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FIFTY-SECOND ANNUAL REPORT
Receipts and Expenditures
CITY OF MANCHESTER
NEW HAMPSHIRE
FOR THE FISCAL TEAR ENDING
December 31, 1897.
TOGETHER WITH
OTHER ANNUAL REPORTS AND PAPERS RELATING
TO THE AFFAIRS OF THE CITY.
MANCHESTER, N. H. :
PRINTED BY THE JOHN P.. CLARKE COiMPANy.
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MANCHESTER
CITY GOVERNMENT.
1897.
Mayor.
WILLJAM C. CLARKE Office, City Hall
Chosen at biennial election in November, 1896. Salary, $1,800
per annum, payable quarterly. (Act of June, 1848, section 1.
Chapter 223, Laws of 1883. Public Statutes, chapter 47.) Tele-
phone at hoiise and office.
Aldermen.
Act of June, 1848, section 1. Public Statutes, chapter 48.
Ward 1.
Canal street,
Ward 2
Ward 3
Ward 4
Ward 5
Ward 6
Ward 7
Ward 8
Ward 9
Gardner K. Browning, 55 Stark Corporation,
Ossian D. Knox, 757 Chestnut street.
George W. Reed, 483 Chestnut street.
Charles E. Cox, 475 Hanover street.
Richard J. Barry, 232 Lake avenue.
John T. Gott, Mammoth road.
John F. Frost, 11 West Merrimack street.
Gillis Stark, 42 School street.
Frank T. Provost, 21 Amory street.
President of the Common Council.
George B. Rogers, 277 Laurel street.
MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT-
Members of the Common Council.
Act of June, 1S48, section 1. Public Statutes, chapter 48.
Ward 1.
Murdock A. Weathers, 944 Elm street.
William Watts, 31 Stark Corporation, Mecliauic street.
Carl E. Rydin, 28 Stark Cori^oration, Mechanic street.
Ward 2.
De Lafayette Robinson, 255 Front street (A.).
William H. Maxwell, Goffstown road (A.).
James R. Carr, 104 Prospect street. *
Ward 3.
George N. Baker, 78 Ashland street.
Edmond Pinard, 101 Pearl street.
Carl A. Soderberg, 256 East High street.
Ward 4.
George H. Phinney, 133 Hanover street.
Joseph W. Abbott, 256 Manchester street.
Eugene B. Worthen, 515 Hall street.
Ward 5.
John J. Lynch, 104 Chestnut street.
Edward F. Murray, 296 Lake avenue.
James F. White, 52 Auburn street.
Ward 6.
George B. Rogers, 277 Laurel street.
Charles Hazen, 436 Central street.
William E. Pierson, 122 Willow street.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 0
Ward 7.
Alexander Kniglit, 50 West Merrimack street.
Samuel F. Davis, 57 West Merrimack street.
Robert Morrow, 6G Amoskeag Corporation, West Mer-
rimack street.
Ward 8.
Peter Gundermau, 211 Douglas street.
G. Walter Taylor, 23 Boynton street.
James F. Wyman, New Mast, near D street.
Ward 9.
Augustus Filion, 73 Beauport street.
Joseph D. Masse, 332 Beauport street.
John Montplaisir, 252 Coolidge avenue.
Clerk of Common Council.
George L. Stearns, 129 Salmon street.
Salary, $200. (General Laws, chapter 46, sections 7-9. City-
Laws and Ordinances, page 33, chapter 6, section 11.)
• City Clerk.
Edward 0. Smith Office, City Hall
Salary, $900. The city clerk, in addition to his salary, is in re-
ceipt of fees as registrar of births, marriages, and deaths, and as
a recoi'ding officer for record of mortgages on personal property,
of attachments of real estate, of partnerships 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 vari-
ous laws, and are estimated to be between $2,100 and $2,500 per
annum. Chosen in convention of City Councils in January, an-
nually. (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, 900 Union street.
6 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
City Auditor.
James E. Dodge Office, City Hall
Salai'y, $1,200. Appointed by Mayor and approved by Board
of Aldermen, in January, annually. (Laws of 1889, cbaj)ter 287.
City Oi'dinances, pages 44, 71, 83-88, 173.) Residence, Eiver road
north.
Auditor's Clerk.
Lizzie M. Cogswell Auditor's Office, City Hall
Residence, 1589 Elm street.
City Treasurer.
Fred L. Allen Office, City Hall
Salary, $1,200. Elected in convention of City Councils in Janu-
ary, annually. (Charter, section 23. Act of 1856, section 4. Gen-
eral Laws, chapter 48, sections 3, 4. Act of 1859, section 4. City
Laws and Ordinances, pages 36, 86-89, 170, 172.)
Treasurer's Clerk.
Blanche E. Bullock Treasurer's Office, City Hall
Collector of Taxes.
George E. Morrill Office, City Hall
Salary, $1,650 and fees. Elected by Mayor and Aldermen be-
fore May 1, annually. (Act of July, 1851. Act of June, 1859, sec-
tion 6. Public Statutes, chapter 43. City Laws and Ordinances,
chapter 33.) 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 Law's and Ordinances, chapter
33, section 3.) Residence, 416 Central street.
LIST OF OFFICERS. /
City Solicitor.
Edwin F. Jones Office, Patten Block, 93G Elm street
Salary, $800. Elected in convention of City councils, in Janu-
ary, annually. (City Laws and Ordinances, chapters 4, 6, pages
70, 72.) Eesidence, 15 High street.
City IVIessenger.
John A. Barker Office, City Hall
Salary, $700. Elected in convention of City Councils in Janu-
ary, annually. (Citj^ Laws and Ordinances, chapters 4, 6.) Ees-
idence, 49 Appleton street.
Joint Standing Committees.
On Finance. — Tlie Mayor and Alderman Cox; Council-
men Hazen, Robinson, and Filion.
On Accounts. — Aldermen Provost and Browning; Couu-
cilmen Taylor, Pierson, and Wortben. (Meet Wednes-
day succeeding tbe 24tb of eacb montb. All bills must
be left at tbe city auditor's office, properh^ approved, not
later tban tbe 20tb of eacb montb.)
On Claims. — Aldermen Cox and Reed; Councilmen
Knigbt, Baker, and Maxwell. (Meets tbird Friday in
eacb montb.)
On Streets. — Aldermen Gott and Cox; Councilmen
Robinson, Wymau, and Pinard.
On Sewers and Drains. — Aldermen Frost and Stark;
Councilmen Masse, Weatbers, and Watts.
On Lighting Streets. — Aldermen Browning and Gott;
Councilmen Pbinney, Gunderman, and Montplaisir.
On Lands and Biiildings. — Aldermen Reed and Provost;
Councilmen Morrow, Carr, and Rydin.
On Fire Department. — Aldermen Knox and Cox; Coun-
cilmen Taylor, Pierson, and Murray.
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On Commons and Cemeteries. — Aldermen Knox and
Browning; Oouneilnien Knight, Soderberg, and Watts.
On Public Instruction. — Aldermen Stark and Knox;
Conncilmen Montplaisir, Murray, and Morrow.
On Water-Works. — Aldermen Frost and Provost; Conn-
cilmen Gunderman, Wyman, and Pinard.
On City Farm. — Aldermen Frost and Barry; Council-
men Watts, Weathers, and Soderberg.
On House of Correction. — Aldermen Frost and Barry;
Conncilmen White, Abbott, and Maxwell.
On Military Affairs. — Aldermen Barry and Gott; Conn-
cilmen Lynch, Filion, and Baker.
On Puhlic Health. — Aldermen Stark and Barry; Conn-
cilmen Pinard, Lynch, and White.
Standing Committees.
BOARD OP ALDERMEN.
On Enrollment. — Aldermen Knox and Stark.
On Bills on Second Reading. — Aldermen Reed and Frost.
On Licenses. — Aldermen Browning and Gott.
On ^Setting Trees. — Aldermen Provost and Reed.
COMMOX COUNCIL.
On Election Returns. — Conncilmen Phinney, Masse, and
Baker.
On Bills on Second Reading. — Conncilmen Soderberg,
Taylor, and Hazen.
On Enrollment. — Conncilmen Carr, Abbott, and Wyman.
City Physician.
Irving L. Carpenter Office, 9(!1 Elm street
Salary, $600. Elected by City Councils in con\ention in Janu-
ary, annually. . (Laws of 1870, chapter 99. City Ordinances,
chapter 9, sections 29, 30.) Residence, 1458 Elm street.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 9
City Engineer.
Winf red H. Bennett Office, City Hall
Salary, $1,200. Chosen bj' City Councils in convention in Janu-
ary, annually. (City Ordinances, chapter 6, sections 33, 34.)
Water Commissioners.
(Chapter 70, Laws of 1871. City Ordinances, chapter 36, and
laws of 1891, chapter 2C, 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 Fi'anklin and West
Merrimack streets. Telephone at office and at pumping station.
The Mayor, ew officio.
Charles H. Manning, term expires January, 1901.
Andrew C. Wallace, term expires January, 1000.
Alpheus Gay, term expires January, 1899.
Henry Chandler, term expires January, 1898.
Harry E. Parker, term expires January, 1903.
Charles T. Means, term expires January, 1902.
Alpheus Gay, chairman.
Henry Chandler, clerk. Salary, |100. Chosen by the
board of commissioners.
Superintendent of Water-Works.
Charles K. Walker. .Office, Court House, Franklin street
Salary, $2,000. Chosen by water commissioners annually.
Residence, 08 South Main street. West Manchester,
Clerk of the Water-Works.
Arthur E. Stearns. .Office, Court House, Franklin street
Salary, $1,500. Chosen by water commissioners annually.
Residence, 421 Hanover street.
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Engineer at Old Pumping Station.
Josiali Laselle. Salary, |700, rent, fuel, and use of
land.
Chosen bv water commissioners annnallv.
Engineer at New Pumping Station.
Henry A. Donaway. Salary, |2.50 per day, rent, and
fuel.
Justice of the Police Court.
Isaac L. Heath, court room at Police Station, corner
Mancliester and Cbestnut streets.
Salary, $1,500. Appointed by the Governor with tlie advice of
the Council. (General Laws, chapter 215; chaj)ter 163, sections
17, 18, 19, of the Laws of 1878, as amended by chapter 336, Laws
of 1881. Public Statutes, chapter 211.)
Associate Justice of the Police Court.
George W. Prescott. Salary, .f800 per annum.
Appointed by the Governor, with the advice of the Council.
(Chapter 215, General Laws, sections 2-14. Public Statutes,
chapter 211. Chapter 296, Laws of 3893.)
Clerk of the Police Court.
John C. Bickford. Salary, .fGOO.
Appointed by the justice of the jTOlice court. (Chapter 163,
sections 17-19, General Laws, amended by chapter 236, Laws of
1881. Public Statutes, cha])ter 211.) Residence, 15 Ash street.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
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Police.
The members of the jDolice are appointed by the Police Com-
missioners, and hold their commissions dnring- good behavior.
Thej^ are, by virtue of their appointment, constables and con-
servators of the peace, and their jurisdiction extends through-
out the city. (Chapter 253, section 5, General Laws; chapter
303, Laws of 1887; chapter 202, Laws of 1S93.) Police station, at
the corner of Chestniit and Manchester streets.
Police Commissioners.
See chapter 202, Laws 1893.
Noah S. Clark, clerk, term expires January, 1898. •
Frank P. Carpenter, terra expires January, 1902.
Harry E. Loveren, chairman, term expires January,
1900.
Chief of Police.
Michael J. Healy Office at Police Station
Salary, $900. Eesidence, 304 Central street. Telephone at
house and office.
Deputy Chief of Police.
John F. Cassidy Office at Police Station
Salary, $S00. Eesidence, 415 ifanchester street.
Captain of the Watch.
Thomas E. Steele. Salary, |2.50 per day. Residence,
56 Nashua street.
Sergeant.
Leon E. Magoon. Salary, |2.50 per day. Residence,
355 East Spruce street.
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MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Patrolmen.
SALARY, |2.25 PER DAY.
Randall W. Bean.
Frank E. Bourrassa.
Olaf Ring.
John T. O'Dowd.
Florence Sullivan.
Henry A. Burns.
Theodore Flodin.
George A. Lovejoy.
John D. Healy.
Frank W. Marden.
Oscar R. Poehlman.
Albert Russell.
Joseph Archambeault.
James S. Butler.
John C. Badger.
Peter Callaghan.
John J. Connor.
Frank P. Moore.
John T. Welch.
John T. Nixon.
Elmer E. Somers.
Levi J. Proctor.
Joseph A. Farrell.
James S. Hampston.
Janitor of Station.
Frank P. Wiggin. |1.75 per day. Residence, 255
Auburn street.
Miss A. B. Brown.
Merrimack street.
Matron.
^15 per annum. Residence, 277
School Committee.
Chosen at the biennial election in November, 189G; Mayor and
president of the Common Council members ex officio. The board
of school committee choose the clerk of the board, the superin-
tendent of public instr action, 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 extent, and
the purchase of free text-books and other supplies, and are lim-
ited bjr the appropriations of the City Councils. The salary of
the committee is $10 each.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
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Walter B. Heath.
Augustus P. Horne.
George D, Towne.
Henry D. Soule.
James P. Slattery.
Harry I. Dodge.
Edson S. Heath.
Luther C. Baldwin.
Kobert E. Walsh.
Ward 1.
Elliott C. Lambert.
Ward 2.
Charles H. Manning.
Ward 3.
Louis E. Phelps.
Ward 4.
Nathaniel L. Colby.
Ward 5.
John T. Kelley.
Ward 6.
Herbert E. Richardson.
Ward 7.
Edward B. Woodbury.
Ward 8.
Ned T. Wallace.
Ward 9.
Henry I. Lemay.
William C. Clarke, ex officio chairman.
George B. Rogers, ex officio.
George D. Towne, vice-chairman.
Edward B. Woodbury, clerk.
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
W'illiam E. Buck Office, City Hall
Salaiy, $2,r!00. Eesidenee, 324 Myrtle street.
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Superintendent's Clerk.
Fannie L. Sanborn Residence, 161 Hanover street
Salary, $500.
Truant Officer.
Curtis W. Davis. Office, City Hall
Salarj^ $750. Eesidence, 849 Chestnut 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 abatement of taxes. Office, City Hall. (Charter,
section 25. Public Statutes, chapter 48, section 1; chapter 50,
section 4; chapter 49, sections 10, 11, 12. City Oi'dinances, chapi-
ter 6, section 26.) Assistant assessors, not exceeding six, chosen
by the city councils.
Henry Lewis, 32 Amoskeag Corporation.
John E. Stearns, 58 Myrtle street.
David O. Furnald, 381 Lowell street.
Harrison D. Lord, 387 Hanover street.
George F. Sheehan, 85 Cedar street.
George H. Dudley, 159 Laurel street.
Robert Leggett, 50 Amoskeag Corporation.
Eugene W. Brigham, 6 Marlboro street.
Jobn T. Hannigan, 159 Cartier street.
CHAIRMAN OF ASSESSORS.
David O. Furnald Office, City Hall
CLERK OF ASSESSORS.
George H. Dudley Office, City Hall
Ward
1.
Ward
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Ward
3.
Ward
4.
Ward
5.
Ward
G.
Ward
7.
Ward
8.
Ward
9.
LIST OF OFFICERS.
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Inspectors of Check-Lists.
Oue in each ward, chosen at the biennial election in November,
Compensation, $2.25 per day for each day actually emploj^'ed.
Office, City Hall. (Laws of 1878, chapter 163, sections 5, 6, 7, 9,
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 10, and City Ordinances, chapter 14, section 9.)
Ward 1. George C. Kemp, 40 Machine Shop block.
Ward 2. Charles B. Tucker, 777 Union street.
Ward 3. William B. Corey, 88 Pearl street.
Ward 4. Albert T. Barr, 336 Merrimack street.
Ward 5. Daniel A. Murphv, 246 Auburn 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, $100 per annum, determined by City
Ordinances, chapter 14, section 18, as amended hy Ordinance of
August 5, 1890. Meet third Wednesday of each month in City
Hall building.
Ward 1. William H. Maxwell, clerk, 20 Amoskeag
Corporation, Stark street.
Ward 2. Thomas L. Quimby, railroad station, foot of
West Salmon street.
Ward 3. Benjamin F. Garland, 28 Linden street.
Ward 4, Charles B. Clarkson, 249 Concord street.
Ward 5. Patrick Costello, 106 East Spruce street.
Ward 6. Charles Francis, Candia road, East Man-
chester.
Ward 7. William Marshall, 72 Amoskeag Corpora-
tion, West Merrimack street.
Ward 8. Charles S. McKean, 495 Granite street.
Ward 9. Thomas C. Stewart, 27 Marion street.
William C. Clarke, ex officio, Office, City Hall.
16 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT,
Board of Health.
(City Ordinances, chaiiter 14, section 10, as amended. Laws of
1885, chapter 165; Laws of 1887, chapter 227; Public Statutes,
chapters 108, 109, 110.) One member appointed by the Mayor in
Jantiary of each year, to liokl office for a term of three years.
Salary, $200 each per annnm. Office, Court House, West Merri-
maek, corner of Franklin street.
John C. Bickford. Term expires first Monday in Feb-
ruary, 1900.
William K. Bobbins. Term expires first Monday in
February, 1898.
William M. Parsons, Term expires first Monday in Feb-
ruary, 1809.
William I>. Blake, sanitary inspector, Hanover-street
road. Office, Court House, Merrimack, corner of Frank-
lin street.
John F. Loone}^, sanitary inspector. Office, Court
House, Merrimack, corner of Franklin street.
Carl O. Seaman, sanitary inspector. Office, Court
House, Merrimack, corner of Franklin street.
Fire Department.
The chief engineer and four assistant engineers are chosen an-
nually in the month of January, by a majority of the City Coun-
cils in convention. The salary of the chief engineer is $1,300 per
annum; the assistant engineers, each $125 j)er 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 compen-
sation of the call members of the several hook-and-ladder, hose,
steam tire engine, and chemical engine companies is as follows:
Captains, each $165; lieutenants, each $160; clerks, each $160;
assistant engineers, each $155; all other members, each $150;
payable in equal semi-annual payments, on the first of January
and July. (Laws of 1870, chapter 99. (Jeneral Laws, chapter
106. City Ordinances, chapters 6 and 12.) Six members are
permanently emj)loyed as engineers at $76.25 per month each,
and twenty-one as drivers at $68.33 1/; per month each, six other
permanent men at $65 per month each, and receive no compensa-
tion as call members. Members and officers of eacli company
are apiJointed by the board of engineers.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 17
Chief Engineer.
Thomas W. Lane Office. Central Station, Vine street
Kesidence, 1937 Elm street. Telephone at house and office.
Fred S. Bean, clerk, 102 Orange street.
Kuel G. Manning, 52 Douglas street, West Manchester.
Eugene S, Whitney, River road north, corner West
North street.
Clarence R. Merrill, 418 Merrimack street.
For further information see chief eng-ineer's report.
Trustees of City Library.
(Laws of 1854, chapter IJSS. See contract with Manchester
Athene um, printed on pages 107 and 108 of City Report for fiscal
year ending January 31, 1855.) Board of seven trustees, one of
whom is elected by Aldermen and board of trtTstees in joint con-
vention in September, annuallj^ Term of service, seven years;
no sala^3^ Two additional trustees, Mayor, and president of
Common Council, ex officio.
Frank P. Carpenter, term expires October 1, 1902, Elm,
corner West North Street.
Nathan P. Hunt, term expires October 1, 1901, 747
Union street.
Herman F. Straw, term expires October 1, 1900, 607
Chestnut street.
Walter M. Parker, term expires October 1, 1899, 1883
Elm street, corner Webster.
Isaac W. Smith, term expires October 1, 1898, 1855
Elm street.
Moody Currier, term expires October 1, 1897, Ash
street, corner Myrtle. Reappointed.
C. D. McDuffie, term expires October 1, 1903, Ash
street, corner Myrtle.
William C. Clarke, ex officio.
George B. Rogers, e.jo officio.
18 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
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, management, and
control of the building, constructing, repairing, and maintain-
ing of all the streets, highways, lanes, sidewalks, bridges, and
public sewers and drains, and public parks and commons. (See
Laws of 1893, chapter 264.) Office, City Hall building. Open
from 8 to 13 A. M., 2 to 5 p. m. Regular meeting of the board at
2 o'clock F. M. each day. Salary of each member, $600 per year,
payable quarterly, and each is allowed $150 annuallj^ for horse
hire.
George H. Stearns, clerk, term expires 1898.
Horace P. Simpson, chairman, term expires 1900.
Byron Wortlien, term expires 1902.
Assistant Clerk.
Julia F. Stearns.
City Weigher.
Elected annually in convention of City Councils. Salarj", $400
per annum; all fees for weighing returned monthly to city
treasiirer with sworn statement. Stationed at city scales on
Pranklin street.
Asa B. Eaton. Office, city scales; residence, 23 Apple-
ton street.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
Charles B. Clarkson.
Elected annually in January by City Councils in convention.
Paid by fees. (Section 25, chapter 43, Public Statutes, and chap-
ter 125, Public Statutes.)
LIST OF, OFFICERS. 19
Fish and Game Wardens.
(Public Statutes, chapter 130.) Elected by Citj' Councils ia
convention.
Jolin C. Higgins, 143 Orange street.
Charles H. Richardson, 411 Hanover street.
Dennis F. Scannell, 74 Clinton street.
Harry P. Ray, Riyer road north.
C. R. Hodge, 574 Hall street.
Trustees of Cemeteries.
(City Ordinances, chapter 39, sections 1, 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.
J. Adam Graf, 10 Middle street, term expires January,
1899.
William H. Huse, Mammoth road, term exjjires 1899.
John L. Sanborn, 25 Market street, term expires 1898.
Bushrod W. Hill, 299 Hanoyer street, term expires
1898.
Stillman P. Cannon, 4.3 Elm street, term expires 1901.
Alfred D. Maxwell, GoffstoAvn road near Front street,
term expires 1901.
Edwin F. Jones, 15 High street, term expires January,
1900.
John P. Young, 346 Merrimack street, term expires
January, 1900.
Fred L. Allen, clerk and treasurer, 6 Linden street.
Sub-Trustees of Cemeteries.
VALLEY CEMETERY.
Alderman Gardner K. Browning, .55 Canal street.
Councilman Carl A. Soderberg, 2.56 East High street.
John L. Sanborn, 25 Market street.
Bushrod W. Hill, 299 Hanover street.
Stillman P. Cannon, 43 Elm street.
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PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Alderman Ossian D. Knox, 757 Chestnut street.
Councilman Alexander Knight, 50 West Merrimack
street.
J. Adam Graf, 10 Middle street.
John P. Young, 346 Merrimack street.
Edwin F. Jones, 15 High street.
AMOSKEAG CEMETERY.
Councilman William Watts, 31 Mechanic street.
Alfred D. Maxwell, Goffstown road near Front street.
William H. Huse, Mammoth road, East Manchester.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Byron A. Stearns. Office and residence at the ceme-
terj^ Telephone.
SUPERINTENDENT OF VALLEY CEMETERY.
Charles H. G. Foss. Office at the cemetery; residence,
267 Lake avenue.
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERY FUNDS.
Charles H. Bartlett, 25 High street.
Otis Barton, 122 Orange street.
W^illiam C. Clarke, ex officio.
Inspector of Milk.
Archie F. Precourt Central, corner Chestnut street
Eesidence, 335 E. Spruce street. Term exjjires February 1, an-
nually. (Public Statutes, chapter 127.) Appointed by Mayor
and Aldermen. Salary, $300 per annum.
Inspector of Buildings-
Thomas W. Lane Office at Central Fire Station
Kesidence, 1937 Elm street. Appointed by Board of Mayor and
Aldermen, bienniall3% in February. Salarj', $100 per annum.
(City Ordinances, chapter 15. LaAvs of 1883, chapter 94. Public
Statutes, page 170.) Telei^hone at house and office.
LIST OF OFFICERS. 21
Inspectors of Oil.
Joseph B. Baril 90 Bridge street
John Cayzer •. 383 Granite street
(Public Statutes, chapter 129, sections 25-34. City Ordinances,
chapter 25.) Paid by fees, i/i of 1 per cent per g-allon.
Moderators.
Elected biennially. (General Laws, chapter 31, sections 3, 9;
chapter 36, section 9; chapter 44, section 7. City Ordinances,
page 18. See Public Statutes relating to towns and cities.)
Ward 1. Abial AY. Eastman.
Ward 2. William M. Butterfield.
Ward 3. Allen W. Wilson.
Ward 4. Ernest C. Wescott.
Ward 5. Thomas F. Slattery.
Ward 6. Herbert S. Clough.
Ward 7. Robert Morrow.
Ward 8. Eben C. Chase.
Ward 9. Norbert Descoteau.
Ward Clerks.
Elected biennially. (General Laws, chapter 44, sections 10, 12.
City Ordinances, page IS. Public Statutes relating to towns and
cities.)
Ward 1. George A. Stokes".
Ward 2. Elmer W. Nutting.
Ward 3. John H. Hayes.
Ward 4. Robert H. Scott.
Ward 5. Martin J. Whalen.
Ward 6. Arthur B. Dickey.
Ward 7. Charles E. Bartlett.
Ward 8. G. L. Putnam.
Ward 9. Jean B. Archambeault.
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Selectmen.
Elected biennially. (General Laws, chapter 1, section 27;
chapter 12, section 6; chapter 40, sections 2, 3; chapter 109, sec-
tion 27; chapter 213, section 1. City Ordinances, page 18. Public
Statutes relating to towns and cities.)
Ward 1.
John H. Wales, Jr. Jolm V. Brandt.
Alexander Hanna.
Ward 2.
Fred K. Ramsey. Silas R. Wallace.
James E. Orrill.
Ward 3.
Walter B. Wright. Victor Johnson.
John Cronin.
Ward 4.
Albert E. Blanchard. Joseph E. Merrill.
Thomas Miingall.
Ward 5.
William H. Quinn. Hugh 0. Duffy.
Thomas F. Daly.
Ward 6.
George M. Bean. John Ferguson.
Harrison W. Haselton.
Ward 7.
Edward S. Stratton. Hanson R. Armstrong.
Robert Leggett.
Ward 8.
Richard P. Grossman. Hervey Stratton.
Osman W. Pettingill.
Ward 9.
Louis Gauthier. Eugene Quirin.
Treffle Raiche.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS.
Gentlemen of the City Conneils:
Having by the oath of office this day administered to
you assumed the duties of the positions to which you have
been called by the suffrages of your fellow-citizens, your
responsibility foi; the work of the ensuing year is now
begun.
Manchester occupies a prominent position in the affairs
of our state and her influence is felt in many ways
throughout New England. Her growth has been con-
tinuous and prosperous and with the growth new condi-
tions have arisen and new conditions must continue to
arise to engage the attention of each succeeding adminis-
tration. These requirements call for more careful consid-
eration in every public expenditure and greater economy
in every department. It is impossible to outline at the
commencement of tlie municipal year the details of the
work to be accomplished. I shall, however, give you a
general synopsis of the work performed during the past
two years by the several branches of our municipal gov-
ernment, making such suggestions bearing upon the needs
of the city as seem to me expedient, and submit some
recommendations for your consideration.
It is an easy matter to map out a policy for municipal
administration, but it is not always easy to consistently
follow it. It would be comparatively easy, however, in
the common run of affairs, if there were a unanimity of
opinion among a majority of the members of both branches
of the city councils that the policy outlined Avas the cor-
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26 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
rect one to" follow, and a determination npon their part to
follow it. An experience of two rears in municipal affairs
has convinced me that it is just as easy to run the affairs
of this city in a straight, business-like, economical manner
as it is for any successful man of business to conduct his
own private affairs, providing always that business-like
methods are adopted at the outset and rigidly adhered to.
The lack of experience has a great deal to do with the
success or failure of municipal administration in a city
like Manchester, as it does in our state legislative bodies.
Inexperienced men in city affairs, however able, compe-
tent, and honest they may be, have much to learn before
they can become useful public servants. We find in every
new administration some men peculiarly well fitted for
public service, but just as they have about acquired an in-
telligent and practical knowledge of city affairs, and have
become useful members, their term of office expires and
their places are filled by others, who, while they may be
equal, or perhaps superior, in general equipment, are apt
to be wholly lacking in experience and must in turn serve
an apprenticeship before they can become fully useful and
efficient. And so it may be said that each new incoming^
city government is made up in a large measure of ''raw
material" which must be develoi)ed before its true worth
can be ascertained and utilized ; and this will always be so
until the present custom of ward nominations is changed.
In some respects the municipal government of the en-
suing tAVO years is somewhat of an exception, as in its
membership we find sixteen members who have had pre-
vious experience in city affairs. This should augur well
from the standpoint of experience, and as the new mem-
bers include among their number men of accredited suc-
cess in their own business, and others of brightness and
intelligence in other avocations. I am encouraged to be-
lieve that the affairs of the city during the next two 3'ears
will be acceptably conducted.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS, 27
There has seldom been a period in the history of this
city when its general affairs were in better shape or when
so little needed to be done. About every city depart-
ment, so far as I know, is adequately provided for and
calls for no more than ordinary expenses to operate.
There is, of course, now, as there always has been and
will be, opportunity for improvements, and they will doubt-
less be vigorously called for; but in my judgment the
best improvement this city government can give the tax-
payers and citizens of Manchester, so far as possible, is to
"let well enough alone" and conduct the business of the
city under its present equipment. The present i^olicj^ of
our large corporations and business houses of curtailment
and economy wherever practicable is a wise policy for this
administration not only to adopt but to follow.
THE CITY DEBT.
Manchester's city debt has not decreased any in the past
two years, but on the contrary has been increased, and I
have little hope' of seeing it much if any decreased in the
two years to come. But this, my associates, w^e can do:
We can, unless unforeseen emergencies arise, prevent it
from being increased. For your information and that of
the general public, I herewith submit the figures of Man-
chester's bonded indebtedness January 1, 1897:
City bonds $155,000
School bonds 230,000
"Water bonds . . 900,000
33rJdge bonds 190,000
Improvement bonds 400,000
Cemetery bonds 42,250
Security bonds 100,000
$2,017,250
By the foregoing you will observe that the total bonded
indebtedness of the city is |2,017,250, or G.S4 per cent of
28 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
our total assessed valuation. Omitting? the city water
debt, the percentage is 3.79. It is customary, I know,
not to reckon the bonded indebtedness of our water-works
in this list, but really it is a part of the city's debt, for
w'hicli the city as a corporation is alone responsible.
These are large figures, a great deal larger than they
should be, but they will never become any smaller until
the policy of enlarging them by yearly bond issues ceases.
There has been issued during the past four years
|400,000 worth of permanent improvement bonds and
under legislative enactment it is within your ])rovince to
issue |100,00() more during your term of office. The
question then for you to decide is, whether you will sanc-
tion this further issue or wdiether you Avill stop where we
are and keep the city debt from further increasing.
For myself I can only speak, and I have no hesitation in
saying that I believe the material interests and prosperity
of Manchester urgently require us at this time not to in-
crease the city's bonded indebtedness in any way that is
not forced upon us. To save the city an additional burden
of debt of 1100,000 during the next two years is some-
thing to be seriously considered, and that it can be saved
by a prudent apportionment of money I sincerely believe.
Pay the city's bills from the taxes alone this year and next
and contract no more bills than you can pay in this way,
and you will have made a beginning at least toward pre-
venting the city's debt from accumulating.
Our taxes in themselves are not excessively burden-
some but they bear heavil}', nevertheless, upon many of
our people and should not be increased. It is in the con-
dition of things that they necessarily fluctuate from year
to year, yet I do not believe there is occasion at this time,
with the citj-'s needs so generously cared for, to increase
the present tax rate, but to reduce it if possible. As
showing the manner in which our city taxes have operated
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 29
during the past five administrations, eoverinc^ a period of
ten 3'ears, I submit the following table of figures:
Year. Rate. Average.
1887 $1.70
1888 1.95 $1,821/3
1889 1.90
1890 1.91 1-901/3
1891 1.78
1892 1.95 I.8C1/2
1893 . . . ■ . . . . 1.87
1894 .• 1.78 1-811/2
1895 1.74
1896 1.86 l.SO
THE CITY TAXES.
The total assessed valuation of the city of Manchester
for the year 1896 was 129,443,008, and based upon this
valuation there was collected in taxes about |54(),000.
During the past two years collections have been the hard-
est ever experienced in the ofiicial career of the present
collector, covering a period of fifteen years. The amount
of uncollected taxes assessed in 1896 was between -foO.OOO
and 155,000, or about |13,000 larger than in 1895. This
increase is accounted for by the fact that the total tax of
1896 was about $45,000 larger than in 1895. Of the
amount uncollected in 1896 a certain portion is collectible
and will be paid this year.
There is no denying the fact that the business depres-
sion of the past two years has borne heavily upon many
business men in Manchester and that taxes, whether great
or small, have been in many instances extremely hai-d to
collect. That some have not been paid is for the plain,
honest reason that those now delinquent have not had the
means at their command to pay them with. That the tax
collector might have used the authority given him to
cause arrests and imprisonment is doubtless true, but this
would have been in hundreds of cases a most inhuman act
30 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
of legal justice, as it would have plunged many families,
now almost in distress, into a condition of absolute want
and suffering, or would have aroused the pity of friends to
such an extent that they would have stepped forward and
made settlement in their behalf to avoid the disgrace of
imprisonment. The record of the tax collector's office
during the past fifteen years is a most creditable one and
demonstrates that the interests of this important depart-
ment of the city have been carefully and faithfully looked
after.
The amounts received from the si ate into the city tax
fund for the year 1896 were as follows: Insurance tax,
12,632. .50; railroad tax, |29,530.64; savings bank tax,
150,770.79; literary fund, $3,869.60; total, |86,803.53.
A comparison of these figures with those for past years
shows a large decrease in the amounts received from the
state each year by the city. The state tax upon the city
is increasing steadily, while the other taxable properties,
as shown above, and from which the city receives an an-
nual revenue, are as steadily decreasing, in amount.
In 1895, the state tax paid by the city was |65,615, and
the amount paid the city by the state, $88,204.15, making
the net income to the city |22,589.15. The state tax
in 1894 was the same, or |65,615, and the state paid
1110.532.59, or a balance of |44,917.59 to the city. In
1893 the figures were |05,615 and |120,228.74, and the
city received |54,613.74. The figures for 1892 were
165.615 and if 114,161. 72, and the city benefited by the
sum of 148,546.72.
In 1891 the conditions were a little different. The state
tax was only |63,435 and the amount due the city from
the state was |104,542.33, a net balance paid into the city
treasury by the state of |41,107.33.
This change in money received from the state is most
directly due to a falling off in the savings bank deposits
and also to a reduction in the tax upon these deposits
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 31
from 1 per cent to f of 1 per cent. The maximum of
taxable deposits was reached in 1893, when tliev amounted
to 177,024,282 for the state. In the three years follow-
ing they haye decreased about seyeu millions each year,
the total decrease being |20,140,082. In the year of
1893 the sum of |2, 162,389.32, and in 1894 the sum of.
13,169,790.90 was deducted under the state law exempting
the banks on their real estate taxed locally whereyer it
may exist, either within or without the state. In 1895 an
.act was passed by the legislature exempting all loans at 5
per cent made to parties in the state and secured by real
estate within the limits of the state. This double exemp-
tion on 5 per cent state loans increased the total amount
exempted for that year to |6,643,139.73. Last year this
amount was further increased, the exemption on the say-
ings bank securities being |8,426,255.42.
This large exemption, coupled with the immense de-
€rease in deposits, has reduced the sayings bank tax real-
ized by this city for the year 1896 to |50,770.79.
It is due to the sayings bank tax more than to any other
one item that the city receiyed last year from the state
136,035.21 less than she did in 1893.
This item makes a yery appreciable difference in meet-
ing the expenses of the city and entails increased cave
and prudence in the distribution of the city money. Dur-
ing the two years just elapsed there has been received by
the city from the state |41,167.68, as against |99,531.33
during the two years immediately preceding, a difference
against the city of |58,363.65. At the same time the
state tax against the city is increasing. This is regulated
by the assessed valuation and is apportioned according to
the returns made to the state board of equalisation once
in every four years. Since 1891, when the state tax was
$63,435, it has increased |4,790, to the year 1896. For
the succeeding three years it will remain at the present
ligure and will at the end of that time be newly appor-
tioned. In the insurance and railroad tax and the literary
32 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
fund the clianjje year by year is very small and malces no
appreciable difference in the balance accruinu to the city
treasury from the state under the existing conditions.
With the marked decrease in the difference between the
state tax and the Aarious apportionments from the state,
.which Manchester now realizes, the balance in a few
years promises to be against the citA- rather than in its
favor.
With all of these conditions confronting us it is the
sacred duty of every member of this city government to
employ his best efforts to lighten the burdens of taxation
in Manchester, and to avert, if possible, any increase in
the city's debt. The estimates of the various departments
for the current year are most of them larger than they
have been in the past, and without curtailing expendi-
tures which are necessary, still, proper economy should be
observed, and we should not undertake new enterprises
without most careful consideration. We should go
slowly. The times do not warrant any unnecessary ex-
penditure. Every class in the community has suffered
by the financial depression of the past year, and the peo-
ple should be given time to recuperate in 1897. The peo-
ple want neither extravagance nor parsimony, but they
have a right to demand econoni}'.
The net cash in the city treasury December 31, 1896,
was |160,8().3.04, against |143,088.90 December 31, 1895,
and 176,721.90 December 31, 1891. The sinking fund
deposits are steadily increasing, the amount now aggre-
gating 191,645.24, of which |59,422.59 is credited to the
water-works, and .|35,222.65 to the liquidation of improve-
ment bonds.
FolloAving is the statement of the city auditor after an
examination of the accounts of the city treasurer for the
3'ear ending December 31, 1896:
INAUGUKAL ADDRESS.
sa
The net cash on hand January 1, 1S96, was
Eeceipts during the year .
Total
Amount of drafts during the year
Net cash on hand December 31, 1895
Total
The cash balance taken December 31, 1896,
as follows:
Deposited in Suffolk National Bank .
Deposited in Second National Bank
Deposited in office safe ......
Deposited in National Bank of Commonwealth
Gross amount of cash on hand
Deduct amount of bills unpaid ....
Net cash on hand December 31, 1896
$143, 088.9a
1,419,841.15.
$1,562,930.05
$1,402,067.01;
160,863.04-
$1,562,930.05
I find to be
$20,652.00
212,404.12
6,498.62
1,406.83
$240,961.57
80,098.53
$160,863.04
MUNICIPAL SUITS AND CLAIMS.
In regard to suits and claims against the city for dam-
ages for various reasons, those at present existing are em-
braced mainly within three classes: First, damages
claimed for the flowage of land by the water of Lake
Massabesic, and the change of flow of the water in Cohas
brook, occasioned by the use of these waters for water-
works purposes; second, damages claimed to have been
occasioned to real estate by the change of grade of high-
ways; and third, damages for personal injuries received
by employees of the street and park commission while
engaged in the jjerformance of their work.
The change of the law regarding damages occasioned
by defective highways has limited the liability of the city
practically to injuries received by travelers upon bridges
and across culverts and sewers, and upon places in the
highways where there are embankments without suitable
railings. If the supreme court should follow the trend of
its latest decisions, it is expected that it will be held that
84 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
no liability exists upon the city for the injuries received
by the employees of the street and park commission. If,
however, the court should hold that the relation of mas-
ter and servant exists between the city and such laborers,
there are several cases which will have to be tried and will
rest upon the determination of the jury whether or not
the city was guilty of any negligence in not providing
proper appliances or giving suitable instructions to the
workmen.
Eegarding the water-works cases, the disposition of
the suits now existing and future claims which may arise,
all will doubtless be adjusted by acquiring, under the due
process of law, all rights in the waters which the needs
of the water-works system may demand. The absolute
€ontrol of the water in Lake Massabesic and Cohas brook
by the city seems to be essential, and the authority of the
statutes is sufficient to enable the city to acquire it, and
with that control any future claims for damages will be
obviated.
As to the other classes of cases, the main conclusion to
be drawn seems to be this: That boards of maj^or and
aldermen should be extremely careful in laying out high-
ways and the taking of land therefor; that the grade of
highways should not be changed so as to damage the abut-
ting real estate, except iu case of great necessity; that
great care be exercised by the proper authorities in seeing
that the bridges and sewers are kept in proper condition,
■and that all dangerous embankments should be safel^y and
securely guarded by strong and suitable railings.
The legal work of the city has been ably and faithfully
discharged by the present solicitor, who, during his term
of office, covering a period of ten years, has acquired a
broad and practical knowledge of municipal law, which
renders him a very valuable public official.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 35
MUNICIPAL FRANCHISES AND PRIVILEGES.
The question of municipal f ranehises is one of great im-
portance and the granting of them should be properly
guarded. The city of Manchester receives a meagre re-
turn from the corporations which have received many val-
uable privileges at her hands. The street railway com-
pany pays nothing to the city for the immensely valuable
franchises granted to it years ago by the New Hampshire
legislature.
By a law passed at the January session, 1S95, important
and responsible duties were placed upon the board of
mayor and aldermen of cities relative to the supervision
and regulation of railways in public highways. This law
is so clear and concise that it requires no professional in-
terpretation to be understood. It states plainly what the
duties of a board of mayor and aldermen are and I re-
spectfully urge upon the attention of the incoming bofird
close and careful study and consideration of this law, that
it may be able to act intelligently and judiciously for the
interests of the city and the public.
In past years the Manchester Street Railway has en-
joyed many remarkable privileges at the hands of the
city and has derived from the legislature even more re-
markable franchises. That such wholesale privileges
should be granted in the future without bringing in return
therefor material benefits to the city no intelligent citizen
believes, and it is a source of satisfaction to know that the
aldermanic board, so lately retired from office, used its
powers in some directions to save the city expenses that
it had uncomplainingly borne in the past. No extension
of the electric car service should be granted without re-
quiring the railroad company to place the highways upon
which its lines are built in a thorough and satisfactory
condition after the work is completed, and whenever such
extension is made over ungraded highwavs the railwav
36 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
corpora"tion sliould be oblij;ed to place the street at g:rade
and build it in a first-class manner along the full line of
the extension. This the Manchester Street Railway was ♦
required to do in extending its lines to the Pine Grove
cemetery and on Beech street last fall, and also to bear its
proportion of the expense of paving the new Granite
bridge and its approaches, and these are the only in-
stances that I know of wherein the city has not given the
street railway everything it asked for unconditionally.
With the regulation of fares of the street railway the
board of aldermen has nothing whatever to do. The fare
question is one that the legislature alone can settle, or it
can delegate this power to others. At present it is dele-
gated to the board of railroad commissioners.
In many of the large cities of the country where street
railways are in operation, municipalities are in receipt of
fixfd revenues from these corporations. In many instances
this takes the form of a license fee for every car in use
and a certain per cent, about 2^ per cent generally, of the
gross earnings of the road. In some cities street railway
franchises are sold at auction. In the year 1895 the city
of New York sold one of these franchises for :^8^ per
cent of the gross receipts of the proposed road. The
roads of Milwaukee pay 1 per cent of the first |250,00()
of the gross receipts and a larger per cent on larger re-
ceipts. Buffalo gets 2^ per cent of the gross receipts of
its street railway and in 1895 this was over |3(),000.
Chicago collects an annual license of |50 for each car
operated, and received in 1895 from that source nearly
174,000. It also collects compensation for various per-
mits granted the street roads, one of which paid |570,000
for permission to change its horse car road into a trolley
line, and another |250,000 for similar concessions. In
Philadelphia the street railways are compelled to pave all
streets in which their cars are operated.
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 37
And SO you will find that many of the larger cities are
today requiring street railways to pay into the city treas-
ury a percentage of their earnings, as well as a license
fee. But the trouble here in Manchester is that about
every valuable privilege and franchise enjoyed by the
Manchester Street Kailway was freely given away by the
legislature when the road was originally chartered in
1864, and in the various extensions and amendments of
its charter which have since been made, and that about all
the city can do now is to refuse to grant further exten-
sions of the road unless the corporation accedes to certain
reasonable conditions, and these can be made very im-
portant. Our citizens now begin to realize the fact that
this city has allowed many very valuable privileges to be
given away to corporations in years past, without the
city's receiving any adequate return therefrom, and a vig-
orous attempt should be made in the future to correct
these mistakes so far as possible.
The streets of Manchester are the property of the people
of Manchester. The expense of laying out, building and
improving them has amounted to millions of dollars and
has been paid by the people in taxes. The mayor and
aldermen are trustees, holding these streets in trust for
the use and benefit of the people, and as such trustees it
is the duty of this board to preserve the trust property
solely for the interest and benefit of those who have
trusted them. If the right to use these streets, which are
the property of the people, is a grant of value in the mar-
ket or to any corporation, it is manifest that this grant
should not be given without just and full compensation.
Our streets are becoming more valuable from year to year
through inevitable increase in population, and the time
has come when we must use further grants for the inter-
ests of the city. We must look further ahead than to-
morrow, remembering that we are laying the foundations
of a city that is destined to become great and populous.
38 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
The people fix the value of the streets, and no ^^urther-
privileges should be granted without adequate returns to
the citv. I would recommend that all privileges hereafter
granted by the board of mayor and aldermen contain a
clause guaranteeing to the cit}' a fixed percentage of the
gross receipts of the party or company obtaining the
privilege. The old gas company is a conspicuous instance
of corj)orations that amassed great wealth as the result of
franchises g-ranted them for which the city received no
compensation. When this company changed hands a few
years ago at what seemed upon the surface a large price,
it was simply paying the stockholders for the value of the
franchise it had acquired for nothing, and by acquiring it,
it is able today to pay the stockholders of the old com-
pany 32 per cent per annum and earn large dividends
besides for the stockholders of the new company.
It should be remembered that franchises are more valu-
able than formerly, and that the utilization of machinery
and improved methods have cheapened electricity, electric
supplies and nearly every kind of material, which enables
applicants for franchises to make better terms with the
city.
But these statements apply not alone to the street
railway company. They apply with equal force and
justice to all other corporations holding rights and privi-
leges in the highways of this city. The electric light
company, which has a ten j^ears' contract for lighting
the streets, parks, and commons of Manchester, should
of its own volition furnish the city with a certain number
of free public lights, and under the terms of the contract,
whenever it is able to do so, reduce the expense of lighting
to the city, which now pays the company |115 per year for
every light in use. Under the terms of this contract
the company agreed that whenever the time arrived when
there was a radical change in the manner of generating
electricity, whereby the cost of producing the current was
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 39
materiallT lessened, an adequate reduction in tlie price of
the electric lighting" service would be made, and as there
has been no disposition on the part of either party to
break faith with the other, it is reasonable to suppose
that the company w^ill fulfill this obligation.
Regarding the New England Telephone and Telegraph
Co., the city receives some benefits from the privileges,
granted to it to lay an underground conduit in the
streets, — the setting apart of one duct in the conduit for
the use of city wires without expense to the city; but
greater concessions, I believe, should be made by the
company in the use of telephones by the city, for the use
of public property for its private benefit. In this and
other ways alluded to the revenue of the city of Man-
chester would practically be increased by a lessening of
the expenses necessary to be incurred annually and a con-
sequent reduction of the tax rate, which is a matter of
direct benefit to every taxpayer.
It is the settled policy of some cities, which awakened
to the importance of this subject earlier than Manchester,
to exact cash returns for all privileges which may be
granted by the city, and from these, large returns are re-
ceived into the city treasury from street railway, electric
light, telephone, gas, and other corporations holding
rights in the streets and highways. The trend of popular
municipal economies now is to own its own quasi-public
plants. In nearly every city of England, Scotland, Ger-
many, Belgium, and even in Italy, this is now the case^
and they are being leased by the cities at enormous profits.
It is the case now in Toronto; Detroit has taken the
initiative in this countr}- and the idea is growing.
Whatever future contracts are made by the city of Man-
chester in relation to these matters should be for a stipu-
lated period, with the reserved right at the end thereof to
purchase at an arbitrated consideration, or at the end of
the contract to make new stipulations. And so there is a
40 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
general awakening to a correct and enlightened under-
standing of the public rights and interests on this subject,
and the mayor and aldermen of Manchester cannot afford
to shut their eves to the light or ignore the vested rights
of the taxpayers and people, or be in a hurry to give away
rights over and in the streets which are undoubtedly of
great and increasing value.
If there are any grave doubts in your minds relative to
your powers in these matters it may be proper for you to
consider whether it might not be advisable to apply to the
next legislature for such remedial legislation as would en-
able the city to more adequately protect its rights in these
and all other questions regarding public franchises and
privileges.
CITY SALARIES.
Manchester pays fair salaries to her officials and em-
ployees; in some instances as much, if not more, than she
can afford. Certain it is that the times do not at present
warrant any further increase in any department. There
have been several increases during the past two years that
I believe to have been uncalled for, and by means of
which the city salary list has been burdened too heavily.
Here as elsewhere in municipal affairs the principles of
men conducting their own private business should be
strictly applied.
There is one method prevailing in salaries that should
be remedied, and that is the abolishment of all fees from
every office where they now appertain. The paA^nent of
a fixed salary to city officials is the only business way to
pursue, and I hope to see this matter fairly and satisfac-
torily adjusted during this administration. There are a
few instances only of this kind in vogue and they have
long been open to the deserved censure of taxpayers.
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PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
The public building property owned by the city of Man-
chester is generally in excellent condition and adequately
meets all present and all immediately prospective require-
ments made upon it. A recommendation made b}' me
two years ago in regard to remodeling the city hall was
adopted by the last administration, and I think I express
public opinion fairh' when I say that the changes made
upon it have since received almost universal approval.
To my mind it is today one of the most attractive build-
ings upon our principal business thoroughfare, and it is
certainly as conveniently and comfortably arranged for
the transaction of city business as any city hall I know of.
The improvements were carried out for a comparatively
small sum of money, and I can see no reason why the
present city hall quarters will not answer Manchester's
purposes for the next quarter of a century, and possibly
longer. As there had been for several years prior to
these alterations a strong and growing sentiment in favor
of the erection of a new cit}' hall, with a fair prospect
that such an enterprise would have been attempted within
a few years, had these changes not taken place, it must
be admitted that for the time being at least the city has
been saved from an expenditure of not Jess than a quarter
of a million of dollars.
Our public school buildings, fire engine houses, city
library, city farm, courthouse, and police station buildings
are all in good condition, and aside from the usual yearly
repairs called for are well enough, with the possible ex-
ception of the city library building, and do not need to be
changed. In fact, nearly all of the real estate property
owned by the city is in good shape for the uses to which
it is put.
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Manchester has many reasons to be proud of her public
library. It is of good size for a city of our proportions
42 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
and contains an excellent collection of books. Its shelves
contain 40,5.58 volumes, an increase of over 2,000 volumes
duringf the past two years. The number of new books
added in 1S9G was 1,109. The home circulation for the
year was 66,488. What is most lacking at the library
building" is a suitable public reading room, and until such
is provided this institution will never attain its full meas-
ure of popularity and educational value. A reference
room, supplied with dictionaries, histories, encyclopedias,
and other kindred books, where they will be of easy access,
would also be of great value and convenience, particularly
to professional men and women. A large, well lighted,
attractive reading room, open early and late, Sundays as
well as week days, with magazines and newspapers within
reach, without having to be asked for, as they are now,
would, I believe, do more to increase the educational value
of our library than anything else that could be attempted.
Until such a reading room is furnished there seems to be
practical objection to keeping the library open on Sun-
days, a matter I have always believed in and favored.
And it is personally gratifying in this connection to
state that a movement urged by me a little over a year
ago, making a change in the library hours, met with favor-
able consideration from the board of trustees, and that the
new system has been a success from the start. Since
December 1, 1895, the city library has been open week
days continuously from 10 a. m. to 8 p. m., with the result
that all of the old patrons of the library are well pleased
with the change and many new ones have been secured
thereby. The open noon hour is a great accommodation
to the laboring classes, as is also the period from 5 to 7
p. M., during which, under the old management, the library
was closed. Neither the librarian nor the public would
favor returning to the former method.
Under the management of Miss Kate Sanborn, libra i-ian,
the Manchester city library has steadily gained in circu-
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latioii. The "ain for 1805 was 1.441 over that of 1894,
and for 189G, 6,993 over that of 1895. Tlie gain has been
a steady one throughout and seems likely to continue.
Miss Sanborn has brought to her duties an extensive and
valuable knowledge of public library work and is con-
stantly seeking after the newest and best ideas to build uj)
the library and render greater its benefits. No library in
New England is conducted under a more approved system,
and none of its size is doing better work for a community.
It is a matter of regret that the library is so inadequately
supplied with good magazines and daily newspapers.
Outside of the Manchester papers the library is today un-
provided with a single daily new^spaper, while the supply
of magazines is very meager. This is a condition of
afifairs that should be remedied.
During the past two years certain needed imi)rovements
have been made in the interior of the library building, one
of the most commendable being the substitution of elec-
tric light for gas. Fnder the old system of gas the build-
ing was very poorly lighted. A portion of the librarian's
inclosure has been carpeted and a marked reduction of
noise is noticeable. An extension of this work throughout
the building would be a great improvement and one that
those who go to the library to read w^ould especially
appreciate. The building has also been much improved
by needed painting within and without. A heroic statue
of Abraham Lincoln, a gift of the eminent sculptor John
Rogers, was presented to the city last year and placed
in the library building. Owing to its great size and the
cramped condition of the present public waiting and read-
ing room, it occupies too much valuable space, and I
would suggest that at the completion of the new high
school it be transferred to that building, where it can be
better received and displayed. The increase of help at
the library occasioned by the change of hours, and the sub-
stitution of electric lights for gas, have added somewhat
44 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
to the running expenses of the institution and a little
larger appropriation will be required for the library the
coming year.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Manchester pays a large sum of money annually for the
maintenance of her public schools. The appropriation
in 1895 was |92,500 and there was expended |91,431.
In 1896 the sum of |103,500 was approj^riated and
1102,559.91 expended, and the estimated expense by the
school board of maintaining them for the year 1897 is
1113.800. No city in New England is better equipped
with public school buildings than Manchester. Under
the last administration three new eight-room brick build-
ings and a new high school building were erected to meet
the pressing requirements of more school accommoda-
tions. Three of these structures were built by means of
the issue of school bonds and one was paid for directly out
of the taxes. The school bonds issued are all provided
with an annual sinking fund, and when the bonds mature
in twenty years these improvements will be fully paid for.
It is estimated that Manchester has today invested in
public school property the large amount of |800,000. For
a city of 55,000 population, and by no means a wealthy
city, this is an enormous investment for the purposes of
public school education, and yet the statistics of the last
few years show that about as fast as new school buildings
are erected, in whatever section of the city they are
placed, they are rapidly filled, and in a short time there is
again call for more.
The last administration was confronted by an imper-
ative demand for greatly needed school accommodations
and they were provided; how wisely or well, you and the
public have already had an opportunity to judge. It may
be fairly said, however, that in design, construction, ap-
pointments, and equipment they are thoroughly substan-
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 45
tial and modern, and in these respects, and also in cost,
will bear favorable comparison with similar school edi-
fices erected anywhere in New England during the past
two years. In securing plans and estimates for construc-
tion and equipment the members of the city councils have
been materially aided by representatives of the school
board, both bodies co-operating harmoniously and zeal-
ously in carrying forward these permanent improvements.
To one member, especiall}^, of the board of education the
city of Manchester is deeph' indebted for counsel and
advice in these matters. I refer to Capt. Charles H. Man-
ning, who has given generously, cheerfully, and gratui-
tously of his time, ability, and expert knowledge in every
instance where they have been sought (and this has been
very often), and not a little of the credit for the superior
excellence of these handsome and commodious institu-
tions of learning belongs to him.
Manchester is so well provided with public school build-
ings at the present time that I can see no urgent necessity
of erecting any more new ones during the coming two
years. The new^ high school will be opened next spring
and this will place at the disposal of the school authorities
for other school needs the Straw building of eight rooms.
This will be used for the relief of the overcrowded rooms
of primary and middle grades in the Ash-street, Spring-
street, and Lowell-street schools, and to this new build-
ing will also be transferred the pupils of the Blodget-street
school, who for many j-ears have been badly housed.
The transfer of these schools will relieve any further use
of the Blodget-street building for public school purposes.
After the foregoing changes are elfected the Straw school
will be organized with a lady principal tit its head, similar
to the Spring-street school.
The Straw school, named in honor of the late ex-Gov.
E. A. Straw, remembered as one of Manchester's ablest
and most illustrious citizens, was the first of the quartet
46 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
of new school buildings to be finished during the last
administration, and upon its completion was at once oc-
cupied by the high school, and will continue to be so
occupied until the new high school building is ready. This
will probably be by the first of April next.
The new high school is a noble and imposing edifice,
*'built," as one of our public speakers not long since said,
"^not for today, but for generations." It stands upon the
old high school site, and since its erection the electric car
service has been extended to its doors. The building is
capable of accommodating 700 pupils. In arrangement it
is a model of comfort and convenience. Aside from a
complete equipment of study and recitation rooms, it is
provided with a library, chemical laboratory, astronom-
ical observatory, armory and drill room, and a spacious
assembly hall that will seat 800 people, and where the
public exercises of the school may hereafter be held. The
building is perfectly lighted, ventilated, and heated. In
fact, these three essentials are conspicuous not only in the
new high school, but in the new Straw school, Wilson
school, and Parker school, and offer a striking comparison
in sanitary equipment to the conditions found in the Ash-
street and Lincoln-street houses, that not so very long ago
were pointed out as specimens of modern school buildings.
Despite the apparent large seating capacity of the new
high school building, a large part of it will be utilized at
once when the high school is reopened there. As the
grammar schools continue to further increase in attend-
ance, the new building maj" be used to relieve them, as is
successfully done in other cities, by transferring the first
class of the first divisions of the grammar schools during
their last year to tlie high school. This will not only
avoid the expense of erecting other new grammar school
buildings for some years, but will also bring grammar
school pupils more closely in touch with high school work
before taking up a regular course of high school studv.
