Valley and Pine, "
298. Mammoth and Candia roads, "
299. Cypress and Hay ward, "
300. Conant and Rimmon, "
301. Cartier and Kelley, "
302. Monmouth and McGregor back, "
303. Calef road and Welch avenue, "
304. Valley and Taylor, arm.
305. Pine and Brook, "
306. Conant and Beauport, "
307. Douglas and North Weare Railroad, pole.
308. Orange and Hall, "
309. Wayne and Dubuque, arm.
310. Putnam and Cartier, "
311. Hall road and Lake avenue, pole.
312. Walker and Fourth, arm.
313. Winter, near Main, "
314. Walker and Turner, pole.
518 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 315. Ainsworth avenue and Young street, arm.
316. Valley and Belmont, "
317. Pine and Grove, "
318. Blaine and Second, "
319. Amory and Morgan, "
320. Amory and Alsace, "
321. East High and South, "
322. Blaine and Main, "
323. Dover and Clinton, "
324. Elm back street on Blodget, "
325. B and C, pole.
326. Milford and Bismarck, "
327. Merrimack and Wilson, arm.
328. Pennacook and Canal, pole.
Gas-Lights in Use.
Clarke and Chestnut.
Clarke and River road.
Elm, near Ray brook.
Monroe.
Appleton, west end.
Salmon, between Elm and Canal.
Canal, near paper mill.
Blodget and Chestnut.
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.
Pearl and Maple.
Arlington and Maple.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 519
East High and Maple.
Lowell and South.
Lowell and Jane.
Amherst and Ashland.
Lowell and Hall.
Concord and Belmont.
Amherst and Belmont.
Amherst and Beacon.
Lowell and Beacon.
East High and Belmont.
Harrison and Oak.
Harrison and Maple.
Harrison and Ash.
Belmont and Central.
Maple and Cedar.
Willow and Merrill.
Two lights on South Elm.
Auburn and Franklin.
Three lights on State.
River, near Turner Hall.
Milford and Bowman.
Milford and B.
River and Douglas.
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.
Two lights on Mechanic.
Spring.
Manchester and Belmont.
Hanover and Milton.
One light on River road, corner Shasta.
Hanover and Belmont.
520 • ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Oil Lights in Use.
Clarke and Adams.
Concord and Beacon.
East High and Hall.
Pearl and Linden.
Canal, near Amoskeag bridge.
Merrimack and Beacon.
Hanover and Mammoth road.
Lake avenue and Hall road.
Elm and Shasta.
Elm and Baker.
One light on Baker.
Douglas and West.
Douglas and Quincy.
Granite and Quincy.
Mast road and Riddle.
Carroll.
Bowman.
A and B streets.
Light near the Huntress gardens.
Mammoth road and Cohas avenue.
" " and Island Pond road.
" " and Cilley.
" " and Young.
Massabesic and Hall road.
Massabesic and Taylor.
Belmont and Green.
Valley and Taylor.
Valley and Cypress.
Cypress and Prout avenue.
Jewett and Young.
Young and Taylor.
Three lights on River road, south of Blue store.
Ten lights in Goffe's Falls.
Three lights in Youngsville.
One light on Candia road, near Noah Reed's.
ELECTRIC LIGHTS, GAS LIGHTS, AND OIL LAMPS. 521
One light on Candia road, near Walter Cody's house.
One light at junction of Lake avenue and Hanover.
One light on Island Pond road, Mill-Dam House.
One light at junction Ainsworth avenue and Young road.
One light at junction Ainsworth avenue and Young street.
One light on Taylor, near Byron Stearns's house.
One light on Taylor, near Gilmore's house.
One light on Valley, near Eastman's store.
One light on Candia road, at P. Rogers's.
One light on Candia road, at Dan Cronin's.
One light on Candia road, at G. Bean's.
One light on Candia road, at C. Francis's.
One light on Candia road, at S. Mead's.
One light on Candia road, at Claflin's.
One light on Hanover, at Sam Page's.
One light at junction of Hanover and Page.
One light at Brown's.
One light at junction of Hanover and Proctor.
One light at junction of Hanover and Candia road.
One light at junction of Proctor and Candia roads.
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
REPORT OF CITY AUDITOR.
To the City Councils :
Gentlemen, — The Auditor herewith submits to your honora-
ble body his fourth annual report.
WORK OF THE OFFICE.
There have been made during the year the usual examinations
of the treasurer's accounts, 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 superintendents of Pine Grove
and Valley cemeteries, and of the treasurer of the cemeteries,
annual examination of the accounts of the superintendent of
the city farm, monthly examination of the accounts of the
weigher at the city scales, quarterly examinations of the accounts
of city marshal, semi-annual exammation of the account of the
clerk of the police court.
Six thousand sixty-nine bills against the city have been exam-
ined and certified as correct. All the pay-rolls for the twelve
highway districts, for the schools, for the fire department, the
water-works, the police department, the cemeteries, and the city
officials have been examined and certified to.
Twelve monthly drafts, amounting in the aggregate to ^1,257,-
560.68, have been drawn on the city treasury.
Accounts have been kept with all the appropriations, with the
treasurer, and the tax collector.
There have been type written in this office 234 letters, etc.,
for the mayor ; 433 letters and other documents for city auditor ;
78 letters, etc., for use of committees. Four hundred and thirty-
seven circulars were also sent to bankers concerning the city's
bonds.
526 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
EXPENDITURES.
The amount of the appropriation for auditor's depart-
ment was ........ §2,000.00
There was expended for salary of auditor . g 1,000.00
There was expended for salary of clerks . 636.00
There was expended for supplies . . 318.50
Balance 45-50
$2,000.00
The auditor returns his thanks to the mayor and the city coun-
cils and heads of departments for their uniform courtesy and
kindness.
Respectfully submitted.
JAMES B. STRAW,
Auditor.
REPORT OF CITY TREASURER.
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, 1893,
and find proper vouchers for all payments, and all receipts are
duly accounted for.
The net cash on hand January i, 1893, was . . $96,477.18
Receipts during the year 1,277,858.91
$1,374,336-09
Amount of drafts during the year . . . $1,257,560.68
Net cash on hand December 31, 1893 . . . 116,775.41
^1,374,336-09
REPORT OF CITY TREASURER. 527
The cash balance taken December 31, 1893, ^ ^"d ^o ^^ as
follows :
Deposited in Suffolk National Bank . . -. ^19,032.00
First National Bank .... 13,066.22
Manchester National Bank . 11,329.40
Amoskeag National Bank . . 18,243.66
Merchants' National Bank . . 14,913.46
National Bank of the Commonwealth 7,033.94
Granite State Trust Company . . 6,511.24
ofifice safe 60,443.83
Gross amount of cash on hand . . . ^150,573.75
Deduct amount of bills unpaid .... 33i798-34
Net cash on hand December 31, 1893 ■ $1^6,775.41
The accounts for the year ending December 31, 1893, of the
city clerk, of the superintendent of schools, of the tax collector,
of the water-works, of the city marshal, of the clerk of the police
court, of the superintendent of the Pine Grove cemetery, of the
superintendent of the Valley cemetery, of the treasurer of the
cemetery trustees, of the superintendent of the city farm, and of
the weigher at the city scales, have each and all been carefully
examined, and the income from these sources, as shown by the
said books, has been deposited with the city treasurer, and ap-
pears in his accounts.
Respectfully submitted.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
Dr.
To water bonds, high service, A .... $100,000.00
water bonds, high service, B . . . . 100,000.00
premium on water bonds .... 6,090.00
improvement bonds loo^ooo.oo
528
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
To temporary loan
city hall, rents
B. A. Stearns, superintendent of Pine Grove
cemetery ......
S. B. Putnam, lots sold, Pine Grove cemetery
sewers and drains, on account Pine Grove cem
etery .......
water rents ......
C. H. G. Foss, Valley cemetery
E. G. Libbey, city farm ....
L. M. Streeter, city farm ....
C. M. Floyd & Co., overdraft, city farm
Dodge & Laing, overdraft, city farm
Manchester Slaughtering and Rendering Co.
overdraft, city farm ....
Security Live Stock Insurance Co., city farm
horse
J. S. Bodkins, overdraft, paupers off the farm
Wadleigh Hardware Co., goods returned
County of Hillsborough, board of inmates at
the Industrial School ....
District No. 3 pay-roll, overdraft, draft No. 7
1892
. J. L. Hosmer, labor, sewers and drains .
C. R. Crossett, overdraft
George E. Morrill, two chairs sold .
dog licenses for 189 1
dog licenses for 1893 ....
billiard table licenses ....
Michael Connor, cost in suit against the city
American Live Stock Insurance Co., fire de
partment horse .....
George E. Morrill, money received for the re
demption of land sold for taxes in 1890
1 89 1, and 1892 .
M. J. Healy, police 'department
$225,000.00
2,240.00
1,982.87
1,796.65
6.77
104,170.08
2,000.36
2,628.31
87.23
15-25
18.75
27.52
150.00
8.00
6.30
1,457-36
3.00
20.50
.20
•75
3.88
1,870.91
50.00
18.00
100.00
1,998.41
6,967.92
REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER.
529
To J. C. Bickford, police department .
William E. Buck, free text-books sold
William E. Buck, tuition
town of Londonderry, school tax, 1892 .
town of Londonderry, school tax, 1893 .
Thomas Welch, old wheels sold, city farm
Mead, Mason & Co., sewer pipe
Abbie M. Sawtelle, overdraft, land damages
show licenses .....
Charles S. Bailey, peddler's license
Israel Saidel, peddler's license
Wolf Segal, peddler's license .
Solomon Kaflan, peddler's license .
H. B. Fairbanks, two lawn mowers sold .
Mark E. Harvey, old plank sold
A. E. Herrick, money received from sundry
persons ....
County of Hillsborough, one half costs and
fines in Shirley milk suit
H. D. Lord, rents on E. M. Slayton property
District No. 10, overdraft. November pay-roll,
1893, Nos. 24 and 26 .
Solon A. Carter, state treasurer, insurance tax
" " " " " railroad tax
" " " " " savings bank tax
" " " " " literary fund
James Nolan, overdraft, district No. 7, draft
No. 7, 1890 ....
Arthur Marvel, overdraft, commons
Fred Bourassa, overdraft, commons
sewer licenses
milk licenses
city scales ....
trustees cemetery fund, bonds sold
rent of tenements .
taxes for the year 1888 .
$1,364.82
233-23
442.75
33-15
42.87
15.00
3-04
167.18
77-50
20.00
20.00
20.00
20.00
1.50
•75
399-95
55-00
50.00
9-75
4,900.50
25>743-o5
82,644.77
6,940.42
6.00
4-50
6.00
1,700.00
62.00
506.35
6,000.00
406.23
2.50
530
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
To taxes for the year
1889 ....
$5-70
•' "
1890 ....
26.59
a
"
1891 ....
161. 51
u
"
1892, cash .
27,636.96
"
"
1892, abatement
2,197.81
"
"
1893, cash .
455.636.94
'•
"
1893, abatement .
947.29
interest o
1 taxes
receipts
628.33
Total
$1,277,858.96
Cash on hand January i, 1893 .
124,575-53
Unpaid bills
January
I, 1894 .
33>798-29
$1
,436,232.78
Cr.
By unpaid bills, January i, 1893
$28,098.35
January draft,
1893, No. I
$40,401.82
February ' '
" 2
31,529.21
March
3
40,336-87
April "
4
44,391-90
May "
5
71,754.22
June
6
75,629.12
July
7
72,911.69
August "
8
103,559.19
September ' '
9
89,185.23
October
" 10
79,771.10
November ' '
" II
140,778.72
December "
" 12
467,311.61
Total drafts
. I
,257,560.68
Total drafts and unpaid b
lis . . . $1
,285,659.03
Cash on hand Janu
ary i, 1S94 .
$1
^50,573-75
,436,232.78
SYLVi^
lNUS B. PUTNAM,
67/)' Treasurer.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES. 531
STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDI-
TURES OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER
FOR THE YEAR 1893.
Receipts.
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Received from :
Direct city taxes . . . .$425,538-75
Cost and interest on taxes . . 628.33
$426,167.08
Licenses to enter sewer . . $1,700.00
Licenses to keep dog . . . 1,874.79
Licenses to sell milk . . . 62.00
Licenses to keep billiard table . 50.00
Licenses to shows and exhibitions 77-5o
Licenses to peddle . . 80.00
3,844.29
Rents ...... . . 2,696.23
$432,707.60
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTMENT.
Received from :
City scales $506.35
Miscellaneous sources . . . 583.06
$1,089.41
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Received from text-books and tuition . . . $752.00
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Received from court fines and costs . . . $8,350.74
532 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
PUBLIC PLACES.
Received from :
Pine Grove cemetery . . . $3,779.52
Valley cemetery .... 2,000.36
$5»779-88
WATER-WORKS.
Gross receipts ....... $104,170.03
CHARITABLE, PATRIOTIC, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Received from:
City farm ..... $2,927.06
Hillsborough county, boarding pau-
pers ...... 1,512.36
$4,439.42
MISCELLANEOUS.
Received from :
Premium on water bonds sold . $6,090.00
Land redeemed from tax sale . . 1,998.41
Other miscellaneous sources . . 176.13
,264.54
Total ordinary receipts during the year 1893 $665,553.62
TEMPORARY LOAN.
Received from :
Loans in anticipation of tax of 1893 $200,000.00
Loans in anticipation of tax of 1894 25,000.00
$225,000.00
STATE.
Received from :
Insurance taxes .... $4,900.50
Railroad taxes .... 25,743.05
Savings bank taxes . . . 82,644.77
Literary fund .... 6,940.42
$120,228.74
EXPENDITURES.
533
COUNTY.
Received from direct tax on city property
BONDED DEBT.
Received from :
Improvement bonds sold
Water bonds sold
Cemetery bonds sold .
Gross receipts
Net cash on hand
$100,000.00
200,000.00
6,000.00
$61,076.55
$306,000.00
$1,277,858.91
96,477.18
$i;374,336-o9
Expenditures.
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Interest.
Paid interest on water bonds .
interest on city bonds
interest on cemetery bonds
interest on temporary loan,
ticipation tax, 1893
interest on temporary loan,
ticipation tax, 1894
$30,102.00
15,826.00
1,041.66
5,961.42
1,611.80
Paid city hall ....
$2,164.08
printing and stationery .
1,96048
incidental expenses .
20,124.60
mayor's incidentals .
144-90
city officers' salaries
• i3>849-93
city auditor's department
1,954-50
sinking fund trustees
5,000.00
^54,542.
45,198.49
534
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTMENT.
Paid highway district No. i
$399.81
highway district No. 2
i3>io7-65
highway district No. 3
299.36
highway district No. 4
499.05
highway district No. 5
804.63
highway district No. 6
583-76
highway district No. 7
1,776.21
highway district No. 8
976.62
highway district No. 9
486.53
highway district No. 10 .
5,302.22
highway district No. 11 .
1.259-75
highway district No. 12 .
308.71
Paid incidental expenses .
$514.39
new highways .
17,149-71
land taken for highways .
16,182.41
watering streets
5,338.14
paving streets .
9,847-87
macadamizing streets
21,265.13
grading for concrete
6,440.52
scavenger service
19,000.88
street sweeping
1,430.76
lighting streets
40,517-97
bridges ....
4,453-73
city teams
9,733-48
* repairs and maintenance of sew
ers .
8,294.15
new sewers
43,097.86
widening Elm street
3,274-33
Second-street bridge
52,036.06
$25,804.30
258,577-39
ENGINEER S DEPARTMENT.
Paid engineer's department
$5,648.84
EXPENDITUKE6.
535
HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
Paid health department
$3)253-13
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Paid repairs of schoolhouses
^5,263.08
fuel
5,180.15
furniture and supplies
925.27
books and stationery
71-93
printing and advertising .
411.80
contingent expenses
2,137.21
care of rooms ....
4,135-69
evening schools
1,257.20
teachers' salaries
59,437-65
salaries school committee, clerk,
truant officer
1,050.00
salary of superintendent .
2,150.00
evening school of mechanical
drawing ....
532.37
free text-books
4,456.68
manual training
1,091.56
CITY LIBRARY.
Paid city library
100.59
^5,149.62
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid fire department
fire-alarm telegraph
firemen's parade
hydrant service
aerial truck
$46,501.31
1,813.25
500.00
12,750.00
3,634-10
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Paid police department . . . ,
$65,198.66
$42,643.74
536
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Paid repairs of buildings . . . ^3,996.62
addition, city farm buildings 2,598.83
ward-room, ward five . . 725-37
Pearl-street schoolhouse . . 8,879.05
new schoolhouse, ward nine 100.00
new schoolhouse, Hallsville . 3,796.84
addition Webster-street school-
house ..... 2,575.00
Fulton engine-house, ward nine 21,755.23
repairs, Vine-street hook-and-
ladder .... 1,860.12
stable, highway district No. 10 1,163.69
WATER-WORKS.
P4/,^5^-/5
Paid water-works .... $166,275.92
water-works, sinking fund . 12,750.00
$179,025.92
PUBLIC PLACES.
Paid commons .... $4)53S-43
Stark park .... 4,054-28
Derryfield park . . . 1,152.86
Pine Grove cemetery . . 8,883.45
Valley cemetery . . . 3,079.50
Amoskeag cemetery . . . 502.97
(too or t An
PATRIOTIC, CHARITABLE, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Paid paupers off the farm . . $7,545-63
city farm .... 9,023.37
indigent soldiers . . . 246.25
Women's Aid & Relief Hospital 600.00
free beds, Elliot Hospital . 600.00
INTEREST. 537
Paid decoration of soldiers' graves . $342.98
militia ..... 900.00
Sacred Heart Hospital . . 260.00
gi9;5i8.23
ABATEMENTS.
Paid abatement of taxes ... . . $3,145.10
Total of ordinary municipal expenditures . $865,469.13
TEMPORARY LOAN.
Paid loan made in anticipation of tax for 1893 . $200,000.00
BONDED DEBT.
Paid city bonds issued November i, 1863 . . $65,400.00
STATE AND COUNTY TAXES.
Paid state tax . . . . . $65,615.00
county tax ... . 61,076.55
$126,691.55
Grand total of expenditures during the year $1,257,560.68
Cash on hand Dec. 31, 1893 . . $150,573-75
Less unpaid bills .... 33)798-34
Net cash on hand ... . . 116,775.41
$15374,336-09
Interest.
Appropriation . . . . $24,500.00
Transferred from water-works . . 30,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund . 42.88
554,542.
538 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
Paid National Bank of the Common-
wealth, discount on two notes
of $25,000 each, six months
ten days, at 4. 7 per cent . $1,240.21
National Bank of the Common-
wealth, discount on three
notes of $50,000 each, seven
months three days, at 4^ per
cent 1,294.20
Alonzo Elliott, discount on eight
notes of $10,000 each, four
notes of $5,000 each ; in all,
$100,000, due Dec. i, 1893 . 3,427.01
R. L. Day & Co., discount on
four notes of $5,000 each, five
notes of $1,000 each ; in all,
$25,000, dated Oct. 2, 1893,
and payable Dec. i, 1894, at
53^ per cent . . . 1,611.80
coupons on water bonds , 30,102.00
coupons on city bonds . . 15,82600
coupons on cemetery bonds . 1,041.66
Payment of Funded Debt.
Receipts.
Appropriation .... $5,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund . 70,000.00
$54,542.
$75,000.00
To enter
To keen
■log.
«:■
S
$1,013.40
$1,361.16
$49.50
$.37.50
2,10:i..50
2,155.58
66.50
315.00
3,126.05
2,060.97
66.50
400.00
1,700.00
1,874.79
62.00
50.00
Hillsboi'o
266.00
1.57.50
P2,871.63
$2,462.32
2,887.29
i;783.72
3,130.97
2,468.11
2,696.23
2,927.06
$2,201.57 : $1,747.50 ■ $5,670.00 $678.95 I $2,500.00
1,789.10 1,926.96 '
1,192.93 4,410.15 2,178.00 1 950.00
.,512.S
1.00
Iti-idgG-s. I City scales
$434,09 1 $4«7.45
4.45 I 415.67
' 521.12
I 606.35
$4,699.47 $2,/
4,920.60 I .3,n
EXPEND
™th..bsx.
P
li
1.
it
1
1
Police (lepart-
8THBET AND 8EWEB DEPARTMENT.
YEAR.
: "Kondsl"^
On city
bonds:
On
cemetery
"Virn"-
Repairs ot
highways.
big^siys. iErs.s.
Land
damages.
Spvinkling
Paving.
Macadamiz.
ing.
0™\f"B Scavenger Street
"-- 3% '"-^r"
CI
in:«i..' .$34,177.00
i-H . 32,093.00
l-ii'.. :ll,0i;9.00
l^'.i.:.. 30,102.00
$15,771.00
15,.584.00
15,929.00
15,826.00
$567.50
729.35
925.48
1,041.06
$11,820.82
4,659.34
3,772.14
7,573.22
$2,058.18
2,304.62
2,239.62
1,960.48
$17,380.91*
15,639.62
25,129.05
20,638.99
$188.00
234.25
221.80
144 90
$13,489.41t
11,768.45
14,124.18
13,849.93
$2,741.79
1,380.37
2,193.60
2,164.08
$1,699.51
1,930.07
1,954.50
$37,096.16
37,937.07
40,406.28
42,643.74
$21,045.45
22,850.29
24,647.25
25,804.30
.$9,075.61 '
14,448.09
24,038.08
17,149.71 $3,274.33
$858.16
5,704.45
11,601.73
16,182.41
$7,693.00
6,364.26
4,.5.52.29
5,338.14
$6,633.75
6,511.80
7,540.11
9,847.87
$20,925.52
19,616.23
16,083.83
21,265.13
$5,089.86 $15,958.46 $1,237.08
5,532.84 j 18,892.25 1,198.31
5,564.90 1 15,555.31 1,293.79
6,440.62 19,000.88 ! 1,430.76
$41,099.64 I $3,879.68
42,908.78 1 2,672.26
38,746.31 3,133 68
40.517.97 4.453.73 $52,036.06
$6
«
9
cxpensea and carried t
1 to school depai-I n
FliaS DEPJ
UTMENT.
LDIHGS.
WATER-WOn,<».
PUBLIC PLACES.
V
i
at
!i
E
i
1
|l
$755.32
441.55
500.00
j
\
|-^
PI
1
S3
i-
2a
m
Ill
ill
It
%
II
ll
II
li
Sinking fund.
1
1
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1
i
i
Mainto.
.XL.
a'
j
\K'.«>
$41,409.53
40,641.04
42,202.88
60,135.41
$1,586.43
1,154.06
1,209.02
1,813.25
$18,080.00
6,000.00
$4,443.87
2,466.96
2,892.75
6,8.i6.74
$5,994.02
$43,704.11
1,128.70
100.00
$5,138.80
2,676.00
$20,759.26
8,845.61
3,796.84
1
$33,403.09
49,625.66
49,945.35
160,275.82
$4,214.03
2,400.76
3,726.64
4,638.43
.$00.75
371.81
1,.500.25
4,054.28
$8,000.00
$6.017..54
6.941.34
6,840.97
8,883.45
$620.29
$2,789.86
2,794.79
2.982.85
3,079.50
1«91
$520.(;
1WI2
1,163.69
$2,598.83
$2,000.00
$870.00
21,756.23
$2,490.00
$084.48
$12,750.00
295.
1893
....
12,750.00
$8,879.05
$725.37
RECEIPTS.
=
$4,699.47
4,920.60
cemetery.
celSlJy.
1
LOANS. 1 TAXES RECEIVED FBOM THE STATE.
«- B.ldgcs. City scales.
street <le-
partment
■"--■"
Comt lines
and costs.
works. easli on hand.
Temporary.
county
Bonded. ■
Insurance
1
Railroad ; Savings
tax. banktSi.
^a^
coim"y tS,
receipts dur-
SEd
80! $484,09 1 $487.46
74 1 4.45 415.67
521 ' 521.12
19 506.35
$2,700.69
3,047.58
$428.75
459.45
576.76
752.00
.$6,939.57
7,962.04
9,716.57
8,350.74
$4,423.37
4,593.77
4,708.58
3,779.52
$1,300.00 $90,463.37 ; $542,987.95
1,.W0.00 76,605.23 506,095.11
1,800.00 ; 83.474.79 558.073.68
$100,000.00
210,000.00
160,000.00
225,000.00
$102,900.00 $46,0.32.47
6,000.00 46,032.47
101,150.00 61,076.55
306,000.00 61,076.55
$3,752.25
3,920.26
4.199.26
4,900.50
8121,443.72
22,059.03
25,849.65
25,743.05
$68,392.94
73,275.55
78,101.94
82,644.77
$4,604.70
5,287.50
6,010.88
$347,026.08
365,674.80
426,388.27
712,305.29
$969,863.36
951,221.93
1,077,651.99
1.374,336.14
2,000.36
104,170.08 665,553.67
6,940.42
EXPENDITURES.
Lighting I "^"o^"!'
* ""^^ ■*■ I tenance.
$41,099.64 i $3,879.68 .
42,908.78 ( 2,672.25
.S8,746.31 ' 3,133 68
40,517.97 1 4,4.53.73
Secc^d^reet
City teams.
$5,246.19
5,290.73
6,129.08
$52,036.06
9,733.48
Repairs of
drains.
$39,297.97t
55,409.7.3t
39,724.65t
8,294.15
$3,221.89 $1,5.57.38 $4,119.76
3,499.90 I 1,964.00 I 4,044.86
4,160.61 2,424.01
5,648.84 1 3,253.13
4,995.01
5,263.08
Knel.
$3,703.32
4,673..54
4,297.40
5,180.15
$675.15 $141.85
Printinfi: i Contin'
ind adver
tlslng.
ex" Carcot
$389.05 : $8.30.10
396.10 931.92
$3,376.75 $1,254.81
3,715.75 ' 1,064.63
1,229.99 j 4,0.50.77 \ 973.93
2,137.21 4,136.69 I 1,267.20
salaiies.
$46,404.87 $l,020.00t «2,000.00t
49,398.52 1,030.00 1 2,000.00
54,660.36 1,030.00 ; 2,000.00
59,437.65 1 1,050.00 ; 2,150.00
J9,005.11
3,210.73
$3,239.88 $1,000.01
3,525.73 1,000.01
3,868.44 j 1,000.01
4,149.63 1, 000.01
EXPENDITURE:S.-coNTiNtjED.
.
UBLIC PLACES.
1
lOTISM.PH.
ANTHBOr,
.axahate.
Total of ordi.
nary iiiuiiiclpa
expenditures.
funded debt.
TcTiipornry
— •
county tax.
Total ot loan
IS"""
Grand total ot
expenditures.
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if
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i
5
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J
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1
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cash on
hand.
n
$5,017.54
5,941.34
6,840.97
8,888.45
$520.29
$2,789.86
2,794.79
2,982,85
3,079..50
$.520.00
295.22
$409.07
600.05
1,152.86
$60.35'
178.09
502.97
$99.:S5
$4,336.46
4,928.24
5.726.94
7,545.63
$7,467.-30
6,512.89
8,269.17
9,023.37
$737.82
906.40
261 .46
246.25
$374.27
333.54
321.75
342.98
$400.00
400.00
600.00
600.00
$600.00
600.00
900.00
600.00
$260.00
$500.00
$2,999.39
2,557.24
2,794.53
3,145.10
$580,943.87
.568,464.32
574,683.26
865,469.13
$99,900.00
100.00
99,900.00
65,400.00
1 i i 1
$63,435.00
63,435.00
65,616.00
65,615.00
$40,032.47
46,032.47
61,070.55
61,07055
$309,367.47
289,567.47
406,.591.65
392,091.55
$890,311.34
8.58.031.79
981,174.81
1,257,560.68
$79,552.02
$875.00
900.00 i
900.00 j
93.190.14
96,477.18
116,775.46
RESERVED FUND.
Expenditures.
539
Paid city bonds, issued Oct. 31, 1863,
and due Nov. i, 1893 .
Transferred to sinking fund
Balance to new account .
$65,400.00
5,000.00
4,600.00
Sinking Fund.
Transferred from payment of funded debt
Expenditures.
Paid trustees of sinking fund
ReservedFund-
Receipts
$75,000.00
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
Appropriation .
$20,000.00
Transfers from the following accounts :
Printing and stationery
^239.52
Mayor's incidentals
155-^0
Auditor's department .
45-50
Highway district No. i
.19
" " " 3
.64
4
•95
6
16.24
" - - 7
23-79
8
23.38
9
13-47
Lighting streets .
1,482.03
Widening Elm street .
425.67
Care of rooms
164.31
540
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Teachers' salaries
$562.35
Evening school of mechanical draw-
ing
67.63
Manual training .
108.44
Pine Grove cemetery
116.55
Goffe's Falls cemetery
100.00
Amoskeag cemetery
47-03
Indigent soldiers .
53-75
Stable, district No. lo
.21
Engine house, ward 3
1,200.00
Balance of rents received from water
-
works prior to Jan. i, 1893(^40,
-
209.40) and other free cash in
treasury .
. 92,032.23
$96,878.98
$116,878.
Expenditures.
By transfers to the following accounts :
Interest .
Payment of funded debt
City hall .
Incidental expenses .
City officers' salaries
Highway District No. 2
" 5
" " 10
\< " " II
" " " 12
New highways .
Damage for land taken for
Watering streets
Paving streets .
Macadamizing streets
Grading for concrete .
Scavenger service
highways
$42.88
70,000.00
64.08
51638-99
1,049.93
1,107.65
4-63
302.22
48.04
100.50
1,264.59
4,182.41
60.95
166.15
15.00
34.86
2,586.65
RESERVED FUND,
541
Street sweeping ....
$32.00
Bridges
180.44
City teams
939.02
Repairs of sewers . . . .
3'755-83
New sewers
3,097.86
Second-street bridge . . . .
2,906.21
Engineer's department
860.96
Health department . . . .
253-13
Repairs of schoolhouses
475-S3
Fuel
4.50
Furniture and supplies
100.85
Printing and advertising .
29-35
Contingent expenses . . . .
232.05
Evening schools
57.20
Free text- books ....
153-54
Fire department
1,501-31
Fire alarm telegraph .
413-25
Aerial truck ....
134.10
Police department
2,643.74
Repairs of buildings .
796.62
Addition, city farm buildings
598.83
Fulton engine-house .
3>i25.23
Repairs, Vine-street hook-and-laddei
house
60.12
Stable, District No. lo
1,163.90
Widening Elm street
1,700.00
Commons .....
302.10
Valley cemetery
79-5°
Paupers off the farm .
^ 2,545.63
City farm
2,023.37
Decoration of soldiers' graves .
42.98
$
116,878.98
542 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Temporary Loan.
Receipts.
Received from Alonzo Elliott, on eight
notes of $10,000 each, and
four notes of $5,000 each,
dated June 28, 1 893, and due
December i, 1893, at Inter-
national Trust Co., Boston,
Mass. .... $100,000.00
from National Bank of the
Commonwealth, on two notes
of $20,000 each, and one
note of $10,000 ; all dated
May I, 1893, and payable
December i, 1893, ^^ Mar-
ket National Bank, Boston,
Ma-ss. .... 50,000.00
from National Bank of the
Commonwealth,on two notes
of $25,000 each, dated May
24, 1893, and payable De-
cember I, 1893 . . . 50,000.00
from R. L. Day & Co., Bos-
ton, Mass., on four notes of
$5,000 each and five notes
of $1,000 each, all dated Oc-
tober 2, 1893, and payable
December i, 1894 . . 25,000.00
$225,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid Alonzo Elliott or order, at the In-
ternational Trust Co., Boston,
Mass., eight notes of $10,000
each, and four notes of $5,000
each, notes dated June 28, 1893,
and due December i, 1893 . $100,000.00
CITY HALL. 543
Paid Market National Bank, Boston,
Mass., two notes of ^20,000
each, and one note of $10,000;
all dated May i, 1893 • • $50,000.00
Third National Bank, Boston,
Mass., two notes of $25,000
each, dated May 24, 1893, and
payable December i, 1893 . 50,000.00
Balance to new account . . . 25,000.00
-$225,000.00
City Hall.
Appropriation ..... $2,100.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 64.08
Expenditures,
public comfort.
Paid J. R. Carr & Co., paint and labor . $16.20
Pike & Heald, labor . . . 5.25
J. B. Varick Co., toilet paper, snow
shovels, brooms, 25 feet rubber
hose, etc. ..... 15-39
L. M. Aldnch, labor and lumber . 1.88
FUEL AND LIGHTS.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., for gas . $289.28
Manchester Electric Light Co., elec-
tric lights ..... 25.60
The Electric Company, electric
lights ..... 112. 10
$2,164.08
$38.72
544
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
59,980 pounds egg coal . ... $209.93
2 cords pine slabs .... 5.00
Paid Dunlap & Wason Coal Co., 90,230
pounds egg coal .... 293.25
$935-i6
WATER AND TELEPHONE.
Paid New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co., use of telephones . $75-96
Water-works, use of water to Octo-
ber I, 1893 .... 629.20
$705.16
Paid H. Giebel, decorating city hall
building .....
Paid The Thomas A. Lane Co. :
10 feet 3^ inch rubber hose and coup
ling
Packing and labor on steam valve
Labor on sewer under drug store
Labor and stock, treasurer's office
Paid M. J. Coleman, repairing water
closet .....
Paid Pike & Heald Co. :
Bracket, burner, and labor .
Plumbing materials and labor
Repairing boiler, radiator, etc.
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
Labor and lumber
Labor and lumber, changing windows
Paid Charles A. Hoitt & Co. :
Repairing chair, assessors' room .
$50.00
1.40
1.20
1.25
3-83
9-3°
2.20
56.98
5-25
.19.62
22.13
•50
CITY HALL.
545
4 desks, assessors' room
2 office chairs, assessors' room
I hassock, assessors' room .
I walnut chair, aldermen's room .
6 cuspidors, mayor's office .
Paid John B. Varick Co., ostrich duster,
yarn, packing needles, glass and
setting, rope, bolts, etc.
Mary Shiney, labor, cleaning offices
Clark M. Bailey, i case toilet paper
J. S. Holt & Co., soap .
F. H. Thurston, soap
Paid Charles H. Wood :
Painting sign, street commissioner's
office ......
Painting sign, city treasurer's office
Paid J. J. Holland, brush broom, soap,
city clerk's office
A. M. Finney, cleaning carpets, etc.
Paid John A.. Barker :
Extra night service, January 27 .
Extra help, July 4 . . .
Paid George Holbrook, clearing snow
from building
D. J. Adams, keys
Baker & O'Brien, paints and paint
ing, engineer's office .
Peter Harris, 3 Yale keys, city
clerk's office
A. M. Eastman, broom and soap
L. M. Aldrich, 9 feet wire cloth
L. M. Aldrich, 33^ hours' labor
Charles H. Robie Co., 33.78 square
yards concrete ....
$40.00
10.00
•45
7-5°
10.50
18.23
94.40
lO.CO
2-75
•25
2.00
4.00
•75
18.53
2.00
1. 00
34-25
1. 00
40.03
2.25
•75
.27
•44
546
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John Robbie Co., i pair towels . $0-50
J. R. Carr, i light glass and setting .65
Total expenditures
Appropriation
Printing and Stationery.
Expenditures.
ASSESSORS.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
27 tax books, 3 canvas covers
2 blank books, 2 canvas covers .
Pencils, pens, other stationery .
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Advertising assessors' notice, i^ inches,
2 weeks ......
Printing 30 ruled blanks (taxes) .
Paid Union Publishing Co., advertising
assessors' notice, 2 inches, 1 2 times
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid W. P. Goodman, 2 gross pens
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
I Carter's ink set . . .
1 blank book No. 3788
Stationer)' .....
2 blank books, Nos. 3792, 3870 .
Index and six blocks .
1 bottle ink ....
100 sheets money bands
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing
20,000 blank receipts ....
$485.04
$2,164.08
$2,200.00
$100.50
18.50
10.37
12.25
16.00
12.30
1. 00
10.50
.40
3- 40
.76
•75
•75
$169.92
$38.86
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
547
CITY CLERK.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
I blank book, No. 3790 . . . $8.92
I canvas cover ..... 1.25
I blank book, No. 3800 . . . 15-00
I blank book, No. 3801 . . . 12,00
1 blank book, No. 3802 . . . 10.50
2 canvas covers ..... 2.75
I leather cover ..... 3.00
Ink and rubber bands . . . 1.39
Envelopes, seals, rubber bands, blocks,
and other stationery . . . 32.55
Paid T- Arthur Williams :
Printing 600 blanks .... 4.25
920 postals, 13 lots . . 11-25
300 rosters . . . . 15-00
1,300 burial permits, blank
petitions, orders, etc. . 20.25
1,950 blanks of all kinds . 13-60
400 cards, carriage and job-
team licenses . . . 5.50
3,200 blanks, burial permits,
etc. . . . . . 13-10
Paid Sampson, Murdock & Co. :
I New England business directory . 6.00
25 city directories for 1894 . . 50.00
Paid Thomas H. Tuson, printing 500
blanks for city messenger . . . 2.30
;228.6t
CITY TREASURER.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.
I blank book, No. 3589
I canvas cover .
|;7-75
I. GO
548
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Penholders, erasers, rubber bands, etc. $8.38
Binding pay-rolls .... .81
I blank book, No. 3836 . 9.00
10,000 pay envelopes .... 7.50
I receipt book and canvas cover, No.
3885 11.25
Paid J. Arthur Williams, 500 postal cards
and printing 5.75
$51-44
CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester postoffice, postage stamps $ 1 7.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
Binding pay-rolls .... 3.00
Paste and paper ..... 1.20
2 blank books, No. 3825 . . . 5.00
I canvas cover ..... 1.25
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Binding 17 volumes city report, full
sheep ...... 19-79
Printing 1,000 slips .... 1.50
300 bonded debt statements . 9.00
300 circulars, notes, law, etc. 4.50
100 circulars . . . 1.25
10,000 blank bills . . 40.00
300 bill heads . . 4.50
1,500 bill heads . . . 14-25
1,000 bill heads, both sides 7.00
Typewriter paper .... .40
I pound man ilia paper . . . .10
Paid J. B. Straw, expense to Boston and
return, bond business . . 3.95
Kilburn & Cross, 4 electro cuts 4.15
$137-84
PRINTING AND STATIONERY, 549
CITY ENGINEER.
Paid Thomas H. Tuson, printing 25 pos-
tals and cards .... $0.65
A. S. Campbell & Co., 500 postals
and printing .... 6.85
SUNDRIES.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Printing 300 inaugural addresses, riiay-
or's office .....
Printing 200 envelopes, mayor's office
Printing 500 water-works act
Printing 200 circulars, bonded debt .
Printing 200 statements, bonded debt
Printing 1,400 annual reports
50 annual reports lettered
100 annual reports stamped with seal
Binding 150 annual reports, full sheep
Advertising notice, improvement bonds
for sale ......
Advertising notice, hack licenses
I pound manilla paper
Paid William E. Moore :
Printing 750 letter heads .
Printing 500 envelopes, mayor's office
Paid Manchester post-office, postage
stamps ...... 9.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.:
I record book ..... .75
I Shannon file, index, etc. . . . 1.33
Paid "Wall Street Daily News," adver-
tising notice, improvement bonds
for sale ..... 8.00
Thomas H. Tuson, printing 1,000
notices for city messenger . . 4.60
$26.50
•50
5-5°
2-75
7-50
,067.98
5.00
1. 00
150.00
8.50
5-25
.10
7-5°
2.25
^7-5°
550
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.:
Printing 40 postals ....
Printing 500 letter heads on bond paper
Paid R. Bechard :
500 envelopes and printing
1,000 letter heads ....
Paid W. P. Goodman, i gross pens, may-
or's offtce ......
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
S0.90
4-75
2.25
3-50
.90
— 51,326.31
. $1,960.48
239.52
Incidental Expenses.
$2,200.00
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
Transferred from reserved fund
:i5, 000.00
3,876.13
1,762.86
$20,638.99
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-rolls, in dis-
trict No.
January .
February
March
Ai)ril
May
June
July
August
September
$28.06
61.04
22.75
65-63
89.88
136.02
169.38
144.55
260.25
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
551
October .
November
December
$249-35
45.62
33-5°
$1,306-03
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.
Paid N. A. Avery .
.
$4-5°
D. S. Adams
6.00
0. D. Abbott
10.25
E. Bernier .
15-25
John L. Burnham
1.50
A. A. E. Brian
1.25
I. L. Carpenter
2.50
C. R. Crossett
3-45
N. L. Colby
13-25
Henry E. Cooke
4.25
Clarence M. Dodg
4.00
Mary S. Dan forth
6-75
C. W. Downing
3-75
Charles E. Dodge
7-75
E. B. Dunbar
5-50
George M. Davis
•50
C. F. Flanders
39-50
L. M. French
8.25
E. N. Fugere
29.00
George Frechette
11.00
J. E. Fortier
33-00
John Ferguson
31-75
Moise Guerin
1375
Pierre Hevey
29.50
J. A. Jackson
13.00
N. P. Kidder
425.40
M. E. Kean .
8.75
Urban Lamy
20.00
55*2
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
id P. G. Laberge
$15.00
A. Lessard ..... 4.00
J. E. Lemaitre
19-75
J. E. A. Lanouette
23.75
John J. Lyon
23-25
J. W. D. McDonald
18.75
J. W. Mooar .
1. 00
E. D. Mackey
21.00
W. H. Morrison
10.25
Frederick Perkins .
21.25
Albert Pick .
11-75
J. E. E. Roy
4-50
Florence Robinson
9-25
C. B. Sturtevant .
6.50
Zatie L. Straw
1.25
A. G. Straw .
3-25
E. Sylvain
24.50
Gillis Stark .
21.25
George D. Towne .
5-75
E. C. Tremblay .
9-50
Thomas Wheat
2.50
$1,011.35
DAMAGES AND JUDGMENTS.
Paid J. Oscar Burbank, on execution, per-
sonal damages ....
Francois Couteau, injury to property
I. L. Carpenter, case of John Lang-
ley
Walter R. Cox, damage to land
from culvert ....
Martin Connor, damage to person,
per agreement ....
F. & L. Desmoulins, injury to prop-
erty ......
$87.17
15.00
6.00
82.70
525.00
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 553
Paid Emerance Desilets, injury to person
on Central street . . . ^200.00
George Doherty, injury to person
on Cedar street .... 50. co
Harold E, Fife, damage to person,
per agreement . . . . 51.00
Wm. T. Gadbois, settlement of suit 800.00
Hospital of the Sacred Heart, board
of John Langley . . . 3.00
Amanda M. Hall, injury to person,
corner of Webster and Chestnut
streets ..... 144.00
Margaret Harrington, labor fur-
nished Mary Stanton . . . 2.60
Joseph Janelle, personal injury on
Amory street . . . . 40.00
M. E. Kean, medical services, cases
of G. W. Doherty and Mrs. Ed-
ward Stanton .... 123.00
M. Kelley, milk furnished Mary
Stanton . . . . . 6.20
Bridget Murray, personal injury . 50.00
Catherine McCarthy, settlement of
suit ...... 525.00
Paid Frederick Perkins :
Services, case of John Langley . . 10.00
Medical services, John Bohan . . 6.00
Paid S. Quinlan, personal injury on Pine
street ..... 240.00
J. P. Russell, fuel furnished Mary
Stanton . . . . . 3.75
J. Franklin Robinson, services, case
of William Linnehan . . . 16.00
C. F. Starr, damage to horse and
sleigh 100.00
554 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Mary Stanton, injury to person on
Central street .... $243.21
Patrick Williams, settlement of suit 200.00
Thomas Wheat, medical services . iS.oo
LEGAL EXPENSES.