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If this plan is adopted the new high school building, in-
stead of giving accommodations to some 300 pupils next
spring, will ere long have an attendance of 500, and
eventnallv of the full quota, 700. In this connection it
can be said that Manchester's new high school building
is practically fire-proof.
It is a matter of general regret to our citizens that the
Manchester high school has been of late years the scene
of so many sensational disturbances and disruptions, and
it is earnestly' to be hoped that the school will enter upon
a new era of harmony and prosperity in the new building.
Of the causes or origin of these troubles we are not now
disposed to speak, but we believe we voice the sentiments
of a large class of intelligent citizens in this community
when we say that if some of the customs now followed
by pupils of this school, outside of the class and study
room, were prohibited, and pupils made to understand
that they were not yet expected, and would not be permit-
ted to ape the manners and habits of the colleges and sem-
inaries, it would be far better, not only for the w^elfare of
the school but for the welfare of the young ladies and
gentlemen now pursuing there a course of education.
The tendency of the hour in our public school system is
to crowd into it too many superfluities, all clearly antago-
nistic to the fundamental and legitimate aims and pur-
poses of a common school education; and when to these
are added silly imitations of college and boarding school,
it is not surprising- that outbreaks occur and that the pub-
lic exclaims, "What is the matter with our high school?"
From an aggregate attendance in our public schools of
3,632 in 1886, the attendance has increased during a de-
cade, or until the close of the year 1896, to 5,382, a gain
of 1,750. Ten years ago the number of public school
teachers employed was 74; today the number is 115, an
increase of 11. Our schools are generally well governed,
and are taught by a corps of intelligent, conscientious.
48 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
and ambitions teachers, who are well paid for their ser-
vices. In standing they are classed among the best in
New England. Certainly no city is more liberal than
Manchester in affording school accommodations, and with
considerably over one hundred thousand dollars at the
disposal of the public school authorities, parents and citi-
zens of all classes have a right to expect that the present
high standard will be maintained.
I am heartily in accord with the recommendation made
by the superintendent of schools in the report just pre-
pared b}^ him as the report of the school board to be
transmitted to the city councils, wherein he urges a modi-
fication of the high school course of study, that a larger
proportion of grammar school graduates may be induced
to enter the high school. Only about 70 per cent of our
grammar graduates have been accustomed to enter the
high school. There are several reasons accounting for
this, not one of the least being a feeling prevailing in the
community that the teaching of the English branches in
this institution has been subordinated to the teaching of
the classics. As comparatively few of the parents of
pupils attending our public schools are able to send their
children to the colleges or seminaries, instruction in such
branches as will best meet the requirements of the masses
should be of paramount consideration in the curriculum
of this school, and not, as now, secondary.
THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
To speak of the Manchester fire department is only
to say, what every citizen of Manchester knows and takes
pride in saying, that it is equal to any and excelled by
none. This reputation was established years ago and has
been sustained and steadily added to ever since. At no
time in its honorable history has the Manchester fire de-
partment ever stood upon a higher plane of excellence
than it does todaj^; this not alone in the character and
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 49
number of men connected with it, but in the quality and
perfection of its equipment.
A great deal has been done for the department during
the past two j^ears. A new hose house has been opened
at South Manchester and equipped with a two-horse com-
bination liose wagon; a new independent hose company-
has been installed at East Manchester; the old hose reel
attachment at Lake avenue has been replaced by a two-
horse hose wagon; a two-horse truck has been added to
the Webster-street house and the stable and engine room
enlarged. Three new exercise wagons, a large quantity
of new hose, and a supply of fire-hose jackets have been
purchased for the department; new wagon sheds have
been built at the Fulton and Webster street houses; nine-
teen horses have been bought, exchanged, or traded by
the fire department committee, and at the opening of the
year 1897 we find it amply equipped and with no imme-
diate call for further apparatus. There are now thirty-
four firemen under salary, and during the past year the
pay of the call men has been raised. The expense of main-
taining the fire department during the year 1896 was .$65,-
298.07, and with the fire hydrant service added, |82,098.07.
Thus it will be seen that while satisfactory as is this de-
partment today to most taxpayers and property holders,,
it is a very expensive department to maintain, and as
there appears to be no imperative reason for additional
outlay at the i^resent time, the expenses of the department
ought not to be materially increased either this year or
next. There were eighty-six box alarms of fire in 1896,,
entailing a total fire loss of |23,882.30, on which |20,977.05
insurance was paid, making the net fire loss for a city of
not less than 55,000 population only $2,905.25. It is doubt-
ful if there is another city in the United States the size of
Manchester that can furnish a fire record as creditable as
this.
50 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
One menace to public safety has arisen tlie past year in
the construction of the electric car service, through the
failure or neglect of the Manchester Street Railway Co.
to provide suitable guard wires along the full length of its
trolley wires to prevent other wires from falling upon
them. This applies not only to fire-alarm wires, but to tel-
ephone, telegraph, or any other wires that might become
loaded with sleet or ice and fall and become crossed with
the fire-alarm or other wires. It was but a few weeks ago
that the entire fire-alarm system of a Michigan town was
burned out through the faulty construction of trolley
wires connected with an electric railroad. Anything that
threatens the security and safety of the fire-alarm service
of Manchester should receive prompt attention at the
hands of the city officials, and its interests should be
closely watched and guarded at all times.
The selection of suitable horses for service in the fire
department is one entailing not a little care and judgment.
Horses individually good and fit for many purposes may,
upon trial, prove to be practically worthless as fire horses.
There are in the department at the present time many
good horses, but some of them are growing old and will
soon have to be replaced. There are others that .were
never suitable for fire service and never will be. Too
much money has been paid generally for horses for the
Manchester fire department. As long as the present
market prices for horses hold, good fire horses should be
and may be honestly bought at a price not exceeding |125
per head, and until there is some marked change in the
condition of the horse market no sum exceeding this
should be paid. When horses are purchased and turned
over to the fire department they should be under the
absolute control and management of the board of fire
engineers and should not be interfered with in any way
by the committee on fire department without the knowl-
edge and sanction of this board. And in all matters
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pertaining to this department, the chief engineer, who is
its responsible head, should be fully consulted and co-
operated with by the city committee whenever any action
relating to the interests of the department is under con-
sideration.
In connection with the fire department I believe there
should be established a pension system. The duties of a
fireman aredangerous and exacting, and provisions should
be considered for a pension fund for the relief of disabled
firemen as well as for those who have given the best years
of their lives in the employ of the fire department and
have become unfitted to perform duty or labor in other
occupations.
STREET LIGHTING.
Unquestionably, Manchester is one of the best lighted
cities in the United States. There are in operation in the
city at the present time about 440 electric arc lights of
2,000 candle power each, besides a large number of oil,
gas, and gasoline lamps in the suburbs. Of this number
thirty-six were ordered in the past year; seven others
have been voted in by the city councils and fifteen more
have been recommended by the committee on street light-
ing. Fourteen petitions were laid over by the committee.
The electric lights burn from twilight to twilight, and
during whatever periods they cease to burn, a correspond-
ing reduction is made in the expense charged to the
city. A record of the condition of the lights at night
is kept by the patrolmen of the police force and is
furnished the mayor each month for inspection and
adjustment. The lighting is done by the Manchester
Electric Co. under a contract running seven years longer
at the yearly rate of |115 per light. It is hoped under
the conditions of the contract between the city and the
company that some material reduction in the expense of
public lighting will be made during this administration.
52 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
The cost of street lighting increases yearly, the ex-
pense in 1896 being |51,426.60 as against |46,800.71 in
1895, an increase of |4,625.89. The call for additional
electric lights is a large and increasing one every year,
and the committee having this department in charge is
possessed of great responsibilities. To deal fairly with
the petitioners and honestly with the city is far from easy.
Many lights are petitioned for that are not needed; and as
every electric light ordered in adds |115 annnally to the
cit3''s expense, the utmost conservatism should prevail in
the deliberations of this committee. A redistribution of
many of the lights now in operation would be a marked
saving to the city and might be done without impairing
the general service. Another verA^ material saving might
be made by the establishment of gas lamps in places
where electric lights are called for. In some open places
gas lamps provide sufficient light for all needed purposes
and will continue to do so for several years to come; and
as the expense of operating a gas lamp is about |15 a year,
as against $115 for an electric light, a manifest lessening
of expense could here be made.
CITY WATER WORKS.
The water-works department of the city of Manchester
is managed bj^ a board of commissioners and in most re-
spects holds no immediate relations with the city councils,
yet it is at all times more or less under your suf)ervision
and control, and as it is one of the most important of our
city departments it should not be overlooked in any treat-
ment of our public affairs.
It is a rational statement to make that few cities in this
country are so well equipped with a public water service
as Manchester. The value of this plant is conservatively
estimated at two million dollars, sufficient to liquidate the
entire debt of the city. The water rates exacted will
compare favorably with those of some other cities, but
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I believe they should be reduced whenever the water-
works department is in a condition to do so. It seems to
me that the city itself, owning the water-works, is required
by those having its management in charge to pay too
heavily for city w\iter privileges. Last year the city
turned into the water- works department about |20,000, of
which |1 6,800 was paid for the use of fire hydrants. The
fire hydrant fee of twentj^-five dollars a year for each hy-
drant in use is fixed by statutory law, and the money thus
received is credited to the water-works and is to be held
by it inviolate, as a sinking fund for the liquidation of the
water loan bonds, under such conditions as the board of
water commissioners and the city councils shall deem for
the interest of the city. This arrangement is undoubtedly
n wise one, as it provides a practical ultimate method of
paying the indebtedness of the water- works. But aside
from this tariff, the city pays some 14,000 for other water
privileges, including |700 for the use of water on the
commons, or about one sixth of the money annually ap-
propriated for commons; nearly |800 for the use of the
public schools; over |400 for the fire department; about
|500 for city hall; nearly $1,100 for cemeteries, and pro-
portionate amounts for other departments. Aside from
the cemeteries, no revenue is received in return.
By discontinuing charges to the city for the use of water
for public purposes, or, at least, by making them nominal,
the city would be saved an expense yearly of about |4,000,
and I can see no good reason why this should not be
done.
Just at present it does not seem likely that the rates
fixed for private water takers will be changed. As is well
understood, the water commissioners are engaged in a
great financial undertaking, that of acquiring the com-
plete ownership and control of the full shore front of Lake
Massabesic for the purpose of preserving the purity of
Manchester's supply of drinking water.
64 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
Since this movement of land purchases was inaugu-
rated the commissioners have acquired for tlie ownership
of the city about 70 per cent of the shore front of the lake.
The purchases of land made will average about 300 feet
back from, and including, the shore front. While this
undertaking on the part of the water-works is involving a
large expenditure of money, intelligent public sentiment,
which has been aroused by the dangers of recent years
that have threatened the purity of Manchester's water
supply, is generally in favor of the step, exorbitant though
some of the prices paid for land seem to be.
Some public alarm has been manifested for several
years on account of the periods of low water in the lake.
Today, with winter fully set in, the lake is extremely low,
though not as low by a few inches as it was two years ago.
No doubt that the light rainfall during the past summer
months had much to do with this condition, and while
there was an increased fall of rain during the recent
autumn months, the lake did not fill up as formerly. A
similar state of affairs exists in many other city water
suj)plies in other parts of the country, and no satisfactory
explanation is given why this is so other than tlie summer
drouth. Brooks and springs that serve as feeders to the
lake in periods of good water seem inactive in times of
very low water. And yet there is not the slightest occa-
sion for fearing a water famine in the city of Manchester..
With two pumping systems, a high service and low ser-
vice, all of the water necessary for a city of 55,000, of
100,000 people even, can be afforded from Lake Massabe-
sic. The present low lake, however, entails a greater
loss of water at the old pumping station than if the lake
were full, as so much more runs to waste down Cohas
brook, which is the means of furnishing water to the
Devonshire mills at Goffe's Falls.
The city of Manchester made a serious mistake years,
ago in not acquiring this mill privilege, which it might
INAUGURAL ADDRESS. 55
have had at a very low cost and which it may eventually
be oblij:;ed to obtain to protect its water interests. In-
stead of taking seven or eight gallons to pump one at the
low service station, it now requires from ten to twelve,
this being altogether due to the low state of the lake.
There is now being pumped on an average from the old
station from two and a half to three millions of gallons of
water daily, and from the high service station half a mil-
lion gallons per day. So well equipped is the high service
station that in case of any accident to the old station the
new plant is abundantly able to furnish daily all the water
required for use in Manchester.
In addition to the heavy expenses now bearing upon the
water-works from land purchases, the commissioners have
yet to meet the cost of replacing some fourteen miles of
old cement pipe, which was laid when the water-works
was established, by new iron pipe. In the extension of
w^ater service the board has adopted the general financial
policy of making no extension unless water takers will
guarantee the payment of 6 per cent interest on the cost
of extending, based upon the cost of putting in a six-inch
pipe. There are at the present time about eighty-eight
miles of city water pipe laid in the city of Manchester.
The total receipts of this department for the year 1890
were |12S,907.03, and the total expenditures $118,068.36.
The income from the sale of water during the year was
1111,091.41. There were sixteen fire hydrants set during
the year, making the total number now in use 688, and'
placing the expense of the fire h,ydrant service to the city
in 1897, if no more are added, at |17,200. The bond
issue of the water-works department January 1, 1897, was
1900,000.
The suit for .f50,000 brought by the Devonshire mills
for diverting the water from Cohas brook is not much
nearer settlement than it was two years ago. There is a
practical agreement that it shall be eventuallv tried bv a
56 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
board of referees, who, in addition to trial of the suit
itself, shall also determine the whole question of all dam-
ages, prospective as well as actual, to the mills occasioned
by the absolute control of the water-w^orks. But the
referees themselves have not yet been selected.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Here w^e have another department that is virtually
managed without the assistance or co-operation of the
city councils, beyond the appropriation of money to main-
tain it. It is wholly in the hands of a board of police
commissioners appointed by the governor and confirmed
by his council. For its good or bad behavior the city
councils of Manchester are in no way responsible and
should not, therefore, be held responsible. About $53,000
was appropriated last year for the expenses of this depart-
ment, of which the sum of |10,000 was specially appro-
priated for a police telegraph and patrol system. This
system w\as installed the past year by the Municipal
Signal Co. of Boston and is classed among the most
modern cit3' improvements in Manchester of late years.
The system works perfectly and has added greatly to the
efficiency of the department and to the character of police
work. The installing of the system necessitated the
building of a stable in connection with the police station
and the purchase of a patrol wagon, a pair of horses, and
other equipments, about all of which were provided within
the appropriation.
The police force at present comprises thirty regular
men and twelve special officers, and is believed to be well
organized and efficient. Since the commission was estab-
lished, three years ago, the number of liquor saloons in
Manchester has been reduced from 352 to about 60. The
total receipts from the police department in 1896 were
$58,634.39, more than sufficient to meet the annual ap-
propriation, as against |62,008.88 in 1895. All in all, the
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police department of Manchester is rated among the best
connected with cities of this size anywhere, and it is
assuredly as well equipped as any. Undoubtedly it has
one need, and that is quarters for women prisoners sepa-
rate from the main prison. To place men and women in
the same quarters is reprehensible, and until separate
accommodations are furnished for men and women the
interior life of the police station will not be above taint
and criticism. Arrangements should also be perfected
for housing the city ambulance at police headquarters, as
it is now subject to emergency calls the same as the patrol
wagon.
THE CITY FARM.
It is an open question today whether the maintenance
of a city farm is of any advantage to the city of Man-
chester. There are many who believe that it is an
expensive burden and should be abolished. The establish-
ment of the county farm within a few miles of the city
has opened the question if it would not be better and
cheaper for the city to pay the board at this institution of
such prisoners as it is obliged to furnish quarters for,
after sentence in the police court, rather than the expense
of keeping them at the city farm and operating that insti-
tution at the city's expense. Comparatively few paupers
find their way to the farm. There were four only in 1895,
and not more than ten in 1896, and most of them were
there for short periods only.
The city farm land, comprising one hundred and twenty-
eight acres, is a very valuable piece of property, and is
yearly becoming more valuable. If put upon the market
it would bring a round sum of money; but it is a question
if now is a time to sell it even if there was no institution
maintained at the city's expense upon it. A section of it
might be a valuable and desirable annex in coming years
to Derryfield park. There was appropriated last year for
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the maintenance of the farm |8,000. The receipts from
the farm for the year were |4,494.12, leaving the actual
cost to the city of running the farm |3,505.88. For the
past few years the scavenger service of the street depart-
ment has been let to the city farm, and this has brought
in a revenue of about |2,500 annually, which formerly was
not received.
There is one way perhaps that the city farm might be
made self-supporting; but if the method was attempted,
it would undoubtedI,y receive severe condemnation. This
w^ould be by requiring every able-bodied man sentenced to
the farm to perform day labor on the city ledge under the
street department. This system is employed in many
cities and is the means of saving a great deal of money to
these cities, besides providing means for some kind of
adequate punishment to the prisoners. ''Convict labor'^
is far from popular in Manchester, and it is questionable
whether this system could be successfully carried out
here.
As long as the city farm is maintained under the present
method it is doing about as well as could be expected, and
the fact that it has been maintained all these years while
the property has been steadily appreciating in value may
afford some reason for operating it and continuing its
operation. A great deal of work has been accomplished
at the farm during the past two years. Many noticeable
Improvements upon the property have been made without
cost to the city, and, judged throughout, the institu-
tion has been well and faithfully managed. Like all
institutions of this class, however, it is capable of im-
provement, and whoever may be selected among you to
supervise its management, I trust that you will carefully
scrutinize its methods, and if a saving to the city in its
management can be made you will promptly bring it
about.
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THE BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
It is the belief of a large number of the taxpayers of
Manchester that the present method of assessing taxable
property is attended by great injustice, and that the sys-
tem should in some way be changed. This opinion is
shared by me; but so long as a board of assessors is chosen
as the present board is chosen, I see no immediate reason
to expect change or improvement. The responsibilities of
assessing the many millions of dollars' worth of property
that should properly be assessed in a city like Manchester
should be intrusted only to men of fairness, peculiar
ability and sagacity, and unswerving honesty, and even
with these qualifications, if they did not possess complete
and accurate knowledge of the present values of property,
and had not the courage and backbone to assess them
upon a basis of strict equality, they would do no better
than the present or past boards have done; and I believe
that they have acted honestly and to the best of their abil-
ity while in office.
In seeking for a remedy to elevate the standard and
Increase the efficiency and favor of this dei^artment, I
would look to a judiciously selected board of well-qualified
men chosen in some manner that would insure a wise and
proper selection, and that they be paid an ample salary for
the work they are called upon to perform. So long as the
present method of assessment is pursued, so long will
inequalities and injustice continue. This is a question
worthy of the serious and careful consideration of the
Manchester delegation to the coming New Hampshire
legislature, and I should be glad to see it fairly investi-
gated and treated by the members. Other New England
cities have had experiences in this line similar to those
now occupying our attention, and the question was not sat-
isfactorily decided until the personnel of the board was.
taken away from the loose and careless method of caucus
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nominations and placed upon a higher plane of more
thoughtful and intelligent selection.
THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT,
The health department of Manchester has become a
most important and beneficial adjunct of the city works.
Decried for years, it has b,y intelligent and conservative
management steadily gained in public favor and confi-
dence and is now accomplishing a large amount of useful
and practical work in the community. It is still badly
hampered in some directions; but as the quality and effi-
ciency of its work become better understood, public senti-
ment is inclining toward enlarging and strengthening its
field of action and supporting its methods.
The matter of a hospital for contagious diseases has
long been deferred and should not be set aside a great
while longer. As is well known, all that is now available
for such purposes is a building located in Derryfield park,
which, while better than none, is far from satisfactory in
itself and is in a most improper locality. The establish-
ment of a suitable building or set of buildings, where
diphtheria, scarlet fever, or smallpox may have separate
and comfortable apartments, and where patients may be
treated and nursed in a proper manner, is no longer sim-
ply desirable but in the judgment of the health board
necessary. Probably the cheapest way and the one most
convenient for the health department would be the estab-
lishment in the local hospitals of contagious wards where
patients could be sent, with no further responsibility than
the payment of the necesary bills; but this is not likely
to be possible in the near future, as most of the hospitals
are too near other buildings, and probably none have the
money to invest in what must necessarily be a losing
venture financially, owing to the small number and irreg-
ularity of the occurring cases.
The next best way would be the establishment and
maintenance of a municipal contagious hospital; but this
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in a sufficient completeness would be too expensive for a
city of this size. It might, therefore, seem advisable for
the city to build a set of small and inexpensive buildings
to serve as a place of refuge for cases of contagious dis-
eases, which may be closed up when not in use, and I
would therefore recommend to the city councils that care-
ful consideration be given to this matter. The health de-
partment has been giving the matter much attention dur-
ing the last year and has accumulated much information
on the subject. The members of the board would be a
valuable associate committee for doing the work, espe-
cially as it will be for their use and control when com-
pleted.
There is another city office that should come under the
jurisdiction of this department, and that is the office of
milk inspector. As at present conducted the office accom-
plishes very little and the money devoted to it is practi-
cally wasted. Until it is made a part of some department
that will give its influence and backing to the official serv-
ing as milk inspector, it is not reasonable to expect much
if any better results than those now attained, and they are
far from satisfactory. This opinion is shared by those
who have held this office as well as by others acquainted
with its work.
GARBAGE AND REFUSE.
The problem of Manchester's waste and garbage con-
fronts the city at this time as it has never done before.
The usual way of carrying all the refuse to dumps for
filling in low land is no longer deemed feasible by the
street and health departments, the localities where this
has been done in the past having, owing to the rapid
growth of the city, become a part of the residential sec-
tions; and this further use is not only unsightly and unde-
sirable, but a menace to the health of the community. To
cart the materials farther away can be only a temporary
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makeshift at increased expense, with the probable early
complaints of nuisances wherever deposited.
Attenuation is the scientific way of disposing of these
materials, by converting them into perfectly harmless and
inoffensive products, either by some process of reduction
or by simple cremation. The reduction processes, which
aim at the conversion of the refuse into harmless and use-
ful products, which have a commercial value, is expen-
sive in plan and costly in operation, the resultants not pay-
ing the expense of the process even in the very large cities ;
and, besides, thej consume only garbage, leaving the dead
animals and general city refuse to be disposed of in some
other manner; and it is the general refuse that gives
Manchester the most concern. If these reduction pro-
cesses cannot be worked economically in larger cities they
must be proportionately more expensive for such a city as
ours, aside from the fact that they do not fill the whole of
our requirements.
It seems clear, therefore, that the simple crematory is
best suited to a city of our size and circumstances, the
cost of both plant and operation being less than that
of other processes. As much is always gained by expe-
rience in the construction and operation of such plants, it
seems advisable to start with a plant of considerably
smaller size than would be considered adequate for con-
suming all the waste of a city of this size, including all
garbage and night soil. At present, garbage and night
soil are disposed of in a manner which, while not satisfac-
tory from a strict sanitary view, can be tolerated for a
while longer. A plant that would take care of the pro-
miscuous perishable waste, including dead animals, would
not needtobe large, and while serving ourimniediate needs
would afford a valuable basis of judgment for the estab-
lishment of a plant that will do the entire work in a satis-
factorv manner.
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Just the exact cost of such a starting phmt cannot be
stated, as no department has at present the proper author-
ity to incur the expense necessary to a determinative in-
vestigation of 'qualities and costs of the various crema-
tories now in use; but from the best information at hand
it is believed that it would require about |8,000 to cover
the entire expense, outside of laud, for a location, and
possibly |6,000 would answer. In all the cities where
such plants are in operation they are either operated by
the health department or under its authoritative super-
vision, which appears to be the logical way, and should be
so done in this city if a plant of this character is estab-
lished. Certain it is that the garbage and refuse question,
particularly the latter, must be fairly met within the next
two years by the city of Manchester, and it is not any too
early to take the matter under intelligent consideration.
Manchester's streets and roads.
In common with nearly every city and town in the
United States, Manchester is vitally interested in the
subject of good roads and in the adoption of a more
efficient, economical, and equitable system of highway
improvements. It has become the fashion in this city for
certain classes of people to denounce in a wholesale
manner the condition of our streets and roads and to
bitterly criticise our street department for "not making
them better. For one, I believe that a large share of this
criticism is undeserved and is the result either of igno-
rance or malice. As a class our streets and roads are
fairly good and will stand comparison with those of other
cities which have the same or similar conditions of native
soil and rock to deal with. Ours is a loose and sandy soil
and oar native rock has been proven unfit for road build-
ing except for purpose of ballast. Not until the street
commissioners adopted the policy of sending elsewhere
for a top dressing for our streets was the work of macada-
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mizing successfully accomplished. Since the advent
of the Salem trap rock the streets of Manchester
have shown great improvement, and as the commissioners
and the public are well satisfied with the present system
of building a macadam road, it is likely to be continued
with increasing favorable results. In macadamizing
streets under the new process, a ballast consisting of
native broken stone taken from the stone-crusher is laid
about twelve inches deep and on top of this is placed trap
rock to the thickness of about four inches, and the whole
rolled down by the city road-roller, weighing eighteen
tons. Samples of this kind of road building may be found
in various jjarts of the city, and where the work has been
thoroughly done the streets are in a most excellent con-
dition.
Aside from an inferior quality of soil and rock, Man-
chester is poorly provided with a first-class quality of
gravel, an essential factor in good road building. So in
many ways the conditions here are largely against the best
roads, and when such are built they are very expensive.
If Manchester was provided, as some cities are, with an
abundance of good material for good roads, the problem
of building them would be an easy one; but as she is not,
the ofiicials of our street department have to do the best
they can with the material at their command, and by
buying the rest from other sections according to the means
placed at their disposal.
It is an easy matter to criticise the condition of our
streets; but did you ever stop to consider that there are
two hundred miles of streets and roads within our city
limits that call for the attention of our street department?
If you have, then you will understand why Manchester has
not a larger percentage of good streets and a smaller per-
centage of poor ones. Herein lies the fundamental reason
for so many bad streets and roads, — we have too many of
them laid out.
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For years past it has been the policy of Manchester city
governments (and I do not know as they differ greatly
in this respect from those of other cities) to lay out streets-
petitioned for in a most lavish manner, regardless of the
fact that the city is indictable if they are not built within,
a period of two years, and that the expense of building
them all must be met sometime. Under this repreheasible
polic}^, burden after burden has been forced apon the
city until she has today on her shoulders thirty miles of
accepted streets that are not built. This, as every think-
ing person and every taxpayer knows, is all wrong, and
is a policy that should be stopped, and stopped now.
"Lay out no more new streets, unless thej' are a public
necessit}^, until the ones we have are properly taken care
of," is a policy which, if adopted and consistently adhered
to, would bring credit to the incoming board of aldermen.
It is only fair to say of the board that has just gone out
of office that it displayed commendable prudence in the
matter of granting petitions for new streets, only about
two miles of new streets being laid out in 1895 and three
miles in 189G, and of these certain streets were built by
the landowners before they were accepted and the owners
placed under bonds for three years to continue improve-
ments upon them.
This leads me to remark that a too large share of the
petitions that come before the city councils for new streets
represent purely the personal motives of individuals own-
ing land that they want developed at the city's expense.
These land speculators (for this they certainly are) have
been very successful in their efforts in the past, and to
their selfish greed Manchester is today indebted for the
great street burden resting upon her. In a large measure
this sort of business has been stopped during the past two
years by the refusal of the aldermen to lay out the streets
petitioned for. This stand is right, and it should be the
stand of the new board. These land schemes have cost
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the taxpayers of Mancliester money enough already, and
no man can honestly serve the city's interests who will
assist in permitting them to thrive in the future, or who
will not use his efforts and influence to prevent them
going into effect.
Another policy pursued by the last aldermanic board
I also esteem worthy of being followed out, and that
■relates to the purchase of land by the city for new streets.
Not one dollar has been paid to landowners for the pur-
poses of new streets and roads in Manchester during the
two years just elapsed. Every abutting landowner has
been required to give that portion of his land necessary for
the laying out of a street and waive all claim for land
damages, or the layout has not been granted. While in a
few instances this has seemed a hardship to parties desir-
ing the street, not for financial advantage but for public
accommodation, the policy is thoroughly right, and should
be adhered to. Let the speculators build the streets that
are to personally benefit their pocketbooks before the city
accepts them; and if there is land to buy in order for
them to attain their ends, let them buy it, and not the city.
As an illustration of the reckless manner in which new
streets have been laid out in Manchester in the past, it
may be said that on one afternoon several years ago a
board of aldermen visited a certain section of this city
and in less than twenty minutes, and without alighting
from their carriages, voted to lay out a system of new
streets that at a conservative estimate will cost the city
f3(),00U to make passable, and not less than |50,000 to
only fairly build them. And these grants were made
solely in the interests of private landowners in that
locality.
Unquestionably some of the worst pieces of roadway
we have in Manchester are found directly in the heart of
the city on Elm street. This street was paved many
years ago with a style of block paving that looks strange
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and old-fashioned compared with the new and modern
block paving so recently completed on Granite bridge and
its approaches. No doubt it was a good thing in its day,
but it is now badly worn and uneven, full of holes and
altogether a wretched looking piece of paved road,
almost dangerous for horses under certain slippery condi-
tions, and should be replaced with new and better paving.
But the cost of paving is by no means small, and to at-
tempt to repave Elm street throughout, where needed, in
one year, would involve too burdensome an expenditure.
However, if means warrant during your coming term of
office, I think it might be advisable to make a beginning
in this direction, and so continue this improvement year
by year until the thoroughfare is paved with small block
paving throughout its entire paved length. The old stones
that are replaced might be utilized, if serviceable, to a
good advantage in our back streets, sqme of which, in our
business centers, already need paving quite as much as
the main streets themselves.
Up to January 1, 1895, there were laid out and not built
in Manchester 25.42' miles of streets, and at the first of
January this year, 1897, the number of miles is found to
be 30.63. Of the little over five miles laid out in the past
two years, 5,360 feet have been built and 9,347 feet turn-
piked so as to be open to travel.
The street department has had several large and impor-
tant street and road undertakings to deal with the last
two years, notable among them being the entire rebuild-
ing of the Eddy road in Amoskeag, made necessary by the
flood of 1895; the widening and building of Hanover road
out to Lake Massabesic, an expense brought about by the
extension of the electric car service; the widening and
building of old Bridge street; the widening of the Mast
road in West Manchester, and the building of Kelley
street in McGregorville. The installation of the electric
street railway also involved the city in considerable ex-
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pense at both ends of Elm street and on Manchester
street.
While npon the subject of streets I offer it as my opin-
ion that concrete roadways are not a profitable invest-
ment for the city, particularly so where there is heavy
team traffic. There are no asphalt paved streets in Man-
chester, the cost of the best quality of asphalt having
been regarded too high to introduce here. It is conceded,
however, that asphalt, properly laid, makes one of the
finest, smoothest, and most enduring surfaces for city
streets now in use. But one objection to using it in Man-
chester is on account of the necessity almost yearly of
making changes and repairs in city inpes laid under
ground. If these had been originally placed in our back
streets we should be spared the annoyance of having our
main streets so frequently disturbed and injured by at-
tention upon them.
And right here it is proper to state that some more vig-
orous means should be provided to protect the interests
of our city streets against the damages wrought upon
them every year by private individuals. A large source
of the trouble arises from sewer enterers, who dig up the
streets for the purpose of laying private sewer j)ipe and
neglect to replace them in a satisfactory condition. It
would seem wise if some regulations were adopted stop-
ping private individuals from disturbing the streets in
any way whatever, allowing all work pertaining to streets
by private individuals to be done under the direction of
the street department at a reasonable compensation.
Under the present arrangement it costs the city annually
a large sum to repair damages occasioned to the streets
by private individuals.
There are certain others that misuse our streets in the
laying and repairing of underground pipes. The most
complaint is made against the water-works department.
This department is charged with handling our streets
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very badly, causing the city, it is claimed, an expense of
not less than |2,000 every year for repairs on streets and
crossings, the result of digging in and through them. As
the city ordinances require the streets dug up by the
water-works to be restored to a condition satisfactory to
the superintendent of streets, this unnecessary expense
should be promptly stopped. Frequent complaints have
been made to the water-works department relative to
this matter but they seem to have done no good, as the
abuse continues year after year. I would suggest to the
board of street and park commissioners if, after formal
notice to the water-works department of the neglect of its
employees to conform to the ordinances and the refusal of
the department to complj-, that the work be performed
by the street department and the expense charged to the
wateriworks. Certainly there is no reason why this de-
partment should be permitted, any more than private
individuals or corporations, to add unjust expense to the
care of our streets. If any lack of harmony exists be-
tween these two departments it should be at once ad-
justed and not made a burden of expense to the taxpayer.
The street department may also be at fault in not co-
operating more fully with the water-works department in
all street matters. It is known to be a fact that the grade
of streets holding city water pipes has been changed and
the grade cut down, and in consequence water pipes have
frozen. No grade of streets containing city water pipes
should be cut down without the knowledge of the water-
works department, and in all matters in which the inter-
ests of the city are involved there should be the heartiest
co-operation between department and department. And,
while touching upon this question of street grade, permit
me to say that herein lies a great deal of public dissatis-
faction and uncalled for expense to the city. The chang-
ing of street grades after they have been once legally
established has cost the citv of Manchester thousands of
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dollars in damage suits. The solution of this trouble I
believe would be easy if, when new streets were laid out,
their legal grade was carefully established and never
changed afterwards. This can and should be done, and
when this has become a fixed policy in street affairs a
large burden of expense that has yearly been forced upon
the city would be removed.
Some improvement has been shown during the past
year or two in street cleaning, but the method still em-
ployed is far from satisfactory. Our streets are not as
clean as they should be or as clean as they might be made
without incurring a burdensome expense. No doubt our
streets are indebted for much of the odium cast upon
them to the quantities. of loose paper which are carelessly
permitted to be circulated. The ''paper nuisance" in our
streets is one of the city's greatest nuisances, and more
vigorous means should be adopted to abate it than those
now in vogue. No street sweeping in the business section
should be done until the streets are first sprinkled. The
cloud of dust and dirt raised by dry street sweeping dam-
ages goods in many of our stores and is the cause of
general complaint throughout the business districts.
Similar complaints also come from residential seciiions
wherever concrete roadways are dry swept. Another
public annoyance, although of a different nature, is
caused by the storekeepers themselves in window and
sidewalk washing during businesiS hours. This work
should be done in the early morning before the sidewalks
are occupied by men and women on their way to their
places of business, and I would recommend that the board
of street and park commissioners adopt and enforce some
stricter and improved regulations relating to this matter.
It is questionable if there is another city in New Eng-
land more badly disfigured by poles set in the public
streets than Manchester. It would seem as if no atten-
tion whatever had been paid by the city authorities to
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this matter in years past, and that corporations had been
permitted, unchecked, to encumber and disfigure our
streets. The result is that Manchester todaj' i)resents a
most disgraceful exhibition of pole construction. Not
only are private corporations responsible for this deface-
ment but the city itself, some of the most wretched speci-
mens of poles now in use being the property of the city.
That this contamination of our highways is a disgrace to
the city every intelligent person who has ever directed
his attention to the disfigurement well knows, and it is
incumbent upon every city official having the power to
assist in regulating this nuisance to exercise it in the di-
rection of a sweeping improvement.
The winter custom of flooding the public commons for
skating purposes, as observed for several years past, is a
popular one and worthy of being continued. The expense
entailed is small, and as long as our water supply is in no
way crippled thereby the custom should be followed. As
a means of affording healthful recreation to the youth of
Manchester, under conditions of perfect safety, it is to be
highly commended.
CITY SEWERS.
There are about sixty miles of sewer pipe laid in the
city of Alanchester at the present time and about six miles
niore have been voted in. There was expended on sewers
in 1895, 171,950.76, and in 1896, .$71,629.86. Sewers are
among the most expensive public improvements this city
has to deal with, and the monej' spent upon them is the
least apparent. Some of the sewer building of the past
two years has been extremely costly. For instance: the
Jewett-street sewer cost to build .|6.84 per foot, while the
Silver-street sewer cost the city over |8 per foot. These
were two very important trunk sewers and had to be
built. Until they were built and opened the public health
was daily endangered. In one instance the expense was
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aggravated by the ledge, and in the other by a deep, soft
bottom. The hitter invariably makes sewer building
more costly than the former. In most of the big sewer
improvements of the past two years the commissioners
have encountered tracts of ledge which have rendered the
work not only difficult but very expensive.
Among the notable large sewers laid during the past
two years may be mentioned those on Silver street, Jewett
street, Christian brook, Mast road, and North Elm street.
Fortunately the city is well equipped for the present with
trunk sewers, one large one only being in contemplation
of building this year, that to drain the large area in
West Manchester (:'Overed by the Whittemore, Amoskeag
Company, and other property. A settlement of some
forty houses and tenement blocks and four hundred peo-
ple in this section is now without sewer facilities of any
kind, and the interests of the public health demand that
accommodations be afforded here the coming season. A
well-arranged plan for taking care of the present and
future needs of this locality has been devised and the
work will doubtless be carried out this year.
A large number of branch s^w^ers have been ordered
built in the suburban districts, some of them of consider-
able importance. It is these growing sections that have
of late years drawn so heavily upon the city's finances,
and so long as they continue to enlarge, this expense will
continue, though, as already stated, the large and most
costly system is of trunk sew^ers now very well provided,
and immediate future needs apply in a great measure to
branch sewers, which are much less expensive to build.
In regard to sewers, as also to streets, water, and lights,
the city is paying heavily for the development of outside
property, and in future extensions of these services the
members of the city government should carefully consider
not only the demands made by property holders but the
abilitv of the citv to grant them. I*ersons building
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houses in remote parts of the city, where city improve-
ments and accommodations have not yet reached, should
not reasonably expect to acquire them at once; and yet it
is a fact that they do, and that they look upon such public
servants as oppose an expenditure of money to benefit
them as guilty of gross meanness and injustice; yet it is
your first duty to consult the city's interests and not the
interests of the individual or individuals in every question
that comes before you.
HIGHWAY BRIDGES.
In the two years that have just elapsed the city of
Manchester has experienced two of the greatest floods
ever known in the history of the Merrimack river, by
which her bridge property severely sufl'ered. The flood
of 1895 did serious damage to nearly every highway
bridge in the city; but it was nothing compared to the
disaster that came last spring, whereby every bridge was
afl'ected and by which the city lost the most important of
all its bridges, — Granite bridge. Public travel on Gran-
ite bridge was stopped March 3, 1896, and was not fully
resumed until November 28 of the same year. It was
weeks after the flood had subsided before temporary pro-
visions for foot travel could be eft'ected, and team traffic
of every description was suspended from the day the old
bridge was swept away until the new one was opened last
November.
The selection of a bridge lo replace Granite bridge was
a matter a long time before the city councils, and no
end of public discussion was indulged in before the city
councils, with almost entire unanimity, decided in favor
of a steel bridge sixty feet wide with a stone-paved
roadway. It was found after the water in the river had
reached a low point in the summer that all of the piers
and abutments would have to be rebuilt to insure perfect
safety to the new structure, and this discovery delayed
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the progress of the bridge some weeks. The bridge
has now been open to the public about six weelvS and is
regarded by all as a first-class modern structure through-
out, and the equal of any highway bridge in this part of
the country. The new piers and abutments were all built
higher than the old ones so that the new bridge stands
clear by eight feet of the high water mark of the flood of
1896. The stone work of the bridge was built by L. F.
Kittredge & Son of Lowell and the steel superstructure
by the Groton Bridge Co. of Groton, N. Y. All of the
work came under the direction of the board of street
and park commissioners, who employed the assistance of
W. H. Bennett as city engineer and Capt. Charles H.
Manning as consulting engineer, and, so far as any one
has yet been able to discern, was performed to the emi-
nent satisfaction of the public. The bridge, including all
stone work, cost |136,527.73. For its payment 4 per cent
semi-annual bridge bonds were«issued in the sum of $130,-
000, payable in five years, and a sinking fund established
providing for the payment of these bonds at the expira-
tion of this time, |25,000 being set aside annually for four
years from the taxes, and |30,000 the fifth year, so that
imperative as was the necessity of building the bridge,
provisions that seem to me wise were adopted for its
payment without involving the city in a long term of bond
indebtedness.
Our other two highway bridges across the Merrimack
are not what most of us would like to see there, especially
now, as they are held up to comparson with Granite
bridge; but so far as we know both are safe for the
business and travel that passes over them, and with care-
ful attention paid to them every year will doubtless do
good service a while longer, unless record-breaking floods
repeat themselves and force the city to build others in
their places. There has been some agitation concerning
a new wooden bridge across the Merrimack at the foot of
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Hancock street, and another across the Piscataquog north
of Kelley's Falls, petitions for each being received by the
last administration. Doubtless these improvements will
come in the future, but there does not appear to be any
urgent necessity for erecting them now.
BUILDING INSPECTOR.
A recommendation made by me two years ago regard-
ing the appointment of a building inspector for the city
of Manchester has received consideration in so far that a
special committee was selected for the purpose of prepar-
ing a new set of rules and regulations, defining the duties
and powers of such an official, which, if acceptable to the
city councils, were expected tolbe incorporated into our
city ordinances. This committee has given the subject
intelligent consideration and will be able to make a report
to you early in this administration. Until such rules
and regulations are adopted it is useless in my opinion to
continue the office.
PARKS AND COMMONS.
The parks and commons of Manchester are a source of
pleasure, health, and of not a little pride to all of our
citizens, and the improvements made in caring for them
during the past few years are apparent to all.
During the two years just elapsed, conspicuous im-
provements have been made at both Derryfield and Stark
parks. The former is the largest of Manchester's public
"breathing places," and with its many natural advantages
is destined to become one of the most beautiful and
picturesque public grounds in New England. By the will
of the late ex-Governor James H. Weston the sum of
15,000 was bequeathed to the city for the purpose of
erecting a public observatory to be known as the Weston
Observatory, on the summit of Oak Hill, now part of this
park. Under the conditions of the bequest steps have
76 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
been taken by tlie proper authorities to secure a satisfac-
tory plan, and this now liaving been agreed upon, bids for
erecting the structure, will be received and the contract
awarded for building it the coming season. The observa-
tory will be constructed of stone, with a winding iron
stairway on the interior leading to the top, and will be
about sixty feet in height. The view from the summit of
Oak Hill under natural conditions is a magnificent one,
and from the top of the proposed observatory it will be
one of the grandest to be obtained anywhere in this part
of the state. The citizens of Manchester are certainly
deeply indebted to Governor Weston for his thoughtful-
ness and generosity in life toward his native city, for
whose best interests he had always unselfishly and zeal-
ously labored.
A fine stretch of macadamized graded road 1,528 feet
in length has been built in this park during the past two
years, and 2,000 feet of sewer pipe laid for draining the
land. There are several excellent pieces of driveway in
the park, one leading to the summit of Oak Hill, and in
future one should be laid out and built winding down from
the summit toward the west, entering upon Belmont
street. This would afl'ord a beautiful system of pleasure
drives and one that the public would greatly enjoy in the
summer season. The trees in the park have been care-
fully trimmed, the brush cleared out, and the grounds ren-
dered as attractive as possible, for the money expended
upon them.
There is one feature in this park that should no longer
be permitted to remain, and that is the city "pesthouse,"
so called, for contagious diseases. This building stood
upon the ground before it became a city park and its
presence there now is so clearly bad that public sentiment
calls for its promjit removal. During the past summer a
case of varioloid was being treated within the building
while a picnic party embracing 1,500 children was in
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progress in the groimds about it. Siicli a condition of
aflt'airs in a public park, while no harm has thus far arisen,
should no longer be tolerated.
Stark park has received many improving touches and is
yearly becoming more attractive. Some eight hundred
flov^ering shrubs were set out here last year and roses
were in blossom throughout the summer. A macada-
mized driveway has been built and many things done that
show a much improved condition of the park.
All of the city commons have received intelligent
and skillful treatment at the hands of superintendent
Fullerton and are yearly growing in public favor. The
condition of cleanliness pervading them is a source of
general comment. Every morning during the summer
and fall seasons the commons are cleaned and twice a
week thoroughly swept. In the dry season the grass is
sprinkled five times a week ; it is cut on an average nine
times a year. About |500 has been expended in wood
ashes for fertilizing the lawns on the commons within the
past two years. Considerable has been done in improving
the walks, noticeably on Merrimack and Concord com-
mons, and in setting out new trees in the place of old
ones that have died. Altogether, Manchester's parks and
commons make a most gratifjing showing for the amount
of money expended upon them, which was about |5,000 on
the latter last year.
Last year the city councils added to Manchester's park
system by the purchase for |12,000 of about nine acres
of land in the southeastern section of West Manchester,
which it is proposed to establish as a park for the West
Side, now wholly unprovided with such public benefits.
The cost of the establishment and improvement of parks
may be made large or small as the work is laid out and
conducted. In the instance of the new West Side park,
it would seem to be an economical policy to make a small
beginning, and so by annual appropriations gradually
carry forward the work of improvement.
78 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
The history of many cities shows that the creation and
maintenance of suburban parlvS are justified, and that
from purely a financial point of view they are a good in-
vestment for a community. Mucli attention has been
given to this question in Boston. A reference to the
annual report of the park department of that city for 1895
will show that the value of the land in the vicinity of the
Back Bay j)ark improvement trebled in thirteen years,
while the balance of the city increased only eighteen per
cent. The increase of taxes on the land on account of the
increased value during that time was |2,000,000, which
more than covered the cost of all improvements. They
find that instead of increasing the rate of taxation the
location and improvement of parks so affect the value of
adjacent land that the rate may be reduced and still the
tax levy be enough greater than before to provide for the
maintenance of the parks. Parks must be a good thing
else all the great cities of the world would not be acquir-
ing so much land for the purpose.
Another new park was projected last year, also on the
west side of the river. This is in the vicinity of Rock
Rimmon, and the proposition includes the rock itself, of
which the Amoskeag Company offers to make a free gift
to the city, and about seventeen acres of land about it
owned by private individuals. The site is one of histori-
cal interest and value and is well designed by nature for
a public park. The cost of acquiring all of the land neces-
sary for this park will be about |21,000.
THE PUBLIC CEMETERIES.
The most important matter relating to Manchester's
public cemeteries that has transpired during the past two
years was the action of the trustees of the cemetery funds
changing the conditions of voluntary contributions re-
ceived by the city for the perpetual care of cemetery lots.
This action, now in effect, allows the city to accept |100 as
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the minimum sum for the perpetual care of lots contain-
ing not more than 250 square feet, and forty cents per foot
for all lots in excess of 250 square feet, the income there-
from to be expended for the care of the lots as provided
by law governing cemeteries. This action on the part of
the trustees has met with general approval from cemetery
lot owners, especially from a large class who felt that
they were being discriminated against under the old man-
agement, which seemed to favor the rich and deal un-
justly by those of limited means. The money now in the
hands of the trustees of the cemetery fund amounts to
148.000, and is invested in five per cent bonds.
At the Pine Grove cemetery there are 340 lots under
perpetual care, and under the new and more popular con-
ditions relating to them the number is sure to steadily in-
crease. Among the most apparent recent improvements
at this cemetery are those carried out on Chapel Lawn,
the public ground, and the G. A. R. lot. The latter has
been considerably enlarged and placed under perpetr.al
care. The public ground has been graded and made as
attractive as any other part of the cemetery. The water
service in the cemetery has been extended, some 3,000
feet of water pipe having been laid, and a number of new
drinking fountains erected. About 800 feet of eight-inch
sewer pipe has been laid for surface draining. Consider-
able new concreting has been done, a number of new plots
laid out with shrubs, and in other directions this cemetery
bears evidence of painstaking and sagacious manage-
ment. The appropriation for this cemetery in 1896 was
$8,500, and the receipts of the year |5,125.23.
Valley cemetery has lost nothing in public favor as a
burying ground during the past two years. While the
opportunities here for widespread improvements are not
nearly so marked as at Pine Grove, this beautiful spot, so
aptly named, continues to hold a warm place in the affec-
tions of our citizens. There are now here under perpet-
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ual care some sixty lots. Within the past two years the
work of grading over the valley and hills has been begun
and carried forward with satisfactory results! The work
of filling in the bank on the west side has also been
started, corresponding to the improvements made on the
east side.
One of the best changes recently effected here is the
adoption of a new system of numbering the lots. The
plan has been well started, and when in thorough working
will be a decided convenience to the management and to
lot owners. The winding brook flowing through the
grounds now contains a carefully laid stone bottom, an
improvement of recent occurrence. One of the foot-
bridges across the brook has been rebuilt and another re-
paired; there have been a number of new concrete walks
laid along the hill, and in other respects the past two
years have seen a great deal of needed work faithfully
and judiciously done here. There was appropriated by
the city councils last year for the use of this cemetery
13,000, and the receipts of the year were |1 ,900.31.
At Amoskeag cemetery the first steps towards the erec-
tion of a new iron fence about the grounds were taken
last year, a section 146 feet in length being built. A
much needed extension of the water service in the ceme-
tery has been made, 166 feet of 1^ inch water pipe having
been laid. About sixty loads of gravel have been used
during the year. The cemetery paths, which were cut
very deep when the cemetery was laid out, have been kept
in good order and are being gradually brought up to
proper grade year by year. The sub-trustees recommend
that an additional purchase of land adjoining the ceme-
tery be soon made, as all the present available space for
lots is now occupied. There were three burials here dur-
ing the past year, and the sum of |350 was appropriated
for the maintenance of the cemetery. There is no
income from this cemetery, a fact that should be borne in
mind before further enlargements are granted.
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There are fifteen burial grounds in Manchester, nine of
which are private. The grounds owned and maintained
by the city are Valley, Pine Grove, Amoskeag, Merrill's
Yard, Moore, and the cemetery at East Manchester. The
two latter are among the oldest and have of late years
received no appropriations for maintenance from the city
councils, Merrill's Yard was acquired in 1895.
GENERAL PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS.
Aside from the many permanent public enterprises
conducted under the auspices of the city during the past
two years, Manchester has received important improve-
ments from various outside sources, conspicuous among
them being the introduction of an electric street railway
plant and various needed extensions of the service for
the public accommodation. A first-class plant has been
installed; it is generally conceded that there is none
better anywhere. The Boston & Maine Railroad has also
done a great deal for Manchester during the past year,
giving the city a new freight station that is the equal of
any in New England, and adopting plans for a new pas-
senger station to be built this year. These are improve-
ments of a general and long-needed character, and, while
the city has long been suffering for the lack of them, their
coming at last in such splendid and substantial form is
the occasion of universal satisfaction.
The establishment of a new passenger station below
Granite street will be the means of greatly reducing the
dangers and annoyances so long existing at the Granite-
street railroad crossing. With the location of both the
passenger and freight stations south of Granite street,
the crossing at this point will be used only for through
train trafiic, and the long waits and delays that public
travel has encountered here for so many years will largely
be done away with. It is sincerely to be hoped, however,
that the time will come when all grade crossings within
the city will be altogether eliminated.
82 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
THE SEMI-CENTENNIAL.
An occasion that will lonj^^ be remembered with pleas-
ure, satisfaction, and pride was celebrated in Manchester
during the month of September last. It was the celebra-
tion of the fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of
Manchester as a city, and citizens of all classes united in
making the event a credit and honor to Manchester. One
of the most interesting features of the anniversary was
the gathering of old residents and the formation by them
of an Old Residents' Association. Over one thousand
men and women, who were identified with the city at or
before its birth, assembled here during the week and took
a conspicuous part in the exercises. That such a large
number of pioneers were still living and holding an inter-
est in the welfare of a community which they had helped
to create was a surprise to everybody, and it is to be
hoped that they may continue to meet annually in social
and other helpful relations for years to come.
The expenses of the celebration were met by means of
a special appropriation of f2,000 by the city councils and
personal contributions amounting to |5,258.75 by the
people at large. So much of historical interest and
value was developed by the anniversary that its general
committee unanimously decided to secure the publication
of an illustrated memorial volume of the occasion and the
preparation of this is now well under way. It will be
necessary in order to produce a creditable volume for
the city councils this year to make a small appropriation
sufficient only to meet the expenses of compilation, and
I respectfully recommend that this be done. Authority
to legalize such action is expected to be obtained of the
coming New Hampshire legislature.
THE CITY POOR.
There are many worthy poor people in Manchester, and
through the efforts of the city and county authorities and
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that most helpful charitable organization, the City Mis-
sion, now so admirably managed by Miss Mary E. Gray,
their interests are far better looked after than ever
before. There are some two hundred worthy poor people
being looked after at this season of the year by the city
missionary, and her unselfish and devoted efforts merit
every public and personal aid that can be afforded them.
During the past year the overseers of the poor attended
to 1,103 orders, the largest number that ever received the
attention of this board in a single year. These cases ap-
plied to 137 families, comprising 441 persons, all having
a settlement in Manchester. There was expended by the
board during the year |11,910.49, and there was received
from the county commissioners |3,471, making the net
cost to the city of conducting the business of this depart-
ment, 18,510.78. Of the amount paid out the largest ex-
penditure in any one ward was |2, 578.69 in ward five, and
the smallest, |40, in ward two. The affairs of this depart-
ment have been prudently and carefully carried out. As
clerk of the board. Col. W. H. Maxwell has performed his
duties faithfully and well and merits special commen-
dation.
CONCLUSION.
In conclusion, gentlemen, permit me to urge that you
pursue a policy as liberal in all directions as will be con-
sistent with our financial situation, permitting only the
welfare of our city and the most friendly motives to actu-
ate you in your official intercourse with each other, that
each member will be impressed with that deep sense of
duty characteristic of such an intelligent body, a duty
well performed to himself, and to the people, ever watch-
ful and X3ritically inclined; bearing in mind at all times
that honesty and integrity are the fundamental principles
which should guide us in the performance of our public
duty, and which if carried out will meet the approval of
84 MANCHESTER CITY GOVERNMENT.
our fellow-citizens. Satisfactory work can be accom-
plished only by a prompt and regular attendance at the
sessions of the city councils, giving due consideration to
all matters presented, and legislating in all with a regard
for justice, economy, and the general welfare of the city.
Under no circumstance neglect the work of the committee
room, for here the real, practical, important work of
municipal government is performed. To earn the reputa-
tion of being a hard, faithful, and conscientious worker in
the committee chamber is to win the name of being a use-
ful and valuable public servant.
Do not embarrass any department by the passage of
orders which it may be impossible to execute by reason of
limited appropriations. Previous to any recommenda-
tion for the passage of an order for an expenditure of
money, ascertain whether the interests of the petitioners
as well as the city will be enhanced thereby, carefully
remembering that to pass an order which cannot be exe-
cuted by a lack of funds necessitates relegating it to a
pigeonhole.
Standing committees should especially bear in mind
that they have advisory powers only, and, unless empow-
ered by the passage of an order by the city councils, are
wholly unauthorized to purchase anything in behalf of
the city.
In his last annual report the city auditor drew partic-
ular attention to this subject, and in submitting his
opinion I give it my free and hearty indorsement: "Sev-
eral of the committees have been very lax in this respect
during the past year, and have attempted to make con-
tracts without the least semblance of authority from the
city councils, which has put the parties contracted with
to great annoyance and trouble in getting their bills ap-
proved, having to wait sometimes months for the neces-
sary ratification by the city councils. Clerks of all com-
mittees should be requested by the chairman, when an
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expenditure of money is deemed necessary, to prepare an
order and present to the councils for legal authority
before proceeding to make any contract."
I welcome jou to your new duties and ask your earnest
co-operation in all measures which shall be for the public
advantage; and when your work is completed I trust you
may be able to feel that your acts have been prudent and
wise and your duties well and faithfully performed.
WILLIAM C. CLARKE,
Mayor.
Manchester, N. H., January 5, 1897.
REPORT
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
BOARD OF Water Commissioners,
1897.
WILLIAM C. CLARKE, Mayor, ew officio.
Alpiieus Gay, term expires January, 1899.
Andrew C. Wallace, term expires January, 1900.
Harry E. Parker, term expires January-, 1903.
Henry Chandler, term expires January, 1904.
Charles H. Manning, term expires January, 1901.
Charles T. Means, term expires January, 1902.
Officers.
Alphbiis Gay, President.
Henry Chandler, Clerk.
Charles K. Walker, Superintendent.
Arthur E. Stearns, Registrar.
JosiAH Laselle, Engineer at Loic Service Pumping Station.
H. A. DoNAWAY, Engineer at High Service Pumping Station.
REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
To the Honorable the City Councils of the City of Manchester:
Gentlemen, — The Manchester Water Board herewith
submit their twenty-sixth annual report for the year end-
ing December 31, 1897, with the report of the superin-
tendent during the same period, to which reference may
be made for details of the service.
FINANCIAL CONDITION.
Receipts and expenditures for the year have been as
follows:
Balance unexpended December 31, 1896 . . . $17,387.36
Received from water rentals and miscella-
neous 125,719.17
Premium on bonds sold 6,248.00
Total 1149,354.53
Paid interest on water bonds $40,414.00
Current expenses and repairs. . . . 32,111.72
Construction 33,002.25
Hydrant rentals set aside for sink-
ing fund 17,175.00
122,702.97
Balance unexpended $26,651.56
The commissioners have continued the policy of acquir-
ing land on the shore of the lake, and have deeds from
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90 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
eight different owners of land since our last report, which
includes the full ownership of the Harvey mill privilege,
so called.
No serious loss or damage has been incurred by leaks
or defective pipes. No special progress has been made
in the Devonshire Mill suit against the city during the
year.
Respectfully submitted.
William C. Clarke, ex officio,
Alpheus Gay,
Andrew C. Wallace,
Charles H. Manning,
Charles T. Means,
Harry E. Parker,
Henry Chandler,
Water Commissioners.
January 1, 1898.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the Honorable Board of Water Commissioners of the
City of Manchester, N. H. :
Gentlemen, — The following is the report of your super-
intendent for the year ending December 31, 1897, which
is respectfully submitted:
A gratifying feature of this report is as to the amount
of water in the lake at the present time. It has been
abundant enough to supply the city and run the low ser-
vice pumps since February. The lowest point reached
was 1 foot and 9 inches below the dam on January 3. The
highest point reached was December 17, when it was 2
feet 8 inches above the dam.