Paid O. E. Branch, retainer and services
to August 16, 1893, in suit, City v.
Warren & Beede . . . $25.00
Paid county commissioners :
Hearing on highway in Goffstown and
Manchester ..... 58.20
Discontinuance of highway . . 38.20
Hearing for new highway . . . 202.90
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co., printing and
stationery for city solicitor . . 7.40
John B. Clarke Co., advertising dis-
continuance of road .• - . 8.54
Paid F. H. Chailis :
Printing brief, Kimball Carriage Co.
V. City ...... 9.50
30 copies brief, Beede & Warren 8.00
Paid James T. Donahoe, interest and
costs of suit, paid into court . 39-39
W. J. Freeman, horse hire . . 5.00
T. J. Howard, services in sundry cases 60.00
D. F. Healy, sheriff fees in sundry
cases ...... 7.00
Paid C. H. Hodgman :
Service of writ, City z;. Beede . 1.86
Services in road hearing . . . 17-84
Paid E. T. James :
Use of team. White z;. City . . 1.50
Use of team, City v. Griffin . . 9.50
$3>567-63
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
555
Paid Little, Brown & Co.:
Dillon on Municipal Corporations
Jones on Negligence of Municipal Cor- )■ $17.00
porations ....
Paid Thomas D. Luce, clerk fees in sun
dry cases ..... 9.20
Sulloway & Topliff, services in sun
dry cases from August i, 1S87, to
April 16, 1893 .... 1,463-75
$1,989.78
CITY COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES.
Paid John B. Clarke Co. :
Printing 150 note circulars
Advertising proposals, city farm build
ing
Advertising proposals, wood and coal
Advertising dog licenses
Advertising ordinances
Advertising proposals, Pearl-street
schoolhouse . ...
Advertising bonds ...
Paid John A. Barker, cash paid for car
fares .....
C. W. Babbitt & Co., use of hacks
W. J. Freeman, use of hacks for
committees . . . .
Paid Frank H. Challis :
i\dvertising notice, dog licenses .
Advertising proposals, wood and coal .
Advertising proposals. Pearl-street
schoolhouse . . . . .
Paid Edwin F. Jones, services and ex-
penses at Concord, as per instructions
of committee .....
$4.00
17-43
15-50
20.06
48.00
15.16
15.62
7.10
90.00
125.50
3-9°
4.68
4.68
400.00
556 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid James B. Straw, expense to Concord
and return five times . . . $7.98
E. T. James, use of hacks 32.50
William E. Moore, printing 7,500
circulars and postal cards . . 30.50
Thomas F. Doyle, use of hack . 5.00
Paid Manchester postoffice :
6,000 postal cards and envelopes (city
hall question) .... 63.00
200 stamps ..... 4.00
Postage, mayor's office . . . 15-00
Paid A. R. Ingham, 12 suppers, 4 horses
fed, laying out road . . . 11.00
J. C. Nichols & Son, use of hacks . 30.00
Paid David Perkins :
Services and expenses at Concord . 200.00
Expenses to Concord, Nashua, and
Portsmouth ..... 10.00
Paid Kean & Doyle, u.se of hacks . . 36.00
C. H. Simpson, use of hacks . . 88.50
E. J. Knovvlton, expen.ses incurred,
legislative session of 1893 • • ^5^ 20
Paid Union Publishing Co. :
Advertising notices, licensing carriages 5.67
proposals for sewer pipe . 9.22
ordinance, amendment to
section 24, chapter 6 . 35-37
ordinance, amendment to
section 7, chapter 14 . 32.29
proposals, building Pearl-
street schoolhouse . 12.48
dog licenses . . 28.71
proposals, addition city
farm buildings 9.18
proposals, wood and coal . i3-95
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 557
Advertising proposals, improvement
loan . . . . $6.iS
local, city bonds for sale . 3,50
Paid Saturday Telegram Co., advertising
dog licenses .... 3.00
George E. Wheeler, use of hacks,
city farm ..... 75-oo
A. B. Whittier, iSj^ hours' labor,
sending notices on city hall ques-
tion 3.70
Whitten & Fifield, use of hacks, etc. 98.00
Paid Dick Barker :
5 hours' labor on circulars, question of
city hall ..... i.oo
10 days' services as city messenger . 20.00
Paid " Boston Daily Advertiser," adver-
tising improvement bonds . . 38.00
G. W. Bailey, use of carriages, etc. 29.75
Pierre Lemieux, use of hack . . 5.00
Globe Newspaper, advertising im-
. provement bonds , . . 23.62
Journal Newspaper Co., advertising
improvement bonds . . 36.00
E. J. Knowlton, expenses to Boston,
July 6 and 14, on bond business 6.20
American Bank Note Co., printing
bonds ..... 385.00
A. J. Lane, services of typewriter . 1.25
Paid James B. Straw :
Expense to Boston, bond business . 3.95
Cash paid for express, typewriter, etc. .35
Cash paid for express, bonds . . .15
Paid Union Publishing Co., advertising
bonds for sale . . . . 18.50
558 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Storey &: Thorndike, time and opin-
ion as to borrowing below par . . $10.00
CITY LIBRARY.
Paid John A. Barker, care of boiler, etc. $123.00
Robert Clarke, work done in and
around city library building, cut-
ting lawn, cleaning sidewalk^-,
washing windows, etc. . . 56.35
Pike & Heald Co., i coal hod .45
CITY SCALES.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
2 feet mixed wood .... $2.00
1,000 pounds stove coal . . . 3.75
2,500 pounds stove coal . . . 10.87
Paid Head & Dowst Co., labor and mate-
rials 7-75
A. S. Campbell & Co., printing
1,000 gummed labels for use of
sealer of weights and measures . 1.25
Temple & Farrington Co., paper
and envelopes . . . . .21
The Fairbanks Co., repairing, ad-
justing, and re-setting scales . 41-47
American Express Co., expressage
on scales 3.35
MILK INSPECTOR.
Paid H. F. W. Little, postage and sundries $5-03
The John B. Clarke Co., advertis-
ing notice of appointment . . 3.00
Paid J. Arthur Williams :
250 postal cards and printing . 3.15
750 licenses, 10 books . . . 4-75
$2,376-33
179.80
$70.65
^5-93
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
559
RELATING TO STREETS.
Paid Sargent & Harden :
70 maple trees, school yards
58 spruce trees, for school yards
Paid Flint & Little, nails and labor on
street signs
Union Manufacturing Co., 1,5 2 2
inch house numbers .
Frank Cummings, painting 475
street signs at 16 cents
F. W. Elliott, dinners for city gov-
ernment, laying out highway, De
cember 28,1892 .
Joel Daniels & Co., repairing glass
Wells block
Paid Manchester Hardware Co. :
120 pounds barbed wire
8 staples ......
Paid John Morse, labor on Bald Hill road
as per award of board of mayor and
aldermen, May 23, 1893
Paid George P. Cressey :
28 street signs at 16 cents .
103 guide boards
150 pounds white lead
6 gallons oil
Paint ....
30 days' labor at $2.50
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
1,134 feet chestnut, 6x6, planed four
sides, for street signs
336 feet 61x 6 chestnut posts, street signs
Working ......
Chestnut posts and labor .
$70.00
87.00
6.85
68.49
76.00
13.00
2.50
4.20
.08
4.48
46.35
10.50
3-3°
1.25
75.00
3062
8.40
1-57
1.50
560 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John B. Varick Co., lo pounds 12-
penny wire nails . . $0-30
D. C. Whittemore, right of way,
use of land for 1892 . 20.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., time
books, postal cards, printmg ink,
penholders, etc. . . . $6.75
H. D. Lord, transfers of real estate
one year, to April i, 1893 . . 12.00
John B. Varick Co., 1 turkey duster .45
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid Novelty Advertising Co., die for
lever self-inker .... ^0.75
George E. Morrill, cash paid sundry
persons, discount on tax-bills . 83.87
Republican Press Association, ad-
vertising list of non-resident taxes 7.50
Manchester postoffice, 1,000 2-cent
stamped envelopes 22.20
James Ledwich, duplicate poll tax
for 189 1 . . . . 1.78
Paid Joseph A. Jackson :
Taxes refunded, error in assessment list
of 1890, H. H. Moore . . 6.14
List of 1890, Bridget Doherty . . 8. 11
Paid John H. Colburn, Watjen's tax sold
and refunded . . . 8.31
Ann A. Morrison, tax for 1891, er-
roneously assessed and sold by
collector ..... 4.48
$541-39
$19.20
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 561
Paid George E. Morrill, taxes of 1892 ^
sold April 3, 1893, and purchased
by the city .... $3,076.87
$3,220.01
ELECTION EXPENSES.
Paid H. B. Fairbanks, 2 tables . . $6.00
J. P. Russell & Co., wood for ward
5 ward room . . . . 1.20
James Reid, moving apparatus from
ward 4 to United States govern-
ment building .... i.oo
George B. Rogers, election return
(chapter 46, section 10, Public
Statutes) ..... I.oo
William B. Cobb, agent, use of Me-
chanics hall, special election,
ward 3 .... . 25.00
$34.20
CITY CLERK.
Paid H. Eunice Kidder, clerical services $150.00
Florence M. Kidder, clerical services 150.00
Paid Ezra S. Stearns :
Certified copy, street and park bill . 3.50
Certified copy, water-works bill . . 3.00
Paid Dana W. King, recording deeds, etc. 7.01
CITY TREASURER.
Paid S. B. Putnam :
Cash paid, expenses to Concord and
return ...... $i-44
Cash paid, express on coupons from
Suffolk Bank
36
.13-55
•15
562 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid S. J. Putnam, services as clerk . $108.00
George E. Putnam, services as clerk 72.00
Blanche Bullock, services as clerk . 140.00
Paid Manchester postoffice :
500 stamped envelopes . . . ii-5o
Postage stamps ..... 10.00
Paid T. S. Buck, rubber stamps . . 6.60
Manchester Hardware Co., i cork-
screw ..... .20
American Express Co., express on
coupons . . . . . .15
RELATING TO SCHOOLS.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., labor and furni-
ture, Varney school . . . $170.71
Kirby Floral Co., trees, etc., Web-
ster-street school yard . . 77.00
RELATING TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
$350.04
$247.71
Paid Edward M. Slayton, land east of police station,
deed dated May 24, 1893 $5,000.00
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., gas at sol-
diers' monument . . . $0.14
Temple & Farrington Co., one U. S.
flag, 6x 10, for Stark park . . 5.50
Dana W. King, recording deed . .83
Town of Goffstown, taxes on gravel
lot 1.40
American Express Co., express on
packages . . . . • . 26.15
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
563
Paid First Light Battery, powder, primers,
cartridges, and firing national sa-
lute July 4, 1893
First Regiment Band, three public
concerts .....
Rand McNally & Co., one Atlas of
the World
William E. Moore, printing lot of
blank notes, etc.
David B. Varney, two days' service,
laying out Cypress street
Western Union Telegraph Co., tele-
grams .....
Jones's City and Baggage Express,
delivering city reports, etc.
Christie W. Brown, bounty on hawk
killed
Jeremiah Collity, bounty on hawk
killed
Leander Decormier, bounty on hawk
killed
Eddie Foster, bounty on hawk killed
James Perkins,bounty on hawk killed
Alice Roby, bounty on two hawks
killed
Willard Wason, bounty on two hawks
killed
Frank Roby, bounty on hawk killed
Manchester City Band, three public
concerts ....
J. W. Truell, use of hack in 1892
Manchester postoffice, postage, may
or's office ....
E. J. Knowlton, cash paid for rub
ber stamp for mayor's office
I39.88
30.00
6.00
5.00
.58
1.80
•25
•25
•25
•25
•50
.40
•25
100.00
5.00
14.00
564 KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. T. Barr, testing weights and
measures of city sealer . . $o-75
Hill & Co., express on bonds . 35 -oo
Morgan, Grossman & Co., one seal
press. No. 20 Bay State, special
design ..... 9.50
$395-43
Total expenditures . . . ' . . ^20,638.99
Mayor's Incidentals.
Appropriation . $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid E. H. Stowe, supper provided may-
or and aldermen at road hearings . $6.00
Paid E. J. Knowlton :
Allowance for hire of teams . 133-00
Expenses to Portsmouth, Dover, and
Nashua on city business . . . 5.90
Total expenditures ..... $144.90
Transferred to reserved fund . . . . . i55-io
$300.00
City Officers' Salaries.
Appropriation ..... $16,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 1,049.93
$17,049-93
CITY OFFICERS SALARIES.
Expenditures.
565
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT,
Paid E. J. Knowlton, mayor .
Nathan P. Kidder, city clerk .
Sylvanus B. Putnam, city treasurer
Edwin F. Jones, city solicitor
George L. Stearns, clerk of com
mon council
Thomas W. Lane, inspector of build
ings
H. F. W. Little, inspector of milk
William Bailey, weigher at city
scales ....
John A. Barker, city messenger
George H. Stearns, street and park
commissioner
Leonard P. Reynolds, street and park
commissioner ....
Horace P. Simpson, street and park
commissioner
$1,800.00
900.00
1,200.00
800.00
100.00
300.00
388.89
700.00
450.00
450.00
450.00
$7,73^-
CITY PHYSICIAN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Paid Frederick Perkins, city physician
William H. Maxwell, ward i .
Thomas L. Quimby, ward 2 .
Benjamin F. Garland, ward 3
George S. Holmes, ward 4
Patrick Costello, ward 5
Charles Francis, ward 6 .
William Marshall, ward 7
Charles S. McKean, ward 8 .
^200.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
566
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Frank I. Lessard, ward 9 . . $25.00
William H. Maxwell, clerk of board 75-oo
Judith Sherer, matron at pest house 360.00
$860.00
SCHOOL OFFICERS AND BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Paid William E. Buck, superintendent of
schools .....
Samuel Brooks, truant officer
E. J. Knowlton, chairman, ex officio
Edward B. Woodbury, clerk of board
Fred T. Dunlap, president of com-
mon council
Charles D. Sumner, ward i
Walter H. Lewis, ward i
George H. Stearns, ward 2
Charles S. Murkland, ward 2
George D. Towne, ward 3
Louis E. Phelps, ward 3
Stephen B. Stearns, ward 4
Edwin L. Richardson, ward .
James P. Slattery, ward 5
William J. Sughrue, ward 5
F. T. E. Richardson, ward 6
George W. Dearborn, ward 6
Marshall P. Hall, ward 7
Edward B. Woodbury, ward
Luther C. Baldwin, ward 8
Josiah G. Dearborn, ward 8
Edward J. Doherty, ward 9
Scott E. Sanborn, ward 9
$2,150.00
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
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
10.00
$3,200.00
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
Paid Henry Lewis, assessor, ward i . $150.00
John E. Stearns, assessor, ward 2 . 175.00
CITY OFFICERS' SALARIES.
567
Paid David O. Fernald, assessor, ward 3
Harrison D. Lord, assessor, ward 4
George F. Sheehan, assessor, ward 5
George H. Dudley, assessor, ward 6
William T. Rowell, assessor, ward 7
Frank N. Daniels, assessor, ward 8 .
Lawrence F. Bradley, assessor, ward
9
Nicholas Nichols, assistant assessor
Hiram Forsaith, assistant assessor
Eugene Brigham, assistant assessor
John Cayzer, assistant assessor
Henry F. Stone, assistant assessor
Isaac Whittemore, assistant assessor
W. G. Fernald, clerk .
J. A. Z. Adams, interpreter
Louis Comeau, interpreter
J. P. Morin, interpreter
A. G. Monette, interpreter
522.50
250.00
137-50
445.00
152-50
101.25
145.00
287.50
60.00
240.00
57-5°
50.00
103-75
212.50
22.50
50.00
19.00
23-75
S3>5o5-25
CITY TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid George E. Morrill :
Salary, quarter ending Feb. 28, 1893 . $200.00
Salary, quarter ending June i, 1893 . 200.00
Salary, balance due for 1892-93 . . S50.00
Commission on old taxes . . . ii-55
Salary, quarter ending Aug. 31, 1893 • 200.00
Salary, quarter ending Nov. 30, 1893 . 200.00
$i>66i.55
ELECTION EXPENSES.
Paid George C. Kemp, inspector, ward i,
II days' services at $2.25 . . $24.75
Arthur W. Patch, supervisor, ward i,
iy2 days' services at $1.75 . . 2.62
568 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John J. Splane, supervisor, ward i,
i^ days' services at $1.75 . . $2.62
(The above expenses on special
election, held May 25, 1S93.)
John W. Davis, supervisor, ward 7,
I day's services . . . . 1.75
Joseph A. Foster, inspector, ward 7,
16 days' services at $2.25 . . 36.00
W. F. Payne, inspector, ward 7, i
day at $1.75 .... 1.75
(The above at special election, Sep-
tember 28, 1893.)
Hiram Forsaith, inspector, ward 3,
5 days at ^2.25 .... 11.25
D. H. Young, supervisor, ward 3, i
day at $1.75 .... 1.75
H. F. W. Little, supervisor, ward 3,
I day at $1.75 .... 1.75
^84.24
Total expenditures . . " . . . ^17,049.93
Auditor's Department.
Appropriation ....... $2,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid James B. Straw, auditor, salary for
the year 1893 .... $1,000.00
Lizzie M. Cogswell, services as clerk
for the year 1893 . . . 600.00
auditor's department. 569
Paid Hattie M. Annis, services as clerk
one week . . . . . $9.00
Grace Berry, services as clerk three
weeks ..... 27.00
SUPPLIES, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid James B. Straw :
Cash paid for express . . . 1 2.05
Expenses to Nashua and return, exami-
nation of records .... .88
Paid Lizzie M. Cogswell :
Cash paid for express .... .90
Cash paid for postage stamps . . i.oo
Paid Manchester postofifice, postage
stamps ...... 5.00
Paid George P. Wallace, agent :
I Smith Premier typewriter, base-
board and cover, No. 26933 ^97'5o
Less I National typewriter 22.50
75-00
I ribbon ...... i.oo
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son :
I No. 5 Remington typewriter. No.
17098 ...... 100.00
1 8-drawer cabinet .... 30.00
2 typewriter ribbons .... 2.00
Paid National Typewriter Co., 3 copying
ribbons ...... 2.25
Paid The Hammond Typewriter Co. :
I No. 2 type wheel .... 5.00
Repairs on typewriter . . . 4.35
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., i pair
Plyers .35
;i,636.oo
570
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Daniels & Downs :
1 ream No. 8 legal ruled paper . . $2.10
2 reams No. 8 legal paper . . . 4.10
I box carbon paper .... 3.00
Paid A. J. Smith :
I ream No. i paper .... 1.65
I ream No. 20 paper .... 1.60
100 sheets manuscript covers . . .50
12 sheets blue carbon paper, 8x21 . i.oo
I dozen No. i erasers .... i.oo
I box blue carbon paper . . . 3.00
Paid John Robbie Co., 2 window screens .50
J. G. Jones, freight and cartage of
desk ...... .92
Novelty Advertising Co., boxes, ink,
stamps ..... 1.50
Walter G. Jones, repairs on type-
writer ..... .50
Paid John B. Varick Co. :
I package scale ..... 6.40
I brush . . . . . . • -12
I sash pull ..... .20
Paid J. J. Abbott, staining and finishing
shelf -25
Clark & Estey, 3 chamois skins . .65
H. C. Whitcomb & Co., 4 electro-
types of high school, etc. . . 1.90
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
15 blocks 1-50
Printing 500 half-letter heads . . i-ob
Paid T. S. Buck, rubber stamps . . 12.80
Paid Morgan, Grossman & Co. :
31 dies for stamps .... 4.65
50 pads for stamps .... 5.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 1.
m
Paid W. P. Goodman, envelopes, blotting
paper, etc. ....
Dana W. King, copy of deed
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
1 blank book .....
Letter file, erasers, ink, paste, pen-
holders .....
2 blank books, Nos. 3620 and 3621
I blank book, No. 3789
I scrap book ....
Inkstand and McGill's fasteners .
Paste, envelopes, rubber bands, etc
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
•56
.62
5-41
6.00
3-7°
1.50
2.80
7-25
$318.50
$1,954-50
45-5°
$2,000.00
Highway District No. 1
Appropriation
$400.00
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-
roll
February ....
$19.00
March .....
142.39
April .....
20.00
May .....
23.00
June
167.00
October
5.00
MATERIALS.
Paid Edward Dodge :
140 loads gravel
$14.00
21 loads stone chips .
4.20
$37639
572
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., i street
hoe
$0.40
Paid John B. Varick Co. :
2 30-inch sledge hammer handles
•30
2 sledge hammers ....
1.20
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co. :
2 No. 2 scoop shovels
1.50
2 square-point shovels
1.20
I round-point shovel ....
.60
$5-22
Total expenditures
$399.81
Amount transferred to reserved fund
.19
$400.00
Highway District No. 2.
Appropriation ....
Transferred from reserved fund
$12,000.00
1,107.65
$i3'^o7-65
Expenditures.
Paid labor as per p
January .
February
March .
ay-rol
Is:
$631.29
700.93
890.22
April
May
June
July .
August .
September
1,091.97
1,100.00
752.60
638.50
903-47
1,001.17
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 2. 573
October $884.71
November ..... 1,150.92
December ..... 1,341.88
^11,087.66
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.:
I casting for forge, 10 pounds . . $0.35
8 hours' labor on same . . . 3.20
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., lantern
globe, cast steel, pick and sledge han-
dles, shovels, all kinds, brooms, and
other hardware ..... 54.98
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Axes, bolts, sheaves, files, screws, rope,
harness hooks . . . . . 6.18
Rim locks, knobs, steel, wire nails,
shovels, other hardware . . . 79.00
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co., screw-driv-
er, rope, 2 bits, pick handles, ma-
chinery steel, shovels, and other
hardware . . . . . 22.22
R. M. West, 73 feet ladders . . 8.76
GENERAL EXPENSE, COMMISSIONER S OFFICE.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, lumber and labor
repairing lock, window screens, etc. . $7.40
Paid A. E. Herrick :
Services as clerk at $75 per month . 649.86
Cash paid for express and telegrams,
car-fare, and magazine . . . 1.55
$174.69
574
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Charles A. Hoitt & Co. :
1 No. 4 desk
2 typewriter chairs ....
^32.00
8.00
Paid George H. Richter & Co.:
I enameled bath ....
Cases, files, etc
Copy holder, etc
5-25
5-90
2.15
Paid Julia F. Stearns, services as clerk
18.00
Paid George P. Wallace :
I Smith Premier typewriter, No. 27,-
401
I stand for same ....
Oak cabinet
97-50
2.50
30.00
Paper
I ribbon
10.82
1. 00
Paid A. J. Smith :
Carbon and typewriter paper
5-35
1 2 erasers
1. 00
I punch, 12 pencils ....
•75
Paid Concord & Montreal R. R., freight
on desk .....
Daniels & Downs, i ream -No. 8 paper
.46
2.00
Paid John B. Varick Co. :
1 letter press and stand
2 brushes and i bowl ....
23-50
1.45
Paid Manchester postoffice :
1,000 envelopes with stamp
22.00
250 2-cent stamps ....
5.00
Paid William E. Moore, printing letter
heads
4.00
Paid J. Arthur Williams :
100 cards, rules
150 cards, rules and regulations .
I.OO
3-25
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 2. 575
28 self-inking stamps .... $15.00
100 circulars ..... 3.25
10 self-inking stamps .... 6.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., blank
books, ink, envelopes, blank bills,
and other stationery ... 80.18
A. S. Campbell & Co., blank book
to order ..... 4.25
Novelty Advertising Co., 3 rubber
stamps, ink pad . . . 1.70
H. P. Simpson, use of team . . 150.00
George H. Stearns, use of team . 150.00
L. P. Reynolds, use of team . . 150.00
W. P. Goodman, 2 gross pens . i.oo
John W. Wilson, trucking i cabinet ♦
desk .50
^i>503-57
TELEPHONE.
Paid New England Telegraph & Telephone Co., use
of telephone ....... $36.33
BLACKSMITHING AND REPAIRS.
Paid Peoples Gas-light Co., i chaldron of
coke $4.50
L. M. Aldrich, filing saws . . io-55
George Cheney, cash paid for ex-
press, 2 cutters .... .85
Paid Head & Dowst Co.:
78 feet 2-inch chestnut . . . 1.95
Tacks, screws, lumber .... .53
Paid A. & D. M. Poore, >4 ton Cumber-
land coal ...... 3.50
$1,
.62
•75
II
.01
4^
.10
II
.20
i6
.00
6,
,00
2
•75
.70
576 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Pike & Heald Co. :
Pipe and labor repairing rail, Elm street
Repairing lantern, etc.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.:
688 feet spruce fence boards
256 feet spruce fence boards
70 chestnut posts ....
1,000 feet spruce fence boards
100 spruce slats .....
Paid Nate Kellogg, 50 placards, " no
smoking" ....
Joseph Nichols, sharpening tools .
Thomas A. Lane Co., labor testing
steam gauge .... .30
MATERIALS.
Paid Adams & Tasker :
I barrel lime . . . . . $1.00
I bag salt ...... .65
Salt and lime ..... 3.30
Paid James Briggs :
6 pails and 6 water dippers . . 2.90
Mica ....... .20
Paid Eager & Rand, 40 bushels salt . 24.00
H. H. Freeman, 3 bags rock salt . 2.40
Thomas A. Lane Co., plugs and caps 2.42
Manchester Hardware Co., i side-
walk grate ..... 13-50
John B. Varick Co., wire nails, rope 5.87
Thomas A. Lane Co., hose bands,
pipe, etc 3.54
Addison Gray, 150 loads gravel 15-00
William F. Hubbard, i load loam . i.oo
$76.31
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 2. • 577
lid Hardy & Co.:
Matches
$0.09
I match safe
.12
2 bars soap ......
.10
lid Mary Hartshorn :
ii6 loads sand
11.60
75 loads gravel
7-5°
lid Clarence R. Merrill, 2 barrels lime
1.90
Allen N. Clapp, 53)4 gallons oil .
3-75
Ida Libbey, 46 loads gravel .
4.60
95
$105-44
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Advertising proposals for paving . $6.67
Printing 1,500 blanks ... 16.50
Paid W. P. Goodman, pencils and blank
book ......
Manchester Street Railway Co., i
book tickets ....
William Sanborn, i heating stove
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.:
35 time books .....
Ink, pens, envelopes, etc. .
Paid Union Publishing Co.:
Advertising proposals for bank wall and
culvert, Ray brook
Advertising proposals for cobble paving
Paid Whitten & Fifield, team
George H. Holbrook, cutting trees,
Pearl street ....
John T. Gott, cleaning one vault .
^123.65
Total expenditures $13,107.65
5
.00
15-
00
36
.00
8,
.91
10,
•25
4.
.62
4
.00
II
•25
3-5°
578 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Highway District No. 3.
Appropriation ....... $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid labor of
men and teams, as per pay-rolls
January .
^7-38
March .
84.25
April
19.25
June
MATERIALS.
154.25
Paid William
Campbell,
5 7 loads gravel .
$13.20
John H.
Campbell,
109 loads stone
and gravel
1S.53
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
$265.13
>3i-73
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
3 round-point shovels
|i-5o
I sewer shovel
•50
I long-handled shovel
•50
$2.50
Total expenditures
$299.36
Amount transferred to reserved fund
.64
$300.00
Highway District No. 4.
Appropriation . . • $500.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 6. 579
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-rolls :
March ...... $102.55
May ...... 21.00
June 195-75
October 130.00
MATERIALS.
$449-3°
Paid Byron E. Moore, 240 loads clay and
gravel
Paid R. N. Whittemore :
$14.40
70 loads gravel ......
Use of roller
4.20
1.50
Paid Head & Dowst Co., 80 chestnut posts
12.00
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co.:
489 pounds galvanized wire
15 pounds staples ....
17.12
•53
^49-75
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
^499-05
•95
$500.00
Highway District No. 5.
Appropriation $800.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 4.63
— — — $804.63
580
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
LABOR.
lid labor of men and teams, as per pay-
rolls :
February ....
$102.56
March
113.87
April
23-99
May
28.62
June
131-25
July . .
8.75
August
5.68
September
170.12
October .
92.00
November
47-87
December
11.00
$735-71
MATERIALS.
lid John Parmenter, 159 loads gravel
$15-90
Head «& Dowst Co., 520 feet 4 x ^
.
spruce ....
8.32
John Lovering, 127 loads gravel
11.70
Boyce & Merrill, 63 loads gravel
6.30
Ida Libbey, 158 loads gravel .
15.80
Ephraim S. Harvey, 20 loads grave
1 2.00
$60.02
BLACKSMITHING.
lid R. W. Flanders, sharpening tools
$4.55
John Welcome, sharpening 6 picks
.60
$5-15
TOOLS.
lid John B. Varick Co.:
3 picks
$3.00
I brush scythe ....
.60
6 pounds wire nails .
-15
$3-75
Total expenditures
$804.63
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 7.
Highway District No. 6.
Appropriation .
•
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men
March .
and teams, as pe
'pay-
rolls :
13
June
July .
September
December
197
55
169
19
22
00
25
36
TOOLS AND BLACKSMITHING.
Paid John B. Varick Co., 3 iron picks
and handles ....
James Morrison, sharpening tools .
Welcome & Son, sharpening six
picks .....
SUNDRIES.
Paid George Moore, care of danger lantern
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
^2.70
5-50
.60
581
$600.00
1573-96
$8.80
$1.00
$583-76
16.24
$600.00
Highway District No. 7.
Appropriation
$1,800.00
582
REPORT- OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October .
November
December
rolls
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid Welcome & Son :
Sharpening and repairing tools from
October 27, 1892, to August 19, 1893
Sharpening tools to November 17, 1893
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$110.87
203.12
263.75
63-37
187.68
409.87
90.50
162.60
78.00
49-75
58-50
56.00
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
I mason's level . . . .
^3.00
2 plow points ....
1.50
1 2 square-point shovels
8.00
12 pick handles ....
2.00
8 lbs. shims and wedges
1.28
I mattock
•65
; 1 6.40
9-37
$i>734'Oi
$16.43
$25.77
$1,776.21
23-79
$1,800.00
Appropriation
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 8.
Highway District No. 8.
Expenditures.
583
$1,000.00
Paid labor of men and teams,
as pe
r pay-
rolls :
February ....
$77-75
March .
165.34
April
7.88
May .
118.29
June
348.70
July . .
180.75
August .
63.00
December
10.50
5972.21
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
1 ax and handle .
2 plow points
I plow beam and 4 bolts
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
50.90
1.50
2.01
$4-41
$976.62
$1,000.00
684
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Highway District No. 9.
Appropriation
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men a
nd
teams, as per pay-
rolls :
March .
April
June
July
October .
November
$119.85
15-70
157-75
63-50
76.87
43-50
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co.
2 picks and handles
2 round-point shovels
I steel bar, 14 lbs.
$1.80
1-33
$500.00
$477-17
$4.11
MATERIALS.
Paid Merrill & Boyce, 36 loads gravel
$3.60
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid James Morrison, sharpening tools
Welcome & Son, sharpening tools
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$0.55
1. 10
$1-65
$486.53
13-47
$500.00
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 10.
Highway District No. 10.
585
Appropriation ....
Amount transferred from reserved fund
Expenditures.
$5,000.00
.^02.12
$5,302.12
labor of men and teams,
as per pay-
rolls :
January $36351
February
822.21
March
April
;
527-49
454.02
May
570.68
June
66.00
July
August .
171-39
464.68
September
331-88
October .
34.00
November
243-03
December
•
378-95
$4,427.84
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid Allen N. Clapp :
4 ax handles
$1.00
10 lbs. wire nails
•35
5 gallons kerosene oil
.60
Tacks, spikes, and broom .
3-27
Pearline ....
•
•25
Paid C. H. Hutchinson, i cast-iron stamp
.10
Manchester Hardware Co.,
shovels,
hoes, snow shovels, steel
scoops,
and other hardware .
17.40
586
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John B. Varick Co.
I dozen shovels
6 canal barrows
4 steel rakes
6 scoops
6 shovels .
Other hardware
Paid J. McCrillis & Son, i water cart
Albert Moulton, i water band
•Ranno Harness Co., soap, spon^
ring, and pad
es.
$S.oo
I2.00
2.17
5-25
3-50
20.46
425.00
•50
2.00
$501-85
MATERIALS.
Paid Adams & Tasker, i cask lime . . $0.90
Paid James Baldwin Co. :
172 feet hardwood plank . . . 6.88
50 feet maple ..... 2.00
Paid J. Hodge :
24 feet 6x6 birch . . . . .96
i^ hours' labor .... .70
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co., i pack for di-
aphragm pump . . . . 1.75
People's Gas-Light Co., i chaldron
coke ...... 4-00
A. C. Wallace, lumber . . . 5.77
F. S. Bodwell, stone base for drink-
ing fountain on Main and Amory
streets ..... 30.00
John F. Larkin, materials and labor
for fence railing on Putnam, B,
and C streets, and painting same 97-55
$150-5^
HIGHWAY DISTRICT NO. 11.
587
Paid H. B. Fairbanks, i stove
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
1 8 time books ....
12 pass books and i gross pens .
7 blocks .....
Blotters, pencils, ink bottle
Paid H. Fradd, i barrel
George Holbrook, labor on trees
Frank I. Lessard, piping material
and labor on hydrants
Mrs. C. O. Phelps, use of driving
horse from January i, 1893, to
October i, 1893
C. J. Shanessy, filing cross-cut saw
James Briggs, stove, zinc, and pipe
H. Leibing, paint . . . .
Paid J. Y. McQueston :
I desk ......
3 wood seat chairs . . . .
Total expenditures
^4.00
18.76
1.8s
.40
1.30
•75
2.75
39.S2
17.00
•50
12.00
2.54
18.00
2.25
Highway District No. 1 1.
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
. ^1,000.00
259-75
$221.92
$5'302.I2
$i>259.75
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-rolls :
January $58.50
February ..... 108.50
588
REPORT
OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
March . . . . . . $99.25
April
102.75
May
218.00
June
286.25
August .
92.50
September
89.00
October .
41.50
November
77-5°
December
42.75
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid N. Decoteau, sharpening tools
$1,216.50
$3-95
MATERIALS.
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
96 feet spruce
$1-54
1,000 feet spruce boards
16.00
Paid Manchester Heating & Lighting Co.,
work on watering-trough
3-72
David Wells, 90 chestnut posts
12.75
Paid S. L. Flanders :
I keg spikes
3.00
2 lanterns . . . . .
1. 00
45 pounds nails
1.29
$39-3°
Total expenditures
$1,259-75
Highway District No. 12.
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
$200.00
108.71
$308.71
NEW HIGHWAYS.
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid city farm, labor of men and teams
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 2^
pounds steel bar ....
Paid John B. Varick Co. :
6 round-point shovels
6 hoes .....
Total expenditures
;i.68
4.00
1.63
589
$301.40
$7-31
$308.71
New Highways.
Appropriation . . . . .
Amount transferred from reserved fund .
Expenditures.
$15,885.12
1,264.59
117,149.71
Paid men, as per pay-roll
, in district No.
2 :
January $i5-oo
February
54.50
March
63.00
April
383-12
May
753-29
June
855-07
July
889.59
August .
945-15
September
765.06
October .
1,263.53
November
282.61
5,269.92
590 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 7 :
May
$100.00
August .
290.75
September
388.62
October
359-24
November
234-14
Paid men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 8 :
August
$40.80
October
27-75
Paid men, as per pay roll, in district No. 10
January
$25.50
May . . .
907.89
June
948.00
July . .
820.19
August .
113-50
September
581.58
October .
715-97
November
168.69
December
16.18
Paid John D. Patterson, cash paid George
L. Theobald for moving building
at corner of Amherst and Chestnut
streets ..... $100.00
N. S. Hoitt, labor of men and teams
grading south end of Lincoln street 1 13-5 7
F. S. Bodwell, building culvert on
Lincoln street .... 473-87
C. A. Brooks, labor on Milford street
from August, 1892, to November
8, 1892 112.25
$1,372.75
$68.55
$4,297.50
NEW I1IGHAVAY6.
591
Paid Hiram S. Hoyt, labor building
streets at East Manchester, near
shoeshop .....
Alpheus Bodwell, building retaining
wall on Belmont street
Paid John H. Proctor, building culvert in
East Manchester, as per agreement
with street and park commission-
ers ..... .
Alfred Dugrenier, 4 days' work on
Forest street ....
Paid Head & Dowst Co.:
Repairs and building James Brothers'
stable ......
I steel beam, i channel iron, bbl. bolts
.r.13
$40.00
9.00
1,200.00
26.91
$1,960.82
$1,275.91
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co., 21 lbs. cast
steel wedges .....
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
5 Wakefield wrenches
6 mattocks ....
6 handles .....
12 plow points ....
Mattocks, picks, and other hardware
Paid John B. Varick Co., handles, snow
shovels, steel, cable chains, Norway iron,
plows, bolts, I Doe plow, and other
hardware ......
$2.10
18.79
4-50
1.20
12.00
38.25
73.26
$150.10
STONE, LUMBER, AND OTHER MATERIAL.
Paid Clarence R. Merrill, i barrel lime . $1.00
592
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid F. S. Bodwell :
84.40 perch stone culvert on Valley
street, near Beech street .
40 feet covering stone in district No. 7
Paid Joseph A. Brown, 22 loads grade for
Maple street ....
Clough & Hall, 153 loads filling,
used last year ....
Paid Head & Dowst Co.:
2,740 loads filling. Maple street .
2,000 feet 1x6 spruce
68 chestnut posts ....
103 feet drag plank ....
200 feet 3-inch oak ....
Paid Allen N. Clapp, oil and wicks
Horace Holbrook, stonework on
Adams street ....
E. O. Dodge, 203 loads gravel
Warren Harvey, dimension stone,
district No. 7 . . . .
Paid S. C. Forsaith Co.:
552 feet spruce boards
100 chestnut posts ....
Paid Edward Hodgkinson :
564 feet sod .....
3 loads loam .....
6yi days' labor .....
(Work done at Hodge's and Patten's
on Amherst street.)
$253.20
16.00
5-50
45'Qo
685.00
31.00
10.20
4.12
6.00
5.10
374.00
20.30
36.96
8.83
16.00
16.92
4-50
12.70
^i»553-23
BLACKSMITHING AND REPAIRS.
Paid C. H. Hutchinson Foundry & Machine Co.:
10)^ hours repairing pump . . $4-2o
Rubber, screws, bolt, etc.
•99
NEW HIGHWAYS. 593
3 hours' labor on piston ring . . gi.20
13 lbs. cast steel .... 2.60
Paid J. Hadlock :
1 casting ...... i.oo
2 N. M. edges . . . . . 16.00
10 bolts, I front axle .... 5.50
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co. :
Labor, pipe, and other materials on new
fence, Ashland, near Bridge street . 42.82
Labor and material, Massabesic and
Belmont streets .... 4.60
Labor and material, Hayward street . 3.24
Labor and material. Young street . 4.43
Paid William H. Sutcliffe, sharpening
tools 1.35
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs on
carriages and tools . . . 14- 2 5
$102.18
SUNDRIES.
Paid C. H. Simpson, use of team . . $9-75
E. T. James, use of team . . 22.25
A. & D. M. Poore, i ton Cumber-
land coal ..... 6.75
Bates Manufacturing Co., automatic
numbering machine . . . 16.00
John B. Clarke Co., advertising . 7.50
Union Publishing Co., advertising . 7.50
Whitten & Fifield, use of team . 14.00
Bartholomew Bresnehan, damage to
wagon and harness, caused by
ridge on Pine street . . i5-oo
$98-75
Total expenditures g 17, 149. 71
594 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Damage of Land Taken for Highways.
Appropriation ..... $12,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 4,182.41
$16,182.41
Expenditures.
DAMAGES AWARDED BY MAYOR AND ALDERMEN.
Paid Elmer E. Bullard, land damage, B
street ..... $259.52
Jenette P. Bartlett, land damage, ex-
tension of Harrison street . 796.87
R. N. Batchelder, land damage.
Union street .... 1,604.37
M. Bessett, moving, etc, house of
J. N. Lacourse .... 80.00
Sidney A. Blood, land damage,
Grove street .... 1,012.00-
Lucia A. Clough, land damage, Cy-
press street . . . . 1,221.65
Alonzo Elliott, land damage, Mon-
roe street ..... 828.80
Alonzo E. Gage, moving and rais-
ing house of Frank P. Proctor,
Central street .... 100.00
Austin Goings, land damage. Dear-
born street .... 20S.80
Martha A. Hemphill, land damage,
Amherst, corner Chestnut street 1,800.00
James McKinzie, land damage, Elm
street ..... 500.00
B. F. Norton, land damage, Front
street ..... 100.00
F. A. Platts, balance land damage.
Young street .... 73.55
WATERING STREETS.
595
Paid John D. Patterson, land damage,
corner Amherst and Chestnut
streets ..... $4,700.00
Abbie M. Sawtelle, land damage.
Brown avenue ....
Martha E. Stearns, land damage.
Front street ....
John M. Stanton, land damage, Elm
street, south ....
Sullivan & Sheehan, land damage,
Morgan street ....
George L. Theobald, moving house
on Amory street
Upton, Harvey & Weston, land
damage, Beech, Ash, Maple, and
Oak streets ....
Augustus Wagner, damage, lowering
400.00
292.90
1,809.95
grade on (J
range street
100.00
$16,182.41
Watering Streets.
Appropriation
Amount transferred
from reserved fund
^5i277-i9
60.95
$5»338.i4
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men.
as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
January .
February
March .
$79.56
86.63
14.62
April
May
June
46.24
423.64
514.78
596
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
July . .
^847.12
August .
516.62
September
278.50
October
132.37
November
6.38
December
21.88
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll,
in district No. lo
January ....
$2.25
February .
4-75
April
6.90
May
67.00
June
184.00
July
204.00
August
299.(50
September
178.22
October .
17.50
November
21.69
December
3-'^3
REPAIRS.
$2,
■34
$988.44
Paid John B. Varick Co., paints, sand-
paper, chain, 2 seat springs, 5^
pounds oakum ....
Pike & Heald, dippers, chain, pip-
ing material, and labor on water-
ing-troughs, fountains, etc. .
Thomas A. Lane Co., material and
labor on stand-pipes, watering-
troughs, fountains, etc.
A. Filion, setting tire on watering
cart and repairs on cart
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son :
I water cart
Painting and repairing other carts
;i2.59
206.78
218.71
9.70
425.00
64.30
PAVING STREETS.