The water stands today 2 feet above the dam, which is
3 feet 8 inches higher than one year ago. The water has
been higher at times, but the average through the summer
and fall has not been so much for over twenty years.
The amount of rainfall for 1897, measured at the new
pumping station, was 49f inches, which is about 10 inches
more than in 1896.
LOW SERVICE STATION.
The pumps at this station have done their work so satis-
factorily that very slight repairs were required during
the year.
Two arms on the bevel gear on the jack-shaft became
disabled and were repaired. A new crank pin was put
into the Davidson pump and new brass plates on the
piston head of one piston.
On the east side of the station, a piazza was built from
the pump house to the dwelling house, 12 by 18 feet, to
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92 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
prevent the water which leaked through the concrete
from running into the oil room.
The fence in the front yard was improved by putting
in twenty-five new posts and repainting. This completed
the general repairs in and about the station.
HIGH SERVICE STATION.
At this station, some considerable work has been done
by way of improvements. A substantial wall has been
built along the east side of the Borough road, north of
the road leading to the pumping station, and on the west-
erly line of the Hunter place. Some grading has been
done south of the station by the deposit of coal ashes
from the boilers. A cottage which was included in the
purchase of the Hunter farm has been moved to the
northerly side of the barn and a shed built to connect
them. All buildings have now been removed from the
Hunter shore and also the Proctor shore. This removes
all the buildings on the west shore of the Back Pond that
are in Hillsborough county, so that the city now owns
and controls all the shore to the Williams land.
The pumps at this station are now being overhauled,
set over, and repacked. As the repairs are now in prog-
ress, the expense at the present time cannot be accurately
estimated.
The men in charge at each station fully understand
their business and are well qualified to have charge of
their respective premises.
At the high service reservoir the banks were fertilized,
which is all the improvement made at this point. The
reservoir is in fine condition and as yet gives no evidence
of leaks.
The two force mains on the high and low service have
caused considerable trouble by leaks. Little damage has
been done, however, except by the blowout of one plug
near the brook on the Mammoth road, which washed out
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BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 95
about fifty loads of dirt. The reservoir being full at that
time, this accident caused no serious alarm, as the plug
was soon restored and the pumps again commenced
action.
DISTRIBUTION PIPES.
These pipes have been extended about four and one half
miles and there have been laid over about two and three
quarters miles. There was laid in the same trench with
the sewer pipe on the upper end of Elm street, 567 feet,
on Carpenter street, 800 feet, and on Merrimack street,
220 feet. An arrangement was made with the street
department whereby an allowance was made to it of
|2.50 per lineal foot on Elm and Merrimack streets, and
$2 per foot on Carpenter street, toward the cost of exca-
vation, this being for blasting through solid rock. A
12-iuch pipe was extended on Elm street, from the north
line of Trenton street to Rowell street, thence west on
Rowell street to River road. From here, an 8-inch pipe
was laid south on the River road to the north line of the
Elizabeth Stark house. A connection was made at the
corner of Rowell street and River road, and a 6-inch pipe
laid from this point to the Industrial School yard by the
state of New Hampshire, for fire purposes. The pipe was
extended south on Beech street from the north side of the
Nutt road 4,446 feet, to the south side of Norfolk street.
Less rock excavation was encountered on this line than
was expected.
Distribution pipes have been extended in forty-three
streets. A certain portion was relaid in twenty-three
streets. The most expensive was on Elm street, where
it was relaid from Manchester to Lowell streets, 1,540 feet,
and at the same time most of the service pipes were laid
over. In most cases, service pipes which have been
laid fifteen to twenty years have become so corroded as to
96 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
render unsatisfactory service, particularly where under
one inch in diameter.
There have been bursts in the cement pipe, although
but little damage was done. There are now about ten
miles of cement pipe in use, which is being gradually
replaced with iron pipe, the completion of which we hope
to see within two years. Water was supplied to West
Manchester through the pipe on Granite bridge last win-
ter. The expansion joint moved just one and one half
inches from warm to cold weather.
The main pipe on 'North Elm street, which was laid in
the sewer trench last winter, broke under the excessive
weight of granite which had been piled upon it. The
water waste was first* discovered at the high service res-
ervoir, where it seemed to leak out as fast as pumped in.
It was traced, by the* gates, to that part of the pipe be-
tween Carpenter and Trenton streets. The water was
found to be running down- the sewer trench, under the
water pipe, and thus did not show on the surface. This
break occurred in the month of June and it was some time
in August before the excavated rock was removed by the
street department, so as to repair the pipe. When found,
it proved to be a crack three feet long, caused by the
weight of stone on top and insecure filling underneath.
During this time the water remained shut off above Car-
penter street. This only corroborates what has been said
in former reports about the undesirability of laying the
water pipe in the same trench with the sewer pipe.
There are in the city 707 hydrants. They are the cause
of a great deal of anxiety in the winter to the water-works
oflficials, as they get out of order so easily. I will not re-
peat what I have said before about using the hydrants in
cold weather, but it seems to me they are oftentimes
opened when not necessary.
The following table shows the rainfall at the high ser-
vice pumping station for 1897:
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 97
RAINFALL AT HIGH SERVICE PUMPING STATION, 1897.
DAT.
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2.09
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07
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.73
3 ..
.10
.71
.23
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5
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.22
1.18
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6
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1.03
.04
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1.10
.12
.03
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s
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9
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.47
.92
.45
.67
1.61
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.66
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28
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31
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3.40
2.51
3.48
2.36
4.77
6.24
6.35
4.66
2.27
1.40
6.63
5.71
Total rainfall, 49.78 inches, 1897.
Total rainfall, 38.41 inches, 1896.
Total rainfall, 42.06 inches, 1895.
The income from sale of water for 1897 has been as
follows:
Received for water by rate |30,647.17
for water by meter. . . . 76,148.60
for building purposes 331.85
from fines 321.80
$107,449.42
* Snow melted.
98 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Received for old cement pipe . . . |172.00
for labor and pipe sold 67.05
from Smyth Block Co.,
4-incli main 31.25
from Frank Clement,
old brass 56.40
from Peter Riley, old
brass 80.76
from State Industrial
School, pipe 54.30
from Stark Corpora-
tion, pipe ,. 9.05
from Claremont Water
Co., bands 51.62
from Manchester Elec-
tric Light Co., pipe. . 63.23
from Baker & Dear-
born, stop boxes .... 2.00
from E. R. Whitney,
pipe 39.42
Received from Asa Haselton,
rent foO.OO
from Mr. Hamblett,
grass 2.00
from L. E. Emery,
grass 3.00
from Charles Spofford,
grass 20.00
from Sarah Gilbert,
grass 2.00
from Mel Hall, 6 houses 150.00
from F, H. Pettegrew,
Perkins's pavilion. . 20.00
from H. S. Clough,
Hobbs house 40.00
$627.08
BOAKD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 99
■ Eeceived from Amos Latuch,
Proctor bouse |20.00
from E. H. Fogg, Stu-
ber boatbouse 20.00
from Boston & Maine
R. R., damage to
woods 6.67
from Fletcber Browm,
lease 1.00
from G. G. Griffin,
lease ; 1.00
from Massabesic
grange, rent 50.00
from S. G. Prescott,
rent 50.00
from C. Dratou, rent. . 4.00
from J. A. Sinclair,
rent 48.00
$467.67
$108,544.17
Received for bvdrant rentals 17,175.00
Total received !i?125,719.17
Abatements, |614.05.
Amount on band Dec. 31, 1896. . |17,.387.36
received from water
rates, etc 108,544.17
received from bvdrant
rentals 17,175.00
Premium on bonds sold 6,248.00
Total 1149,354.53
Amount paid for current ex-
penses f .32,111.72
Amount paid for construction
expenses 33,002.25
100 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Interest on bonds, 1897 $40,414.00
Hydrant rentals set aside for
sinking fund 17,175.00
Total expenditures, 1897 |122,702.97
Balance on band December 31, 1897. . . |26,651.56
CLASSIFICATION OF ACCOUNTS FOR 1897.
Superintendence, repairs, and re-
newals 123,837.22
Stationery and printing : . , 219.20
Office and incidental expenses . . . .1,433.56
Pumping expenses, low service 2,140.39
Pumping expenses, liigb service 3,869.53
Repairs to dam, canal, and res-
ervoirs 239.99
Repairs to buildings 371.83
Total current expenses for 1897 |32,111.72
Service pipes |3,064.05
Distribution pipes 17,799.89
Fire hydrants and valves 1,606.44
Meters 3,356.92
Land , 6,450.00
Grading and fencing 664.95
Total construction expenses, 1897.... 33,002.25
Sinking fund 17,175.00
Total 182,288.97
Construction Expenses.
Land and water rights |142,184.00
Dam, canal, penstock and races 101,399.16
Pumping machinery, pump-
house, and buildings 176,372.19
BOARD OF AVATER COMMISSIONERS. 101
Distribution reservoirs |117,607.90
Force and supply main 89,7G9.02
Distribution pipes 585,811.13
Fire hydrants and valves. ..... 59,383.13
Meters and fixtures 51,149.98
Service pipes 71,681.91
Grading and fencing 17,376.92
Tools and fixtures 10,649.35
Boarding and store houses 919.36
Roads and culverts 4,405.20
Supplies 550.39
Engineering 22,176.19
Livery and traveling expenses . . 2,856.64 '
Legal expenses 563.79
Total construction expenses to Dec. 31,
1897 11,458,246,29
Current Eaepenses.
Superintendence, collecting, and
repairs |296,891.17
Stationery and printing 7,245.63
Office and incidental expenses. . 32,840.82
Pumping expenses at low ser-
vice 53,796.04
Pumping expenses at high ser-
vice 13,628.08
Repairs to buildings 3,588.56
Repairs to dam, canal, races,
and reservoir 5,274.37
Total current expenses to Dec. 31, 1897 413,264.97
Interest |40,678.51
Highway expenditures 14,000.53
54,679.04
Total amount of bills approved to date |1,926,190.30
102 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
Interest, discount, and labor
performed on highway, trans-
fers, and tools and materials
sold 167,200.92
Current expenses to Dec. 31,
1897 413,264.97
s^4S0,465.89
Total cost, exclusive of interest and
current expenses |1,445,724.41
Interest and discount to Dec.
31, 1896 1842,900.51
Interest for 1897 40,414.00
Total interest and discount to Dec. 31,
1897 1883,314.51
AMOUNT OF WATER BONDS ISSUED TO DECEMBER 31, 1897.
Issued January 1, 1872, rate 6 per cent, due
January 1, 1902 |100,000.00
Issued January 1, 1887, rate 4 per cent, due
January 1, 1907 100,000.00
Issued July 1, 1890, rate 4 per cent, due
July 1, 1910 100,000.00
Issued January 1, 1892, rate 4 per cent, due
January 1, 1910 100,000.00
Issued August 1, 1893, rate 5 per cent, due
August 1, 1913 100,000.00
Issued November 1, 1893, rate 4^ per cent,
due November 1, 1913 100,000.00
Issued October 1, 1894, rate 4 per cent, due
October 1, 1914 50,000.00
Issued July 1, 1895, rate 4 per cent, due July
1, 1915 100,000.00
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
103
Issued December 16, 1895, rate 4 per cent,
due December 16, 1915 |50,000.00
Issued January 1, 1897, rate 4 per cent, due
January 1, 1917 100,000.00
1900,000.00
SINKING FUND.
1893 112,750.00
1894 13,925.00
1895 15,800.00
1896 16,800.00
1897 17,175.00
Total 176,450.00
STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS.
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1872
1873
1874
1875'
1S7g!
18771
1S7S;
18791
1680!
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1S82|
18S3
18841
1885'
1886'
1887!
1888;
1889
1890
1891
1892
1893
1894:
1895
1896,
18971
$573.6]
2,097.60
32,154.07
29,223.60
39,028.47
43,823.30
48,874.26
53,143.17
57,655.25
60,215.62
67,630.13
73,458.20
75.580.08
80,404.12
75,129.99
80,518 17
85,643.82
86,700.46
90,463.37
76,605.23
83,474.79
104,170.081
110,210.29
11 8,374.50 1
128,907.03,
125,719.17
122,425.00
13,095.00!
16,320.00
17,475.00,
17,970.00
18,165.00
18,300.00,
18,780.00,
20,130.00
20,520.00
21,350.001
18,900 00
19,750.00
20,437.50
21 ,000.00:
18,240.00!
19,880.00
4,590.03!
5,000.00
12,750.00
13,925.00
15,800.00
16,800.00
17,175.00
51,692.69'
7,987.27!
10,292.13
15,900.63
18,064.511
20,255.97
21,610.13;
23,795.96;
25,336.18;
26,803.06
28,838.24^
31,724.07,
33,597.02'
33,062.11
33,497.21;
33,864 78
34,140.99
32,431.10
30,588.79
31,344.24
32,603.59!
32,176 28
32,903.99,
32,540.03!
30,647.17
$190.84'
1,436:56
3,348.11
6,305.81
7,783.09
10,090.25
12,732.93
14,794.34
15,55198
19,898.69
23,431.20
21,329.75
27,425.35
21,573.45
25,277.09
29,838.8:
33,596.05
37,009.80
40,479.25
46,139.35
58,103.20
62,501.35
67,465.90
77,610.10
76,148.60
$119.10
122.13
72.32
136 10
83.60
81.60
79.50
105.60
146.65
314.65
195.10
102.50
287.40
351.70
543.80
361.95
649.90
494.80
416.00
1,033.75
697.80
808.20
638.48
331.85
$14.00
104.18
120.59
180.16
233.04
232.82
240.64
210.39
223.99
197.49
208.04
231 96
186.80
130.80
119.20
149.80
153.20
151.80
160.40
168.40
159.60!
227.40
300.40
302.80
321.80
$573 61
200.07
099.85
2,245.64
249.55
131. .56
241.62
303.87
465.06
203.87
443.24
125.07
738.20
181.45
320.23
819.47
243.62!
155.271
298.77
200.99
139.80
339.38
334.82
768.17
440.12
627.08
$10.00
11.00
11.00
21.00
11.00
11.00
6.00
16.00
3.00
53.00
42.00
91.00
267.00
1S0..56
347.64
327.84
575.50
467.67
8
98
160
166
202
226
251
280-
310
371
404
446
486
613
739
842
951
1,135
1,313
1,608
1,895
2,182
2,520
2,86&
3,134
1878, meter rate was changed. 1884, hydrant rates reduced. 1886, meter
and other rates reduced. 1889, hydrant rates leduced. 1891 and 1892, re-
ceived only part of hydrant rent, and nothing from water-troughs or street
sprinklers. 1893, hydrant rent and water-closets rate reduced.
104
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The following amounts have been paid over to the city
treasurer, and credited to the water-works:
1872, supplies and materials sold » 157.3.61
1873, supplies and materials sold 177.07
accrued interest on water bonds sold 19H.26
accrued interest on state bonds sold. . 140.00
water rents 1,920.53
1874, supplies and materials sold 607.80
March 12, highway expenditures trans-
ferred from w^ater account 14,000.53
March 17, interest and discount trans-
ferred from water account 12,347.25
September 1, interest and discount
transferred from water account . . . 22,361.74
water and hydrant rent 30,233.54
December 29, interest transferred .... 4,566.25
1875, water and hydrant rent 27,119.15
sundry items 2,104.45
1876, sundry items 149.00
water and hydrant rent 38,879.47
1877, sundry items 131.56
water and hydrant reiit 43,691.74
1878, water and hydrant rent 48,632.64
sundry items 241,62
1879, sundry items 303.87
water and hydrant rent 52,839.30
1880, water and hydrant rent 57,180.19
sundry items 475.06
1881, water and hydrant rent 60,000.75
sundry items 214.87
1882, water and hydrant rent 67,175.89
sundry items 454.24
1883, water and hydrant rent 73,312.13
sundry items 146.07
1884, water and hydrant rent 74,830.88
sundry items 749.20
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 105
1885, water and byduaut rent |8U,211.G7
sundry items 192.45
1886, water and hydrant rent 71,803.76
sundry items 326.23
1887, water and hydrant rent 79,682.70
sundry items 835.47
1888, water and hydrant rent 85,397.20
sundry items 246.62
1889, water and hydrant rent 86,492.19
sundry items ". 208.27
1890, water and hydrant rent 90,122.60
sundry items 340.77
1891, water and hydrant rent 76,313.24
sundry items 291.99
1892, water and hydrant rent 83,067.99
sundry items 406.80
1893, water rents 90,900.14
sundry items 519.94
1894, water rents 95,602.83
sundry items 682.46
1895, water rents 101,478.49
sundry items 1,096.01
1896, water rents 111,091.41
sundry items. . 1,015.62
1897, water rents 107,449.42
sundry items 1,094.75
premium on bonds 6,248.00
Total 11,811,878.77
METERS.
The number of meters set during the year has been two
hundred and seventy-eight (278).
Total number of meters now in use, thirty-one hundred
and thirty-four (3,134).
106 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The number of applications for water has been two
hundred and fourteen (214).
Total number of applications to date, fiftv-three hun-
dred and sixty-six (5,366).
SERVICE PIPES.
Two hundred and eighteen (218) service pipes have
been laid this year, as follows:
216 1-inch 5,498.0 feet
111-inch ; "... 33.0 "
1 e-lnch 29.5 "
Total 5,560.5 feet
SERVICE PIPES RELAID, 1897.
1 finch dia. 34.0 feet to 1-inch dia 33.0 feet
li-inchdia. 21.0 " to 4-inch dia 19.0 "
69 i-inch dia. 2,282.0 " to 1-inch dia 2,187.5 "
1 1-inch dia. 0.0 " to 1-inch dia 18.0 "
15 1-inch dia. 674.2 " to 1-inch dia 701.9 "
2 1-inch dia. 31.8 " to 2-inch dia 30.8 "
12f inch dia. 57.0 " to 2i-inch dia 63.0 "
92 old pipes, 3,202.0 feet to new pipes, 3,157.0 feet
Fift3^-two hundred and one (5,201) service pijies have
been laid to date, as follows:
27 |-inch diameter 565.6 feet
1,548 f -inch diameter 39,926.8 "
3,485 1-inch diameter 88,312.3 "
22 If inch diameter 893.5 "
25 If inch diameter 805.0 "
69 2-inch diameter 2,213.5 "
2 2f inch diameter 63.0 "
5 3-inch diameter 89.8 "
11 4-inch diameter 288.5 "
133,158.0 feet
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS.
107
Number miles of service pipe, 25.22.
The following- streets are where cement-lined pipe was
taken up and cast-iron pipe laid in 1897:
Streets.
Length of Pipe.
Gates
taken out.
Location.
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58
1
Corner Elm.
12
Corner Pearl.
583
24
55
965
58
35
21
58
Beech to Maple.
1
Corner Elm.
Elm
1543
FrankUn»
510
"64
i
2
Merrimack to Market
Corner Elm.
High
1,810
South Main . . .
557
Ferry to Railroad.
Beech to Lincoln.
1,218
58
726
36
767
1,588
i
1
1
Canal to Elm.
6
Maple to Lincoln.
Pine to Maple.
Pearl
Pine
822
318
699
1,100
848
1
1
Stark
Elm to Canal.
Walnut
50
624
Water
41
11,066
1
1543
12
557
828
8
2
Total relaid, 14,630 feet, or 2.77 miles.
*Fi-anklin street, 9 feet 4ineh cast-iron was taken out, and 510 feet 4-
inch and 21 feet 0-inch cement-lined was taken out, and 540 feet 6-inch cast
iron laid instead ; also 2 4-inch gates were replaced with 6-inch gates.
108
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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Ashland to Morrison.
Bridge to Lowell.
South of Webster.
Near Nutt road to Norfolk.
East of Wilson.
North of High.
Elm to Adams.
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Corner of Elm.
East side of Beech.
South of Amory.
West side of Beech.
South of Amory.
Sheridan to Glenwood.
Carpenter to Rowell. [Water.
North side Merrimack, south side Stark and
South of Aniory.
Corner of Market and Merrimack.
To Lovering.
At Donahoe.
To Russell.
To Cedar.
Massabesic to Nelson.
East to Linden.
East of Merrill.
Northward.
To Laval.
East side of Beech.
To Kelley.
East side of Glenwood.
East side of Beech.
Porter to Hall road.
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LOCATION OF HYDRANTS SET IN 1897.
Arlington, corner Morrison.
Beech, corner Nutt.
Beech, corner Mitchell.
Beech, between Brook and Cemetery.
Beech, corner Mystic.
Beech, corner Norfolk.
Cedar, corner Hall.
Donahoe, corner Glenwood.
Elm, corner Trenton.
Elm, corner Kowell.
Essex, corner Monitor.
Glenwood, corner Lovering.
Gore, corner Kussell.
Hayward, corner Porter.
Merrimack, corner Milton.
River road, corner Rowell.
River road, opposite Lizzie Stark residence.
Sheridan, corner Donahoe.
Titus, corner Beech.
Union, 600 feet north of Trenton street.
DISTRIBUTION PIPES AND GATES LAID TO DECEMBER 31, 1S97.
Size.
Cement-lined pipe.
Cast-iron pipe.
Gates.
20-incli diameter
20.367 feet.
4,102 "
7,432 "
50 "
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12,054 "
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Cement-lined pipe 10.12 miles
Cast-iron pipe 82.05 "
Total pipe 92.17 miles
707 hydrants.
864 gates.
13 air valves.
Yours respectfull}',
CHARLES k. WALKER,
Superintendent.
Uses for which Water is Supplied.
WATER FIXTURES, ETC.
11,267 Families, 148 boarding-houses, 14,876 faucets,
3,920 wash-bowls, 3,177 bath-tubs, 10,479 water-closets,
630 wash-tubs, 187 urinals, 3,-549 sill-cocks, 2,719 horses,
132 cattle, 706 fire-hydrants, 30 watering-troughs, 8
drinking-fountains, 51 stand-pipes, 2 public urinals.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
1 Jail, 27 churches, 1 court house, 10 hose companies, 6
fire engines, 2 hook-and-ladder, 3 opera houses, 3 con-
vents, 4 city hospitals, 4 cemeteries, 1 orphanage, 1 post-
ofiice, 1 city library, 6 banks, 9 hotels, 1 Masonic hall, 1 ,
Odd Fellows' hall; 3 halls.
SHOPS.
57 Barber, 10 wheelwright, 20 blacksmith, 10 carpenter.
2 tinsmith, 1 copper, 3 currying, 19 plumber and gas and
water pipe, 14 paint, 3 gunsmith.
STORES.
4 Auction, 35 drug, 22 jewelry, 1 fur, 3 house-furnish-
ing goods, 20 fancy goods, 1 wholesale paper, 5 wholesale
produce, 24 dry goods, 12 candy, 1 cloak, 16 millinery, 3
BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS. 125
tea, 9 furniture, 1 wholesale grocer, 107 grocer}^ 6 meal, 3
hardware, 34 boot and shoe, 11 stove, 17 gents' furnish-
ing goods, 7 book, 1 leather and shoe-finders, 3 music, 3
upholstery, 9 undertakers, 5 sewing-machine, 1 feather-
cleaner, 1 rubber.
SALOONS.
18 Dining, 7 billiard, 55 liquor.
MISCELLANEOUS.
6 Clubrooms, 3 bleacheries, 37 laundries, 4 ice-houses,
11 photographers, 1 Mercy Home, 2 old ladies' homes, 1
soldiers' monument, 1 Turner hall, 4 fountains, 2 trust
companies, 1 city farm, 3 depots, 9 greenhouses, 2 band
rooms, 26 bakeries, 2 waste, 1 business college, .32 school-
houses, 1 battery building, 1 kitchen, 3 ward-rooms, 1
gymnasium, 2 police stations.
MANUFACTURING ESTABLISHMENTS.
1 Hosiery mill, 1 silver-plating, 2 iron foundries, 2 dye-
houses, 5 machine shops, 6 clothing manufactories, 9 har-
ness shops, 1 cornice works, 1 brush shop, 9 carriage
shops, 12 cigar factories, 1 brass and copper foundry, 1
locomotive works, 1 grist-mill, 1 silk-mill, 3 granite
works, 1 electric light station, 4 sash and blind shops, 1
brewery, G shoe shops, 1 gas works, 4 slaughter-houses, 1
soap factory, 4 needle manufactories, 6 beer-bottling, 3
book-binderies, 1 paper-mill, 2 box-makers, 1 paper-box
manufactory.
MARKETS.
G Fish, 12 meat and fish, 3 meat (wholesale).
STABLES.
23 Livery, 1 electric railroad, 1,113 private.
OFFICES.
20 Dentists, 2 telephone, 2 telegraph, 2 express, 14
printing, 1 gas, 17 coal.
126 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Materials on Hand.
PIPE.
8,100 feet 20-inch, 1,200 feet 14-incli, 2,800 feet 12-incli,
2,000 feet 10-iucb, 0,800 feet 8-inch, 1,200 feet 6-inch, 300
feet 4-inch.
BRANCHES.
2 double 6 on 20, 8 double G on 12, 1 double 8 on 12, 4
double 6 on 14, 5 double 4 on 4, 7 double 8 on 8, 22 double
6 on 8, 4 double 8 on 14, 1 single 8 on 14, 2 single 10 on 20,
1 single 14 on 14, 5 single G on 14, 2 single G on 10, 3 single
6 on 12, 2 single 10 on 10, 3 single 4 on G, 3 single 20-inch
Y's, 7 single G on 6.
WHOLE SLEEVES.
2 20-inch, 2 14-iuch, 5 12-inch, 9 10-inch, IG 8-inch, 18 G-
inch, 20 4-inch.
REDUCERS.
7 8-inch to G-inch, 1 10-inch to 8-inch, 2 14-inch to 12-
inch, 2 10-inch to G-inch, 3 10-inch to 14-inch, 3 10-inch .to
12-inch, 1 20-inch to 14-inch, 2 12-inch to 6-inch.
GATES.
11 6-inch, 2 12-inch.
TURNS.
2 20-inch 1-16, 2 10-inch 1-4, 3 10-inch 1-8, 3 8-inch 1-4,
3 6-inch 1-8, 7 14-inch 1-8, 1 8-inch 1-8, 1 12-iuch 1-8.
RISERS.
2 10-inch, 7 8-inch, 1 6-inch.
REPORT
STREET AND PARK COMMISSIONERS.
FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
STREET AND PARK COMMISSIONERS.
To His Honor the Mayor and City Councils of the City of
Manchester, N. H.:
Gentlemen, — We have the honor herewith to submit
the fifth annual report of this department.
The following gives the receipts and expenditures of
the office for the year 1897:
RECEIPTS.
Cash on hand |0.53
Keceived from Manchester Street Railway
Company 3,899.39
Received from sundry sources 93.66
Total 13,993.58
Deposited with city treasurer |3,980.81
Cash paid out for express and postage 12.77
Total 13,993.58
EXPENDITURES.
Commissioners' salaries $1,800.00
Clerical services 1,011.28
Carriage allowance 450.00
*Office supplies 78.14
Blank books 14.25
Incidentals 34.31
Telephone ?>9.93
Total 13,427.91
* Includes bill for printing annual report, 1896.
129
9
130 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Inventory of City Property.
Commissioners' office, including tj^pewriter,
furniture, office supplies, etc |279.05
Division No. 2, including horses, dump-
carts, sprinklers, road-machine, crushers,
tools, etc 2.3,522.29
City^ stables, storage shed, blacksmith shop 15,950.00
Lot of land on Franklin street 89,.312.00
Valuation of pipe on hand 763.17
Division No. 4 3.25
Division No. 5 .32.65
Division No. 6 21.00
Division No. 7 101.75
Division No. 8 27.10
Division No. 9 19.10
Divisions Nos. 10 and 11, including horses,
road-machine, carts, sprinklers, etc 1,681.09
Stable and lot in West Manchester 1,200.00
Commons, including horse lawn-mower,
swings, etc 354.78
Total 1133,207.23
Orders Received from City Government, with Date
of Passage.
ORDERS TO BUILD SEWERS.
Silver street, Lincoln to Wilson.
Laurel street, east of Beacon westerly 150 feet.
Passed May, 1897.
Walnut street, Salmon southerlj^ 175 feet.
Passed June, 1897.
Silver street, Wilson to Hall.
Passed July, 1897.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 131
Whittemore Land, West Manchester.
Passed August, 1897.
Union street, Silver to Hayward.
Prescott street, Wilson east 20S feet.
Hayward street, Belmont to Cypress.
Taylor street, Valley northerly 400 feet.
Amory street, Alsace easterly 200 feet.
Grove south back street, east of Union to Beech.
Rimmon east back street, Kelley to Mason.
Everett street, Clark southerly 300 feet.
Passed September, 1S07.
Maple street, Prescott to Hayward.
Beech street, Silver to Harvard.
Harvard street, Beech to Maple.
Somerville street, Wilson to Hall.
Russell street, Harrison northerly 350 feet.
Grove south back street, Wilson easterly 200 feet.
River road, north from Clarke to Park avenue.
Central street, Belmont to Milton.
Passed November, 1897.
MISCELLANEOUS ORDERS.
Order to macadamize Pearl street, from Pine to Union.
Passed August, 1897.
Order to build Lake avenue to width and grade between
Cass and Beacon streets.
Passed September, 1897.
Order to construct bicycle path on Hall road, com-
mencing at corner of Massabesic street and Candia road.
Passed October, 1897.
132
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
APPaOPBIATIOXS.
List of Appropriations.
Amount
appropriated.
Amount
expended.
Street and park commission
Repairs of higliways
* New highways
Snow and ice
Watering streets
Paving streets ,
Macadamizing streets
Grade for concrete
Scavenger teams
City teams
Bridges
Street sweeping
New sewers
Repairs of sewers
t River road sewer
Repairing Amoslceag bridge
Paving Elm and Granite streets
Bicj'cle path
Commons
J Stark and Derryfield parks —
Totals
600.00
000.00
,382.48
000.00
000.00
onooo
000.00
000.00
,000 00
,500.00
,000.00
,000.00
,000.00
000.00
697.57
700.00
000.00
600.00
500.00
,000.14
$168,980.19
$3,427.91
21,203.80
8,381.97
4,983.61
3,762.64
7,031.79
14,472.74
5,4^0.96
15,260.85
6,723.94
3,407.52
2,318.22
35,698.29
5,830.46
5,258.06
3,541.90
11,653.41
.564.36
4,526.80
5,003.84
$168,503.07
Unexpended balance, S477.12.
CONTRACTS.
Akron sewer pipe, Pike & Heald Co.
Hoffman cement, J. A. & A. W. Walker.
Bridge plank, A. C. Wallace,
Sewer plank, Head & Dowst Co.
Sewer brick, William F. Head & Son.
Sewer castings, Mancliester Locomotive Works.
Edgestones, cesspool stones, Warren Harvey.
Paving blocks, Charles A. Bailey.
Laying paving on Elm street, Soule, Dillingham & Co.
Concreting Granite street, Charles H. Robie Co.
Carload oats. Partridge Bros.
Carload oats, Gage & McDougall.
Carload oats. Gage & McDougall.
Carload oats. Freeman & Merrill.
Building Second street to grade, W. H. Coburn.
Grading on Candia road, Charles Francis.
Portable stone crusher. Climax Road Machine Co.
« Includes Sl,382 48,
t Includes 85,697.57, } balance from appropriation for 1896.
j Includes S0.14,
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
PERMITS TO ENCUMBER.
133
Given to
Location.
Date, 1897.
MelvlnHall
James Benson
I.E. Sturtevant
Moore & Preston —
C. P. Barney
C. S. McKeon
J.A.Wilson
Mrs. M. Hackett
Frank Bascom
David H. Nutt
Melvin Hall
G. A. Plamondon . . . .
Arthur Tremblay
J. H. Mendell &Co ..
Manchester Bank
Fred Cotton
Head & Dowst Co
N. W. Page ;..
Melvin Hall
Fred Cotton
W. M. Buttei-fleld
J. H. Mendell* Co...
J. F. Mahoney
Pike &Heald
Amos Lutuch
John Sweeney
R. P. Stevens &Co...
Thomas Shea
Joseph Lavlne
Gordon Woodbury.. .
Shirley & Smith
A.S.Walker
N. W. Page
Bixby & Wilson
Boston & Maine R. R
E. E. Smith
Couch & McDonald. .
Mark Harvey
Hadley Higgins
George L. Reed
Fred H. Balch.
Lake Shore road
Derry turnpike
Elm street (New York store)
Elm street
Wilson and Manchester
495 Granite street
East High and Buzzell
225 Lake avenue
East High and Ashland
187 Merrimack street
Lake Shore road
221 Spruce south back
329 Hinimon street
239 Laurel street
Elm west back street
Water street
Elm street (N. H. Ins. Co.) ..
Ashland street
Fletcher Island road
Spring street
158 Sagamore street
S3 Sagamore street
352 Lake avenue
Towne block, Elm street •
Lake Shore road
Clark road
Elm and Salmon
Laurel north back
501-517 Main street
North Main near Granite
Lowell street
Pine and Manchester south back
Milton and Merrimack....
Mast street, near Main
West Central street
191 Merrimack street
Spruce and Belmont
231 Laurel south back 1
Sagamore near Maple Nov
20 Malvern street Dec
Wilson and Somerville
Jan.
Feb.
Mar.
April
May
June
July
Au£
Sent.
Oct.
11
1
11
5
17
1
6
10
14
24
25
28
8
8
9
14
15
24
24
25
15
15
17
19
19
27
27
29
11
18
28
10
24
27
'l
19
Note.— A bond of $500 being filed in each case when permit is granted.
Report of Division No. 2.
George W. Cheney, Agent.
snow and ice account.
Appropriation
Transferred from repairs of highways
Transferred from reserved fund
Total
14,000.00
494.28
489.33
14,983.61
134 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
EXPENDITURES.
Labor, January $595.00
February 3,076.10
March 710.57
November 79.25
December 110.08
Paid, snowplows 75.00
sand and supplies 37.53
Total 14,983.61
STREETS AND ROADS.
The work done upon our streets and roads will be
found in detail in the tables furnished.
The road-machine has been used wherever such use
would result in a saving to the city, and 10.28 miles of
roadway have been turnpiked by it in division No. 2 alone.
In the same division three miles of streets have been grav-
eled, while in No. 10 4,460 feet have been treated in a like
manner. About two miles of new streets have been built
this year. The same law which relieved the city from
much litigation and expense for injuries resulting from
so-called defects in the highway provides that bridges,
culverts, and steep embankments shall be protected by a
guard rail. In compliance with this provision of the
statute, 5,738 feet of such fencing was built during the
season and it is believed that all such dangerous places
are now protected. The dearth of good road material
continues to increase the cost of repairs. This is as true
of the suburban districts as of the city proper. The soil
in the suburban districts contains many stones and
ledges, and in the construction of the roads it has been
customary to remove those which can be conveniently
disposed of in that manner and cover the rest. It would
be impracticable to do anything else, as the cost of remov-
STKEET AND PARK COMMISSION. 135
ing them all would be so great as to be unreasonable. In
time the covering wears away, and the boulders and
ledges are a source of discomfort to people riding over
them. Recovering seems to be the only remedy. The
surplus soil beside the roadway has been used for this
purpose as well as for general repairs. It was not good
material, but the best available. On many of the roads
this supply has been exhausted and gravel has to be
hauled long distances to be used in its stead. Any person
who has had experience in hiring teams will realize that
under the above conditions repairs will continue to cost
much money. The board hopes it has found a remedy in
the portable stone crusher. As fast as possible it will be
moved about in the various districts and the stone which
are now an inconvenience will be crushed and used in
place of gravel with, we believe, the best results.
STREETS TURNPIKED WITH RGAD-MACHIXE.
Adams 1,400 feet
Appleton 1,500 '•
Amherst ' 1,800 "
Ashland 1,400 "
Ash 400 "
Bay 800 "
Blodget 700 '•
Brook 1,500 "
Bridge 2,500 "
Belmont 2,000 "
Beacon 1,050 "
Beech 500 "
Chestnut 1,200 "
Clark 1,500 "
Concord 400 "
Button 300 "
East High 1,800 "
Elm 1,000 "
136 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Hanover 2,200 feet
Hall 1,700 "
Highland 2,000 ''
Jane 400 "
Liberty 600 ."
Linden 200 "
Lowell 500 "
Lincoln 350 "
Munroe 150 "
Myrtle 400 "
Maple 2,500 "
Merrimack 1,000 "
North 600 "
Pine 2,300 "
Pennacook 700 "
Pearl 500 "
Eiver road north 4,850 "
Ray 1,200 "
Reform School road 300 "
Salmon 1,600 "
Sagamore 700 "
Smith road 400 "
South 400 "
Trenton 1,000 "
Union 3,000 "
Walnut 1,000 "
Webster 2,000 "
Total 54,300 feet
Total turnpiked, 54,300 feet, or 10.28 miles.
Labor on this work charged to repairs of highways.
STREETS GRAVELED.
Amherst 300 feet
Ashland 200 "
Arlington 250
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 137
Bridge 100 feet
BelmoDt 150 "
Beacon 150 "
Chestnut 1,900 "
Concord 500 "
Carpenter 1,400 "
Dutton 300 "
Derry 300 '•'
East High 150 "
Elm (north) 800 "
Hall 250 "
Hooksett road 1,000 "
Kennard road 500 "
Lowell 200 "
Laurel 500 "
Liberty 500 "
Orange 250 "
Pearf 500 "
Pine .' 500 "
Eiver road (north) 600 "
Sagamore 250 "
Union 3,000 "
Warren 500 "
Webster 300 "
Total 15,350 feet
Total streets graveled, 15,350 feet, or 2.90 miles.
Labor charged to repairs of highways.
FENCING.
Beech 340 feet
Calef road, near Baker 200 "
Chestnut, over Ray brook 172 "
Deer Neck bridge 1,000 "
Elm north of Pennacook 150 "'
138
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Lake avenue, near Hall 80 feet
Valley, between Beech and Union 112 "
Total 2,058 feet
Labor charged to repairs of highways.
NEW STREETS GRADED.
Location.
Length
in feet.
Cut or
fin.
Labor.
Ash, Sagamore north
Adams
Beacon, Manchester to Lake avenue
Clark, Union west
Calef road, near cemetery
Chestnut, Clark north
Clay, Beech west
*Elm, north of Carpenter
Maple, Silver south
Myrtle, Belmont west
Ray
Summer, Beech east
Somerville
Trenton
Union
Waldo, Everett east
Total
Pond road culvert lengthened out. . .
100
200
1,050
220
750
1,050
150
500
300
350
200
100
150
300
800
200
6,420
30
Cut.
Both.
Cut.
Both.
Cut.
Both,
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
$386.90
50.00
342.80
100.00
280.00
349.00
150.00
2,100.00
98.00
39.90
50.00
16.00
84.00
100.00
571.22
92.50
S4,810.32
77.66
84,887.98
SUMMARY.
Labor, division No. 2 |4,887.9S
division No. 7 1,035.45
division No. 8 330.97
division No. 10 1,635.12
on Second street, built by contract. . 300.00
Hardware 152.85
Stone for culvert 21.60
General incidentals 18.00
Total 18,381.97
* This street was built to a width of 100 feet, and was cut through solid
ledge to a depth of three feet most of the way.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
GRADE FOR CONCRETE.
139
Location.
Length
in feet.
Width
in feet.
Cut or
fill.
Labor.
Adams, between Clark and Appleton
Adams
Ash and Sagamore
Beech, between Myrtle and Prospect.
Belmont and Concord
Beech and Cedar
Bridge and Birch
Brook and Maple
Beech and Silver
Belmont
Chestnut and Clark
Clark, Union west
Chestnut, Clark north
Clark and Adams
Carpenter and Adams
Elm, north of Carpenter
Gore, west of Oak
Hanover, east of Beacon
Hall and Lowell
Hall ."
Lake Avenue, east of Canton
Lowell, corner Hall
Myrtle and Hall
North and Union
North and Liberty
Pearl, between Linden and Hall
Russell, north of Harrison
Somerville, from Beech
Trenton and Elm
Union, south of Clark
Walnut, between North and Webster.
Walnut, between North and Salmon. .
Total.
200
200
100
200
250
208
60
100
300
100
300
600
200
625
225
1,200
50
50
ISO
100
100
200
150
150
150
50
100
300
150
75
100
50
6,823
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Both.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
Cut.
Fill.
$22.00
21.00
12.00
16.50
17.00
16.00
S.OO
14.50
18.50
15.00
12.00
.54.00
15.00
55.00
15.00
110.00
11.00
8.00
14.00
10.00
18.00
22.00
12.00
18.12
14.50
6.50
26.00
24.50
13.00
21.50
8.00
6.50
$655.12
140
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
EDGESTONES SET.
Location.
Number
of feet.
Labor.
Auburn, between Beech and Union
Arlington and Warren
Auburn and Pine
Auburn n<;ar Pine
Auburn east of Pine
Ashland and Arlington
Adams and Carpenter
Amherst and Chestnut
Beacon and Merrimack
Beecli and Grove
Beech and Cedar
Bridge and Birch
Bridge and Belmont
Bell and Pine
Bridge and Hall
€edar, between Beech and Maple
Clark and Chestnut
Concord and Belmont
Cedar and Pine
Clark and Union
Clark and Ray
Central, west of Franklin
Clark and Adams
Carpenter
Dean avenue
Elm east back, between Concord and Lowell
Elm, front of New York store .'...
Elm and Hanover
East High and Ashland
Elm and Market
Elm and Trenton
East Spruce, between Beech and Maple
Elm and Merrimack
Green and Union
Orove and Pine
Orove and Beech
Hanover and Beech
High school lot
Hall and Orange
Jane and East High
Liberty and Norlli
Laurel and Beacon
Lowell and Hall
Lake avenue, near Canton
Lake avenue and Union
Lake avenue, between Union and Beech
Lake avenue and Belmont
Lowell, between Elm and Chestnut
Laurel, between Pine and Union
Merrimack and Pine
Manchester and Wilson
Maple and Brook
Myrtle and Hall
Market and Elm
Maple and Bridge
Maple and Sagamore
North, between Union and Liberty
Old Bridge and Hall
Pine and Harrison
Prospect and Elm
Amount carried forward
50
18
61
25
25
17
18
17
20
28
226
19
17
16
25
126
19
17
44
21
19
55
21
445
9
56
57
.•i5
16
16
28
53
8
17
21
19
8
1,018
20
67
19
17
18
100
75
50
18
114
25
30
18
20
38
8
8
153
12
21
118
128
13.25
3.00
7.00
2.00
2.. 50
3.50
3.50
4.50
3.50
4.12
20.00
3.50
2.00
3.50
6.75
7.00
3.25
3.00
3.50
5.00
3.50
6.50
3.50
49.85
2.00
5.50
9.00
5.00
2.00
2.00
4.00
6.00
1.50
2.75
3.50
3.50
1.00
93.00
2.00
15.50
2.75
2..10
2.00
8.00
5.50
5.00
3.50
7.50
5.00
3.50
3.00
2.00
5.00
5.00
1.75
12.00
1.00
3.50
10.00
13.50
3,787
8417.97
STREET AND PARK COMiMISSION.
EDGESTONES SET.— Contimied.
141
LOCATIOK.
Number
of feet.
Labor.
Amount brought forward .
Pine and Grove
Pine, east back, and Grove .
Ray and Carpenter
Summer, near Beech
Sagamore and Maple
Spruce, near Union
Salmon and Beech
Salmon and Elm
Sagamore and Ash
Union and North
Totals .
S464.22
EDGESTONES RESET.
Auburn, west of Pine. .
Chestnut and Amherst.
Elm and Market
Elm and Merrimack. . .
Hanover
Labor, |17.
PAVING.
25 feet
100
76
251 feet
This board has realized as fully as others that the past
condition of Elm street has not been creditable to a
city of this size. The members did not feel, however,
that with the means at their command, and when there
were such pressing needs in so many other directions,
that they were justified in diverting such an amount of
money from the general appropriation as would be neces-
sary to make a decent commencement towards providing
proper pavements. It was, therefore, with much pleas-
ure that the board noted the appropriation set aside for
the special purpose of repaving a portion of Elm street.
After a thorough investigation, the commission settled
upon the kind of paving which was laid, and it is believed
142 « ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
to be such as will last for a long period of time without
any expense for repairs.
The old square blocks were removed and used in the
paving of Elm west back and Manchester south back
streets. This, by the way, was a much-needed improve-
ment, as both streets are much used and both have been
so muddy at times as to be offensive. After the old pav-
ing was removed, the soil vfas taken out to a depth of
about fourteen inches. A bed of concrete, consisting of
cement, sand, and crushed stone, was then laid five inches
deep. This when well set or hardened was covered with
a cushion of sand from one to two inches deep, and on
this cushion the small granite blocks were put into posi-
tion by exj)erienced pavers. The crevices between the
blocks were filled with a grout consisting of equal parts
of Portland cement and sand. The cement was mixed
with water and made moist enough so that it would flow
readily into the cracks. It was brushed over the surface
with a broom, care being taken to fill every crevice full.
This left a roadbed which was smooth and solid, and
which we have reason to believe will stand the test of
time and use. The work was done under the immediate
direction of Soule, Dillingham & Co., of Boston, Mass.,
and is a credit to them and to the city. That firm fur-
nished the pavers, or the men who placed the blocks in
position, but outside of this the labor was local. The
street was thus treated from the north side of Merrimack
to the south side of Stark street, which covers a surface
of 3,704.78 square yards. The total cost was |9,822.96,
making the cost per yard |2.65. Of the entire amoaat
the Manchester Street Railway Co. paid as its share,
11,822.96.
The citizens on the west side of the river expressed a
wish for a concrete rather than a granite block paving
on Granite street. The commission is always ready to
grant the reasonable request of any citizen when it is in
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 143
its power so to do, and after an investigation decided to
yield to their wishes and put in a concrete paving. The
street was prepared in practically the same waj as was
Elm street, but instead of the granite blocks a four-coat
concrete was laid, under contract with the C. H. Robie
Co. of this city. The work is guaranteed by them for five
years. The total cost was |6,203.45, there being 5,304.64
square yards, and the cost per square yard was $1 for the
space between the car rails, and |1.25 for the space out-
side the rails, the Manchester Street Railway Co. paying
as its share, |2,076.42.
In heavy showers much good road material on the hills
has been washed into the cesspools, and is a loss not only
of material which has to be replaced at a considerable
cost, but the expense of cleaning the cesspools is no small
matter. To remedy this difficulty the gutters in these
locations are paved. In West Manchester, 3,797 yards of
such paving have been laid, in doing which 265 loads of
paving stones were used, all of which came from the city
gravel bank in that district. Two hundred and sixty-five
yards were relaid in that section. On this side of the
river 6,415- square yards were put down, using 520 loads
of stone, and 314 yards were relaid. Edgestones were
set where furnished by the abuttors. In division No.
2, 4,278 feet in length of such stones were set or reset,
and in division No. 10, 251 feet were also cared for.
It is to bp earnestly hoped that the policy begun last
year, of paving a portion of Elm street, will be continued,
and the commission expects the city government will this
year, as last, set apart a certain sum for that purpose.
144
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
COBBLE GUTTER PAVING.
Location.
Square
yards.
Number
of loads
of stone.
Labor.
Ashland, Lowell to east High
Amberst, Hall to Belmont
Beacon, Lake avenue to Manchester
Belmont, Lake avenue to Central
Blodget, Chestnut to Elm
Calef road. Baker south
Grove, Pine east
Green, Pine east
Laurel, Beacon to Milton
Lake avenue, between Beacon and Cass .
Lake avenue, between Union and Beech .
Laurel, between Lincoln and Maple
Liberty, north to Webster
Lake avenue, Cass west
Milton, between Lake avenue and Central
Manchester, between Pine and Union
Pine, Valley to Cedar
Prospect, between Russell and Linden . . .
Ray, Carpenter north
Salmon, Beech to Walnut
Totals
179
13
777
85
19
844
748
330
136
136
693
208
467
328
68
18
l.li":
63
40
134
6,413
77
34
16
16
21
26
50
14
8
1
112
8
5
16
S54.50
2.00
261.18
22.00
7.00
256.50
153.16
62.46
40 80
50.78
54.25
80.60
62.00
20.00
20.84
2.00
235. oa
17.00
21.50
90.00
81,513.57
In a good many cases the stone that was used was taken
from Elm street.
COBBLE GUTTER PAVING RELAID.
Location.
Labor.
Elm, near foundry
Lowell, west Chestnut
Market, near Elm
Maple, between Harrison and Brook
Prospect, near Russell
Wilson
Total
S81.37
MACADAMIZING.
The building of roadway by this means has been pushed
during the season. The portable crusher which was pur-
chased early in the season has been used with extremely
satisfactory results. It was first stationed at the corner
STKEET AND PARK COMMISSION. 145
of Elm and Carpenter streets, and the immense amount
of rock which liad accumulated in the building of sewers
in that section was crushed and used upon the streets.
Afterwards the crusher was removed to the Amoskeag
Companj-'s ledge in McGregorville. The total amount
spent for the purpose during the year was |14,472.74,
which included the price of the new crusher, |2,412.51,
and the expense incident to the thorough repair of the
road roller. 34,044 square yards, covering 9,275 feet in
length of streets, were newly macadamized. Among the
streets so treated were Pine, from Valley to Cedar; Mc-
Gregor, from Putnam to ximory; Chestnut, from Lowell
to Brook, and Pine, from Merrimack to Prospect. The
first two streets mentioned were very badly in need of
repair, and, being much used, the work w^as greatly ap-
preciated. The ability to move the crusher about has
materially diminished the cost of macadamizing. The
location of the crusher in McGregorville enabled the de-
partment to deliver twenty loads of crushed stone on
McGregor street with the same amount of team labor
that would have been required for five loads had it been
taken from the city ledge, where the old permanent
crusher is located.
The cost per square yard for macadamizing this year
has been only |0.425, as compared with |0.528, which was
the cost during the year 1896. It should also be noted
that in this cost per square yard is reckoned the price
of the new crusher and the repairs to the road roller.
The following table shows how the cost for macadamiz-
ing has been divided:
10
146
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
MACADAMIZING STREETS.
Location.
Length
in feet-
Square
yards.
Crushed
stone.
Other
stone.
Labor.
500
1,889
230
S109.25
Chestnut, Lowell to Brook
2.300
8,689
505
378.85
McGregor (W. Manchester) (new)
1,075
3,822
1,134
3,341.07
Pine, Valley to Cedar (new)
1,700
5,666
890
1,9.53
2,!}64.00
Pine, Merrimack to Prospect...
3,100
11,711
730
547.50
600
2,267
230
172.50
1,738.54
Total
9,275
34,044
3,719
1,953
SS,611.61
SUMMARY,
Labor, division No. 2 |o,270.54
Labor, division No. 10 3,341.07
Portable crusher, comijlete 2,412.51
Repairs on old crusher, steam drills, road-
roller, etc 1,035.83
Stone chips 732.80
Forcite powder for blasting 724.26
Incidentals 451.06
Coal, coke, wood, oil 358 48
Freight 116.19
Water-works 30.00
Total
,472.74
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
147
CONCRETE WORK.— MEAD, MASOX & CO.
NEW CROSSINGS.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price per
yard.
Total cost.
A and South Main
Appleton and Elm
Adams and Clark
Bridge and Union cast back
Coolidge avenue and Cartier
Coolidge avenue and Bremer
Cartier and Aniory
Concord and Beech east back... . .
Chestnut and Central south back
Dubuque and Amory
Grove and Pine east back
Massabesic and Summer
Myrtle and Hall
McGregor and Amory
McGregor and Wayne
McGregor at mill gate
Munroe and Elm
Pine and Cedar
Pine and Auburn
Pine and Lowell
Prospect
Salmon and Liberty
Total
37.15
64.67
31.04
•23.77
38. 6S
28.90
30.22
21.67
17.60
20.67
16.62
30. 5S
30.22
14.84
17.60
18.33
30.67
28.62
30.04
2.67
32.00
30.56
).75
597.12
S27.86
48.50
23.28
17.83
29.01
21.69
22.66
16.25
13.20
15.50
12.46
22.93
22.66
11.13
13.20
13.75
23.00
21.46
22.53
2.00
24.00
22.91
S447.81
SIDEWALKS REPAIRED.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price per
yard.
Total cost.
Bridge and Union east back
1.34
18.60
6.39
71.22
6.54
3.25
2.33
39.67
16.67
80.45
.50
.45
.25
.37
$0.60
8 37
2 88
32 05
3 27
1 46
1 05
9 92
6.16
Total
166.01
S65.76
148
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SUMMARY.
Concrete work by Mead, Mason Co., for Street and Park Commission Department,
Total cost.
New crossings
Sidewalks repaired
Total
$513.57
CONCRETE WORK.— CHARLES H. ROBIE CO.
NEW CROSSINGS.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price
per yd.
Total
cost.
Adams and North Main . . .
Auburn
Beauport and Sullivan...
Carpenter and Chestnut..
Colby and West Hancock
Carpenter and Adams
Cedar and Hall
Carpenter and Ray
Concord and Belmont....
Dartmouth and Dickey...
Green and Union
Gore and Beech
Granite
Jewett and Valley
Jewett and Valley
Liberty and North
Lake avenue and Milton .
Lake avenue and Beacon
Market and Elm
McDuftle and Boynton
North and Bay
Pine and North
Riddle and Milford
Sagamore and Beech
South Main and Mast
Total
8.00
$0.75
13.15
.75
29.78
.75
30.27
.75
22.84
.75
30.36
.75
30.22
.75
30.00
.75
28.44
.75
24.00
.75
30.22
.75
30.67
.75
133.30
1.25
29.78
.75
30.04
.75
55.38
.75
5.44
.75
5.78
.75
14.82
.75
25.78
.75
29 50
.75
27.56
.75
31.55
.75
25.33
.75
18.22
.75
740.43
$6.00
9.86
22.33
22.70
17.13
22.77
22.67
22.50
21.33
18.00
22.67
23.00
166.62
22.83
22.53
41.53
4.08
4.33
11.12
19.34
22.12
20.67
23.65
19.00
13.66
$621.95
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
REPAIRED CROSSINGS.
149
Location.
Square Price
yards, 'per yd,
Total
cost.
Belmont and Massabesic
Granite at Hadley's
Granite at Wallace's
Market and Elm
Spruce and Massabesic.
Second and Granite
West and Granite
Total
41.36
5.83
11.00
9.39
92.44
3.38
3.55
166.95
$0.50
.45
.65
.50
.50
.45
.50
2.62
7.15
4.69
46.22
1.52
1.78
$84.66
SIDEWALKS REPAIRED.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price
per yd
Total
cost.
Beacon
Colby and West Hancock —
No. 218 Cartier
Granite at Wallace's
McGregor bridge
Mast and South Main
North and Bay
North Main at engine house.
Park common
South Main and Mast
West Hancock and Second...
Total.
1.11
8.23
55.44
34.13
36.36
8.94
3.51
11.28
57.68
16.22
232.90
$0.45
.45
.35
.45
.50
.45
.45
.50
.45
.50
$0.50
3.70
19.39
15.36
18.18
4.02
1.58
5.64
33.50
25.96
8.11
$135.94
ROADWAYS REPAIRED.
Location.
Square
yards.
Price
per yd,
Total
cost.
Amherst
Amoskeag bridge road
Chestnut ..
Chestnut
Hanover
Merrimack
Maple
Union
Total
16.05
$0.50
198.94
.50
12.28
.50
190.80
.50
51.39
.50
461.74
.50
95.00
.50
36.22
.50
1,062.42
$8.02
99.47
6.14
95.40
25.69
230.87
47.. 50
18.11
$.531.20
150
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SUMMARY.
Concrete tvorJ: by Chas. H. Robie Co., Street and Parle Commission Department.
Square
yards.
Total cost.
New crossings
Crossings repaired.
Sidewalks repaired
Roadways repaired
Total
740.43
166.95
232.90
1,062.42
1621.95
84.66
135.94
531.20
$1,373.75
SCAVENGER SERVICE.
The attention of the city government is most earnestly
directed to the position in -which this board is placed in
relation to the disposal of the city's waste. During the
latter part of the year the board of health commenced
legal proceedings, intended to restrain the street and park
commissioners from the further use of the dumps. This
commission has no voice in making the appropriations,
and is given a certain sum of money for a certain purpose
and is expected to exercise such judgment in its expendi-
ture as will accomplish the purpose intended. At the
time the proceedings in question were commenced it was
apparent to us all that any radical change must result in
an expenditure far beyond the means at command. The
method in vogue might not have been a good one; that,
however, is a matter of opinion, but it certainly i)ossessed
the advantage of cheapness, which in these times of high
taxes is a decided merit. Ever since the city was built
it has been customary to use this waste matter in filling
new streets which were being built through the ravines
in the southern part of the city. As houses were erected
in the immediate neighborhood this commission took
extra precautions to secure the inhabitants from harm.
Men were stationed at the dumps for the express purpose
of covering the small amount of swill or other offensive
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 151
matter wbicli might appear with the ashes. Every day or
so clean sand or soil to a depth of three feet or more was
dumped on top of the whole. This was done under the
supervision of the superintendent of streets, and from our
own observation we are satisfied that it was well done.
That some other people used these dumps without our
knowledge or consent is undoubtedly true. Teams have
been seen dumping swill and other refuse material during
the evening hours. Whenever such nuisances were dis-
covered they were promptly abated by men connected
with this department. It would seem that the board of
health had a duty in the matter in discovering and pun-
ishing such offenders. This department does not want
to continue the present method if some better means can
be found to care for the refuse. Above all things it does
not want to quarrel or be in litigation with any other de-
partment. Xo system has, that we know of, yet been in-
vented which destroys this rubbish in an effective manner
at a reasonable expense. The location of a crematory at
a point near enough to a city to be practical has always
raised a storm of indignation from the people who live in
its vicinity. The cost of carting the refuse out into the
country is very great. The building of new streets where
filling is necessary will be increased. In the face of these
difficulties, when we are instructed to exercise all possible
economy, this board does not consider its duty to lie in
recommending the expenditure of money to make experi-
ments. It has been suggested that the board of health
wishes to control the scavenger service. It is not a pleas-
ant duty, and should the city government conclude it can
be served in a better manner, with less expense, by that
board, this commission will most cheerfully resign that
part of its duties. In the meantime, this department will
endeavor to keep thoroughly posted on the progress made
in the disposal of city waste, and as soon as it becomes
convinced that such a method has been devised as will
152 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
do the work of destruction thorougbl}^ and without
offense to the people living in the vicinity of its location,
at a price which our citizens would consider reasonable,
we will make every effort to secure it for the city's use.
The collection of this refuse has, we believe, been well
done. Our streets, both back and front, have never jire-
sented a neater appearance than during the year past.
Complaints against the men engaged in doing the work
have been few indeed.
If the board of health insists on pressing the case to a
finish, and the injunction asked for is granted, a verj'
large sum will be necessary to do the work in a manner
satisfactory to it, and we ask the city government to note
that fact in connection with the appropriation for 1898.
The following summary shows how the cost for scaven-
ger service has been divided:
SUMMARY.
Labor, men and teams $11,556.01
City farm 2,708.30
Kepairs on teams and harnesses 158.14
Hay, grain, feed 809.65
Incidentals 27.85
Total 115,260.85
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
NEW CESSPOOLS.
153
Location.
No.
Cost of
material.
Labor.
1
$11.58
$8.00
3
48.64
28 00
1
13.64
6.00
2
30.95
19.00
3
35.89
25.00
1
14.96
10.00
1
14.01
10.00
2
27.93
15.00
I
25.65
20.50
2
26.16
15,00
2
44.96
26.00
4
80.06
40.00
1
11.17
5.00
1
12.42
10.00
6
55.68
60.00
3
45.14
30 60
2
16.39
7.00
2
34.23
20.00
2
24.93
28.50
2
28.97
22.00
1
9.98
8.50
4
52.62
32.00
1
12.16
17.00
1
11.17
10.00
6
107.85
61.75
2
23.14
16.75
2
19.96
22.00
2
22.74
13.50
1
14.01
11.50
2
25.69
20.00
1
14.01
9.00
2
30.88
14.75
3
47.70
16..50
1
14.95
12.75
2
37.48
50.00
1
14.16
8.50
1
10.77
8.00
1
12.42
9.00
3
40.29
12.00
1
15.35
13.00
1
10.57
6.50
1
14.01
12.50
1
11.17
10.00
1
14.38
9.0O
2
23.53
25.00
1
13.35
8.00
6
91.27
44.25
1
15.21
6.. 50
1
20.78
34.00
4
79.32
48.75
1
27.78
17.50
4
49.03
32.00
1
11.36
8.00
2
30.16
19.00
107
81,552.61
$1,053.10
Auburn, between Union and Beech.
Ashland and Lowell
Ash, between Harrison and Brook..
Ashland and Concord
Alfred
Beech and Prospect
Beech and Cedar north back
Beech and Orange
Brook and Maple
Belmont and Bridge
Beech and Grove
Beech and Auburn
Concord and Beech
Cedar between Lincoln and Wilson.
Carpenter
■Chestnut and Pennacook
Calef road
Clark and Chestnut
Clark and Adams
Chestnut and Carpenter
Chestnut east back
Everett
Elm and Webster
Elm, near Amherst —
Green, between Pine and Union
■Granite
Harrison east of Hall
Hanover, near Alfred ,
Hanoversouth back and Beech
Hubbard and Hanover
Lincoln and Cedar north back ,
Laurel and Beacon ,
Laurel and Wilson
Lowell south back, west Chestnut...,
Lake avenue and Beacon
Laurel near Union ,
Liberty east back
Maple and Cedar north back
Merrimack and Beacon
Milton and Lake avenue
Manchester and Elm
Manchester south back on Beech
Merrimack, east Maple
Nutt road near cemetery
Orange and Beech
Oak and Orange
Pine, between Valley and Auburn....
Pine and Green
Salmon and Pine
Union and Grove
Union and Bell
Union, north Silver
West Central back street
Walnut and Salmon
Total.
154
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
REPAIRED CESSPOOLS.
Location.
No.
Cost of
mateiiaL
Labor.
Auburn, near Pine
Amherst, between Hanover and Pine
Beecb, between Orange and Myrtle.. .
Concord and Dutton
Elm and Granite
Elm and Sagamore
Elm near Dean
Elm and Amherst
Elm and Sagamore
Lake avenue west Wilson
Lake avenue west Maple
Lake avenue east Pine
Lake avenue and Laurel
Laurel, between Union and Beech. ...
Market and Elm ,
Orange and Chestnut
Pine and Summer
Pine and Green
Pearl near Chestnut
Salmon and Elm
LTnion, between Harrison and Brook.
Union east back
Willow, between Valley and Merrill.
Total
28
$2.54
4.65
6.62
9.e5
8 01
6.61
8.88
11.76
6.73
10.24
9.05
.64
2.39
19.55
12.56
7.22
1.94
2.89
5.06
5.98
8.32
7.35
3.29
$161.33
$2.50
6.0O
3.50
23.78
7. CO
6.50
5.00
10.00
15.00
26.00
21.00
12.00
10.62
30.00
8.00
6.00
3.00
2.00
l.CO
2.50
7.0O
2.50
15.00
$226.50-
SEWERS.
The city owns four steam drills and a Carson trench
machine, and the work done in putting in sewers during
the season has shown conclusively the wisdom of their
purchase. By the use of this machinery the cost per
linear foot was only |1.75, during the year 1897, as com-
pared with |2.50 per foot during 18D6. About four
miles, or, to be exact, 20,657 feet, of new sewers were laid.
Some of the more extensive jobs were trunk sewers, sit-
uated as follows:
Belmont street, from Valley to Hayward, 1,830 feet
long; Hayward, Belmont to Tajior, 648 feet; Silver,
Lincoln to Hall, 1,232 feet; Valle}', Belmont to Cypress,
1,084 feet; Union, Silver to North of Prescott, 756 feet;
Montgomery east back, from Kelley to Amory, 570 feat;
Dubuque east back, from Kelley to Bremer, 624 feet;
Whittemore land, Putnam to Piscataquog river, 847 feet ;
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 155
Sagamore, from Kussell easterly, 754 feet; Elm, from
Carpenter to Trenton, 556 feet; and Carpenter, from Elm
to Union, 1,426 feet.
In the Elm-street sewer it was necessary to make a cut
fifteen feet deep in the solid ledge. This was done at
a cost of 19.45 per linear foot. The sewer on Carpenter
street was laid in a trench which was blasted to a depth
of seven and eight feet in the ledge during its entire
length. The cost per linear foot of this sewer was $2.21.
The water-works department bore a part of the expense
necessarj' to put in the two trenches on Elm and Carpen-
ter streets, and the water pipe was laid at the same time
the sewer was built.
The extraordinary- growth of this city during the past
years has made it almost impossible to supply the demand
for sewers. At the present time some seven miles of
sewers are ordered built by the city government, the
building of which has not yet been begun. Most of the
sewers now ordered built are located in the suburbs where
the soil, as has been before stated, is filled with boulders
and ledges, and the steam drills and dynamite have to be
extensively used in their construction, which largely in-
creases the cost.
The attention of the city government is respectfully
called to these two facts with a request that it will take
them into consideration when the special appropriation
for sewers is settled upon.
156
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS BUILT
Street.
Location.
tn
o
03
u
<o
S}
ej
N
g
t»
Alfred
Belmont
Belmont
Carpenter
Carpenter
Carpenter
Central
Elm
Elm
Everett
Hall
Hanover
Hanover
Harrison
Harrison
Harrison
Harrison
Harvard
Hayward
Hay ward
Hayward
Lake avenue ■
Laurel
Lam-el
Laurel
Liberty east back.
Linden
Maple
From Hanover northerls"
Valley to Harvard
Harvard to south of Somerville
Elm to Ray
Ray to Union
In Union
From east of Beacon westerly
Carpenter to Trenton
From south of Clarke southerly .. . .
Clarke to Waldo
Prospect to Harrison
From w'st of Beacon to e'st of Hubbard
From e'st of Hubbard to e'st of Alfred
From Hall .easterly
From Hall easterly
From Linden westerly
From Linden westerly
From Wilson easterly
Belmont to Taylor
Belmont to Taylor
From Taylor easterly
From Canton easterly
From east of Union to Beech
From Beech easterly
From east of Beacon westerly
From north of North northerly
Prospect to Harrison
From Silver to north of Harvard
A.kron
10
48
"
15
1,140
"
10
690
"
15
1,161
"
12
224
"
8
40
K
10
96
"
15
556
"
8
56
"
10
358
"
I'i
274
"
12
371
"
10
297
Iron . .
10
12
Akron
10
288
Iron . .
10
13
Akron
10
10
302
204
Iron . .
12
10
Akron
12
638
"
10
350
((
10
398
"
12
II
10
10
147
••
10
192
"
15
270
..
15
406
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
157
IN 1897.— EAST SIDE.
wS
Nature of
excavation.
423
[404
60
$38.75
1,700.00
660.50
2,857.71
440.00
30.00
87.80
5,258.06
13.80
491.81
462.00
1,250.00
539.26
597.62
543.47
299.73
536.81
270.00
353.51
400.69
363.20
196.80
130.57
472.54
799.17
$0,807
1.482
0.957
2.461
1.964
0.705
0.914
9.456
0.246
1.371
1.686
3.369
1.815
1.992
1.729
1.135
0.826
0.771
0.888
0.947
0.899
1.339
0.517
1.750
1.968
Oct. 13
Oct.
16
7.0
April 29
June
26
10.0
" 29
"
26
9.0
May 3
Sept.
7
7.5
3
"
7
8.0
3
"
7
8.5
Aug. 24
Aug.
26
8.0
Dec. 28
May
26
15.0
Aug. 25
Aug.
26
4.0
Dec. 11
Dec.
22
9.0
May 5
May
15
10.5
Aug. 16
Oct.
2
7.0
" 16
"
2
6.5
May 17
June
1
8.5
May 27
June
22
8.0
July 2
July
9
8.0
Sept. 20
Oct.
5
8.5
" 20
"
5
8.0
April 28
May
3
8.5
Sept. 22
Oct.
2
8.5
'• 22
"
2
7.0
Aug. 26
Aug.
30
8.0
" 31
Sept.
5
6.0
May 31
June
23
10.5
Sept. 6
Sept.
20
16.5
Gravel.
Gravel and clay.
Gravel and clay.
Ledge.
Ledge and gravel.
Ledge and gravel.
Sand.
Ledge.
Sand.
Sand and hard clay
Gravel and ledge.
Gravel and ledge.
Gravel.
Hard gravel and
ledge.
Sand, gi-avel, and
ledge.
Gravel.
Sand.
Sand.
Gravel.
Sand and clayey
gravel.
Gravel and ledge.
Gravel.
Gravel and ledge.
Sand.
158
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS BUILT IN 1897.
Street.
Location.
Merrimack
Myrtle
Myrtle
Myrtle ...
Orange
Ray
Russell
Sagamore
Sagamore
Silver
Silver
Somerville
Spruce
Taylor
Union
Valley
Walnut
Walnut east back. . .
Walnut east back. . .
Wilson
Wilson
Total
From Belmont to east of Milton
From Hall westerly
From Hall westerly
From Hall westerly
From Hall easterly
From south of Clarke northerly
From Harrison northerly
Oak to Russell
From Russell easterly
Lincoln to Wilson
Wilson to Hall . .
Jewett to Cypress
From Canton easterly
From Valley southerly
From Silver to north of Prescott. . .
From e'st of Belm'nt to w'st of Cypress
From Salmon southerly
From north of Salmon southerly. . .
Fi'om Christian brook northerlj- ...
From Harvard southerly
From Silver southerly
Akron
Iron . .
Akron
438
30
293
172
300
68
362
450
304
669
563
441
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150
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Aug. 25
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Nov. 15
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June 30
Oct. 20
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July 30
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Sand and gravel.
Gravel.
Gravel and ledge.
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Sand and clay.
Gravel and ledge.
Gravel.
Sand and gravel.
Sand and clay.
Sand and gravel.
Clay and ledge.
Gi-avel.
Sand and ledge.
Clay.
Clay.
160
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS BUILT'
Street.
Location.
C <u
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Dubuque east back. .
Dubuque east back..
Granite
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Granite
Granite
Granite
Granite
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Schiller
Sullivan
Third
Wheelock
Whittemore land
Total
From Sullivan southerly
Kelley to Bremer
From Bremer northerly
Turner to Second
Turner to Second
From Second to east of Main
From Second to east of Main
Green to Quincy
West of Second
Kelley to Amory
From Hale easterly
Beauport to Cartier east back
From south of Walker southerly.
From Goff e northerly
Piscataquog river to Putnam —
Akron
212
624
343
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700'
144
206
160
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3,291
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
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743.06
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162 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Length of sewers, east side, division No. 2. . 11,689 feet
Length of sewers, east side, division No. 7. . 4,501 "
Length of sewers, west side, division No. 10 4,467 "
Total 20,657 feet
Cost of sewers, east side, division No. 2. . . . |23,485.S5
Cost of sewers, east side, division No. 7. . . . 5,918.97
Cost of sewers, west side, division No. 10 . . 6,853.59
Total $36,258.41
Average cost per foot, east side, division No. 2 $2,009
Average cost per foot, east side, division No. 7 1.315
Average cost per ft., west side, division No. 10 1.534
Average total cost per foot, $1,755.
SUMMARY.
Total appropriation for new sewers $45,697.57
Expended, new sewers, east side $24,146.76
new sewers, west side 6,853.50
North Elm St. sewer 5,258.06
107 new cesspools,
division No. 2 2,605.71
On hand, new sewers 4,301.77
Kiver road sewer 439.51
supplies at city vard. . 2,092.17
■ $45,607.57
The following table shows how the cost for new sewers,
including North Elm street sewer, has been divided:
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Report of Division No. 10.
George P. Ames, Agent.
GENERAL REPAIRS.
Patched with gravel, Amory street, labor. . .
Boynton street, labor.
Bartlett street, labor.
Bowman street, labor.
Front street, labor. .
Granite street, labor
Joliette street, labor
Mast road, labor. . . .
Mast road, labor. . . .
North Main street, labor
Railroad street, labor.
South Main street, labo
Second street, labor. . .
Wayne street, labor . . .
$10.00
88.75
5.3.62
10.00
48.?7
13.00
7.88
20.00
26.50
20.00
13.00
27.50
41.50
10.00
1396.12
Turnpiked, Eddy road, labor $7.00
Second street, labor 3.03
Cut trees, Barr street, labor 13.50
Douglas street, labor 33.00
Granite street, labor 31.50
West street, labor 20.50
1100.1.3
Built pipe culvert on Eiver road, 58 feet
long, labor and materials fll.OO
Whitewashing tree boxes,, material and labor 35.45
Cleaned out gutters, scraped crossings, and
general repairs, labor 707.38
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
165
FEXCING.
Amory street 264 feet
Amoskeag bridge, east end 352 "
Boynton street 32 "
Bartlett street 512 "
Eddy road 80 " •
Front street 160 "
Hooksett road 552 "
Kelley street 208 ''
Lavelle street 176 "
Mast road 101 ''
Shirley Hill road 90 •'
South Main street 1,168 "
Third street 40 "
Total , 3,738 feet
Cost of labor and materials, |212.98.
STREETS GRAVELED.
Location.
Length
in feet.
Width in
feet.
Labor.
Amory
Bedford plains
Coolidge avenue, repaired.
Cartier, repaired
Colby, repaired
Hackett Hill road
Mast road
River road
Railroad
Sullivan
Wayne
West
Total.
325
500
750
200
200
350
1,050
350
240
320
175
4,460
S43.25
75.00
15.00
5.00
10.00
50.00
421.12
500.00
15.00
32.00
75.62
25.00
Sl,266.99
166
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
NEW HIGHWAYS.
Location.
Length
in feet.
Cut or
fin.
No. of
feet.
Labor.
Columbus.
Cartier —
Essex
Hevey ....
Larelle . . .
Rimmon ..
♦Second.. .
Wayne...
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200
200
100
968
550
100
3,204
Cut.
Both.
Cut.
Cut.
736
$209.85
105.50
80.87
319.64
346.38
436.53
300.00
136.35
1,430
51,935.12
* Built by contract with Wm. H. Coburn.
For incidentals, see summary of new streets graded in
division No. 2 report.
MACADAMIZING.
McGregor street, from Amorj to Putnam streets, 3,822
square yards. Used 1,134 loads of crushed stone; labor,
$3,341.07. The portable crusher was set up at the Amos-
keag Company's ledge, on North Kelley street, and was
used in crushing all the stone for macadamizing McGre-
gor street.
COBBLE CUTTER PAVING.
Location.
Square
j'ards.
Number
of loads.
Labor.
Adams
A street
Boynton
Coolidge avenue
Cartier
C street
Cartier
Dubuque
Granite
Kelley
Mast road
McDuffle
Rimmon
South Main
Wilton
Total
39
41
126
120
225
400
225
125
733
204
535
1.^6
163
641
64
3,797
24
23
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48
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265
S18.50
20.00
50.00
44.45
87.12
131.18
96.00
48.00
210.86
72.50
136.30
56.31
45.00
165.37
25.00
11,206.59
* Used old stone.
Note. — Most of the paving stones used w^ere taken from
the city's gravel bank in West Manchester.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
167
PAVING RELAID.
B street
Granite street
Main and Mast streets.
McGregor street . . . . ,
Labor, |288.99.
34 sq.
yds.
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Location.
Length
in feet.
Width
in feet.
Cut or
mi.
Labor.
Amory and Cartler
A and South Main
Bowman
Boynton and McDuffle
C street
Dubuque
Front street, raised flagstones.
Granite
Mast road
Wayne
1.50
600
200
730
300
375
Total
60
300
215
Cut.
Fill.
Both.
Cut.
Cut.
Fill.
88.25
12.00
10.00
20.00
18.25
21.00
9.50
1.50
29.25
15.00
8144.75
EDGESTONES SET.
Adams and Main
A and South Main . . . . .
A and Bowman
Bowman and Mast
Boynton & McDuffie . . .
Granite
Mast and Main
McGregor
Packer and South Main
Sullivan and Beauport.
Wavne and Eimmon . . .
23 feet
15 "
17 ''
6
37
297
112
760
31
14
18
Total
Three^foot circles set, 18.
Labor, |1 86.45.
1,330 feet
168
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
NEW CESSPOOLS.
Location.
Number.
Cost of
materials.
Labor.
Amory and Dubuque .
Beauport back street..
Beauport
Boynton and McDuflae
Coolidge avenue
Cartier and Kelley
Cartier and Amory —
Coolidge avenue
C street
Cartier
Dartmouth
Fourth
Granite and Main
Granite
Mast road
McGregor
North Main
Parker and Main
Rimmon and Wayne ..
South Main
Wilton and Main
Total
$16.91
9.65
14.25
13.55
11.98
64.23
30.33
15.37
7.94
13.85
13.84
17.05
43.86
114.60
36.01
37.48
25.22
23.96
23.52
71.28
14.96
59.00
10.00
12.50
13.50
21.75
115.75
37.12
15.00
10.00
11.62
15.00
10.80
34.50
92.25
16.75
41.00
22.50
14.00
17.00
67.74
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$596.65
REPAIRED SEWERS AND CESSPOOLS.
Location.
„ , Cost of
Number, materials.
Labor.
Amherst road (sewer)
Beauport
Beauport (sewer)
Conant and West
Cartier and Kelley
Cartier east back
Clinton
C street
Ferry and Turner (sewer).
Granite
Mast road
Marion and McGregor
North Main
Parker
South Main
Winter
Cleaned cesspools
Total.
29
$2.48
3.51
11.81
1.89
1.69
14.33
10.38
15.69
3.10
2.79
20.04
4.39
$11.70
7.25
9.11
7.50
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3.50
10.50
2.00
4.69
38.00
8.87
20.00
5.00
1.75
15.00
7.00
491.27
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The following table gives only the length in feet and
total cost of new seAvers built during the season in divi-
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No. 2 report.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
NEW SEWERS BUILT.
169
Location.
Length
in feet.
Total cost.
Cartier east back, Sullivan southerly
Dubuque east back, Kelley to Bremer
Dubuque east back, Bremer northerly
Granite, Turner to Second ,
Granite, Turner to Second
Granite, Second to east of Main
Granite, Second to east of Main
Granite, Green to Quincy
Granite, southwest of Second
Montgomery east back, Kelley to Amory
Schiller, from Hale easterly
Sullivan, Beauport to Cartier east back
Third, from south of Walker southerly
Wheelock, Goffe northerly
Whittemore land, Piscataquog river to Putnam
Total
212
624
34S
94
136
521
32
275
50
70(»
118
144
206
160
847
4,467
S91.04
619.25
369.24
191.75
224.70
458.90
23.87
233.51
16.40
608.12
245.25
214.07
743.06
115.62
2,698.81
16,853.59
REPORTS FROM HIGHWAY DIVISIONS.
Division No. 4.
Byron E. Moore, Agent.
Number of feet of roads turnpiked with road-machine,
1,900.
Number of feet of roads graveled, 4,500.
Number of feet of roads clayed and graveled, 2,750.
One new wooden culvert has been built this year, and
one repaired.
Bushes have been cut throughout the division, and the
roads have been kept clear of all stone and have been
broken out after snowstorms.
Total amount expended for labor, |G13.11.
170 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Division No. 5.
Mark E. Harvey, Agent.
Number of feet of roads graveled, 3,155.
Number of feet of roads turnpiked with road-machine^
440.
Number of feet of new railing- built, 558.
ROADS WIDENED.
Londonderry road 118 cu. yds.
Nutt road 222 "
Merrill road 84 "
Total 424 cu. yds.
Graded by cut, Londonderry road 407 cu. yds.
Graded by cut, Merrill road 306 ''
2 culverts extended on Londonderry old road, each 5
feet long.
1 culvert extended on Nutt road, 9 feet in length.
1 culvert extended on Merrill road, 5 feet in length.
The bridge across Cohas brook on Nutt road has been
repaired by having the floor timbers strengthened, rods
tightened and newly planked. Also the small bridge
near the Harvey mill site has been repaired.
The small bridge on Weston road has been entirely
rebuilt. Bushes have been cut on two and one half miles
of road. New fencing has been built at the ends of 24
culverts, loose stones removed from all roads once a
month during the season, all- roads broken out after each
snow storm, general repairs made throughout the
division.
There are many pieces of road in this division which
need widening, as it is now dangerous for teams to pass
one another, especially after dark, or when the roads are
in an icy condition.
Total amount expended for labor, -|4G5.86.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 171
Division No. 6.
Daniel H. Dickey, Agent.
Turnpiked 36,960 feet of road with road-machine, one
new culvert and driveway built, new railings built and
old ones repaired. Stones have been removed from the
roads once a month and all washouts and waterbars have
been repaired by filling in with gravel. The roads have
been broken out after all snowstorms.
Total amount expended for labor, $-412.97.
Division No. 7.
Charles Francis, Agent,
Turnpiked, Somerville street, Wilson to Hall.
Cilley road, west from Jewett.
Candia road.
Paige street.
Glenwood avenue.
Orchard avenue.
Graveled, Mammoth road, from Cohas avenue south,
2,300 feet.
Widened, Mammoth road, Wilson north 450 feet x 20
feet X 3 feet.
Widened, Candia road, at Mammoth road.
NEW STREETS BUILT.
Central, west from Hall road 150 feet
Glenwood avenue, from Paige east 450 ■'■
Spruce, from Hall road west 450 ''■
Total 1,050 feet
Built bicycle path, 4,460 feet.
172 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
GUTTERS PAVED.
Valley street 365 feet
Jewett street 100 "
Grove street 500 •'
Summer street 750 "
Dearborn street 120 "
Hosley street 175 "
Beacon street 200 "
Spruce street 100 "
Canton street 250 "
Massabesic street (relaid) ....;... 350 "
Total 2,910 feet
GRADE FOR CONCRETE.
Belmont street 200 feet
Dearborn street 100 "
Hall street 400 "
Hosley street 50 "
Summer street 400 "
Total 1,150 feet
EDGESTONES SET.
Belmont and Summer 19 feet
Cedar and Hall 36 "
Dearborn and Summer 19 "
Dearborn 50 "
Hall and Cedar back street 16 "
Hosley and Summer 18 "
Massabesic 50 "
Spruce and Canton 18 "
Spruce and Beacon 18 "
Summer and Hall 18 "
Summer 50 "
Total 312 feet
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION.
NEW CESSPOOLS.
173
Location.
No.
Cost of
materials.
Labor.
Belmont
Belmont and Grove . . . .
Spruce and Beacon
Summer and Dearborn
Total
$66.24
6.97
33.69
9.40
$116.30
$40.00
G.OO
20.00
10.00
NEW SEWERS.
Location.
Length
in feet.
Total
cost.
Belmont, Valley to Harvard
Belmont, Harvard to south Somcrville .
Hay ward, Belmont to Taylor
Hay ward, Taylor easterly
Somerville, Jewett to Cypress
Spruce, Canton easterly
Taylor, Valley southerly
Valley, east of Belmont to north Cypress
Total
$5,918.97
For further details see sewer table, division No. 2
report.
Total amount expended for labor, |8,276.44.
Division No. 8.
George H. Penniman, Agent.
Number of feet of roads graded, 1,848.
Number of feet filled, 83-4.
Number of feet cut, 2,910.
Number of feet of sidewalks graded, 1,183.
Number of feet of gutter paving laid, 141.
Number of feet of board fence built, 600.
Bank wall built, using 56 perch of stone.
One new culvert laid and one repaired.
174 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Built bicycle path 1,832 feet in length. This was both
cut and fill, with a top-dressing of cinders drawn from the
city.
The road-machine has been used on the roads through-
out the division, bushes cut on both sides of tlie roads,
and all have been broken out after each snowstorm.
Total amount expended for labor, $1,851.46.
Division No. 9.
Lester C. Paige, Agent.
Owing to the amount of rain during the first part of the
season, not as much work was done on the roads as usual.
However, all general repairs have been attended to and
the roads kept in a passable condition both summer and
winter. All small stones were removed several times
during the season, and bushes have been cut where needed
throughout the division. The road-machine was used
three days and did good work. Paige road was graveled
for a distance of forty rods, using 63 loads of gravel; 35
loads of gravel w^re used on Derry road. One new cul-
vert was built on Morse road, and several large boulders
were removed from the road. One culvert on Derry road
was taken up, cleaned, and relaid, also one on Corning
road was cleaned and lengthened out. Fifteen loads of
stone were dumped in Cohas brook, to prevent it from
washing and undermining the road. Fourteen hundred
feet of plank have been used in repairing bridges, and rail-
ings have been repaired and new posts set where needed.
Total amount expended for labor, .f 185.25.
Division No. 12.
Eugene G. Libbey, Agent.
Turnpiked Mammoth road with road-machine entire
length; cleaned out culverts and ditches throughout the
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 175
division; all roads broken out after snowstorms, and kept
in good condition during the winter months. Kept
bushes cut on both sides of roads and made general re-
pairs throughout the division.
Total amount expended for labor, |.385.75.
PARKS AND COMMONS, JOHN FULLERTON, SUPERINTENDENT.
Each common received its usual spring cleaning, and
the debris of winter was removed. This includes a
thorough raking and removal of the dead grass and leaves
and a pruning of the trees, care being taken to cut out
the dead limbs. The spots upon which the grass had
died the winter before were reseeded. The flower beds
were renewed, and shrubs and small trees set out to take
the place of any that had died during the year. The seats
were repainted and placed in position, low places graded,
and in some cases a coat of paint applied to fences and
stands. Later on the lawns received their usual atten-
tion. The stands were erected in Monument square for
memorial exercises, and the temporary stand used in giv-
ing the eight band concerts was moved about as called for.
At McGregorville the plot of ground between Coolidge
avenue, Beauport and Amory streets, which the Amos-
keag Manufacturing Company so generously donated to
the city for the purpose of a common, was graded, top-
dressed with loam, and seeded to grass. Shrubs and
flowers were set out, and the common is now in a condi-
tion more in keeping with its pleasant surroundings.
In the fall several men are kept busy removing dead
leaves, covering in the fountains, and getting everything
in shape for the winter's skating. This latter takes the
time of several men, as the commissioners maintain nine
skating ponds or rinks, divided among the various com-
mons as follows: Merrimack, three; Park and Tremont,
two each; Hanover and Concord, one each. Each pond
176 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
has to be scraped every day during the skating season,
and flooded often enough to keep the ice in proper shape.
As the years go by and the plans for the development
of Stark and Derryfield parks are worked out, it becomes
more and more apparent that both are almost perfect
locations for park purposes. The usual work necessary
to each season of the year was done at the parks, and
flowers and shrubs were used to an extent justified by
the appropriation. Some of the more extensive improve-
ments at Stark park were the building of a road 1,450
feet long and 18 feet wide. This roadway was graveled,
and the gutters 2 feet wide on each side for 1,100 feet of
its length were paved, so that it is in the best of condi-
tion. Progress has been made in the drainage, as 640 feet
of ten-inch Akron pipe were laid and several new cess-
pools constructed. Open ditches 1,531 feet long were
dug. It became necessary to increase the water-piping,
and 1,300 feet of such pipe were laid. The ditch in which
this was placed was partly filled with broken stone, so
that this ditch aids also in the drainage. Seven hundred
feet of railing was put up to guard the steep banks of
roads. Four cannon and 212 connon balls were received,
and will be used for ornamental purposes. Twenty-four
trees were procured and planted in various parts of the
park.
The Grand Army of the Republic of this city has often,
since the great struggle in which its members sacrificed
so much, testified to its love of countrj^, but never was
there conceived a more beautiful idea than that of plant-
ing an Elm tree to represent each state of the Union.
During the year this idea was executed by the Posts in
this city. They raised the money for and procured the
forty-four trees necessary, and selected the north and east
ends of the park as the place where the trees should be
planted. On Jul}- 4 appropriate dedicatory exercises
were held under the direction of the Grand Army at the
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 177
park. A stone tablet has been placed in position, upon
which the story of the trees has been chiseled, and future
generations, when they enjoy the beauty and shade of
this magnificent colonnade of trees, will remember with
grateful feelings the old soldiers whose taste and liber-
ality provided it. The members of the commission here
and now extend to each and all who were instrumental in
their purchase their heartfelt thanks.
At Derryfield park several extensive improvements are
also called to your notice. A wall 1,000 feet long and 6
feet wide has been built from stones cleaned from the
land. For drainage, 2,000 feet of Akron pipe was laid,
and GOO feet of open ditch dug; two cesspools and two cul-
verts were built. Six acres of ground were plowed,
graded, the stones removed from the surface, and then
reseeded to grass after the liberal use of fertilizers.
Ornamental and shade trees to the number of 110 were
procured and set out. Over an acre of ground on the
summit of Oak Hill was cleared of stumps, stones, and
bushes, and properly graded. Several acres were cleared
of stumps and stones, preparatory to grading and seed-
ing later on. The road to the summit of Oak Hill was
thoroughly repaired, and 2,350 feet of the Old Bridge road
graded. Two cannon and lOG cannon balls were also
secured for this park.
The greatest event of the year, however, was the com-
pletion and dedication of the Weston Observatory, with
its transfer to the city. Oak Hill, on the summit of which
it stands, is the highest point in this vicinity, and the
shaft is not only an ornament to the park and the city,
but from the observatorj' can be obtained a series of
grand and beautiful views. Its purpose, so clearly stated
by the donor to be ''For the advancement of science, for
educational purposes, for the use, enjoyment, benefit, and
mental improvement of the people of Manchester, and vis-
itors, without expense to them," has been grandl}' accom-
178 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
plished. The exercises were in eliarge of the Grand
Lodge of Free Masons of the State of New Hampshire.
The exercises, it is needless to say, were exceedingly in-
teresting and instructive.
These commons and parks are each year becoming more
and more a source of enjoyment and health to our citizens.
The time once was when a short walk in any direction
would take one into what was practically the country.
Owing to the growth of our city, the country is today too
far away for children or tired grown people to reach by
walking, and as a consequence the poorer classes of our
citizens must turn to our commons and parks for their
fresh air and recreation. That they do so is evident.
Any pleasant summer afternoon mothers may be seen en-
joying the grateful shade of the trees, with their children
playing about them. The laborer in the evening finds
a seat in some convenient spot and, over their pipes, he
and his companions chat the hours away until bedtime,
finding rest and comfort which would be denied them in
the hot, stuffy tenements necessity compels them to in-
habit. When the winter comes, thousands enjoy the
skating with absolute safety.
An actual count shows that 16,000 people visited the
Weston Observatory last season, after its completion.
With a knowledge that these places were and must be
the poor people's pleasure grounds, this board has sought
to make the money approjiriated for the purpose go as far
as possible in securing that which would make them beau-
tiful and comfortable. We believe in the past that this
money has been well and wisely spent. In these days of
adversity we realize that economy which would rob these
icitizens who are the workers in our city of that which
means so much to them would be a mistake if not a
wrong, and we ask the city councils to be liberal as well
as just in their appropriation for j)arks and commons for
the coming year.
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 179
The following is a summary attending the season's
work on the parks and commons:
COMMONS.
Labor |2,877.66
Water-works 700.00
Trees, shrubs, flow^ers , 291.50
Concreting 33.50
Incidentals 155.23
Tools and supplies 105.07
Grass seed and dressing 157.08
Seats 94.52
Painting 76.24
Lights 36.00
Total $4,526.80
DERRYPIELD PARK.
Labor |1,915.99
Trees and shrubs 87.60
Grass seed and dressing 125.51
Hardware 50.14
Incidentals 40.66
Water-works 24.00
Total 12,243.90
STARK PARK.
Labor |2,670.75
Hardware 23.79
Paving stone 29.75
Incidentals 35.65
Total $2,759.94
180
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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In closing we desire to thank His Honor Mayor Clarke,
and each member of the city government, as well as all
others, for courtesies granted. To all our assistants,
whatever their station, we also extend thanks for the abil-
ity and interest they have shown in the work of the
department.
Respectfully submitted.
HORACE P. SIMPSON,
GEORGE H. STEARNS,
BYRON WORTHEN,
Board of Street and Park Commissioners.
January 1, 1S9S.
REPORT
CITY ENGINEER.
City Engineer's Department,
1897.
CITY ENGINEER.
WINFRED H. BENNETT.
ASSISTA-NTS.
HARRIE M. YOUNG.
GEORGE W. WALES.
HARRY J. BRIGGS.
ALFRED T. DODGE.
HERBERT L. WATSON, July 12 to July 28.
LOUIS B. WEBSTER, to February 18.
STENOGRAPHER AND TYPEWRITER.
MISS ELLA M. BARKER.
184
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
To His Honor the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Coun-
cils:
Sirs, — I have the honor of preseuting my twelfth an-
nual report, being the nineteenth annual report of the
work of the city engineer's department, for the year end-
ing December 31, 1897.
Expenses of the department for the year 1897, per
monthly draft:
January |243.12
Pebruary : 321.30
March 573.38
April 280.85
May 282.00
June : 706.00
July 269.50
August 286.89
September 630.50
October 278.72
November 324.65
December 581.00
Total 11,780.91
Appropriation 4,500.00
Amount overdrawn $280.91
Itemized account of expenses for the year:
For salary of city engineer ; |1,200.00
salary of assistants 2,996.25
supplies for office 42.05
185
186 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.'
For stakes and lumber |22.9{)
street-car fares 10.00
repairs of wagon and team expenses. . . . 15.65
express .30
repairing 1.65
books and folios 36.00
telephone 36.40
typewriter supplies 1.50
typewriter clerk 373.12
reports 45.00
Total I4J80.91
The following bills, charged to other appropriations^
have been certified to by this department :
The John B, Clarke Co., printing 1,000 sewer
license blanks |6.50
Union Manufacturing Co., 80 street numbers 3.60
C. H. Simpson, use of team 8 days, perambulat-
ing town line 20.00
CONCRETE.
Charles H. Kobie Co., 11,170.93 sq. yds |7,229.34
Mead, Mason & Co., 1,240.31 square yards 751.30
The amount of work done by this department during
the year is as follows:
Number of orders for surveys, street lines, and
grades 612
for sewer grades 95
for paving grades. . .• 82
for curb grades 35
for Pine Grove Cemetery
grades 26
for Valley cemetery grades 2
for profile levels 39
Total number of orders 891
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 187
Levels for profiles for establishing grades, 19,799 feet,
equal to 3.75 miles. These profiles have three lines of
levels on each street, making a total distance actually-
leveled of 59,397 feet.
Levels for sewer profiles 1,717
for center profiles 15,336
in Valley cemetery 600
in Stark park 8,400
Other levels 19,762
Total levels taken 105,212
Equal to 19.92 miles.
Levels for cross section Pine Grove cemetery, 291,375
square feet.
Surveys of streets and street lines 34,817
for street numbers 16,640
Other surveys 18,407
Total surveys made 69,864
Equal to 13.23 miles.
Street lines marked on ground 10,579
Lines of lots and avenues. Pine Grove cemetery 6,766
Valley cemetery 60
of avenues, etc.. Stark park 7,550
for gutters 33,240
for curbs 8,650
for sewers 21,550
Other lines 17,800
Total length of lines marked on the
ground 106,195
Equal to 20.11 miles.
Grades set for sidewalks 26,509
for. gutters 33,240
for curbs 8,650
for sewers 21,559
188 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Grades set for paving streets 3,334
for building streets 26,460
for Pine Grove cemetery 7,964
in Valley cemetery 355
in Stark park 8,400
Other grades 500
Total length of grades set 133,112
Equal to 25.21 miles.
Lot owners looked up, 15,518 feet; equal to 2.94 miles.
BATTERS SET.
High school, lot curbing.
Pine street, retaining wall. Valley cemetery.
Old lots restaked in Pine Grove cemetery. ....... 32
New lots laid out in Pine Grove cemetery 44
Old lots restaked in Valley cemetery 1
Total cemetery lots laid out 77
Street numbers assigned and put on 141
replaced 52
assigned but not put on 38
changed 3
Total 234
Street signs put up, 15; sewer permits granted, 262,
PLANS AND PROFILES MADE FOR SIDEWALK GRADES.
Beech, Lake avenue to Salmon. Five plans.
Central, Union to Hall. Two plans.
Mast, Amherst road to town line.
Somerville, Hall to east of Taylor. '
Taylor, INIassabesic to Hayward.
Total plans and profiles, 10.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 189
SEWER TLANS AND PROFILES.
Auburn south back, Beech to Maple.
Auburn south back, Wilson to Belmont.
Carpenter, Elm to Union.
Central south back, Union to Beech.
Clarke, Kiver road to Elm.
Dartmouth, Log to Schiller.
Dubuque east back, Kelley to north of Bremer.
Elm, Munroe to Rowell.
Elm west back, Pennacook to Salmon.
Hanover, Beacon easterl}-.
Lake avenue. Canton to James Hall road.
Main west back, Schuyler to Wayne.
Merrimack, Beacon easterly.
Parker avenue, Parker street to North Weare Railroad.
Porter, Amherst to Concord.
Eiver road, Munroe to Clarke.
Sagamore, Oak to east of Linden.
Union east back. Sagamore to North.
Valley, Elm to Massabesic. Four plans.
Whittemore land, Putnam, Whipple, and Wayne.
Four plans.
Total sewer plans and profiles, 26.
NUMBERING PLANS.
Adams, Clarke to Trenton. Two plans.
Ainsworth avenue. Young to Hayward.
Alfred, Hanover to Amherst.
Amherst, Beacon to east of Alfred.
Ash, Gore to Salmon.
Auburn, Belmont to J. Hall road. Four plans.
Calef road, Baker to Pine Grove cemetery. Eight
plans.
Carpenter, Elm to Union. Two plans.
Chestnut, Clarke to Trenton. Two plans.
190 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Corliss avenue, Concord northerly.
Elm, Baker to Campbell. Nineteen plans.
Everett, Clarke to Waldo.
Hanover, Mammoth road to Candia road. Ten plans.
Huntress, Milford to south of Prince.
Lake avenue, Canton to Hanover. Four plans.
Maple, Cilley to Haj ward. Three plans.
Maple, Gore to Salmon.
Nutt road. Pine to Beech. Two plans.
Oak, Gore to Sagamore.
Kay, Clarke to Trenton. Three plans.
Russell, Harrison to Gore.
Salmon, Walnut to Maple.
Stevens, Baker southerly. '
Trenton, Elm to Union. Two plans.
Webster, Union to Hooksett road.
William, Milford to Mast.
Total numbering plans, 75.
MISCELLANEOUS PLANS.
Auburn, Cedar, Spruce, and Jones streets, Lake ave-
nue, Candia and Mammoth roads, land of Robert I. Ste-
vens. Copy.
Belmont, Hayward, and Taylor streets, and Young
road, land of A. S. Lamb. Copy.
Burbank and Rimmon avenues, Fogg and Highland
streets, land of Meserve, Carr, and Fellows. Copy.
Burlington and Hanover, land of A. A. Page. Copy.
Centennial, Palos, Isabella, Christopher, and Chicago,
land of John H. Groux. Copy.
Clay, Taylor, and Somerville, laud of Mrs. Cotter.
Copy.
Ellsworth, Elliott, Royden, Derry, and Reed streets,
Bald Hill and Candia roads, and Londonderry turnpike,
land of Samuel G. Reed. Copy.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 191
Forest, Avon, lugalls, Sj^lvester, Whittier, Clement,
Lilly, Dickey, and Eevere streets, and Mast road, land of
Adam Dickey. Copj^
Grove street, land of W. E. Moore. Copy.
Hanover street and Lake avenue, land of Charles Wil-
liams. Copy.
Hanover, Page, Bell, Normand, Summit, and Bridge,
land of S. T. Page, et. al. Copy.
Higli school grounds, proposed addition.
Hobart and McKinley, land of Bartlett and Platts.
Copy.
Jewett street and Cilley road, land of Thomas Gorman.
Copy.
Jewett, Cypress, and Clay, land of W. H. Thayer.
Cop3'.
Lakeview and Summit streets, and Candia road, land
of E, P. Cummings. Copy,
Maple, Harvard, and Silver, land of Thomas Johnson.
Copy.
Maple and Silver, land of A. Elliott. Copy.
Massabesic street, land of Fred Platts. Copy.
Merrimack and Lincoln, land of Charles E. Rowe.
€opy.
Milton, Summer, Dearborn, and Massabesic, land of
Austin Goings. Copy.
Mitchell and Beech. Land of W. H. Smith.. Copy.
Mystic, Beech, xlsh, and Maple, land of M. N. Badger.
Copy.
New Mast road, land of J. W. Dickey.
Norfolk, Mystic, Beech, and, Union streets, Titus and
Beech avenues, land of J. B. Titus. Copj'.
Nutt road, land of Joseph N. Auger. Copy.
Nutt road, Pine and Plummer streets, plan of Plummer
land. Copy.
Oakland, Glenwood, and Platts avenue, Cody street
and Candia road, land of Walter Cody. Copy.
192 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Page, May, and Levering streets, Glenwood avenue
and Candia road, land of David P. Lovering. Copy.
Pine, land of A. J. Lane. Copj'.
Pine Grove cemetery, lot plan.
Pine park, land of F. A. Palmer. Copy.
Porter, Grafton, Cheshire, Hillsborough, and Rocking-
ham streets and Cilley and Mammoth roads, land of
George S. Sargent. Copy.
Road petitioned for in 1852, Candia road to Island
Pond road. Copy.
Sherburne street and Candia road, land of S. D. Sher-
burne. Copy.
Town line, Hooksett and Manchester, showing stone
monuments set. Two plans.
Woodlawn, plan of lots. Copy.
Young, Harvard, and Beech, land of Harrington and
Shea. Copy.
Total miscellaneous plans, 39.
WORKING PLANS.
Adams, Carpenter to Trenton. Profile.
Alfred, Hanover to Amherst. Profile.
Amherst, Concord, Vine, and Pine, showing changes in
curbing. Four plans,
Benton, Jones to J. Hall road. Profile.
City Farm buildings, house, for electric lighting.
Three floor plans.
Colb}', West Hancock northerl3\ Profile.
C3'press and Massabesic, plan showing location of rail-
road track.
Elm, Merrimack to Amherst. Profile. Two plans.
Elm, sketch of flagging for Warren Harvey.
Elm extension, Baker to Mitchell. Sketch for mayor.
Glenwood avenue. Page to east of Lovering. Profile.
Hall road, Massabesic to Hanover. Profile.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 198
Hanover, Eaton place to Bridge. Center Profile.
Jones, Nelson to north of Benton. Profile.
Knowlton, Hayward to Young. Profile.
Lorraine, Amory to Kelley. Profile.
Main, Granite to Douglas. Profile of east side.
Mammotli road, Candia road to Hanover. Profile.
Manchester south back. Elm east back to Chestnut.
Profile.
Mystic, Beech to Calef road. Profile.
Nelson, Mammoth road to J. Hall road. Profile.
Nutt road, south of Beech to railroad. Profile.
Pine Grove cemetery, part of southern section, includ-
ing Greenbush, Riverside, and Short avenues, and Hem-
lock path.
Pine Grove cemetery, new Swedish Lawn. Two plans-
Proposed street, Beech to Calef road. Profile.
Ray, Carpenter to north of Trenton. Profile.
Section bounded by Beech, Mitchell, Norfolk, and Calef
road, showing proposed streets.
Stark park. Profile of new avenue.
Taylor, Massabesic to Young. Profile.
Titus avenue. Beech to Calef road. Profile.
Wayne, Rimmon street to Columbus avenue. . Profile.
Weston, Concord to Bridge. Profile.
Weston Observatory, chart showing direction of prom-
inent points. Two plans.
William, Milford to Mast. Profile.
Total working plans, 42.
TRACINGS.
Ash and Nashua, proposed addition to high school lot.
Bakersville, lot plan Calef road and Brown avenue.
Candia road, showing various lands. Eight plans.
Christian brook sewer. Canal, Webster, and surround-
ing streets.
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194 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
City Farm, house, for electric lighting. Three floor
plans.
Depot section, for sewerage.
East Manchester, between Candia road and Hanover
street, from Page easterly.
Glenwood, showing additions.
Granite, showing street railway layout at Concord &
Montreal Kail road.
Hanover square section, location of houses and sewers.
Hanover street and Mammoth road, land of George H.
Penniman.
Kelley, Bremer and Rimmon, showing sewerage.
Lake.Massabesic and surroundings, portions of, from
water-works plans. Twenty-one tracings.
Mast and South Main, land of Gordon Woodbury.
Merrill yard and adjoining roads.
Pine Grove cemetery. Chapel Lawn.
Pine Grove cemetery, Landscape Lawn.
Pine Grove cemetery. Pine Lawn.
Pine Grove cemetery, lots east of Pine Lawn.
Pine Grove cemetery, Swedish section. Two tracings.
Phillip, Brooklyn, Currier, Pembroke, Waltham, Wor-
cester, Springfield, Albanj^ Rhododendron, and Canaan
streets, Valuable and Massachusetts avenues, land of
G. A. Currier.
Proctor road, Candia road to Hanover street.
Proctor road, Lake Shore to Candia road.
Stevens pond and surrounding streets.
Weston Observatory, chart showing direction of prom-
inent points.
Total tracings, 55.
BLUB PRINTS.
City Farm, house, for electric lighting. Three floor
plans.
Depot section, for sewerage.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 195
Hanover square section, location of houses and sewers.
Three plans.
Pine Grove cemetery, Chapel Lawn. Thirteen plans.
Pine Grove cemetery, Landscape Lawn. Seven plans.
Pine Grove cemetery, lots east of Pine Lawn. Seven
plans.
Pine Grove cemetery, Swedish section. Six plans.
Valley cemetery, for city treasurer. Five plans.
Weston Observatory, chart showing direction of x^rom-
inent points.
Whittemore land, showing sewer right of way, for city
clerk.
Total blue prints, 47.
MAPS.
City of Manchester, location of police signal boxes.
Forty sheets of plans have been made in the new sewer
books.
Forty-five plans have been made in city clerk's book of
streets laid out, and one plan in city clerk's deed book.
Total of all plans made, 381.
One hundred ninety-four old plans, that have been
superseded by new plans, have been destroyed.
Ten plans are under way, which will be completed dur-
ing the year.
Sewer plans brought up to date, 27.
Numbering sheets brought up to date, 3.
Plans lettered and finished, 25.
Plans made for establishment of grade on laid-out
streets, 26,670.
Plans made for the establishment of grade on streets
not laid out, 9,500 feet.
Total, 36,170 feet; equal to 6.85 miles.
196
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
PIPE REMOVED WHERE NEW SEWERS HAVE BEEN BUILT
Street.
Location.
Material.
a*
® a
uq.S
Granite
Granite
Laurel
Liberty east back.
Merrimack
Russell
Scbiller
Silver
Valley
Total .
Turner to east of Main Cement..
Green to Quincy | Akron ...
East of Union to west of Maple > Cement..
North of North northerly Akron . . .
At Belmont "
At Harrison
Hale easterly
At Lincoln
East of Belmont
920
375
826
61
28
32
118
4
4
SUMMARY OF SEWERS BUILT IN 1897.
Total 24-incli Akron pipe.
20-inch Akron pipe.
15-incli Akron pipe.
12-inch Akron pipe.
12-inch iron pipe. . .
10-inch Akron pipe.
10-inch iron pipe. . .
8-inch Akron pipe.
6-inch Akron pipe.
1,520
feet
733
5,041
3,939
10
7,946
54
744
70
Total 20,657 feet
Following is the total amount of sewerage in the city,
January 1, 1898:
Total 6-inch Akron pipe 70 feet
8-inch Akron pipe 10,079 "
10-inch Akron pipe 79,-591 "
12-inch Akron pipe 81,755 "
15-inch Akron pipe 30,678 "
KEPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 197
Total 18-inch Akron pipe 3,904 feet
20-iuch Akron pipe 11,999 ''
24-inch Akron pipe 7,79S "
Total Akron pipe 225,934 feet
Equal to 42.794 miles.
8-inch Portland pipe, old 90 feet
12-inch Portland pipe, old 3,990 "
18-inch Portland pipe, old 770 "
Total Portland pipe, old 4,850 feet
Equal to 0.919 miles.
10-inch Portland pipe, new 7,G05 feet
12-inch Portland pipe, new 4,526 "
15-ineh Portland pipe, new 4,518 "
18-inch Portland pipe, new 395 "
20-inch Portland pipe, new 3,345 "
24-inch Portland pipe, new 3,284 "
Total Portland pipe, new 23,673 feet
Equal to 4.483 miles.
9-inch cement pipe 9,912 feet
12-inch cement pipe 20,014 "
] 5-iuch cement pipe 490 "
18-inch cement pipe 860 "
24-inch cement pipe 735 "
16 X 24 inches, cement pipe 1,697 "
Total cement pipe 33,708 feet
Equal to 6.384 miles.
10-inch earthen pipe : 1,175 feet
12-inch earthen pipe 2,545 "
Total earthen pipe 3,720 feet
Equal to 0.704 miles.
18-inch brick sewers 5,532 feet
24-inch brick sewers 1,900 "
198 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
29-incli brick sewers 1,600 feet
36-inch brick sewers 506 "
42-inch brick sewers 446 "
44-inch brick sewers 1,195 "
57-inch brick sewers 1,400 "
60-inch brick sewers 285 ''
17 X 26 inches, brick sewers 1,506 "
20 X 30 inches, brick sewers 1,197 "
22 X 33 inches, brick sewers 849 "
24 X 36 inches, bricli sewers 11,051 "
26 X 39 inches, brick sewers 514 "
29^- X 44 inches, brick sewers 4,530 "
30 X 46 inches, brick sewers 1,360 "
32 X 48 inches, brick sewers 3,279 "
36 X 54 inches, brick sewers 1,067 "
38 X 57 inches, brick sewers 4,388 "
40 X 44 inches, brick sewers 790 "
42 X 63 inches, brick sewers 3,104 "
50 X 75 inches, brick sewers 712 "
Total brick sewers 47,211 feet
Equal to 8.941 miles.
8-inch iron pipe 24 feet
10-inch iron pipe 66 "
12-inch iron pipe 34 "
14-inch iron pipe 24 "
20-inch iron pipe 158 "
24-inch iron pipe 24 "
36-inch iron pipe - 277^ "
Total iron pipe 607^ feet
Equal to 0.115 miles.
24-inch steel pipe 67 feet
36-inch steel pipe 39 "
48-inch steel pipe 372 "
Total steel pipe 478 feet
Equal to 0.09 miles.
Total in all sewers, 340,181^ feet, equal to 64.42 miles.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER,
STREET GRADES ESTABLISHED IN 1897.
199
No. of
plan.
Street.
Location.
Length
in feet.
Order
passed.
799
4163
4195
4196
4194
4195
793-4
2150
4192
4l95
4197
741
4174
160
Baker
Beech
Benton
Glenwo'd av
J. Hall road..
Jones
Lake avenue
Mast
Mammoth rd
Nelson
Nutt road
Salmon
Vinton
Wayne
Nutt road to M. & L. R. R
Salmon southerly
J. Hall road to Jones
Page easterly
Massabesic to Lake avenue . .
Nelson to Benton
Cass to J. Hall road *
Amherst road westerly *
Candia road to Lake avenue.. .
J. Hall road to Mammoth road
Baker to Beech
Walnut east back to Beech
Taylor easterly
Dubuque to Hevey.
350
200
240
730
2,254
550
1,385
2,551
2,837
510
976
150
1,100
490
Oct. 5
May 4
Sept. 7
Aug. 25
Sept. 7
Sept. 7
May 4
Oct. 5
Sept. T
Sept. 7
Oct. 5
May 12
June 1
Nov. 2
14,323
Equal to 2.71 miles.
On these plans both sides of the street are shown, mak-
ing the actual distance of grade established 28,646 feet, or
5.42 miles.
CONCRETE LAID BY THE C. H. ROBIE CO.
Desckiption.
Square
yards.
Total
cost.
Crossings
Sidewalks
Roadways —
Miscellaneous
Total
903.39
146.04
6,418.82
3,702.68
$703.46
68.55
4,592.34
1,864.99
11,170.93 $7,229.34
* Center gi-ade.
200 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
CONCRETE LAID BY MEAD, MASON & CO.
Description.
Square
yards.
Total
cost.
Crossings
Sidewalks
Miscellaneous
Total
$751.30
Total concrete laid for the city, 12,411.24 square yards,
at a cost of |7,980.64.
NEW HIGHWAYS LAID OUT IN 1897.
Streets.
Location'.
2
^■1
^.s
^.5
Petition of
Avon
Cartier
Clay
Dartmouth
Dickey .
Ingalls
Log
Maple
Schiller .. . .
Somerville
Sylvester..
Ingalls to Mast
Kelley to Coolidge ave
Union to Beech
West Hancock to Log.
Avon to Clement
Forest to Clement
South Main to (Jolby.. .
Hay ward to Shasta
Hale to South Main
Hall to Belmont
Forest to Avon
Nov. 19
May 2G
June 9
Oct. 13
Nov. 19
Nov. 19
Oct. 13
Oct. 13
Oct. 13
Aug. 25
Nov. 19
45
983
50
397
50
492
40
220
45
445
45
700
40
868
50
2,215
50
830
50
306
45
303
7,759
Adam Dickey.
Medard Poulin.
E. R. Dufresne.
Fred G. Stark.
Adam Dickey.
Adam Dickey.
Fred G. Stark.
Charles A. Flint.
Fred G. Stark.
Jotin Muir.
Adam Dickey.
HIGHWAY DISCONTINUED IN 1897.
Street.
When
Location. discontin-
ued.
Petition of
" Landing"
Main to Piscataquog river..
Oct. 13
Fred G. Stark,
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGII^EER. 201
The followinj^- table shows the streets hiid ont to date,
which have not been built. Many of these have been
turnpiked, and are in passable condition, but have not
been brought to grade, nor have the gutters or sidewalks
been constructed. Those marked (*) in most cases have
not been opened, and are impassable with a few excep-
tions. It will necessitate the expenditure of a consider-
able amount of money to properly build them to grade.
202 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
STREETS LAID OUT TO DATE BUT NOT BUILT.
Streets.
Length
in feet.
When laid out.
Ainswoith avenue, Hayward to Young
Alfred, Hanover to Amherst
Allen, Main to Boynton
Alsace, south of Kelley northerly
Amory, to Kimball
Amory, extension to Bartlett
Arah, Union to Hooksett line
Ash, Gore northerly*
Auburn, INIapIe to Lincoln
Auburn, Wilson to Belmont
Auburn, Cypress to Platts avenue* '
Avon, Ingalls to Mast
Bartlett, Amory extension southerly
Bay, Trenton northerly*
Beech, Webster to Clarke*
Bell, Wilson easterly
Belmont, Young to Clay
Benton, .Jones to James Hall road
Blaine, Second to Hiram
Boutwell, Amory northerly*
Bremer, Cooliclge avenue to Rimmon
Byron, Brown avenue to Josselyn
Ci mpbell, Union to Ash
Campbell, Ash to Hooksett road
Canal, 82 feet north of Pleasant to Granite. . .
Canton, Spruce to Auburn
Clay, Union to Beech
Cedar, Wilson easterly
Central, James Hall road -westerly
Chestnut, north of Clarke to Trenton
Cartier, Kelley to Coolidge avenue
Clay, Jewett to Cypress
Cleveland, Blaine to Merrimack river
Colby, West Hancock to Log
Columbus avenue, Cartier to Amory*
Cypress, Lake avenue to Massabesic*
Cypress, Young to Clay
Dartmouth, West Hsncock to Log
Dartmouth, West Hancock to Frederick
Dickey, Avon to Clement
Erie, South Main westerly
Essex, Amory southerly
Forest, Milford to Old Mast road
Foster avenue. Valley to Hayward
Glenwood avenue, JMammoth rd. to J. Cronin's*
Glen wood avenue, Page easterly
Grant, Hanover to Mammoth road* ,
Green, Douglas northerly
Green, Pine to Beech
Green, Wilson to Belmont*
Grove, Wilson to Belmont* ,
Grove, Taylor westerlv
Hale, across Wolf & Wagner land
Hall, Hayward to Young
Hall, Lake avenue to Bell ,
Hall, Pearl to north side of Prospect
Harrison, Russell to Hall
Harrison, Hall to Belmont ,
Harvard, Union to Maple
Harvell, Main to Second
Hayes avenue, Massabesic to Chase avenue. ...