597
Paid John F. Larkin :
Repairs on fountains on Walker, Beau
port, and Granite streets .
Material and labor on stand-pipes
Repairing trough corner Main and Mil
ford streets ....
Paid A. H. Stark, painting cart
Manchester Hardware Co., 5 feet
safety chain ....
C. H. Hutchinson Machine Co.,
rubber packing, coupling, and
labor on watering-troughs .
Kimball Carriage Co., axle oil
John Bryson, painting street foun
tains .....
Concord & Montreal R. R., freight
on fountains
Concord Foundry Co., 2 fountains
J. W. Fiske, i No. 342 drinking
fountain ....
Joseph Gazaille, lumber, nails, and
labor .....
Frank I. Lessard, material and labor
on fountains
Boston & Maine R. R., freight on
drinking fountains
Total expenditures
^4.62
38.75
4.20
25.00
.80
2.25
15-36
1.80
190.00
81.25
26.00
52.50
1.6s
$1,381.36
$5^338-14
Paving Streets.
Appropriation ....
Amount transferred from reserved fund
,681.72
166.15
$9,847.87
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll, in dis-
trict No. 2 :
April $210.17
May
240.62
June
282.85
July
368.23
August .
373-98
September
407.73
October .
334-18
November
259.82
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll, in dis-
trict No. 7 :
May ...... $12.00
June ...... 40.00
November ..... 10.00
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll, in dis-
trict No. 10
May
$176.63
June
277.25
July
151-63
August .....
270.26
September ....
219.88
October
92.62
November ....
88.62
id labor of men and teams, as per pay
-roll, in dis-
trict No. II :
July ......
$2,477-58
$62.00
$1,276.89
;ii4.5o
PAVING STREETS.
599
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., steel bar,
tape line, square, spades, forks, picks,
globes, lanterns, and other hardware . $i4-94
Paid J. B. Varick Co.:
Tape measures . . . 1.85
I mattock and handle . . . i.oo
$17-79
PAVING STONE AND GRAVEL.
Paid L. H. & E. D. Colburn, paving
stones ....
W. H. Coburn, paving stones
W. H. Carpenter, paving stones
George F. Higgins, paving stones
Charles E. Stevens, paving stones
John Morse, paving stones
Leander Pope, paving stones .
Florence McCarthy, 3 loads paving
stone .....
Paid W. H. Carpenter :
22 loads cobble paving at ^1.60 .
3 loads cobble paving at ^1.25 .
Paid E. Dodge, 5 loads cobble paving at
$1-25
John Morse, 2 loads cobble paving
at ^1.70 .....
$2.98
289.80
1.78
95-70
360.78
1.43
2.48
4.95
35-20
3-75
6.25
3-40
$808.50
CONCRETE CROSSINGS AND OTHER WORK.
Paid George F. Higgins, concrete in sun-
dry places ...... $1,788.08
Paid C. H. Robie Co.:
Patching Merrimack and Chestnut
streets ...... 30.00
600
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Concrete at ward 9 engine house
^296.70
Concrete on Amherst and Vine streets
1,161.32
Concrete, roadway corner Amory and
Rimmon .....
192.67
Concrete, sundry places
1,131.02
Paid F. S. Bodvvell :
39 feet underpinning ....
33- 1. S
40 perch stone, Smith road
90.00
Paid C. A. Bailey :
46 cesspool stone at ^3
138.00
8 circles, 3-foot radius
30.00
5 circles, 4-foot radius
22.50
359 feet curb . . .
161.55
$5»o74-99
SUNDRIES.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., 35 feet spruce
boards .....
E. T. James, damage to horse, har-
ness, and hack ....
Frank H. Challis, advertising pro-
posals for cobble paving
A. S. Campbell & Co., i book, 150-
pages, ruled and printed to order
W. P. Goodman, 500 envelopes
Total expenditures
$0.49
2-75
•38
^15.62
• $9>847-87
Macadamizing.
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
$21,250.13
15.00
$21,265.13
macadamizing.
Expenditures.
601
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, district No. 2 :
April $107.59
May 1,762.37
June
July .
August .
September
October .
November
Paid labor of men, as per pay
July . . .
August .
October
November
1,565-27
2,776-95
3,268.98
2,275.44
1,010.52
159-99
roll, district No. 10 :
^950.26
• 1,772.43
4.25
23-32
112,927.1 1
$2,750.26
Paid William Coburn, 14,100 lbs. stone
P. C. Cheney Co., 44 loads stone
F. M. Barnard, 11 loads stone
L. Bartlett, 5 loads stone
William Boynton, 23 loads stone
Adam Dickey, 16 loads stone
J. Fullerton, 38 loads stone .
Head & Dowst Co., 94,380 lbs
stone ....
Horace Holbrook, 8 loads stone
Charles Hoyt, 18 loads gravel
Hadley F. Higgins, 15 loads stone
Mass. Broken Stone Co., 951,450
lbs. stone . . . . .
$3-53
44.00
11.00
5.00
23.00
16.00
38.00
23-59
8.00
1.80
15.00
666.02
602
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Benjamin Mack, 5 loads stone
Leander Pope, 14,335 lt)s. stone
Joseph Tirrell, 3 loads stone .
J. W. Tirrell, 10 loads stone .
C. H. Tirrell, 22 loads stone .
Fred Worthley, 29 loads stone
Horace Willey, 216 loads stone chips
R. P. Stevens, 142 loads stone chips
F. S. Bodwell, 21.88 perch stone-
work, west end McGregor bridge
$5.00
3-58
3.00
10.00
22.00
29.00
54.00
35-50
98.46
$1,115.
FUEL, FREIGHT, AND WATER.
Paid Dunlap & Wason Coal Co., 35,900
lbs. Cumberland coal .
People's Gas-light Co., 17 chaldrons
coke .....
J. A. Brown, 37 feet wood
A. Bodwell, 50^ cords wood
Paid Concord & Montreal Railroad :
Freight on castings ....
Freight on oil .
Paid Water-works, use of water to Janu-
ary I, 1894 .....
$120.00
68.00
16.18
225.56
3-36
•44
30.00
$463.54
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
Rubber packing, washers, gallon can,
steel, shims and wedges .
Sperm oil, tallow, ax, picks, hammers,
etc.
1 2 canal barrows and steel stamp
48 lbs. plug drills, 20 lbs. shims and
wedges
$28.20
91-95
24.00
[0.80
MACADAMIZING.
603
28 lbs. shims and wedges
25 lbs. tallow and 2 cant dogs
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co.:
12 coal scoops, paint, staples, bolts,
shims, drills, and other hardware
Forcite, platinum fuse, powder, cannon
wire ......
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Steel, augur bit, glass, hammers, black-
smith bellows, iron, drills
Plow beams, sledge handles, shovels .
Plow points and other hardware .
50 lbs. Hecla dynamite
50 4-foot electric exploders
$3.60
4-5°
119.62
340.99
9-85
34-29
84.77
16.00
1.50
$770.07
LUMBER, CASTINGS, AND REPAIRS.
Paid C. H. Hutchinson Foundry & Ma-
chine Co., castings, babbitt metal, oth-
er material, and labor . . . $8i
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.:
30 feet rock maple
1 iron for No. i forge .
21 lbs. Norway iron for steam drill
33 hours' labor on steam drill
199^ hours' labor, 428 lbs. steel
18 lbs. iron for brace .
2^ hours' labor ....
Material and labor on crusher engine
20 lbs. babbitt, 31^ hours' labor .
2 oil cups, 4 hours' labor
7^ lbs. rubber packing
Paid Farrel Foundry & Machine'Co.:
2 pair 15 X 9 plates
Planing plates ....
•36
1.50
2.50
1.26
13.20
105.48
1.58
1.24
107-57
7.40
3-45
2.25
45-85
6.00
604 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Eager & Rand, i hogshead . . $i.oo
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co.:
Material and labor on crusher . 39'07
Hose bands and coupling on crusher . 3.60
Paid John DriscoU, galvanized iron and
labor ..... I. GO
Head & Dowst Co., spruce, chestnut,
and pine lumber . . 35-54
Weston & Hill Co., 3 yards cotton
flannel ..... .45
Thomas L. Thorpe, 105 lbs. waste . 10.50
John T. Beach, material and labor
repairing road machine . . 2.40
L. M. Aldrich, filing saws . . 4.35
James Briggs, oil can and repairing
can .65
Vacuum Oil Co., 50 gals, cylinder
oil 34-31
Irving L. Stickney, belting, lacing,
and repairs ..... 9.46
Paid Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection &
Insurance Co., insurance for one
year, to May 21, 1894 . . $22.50
VVhitten & Fifield, use of team . 22.00
H. P. Simpson, expenses to Salem . 10.97
George F. Higgins, 1,713.33 yards
concrete on Merrimack street . 1,713-33
C. H. Robie Co., concreting road-
way on Maple street from north
line of Central street to Lake ave-
nue 939-9°
$529-97
12,708.70
Total expenditures $21,265.13
GRADING FOR CONCRETE,
Grading for Concrete.
Appropriation
$6,405.66
Transferred from reserved fund
34.86
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, i
n district No. 2 :
January
• $317-70
February
1,007.81
March
963.49
April
196.92
May
298.94
June
311-99
July . .
220.50
August .
244.50
September
230.29
October .
489.27
November
266.79
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll,
in dij
trict No. 7 :
May ....
$150.00
June ....
150.00
November
17.10
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, i
1 district No. 10 :
January ....
$214.00
February
296.69
March .
204.78
April
216.50
May
61.88
June
200.01
August .
26.50
605
$6,440.52
$4,548.20
$317.10
606
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
October .
November
December
$57-62
163.91
34.86
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 11
$i>476-75
$12.00
MATERIALS.
Paid Michael Lyons, 20 loads sand
Mary Hartshorn, 216 loads sand
Benjamin Mack, 40 loads sand
C. D. Taffe, 146 loads filling .
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
$5.00
21.60
4.00
36.50
$67.10
Steel and scoops
$11.70
6 steel bars ....
4.92
I oil can
•75
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
2^ pounds shims and wedges
•44
12 plug drills ....
1.56
^19-37
Total expenditures
$6,440.52
Scavenger Service,
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
$16,414.23
2,586.65
$19,000.
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
January $1,044.53
February 1,297.92
SCAVENGER SERVICE.
607
March .
April
May
. $1,298.66
■ 1,637-82
1,600.92
June
July
August
• 1,074.13
988.69
1,268.67
September
October .
November
December
• 1,014-23
902.70
• 1,195-54
854-33
$14,178.14
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 10 :
January $123.50
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October .
November
December
140.89
122.00
226.13
203.02
257-50
239-25
293-50
232.00
229.50
287.99
217.62
$2,572.90
ON CONTRACT.
Paid W. H. Carpenter :
As per contract to June 9, 1893 . . $706.70
2 days' work for scavenger. . . 24.00
Paid city farm :
Scavenger service from June 24 to July
2, as per contract .... 42.63
To August I, as per contract . . 208.33
To September i, as per contract . . 208.33
608 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
To October i, as per contract . . $208.33
To November 30, as per contract 416.66
To December, as per contract . 208.34
Paid F. X. Chenette, labor with teams 12
days ...... 108.00
John T. Gott, cleaning i vault,
city yard ..... 5.00
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co., 12 street hoes . $5-4o
Paid Manchester Hardware Co. :
24 shovels ...... 20.50
6 pounds American steel ... .30
Shoes and nails ..... 2.26
Steel, rakes, etc. . . ■ . 5.76
12,136.32
$34.22
BLACKSMITHING, HARNESSES, ETC.
Paid D. F. Cressey, shoeing horse . . $1.95
Ranno Harness Co., repairing har-
nesses ..... 8.85
Frederick Allen, i heavy harness
and collar ..... 48.50
Merrimack Steam Fire Engine Co.,
labor at Lincoln-street dump . 20.00
$79-30
Total expenditures ..... $19,000.88
Street Sweeping.
Appropriation ..... $1,398.76
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 32.00
$1,430.76
STREET
SWEEPING
.
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
April
$84.25
May
196.18
June . . .
105-55
July . .
116.28
August .
96.25
September
192.85
October . ' .
145-39
November
42.57
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 10
April .....
$66.77
May
44.00
July
46,00
October
52.49
November ....
124.56
HARDWARE.
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co., 9 stree
brooms
$5-25
Manchester Hardware Co., 23 stree
t
brooms ....
9-59
John B. Varick Co., street brooms
etc. .
6.78
609
REPAIRS.
Paid S. A. Felton & Son, 3 street sweepers refilled
Total expenditures ....
39
$979-32
$333-82
$21.62
$1,430-76
610 REPORT
OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Lighting Streets.
Appropriation
Expenditures,
electric lights.
. $42,000.00
Paid Manchester Electric Light Co. :
Charges.
Discounts.
January
• $3,3^3-8^
$7.00
February
3>4o5-2i
15-33
March .
3i073-48
2301
April .
3,405.88
8.25
May .
.
• 3-297-30
4-95
June
2,969.68
8.03
July . .
3,000.67 .
5-51
August .
3,008.05
3-47
September
3>o53-59
3-47
October
3)095-42
3-78
November
3>o95-42
6.62
December
3,098.88
11.65
$37,867.46
Total discounts de-
ducted . . . 101.07
;ioi.o7
$37,766.39
Paid People's Gas-Light Co.
January .
February
March
A]m\
May
June
July
August
$81.90
7336
69.72
66.50
58.80
54-04
49.14
50-54
LIGHTING STREETS.
611
September
October
November
December
^54-46
59-36
69.86
74.20
$761.
CARE OF GAS AND OIL LAMPS.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co., for lighting, extin-
guishing, and care of gas and oil street lights ;
January $i58-4S
February-
134-75
March .
125.00
April
139.00
May
133-75
June
138.62
July .
145-87
August .
133.60
September
142.35
October .
135-50
November
140.25
December
137.27
SUNDRIES.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co. :
27 barrels kerosene oil
$99-56
4 gallons whiskey
9. CO
i^ gallons sperm oil
2.03
2 boxes glass, lox 12
10.75
6 boxes glass, i2x 14
.
17.40
I box glass, 12 X 16
.
2.70
8 glass cutters
1.05
Freight on glass to Goffe's Falls
-25
Cash paid Eager
&R£
ind fc
r mat
ches
12.85
— $1,664.41
612
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR,
Paid Clark M. Bailey, fountains, chim-
neys, burners, etc. ....
Paid F. W. Elliott :
Oil and lighting street lamp prior to
December 19, 1892
Oil and lighting street lamp from De-
cember I, 1892, to July 19, 1893
Paid Mary E. Reed :
Lighting oil lamp at Massabesic from
December i, 1892, to June i, 1893 •
From June i, 1893, ^'^ December i, 1893
Paid J. W. Robinson, services in testing
arc lights .....
Patrick Dobbins, i oil can
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$121.00
5.20
9.00
4-50
4-50
25.00
•50
^325-29
^0,517.97
1,482.03
$42,000.00
Bridges.
Appropriation ....
Amount transferred from reserved fund
Expenditures.
;^4,273.29
180.44
$4,453-73
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
January $83.04
February 202.96
March 83.44
April ...... 67.00
613
May-
June
July
August
September
October .
November
December
^3-50
71.40
30-25
74-05
311.48
314.96
359-71
26.49
Paid labor of men,
as per pay-roll,
in district No. 5 :
July
Paid labor of men,
as per pay-roll,
in district No. 9 :
November
Paid labor of men,
as per pay-roll,
in district No. 10 :
April
$26.00
July
19.50
$1,628.2^
^4-75
$24.25
$45-50
LUMBER.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., lumber
Paid A. C. Wallace :
Lumber, South Main-street bridge
Lumber, Amoskeag bridge .
Lumber ......
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.:
Lumber ......
95,650 feet 3-inch hemlock plank, at
$11-75
16,559 feet, all sizes and kinds .
6^ hours' sawing ....
Paid Rowe & Lang, 20,443 f^^t bridge
plank .....
John Kenney, 12,438 feet lumber,
$256.17
57-76
44.21
102.20
30-99
1,123.88
382.34
2.60
255-53
149.25
$2,404.93
614
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
HARDWARI
Paid A. N. Clapp, oil, spikes, and nails .
^5-39
Wadleigh Hardware Co., wire, nails,
etc
1-45
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
I keg 6-inch spikes ....
2.50
20 lbs. wire nails ....
.40
I ax and other hardware
4.68
13 kegs wire spikes ....
31.20
65 lbs. cart nails ....
1.63
Other hardware
19-53
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
48 lbs. i2-penny nails
1.92
9 kegs nails
19.80
Nails, spikes, and other hardware
9.84
$98-34
Paid C. J. Shannessy, filing cross-cut saw
George Holbrook, material and la-
bor, west end McGregor bridge .
Concord & Montreal Railroad, freight
on plank .....
J. A. V. Smith, labor, etc., on iron
work for bridge ....
Paid John E. Cheney :
Inspection and report on McGregor
bridge, services ....
Traveling expenses ....
$1.00
6.25
17.07
69.41
140.00
13-95
$247.68
Total expenditures
$4,453-73
CITY TEAxMS.
City Teams.
Appropriation $8,794.46
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 939-02
615
$9>733'48
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll
January .
$242.43
February
270.68
March .
224.08
April .
281.64
May
269.17
June
123.20
July . . .
127.33
August .
185.05
September
135-99
October
166.87
November
156.62
December
272.68
$2,455.74
OATS, CORN, FEED, HAY, AND STRAW.
Paid
Adams & Tasker .
$429.49
J. A. Brown .
III. 85
H. H. Freeman
265-37
Merrill & Freeman
122.66
Gage & McDougall
174.16
Clarence R. Merrill
249-03
Partridge Brothers .
1,125.37
Henry W. Parker .
140.71
Gage & Perry
38.22
Isaac Whittemore .
40.50
C. D. Welch .
104.35
616
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Peter Parker .
Fred Plummer
H. A. Horton
^107,00
132.15
9.92
$3>o5o.78
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid E. C. Briggs, horseshoeing
D. F. Cressey, horseshoeing .
J. M. Brouillette, horseshoeing
Connor & Grossman, horseshoeing
Thomas Hickey, horseshoeing
Mahaney & McSweeney, horseshoe
ing . . . • .
John B. Varick Co., shoes, horse
nails, and other material
;i29.6o
6.42
38-50
137.00
44-25
46.85
68.33
HARNESSES AND
REPAIRS.
Paid Ran no Harness Co.:
I pair heavy team harnesses with collars
$59.00
I seat cushion ....
3-50
Axle grease, bandages, brushes,
cards.
etc
25.36
Paid Thomas P. Riley, repairing
har-
nesses, etc. ....
122.05
Paid N. J. Whalen :
New whip socket
.40
4 rubber horse covers .
16.00
4 duck horse covers .
14.00
Paid Ivory S. York :
10 whips ....
8.00
I heavy breastplate and tug
18.00
Paid Kimball Carriage Co. :
I whip and brush
1.50
Farm blanket, surcingles, etc.
.
15-75
^470-95
CITY TEAMS.
5 blankets
$30.00
2 harnesses with collars
80.00
Leathering 5 blankets
9-5°
Repairing collars
•50
I sheepskin ....
1.25
617
$404.81
REPAIRS ON CARRIAGES AND NEW CARRIAGES.
Paid John T. Beach :
I new cart body .....
Repairs
Paid Sanborn Carriage Co., welding band
and bolt
J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairs, etc.
A. H. Stark, painting wagon .
A. Filion, new shafts for night cart .
James M. Nutt, i dump-cart, whif-
fle-tree, and neck yokes
$28.00
180.05
•35
2-47.63
30.00
2.00
65.00
5553-03
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
Norway iron, whetstones, stake chains,
cattle cards, paint and brush, screws,
hooks, knobs, keys, match-box . $23.71
Sandpaper, 3 whips, spring steel, and
other hardware . . . . 75-84
Paid John B. Varick Co., Norway iron,
bolts, band, iron screws, ice chisel,
stable brooms, paints, seat spring,
sponges, and other hardware . 70.82
Wadleigh Hardware Co., oil, cable
chain, paint, glue, castile soap,
and other hardware . . . . 10.56
$180.93
618
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
MEDICAL SERVICES AND INSURANCE.
Paid A. W. Baker, dentistry work on
horses' teeth ....
S. F. Burnham, medical services
Paid Edward H. Currier :
Medicines ......
Syringes and extra tube
Paid Eager &: Rand, soda, vinegar, sul-
phur, soap powder, and soap
J. L. Golden, medical services and
medicine .....
McQuade Brothers, gin, salt, mus-
tard, alcohol, etc.
Smith & Gould, 24 bottles lotion .
Z. Foster Campbell, medicines, etc.
Peel's Food Co., i bag Peel's food .
A. L. Dodge, tonic
American Live Stock Insurance Co.,
insurance on horses
Paid Security Live Stock Insurance Co.:
First quarterly assessment on policies
No. 8712 to 8728 inclusive . ;
Second quarterly assessment
Paid Cavanaugh Bros., 4 horses
James M. Nutt, i pair horses
$16.00
4-50
. 3-IO
3-25
2.50
57.00
14-34
12.00
16.55
1. 00
2.50
190.86
56.75
51-75
$432.10
$800.60
400.00
$1,200.00
WATER, GAS, TELEPHONE, FUEL.
Paid Water-works, use of water to January
I, 1894 $44-oo
People's Gas-Light Co., gas at sta-
bles and office .... i3i'32
CITY TEAMS. 619
Paid New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co., use of telephone . . $36.00
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co.: ^
10,115 pounds egg coal . . . 35«4o
4,140 pounds egg coal . . . i4'49
Paid Joseph Masse, 15,780 pounds coal . 51-28
$312.49
Paid James Briggs :
Pails, tunnels, and soldering can .
$0.70
Stove, pipe, elbows, etc., for black-
smith's shop
19.85
Paid A. N. Clapp :
52 gallons kerosene oil . . .
4.16
Salt and rope
•35
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., lumber
25-59
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
Lumber
160.98
Blacksmith shop contract .
225.00
Tools and extras
35-28
Lumber, etc., for stable
90.64
Paid Pike & Heald, plumbing material.
labor, etc. .....
12.85
George W. Rief, lumber and labor .
11.83
William Smith, use of sled
1.50
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co. :
Packing faucet and cutting pipe .
•35
Piping stable .....
2.47
Paid Manchester Street Railway, i book
car tickets .....
5.00
Hartley E. Vaughan, burying two
horses
9.00
E. T. James, use of teams
20.50
620
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Clarence R. Merrill, i barrel lime . $0.90
George W. Bailey, board of 2 horses
2 days . ... 4.00
Frank L. Way, castile soap . . .10
George W. Demick, express on box .30
C. H. Simpson, use of team . . 8.00
A. Filion, use of cart tongue . . 4.00
Mrs. E. G. McKean, rent of stable
to September i, 1893 • • 20.00
Irving L. Stickney, 24 feet belt
leather ..... 4.80
Whitten & Fifield, use of teams . 4.50
Total expenditures .....
$672.65
$9,733-48
Repairs and Maintenance of Sewers and Drains.
Appropriation $4,538.32
3^755-83
$8,294.15
Amount transferred from reserved fund
Expenditures.
LABOR.
id labor of men,
as pe
r pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
January .
$280.52
February
914.91
March .
855-52
April
453-71
May
1,098.40
July
171. 01
August
294.66
September
152.62
October .
306.88
November
695.18
December
122.94
$5,346.35
KEPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE OF SEWERS AND DRAINS. 621
January .
$103.00
February
119.13
March .
265.83
April
125-13
May
1,399.09
August
230.07
September
HARDWARE.
34-51
Paid A. N. Clapp, kerosene oil, pails,
nails, rope .....
Manchester Hardware Co., steel,
files, iron rivets, bolts, bit-stock,
scoop handles, padlocks, wood
saw, and other hardware
John B. Varick Co., wire, tape,
steel, bolts, iron, cable chains,
scoop handles, mortar pails, canal
barrows, and other hardware
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co. :
24 pick handles
18 round-point shovels
MATERIALS, LABOR, E^
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works :
2,733 pounds castings .
9 hours' labor ....
12 hooks, 16 pounds refined iron
12 rivets, 4 pounds brass castings
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co., piping mate
rial and labor ....
Paid Pike & Heald Co. :
6 vault scoops ....
4 feet 6 inches Akron pipe .
$7-91
80.2J
37.12
5.00
[6.20
$64.91
3.60
.48
1. 00
79.81
6.96
$2,276.76
$146.51
622 REPORT OF TUE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Warren Harvey, extension of West
Elm back-street sewer, between
Bridge street and Kidder court . $13.76
Lessard & Moreau, ^g}4 feet pipe,
etc .87
H. H. Freeman, 20 bushels rock salt 9.00
W. P. Farmer, i pair rubber boots 2.75
George L. Robinson, 5 pairs rubber
boots ..... 17.00
Paid Dunlap & Wason Coal Co. :
3 tons Cumberland coal . . . 21.00
I barrel Cumberland coal . . . i.oo
Paid Thomas L. Thorpe, 20 pounds waste 2.00
B. W. Hill, digging sewer in Bay
back street, in November, 1891,
one-half cost of same . . 44-27
Palmer & Garmon, labor cutting
stone ..... 15-03
Portland Stone Ware Co., pipe . 5.01
CEMENT, BRICK, STONE, LUMBER.
Paid Adams & Tasker, 5 barrels cement $7-oo
W. F. Head & Son, 21,000 brick . 126.00
Heirs of Waterman Smith, 55 feet
covering stone .... 22.00
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
3,000 feet spruce .... 47.00
100 feet drag plank .... 4.00
20 feet 3-inch oak .... .60
SUNDRIES.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., advertis-
ing proposals for sewer pipe . $11-50
1288.93
$206.60
NEW SEWERS.
623
Paid E. T. James, use of teams
Irving L. Stickney, 2 oil suits
Total expenditures
$13.00
4-5°
$29.00
$8,294.15
New Sewers.
Appropriation ..... $40,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 3,097.86
$43,097.86
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
June ...... $1,807.90
July .
August .
September
October .
November
3699-33
4,751.66
3^897.91
3>i74-79
1,857.67
Paid labor jof men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 7 :
• June ........
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 10 :
June ...... $2,448.61
July .
August .
September
October .
November
2,854.76
2,010.17
790.05
1,152-55
331-82
119, 089. 26
$20.00
$9,587.96
624
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co., sledge handles,
hammers, steel bars, shovels, hand
ax, barrows, tape measure, twine,
padlock, stable pails, wire nails,
hooks and staples, whetstone, lan-
terns, rope, pick handles, and
other hardware .... $137-87
Wadleigh Hardware Co., twine, red
chalk, wire nails, forcite, plati-
num fuse, and other hardware . 170.31
Sanborn Carriage Co., 4 bands on
mallets . . . . .75
Manchester Hardware Co., spikes,
water pails, shovels, trowels, axes,
wire nails, pinch bar, and other
hardware ..... 214.68
$523-61
SEWER PIPE.
Paid George D. Goodrich, pipe, all sizes $1,952.82
Portland Stoneware Co.,pipe,all sizes 2,516.68
$4,469.50
MATERIALS, LABOR, ETC.
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works :
50,519 lbs. castings .
$1,073-50
8 lbs. brass pins . . . . .
2.00
Paid Pike & Heald Co.:
6 ladles
.60
Stovepipe and i T .
.60
8 and 10 inch Akron pipe .
1.65
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co., Akron pipe
suction hose, labor, etc.
232.21
NEW SEWERS. 625
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., iTiak-
ing cesspool pattern . . . $18.46
L. M. Aldrich, lumber, labor, filing
saws, etc. ..... 10.82
William P. Farmer, 32 pairs rubber
boots ..... 92.33
James W. Merrill, 3 pairs rubber
boots ..... 9.00
Dunlap & Wason Coal Co., 3^ tons
Cumberland coal . . . 22.63
James Briggs, oil cans, etc. . . 6.50
Paid J. Hodge :
I sand screen ..... 3.26
Lumber and labor .... 24.29
Paid Palmer & Garmon : *
Labor and use of tools on cesspools . 9.27
9 loads stone chips .... 4.50
Paid L. & W. T. Seiberlich, i quart pure
lard .30
C. J. Shannessy, filing cross-cut saw .50
C. W. Cheney, i hoisting jack . 32.50
Peter Duval, filing saws . . . 7.00
^1,551-92
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid Connor & Grossman, sharpening
tools
$0-25
John T. Beach, sharpening drills.
picks, etc
2.80
William Sutcliffe, drills and other
tools
2.79
Joseph Nichols, mending tools
4-75
510.59
626
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CEMENT, BRICK, STONE, LUMBER.
Paid Adams & Tasker :
31 barrels C. cement .... $89.90
10 lbs. string ..... 1.20
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.:
300 feet hemlock boards . . . 4.20
Spruce joist ..... 1.30
Castings, steel, labor .... 3.50
Norway iron and labor . . . 10.98
Paid W. F. Head & Son, 441,000 brick,
at §6 ..... 2,646.00
Clarence R. Merrill, 1,248 barrels
N. cement ..... 1,580.14
Paid A. C. Wallace :
24,630 feet 2-inch spruce plank . . 369.45
5,140 feet 4x6 spruce plank . . 77-io
6,514 feet 2-inch spruce plank $97.71
Less wood bought . . 79-12
3,534 feet I and 2 inch chestnut
Labor on above . . . ,
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
36,701 feet spruce
500 feet spruce boards
200 feet barn boards .
16,900 U. D. brick
3 brick hods
4,200 feet spruce
1,000 feet 2-inch spruce plank
Paid O. Hardy & Co., 4 sugar barrels
$5,663.80
NEW SEWERS.
627
Paid Boston & Maine R. R., freight on
pipe
Paid Concord & Montreal R. R.:
$945-1^
Freight on pipe
446.16
Freight on brick ....
352.80
SUNDRIES.
Paid A. N. Clapp, wicks, pails, kerosene
oil, spikes
$20.93
Union Publishing Co., advertising
proposals for plank
7.08
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.:
2 blank books, Nos. 3810 and 381 1
IO-75
6 sheets cardboard and cutting .
.40
6 blank books, No. 3934
13-50
12 blank books, No. 3935 .
4-5°
6 blank books. No. 3933
13-50
Paid Whitten & Fifield, use of team
9.00
C. H. Simpson, use of team .
26.25
Paid H. H. Scott :
Rent of stable
4.00
Labor
3.00
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.:
Advertising proposals for lumber
9-56
Printing three order books .
11.00
Paid Manchester Horse Railway, i book
car tickets
5.00
W. P. Goodman, 6 blank books
•15
E. R. Coburn Co., 2 blank books
made to order ....
12.00
John Britton, damage to window
caused by blasting
2.00
11,744.14
628
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. T. James, use of team . . $12.00
L. P. Reynolds, use of team . 60.00
H. P. Simpson, use of team . 60.00
G. H. Stearns, use of team . 60.00
Charles Geisel, damage from blast-
ing on Walnut street . . 29.81
George Holbrook, repairing damage
from blasting on Walnut street . 62.65
Total expenditures .....
$437-o8
$43,097.86
Second-Street Bridge.
Balance from old account
$6,000.00
Appropriation
43,129.85
Transferred from reserved fund
2,906.21
Expenditures.
ON CONTRACT.
Paid Charles A. Bailey :
For stone work ....
$20,127.01
282 piles, at $6
1,692.00
3,500 feet 3-inch plank, at $22 .
77.00
7,000 feet 10 X 10 timber, at $22
154.00
40 loads gravel, etc. .
40.00
140 yards rip. rap, at $2 per yard
280.00
Paid Dean & Westbrook, superstructure
26,687.36
William H. Colburn, 12,428.11 cu
bic feet filling, at 19^0. .
• 2,454.55
$52,036.06
l5i>Sii-92
SECOND-STREET BRIDGE.
629
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. lo :
April ...... ^16.25
May
June
November
December
6.00
29-75
218.13
15-94
SUNDRIES.
Paid A. C. Wallace :
1,074 feet spruce
126 chestnut posts ....
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing 30
bridge specifications .
Neil E. Fullerton, 19 loads stone, at
90c. ......
Frank Taylor, 15 loads stone, at 90c.
John B. Varick Co., 6 pounds 20-
penny nails ....
Thomas J. Welch, 21 loads cobble
stones, at 90c. ....
William H. Boynton, 28 loads cob-
ble stones, at 90c.
A. N. Clapp, 6 pounds nails .
Mrs. E. E. Emerson, 5 loads cobble
stones .....
James Fullerton, 31 loads cobble
stones .....
Head & Dowst Co., 18 loads stone .
C. H. Tirrell, 24 loads cobble stones
Joseph Tirrell, 7 loads cobble stones
Fred B. Worthley, 41 loads cobble
stones .....
$16.91
18.90
17.10
13-50
18.90
25.20
.18
4-5°
27.90
18.00
21.60
6.30
36.90
$286.07
$238.07
Total expenditures
. $52,036.06
630 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Widening Elm Street.
Appropriation
$2,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund .
1,700.00
Expenditures.
Paid Tliomas A. Lane Co.:
Gasoline ......
50-15
Labor taking down fence .
11.03
Material and labor putting up fence
106.90
Paid C. D. Taffe, 1,200 loads filling
300.00
13,700.00
Gordon Woodbury, 1,000 loads fill-
ing ...... 250.00
Frank S. Bodwell, building culvert
and retaining wall, as per contract 2,387.00
V. A. Hovey, lighting and care of
lanterns ..... 4.60
The John B. Clarke Co., advertising 16.00
Frank H. Challis, advertising . 2.00
$3'077-68
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 196.65
Total expenditures ..... ^3,274.33
Amount transferred to reserved fund . . 425.67
$3>7^
Engineer's Department
Appropriation ..... $4,300.00
Appropriation (resolution September 13,
1893) 487-88
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 860.96
$5,648.84
engineer's department. 631
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid W. H. Bennett, services as engineer 51,200.00 -
Mrs. A. G. Bennett, 150 days' labor
in engineer's office . . . 160.00
Harry J. Briggs, 312 days' labor,
assisting engineer . . . 729.00
George M. Currier, 212 days' labor,
assisting engineer . . . 212.00
Edward J. Doherty, 3 days' labor
in office ..... 6.00
Edgar E. Farmer, services assisting
engineer 252.75
E. M. Stone, 112 days' labor, assist-
ing engineer .... 224.00
Herbert L. Watson, 62 days' labor,
assisting engineer . . . 62.00
George W. Wales, services, assisting
engineer ..... 657.00
Harrie M. Young, services, assisting
engineer ..... 793-50
J. E. Baker, 3 days' services in engi-
neer's office .... 6.00
$4-302
TEAM AND TEAM EXPENSES.
Paid Frederick Allen, rope, whip, blanket $2.90
E. C. Briggs, shoeing horse . . 14.00
Connor & Grossman, shoeing horse io-55
Paid Kimball Carriage Co. :
Painting express wagon . . . 12.00
Repairing wagons . . . . 7.50
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son, springs, bolt,
whiffletree ..... 1.35
John T. Beach, carriage repairs . 6.15
632 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Horse Railway, car tick-
ets $25.00
I. L. Stickney, rubber blanket, etc. 9.00
Whitten & Fifield, use of teams . 66.25
E. E. Farmer, horse-car fares . . .60
G. W. Wales, horse-car fares . . .20
Harry J. Briggs, horse-car fares 3.20
J. L. Golden, visits and medicines . 7.50
A. H. Stark, varnishing Concord
wagon ..... 800
TELEPHONE.
Paid George W. Wales :
Expense to Boston with transit .
^•15
Express ......
•15
Paid Harrie M. Young, rash paid for ex-
press, soap, car fares .
2.30
Paid Harry J. Briggs :
Cash paid for key to office
•25
Express on street signs
2.25
Paid W. H. Bennett :
Expenses to Boston twice with instru-
ments
7.20
Cash paid for telegram
•50
Cash paid for express ....
•75
Cash paid for postage stamps
4.00
Expenses to Nashua, looking up records
1.64
Paid J. J. Abbott, painting poles .
•75
L. M. Aldrich, lumber and labor .
5-47
$174.20
Paid New England Telegraph & Telephone Co., use
of telephone $36.90
SUPPLIES AND OFFICE EXPENSES.
ENGINEER S DEPARTMENT.
633
Paid T. Hodge :
i,ooo chestnut hubs .
$20.00
i,ooo pine stakes ....
9.00
Lumber, etc., for tables
31-46
i,ooo pine stakes
9.00
215 stakes, 4 feet X 2 X 2
9.67
Paid Peter Harris, 3 Yale keys
•75
Manchester iron foundry, 58 pounds
castings ....
2.32
Thomas A. Lane Co., material and
labor on electric lights
13-34
George W. Rief, lumber and laboi
on patterns
.98
Charles H. Wood, painting rod
>
and weights
5-9°
Concord & Montreal Railroad
,
freight on i cabinet desk .
-53
John W. Wilson, cartage, i desk
•35
The John B. Clarke Co., printing
150 reports, with covers
25.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
13 blank books ....
1.70
Binding 3 volumes street numbers
15.00
3 canvas covers ....
4-5°
2 indexes ....
.76
2 scrap books and paste
1-75
12 document envelopes
.72
I folio for drawings .
3.00
Work on plan .
-50
13 blank books. No. 3866 .
7-15
Ink, shipping tags, paste, etc.
1-55
Cutting paper .
-50
2 blank books, Nos, 3945, 3946
18.00
McGill's fasteners
1. 10
Paid Thomas H. Tuson, printing cards
slips, etc. .
1.65
634 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Nate Kellogg, printing 1,500 letter-
heads ..... $7-50
Irving Stickney, i pound rubber
bands ..... 2.50
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son :
I No. 5 Remington typewriter $100.00
I 8-drawer oak cabinet . 30.00
Paper and carbon . . 9.50
$139-50
Less I second-hand typewriter 12.50
127.00
Typewriter ribbon .... i.oo
Typewriter oil . . . . . .20
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Screw clamps, artists' brushes, wire nails,
twine, etc. ..... 2.96
2 100-foot steel tapes .... 19-75
6 No. 8 long brass plumb bobs . . 4.50
I 50-foot tape ..... 5.75
Wrench, butts, sledge handles, wire nails 2.44
Paid A. V. Benoit :
3 rolls drawing paper . . . . 93- 15
Triangles and ink .... 9.45
Paid Bennett Manufacturing Co., i small
beam compass ..... 8.00
Paid Buff & Berger :
Cleaning and adjusting transit
I Philadelphia rod
I transit with accessories
I level, etc.
Bags, oil, and packing boxes
Paid E. R. Coburn Co.:
Pens, penholders, ink, pencils, paper,
and other stationery . . . 33-69
4
20
16
00
241
00
140
00
3
10
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
635
8 dozen pencils ....
$1.20
Water colors ....
7.20
Paid William H. Day & Co., ink pad and
rubber stamp ....
3.00
Paid Frost & Adams :
I roll tracing cloth, 3 ink cases .
13-44
I set curves . . .
35-00
Rubber, paper, etc.
7-5°
2 sponge rubbers
3-40
Paid Keuffel & Esser Co., i roll paper
iS.oo
E. G. Soltman, cloth binders .
3.20
Paid E. E. Taylor :
Ink, drafting instruments, etc.
57-43
2 rolls blue paper
3-94
Paid Manchester post-office, 250 2-cent
stamps
5.00
Charles A. Hoitt & Co., office chair
6.00
T. S. Buck, rubber stamps
11.30
John Holland, i sponge
•35
Morgan, Crossman & Co., 2 rubber
stamps ....
4-25
Sampson, Murdock & Co., 50 Man-
chester maps
17-50
$1,135-49
—
Total expenditures
$5,648.84
Health Department.
Appropriation ....
Amount transferred from reserved fund
$3,000.00
253-13
$3,253.13
636 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid George C. Hoitt :
Salary as health officer for year ending
February i, 1893 .... $200.00
Salary for 6 months ending July 31,
1893 ...... 100.00
Paid Joseph B. Sawyer, salary as health
officer for year ending February i,
1893 ...... 200.00
Neil F. Starr, salary as health officer
for year ending February i, 1893 200.00
Herbert S. Clough, 324 days' labor
as inspector . . . . 972.00
John F. Looney, 311 days' labor as
inspector ..... 622.00
Dennis Connor, 57 days' labor . 114.00
Benjamin Freeman, 57 days' labor . 114.00
Charles Ltingmaid, 100 days' labor 200.00
Patrick Wells, 4^ days' labor . 7.88
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.:
Printing 300 reports, 32 pages and cover
$15.00
bulletins for March, April,
May, and June .
16.75
pamphlets, statutes, and tables
5-50
1,500 envelopes .
25.00
bulletins ....
16.75
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.:
Printing placards ....
1 .90
1,000 note heads in tablets .
3-40
1,000 I -cent stamped envelopes
12.50
$2,729.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
637
Paid E. R. Coburn Co.:
200 envelopes
Blank books and other stationery
Paid Edson C. Eastman, i volume Public
Statutes of New Hampshire
Temple & Farrington Co , i record
book .....
$1.20
2.71
3.00
1.25
$104.96
Paid Fred S. Bodwell, use of team . . ;^3.oo
F. X. Chenette, use of team . . 17.50
W. J. Freeman, use of teams . . 5.00
J. C. Nichols & Son, use of team . i.oo
Whitten & Fifield, use of team . 13-50
Paid Fred H. Partelow :
I row boat and oars .... 25.00
Use of steamer seven hours ; . 10.50
Painting boat ..... 5.00
Paid Charles Langmaid :
Fare to Auburn and return . . .20
Labor moving sawdust . . . 1.50
Paid John F. Looney, horsecar fares . 14.75
Paid H. S. Clough :
Fares to Massabesic and return . . 1.20
Fares to Derry and return ... .60
Horse-car fares . . . . . 22.95
HOUSE OF ISOLATION.
Paid Pike & Heald, stovepipe, elbows,
damper, etc ^3-65
Darwin A. Simons, 12 chairs and
other furniture .... 11.20
Judith Sherer, 18 weeks' board of
patients . . . . . 54.01
^121.70
638
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid C. F. Starr :
Carfare to Concord and expenses . ^1.47
Attendance on Ouillette family . . 12.00
Medicine ...... 2.00
Paid D. P. Hadley, repairing clock . i.oo
l(. K. Home, crockery . . . 2.63
OFFICE EXPENSES.
Paid J. Y. McQueston :
6 office chairs ..... $25.00
I oak table ..... 8.50
Paid H. B. Fairbanks, bookcase . . 21.00
Head & Dowst Co., 6 hours' labor . 1.42
Manchester Art Association, stove
and wood ..... 8.00
Paid Joseph B. Sawyer :
Expense of Board of Health to Lowell
and return . . . . . 4.65
Fare of self and Dr. Starr to Concord
and return ..... 1.44
Paid H. S. Clough, postage and postal
cards . . . . . 13- 16
DeCourcy, Holland & Marshall, 2
feet hard wood .... 2.44
J. J. Abbott, I light glass 20 x 28,
and setting .... 1.50
People's Gas-Light Co., 300 feet gas .51
SUNDRIES.