Hayward, Peech to Mammoth road
Highland Park avenue, Candia road to Glen
wood avenue
499
212
700
1,160
2,S00
73.5
3,162
590
600
809
967
983
1,800
580
1,176
636
1,395
240
395
1,693
400
998
860
2,900
1,023
5f0
492
665
304
1,337
397
387
1,487
220
I .3,110
1,300
860
220
636
445
470
1,460
490
2,085
725
1,008
96
990
809
809
757
800
125
1,890
716
1,218
365
1,190
1,060
471
6,000
1,007
August 31, 1893.
July 19, 1893.
Julv 24, 1891.
May 26, 1893.
November 17, 1S91.
June 26, 1892.
July 21, 1895.
June 9, 1893.
July 28, 1891.
August 15, 1892.
June 9, 1893.
November 19, 1897.
July 26, 1892.
June 19, 1896.
November 29, 1893.
August 15, 1892.
September 1, 1891.
August 31, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
May 26, 1893.
October 23, 1895.
October 3, 1893.
September 26, 1892.
September 20, 1895.
January 15. 1892.
August 2, 1892.
June 9, 1897.
August 15, 1892.
July 6, 1892.
April 24, 1896.
Jlay 26, 1897.
August 31, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
November 16, 1893.
May 20, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
September 25. 1896.
October 13, 1897.
August 28, 1891.
November 19, 1897.
June 20, 1893.
November 20, 1893.
December 16, 1890.
July 31, 1895.
December 28, 1892.
September 25, 1896.
October 20, 1893.
July 28, 1891.
Augusts!, 1893.
August 15, 1892.
September 9, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
July 25, 1894.
July 6, 1892.
June 23, 1893.
June 12, 1891.
October 25, 1892.
May 21, 1894.
November 18, 1892.
July 25, 1894.
October 19, 1894.
September 21, 1893.
December 28, 1892.
REPORT OP THE CITY ENGINEER, 203
STREETS LAID OUT TO DATE BUT NOT BUILT.— Continued.
Streets.
Length
in feet.
When laid out.
Holt avenue, Candia road to Lake Shore road*.
Hosley, Green to Summer
Huntress, Bank to north of Prince
Ingalls, Forest to Clement
Jewett, Cilley road to Weston road*
Jolietle, south of Kelley northerly
Jones, Nelson to R. I. Stevens's land
Jossely n, Byron to Varney
Kelley to M. & N. W. R. R
Kennedy, Brown avenue to Josselyn
Knowlton, Hay ward southerly
Lafayette, Amory northerly*
Laval, Amorj' northerly*
Liberty, North southerly
Liberty, soutli of North "to Salmon
Lincoln, Cedar to Shasta*
Log, South Main to Colby*
Longwood ave., INIammoth rd. to Woodbine ave
Maple, Gore northerly*
Maple, Hay ward to Shasta*
Maynard avenue, Huse road to Porter*
McKinnon, Central to Pleasant*
McNeil, Second to West Hancock
Merrill, Jewett easterly
Merrimack, east of Beacon to Hanover
Milford, Amherst road westerly
Mitchell, Beech to Brown avenue
Montgomery, Conant northerly
Moi'gan, Amory to Kelley
Mystic avenue, Candia road northerly ,
Nelson, James Hall road to Mammoth road ,
North, Union to Walnut*
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
Platts avenue, Candia road to C. & P. R. R
Plumnier, Pine to Union ,
Prospect, Derry old line to Hall ,
Prout avenue, Hay ward southerly
Putnam, to Dubuciue ,
Quincy, Douglas northerly
Revere avenue, Candia road to C. & P. R. R
Rimmon, to south of Wayne
Sagamore, Oak to Smyth road
Salmon, Walnut to Beech
Schiller, Hale to South Main*
Schiller, Hale to Wentworth
Schiller, Wentworth to Merrimack river
Second, Blaine to Main
Silver, Union to Jlaple ,
Somerville, Union to Hall
Somerville, Hall to Belmont*
Somerville, Jewett to Cypress
Stevens, Baker southerly
Summer, Beech westerly
Summer, Wilson to Massabesic
Sylvester, Forest to Avon
Titus avenue. Union to Beech ,
Union, Auburn to Nutt road ,
Varney, Josselvn to west of B. & M. R. R*
Vinton, Taylor to Jewett ,
7,850
490
G4S
700
3,650
1,150
562
161
652
922
487
1,690
1,698
150
325
4,321
868
1,100
600
2,215
1,315
192
299
350
1,000
517
3,000
400
650
1,200
509
220
600
1,500
1,337
2,500
1,052
450
325
.'iOO
300
96
1,200
735
1,453
270
830
855
218
5,528
690
2,925
306
410
300
200
1,480
303
540
4,175
290
1,256
July 31, 1896.
November 16,1803.
Septemb'r IS 1891.
November 19,1897.
November 27,1891.
May 26, 1893.
August 31, 1893.
Octobers, 1893.
June 23, 1891.
Septemb'r 21, 1891.
November 27,1891.
May 26, 1893.
May 26, 1893.
April 26, 1892.
June 12, 1895.
May 20, 1892.
October 13, 1897.
December 28, 1892.
June 9, 1893.
October 13, 1897.
August 28, 1896.
June 7, 1892.
August 28, 1891.
April 22, 1896.
July 28, 1891.
December 16. 1890.
I October 28, 1890.
I November 29,1892.
May 26, 1893.
May 26, 1893.
December 28, 1893.
August 21, 1893.
August 28, 1896.
June 9, 1893.
December 28, 1892.
December 28, 1892.
June 19, 1889.
August 24, 1894.
May 26, 1896.
May 29, 1889.
June 6, 1893.
June 5, 1888.
July 28, 1891.
December 28, 1892.
Septemb'r 26, 1892.
June 19, 1890.
June 27, 1894.
October 13, 1897.
July 25, 1894.
July 25, 1894.
Septemb'r 18, 1891.
June 7, 1892.
June 7, 1892.
August 25, 1897.
July 31. 1896.
November 29,1892.
November 25,1896.
Septemb'r 22, 1891.
November 19,1897.
May 21, 1894.
October 25, 1892.
October 3, 1893.
August 31, 1893.
204 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
STREETS LAID OUT TO DATE BUT NOT BUILT.— Continued.
Streets.
Length
in feet.
When laid out.
Wallace, Winter southwesterly*
Wayland avenue, Massabesic to Mammoth road
Wayne, west of Dubuque westerly
Wentworth, West Hancock southerly*
West Hancock, Merrimack river westerly
Wilkins, Rockland avenue to Bedford line
Willow, Hayward to Nutt road*
Woodbine avenue, Candia road to C. & P. R. R.
Woodland ave., C. &. P. R. R. to Jas. Dearborn's
Woodland ave., Jas. Dearborn's to Candia road
165
134
150
1,546
700
695
292
1,290
770
426
November 23,1S94.
August 24, 1S91.
June 23, 1893.
Septemb'r21,1893.
November 28,1890.
July 6, 1892.
June 23, 1S93.
December 28, 1892.
December28, 1892.
November 23,1894.
141,021
Equal to 26.71 miles.
Tabulated Statement of Work Done and Present
Standing Relative to Streets and Sewers,
January 1, 1898.
New streets laid out in 1893.
" " 1894.
" " 1895.
" " 1896.
'• " 1897.
New streets built in 1893 15,
" 1S94 18
" " 1895 16
" " 1896 ..19,
" " 1897 10
Sewers built in 1893 21
" " 1894 19
" " 1895 23
" " 1896 2a
" " 1897 20
Sewers voted in 1893 34
" " 1894 18
" " 1895 24
" " 1896 22
" " 1897 16
Streets laid out but not built to Jan. 1, 1S9S. .141
Sewei'S ordered in but not built to Jan. 1,
1898 34
Total amount of sewers Jan. 1, 1897
Actual increase in 1897
666.00 feet,
325.00
090.00 "
780.00
759.00 "
840.00 "
513.00 "
943.00 "
950.00 "
,674.00
716.00 "
,612.00 "
152.00 "
530.00
,657.00 "
,C07.00
,366.00
136.50
444.00 "
366.00 "
,021.00 "
039.00 "
equal to 6.940 miles.
" 2.330
" 2.290
" 3000
" 1.470
" 3.C00
" 3.500
" 3.220
" 3.778
, " 2.021
" 4.110
3.714
" 4.383
5.024
" 3.931
6.440
" 3.480
4 5G9
" 4.2.50
" 3.100
" 26.710
6.446
60.945
3.508
Total amount of sewers Jan. 1, 1898 64.453
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 205
Length of streets open for travel — 592,749.00 feet, equal to 112.261 miles.
Length of streets planned for on
ground 95,205.00 " " 18.031 "
Length of roads open for travel 323,400.00 '■ " 61.250 "
Length of avenues opened for travel 45,257.00 " " S.571 "
Length of avenues planned for on
ground '. 16,234.03 " " 3.074 "
1,072,815.00 203.190 "
Length of walks on streets 664,900.00 feet, equal to 125.928 "
Length of walks on roads 4,740.00 " " .897 "
Length of walks on avenues 35,388.00 " " 6.702 "
705,028.00 133.527
ROADWAYS.
Cobblestone paving ^. . 2,720.00 feet, equal to 0.515 miles
Blockpaving , 9,258.00 " " 1.753 "
Coal tar concrete 10,446.00 " " 1.978 "
Macadam 38,032.00 " " 7.203 "
Telford 27,097.00 " " 5.132 "
Total length of improved streets 87,553.00 feet, equal to 16.562 miles
Streets, roads, and avenues open for travel January 1,
1898, 961,-100 feet, equal to 182.084 miles.
City Hall step is 219.352 feet above sea level.
The highest point in the city above mean sea level, 539
feet; the lowest, 129 feet.
Four cemeteries belonging to the city have a combined
area of 105 acres, and eleven private burying grounds
about 50 acres.
The largest sewer in the city is 50 x 75 inches; the
smallest, 6 inches. There are seven sewer outlets into
the river, two above high water mark, and five submerged
from 1 to 8 feet.
The city owns wholly or in part 43 public buildings, of
which 1 is built of brick and stone, 35 of brick, and 7 of
wood.
The common width of streets is 50 feet; the narrowest
is 20 feet; the widest, 100 feet.
There are 90 miles of streets having shade trees.
Area of city, 21,700 acres, or 33.906 square miles.
Area of Derryfield park 68.00 acres
Oak Hill reservoir park 25.65 ''
Rimmon park (proposed) 42.91 "
206
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Area of Stark park 30.00 acres
West Side park 9.76 ''
Concord square 4.48 "
Hanover square 3.00 ''
Merrimack square 5.89 "
Park square 3.49 "
Simpson square 0.56 *'
Tremont square 2.25 "
Total area of- parks 176.32 acres
Total area of squares. . . . , 19.67 "
SUMMARY OF SEWERAGE SYSTEM SINCE ISSO.
Year.
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OJ
4)
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O
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p
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a •
O be
O aJ
O G
'^ri
91 U
rj'C
O S
^O
^.
S
^ ^ ^
§1
o o
a. Q
C i-i
W
1881.
1882.
1883.
188-1
1885.
1886.
1887.
1888,
1889
1S90
1891.
1892
1893
1894
1895,
1896
1897,
1.02
2.18
3.37
2.54
1 73
1.56
2.15
1.44
1.73
2.66
1.81
3.08
3.13
3.31
2.91
3.98
4.71
*3.93
18.66
20.84
24.21
26.75
28.48
30.04
32.19
33 63
35.36
38.02
39.83
42.91
46.04
49.35
52.26
56.24
60.95
64.42
64
153
214
191
258
255
237
283
2,003
2,067
2 220
2,434
2,625
2,883
3,138
3,375
3,658
$19,919.40
23,895.12
24,148.13
21,452.05
21,548.60
28,122.84
44,479.15
19,893.92
31,154.19
27,513.73
39,297. 97
55,409.73
39,721.65
51,392.15
46,116.01
71,859.36
06,408.87
36,258 41
812,295.92
10,961 06
7,165.65
8,445.69
12,4.55.84
18,027.46
20,687.97
13,815.22
18,008.20
10,3-43.51
21,711.58
17,990.17
12,091.58
15,526.33
15,847.42
18,055.11
14,099.33
9,226.05
Total cost for 18 years, .|668,594.28.
* Includes old sewers relaid.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 207
In the year 1888 a plan was made hj the present city
engineer for a system of sewerage embracing the entire
city, this being the first comprehensive plan ever com-
piled 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
18S8 there have been 29.0G miles built, at a cost of $433,-
980.88; at an average cost of |14,933.96 per mile.
Orders.
The following orders have been written by this depart-
ment for the various committees.
ORDERS TO BUILD SEWERS.
Amory, from Alsace easterly about 200 feet.
Beech, from Silver to Harvard.
Central, from Belmont to Milton.
Everett, from Clarke southerly about 300 feet.
Grove south back, from east of Union to Beech.
Grove south back, from Wilson easterly about 200 feet.
Harvard, from Beech to Maple.
Hayward, from Belmont to Cypress.
Laurel, from east of Beacon westerly about 150 feet.
Maple, from Prescott to Hayward.
Prescott, from Wilson east about 208 feet.
Rimmon east back, from Kelley to Mason.
River road, from Clarke to Park avenue, proposed.
Russell, from Harrison northerly 350 feet.
Silver, from Lincoln to Wilson.
Silver, from Wilson to Hall.
Somerville, from Wilson to Hall.
Taylor, from Valley northerly about 400 feet.
Union, from Silver to Hayward.
Walnut, from Salmon southerly 175 feet.
Whittemore land.
Recommended by committee on sewers and drains.
208 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ORDERS TO ESTABLISH STREET GRADES.
Adams, from Carpenter to Trenton.
Baker, from Nutt road to Manchester & Lawrence
Railroad.
Bartlett, from Wayne to south of Sullivan.
Beech, from Salmon southerly.
Benton, from Hall road to Jones.
Cypress, from Lake avenue to Massabesic.
Glenwood avenue, from Page easterly 730 feet.
Hall road, from Massabesic to Lake avenue.
Jones, from Nelson to Benton.
Lake avenue, from Cass to Hall road.
Lafayette, from Kelley to Amory.
Mammoth road, from Candia road to Lake avenue.
Mast, from Amherst road westerly 2,551 feet.
Nelson, from Hall road to Mammoth road.
Nutt road, from Baker to Beech.
Salmon, from Walnut east back to Beech,
Vinton, from Taylor easterly.
Wayne, from Dubuque to Hevey.
Recommended by committee on streets.
An order to build Cyi)ress street from Auburn to Massa-
besic, recommended by committee on streets.
An order to change the western boundary of Derry-
field park, recommended by Councilman George H.
Phinney.
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 28, 1897.
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 3'ear, and the first in their term of office.
At the opening of the season there were fifty-eight
orders for sewers voted in but not built. The following
list gives the street, location, date of order, and length.
209
14
210 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SEWERS ORDERED BUT NOT BUILT, TO JANUARY ], 1897.
Street.
Location.
Amherst
Amherst road
Auburn
Auburn south back.
Beacon
Belmont
Belmont
Blaine
Carpenter
Carrier east back...
Cartier east back . .
Cedar south back...
Concord
Dover
Elm
Length.
Elm
Elm
Foster avenue . . .
Front
Hale
Hall
Hanover
Harrison
Harrison
Harvell
Hay ward
llevey east back .
Uevey east back .
Lake avenue
Linden
Locust *
Lowell
Maple
Merrimack
Montgomery east b'k
Myrtle
Orange
Prospect —
Sagamore *
Sagamore '
Schiller
Second ..
Second
Somerville
Spruce
Tilton
Union
Union
Union east back
Valley
Valley
Walnut east back.
Walnut east back.
West
Wentworth
Wilson
Wilson Hill
Union to A shland
South of Carroll southerly
East of Canton easterly
Hall easterly
Amherst to Concord
Valley to Clay
Old Bridge to Bridge
Second to Hiram
Elm to Union
South of Putnam southerly —
North of Sullivan to 250 feet
south of Sullivan
Beech westerly
Hall easterly
Clinton northerly
Shasta to Baker
Railroad bridge to Elm avenue
Munroe south back to Clarke..
Carpenter to Howell
Valley to Hay ward
Eddy to north of hotel
Schiller southerly
Prospect to Harrison
East of Beacon to Highland . . .
Hall to Belmont
Linden to Russell
Hale to South Main
Jewett easterls'
Wayne nortlierly
South of Amory to Columbus
avenue ".
Canton easterly
Prospect to Harrison
Christian brook to Sagamore..
Belmont to Beacon
Silver to Prescott
Belmont to Milton
Kelley to Amory
Hall vresterly
Hall to Belmont
Hall easterly
Locust easterly
Oak to Linden
Hale to South Main
Blaine to Hiram
South of Schiller to Harvell . . .
Jewett westerly
Canton easterly
Soutli of Milford to Bowman
place
Clarke to Trenton
Silver to Plummer
South of Christian brook south-
erly
Elm to Wilson
Jewett to Foster avenue
Salmon northerly
Christian brook northerly
Clinton northerly
Schiller southerly
Harvard to Somerville
Merrimack to Hanover
2,600
030
90
150
303
2,100
200
400
1,4!3
56
312
175
200
160
332
1,373
S51
1,500
540
2,800
4.50
270
500
365
450
700
300
146
396
300
270
198
500
640
200
700
200
365
100
136
902
S<50
400
160
400
250
233
1,700
350
50
4,040
248
250
200
226
400
657
380
Date
ordei'ed.
35,067
May
April
Nov.
Jan.
Nov.
Aug.
Jan.
July
Nov.
Dec.
June
May
Sept.
May
June
Feb.
July
Sept.
Nov.
Sept.
July
Sept.
Dec.
Nov.
Sept.
Jan.
July
Oct.
Dec.
Aug.
Sept.
Oct.
Nov.
May
Feb.
Sept.
Aug.
Nov.
July
Dec.
July
Jan.
June
July
Sept.
Aug.
Nov.
July
Nov.
Dec.
Sept.
Aug.
July
Equal to 6.64 miles.
♦Sewer changed to other location.
REPOKT OF THE CITY ENGINEER.
211
Of these the following have been built during the year
Location.
Length
in feet.
Belmont.
Carpenter
Cartier east back
Elm
Hall
Hanover
Harrison
Harrison
Lake avenue
Linden
Maple
Merrimack
Montgomery east back
Myrtle
Orange
Sagamore
Somerville
Spruce
Walnut east back
Walnut east back
Wilson
Wilson
Valley to south of Somerville . . .
Elm to Union
Sullivan southerly
Carpenter to Trenton
Prospect to Harrison
East of Beacon to east of Alfred
Hall easterly
Linden westerly
Canton easterly
Prospect to Harrison
Silver to north of Harvard
Belmont to Milton
Kelley to Amorj-
Hall westerly
Hall easterly
Oak to east of Russell
Jewett to Cypress
Canton easterly
North of Salmon southerly
Christian brook northerly
Silver southerly
Harvard southerly
1,830
1,413
212
556
270
297
300
314
300
270
406
200
700
200
300
754
400
140
54
200
76
150
The following sewers, voted in previous to 1897, have
been changed to other and more favorable locations:
street.
Length
Location. jn feet.
1
Christian brook to Sagamore
19S
136
Wilson hill
380
714
Portions of the following sewers, voted in i^revious to
1897, have been constructed far enough to provide proper
drainage for the section, though not covering the entire
distance voted in.
The table shows the length remaining, which will not
have to be built.
212
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Street.
Location.
Length
in feet.
56
100
136
1S2
474
Leavins^ 24,537 feet of sewers voted in ijrevious to Jan-
uary 1, 1897.
Brief mention is made in the following of the more
important sewers built during the year:
The work on the Elm-street main was continued
through the winter and the pipe laid to Trenton street.
It has been found that pipe laying through ledge excava-
tion can be done considerably cheaper during the cold
weather, when the ground is frozen, as the necessity of
bracing is obviated, and the blasting operations do not
disturb the top crust of earth to such an extent. There
remain 944 feet to be laid to carr}^ this sewer to its pro-
posed terminus, Rowell street.
The Carpenter-street sewer has been built from Elm to
Union street, most of the way through ledge, and drain-
age provided for that rapidlj' growing section. The stone
removed in blasting was crushed and used for repairing
the city streets. By an arrangement with the water-
works their pipe was laid in the sewer trench, they assum-
ing a portion of the expense incurred in digging the
trench, thereby reducing the cost of the sewer materially.
The sewer in Belmont street, which was voted in last
year, has been constructed from A'alley to Harvard street,
and that section, so long desiring sewerage facilities, has
been well provided for. In this section the Valley-street
main has been continued nearly to Cypress street, a dis-
tance of 1,084 feet. By the construction of these two
sew^ers a large amount of territorv has been taken care
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 213
of in the way of mains so tliat future sewer building will
be in the nature of laterals in the various streets, as
Deeded.
In the F. M. Hoyt Shoe Company's section, the Silver-
street main has been extended to IJall street, being of
24-inch pipe to Wilson street and 20-inch pipe the re-
mainder of the distance. Branches were also laid in
Wilson street, from Harvard southerly, connecting with
the Wilson-street main, and from Silver street southerly.
This section is growing rapidly and will probably need
increased facilities in the near future; in fact, several
petitions have already been received, on some of which
favorable action has been taken. In Maple and Union
streets sewers have been built, connecting with the Silver-
street main.
On Wilson Hill the residents on Hanover street liave
been given means of drainage by building a sewer from
the old sewer on Hanover street, west of Beacon, to a
point east of Alfred street. This was in accordance with
the order passed last year, and takes the place of the one
proposed to run across lots from INIerrimack to Hanover.
Nearly half the distance was ledge excavation, the cut
averaging about six feet. Laterals have also been con-
structed in Central and Laurel streets connecting with
the Wilson Hill sewer.
The New Discovery and the surrounding sections have
received needed attention, sewers having been built in
Hall. Harrison, Linden, Myrtle, and Orange streets. This
section is now well provided for, and future work will
only be in the line of extensions to existing mains and
laterals.
The Laurel-street sewer, running from east of Union
nearly to Maple, has been relaid deeper and numerous
cesspools built to drain the surface water. No house con-
nections were made, as they are provided for by sewers
in the back streets.
214 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
On the west side tlie principal sewer worlv lias been
that in the Whittemore section. Arrangements were
made last year whereby the city secured possession of a
piece of land whose owners, holding an ice-cntting privi-
lege, objected to the sewage running into the river. This
year permission was granted by the Boston & Maine Rail-
road and the Whittemore heirs to run through their land.
This server starts at the Piscataquog river and runs east-
erly under the railroad tracks, and along a private way,
to the junction of Bow and Putnam streets. Here work
was stopped for the season, leaving about 1,200 feet to
be built to carry it to the terminus at Bartlett and Wayne
streets. It is quite necessary that this should be built,
as there are some fifty houses that are in need of the facil-
ities that this main and its laterals will furnish. Eight
hundred forty-seven feet of 24-inch pipe were laid, with an
average cut of 10.5 feet. A small amount of ledge was
encountered between the river and the railroad, but for
the most part the excavating was through sand, with a
sub-stratum of clayey gravel.
The sewer in Granite street from Turner to Main was
relaid, as the street was to be concreted and it was
thought best to make sure that everything was all right
rather than have to tear up the roadway at some future
time. A portion of the Schiller-street sew^er was also re-
laid, where the fiipe had fallen in from the effects of a
washout.
On Beauport street, and at the top of the hill near Put-
nam street, numerous complaints were made regarding
the surface water coming from the land on the west, down
the slope toward Beauport street, to the injury of the
lots and the inconvenience of the occupants. The former
committee had recommended the construction of a sewer
to remedy this, and this year it was built in Sullivan and
Cartier east back streets. Cesspools were built where
necessary, and the surface water is now properly taken
care of.
KEPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 215
Your committee lias thoroughly examined the localities
where sewers have been petitioned for, in many cases
making several inspections before coming to a decision,
and in all cases acted in a fair and impartial manner, as
was deemed for the best interest of the city.
During the year, twentj^-six orders for sewers have
received favorable action; of these seven have been built,
and six partly built. At the present time there are orders
for sixty-three sewers, which have passed your honorable
board, but which have not been constructed.
The committee has held nine meetings, as follows:
April 20, April 29, May 28, July 27, August 31, September
2, October 22, November 22, December 28.
The total number of petitions presented to your com-
mittee has been twenty-seven. Of these, five have been
laid over for further consideration; on five it has been
voted to recommend that leave to withdraw be granted;
one has been changed to another location, and seventeen
have received favorable action.
Seven reports were sent to the city councils, recom-
mending the i^assage of orders authorizing the building
of twenty-one sewers.
These will be found in the list of orders written by the
city engineer's department.
Petitions.
The following is a list of the petitions referred to the
committee, and the action taken upon them:
Laurel Street. From Beech to Maple street, com-
mencing at or near Beech street, at the sewer in Laurel
street, and thence in an easterly direction to Maple street
in Laurel street.
H. M. Wood.
Committee voted that it be laid over to next meeting,
April 29, 1897.
216 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Committee voted that leave to withdraw be granted,
May 28, 1897.
Walnut East Back Street. From near Salmon
southerly, about 250 feet, commencing at the southerly
end of the sewer in Walnut east back, near Salmon street,
and thence in a southerly direction in Walnut east back
street, about 250 feet.
William F. Miller.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, April 29, 1897.
Committee voted that leave to withdraw be granted,
and that an order be prepared to build 175 feet in Walnut
street, from Salmon southerly, May 28, 1897.
Amory Street. From Rimmon to Alsace street, com-
mencing at Bimmon street near the engine-house on
Amory street, and thence in a westerly direction to Alsace
street to connect with the other sewer.
O. H. Nourry.
Committee voted that the petitioners be given leave to
withdraw, April 29, 1897.
Silver Street. From Lincoln to Wilson, commenc-
ing at the manhole in the sew^er at Lincoln and Silver
streets, and thence in an easterly direction in Silver
street to the center line of Wilson street, according to
the city's plan of sewers for said section.
William Cooper.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
April 29, 1897.
Laurel Street. From Beacon easterly, commencing
at or near the easterly line of Beacon street, at Laurel
street, and thence in an easterly direction in Laurel
street to the Wilson Hill sewer, a distance of about 200
feet.
George D. Totman.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build, April
29, 1897.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 217
River Road. From Clarke to Park avenue, proposed,
commencing at Clarke street and tlie River road, at the
Eiver-road sewer, and thence in a northerly direction to
Park avenue, proposed, as shown by the city's plans.
Frank S. Davis.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, May 28, 1897.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build, Octo-
ber 22, 1897.
New Mast Road. From Mast northerly, commenc-
ing at the present sewer in Mast street, at the New Mast
road, and thence in a northerly direction about 1,000 feet
in the New Mast road.
James F. Wyman.
Committee voted to lay it on the table until the street
lines are established. May 28, 1897. '
Committee voted to lay it over, September 2, 1897.
Union Street. From Silver to Hayward, commencing
at corner of Union and Silver streets, and thence in a nor-
therly direction to Hayward street.
Martha S. Batchelder.
Committee voted that petitioners be given leave to
withdraw. May 28, 1897.
Hayward Street. From Belmont to Cypress in Hay-
ward, commencing at the present sewer in Belmont
street, at Hayward street, and thence in an easterly di-
rection to Cypress street, as shown by the city's plan of
sewers in Hayward street.
S. G. Fletcher.
Committee voted that it be laid on the table for consid-
eration, July 27, 1897.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build, Sep-
tember 2, 1897.
tiiS ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Grove South Back. Commencing in Grove south
back street, east. of Union street, and thence in an easterly
direction to Beech street, in Grove south back street.
Edward Coveny.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build^
July 27, 1897.
Amory Street. From Alsace street easterly, com-
mencing at the sewer at Alsace and Amory street, in
Amory street, and thence in an easterly direction about
200 feet in Amorj'.
O. H. Nourry.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, July 27, 1897.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,.
September 2, 1897.
ITxioN Street. From Silver to Hayward, commenc-
ing at Silver and Union streets, and thence in a northerly
direction to Hayward street, in Union street, according
to the city's plan of sewers.
R. N. Batchelder.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, July 27, 1897.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
September 2, 1897.
Taylor Street. From Valley northerly, commencing"
at the sewer proposed in Valley street at Taylor street^
and thence in a northerly direction in Taylor street about
400 feet.
Robert Harriman.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, July 27, 1897.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build^
September 2, 1897.
Everett Street. From Clarke southerly, commenc-
ing at the manhole in Clarke street sewer at Everett
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 219
street, and thence in a soutlierlv direction in Everett
street about 300 feet.
John E. Dinsmore.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
July 27, 1897.
Harvard Street. From Oilman Clough's land to
Hall street, commencing at the terminus of the location
of the sewer already voted in on Harvard street, at the
westerly line of G. Clough's land, and thence in an east-
erly direction to Hall street.
Alfred D. Plummer.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, July 27, 1897.
Committee voted to lay over for further consider-
ation, September 2, 1897.
EniMON East Back Street. From Kelley to Mason,
commencing at tlje Kelley-street sewer at Rimmon east
back street, and thence in a northerly direction to Mason
street in Rimmon east back street.
John Corliss.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
July 27, 1897.
Prescott Street. From Wilson east about 208 feet,
commencing at the intersection of Wilson and Prescott
streets, and thence in an easterly direction in said Pres-
cott street about 208 feet.
A. E. Boisvert.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
September 2, 1897.
Somerville Street. From Wilson to Hall, com-
mencing at the sewer already voted in on Wilson street at
Somerville street, and thence in an easterly direction to
Hall street through Somerville street, according to the
city's plan of sewers for said section.
Eugene E. Reed.
220 ANNUAL OFriCIAL REPORTS.
Committee voted to lav it ou the table, September 2,
1897.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
October 22, 1897.
Garland Avenue. From Cypress westerly 200 feet,
comnif ncing at a Y in the Cypress-street sewer Ifi feet
from the southwest corner of Kimball Bros.' shoeshop,
and thence in a westerly direction to a peach tree stand-
ing in Garland avenue, so called, 200 feet from beginning.
M. V. B. Garland.
Committee voted to lay it on the table, September 2,
1897.
Committee voted to recommend that leave to withdraw
be granted, October 22, 1897.
Harvard and Beech Streets. Commencing at Silver
and Beech streets, thence northerly in Beech street to Har-
vard street, and thence in an easterly direction in Har-
vard street to Maple street.
Augustin Lennieux.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
October 22, 1897.
Central Street. From Belmont to Beacon, com-
mencing at the intersection of Central street on Belmont
street, and thence in an easterly direction to Beacon
street.
Gilbert Wilber.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build to
Milton street, October 22, 1897.
Second Street. Harvell street southerly, commenc-
ing at the Second-street sewer near Harvell street, and
thence in a southerlj- direction in Second street about
300 feet.
Michael T. Sullivan.
Committee voted to lay it on tjie table, October 22, 1897.
Committee voted to lay it over to first meeting in 1898,
November 22, 1897.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 221
Grove South Back Street. From Wilson east 200
feet, commencing at Wilson and Grove south back street,
and tlience in an easterly direction to about 200 feet in
Grove south back street.
Mary E. Gray.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
October 22, 1897.
Maple Street. From Harvard to Hayward, com-
mencing at the present sewer in Maple street between
Prescott and Harvard streets, and thence in a northerly
direction to Hayward street.
John McCarthy.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
October 22, 1897.
Russell Street. From near Harrison street nor-
therly, commencing at the present Russell-street sewer,
and thence in a northerly direction 350 feet.
Charles E. Green.
Committee voted to recommend an order to build,
October 22, 1897.
Central Street. From east of Beacon to Beacon,
commencing at the .present sewer in Central street east
of Beacon, and thence in a westerly direction to Beacon
street, according to the city's plan of sewers.
William Heron, Jr.
Committee voted to lay it over to first meeting in 1898,
November 22, 1897.
Lake Avenue. From near Canton to Hall road, com-
mencing at the present sew^er east of Canton street in
Lake avenue, and thence in an easterly direction to J.
Hall road in Lake avenue.
Nellie M. Sheehan.
Committee voted to lay it over to first meeting in 1898,
November 22, 1897.
222
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
SBWERS ORDERED BUILT IN 1897.
STREET.
Location.
T „„,»tv. Date
Length. Lj.jjpj.g^j_
Amory
Beech
Central
Dubuque east back
Everett ...
Grove south back..
Gi'ove south back..
Hanover
Harvard
Harvard
Hayward
Laurel
Maple
Milford
Prescott
Putnam
Rimmon east back
River road north . .
Russell
Silver
Silver
Somerville
Taylor
Union
Valley
Walnut
Wayne
Whittemore land . .
Whipple
Total .
Alsace easterly
Silver to Harvard
Belmont to Milton
Kelley to 200 feet north of Bremer .
Clarke southerly
East of Union to Beech
Wilson easterly
Near Beacon to Highland
Wilson easteily
Beech to Maple
Belmont to Cypress
Beacon easterly
Prescott to HayAvard
Amherst road westerly
Wilson easterly
Bow to Whipple
Kelley to Mason
Clarke to Park avenue. Proposed .
Harrison northerly
Lincoln to Wilson
Wilson to Hall
Wilson to Hall
Vallej' northerly —
Silver to Hayward
East of Belmont to Cypress
Salmon southerly
Whipple to Bartlett
Piscataquog river to Putnam
Putnam to vvayne
16,087
200
Sept.
7
306
Nov.
2
242
"
2
S24
Jan.
4
300
Sept.
7
302
"
1
200
Nov.
2
802
Jan.
4
200
•'
4
650
Nov.
o
1,396
Sept.
7
150
June
1
320
Nov.
2
300
Jan.
4
208
Sept.
1
164
Oct.
6
1,400
Sept.
7
1,450
Nov.
2
350
"
2
673
June
1
510
6
510
Nov.
<>
400
Sept.
7
958
"
7
1,217
Jan.
4
175
June
29
500
Oct.
5
844
"
5
536
"
5
Equaling 3.04 miles.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 223
SEWERS ORDERED BUT NOT BUILT, TO JANUARY 1, 1898.
Street.
Location.
Length.
Date
ordered.
Amherst
Amherst road
Amory
Auburn
Auburn south back
Beacon
Beech
Belmont
Blaine
Cedar south back. .
Central
Concord
Dover
Elm
Elm
Elm
Foster avenue
Front
Grove south back. .
Grove south back. .
Hale
Hanover
Harrison
Harvard
llarvell
Hay ward
Hay ward
Hevey east back. . .
Hevey east back. ..
Lowell
Maple
Maple
Milf ord
Orange
Prescott
Prospect
Putnam
Rimmon east back.
River road north. . .
Sagamore ; .
Schiller
Second
Second
Somerville
Spruce
Tavlor
Tilton
Union
Union
Union
Union east back . . .
Valley
Valley
Valley
Walnut
Walnut east back.
Wayne
West
Wentworth
Whipple
Wilson
Union to Ashland
South of Carroll southerly
Alsace easterly
East of Canton easterl j'
Hall easterly
Amherst to Concord
Silver to Harvard
Old 1 a-idge to Bridge
Second to Hiram
Beech westerly
Belmont to Milton
Hall easterly
Clinton northerly
Shasta to Baker
Railroad bridge to Elm avenue —
Munroe south back to Clarke
Trenton to Rowell
Valley to Haj' ward *
Eddy to north of hotel
East of Union to Beech
Wilson easterly
Schiller southerly
East of Alfred to Highland
Belmont westerly
Beech to Maple
Hale to South Main
Belmont to Cypress
Jewett easterly
Wayne nortlierlj'
South of Amory to Columbus ave
Belmont to Beacon
North of Harvard to Prescott
Prescott to Hayward
Amherst road westerlj' \
Belmont westerly
Wilson easterly
Hall easterly
Bow to Whipple
Kelley to Mason
Clarke to Park avenue. Proposed.
Linden westerly
Hale to South Main
Blaine to Hiram
South of Schiller to Harvell
Wilson to Hall
East of Canton easterly
Valley nortlierly
South of Milford to Bowman place
Clarke to Trenton
North of Prescott to Hay ward
Silver to Plummer '.
South of Christian brook southerly
Cypress westerly
Elm to Wilson
Jewett to Foster avenue
Salmon southerly ,
Salmon northerly ,
Whipple to Bartlett
Clinton northerly
Schiller southerly
Putnam to Wayne
South of Silver to Somerville . .
Total.
2,600
630
200
90
150
303
306
200
400
175
242
200
160
332
1,373
851
944
540
2,800
302
200
450
134
65
650
700
1,396
300
146
396
500
234
320
300
65
208
100
164
1,400
1,450
148
850
400
160
510
110
400
233
1,700
192
350
50
133
4,040
248
105
200
500
226
400
536
149
May 2,
April 3,
Sept. 7,
Nov. 9,
.Ian. 7,
Nov. 10,
" 2,
Jan. 7,
July 5,
May 5,
Nov. 2,
Sept. 6,
May 6,
1893
1894
1897
1894
1896
1896
1897
1896
1892
1896
1897
1896
1894
1890
June 4, 1895
Feb. 4, 1896
July 14, 1896
Sept. 5, 1893
7, 1897
Nov. 2, 1897
9, 1894
Jan. 4, 1897
Sept. 1, 1896
Nov. 2, 1897
9, 1894
Sept. 7, 1897
" 3, 1895
Jan. 7, 1896
July 10, 1893
Aug. 6, 1895
Sept. 1, 1896
Nov. 2, 1897
Jan. 4, 1897
Feb. 4, 1896
Sept. 7, 1897
3, 1895
Oct. 5, 1897
Sept. 7, 1897
Nov. 2, 1897
" 10, 1896
" 10, 1896
July 5, 1892
Dec. 3, 1895
Nov. 2, 1897
Jan. 7, 1896
Sept. 7, 1S97
June 4, 1895
July 2, 1895
Sept. 7, 1897
3, 1895
Aug. 6, 1895
Jan. 4, 1897
Nov. 7, 1893
July 14, 1896
June 29, 1897
Nov. 10, 1896
Oct. 5, 1897
Sept. 4, 1894
5, 1895
Oct. 5, 1897
Aug. 7, 1894
34,015
Equaling 6,442 miles.
224 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
This comprises all the work that has come within the
province of the committee on sewers and drains, and is
respectfully submitted.
JOHN F. FROST, Chairman,
GILLIS STARK,
MURDOCK A. WEATHERS,
WILLIAM WATTS,
JOSEPH D. MASSE,
Committee on Sewers and Drains.
W. H. BENNETT,
■'j. Clerk of Committee.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON STREETS.
The annual report of the committee on streets, prepared
by the city engineer as clerk of the committee, is herewith
presented :
Manchester, N, H., December 31, 1897.
Gentlemen of the City Councils:
The committee appointed by your honorable board, to
act as the joint standing committee on streets, would
submit the following report of the work done by them and
under their direction the present year :
The committee has held eight meetings, as follows:
February 25, April 5, May 25, June 18, July 8, August 31,
October 14, October 21.
Number of petitions received, 41; laid over to 1808, 4;
laid over until Rule 29 was complied with, 3; where orders
to establish grades were recommended, 11; recommended
leave to withdraw, 4; recommended to a hearing. 19;
total, 41.
The committee has carefully examined the location in
all cases where petitions to establish grade w^ere presented,
the situation being explained by the city engineer before
orders were prepared for introduction into the council.
Among the more important were Nutt road and Baker
street; Jones, Nelson, and Benton streets. Hall and Mam-
moth roads in the Dr. C. M. Dodge land, and Bartlett
street in the Whittemore section.
In three cases, William, Adams, and Hall streets, the
petitioners were instructed regarding Rule 29, and your
committee, acting under its provisions, voted to recom-
mend that the petitions be laid over until the rule had
been complied with. The expense for building these
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226 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
streets would have been considerable and as they were
not of great public necessity the above action was taken.
The residents of South Beech street being desirous of
securing a means of reaching the electric cars on Calef
road by some route nearer than Mitchell street or by pass-
ing over private land petitioned for a highway. Two
petitions were presented, one calling for the laying out
of Norfolk street from Beech street to the Calef road,
and the other for Titus avenue from Union street to the
Calef road. The city engineer was instructed to make
surveys of the section to determine if a more feasible
route could be selected. The conclusion reached was
that the Titus avenue route would call for the least ex-
penditure of money, and the former petition was denied,
a hearing being granted on the latter petition. As the
parties interested would not waive damages, the highway
was not laid out.
In one instance, Somerville street between Plall and
Belmont, the committee departed from present custom
and recommended the laying out of a highway where it
was necessary to purchase the land. The residents of
Belmont street, south of Young street, having no means
of reaching the section west of them except by a round-
about route, petitioned for the highway. Upon exami-
nation by the committee, it was considered to be a public
necessity and the petition was reported on favorably.
Considerable time has been spent in discussing the
merits of the petition for laying out the Moss road, from
the Bald Hill road northerly. As your board is doubtless
familiar with the situation, extended explanation is un-
necessary. The committee carefully examined the local-
ity and at a conference heard all parties who appeared
either for or against the petition. As no agreement could
be reached, the matter was laid over until the first meet-
ing in 1898.
The petitioners asking for the laying out of Beech
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. , 227
street from Salmon to Webster were given leave to with-
draw, as the benefits to be derived would not be commen-
surate with the expense of building. A fill of consider-
able extent would have to be made, and two culverts con-
structed on the line of the street, besides removing a por-
tion of a ledge and many large bowlders.
The petition for the extension of Schuyler street was
also denied. The situation here was such that there was
liability of a suit against the city for damage to abutting
property if the street was laid out and built.
EuLE 29, Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Passed April 21, 1897.
Eule 29. No petition for the laying out of any street
or highway shall be considered by the board of mayor
and aldermen unless it shall be accompanied by an agree-
ment, signed by responsible parties, that said highway,
if laid out by the board of mayor and aldermen, shall be
built and graded to the satisfaction of the board of street
and park commissioners, without expense to the city, or
by a certificate from said board of street and park com-
missioners that said asked for highway has already been
built and graded to their satisfaction, without expense
to the city, except in cases where two thirds of the board
of mayor and aldermen shall deem the same to be of
great public necessity; and upon the presentation to said
board qf mayor and aldermen of any such petition, not
accompanied by such agreement or certificate, the mayor
shall, by virtue of this rule, declare forthwith that such
petition is denied, subject to a motion of any alderman
that the public necessity requires the consideration of
such petition, and its adoption by a two thirds vote, as
aforesaid.
Petitions.
The following is a list of the petitions referred to the
committee and the action taken upon them:
CoLUAiBus Street. For a new highway in said city,
beginning at a stake at the intersection of Amorv and
228 ^ ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Columbus streets, and thence in. a southerly direction
about 400 feet to a stake in said street, as shown on plan
of said section.
P. Hevey and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, April 5, 1897.
Brock Street. For establishing grade of the highway
in said city, beginning at a stone bound in the line of Mast
street, opposite the land of J. P. Brock, thence in a west-
erly direction to Forest street.
C. A. Brooks and others.
Committee voted to recommend an order to establish
the grade as shown by the city engineer's plans, April 5,
1897.
Titus Avenue. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at a stake on the westerly line of the proposed
Union street and in the center line of Titus avenue, as
laid out by the board of mayor and aldermen, May 21^
1894, said stake being about 540 feet west of Beech street,
and thence in a westerly direction with Titus avenue
already laid out, to a stake on the easterly line of Calef
road, meaning an extension of Titus avenue from Union
street to Calef road.
B. B. Aldrich and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted. May 25, 1897.
SoMERviLLE STREET. For a uew highway in said city,
beginning at a stake on the east line of Hall street and on
the south line of lot No. 10, as shown on the Hoyt plan of
lots in said section, said stake is on the north line of Som-
erville street, produced easterly across said Hall street,
and thence in an easterly direction about 304 feet to a
stake on the westerly line of Belmont street, said street
being a proposed extension of Somerville street.
John Muir and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, May 25, 1897.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 229
Norfolk Street. For a new highway in said city,
beginning at a stake on the west line of Beech street, and
on the north line of Norfolk street proposed, said stake
is about 1,878 feet south of the south line of Mitchell
street already laid out, and thence in a westerly direction
to a stake on the easterly line of Calef road. Said stake
is on the north line of Norfolk street proposed.
Frank E. Webster and others.
Committee voted-to recommend that leave to withdraw
be granted, May 25, 1897.
William Street. For a new highway in said city,
beginning at the intersection of Milf ord and William, and
thence in a northerly direction on said William street to
Mast street, and the said street to be 40 feet wide, as
shown on Kiddle's plan of land.
John A. Riddle and others.
Committee voted to adhere to Rule 29, and when street
is graded to consider petition, June 18, 1897.
Beech Street. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at a stone bound set in the ground at the inter-
section of the center lines of Beech and Salmon streets,
being the northern terminus of Beech street as laid out
by the board of mayor and aldermen, June 27, 1894, and
thence in a northerly direction to a stake in the center of
Webster street, and on the center line of Beech street
extended, being an extension of Beech street as shown on
the city and Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's plan
of lots and streets.
M. D. Johnson and others.
Committee voted to recommend that leave to withdraw
be granted. May 25, 1897.
Alfred Street. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at the intersection of Hanover street and Alfred
street as already laid out, thence extending southerly
across Hanover street, through land of the estate of A. G.
230 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Fairbanks and land of Bodwell and Balch to Merrimack
street, being an extension of said Alfred street in a south-
erly direction, said street being required for the extension
of water and sewer pipes.
J. A. Hutchinson and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, May 25, 1897.
Laval Street. For building to grade the highway in
said ciij, beginning at Amorj^ and Laval, and thence in a
northerly direction through Laval street to Kelley street.
John B. Favreau and others.
Committee voted to recomend that leave to withdraw
be granted, June 18, 1897.
New Street. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake on the west line of Rockland avenue, so
called, and on the south line of land of the city of Man-
chester, and on the north line of land of Mr. Farrar, and
thence in a westerly direction to a stake on the city line
at a point 25 feet south of the land of D. H. Lamphrey.
William F. Alger and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, April 5, 1897.
Cartier Street. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at a stone bound in the centier of Kelley and Car-
tier streets, being the northerly terminus of Cartier street
already laid out by the board of mayor and aldermen, and
thence in a northerly direction about 400 feet, to a stake
on the westerly line of Coolidge avenue, and in the center
of said Cartier street, according to the Amoskeag Manu-
facturing Company's plan.
Medard Poulin and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, April 5, 1897.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 231
Schuyler Street, For a new highway in said city^
beginning at a stone bound at the intersection of Eeau-
port and Schuyler streets in West Manchester, as shown
on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company's plans, and
thence in a westerly direction over Schuyler street about
125 feet, to a stake on the line of the back street. Said
stakes are on the center line of said Schuyler street.
George D. Herbert and others.
Committee voted to recommend that leave to withdraw
be granted, June 18, 1897.
Baker Street. For establishing the grade of the
highway in said city, beginning at Baker street and Nutt
road, and thence in a westerly direction on Baker street
to the Manchester & Lawrence Eailroad.
Timothy McKenna and others.
Committee voted to recommend that grade be estab-
lished according to city engineer's plan. May 25, 1897.
Nutt Road. For establishing the grade of the high-
way in said city, beginning at Baker street and Nutt road,
and thence southerly on Nutt road to Beech street.
Timothy McKenna and others.
Committee voted to recommend that grade be estab-
lished according to city engineer's plan. May 25, 1897.
Ray Street. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake in the center line of Carpenter and the
center line of Ray street proposed, as shown by plans of
said section, said section is about 1,115.82 feet east of the
east line of Elm street, and thence in a northerly direc-
tion to a stake on the south line of land of E. O. and J. E.
Dodge, and being on the center line of Ray street pro-
posed.
F. E. Putney and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, May 25, 1897.
232 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Harvard Street. For a new highway in said city,
beginning at stake on the westerly line of land owned by
Oilman Clough, this being the easterly end of Harvard
street now laid out, and thence in an easterly direction
to a stake on the east line of Hall street through said Har-
vard street.
Alfred D. Plummer and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, May 25, 1897.
Summer Street. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at a stake in the center line of Beech street and
the center line of Summer street, said stake is 270 feet
south of the stone bound in the center of Auburn street
and on the center line of Beech street, and thence in an
easterly direction to a stake about 125 feet east of the
east line of Beech street, and in the center of Summer
street proposed.
Margaret Gorman and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, May 25, 1897.
Adams Street, For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake on the north line of Carpenter street, and
in the center line of the proposed Adams street, said stake
is 245 feet east of the east line of Chestnut street already
laid out, and thence in a northerly direction to a stake
on the south line of Trenton street, said stake is 245 feet
east of the east line of Chestnut street, and known as
Adams street on the plans of said section.
H. J. Lawson and others.
Committee voted to recommend that it be laid over
nntil petitioners complied with Rule 29, May 25, 1897.
Mammoth Road, Nelson, Jones, Benton, and Hall
Road. For establishing the grade of the highways in
said city, as follows: -
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 233
On Mammoth road, from the Concord «& Portsmouth
Railroad to line of Stevens property.
On Nelson street, from Mammoth road to the Hall road.
On Jones street, from Nelson to the Stevens prox^erty.
On Hall road, from the Concord & Portsmouth Railroad
to the Stevens property.
On Benton street, from Hall road to Jones street.
Oilman Clough and others.
Committee voted to recommend that grade be estab-
lished according to city engineer's plans, June 18, 1897.
Putnam Street. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at a stake on the Amoskeag Manufacturing Com-
pany's land, in the center line of Putnam street proposed,
as shown on a plan of said section known as the D. C.
Whittemore plan of lots, and thence in a westerly direc-
tion to a stake in the center line of Whipple and the cen-
ter line of Putnam proposed.
Lazare Martineau and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, June 18, 1897.
Mast Road. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a point on the north side of Mast street, thence in
a northerly direction to the old Goffstown line, meaning
that portion of the new Mast road that formerly belonged
in Bedford.
C. H. George and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, June 18, 1897.
Maple Street. For a new highway in said city, be-
ginning at a stake in the south line of Hay ward street,
and in the center line of Maple street as laid out by the
board of mayor and aldermen, August 5, 1873, and thence
in a southerly direction and parallel to Beech, to a stake
in the center line of Shasta street.
Charles A. Flint and others.
234 . ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, July 8, 1897.
Dubuque Street. For a new highway in said city,
beginning at a stake standing at the center of Kelley and
Dubuque streets, as shown on the plans of said section
in West Manchester, and thence in a northerly direction
to a stake in the center of Mason and Dubuque streets.
John Corliss and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, July 8, 1897.
Wayne Street. For establishing the grade of the
highway in said city, beginning at the back street between
Dubuque and Rimmon streets, on Wayne street, and
thence in a westerly direction about 270 feet to Hevey
east back street.
Joseph Minigan and others.
Committee voted to recommend that grade be estab-
lished according to city engineer's plan, July 8, 1897.
Walnut East Back Street. For a new highway in
said city, beginning at Salmon street, between Walnut
and Beech streets, thence in a southerly direction about
250 feet.
George D. Fitts and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, August 31, 1897.
Moss Road. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake on the north side of the Bald Hill road,
and about 2 rods westerly of the west line of Frank
Goings's house, and thence in a northerly direction about
92 rods, to a stake on the Range line, and said stake is
on the south side of the house of John Moss.
John Moss and others.
Committee voted to notify Messrs. Moss and Goings to
appear before them for a conference, Oct. 11, 1897. Con-
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 235
ference was held Oct. 21, and matter laid over until first
meeting in 1898.
"Landing." For discontinuing a highway in said city,
beginning at the easterly line of South Main street, and
known as the "Landing," and thence in an easterly direc-
tion to the Piscataquog river, meaning and intending to
discontinue so much of the "Landing" as lies east of the
east line of South Main street.
Fred G. Stark and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, August 31, 1897.
Log Street. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake at the intersection of the south line of
Log street, and the east line of South Main street, said
stake is 241.32 feet north of the north line of West Han-
cock street, and thence in an easterly direction over the
proposed Log street to a stake on the westerly line of
Colby street, said stake is 220 feet north of West Han-
cock street, measuring on the line of said Colby street
as shown by a plan of the New Hampshire Improvement
Company's of said section.
Fred G. Stark, for New Hampshire Improvement Com-
pany, and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, August 31, 1897.
Dartmouth Street. For a new highway in said city,
begining at a stone bound in the intersection of the north
line of West Hancock street and the westerly line of
Dartmouth street, and thence in a northerly direction
over the proposed Dartmouth street, to a stone bound on
the south line of Log street, and the westerly line of
Dartmouth street, as shown on a plan of said section,
known as the New Hampshire Improvement Company's
plan.
236 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Fred G. Stark, for New Hampshire Improvement Com-
pan}^, and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, August 31, 1897.
Bartlett Street. For establishing the grade of the
highway in said city, beginning at Amory street exten-
sion and liartlett street, and thence in a southerly direc-
tion over Bartlett street to its terminus south of Sullivan
street.
Leonard Grenier and others.
Committee voted to recommend that grade be estab-
lished according to city engineers plan, Oct. 14, 1897.
SoMERviLLE STREET. For a uew highway in said city,
beginning at a stake in the center line of Belmont, and
said stake is in the center line of Somerville street, as
laid out by the board of mayor and aldermen, August 25,
1897, and thence in an easterly direction to a stake in
the center of Cypress street, being an extension of Somer-
ville as shown by the city's plan of streets.
S. R. Stearns and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, October 14, 1897.
Hall Street. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake in the north side of Prospect street as now
laid out, and in the center of Hall, and thence in a nor-
therly direction to a stake on the north line of Gore
street, and in the center line of Hall street.
Edward Belanger and others.
Committee voted to recommend that it be laid over
until petitioners had complied with Rule 29, October 14,
1897.
Lafayette Street. For establishing the grade of
highway in said city, beginning at Amory and Lafayette
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 237
streets, and thence in a northerly direction on Lafayette
street to Kelley street, as shown on plan No. 4093, on file
in city engineer's department.
F. P. Nourie and others.
Committee voted to recommend that grade be estab-
lished according to city engineer's plan, Oct. 14, 1897.
Clay Street. For a new highway in said city, begin-
ning at a stake at the intersection of the center line of
Clay street and the east line of Beech street, said stake
is about 199 feet north of the Concord & Portsmouth Rail-
road right of way, and thence in an easterly direction
about 120.17 feet to a stake on the west line of the L. B.
Bodwell land, and in the center line of Clay street.
J. I*. Russell & Co. and others.
Committee voted to recommend that a hearing be
granted, October 14, 1897.
Dubuque Street; For a new highway in said city^
beginning at a stake standing at the center of Kelley and
Dubuque streets, as shown on the plan of said section in
West Manchester, and thence in a northerly direction to
a stake in the center of Bremer and Dubuque streets.
John Corliss and others.
Laid over until first meeting in 1898.
Highland Park Avenue. For establishing the grade
of the highway in said city, beginning at the intersection
of Highland Park avenue and the Candia road, and thence
in a northerly direction over Highland Park avenue to
the Concord & Portsmouth Railroad right of way.
George W. Hamlin and others.
Laid over until first meeting in 1898.
Oakland Avenue. For establishing the grade of the
highway in said city, beginning at the intersection of
Oakland avenue and Revere avenue, and thence in an
238 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
easterly direction to about 103 feet east of Woodland
avenue, over Oakland avenue.
George W. Hamlin and others.
Laid over until first meeting in 1898.
This comprises all the work that has come within the
province of the committee on streets, and is respectfully
submitted.
• J. T. GOTT, Chairman,
CHARLES E. COX,
D. L. ROBINSON,
JAMES F. WYMAN,
EDMOND PINARD,
Committee on Streets.
W. H. BENNETT,
Clerk of Committee.
This department has been without the services of one
assistant this year, and considerable of the work that had
been planned for had to be left undone. The refusal of
the finance committee to make a sufficient appropriation
to permit of employing additional assistants was respon-
sible for this state of affairs. With the utmost economy
it was impossible to avoid overdrawing, as a reference to
page three will show. Had it not been for the sickness
of one of the assistants and the absence of another from
the city for a portion of the time the amount would have
been much larger. Reference to the reports sent out by
other cities shows that the amounts appropriated by
them are greatly in excess of that allowed this depart-
ment, and by cities oftentimes not as large as Manchester.
It is hoped that the matter will be looked at in the proper
light, and a sufficiently large appropriation given to allow
of important work to be done which will be of inestimable
benefit to the citv in future vears.
KEPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 239
STREETS.
Nothing of importance can be said regarding the lay-
ing out of streets the past season. Since the adoption of
Kule 29, requiring the abutters to build the street to a
satisfactory grade before it is accepted, there has been
a noticeable improvement in the streets laid out. Only
three cases have occurred where the streets asked for
were denied on account of the provisions of this rule.
One has been laid out where laud damages were paid, as
it was considered a public necessity.
There has been quite a falling off in the number of new
streets projected the past season. For the past five or
six years every one owning a piece of land immediately
cut it up into house lots and put them on the market.
Consequently there was an over supply, and prices as a
rule went down. Possibly the prevailing hard times had
something to do with it, but the fact remains that people
as a general thing are not investing in suburban real
estate with the avidity they displayed a few years ago.
As has been said in former reports, it is greatly to be
regretted that those having property to divide paid so
little attention to existing streets. In some of the new
sections care has been taken to have them conform to a
regular plan, with streets of suitable width, and with
back streets between the lots. For the most part, how-
ever, little regard was paid to this, the main object seem-
ing to be to lay out as many lots as possible regardless of
the conveniences furnished in the matter of streets.
Street lines too long neglected are liable to involve
a city in legal difficulties, and cause it considerable ex-
pense, as many cities are finding out if reports from these
cities are true.
It is one of the curious features of municipal govern-
ment that street lines and grades are rarely fixed on a
comprehensive, well-digested plan at a time when the
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property concerned is of small value. Generally nothing
of the sort is done until the land is so well built up that
the problem cannot be solved without damages to some
parties, and when this occurs the unfortunate city engi-
neer, who has little to do in the matter beyond carrying
out the city council's orders, is the one called on to bear
all the blame.