Paid F. W. Elliott, dinners for 8 persons
at inspection of lake ....
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
I case for shipping water
Lumber, hardware, and labor
^6.00
1. 25
1.20
$87.96
$87.62
REPAIRS OF SCIIOOLHOUSES. 639
Paid'E. R. Angell, analysis of water . $S4-3°
John B. Varick Co., 22 lbs. sulphur .88
Pike & Heald Co., i fumigating pot 3.60
F. X. Chenette, burying dead animal 3.00
John F. Looney, disinfectants, tacks,
oil, etc. ..... 1.22
H. S. Clough, disinfectants, etc. . 28.56
Burnham, Brown & Warren, legal
services in sundry cases from Jan-
uary 16 to August 19, 1893 . 22.00
$121.01
Total expenditures ..... $3,253.13
Repairs of Schoolhouses.
Appropriation ..... $5,500.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 475-83
Expenditures,
mason work.
Paid B. W. Robinson :
Plastering at Ash-street schoolhouse . $9' 73
Paving water-closet at Franklin-street
schoolhouse . . . . . 1.25
Kalsomining, etc., sundry schoolhouses 366.83
PAINTING AND GLAZING.
Paid John A. Sargent :
Painting and glazing. Webster-street . $23.69
Numbering clothes-hooks, Spring-street 5.40
Painting and glazing at sundry school-
houses ...... 243.09
$5)975-83
$377-8i
640 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. J. Abbott :
Painting and glazing at sundry school-
houses $543-30
Lining blackboards .... 7.00
Paid Samuel N. Boyce, glass, window
cords, flag-pole .... 2.50
C. B. Hall, glazing and repairing
windows at Youngsville . . 3.00
J. S. Avery, glazing at High and
Ash street ..... 4.80
William F. Conner, 2 lights glass
and putty ..... .30
H. G. Batchelder, setting glass, Var-
ney schoolhouse . . . 3.00
CONCRETING.
Paid George F. Higgins :
Concreting, Main-street . . . $61.47
Concreting, Franklin street . . 93-56
Concreting, Bakersville . . . 31-21
Concreting, Varney .... 63.09
Paid C. H. Robie Co., concreting, Spring
street 103.55
WOODWORK.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, butts, glass, putty,
2)^ hours' labor .... $1.09
Williams & Co., blackboards . . 86.96
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
5 hours' labor, Varney school . . 1.20
Lumber and labor, training school . 271.63
10 hours' stone cutting, training school 4.25
$836.08
$352-
REPAIRS OF SCHOOLHOUSES. 641
Paid George H. Dudley, labor, lumber,
and hardware .... ^932.33
George S. Perry & Co., blackboards 18.72
George Holbrook, material and la-
bor, water-closets . . . 19- 75
J. Hodge, windows, sash, etc. . 55-62
PLUMBING AND IRONWORK.
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing Co.:
Castings, desk legs .... $12.50
Labor on boiler ..... 5.80
Cement and fire brick 1.50
Pattern and castings for boiler . . 2.50
Paid S. C. Austin & Bro.:
65 feet new lightning rod, Spring street 26.00
I point ...... 2.00
Material and labor repairing rods on
sundry schoolhouses . . . 46.20
27 feet rod, Lincoln street . . 38.80
Lightning rods, Varney schoolhouse . 180.86
Lightning rods, Hallsville . . . 13499
Paid Warren Harvey, stonework, train-
ing school ..... 150.00
Peter Harris, 6 keys for schoolhouses .65
Thomas A. Lane Co., material and
labor, plumbing, piping, etc., sun-
dry schoolhouses . . 1,261.40
Manchester Hardware Co., 2 dozen
locks ...... 6.50
Paid Manchester Heating & Lighting Co.:
Electric gongs, .'\sh street . . . 54-50
Electric labor, Varney . . . .80
4 pounds sal ammoniac . . . .32
Paid Pike & Heald, stoves, grates, pipe,
ventilator, drinking cups, labor, etc. 179-45
;^,39i-55
642
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid G. R. Vance :
96 boxes at IOC
Labor on roof, high school
Paid Ashley A. Amlaw, repairing water'
pipe
D. J. Adams, keys, etc. .
Paid George Whitford :
5 loads stone chips, Lincoln street
12 loads filling, Lincoln street
Paid W. M. Darrah & Co., 619 square feet
gravel roofing
Manchester Locomotive Works, (
grates, 307 lbs. .
J. H. Proctor, pump and fixtures
Youngsville
$9.60
•75
2,25
1.60
7-5°
9.00
45-24
9.21
4.00
$2,193.92
Paid Robert Clark, labor on lawn, Web-
ster street
Samuel Boyce, cleaning funnel, etc.
Joseph C. Blaine, lamp chimneys,
kerosene oil, making ladder, etc.
E. T. James, use of hacks, school
board ......
Mary W. Mitchell, cash paid E. R.
Coburn for repairing school flags
Robert Clarke, labor on lawn, Web-
ster street .....
F. S. Bodwell, 3 men i^ days' la-
bor, training school
Edward Sears, putting flag rope
through sheave of flag mast, Web-
ster street, Franklin street, and
training school ....
S59-55
3.00
4-54
7-50
9.00
8.75
4.50
FUEL.
643
Paid C. A. Trefethen, repairing clock,
Amoskeag
H. G. Batchelder, putting up rope
and pulley for flag pole, Varney
school
John T. Gott, cleaning vaults, Web-
ster's Mills, Youngsville, and Mos-
quito Pond ....
;^i.oo
3.00
8.00
Total expenditures .....
Amount transferred to fuel account ....
Amount transferred to printing and advertising ac-
count
Amount transferred to contingent expenses account
Amount transferred to free text-books account .
Amount transferred to furniture and supplies account
^110.84
;, 263.08
375-65
32-45
105.16
75-07
124.42
^5>975-83
Fuel.
Appropriation ..... ^4,800.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 4.50
Amount transferred from repairs of school-
houses account 375-65
$5>i8o.i5
Expenditures.
COAL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
366,827 lbs. coal at ^7
. §1,466.38
317,760 lbs. coal at $6.50 .
• 1,032.72
Paid Dunlap & Wason Coal Co.:
20,000 lbs. coal at ^7 .
70.00
135,420 lbs. coal at $6.50 .
440.12
644
KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Moore & Preston, 311,825 lbs. coal
at $6.50 $1,013.41
E. V. Turcotte, 215,485 lbs. coal at
$6.50 700.32
A. & D. M. Poore, 2,000 lbs. stove
coal ...... 7.50
$4,730-45
Paid L. B. Bod well & Co.:
2 cords pine wood, sawed and split
y2, cord mixed wood, sawed and split .
Paid The James Baldwin Co. :
5 barrels wood .....
Sawdust
Paid Henry P. Dobbins, piling wood
J. Hodge, 2 loads kindling wood,
Bakersville . . . .
Mary A. Seavey, cash paid for pil-
ing wood, Youngsville schoolhouse
William Stevens, cash paid Blood &
Co., labor on stove
Paid Luther S. Proctor :
195^ cords of hard wood and pine wood
delivered at sundry schoolhouses
47 cords hard wood
11^ cords pine wood
Paid S. A. Blood, y^ cord wood, Halls
ville ......
i^I2.25
4.00
1. 00
3-5°
1.25
•35
100.50
277.30
46.00
2-75
$449-7°
Total expenditures
$5>iSo.i5
FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES. 645
Furniture and Supplies.
Appropriation ..... $700.00
Transferred from repairs of schoolhouses
account ...... 124.42
Transferred from reserved fund . . 100.85
Expenditures,
chemical apparatus, supplies, etc.
Paid Tebbetts & Soule, chemical supplies,
all kinds ..... $98.32
D. C. Heath & Co., i astral lantern 10.00
Paid Ward's Natural Science Establish-
ment :
I model ear .... . 15.00
I model eye 12.00
Paid Albert Somes, express paid on models .90
E. M. Bryant, sal ammoniac, labor,
etc 1.60
J. J. Holland, Platts' chlorides . > i.oo
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., curtain
rings, floor brushes, padlocks, scrub
brush, putty, glass, snow shovel, call
bells, brooms, etc $38.28
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Transom catches, sash cord, waste bas-
kets 5.43
175 feet hose ..... 17-50
60 half-pints liquid glue . . . 11.25
6 18 X 30 wire mats .... 9.00
$925-27
$138.82
646
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
2 No. lo ash barrels .
$6.50
60 half-pints liquid glue
11.25
Dusters, screws, hinges, other hard
ware
82.04
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co., ax, shovel,
floor brushes
8-55
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co., 2
^gal-
vanized waste cans
4.S0
R. McQuarry, 48 wash basins
3-48
Paid Charles A. Austin & Co. :
6 floor brushes . . . .
.
9.00
3 dusters
2.25
$209.33
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Paid J. P. Ankarloo, coloring pegs . . $2.50
Boston School Supply Co., sundry
books ..... 24.31
Paid D. C. Heath & Co. :
Progressive outline maps . . . 4.10
Outline maps for training school . 1.03
Paid J. L. Hammett :
12 poundsjfoolscap, etc. . $47-53
Less 12 pounds foolscap re-
turned .... 25.92
I Johnston's map, etc.
21.61
2.50
I set Reed's objects, etc.
3-87
I American globe ....
9.00
4 Stanford's'maps ....
15.00
Kindergarten supplies, Webster-street
school ......
3.82
Paid George^S. Perry & Co. :
10 gallons ink .....
6.40
72 ink wells and glasses
8.30
FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES.
647
Paid Prang Educational Co., envelopes,
specimen charts, etc. .... $53-68
Paid Silver, Burdett & Co. :
Stanford's map of Europe . . . 4-oo
Historical Chart, map of North Amer-
ica and United States . . . 20. So
Map of Asia, map of Africa . . 8.25
3 Stanford's maps .... 12.45
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., curtain
fixtures, paper and all kinds of sta-
tionery ..... 47.08
Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict, 2
black typewriter ribbons . . 2.00
Mead, Dodge & Co., 100 sheets
paper 2.50
The American Book Co., i Webster's
dictionary .... 8.65
Ginn & Co., i music chart and
easel "8.63
Daniels & Downs, i ream paper . 1.55
FURNITURE.
Paid Charles A. Hoitt & Co. :
1 table, Ash-street school . . . $3-oo
2 wood chairs, Varney school . . i.oo
I teacher's chair, Varney school . . 2.00
4 teachers' chairs, Lincoln-street school 7.25
I oak desk, Webster-street school . i5-oo
4 chestnut chairs, Lincoln-street school 2.00
6 chairs, training school . . . lo-S^
I 5-foot table, training school . . 8.00
1 desk, 3 chairs, high school . . 33-oo
2 chairs, Hallsville school . . . 3.70
12 chestnut chairs, Webster-street
school ...... 5.50
I table, Webster-street school . . 2.50
$272.03
648 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Higgins Bros. Co. :
I table, Lowell-street school . . $2.50
I roll-top desk, Ash-street school 26.50
I ofifice chair, Ash-street school . . 3.50
Paid J. Y. McQueston, i table, 5x2^
feet, Hallsville school . . 2.75
Manchester Heating & Lighting Co.,
I electric bell and wire . . 1.45
Paid George S. Perry & Co. :
4 teachers' desks . . . . 89.72
48nik-wells 8.15
Paid Weston & Hill Co., 2 mats . . 4.50
James P. Slattery, repairing clocks 14.75
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., lumber
used at Ash-street school in mak-
ing drawing exhibit . . . $6.00
Barton & Co., 40 yards cambric.
Franklin-street and Varney
* schools ..... 2.00
Emma J. Ela, cash paid Willie Ca-
hill for carrying water, at Harvey
school, II weeks at 50 cents . 5.50
Paid T. F. Fifield :
Soap and oil .... . 1.38
5 gallons oil and can, Hallsville . . 1.50
Paid The American Book Co., 25 pack-
ages oak tags ..... 10.40
Paid Weston & Hill Co. :
40 papers needles . . . 2.50
6 yards silkiline ..... .75
4 rods ...... .40
^247.27
BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 649
Paid F. E. Nelson, 6 dozen scissors,
paper cutting in primary and middle
schools ...... $3-oo
Paid Pike & Heald Co. :
I set tin measures, Blodget-street school
Drinking cups, mop handles, etc.
Paid A. M. Eastman :
3 gallons oil .... .
Soap . . . . . . * .
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., blotters, card-
board, etc. ....
P. C. Cheney Co., book and paper
Clark & Estey, i^ yards oilcloth
Joseph Lewis, repairing and re-seat-
ing chair .....
A. J. Smith, 3 dozen sheets carbon
paper .....
A. N. Clapp, I gallon kerosene oil,
1 lamp chimney
Total expenditures
I.IO
13-31
•45
•72
4.19
1.50
■33
•75
1.80
.24
$57-82
$925-27
Books and Stationery.
Appropriation $300.00
Expenditures,
sundries.
Paid E. R. Coburn Co. :
1 2 sheets cardboard .... $0.60
I ream drawing paper .... 18.00
650 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid W. p. Goodman, drawing paper, mu-
cilage, rubber bands, blotting
paper, and other stationery . $1498
S, S. Piper, postmaster, postage
stamps, superintendent's ofitice . 25.00
E. B. Woodbury, cash paid for post-
age 3.00
Temple & Farrington Co., 6 quires
paper 2.10
University Publishing Co., i Lippin-
cott's Gazetteer .... 8.25
$71-93
Total expenditures $7i-93
Amount transferred to free text-books account . 228.07
§300.00
Printing and Advertising.
Appropriation ..... $350.00
Transferred from repairs of schoolhouses
account ...... 32.45
Transferred from reserved fund . . 29.35
$411.80
Expenditures.
SUNDRIES.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.:
Printing 150 yea and nay blanks for use
of school board .... ^1-35
600 postals and printing same . . 7.70
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Printing 500 reports, 60 pages and cover 38.00
CONTINGENT EXPENSES. 651
Printing application blanks, circulars
examination papers, cards, orders
and blanks of all kinds .
200 blank books, chemistry
3,880 blanks, circulars, etc.
$264.25
75.00
25-50
$411.80
Total expenditures ..... $411.80
Contingent Expenses,
Appropriation ..... $1,800.00
Transferred from repairs of schoolhouses
account ...... 105.16
Transferred from reserved fund . . 232.05
Expenditures,
freight and cartage.
Paid Wm. E. Buck, cash paid for freight
on text-books and other school sup-
plies, telegrams, etc., from April, 1891,
to March, 1893 ..... $44-23
Paid F. P. Colby :
Moving and unpacking 3 grand pianos x5.oo
Freight paid on same . . . . 6. 1 7
Moving piano from training school to
Webster's Mills school . . . 3.00
Paid J. G. Jones, freight and trucking
school furniture, text-books, etc.,
from December 26, 1892, to De-
cember 19, 1893 • • • 53-69
Boston & Maine R. R., freight on
slates 8.80
$2,137.21
652 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
WATER AND GAS.
Paid Water-works, use of water . $499.80
People's Gas-Light Co., gas . . 220.08
The Electric Company, electric
lights, North Main street . . 3.50
• $723-38
ANNUAL GRADUATION.
Paid John Robbie Co., ribbon for di-
plomas .....
D. A. Simons, use of chairs .
Manchester Opera House, rent of
house, June 24, 1893 .
Wm. Heron, Jr., writing diplomas .
Ginn & Co., 210 coda .
Frank P. Colby, moving piano to
Opera House ....
Frank W. Fitts, 16 yards ribbon
Charles A, Hoitt & Co., use of chairs
^123.17
OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT AND SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Paid F. T. E. Richardson, expenses of
committee on music to Boston to
examine pi^no . . . . $7-24
Temple «&: Farrington Co., i canvas
cover ..... 1. 00
W. P. Goodman, erasers, rubber
bands, envelopes, and other sta-
tionery ..... 8.10
C. A. Trefethen, repairing clock i.oo
W. E. Buck, for carriage hire . . 105.00
$122.34
$12.03
13.10
50.00
32.7s
5-04
6.00
1.44
2.81
CONTINGENT EXPENSES. 653
Paid Peter Harris, 4 keys . . . ^^0.65
Joseph Lewis, repairing two chairs . 1.30
Manchester Hardware Co., floor
brush, 20-inch ostrich duster . 3.25
T. F. Fifield, i package Gold Dust .25
Timothy McKenna, cleaning 11
schoolhouse vaults . . . 41-25
Ginn & Co., i Mason's chart and
easel 8.53
A. A. Jenkins, tuning pianos . . 28.75
E. M. Cundall, 3 felt grand piano
covers ..... 24.00
E. D. Castelow & Sons, 3 tabourets,
ebony in maroon silk plush . 16.50
Chickering & Sons, 3 grand pianos 825.00
Paid James P. Slattery :
Clock, Lincoln-street school . . 3.75
Clock, Webster-street school . . 3.75
Clock, Varney school . . . . 3.75
Repairing clocks, sundry schools . 11-25
Paid labor as per pay-roll, in district No. 2 :
February . . . . . 26.00
March . . . . . . 18.90
December ..... 8.75
Paid Oliver Ditson, music . . . 4.20
Paid Emma J. Ela :
Cash paid for carrying water 14 weeks - 7.00
Cash paid for putting in wood . . .60
$1,037-43
Total expenditures ..... ^2, 137. 21
654 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Care of Rooms.
Appropriation
Expenditures.
JANITORS.
Paid John L. Avery, High and Ashstreet
schoolhouses ....
$600.00
E. P. Cogswell, Franklin-street and
training school houses
475-00
William Stevens, Lincoln-street and
Wilson Hill schoolhouses .
450.00
H. G. Batchelder, Varney and South
Main-street schoolhouses
450.00
Wm. H. Morrill, Spring-street and
Lowell-street schoolhouses .
350-04
Joseph C. Blaine, Main-street school-
house
175.02
Wm. H. Newry, Hallsville school-
house .....
337-50
H. C. Dickey, Bakersville school-
house
300.00
J. E. Bailey, Amoskeag schoolhouse
170.04
C. M. Whiting, Webster-street and
Blodget-street schoolhouses
437-49
Henry P. Dobbins, Goffe's Falls
schoolhouse ....
41.50
Inez M. Warren, Stark district school-
house
40.25
Samuel N. Boyce, Harvey district
schoolhouse ....
24.00
Etta B. Proctor, Youngsville school-
house .....
20.25
Allie F. Proctor, Youngsville school-
house
10.50
$4,300.00
EVENING SCHOOLS. 655
lid Merton Coleman, Webster's Mills
schoolhouse ....
$38-00
D. S. Dunbar, Mosquito Pond school-
house
27-75
Emma J. Ela, Harvey district school-
house .....
26.75
Wm. F. Conner, Main-street school-
house .....
145.85
,119.94
Paid M. C. Hawks, cash paid Mary Pritz-
kan for cleaning schoolhouse at
Goffe's Falls .... $3-00
Dora Dunbar, cleaning schoolhouse
at Mosquito Pond . . . 2.50
Mrs. Bertha Schultz, cleaning school-
house at Goffe's Falls . . 5.00
William H. Conner, cleaning, re-
setting glass, etc., School-street
schoolhouse .... 5.25
^^5-75
Total expenditures ..... ^4,135,69
Transferred to reserved fund ..... 164.31
$4,300.00
Evening Schools.
Appropriation ..... $1,200.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 57-2o
Expenditures,
salaries.
Paid L. H. Bailey, 22 evenings . . $48.40
$1,257.20
656
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Honorie J. Crough, 75 evenings
L. H. Carpenter, 90 evenings
Charles E. Cochran, go evenings
Mary A. Clement, 45 evenings
Minnie E. Ellinwood, 16 evenings
David P. Eckvall, 22 evenings
Lizzie D. Hartford. 75 evenings
Maggie G. Linen, 75 evenings
William J. Mooar, 90 evenings
Arthur W. Morgan, 75 evenings
Gertrude A. Burns, 28 evenings
Lottie M. Clement, 35 evenings
Isabel Esty, 40 evenings
Cora M. Farmer, 26 evenings
Fannie L. Sanborn, 14 evenings
Mary A. Walker, 27 evenings
Etta L. Boardman, 40 evenings
JANITORS.
Paid J. C. Blaine, services as janitor
Wm. H. Morrill, services as janitor
Wm. F. Conner, services as janitor
J. G. Jones, moving furniture to city
hall
Total expenditures
198.00
198.00
40.50
14.40
19.80
75.00
68.80
85.00
105.00
25.20
31-50
40.00
23.40
12.60
24.30
80.00
$16.60
62.20
16.00
$1,161.40
— $95.80
• $1,257.20
Teachers' Salaries.
Appropriation ....... $60,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid teachers, as per pay-rolls :
January $5>566.58
February ..... 6,048.15
EVENING SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL DRAWING
657
March ....
• $5)982.05
April ....
• 5>8o7.95
May ....
6,087.01
June ....
6,120.96
September
5,767.09
October
• 5>978-52
November
• 5,979-45
December
6,099.89
^59>437-65
Total expenditures
• $59A37-^S
Transferred to reserved fund .
562.35
;^6o,ooo.oo
Evening School of Mechanical Drawing.
Appropriation
Expenditures.
Paid John M. Kendall, for services $209.00
Henry W. Allen, for services 209.00
5600.00
5418.00
JANITOR.
Paid Wm. H. Morrill, services as janitor .
SUPPLIES. *
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., 2^ reams draw-
ing paper 545 -oo
John B. Varick Co., 3 dozen rubber
triangles ..... 14.00
$33-6o
658
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Head »Sc Dowst Co., drawing tables
Temple & Farrington Co., 800 sheets
paper, No. 4,328, ruled to order
$16.02
5-75
50.77
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
^532-37
67-63
$6oo.co
Free Text-Books.
Appropriation ...... $4,000.00
Transferred from repairs of schoolhouses
account ...... 75-o7
Transferred from books and stationery
account ...... 228.07
Transferred from reserved fund . . 153-54
Expenditures.
$4,456.68
FREE TEXT-BOOKS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid Allyn & Bacon
American Book Co.
Boston School Supply Co
A. S. Barnes & Co.
W. G. Colesvvorthy
E. R. Coburn Co.
De Wolfe, Fiske & Co.
Estes & Lauriat
Effingham, Maynard & Co.
W. P. Goodman .
Ginn & Co. .
Greenough, Adams & Gushing
Harper & Brothers
Houghton, Mifflm & Co.
^72-05
700.03
19.64
2.62
19.40
.60
5-65
10. 84
46.15
•94
822.86
104.22
3-40
364
MANUAL TRAINING.
659
Paid Holden Patent Book Cover Co.
^203.50
J. L. Hammett
155-39
D. C. Heath & Co.
27.66
William R. Jenkins
4.18
, C. H. Kimball .
-'5
C. F. King & Merrill .
401.17
Lee & Shepard
34-44
Leach, Shewell & Sanborn
7-5°
Porter & Coates .
14.70
Prang Educational Co. .
403.79
George S. Perry & Co. .
397-52
Silver, Burdett & Co. .
52.90
Charles Scribner's Sons .
3-92
Charles Schoenhof
29-53
Temple & Farrington Co.
10.57
Tebbetts & Soule .
79-47
Thomson, Brown & Co.
17-75
University Publishing Co.
15.60
William Ware & Co. .
429.22
Wadsvvorth, Rowland & Co. .
2.58
34,103.68
Paid Fannie L. Sanborn, services as clerk in superin-
tendent's office ....... ;^353.oo
Total expenditures
^4,456.68
Manual Training.
Appropriation
$1,200.00
Expenditures.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.
75 sheets white cardboard .
$3.00
$9-51
I.50
1-75
377-35
1-75
•5°
3 22
lO.OO
bbO REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Stationery of all kinds
Cutting 1,500 pieces paper .
I roll blue print
Paid Fred E. Brown :
Services as teacher
I roll of blue print
Express to Hallsville .
Expenses to meet committee
Paid James P. Brown & Co., 36 aprons
Bixby & Wilson, 26 draughting
boards 7.28
Concord Foundry Co., equalizing
levers, cap screws, iron castings,
etc. ...... 12.27
John B. Varick Co., tools of all
kinds 348.59
Paid E. L. Pack :
26 rubber type and i pad . . 3.37
I set pig rubber ...... 1.20
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
23 benches, to order . . . . 230.00
Other lumber and labor . . . 77-33
Paid Barton & Co., 3 yards cotton flannel .24
Manchester Heating & Lighting
Co., 2 gas stoves . . . 1.50
Irving Stickney, rubber tubing . 1.20
^1,091,56
Total expenditures ..... $1,091.56
Transferred to reserved fund ..... 108.44
$1,200.00
City Library.
Balance from last year unexpended . . $4,094.00
Appropriation .... 4,300.00
$8,394.00
CITY JJBRARY.
Expenditures.
661
LIBRARIAN AND ASSISTANTS.
Paid Mrs. M. J. Buncher, librarian
A. F. Payne, assistant librarian
James A. Buncher, assistant librarian
George R. Fletcher, assistant libra-
rian ......
CATALOGUE.
Paid Augusta Appleton, services, exami-
nation of catalogue .
Edith O. Simmons, services as copy-
ist
C. A. Cutler, services and expenses,
examination of catalogue .
Paid Charles A. Durfee :
Services, including balance retained by
city
Cataloguing i68 volumes, at 5 cents .
Paid Louise E. Newell, services as copyist
Paid Emma A. H. Piper :
Expenses to and from Boston, January
31 and February i, 1893
Services on catalogue and card cata-
logues ......
Paid Library Bureau, 55,000 index cards
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
8-^ pounds slips ....
124,000 slips .....
$800.00
66.25
315-00
223.00
$9-65
88.59
30.60
591.00
8.40
133-24
3-75
357-00
120.60
1.25
19.80
1,404-25
— $1,363-
BINDING, REBINDING, AND RESEWING.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co
$333-oi
bbZ REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
NEW BOOKS.
Paid trustees of city library $1,000.00
WATER, GAS, FUEL, INSURANCE.
Paid Water-works, use of water for 1893 • $16.00
Peoples Gas-light Co., for gas . 228.48
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
I cord slabs . . . . . 5.00 •
144,915 lbs. coal .... 470.97
^ cord slabs ..... 2.50
10 lbs. ice daily from June 7 to Septem-
ber 22, 1893 4.45
PaidI L. B. Clough, agent, premium on
$10,000 insurance on contents of libra-
ry, ^tna and N. H. Insurance Co. . 125.00
NEWSPAPERS.
$852.40
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., for " Daily Mirror
and American " to April i, 1893 . . . $6.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing
200 reports, 28 pages and cover . . $11.00
Paid Charles F. Livingston :
Printing 3,000 book covers . . 3.00
2,500 lbs. book cover paper . . 141.08
Printing 7,500 covers . . . 7.50
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co., repairing leak
in water pipe ..... 1.30
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.:
500 postal cards and printing . . 6.75
Interleaving and binding i book . 2.75
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
663
12 sheets, ruled
I blank book, No. 3550 .
I blank book, No. 3964
Canvas cover
Paid N. P. Hunt, cash paid for postage .
$0.38
5-5°
7-5°
I. GO
2.32
5190.08
$5,149.62
3>244.38
Total expenditures
Balance transferred to new account
$8,394.00
Fire Department.
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
$45,000.00
1,501-31
$46,501.31
Expenditures.
Paid Thomas W. Lane, chief engineer
Fred S. Bean, assistant engineer
Ruel G. Manning, assistant engineer
Eugene S. Whitney, assistant en
gineer ....
Clarence D. Palmer, assistant en
gineer ....
Fred S. Bean, clerk
Paid teamsters and engineers, as per pay
January .....
February ....
March .....
April .....
$1,300.00
125.00
125.00
125.00
125.00
25.00
rolls :
$1,172.50
1,205.00
1,205.75
1,179.25
$1,825.00
664
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
May
$1,500.28
June
1,511.28
July
1,419-34
August .
1,511-03
September
October
1,515-78
1,497.94
November
1,812.90
December
1,730.02
CALL
MEMBERS.
;i7, 261.07
Paid Araoskeag Steam Fire Engine Co.:
For year 1893 .....
Extra labor, 714 days, account of storm
Extra labor July 4 . . . .
Paid Fire King Steam Fire Engine Co.:
For year 1893 .....
7^ days extra labor, account of storm
Extra labor July 4 . . . .
Paid N. S. Bean Steam Fire Engine Co.:
For year 1893 • • . . .
7^ days extra labor, account of storm
Extra labor July 4 . . . .
Paid Merrimack Steam Fire Engine Co.:
For year 1893 .....
7)^ days extra labor, account of storm
Extra labor July 4 . . . .
Paid General Stark Steam Fire Engine Co.
For the year 1893 ....
lYn days extra labor, account of storm
Extra labor July 4 . . . .
Paid Chemical Engine Co., for year 1893
^1,261.66
15
00
8
00
,261
.66
19
00
8
00
,261
67
15
00
8
00
,261
66
15
00
[,351.66
15.00
8.00
401.66
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 665
Paid Massabesic Hose Co.: ,
For year 1893 $1,178.33
4 days extra labor, account of storm . 8.00
Extra labor July 4 . . . . 8.00
Paid Pennacook Hose Co.:
For year 1S93 i,i7S-33
7^ days extra labor, account of storm 15-00
Extra labor July 4 . . . . 8.00
Paid Excelsior Hook and Ladder Co.:
For year 1893 • • • . . 1,896.65
12 days extra labor, account of storm . 2400
Extra labor July 4 . . . . 8.00
Paid Fulton Engine Co., 2 months of the
year 1893 ...... 279.91
$iT>523-i9
OTHER LABOR.
Paid W. B. Abbott, use of horse 28 days
at Massabesic Hose Co. . . $28.00
J. Newell Brown, 85 days services as
engineer Steamer No. 3 . . 191.26
Auguste Blanchetle, carrying men to
brush fire ..... 1.50
George W. Bailey, use of horse,
Massabesic Hose No. 2 . . 2.00
W. B. Corey & Co., use of sleigh
2i}i days. Steamer No. i, during
storm and bad traveling . . 16.12
John T. Gott, 24^ days' services
with team, during bad traveling,
Steamer No. 3 ■. . . . 98.00
Ernest L. George, use of cart 2}^
weeks ..... 6.00
Joseph H. Gould, i day's labor,
Steamer No. i . . . , 2.0c
666
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Ralph C. Mitchell :
40 days, extra driver Steamer No. 3 . $60.00
2^ days' labor on aerial truck . . 3.75
20 days' labor, driver Steamer No. 3 . 30.00
Paid T. McKenna, services 3 horses assist-
ing in drawing apparatus from
" Kimball fire " . . . 5.00
Frank O. Moulton, 63 days' services
as driver Hose No. 2 . . . 94-50
W. C. Richardson, drawing coal to
steamer at " Merrill fire " . . 1.25
Jesse W. Truell, 39 days, extra driver
Chemical ..... 58.50
E. E. Weeks, i day's services engi-
neer Steamer No. i . . . 2.25
Benjamin R. Richardson, 9 days'
services, engineer Chemical . 13-50
H. W. Smith, 6 days' services, Hook
and Ladder .... 9.00
Charles J. Wiley, 31 days, driver
back street team . . . 46.50
Walter Morse, 2 days' services, engi-
neer Steamer No. 3 . . . 4.50
Paid E. V. Rowe :
43 days, driver back street team . . 75-25
14 days, permanent driver Hose No. 4 30.85
Paid Edward Sargent, i day, driver . 1.50
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, district No. 2:
February . . . . $11-25
March 45.50
Ai)ril 4-88
May ...... 4.00
June 12.75
July 4-87
$781.23
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 667
September . . . . . $1.62
October ...... 36.00
November ..... 3.00
December ..... 9.00
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, district No. 10 :
July . . ' . . . . $20.00
August ...... 5.00
September ..... 6.40
November ..... 10.00
50.40
11-59
LAUNDRY.
Paid Mrs. F. J. Dustin, laundry work, etc^ $8.00
JVIrs. G. M. Goodwin, laundry
work, etc. ..... 36.30
Mrs. M. H. Hulme, laundry work,
etc. ......
Mrs. C. C. Tinkham, laundry work,
etc
Mrs. W. F. Wheeler, laundry work,
etc 9.75
Mrs. Richard Galway, laundry work,
etc 4.S0
FaRNITURE, ETC.
Paid A. E. Eaton & Co., 2 32-inch square
Salem tables ..... $S'2o
Paid Darwin A. Simons:
12 arm office chairs . . . . 21.00
I sham-holder ..... .75
4 iron cuspidors ..... 3.00
4 gas globes ..... i.oo
;i32.87
$41.40
;i2o.84
668
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Hale & Whittemore :
Frames for fire-alarm cards .
Frames for cards, rules, etc.
Frames for commission
Paid Weston &: Hill Co.:
i^ yards matting and iron ends, Fire
King
io}i yards matting and iron ends, chief
engineer's office .
iij4 yards matting and • iron ends.
Chemical .....
1314 yards matting and iron ends, N
S. Bean .....
3}4 yards matting and iron ends. Vine
street .....
50 yards crash, Central station .
I carpet-sweeper, Fire King
I pair shams. Fire King
Material and labor, Fire King
I mat. Lake avenue .
3 sash curtains ....
44^ yards cotton
6 sheets. Lake avenue
12 pillow slips, Lake avenue
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., window
curtains, fixtures, and hanging same
John K. Wilson, i window screen
and fitting .....
;io.4o
3-5°
1. 10
2.67
5-58
10,16
3-24
6.25
3-5°
.92
1.50
1.42
2.25
5-59
5-.S2
2.50
16.19
2-75
$125.09
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.:
Printing 400 reports, 60 pages and cover $37.00
Printing 500 alarm cards . . . 6.25
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
669
Paid Nate Kellogg :
Printing postals and blanks
Postal cards .....
Printing i,ooo letter heads ,
Paid C. P. Trickey, blank books and sta-
tionery ......
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.:
525 catalogue envelopes
Blotting paper, etc. . • .
^32-75
#18.00
3-5°
7. So
2.25
•36
^107.91
WATER, GAS, AND TELEPHONE.
Paid Water-works, use of water
People's Gas-Light Co., for gas
The Electric Company, electric
lighting from November 20 to De
cember 20, Fulton engine-house
New England Telegraph & Tele
phone Co., use of telephones
^649-82
961.66
15.00
225.96
$1,852.44
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
40,000 pounds cannel coal, at $16
30,000 pounds coal, at ^7 .
4,000 pounds coal, at $7.25
3 cords pine wood
6 cords slabs
ij/i cords pine wood .
20,000 pounds coal at $6.50
Paid Joseph Masse, 54,170 pounds coal
Decourcy, Holland & Marshall
164,575 pounds coal .
Dunlap & Wason Coal Co., 199,
040 pounds coal
$320.00
105.00
14.50
19.00
39.00
11.69
65.00
176.05
536-04
646.89
670
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Moore & Preston, 5 cords slabs
Stephen Gardner, splitting pine
kindling wood ....
$27-50
3.00
$i;963-67
FREIGHT AND TRUCKAGE.
Paid Concord & Montreal Railroad,
freight on vitriol, soda, etc. . $9-i8
John W. Wilson, truckage . . 16.19
$25.3^
Paid Clark M. Bailey
10 reams tissue paper .
$5-oo
I case toilet paper
10.00
Paid Boston Woven Hose & Rubber Co.
5 feet 23/^ -inch hose . .
31.00
71^ feet 3-inch suction hose
14.50
I flexible pipe ....
14.00
6 Boston lanterns
12.00
Paid Cornelius Callahan Co. :
I life net
60.00
I 12-inch gong bell .
7-5°
100 rubber washers, 5^ pounds .
4.40
I shut-off nozzle
15.00
I tip
1.50
I 9-inch gong ....
15.00
I gong screw ....
1.25
Repairing extinguisher
1.25
I New Departure gong
15.00
Paid Crosby Steam Gauge & Valve Co.
I 5-inch gauge ....
5.60
Paid Cavanaugh Brothers :
Bay horse, Hook-and-Ladder
350.00
Gray horse, Amoskeag
300.00
3 horses
600.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT,
;7i
Paid The Daniels-Cornell Co. :
5 boxes Welcome soap
lo boxes Soapine
Paid T. F. Fifield :
3 gross matches ....
4 pounds powdered sui^ar .
Paid S. A. Felton & Son, 4 brushes
D. M. Goodwin, 2 dozen extr
heavy brooms .
S. F. Hay ward & Co., 100 feet y^
inch red chemical hose, coupled
Paid A. W. Harris Oil Co. :
10 gallons valve oil .
lo-gallon can ....
Paid Merrimack Chemical Co., 6 carboys
oil vitriol ....
B. H. Piper Co., 2 dozen 33-inch
ax handles
Paid Pike & Heald :
Water pot and tin pail
Repairing oil can and i lantern globe
Paid Plumer & Holton :
26 reefers ......
34 pairs overalls ....
Paid Talbot Dyewood & Chemical Co.,
4 kegs bicarbonate soda, 448 pounds .
Paid J. H. Wiggin & Co. :
I gallon vinegar and matches
24 bottles ammonia ....
Paid I. L. Stickney, i bottle rubber lustre
J. A. &L W. Bird & Co., 448 pounds
soda ......
$20.00
33-25
5.00
9-5°
40.00
6.80
1.25
14.23
4-5°
1. 18
227.50
51.00
16.80
3-85
5-24
■50
i7'05
672 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. S. Jackson :
I 12-inch gong
$5-oo
12 rim snaps
11.00
Trace snaps, etc
11.50
Paid Electric Gas-Lighting Co., 50 pounds
sal ammoniac ....
4-25
Scollay & Rich, 12 quarts polish .
6.25
Paid People's Gas- Light Co. :
I stove
4.00
Tubing ......
1.44
Paid Kimball Carriage Co. :
I mat
2.50
2 collars ......
Q.OO
PLUMBING, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, lumber, labor, etc. $10.18
Paid J. J. Abbott :
Stock and labor painting and paptring
tenements . . . . 16.27
2 lights glass and setting . . . 3.13
Paid James R. Carr & Co., glass and set-
ting ...... 30.66
A. M. Finney, cleaning and laying
carpets ..... 15-71
Paid Flint & Little :
Repairing 2 screens, wire, etc. . . -i.io
Repairing ladders .... .60
Paid C. H. Hutchinson Foundry & Machine Co.:
381 pounds castings .... 13-33
Welding rod, etc. .... .48
8 pounds castings .... .32
$1,978.26
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
673
Paid J. Hodge :
Repairing sash, N. S. Bean Co. .
I window, 9X 13, 12 lights .
Labor and material ....
Paid Head & Dowst Co.:
Labor, lumber, etc., N. S. Bean house
Lumber, labor, etc., Amoskeag house .
Lumber, labor, etc., Lake avenue-house
Lumber, labor, etc., sundry places
Paid William F. Hubbard :
Putting glass panels in door
I sash, 6 lights, 9X 13
Paid Thos. A. Lane Co., material, labor
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works :
I Amoskeag 3-horse hitch, attached
I new crossbar ....
Repairs of rear drawbar
1 ash grate, third size
2 ash grates, second size
Repairs of axle, hook and ladder truck
7 pieces brass castings for stall doors
Labor on engine
I gate handle .....
5^0 days' labor ....
^^ pieces brass castings, 8J lbs. .
Repairing whiffletree, Pennacook hose
Repairing wheel, Pennacook hose
Nickel plating 24 pieces
18 pieces iron castings, 999 lbs. track
for N. S. Bean No. 4
Tire setting
14 pieces castings, 674 lbs.
I single pressure gauge stand
I ash grate
I suction hose bracket and 2 straps
^0.85
1-45
3-77
464.80
2.25
4.89
106.50
3-25
•75
I93-33
160.00
25.00
6.40
3-5°
3.00
2.40
•75
.60
1.50
22.80
4-25
3-5°
5.00
2.45
29.97
10.00
20.22
1.50
4-50
8.00
674
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
I crowbar ......
Nickel plating 4 snap-hooks
Repairing axle for hose wagon .
I ash grate .....
Express on gauge returned from Concord
I center piece of grate . $1.25
I steel gong bell . . 5.50
Less 28 lbs. brass scraps
$6.75
2.24
3 hours' labor ....
I piece track, engine-house floor
Evener bearing, i nut
Repairing wheel, Amoskeag No. i
Repairing wheel, hose carriage .
Paid Pike& HealdCo.:
Making and putting up boiler pipe at
Lake avenue engine-house.
Repairs at sundry engine-houses
Paid C. A. Trefethen, repairing clocks .
John Bryson, glass, putty, and labor,
Lake avenue engine-house .
Charles Thompson, repairing clock
Paid Fairiield & Truax :
I door weight, 384 lbs.
I pattern ......
Paid Peter Harris, repairs on hose carriage
Paid Mills & Sturtevant :
388 feet oak plank ....
10 lbs. spikes . . . . .
I day's labor .
Trucking ......
•50
.70
•50
.00
•35
4-51
1.20
1-75
2-75
4.00
3.00
12.96
13-49
2.00
1-51
1-75
11.52
•75
1. 00
14.14
•30
2.50
•50
$1,285.64
i
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
675
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., hard-
ware, etc $165.22
John B. Varick Co., hardware, etc. 32.23
Wadleigh Hardware Co., hardware,
etc 168.61
MEDICAL, SURGICAL, INSURANCE.
$366.06
Paid A. L. Dodge, visits and medicine , $9-75
A. W. Baker, dentistry work on 15
horses ..... 30.00
E. H. Currier, 12 large boxes Wil-
liams's Sure Cure . . . 7.00
J. H. Wiggin & Co., 12 bottles am-
monia ..... 2.62
N. Chandler, 6 cans hoof ointment 4.50
Z. Foster Campbell, medicines . 7.35
J. A. Charest .... 89.00
E. B. Dunbar, aconite and condi-
tion powders . . . . 1.58
J. S. Golden, visits and medicine . 5.25
Snelling & Woods, medicine . . 25.70
A. D. Smith, medicines from Au-
gust 26, 1892, to August 16, 1893 1 7-92
John F. Kerwin, 200 lbs. Peel's
Condition Food .... 12.00
Paid American Live Stock Insurance Co.:
Entrance fees ..... 217.25
Policy fees ..... 16.00
First quarterly payment . . . 104.65
Second quarterly payment . . . 117.64
Paid Security Live Stock Insurance Co.:
Membership fee 18.00
676
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
First quarterly assessment, policies No.
8729 to 7862, inclusive
Second quarterly assessment, policies
No. 8729 to 8762
First quarterly assessment, policies No.
9752 to 9754 . . . .
$135-64
124.14
9-75
$955-74
CARRIAGE WORK AND REPAIRS.
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son :
Painting dump cart ....
$10.00
Varnishing express wagon .
20.00
I Excelsior wagon ....
325.00
I pair wheels, ironed, painted, and or-
namented for hook and ladder truck
65-25
Other work .....
294.12
4 new steel tires, 24 x J
16.00
I bolt
.10
Setting 2 heavy axles
3-5°
Setting 2 cart tires ....
4.00
2 felloes
1.50
Paid Sanborn Carriage Co., labor and
material on carts, engines, etc.
76.05
!i5-52
Paid
BLACKSMITHING.
E. C. Briggs ....
$5-5°
Welcome & Son
5-25
D. F. Cressey
27.20
J. M. Brouillette
159.20
Thomas Hickey
7.00
James Morrison
4.60
John E. Davis
18.25
Mahaney & McSweeney
427.85
$654.85
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
677
HAY, GRAIN,
ETC.
Paid Adams & Tasker .
$57-81
Daniel Butterfield .
58-59
William Clark
177.62
H. H. Freeman .
91.38
Gage & McDougall
930.05
James Kelleher
16.87
Clarence R. Merrill
• i>793-52
Partridge Brothers .
428.68
Perry & Gage
62.09
Henry W. Parker .
229.10
Paid Melvin Hall :
29 weeks pasturing horses .
29,00
Hay
93-57
Paid Lester Hall .
49.62
George K. Eaton .
16.20
Charles G. McQueston .
31.81
E. C. Grant .
36-57
'H. A. Horton, carrots .
35-04
J. S.-Lovering, carrots .
7-36
S4,i44-'
HARNESSES AND HARNESS REPAIRS.
Paid W. H. Adams, harnesses and repairs
$253-65
Paid Charles E. Berry :
I pair harnesses .....
20.00
I collar
6.00
Paid Ranno Harness Co. :
Repairing and altering set of 3-horse
swing harnesses ....
49.60
Repairing and altering hai^ess .
49-5°
2 blankets
17.00
2 hoods ......
11.00
3 Burlington blankets
11.25
678
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
6 whips
$12.00
2 whalebone whips
3.00
Collars
11.00
2 fawn hoods ....
11.00
Repairing harness
1. 10
Other articles ....
66.70
Paid Kimball Carriage Co., repairing col
lar and bit ....
3-50
$526.30
SUNDRIES.
Paid Thomas W. Lane :
Cash paid for 125 stamped envelopes
$1.48
Cash paid for carting ladders
i.oo
Cash paid for express .
9.50
Paid E. T. James, for hacks .
2.00
$13-98
Total expenditures
$46,501.31
Fire-Alarm Telegraph.
Appropriation ..... $1,400.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 413-25
$1,813.25
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men,
as per pay-rolls :
January .
\ .
$49.00
February .
.
47-25
March .
49.00
April
45-50
May
.
49.00
FIRE-ALARM TELEGRAPH.
679
June ....
^64.00
July ....
69.25
August ....
64.00
September
48.25
October
73.00
November
61.50
December . . . .
54-25
Paid George N. Burpee, labor
Paid W. B. Corey & Co. :
Labor on wires and poles .
Labor on wires and poles, 1892 .
Paid Nate M. Kellogg, labor on breaks
Edward Sears, labor on wires
gi.50
64
25
24
25
I
50
3
00
$674.00
$94-5°
Paid American Electrical Works :
49 pounds office wire .... $11.27
540 feet rubber covered wire . . 8.64
534 feet annunciator wire . . . 10.68
Paid James Baldwin Co. :
420 pins 4.20
1 10 brackets ..... 1.98
Paid J. H. Bunnell & Co. :
200 rubber hooks .... 16.00
300 No. 12 B. and L. Mclntyre con-
nectors . . . . . . 21.00
3 auxiliary bells ..... 6.75
1 galvanized gauge . . . ; 6.00
60 feet i-inch speaking tube . . .90
2 No. 159 whistles, japanned body . .50
I 2-foot flexible tube and N. P. whistle 1.60
12 elbows ...... .24
680
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
I pound speaking tube staples
^0.20
I pair rubber shields ....
•15
I Standard magnet bell
6.50
Express charges . . . .
.40
50 6 X 8 jars
8.33
I 3 14^ -inch dome bell
1.25
I 2 1^ -inch Mikado bell
1. 10
I 2 1^ -inch Swiss bell ....
I. GO
2 large magnet bells ....
12.00
300 insulators .....
7-5°
300 No. 12 Mclntyre connectors
18.90
I hand magnet winder
3.00
Paid James R. Carr, painting and glazing
22.20
The John B. Clarke Co., printing
400 location of boxes
6.25
Paid New England Gamewell Co. :
Automatic signal box ....
125.00
2 lightning arresters (boxes)
6.00
2 lightning arresters (gongs)
3- 40
3 hard rubber bases for arresters .
1.25
I signal box
125.00
Paid J. Hodge :
871 feet 3-inch spruce
15-70
12^ hours' labor ....
5-07
Paid Peter Harris, set screws and copper
.90
Mason, Chapin & (^lo., 3,010 pounds
blue vitriol ....
97-83
Electric Gas-Lighting Co., speaking
tubes, burners, lamp cord, brass
pulls, whistle, carbon connector,
and other electrical supplies
39-15
John B. Varick Co., hardware
7-93
VVadleigh Hardware Co., orange
shellac and brush
.72
FIRE ALARM TELE(iRAPII. 681
Paid Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Co., 727 pounds hand drawn copper
wire $97-28
Paid Pike & Heald :
I (juart acid .25
5 pounds solder i.oo
43^ pounds copper . . . . .95
Paid D. B. Varney, 506^4 pounds zinc
castings 176.75
Paid Manchester Hardware Co. :
y^ pound copper wire . . . .13
I strap vise ..... 1.50
Paid Paige & Myrick, stencil plate " post
no bills " . . . . . .60
The Electric Company, 4 30-foot
poles . . . . . 14.00
The Talbot Dyewood & Chemical
Co., 7 barrels blue vitrol, 3,785
pounds 137-21
FREIGHT AND TRUCKAGE.
Paid Boston & Montreal R. R., freight
on wire ..... ^0.45
Concord & Montreal R. R., freight
on sundry articles . . . 3.37
John W. Wilson, truckage and
freight on wire . . . . 2.77
George W, Bailey, use of horse and
sleigh ..... 2.00
$8.59
Total expenditures ..... $1,813.25
682 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Hydrant Service.
Appropriation ....... ^12,750.00
Expenditures.
Paid Water-works, rent for 510 h3^drants . . $12,750.00
Firemen's Parade.
Appropriation . . . . . . . $500.00
Expenditures,
printing.
Paid the following, approved by the Chief Engineer :
Nate M. Kellogg, invitations, etc. . $6.00
J. Arthur Williams, invitations . . 3.50
Thomas W. Lane, postage . . . 2.50
«SI2.00
TEAMS.
Paid F. X. Chenette, 2 barges and 2 hacks. . . $22.00
ENTERTAINMENT.
Paid W. D. Ladd & Co., rations . . $140.00
Thomas W. Lane, cash for collation 12.60
John A. Barker, lemonade . . 3.00
^155-60
Paid Manchester City Band . . $50.00
First Regiment Band . . 79-69
$129.69
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
ARTILLERY.
Paid Mollie Stark Co., use of cannon . $25.00
First Light Battery, use of 10 horses 20.00
Paid Head &"Dowst Co., lumber and labor $75-oo
L. H. Josselyn Co., use and cartage
of chairs . . . . 24.11
John B. Varick Co., hammer and
tacks ...... .90
J. P. Kelley, badges . . . 35.70
$45.00
$135-71
Total expenditures $500.00
Aerial Truck.
Appropriation ..... $3,500.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 134-10
$3,634.10
Expenditures.
Paid S. F. Hay ward & Co.:
1 aerial truck, as per contract . . $3,500.00
2 Pompier ladders .... 40.50
Freight on Bangor ladders to Chicago 93-6o
$3'634-io
Total expenditures ..... $3,634.10
Police Department.
Appropriation ..... $40,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 2,643.74
$42,643.74
684 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
SERVICES.
Paid N. P. Hunt, police justice
Isaac L. Heath, associate justice
J. B. Pattee, associate justice
J. C. Bickford, clerk .
Michael J. Healy, marshal
J. F. Cassidy, assistant marshal
night patrol .
day patrol
extra time of regular patrol
Special patrol
Peter Larrabee, as janitor
Frank Wiggin, as janitor
Miss A. B. Brown, as matron
C. B. Hildreth, services .
$1,500.00
156.00
4.2-4
600.00
900.00
800.00
21,435-89
5>736.o3
1,923.92
2,556.81
78.75
565-25
422.00
159.00
$36,837.
WATER, GAS, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, FUEL.
Paid Water-works, use of water at station,
Clinton-street station, and Slay-
ton house $197-32
People's Gas-light Co., for gas . 172-34
The Electric Company, electric
lights 312.84
Paid DeCourcy, Holland & Marshall :
137,740 pounds coal .... 454-54
5)4 cords wood . . . ■ 36.73
Paid Dunlap & Wason Coal Co.:
119,345 lbs. coal at $7 . . . 522.71
3.] cords wood 25.50
$1,721.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
685
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
Paid New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co., use of telephones
J. Dana & Son, use of telephone .
G. Trudeau, use of telephone .
Western Union Telegraph Co., for
telegrams .....
$166.90
6.00
$200.2^
Paid George W. Bailey, use of hacks
F. X. Chenette, use of express team
and two men ....
J. C. Nichols & Son, use of team
W. J. Freeman, use of teams .
E. T. James, use of teams
$2.25
2
.00
1.
.00
167
.00
152
■75
$325-00
FEEDING AND CONVEYING PRISONERS.
Paid Daniel Davis, rations furnished from
Dec. 14, 1892, to Dec. 21, 1893 $294.85
Healy & Cassidy, conveyance of
prisoners ..... 958.00
W. D. Ladd & Co., 690 lbs. com-
mon crackers .... 34-50
J. B. Varick Co., 1,500 3-pound pa-
per bags ..... 1.04
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.:
Advertising "found," 3 lines 3 times . $0.23
Fourth of July, ij inches 2
times .... 3. 38
notice, 5 lines 3 times . .;^S
$1,288.39
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Printing blank book, record of arrests
200 labels for photographs .
blanks, postals, letter headings,
and notices of all kinds
blank book, record of arrests
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.:
Printing civil dockets
3,000 trustee writs
3,000 drunk warrants
1,000 warrants
200 slips for blanks
250 No. 10 envelopes
2,000 mittimuses .
300 orders of notice
200 summons
500 assault and battery writs
Paid W. P. Goodman :
I scrap book .....
42 diaries, No. 191 .
Pens, blotters, and paper .
Envelopes, rubber bands, etc.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., ink, pens,
envelopes, blocks, paper, and other sta-
tionerv ....
512.50
1-75
22.75
15.00
55-00
18.50
24.50
10.00
•75
1.50
12.25
2-75
1.25
7-5°
1.25
24.50
2.25
2.08
16.59
^237.56
MEDICAL, SURGICAL, AND SANITARY.
Paid D. S. Adams, M. D., examination
of suicide, James Collins .
Paid M. J. Healy :
Cash paid for carrying Mary Cannon
to insane asylum ...
Cash paid for hack hire
Cash paid Officers O'Malley and Hart-
nett
$3.00
4.25
1. 00
4-50
POLICE DEPARTMENT. 687
Cash paid for conveying Mary Butler
to insane asylum .... $305
Cash paid Officers O'Malley and Sulli-
van ...... 4.50
Paid F. H. Thurston, medicines . . 6.45
Paid F. S. Burnham, M. D.:
Certificate of insanity, Dennis Manna-
han ...... 3.00
Consultation and assistance, case of Mi-
chael Heenan . . . . 5.00
Autopsy on body of infant . . . 25.00
Paid I. L. Carpenter, M. D.:
Certificate of insanity, Paul Swatz . 3.00
Certificate of insanity, Mary Connor . 3.00
Paid Frederick Perkins, M. D.:
Certificate of insanity, Dennis Manna-
han ...... 3.00
Certificate of insanity, Mary Cannon . 3.00
Surgical treatment of sundry persons
from Jan. 14 to Aug. 19, 1893 . 99.00
Autopsy on body of infant . . 25.00
Paid E. M. James, use of steamer search-
ing for body of Philip Deschenes,
2 days at |5 . . . . 10.00
John T. Beach, ambulance and ex-
tra fixtures .... 525.00
J. J. Holland, 2 carboys, 172 lbs.,
aqua ammonia .... 20.64
Geo. W. Bailey, use of horse and
man for ambulance . . . 25.25
J. B. Varick Co., cotton rope, fish
hook, twine, 50 feet fuse, 5^ lbs.
dynamite, 50 blasting caps, search-
ing for drowned man in the city's
drinking water . . . . 9.56
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Fred H. Partelow :
Boat hire, 3 boats 5 days
I oar, broken ....
Towing barge ....
Steamer hire .
(Searching for Harry Dadman's body.)
Paid George A. Farvvell, use of steamer
dragging for body of H. Dadman
E. H. Holmes, use of team to take
diver and outfit to the pond
$15.00
I. GO
3.00
5.00
5.00
5.00
LAUNDRY, ETC.
Paid Mrs. Fillibert, washing blankets,
vin-
dows, floors, and cleaning at
po-
lice station
^103-75
Mrs. J. F. Wiggin, washing towels,
blankets, sheets, etc. .
39.01
A. N. Clapp, soapine
.24
A. M. Finney, cleaning and laying
carpets in police court rooms
.
2.64
Paid Daniels-Cornell Co.:
6 boxes soapine ....
19.85
I box toilet soap ....
4.00
Paid J. B. Varick Co.:
2^ pounds sponge
1.45
I whitewash brush and handle
1.20
Mop heads, yarn, etc. .
4.14
I dozen Gem brooms .
2.25
Paid Clark M. Bailey :
6 mops
1.25
2 cases toilet paper
20.00
$199.78
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
689
ROGUES GALLERY.
Paid Thomas F. Adams :
I oak photograph cabinet .
I criminal record book
Paid L. W. Colby, photographing
nals ....
$45.00
6.75
33-50
$85.25
REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paint and painting
court rooms, etc. . .
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
Lumber and labor ....
9 outside windows ....
Painting, etc. .....
Paid Baker & O'Brien, paint, brush,
ground glass, etc.
John W. Wilson, truckage to station
Concord & Montreal R. R,, freight
M. J. Coleman, repairs on pipes,
water-clo3ets, etc.
Peter Harris, keys, repairing locks,
etc. ......
Paid Charles A. Hoitt & Co.:
I mirror ......
2 J yards enamel cloth-
Paid D. A. Simons :
12 mattresses
12 pillows .
40 yards duck
40 pounds excelsior
6 days' labor
Paint and painting
44
$46.11
IO-35
41.10
6.96
5-53
•25
.98
51.60
4-15
•50
23.00
7-56
10.00
.80
18.00
2.00
690 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co.:
24 feet ^^-inch pipe . . . . $0.96
1 ^-inch chandelier loop . . . .20
2 gauge glasses .50
Valve packing and labor ... .50
Paid E. C. Morris & Co., new lock on
vault doors, teaming, etc. . . 26.50
J. A. Pigeon, repairing bunks, chains,
etc 12.75
Paid Pike & Heald :
Stock and labor repairing steam pipe . 21.91
12 tin dippers ..... 6.00
Hose nozzle, repairing hose, etc. . 2.75
6 opal globes ..... 1.50
50 feet hose ..... 4.50
Paid John Robbie Co., 2 pieces fly netting .86
Fred A. Russell, cleaning and repair-
ing clocks ..... 4.50
John B. Varick Co., i ^-inch lever
bibb .50
Paid Charles E. Lord :
ij{ hours' mason work ... .50
Cement and mortar . . . . .15
Paid J. G. Jones, moving rope twice, to
and from Merrimack common . .75
E. H. McQuade, repairing electric
bell 1.50
Head & Dowst Co., lumber and
labor, Clinton-street station . i.ii
L. Pope, repairs on bunks, etc. . 2.50
$322.5;
Paid Clark M. Bailey, i case Portland
matches ..... $7-oo
REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS.
691
Paid M. J. Healy, cash paid witness fees
and other expenses
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
I ostrich duster .
5 dozen brass screws .
4 snow shovels .
I iron shovel
1 hammer .
2 screw drivers
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 20 pounds ice
daily, June i to November 15, 1893 .
Paid F. F. Shaw :
I badge for sergeant . . . .
I badge for inspector . . . .
Paid J. B. Pattee, services defending minor
Miss A. B. Brown, rent of matron's
$476-87
1-75
.24
1.40
•75
•55
•75
9.62
2.50
room
75.00
Mrs. Francoeur, board and care of
lost children ....
10.25
Charles A. Hoitt & Co., i rubber
blanket and mattress for ambu-
lance
6.50
J. J. Holland, 4 combs .
•85
aid John Robbie Co. :
50 yards crash
6.25
6 yards cheese cloth ....
•30
Total expenditures
$604.83
$42,643.74
Repairs of Buildings.
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
$3,500.00
796.62
$4,296.62
692
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams,
IS per pay-rolls, in dis-
trict No. 2 :
January $21.00
February
25.50
March .
67.88
April
26.25
May
27.00
June
22.50
July .
30-13
August .
109.19
September
34-5°
November
85.12
December
36.00
Paid Lovejoy & Stratton, labor and care of clocks
on schoolhouses and other public buildings, from
January 4, 1892, to December 22, 1892
$485-07
$388.70
CITY HALL.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., repairs on boiler and vault
in treasurer's office ......
$36.67
CITY LIBRARY.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, lumber and labor on
fence .....
J. J. Abbott, paint and labor
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co. :
Labor on water-closet ....
Labor on sink pipe . .
Paid George Holbrook, clearing off snow
Shirley & Stewart, stock and labor,
mason work ....
$28.94
23-35
1. 10
3-30
8.50
27.46
REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., sash cord, labor,
etc. $5.56
POLICE STATION.
Paid Pike & Heald, plumbing material
and labor ..... $6.33
Baker & O'Brien, painting and
hanging signs .... 9.25
$15-58
ENGINE-HOUSES.
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
Lumber and labor, Massabesic hose-
house ...... $39.04
Lumber and labor, Vine-street house . 629.53
Lumber and labor, Fire King house . 1.16
Lumber and labor, Chemical house . 23.61
Lumber and labor, Merrimack house . 72.42
Lumber and labor, Lake-avenue house 270.48
Lumber and labor, Clinton-street house 5.19
Paid C. H. Robie Co., concrete work at
General Stark engine-house, 20.18 yds.
at 75 cents 15.14
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
Lumber and labor on water-closet at
Merrimack hosehouse . . . 13.20
5 hours' labor, Independent hosehouse 1.50
Putting rope on flag pole . . . 6.50
Lumber and labor on shed at new stable 88.11
Lumber and labor, Vine-street house . 30.09
Lumber and labor, General Stark house 3.81
Paid Baker & O'Brien :
Stock and labor painting at Vine-street
house ...... 30.89
Hanging paper, Vine-street house . 10.15
694
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid M. J. Coleman, labor and plumbing
materials at Vine-street engine-
house $323-60
James P. Finn, stock and labor.
Vine-street engine-house . . 5S.90
George Holbrook, lumber and labor,
Webster-street house . . . 121.03
Lessard & Moreau, material and la-
bor on roof, Fire King house . 5.88
Temple & Farrington Co., paper-
hanging at Vine-street house . 15-56
Paid William E. Williams :
Repairing slate roof, Fire King house 5.30
Repairing gravel roof, Amoskeag house 2.24
Paid Pike & Heald, plumbing material
and labor :
Lake avenue engine-house . . . 129.23
Vine-street engine-house . . . 162.73
General Stark engine-house . . 2.00
Amoskeag engine-house . . . 2.40
Chemical engine-house . . . 1.35
Massabesic hosehouse . . . . 7.80
Clinton engine-house .... 4.00
Fire King engine-house . . . ii-3S
Pennacook hosehouse .... 10. S3
Sundry engine-houses . . . 139-65
Paid John Bryson, paint and labor, Mas-
sabesic hosehouse and cottage . 124.05
Joel Daniels & Co., paint and paper-
hanging . • . . . 62.83
Charles O'Neil, lumber and labor,
General Stark engine-house . S°-^4
Paid John Robbie Co. :
1 1 yards tapestry carpet . . . 5.39
•j}4 yards lining .... .53
REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS. 695
Laying carpet . . . - . $iio
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
32 fire brick . . . . . 2.24
Lumber and labor . . . . 35 -04
.$2,526.72
WARD FIVE WARD ROOM.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, lumber, labor, and hardware . $2.82
BATTERY BUILDING.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, wire netting, staples,
and labor ..... 13-39
Pike & Heald, repairing closet . 2.90
$6.29
COURT HOUSE.
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
Fence around court-house lot . . ^94-35
Sash cord, labor, and lumber . . 12.28
Paid Baker & O'Brien, paint and labor,
health office . . . ... 18.06
Paid Pike & Heald :
Plumbing material and labor
Plumbing material and labor, health
office ......
Paid J. J. Abbott :
Paint and labor on fence .
I light glass, 16 X 20, and setting
Paid Charles H. Wood, painting 4 signs
for fence . . . ■ . . . 1.25
Paid Shirley & Stewart:
16 hours' mason work . . . 7.12
Stock, etc. ..... 4.50
103.03
91.76
23-95
•50
696 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., lumber and la-
bor, health office .... $79-76
$43656
Total expenditures ..... $3,996.62
Amount transferred to Vine-street Hook-and-Ladder
account ........ 300.00
$4,296.62
Addition to City Farm Buildings
Appropriation ..... $2,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 598.83
$2,598.83
EXPENDITTTRES.
BUILDING.
Paid Anson Minard, as per contract . . . $2,585.00
EXTRAS.
Paid Anson Minard :
Jambs, casings, and putting in door . $i-4o
Door jambs, casings, and trimmings on
first floor ....
Grating on outside door
16 feet pine ....
Labor on doors and sink .
Total expenditures
3-5°
•95
.48
7-5°
$13-83
$2,598.83
PEARL-STREET SCIIOOLHOUSE.
Ward Five Ward Room.
Appropriation
697
$3,000.00
Expenditures.
ARCHITECTS.
Paid Chickering & O'Connell, plans and
specifications for basement and
underpinning . . . .
John F. Larkin, taking out gas pipe
from old building
L. M. Aldrich, labor and material
building fence about yard .
Paid Charles O'Neil :
Labor of self 30 hours
Labor of John Ferrie 30 hours' .
Trucking .....
Paid Francis Galipeau, on account, con
tract of foundation
Paid Pike & Heald :
10 feet I -inch galvanized pipe
11 hours' labor ....
I day's labor digging .
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to new account
$33-25
1.25
6.29
6.00
6.00
1. 00
665,00
.98
3-85
1-75
$725-37
$725-37
2,274.63
$3,000.00
Pearl-street Schoolhouse.
Appropriation
$10,000.00
698 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
LAND.
Paid Wm. H. Whitney, consideration for land, deed
dated February 28, 1893 ..... $3,172.80
BUILDING.
Paid W. M. Butterfield :
Plans of building .... $200.00
Part commission on account . . 100.00
$300.00
CONTRACT.
Paid Mead, Mason & Co., on account . $5,000.00
Smead Warming & Ventilating Co.,
first payment on heating apparatus 406.25
$5'4o6.25
Total expenditures $8,879.05
Amount transferred to new account .... 1,120.95
$10,000.00
New Schoolhouse, Ward 9.
Appropriation ....... $5,000.00
Expenditures.
architect.
Paid W. M. Butterfield, on account . . . $100.00
Total expenditures $100.00
Amount transferred to new account . . . 4,900.00
$5,000.00
ADDITION TO WEBSTER-STREET SCHOOLHOUSE. 699
New Schoolhouse, Hallsville.
Appropriation
Expenditures,
extras on building.
Paid Palmer & Garmon :
Marble tablet, lettered
Lumber, making frame
8 nickel bolts at 30 cents .
Putting up tablet
Paid Head & Dowst Co., lumber, labor
CONCRETE.
Paid Geo. F. Higgins, 623 sq. yds. concrete
SUNDRIES.
Paid E. H. Holmes, trucking desks and
chairs .....
Manitowoc Seating Co., furniture .
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to new account
$4,5<
$26.00
1.79
2.40
1.50
• 3-224-36
$3.00
262.79
$3>256-o5
$275.00
$265.79
$3,796.84
703.16
$4,500.00
Addition to Webster-street Schoolhouse.
Appropriation ....... $5,000.00
700 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures,
architect.
Paid George W. Wales, 30 days' labor in
engineer's department . . $75-oo
Head & Dowst Co., on contract 2,500.00
$2,575.00
Total expenditures ..... $2,575.00
Amount transferred to new account . . . . 2,425.00
$5,000.00
Fulton Engine-House.
Balance from old account . . . $9,130.00
Appropriation ..... 9,500.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 3,125.23
$21,755.23
Expenditures.
building.
Paid Mead, Mason & Co., on account of contract . $10,000.00
Paid Frank S. Bodwell :
137 feet edgestone at 40c. . . . $54-8o
I 3-foot circular corner . . . 4.50
Paid Manchester Heating & Lighting Co.,
I T., I R. and L. coupling, 7
hours' labor .... 3.80
Chas. H. Robie Co., concrete work 281.48 •
2.344.58
FULTON ENGINE-HOUSE.
701
LOWERING HOUSE.
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
134 feet spruce ....
5 -^ days' labor ....
Labor and lumber
Paid George D. Theobald, lowering en
gine-house .....
Paid Samuel Adams :
Services as watchman ...
10 gallons oil and i can
Paid Pike & Heald, materials and labor
on pipes, sewer pipes, etc. .
Dana & Provost, team work, etc.
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., 25 1
hours' labor on iron posts .
Head 8z Dowst Co., lumber and labor
district No. 10 pay-roll .
Baker & O'Brien, paint stock and
labor ....
$2.14
1475
190.24
700.00
99-75
2-45
95-72
22.10
10.20
797.46
25.00
18.53
$1,978.34
EQUIPMENT.
Paid New England Gamewell Co.:
I fire-alarm gong ... . . $125.00
I fire-alarm indicator . . . . 125.00
Paid Eureka Hose Co., 2,000 feet hose . 1,260.00
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works :
I first-size Amoskeag steam fire engine
called N. S. Bean, No. 692 . . 4,200.00
14 days' labor, Fulton Steamer No. 6 . 56.00
I suction cap, Fulton Steamer No. 6 . 5.00
I ash grate, Fulton Steamer No. 6 . 4.00
Painters' stock, Fulton Steamer No. 6 1.75
21 days' labor, hose-carriage . . 84.00
702
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
I gong bell, hose-carriage .
510.00
Painting and other material
177.04
Paid John W. Wilson, carting four cases
hose
2.00
Paid Ranno Harness Co.;
I pair swing harnesses
100.00
I single swing harness
50.00
I stable blanket
3-40
3 bristle brushes .....
6.00
5 96 X 100 fawn blankets .
40.00
5 fawn hoods
27.50
2 fire halters
7.00
5 stall ropes
10.00
Other horse furnishings
10.64
Paid Cornelius Callahan Co.:
3 Hale collars and hames
75.00
I shut-off nozzle ....
15.00
4 Boston pipes
60.00
3 Hale collars and hames .
82.50
Paid Frederick Allen :
I pair engine harnesses
100.00
Reins, snaps, etc
3.10
Paid Abbott-Downing Co., i hook-and-
ladder truck
1,500.00
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.:
6 keys
.60
I 8-foot step-ladder
2.25
4 manure forks .....
2.30
Paid Weston & Hill Co., 30 shades, 86
yards carpet made and laid, sheets,
pillow-cases, spreads, crash, etc. .
159-47
C. A. Trefethen, i drop octagon
clock
3-75
Plumer & Holton, 20 firemen's reef-
ers
175.00
FULTON ENGINE-HOUSE.
703
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co
, hardware
,
all kinds ....
$27.85
Paid Pike &z Heald :
2 agate wash basins ...
I. GO
4 cuspidors
3.00
2 galvanized manure cans
11.00
I set fire tools .
3-5°
6 dust-pans
2.40
Other articles
3-51
Paid J. Y. McQueston :
4 Daisy sham-holders .
3.00
I table . . .
3.00
4 beds and bureaus
52.00
4 springs .
10.00
4 mattresses
13.00
4 wardrobes
40.00
1 2 chamber chairs . .
12.00
8 quilts
18.00
4 pairs pillows .
10.00
4 sham-holders .
3.00
12 wooden office chairs
16.00
6 arm chairs
12.50
1 8 chairs .
15-75
I oak desk
15.00
2 towel bars
.70
I glass
5-50
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., Yal
2
locks, oil, etc. .
9.20
Thomas A. Lane Co., brass pipe an
i
flanges, etc.
28.10
S. F. Hayward & Co., i N. P. pon.
extra and changes
30.00
Cavanaugh Brothers, 3 gray horse
s 600.00
$9'432-3i
Total expenditures
• $21,755.23
704 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Repairs Vine-Street Hook-and-Ladder House.
Appropriation ..... 1^1,500.00
Transferred from repairs of buildings ac-
count ...... 300.00
Transferred from reserved fund . 60.12
$1,860.12
Expenditures.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., lumber and la-
bor $1,792.23
Baker & O'Brien, paint stock and
labor ..... 64.40
Pike & Heald, plumbing material
and labor ..... 3.49
$1,860.12
Total expenditures ..... $1,860.12
Stable, District No. 10.
Amount transferred from reserved fund . . $1,163.90
Expenditures.
contract.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, building stable as per contract $1,100.00
EXTRAS.
Paid Pike & Heald, stock and labor . . . $63.69
Total expenditures ... . . $1,163.69
Transferred to reserved fund ... . . .21
$1,163.90
WATER-WORKS. 705
Engine-House, Ward 3.
Appropriation ....... ;gi, 200.00
Expenditures.
Amount transferred to reserved fund . . . S 1,200.00
Hosehouse, South Manchester.
Appropriation ....... $2,500.00
Expenditures.
Amount transferred to new account .... §2, 500. 00
Water-Works.
Cash received for water rents, etc. . $104,170.08
Amount received from bonds issued . 200,000.00
$304,170.08
Expenditures.
Paid men, as per pay-roll
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
$1,217.64
1,345-65
1,126.69
1,214.51
1,991.22
1,906.38
1,948.91
4,718.44
4,738.61
706
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
,600.00
22.82
24.00
16.70
1.40
1.45
24.84
5-50
October ^3,206.32
November 2,384.96
December 1,659.70
GENERAL EXPENSE.
Paid Charles K. Walker :
Salary as superintendent
Gas
Postage stamps .
Carfare, etc.,
Express, recording deed
Repairing spring, matches .
Toilet paper, cloth, repairing tape
nails, etc. .....
Mrs. Downs, for typewriting
Paid A. R. Ingham, entertainment of
water commissioners one day,
while examining land about Lake 22.50
F. W. Elliott, entertainment of com-
missioners and lawyers, while on
tour of inspection . . . i7'25
Henry Chandler, 26 meetings of
board ..... 104.00
Alpheus Gay, 43 meetings of board 172.00
E. J. Knowlton, 28 meetings of
board . . . . . 11 2.00
<J. H. Manning, 26 meetings of
board ..... 104.00
Charles T. Means, 26 meetings of
board ..... 104.00
A. C. Wallace, 29 meetings of
board ..... 116.00
Paid James A. Weston :
Clerk of water board .... 100.00
22 meetings of board . . . 88.00
$27,459-03
$2,636.46
WATER-WORKS. 707
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.:
6 time books $4-5o
Ink and pens i.oo
Drawing paper, etc. . . . . 1.32
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Blotting paper ..... .25
Printing 500 reports, 36 pages, i cover 33-00
75 contracts and specifications SS-oo
600 half-letter heads . . 3.50
16,350 bill heads, both sides 36.50
1,000 postal headings . . 12.00
4 meter books . . 7.50
Advertising water notices . . . 5.00
proposals for engine-house 5.65
Paid Union Publishing Co.:
Advertising water bills . . . 7.27
proposals for engine-house 6.93
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., stationery of all
kinds ..... 14.98
Geo. R. Leavitt, engrossing 4 pages
of house bill No. 73 . • • 3-00
Wadsworth, Rowland & Co., i roll
30-inch blue print paper . . 1.45
James A. Fracker, typewriting six
copies of boiler specifications and
three letters .... 3.00
" Engineering Record," advertising
proposals for laying water pipe . 13-60
Engineering News Publishing Co.,
advertising proposals for laying
water pipe ..... 20.40
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.:
Printing 14,400 water bill notices . 20.80
500 service pipe blanks . 2.00
708
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Printing 500 postals and furnishing pos-
tals ..... $6.00
1,000 exchange slips . . .85
1,000 blanks . . . 2.00
$267.50
ENGINEERING SERVICES.
Paid Geo. S. Rice and Geo. E. Evans,
1593^ days' services .... $1,914.00
Paid Joseph B. Sawyer :
Services of self and men surveying for
line of pipe for new map of lake ;
other plans 473-53
Recording deeds from Nov. 28, 1892,
to Nov. IS, 1893 • . • • 54-75
$2,442.28
TEAMS, TELEPHONE, FUEL.
Paid F. H. Partelow, use of steamer five
hours, June 19, 1893, by water
commissioners .... $7-5o
VVhitten & Fifield, use of teams . 205.00
Geo. W. Bailey, use of teams . 69.25
E. T. James, use of teams . 339-oo
New England Telephone & Tele-
graph Co., use of telephones . 10S.95
Paid A. & D. M. Poore :
6 barrels Cumberland coal . . . 6.00
2,060 lbs. coal 7.02
Yz cord hard wood .... 3.75
Paid Moore & Preston, 3 tons Lehigh egg
coal ....... 22.50
Paid L. B. Bod well & Co.:
89,920 lbs. egg coal to pumping station 3i4'72
700 lbs. Cumberland coal . . . 2.28
WATER-WORKS.
6 feet hard wood
$6.75
Sawing and splitting same .
.
2.00
lid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co., ^
load
cut wood ....
•75
E. V. Turcotte, lo cords wood
40.00
■ Mills & Sturtevant, wpod, etc.
162.66
lid Charles M. Ordway :
Cutting 40}^ cords wood .
40.50
Cutting 43 posts ....
2.T5
lid Albert Cross :
Drawing 40^ cords wood .
40.50
Drawing 43 posts
.
•50
709
$1,381.78
Paid Amos Latuch, land, as per deed . $300.00
Clark B. Hall, land, as per deed . 75-oo
$375-oo
LEGAL SERVICES.
Paid Frink & Batchelder, retainer in saw-
dust cases against Griffin, as per
agreement ....
E. G. Eastman, retainer in civil cases
arising against city water-works
in Rockingham county
$100.00
$200.00
Paid Michael Lyons, damage to land and
building by leak in water main .
Daniel T. Daley, damage to house,
land, and goods in cellar by leak
in water main ....
$3.00
710
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Chas. H. Bohan, damage to goods
in cellar by leak in water main . $5-oo
H. Leibing, i square of glass, 29^
x6S^, putty, and labor, Wagner
block, Douglas street . . . 7. 86
John T. Foley, damage to wagon on
Nutt road ..... 20.00
$55-
FURNITURE.
lid Charles A. Hoitt & Co.:
3 lamps .....
$10.50
60-foot chain
1.25
Hooks, chimney, wicks
1. 00
Labor hanging lamps .
2.00
Reseating chair .
1.50
2 36-inch stools .
2.00
Curtain ....
•
•30
I office chair
• 4-5°
CONTRAC
rs.
Paid Head & Dowst Co.:
On account, contract No. 3, engine-
house, foundation, and intake pipe . $6,575.64
On account, contract No. 4, engine-
house and chimney . . 4,800 00
Paid Moore & Co. :
Contract No. 2, 20-inch force main, on
account 8,758.43
Laying 218 feet 12-inch pipe, at 45c. . 98.10
Paid Bartlett, Gay & Young :
Contract No. i, 20- inch force main, on
account 12,558.73
116 lbs. lead used on lo-inch pipe at
Fletcher's crossing .... 5.80
$23.05
WATER-WORKS. 711
Labor 4 men ..... 56 00
4 extra 20-inch joints on cut pipe, 16
lbs. lead . . . . . ■ 8.00
Paid Trumbull & Ryan, contract No. 5,
reservoir, on account .... 229.50
,040.20
HARDWARE, ELACKSMITHING, FREIGHT.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., shovels,
picks, pick handles, hoes, steel
bars, manilla rope, and other hard-
ware ...... $229.28
John B. Varick Co., tallow, glass,
screws, butts, oil, lantern globes,
brass wire, drills, hammers, twine,
washers, toilet paper, screwdriver,
wrench, lanterns, nails, paint,
forks, wicks, drawer pulls, and
other hardware ....
Wadleigh Hardware Co., fuse and
powder .....
J. B. McCrillis & Son, wedges and
mending chain ....
D. F. Cressey, sharpening tools and
other work ....
James Morrison, sharpening tools,
etc. ......
John W.Wilson, trucking pipe
Boston & Maine R. R,, freight on
pipe, hydrants, etc. . . . 123.41
Concord & Montreal R. R., freight
on meters, lead pipe, and other
articles . . . . . ii4-57
288.16
77.92
•50
258.71
6-45
4.00
$1 ,103.00
712
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. Hodge :
450 boxes $135-00
339 feet I -inch pine .... 9.36
83 feet 7x7 pine .... 3.32
968 feet spruce 15-97
1,400 pine stakes .... 17-45
100 chestnut hubs .... 2.00
21 i hours' labor .... 8.60
Lumber and labor, 10 lbs. nails . . i3-54
Paid E. A. G. Holmes :
Work on canal and reservoir :
14 days' labor .... 36.50
Lumber ...... 37-46
• Repairing fence at reservoir :
24 days' labor .... 64.50
Lumber ...... 8.22
Teaming ..... 1.50
Building shanty over pump :
115 days' labor . . . . 30-75
1,600 feet lumber .... 25.66
4 days' labor in pipe yard , . 12.00
2 days' labor at dam . . . 5.00
Paid C. H. Hutchinson Foundry and Ma-
chine Works :
172 hours' labor, repairing old rods
and making new .... 7.00
10 lbs. nuts ..... .80
186 lbs. iron 6.58
6 hours' labor ..... 2.40
I load shavings . . . . .50
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co., plumbing ma-
terial and labor .... 300.42
Pike & Heald, plumbing material
and labor 16.58
WATER-WORKS.
Paid Adams & Tasker :
19 barrels Norton cement .
$28.85
25 barrels lime
22.50
210 lbs. rye straw
1.85
Paid A. N. Clapp :
6 barrels kerosene oil .
$15.29
Oil tank ....
5.00
$20.29
Less 5 barrels returned
5 -40
14.89
Kerosene oil . . .
•57
Paid A. M. Eastman, 79 gallons
oil
12.45
Paid G. R. Vance :
6 galvanized iron pails
6.00
20 lbs. smoke stack
2.00
Blasting tubes, etc.
1.70
Paid P. C. Cheney Co., 103 lbs. No. i
waste ....
10.30
D. B. Varney, 103 gate curb covers
- 21.45
Hayes Manufacturing Co.,
103 stop-
cocks ....
77.16
E. H. Gowing, i 6-inch, i
lo-inch.
I 20-inch clip
22.40
National Tube Works, i
,927 8-12
feet 2-inch pipe .
163.16
Rensselaer Manufacturing
Co., 2 8-
inch iron valves .
39.00
Paid Sumner & Goodwin :
270 Jarecki service boxes
243.00
28 Jarecki service boxes
18.00
Cartage ....
1.88
Paid Sewall & Day Cordage Co.
, 941 lbs.
jute packing
51-76
713
714 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Walworth Manufacturing Co.:
6 3-12 dozen 5-inch cocks . . . $30.00
10 6-inch water gates .... 130.00
6 sets rollers and springs ... .35
Cartage .^8
Paid Edson Manufacturing Co., 15 feet
suction hose .... 22.80
C. W. Cheney, i hoisting jack . 25.00
Paid American Steam Gauge Co.:
1 6 inch N. P. comb .... 8.60
Repairing i 12-inch gauge . . . 2.50
Paid American Supply Co., 103 lbs. tarred
packing . . . • . . . 6.18
Paid Chadwick Lead Works :
250 lbs. solder 37-5c
42,468 lbs. lead 1,671.50
2 reels J-inch 3-pound lead pipe . 65.62
Paid Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co. :
4 6-inch water-gates . . . . 5 4' 48
5 lo-inch water-gates . . . 156.38
5 20-inch water-gates .... 663.60
5 5-inch post hydrants, etc. . . 171.80
Paid Leonard & Ellis:
156 half-gallons valvoline machine oil 93-90
I 60-gallon oil tank .... 5.00
I 60-gallon machine tank . . . 5.00
I barrel . . . ' . . . 1.50
52 gallons Lenox burning oil . . 4.16
Paid Manchester Locomotive Works :
Plugs, domes, covers, sleeves,
16,772 lbs., at 3 cents . $503.16
Less 13,880 lbs old iron . 76.34
426.82
5 hours' labor on boiler . . . 2.00
WATER-WORKS.
715
yi hour's labor repairing coupling
8 liours' labor at pumping station
lo hours' labor on cocks
2 days' labor on steam pump
42 hours' labor on hydrant spindle
\\ pounds brass castings .
1 melting pot .
Team ....
Pressure gauge on steam pump
8 lag screws on steam pump
73 hours' labor, steam pump
12 plates steel, 3,084 lbs. .
Boiler rivets, 52 lbs. . . .
Refined iron, 68 lbs. .
Repairing 6 hydrant wrenches
hours' labor .
10 brass castings
Cutting hole in pipe, 45 hours
6 brass shoes, 2 clamps and valves, 49
pounds ....
12 hours' labor on same
Sundries ....
Plugs, domes, covers, sleeves, collars,
etc., 7,897 lbs. . . . .
Paid National Meter Co. :
Repairing meters
116 5-inch Crown meters .
30 i-inch Crown meters
5 J-inch Crown meters
3 J-inch Crown meters
45 f-inch Crown meters
2 I -inch Crown meters
Paid Pratt & Cady Co., 35 5x52 hydrants
Union Water Meter Co., repairing
meters . . • .
$0.20
3.20
4.00
8. 00
I. So
•44
4.00
1-25
10.00
.40
29.20
107.94
2.60
2.04
6.20
2.50
1.80
12.37
4.80
103.17
236.91
82.20
,740.25
453-00
125.00
73-80
682.50
68.80
,600.00
356.84
716
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid George Woodman & Co., 322 nip-
ples, all sizes.
Paid Henry R. Worthington :
Repairing | inch meter
1 6x4x6 second-hand pump
First engine, No. 834, lined up as per
agreement, May 25, 1893
Second engine, No. 835
Paid Warren Foundry & Machine Co.,
cast iron pipe, curves, branches, etc. .
Paid Union Brass Co. :
290 f-inch cocks
102 cocks .
109 I -inch curb cocks
100 F. G. nipples
149 curb stops .
Paid Thomson Meter Co. :
57 J-inch meters . . . .
25 1-inch meters . . . .
Couplings ......
Paid Peet Valve Co. :
45 6-inch water gates ....
2 lo-inch water gates . . . .
Paid New England Water-pipe Co., 8,663^
feet pipe ......
Paid Ludlow Valve Manufacturing Co. :
I 24-inch hub flume valve .
I 24-inch sluice gate with extension
and nut ......
I 24-inch spigot pipe ....