Considerable attention has been paid to locating and
setting stone bounds the past season. Whenever prac-
ticable a bound has been set in place of the hub on the
corners of new streets, and in a majority of cases the
bound has been set at grade. It has been the aim of this
department to encourage the marking of corners by per-
manent bounds, and in several cases stones have been
furnished to engineers who were willing to set them.
ROAD SURVEYS.
The surveys made of the Proctor road. Lake Shore
road, and Island Pond road have been plotted, and the
lines established as far as possible with the data obtain-
able.
On the Lake Shore road little was found to mark the
original line, and it was necessary to fix a line agreeable
to the abutters. This has been done and the line marked
on the ground a portion of the distance. Along the city
land, between the railroad and the Proctor road, the
highway has been straightened by carrying the road
wholly to the east, thereby avoiding the numerous sharp
turns. Nothing has been done yet about building the
road to the new line.
On the Kennard road the lines have been established
to the satisfaction of the abutters, and stone bounds set
at the Smyth road and at the angle near the Mammoth
road.
It was the intention of this department to have com-
pleted the surveys of other roads, but matters pertaining
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to the town line survey coming up it was found impossi-
ble to do so. As has been stated in former reports, the
sooner this work is done the better, as each year makes
the work of re-locating old points more difficult. In many
cases the points are entirely destroyed, and the method
followed has to be similar to that employed on the Lake
Shore road.
The situation on the New Mast road remains un-
changed. Stakes have been set showing the lines as
called for by a 66-foot right of way. A petition was pre-
sented, asking for the establishing of the lines by the
board of mayor and aldermen. As the lines had already
been marked according to the original records of the
layout by the county commissioners and by the town of
Bedford, no action was deemed necessary and the peti-
tion was dismissed.
SEWERS.
The amount of sewers built the past season has been
considerably less than for the two previous years, due to
the fact that many of them have been through ledge, mak-
ing the progress necessarily slow and expensive. As
instances may be mentioned Elm street from Carpenter
to Trenton; Carpenter street from Elm to Union; por-
tions of Hall, Harrison, Hanover, Laurel, Linden, Merri-
mack, Orange, Sagamore, Somerville, Third, Walnut, and
Walnut east back streets, and in the Whittemore section.
The work progressed as rapidly as possible, and the show-
ing made was remarkably good considering the difficulties
encountered.
When the Massabesic-street main was laid in 1890,
considerable fault was found, by those who could not
understand the situation, because of the depth at which it
was placed. When in 1892 that portion from Cypress to
Jewett street was built, the grade was raised and the
sewer laid on top of the ledge as a temporary makeshift.
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As the original idea was to provide for tlie drainage of
the section between Cypress street and the Mammoth
road, comprising some 300 acres, it was necessary to keep
as low as possible at Cypress street. This was under-
stood by the committee, and the expectation was that the
portion between Cypress and Jewett streets would have
to be relaid. This will probably have to be done the
coming season, as petitions are to be presented for sewers
in Jones, Nelson, and Benton streets to drain that rapidly
growing section. It is but. a matter of time also when
the sewer will have to be extended to the section east of
the Mammoth road and north of the Candia road, where
there are some fifty dwellings built and occupied, and
which are all without means of disposing of their sewage,
unless by the primitive method of sinking a barrel in the
lot and connecting therewith.
In connection with this, however, the fact should be
borne in mind that the outlet of the Massabesic-street
main is not large enough to properly take care of all that
is discharged into it at present, and the additional amount
coming from these new sections would so far overtax its
capacity as to be productive of injury to the sewer, and
possible damage to the surrounding property. The plan
adopted in 1888 calls for a main running from Elm street
easterly through the valley to the junction of Massabesic
and East Spruce streets to take the discharge from that
section of East Manchester now running into Massabesic
street main, and also from future extensions in Hall, Bel-
mont, and surrounding streets. This main has already
been built as far as Pine street in Auburn street, and
some provision should be made for continuing it before
any further extensions are made in East Manchester.
The section drained by the Amherst-street sewer is
badly in need of improved facilities. The Amherst-street
main is not large enough, and the laterals are overcrowd-
ing it more each year. The necessity of relaying it has
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been frequently mentioned, and it is apparent that some-
thing must be done before the sanitary condition of that
section can be much improved.
The usual amount of sub-mains and laterals have been
constructed, and, everything considered, the showing
made has been excellent. On the east side 15,236 feet of
new sewers have been laid and 954 feet relaid. In con-
nection with these 58 manholes and 8 lampholes have
been built, and 457 Y branches have been put in for house
connections and 65 for cesspool connections. The total
cost has been 129,404.82. The average cost per foot in
district Xo. 2 has been |2.009; in district Xo. 7, |1.315.
On the west side 3,291 feet of new sewers have been laid
and 1,176 feet relaid. In connection with these 17 man-
holes have been built; 120 Y branches have been put in
for house connections and 21 for cesspool connections.
The total cost has been $6,853.59, the average cost per
foot being |1.534.
The report of the committee on sewers and drains, on
the preceding pages, and the report of the street and
park commissioners, will give an account of the work
more in detail.
SEWER LICENSES.
In compliance with the orders of the board of mayor
and aldermen, passed November 19, a list has been pre-
pared of all persons whose property abuts on a street
where there is a sewer, or who can connect with a sewer
.within a reasonable distance, for the purpose of ascertain-
ing whether they were connected and whether they had
paid the required license. The work has been thoroughly
done, all the offlce records have been looked through, and
frequent comparisons made with the assessors' books
and those of the tax collector whenever any question arose
as to a transfer of property. Only the east side has been
taken up as yet, and some over 400 have been found who
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have not paid for their licenses. The work will be con-
tinued on the west side as soon as it can be reached.
In looking up those who had not paid their sewer
licenses a radical change suggested itself which will
greatly assist the proper authorities in attending to de-
linquents. Heretofore, when the sewer was laid in any
street, the abutters were sujiposed to secure their permit
and license and connect with the sewer. In some cases
this would not be attended to and when at the end of
the year the returns were made up the fact would be dis-
covered. It is now proposed to remedy this by ascer-
taining all the abutters before work is commenced, and
as fast as they obtain their permit and make their connec-
tion to check their names. Those who fail to comply with
the law in this respect will be reported to the proper au-
thorities and immediate action can be taken. While this
may entail increased work by this department during the
summer, it will mean less work at the close of the season.
During the latter part of last year work was commenced
on a new set of sewer books. Formerly everything was
kept in one large book which, through the rapid growth
of the city in all directions, has become inadequate to
show all that was required. The new set will probably
consist of five volumes, three for the city proper and two
for the west side. At present two of the books are prac-
tically completed. Thej^ show the streets, lots, and
sewers with the street and lot number and owner's name.
Whenever the license has been paid the fact is recorded,
together with the amount and date when paid. When
the books are completed it will greatly simplify the office
work in this line, as it will only be necessary to add from
time to time the licenses that are taken out and the new
sewers that are built.
PAVING. »
Agreeable to the requests of the board of street and
park commissioners, a sum was set aside for repaving Elm
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 245
and Granite streets. The work was commenced early in
the summer, and Elm street from Manchester to Stark
now possesses as fine a pavement as can be found in the
country. The old pavement was torn up and a sufficient
depth of earth removed to allow a six-inch foundation of
broken stone and cement to be laid and thoroughly
packed. This was covered with a coating of cement on
which were laid paving stones ^'Boston block" sizes. The
interstices were thoroughly filled with liquid cement
grout and a layer of the same spread over the top surface.
The cement was allowed to thoroughly harden before the
street was opened to traffic, and as a consequence the
roadway is now one solid mass, as firm and unyielding as
a granite rock.
It was decided to concrete Granite street in place of
paving, between Turner and Mil in streets and on Main
street as far south as School street. Practically the same
method was followed as on Elm street. A five-inch course
of cement and broken stone was put in, covered with a
two-inch layer of sand. On this was laid a sub-foundation
of medium cobbles covered with hot tar. These were in
turn covered with the regular concreting material and
the whole painted with asphaltum. The roadway thus
obtained will wear for years and is much more satisfac-
tory to the residents of that section than paving stone. A
portion of Granite street between the canal and the river
was also repaved, using the old stone where practicable.
This was laid without the cement bed, as it was in the
nature of temporary repairs.
CEMETERIES.
Considerable work has been done in the Pine Grove
cemetery during the past season. It was decided by the
trustees to grade a portion of the southern section, includ-
ing a part of the land purchased of the late C. C. Webster.
Accordingly cross-section levels were taken over about
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seven acres, and stakes set for the part where the work
was to be done. Three main avenues through this sec-
tion were also laid out.
In the section bounded by Greenbush, Short, and River-
side avenues and Hemlock path, stakes were set for grad-
ing. After the grading was done the lots were relocated.
Grade stakes were also set for the work to be done on
the north end of Pine Lawn.
Several sketches were made for the layout of the new
Swedish section, and a number of the lots and ranges
were staked out. It was finally decided by the two soci-
eties to have separate sections and new plans were pre-
pared. Upon their acceptance by the committees and the
cemetery trustees the lots and ranges were laid out in
accordance with them. A number of lots were also laid
out on that portion of Chapel Lawn which was graded
last year.
In this connection might be suggested the advisability
of remodelling the plans for the north end of Chapel
Lawn. Before the city acquired possession of the land
lying north of the original north line of the cemetery, it
was designed to run an avenue parallel to the north line
and the lots were laid out with that idea in mind. LTnder
the present existing conditions this will not be necessary
or desirable, as a much better layout can be obtained by
following out the lawn system with winding walks and
paths. In order to do this it will only be necessary to
make a few changes in the plans, and the benefit accrued
in added beauty will more than compensate for the slight
expense incurred.
Little work has been done in the Valley cemetery this
year, and that mostly confined to suggestions given the
superintendent, at his request, concerning the work.
Batters were set on the Pine-street side, where the foun-
dation to the iron fence was raised to conform to the
grade of the street.
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The Merrill yard plan has been completed and the lot
lines established as accurateh' as possible with the limited
data obtainable. It was the intention of this department
to relocate the lots on the ground, but this was found im-
possible on account of the pressure of other work this fall.
TARKS.
In Stark ftark line and grade has been given for the
main avenues running north and west of the burial lot.
Considerable time was required on account of the neces-
sity of relocating points that had been destroyed through
various causes. Lines were also given for the national
colonnade of trees on the north, south, and east sides.
In making the plans for the park the landscape gar-
deners failed to provide for an avenue south of the burial
lot for the convenience of those desirous of returning
that waj' rather than retrace their steps over the avenue
on the north side. In compliance with the wishes of the
park commissioners a plan was prepared b}' this depart-
ment remedying this oversight.
In Derryfleld park instructions were given the super-
intendent regarding the construction of the path leading
from the main avenue to the Weston Observatory and
the lines marked on the ground.
STREET RAILWAY.
The only work done in connection with the street rail-
way has been that occasioned by the rebuilding of the
Calef road and Baker street. Stakes were set for the
gutter from Baker street to the Pine Grove cemetery, and
lines of levels taken for computing the amount of earth
removed from the roadway. This latter was only a waste
of valuable time, as an account was kept of the number of
carloads delivered at the cemetery and the dirt paid for
accordingly. On Baker street stakes were set for the
gutters from Elm street to Calef road.
248 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
TOWN LINES.
In compliance with the statutes requiring the town
lines to be perambulated every seven years, the city engi-
neer has this year personally visited every bound on the
line, in company with the selectmen of the various ad-
joining towns, and renewed the marks and bounds
where necessary. In some cases new bounds were set
where the old ones were in danger of being obliterated by
the action of the elements.
It was thought advisable to run a portion of the line
between the city and Hooksett, as some doubt was ex-
pressed as to whether the bounds were on a straight line
as the description called for. This was accordingly done
and they were found not to be on line. The state of affairs
was reported to the selectmen of Hooksett, and a plan
prepared showing the situation. After thoroughly con-
sidering the matter it was decided to reset the bounds
on the correct line, replace two that were insecure, and
set three additional at prominent points on the line. The
work was done by this department and the line after-
wards perambulated in company with the Hooksett au-
thorities. A portion of the expense of surveying the
line and setting the bounds was borne by the town of
Hooksett. The street and park commissioners kindly fur-
nished the stone bounds gratuitoush', therebj' consider-
ably lessening the expense.
Whenever time can be found for the work, it would be
advisable to make a survey of portions of the other lines
in as thorough a manner as this line has been run. As an
instance may be mentioned the entire line between the
city and Bedford, and that part of the line between the
city and Goffstown that lies between the Bedford line and
the Dow road. Land in this locality is somewhat more
valuable than in the other sections and it is of importance
to have the line properly marked.
REPORT OF THE CITY ENGINEER. 249
Whenever the line between the city and Auburn is run
it should be done in the winter, as the major portion runs
directly through Lake Massabesic and could be surveyed
on the ice.
COMMITTEE WORK.
The city engineer, as clerk of the committee on streets
and on sewers and drains, has attended each meeting,
keeping a complete record of the proceedings, which are
on file in this office.
In addition, meetings of the city government, commit-
tees on Valley cemetery, Pine Grove cemetery, city farm,
lands and buildings, claims, commons and parks, the
street and park commissioners, and the board of aldermen
have been attended.
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 councils, for the support which they have given.
I also wish to acknowledge the courtesies shown by the
various heads of departments, and the co-operation of
the assistants of this department.
Respectfully submitted.
WINFEED H. BENNETT,
City Engineer.
January 1, 1898.
REPORT
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
REPORT
CHIEF ENGINEER OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Chief Engineer's Office,
Central Station, No. 8 Vine Street.
Manchester, N. H., December 31, 1897.
To His Honor, William C. Clarke, Mayor, and Gentlemen of
the City Councils:
In compliance with the Laws and Ordinances of the
city of Manchester, I herewith submit my nineteenth an-
nual report (it being the fifty-second of this city) for the
year ending December 31, 1897.
The department has responded to one hundred and
fifty (150) alarms during the year, eighty-one (81) of which
have been bell alarms and sixty-nine (69) still alarms.
One of the "Stills" was in answer to a telephone message
from Derry Depot, January 6, asking for help on account
of the burning of Richardson's shoeshop. An engine and
hose wagon with horses and a detail of men were quickly
loaded on cars of the Boston & Maine Railroad, but before
starting a telegram was received that the fire was under
control, and we returned to quarters.
The "three twos," 2-2-2, were struck on the bells Sep-
tember 7, for the burning of Lake View House, at Massa-
besic, in Auburn. Although the distance was five miles
from Central station, and the roads hard, the apparatus
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254 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
drove there in season to save a number of surrounding
cottages. November 5 the same call was sent out for a
fire at Derry, to which one engine, hose wagon, and horses
responded, with a detail of men. OWing to much delay
in getting cars and locomotive at the railroad yard, much
time was consumed, so that on our arrival at Derry the
fire was under control and the apparatus was not unloaded.
We remained there, however, a short time in case of neces-
sity. Four of the bell alarms were false, pulled by some
malicious person. The decrease of these false alarms is,
in a measure, owing to the vigilance of our police officers,
and, in this connection, I would recommend a change in
the ordinance, making the fine for such offense not less
than fifty nor more than two hundred dollars. I think
this would have a beneficial effect upon the miscreants.
The value of property, where losses have occurred, as
near as could be ascertained, is as follows:
Value of buildings 177,000.00
Value of contents 73,208.50
1150,208.50
Insurance on buildings $48,475.00
Insurance on contents 56,540.00
$105,015.00
Damage to buildings endangered $9,159.55
Damage to contents endangered 14,109.95
$23,269.50
Insurance paid on buildings. . . . $7,979.55
Insurance paid on contents 12,269.95
20,249.50
Net loss uncovered by insurance. . . . $3,020.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
255
THE MANUAL FORCE
Of the departnient is one hundred and sixty-five (165) men,
consisting of one hundred and twenty-seven (127) call
and thirty-three (33) permanent men. There has been
no increase in tlie number of permanent men during the
Jast three years, and, while a spirit of economy seems to
pervade our city, I think no such economy should be prac-
ticed as will not keep pace with its increased risks. To
assist in keex)ing this department at its present standard
and increase its efficiency, I would recommend the ap-
pointment of a permanent captain to each of the remain-
ing companies now having ''call" captains.
The force is divided as follows:
Call. Permanent
1 Chief Engineer 1
4 Assistant Engineers 4
Engine Co. No, 1 11 3
Engine Co. No. 2 11 3
Engine and Ladder Co. No. 3 15 5
Engine Co. No. 4 ; . . . 11 3
Engine and Ladder Co. No. 5 16 4
Engine and Ladder Co. No. 6 16 4
HoseCo. No. 1 11 1
Hose Co. No. 2 11 1
HoseCo. No. 3 6 2
Aerial Truck No. 1 12 3
Chemical No. 1 3 2
Spare driver 1
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THE BUILDINGS.
Owing to the want of sufficient appropriations for
repairs of buildings, some of the wants of this department
were not supplied. I cannot refrain from again referring
to the urgent need of additional stable room in the way
256 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS. .
of box stalls at Engine and Ladder Cos. Nos. 5 and 6, to
properly care for horses when sick or disabled.
The roof over the apparatus room of the Aerial truck
still remains in bad condition, and ought to be raised and
the south wall rebuilt and strengthened.
Hose No. 3 is still without any facilities for storage of
exercise wagon, and it is exposed to the weather, much to
the detriment of the wagon.
THE APPARATUS
Of this department consists of 6 Amoskeag steam fire-
engines in good condition, with the exception, possibly,
of two that may require new boilers, 4 hose carriages with
reels, 5 hose wagons, 4 ladder trucks, one of which is an
aerial truck carrying other ladders, 2 hose carriages in
outlying districts, with independent companies attached^
2 hose carriages, without companies, 1 supply wagon, 7
exercise wagons, located as follows:
2 steam fire-engines, with three-horse hitch, at Central
station, each with one-horse hose wagon attached.
1 steam fire-engine, three-horse hitch, with 1 two-horse
hose wagon. North Main street.
1 steam fire-engine and 1 two-horse hose wagon, at cor-
ner Lake avenue and Massabesic street.
1 two-horse ladder truck at same station.
1 steam fire-engine and one-horse hose carriage, at cor-
ner of W^ebster and Chestnut streets.
1 two-horse ladder truck at same station.
1 steam fire-engine and one-horse hose carriage oh Rim-
mon street, corner of Amory street.
1 two-horse ladder truck at same station.
1 one-horse hose carriage, corner Maple and East High
streets.
1 two-horse combination hose wagon. South Elm
street. (Bakersville.)
KEPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 25T
1 aerial hook-and-ladder truck at Central station
(three-horse hitch).
1 double tank (60 gallons each) chemical engine at Cen-
tral station.
1 supply wagon at Central Are station.
1 steam fire-engine (reserve) at station of Engine No. 2
(of but little use for fire purposes).
1 four-wheeled hand hose carriage at junction of Old
Falls road and Front street, Amoskeag.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage, Devonshire Mills, Goffe's
Falls.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage at W. P. Farmer's at junc-
tion of Candia road and Hanover street.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage, junction Mammoth road
and Massabesic street (Hallsville).
7 exercise wagons, 1 at Central fire station, 1 at Engine
No. 2, 1 at Engine and Ladder No. 3, 1 at Engine and
Ladder No. 5, 1 at Engine and Ladder No. 6, 1 at Hose
No. 2, 1 at Hose No. 3.
' The boilers of Engines Nos. 1 and 6 have been in ser-
vice about twenty-one years, and I have no doubt both
engines will be obliged to have new ones put on during
the coming year, and some minor repairs made at the
same time.
During the months of April and May considerable
painting and varnishing of the apparatus, that was much
needed, was done, the department furnishing the stock
and Driver McLeod of Engine and Ladder Co. No. 3 being
detailed to do the work. The Chemical engine was re-
painted and varnished, the wheels of Engine No. 1 var-
nished, the exercise wagons of Engine and Ladder Co. No.
5 and of Hose Co. No. 2 were varnished, and the running
gear of the exercise wagons of Engine Co. No. 2 and En-
gine and Ladder Cos. Nos, 3 and 6 painted, and the whole
work varnished.
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258 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
New rims to the wheels of Engine No. 5 have been fur-
nished, being deeper and with lieavier tires than formerly.
THE HORSES.
Forty-one horses are at present in use by this depart-
ment, and steps should be taken at an early date to re-
place at least three of them.
A pair of blacks have taken the place of the grays on
Engine No. 6, and a new one has taken the place of
"Fannie" of Hose No. 2, that did good service in this de-
partment for over fifteen years.
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH.
At the time of submitting my previous report, I was
sincerely in hopes that a storage battery would be in-
stalled before this. In the interest of economy, as well
as efficiency, I urge a change from our gravity system to
that of storage.
August 30 fire alarm box 91 was added to the system,
located at the Children's Home, corner of Webster and
Walnut streets.
September 9, while changing wires at Clapp's Corner,
'Squog, a roof structure broke, letting the wire down on
the trolley wires, which were unguarded, causing much
damage to our No. 1 circuit,^burning out four boxes
upon that circuit and damaging the repeater at the Cen-
tral station. Had it not been for the presence of the
writer at headquarters at the time, the entire fire alarm
system of the city would have been disabled.
Again, on the evening of December 24, during a heavy
gale, No. 2 circuit broke on Granite street, at the Print
Works gate, letting the wire on the unguarded trolley ivire,
burning out the gong at Print Works; the box and gong
at Manchester Mills; box and gong at Amoskeag Mills;
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 259
and box at Stark Mills, thus depriving these three corpo-
rations of the protection of the fire alarm service for
upwards of forty-eight hours. The damages in both in-
stances were the result of neglect of the street railroad
to properly guard their trolley wires, after having been
duly notified by order of the city councils.
During the year eighteen new poles have been set.
Wires have been changed from old poles to the top cross-
arm of many new poles of the telephone and telegraph
companies, and in these changes 86 two-pin, 33 four-pin,
and 3 six-pin arms, 21 single, 7 double, and 2 four-pin ex-
.tensions have been put up, the location of 20 "tappers"
has been changed, and 8 new ones have been put in. One
and one half miles of insulated tree wire, and four miles
of bare wire have been run, and one mile of old wire has
been taken down. About 79^ miles of wire are now con-
nected with the fire alarm system, 43 miles of main line
and 36^ miles of '^tapper" line.
firemen's relief ASSOCIA.TION.
The contributions from citizens to this fund have been
less during the prese'nt year than in any previous year of
its existence, and had it not been for a special assessment
made upon the members of the department, the expense
would have exceeded the receipts.
Th falling off of contributions to this association is
accounted for by the very liberal response to the "Man-
chester Union's" "Gratuity Fund," donated to Mr. Walter
L. Bienus, Driver of Hose No. 1, who was injured at the
lire of October 2, 1894, and-has been disabled since that
time. The amount raised for this purse was |1,443.68,
and emphasizes the fact that the city, as a municipality,
should care for its disabled firemen, injured while in the
discharge of their duties, by the establishment of a pen-
sion fund.
260 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The receipts and expenses for the year are as follows:
Receipts.
Balance from last year's account . . |3,699.95
Received for membership 7.00
from members, special as-
sessment 138.00
Donation of R. D. Gay 5.00
Will H. Colby 5.00
Thomas Corcoran 5.00
Jeremiah Hodge 10.00
H. and G. B. Chandler . . 10.00
Dividends on deposits 129.53
14,008.48
Expenditures.
Paid Henry Johnson, injuries fll.OO
Thomas J. Wyatt, injuries. . . 27.00
printing 2.10
Joseph E. Merrill, secretary. . 25.00
G5.10
Balance in treasury |3,943.38
CONCLUSION.
I desire to extend my thanks to His Honor Mayor
Clarke and the committee on fire department for the uni-
form courtesy they have shown me, and the interest they
have manifested in the well being of this department, to
the police force for their co-operation and assistance at
fires. To the members of the board of engineers and the
officers and men I also return my grateful acknowledg-
ments for the assistance rendered by the faithful and
efficient manner in which they have performed their
duties.
Respectfully submitted.
THOMAS W. LANE,
Chief of Fire Department.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 261
List of Fires and Alarms Responded to During 1 897,
with Losses and Insurance.
Still. Friday, January 1, 8.55 a. m. Four-story
wooden block, corner Elm and Bridge streets, owned by
Connor heirs and Weston, and occupied as tenements and
stores. The escape of gas in drugstore of Snelling &
Woods caused explosion, blowing out four lights of glass
in show window, and causing other damage. Chemical
engine responded. Value of buildings,- 110,000; damage,
$14.76; insurance, |4,000; insurance paid, |11.76. Value
of contents, |4,500; damage, |7.13; insurance, |3,000; in-
surance paid, 17.13.
Box 4. Saturday, January 2, 6.03 a, m. Two-story
wooden block, 663 Elm street, owned by A. D. Gooden
and occupied by James J. Mulholland as liquor store.
Fire caused by matches or cigar stub thrown on floor
among the sawdust. Box pulled by citizen. Companies
responding: Engines 1, 2, 3, Chemical, Hose 1, 3, Trucks
1, 3. Value of building, |2,500; damage, |5; insurance,
f 1,500; insurance paid, |5. No damage to contents.
Still. Saturday, January 2, 6.15 p. m. Chimney fire
at 64 Concord street, in tenement owned by Blood & Par-
sons, and occupied by John Madison. No damage. Used
two charges of Pony.
Still. Sunday, January 3, 3 a. m, A telephone mes-
sage from Goflfe's Falls for fire in the building owned by
Frank Moore and occupied by A, N. Nettel as grocery
store and postoffice. Cause unknown. Delegation of
men with Engine 4, hose wagon and supply wagon re-
sponded. On arrival the fire was under control by
streams from Devonshire Mills. Value of building,
$1,000; damage, |1,000; insurance, |600; insurance paid,
$600. Value of contents, |2,400; damage, $2,200; insur-
ance, $1,500; insurance paid, $1,450.
262 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Box 8. Sunday, January 3, 12.33 p. m. Explosion of
gas in gasometer of the People's Gas-Light Co. on Dean
street, blowing off a portion of the roof of porch, and the
windows of same. Box pulled by M. A. Weathers. Com-
panies responding: Engines 1, 4, 5, Chemical, Hose 1, 2,
Trucks 1, 5. Value of building, |20,000; damage, |150;
insurance, |2,000; insurance paid, |150.
Still. Wednesday, January 6, 6.25 p. m. Chimney
fire in M. Front's block, corner Elm and Central streets,
occupied by Andrew W. Gibbons. No damage. Used
one charge of Pony.
Still. Wednesday, January 6, 7.12 p. m. Word was
received from Derry Depot by telephone, asking for assist-
ance, on account of the burning of Myron Richardson's
shoeshop. , Engine 1 and hose wagon were soon loaded on
Boston & Maine Railroad cars but, a telegram being re-
ceived saying flames were under control, the apparatus
was unloaded and returned to quarters at 9.15.
Still. Friday, January 8, 10 a. m. Lamp exploded
in tenement house, 221 Hanover street, owned by Dr. 0.
B. Sturtevant and occupied by Stanley E. Gould. Chem-
ical engine responded, but fire was extinguished before
their arrival. No damage.
Still. Friday, January 8, 5.48 p. m. Chimney fire in
three-story block, 91 Cedar street, owned by John J.
Twomey, and occupied by him and several other families.
No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Sunday, January 10, 1.32 p. m. Rubbish in
rear of drugstore of Charles A. Williams, corner Lake
avenue and Massabesic streets, took fire from some un-
known cause. Members of Engine and Ladder 3 re-
sponded. No damage.
Box 81. Monday, January 11, 7.23 a. m. Four-story
brick block, 22 Concord street, owned by George B. and
Henry Chandler, and occupied by several families as ten-
ements, and grocery store and pool room on first floor.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 263
The fire originated in the tenement occupied by Mrs.
Lane, on second floor, from defective flue, and communi-
cated to partition and roof of adjoining projection. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 4,
Chemical, Hose 1, and Truck 1. Value of building,
$9,000; damage, |150; insurance, |6,000; insurance paid,
|150.
Box 82. Tuesday, January 12, 7.48 p. m. Small wood-
shed in rear of 1077 Elm street, owned by estate of E. K.
Kowell, and occupied by Boston Clothing Co. Fire origi-
nated from some unknown cause. Box pulled by citizen.
No damage. Companies responding : Engines 1, 4, 5, and
Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks 1, 5.
Box 71. Tuesday, January 12, 8.57 p. m. Chimney
fire at 124 Auburn street, in three-story house, owned and
occupied by Patrick Brennan. Box pulled by citizen.
No damage. Companies responding : Engines 3, 4, Chem-
ical, Hose 1, Truck 3.
Box 8. Saturday, January 16, 10.23 a. m. Three-story
wooden tenement block, 21 Orange street, owned by heirs
of Joseph B. Clark. Fire started in an unoccupied cellar
among rubbish, and was extinguished without damage.
Box pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines
1, 4, 5, and Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks 1, 5.
Box 4. Monday, January 18, 4.44 a. m. Four-story
brick block, 550 Elm street, owned by Blodgett & Young,
and occupied by several families. Fire started in parti-
tion on third floor, but was discovered before gaining
much headway. Cause, "rats and matches." Box pullecj
by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 2, 3, 4,
Chemical, Hose 1, 3, Trucks 1, 3. Value of building,
$6,000; damage, f5; insurance, |2,000; insurance paid, |5.
No damage to contents.
Still. Tuesday, January 19, 7.15 p. m. Chimney fire
in three-story wooden tenement house, 187 Manchester
street. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
264 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Box 7. Tuesday', January 19, 7..30 p. m. Chimney fire
in two-story tenement house at 60 Merrimack street. No
damage. Box pulled by citizen. Companies responding:
Engines 1, 3, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 5.
Box 21. Wednesday, January 20, 6.23 a. m. Chim-
ney fire in tenement block owned by Nason Hall. Box
pulled by citizen. No damage. Companies responding:
Engines 1, 3, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3.
Still. Wednesday, January 20, 11.55 a. m. Chimney
fire in cottage house, 35 Lake avenue, owned by P. Har-
rington. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Wednesday, January 20, 4.40 p. m. Chimney
fire in two-and-half-story dwelling, 27 Wilton street,
owned and occupied by Benjamin Leacock. No damage.
Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Sunday, January 24, 8.56 p. m. Chimney fire
in tenement block, 273 Chestnut street, owned by Emma
Smith and occupied by several families. No damage.
Used two charges of Pony.
Still. Thursday, January 28, 7.45 p. m. Chimney fire
at 4 Langdon block, West Brook street. No fire on
arrival, and no damage.
Still. Saturday, January 30, 9.05 a. m. Chimney fire
at 419 Lake avenue, in house owned and occupied by Mar-
garet Cronin. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 3
responded. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Tuesday, February 2, 12.31 p. m. Chimney fire
in tenement block, 151 Hanover street, owned by W. G.
Colcord and occupied by several families. Chemical en-
gine responded.
Still. Friday, February 5, 7.30 p. m. Chimney fire in
tenement house, 36 Amory street, owned by Joseph Quirin.
Members of Engine and Ladder No. 6 responded. LTsed
one charge of Pony.
Box 7. Saturday, February 6, 1.58 a. m. Four-story
brick block, 43 Manchester street, owned by Edward Wag-
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 265
ner and occupied by W. H. Hurd as saloon. Tlie fire orig-
inated in rear of saloon, near kitchen, from some un-
known cause, and was confined wholly to the first story.
Box pulled by oflicer. Companies responding: Engines
3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3. Value of building,
$20,000; damage, |493; insurance, |6,000; insurance paid,
$493. Value of contents, $4,000; damage, $1,500; insur-
ance, $2,000; insurance paid, $1,500.
Still. Saturday, February 6, 9 a. m. Chimney fire
in unoccupied tenement, 58 Amory street, owned by
Joseph Quirin. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 6
responded. Xo damage. Used three charges of Pony.
Still. Saturday, February 6, 10.03 a. m. Chimney
fire in two-story house, 81 Cedar street, owned by J. H.
Butler and occupied by James Ryan and John Shea. No
damage.
Box 56. Tuesday, February 9, 5.34 a. m. Barn in rear
of 272 Mast street, owned by Eugene C. Smith. Breaking
, of a lantern set fire to hay in the loft. Box pulled by citi-
zen. Companies responding: Engines 2, 6, Chemical,
Hose 1, Truck 6. Value of building, $350; no damage;
insurance, $150. Value of contents, $300; damage, $79;
insurance, $150; insurance paid, $79.
Still. Friday, February 12, 12.22 p. m. Chimney fire
at 73 Amherst street. No damage. Used one charge of
Pony.
Boxes 54, 56, 513. Saturday, February 13, 4.33 a. m.
Two-story wooden dwelling at 168 Milford street, owned
and occupied by Mrs. Amanda Sargent. The cause of the
fire is unknown. It was first discovered by neighbors.
Mrs. Sargent, the only occupant of the house, perished in
the flames. Box 513 pulled by citizen, and about the
same time another pulled box 54, and about five minutes
later the watchman at Baldwin's Bobbin shop pulled box
56 for same fire. Companies responding: Engines 1, 2,
4, 6, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 6. Value of building,
266 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
|2,000; damage, $2,000; insurance, none. Value of con-
tents, |250; damage, |250; insurance, none.
Box 14. Saturday, February 13, 9.42 a. m. Two-and-
half-story dwelling, 86 Prospect street, owned by R. D.
Gay and occupied by him, and Mrs. George Mollyneaux
upstairs. Fire originated in upstairs tenement, caused
by clothes too near hot stove. Box pulled by citizen.
Companies responding: Engines 4, 5, Hose 1, 2, Truck 5.
Value of building, |4,500; damage, |50; insurance, $3,500;
insurance paid, $50.
Still. Saturday, February 13, 10.42 a. m. Chimney
fire in Barr & Clapp's brick block. Granite street, corner
Main. Members of Engine No. 2 responded. No dam-
age. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Monday, February 15, 10,10 a. m. Chimney
fire in tenement, 51 Church street, owned and occupied by
Mary Hastings. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Friday, February 19, 11 p. m. Chimney fire in
two-story wooden house, 187 Hanover street, owned by
John Haines and occupied by Mrs. Carey. No damage.
Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Sunday, February 21, 7.30 a. m. Members of
Chemical Co. called to 954 Elm street for escaping steam
in pipe. No damage.
Still. Monday, February 22, 11.45 a. m. Wooden ten-
ement block, owned by Robert Leggett and occupied by
Cote, modiste. Fire in partition caused by faulty stove-
pipe. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 6 responded.
No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Wednesday, February 24, 9.48 p. m. Chimney
fire in three-story wooden block, 142 Central street, owned
by Nason Hall and occupied by Mrs. Mary Rush. No
damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Box 4. Thursday, February 25, 3.01 p. m. Old car-
riage shed in rear of 24 Spruce street damaged slightly.
Caused by children playing with matches. Box pulled
REPOKT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 267
by citizen. Companies responding : Engines 2, 3, 4, Chem-
ical, Hose 1, 3, Trucks 1, 3.
Box 312, Thursday, February 25, 5.41 p. m. Two-and-
half-story house, 78 Sullivan street, owned by Anthony
Fay and occupied by him and James Thompson. Cause,
rubbish in cellar, caught in some unknown way. Box
pulled by citizen. No damage. Companies responding:
Engines 2, 4, 6, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 6.
Still. Friday, February 26, 6.10 a. m. Chimney fire
in wooden tenement, owned by Charles C. Hayes, 73
Lowell street, and occupied by Virginia Gervais. No
damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Monday, March 1, 10.45 p. m. Chimney fire in
four-tenement block, 26 Birch street, owned and occupied
by Mrs. Sweeney. Members of Chemical responded.
Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Thursday, March 4, 8 p. m. Chimney fire in
tenement block, 19 Orange street, owned by heirs of
Joseph B. Clarke and occupied by W. E. Abbott. Mem-
bers of Chemical responded. No damage. Used one
charge of Pony.
Box 82. Wednesday, March 10, 9.38 p. m. False
alarm pulled by some malicious individual. Companies
responding: Engines 1, 4, 5, Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks
1,5.
Box 5. Monday, March 15, 6.24 p. m. Three-story
brick block at 46 Middle street, owned by the Amoskeag
Manufacturing Co. and occupied by Herman Hayes as a
boarding house. The fire was caused by defective chim-
ney, and burned in the partition of first and second
stories. Companies responding : Engines 2, 3, 4, Chem-
ical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3. Value of building, |10,000;
damage, flOO; insurance, "Blanket." Value of contents,
$1,000; damage, |50; insurance, none.
Box 21. Monday, March 15, 6.48 p. m. Explosion of
kerosene lamp at 112 Central street caused the death of
268 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Miss Emma Garceau. No damage to the building. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 3,
Chemical, Hose 1, 2, 3, Trucks 3, 5.
Still. Tuesday, March 16, 5 p. m. Chimney fire at
163 Douglas street, in house owned and occupied by H.
Volkmann. Members of Engine No. 2 responded. No
damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Box 313. Thursday, March 25, 11.40 p. m. Four-story
wooden tenement block, 16 Marion street, owned by Gor-
don Woodbury and occupied by several families. A box
of excelsior in the basement caught fire from some unex-
plained cause, doing no damage. Box pulled by citizen.
Companies responding: Engines 2, 4, 6, Chemical, Hose
1, Truck 6.
Still. Monday, March 20, 12.18 p. m. Brush fire in
woods, coraer Webster street and Hooksett road. Mem-
bers of Engine and Ladder No. 5 responded with hose car-
riage. No damage. Used two charges of Pony.
Box 5. Monday, March 29, 12.58 p. m. Four-story
brick block, 758 Elm street, owned by Harrington heirs
and occupied as fruit store by K. Barber & Co. The over-
flow of a gasoline stove caused a slight fire on wooden par-
tition in basement. Box pulled by citizen. Companies
responding: Engines 2, 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3.
Still. Monday, March 29, 2.44 p. m. Grass fire in
field of Samuel Hall estate on River road, corner Webster
street. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 5 responded.
No damage.
Box 21. Wednesday, March 31, 6.50 p. m. Two-story
wooden block, 289 Pine street, owned by Ellen Reardon
and occupied by several families. The stove funnel in
tenement occupied by Daniel Clifford fell, breaking a
kerosene lamp, setting fire to wood-work. Box pulled by
citizen. Companies responding: Engines 3, 4, Chemical,
Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3.
KEPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 269
Still, Saturday, April 3, 6.27 p. m. Chimney fire in
wooden tenement block, rear of 175 Hanover street, owned
by Mrs. Amos Hoyt and occupied by George F. Daniels.
No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Box 324. Sunday, April 4, 1.11 p. m. Brush fire on
Amory street extension. Box pulled by citizen. No dam-
age. Companies responding: Engines 2, 6, Chemical,
Hose 1, Truck 1.
Still. Sunday, April 4, 3.45 p. m. A grass fire on the
farm of the late S. D. Bell, on Hanover-street extension,
set fire to frame barn occupied by Frank A. Whittemore.
Members of Engine and Ladder Xo. 3 responded with hose
wagon. Value of buildings, |1,000; damage, |1,000; in-
surance, |600; insurance paid, fOOO. Value of contents,
$200 ; damage, |200 ; no insurance.
Box 213. Tuesday, April G, 5.58 p. m. Burning grass
between Beech and Pine streets, south of Portsmouth
Eailroad, caused an alarm to be given by a thoughtless
boy. Companies responding: Engines 3, 4, Chemical,
Hose 2, 3, Truck 3.
Still. Thursday, April 8, 11.35 a. m. Chimnev fire in
wooden six-tenement block, 23 "Washington street, owned
by Michael Lane, and occupied by several families. No
damage. ITsed one charge of Pony.
Still. Monday, April 12, 10 a. m. Two-story wooden
block, 403 East Spruce street, owned by People's Laun-
dry Co. and occupied by E. R. Yates. Overheated smoke
stack caused the fire, which was extinguished by mem-
bers of Engine and Ladder No. 3. Slight damage. Used
three charges of Pony.
Still. Monday, April 12, 4.35 p. m. Chimney fire in
four-tenement wooden block, 68 Concord street, owned
by Parson heirs and occupied by Joseph Hart. No
damage.
Box 45. Tuesday, April 13, 11.41 a. m. An emjity
freight car. No. 3026, belonging to Maine Central Rail-
270 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
road, in freight yard of Boston & Maine Railroad. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 2,
3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3. Damage about |150,
fully covered by "blanket" policy.
Still. Tuesday, April 13, 8.14 — m. Chimney fire in
two-story house at rear of 133 Hanover street, owned
and occupied by Mrs. Ella Phinney. No damage. Used
one charge of Pony.
Still. Sunday, April 18, 11.55 a. m. Chimney fire in
three-story wooden tenement block, 30 Amherst street,
owned by Lawrence Dowd and occupied by several fam-
ilies. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Monday, April 19, 2.45 p. m. Chimney fire in
three-story wooden tenement block, rear 66 Concord
street, owned by heirs of S. W. Parsons and occupied by
M. D. Dunn. No damage. Chemical engine responded.
Used three charges of Pony.
Still. Tuesday, April 20, 10.02 a. m. Chimney fire
in two-and-half-story dwelling, 86 Auburn street, owned
and occupied by Patrick Reardon. No damage. Used
two charges of Pony.
^TiLL.' Tuesday, April 20, 3.50 p. m. Three-story
wooden block, 1077 Elm street, owned by estate of E. K.
Rowell and occupied by Julius Katz as clothing store.
Fire started in pile of rubbish at foot of stairs from match
or cigar stub thrown in from outside. Chemical engine
responded. No damage. Used two charges of Pony.
Still. Saturday, April 24, 4.35 p. m. Three-story
wooden tenement block, 35 Central street, owned by Dr.
John Ferguson and occupied by Joseph Joselin. Chil-
dren lighted fire on roof. No damage. Chemical engine
responded.
Box 17. Tuesday, April 27, 12.45 a. m. Two-and-half-
story house with barn connected, situated at 21 Ash street,
owned by Clough & Hall and occupied by Joseph E. Mer-
rill and W. H. Tarbell. Fire was confined whollv to the
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 271
upper story of barn. Caused, probably, by hot aslies.
Box pulled by officer. Companies responding: Engines
3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Truck 3. Value of building,
$4,000; damage, |350; insurance, |1,500; insurance paid,
|345. Value of contents, |1,000; damage, |10; insurance,
$300; insurance paid, .f6.
Still. Tuesday, April 27, 12.15 p. m. Chimney fire in
house at 502 North Main street, owned and occupied by
T, H. Donnelly. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 6
responded. No damage. Used two charges of Pony.
Still. Friday, April 30, 10.10 p. m. Kubbish in waste
can in entry of Merchants' Exchange, 839 Elm street.
No damage. Members of Chemical company responded.
Box 315. Thursday, May 6, 1.46 p. m. Brush fire on
Dunbarton road, on land owned by Will H. Colby. No
damage. Box pulled by citizen. Companies respond-
ing: Engines 2, 6, and Truck 6.
Still. Thursday, May 6, 8.05 p. m. Chimney fire in
Union block, 22 Concord street, owned by Chandler Bros,
and occupied by several families. Chemical engine re-
sponded. No damage.
Still. Saturday, May 8, 4.10 p. m. Brush fire at city
dump, rear of Children's Home, Webster street. No dam-
age. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 5 responded.
Still. Saturday, May 8, 5.10 p. m. Kekindling of
above fire. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 5 re-
sponded with hose carriage. No damage.
Still. Monday, May 10, 10.37 a. m. Chimney fire in
three-story wooden tenement block, 353 Pine street,
owned by Mrs. Caldwell. No damage. . L^sed one charge
of Pony.
Box 51. Tuesday, May 11, 8.18 p. m. A hanging lamp
fell from ceiling at 53 Walker street, in two-story
house owned by Ferdinand Reidell and occupied by
"Straight Tip Club." No damage and no fire. Box
272 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 2, 6,
Chemical, Truck 6.
Still. Wednesday, May 12, 11.30 a. m. Chimney fire
in two-story tenement house, 37 Amherst street, owned
by Lawrence Dowd and occupied by Mary Fitzgerald.
No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Box 21. Friday, May 14, 7.52 p. m. Two-story wooden
building, 195 Manchester street, owned by Levi Dodge
and occupied by J. B. Corbiere as blacksmith shop, and
Angus Derry as carriage shop. Fire originated in the
carriage shop, from some unknown cause. Box pulled by
citizen. Companies responding: Engines 3, 4, Chemical,
Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3. Value of buildings, |700; damage,
$270; insurance, |300; insurance paid, |270. Value of
contents, |525; damage, |100; no insurance.
Box 82. Monday, May J7, 10.38 p. m. False alarm.
Companies responding: Engines 1, 4, 5, Chemical, Hose
1, 2, Trucks 1, 5.
Still. Tuesday, May 18, 1.05 p. m. Brush fire adjoin-
ing the Youngsville schoolhouse lot on Pond road. Re-
sponded with delegation of men. No damage.
Still. Wednesday, May 19, 9.30 a. m. Chimney fire
in tenement house at 180 East Spruce street, owned by
Gideon Flanders. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 3
responded. No damage.
Still. Sunday, May 23, 6.45 p. si. Chimney fire in
house owned and occupied by Mrs. C. L. McQuade, at 373
Lake avenue. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 3 re-
sponded. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Wednesday, May 26, 7.50 a. m. Five-story
brick block, 895 Elm street, owned by W. H. Plumer and
occupied' by Plumer & Holton, clothiers, on first floor,
and upper stories as oflflces, etc. The fire started from an
electric light wire in office of Dr. Fred Perkins. Chem-
ical engine responded. Value of building, |25,000; dam-
age, |95; insurance, |17,000; insurance paid, |94.19.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 273
Value of contents, 1,500; damage, |75; insurance,
insurance paid, |75.
Box 21. Thursday, May 27, 9.33 p. m. Grocery store
of Napoleon Gauvin, 118 Central street. Hanging lamp
fell and exploded, setting fire to kerosene tank. Flames
spread on floor, but were quickly extinguished by Chem-
ical engine without damage. Box pulled by citizen.
Companies responding: Engines 1, 3, Chemical, Hose 1,
Trucks 1, 3.
Box 511. Wednesday, June 2, 1.11 p. m. Lamp ex-
plosion in tenement, 254 Douglas street. No damage.
Box pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines
2, 6, Chemical, Truck 6.
Still. Thursday, June 3, 10.30 a. m. Four-tenement
wooden block, 11 Orange street, owned by David Young
and occupied by Gilbert Pelland. Wood too near stove
ignited, causing slight damag^ to partition. Members
of Chemical responded. Used one . charge of Pony.
Value of building, |8,500; damage, 135; insurance, |5,000;
insurance paid, |35. No damage to contents.
Still, Suudaj', June 13, 9.11 a. m. Two-tenement
house, 110 Willow street, owned by H. B. Fairbanks and
occupied by J. Hickok. Slight fire in bed, which was ex-
tinguished before arrival of detail of men from Chemical
company.
Box 21. Saturday, June 19, 9.23 p. m. The breaking
of a kerosene lamp at 22 Laurel avenue, in a four-story
tenement block, owned by heirs of E. W. Bartlett and
occupied by John Chonack as a Polish boarding house,
caused an alarm to be pulled. Box pulled by citizen.
No damage. Companies responding : Engines 3, 4, Chem-
ical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3.
Box 313. Thursday, July 1, 8.57 p. m. Two-and-half-
story dwelling, 605 Main street, owned by John E. Rich-
ards and occupied by August Gingrass. The gas chande-
lier broke off and gas ignited as it came from pipe, doing
18
274 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
no damage. Box pulled by citizen. Companies respond-
ing: Engines 2, 4, 6, and Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 6.
Still. Monday, July 5, 12.25 p. m. Unadjusted ther-
mostat at Crafts & Green's shoeshop caused false alarm.
Hose wagon of Engine 2 responded.
Still. Same date, 11.55 p. m. Three-story brick block,
corner Elm and Mechanic streets, owned b}^ Eowell &
Kimball heirs and occupied as tenements, stores, etc.
The fire originated from over-heated range in eating
rooms of Frank I. Paige. Chemical responded. Damage
about |8, fully insured. Is^o damage to contents.
Box 71. Thursday, July 8, 5.33 p. m. Four-story
wooden block, 259 Tine street, owned by heirs of George
Whitford and occupied by Michael Galvin and others.
Caused by Mrs. Galvin lighting fire with kerosene. The
oil in can ignited, burning Mrs. Galvin seriously, so that
she died from injuries. No damage to building or con-
tents. Box i^ulled by a boy. Companies responding:
Engines 1, 3, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 3.
Still. Same date, 8 p. m. Chimney fire in two-and-
half-story wooden house, 137 Manchester street, owned
by heirs of Mary McMahon and occupied, by David Beli-
more. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Friday, July 9, 0.20 p. m. A little too much
smoke from a stove in tenement occupied by D. B. Mo-
Tency resulted in a call for members of Engine and Lad-
<ier No. 3. No fire (except in stove) to be found.
Box 26. Tuesday, July 20, 2.45 p. m. Three-story
wooden tenement block, 330 Lowell street, owned by D.
B. Sanborn and occupied by several families, with grocery
store in basement, where the fire originated, kept by Carl
A. Friborg. Cause, match dropped in kerosene. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 3,
Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Truck 5. Value of building, |8,000;
damage, |584; insurance, $5,000; insurance paid, |584.
Value of contents, |800; damage, |700; insurance, |.300;
insurance paid, $300.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 275
Box 4. Monday, July 26, 11.56 a. m. Wooden ten-
footer, 16 Lake avenue, owned by Freeman & Merrill and
occupied by L. E. DeLabarre as tailor shop. Cause,
lighting gasoline stove. Box pulled by citizen. Com-
panies responding: Engines 1, 2, 3, Chemical, Hose 1, 3,
Trucks 1, 3.
Box 82. Thursday, August 12, 8.24 a. m. Four-story
brick block, 1096 Elm street, owned by Welch & Clough.
In room 4, occupied- by George Birtue, a kerosene stove
tipped over, causing considerable fright to occupants,
but no damage to property. Box pulled by citizen. Com-
panies responding: Engines 1, 4, 5, Chemical, Hose 1, 2,
Trucks 1, 3, 5.
Box 57. Sunday, August 29, 1.26 p. m. Two-story
wooden paint shop, situated on Shirley Hill road, just
across the line in Goffstown. The shop was owned and
occupied by William H. Goodwin. Box pulled by citi-
zen. Companies responding: Engine 2, Chemical,
Truck 6.
Still. Thursday, September 2, 11.55 p. m. Slight
fire in a closet in the Moose Club's rooms in Merchants'
Exchange, 839 Elm street. Cause unknown. Used one
charge of Pony.
Still. Sunday, September 5, 4.55 p. m. Chimney fire
in two-story wooden block, 354 Pine street, owned by
David Young and occupied bj' Timothy Garvin. Mem-
bers of Chemical responded. Ko damage.
2-2-2. Thursday, September 7, 2.20 a. m. Word was
telephoned from Lake; View House, Lake Massabesic,
Auburn, for assistance, as said house was on fire. En-
gine 1 with hose wagon responded. Although the dis-
tance was about five miles, and over a hard road, reached
the scene in season to save some of the surrounding cot-
tages.
Still. Monday, September 27, 6.30 p. m. A chimney
fire in four-storv wooden block, 126-150 McGregor street,
276 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
owned by Gordon Woodbury and occupied by several
families. Members of Engine and Ladder No. 6 re-
sponded. No damage. Used two charges of Pony.
Box 4. Same date, 7.03 p. m. Slight fire in a closet in
the Drake & Carpenter block, 24 Granite street. Need-
less alarm. Fire extinguished* without damage before
arrival of department. Box pulled by citizen. Com-
panies responding: Engines 2, 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, 3^
Trucks 1, 3.
Still. Tuesday, September 28, 2.25 r. m. Chimney
fire in cottage house, 240 Manchester street, owned and
occupied by Charles Kilborn. Chemical engine re-
sponded. No damage.
Still. Thursday, September 30, 9.30 a. m. A cottage
house at 73 Liberty street, owned and occupied by Fred
G. Hartshorn. Lace curtain burned. Members of En-
gine and Ladder No. 5 resj)onded.
Box 113. Same date, 5.53 p. m. While Dr. C. B. Stur-
tevant was burning brush on lot on Russell street, some
one pulled in an alarm, thinking there was a fire. No
damage resulted. Companies responding: Engines 1, 5,
Chemical, Hose 2, Truck 5.
Box 52. Friday, October 1, 9.40 p. m. Cottage house,
938 Granite street, owned and occupied by D. O'Leary.
Shawl in closet caught fire from some unknown cause,
doing but slight damage. Extinguished before the arri-
val of the department. Box pulled by a boy. Companies
responding: Engines 2, 6, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 6.
Box 6. Saturday, October 2, 9.28 a. m. Basement of
three-story brick and stone block, 868-884 Elm street,
owned by New Hampshire Insurance Co. and occupied
by L. P. Labonte. A slight fire in box of excelsior which
was in too close proximity to steam boiler. Extinguished
with line from garden hose before arrival of department.
Box pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines
1, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks 1, 3. No damage.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 277
Box 82. Same date, 11.47 a. m. Two-and-lialf-story
wooden tenement house, 17 Washington street, owned
by Kennard heirs and occupied by several families. Fire
started in tenement occupied by Daniel Dailey, from de-
fective flue. Box pulled by citizen. Companies respond-
ing: Engines 1, 4, 5, Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks 1, 5.
Value of building, |2,800; damage, |61.17; insurance,
$2,100; insurance paid, |61.17. Value of contents, |800;
damage, |45; no insurance.
Box 321. Same date, 7.03 p. m. Three-story wooden
tenement house, 267 Cartier street, owned by John Han-
ney and occupied by him and Patrick J. O'Connell. The
fire originated in the cellar from some unknown cause
and communicated to first and second stories by the back
stairwa3^ Box pulled by citizen. Companies respond-
ing: Engines 2, 6, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 6. Value of
building, |1,500; damage, |700; insurance, |1,300; insur-
ance paid, 1693. Value of contents, |1,500 ; damage, |200;
insurance, |1,500; insurance paid, f200.
Box 73. Thursday, October 7, 6.29 p. m. Barn in rear
of 246 Auburn street, owned and occupied by Daniel
Murphy. Cause unknown. Box pulled by citizen. Com-
panies responding: Engines 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1,
Truck 5. Value of building, |175; damage, |75; insur-
ance, |50; insurance paid, |50. Value of contents, |100;
damage, |30; no insurance.
Box 81. Saturday, October 9, 3.25 p. m. Three-story
brick tenement house, 44 Charles stre'et, owned by Stark
Manufacturing Co. and occupied by Joseph Moquin.
Slight fire in box of old clothes in third story. Cause un-
known. Box pulled by officer. Companies responding:
Engines 1, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 1. No damage to
contents. Damage to building, |25; fully insured.
Still. Sunday, October 10, 5.45 p. m. Chimney fire
in Cilley block, 1037 Elm street, owned by Hari-y B. Cil-
ley. No damage.
278 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPOKTS.
Box 115. Tuesday, October 12, 6.03 p. m. False
alarm. Companies responding: Engines 1, 5, Chemical,
Hose 2, Truck 5.
Still. Sunday, October 17, 12.35 p. m. Grass fire on
land owned by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company,
corner Valley and Wilson street. Members of Engine
and Ladder No. 3 responded with hose wagon. No
damage.
Still. Monday, October 18, 6.15 a. m. Chimney fire
in three-story wooden tenement house, 57 Amherst street,
owned by Mrs. Charles H. Bradford. No damage. Used
one charge of Pony,
Box 4. Tuesday, October 26, 3.56 a. m. Four-story
brick block, 20-30 Granite street, owned by Mrs. C. S.
Aldrich and Frank P. Carpenter, and occupied by Dodge &
Laing, No. 20; John E. Towle, No. 22; and H. W. Parker,
No. 30, with upper stories for tenements. The fire orig-
inated in store of John E. Towle & Co., and was confined
mostly to that section of the building. Cause unknown.
Most of the damage to occupants, aside from Towle &
Co., was from smoke and water. Companies responding:
Engines 2, 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, 3, Trucks 1, 3. Value
of building, |30,000; damage, |4,000; insurance, $15,000;
insurance paid, |3,560. Towle & Co. : Value of contents,
18,000; damage, $3,035.84; insurance, $6,900; insurance
paid, $3,035.84. Dodge & Laing: Value of contents,
$1,500; damage, $175; insurance, $1,000; insurance paid,
$175. H. W. Parker : Value of contents, $20,500 ; damage,
$4,782 ; insurance, $16,000 ; insurance paid, $4,782. Value
of property of other occupants, $2,000; damage, $200; no
insurance.
Box 57. Same date, 1.28 p. m. Brush fire on Mast
road near Shirley Hill road. Needless alarni. No dam-
age. Box pulled by citizen. Companies responding:
Engines 2, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 2.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 279
Box 61. TLiursday, October 28, 5.54 a. m. Two-and-
half-story wooden slaughter bouse, corner Hancock street
and Concord Kailroad, owned and occupied by Manchester
Slaughtering & Rendering Co. Fire originated in sec-
ond story from some unknown cause, and was confined
wholly to the storeroom. Box pulled by citizen. Com-
panies responding: Engines 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, 3,
Truck 3. Value of building, |12,500; damage, |50; insur-
ance, |12,500; insurance paid, |50. Value of contents,
$3,000; damage, |393.13; insurance, |3,000; insurance
paid, 1393.13.
Box 313. Saturday, October 30, 12.54 a. m. Three-
and-half-story wooden block, 507 North Main street,
owned by Joseph Lariviere and occupied as grocery store
by Eugene Quirin. The fire originated from an over-
heated chimney, the base of which rested on an iron col-
umn, and damage was mostly by smoke and water. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 2, 4,
6, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 6. Value of building, |8,000;
damage, |260; insurance, |3,000; insurance paid, $2G0.
Value of contents, |10,000; damage, |398.03; insurance,
16.000; insurance paid, |398.03.