I standard, less freight
Paid Holyoke Hydrant & Iron-Works :
10 5-inch 5^-feet double steamer hy-
drants ......
$20.11
6.16
72.93
3,000.00
3,000.00
74,743-5°
157.08
48.88
95-38
10.42
130-38
684.00
200.00
48.30
540.00
52.00
1,299.51
86.45
61.00
28.00
11.58
325.00
WATER-WORKS. 717
3 heads and posts for 4-inch 5^ foot
hydrants ..... $42.00
Paid Builders' Iron Foundry, branches,
bends, sleeves, etc., of all sizes . 700.40
Manchester Slaughtering and Ren-
dering Co.. I ton fertilizer 25.00
J. Henry Dearborn, 21 cords manure 63.00
I. T. Webster, 14 cords manure . 52.78
W. J. Freeman, 182 cords manure 74.00
John DriscoU, dipper, cans, galvan-
ized pan, tin, sheet lead, fibre
pails, wicks, etc. . . . 5.45
James Briggs, 6 galvanized iron pails 3.00
Paid Coffin Valve Co. : ^
2 1 5-inch automatic air valves . . 20.00
2 1 2-inch brass screw-end valves . 5.00
4 1 2-inch air valves .... 40.00
4 1 2-inch brass valves . . . 10.00
12 brass nipples, 8 brass elbows, and
fitting same ..... 7.50
$96,479.12
Paid Shirley & Stuart :
10 hours' mason work . . . $4-45
Stock ...... 1.25
Paid C. B. Sturtevant, labor on service-
pipe trench ..... 27.31
Paid John T. Gott :
Teaming one day at pond . . . 4.00
Drawing wood to mill . . . 40.00
11 days drawing iron pipe . . . 44.00
Paid W. H. Griffin :
Labor repairing roof .... 2.50
500 shingles ..... i.oo
718 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid James P. Finn, paint and painting . $39-3 1
F. N. Smith, rent of land and build-
ings, June I, 1893, to December
I, 1893 ..... 60.00
Paid Head & Dowst Co. :
99 feet spruce and planing ... 1.88
5 hours' labor ..... 1.50
Ironwork for derrick . . . 4.00
18 feet 2-inch oak .... .45
Paid A. Filion :
Repairing 2-horse truck . 11,00
Pole to steamer for pair horses . 10.50
Paid town of Auburn, taxes on land . 59-56
Paid John Proctor :
Labor, clearing out brook . . . 10.00
Putting sleepers in bottom of brook . 6.00
Paid S. C. Austin & Bro. :
Lightning rods at pumping station, 182
feet at 40 cents .... 72.80
2 points ...... 4.00
2 braces 2.00
Paid W. S. Haselton :
Laying 20^ M. shingles . . 25.62
70 lbs. nails 2.30
Saddle boards 1.50
Paid C. H. Robie Concrete Co.:
195.2 square yards concrete on Canal
street 97.60
1 61. 7 square yards concrete at pump-
ing station 64.68
Paid Concord & Montreal R. R,, mate-
rial and labor used on side track at
Youngsville during July, 1893 ■
200 third-class chestnut ties . . 46.00
COMMONS.
35 second-class white oak ties
$13-30
2,177 feet long ties
39.18
600 lbs. track spikes .
18.00
6 days' labor at $1.70 .
10.20
5 days' labor at ^2.50
12.50
31 days' labor at ^1.35
41.85
operty of Concord & Montreal
R. R.,
for which an annual rental 0
f 10 per
cent on cost is charged :
1,032 feet iron rails at 22c.
$189.20
180 feet new steel rails
63.64
84 short iron fish bars
6.30
14 pair angle fish joints
3-92
I split switch
34.00
.
I 8-foot frog
23-50
92 joint bolts and nuts
2-53
I switch lock
1. 00
719
$324.09
Rental to Aug. i, 1894 at 10 per cent .
Paid treasurer of sinking fund, amount of
hydrant tax for 1893, being a part of
receipts for water rents
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to interest account
Amount transferred to new account .
32.40
12,750.00
- $13,562.64
$179,025.92
30,000.00
■ 95'i44-i6
$304,170.08
Commons.
Appropriation ....
Amount transferred from reserved fund
$4,236.33
302.10
$4,538-43
720 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
January . . . . . . $182.25
118.75
February
March .
April
May
June
July .
August .
September
October .
November
December
108.75
210.25
192.75
190.00
129.87
234-50
21563
172.62
203.87
135-75
dis-
Paid labor of men and teams, as per payroll, in
trict No. 2 :
July ...... $26.00
November . . . * . . 1.50
$2,094.99
$27.50
REPAIRS AND GENERAL EXPENSES.
Paid Adams & Tasker, 2 casks Norton ce-
ment
$3.00
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
Spruce plank, etc
I frame for casting ....
16 hours' labor, repairs on wheelbarrows
7-52
1.05
5-21
Paid J. J. Abbott :
102 lbs. green paint ....
i^ gallon turpentine ....
Paid L. B. Bodwell&Co., J^ cord chunks
18.37
•30
3-75
COMMONS. 721
Paid Glines & Fairfield :
24 chairs, 480 lbs., at 5 cents . . $24.00
2 patterns, 40 lbs., at 5 cents . 2.00
Finishing and drilling . . . 4.00
Paid Pike& Heald, 2^ hours' labor clean-
ing waste pipe, urinal, Merrimack
square ..... 1.50
Leander Pope, sharpening tools and
other blacksmithing 8.30
Paid George W. Rief:
188 feet ash 8.46
II hours' labor on settees . . . 4.40
9^ hours' labor on mauls . . . 3.90
Paid John B. Varick Co., tools, hardware,
etc 58.89
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co.:
Labor on fountains ....
Labor on lanterns and tops
Labor on pump, caps, electric lights, etc.
Paid C. H. Hutchinson Foundry & Ma-
chine Works :
Grinding knives for lawn mowers .
Sharpening and repairing .
Sharpening lawn mowers .
Paid John Bryson, paint stock and labor
John Fullerton, cash paid for freight
on lawn mower . . . .55
Joseph Buck & Sons, i horse mower
with seat shaft and side draft rod 80.00
Flint & Little, i box . . .50
Manchester Locomotive Works, 375
lbs. castings .... 7.97
Merrill & Laird, ^^ day's labor of
mason ..... 2.00
71.02
5-30
14.07
6.45
5-40
4.20
1 7-43
722
KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Charles H. Robie Co.:
Concrete work, Merrimack square
Concrete work in Concord square
Concrete work in Park square
25 loads paving stones
Paid H. Vaughan, teaming i load lumber
The Electric Co., electric light on
Merrimack square from Oct. 10 to
Dec. 20, 1893 ....
John T. Beach, repairs on snow-
$362.37
175-77
19.84
43-75
1.50
7.00
plows, etc. .....
5-3°
York Market Co., 6 barrels .
3.00
FLOWERS, LOAM, TREES,
ETC.
Paid J. N. Auger, 558 bushels ashes
$66.96
James M. Crombie, 19 rock maple
trees
19.00
Paid J. S. Holt :
1,120 bushels ashes, bought November,
1892
140.00
1,784 bushels ashes . . . .
223.00
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
I ton Coe's phosphate
34.00
10 bushels R. I. bent seed .
20.00
150 pounds redtop ....
12.00
100 pounds white clover
22.00
Paid Ray Brook Garden Co., plants for
Hanover square
20.00
Paid D. H. Young :
2i cords manure ....
10.00
I lot dressing for flower garden .
1.25
Paid H. H. Huntress, plants .
75.66
A. G. Hood, plants for Tremont
square
60.00
Kirby Floral Co , plants
20.00
$988.07
$723-87
STARK PARK.
723
Paid William J. Freeman, horse hire
Paid Water-works, use of water :
Fountain, Tremont square
Fountain, Park square
Fountain, Concord square
Soldiers' monument
Urinal
Total expenditures
$4.00
100.00
100.00
100.00
300.00
100.00
$704.00
$4,538-43
Stark Park.
Appropriation ..... $31197-89
-Amount transferred from Derryfield park
account ...... 856.39
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll, com-
mons :
April
$87.50
May ...
1,018.25
June
• 1,346.50
August
27.00
September
114.50
October .
18.50
November
9.25
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll, in dis-
trict No. 2 :
June
$4,054.2^
$2,621.50
$1,019.12
724
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
I harrow .....
$14.50
lo round-point shovels
6.67
30 pounds hammers
3.60
4 hammer handles ^
.80
37 pounds ^-inch cast steel
2.96
Dynamite cartridges, fuse, etc.
5.26
^ bushel salt
•30
6 round-point shovels .
4.00
2 12-pound steel bars .
1.20
I colter for plough
2.50
IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Tools
$9-34
Dynamite, fuse, etc. .
16.00
245 lbs. fence wire at 4fc. .
11.64
16 lbs. steel wedges .
1.92
Glass for two lanterns
2.00
10 staples
•35
Paid E. Martelle, sharpening drills and
picks
12.95
People's Gas-light Co., 3 chaldrons
of coke ....
13-50
Massachusetts Broken Stone Co., J
I
carloads, 201,950 lbs., size i
141-37
E. 0. & J. E. Dodge, 100 loads stone
I 25.00
W. J. Freeman, horse hire
16.50
estate J. 0. Clark, 40 loads stone
and weighing
24.30
A. J. Sawyer, 50 chestnut posts
7-50
Adams & Tasker, 5 bags oats .
4-75
McQuade Brothers, i barrel and i
hogshead .
•75
$41-79
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
725
Paid C. H. Robie Co., 13 loads paving
stones ......
;26.oo
FLOWERS, LOAM,
ETC.
>^>5M-"/
lid John B. Varick Co.:
30 bushels oats ....
$30.00
15 bags
3.00
5 bushels rye grass
10.50
5 bushels redtop
2.50
lid Ray Brook Garden Co., plants
12.00
$58.00
Total expenditures
$4,054.28
Pine Grove Cemetery.
Appropriation
$9,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
January ...... $112.00
February
171.60
March .
126.80
April
233.19
May .
618.92
June
600.94
July .
648.80
August .
705-56
September
526.22
October
436.77
November
336-25
December
234.55
$4,751-60
726
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid C. C. Webster, part payment of land
jsi, 300.00
PLANTS, TREES, LOAM, CLAY, ETC.
Paid A. G. Hood, plants
H. H. Huntress, plants, etc. .
Manchester Slaughtering and Ren
dering Co., i ton fertilizer .
John Holland, 120 loads loam
Adams & Tasker, 4 bushels rye
Dennis H. Morgan, drawing 45 loads
loam .....
John B. Varick Co., grass seed
C. C. Webster, 1 25 loads clay
Crafts & Green, 259 loads loam
Sidney A. Blood, drawing 143 loads
loam ......
M. M. Little, drawing 39 loads loam
Willis Scheer, drawing 10 loads loam
C. M. Sterey, drawing 20 loads loam
Edward Emerson, drawing 16 loads
loam ......
Frank Chenette, drawing 12 loads
loam
C. H. Robie Co., drawing 43 loads
loam
$48.56
44-15
25.00
30.00
4.00
56.40
17-38
125.00
129.50
143.00
41.25
10.00
20.00
16.00
43.00
I765-24
WATER, TELEPHONE, FUEL.
Paid Water-works, 478,600 cubic feet wa-
ter, to October i, 1893 . . $717.90
New England Telegraph & Tele-
phone Co., use of telephone, cem-
etery and house of superintendent 84.00
Dunlap& Wason Coal Co., 3^ tons
stove coal 27.00
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
727
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 3 tons stove
coal ...•••• $23.5c
$852.40
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., stationery
and postage
$6.59
Paid W. E. Moore :
Printing blank water rent bills, with stub
1-75
and binding blank receipts .
4.00
card blanks, government en-
velopes, etc.
5-25
blank water receipts
1-75
binding and lettering 4 books
8.50
$27.84
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid Head & Dowst Co.:
Desk railing, ventilators, etc.
$111.39
I night latch ....
•75
Paid Pike & Heald :
I lantern
•50
I mop stick and mop
•35
Stove board, blacking, etc.
2.85
Stock and labor, plumbing .
8-54
Paid J. B. Varick Co.:
Shovels, hoes, bit braces, padlocks,
ax
handles, steel rakes,
27.00
Mattocks, pails, and other hardware
34-51
Paid J. Choate & Co., paint and painting
14.93
J. Hodge, grade stakes .
12.89
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co.:
32 feet 2-inch oak, sawing, etc. .
1-75
Lumber and labor
12.38
728
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Austin, Flint & Day, 3 doors, glazed
white figured rolled glass
John Driscoll, 2 brooms
Adams & Tasker, i barrel cement .
C. H. Robie Co., concrete, gutters
and walk .....
Paid for new sewers :
1,000 brick .....
I barrel cement ....
100 feet 8-inch Akron pipe
3 feet 1 5 -inch Akron pipe .
Paid Thomas J. Cavanaugh, plumbing ma-
terial and labor ....
Glines & Fairfield, 4 iron posts
F. B. Potter, i 18-inch sewer grate
Paid Fairfield & Truax :
I iron fence, 204 feet at $2.25
Labor on foundation stone .
SUNDRIES.
Paid Whitten & Fifield, use of teams by
committee . . . . .
T. McKenna, cleaning vaults
Paid B. A. Stearns :
Cash paid for screen cloth .
Cash paid for 2 pairs of rubber boots
Cash paid for postage stamps
Paid John T. Gott, cleaning vault .
Joseph Ward, i lot in cemetery, No
217, on Woodside avenue .
Total expenditures
Amount transferred to reserved fund
$5-25
.70
2.90
281
•57
6.00
1.26
36-74
•85
8.67
8.00
4.80
459.00
30.00
^45-5°
4.00
3.20
6.00
1.09
3.00
50.00
$1,073.58
S112.79
8,883.45
116.55
$9,000.00
VALLEY CEMETERY.
729
Valley Cemetery.
Appropriation ..... $3,000.00
Amount transferred from reserved fund . 79-5o
Expenditures.
$3)079-5o
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll
January .
$63.38
February
74^50
March
56T00
April
127.32
May
284.90
June
225.28
July
219. GO
August .
248.51
September
207.40
October .
170.60
November
164.85
December
60.50
$1,902.24
Paid Joseph Brown, 2y\ days' labor
I9.80
Paid B. F. Bascomb :
igi days' team labor .
77.00
Breaking roads .
19.25
$106.05
Paid Water-works, use of water ....
TURF, LOAM, PLANTS, ETC.
Paid Peter O. Woodman, 2,005 ^^^^ ^^rf $20.05
Joseph Brown, 10 loads loam . . T3.00
Marshall N. Badger, 2}^ cords ma-
nure ...... 12.66
$64.65
730
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid DeCourcy, Holland & Marshall, 8
loads loam
Peter O. Woodman, 20 loads loam
William Carr, 6 loads loam
J. D. Patterson, 7 loads loam
F. M. Shaw, 4 loads loam
B. F. Bascomb, 2 loads loam
Charles Rea, 24 bulbs .
J. Francis, plants and flowers
A. G. Hood, filling 2 flower beds
H. H. Huntress, plants, etc. .
Paid Ray Brook Garden Co. :
Care of plants through winter
12 rose bushes . . . . .
20 plants ......
Paid John B. Varick Co., grass seed
Manchester Slaughtering & Render-
ing Co., fertilizer
B. F. Bascomb, manure .
§6.00
10.00
7-50
3-5°
4.00
2.00
2.08
42.20
14.00
11-95
7.00
6.00
2.60
7.98
10.00
5-25
.$187.77
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid Freeman Riddle, printing 200 blank
receipts . . . . . $i-75
The John B. Clarke Co., printing
blank book and binding same . 8.00
Manchester postoffice, 200 2-cent
stamped envelopes . . . 4.36
Paid Temple & Farrington Co., ink, pen-
cils, mucilage, envelopes, and
other stationery .... 2.74
Syndicate Publishing Co., i book of
receipts ..... 2.75
$19.60
VALLEY CEMETEKY.
731
REPAIRS, TOOLS, AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid L. M. Aldrich :
72 feet pine plank, sawed to order
Filing saw ......
Paid Adams & Tasker, i cask cement
Head & Dowst Co., 251 loads filling
Peter Harris, repairing lock and fit-
ting key . . . . .
Pike & Heald, piping stock and la-
bor ......
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
2 14-inch G. A. lawn mowers
3 snaths and scythes ....
Other hardware .....
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co.
4 wheelbarrows .....
4 lawn rakes .....
3 shovels and other tools
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., 2 lawn
rakes ......
Paid Palmer & Garmon :
Cutting over 7 posts and teaming
5 new posts .....
Setting up 11 posts, 22 hours' labor
Drilling holes, 28 hours' labor .
Paid J. Choate & Co., paint stock and
labor ......
Paid C. H. Robie Co.:
1 99. 1 1 sq. yds. concrete at 75 cents
1 41. 4 sq. yds, concrete at 25 cents
86.69 sq. yds. concrete at 45 cents
Paid B. W. Robinson, building chimney
S. C. Dwinnels, i lawn rake .
$2.16
.60
2.90
62.75
.40
357-93
12.50
1-95
7.20
8.50
1.60
•25
6.00
[3.00
6.60
3.01
149-33
35-35
39.01
8.29
•75
732
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. L. Bixby, lumber, hardware, and
labor ......
Total expenditures
$58.91
$799-19
$3>o79-5o
Derryfield Park.
Appropriation ....
Amount transferred from reserved fund
;2,ooo.oo
9-25
$2,009.25
Expenditures.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
June ....
$40.00
July . . . .
808.00
August ....
185.50
September
. . 6.75
October ....
16.50
November
9.25
REPAIRS, TOOLS, IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, filiiig saws
W.^J. Freeman, horse hire
J. B. McCrillis & Son, sawing boards
and repairing chains .
John Perham, use of plow
L. Pope, blacksmithing .
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Dynamite, etc. .....
Tools
$1
35
3
00
3
80
I
00
10
40
32
49
19
82
$1,066.00
AMOSKEAG CEMETERY. 733
Paid F. S. Bodwell, 30 feet covering stone :^ 15.00
;^86.86
Total expenditures $1,152.86
Transferred to Stark park account . . . . 856.39
$2,009.25
Goffe's Falls Cemetery.
Appropriation ....... $100.00
Expenditures.
Transferred to reserved fund . ... . . $100.00
Amoskeag Cemetery.
Appropriation $550.00
Expenditures.
LAND.
Paid Maxwell & Taggart, consideration for land,
deed dated April 29, 1893 ..... $340.00
LABOR.
Paid James E. Bailey, 62^ days' labor at $1.75 . $109.37
HARDWARE.
Paid Wadleigh Hardware Co.:
Hinges, screws, and staples . . . $1.48
100 pounds lead .
25 pounds whiting
Raw oil, paint, brushes
7.00
•75
:7-75
126.98
734
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUNDRIES.
Paid Palmer & Garmon, setting over grave-
stones ......
Water -works, use of water from Oc-
tober I, 1893, to January i, 1894
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund .
$14.62
$26.62
$502.97
47-03
$550.00
Paupers Off the Farm.
Appropriation
$5,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund . . 2,545.63
Expenditures.
GROCERIES.
Paid Bartlett & Thompson . . . $93-90
John Cashman
139.00
A. N. Clapp .
7.00
Eager & Rand
65.00
H. Fradd .
41.00
Tilton F. Fifield .
498.99
Griffin Brothers
1,033.62
A. G. Grenier
14.00
Gamache Brothers
10.00
Patrick Harrington
10.00
Joseph Huard
15.00
Daniel Jameson
20.00
0. D. Knox & Co.
110.00
G. C. Lord .
10.00
McQuade Brothers
80.00
$7>545-63
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM.
735
Paid T. H. Mahoney .
$270.82
Edward Marchand & Co.
197.62
D. M. Poore & Son
173-71
Edmund Pinard
20.00
E. W. Perkins
40.00
Joseph Quirin
199.76
D. Shannahan
144.00
Schricker Brothers
19.07
Henry Weber
92.00
J. H. Wiggin & Co. .
46.00
S. M. Worthley .
4.00
Carl York ....
29.98
" York Market Co. .
8.00
$3>392.47
Paid Clement Beaudette
$10.50
Sidney A. Blood .
2.75
John J. Cushing
2.75
DeCourcy, Holland & M
arshall . 26.75
Dunlap & Wason Coal C
0. . . 48.89
S. L. Flanders
37.00
Moore & Preston
21.75
A. & D. M. Poore
19-75
John Perham .
2.50
J. P. Russell & Co
75.20
August Schink
1. 00
E. V. Turcotte
104.23
J. F. Wyman
28.50
$381-57
BOARD AND CARE, AND RENT.
Paid John S. Bodkin
Mary Bouchard
county of Hillsborough
$24.00
2.00
395-00
736
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
id Children's Home .
$43-11
Elliot Hospital
3.00
C. H. Giles ....
42.50
W. H. Gilmore
126.87
A. D. Hatch
110.00
Carrie E. Jackson .
125.60
Charles E. Lowe
99.98
Lamoureux Brothers
2.00
Agnes Masse ....
88.00
Bridget Melene
18.00
Christina Maycook
122.88
N. H. Asylum for Insane
60.31
W. E. Prescott
8.00
John Reynolds
6.00
D. L. Robinson
32.00
Daniel Stevens
56.00
St. Patrick's Orphans' Home .
138.00
State Industrial School .
1,639.49
St. Patrick's Old Ladies' Home
8.00
William Whelpley .
120.00
$3,270.74
CLOTHING.
id Napoleon Chamberland .
$3-oo
Beauchemin & Beaumier
4-25
Dodge & Straw
4.10
G. S. Holmes
4.29
Frank P. Kimball .
15-25
Lightbody & Burbank .
8-95
M. A. McDonough
8.55
MiviUe & Co.
9.00
M. F. O'Toole
I 2.50
G. W. Pierce & Co.
3-75
John Robbie Co. .
3.00
Patrick Toole
4.00
Weston & Martin .
19.97
Wingate & Gould .
1.25
$101.86
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM.
737
MEDICINES, MEDICAL SERVICES, FUNERAL EXPENSES.
Paid F. H. Thurston, medicines
Moise Potvin & Co., medicines
John B. Hall, medicines
J. F. Dignam, medicines
Frederick Perkins, M. D., certifi-
cate of insanity, Gustave Voight .
Paid E. V. Turcotte, burial expenses :
Wife of Israel Girouard
Child of D. Vadeboncceur .
Child of D. Vadeboncoeur .
Josephine Chagnon ....
Paid F. L. Wallace & Co.:
Use of ambulance, case of Jas. Smith .
Burial expenses, Mrs. Emily McKelvey
William McKelvey
Mrs. Mary Plumpton .
Otis H. Whitten
Paid F. X. Chenette, burial expenses,
Rene Tousignant
T. F. Collins, burial expenses, child
of O'Dovvd
i.75-24
18.20
34-53
3-25
25.00
10.00
10.00
25.00
3.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
25.00
$342.22
SUNDRIES.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.:
Printing 100 blanks .
2,000 bill heads .
200 envelopes, etc.
Paid Henry N. Moore, serving notice
Geo. S. Holmes, team and expenses
to Candia in the Langdell case
Paid W. P. Goodman :
9 city directories
47
$2.25
7.00
«-75
3-48
18.00
738
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
2 boxes rubber bands ....
Paid Whitten & Fifield, conveying Bur-
bank children to Children's Home
E. T. James, conveying Geo. Fletch-
er, insane, to depot .
James Briggs, stove, etc.
Total expenditures ...
$0.44
2.50
1. 00
3-35
$56.77
$7>54.S-63
City Farm.
Appropriation $7,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund
Expenditures.
2,023.37
HOUSE AND FARM LABOR.
Paid John Bowen . . . . . $33-36
T. Beausejour
7.00
Mary Bernard
14.50
Bridget Bagley
1.29
Ann Cunningham .
1.50
Sarah Cahill .
135-43
Thomas J. Estes .
31-19
Charles Fuller
142.97
Daniel Grant
233-83
Chauncy Hazen .
117.32
Mrs. D. B. Hutchins
118.21
D. B. Hutchins
167.17
Hannah Hackett .
61.00
John Kelley .
132.71
Bessie Laughlin
10.50
E. G. Libbey
449-31
Annie Libbey
269.66
$9-023.37
CITY
FARM.
739
Paid Fannie Mead .... $1.72
Christina McDonald
67.00
John McEvoy
9-53
L. J. Proctor .
351-00
Porter Palmer
68.35
Kate Rogers .
3.00
Nellie M. Stockwell
22.29
Fred A. Stockwell .
38.14
Mrs. Fred Sanborn
8.50
Fred Sanborn
125-31
L. M. Streeter
50.69
Mary E. Streeter .
30-34
Emma M. Streeter .
25-14
Frank Thompson .
46.23
$2,774.19
Paid V. B. Martin, threshing ^
'rain,
400 bush., at 6c.
$24.00
Paid A. & D. M. Poore, 36,215 lbs. egg
coal at $6.75 5S117.67
Paid Dunlap & Wason Coal Co.:
2,500 lbs. stove coal .... 9.38
9,000 lbs. egg coal .... 31-50
Paid Moore & Preston. 60,505 lbs. coal . 194.20
5352-75
CLOTHING AND DRY GOODS.
Paid Barton & Co., flannel, print, cottons,
etc. ...... $10.96
Burke Bros., boots and shoes . . 46.35
Geo. Blanchet, cotton, gloves, shirt-
ing, buttons, thread, gingham, etc. 18.97
Cushman & Hardy Co., pants, vests,
hose, mittens . . . . 11-95
740
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Clark & Estey :
Cotton, elastic, suspenders, combs
Needles, yarn, towels, pins, etc.
Paid G. W. Dodge, boots and shoes
F. C. Dow, boots an-d shoes .
C. M. Floyd & Co., pants, vest
hat, etc. ....
W. P. Farmer, boots and shoes
P. O. Gallup & Co., clothing
Frank P. Kimball, clothing .
H. M. Moody, shirts, gloves, caps,
umbrella, pants, overalls, etc.
John Robbie Co., buttons, napkins,
print, thread, gingham, etc.
Wingate & Gould, boots and shoes
Paid Weston & Hill Co.:
Thread, hose, buttons, needles .
Flannel, cotton, combs, print
Crash, gingham, etc. . . . .
Paid L. P. Labonte, combs, hat, print,
cotton batting . . . . .
$7-S8
38-34
60.12
8.71
30-50
3135
3.00
4.00
83-77
18.46
5-15
44.48
19-53
23.19
5-27
$471-98
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Paid Annis Flour & Grain Co., sugar, oil,
flour, crackers, etc.
F. J. Bixby, fish, sausages, yeast, etc.
Charles H. Clark, soda, beef, cur-
rants, etc. .....
C. E. Cox, meats ....
Albert F. Davis, 5 bushels potatoes
Dodge & Laing, beef, potatoes, etc.
Daniels-Cornell Co., potash, soap,
pearline, etc
Doane & Welch, beans .
$287.98
43-67
11.23
10.57
5.00
121.94
65-83
39- 1 7
CITY FARM.
id T. F. Fifield, chimneys, matches,
veal
$2.55
A. G. Grenier, meats and groceries
137-49
741
A. L. Gadbois, rice, starch, vanilla
extract, etc.
Gage & McDougall, 30 bushels po
tatoes
George H. Hubbard, 19 pounds
tobacco
J. S. Holt & Co., I box soap
Hardy & Co., tobacco .
D. Johnson, sausage
W. D. Ladd & Co., 44 lbs. crackers
Horace Marshall, 2? bushels beans
Manchester Provision Co., meats all
kinds
McQuade Brothers, sugar, beef, rai
sins, etc
Manchester Beef Co., beef, etc.
T. E. McDerby, meats, etc.
E. S. Newton, fish, etc. . . *
New York Market, sausage, beef,
etc. ....
Nelson Morris Co., meats
Henry W. Parker, flour, etc
Parnell Brothers, sugar, tea, crackers
E. W. Perkins, 228 lbs. sugar .
D. M. Poore & Son, groceries
Public Market Co., beef, vegetables
etc
Joseph Quirin, groceries
Queen City Market, meats
Tom W. Robinson, hams
Sawyer & Clay, meats
R. G. Sullivan, 12 lbs. tobacco
33-64
30-75
5-32
4.00
4.77
17-50
2.20
5-25
174.03
103.27
8.53
17-73
43-93
17.36
36-44
148.00
34-49
11.25
25.26
40.56
100.27
54.36
6.34
3-48
742 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Slaughtering & Render-
ing Co. :
45 lbs. grease . . . . . $i.So
84 lbs. tallow ..... 5.04
Paid E. M. Slayton, beans, peas, potatoes 14-52
Paid J. O. Turcotte :
40 lbs. tobacco ..... 8.40
Meats, soap ..... .86
Paid John E. Towle & Co., tripe, etc. . 19.69
M. Verrette, Jr., 525 gals, molasses 14.18
J. H. Wiggin & Co., groceries . 81. 11
Carl E. York, groceries . . . 7.01
York Market Co., groceries . . 2.73
FURNITURE AND KITCHEN UTENSILS.
Paid Clark M. Bailey :
18 whisk brooms, etc. . . . $1.82
Brooms, pails, globes, twine . . 7.03
Mops, scrub brushes, etc. . . . 5.88
Paid Charles A. Hoitt & Co. :
Excelsior, mats, jute, ticking, webbing.
twine, tacks, quart cans . . . 8.89
10 iron beds ..... 60.00
Paid F. E. Nelson, tacks, brush, basket,
chimney, stove polish, etc. . . . 10,42
Paid I. L. Stickney :
Repairing wringer .... i.oo
Wringer ...... 6.00
Paid Slattery the Jeweler, 3 butter knives 1.50
The Kitchen, steamer, cuspidor,
pans, shelf paper, dippers, tins,
etc. ...... 10.64
$1,825.83
CITY FARM.
743
Paid John Driscoll :
2 milk cans
Large galvanized scoop
$i.6o
1.25
$116.03
MEDICAL SERVICES, MEDICINES, AND LIVE STOCK INSURANCE.
Paid Blackstone & Fisher, i tooth ex-
tracted
A. L. Dodge, services as veterinary
surgeon . . . . .
J. G. EUinwood, dentistry work on
horse ......
Hospital of the Sacred Heart, board
and attendance for Michael Kane
C. W. Babbitt, carrying M. Kane
to hospital and farm .
Paid Frederick Perkins :
Attendance on Mary Ellen Dowd
Attendance on Bridget Sullivan .
Paid E. B. Dunbar, 2 boxes ointment
A. L. Dodge, medicines .
J. J. Holland, medicines
E. G. Libbey, cash paid for i bottle
wart killer . . . . .
F. H. Thurston, prescriptions, med-
icines, etc. . . . . .
Tebbetts & Soule, rat exterminator
Peel's Food Co., i bag Peel's food
Paid American Live Stock Insurance Co
Entrance fees ....
Policy fees
First quarterly assessment .
Second quarterly assessment
$1.00
3.00
10.00
10.00
•50
2.50
11.65
32.08
■75
1. 00
53-00
4.00
18.95
23.28
744
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Security Live Stock Insurance Co. :
First quarterly assessment, policies Nos.
8704 to 871 1, inclusive
$38-45
Second quarterly assessment
25-45
LIVE STOCK.
Paid Cavanaugh Brothers :
I roan mare .....
$150.00
I pair brown horses ....
350.00
Paid L. S. Proctor, i bull
17-50
Paid Welch & Hall :
I chestnut mare
181.00
I chestnut horse
150.00
Paid H. Holbrook, i cow
10.00
Paid 0. & 0. G. Bailey :
I pair beef oxen ....
iiS.oo
I 2-year-old bull
22.50
Paid Curtis W. Davis, 2 sows and lot of
pigs
55-00
Concord & Montreal Railroad,
freight on horses
8.25
FERTILIZERS, SEEDS, ETC
Paid J. J. H. Gregory, seeds of all kinds
$12.50
W. H. Kidder, 7 cords manure
15.00
Manchester Slaughtering & Render-
ing Co., fertilizers
50.00
Aretas Blood, manure .
3-75
S. Mullen, 10 bushels seed potatoes
12.50
Wadleigh Hardware Co., seeds
10.28
H.'^RDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co., lantern,
can opener, files, knife, brushes,
rope, hinges, nails, glass, etc.
$265.11
$1,062.25
;io4.o3
$7-42
CITY FARM.
745
Paid John B. Varick Co., locks, bit, cas-
ters, globes, tacks, varnish, brush
paint, files, etc. ...
Wadleigh Hardware Co., sponges
staples, paint, glue, nails, scoops
etc. .....
SI53.I8
9-99
$180.59
HAY, GRAIN, AND OTHER FEED.
Paid Adams & Tasker, bran, oats, etc.
Clarence R. Merrill, oats, etc.
Partridge Brothers
Annis Floifr & Grain Co., oats, corn
etc. .....
Stark park, standing oats
Derryfield park, standing grass
$73-45
1S8.23
37-50
84.S8
50.00
40.00
$474.06
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, filing saws . . $0.70
D. E. Guiney, material and labor,
piping, etc., fi-om Oct. 26 to Nov.
30, 1892 203.46
Peter Harris, repairs and fitting
keys, etc. . . . . 1.25
Head & Dowst Co., lumber, labor . 17.28
J.Hodge, lumber and labor . . 23.71
Thomas A. Lane Co., plumbing ma-
terial and labor .... 4.50
Manchester Heating & Lighting Co.,
rubber plugs and grate for baker 2.15
Pike & Heald, plumbing material
and labor ..... 47-58
A. (Sc E. Reed Bros., mason labor . 16.40
Paid Clarence R. Merrill :
2 barrels cement . . . . 2 60
746 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
3 barrels lime ..... S3-oo
Paid I. L. Stickney, leather, material for
cobbling S3-74
BLACKSMITHING, HARNESSES, ETC.
Paid Frederick Allen, i heavy harness . $45-oo
John T. Beach, new spring shackle .50
E. C. Briggs, shoes and shoeing . 31-52
Thomas P. Riley, repairing halter . .20
Paid Ranno Harness Co.:
I new express harness . . . 45 -oo
3 horse brushes ..... 3.00
3 currycombs ..... .90
Paid H. T. Thompson, shoeing oxen 2.00
J. O. Tremblay, shoeing horses, etc. 35-5°
Paid N. J. Whalen :
I harness ...... 45.00
Other articles and repairs . . . 45-5°
Paid J. M. Brouillette, shoeing horses 28.23
H. A. Green, shoeing oxen . . 5.00
CARRIAGES AND CARRIAGE REPAIRS.
Paid J. B. McCrillis & Son, repairing
sleigh, dumpcart, etc.
§12.95
Paid A. Filion :
3 scavenger wagons ....
285.00
Repairing 2-horse wagon .
57-50
Paid Kimball Carriage Co.:
Difference in wagon ....
60.00
Carriage pole
5.00
Soap, dressing, traces, snaps, pads
8.60
$326.37
§287.35
§429.05
CITY FARM.
INSURANCE.
Paid John Dowst, agent Capitol Fire In-
surance Co., policy No. 2,^,562, on
buildings ..... $20.00
Clarence M. Edgerly, policy No.
138,086, Peoples . . . 40.C0
Paid A. Elliott & Co.:
Policy No. 80,097, Granite State Insur-
ance Co. ..... 40.00
Policy No. 10,204, Northern Insurance
Co. ...... 40.00
Paid E. P. Richardson, agent, policy No.
38,685, N. H. Fire Insurance Co. 60.00
Edgerly & Sheehan, policy No. 90,-
124, Granite State Insurance Co. 40.00
747
$240.00
TELEPHONE AND STATIONERY.
Paid New England Telegraph and Tele-
phone Co., use of telephone . $42.00
Temple & Farrington Co., blank
books, paper, etc.
5.22
E. R. Coburn Co., stationery
3.16
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. E. Buerk, 1,000 dials for watch
clock
$3-6o
Paid L. M; Streeter :
" Daily Union " from Jan. i, 1892, to
Feb. 4, 1893
6.58
Box rent at postofifice ....
•75
Paid E. G. Libbey :
Cash paid for express and postage
1. 00
- $50-38
748
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Box rent at postoffice to Jan. i, 1894 ^2.67
Daily paper to Jan. i, 1894 . . 5.25
Paid for " New England Homestead " to
March i, 1894 .... 1.50
Manchester postoffice, stamps . .55
W. H. Maxwell, cutting ice . . 14.00
Sampson, Murdock & Co., directory 2.00
Rev. N. A. Avery, damage to sleigh 1.50
$39-40
Total expenditures
,023.37
Indigent Soldiers.
Appropriation . . ...
Expenditures.
GROCERIES.
Paid Eager & Rand
$12.00
S. L. Flanders
4.00
Griffin Brothers
60.00
0. D. Knox & Co.
40.00
D. M. Poore & Son
26.00
FUEL.
Paid Decourcy, Holland & Marshall
$6.00
J. P. Russell & Co.
3.00
Joseph Masse ....
8.00
$300.00
$142.00
— $17.00
HOARD AND CARE.
Paid Bridget Melene
Ellen McGrath
$52.00
34.00
SACRED HEART HOSPITAL. 749
MEDICINE.
Paid F. H. Thurston ...... ^1-25
Total expenditures ..... $246.25
Amount transferred to reserved fund . . . 53-75
$300.00
Women's Aid and Relief Hospital.
Appropriation . $600.00
Expenditures.
Paid Women's Aid and Relief Hospital, amount ap-
propriated for hospital purposes .... $600.00
Free Beds, Elliot Hospital.
Appropriation . . . . . * . . $600.00
Expenditures.
Paid Elliot Hospital, amount appropriated for free
beds ......... $600.00
Sacred Heart Hospital.
Appropriation $260.00
Expenditures.
Paid Sister M. Ursula, superior of Sacred Heart Hos-
pital ......... $260.00
750 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Decoration of Soldiers' Graves.
Appropriation
Transferred from reserved fund
$300.00
42.98
Paid Henry S. Perry, commander of Louis Bell Post
No. 3, G. A. R., for bills paid sundry persons for
expenditures incurred on Memorial Day, May 30,
1S93:
$342.98
Paid Frank H. Challis, 800 programs
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
425 postals .....
1,000 programs .....
Paid H. S. Perry, postal cards and postage
CARRIAGE HIRE.
Paid Whitten & Fifield, use of hack
George E. Wheeler, use of hack
F. X. Chenette, use of hack and
barge . .
Paid George W. Bailey :
Use of landau ...
Use of horse
Paid W. J. Freeman, use of hack
Manchester Street Railway, use of
special car .
George W. Reed, use of hack
E. V. Turcotte, use of hack .
C. W. Babbitt & Co., use of hack
Paid C. H. Simpson :
Use of hack ....
Use of horse and buggy
1-75
4.00
4-75
$4.00
6.50
4
00
2
50
4
00
•I
25
4
00
4
00
4
00
4
.00
I
•5°
$12.30
DECORATION OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES.
751
Paid C. C. Webster, use of barge .
Paid E. T. James;
Use of landau .....
Use of horse and wagon
Paid Kean & Doyle, use of hack
MUSIC AND SINGING.
Paid Manchester Drum Corps
Manchester Military Band
E. Parker French, services of quartet
Manchester War Veterans, drum
corps of Freschl Post
H. K. Slayton Drum Corps .
SUNDRIES.
Paid Hotel Windsor, board of orator i
day .....
W. E. Cobb, use of 20 settees
L. H. Josselyn, use and cartage of
chairs ....
H. E. Vaughan, moving settees
Freschl Post, openiAg South Main
street Congregational church
First Light Battery, powder, prim
ers, etc. ....
W. H. Richmond, painting flag-pole
H. S. Perry, bit stock and bit
John B. Varick Co., rope and tacks
Weston & Hill Co., 263} yards bunt
ing
H. S. Perry, 560 flags
Head & Dowst Co., labor and lum
ber on grand stand .
$5-5°
4.00
2.00
4.00
$10.00
75.00
8.00
15.00
S.oo
$2.50
3.00
5.10
1.50
10
25
3
00
I
.00
47
13
16
.S6
00
$65.25
;ii6.oo
33-45
$149-43
Total expenditures
$342.98
752
KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Militia.
Appropriation
3900.00
Expenditures.
Paid the following parties for maintenance of armo-
ries from February 12, 1893, to February 12,
1894:
Amoskeag Veterans . . . $100.00
City Guards 100.00
First Regiment, N. H. N. G. (band) 100.00
First Regiment Headquarters, N. H.
N. G. . . • ■ . 100.00
Lafayette Guards .... 100.00
Manchester Cadets . . . 100.00
Manchester War Veterans . . loo.co
Sheridan Guards .... 100.00
Upton Light Infantry . . 100.00
$900.00
Total expenditures
$900.00
Abatement of Taxes.
Appropriation
Balance from old account
$3,000.00
648.23
$3'648.23
Expenditures.
Paid sundry persons on taxes abated
Balance transferred to new account
$3>M5-io
503-13
$3>648.23
State Tax.
Appropriation
$65,615.
APPROPRIATIONS. 753
Expenditures.
Paid Solon A. Carter, state treasurer . . $65,615.00
County Tax.
Appropriation 561,076.55
Expenditures.
Paid Edwin F. Jones, county treasurer . . $61,076.55
Resolution Raising Money and Making Appropria-
tions for the Year 1893.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows :
That the sum of one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000) be
borrowed for the use of the city for the following permanent mu-
nicipal improvements :
Forty thousand dollars for building new public drains and
sewers; fifteen thousand dollars for building new streets and
highways ; five thousand dollars for the development and im-
provement of Derryfield and Stark parks ; and forty thousand
dollars for building Second-street bridge ; and that the joint
standing committee on finance are hereby authorized to issue the
bonds of the city for said amount of one hundred thousand dol-
lars, payable January i, 19 13, with interest coupons attached, for
the payment of interest semi-annually at four per cent. Said
bonds to be signed by the city treasurer and countersigned by
the mayor. Said bonds to be sold to the highest responsible
bidder upon a call issued by the joint standing committee on
finance for bids.
Eesolved, further. That for the purpose of providing for the
redemption of said bonds and of any additional bonds which
754
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
may hereafter be issued by the city of Manchester under author-
ity from the legislature of the state of New Hampshire, in an act
passed January session, 1893, entitled "An act establishing a
board of street and park commissioners for the city of Manches-
ter, and authorizing said city to issue bonds for certain pur-
poses," a fund is hereby established to be called the City of
Manchester Municipal Improvement Loan and Sinking Fund,
to which there shall annually be paid at least five per cent of the
amount of bonds at that time issued, which five per cent shall
annually be raised by taxation in like manner as ordinary taxes.
Said sinking fund to be held inviolate for the redemption of said
loan, and to be invested and reinvested in such manner as the
city councils shall from time to time determine.
Resolved, further, That the sum of five hundred and two thou-
sand, seven hundred and fifty-one and fifty-five hundredths dol-
lars ($502,751.55) be raised for the use of the city for the year
1893 by tax on the polls and estates liable to be taxed thereon,
which sum, together with the one hundred thousand dollars to be
borrowed as above provided, and with such unappropriated
money as may be now in the city treasury or may hereafter come
into it, shall be appropriated as follows:
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Interest
Payment df funded debt
Reserved fund
City hall . . .
Printing and stationery
Incidental expenses
Mayor's incidentals
City officers' salaries
Auditor's department .
524,500.00
5,000.00
20,000.00
2,100.00
2,200.00
15,000.00
300.00
16,000.00
2,000.00
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTMENT.
Highway District No.
$400.00
12,000.00
APPROPRIATIONS.
755
Highway District No. 3
$300.00
" 4
500.00
" 5
Soo.oo
- << 6
600.00
" 7
1,800.00
" 8
1,000.00
" 9
500.00
" " " 10
5,000.00
" " II
1,000.00
" " "12
200.00
New highways
15,000.00
Land taken for highways
12,000.00
Watering streets .
3,500.00
Paving streets
7,500.00
Macadamizing streets .
18,000.00
Grading for concrete .
5,500.00
Scavenger teams .
14,000.00
Street sweeping
1,200.00
Lighting streets .
42,000.00
Bridges
3,000.00
City teams .
6,000.00
Sewers and drains
40,000.00
Widening Ehii street
2,000.00
Second-street bridge
40,000.00
Engineer's Department
$4,300.00
Health Department .
$3,000.00
SCHOOL department.
Repairs of schoolhouses $5,500.00
Fuel
4,800.00
Furniture and supplies ....
700.00
Books and stationery .
300.00
Printing and advertising
350.00
Contingent expenses .
1,800.00
Care of rooms
4,300.00
756
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Evening schools
$1,200.00
Teachers' salaries
60,000.00
Manual training
1,200.00
Evening school mechanical drawing
600.00
Free text-books ......
4,000.00
City Library
$4,300.00
fireI
Fire department
. $45,000.00
Fire-alarm telegraph
1,400.00
Hydrant service
12,750.00
Firemen's parade ......
500.00
Aerial truck ......
3,500.00
Police Department
$40,000.00
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Repairs of buildings
$3,500.00
Addition to city farm buildings
2,000.00
Ward room, ward 5
3,000.00
Schoolhouse and lot, ward 3 .
10,000.00
New schoolhouse, ward 9 . . . .
5,000,00
Hallsville schoolhouse
4,500.00
Addition Webster street ....
5,000,00
W. M. Fulton engine-house ....
9,500.00
Repairs Vine-street hook-and-ladder house
1,500.00
Land for engine-house, ward 3 . . .
1,200.00
Hosehouse, South Manchester
2,500.00
PUBLIC PLACES.
Commons .......
$3,500.00
Stark and Derryfield parks ....
5,000.00
Amoskeag cemetery .....
550.00
Goffe's Falls cemetery
100.00
Pine Grove cemetery
9,000.00
Valley cemetery
3,000.00
APPROPRIATIONS.
757
PATRIOTIC, CHARITABLE, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Paupers off the farm
$5,000.00
City farm .
7,000.00
Indigent soldiers .
300.00
Women's Aid Hospital
600.00
Free beds, Elliot Hospital
600.00
Sacred Heart Hospital .
260.00
Decoration of soldiers' graves
300.00
Militia ....
900.00
TAXES.
Abatement of taxes '. $3,000.00
State taxes ........ 65,615.00
County taxes 61,076.55
^733>9oi-55
ESTIMATED RECEIPTS FOR THE YEAR.
Amount to be raised by tax ..... $502,751.55
Insurance tax
4,000.00
Railroad tax
25,000.00
Savings bank tax .
76,000.00
Literary fund
5,000.00
City hall
3,000.00
Tuition
400.00
Police department
8,500.00
Pine Grove cemetery .
4,500.00
Valley cemetery .
1,200.00
County of Hillsborough
1,500.00
City farm
1,700.00
Interest on taxes .
350.00
$633,901.55
Bonds ....
$100,000.00
758
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
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VALUATION AND TAXES.
Assessors' Oath.
759
We, the Assessors of the City of Manchester, do solemnly
swear that in making the invoice for the purpose of assessing the
foregoing taxes, we appraised all taxable property at its full
value, and as we would appraise the same in payment of a just
debt due from a solvent debtor.' So help us Gad.
Valuation and Taxes.
The amount of taxes assessed on the polls and on
personal estate, within the city of Manchester, N.
year 1893, was as follows :
Valuation. Rate per $1,000.
Real estate . . $22,671,276 ^18.50
Personal property . 3,584,966
Overlay ........
$26,256,242
No. of polls, 11,835 i)iS3,5oo $18.50
Totals . . $27,439,742
The share distributed to Manchester of the
amount of the tax assessed, as per returns made
by the corporations to state treasurer :
On railroads .
On savings banks .
On insurance companies .
On literary fund
Grand tax total
Appropriated and assessed in 1S93 for city ap-
propriation ......
Appropriated and assessed in 1893, fo"" ^'^^'^^ tax
Appropriated and assessed in 1893, for county
tax ....... .
the real and
H., for the
Tax.
$419,418.60
66,321.87
5-50
$485-745-97
21,894.71
$507,640.68
$25,743-05
82,644.77
4,900.50
6.940.42
$627,869.42
$486,060.00
65,615.00
61,076.55
760
Overlay *
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
$i5'ii7-87
Grand tax total $627,869.42
For further information in relation to taxes collected by the
state, see State Treasurer's Report.
TABLE OF TAXES DUE AND UNCOLLECTED.
YEAR.
Due June 1, 1893,
assessed in 1893.
11
li
1
1
■ s
s
Q
T'.i-vwiii nf Ift.S'i
$1,205.71
1,264.85
1,163.94
1,582.63
1,402.73
1,719.40
2,236.83
i 32,139.65 (
] 727.94 i
507,640.68
$1,205.71
Taxes Of 1SS6
1,163.94
1 580 13
^a-ma r\f l>ifi«s .
$2.50
5.70
26.. 59
161.51
26,613.58
455,636.94
1,397.03
1,692.81
" 075 'i'^
Taxes of 1891
Taxes of 1892
$3,221.19
947.29
3,032 82
51,056.45
Totals
$551,084.36
$4,168.48
$462,446.82
$64,469.06
TAX VALUATIONS, ETC., FROM 1890 TO 1893, INCLUSIVE.
Year.
Valuation.
Taxes.
No. polls.
Poll tax.
VaLofpoll
$24,207,740
24,872,492
25,932,044
27,439,742
$462,869.17
443,541.76
.506,465.17
507,640.68
9,723
10,367
10,673
11,835
$1.91
1.78
1.95
1.85
$100
1891
lOO
1892
100
100
For years prior to 1890, see reports of 1890 and 1891.
* This ovei'lay consists of $4,889.13, assessed by the local assessors under
the provisions of General Laws, chapter 57, section 4; and the sum of $10,-
228.74, in the amount received from railroads, banks, insurance companies,
and literary fund above the amount estimated by the city councils.
ACCOUNT OF GEORGE E. MORRILL, COLLECTOR.
761
Settlement of Account of George E. Morrill, Tax Col-
lector for City of Manchester, N. H., June 1 , 1 893.
Amount out- Balance out-
standing June Collected, standing June
1, 1892.
1, 1893.
Tax list, 1S85
$1,205.71
$1,205.71
1886
1,264.85
1,264.85
1887
1,163.94
1,163.94
1S88
1,582.63
§2.50
1,580.13
1889
1,402.73
5-7°
1,397-03
1890
1,719.40
26.59
1,692.81
1891
2,236.83
161.51
2,075.32
§196.30
Credited by cash,
as pel
treasurer's re-
ceipt No. 61 .
1889
196.30
Interest collected,
$1.92
1890
536
1891
13.60
1892
550-93
Granite State Tru
st Co., interest on
deposit .
56-52
$628.33
Credited by cash,
as per
treasurer's re-
ceipt No. 62 .
628.33
Dr.
1892. To resident list, including
dog tax . . . $505,310.55
non-resident list . . 1,154.62
voluntary taxes . . 727.94
$507,193.11
762 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Cr.
1892. By cash paid city treasurer,
as per receipts . $439,862.55
cash paid, as per county
treasurer's receipt . 61,076.55
abatements . . . 3,221.19
unpaid taxes, June i, '93 3,032.82
$507,193-11
City of Manchester to George E. Morrill.
Dr.
To salary for year ending June i, '93 $1,650.00
commission on old taxes . . ii-55
;i, 661.55
Cr.
By cash paid by treasurer, on ac-
count of salary . . . $800.00
balance paid by treasurer, as per
bill 861.55
— $1,661.55
Manchester, N. H., June 3, 1893.
I hereby certify that I have examined the account of George
E. Morrill, tax collector of said Manchester, and find the same
correct, as above stated.
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
EXEMPTIONS FROM TAXATION. 763
Some Laws and Decisions Relating to Exemptions
from Taxation.
Constitution of New Hampshire, Article 82, Page 38,
Public Statutes.
encouragement of literature, etc.
Article 82. "Knowledge and learning generally diffused
through a community being essential to the preservation of a free
government, and spreading the opportunities and advantages of
education through the various parts of the country being highly
conducive to promote this end, it shall be the duty of the legisla-
tors and magistrates, in all future periods of this government, to
cherish the interest of literature and the sciences, and all semina-
ries and public schools ; to encourage private and public institu-
tions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture,
arts, sciences, commerce, trades, manufactures, and natural his-
tory of the country ; to countenance and inculcate the principles
of humanity and general benevolence, public and private charity,
industry and economy, honesty and punctuality, sincerity, sobri-
ety, and all social affections and generous sentiments among the
people ; provided, nevertheless, that no money raised by taxation
shall ever be granted or applied for the use of the schools or
instituti^s of any religious sect or denomination."
Public Statutes, chapter 55, section 2.
Section 2. " Real estate, whether improved or unimproved,
and whether owned by residents or others, is liable to be taxed,
except houses of public worship, twenty-five hundred dollars of
the value of parsonages owned by religious societies and occupied
by their pastors, schoolhouses, seminaries of learning, real estate
of the United States, state, or town used for public purposes, and
almshouses on county farms."
Section ii. "Towns may by vote exempt from taxation for
a term not exceeding ten years any manufacturing establishment
proposed to be erected or put in operation therein, and the capi-
764 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
tal to be used in operating the same, unless such establishment
has been previously exempted from taxation by some tovvni"
OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT.
58 N. H. Rep. page 623. "The exemption in each case is
limited to ten years. A perpetual alienation of the whole power
of taxation would be the destruction of government ; and the
dangerous tendency of legislation suspending any part of that
power, for any period, is manifest. P. Bank v. Billings^ 4 Pet.
514, 561. So long as the existing laws remain unrepealed, and
the constitutional construction heretofore adopted remains un-
changed, contracts hereafter made under those laws and that
construction will be valid. If the legislature for any reason wish
to prevent the making of any more such contracts, their object
can be accomplished by a repeal of the laws authorizing them."
Hospitals, etc., are exempt from taxation in their respective
charters as " being of the nature of a public charity," as follows :
Gale Home for Aged and Destitute Women, N. H. Laws of
1889, chapter 199.
Elliot Hospital, N. H. Laws of 1881, chapter 178.
Manchester Women's Aid and Relief Society, organized in
January, 1875 J N- H. Laws, 1891, chapter 283.
Orphanage and Home for Old Ladies (Catholic) on Hanover
street, N. H. Laws, 1883, chapter 56.
Schedule of Property used for Religious, Charitable
and Educational Purposes, and Exempt from Tax-
ation by Law, not including that Owned by the City
of Manchester.
98. Convent, Sisters Jesus Mary, French Catholic ;
East Spruce street, near Beech :
Building gio.000.00
13,000 square feet of land . . 2,600.00
?;i2,6oo.oo
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 765
io8. Convent, Sisters of Mercy, Catholic ; 415 Un-
ion street, corner Laurel :
Building ..... $30,000.00
12,600 square feet of land . . 6,300.00
$36,300.00
96. Mount St. Mary's Academy, Catholic ; from
convent lot east to Beech street :
Building ..... $25,000.00
31,500 square feet of land . . 9,450.00
$34,450-00
Lot south side Laurel street, corner Union street.
Catholic ; McDonald school :
Building . . . . . $35,000.00
10,800 square feet of land . . 5,000.00
?4o,ooc.oo
107. Hospital of the Sacred Heart and Old Ladies'
Home, Catholic ; Amherst and Hanover streets :
Building ..... $8,000.00
40,500 square feet of land . . 30,375.00
$38,375-00
106. St. Patrick's Orphan Asylums, Catholic ; 184
Hanover street :
Building ..... $35,000.00
40,500 square feet of land . . 40,500.00
$75,500.00
105. St. Joseph's High School, Catholic ; Lowell
street, corner of Birch :
Building ..... $12,000.00
8,000 square feet of land . . 8,000.00
$20,000.00
97. Union-street school. Catholic ; corner Union
and Laurel streets :
Building ..... $4,000.00
5,000 square feet of land . . 2,500.00
$6,500.00
766 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
109. St. Agnes' school, Catholic ; corner Cedar and
Pine streets :
Building ... . . $12,000.00
20,000 square feet of land . . 3,200.00
$15,200.00
103. St. Joseph's school for girls, Catholic ; corner
Pine and Lowell streets :
Building ..... $io,oco.oo
Land included in cathedral lot . $10,000.00
99. Convent of the Holy Angels, French Catholic ;
Beauport street, corner Wayne, West Manchester :
Building ..... «5i5,ooo.oo
22,500 square feet of land . . 4,500.00
$19,500.00
Orphanage school, Beauport, Wayne, and Putnam
streets ; French Catholic :
Building ..... $5,000.00
30,000 square feet of land . . 6,000.00
$11,000.00
100. St. Augustine's academy, French Catholic ;
corner Beech and Spruce streets :
Building ..... $8,000.00
15,000 square feet of land . . 4,500.00
$12,500.00
loi. St. Mary's parochial school, French Catholic ;
corner Wayne and Cartier streets :
Building ..... $12,000.00
25,000 square feet of land . . 2,000.00
$14,000.00
114. Residence priest St. Augustine's church, French
Catholic ; No. 383 Beech street :
Building ..... $6,000.00
7,500 square feet of land . . 1,875.00
$7,875.00 $2,500.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 767
113. Residence priest St. Anne's church, Catholic;
No. 231 Merrimack street :
Building $5,000.00
8,820 square feet of land . . 2,646.00
$7,646.00 $2,500.00
III. Residence Catholic bishop; No. 145 Lowell
street :
Building $40,000.00
24,000 square feet of land . . 12,000.00
$52,000.00 $2,500.00
115. Residence priest St. George's church, French
Catholic ; Orange street, corner Pine :
Building $2,500.00
10,000 square feet of land . 4,000.00
$6,500.00 $2,500.00
112. Residence priest St. Mary's church, French
Catholic ; 376 Beauport street, West Manchester :
Building $2,500.00
5,000 square feet of land . . 1,000.00
$3,500.00 $2,500.00
92. St. Anne's church, Catholic ; Union street, cor-
ner Merrimack :
Building ..... $30,000.00
10,180 square feet of land . . 5,090.00
$35'09o-oo
no. St. Augustine's church, French Catholic ; Beech
street, corner East Spruce :
Building .... $28,000.00
13,000 square feet of land . 3,250.00
$31,250.00
768 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
91. St. Joseph's cathedral and chapel, Catholic;
Pine street, corner Lowell ;
Building ..... $70,000.00
40,000 square feet of land 30,375.00
$100,375.00
93. St. Mary's church, Freich Catholic ; Beauport
street, corner Wayne, West Manchester :
Building ..... $25,000.00
70,000 square feet of land . 14,000.00
$39,000.00
102. St. Raphael's church and school, German Cath-
olic ; Third street, corner Ferry, West Manchester:
Building ..... $35,000.00
8,000 square feet of land . . 3,400.00
$38,400.00
94. St. George's church, French Catholic ; Pine
street, corner Orange :
Building ..... $75,000.00
18,690 square feet of land . . 7,614.00
$82;6i4.oo
95. St. Patrick's church and school. Catholic ; Kel-
ley street, Cartier street, and Cooledge avenue :
School building .... $20,000.00
56,281 square feet of land . 4,502.00
$24,502.00
60. First Baptist church ; Union street, corner Con-
cord :
Building ..... $28,000.00
11,250 square feet of land . 6,750.00
$34750.00
62. First Freewill Baptist church ; Merrimack street,
corner Chestnut :
Building ..... $12,400.00
12,600 square feet of land . . 12,600.00
$25,000.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 769
6i. Second Baptist church ; Merrimack street, near
Pine :
Building ..... 59,000.00
9,450 square feet of land . . 3,780.00
— $12,780.00
63. People's Baptist church ; Chestnut street, cor-
ner Concord :
Building ..... $8,000.00
3,200 square feet of land . . 2,000.00
$10,000.00
67. First Congregational church ; Hanover street,
corner Union :
Building ..... $30,000.00
43,200 square feet of land . 34,560.00
$64,560.00
68. Second Congregational church ; Market street,
corner Franklin :
Building ..... $25,000.00
19,000 square feet of land . 19,000.00
$44,000.00
66. Third Congregational church; South Main street,
corner Milford, West Manchester :
Building . ... $8,000.00
23,000 square feet of land . 3,000 00
$11,000.00
74. First M. E. church ; Valley street, corner Jew-
ett :
Building . . • . . . $8,000.00
11,400 square feet of land . 1,000.00
$9,00000
72. St. Paul's M. E. church ; Union street, corner
Amherst :
Building ..... $25,000.00
10,010 square feet of land . . 6,000.00
$31,000.00
770 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
73. St. James's M. E. church ; Pennacook street,
corner Pine :
Building ..... $9,000.00
11,000 square feet of land . . 2,200.00
$11,200.00
86. Grace church, Episcopal ; Lowell street, corner
Pine:
Building ..... $20,000.00
9,300 square feet of land . . 6,975.00
$26,975.00
85. First Unitarian church ; Concord street, corner
Beech :
Building ..... $24,000.00
13,500 square feet of land . . 6,000.00
$30,000.00
87. First Universalist church ; Lowell street, near
Elm:
Building ..... $17,000.00
10,000 square feet of land . . 15,000.00
$32,000.00
64. Christian church, Protestant ; Pine street, cor-
ner Merrimack :
Building ..... $6,000.00
9,000 square feet of land . . 6,700.00
$12,700.00
81. First Presbyterian church, German; Second
street, corner Bath, West Manchester :
Building ..... $3,000.00
10,000 square feet of land . . 2,500.00
$5,500.00
79. Swedish Lutheran church, Protestant ; Sagamore
street, corner Pine :
Building ..... $7,500.00
10,950 square feet of land . . 2,000.00
$9,500.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 771
82. Swedish Baptist church ; Arlington street, near
Maple :
Building $5,000.00
4,432 square feet of land . . 1,100.00
$6,100.00
Second Advent church ; Amherst street, between
Pine and Union :
Building $5,100.00
4,500 square feet of land . . 3,375-oo
65. City Mission chapel, Protestant; Merrimack
street, corner of Beech :
Building $7,000.00
12,600 square feet of land . . 6,000.00
,4;5.oo
;i3,ooo.oo
80. Westminster Presbyterian church ; Brook street,
corner Hazel :
Building ..... $15,000.00
10,000 square feet of land . . 2,500.00
$17,500.00
70. South Manchester Union chapel, Protestant ;
Elm street, south :
Building ..... $2,500.00
10,747 square feet of land . . 1,000.00
$3,500,00
Episcopal Mission church ; North Main street, cor-
ner School, West Manchester :
Building ..... $3,500.00
19,412 square feet of land . . 4,000.00
$7,500.00
76. Residence pastor St. Paul's M. E. church ; Un-
ion street, ftear Amherst :
Building ..... $3,000.00
$2,500.00
772 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
71. Residence pastor First Congregational church ;
No. 590 Beech street, near Bridge :
Building ..... $5,000.00
8,100 square feet of land . . 2,400.00
$2,500.00
$7,400.00
88. Residence pastor Grace Episcopal church ; cor-
ner Harrison and Union streets :
Building ..... $6,000.00
15,000 square feet of land . . 3,750.00
$2,500.00
$9,750.00
German School Society ; Third, Bath, and Ferry
streets :
Building ..... $4,500.00
10,187 square feet of land . . 2,500,00
$7,000.00
89. Elliot Hospital, Protestant ; East Manchester :
Building ..... $23,000.00
Land ...... 7,000.00
$30,000.00
Elliot Hospital lot ; Hanover street, corner Chestnut :
Building $3,000.00
Land ...... 13,000.00
$16,000.00
Elliot Hospital :
Land and buildings. Main street . $4,000.00
Land and building, Quincy street 2,500.00
$6,500.00
90. Women's Aid and Relief Hospital ; Pearl street,
corner Beech :
Building ..... $15,000.00
57,530 square feet of land . . 10,000.00
$25,000.00
RECAPITULATION. 773
T i6. Manchester Children's Home ; Webster street :
Building ..... $20,000.00
55,000 square feet of land . . 2,500.00
117. Residence pastor Swedish Lutheran church;
Sagamore street, corner Pine :
Building ..... $3,000.00
10,200 square feet of land . . 1,020.00
$4,020.00
Gale Home :
One half Manchester Bank block.
Elm street .... $38,000.00
One half Martin's block, Elm street 25,000.00
Land and building. Pearl street,
corner Ash .... 25,000.00
522,500.00
$2,500.00
$88,000.00
Recapitulation.
EXEMPT FROM TAXATION.
Church property, Catholic . . $356,729.00
Convent property, Catholic . . 68,400.00
Parochial residences, Catholic . 12,500.00
Parochial schools, Catholic . . 158,152.00
Hospitals and other charitable insti-
tutions ..... 113,875.00
$709,656.00
Church property, Protestant . . $426,040.00
Parochial residences, Protestant . 10,000.00
Private school property, Protestant . 7,000.00
Hospitals and other charitable insti-
tutions ..... 188,000.00
$631,040.00
TAXABLE.
Land and buildings. Catholic . $65,021.00
Land and buildings, Protestant . 14,170.00
$79,191.00
11,419,887.00
774
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775
TABULAR STATEMENT OF BONDED DEBT, CITY OF MAN-
CHESTER, N. H., FROM JAN. 1 TO DEC. 31, 1893.*
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$200,000
200,000
300,000
300,000
$13,850
18,850
20,000
26,000
$120,000
$60,00(1
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120,000
120,000
60,000
60,000
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$100,000
$100,000
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on which inter-
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Amount of 6 per
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on which inter-
est has ceased,
not yet present-
ed for payment.
$155,000
155,000
155,000
155,000
$948,850
953,850
955,000
1,261,100
$99,900t
100
99,900
65,500
$100,000
$948,850
953,850
955,000
1,195,600
$100
100,000
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$100,000
$4,500
100
Remarks. — The city guarantees the perpetual care of lots in
the cemeteries of the city to parties who pay $ioo and upward.
There are ^20,000 in cemetery bonds, so called, not negotiable,
in the hands of the city treasurer, which are included in the
$1,191,000..
* $70,000, issued October 31, 1863, are paid; $100,000 issued July 1, 1893, im-
provement bonds, 4 per cent; $100,000 issued August 1, 1893, water bonds, 5
per cent; $100,000 issued November 1, 1S93, water bonds, 4J^ per cent.
t $400,000 water bonds, issued January 1, 1872; $100,000 of these bonds refund-
ed January 1, 1887; $100,000 re-funded January 1, 1892.
X $200,000 water bonds, issued July 1, 1874; $100,000 of these bonds re-funded
July 1, 1890
§ $2,200 cemetery bonds, issued in 1884, and other additional bonds each year.
The city guarantees the perpetual care of lots in the cemeteries. Bonds
payable July 1, 1913.
776 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Total amount of bonded debt, includins^ ceme-
tery bonds ....... $1,191,000.00
Net indebtedness for water purposes . . 800,000.00
Net debt after deducting water debt . $391,000.00
As shown in the assessors' books for the year 1S93 :
The assessed vakie of personal property, inchid-
ing poll tax. $4,827,142.00
The assessed value of real estate . . . 22,612,600.00
Total value for taxation . . . $27,439,742.00
Tax rate, 1.85 per cent on a hundred.
Per cent of net indebtedness (excluding debt for
water purposes) to assessed valuation . . 1-429
Per cent of net indebtedness (including debt for
water purposes) to assessed valuation . . 4-344
Population, census of 1890 .... 43>983
Population, census of 1880 . . . . 32,458
Increase of population in ten years . ii,c^2^
Increase of population in 1891 (estimated at) . IjSoo
Increase of population in 1892 (estimated at) . 2,517
Increase of population in 1893 (estimated at) . 2,000
No issue of bonds has ever been contested.
The interest on the debt has alw,ays 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.
A sinking fund was established in 1893.
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, chap-
ter 70, New Hampshire Laws of 1871, entitled " An act to ena-
ble the city of Manchester to establish water-works," except as
further extended by
LAWS RELATING TO WATER SUPPLY. 777
Laws of New Hampshire, 1 89 1 .
CHAPTER 26.
An Act to Preserve the Purity of the Water Supply of the City
of Manchester.
Section 2. The board of water commissioners of the city of
Manchester is hereby authorized to purchase for and in the name
of said city of Manchester, such land surrounding Lake Massabe-
sic, and along any stream tributary thereto, as said board shall
deem necessary for the preservation of the purity of the water of
said Lake Massabesic, from which the water supply of said city
of Manchester for domestic purposes is taken ; and the action of
said board in making any such purchase shall be binding upon
said city of Manchester ; and in case said board shall not be
able to secure, on satisfactory terms, by purchase, such land as
said board deems necessary for the purpose aforesaid, said board
may, in the name of said city of Manchester, apply to the county
commissioners of the county in which such land is situated, to
assess the damages to the owner of such land as said board de-
sires to acquire for the purpose aforesaid ; and said county com-
missioners shall proceed in the same manner as in the assessment
of damages for lands taken for public highways, and upon pay-
ment or tender to the owner of the sum assessed by said county
commissioners, the title to said land shall vest in said city of
Manchester ; and the same right of appeal from such award of
the county commissioners shall exist as in the case of lands taken
for highways by the action of said commissioners.
And still further by chapter 183, Laws of 1893 :
An Act in amendment of the Act passed June session, 1871,
entitled "An Act to enable the City of Manchester to Estab-
lish Water-works," and in amendment of all acts passed subse-
quently thereto, relating to said Water-works.
778 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Gen-
eral Court convened :
Section i. The city of Manchester is hereby authorized to
levy taxes or borrow money, not exceeding in the whole the sum
of three hundred thousand dollars in addition to the amount it is
now authorized to raise or borrow, for the construction of water-
works, for the purpose of constructing a high-service system of
water-works, and o^ maintaining and extending the present sys-
tem of water-works in said city, and to issue the notes, bonds, or
obligations of the city therefor, payable at such times 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 bind-
ing on said city.
Sect. 2. The board of water commissioners of the city of
Manchester is hereby authorized to construct a high-service sys-
tem of water-works, and to purchase for and in the name of said
city, such lands and water rights as they shall deem necessary for
such high-service system and the extension of the present system
of water-works in said city, including the right to lay and main-
tain pipes where required, and for increasing the supply of water
for said systems, and for preserving the purity of the water there-
for, and the action of said board in doing said work and making
such purchases shall be binding on said city ; and in case said
board shall not be able to secure on satisfactory terms, by pur-
chase, such lands or water rights as the board may deem neces-
sary for the purposes aforesaid, said board may, in the name of
said city, apply to the county commissioners of the county in
which such property is situated, to assess the damages to the owner
of such property as said water commissioners desire to acquire for
the purposes aforesaid ; and the county commissioners shall pro-
ceed in the same manner as in the assessment of damages for
lands taken for public highways, and upon payment or tender to
the owner of the sum so assessed the title to such property shall
vest in said city. The same right of appeal from such award
shall exist as in the case of lands taken for highways by the ac-
tion of the county commissioners.
Sect. 3, All money received on account of the water-works
LAWS RELATING TO WATER SUPPLY. 779
shall be paid weekly, or oftener, into the city treasury, and a
receipt taken therefor, and shall be placed to the credit of the
water-works, and shall not be paid out except under the provi-
sions of the following section :
Sect. 4. All bills for expenditures for the water-works shall
be approved by the board of water commissioners, or by some
person designated by them, examined by the city auditor, and
allowed by the committee on accounts before they are paid by
the treasurer. But this provision shall not apply to the payment
of the interest coupons of the water-loan bonds, and the said
coupons shall be orders on the treasurer for the payment of the
interest on the days on which the same shall become due.
Sect. 5. The sums paid by the city for water, for fire and
other purposes, shall be charged to the proper appropriation and
credited to the water-works, and the said city shall annually pay
the sum of twenty-five dollars for each fire hydrant which it
maintains, and this sum shall be credited to the water-works ;
and the money so credited annually shall be held inviolate as a
sinking fund for the liquidation of the water-loan bonds from
time to time, under such regulations as the board of water com-
missioners and the city councils shall deem to be for the interest
of the city.
Sect. 6. The board of water commissioners is authorized to
determine and establish from time to time, a tariff of water rates ;
and when the receipts therefrom shall exceed the expenditures
for maintenance, extensions, and current expenses of the water-
works (including expenditures for lands or water rights taken or
purchased by the commissioners), and the interest on the water-
loan bonds, the commissioners shall readjust the water rates so
that the receipts shall be equal, as nearly as practicable, to the
expenditures enumerated above.
Sect. 7. The board of water commissioners shall receive a
reasonable compensation for their services, payable annually.
Sect. 8. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act
are hereby repealed, and this act shall take effect upon its pas-
780
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781
STATEMENT OF THE ANNUAL INTEREST CHARGE ON THE BONDED
DEBT.
YEAR.
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1890
$27,000
24,000
18,000
18,000
$6,000
8,000
12,000
12,000
$623.75
813.92
1,000.00
1,041.66
$7,200
7,200
7,200
7,200
$2,400
2,400
2,400
2,400
$6,200
6,200
6,200
6,200
$49,423.75
1893
46,841.66
SUMMARY OF CITY DEBT.
Amount of bonded debt January i, 1893
Amount of cemetery bonds issued in 1893 •
Amount of water bonds issued in 1893
Amount of improvement bonds issued in 1893
Accrued interest on bonded debt
Amount of bonds paid in 1893 .
Total irdebtedness January i, 1894
$955,100.00
6,000.00
200,000.00
100,000.00
18,750.00
$1,279,850.00
65,500.00
^1,214,350.00
* $400,000 water bonds, issued January 1, 1872; $100,000 re-funded at 4 per
cent, January 1, 1887; and $100,000 re-funded at 4 per cent, January 1, 1892.
t $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, and have been paid in part.
$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 the ceme-
teries.
Bonds payable July, 1913, to the trustees of cemetery funds; not negotiable,
Amount that can be issued limited to the sum of $70,000.
782 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Net cash on hand January i, 1894 . . §116,775.46
Taxes uncollected, list of 1893 .... 51,056.45
Stock of Suncook Valley Railroad, estimated value 14,500.00
$182,331.91
BONDED DEBT,
Total net indebtedness January i, 1894 . . $1,032,018.09
Total net indebtedness January I, 1893 . 832,933.17
Increase ....... $199,084.92
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VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 785
Valuation of Real Estate Owned by the City.
High School, Beech street, corner Lowell :
Building ..... $40,000.00
59,400 square feet of land . . 17,820.00
$57,820.00
Franklin-street school, Franklin street, corner
Pleasant :
Building ..... $16,000.00
19,200 square feet of land . . 19,200.00
Spring-street school. Spring street :
Building ..... $13,000.00
13,600 square feet of land . 13,600.00
Lincoln-street school, Lincoln street, corner Merri-
mack :
Building ..... $45,000.00
40,000 square feet of land . . 8,000.00
Ash-street school. Ash street, corner Bridge :
Building ..... $50,000.00
57,537 square feet of land . . 17,262.00
$35,200.00
$26,600.00
$53,000.00
$67,262.00
Main-street school, North Main street, West Man-
chester :
Building ..... $6,00000
40,293.4 square feet of land . . 10,073.00
;i6,o
Webster-street school, Webster street :
Building $32,500.00
55,714^ square feet of land . 13,928.00
73.00
$46,428.
Blodget-street school, Blodget street :
Building .'.... $1,500.00
9,000 square feet of land . . 3,600.00
786 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Schoolhouse lot, Bridge street, corner Union :
10,000 square feet of land .... $5,000.00
Lowell-street school, Lowell street, corner Chest-
nut :
Building ..... $1,000.00
9,000 square feet of land . . 9,000.00
SIO.OOO.OO
Merri mack-street school, Merrimack street, corner
Union :
Building ..... $15,000.00
12,600 square feet of land . . 6,300.00
$21,300.00
Wilson Hill school, Manchester street, corner Wil-
son :
Building ..... $500.00
15,850 square feet of land . . 1,902.00
$2,402.00
School-street school. School street, West Manchester :
Building ..... $1,000.00
12,176 square feet of land . . 3.044.00
$4,044.00
South Main-street school, South Main street, West
Manchester :
Building ..... $500.00
13,650 square feet of land . . 2,047.00
^2,547.00
Bakersville school, Elm street, south :
Building ..... $10,000.00
24, 184 square feet of land . . 3,628.00
$13,628.00
Stark District school, River road, north :
Building ..... $1,000.00
43,560 square feet of land . . 100.00
$1,100.00
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 787
Amoskeag school, Front street, Amoskeag :
Building $1,500.00
6,000 square feet of land . . i. 000.00
$2,500.00
Lot, corner Amory and Dubuque streets, for school
purposes :
16,600 square feet of land .... $2,490.00
Goffe's Falls school, Goffe's Falls :
Building $4,000.00
47,916 square feet of land . . 250.00
$4,250.00
$2,100.00
Harvey District school, Nutt road :
Building _
21,780 square feet of land .
$2,000.00
100.00
Webster Mills school, Webster Mills :
Building .....
5,445 square feet of land
$400.00
100.00
Old Hallsville school, East Manchester :
Building
30,075 square feet of land .
$500.00
3,008.00
Youngsville school, Youngsville :
Building
51,228 square feet of land .
$500.00
100.00
Mosquito Pond school. Mosquito Pond :
Building
10,890 square feet of land .
$400.00
100.00
$500.00
$3,508.00
$600.00
$500.00
Pearl-Street school :
Building (m process of erection.)
Land ...... . . $3,200.00
788 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Varney school, Bowman street, corner Mast, West
Manchester :
Building $43,750.00
Land ...... 6,700.00
55o>45o-oo
New Hallsville school, Jewett street, corner Young,
East Manchester :
Building ..... $29,800.00
44,000 square feet of land . . 3,300.00
$470,702.00
ENGINE-HOUSES.
Engine-house and stable, Central station. Vine
street :
Building ..... $31,800.00
21,718.86 square feet of land . 25,438.00
$57,238.00
Clinton-street engine-house, Clinton street, West
Manchester :
Building ..... $1,000.00
3,790 square feet of land . . 1,000.00
$2,000.00
North Main street engine-house, North Main street,
West Manchester :
Building ..... $18,000.00
11,819 square feet of land . 2,955.00
$20,955.00
Webster-street engine-house, Webster street, corner
Chestnut :
Building ..... $12,000.00
8,510 square feet of land . 2,180.00
$14,180.00
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 789
Merrimack engine-house, Lake avenue :
Building ..... $15,000.00
10,000 square feet of land . . 3,000.00
Hosehouse and cottage, Maple street, corner East
High :
Building ..... $3,000.00
18,330 square feet of land . . 3,666.00
$18,000.00
$6,666.00
Engine-house and ward room, ward 9, Rimmonand
Amory streets, West Manchester :
Building ..... $21,755.00
6,000 square feet of land . . 870.00
$22,625.00
Lot for hosehouse, South Manchester :
4,278 square feet of land .... $684.48
$142,348.48
OTHER PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND LOTS.
City library, Dean avenue, corner Franklin street :
Building ..... $35,000.00
15,000 square feet of land . . 30,000.00
City Hall, Elm street, corner Market :
Building ..... $10,000.00
100,000 square feet of land . . 150,000.00
$65,000.00
[60,000.00
City farm, Mammoth road :
Buildings . . ... . $5,000.00
46.66 acres, west Mammoth road 70,000.00
81.55 acres, east Mammoth road . 65,240.00
$140,240.00
' 790 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Court house, Franklin street, corner West Merri-
mack :
Building ..... $20,000.00
19,000 square feet of land . . 57,000.00
$77,000.00
Battery building, Manchester street :
Building ..... $13,000.00
3,400 square feet of land . 5,100.00
$18,100.00
Police station, Manchester street, corner Chestnut :
Building ..... $40,000.00
7,500 square feet of land . . 15,000.00
$55,000.00
Slayton lot, Manchester street :
Building ..... $300.00
2,908 square feet of land . . 4,700.00
$5,000.00
City stable and other buildings, Franklin street :
Building ..... $12,300.00
44,656 square feet of land . . 89,312.00
$101,612.00
City stable, district No. 10. . . . . . $1,000.00
City scales, Franklin street :
Building ...... . $300.00
Gravel lots, Goffstown :
2 acres ...... . $400.00
, Gravel lot, Bakersville, South Manchester . . $700.00
Gravel lot, district No. 10, bought of Brooks &
Brock (city has right to remove gravel until Au-
gust 25, 1903) :
li acres . $500.00
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 791
Land bought of A. D. Gooden :
28,750 square feet of land .... $1,351.00
Ward 5 ward room, land ..... ^i.ooo-oo
$627,203.00
PERSONAL PROPERTY OWNED BY THE CITY.
Property in care city engineer .... $1,149.00
in care chief engineer fire department 103,897.50
in care street and park commission 17.705.00
in care superintendent of schools . 3^,755-°o^
in care city messenger .... 2,759.00
in care city marshal and janitor . 1,971.00
in care superintendent of city farm 11,889.61
in care trustees city library . 29,333.00
in care superintendent of Pine Grove
cemetery ...... 248.35
in care superintendent Valley cemetery . ro6.oo
Stock in Suncook Valley Railroad, in care of city
treasurer ....... 50,000.00
Personal property in care city weigher . . i, 000. 00
$256,813.46
Uncollected taxes in 1892 ..... $3,032.82
Uncollected taxes in 1893 ..... 51,056.45
Net cash in the treasury, December 31, 1893 . 116,775.46
$170,864.73
OTHER REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY.
Soldiers' monument
Permanent inclosure of commons
Amoskeag bridge over Merrimack river
Fountains and water-troughs on streets and com
mons
Two city tombs ......
,^,25,000.00
10,200.00
25,000.00
3,500.00
10,000.00
792
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
McGregor bridge ...... $90,000.00
Granite bridge ....... 25,000.00
South Main-street bridge, over Piscataquog river . 10,000.00
Second-street bridge, over Piscataquog river . 52,036.06
Print-Works bridge, on Granite, over lower canal 5,000.00
Two bridges in highway district No. 9 . . 2,000.00
One bridge at Goffe's Falls .... 1,000.00
Expended on construction of sewers . . . 385,586.15
$644,322.21
PARKS AND CEMETERIES.
Valley cemetery, 19.7 acres
Pine Grove cemetery, about 86 acres
Amoskeag cemetery, 1.23 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 .
$200,000.00
42,300.00
4,340.00
9,000.00
25,000.00
200,000.00
40,000.00
100,000.00
60,000.00
200,000.00
$880,640.00
WATER- WORKS.
Real estate and personal property of water-works,
at cost price .......
$1,141,657.53
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 .
Uncollected taxes and cash
$470,702.00
627,203.00
142,348.48
1,141,657.53
256,813.46
170,864.73
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 793
Other real and personal property
Parks and cemeteries .
$644,322.21
880,640.00
^4,334-55i-4i
PROPERTY ACCOUNT.
Inventory of assets, December 31
Inventory of assets, December 31, 1892
1893
Gain in valuation
The increase in valuation as above stated
amount expended in 1893 °^^ •
Sewers and drains
Hallsville schoolhouse
Second-street bridge .
Land purchased for cemeteries
Pearl-street schoolhouse
Blacksmith shop, city stable
Engine-house and ward room, ward 9
Water-works, construction .
Webster-street schoolhouse .
Central station, engine-house
Slayton lot, Manchester street
City stable, district No, 10
Land, ward 5 ward room
Personal property, fire department
Increase in uncollected taxes
Increase in net cash in treasury
• $4,334,551-41
* 4,013,051-75
$321,499.66
results from the
»5i>392.i5
3,500.00
52,036.06
2,640.00
3,200.00
300.00
21,755.00
132,137.88
2,500.00
1,800.00
5,000 00
1,000.00
1,000.00
14,887.50
19,712.79
20,298.28
$333,159-66
Deduct loss of personal property \n charge of street
and park commission by reappraisement . 11,660.00
Total net gain ..... $321,499.66
Details of inventory are on file in the auditor's office. The
water-works would sell readily for $2,000,000, and are growing
*Error of .81,000 in last year's computation.
794 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
yearly more valuable to the city. The large increase in the re-
valuation of the public buildings and lands owned by the city is
fully warranted by the opening and improvement of Derryfield
park in the vicinity of the city farm lands, the high pressure ser-
vice now being introduced under the management of the water-
works, the facilities for travel furnished by the street railway,
and the rapid increase in our population and industries.
J. B. S.
Auditor's Office.
City Hall building. Open from 8 to 12 a. m., 2 to 5 p. m.;
7 to 9 p. M. on Thursday.
In every bill presented to the city auditor for his approval, the
following points will be considered and passed upon :
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 any 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
auditor's office, 795
amount of the work not yet completed, and the per cent re-
tained, if any, should be stated on the bill.
8. Any other inquiries in matters of law and fact which affect
the question of indebtedness before the auditor.
9. Approval, rejection, or suspension for further information
or correction as the circumstances of each case may require.
COURT DECISIONS, LEGAL POINTS AND RULES, RELATING TO THE
APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF CLAIMS AGAINST THE CITY.
No bill or account shall be paid by the city treasurer until the
auditor has approved it as correct.
Public trusts or powers devolved by law or charter on the city
councils cannot be delegated to others. Dillon s Municipal Cor-
porations^ section 96, volume i.
No member of either branch [of the city councils], except the
mayor, shall receive any compensation for his services, or shall
hold any office or agency created during his continuance in of-
fice. General Laws, chapter 46, section 13.
The executive powers of the city, except where vested in- the
mayor, shall be exercised by the mayor and aldermen. General
Laws, chapter 46, section 14.
The mayor and aldermen have all the powers and authority of
selectmen of towns unless it is otherwise provided by law. Gen-
eral Laws, chapter 46, section 14.
Joint standing committees have advisory powers only ; they
cannot legally be endowed with executive or legislative powers
by ordinance or resolution of the city councils, as 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 enter
into 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 pur-
chase of or contract with themselves, with any one of the board.
796 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
or with any firm of which one of said officials is a member.
Dillon' s Municipal Corporations, volume i, page 436, section 444.
Every bill against the city shall specify the particular appro-
priation to which the same should be charged, and the moneys
paid will be charged to such appropriations only.