Box 61. Same date, 6.08 p. m. The icehouse con-
nected with the True W. Jones Brewing Co., on Hancock
street, caught fire from some unknown cause. It con-
tained but little ice and was used as storehouse also. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 3,
Chemical, Hose 1, 3, Truck 3. Value of building, $1,500;
damage, $947.38; insurance, $1,000; insurance paid,
$947.38. Value of contents, $712.50 ; damage, $287.50 ; in-
surance paid, $287.50.
Still. Sunday, October 31, 6.15 a. m. Members of Hose
No. 3 called to brewery icehouse from fire in sawdust from
last night's fire. Extinguished with few pails of water.
Still. Same date, 12.32 p. m. Two-story wooden ten-
ement house, 417 Pine street, owned by Albert Brigham
280 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
and occupied by Thomas Connor. Slight fire about porch.
Members of Chemical responded. Used one charge of
Pony. Value of building, |800; damage, $8; insurance,
fSOO; insurance paid, |8.
Box 15. Wednesday, November 3, 4.50 p. m. Some
careless person dropped a lighted match into sawdust
saturated with kerosene near an oil tank in grocery store
of Mrs. S. D. McGee, GO Pearl street, doing no damage.
Box pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines
1, 5, Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks 1, 5.
2-2-2. Friday, November 5, 1.50 a. m. Telephone call
from Derry for help. Took Steamer No. 1 with hose
wagon and twenty-five men. Owing to delay in railroad
yard in getting started, fire was under control on arrival,
and apparatus was not unloaded, but kept in readiness
until 4.40 A. M.
Still. Saturday, November 6, 5.15 p. m. Chimney fire
in tenement. house, 19 Clinton street, owned by George S.
Eastman and occupied by several families. No damage.
Members of Engine 2 responded.
Box 213. Sunday, November 7, 9.21 a. m. Grass fire
near oil tanks of Standard Oil Co. on Baker street. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 3,
Chemical, Hose 2, 3, Truck 3.
Still. Same date, 3.30 p. m. Three-story brick block,
64 Hanover street, owned by Bartlett, Wells, Hill, and
Gay, and occupied by John B. Clarke Co. for printing
ofBce. Fire under entry floor of press room in basement.
Damage slight. Cause, rats and matches. Chemical
■engine responded. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Monday, November 8, 9.38 a. m. Chimney fire
in two-story tenement house, 62 Lake avenue, owned by
Jeremiah Horan and occupied by Joseph Dufrain. No
damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Box G. Sunday, November 14, 4.5G p. m. Electric light
wire on the outside of Paris Store, 8G8-884 Elm street,
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 281
t)ccnpied by L. P. Labonte, set fire to awning, damaging
the sign |55, on which there was no insurance. Box
pulled by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 4,
€hemical, HoseJ., 2, Trucks 1, 3.
Box 4. Wednesday, November 17, 7.48 p. m. Two-
and-half-story wooden dwelling, 60 Spruce street, owned
by Timothy Connor and occupied by A. E. Savard and
Joseph Noel. Chimney fire. No damage. Box jmlled
by citizen. Companies responding: Engines 1, 2, 3,
Chemical, Hose 1, 3, Trucks 1, 3.
Box 71. Tuesday, November 23, 5.58 p. m. Chimney
fire at 259 Pine street, in tenement block owned by Mrs.
Clara AVhitford. No damage. Box pulled by citizen.
Companies responding: Engines 1, 3, Chemical, Hose 1,
Truck 3.
Box 53. Sunday, November 28, 6.35 a. m. Sawmill
and dryhouse at 168 South Main street, owned and occu-
pied bj- A. C. Wallace. The fire originated near the dry-
house and boiler-room. Cause unknown. Box pulled by
citizen. Companies responding: Engines 2, 6, Chemical,
Hose 1, Truck 6. Value of building, |1,200; damage,
$400; insurance, .$200; insurance paid, $200. Value of
contents, |2,200; damage, |1,000; insurance, |600; insur-
ance paid, 1600.
Box 53. Monday, November 29, 10.55 p. m. Two-
story wooden block, 165-169 South Main street, owned
by Gordon Woodbury and occupied by the Eanno
Harness Co. as harness shop and James P. Welch
as barber shop and variety store. The fire origi-
nated under a sink in variety store, from spontaneous
combustion. Box pulled by citizen. Companies respond-
ing: Engines 1, 6, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucl^ 6. Value of
building, |6,000; damage, |791; insurance, |5,000; insur-
ance paid, 1791. Welch: Value of contents, $725; dam-
age, 1485; insurance, |475; insurance paid, |310. Ranno
282 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Harness Co.: Value of contents, |19,000; damage, $1,503.-
45; insurance, |17,000; insurance paid, |1,503.45.
Still. Tuesday, November 30, 7.30 p. m. A lighted
candle behind drapery in the 5 and lO-cent store of Wool-
worth & Co., in Weston block, 981 Elm street, ignited the
tissue paper trimmings, doing slight damage. Members
of Chemical and Truck 1 responded. Used one charge of
Pony.
Box 5. Friday, December 3, 9.30 p. m. Two-story
wooden projection to Adams Bros.' grain store, rear 754
Elm street, owned by Rowell Bros. Fire originated under
outside stairs in Elm west back street, by match or cigar
stub thrown among litter of hay. Box pulled by citizen.
No damage to stock. Companies responding: Engines
1, 2, 3, Chemical, Hose 1, Trucks 1, 3. Damage to build-
ing, |25; insurance paid, |25.
Box 315. Tuesday, December 7, 12.43 a. m. Cottage
house and barn connected, on the Goffstown road, owned
by the heirs of Gilman R. Stevens and occupied by Mrs.
Stevens. Fire was first discovered in the barn, and
before alarm was given had communicated with the
house. Cause unknown. Box pulled by citizen. Com-
panies responding: Engines 5, 6, Chemical, Ladder 5.
Value of buildings, |1,000; damage, |1,000; insurance,
$500; insurance paid, $500. Value of contents, $500;
damage, $500; no insurance.
Box 45. Tuesday, December 14, 3.51 p. m. Three-
story brick building, owned by Leighton Machine Co.,
corner Canal and Cedar streets, andoccupied by them and
others for manufacturing purposes. The fire originated
in the "tempering-room" of Dodge Needle Works, on sec-
ond floor, caused by water in pot of tempering oil, spatter-
ing oil into the fire. There was no damage and fire all
out on arrival of department. Box pulled by citizen.
Companies responding: Engines 1, 2, 3, 4, Chemical, Hose
1, Trucks 1, 3.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 283
Still. Saturday, December 18, 4.05 p. m. Grass fire
on land of Henry A. Farriugton on Clarke street, between
Elm and Chestnut streets. Responded to by members of
Engine and Ladder No. 5. No damage. Used one charge
of Pony.
Box 3. Friday, December 24, 4.17 p. m. Saloon car
No. 2718 of Boston & Maine Railroad, on sidetrack in
railroad yard. Cause unknown. Box pulled by citizen.
Companies responding: Engines 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1,
3, Trucks 1, 3. Damage to car, |15 ; value, |471. Blanket
policy.
Still. Same date, 5.59 p. m. Chimney fire at 99 Cedar
street. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Box 71. Same date, 6.11 p. m. While a detail of men
were at the chimney fire above mentioned, some "crazy-
head" pulled box for same chimney. Companies respond-
ing : Engines 3, 4, Chemical, Hose 1, Truck 3. No damage.
Still. Same date, 6.32 p. m. Chimney fire in tene-
ment block, 49 Spruce street. No damage. Used two
chiarges of Pony.
Still. Same date, 8.15 p. m. Chimney fire in tene-
ment block owned by heirs of John D. Patterson and oc-
cupied by Richard Gallien. No damage. Used one
charge of Pony.
Still. Same date, 9.30 p. m. Chimney fire at 60 Con-
cord street, owned by heirs of S. W. Parsons and occupied
b}' Davis. No damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Same date, 10.48 p. m. Chimney fire in Wash-
ington block, 3 and 4 Pearl street, owned by Charles C.
Hayes and occupied by Oliver Gagnon and others. No
damage. Used one charge of Pony.
Still. Saturday, December 25, 1 p. m. Chimney fire
in two-story wooden tenement block, 63 Pearl street,
owned by Nason Hall and occupied by Nelson White. No
damage. Used two charges of Pony.
284 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Still, Tuesday, December 28, 6.50 p. m. Three-story
wooden tenement bouse, 32 Concord street, owned by
John H. McCabe and occupied by John Peterson as cob-
bler's shop. Lamp exploded. No damage. Used one
charge of Pony.
Box 8. Thursday, December 30, 5.45 p. m. Four-
story wooden block, 1201 Elm street, owned by Mrs. J. L.
Bradford and occupied by Thomas Kelley & Sons in base-
ment as fruit store, and Fogg's lunch rooms, with variety
store of Lizzie Gillis on first floor. Miss Gillis's damage
was wholly by smoke. The fire originated in middle cel-
lar of Kelley's store, from some unknown cause. Box
pulled by L. F. Kettle. Companies responding: Engines 1,
4, 5, Chemical, Hose 1, 2, Trucks 1, 5. Value of building,
$3,500; damage, |225; insurance, |2,000; insurance paid,
f225. Kelley: Value of contents, |200; damage, |155;
insurance, $150; insurance paid, |150. E. W. Fogg:
Value of contents, |600; damage, |50; insurance, |200;
insurance paid, |20. Lizzie Gillis: Value of contents,
I; damage, flOO; insurance, |400; insurance paid, flOO.
Number of bell alarms 81
Number of still alarms 69
Total 150
Value of property endangered |150,208.50
Insurance carried on same 105,015.00
Damage to property where fires occurred. . . 23,269.50
Insurance paid on same 20,249.50
Net loss above insurance paid |3,020.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 285
Number and Location of Fire Alarm Boxes and
Keys.
A KEY IS ATTACHED TO Each Box, and can be had by
breaking the gkiss.
No. 3. Blood's lower shop. Keys at offices of gas-
works, county jail, Manchester Coal & Ice Co.'s sheds,
and Charles H. Hutchinson's shop.
No. 4. Corner Spruce and Elm streets. Keys at Hotel
Oxford, L. B. Bodwell & Co.'s, Palmer & Garmou's, Street
Eailway stables, and office of Blodgett & Young's block.
No. 5. Corner of Merrimack and Elm streets. Keys
at Tebbetts & Soule's and Currier's drugstores, Manches-
ter House, and J. W. Hill Co.'s store.
No. 6. City Hall. Keys at Holland's and Thurston's
drugstores, J. A. Riddle's office, and residence of J. L.
Brock, 21 Amoskeag Corporation.
No. 7. Police station, corner of Manchester and Chest-
nut streets. Keys at chief of police's office and with all
police officers.
No. 8. Corner of Elm and Hollis streets. Keys at Ed-
ward C. Smith's and Gadbois's drugstores, and Partridge
Bros.' grain store.
No. 0. Corner of Elm and Webster streets. Keys at
residences of Mrs. H. D. Corliss, J. Freeman Clough, Dr.
E. Fritz, and station of Engine No. 5.
No. 12. Corner of North and Pine streets. Keys at
residences of John Mooar, George Emerson, Walter A.
Green, and O. D. Knox.
No. 13. Corner of Brook and Chestnut streets. Keys
at residences of Welcome Jencks and Mrs, Lewis Simons,
No. 1 Senter's block, and Gate's grocery store.
No. 11. Corner of Prospect and Union streets. Keys
at residences of Mrs. W. Ireland, Mrs. George W. Riddle,
D. J. Adams, A. H. Olzendam, and Mrs. Thomas Morgan.
, No. 15. Corner of Pearl and Chestnut streets. Keys
280 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
at residences of William B. Corej^ Henry W. Shannon,
and J. Fred Clialker.
No. 16. Corner of Lowell and Union streets. Keys at
residences of Kt. Rev. Bishop Bradley and R. R. Hassam.
No. 17. Corner of Amherst and Beech streets. Keys
at residences 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. William Perkins.
No. 21. Corner of Merrimack and Pine streets. Keys
at A. D. Smith's drugstore, 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 residences of Eben T. James and Mrs. Josiah Stevens.
No. 24. Engine and Ladder Co. No. 3 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,
the late Horace Stearns, the late Horace Gordon, and
James R. Straw.
No. 26. Corner of Bridge and Russell streets. Keys
at McCrillis's carriage shop and John N. Foss's stable.
No. 27. Corner of Belmont and Amherst streets. Keys
at residences of H. M. Tarbell, the late A. G. Fairbanks,
E. S. Fletcher, William Carr, and Mrs. George H.
Hubbard.
No. 28. Corner of Merrimack and Beacon streets.
Keyt at residences of A. L. Garmon and Edward Dorsey.
No. 31. Corner of Canal and Hollis 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 watchroom, and Electric Light station.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 287
No. 34. Jefferson Mill. Keys at watcbroom and pump-
ing station.
No. 35. Stark Mills. Keys at watcbroom.
No. 36. Amory Mills. Keys at watcbroom.
No. 39. Hillsborougb county jail. Keys at office.
No. 41. Amoskeag Mills. Keys at watcbroom.
No. 42. Mancbester Mills. Keys at watcbroom.
No. 43. Olzendam's Mill. Keys at watcbroom.
No. 45. Tbe S. C. Forsaitb Co.'s sbops. Keys at
freigbt depot and S. C. Forsaitb Co.'s office.
No. 51. Corner of Walker and Second streets. Keys
at stores of F. Eiedel and William Weber.
No. 52. Barr's brick block, West Mancbester. Keys
at Fradd & Co.'s and A. N. Clapp's stores, Merrimack
House, and Engine No. 2 bouse.
No. 53. Wallace's steam mill. Keys at Wallace's
office, I. R. Dewey's tenement block, and Ranno Harness
Co.'s store.
No. 54. Corner of A and Soutb Main streets. Keys at
residences of Lord sisters, Neil Fullerton, and George W.
Davis's store.
No. 56. Baldwin's bobbin sbop. Keys at Baldwin's
office and residences of J. C. Smitb, E. P. Littlefleld, and
witb watcbman at works.
No. 57. Corner Mast road and D street. Keys at res-
idences of Rev. A. C. Bidwell and C. H. George, and F. W.
Towle's store.
No. 61. Corner of River road and Hancock street, Ba-
kersville. Keys at Mary Stack's saloon, True W. Jones
Co.'s brewery, store of Jobn A. Kane, and Hose 3.
No. 62. Gerrisb Wool & Leatber Co.'s, River road.
Keys at tannery, tbe Edwin Kennedy bouse, and Hose 3.
No. 71. Corner of Cedar and Pine streets. Keys at
residences of T. Collins, Daniel Sbeeban, Tbomas J.
Smitb, Simon McCartby, and J. J. Twomey.
288 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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
residences 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 Church
streets. Keys at Syndicate Furniture Co.'s, Lowell-
street stable, and Fames Bros.' drugstore.
No. 91. Corner of Webster and Beech streets. Keys
at Children's Home and R, N. Foster's residence.
No. 112. Corner of Sagamore and Union streets.
Keys at residences of W. T. Stevens, W. A. Clarkson, M.
D. Johnson, Charles F. Chase, and William H. Drury.
No. 113. Corner of Oak and Prospect streets. Keys
at residences of Mrs. William B. Abbott, W. N. Johnson,
and E. M. Topliff.
No. 111. Corner of Pearl and Ash streets. Keys at
residences of Mrs. A. P. Olzendam, G. A. Olzendam, W. S.
Shannon, and John J. Bennett.
No. 115. Corner Gore and Ash streets. Keys at resi-
dences of James A. Rogers and Cyren Bixby.
No. 212. Shoeshop, Hallsville. Keys at the oftice of
the shoe factory and residences of Charles C. Chase, G.
W. Dearborn, Mrs. Milton A. Abbott, M. V. B. Garland,
and Walter Cody's block.
No. 213. Sash and blind factory. South Beech street,
junction of Portsmouth Railroad. Keys at offices of
Austin, Flint & Day and Dana & Provost.
No. 211. Elliott silk mill, corner of Wilson and Valley
streets. Keys at office and watchroom of mill.
No. 215. Hoyt & Co.'s shoeshop, corner of Lincoln and
Silver streets. Keys at offices of shoeshop and Kimball
Carriage Co. and residence of Mrs. A. B. Johnson.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 289
No. 216. Jewett and Somerville streets. Keys at resi-
dences of G. H. Hill, 140 Jewett street, and W. B. Brown,
128 Jewett street.
No. 217. Corner Candia road and Massabesic street.
Keys at residences of L. M. Streeter, William Gadbois,
and Charles P. Still.
No. 2G1. Pefiri-street grammar school. Keys at
school room and residences of C. E. Rose, S. W. Bascom,
and Charles W. Cheney, Jr.
No. 312. Corner of Putnam, Main, and McGregor
streets. Kej'S at residences of James Spence (309 Main
street), Thomas Bolton, gate No. 11 mill.
No. 313. Corner of Amory and Main streets. Keys at
residences of Allen Dean and Lawrence M. Connor, Bou-
thillier & Gingras's drugstore, Miville & Co.'s drugstore,
gate of No. 11 mill, and station of Engine and Ladder
No. 6.
No. 314. P. C. Cheney Co.'s paper mill. Keys at office
and Riverside Hose house.
No. 315. Old Brick Store, 'Skeag. Keys at Flanders's
store. Riverside Hose house, and D. L. Robinson's resi-
dence.
No. 321. Corner Beauport and Wayne streets. Keys
at Holy Angels Convent, and Brothers' School, and resi-
dences of E. H. Doherty and Rev. Father Hevey.
No. 323. Corner of Putnam and Bartlett streets.
Keys at Albert Oliver's store, P. J. Archambeault's ba-
kery, and residence of Officer Lewis Clement.
No. 324. Amory and Laval streets. Key at residence
of Desire Martin, No. 494 Amory street.
No. 511. Corner of Douglas and Green streets. Keys
at residences of Amelia Davis, William A. Tufts, and
James Kearns.
No. 513. Corner of Milford and Carroll streets. Keys
at residences of J. W. Abell, James Ward, and Mrs. Eliz-
abeth Ward.
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290 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
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 stroke of the fire bells.
Telephone Calls.
NEW ENGLAND TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CO.
Chemical Engine, Central Station 64 — 3
Engine No. 2 G4— 2
Engine & Ladder No. 3 64—5
Engine & Ladder No. 5 64—6
Engine & Ladder No. 6 64—7
Hose No. 2 116—4
Hose No. 3 25—2
Chief Engineer Lane's office 64 — 3
Chief Engineer Lane's house 64 — 4
.Assistant Engineer Bean's house 517 — 2
Assistant Engineer Whitney's house 39 — 4
Assistant Engineer Whitney's office 73 — 3
Assistant Engineer Merrill's house 212 — 3
Assistant Engineer Frisselle's house 175 — 2
Two long rings, twice, all take down telephones.
MANCHESTER TELEPHONE CO.
Chemical Engine, Central Station 120 — 2
Assistant Engineer Whitney's office 80 — 2
Assistant Engineer Whitney's house - 81 — 2
Assistant Engineer Merrill's house 162 — 2
Instructions to Key-holders and Citizens.
1. Upon the discovery of a fire, notice should be imme-
diately communicated to the nearest alarm box, the key
KEPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 291
of wliich is in a circular box attached to right-liaud side
of the fire alarm box. Keys are also 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 posi-
tive information 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 re-
moved with a release key, which is carried by each of the
engineers, and they will, as soon as convenient, release
and return it.
3. All persons giving fire alarms are requested to re-
main by the box a moment, and if no clicking is heard in
the box, pull again; if you still hear no clicking, go to the
next nearest box 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 resi-
dence or place of business, where the keys are kept, return the
keys to the same office.
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. A larins 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—1—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.
FiEST Alarm.
Second Alabm.
Thibd Alarm.
"O
•s
«S3
6
^S
o
g^
Engine.
O
B
o
U
a
'to
a
w
W
1^
3
l8t R. 3 C. 1
1st R. 2-3
1-3
1-3
1-3
1-3
2dR. 2
2dR.
5-6
5-6
2
5 6
4
2
5
6
5
1st R. 2-3
1-3
2dR.
2-3
5
5-6
6
6
Ist & 2d R.
1-2
1-3
2-3
3
5
5-6
6
7
IstR. 3
1-3
2dR.
2
6
2-5-6
3
6
8
1st & 2d R. 5
1-2
1-5 3
3
2-6
3
6
9
Ist K. 5
5 ; 2d R.
2
1
2-3-6
3
3-6
12
5
5 1 Ist R.
2
1
2d R.2-3-6
3
3-«
13
Ist R. 5 "
1-2
5
2dR.
1
2d R.2-3-6
3
3-6
14
1st R. 5 "
1-2
5
2dR. 3
1
2-6
3
3-6
15
Ist & 2d R. 5 "
1-2
1-5
3
3
2-6
3
6
16
Ist R. 5 "
1-2
1-5 1 2d R. 3
3
2-6
3
6
17
1st K. 3
1-2
3 2d R. 5
1
2-6
3
3-6
18
1st R. 3
1-2
3 2d R.
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
21
IstR. 3 "
1-3 2dR. 2
2
5
5-6
3
6
23
1st R. 3 "
1-2
3 2d R.
1
2-5-6
3
6-6
24
1st R. 3
1-2
3 2d R.
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
25
1st R. 3 "
1-2
3 .] 2d R.
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
26
1st R. 3 "
1-2
5 2d R. 5
3
2-6
3
1-6
27
IstR. 3 "
3 j 2d R.
1
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
28
3 "
3 IstR.
1
2d R.2-5-6
3
1-5-6
31
1st R. 6
1-5 i 2d R. 5
2
6
2-3
3
3
32
1st R. 5 "
1-5 I 2d R. 6
2
6
2-3
3
3
34
1st & 2d R. 5-6 "
1-2
1-5 1 2-3
fi-3
3
35
1st & 2d R. 5-6 "
1-5 2-3
?,
6-3
3
36
1st & 2d R. 5-6 "
1-5 2-3
2
3-fi
3
39
1st R. 3 "
1-3
1-3 i 2d R. 2
2
5
5-6
6
41
1st & 2d R. 2-3 '•
1st & 2d R. 2-3 "
1st R. 2-3 "
1-3
1-3
3
5-6
5-6
2dR. 6
2-3
2-3
2-3
5-6
6-6
1
42
43
5
6-5
45
1st & 2d R..2-? "
1-3
5
2-3
5
6
6
51
2-6
6
Ist R.3
1
3
2dR. 5
6-2
1-5
52
2-6 "
6
1st R.3
3
3
2dR. 5
2
1-5
53
2-6
6
1st K.3
3
2dR. 5
2-3
1-5
54
2-6
6
IstR.
1
2d R. 3-5
2-3
1-3-5
56
2-6 "
6
1st R.3
3
3
2dR. 5
1-5
57
2-3
6
6
3
3
lst&2d R.3-5
2-3
1-3-6
61
IstR. 3 "
1st R. 3 "
1-3
1-3
3
3
2d R. 2
2dR.2
5-6
5-6
2
1-5-6
62
1-5-6
71
IstR. 3 "
3
2dR.
2-3
1
2-5-6
5-6
72
1st R. 3 "
3
2dR.
2
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
73
1st R. 3 "
3
2dR.
2
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
81
1st & 2d R. "
1
5
2
3-5
2-6
3
6
82
1st & 2d R 5 "
1-2
1-5
3-6
3 6
2
91
1st R. 5
5
2dR.
2
1
2-3-6
3
3-6
112
IstR. 5 "
2
5
2dR.
1
1
2-3-6
3
3-6
113
1st R. 5 "
2
5
2d R.
1
3
2-3-6
3
1-6
114
1st R. 5 "
1-2
5
2d R.3
3
2-6
3
1-6
115
1st R. 5 "
2
5
2dR.
1
1
2-3-6
3
3-6
212
let R. 3 "
2
3 i 2d R.
1-3
1
2-.5-6
5-6
213
1st R. 3 "
2-3
3 2d R.
1
1
2-5-6
1
6-5
214
1st R. 3
2-3
3
2dR.
1
2-5-6
1
5-6
215
Ist R. 3 "
2-3
3
2d R.
1
1
2-5-6
5-6
216
1st R. 3 "
2
3
2d R.
1
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
217
IstR. 3
2
3
2d R.
1
1
2-5-6
3
5-6
261
1st R. 3 "
1-2
3
2dR. 5
5
2-6
3-6
312
1st R. 2-6
6
2dR. 5
2
1
3
3
3-5
313
1st R. 2-6
6
2dR. 5
2
1
3
3
3-6
314
5-6
5
lstR.2
6
2dR. 3
2-3
1-3
315
5-6
5
1st R.
1
6
2d R. 2-3
Z-i
1-3
321
2-6
6
Ist R.5
1
2dR. 3
2-3
3-6
323
2-6 "
6
1st R.5
5
2dR. 3
2-3
1-3-5
324
2-6
6
1st R.5
5
2dR. 3
3-2
1-3
511
2-6
6
IstR.
1
3
2d R. 3-5
2-3
1-5
613
2-6
6
IstR. 1
2dR. 3-5
J-3
1-3-6
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 293
Rules and Regulations in Regard to Responding to
Fires and Alarms.
The followinn; rules have been adopted by the board of
engineers, and the tire department will strictly comply
until otherwise ordered, and will attend alarms of fire as
per ''official running card.''
RUNNING RULES.
Whenever an alarm is sounded, the members of all
companies not called to that box will report to their re-
spective company quarters, and there remain until dis-
missed 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 respond 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 will answ^er 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, EXCEPT IN CASE OF ACCI-
DENT, 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.
294 ANNfJAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Engineers of steamers will not run over eighty (80)
pounds of water pressure, except when orders are received
from a member of the board of engineers or of the offlcer
in command of the company.
Captains, or commanding officers, upon return from
alarms will report to headquarters immediately, person-
ally or by telephone, after apparatus is ''made up" and
ready for duty.
THIRD ALARM.
Ox 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 sec-
ond or third alarm, the following special calls will be
given :
2 — 1 for Engine 1. 1 — 1 — 1 for Aerial Truck.
2—2 for Engine 2. 3—3 for Truck 3.
2—3 for Engine 3. 3—5 for Truck 5.
2—4: for Engine 4. 3— G for Truck 6.
2 — 5 for Engine 5. 4 — 1 for Hose 1.
2 — 6 for Engine 6. 4 — 2 for Hose 2.
4—3 for Hose 3.
Companies answering "special calls"' will wait thirty
seconds before leaving quarters, to prevent mistakes.
OUT OF TOWN CALL.
For a fire out of the city 2 — 2 — 2, in which case all com-
panies will assemble at their respective quarters and
await orders.
KEPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 295
ALL OUT SIGNAL.
Two blows on the bells, which dismisses all members at
company quarters.
This signal will be given after companies working at a
fire have returned to quarters, "made up," and are ready
to respond to another alarm.
TEST SIGNAL. " ,
One blow at 12.30 noon.
SCHOOL SIGNALS.
1_1^ with fifteen seconds between blows, closes pri-
mary 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.
MILITARY GALL.
12 blows twice.
Rules for Exercising Horses.
It shall be the duty of the drivers of engines, hose car-
riages, hose wagons, hook-and-ladder trucks, and all
other apparatus connected with this department, to exer-
cise the horses every day, weather permitting, except
Sunday, with the exception of engines having ''first" and
"second runs," and in such cases must exercise on days of
"second run," the same to be done within 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.
296 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
LAKE AVENUE STATION.
North to Manchester street. East to Belmont street.
South to Summer street. West to Maple street.
MAPLE-STREET STATION.
North to Myrtle street. West to Union street.
South to Hanover street. East to Linden street. ,
WEBSTER-STREET STATION.
9
North to Clarke street. East to Union street.
South to Pennacook street. West to Elm street.
RIMMON-STREET STATION (MCGREGORVILLE),
North to Kelley street. East to Beauport street.
South to Wayne street. West to Rimmon street.
bakersville station.
North to bridge over B. & East to Calef road,
M. R. R. West to Brown avenue.
South to Baker street.
Drivers must confine themselves to the above, and in
no case take their horses beyond the prescribed limits,
except for shoeing and in case of fire, without permission
from the chief or an assistant engineer.
In exercising, care must be taken to avoid colliding
with other teams. In approaching corners, crossings,
street-car 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 sus-
pension or discharge.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 297
Stations and Sleeping Rooms.
All stations of this department will be open from 7 a. m,
until 9 p. M., and the members at the several stations will
receive visitors and citizens courteously, answer all
questions in a gentlemanly manner, and give any proper
information.
Gambling of any kind shall not be done or permitted in
or about- any of the houses or premises occupied by the
department.
Stations to be closed at 10 o'clock p. m.
All games must cease at 10 o'clock p. m., and the sta-
tions be closed at that hour, to permit the permanent men,
and those detailed to sleep in the station, to retire undis-
turbed.
None of the stations will be open after the above hour
(excepting in case of an alarm of fire) without permission
of the chief or a member of the board of engineers,
although stations may be kept open on Saturday evenings
until 11 o'clock.
No spirituous or malt liquors shall be allow^ed in or
about any of the fire stations, and any member of the fire
department seen intoxicated at any fire or alarm of fire,
or w^ho shall be known to frequent places where liquors
are sold, during the progress of a fire, or whenever in uni-
form, shall be subject to reprimand, or dismissal, as the
board of engineers may determine.
Any permanent member visiting any liquor saloon in
uniform, except in the performance of his duty as a mem-
ber of the fire department, or who is intoxicated or visits
places where intoxicating liquors are sold, while on duty,
shall be suspended, or discharged, as the board of engi-
neers may determine.
Commanding officers of companies, having knowledge
of the violation of the foregoing rules, will suspend the
offender, and report the same to the chief, or board of
engineers.
298 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
The permanent men sliall exercise a careful supervi-
sion over the sleeping apartments, see that the rooms are
put in order and the beds made as early as 11 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 care-
lessness. After 10 p. M. occupants shall refrain from
loud talking or in any manner disturbing the rest of any
who have retired.
Absent from City or Station.
No permanent member shall leave his station to visit
any section of the city without permission of the chief or
an assistant engineer, or leave the city, or be granted
leave of absence, without notifying the chief engineer
and procuring a substitute to his acceptance, and the sub-
stitute shall be on duty before the applicant leaves his
post, except on his regular "day off."
Any call memher expecting to he absent from the city shall
notify the captain of his company, and before leaving the city
sliall procure a substitute satisfactory to said captain.
Any member of the department not complying with the
above rules shall be liable to suspension or expulsion
from the department.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 299
DAYS OFF.
Name.
Company.
03 fl
pa
Name.
Company.
9
10
n
12
13
14
15
16
Hall
Harvey ....
Barker
Parsons *. . .
Gould
Truell
Rowe
Dyer
Denyou
Pherson
Porter
Richardson .
Walker
Piper
Wheeler
McLeod
Engine 1.
1.
" 1.
Hose 1.
Engine i.
4.
" 4.
Truck 1.
" 1.
" 1.
Chemical 1.
" 1.
Engine & Ladder 3,
3.
3.
" " 3.
Porter . . . . .
Seaward . .
Morse
Smith
Cann
Hubbell...
Morrill
Lane
Whitcomb
Edgar
Foster
Cann
Crosby*...
Rogers*...,
Sloan*
Bng. & Ladders.
Hose 2.
Eng. & Ladder 5.
" " 5.
" " 5.
" 5.
Engine 2.
Eng. & Ladder 6.
Hose 3.
" 3.
*In February Crosby will take the 16th, and Rogers the 26th; in July Par-
sons will take the 14th; and in February, April, June, September, and No-
.vember, Sloan -will take the 27th.
The hour of leaving will be 7 o'clock a. m., and mem-
bers will not leave their station until the arrival of the
spare driver. They must report promptltj at 7 O'clock the
following morning for duty.
Those whose breakfast hour is 6 o'clock will remain at
station until 7 o'clock on the date of their ''day off."
Should a fire be in progress at the hour of changes, men
will remain on duty until the ''all out" is given, except
permission is obtained of the chief, or engineer in charge
of fire, to retire.
Should a "general" or third alarm be rung in while
members are in town, they will be expected to report for
duty.
SOO ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
On the "day off" of the engineer of a steamer, the
assistant engineer shall, on his arrival at the fire, act as
engineer.
The time of change from first and second run will be
made at 7 o'clock a. m.
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, due
care being exercised as to whether their services are
needed.
ESTIMATED VALUE OF PROPERTY.
Engine No. 1.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
1 first-size Amoskeag steamer |4,000.00
1 one-horse wagon 400.00
3 gray horses for steamer 085.00
1 gray horse for hose wagon 22.5.00
4 swinging harnesses 200.00
1 pair double exercise harnesses .50.00
1 single exercise harness 40.00
2,200 feet fabric hose 1,100.00
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc ., 80.00
Tools, furniture, and fixtures 200.00
Firemen's suits and badges 200.00
Total amount ~ |7,110.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 301
Engine No. 2.
LOCATED AT ^'ORTH MAIN STREET, 'SQUOG.
1 second-size Amoskeag steamer $4,000.00
1 hose wagon 000.00
1 exercise wagon, poles, shafts, and three-
horse hitch 340.00
3 bay horses for steamer G17.00
1 pair gray horses for hose wagon 450.00
3 exercise harnesses, 2 at $40, 1 at |20 100.00
5 swinging harnesses 250.00
1 double sled 60.00
2,900 feet fabric hose 1,450.00
Stable fixtures and blankets 94.00
Furniture, fixtures, carpets, etc 466.00
Firemen's suits and badges 150.00
Total amount |8,577.00
Engine and Ladder No. 3.
LOCATED ON LAKE AVENUE, CORNER MASSABESIC STREET.
1 second-size Amoskeag steamer $3,500.00
1 two-horse hose wagon 400.00
1 two-horse truck and equipments 1,700.00
1 three-horse hitch attachment (extra) . . . 200.00
1 pair black horses for steamer 250.00
1 pair bay horses for hose wagon 400.00
1 pair bay horses for truck 400.00
3 exercise harnesses, 2 at $50, 1 at |40 140.00
6 swinging harnesses 300.00
3,400 feet fabric hose 1,700.00
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc 80.00
Beds, bedding, carpets, hall furniture, etc. 575.00
Firemen's suits and badges 200.00
1 exercise wagon 292.50
Total amount $10,137.50
302 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Engine No. 4.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
1 first-size Amoskeag steamer 14,200.00
1 hose wagon 400.00
3 horses for steamer 600.00
1 horse for hose wagon 200.00
3 exercise harnesses 60.00
4 swinging harnesses 200.00
2,800 feet fabric hose 1,400.00
Hall furniture, beds, bedding, etc 275.00
Stable fixtures and blankets 75.00
Firemen's suits and badges 150.00
Total amount |4,560.00
Engine and Ladder No. 5.
LOCATED ON WEBSTER STREET, CORNER CHESTNUT.
1 third-size Amoskeag steamer $3,600.00
1 two-wheeled Amoskeag hose carriage.. 600.00
1 steel frame ladder truck 1,650.00
1 pair bay horses for steamer 500.00
1 pair bay horses for truck 400.00
1 bay horse for hose carriage 200.00
1 exercise wagon 325.00
1 double sled 50.00
5 swinging harnesses 250.00
2 pairs exercise harnesses 100.00
2,550 feet fabric hose 1,275.00
Bedding, furniture, tools, etc 247.00
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc 90.00
Firemen's suits, badges, etc 200.00
Total amount 19,487.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 303
Engine and Ladder No. 6.
LOCATED AT CORNER AMORY AND RIMMON STREETS.
1 second-size Amoskeag steamer $3,500.00
1 hook-and-ladder truck (with Bangor ex-
tension) 1,680.00
1 one-liorse carriage GOO. 00
2 gray horses for steamer 400.00
2 bay horses for truck 267.00
1 gray horse for hose carriage 200.00
5 swinging harnesses 250.00
2,000 feet fabric hose 1,000.00
Hall furniture, carpets, beds, bedding, etc. 375.00
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc 85.00
Firemen's suits and badges 187.00
1 exercise wagon 290.50
Total amount |8,835.50
Hose No. 1 .
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
1 four-wheeled Amoskeag hose carriage . . |600.00
2 horses 500.00
2 single harnesses 70.00
1 single sled 40.00
1 hose sled 20.00
2,000 feet fabric hose 1,000.00
Furniture and fixtures 200.00
Beds, bedding, etc 60.00
Stable fixtures and blankets 50.00
Firemen's suits and badges 120.00
Total amount $2,660.00
304 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Hose No. 2.
LOCATED ON MAPLE STREET, CORNER EAST HIGH.
1 four-wheeled Amoskeag hose carriage. . |G00.00
1 bay horse 150.00
1 exercise harness 30.00
1 swinging harness ; 50.00
1 exercise wagon 325.00
1,900 feet fabric hose ' 950.00
150 feet leather hose 60.00
Furniture and fixtures 100.00
Firemen's suits and badges 120.00
Total amount |2,385.00
Hose No. 3.
LOCATED ON SOUTH ELM STREET, BAKERSVILLE.
1 combination hose wagon (with ladders) ^1,000.00
1 pair gray horses 400.00
1 pair swinging harnesses 100.00
1 pair exercise harnesses 50.00
1 exercise wagon 50.00
2,000 feet fabric hose 1,000.00
Furniture, fixtures, bedding, etc 85.00
Stable fixtures, blankets, etc 05.00
Firemen's suits and badges 80.00
Total amount |2,830.00
Hook-and-Ladder No. 1.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
1 aerial hook-and4adder truck $4,200.00
3 horses : 800.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 305«
3 exercise harnesses 150.00'
3 swinging harnesses 150.00
2 extra Bangor extension Ladders 300.00'
7 rubber blanlvet covers 168.00
Furniture and fixtures 200.00-
Beds, bedding, and furniture 75.00
Stable fixtures and bhmkets 60.00
Firemen's suits and badges 150.00
Total amount $6,213.00
Chemical Engine No. 1.
LOCATED ON VINE STREET.
1 double tank (60 gallons each) engine |2,250.0O
1 pair black horses 400.00
1 pair exercise harnesses 50.00
1 pair swinging harnesses lOO.OO
Furniture and fixtures 75.00
Stable fixtures and blankets 50.00
Firemen's suits and badges 35.00
V
Total amount |2,960.0O
Supply Wagon.
1 supply w^agon, with boxes and engineers'
lanterns $250.00
Spare Hose.
AT CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
200 feet leather hose flOO.OO
500 feet fabric hose 250.00
Total amount $350.00
20
306 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Exercise Wagon.
AT CENTRAL STATION, VINfi STREET.
1 four-wheeled exercise wagon with pole,
shafts, three-horse hitch, and coal boxes . . |350.00
E. W. Harrington Steam Fire Engine.
STOKED AT SHEDS OF ENGINE NO. 2.
Old U tank Amoskeag engine (may be worth
for exchange) $250.00
Engineer's Department.
Five engineers' white rubber coats 137.50
Furniture and fixtures 150.00
Total amount $187.50
Riverside Hose Co. No, 5.
LOCATED AT CORNER OF OLD FALLS ROAD AND FRONT STREET.
1 four-wheeled hose carriage $100.00
800 feet leather hose 300.00
2 hose-pipes, spanners, etc 40.00
Furniture and fixtures 10.00
Total amount $750.00
Hallsville (Independent) Hose.
LOCATED AT CORNER OP MAMMOTH ROAD AND MASSABESIC
STREET.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage $30.00
500 feet leather hose 150.00
Nozzle, wrenches, etc 15.00
Total amount $195.00
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER. 307
Goffe's Falls Hose Carriage.
LOCATED AT DEVONSHIRE MILLS.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage |30.00
2 hose-pipes 10.00
Total amount |40.00
Pond Road Hose Carriage.
LOCATED IN BASEMENT OF W. P. FAEMBR'S BARN.
1 two-wheeled hose carriage |30.00
500 feet leather hose 150.00
Total amount $180.00
Sleeping-Hall.
AT CENTRAL STATION, VINE STREET.
6 beds, bedding, wardrobes, etc 1260.00
Extra Horse.
1 steel gray horse $150.00
Fire Alarm Telegraph.
At cost, including additions previous to 1885. . |21,625.00
.Remodeling in 1885 6,000.00
''Individual tapper" system 4,000.00
Additions from 1886 to 1897 (inclusive) 3,635.00
Wire, ladders, arms, brackets, etc 200.00
135,460.00
308 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
Recapitulation.
Engine No. 1 |7,110.00
Engine No. 2 8,577.00
Engine and Ladder No. 3 10,137.50
Engine No. 1 7,560.00
Engine and Ladder No. 5 9,487.00
Engine and Ladder No. 6 8,835.50
Harrington Engine (old) 250.00
Hose No. 1 2,060.00
Hose No. 2 2,385.00
Hose No. 3 2,830.00
Hook-and-Ladder No. 1 , 6,213.00
Chemical No. 1 2,960.00
Supply wagon 250.00
Spare hose 350.00
Exercise wagon (Central station) 350.00
Engineer's department 187.50
Riverside Hose No. 5 750.00
Hallsville Hose 195.00
Goffe's Falls Hose 40.00
Pond road Hose 180.00
Sleeping Hall 260.00
Extra horse 150.00
Fire-Alarm Telegraph ' 35,460.00
Total 1107,177.50
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
309
BOARD OF ENGINEERS.
«
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
1
Thomas W. Lane
Fred S Bean
Chief
1937 Elm.
2
Asst. and clerk
Assistant
Machinist
Carpenter
Supt. Elec. Light
Grain dealer ....
102 Orange.
55 Douglas.
N. River road,
414 Merrimack
3
4
5
Ruel G. Manning
Eugene S. Whitney
Clarence R. Merrill ....
ENGINE COMPANY No. 1.
House, 28 Vine Street.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
7
Charles F. McCoy
Captain
Machinist
50 Mechanic.
8
Frank E. Stearns
Lieutenant ....
Paper hanger. ..
2S9 Lake ave.
IS
James L. Brock
Clerk
Tinsmith .... —
21 Market.
6
Charles F.Hall
Engineer
Engineer
28 Vine.
14
Asst. engineer
Driver engine.
Clerk
11
Frank H. Harvey
Teamster
28 Vine.
12
Artemas C. Barker —
Driver hose...
28 Vine.
43
Frank B. Marston
Hoseman
Carpenter
14 Mechanic.
15
Thomas J. Wyatt
26 Mechanic.
9
Lewis G. Bryant
1451 Elm.
10
297 Bridge.
43 Nashua.
17
Melvin Walker
Carpenter
19
Charles H. Eraser
9 Mechanic.
13
Nate M. Kellogg
Printer
1937 Elm.
310
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ENGINE COMPANY No. 2.
House on North Main Street, 'Squog.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
71
Charles G. Ranno
Captain
Harness-maker .
270 So. Main.
68
George P. Ames
Lieutenant....
Supt. Streets ....
210 No. Main.
76
120
Jeremiah Lane
Harry C. Morrill
Clerk and dri-
ver of engine.
Engineer
Teamster
Engineer
210 No. Main.
53 Beauport.
119
Stephen Thomes
Asst. engineer.
Carpenter
55 Douglas.
69
Arthur W. Whitcomb.
Driver of hose.
Teamster
151 Douglas.
7?-
Samuel A. Hill
Hoseman
Carpenter
86 School.
75
Robert J. Hill
It
86 School.
77
Daniel B. Emery
Machinist
Williams.
73
Charles S. Cousins ....
Harness-maker.
151 Douglas.
74
Thomas C . Foote
Wool sorter
56 No. Main.
66
Joseph H. Alsop
Wool waste sort'r
54 Douglas.
70
Chas. M. Tewksbury . .
Clerk, B.&M.RR
113 Parker.
97
Truckman
431 Granite.
REPOKT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER,
311
ENGINE AND LADDER COMPANY No. 3.
House on Lake Avenue, corner Massabesic.
5?5
P3
NAME.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
86
Frank F. Porter
Captain
Manufacturer. . .
.330 E. Spruce.
97
Edwin C.Paul
Lieut, engine..
Lieut, ot truck
Collector
Overseer .
372 Lake ave.
98
John N. Chase
462 Belmont.
US
Orren S. Coburn
Clerk
Clerk
386 Central.
122
John P. Walker
Engineer
Machinist
430 Lake ave.
121
Geo. B. Forsaith
Asst. engineer.
Engineer
455 Hanover.
87
Geo. H. "Wheeler
Driver engine.
Teamster
384 E. Spruce.
81
William S. McLeod. . . .
Driver hose...
415 Lake ave.
8",
Lyman W. Piper
John Wilson
114
Fireman
Carpenter
19 Warren.
110
Albert W. Smith
Clerk
331Merrimack
S't
Walter M. Moulton. . . .
80
Clarence Hackett
Laundryman....
401 Central.
R'l
John W. Finn
Pain ter
501 Wilson.
88
George Taylor
78
George Dunnington. . .
Harness-maker .
401 Manch'er.
79
Lewis N. Dufrain
Parker R. Brown :
Edson F. Wy man
373 Hall.
89
Clerk
422Merrini ack
153
Manufacturer . . .
389 Lake ave.
105
Herbert E. Dunbar —
Clerk
810 Central.
S12
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ENGINE COMPANY No. 4.
House, N'o. 20 Vine Street.
60 •
■a o
•pa
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
20
Lucius B. Snelllng
Captain
Pharmacist
103 Walnut.
-.28
JolmH. Wales, Jr
Lieutenant —
Brick mason ....
19 M. S. B.
7,^
Thos. W. Lane, Jr
Clerk
Electrician
1937 Elm.
21
Joseph H. Gould
Engineer
Machinist
20 Vine.
27
Edward Sargent
Asst. engineer
Machinist
20 Vine.
31
Jesse W. Truell
Driver engine.
Teamster
20 Vine.
29
Ellsworth V. Rowe —
Driver of hose.
Teamster
20 Vine.
22
Walter A. Clarkson . ..
Hoseman
Carpenter
Walnut.
25
Clerk
20 Gore.
23
George Thompson —
Harvey E. Harris
Clerk
215 Salmon.
24
Laundryman —
414 Manches'r
3?.
Luther A. Knight
Engineer
16 Stark.
30
James C. Newton
Machinist
20 Vine.
26
Alfred Gustaf son
Machinist
20 Vine.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
313
ENGINE AND LADDER COMPANY No. 5.
House, No. 44 Webster Street.
pa
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
49
Charles W. Brown
Captain
Clerk
16 Hazel.
101
Milo B. Wilson
George N. Burpee
48 Blodget.
136 Sagamore.
162
Lieut, engine..
Electrician
4f>
Woodbury Davison . . .
Clerk
Carpenter
Macliinist
Engineer
817 Union.
lO'T
Engineer
Asst. engineer
54 Appleton.
42
Daniel W. Morse
1419 Elm.
195
Emil H. Smith
Driver engine.
Driver truck. .
Teamster
44 Webster.
124
Banjamin C. Cann
44 Webster.
83
Ernest E. Hubbell
Driver hose...
44 Webster.
47
Russell L.Cilley
Edward H. Clough....
Alvin McLane
Clerk
863 Chestnut
95
(1
859 Chestnut.
126
Carpenter
15 Liberty.
108
Clerk
123
Charles H. Gile
Carpenter
896 Union.
<»9
41
Frank A. Kinne
Machinist
75 Sagamore.
160
George E. Badger
Steam fitter
55 Pennacook
161
Irving S. Bryant
Second hand
884 Union.
158
Andrew S. Fantom
Cigar-maker
1443 Elm.
159
Clarence D. Parker
Clerk
314
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
ENGINE AND LADDER COMPANY No. 6.
Bouse on Amory and Rimmon Streets.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
140
Frank W. Tebb'etts
Captain
Loom- fixer
312 Cartier.
147
James A. Farley
Lieut, engine..
Machinist
385 Dubuque.
142
Frank St. John
Lieut, truck. . .
Marble finisher .
15 Beauport.
137
William H. Marshall . .
Clerk
Leverman
22 Quincy.
132
Charles Edgar
Engineer
Asst. engineer.
Engineer
Machinist
Engine house.
516 Beauport.
133
Alcide Provencher —
134
Alphonso E. Foster . . .
Driver engine.
Carpenter
Engine house.
135
George A. Cann
Driver hose...
Steam-fitter
It ti
136
Henry C. Crosby
Driver truck. .
Teamster
It II
129
Hoseman
Machinist
624 N. Main.
138
258 Beauport.
268 Beauport.
141
John J. Conroy
«
Blacksmith
H?
<(
Blacksmith
393 Hevey.
516 Beauport.
144
Arthur Provost
It
Wool sorter
145
John E. Herring
Loom-fixer
402 Rimmon.
131
„
1?8
John H. McCabe
„
Clerk
310 N. Main.
139
146
(t
370 Cartier.
Richard P. Gal way....
'<
Cigar-maker
460 N. Main.
130
•1
Loom-flxer
377 Rimmon.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
315
HOSE COMPANY NO. 1.
House, No. 26 VinelStreet.
-So
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
Joseph E. Merrill
John E. Sanhorn
Albert A. Puffer
Henry C . Parsons
Charles B. French
Samuel W. Patten
George I. Ayer
Edwin W. Merrill
Charles J. Willey
Andrew S. Heath
George W. Snadden...
WillH. Nelson
Captain
Lieutenant .
Clerk
Driver
Hoseman....
Currier
Carpenter .
Teamster.
Carpenter
Belt maker
Electrician
Clerk
Mechanic
Clerk
Plumber
Gas-works emp.
21 Ash.
499; Beech.
16 Prospect.
39 M. S. B.
3M. S.B.
28 M. S. B.
21 Ash.
283 East High.
373 Bridge.
100 Brook.
HOSE COMPANY NO. 2.
House on Maple Street, corner East High.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
54
John F. Seaward
Captain
Carpenter
27 Warren.
55
Revilo G. Houghton..
Lieutenant —
Gas fitter
288 Bridge.
59
57
62
60
Jos. W. Batchelder ...
Walter Seaward
Julien B. Huntley
Charles W. Powell —
Clerk
Carpenter
521 Maple.
521 Maple.
35 Dutton.
Carpenter
540 Maple.
61
Addison Seaward
255 Bridge.
56
Arthur B. Merrill
327 Amherst.
63
James A. Rogers
761 Beech.
65
58
„
245 Lowell.
Thomas Smith
"
Cal'penter
24 South.
64
Melvin W. Worthen . .
"
"
22 Jane.
816
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
HOSE COMPANY NO. 3.
House, South Elm Street.
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
150
Fred S Sloan
Captain
Clerk
Fireman
23 Elm.
151
152
34 Brown ave .
Charles H. Rogers —
Driver
23 Elm.
153
James H. McKenzie . .
Hoseman
Sash-maker
Elm.
154
William P.Hall
"
39 Elm.
155
Henry O. Follansbee .
Gas-maker
205 Elm. .
156
William E. Pierson .. .
Foreman
122 Willow.
157
Frank D. Hardy
"
Yard biakeman.
20 Cheney plc.
CHEMICAL ENGINE COMPANY NO. 1.
House, No. 8 Vine Street.
pa
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
115
116
Edward A. Sears
Clarence D. Palmer ..
Benj. R. Richardson. .
George H. Porter
Asa W. Gage*
Captain
Clerk
Electrician
Marble dealer. . .
Machinist
Carpenter
Lineman
247 Concord.
355 Lake are.'
103
8 Vine.
117
44
Pipeman
8 Vine.
239 Beauport.
* Detailed as driver of supply wagon.
REPORT OF THE FIRE ENGINEER.
317
HOOK-AND-LADDER COMPANY NO. 1.
House, 18 Vine Street.
•^2
Name.
Rank.
Occupation.
Residence.
m
Captain
Lieutenant ... .
18 Vine
92
Oscar P. Stone
Clerk
312 Manchest'r
100
Frank M. Frisselle ....
Cliarles M. Denyou. . .
Jerome J. Lovering ..
Clerk
Editor
58 Myrtle.
04
Driver
Teamster
18 Vine
91
Fii'eman
Carpenter
175 Hanover.
104
Harrison H. Cole
45 M. S. B.
109
George M. Jones
Gardener
25 Prospect.
107
Manufacturer ...
Carpenter
18 Vine.
49 Jane.
113
Charles H. Laxon
90
Henry Johnson
Steam-fitter
316 Walnut.
119
Chas. A. Butterfleld . . .
Carpenter
26 Vine.
118
Frank A. Pherson ....
Machinist
18 Vine.
9S
Fred W. Bond
46 Stark.
1480 Elm.
106
Benj. F. Marsh
Carpenter
96
Louis F. Kettle
40 Orange.
REPORT
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
REPORT
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.
To the Hchool Board and by said Board to tlie City Councils:
The following is presented as tlie fifty-first annual
report of the public schools of the city of Manchester, the
same also being- the forty-second report of the superin-
tendent of public instruction, the twenty-first of the pres-
ent incumbent, and his final report for the year 1897 :
ORGANIZATION OP THE DAY SCHOOLS.
By a recent amendment to the Public Statutes, the
school year for all public schools throughout the state
has been made to comprise the months between two suc-
cessive Augusts. The state superintendent of public
instruction accordingly requires that our annual school
statistics shall be compiled and returned to him annually
by the first of August, and that the}^ shall represent the
results for the year preceding.
The following, therefore, shows the organization of our
public day schools from August, 189G, to August, 1897.
The average number of schools for the entire year was
114, reckoned as follows: The equivalent of 9 rooms of
high-school grade, 1 more than last year; 29 grammar-
321
21
322 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
school divisions, 1 more tlian last year*; 25 middle
schools, four more than last yearf ; forty-three primary
schools, the same as last year:|: ; 2 partially graded schools;
5 ungraded schools; and 1 manual training school.
The total enrollment of different pupils for the year
ending August 1 was 5,501. This is only 119 more in
the general enrollment than for the year previous; but the
average number belonging, the number for which seating
capacity must be provided, was this year 214 larger than
last year. Of this increase 20 entered the High school
and 194 the lower grades. The small increase in the
total enrollment, together with an increase larger than
usual in the average number belonging, indicates that
our school population may be becoming more stable, or
less floating. The 194 pupils who represent the increase
that entered the grades below the High school occasioned
the employment of five of the six additional teachers
employed this year, — the 194 additional pupils affording
an average of 39 pupils to each of the five new teachers.
There were employed for the care of the 114 day schools
throughout the year: Seven male principals of large
schools; a lady principal and a general assistant (2)§ for
the care of the Training school for teachers; 109 class-
room teachers, T[ of whom eleven ladies were also princi-
pals of schools containing two or more rooms; and three
special teachers of music and drawing; or, in all, 121
teachers for the entire year.
* At the Webster-sti'eet school. The formation of a fourth grammar-school
division at the Ifallsville school was offset by the discontinuance of an extra
fourth grammar division at the Varney school.
t A Bakersville primary of last year became a middle grade this year, and
a like change occurred at the Pearl-street school. To these two new middle
grades there should be added two other new middle grades for the year at
Ihe Wilson school.
XA new primary grade in the Varney school and another new one in the
Wilson school are offset by the two primaries of last year, which this year
became middle grades.
§ Aided by the young ladies constituting the sub-teachers' classes, who had
charge of the several classrooms.
ITOf these 109 four are males, two sub-masters in the High school, the teacher
at Youngsville, and the teacher of the manual training school.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 323
THE HIGH SCHOOL.
An eminent educator has written: "The common
schools have produced the best results where the means
of higher education hare been most plentiful. Educa-
tional improvement works from the top downward, and
not from the bottom upward; and the common school is
always feeble where high schools, academies, and colleges
are wanting."
Colleges, as heads of educational influence, stimulate a
healthful ambition for the attainment of advanced schol-
arship. This leads to the establishment and maintenance
of high schools, which in turn become centers of local
educational interest and influence. The high schools,
constantly uplifted by the requirements of the colleges,
themselves not only modify the courses of study of the
common schools, but also furnish a large majority of the
teachers of the common schools with their higher edu-
cation.
Hence, it is doubtless true that Dartmouth College, by
its influence upon and through our High school, deter-
mines the character of our lower-grade schools much
more largely than do our lower-grade schools determine
the character of our High school. It is thus seen that
a good high school is necessary to the existence of a first-
class system of graded schools, and must be pre-eminent
therein.
The time, however, is fortunately past for need of any
argument to maintain a place in our system for the high
school. Its importance has never been more fully ac-
knowiedged and recognized than within the past year.
The elegant new schoolhouse that the city government
has provided for the home of the High school in this city
is the pride of the whole community, and generally be-
lieved to be the best possible public investment that
could be made either for the present generation or for
324 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
those to folIoAv; likely, also, to prove a most ijrofit-
able financial investment because of its influence upon the
city's growth and consequent tax-yielding power.
Much credit for our admirable high-school building is
due to the chairman of this board, who, as mayor, had
the opportunity that he so wisely improved to secure a
building not only fit for present needs but one that will
prove sufficiently commodious and materially satisfac-
tory for many years, but also, in the meantime, itself be
a potent educator because of its imposing jn'oportions and
artistic accessories.
A description of the new high-school building, and an
account of its dedication, will be found at the end of this
report.
The High school was for two years housed in the Straw
schoolhouse, while the new high-school building was
being erected. During this period the school, for lack of
sufficient rooms, was obliged to drop the study of chem-
istry and of drawing; otherwise the school was about as
well accommodated in the Straw schoolhouse as in the
old high-school building.
At the opening of the fall term last September, the
High school was transferred back to its former location,
and housed in the new building there provided for it.
The new schoolhouse evidently api^eared so well
adapted to high-school purposes that nearly all who could
take one of the high-school courses seemed to seize the
opportunity; and, as a consequence, the High school
enrolled 405 pupils the past term, this being 82 more than
during the fall term last year. The 405 enrolled This
fall also constitutes the largest enrollment, by 82, in the
history of the school.