He who is entrusted with the business of others cannot be al-
lowed to make such business a source of profit to himself.
All orders passed by the city councils authorizing a ministerial
act to be performed by its agent or agents must be strictly con-
strued, and the act to be done must be specifically stated.
The board of engineers have the authority of firewards. {Gen-
eral, laws, chapter 106, section 11.) They haveno power con-
ferred upon them by law or ordinance to purchase new apparatus
of any kind.
The joint standing committee on fire department have advis-
ory powers only.
The laws and ordinances require the city auditor to withhold
his signature from all bills against any appropriation where the
amount of the appropriation is expended, until the city council
shall have provided the means of paying the same. Section 4,
chapter 3 of the City Ordinances, and section 4, ordinances relat-
ing to duties of the city auditor, approved January 7, 1890.
The power of towns to raise and appropriate money is derived
solely from staturory 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 pre-
scribed by statute are void, and towns cannot be compelled, and
generally will not be permitted, to carry such votes into effect.
It is not left to the unrestricted and irresponsible discretion 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 property of a minority in an
unlimited manner. Gove v. Eppitig, 41 N. H. 539.
The following parties are authorized by law or ordinance to
make expenditures, within the scope of their powers, for their
respective departments : For fire department and fire-alarm tele-
auditor's office. 797
graph, the chief engineer, to be submitted monthly to the ap-
proval of the board of engineers ; for police department, city
marshal ; for police court, police judge ; for water-works depart-
ment, superintendent, subject to the rules of the board of com-
missioners and the ordinances relating thereto ; for city farm,
superintendent ; for overseers 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, street and park commissioners ; for city
clerk's office, treasurer's office, tax collector's office, assessors'
office, auditor's office, incidental expenditures, city physician,
city messenger, city solicitor, city engineer, — mayor ; for cem-
eteries, superintendents, subject to board of trustees (to consist
of citizens not members of the city councils) ; for health depart-
ment, board of health, subject to approval of mayor ; city
library, board of trustees or person designated by them. It may
be stated as a general rule, that all subordinate officials are under
the supervision and control of the mayor, subject to such limita-
tions and restrictions as the board of aldermen, acting as a
board, may require.
798
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
The following form of blank is used in payment of ordinary-
bills for supplies or services, and can be obtained at the city au-
ditor's office.
THE CITY OF MANCHESTER, N. H.
To Dt
Date.
Description of purchase.
Amount.
1
1
Received of the city treasurer 189 . the sum of
$ in full payment of the above account.
Signed
Appropriation for
I hereby certify that the articles
herein mentioned have been re-
ceived and services performed, that
they were necessary for, and have
been, or will be, applied to the
work covered by the appropriation
above mentioned, and the prices
charged are just and reasonable.
o
6 o
Approved.
Approved.
Mai/or.
Chairman Committee on-
« ;£ G
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III
SINKING FUND.
SINKING FUND.
Appropriation for the payment of improvement
bonds, due 1913 ...... $5,000.00
Receipts from hydrant service for the payment of
water-works bonded debt ..... 12,750.00
Total ........ $17,750.00
Treasurer's Report.
To the Trustees of the Sinking Fimd :
Gentlemen, — I herewith transmit to you the first annual re-
port of the receipts of this board for the year ending December
31. 1893:
From the appropriation for the payment of the im-
provement bonds, due January i, 1913 . $5,000.00
From the water-works receipts, for the payment of
water bonds ....... 12,750.00
Total receipts ...... $17,750.00
Most respectfully submitted,
SYLVANUS B. PUTNAM,
Treasurer.
This is to certify that I have examined the books of accounts
of Sylvanus B. Putnam, treasurer of the trustees of the sinking
fund, embracing the receipts of the year ending December 31,
1893, ^i^d find the same correct and properly vouched. I have
802
SINKING FUND.
also examined the securities in which said fund is invested and
find as follows :
FOR THE PAYMENT OF IMPROVEMENT BONDS.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H., 4 per cent,
January i, 1913 ....... $5,000.00
FOR THE PAYMENT OF WATER BONDS.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H., 4 per cent,
1913 ....
Cash on hand
Total bonds and casl
Grand total
Total sinking fund
$8,000.00
4,750.00
. $12,750.00
• $i7,75o-oo
■ $i7>75o-oo
JAMES B. STRAW,
City Auditor.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS
PASSED IN 1893.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
An Ordinance changing the Names of certain Streets.
That the names of certain streets in said city be changed as
follows : That the streets in East Manchester known as the
Young road or the Old Ferry road shall be called and known as
Young street ; also that the street which is at present known as
Haywood street, and the highway known as Bennett boulevard
in West Manchester shall be called and known as Columbus
avenue.
This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed to be ordained February 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
in the year one thousand EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE.
An Ordinance amending section 24, chapter 6 of the Laws and
Ordinances, relating to the pay of Members of the Fire De-
partment.
Section i. Section 24 of chapter 6 of the Ordinances of the
City of Manchester is hereby amended by striking out the whole
of said section and inserting in place thereof the following:
806 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
" Section 24. The annual compensation of the members of
the several hook-and-ladder, hose, steam fire-engine, and chemi-
cal engine companies who shall personally perform all the duties
required by law shall be as follows : Drivers, each, sixty-eight and
one third dollars per month ; permanent engineers of fire steam-
ers, each, seventy-six and one quarter dollars per month ; other
permanent men, each, sixty-five dollars per month, all payable
monthly. Foremen, each, one hundred and fifteen dollars ; as-
sistant foremen, each, one hundred and ten dollars ; clerks, each,
one hundred and ten dollars ; call engineers of steamers, each,
one hundred and thirty-five dollars ; call assistant engineers, each,
one hundred and five dollars ; all other members, each, one hun-
dred dollars, all payable in equal semi-annual payments on the
first of January and July."
Section 2. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed to be ordained May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
An Ordinance in amendment of section 7, chapter 14, of the
Laws and Ordinances.
That section 7 of chapter 14 of the Ordinances relating to
hazardous buildings be amended by striking out the word " Mer-
rimack " and inserting the word "Auburn," and by striking out
the word " Chestnut " and inserting the word " Pine," so that
the section as amended shall read as follows :
" Section 7. No person shall erect or cause to be erected any
building exceeding ten feet in height, nor shall any building now
or hereafter erected be raised or enlarged unless the walls of the
same shall be built of iron, brick, or stone, with the roof of slate,
iron, or other incombustible material, within the following lim-
its, viz.: Bounded on the south by Auburn street, on the east by
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 807
Pine street, on the north by Harrison street, and on the west by
Elm street."
Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be
punished by a fine of twenty dollars, and shall incur a penalty of
ten dollars for each day he shall maintain any building so erect-
ed, raised, or enlarged.
Passed to be ordained May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
in the vear one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
An Ordinance in amendment of section 18, chapter 6, of the
Laws and Ordinances.
Amend section 18, chapter 6, by striking out the words "one
hundred " and inserting instead thereof " one hundred and fifty,"
so that the section shall read :
" The board of school committee shall elect one of their num-
ber clerk of the board, whose duty it shall be to record the pro-
ceedings of the board, and to perform such other duties as shall
be required of him by the board, and who shall receive in full
for his services one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, to be
paid at the end of his term of office."
The amendment to take effect January i, 1893.
Passed to be ordained April 4, 1893.
City of Manchester.
IN THE year one THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE.
An Ordinance in amendment of section 2, chapter ;^^, of the
Laws and Ordinances.
That section 2, chapter 33, be amended by striking out the
808 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
words "and Saturday" in the sixth line thereof, so that said
section shall read as follows :
"Section 2. He shall keep his office in the city hall build-
ing, and shall devote the usual hours of business to the duties of
his office : he shall keep regular office hours, of which public no-
tice shall be given, and shall keep his office open for the receipt
of taxes on Thursday evening, from seven to nine o'clock."
Passed to be ordained July 19, 1893.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
An Ordinance establishing Salaries of Members of the Board of
Street and Park Commissioners.
The members of the board of street and park commissioners
shall receive in full for all service by them performed, an annual
salary, payable quarterly, as follows: Six hundred dollars each.
Passed to be ordained July 19, 1893.
City of Manchester.
IN the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.
An Ordinance changing the Names of Certain Streets.
That the names of certain streets in said city be changed as
follows : Dudley street from Pine to Belmont changed to Green
street, Hampton street from Pine to Belmont changed to Grove
street, Newton street from Pine to Belmont changed to Bell
street.
This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed to be ordained September 5, 1893.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 809
City of Manchester.
IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-THREE.
An Ordinance providing for a Board of Sinking Fund Com-
missioners,
That for tlie purpose of managing and investing the sinking
funds required by the Session Laws of New Hampshire, passed at
January session, 1893, by which acts the city is authorized to
borrow money and issue bonds for certain purposes, the chair-
man of the board of water commissioners, the chairman of the
board of street and park commissioners, and the city treasurer
for the time being, shall by virtue of their several offices consti-
tute a board of sinking fund commissioners, and it shall be a
part of the duties of said several officers to perform the duties
prescribed by this ordinance. The city treasurer shall be treas-
.urer of said board, and keep in his possession all moneys, bonds,
or other securities in which said sinking fund shall be invested,
and on no pretext shall permit or allow any other person to take
control of the same, and his bond as now or hereafter furnished
shall cover and apply to the duties herein imposed. The other
two members of said board shall furnish each a bond for five
thousand dollars, with sureties, to be approved by the mayor and
aldermen, for the faithful performance of their duties.
It shall be the duty of said board of sinking fund commission-
ers to receive all sums which shall be contributed to the sinking
fund, and invest and re-invest the same in the name of the said
board as trustees for the city, and said sinking fund shall be held
by said board inviolate for the purposes required by the aforesaid
session laws, and shall be used for no other purpose.
Said board shall annually in the month of January make a full
and explicit report to the city councils, of all moneys in such
sinking fund on the thirty-first day of December of the preced-
ing year, how and where invested, and at what rate of interest.
The moneys contributed to said sinking fund to pay the bonds
issued for water-works purposes shall be kept and invested sepa-
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rately from those contributed to pay the bonds issued for perma-
nent municipal improvements.
Section 2, chapter 37, of the Ordinances of the City of Man-
chester, is hereby repealed.
Passed to be ordained November 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to print Mayor's Inaugural Address.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur : That the
committee on finance cause to be printed 300 copies of Mayor
Knowlton's inaugural address, the expense thereof to be charged
to the appropriation for printing and stationery.
Passed January 3, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase Horse for Fire Department.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on fire department purchase one
horse for use on Amoskeag hose carriage, the expense thereof to
be charged to the appropriation for fire department.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the purchase of Land for an Engine-
House in the northeastern section of the City.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur • That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be empowered to purchase land for an engine-house in the north-
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 811
eastern section of the city, and that the expense thereof be
charged to the appropriation for fire department.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the building of a Hose House in South
Manchester.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be empowered to contract for the building of a hosehouse in
South Manchester on the city lot purchased for this purpose, and
that the expense thereof be charged to an appropriation which
the joint standing committee on finance are hereby authorized to
report in the annual list of appropriations.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to Suits to which the City is a Party.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and city solicitor be authorized to make such disposi-
tion, by trial or otherwise, as they shall deem expedient of all suits
to which the city is a party which are now pending in court or
which shall be entered in court during the ensuing two years.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to make an Addition to the Webster-street School-
House.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on finance be authorized to report
812 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
an appropriation of five thousand ($5,000) dollars for the pur-
pose of building a two-room addition to the Webster-street
schoolhouse.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing an Appropriation of Two Thousand Dol-
lars for the purpose of Widening Elm Street at or near Ray
Brook.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the committee on finance be and are hereby instructed to return
in their lists of appropriations one appropriating the sum of two
thousand dollars for the purpose of widening Elm street at or
near Ray brook.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the finishing of Additional Rooms at the
Hallsville Schoolhouse.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be empowered to contract for the finishing and furnishings of
the second story in the Hallsville schoolhouse for school pur-
poses ; and that the expense thereof be charged to an appropria-
tion which the joint standing committee on finance are herewith
authorized to report in the annual list of appropriations.
Passed January 17, 1893.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 813
City ok Manchester.
An Order authorizing the purchase of Land for a Schoolhouse
in the northeastern section of the City.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be empowered to purchase land for a schoolhouse in the north-
eastern section of the city, superintend the construction of a
building upon the same, and that the expense thereof be charged
to an appropriation for this purpose which the joint standing
committee on finance are hereoy authorized to report in the an-
nual list of appropriations.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order for a Ward Room Building in Ward Five.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on finance be authorized to report
an appropriation not exceeding six thousand ($6,000) dollars in
the annual appropriations for 1893 ^o^ ^ ward room building in
ward five.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the building of a Schoolhouse in Mc-
Gregorville.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be empowered to contract for the construction of a two-room
wooden school building on the city's lot in McGregorville, and
that the expense thereof be charged to an appropriation which
814 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
the joint standing committee on finance are hereby authorized to
report for this purpose in the annual list of appropriations.
Passed January 17, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to the payment of the January pay-roll of the
Fire Department.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the city auditor be and hereby is authorized to pay the same
rates per day or month to the permanent employees on the Jan-
uary pay-roll as has heretofore been allowed.
Passed February 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order placing care of City Pest House in the hands of the
Board of Health.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the management of the city pest house, and the care of the in-
mates therein, be placed in the control and direction of the
Board of Health.
Passed February 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relative to Joint Standing Committee on Public
Health.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
a joint standing committee pf five, consisting of two aldermen
and three members of the board of common council, be appointed
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 815
by the mayor and president of the common council, said com-
mittee to be known as Joint Standing Committee on PubHc
Health. It shall be the duty of this committee to labor to bring
about the best possible sanitary condition of affairs, to make sug-
gestions to the board of health, and to confer with the health
board whenever requested so to do, and to be the medium of
communication between the board of health and the city councils.
Passed February 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to print the Forty-seventh Annual Report of the Re-
ceipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on finance be, and they hereby are,
authorized to procure, for the use of the inhabitants of said city,
the printing of the forty-seventh annual report of the receipts
and expenditures of the city of Manchester, including the reports
of the joint standing committee on finance, the city auditor, the
school board and superintendent of schools, superintendent of
water-works, water commissioners, engineer of fire department,
city marshal, overseers of the poor, trustees, librarian, and treas-
urer of the city library, committee on cemeteries, joint standing
committee on city farm, city physician, city solicitor, city engi-
neer, and such other matters relating to city affairs as said finance
committee may direct, the expense thereof to be charged to the
appropriation for printing and stationery.
Passed February 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order appropriating $400 for Repairs upon the Vine-street
Engine-house, at the N. S. Bean quarters.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on finance be authorized to report
816 ORMNANCES AND ORDERS.
an appropriation of $400 for repairs upon the Vine-street engine-
house, at the N. S. Bean quarters ; the same being called for by
reason of the receipt of a new and heavier steamer, which makes
necessary a three-horse hitch. The mayor and joint standing
committee on lands and buildings are hereby empowered to see
that the charges made are within the above-named sum.
Passed March 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase Supply Wagons for Fire Department in
West Manchester.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department be
authorized to purchase a supply wagon for use of fire department
in West Manchester, the expense thereof to be charged to the
appropriation for fire department.
Passed March 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing Repairs to be made on Vine-street En-
gine-house.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department be
and are hereby authorized to make repairs at their Vine-street
engine-house according to the plans and specifications now in the
hands of the city engineer, and the same be charged to special
appropriations to be reported by the joint standing committee
on finance.
Passed March 7, 1893.
'ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 817
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase Horses for use in Fire Department.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department pur-
chase four horses for use in the fire department, the price not to
exceed $200 each, the expense thereof to be charged to the ap-
propriation for fire department.
Passed March 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the Auditor to pay Firemen for month
of February.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the permanent firemen be paid for their services for February,
1893, ^he same as for month of January.
Passed March 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to appropriate $900 for the erection of a Stable and
Tool House for Highway District No. 10.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on finance be authorized to report
an appropriation of $900 for the building of a stable and tool
house for highway district No. 10, and on said appropriation be-
ing made the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and
buildings be and hereby are authorized to see that such building
is constructed.
Passed March 7, 1893.
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818 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect a Fire-alarm Box at Corner of Lincoln and
Silver Streets.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department
cause to be erected a fire-alarm box at corner of Lincoln and
Silver streets, the expense thereof to be charged to the appropri-
ation for fire-alarm telegraph.
Passed March 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relative to Carts now in use by the Fire Department.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department be
authorized to transfer the carts now in use by the fire department
to the street department.
Passed March 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase Hose for use in Fire Department.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department be
authorized to purchase 4,000 feet of hose for use in fire depart-
ment. Two thousand feet to be charged to the appropriation
for Walter M, Fulton engine-house, and 2,000 feet to be charged
to fire department.
Passed April 4, 1893.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 819
City of Manchester.
An Order relative to furnishing room at Varney School.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be authorized to furnish additional room at Varney school, the
expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for incidental
expenses.
Passed April 4, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase a pair of Horses for use at the City Farm.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on city farm be author-
ized to purchase a pair of horses for use at the city farm, the ex-
pense thereof not to exceed three hundred and fifty dollars, and
to be charged to the appropriation for city farm.
Passed April 4, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to widen Chestnut Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be authorized
to widen Chestnut street from Hanover north back street to Am-
herst street, the expense thereof to be charged to the appropri-
ation for new highways.
Passed April 4, 1893.
820 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
City of Manchester.
An Order relative to pay of Firemen for month of March.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the firemen be paid the same for the month of March as for the
month previous.
Passed April 4, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to make Repairs at City Farm.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lands and buildings, city farm,
and house of correction are hereby empowered to make the
necessary repairs on buildings, the expense thereof to be charged
to a special appropriation which finance committee will report
for same.
Passed April 4, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order for the settlement of Claims of less than Two Hun-
dred and Fifty Dollars.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and city solicitor be constituted a special committee
to inquire into claims presented against the city, and that if in
their opinion it is for the interest of the city to adjust or settle
the same, they may be authorized to do so, provided that no
more than two hundred and fifty dollars be involved in such set-
tlement or adjustment.
Passed April 4, 1893.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 821
City of Manchester.
An Order to widen Elm Street at Ray Brook.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be authorized
to widen Elm street at Ray brook, the expense thereof to be
charged to an appropriation to be made for that purpose.
Passed April 4, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build a Stable in Highway District No. 10.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be authorized to build a stable for highway district No. 10 on
the city land west of the Fire King engine-house, the cost of the
same not to exceed $900, and the expense to be charged to the
appropriation for incidental expenses.
Passed April 10, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to procure Plans for a Schoolhouse and issue Pro-
posals.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be authorized to procure plans and issue proposals for a brick
schoolhouse in ward 9 on the lot purchased for that purpose, and
report back to the city councils, the expense to be charged to the
appropriation for ward 9 schoolhouse.
Passed April 10, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order for a Sewer in Arlington Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
822 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
a public sewer be constructed in Arlington jstreet, extending
about one hundred seventy-five feet east from the east line of
Ashland street, and that the expense thereof be charged to the
appropriation for sewers and drains.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to extend Central Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on streets be authorized
to build Central street from the old Hall road westerly about
three hundred (300) feet, and that the expense thereof be charged
to the appropriation for new highways.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase a flag for use at Stark Park.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur : That His
Honor the Mayor be authorized to purchase a flag for use at
Stark park, the expense thereof to be charged to the appropria-
tion for incidental expenses.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect Certain Electric Lights.
Orderea, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lighting streets be authorized to
erect certain electric lights as follows :
Electric light arms at corner of Wayne and Dubuque streets.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 823
Electric light arms at corner of Conant and Beauport streets.
" " " " Brook and Pine
" " " " Valley and Taylor "
Electric light on poles at corner of Cypress and Hayward streets
" " " " Rimmon and Conant "
" " " " Douglas and Railroad "
" " " " Orange and Hall "
" '• " '• Cartier and Putnam "
" " " •• Calef road and Welch ave.
" " " " Cartier and Kelley streets.
" " " " Hall road and Lake avenue.
Electric light on pole at southeast corner of Monmouth street.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
lighting streets.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to appropriate money for Repairs at City Farm.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the sum of $2,400 be appropriated for the purpose of making re-
pairs at city farm, the expense thereof to be charged to the ap-
propriation for incidental expenses.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to an Exchange of Land.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor be authorized to make an exchange of land in behalf
of the city with the abutting owner east of the recently purchased
schoolhouse lot on Pearl street, which will enable the lot to be
squared, and that the mayor be authorized to sign the necessary
papers to make valid the exchange.
Passed May 2, 1893.
824 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the appointment of a Committee to pro-
cure Plans for a New City Hall Building.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
a joint special committee, consisting of the mayor, the president
of the common council, one councilman and one citizen ap-
pointed by the president of the council, and one alderman and
two citizens to be appointed by the mayor, making a committee
of seven, be appointed to procure plans for a new city hall build-
ing and report to the city councils ; whatever expense there be
incurred to be charged to the appropriation for incidental ex-
penses.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to complete repairs at Excelsior Hook and Ladder
House.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be authorized to complete repairs at Excelsior truck house, the
expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for lands and
buildings ; the expense not to exceed three hundred dollars.
Passed May 2, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to appropriate Money for Band Concerts.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor, joint standing committee on commons, and park
commissioners be authorized to arrange for a series of six even-
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 825
ing concerts on Concord common, and that the expense incident
thereto be charged to the appropriation for commons.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase a Watering-cart.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the board of street commissioners be authorized to purchase a
watering-cart for the sprinkling of the streets in West Manches-
ter and McGregorville, and that the expense of the same be
charged to the appropriation for highway district No. 10.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing arrangements for the Dedication of Stark
Park.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor, and joint standing committee on commons, and the
park commissioners be authorized to make the necessary arrange-
ments for the dedication of Stark park on June 17, "Bunker
Hill day," and that whatever expense there may be attached to
the same be charged to the appropriation for incidental expenses.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase a Combination Watering-trough and
drinking fountain for the south side of City Hall.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur : That the
mayor and joint standing committee on streets be authorized to
826 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
purchase a combination watering-trough and drinking fountain
for the south side of the city hall on Market street, and that the
expense, not to exceed $ioo, be charged to the appropriation for
incidental expenses.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order Changing Certain Electric Lights.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lighting streets be authorized to
replace the small electric lights on Winter street and corner of
Fourth and Walker streets^ with 2,000 candle power lights, the
expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for lighting
streets.
Passed May 23, 1S93.
City of Manchester.
An Order relative to Repairs at N. S. Bean Engine-house.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur : That the
expense attendant upon repairs at N. S. Bean engine-house, by
means of which a three-horse hitch was introduced, be charged
to the appropriation for fire department.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to a Contract for Electric Lighting.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor be and is hereby authorized and instructed to execute
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 827
for and in behalf of the city of Manchester, a contract with the
Manchester Electric Light Company for lighting the city for a
period of ten years, in accordance with the recommendation of
the joint standing committee on lighting streets, and to cancel
and release the contract now existing with said company.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester,
An Order Transferring $3,000 from Reserved Fund to Appro-
priation for Sewers and Drains.
Ordered^ If the Board of Common Council concur : That the
city clerk be authorized to transfer $3,000 from reserved fund to
the appropriation for sewers and drains.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the Trustees of Pine Grove Cemetery to
Deed a Lot of Land to Parker Veteran Club.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the trustees of Pine Grove cemetery be authorized to deed a lot
of land in the Pine Grove cemetery to Parker Veteran Club.
Passed May 23, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order making a Transfer of Money.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the city clerk be authorized to transfer $1,700 from reserved fund
to the appropriation for widening Elm street.
Passed May 23, 1893.
828 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
City of Manchester.
An Order to Build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the street commissioners be authorized to Ixiild certain sewers as
follows :
Beginning at Beauport street and thence westerly loo feet,
more or less, in Wilton south back street, commencing at man-
hole at the intersection of A and B streets, and thence northerly
150 feet in B street, the expense thereof to be charged to the ap-
propriation for sewers and drains.
Passed June 6, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing contract to perform Scavenger Service,
June 2, 1893.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on city farm, and
board of street and park commissioners, are hereby authorized to
make a contract whereby the city farm shall perform the scaven-
ger service upon the streets and highways the ensuing year, and
the mayor and joint standing committee on city farm are here-
by authorized to expend a sum not to exceed one thousand dol-
lars ($1,000) in procuring horses, wagons, and other necessary
implements to perform said scavenger service, the said sum of
one thousand dollars r$ 1,000) to be charged to the appropriation
for city farm.
Passed June 6, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to organize Walter M, Fulton Engine Company
No. 6.
Ordered, If the B"ard of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 829
the board of fire engineers be authorized to organize the Walter
M. Fulton Engine Company No. 6.
Passed June 6, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to establish the Grade of Munroe Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur : That
the grade of Munroe street, as recently laid out, be established
in accordance with a plan in the city engineer's o^c^, provided,
the same meets the approval of the joint standing committee on
streets.
Passed June 6, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to transfer Two Hundred Dollars from Reserved
Fund to Appropriation for District No. 10 Stable.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to transfer the sum of
two hundred dollars from reserved fund to the appropriation
for district No. 10 stable.
Passed June 19, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order making a Transfer of Money.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the sum of one hundred and eighty-five ($185) dollars be trans-
ferred from the reserved fund to the appropriation for addition
to city farm buildings.
Passed June 19, 1893.
830 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
City of Manchester.
An Order in relation to building Walnut Street from Salmon
Street to Webster.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the street and park commissioners be authorized to build Walnut
street from Salmon street to Webster, the expense thereof to be
charged to the appropriation for new highways.
Passed June 19, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order in relation to building Adams Street from South
Line of Livermore Land to Clarke Street.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the street and park commissioners be authorized to build Adams
street from the south line of the Livermore land to Clarke street,
the expense of the same to be charged to the appropriation for
new highways.
Passed June 19, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to the building of a Hosehouse in South
Manchester.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be authorized to procure plans, receive proposals, and award the
contract for building a hosehouse on the city's lot in South
Manchester, and that the expense thereof be charged to the ap-
propriation for hosehouse in South Manchester.
Passed June 19, 1893.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 831
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to finishing and furnishing the Second Story
of the Hallsville Schoolhouse.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and buildings
be authorized to procure the finishing and furnishing of the sec-
ond story of the Hallsville schoolhouse during the school vaca-
tion, and that the expense be charged to the appropriation for
Hallsville schoolhouse.
Passed June 19, 1S93.
City of Manchester.
An Order to exchange the Small Electric Light at Corner of
Jane and East High Streets for a Large One.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lighting streets be authorized
to exchange the small electric light at corner of Jane and East
High streets for a large one, the expense thereof to be charged
to the appropriation for lighting streets.
Passed July 10, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect certain Electric Lights.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lighting streets be authorized
to erect certain electric lights as follows :
Corner of Valley and Belmont streets.
Corner of Grove and Pine streets.
Corner of Ainsworth avenue and Young street.
Corner of Canal and West Pennacook streets.
832 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
Corner of Amory and Morgan streets.
Corner of Amory and Alsace streets.
Corner of Turner and Walker streets.
Corner of Railroad bridge and Second street.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
lighting streets.
Passed July lo, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase addition to Pine Grove Cemetery.
Ordered^ If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the mayor and joint standing committee on cemeteries be author-
ized to purchase an addition to Pine Grove cemetery on the
south, of C. C. Webster, the expense thereof to be charged to the
appropriation for Pine Grove cemetery.
Passed July 10, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order making a Transfer of Money.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to transfer forty-two
and ninety-eight one hundredths ($42.98) dollars from reserved
fund to the appropriation for decoration of soldiers' graves.
Passed July 10, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect a Drinking Fountain.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the street and park commissioners be authorized to erect a drink-
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 833
ing fountain at the corner of Main and Amory streets, the ex-
pense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for incidental
expenses.
Passed August i, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect certain Electric Lights.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lighting streets be authorized
to erect electric lights at the corner of Adams and Cartier streets,
corner of Clinton and Dover streets, corner of Main and Blaine
streets, corner of Milford and Forest streets, the expense thereof
to be charged to the appropriation for lighting streets.
Passed September 5, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to heat Building.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lands and buildings be author-
ized to contract for foundation and heating in ward 9 school
building, the expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation
for new schoolhouse in ward 9.
Passed September 5, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing Contract for Foundation.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lands and buildings be author-
ized to receive plans and contract for foundation for a two-room
53
834 ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
building in ward 5 and report back to the council, the expense
thereof to be charged to the appropriation for ward room in
ward 5.
Passed September 5, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order for appointment of Special Committee on Inspection
of Buildings.
Oniered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
a joint special committee consisting of two councilmen and one
alderman be appointed for the purpose of taking into consider-
ation the provisions of section i, chapter 40, of the Laws of the
state of New Hampshire, passed by the January session, 1893,
providing for the appointment of committee for inspection of
buildings by states and towns and defining their duties, said
committee to report back to city councils.
Passed September 13, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order making a Transfer of Money.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur : That
the city clerk be and is hereby authorized to make the following
transfers :
From reserved fund to : ,
Incidentals account $3,500.46
Repairs of buildings account .... 210.49
Addition to city farm buildings account . 413-83
Repairs Vine street hook and ladder account . 60.12
Stable, district No. 10, account .... 63.90
Passed October 3, 1893.
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS. 835
City ok Manchester.
An Order to build Trenton Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the street and park commissioners be authorized to expend two
hundred dollars on Trenton street between Elm and Union
streets, the expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation
for new highways.
Passed September 21, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order to Erect Certain Electric Lights.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the joint standing committee on lighting streets cause to be
erected certain electric lights, as follows :
Corner of Ashland and Amherst streets.
Corner of B and C streets.
Corner of Putnam and Bartlett streets.
On Blodget street at corner of Elm east back street and Blod-
get street.
The expense thereof to be charged to the appropriation for
lighting streets.
Passed November 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order making a Transfer of Money.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
836
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make the following
transfers :
From appropriation for repairs of schoolhouses to :
Fuel appropriation ...... $37S-^5
Furniture and supplies appropriation . . . 124.42
Printing and advertising 32.45
Contingent expenses 105.16
Free text-books . . . . . . . 75-07
From appropriation for books and stationery to free
text-books 228.07
Passed November 7, 1893.
City of Manchester.
An Order making a Transfer of Money.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make the following
transfers :
From reserved fund to :
Incidental expenses appropriation
Fire-alarm telegraph appropriation
Aerial truck appropriation .
Repairs of buildings appropriation
Fulton engine-house appropriation
Paupers off the farm appropriation
City farm appropriation
Land taken for highways appropriation
Passed November 7, 1893.
$375-67
76.89
134.10
67.56
1,591.02
823.98
1,015.85
4,182.41
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to Final Transfers for the Year 1893.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur : That
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
837
the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make the following
transfers, to wit :
To reserved fund :
From printing and stationery . . . .
$239.42
mayor's incidentals ....
155-10
city auditor's department .
45-50
highway district No. i . . .
.19
" " 3 • • •
.64
" " 4 . . .
•95
" " 6 . .
16.24
" " 7 . .
23-79
" " 8 . .
23-38
- " 9 . .
13-47
lighting streets ....
1,482.03
widening Elm street .
425.67
care of rooms ....
164.31
teachers' salaries
562.35
evening schools, mechanical drawing
67.63
manual training
108.44
Pine Grove cemetery
116.15
Goffe's Falls cemetery
100.00
Amoskeag cemetery .
47-05
indigent soldiers
53-75
stable, district No. lo
.21
engine-house, ward 3
1,200.00
Balance of rents received from water-work
prior to January i, 1893, and other fre(
cash in treasury ....
91,976.81
Total
$96,823.08
From reserved fund :
To interest
$42.88
payment of funded debt
70,000.00
city hall
64.08
incidental expenses
1,762.86
city officers' salaries
1,049.93
838
ORDINANCES AND ORDERS.
To highway district No. 2
" 5
•' " " 10
" II
" " " 12
new highways
watering streets
paving streets
macadamizing streets
grading for concrete
scavenger service .
street sweeping
bridges
city teams .
sewers and drains, repairs
Second-street bridge
new sewers .
engineer's department
health department
repairs of schoolhouses
fuel
furniture and supplies
printing and advertising
contingent expenses
evening schools
free text-books
fire department
fire-alarm telegraph
police department
repairs of buildings
Fulton engine-house
paupers off the farm
city farm
commons
Valley cemetery .
Total .
Passed December 30, 1893.
For other orders see City Engineer's Report
1,107.65
463
302.12
48.04
100.50
1.264.59
60.95
166.15
15.00
34.86
2,586.65
32.00
1S0.44
939.02
755-83
2,906.21
3,097.86
860.96
253-13
475-83
4-5°
45-05
29-35
232.05
57.20
153-54
i,5o»-3i
366.36
2,643.74
518.57
1,534-21
1,721.65
1,007.52
302.10
79-5°
<;98,3o8.82
INDEX.
INDEX,
A
PAGE
Advertising and printing 650
Abatement on taxes 752
Assets, statement and inventory of 785-794
Annual interest charge on bonded debt 7S1
Auditor, city, report of 525
Auditor's department 568, 794
Appropriations for 1893 by city councils 753
Appendix, scbool 371
Amoskeag cemetery 733
Aerial truck 683
B
Bridges 612
Books and stationery 649
Buildings, repairs of 691
public, occupied by private parties 783
Board of water commissioners, organization of 9, 10
report of 49
bealtb, report of 455
Bonded debt 775-781
tabular statement of 775
detailed statement of for 1893 780
annual interest charge 781
Bridge, Second-street ..235. 628
C
Churches, etc., valuation of, exempt from tax 764
City Hall 543
ofHcers' salaries 564
teams 615
officials, list of 3-25
engineer, report of 167
engineer's department, organization of 168
solicitor, report of 433
marshal, report of 449
842 INDEX.
City auditor's report 525
treasurer's report 526
councils, orders and ordinances 210,805
physician, report of ^3
auditor's department 5(it;
farm 738
buildings, addition to «%
report of joint standing committee 427
library 483,(560
report of trustees of 48;i
treasurer's report 48S
librarian's report 493
donations to 495
Contingent expenses fi'^l
Care of rooms •'•'>4
Commons "!•'
Cemetery, Pine Grove 725
Valley. "'-9
Goffe's Falls 733
Amoskeag 73i
Cemeteries, report of sub-trustees of. Valley 414
Pine Grove 412
treasurer 4(Hi, 417
fund of, report of trustees 405
Committee, school, report of 329
County tax 753
D
Debt, payment of funded 538
bonded, statement of 775-781
tabular statement of 775
detailed statement of, for 1893 780
Decoration of soldiers' graves 750
Derryfleld park 732
Elm street, widening of 630
Engine-house and ward i-oom, ward 9 700
Engineer's department 630
Expenses, incidental ■''50
mayor's 564
contingent 651
Evening schools "5''
school, mechanical drawing... 657
Electric lights, location of 509
Elliot Hospital 749
Exempted from tax, property 764
INDEX. 843
F
Fund, reserved ■<:;'.•
Fuel G4a
Furniture and supplies 645
Free text-books • 658
l5eds, Elliot Hospital 74!i
Fire department 603
report of chief engineer 265
V alue of personal property -297-305
names and residences of members 306-311
location of hydrants 312
Fire-alarm telegraph 678
Firemen's parade 682
Farm, paupers off 734
Farm, city 73S
Fulton engine-house 700
G
Grading for concrete 605
Graves, decoration of soldiers' 750
Gas-lights, location of 51S
Goffe's Falls cemetery 733
H
Highway districts, reports of surveyors 153-164
Highway district No. 1 571
2 572
3 57S
4 578
5 579
6 581
7 581
8 583
9 584
10 585
11 587
12 588
Highways, new .589
land taken for 694
watering 595
paving 597
macadamising 600
grading for concrete on 605
scavenger service 165, 606
sweeping 60S
lighting 610
bridges 612
city teams 615
Health department 635
board of, report of 455
844 INDEX.
Hospital, Women's Aid and Relief 749
Elliot, free beds 749
Sacred Heart 749
Hospitals, churches, etc., exempt from taxation 764
Hook-and-ladder house, repairs. Vine street 704
Hose-house, South Manchester 705
Hydrants, location of 312
Hj-ilvant service 682
Hallsville schoolhouse 6S9
I
Inaugural address of mayor 29-45
Interest 537
annual charge, bonded debt 7S1
Incidental expenses .550
Indigent soldiers 74S
Inspector, milk, report of 443
Inventory of assets 78.'>-794
L
Loan, temporary .542
Land taken for highways 594
Lighting streets 610
Librarj', city 483,660
Location of electric lights 509
of gas-lights 518
of oil lamps 620
List of churches, etc., exempt from tax 764
of city officials 3-25
M
Manual training 659
Mayor's incidentals .564
Macadamizing streets 600
Militia 752
Milk inspector, report of 443
Marshal, city, report of 449
Municipal receipts and expenditures 531
Manufacturing property exempt from taxation 774
N
New highways 589
schoolhouse, Hallsvillc 699
O
Officials, city, salaries of 564
Order to print forty-eighth annual report 2
Organization of board of water commissioners 9-10
INDEX. 845
Overseers of the poor, report of 421
Oil lamps, location of 520
Organization of school board for 1S93 369
Ordinances and orders — 210, 805
Order relative to sewer pipe 210
to Second-street bridge 211
to dispose of four horses 211
to pui-chase supplies for district No. 2 211
to build certain sewers 212,213, 214,215, 216, 219, 221,828
to build certain streets 212, 216, 220
to build certain liigliways 213
to macadamize Turner street 214
Beauport street 214
to erect watering-trough on Hanover street 215
to establish certain grades 215, 216, 217, 219, 221, 222
to concrete Chestnut street 217
to purchase horses 218, 810, 817, 819
to grade Hevey street 218
to build Second street : 218
to build Beech street 218
to establish the grade of Rimmon street 220
to procure plans, specifications, and build South Main-street
bridge 220
to concrete Elm east back street 221
to macadamize Spruce street 222
to build the Concord-street sewer 222
to print mayor's address , 810
to purchase land for engine-house 810
to build hosehouse 811, 830
appropriating money for wid ening Elm street 812
to purchase land for schoolhouse 813
relating to committee on health 814
to print forty-eighth report 815
to appropriate money to repair N. S. Bean Steamer quarters — 815, 826
to purchase supply wagon . 816
to repair Vine-street engiue-house 816
relating to stable, district No. 10 817,821-829
to erect fire-alarm box 818
relative to carts in fire department 818
to purchase hose — 818
relative to the Varney school 819
to widen Chestnut street 819
to make repairs at city farm 820, 823
to settle claims less than $250 820
to widen Elm street 821
for sewer, Arlington street 821
to extend Central street 822
to purchase a flag for Stark park 822
to erect certain electric lights 822, 826, 831, 835
relating to an exchange of land 823
relating to new city hall 824
relating to Excelsior Hook-aud- Ladder house i 824
for band concerts 824
846 INDEX.
Order to purchase watering-cart 825
lor ileilication of Stark park 825
for drinking fountain 825, 832
making transfer of monej- 827, 829, 834, S35, 836
to build Walnut street S3()
to build Adams street 830
to purchase land for Pine Grove cemetery 832
to heat building 833
to build Trenton street 835
relating to ward 5 ward room 813, 833
to sewers and drains 827
to Parker Veteran Clul) 827
to scavenger service 828
to Fulton Engine Co .'. • 828
to grade of Munroe street S2!i
to the inspection of buildings 834
to McGregorville schoolhouse 813, 821
to pay of fire department 814, 817, 820
to pest house f^H
to suits 811
to Hallsville school 812, 831
Ordinance relating to pay of fire department 805
amending section 7, chapter 14 806
amending section 18, chapter 6 807
amending section 2, chapter 33 807
establishing pay of park commissioners 80S
changing names of streets 805, 80S
proviiling for Board of Sinking Fund 809
P
Payment of funded debt ■'>38
Printing and stationery 546
and advertising 650
Paving streets •''97
Police department <>i^3
Pine Grove cemetery 725
Paupers olT the farm 734
Property account, i-eal and personal 785
Public buildings occupied by private parties 783
Park, Derryfield 732
Stark 723
Parsonages, valuation of, exempt from taxation 764-773
Petitions for certain streets ^''7
Pearl-street schoolhouse •''^7
R
Reserved fund ^^^
Repairs of schoolhouses "S!*
of buildings 691
Rooms, care of ^'^*
INDEX. 847
Uepoit ot Board of Water Commissionors 4!)
Siiperinteiulent of Water- Works 53-90
City Engineer 167
Higlnvay District Surveyors 153-U>4
Chief Enginer Fire Department 265
Trustees of City Library 483
Sub-Trustees of Valley cemetery 414
Pine Grove cemetery 412
Treasurer of Cemeteries 40(i, 417
Trustees of Cemetery Fund 405
Overseers of the Poor 421
Joint Standing Committee on Citj' Farm 427
Street and Park Commission 09-165
Committee on Sewers and Drains 228
Committee on Streets 233
City Solicitor 433
Milk Inspector 443
City Marshal 449
School Committee 329
Superintendent 329
Board of Health 455
City Auditor 525
City Physician 439
City Treasurer 526
Keal estate owned by the city 785
property, exempt from taxation, other than public properly 764-774
Rules, etc., relating to bills against the city (auditor's department) 794-798
Receipts and expenditures, 1890, 1891, 1892, and 1893 .'538
municipal, for 1893 r,3l
Raising money and making appropriations for 1893 753
s
Second-street bridge 235, 628
Salaries of city officials .564
Scavenger service 165, 606
Street sweeping .506, 608
Sewers and drains, repairs 620
new 623
School department 389
evening, mechanical drawing 657
committee, report of 329
superintendent's report 329
statistics 372
attendance 374
Schoolhouse, Hallsville 699
ward 9 698
Webster-street, addition to 699
Schoolhouses, parochial, and seminaries of learning 764
repairs of 639
Supplies and furniture 645
Stationery and books 649
Salaries, teachers' (iaH
848 INDEX.
stark park. 723
Soldiers, indigent 74S
State tax 752
Solicitor, city, report of 433
Statement of bonded debt 7S0
total taxation for 1S92 759
public buildings occupied by private parties 783
Sinking fund ■: 539, 801
treasurer's report 801
Sacred Heart Hospital 749
Summary of city debt • • • 7S1
Stable, district No. 10 704, 817
T
Temporary loans 542
Textbooks, free 658
Teachers' salaries 65G
Taxes, abatement of 752
Tax, state 752
county 753
Treasurer, city, report of 526
Taxation, appropriations for 1893 753
exemption — 764
by board of assessors 758
statement of total » 759
table of taxes due and uncollected 760
valuations from 1846 to 1893 inclusive 760
settlement of tax collector's account to June 1, KS93 761
Teams, city f'15
Tabular statement of receipts and expenditures 538
Training, manual ''59
V
Valley cemetery '-^
Valuation and taxes 759
Vine-street Hook-and-Ladder house 704
w
Watering streets .
595
Women's Aid and Relief Hospital "*9
Water-works, superintendent's report 53
commissioners' report ■' -IS
expenses '"•''
Ward room and engine-house, ward 9 700
5 ward room *''■*'
3 engine-house.
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