The High school was this fall speedily adjusted to its
new quarters, and admirably arranged, because of much
prior thought and study of the problem by the principal
before the opening of the term. Now that pupils will
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no longer study in an assembly hall, each teacher will
have in constant charge a class studying as well as one
reciting. For proper results under such conditions,
skilled teachers must be had. Hence I would empha-
size my recommendation of last year that only experi-
enced teachers of known success should be employed in
the High school; nor will there be serious difficulty in
securing them, for they can be had even for the smallest
salaries paid in our school. The study of chemistry and
of drawing has been resumed, and all the studies will
have received such treatment by July as will put the
school in readiness at the opening of the fall term for
the addition of courses in stenography and typewriting,
recommended in my report of last year for reasons therein
set forth.
The high-school course of study might be printed in a
form that would better indicate its practical application;
and, in doing this, opportunity for strengthening the
course in the study of the English language should be
taken.
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR TEACHERS.
This school is also of pre-eminent importance to our
school system, and it long since justified its right to exist;
but, as I gave an extended account of its formation, organ-
ization, and growth in the semi-centennial report of last
year, I deem it unnecessary so soon again to rehearse its
history.
During the past year, the school has been in excelleilt
condition; the princii)ars health has enabled her con-
stantly to stay by the school, and give it the benefit of
full services; the chairman of its sub-committee has for-
tunately been so circumstanced that he has been able to
give -the school comparatively unusual attention, much
to its advantage; and the new plan of selecting sub-
teachers has markedly improved the general tone and
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character of the material out of which our teachers
largely emerge.
The sub-teachers who entered the school last February
have constituted one of the strongest classes in the school
for many years. The members were selected in accord-
ance with a new plan, which is substantially as follows:
Candidates, upon application for admission to the
school, are at once expected to write and return answers
to the following questions, furnished in proper blank
form :
1. Do your parents reside in Manchester, N. H.?
How long have you resided here? If your parents are
not now living here, did they ever have a voting or tax-
paying residence in this city? How long since? For
how long a time?
2. In what town (or city) were you chiefly schooled?
In what school did you finish your common (or grammar)
school education? In what year? In what high school,
academy, or college did you finish your higher education?
In what year?
3. Are you a graduate of the Manchester, N. H., High
school? If so, in what year? In which of its courses of
study? How many years did you pursue it?
4. What experience, if any, have you had in teaching?
For what grade of school do you now propose to fit your-
self as a teacher? (The answer to this will not prevent a
change of choice.)
5. Are you to any degree deaf? Have you any eye
trouble? If so, is it so far remedied that you can readily
see average sized blackboard writing twenty feet away
from you, and at once looking at ordinary book print in
hand prompty read it? How many hours for five consec-
utive days, weekly, can you daily average being upon
your feet (standing, walking, or both) without becom-
ing unduly fatigued? Are you subject to any throat
trouble?
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G. State the frequency of your absences from school
during the last two years of your attendance on account
of ill health. Indicate this by stating the probable aver-
age number of times you think the school records would
show the fact per week, month, term, or jeav.
7. Since leaving school have you gained or lost in
respect to power of physical endurance? For the last six
months have you in general been well and strong or deli-
cate and somewhat physically weak?
8. To w^hat three or more teachers, clergymen, physi-
cians, or other well-known persons do you refer as ones
knowing your personal characteristics sufficiently well
to testify as to your character, habits, temperament, etc.?
9. Indicate whether you prefer to enter the Training
school in the month of September or February, and in
what year, also.
Signature, . Age,
The sheets containing replies to the foregoing questions
are kept on file at the office of the superintendent of
schools. He investigates the scholarship record of each
candidate during the last year in the grammar school,
also during the whole course through the high school*;
he makes a record of the results on her sheet containing
replies to the questions submitted in the preceding par-
agraph.
Candidates to the number of four, five, or six, according
to the condition of the Training school, are admited to it
at the opening of the fall term in September, and also at
the time of making the mid-winter promotions, — about
the first of February. Accordingly, in July or August,
and again in January, all candidates who may have re-
turned written answers to the questions before named
are notified to appear before the sub-committee of the
Training school for a personal interview. Though there
* Extract from Regulations of the School Committee, chapter 5, section 2 :
"Candidates for admission to the Training school must be graduates of some
high school or an equivalent."
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are likely to be from fifteen to thirty present, each candi-
date is interviewed separately and privately, — the com-
mittee havinj; before them the sheet containing' the can-
didate's scholarship record, and also her written state-
ment in regard to health, purposes, etc. All the candi-
dates are dismissed as soon as individually interviewed,
and the committee, as soon as through with the inter-
view, proceed to select a sub-teachers' class of four to
six, to enter the Training school soon thereafter.
Thus an effort is made to select the most meritorious
of all the candidates seeking admission to the Training
school, whenever a beginners' class is therein to be organ-
ized, and the plan has thus far shown great superiority
over any other heretofore tried.
It may, therefore, be reasonably expected that the
Training school will henceforth graduate more healthy,
mentally stronger, and consequently better prepared
teachers than it has before averaged. This should prove
highly important, for the large majority of our lady
teachers have for many years been selected from among
the graduates of this school,* and much to the advantage
of our public schools, which would have looked elsewhere
in vain for their equals, salaries paid in the grades they
have taught being considered, — though these have been
fairl}' satisfactory in recent years.
In concluding this subject, I may say that of the 102
lady teachers in our schools this fall, not including any
lady teachers in the High or in the Training school, 01)
of them, or 68 per cent of the lady teachers of our gram-
mar and lower grade schools, are graduates of our city
Training school for teachers; and the average has been
* Extract from Rules of the School ConiTnittee, chapter 3, section 3 : " When
an additional teacher is required or a vacancy is to be filled, the sub-com-
mittee of the respective schools shall nominate to the board one or more per
sons qualified for the position to be filled, and the board shall then proceed
to a choice, by ballot if more than one candidate is nominated. Qualifications
being equal, preference shall be given to graduates of the Manchester
Training school."
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about 70 per cent for the several terms computed in vari-
ous years. Hence it may be seen that our schools must
in a great degree be affected by the instruction afforded
in the Training school, and how important, therefore, it
is that this school be kept in first-class condition.
MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL.
In a sense the high school, the training school for
teachers, and the manual training school may be regarded
as special schools. Each is distinct from every other
school in our system, in respect to both the work and the
office which each has to perform. The high school treats
of advanced scholarship and a broader culture; it leads
to investigation and strength of character, and by reason
of the nature of its work it uplifts and inspires the lower
schools to higher aims and better results. The training
school for teachers not only makes teachers of high-
school graduates, but (through the teachers it makes) the
training school also in a high degree determines the char-
acter of the schools taught by its graduates. The manual
training school "emphasizes sense activity and seeks to
apply this principle wiiile instructing in other branches" ;
and, to quote a distinguished writer upon this subject,
the leading purposes of manual training .in the schools are
"to stimulate correctness of perception, soundness of
judgment, taste in design, ingenuity in overcoming diffi-
culties, deftness in manipulation, and neatness of wrought
as well as of written w^ork ; to give the pupil the power to
do things, as well as to think and to talk about them;
to pay a premium on energy, diligence, originality, and
manliness; to place a barrier against idleness as the be-
ginning of all crimes, and save the boy from incompetence
and dishonesty; to keep the boys in school until the high-
school course is completed; to reduce the difficulty of dis-
cipline to a minimum; to awaken and sharpen attention,
and give children an appreciation of, and love for, order
330 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
and exactness; to accustom the pupil to do thoroughly
and well whatever he undertakes; to foster habits of
observation, accuracy, and perseverance; to lay the foun-
dation for many trades by presentation and mastery of
principles that underlie all trades; to provide a third
mode of expressing thought through forms represented
and things produced; to produce more complete, and
therefore more competent, men by educating all the
powers of every boy; to take away the bitterness of the
boy who is dull with his books and ready with his hands,
because it teaches him to see that he is good for some-
thing; to restore his confidence, quicken his interest in
school, save his self-respect, and open a welcome door
into practical life; to make the boy who chooses a
learned profession a more useful and broad-minded citi-
zen; to teach the future man to know, love, and respect
labor, to appreciate correctly the value of labor products,
and to comprehend the social value of laboring people.'^
Our manual training school is suffering for lack of suffi-
cient room and for want of sufficient equipment. I can-
not better state the case than as I wrote it last year, for
the conditions now are substantially the same as then :
"When the manual training school was first opened,
it was equipped only for such instruction as could be
afforded beginners in the use of tools. The school has
now been in existence four years and one term. Some of
the bo3's who entered the manual training school when it
was first opened are still members of it, though now high-
school pupils. These, as well as those doing second year
work in this school, are in sore need of more extended
facilities for practice in the use of tools. The manual
training school cannot longer be carried on in the most
profitable manner without increased facilities for prop-
erly advancing its work, as originally intended. Doubt-
ers of the utility of this school, before hesitating to give
it loyal support, will do well to read the School Report of
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1891 (pages 23, 24, etc.), the Report of 1893 (page 42), the
Report of 1894 (pages 18, 19, etc.), and school reports of
other cities in which the shop form of manual training has
been employed; and still more especially should doubters
consult the parents of the three hundred (and more) pupils
who have patronized the school in this city.
''The first additional need of the manual training school
is more room. This may be had at the Lowell-street
house by transferring one of the primary schools there to
the Straw schoolhouse, now available for elementary
schools. The next need of the manual training school is
an equipment of three or four wood-turning lathes and a
band saw, with electrical or other power. Wood turning
is one of the very best features which can be introduced
into this line of school work. It is of a character which
brings a pupil to the necessity of thought and study; it
teaches self-reliance and trains the eye to see and the
hand to perform difScult work with precision. Pattern
making affords excellent training; it has a practical bear-
ing, also, upon the industries, and will be undertaken if
proper facilities are granted.
"Wood carving has already received some attention,
of which specimens can b§ seen at the school ; so, also, of
writing-desks, bookcases, and four chess boards elegantly
inlaid in different patterns, also an abundance of joint
forms and other elementary work.
"The manual training school has a fully competent and
deeply interested teacher, who has given many extra
hours of service to the school. The school is also under
the charge of a committee whose chairman is especially
well equipped for the oversight of such an institution.
The school is only in need of an adequate appropriation
to make its work a grand success."
Twenty-five hundred dollars are needed for additional
equipment in the manual training school, and to pay its
other expenses, during the coming year. The appropri-
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ations for support of the public schools are determined
bv the city government, and it seems strange that the
members of the city councils who are supposed especially
to represent and care for the interests of the common peo-
ple should at this point have last year failed to meet the
request of this board for the appropriation needed prop-
erly to equip the manual training school, lor this school
is no more a special school than the high school or the
training school for teachers. The manual training
school's special province is so to train the muscles through
the intellect as to give the hand and eye the dexterity and
intelligent use which is the foundation of all mechanical
trades and the various forms of manual labor, — voca-
tions, indeed, by which the masses of the common people
earn their living.
Failure to make the needed appropriation must have
been through mistake or misunderstanding or ignorance
of what the manual training school is doing, even with in-
sufficient equipment-
Let the members of the city government visit this school
and there witness the instruction and work done by one
hundred and ninety-five pupils belonging to our eight
large grammar schools, where the constituents of the
city government send their children for a common school
education that is desired and expected to be up with the
times, because supplemented by the training w^hich only
a properly equipped manual training school can afford.
Personal visitation of the manual training school by the
members of the city government, without undue prior
prejudice, would undoubtedly result in a prompt grant
of the appropriation needed for the additional equipment
necessary for the proper conduct of the manual training
school.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDE^'T OF SCHOOLS. 333
ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS.
All grades of school below the high school are known
among educators as elementary schools, the high-school
grade being known as a secondary school.
The elementary, or common, schools are of paramount
importance and interest, for in them the masses are edu-
cated, and of every hundred pupils enrolled in the Man-
chester public schools, for the school year ending July 1,
1897, there were six in the High school and ninety-four in
the lower-grade schools. The percentage of entire enroll-
ment by grades was as follows: High school, 6; grammar
schools, 24; middle schools, 21; primary schools, 46; par-
tially graded schools, 1; and ungraded (or suburban)
schools, 2.
Ninety-four hundredths of our public school pupils
being in the grades below the high school, we may well
esteem the character of the elementary schools objects of
chief concern. In these schools are taught reading, writ-
ing, spelling, arithmetic, use of language (oral and writ-
ten), grammar, geography, United States history, civil
government, the elements of bookkeeping, the elements
of the natural sciences (orally), and music and drawing.
Of these thirteen subjects, the first five and the last three
are taught in the primary grades; and this is well, for in
the primary grades there is enrolled nearly- one half (40
per cent) of all the pupils in our public schools; and since
two thirds of these will end their school life before enter-
ing upon the grammar-school course,* it is highly impor-
tant that thej' get all the training possible in the eight
subjects taught in the primary and middle schools.
The elementary schools have, for the most part, been
in excellent condition during the past year. The work,
in chief, has been done in a painstaking, thorough, pro-
gressive, and interesting way, — which must have resulted
in great enjoyment, as well as profit, to all concerned.
* See School Report for 1892, page 17.
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The one and first essential for the procurement of a
good school is a right soul for it in the form of a teacher,
and our schools appear in general to have right teachers.
However, there are other things necessary to the exist-
ence of good schools, and among these are good buildings.
We are in this respect generally well provided, but the
Franklin-street and Amoskeag schools are very poorly
housed, and better accommodations should be provided
for them at an early date. The attention of the city gov-
ernment has several times been called, in former reports,
to needed improvements for the housing of the Franklin-
street school; and it is at this time, therefore, unneces-
sary to say more in behalf of this school than that its
need of a new house becomes yearly more and more appar-
ent and more pressing.
New ScJioolhouse.
The citizens of Amoskeag have, indeed, a real grievance
that should be met and redressed at the earliest possible
moment. The schoolhouse at Amoskeag is unquestion-
ably the poorest in the cit}'. It is a mere shell, dingy and
inadequate, for lack of sufficient rooms, for the proper
accommodation of the school population in that neigh-
borhood.
There are but two schoolrooms in the Amoskeag house.
In the lower room is a mixed-primary school, often over-
crowded, and in the upper room is a school that frequently
comprises lower-grammar, higher and lower middle, and
one or two of the higher-primary classes; so many classes,
indeed, that the higher grammar-school pupils have in
recent years been obliged to attend the Webster-street
school, much to the inconvenience of themselves and of
their parents. The number of these higher-grade pupils
from Amoskeag, attending at Webster street, was twenty
during the term just closed.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 335
It is, therefore, perfectly apparent that there is un-
mistakable need of a new four-room schoolhouse at Amos-
keag, for three schools should be organized there as soon
as rooms can be had for them, — one room for grammar
and higher-middle grades, one for lower-middle grades,
and a class or two of higher-primary pupils, and the third
room for the remaining primary-school pupils. The
fourth room would, ere many years, be also needed for
school purposes.
This arrangement would, at the outset, result in three
partially graded schools, averaging 30 to 40 pupils for
each room, under a form of organization that would
greatly enhance the value of the efforts of the two highly
efficient teachers at Amoskeag, and also afford the people
of that village sufficient school accommodations for secur-
ing a complete elementary school education for their chil-
dren within their own precincts, and that, too, when,
otherwise, a score or more of them must be required to
cross the Merrimack and seek a school a mile or so away.
Clean ScJioolrooms.
In addition to commodious and well-built houses for
the school accommodation of the city's children, it is for-
tunate for them that the educational influence of such
houses is greatly enhanced by such an adornment of their
walls as has been made through the efforts of highly inter-
ested teachers, the foremost ladies of the city in behalf of
the various women's clubs which they represent, and a
few other public spirited and appreciative citizens.
Comparatively, it becomes more than ever incumbent
upon the school authorities to see that the schoolhouses
are kept as clean as possible, lest the esthetic culture de-
signed for pupils through the influence of buildings
erected after designs of architectural beauty, with walls
adorned by pleasing and instructive pictures and Other
artistic decorations, shall by contrast with unnecessary
dirt be whollv neutralized and lost.
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The schoolhonses, however, should be kept clean pri-
marily because of the necessity of such a condition for
the preservation of the bodily health of both teachers and
pupils; and it would seem that regulations made by the
board for the attainment of desired cleanly co-nditions
should be fully realized, for section two of chapter nine
of the rules of the board reads as follows:
'^Janitors shall perform their duties subject to the
direction and control of the principal (or teacher of the
hig-hest grade) of the several schools; and principals shall
promptly report in writing to the superintendent every
neglect of duty, and any improper conduct, upon the part
of janitors. The superintendent shall investigate the
occasion of each report, and inform the chairman of the
committee on fuel and heating of the particulars."
The committee on fuel and heating may, I think, be
relied upon to right anj wrongs, — wdiether dependent
upon the indisposition of a janitor to do his whole duty,
or upon the overtaxed ability of one to discharge all the
duties assigned him.
The Kinden/arten.
In my report of 1895, I alluded to the propriety of an
early consideration of the establishment of kindergarten
schools as a part of our public school system, and I had
designed to write somewhat fully of their utility in this
report, but to do so would prolong my report unduly. I
therefore suggest, to any particularly interested in this
subject, that information may be had in the Lewiston, Me.,
school report for 1S96, which can doubtless be had upon
application to the superintendent of schools at Lewiston.
J'lihlie Concern.
Aside from the interest and efficiency of teachers em-
ployed, and of administrative forces in charge, nothing
!
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 337
can so mucli improve the efficiency of schools as a deep
and abiding interest, and the hearty co-operation, of par-
ents and citizens in general.
Regularity and punctuality of attendance are thereby
chiefly attained, so also that respect for, and good-will
toward, the teacher which causes her to be looked upon
as a friend and fit representative of the parent. From
interested parents, too, there is often received intelligent
criticisms of text-books in use. When such parents in
undertaking to aid their children in school studies find
phraseologies beyond their own ready comprehension,
and oft repeated, they may well question the wisdom of
using a text-book for children which fairly well schooled
parents cannot easily understand.
In crucial trials between teacher and puj^il, when sus-
pension seems to be the last resort remaining to the
teacher, a parent deeply interested for the continued edu-
cation of his child will generallj^ prove an efficient medi-
ator; for teachers rarely have any prolonged trouble
with a child who sees his parents in accord with the
teacher's demand for what is proper and right. Nor will
any be more ready to acknowledge errors, with due apol-
ogies, than teachers w^hom reasonable parents may con-
vince of mistakes or unjust inferences in regard to the
conduct of their children. Therefore in all serious trou-
bles between the teacher and pupil, the parent should
early seek a personal interview with the teacher as the
only sure means of a full and proper understanding of
the difficulty. With this attained, there is usually an
immediate end of the trouble in question, and the child,
thereby saved the disgrace of possible suspension, may
realize the full benefit of his continued schooling because
of restored friendly feelings townrd his teacher.
Citizens in general are friends of the public schools.
They recognize the necessity of their existence and sup-
port, and, for the most part, they only ask that they
338 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
be made as efficient as possible and be conducted with due
eeononiY. The newspapers and all persons eminent in
the various so-called professions ar(^ likewise friends and
loval and most efficient supporters of the public school.
In recognition of their appreciation and friendship, it
will be well for all in authority over the public schools
so to conduct and administer their affairs as to retain the
good- will and generous support so cordially given them
by our citizens in general.
EVENING SCHOOLS.
In accordance with a plan outlined in my report of 1895,
the evening schools have this ^ear been greatly improved.
By requirement of the payment of fifty cents as a regis-
tration fee and guarantee of commendable regularity of
attendance, those enrolled in the evening schools are
pledged to an attendance seven tenths of the evenings in
a term. Those who fulfill the requirements of this pledge,
as most of them do, receive their fifty cents back again at
the end of the term. By the others the fee is forfeited
to the evening school fund, as a penalty for the injury
they do the school by their irregularity of attendance.
The operation of this plan has resulted in a fullness and
regularity of attendance that has rendered the evening
schools far more interesting and profitable to their at-
tendants than ever before.
MUSIC.
Prof. Fred B. Bower has been director and head in-
structor of music in our schools for nearly two years.
His work has been progressive and very satisfactory.
His assistant is Miss Jennie C. Heath, who has also ren-
dered excellent service. She instructs the primary and
lower-middle grades, and the suburban schools also.
The American Music System, introduced in the lower
grades of our schools about three years ago, has proved
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 339
liiohlY satisfactorv. and this year its use has been ex-
tended throughout the grammar grades.
At my request. Professor Bower has kindly furnished
an outline of the work he has endeavored to have emi)ha-
sized in the schools during the past year. His statement
is as follows:
"Just what has been accomplished in music during the
last school year would take too much space to enumerate.
I will only touch upon a few salient points. We strive to
give pupils a good quality of tone, and so to preserve
their voices that when they reach the age of actual voice
culture there may be no bad habits to overcome,
"Then, too, we try to give pupils a proper conception
of tonal relation, i. e., the intervals of the scales in their
relation to one another. We so train the eye and mind
that pupils may, especially in the grammar grades, read
any ordinary composition in two, three, and four parts
with success and understanding. I merely touch upon
the writing of scales, transposing them both orally and in
writing, teaching the signatures and the key notes.
These are means to certain ends, and have to be taught
before proper results can be accomplished.
"Few people outside of those actually and closely con-
nected with the schools realize the work necessary to
attain the ends desired; and no one appreciates more than
I the loyalty and hard work given to music by the regular
teachers in the schools, without whose help it would be
impossible to reach the results already attained. I be-
lieve that music, as taught in our schools, tends to make
the children better, both morally and physically; gives
to the poorer element the brighter and better side of life,
and to those in better circumstances a nobler and more
beautiful idea of the good and ennobling things in this,
the greatest of all arts, music.''
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DRAWING.
Prof. J. Warren Tlijiig has now been special instrnclor
of drawing a year and one term. He has given most ex-
cellent satisfaction to all concerned. His many years of
prior and varied experience enabled him promptly to
recognize the advantageous features of the tine founda-
tion laid by Mrs. Trask for advanced work in drawing,
and he has admirably improved the opportunity.
Professor Thyng has greatly broadened the study of
drawing by taking pupils beyond the schoolroom, into
the realms of nature and of practical life, and to such an
extent that his pupils instinctively look at natural forms
and objects of architectural beauty critically, for the pur-
pose of determining their basic forms and noting propor-
tions. Xothing could be more helpful to the successful
study of drawing and a due appreciation of works of art.
Professor Thyng's methods of instruction are not only
pleasing but calculated to win a love for the study of
drawing, because of the constant revelations he makes
to pupils of the practical relations this study has to most
ordinary, as well as extraordinaiw, things, and to nearly
all the vocations of life.
Upon my request of Mr. Thyng for some report of the
main features of the work he is undertaking in our
schools, he writes as follows:
''Complying with your request, I beg to submit tlie
following report as an outliue of the work in drawing in
the public schools of this city:
"Perhaps there is no word used to designate any other
study pursued in the schools less significant or compre-
hensive in meaning than the word drawing. It would be
interesting to seek the broader definition of the word by
going from room to room throughout the entire school
system, — beginning at its lower-primary grade and end-
ing with the High school. It is believed that this would
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, 341
reveal the faet that drawing i.s something more than the
mere deyek)pmeut of eve and hand in unison.
"The system of instruction begins with the entering
class of the first school rear by at once taking up simple,
but important, principles; and it passes on from grade to
grade and from year to year through the essentials need-
ful in developing the arts of observation, representation,
construction, and ornamentation.
"These are assisted in every grade by the use of proper
models and objects.
"As the pupil advances in the grading of his other
studies, a corresponding advancement is made in the
work in drawing; new principles and new applications
are added according to a plan calculated to insure uni-
formity of work, grade for grade, throughout the schools.
"At the outset, to secure accurate habits of observation
and reliable knowledge of form, various type solids, or
models, are used, beginning with the sphere, because its
shape is the one oftenest seen and best known by
children.
"These type-forms are not studied as the aim and end
of the work. They are taken as a basis, — a dictionary as
it were, — by which the pupil is guided and directed in a
portion of his work, and from which to gather facts of
form and appearance to be used later in all branches of
representative and constructive art.
"The bit of claj' which the young child molds with his
fingers into the form of a sphere, and afterwards changes
to the shape of an apple, and then from the apple back to
the elementary sphere again, teaches an enduring lesson
in form study. Then, when he has drawn its outline on
paper, and perhaps has used that circle as the unit de-
sign, and picked up some little truth of color, his feet
have fairly started in the right path.
"Thus, so far as they have constructional or artistic
value, all the various type-forms are used, according to
342 ANNUAL OFFICIAL KEPORTS.
grade. As the work advances, they are employed to ex-
emplify the principles involved in working drawings, and
also to assist in teaching the art of representation, or free-
hand perspective, it being the aim all the time to have
each principle help another and all lead to something.
Any one who will set before himself an object, and study
it with reference to its proportions only, will learn how to
see it. Then, if he will begin by drawing what seems to
be its leading line, he will learn how to draw it.
"The models are used for the elementary study of light
and shade; they also are the prototypes of many artificial
and natural objects, being represented in nature by vege-
table and mineral forms. It is important, all along, to
constantly associate and compare with type-forms as
many other objects as possible. If the aim of the study
of the facts of form in the schoolroom, from models, is to
lead pupils to correctly estimate proportion of parts in
constructive art, so the observation of appearances of
form trains the eye to estimate at a glance comparative
size and position in a multitude of things he may after-
wards wish to describe, draw, or make. To accom-
plish this a great variety of objects are placed, in many
different positions, before the pupils.
"Little is done by dictation, and less by vague observa-
tion; after knowledge of facts of appearance is secured,
then follow memory and time lessons; the former as a
test, and the latter to secure rapid execution.
"Attention is paid to the ornamental treatment of plant
forms, both historically and as they are used for decora-
tive purposes to increase the market value of certain
manufactured i^roducts.
"Color lessons which include the i)rimary, secondary,
and tertiary colors are given; tints and hues, also.
"Pupils, each according to his age, bring drawings,
both constructive and representative, made at home from
objects seen there. It adds vital interest to the work
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 343
when they make sketclies of things suggested by a visit
to a workshop, or by a journey, or a walk in the garden
or field. In winter, at home, it may be that sketches of
a house or tower, as seen from a window\ are made; or a
working drawing for a sled is designed by the evening
lamp.
''Plant forms afford valuable materials for nature
drawing. Color has been used, with pleasing results, in
some higher grammar grades. It may be used profitably
to indicate color values in vegetable, mineral, and plant
forms, as well as to suggest different woods and metals in
construction drawings; likewise in decorative design.
''All along, the higher educational value of the work is
kept in view.
"Opportunity has been taken to bring into service such
materials as conduce to make the W'Ork seem alive, and to
extend its usefulness. Models of buildings and other
structures, made by pupils, have furnished material for
lessons, and occasionally a pupil has posed for the draw-
ing class w:ith good results.
"In all my work the constant and valuable assistance
of teachers has been accorded me.
"It has been the aim, when arranging drawing lessons
for normal classes in the Training school, to have the
work assist in equipping the teacher for duty in the
school-room.
"^Mlile waiting for the complete furnishing of the large
drawing room in the High school, I have given the ten
classes in drawing, numbering some over two hundred
members, a series of lessons in practical perspective, tak-
ing up the w^ork where the grammar schools leave it, to
enable pupils to enter upon individual work with more
strength and personal independence. The classification
will include elementary machine drawling and building
construction ; object and cast drawing in light and shade
with charcoal; the art of illustrating with pen and ink,
344 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
using models built by pupils; wator-eolor painting; model-
ing in clay and freehand perspective."
REPAIRS OP SCHOOLHOUSES.
The data for this part of the school report were kindly
furnished by Capt. Charles H. Manning, chairman of com-
mittee on repairs of schoolhonses, and the following state-
ments, estimates, and opinions substantially represent
the facts and views presented b}^ Captain Manning.
The school board asked for an appropriation of 10,000
for the repairs of schoolhonses during the year 1897. The
city government granted only |3,000 for repairs upon
school property whose estimated valuation is |550,000.
The appropriation granted was, therefore, less than |5.50
for repairs upon each |1,000 worth of school property.
When it is considered that "repairs of schoolhonses"
also include repairs of furniture, heating and ventilating
apparatus, fences, and walks, it becomes self-evident
that an appropriation, made upon the ratio of the allow-
ance granted this year, is not more than half enough
under ordinary conditions.
Owing to an early and serious report of the board of
health in regard to defects alleged to exist in the sani-
tary arrangements of several schoolhonses, and also be-
cause of unavoidable repairs upon the roofs of several
large houses, as well as the imperative need of numerous
small repairs in the schoolhonses generallv, it was impos-
sible to keep the school property in proper usable condi-
tion without expenditures much exceeding the appropi'i-
ation of the |3,000 granted.
Upon pulling apart the water-closet arrangements at
the Ash-street schoolhouse, they were found in such a
decayed condition it was (with the mayor's approval)
deemed unwise to attempt their repair. A large sum was
here required for a proper new equipment. The arrange-
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 345
merits were renewed, are now highly satisfactory, and
tirst class in every particular.
The recommendations of the board of health in regard
to plumbing at the Webster-street school were carried
out to the satisfaction of said board.
Only such repairs on plumbing at the Franklin-street
school as were unavoidable were made this year, but ex-
tensive renewals will be needed at that house next year.
Plumbing arrangements at the Main-street schoolhouse
are only fairly satisfactory. At the Training school they
are unsatisfactorj', and poorly located. The plumbing
there will ere long need to be renewed, and removed from
present dark quarters. All the other large schoolhouses
have modern plumbing in good condition.
At the Webster-street school, there were repairs of the
roof and belfry. Partitions in the north hallway were re-
moved to afford more light and better ventilation. The
outside of this house will need repainting during the com-
ing year.
At the Pearl-street house a few slight changes were
this fall made to satisfy criticisms provoked on account
of the appearance of diphtheria, though this disease was
not believed by the committee to have originated at the
school.
The Ash-street school roof was made tight, though a
hard one to repair. The ventilation of this school is not
good; and during the coming year a new boiler should
take the place of an old one there, which would furnish
additional needed heat and also provide means for secur-
ing proper ventilation.
A new fence was built around a part of the Spring-
street lot, and minor repairs were made about the school-
house.
The Franklin-street house is old and difficult to keep
in repair. This year several new window sash were pro-
Tided, the fence fixed, and other minor repairs made.
346 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
At the Training scliool, the boiler should be replaced
by a new one for sake of economy of fuel and because
the present boiler is too old for much further use.
The Lincoln-street school roof was repaired. This is
another of the difficult and costly roofs to keep in order.
The assembly hall ceiling was repaired of damages caused
by the leaky roof. Considerable kalsomining was also
done at this house. There are entry partitions here that
should be removed to improve the light and ventilation.
At the Hallsville school the roof was repaired, some
replastering was done, and minor repairs were also
made.
The Bakersville chimneys were repaired, and the
schoolroom ceilings and walls redressed.
At the Varney school, ceilings and interior walls w^ere
also redressed. This house is now in excellent condition.
At the ]\Iain-street house chimneys were repaired, and
four of the schoolrooms Avere provided with new slate
blackboards. During the coming year there should be
new floors in the hallways, outside painting should be
done, and a new boiler provided. The one there has been
in use about twenty years, and is not of sufficient capacity.
The Amoskeag schoolhouse, like that on Franklin
street, is old, poor, a constant bill of expense, and insuffi-
cient in number of schoolrooms. A new house is imper-
atively needed.
At the Goffe's Falls school, the ceilings and interior
walls were redressed.
The furniture in several of the schoolhouses above
named was also redressed.
The committee on repairs of schoolhouses estimate
that for the coming year |9,1)00 will be needed for general
repairs and to provide for new boilers and needed im-
provements in the plumbing of several schoolhouses.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 347
CONCLUSION.
The year's work of the schools has resulted in a large
measure of success. The school board has been harmo-
nious, alert, and acted with wisdom in its endeavors to
promote the good of the schools. The various committees
have given prompt and effective attention to the needs
of their several departments. The attentive truant ofli-
cer and the efficient clerk in my office, so long faithful and
true to her duties, have greatly aided and lightened my
labors. Our teachers, always harmonious, and ever co-
operative for the good of the schools, have earnestly
labored for the moral and mental improvement of their
pupils. School life is consequently ever growing more
profitable, pleasanter, and more enjoyable.
In such results I exceedingly rejoice, extending thanks
of high appreciation to all. I may be pardoned, I trust,
for saying that I esteem it a high honor to be accounted
the executive officer in a cause and work so great, noble,
and good.
Respectfully submitted.
WILLIAM E. BUCK,
i^upcrintendoit.
December 31, 1897.
NEW HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING.
The following? description has been kindly furnished by
the architect, Mr. William M. Butterfield:
The main body of the building, fronting, the south, is
118 feet by 54 feet, with a. wing at each end 10 feet by 80
feet, slightly advanced from the main front and extend-
ing 28 feet to the rear of the main body, also with a central
wing 28 feet by 56 feet extended to the rear.
A corridor 12 feet wide extends from end to end along
the north side of the building, and all classrooms are
arranged upon the east, west, and southerly exposures
to light and air.
The central wing is occupied on the first floor by the
apartments for the principal and the library, while the
toilet rooms for both sexes adjoin the outer wings.
In the basement provision is made for an armory 25
feet by 92 feet, and for toilet and recreation rooms; a por-
tion can also be devoted to purposes of manual training,
lunch rooms, etc., as may be required in the future.
Six classrooms 25 feet by 36 feet are provided in the
first story and eight in the second story, each being pro-
vided with wardrobes, bookcases, a teacher's closet, and
lavatories; each room is also equipped with a system of
electric clocks with program alarm, and a telephone sys-
tem connecting each room with the principal's room.
In the third story of the west wing, there are chemical
and physical laboratories, each connected with a lecture
room provided with raised seats; a large drawing-room,
a museum, and a classroom are similarly situated on the
same floor of the east wing.
The central portioil of the third story is occupied by a
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beautiful assembly hall, 52 feet by 66 feet, with a spa-
cious stage and anterooms, and it has a seating capacity
of 600.
For telescopic observations the building is provided
with a revolving observatory constructed above the roof,
which is provided with a shutter that may be opened from
the horizon to the zenith, the whole being operated by sim-
ple mechanical means.
The building is designed in the modified renaissance
style, the exterior walls being faced with buff pressed
brick, and relieved with terra cotta and molded sand-
stone trimmings. There are four richly carved entrances.
All walls along the interior corridors and stairways
are also faced with buff and molded brick, and the ceil-
ings throughout are finished with paneled metal work
and decorated in buif and ivory tints.
The walls of the laboratories are also faced with brick,
the floors of which are asphalt. The staircases are iron,
the treads being filled with asphalt.
The building is provided with a complete system of
heating and ventilation, by what is commonly known as
the supplementary system of indirect radiation, by means
of coils. The fresh air is supplied from a blower, or fan,
located in the basement, capable of changing the air in
each room every fifteen minutes. The supplementary coils
are controlled automatically by means of thermostats
placed in each room, the rooms being severally provided
with foul air ventilating ducts leading to the main stacks.
The interior is finished with western ash, the rooms
being girted with a wainscoting of molded sheathing and
slate blackboards. The floors are of birch, and the win-
dows are supplied with Venetian shades.
DEDICATORY EXERCISES.
The new high-school building was dedicated on the
afternoon of September K), 1S9T. with appropriate exer-
350 ' ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
cises, the character of which may be nnderstood from the
following
PROGRAM.
Music, ''Unfold, Ye Portals" Gounod
Selected chorus of fifty voices, representing the public
schools, under the direction of Prof. F. B. Bower.
Invocation, Rev. B. W. Lockhart, D. D.
Chorus, ''Anchored" Watson
Eeport of the building committee, with the delivery of
the building to the city, by Alderman George W. Keed,
chairman of committee on lands and buildings.
Acceptance of the building and delivery of the keys to
the high-school sub-committee, by Mayor William C.
Clarke.
Chorus, "Heaven and Earth Display" Mendelssohn
Acceptance of the keys on behalf of the high-school sub-
committee, and delivery of keys to the principal of the
school, by Capt. Charles H. Manning, chairman high-
school sub-committee.
Acceptance of the keys, with address, by Prof. Albert
Somes, principal of the school.
Chorus, "March of Our Nation" Geibel
Dedicatory address, "How far shall we make Utility the
end of Modern Education," Rev. William J. Tucker,
D. D., president of Dartmouth College.
Music, "America."
A pleasant feature of the occasion was the presence
upon the stage of Mrs. C. W. Wallace, the first graduate
of the High school, and also of the following former mas-
ters of the school: David P. Perkins, Samuel Upton, Wil-
liam W. Colburn, Joseph G. Edgerly, and Edwin R.
Goodwin.
After the acceptance of the building by Mayor Clarke,
who delivered the keys to Capt. Charles H. Manning,
chairman of the high-school sub-committee. Captain Man-
ning spoke as follows:
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 351
"Ah ihe representative of the higii-scliool siib-com-
mittee, it affords me j-reat pleasure to receive these Iceys
as a token that this magniflceut building is now ready for
the use for which it has been constructed. We of the
committee have felt and have urged the need of a new
building for some years past, and when His Honor Mayor
Clarke came into office some two years and a half ago,
we knew from the deep interest he has always taken in
the city schools that our time had come. How well he,
with the aid of two able lands and buildings committees,
has met the needs, no one who has inspected this building
needs to be told, as it far surpasses the brightest dreams
any of us dared indulge in. I will merely add that we
thank the mayor, the city government, and above all the
taxpayers that pay the bills, for the finest high school in
the New England states, and pledge ourselves to do our
best to make worthy use of it.
"To you, Mr. Somes, master of a school worthy to
occupy such a building, I deliver the charge of these keys,
knowing full well and with entire confidence that you
with the aid of your accomplished assistants, will make
such use of the building as will redound to the credit of
the city."
Principal Somes made an appropriate replv. He was
followed by Rev. William J. Tucker, D. D.. president of
Dartmouth College, who delivered a highly instructive
and eloquent dedicatory address upon the subject given
in the program.
Following the close of the exercises, a committee was
appointed to secure the organization of a general alumni
association.
In the evening the various rooms of the new school-
house were taken possession of by classes of the old
school, from 1848, the class in which Mrs. C. W. Wallace'
graduated, to the class of 1897.
352 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Good fellowsliip prevailed, permeated with memories
of days gone by, days of long ago — some of them very
long ago, ere the hair was tinged with gray or the A'oice
was weakened by age, — but it was a pleasant occasion.
All were young again. All lived over those hours of
high-school life, with its joys, its many attractions, its
trials, — which were then looked upon as so heavy but now
as so trivial. All once more were seated before the
teacher's eye, poring over the science of Euclid or Gre-
cian and Latin lore.
The new high-school building was alive from basement
to dome. There was not a dull corner in the place. Youth
and old age — no, youth and renewed youth — occupied
the institution but a few hours before dedicated to
knowledge. All met with a handshake and words of well
wishing. Alumni were kings and queens.' They ruled.
These gatherings will have a lasting effect upon the
classes that have graduated from the High school. Many
of them had no permanent alumni organization. In the
evening the greater part of them organized and voted to
hold reunions at stated intervals. All who were notified
in time also chose representatives to the general alumni
association.
Several of the classes held reunions at the homes of
members. These also proved very enjoyable. They were
conducted on the same informal plan generally, and for
this reason were all the more delightful.
APPENDIX.
I. Population, etc.
II. SCHOOLHOUSES.
III. Schools.
IV. Teachers.
V. Attendance Tables.
VI. Truancy.
VII, Finance.
VIII. School Year, 1896-1897.
IX. High School Graduating Class.
X. Winners of Clarke Prizes.
XI. Organization of Committees, 1897-1898.
XII. List of Teachers, 1898.
XIII. School Year, 1897-1898.
353
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APPENDIX.
STATISTICS.
1.— Population.
Population of the city by last census, 1890 43,983
Legal school age, 5 to 21.
II.— Schoolhouses.
Number of schoolhouses in use 24
Number of schoolhouses not in use 0
Number of school rooms used for day schools *115
Number of rooms used for High-school classes 9
Number of rooms used for Grammar schools 29
Number of rooms used for Middle schools 25
Number of rooms used for Primary schools f44
Number of rooms used for Partially Graded schools 2
Number of rooms used for Ungraded schools 5
Number of rooms used for Manual Training schools. . 1
III.— Schools.
(AU for both sexes.)
Number of High schools (buildings) .
None exclusively Grammar.
« An average of 114 for the entire year.
t An average of 43 for the entire year.
354
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 355
Number of combined Grammar and lower grade
(Middle and Primary) schools 12
Number of combined Middle and Primary schools. . 4
Number of schools all Primary grade 2
Number of Ungraded schools 5
IV.— Teachers.
Male teachers in the High school 3
Female teachers in the High school 6
Female teachers in the Training school 2
Male teachers in the Grammar schools 6
Female teachers in the Grammar schools (a)29
Female teachers in the Middle schools (6)24
Female teachers in the Primary schools (p)"^^
Female teachers in the Partially Graded schools. . 2
Male teachers in the Ungraded schools 1
Female teachers in the Ungraded schools 4
Male teachers in Manual Training school 1
Special teachers 3
Average number of male teachers (c)13
Average number of female teachers (c)108
Total average number of teachers in day schools. . . 121
Male teachers in the evening schools 7
Female teachers in the evening schools 5
Average number of male teachers in the evening
schools 5
Average number of female teachers in the evening
schools 4
Male teachers in the evening Drawing schools 2
Average number of male teachers in the evening
Drawing schools 2
(a) Six of the 29 are masters' assistants.
(6) One of the 25 miclrlle schools and 3 of the 44 primaries were in the Train-
ing school. They had no regular teachers, being taught by sub-teachers
under the direction of the principal and her assistant.
(c) Including special teachers.
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Amy K. Northrup.
Emma L. McLaren.
Fannie D. Moulton.
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Mabelle E. Porter.
Bessie E. Dodge.
Emma J. Cooper.
Kittie J. Ferren.
Millie S. Morse.
Mary J. Walsh.
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Gertrude A. Burns.
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Augusta S. Downs.
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REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 361
DAY SCHOOLS.
Summary of attendance upon the several grades of
public day schools for the year 1896-1897.
Gbadss.
High
Grammar
Middle
Primary
Partially graded
Ungraded
Totals, 1897
Totals, 1896
Whole numbe'
different pupils.
Boys. Girls.
153
612
578
1,366
38
52
2,799
2,772
175
649
&49
1,234
41
54
2,702
2,610
o to
^.5
S i
290
1,085
979
1,716
72
71
4,213
3,999
278
1,007
885
1,532
67
57
3,826
3,651
OS «
95.9
92.8
90.4
89.2
93.1
80.3
90.8
91.3
EVENING SCHOOLS.
Summary of attendance upon the several grades of
public evening schools for the year 1896-1897.
Schools.
Whole number
different pupils.
d .
^ SB
p
It
is
11
1^
ill
Boys.
Girls.
^ " 5
95
110
43
* 48
53
65
21
15
42
46
57
19
13
87.5
88.5
86
31
25
87.7
90.5
Drawing schools \
86.6
Totals, 1897
237
288
153
160
201
174
177
140
80.4
Totals, 1896
80.5
862 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Evening School Teachers.
Charles E. Cocliran, principal at Merchants' Exchange,
for boys.
Assistants — William J. Mooar, A. W. Rowell, W. W.
Forbes, and L. H. Carpenter.
Honorie J. Crough, principal of Franklin-street school,
for girls.
Assistants — Maggie Linen, Sarah B. Dunbar, and Mary
E. Paige.
Arthur W. Morgan, principal of Rimmon school, for
both sexes.
Assistants — Julius Hegewald and Tilla E. Johnson.
Evening Drawing- School Teachers.
John M. Kendall and Henry W. Allen.
TRAINING SCHOOL.
Sub-teachers. Graduated. Sub-teachers. " Entered
Bessie Cochrane. Jan. 29, '97. Gertrude Adams. Feb. 1,
Maude M. Greaney. " " Annie B. Angell.
Mary L. Heath. " " Mary E. McLaren.
Mabel F. Robinson. " " Grace A. Phillips.
Katharine Frain. June 25, " Ede B. Quimby.
Lura B. Gage. " " Flora M. Walker.
Florence L. Abbott. Jan. 28, '98. Elizabeth F. Walsh.
Lillian F. Crowther. " "
Winnifred W. Hall.
Florence Richardson " "
97.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 363
GENERAL SUMMARY.
The following table presents the main features of inter-
est pertaining to the attendance upon the public schools
for the last ten years. A similar report for twenty years
may be found in Report for 1896, page 15.
1888<
1889
1890
1891,
1892
1893
1894
1895
1896
1897
78
77
77
84
89
96 1
101
105
108
114
2
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« a
11
•<
1^
77
3,712
76
3,787
76
3,814
83
4,071
89
4,298
101
4,775
107
4,975
111
5,206
115
5,382
121
5,501
2,768
2,801
2,795
2,940
3,130
3,425
3,662
3,817
3,999
4,313
2S
2,5C0
2,58)
2,536
2,689
2,837
3,111
3,336
3,499
3,651
3,826
90.3
92.2
90.7
91.5
90.6
90.8
91.1
91.7
91.3
90.8
116
177
141
166
174
194
153
238
140
177
a^
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"a
101
121
120
116
129
175
168
138
215
g a «
80
*58
96
73
114
83
101
69
103
67
127
78
162
112
156
112
130
119
212
1E7
185
181
184
217
2?6
2S7
251
243
270
290
* Including special teachers, principals, assistants, etc.
t And the A class in suburban schools.
t Also a manual training school for one term, which is included in the number of schools
the next four years.
364
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
VI.— Work of Truant Officer.
Date.
Absentees
reported
from
No. volun-
tarily re-
turned to
No. reported
caused to
attend
O 3
o"o.9
September.
October . . .
November .
December .
January ...
February . .
March
April
May
June
Totals .
33
92
55
16
99
47
87
74
100
74
677
19
62
33
6
30
29
17
44
38
28
46
79
13
45
37
4
28
23
51
47
58
37
12
33
20
1
23
15
12
34
31
17
198
29
107
9
21
9
11
40
12
20
10
19
14
165
September
October . . .
November .
December .
January . . .
February. .
March
April
May
June
46
128
33
10
49
39
15.
63
42
25
No. truants
caused to
to attend.
28
80
14
5
17
23
10
33
21
15
18
48
19
5
32
16
5
30
164
194
247
131
350
149
139
132
268
211
t->e
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td «
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fi, o
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653
t5.
iz;
•211
109
287
257
147
407
179
193
205
215
165
H
■11
73
45
16
35
39
•22
88
51
57
31
Totals .
450
245
205
1,985
2,164
16
407
KEPORT OP THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 365
Vll.— Finances.— 1897.
Items op Account.
Resources from
appropriations and
transfers.
Expenditures.
$77,037.17
$77,037.17
59.13
59.13
6,320.36
6,320.36
1,451.8-4
1,451.84
5,872.74
5,872.74
5,720.28
5,720.28
6,628.26
6,628.26
304 43
304.43
3,111.94
3,111.94
1,388.15
1,388.15
364.36
364.36
1,370.86
1,370.86
$109,629.52
$109,629.52
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
COST OF CITY SCHOOLS.
Expenditures, as above specified |109,629.52
Salaries.
Members of the school board $190.00
Clerk of the board 150.00
Superintendent of schools 2,300.00
Truant officer 750.00
Total $113,019.52
Receipts on Account of ScJiools.
Literary fund $3,511.68
Non-resident tuition* 387.92
Sale of text-books • 208.68
Total $4,108.28
* School tax from Londonderry included, $38.87.
366 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Net amount raised by taxation $109,111.24
The city valuation for 1897 is |30,407,302; and hence
the rate of school tax for the year is |109,lll-24 divided
by 130,407,302, or .0035 plus. Last year the rate was
.0034.
VIII.— School Year, 1896-1897.
Fall term of fourteen weeks opened September 14, 1896;
closed December 18. Vacation of two weeks.
Winter term of twelve weeks opened January 4, 1897 ;
closed March 26, 1897. Vacation of two weeks.
Spring term of eleven weeks opened April 12, 1897;
closed June 25. Vacation of eleven weeks.
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. "Evolution."
Arthur Ela Buck.
Chorus. "The Caravan" C. Pinsuti
The Class.
Class History Florence Howard James
Oration. "Existing National Perils."
Channing Harris Cox.
Chorus. "Over the Fields of Clover Giebel
The Class.
With feolos by Miss Kane and Miss Browning.
Class Poem .Bessie Louisa Neal
Prophecy George Frederick Somes
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 367
Chorus. "Estudiantina" P. Lacome
The Class.
Valedictory. "Education and Public Morals,"
Chester Edward Dimick.
Award of Diplomas Rev. N. L. Colby
The Ode.
The Class of '97.
Clara Vienna Clement, Class Pianist.
ENGLISH COURSE, THREE YEARS.
Libbie May Badger, Alfred Stanley Hoyt.
Gladys May Baker. Theodore Mason Josselyn.
Eda Marian Barr. Elizabeth Eleanor Kane.
Florence Elizabeth Cass. David Clinton Lamprey.
Michael Daniel Cody. James F. Macdonald.
Frank Paj^son French. Kathryn A. McKeon.
Sadie A. Gillan. Lucile Annie Patch.
Abbie Monica Greaney. Richard W. Sanborn.
Annie Frances Harrington. Guy Benjamin True.
ENGLISH COURSE, FOUR YEARS.
Annie Esther Walsh.
CLASSICAL COURSE.
Mertie Amy Browning. Joseph Nightingale.
Clara Vienna Clement. Sarah Price.
Sybil Grace Crosby. Jessie Emma Patten.
Herbert Earle Dunnington. Mary Estella Tallis.
Walter Weeks Eastman. Charlotte L. True.
Alice Fitzpatrick. Harriett Bailey Veasey.
Lizzie Marie Flanders. Florence Margaret Ward.
William Clark Hall. Grace Mabel Whittemore.
Lora Etta Hill. Jennie Viola Williamson.
Florence Howard James.
368 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
COLLEGE COURSE,
Arthur Ela Buck. Bessie Louisa Neal,
Channing Harris Cox, Clinton Stanley Osgood.
Chester Edward Dimick. Donald Taylor Page.
George Frederick Somes.
SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
Bertha Mae Fogg.
TWO years' CERTIFICATE.
Ernest E. Austin. William Hilton Eaton.
Harry J. Danforth. Edwin May Kogers.
Frank Blood Dennett. Mitchel Hirsch Weinstein.
HONOR SCHOLARS.
English Course Frank Payson French
Classical Course Florence Howard James
College Course. . ,; Chester Edward Dimick
X.— Winners of Clarke Prizes.
FOR EXCELLENCE IN ELOCUTION AT CONTEST, FEBRUARY 3^
1897.
Oratorical Style of Delivery.
Georgia M. Kelty, |10. Gladys I. Lougee, |6.
Minnie A. Kogers, |4.
Dramatic Style of Delivery.
Blanche M. Wingate, flO. Evangeline Dorion, |6.
Agnes Shay, |4.
Narrative Style of Delivery.
Harold F. Parker, |10. Belle Johnson, |6.
Grace M. Goodrich, $4.
REPOKT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 369
XI.— Organization, 1897-1898.
WILLIAM C
GEORGE B.
Ward 1.
Ward 2.
Ward 3.
Ward 4.
Ward. 5.
Ward 6.
Ward 7.
Ward 8.
Ward 9.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
CLARKE, Mayor, Chairman, ex officio.
ROGERS,
Presidept of Common Council, ex officio.
Elliott C. Lambert.
Walter B. Heath.
Charles H. Manning.
Augustus P. Home.
George D. Towne.
Louis E. Phelps.
Nathaniel L. Colby.
Henry D. Soule.
James P. Slattery.
John T. Kelley.
Henry I. Haselton.
Herbert E. Richardson.
Edward B. Woodbury.
Edson S. Heath.
Luther C. Baldwin.
Ned T. Wallace.
R. Emmet Walsh.
Henry I. Lemay.
VICE-CHAIRMAN OP THE BOARD.
GEORGE D. TOWNE.
CLERK OF THE BOARD.
EDWARD B. WOODBURY.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION.
WILLIAM E. BUCK.
370 annual official reports.
superintendent's clerk.
FANNIE L. SANBORN.
TRUANT OFFICER.
CURTIS W. DAVIS.
STANDING COMMITTEES.
Finance. Mayor Clarke and Messrs. Rogers, Wood-
bury, Richardson, and Wallace.
Salaries. Messrs. Woodbury, Slattery, W. B. Heath.
Text-Books. Messrs. Baldwin, Towne, Richardson, and
Lambert.
Music. Messrs. Walsh, Phelps, W. B. Heath.
Draioing. Messrs. Towne, Baldwin, Slattery.
Manual Training. Messrs. Richardson, Towne, Bald-
win.
Examination of Teachers. Messrs. Colby, Lambert,
Woodbury.
Fuel and Heating. Mr. Haselton, Mayor Clarke, Messrs.
Rogers, Manning, Home.
Repairs. Messrs. Manning, Phelps, Lemay.
Attendance. Messrs. Phelps, E. S. Heath, Kelley.
Health. Messrs. Soule, Walsh, Towne.
SUB-COMMITTEES.
High School. Messrs. Manning, Towne, Phelps, Slat-
tery, Baldwin, Lambert.
Franl-rm -street. Messrs. Woodbury, Lambert, Rich-
ardson.
Spring-street. Messrs. W. B. Heath, Slattery, Home.
Lincoln-street and Youngsville. Messrs. Colby, Wallace,
Woodbury.
Ash-street. Messrs. Phelps, Walsh, Baldwin.
Webster-street. Messrs. Towne, Manning, Kelley.
Bakersrille and 3[osquito Pond. Messrs. Slattery,
Haselton, E. S. Heath.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 371
Yarney. Messrs. Baldwin, Colby, W. B. Heath.
HaUsi'ille and Harvey. Messrs. Richardson, Lemay,
Towne.
Rimmon School. Messrs. E. S. Heath, Home, Lemay.
Training ScJiool. Messrs. Lambert, Baldwin, Walsh.
North Main-street. Messrs. Home, W. B. Heath, Slat-
tery.
Parker. Messrs. Wallace, Richardson, Colby.
Amoskeag and Stark. Messrs. Lemay, E. S. Heath,
Wallace.
Lowell-street and Webster's Mills. Messrs. Kelley,
Soule, Lambert.
Pearl-street. Messrs. Soule, Woodbury, Haselton.
Wilson and Goffers Falls. Messrs. Haselton, Kelley,
Soule.
Straw School. Messrs. Walsh, Phelps, Manning.
Evening Schools. Messrs. Colby, Manning, Woodbury.
XII.— List of Teachers, 1898.
HIGH SCHOOL. BEECH STREET.
Master. Albert Somes.
-Sub-Master. George L Hopkins.
Assistants. Harry N. McLaren.
Hiram A, Stearns.
Nellie Pickering.
Florence M. Locke.
Theresa B. Stanton.
Mary J. Wellington.
Sara Hunt.
Annie W. Colby.
Mary H. Dowd.
Helen S. Smith.
372 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
FRAN'KLIX-STREET SCHOOL.
Master. Fred L. V. Spaulding, Grammar.
Master's Assistant. Alice C. Taggart.
Assistants. Carrie E. Hoit.
Carrie E. Head.
Emma L. McLaren.
Higher Middle. Nellie C. Parker.
Lower Middle. Amy K. Northrup.
Higher Primary. Alice M. Lamprey.
Lower Primary. Susie L. Dodge.
LINCOLN-STREET SCHOOL.
Master. Frank S. Sutcliffe, Grammar.
Master's Assistant. Barbara B.. Joy.
Assistants. Isabelle R. Daniels.
Mabel J. Brickett.
Mary F. Barnes.
Higher Middle. Mabelle E. Porter.
Lower Middle. Bessie E. Dodge.
Higher Primary. Theodora Richardson.
Lower Primary. Hulda C. Graupner.
ASH-STREET SCHOOL.
Master. Charles W. Bickford, Grammar.
Master's Assistant. Mabel Ruth Brown.
Assistants. Amelia L. Graupner.
Marguerite T. Farrell.
Ellen E. Connor.
Higher Middle. Emma J. Cooper.
Lower Middle. Kittie J. Ferren.
Higher Primary. May F. Nutt.
Lower Primary. Bertha A. Young.
WEBSTER-STREET SCHOOL.
Master. John Gault, Grammar.
Master's Assistant. Helen E. Frost.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 373
Assistants. Luna A. Wbitlock.
Alta C. Willand.
Eva F. Tuson.
Higher Middle. Edith L. Hammond.
Lower Middle; Jean Gillan.
Higher Primary. Mary E. Murphy.
Lower Primary. Ora E. Goodwin.
VARNEY SCHOOL.
Master. George Winch, Grammar.
Master's Assistant. Eosabelle M. Franklin.
Assistants. Esther M, Dickey.
Ellen E. McKean.
Millie S. Morse.
Higher Middle. Mary J. Walsh.
Lower Middle. Marcia M. Moore.
Higher Primary. Gertrude Adams.
Lower Primary. Eflfie M. Philbrook.
HALLSVILLE SCHOOL.
Master. William H. Huse, Grammar.
Master's Assistant. Ella F. Barker.
Assistants. Olive A. Rowe.
Katie E. Batchelder.
Higher Middle. Susie G. Woodman.
Lower Middle. Mavy L. Ayer.
Higher Primary. Bertha L. Kemp.
Lower Primary. E. Alfreda Hall.
Lower Primary. Annie R. Corson.
BAKERSVILLE SCHOOL.
Principal. Lizzie A. Burns, Grammar.
Assistant. Lelia A. Brooks.
Higher Middle. Cora M. Farmer.
Lower Middle. Augusta S. Downs.
Higher Primary. S. Izetta Locke.
Lower Primary. Mary L. Heath.
374 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
RIMMON SCHOOL.
Principal. Mary E. Brophy, Grammar.
Mixed Middle. Mary A. Seavey.
Higher Primary. Hattie S. Tuttle.
Lower Primary. Blanche E. Hicken.
. WILSON SCHOOL.
Principal. Mary J. Corcoran, Grammar.
Assistant. Hellen Morison.
Higher Middle. Cora B. Gilford.
Lower Middle. Harriet H. Richardson.
Higher Primary. M. Clara Hawkes.
Lower Primary. Florence L. Abbott.
Lower Primary. Bessie Cochrane.
STRAW SCHOOL.
Principal. Lizzie P. Gove, Grammar.
Mixed Middle. Gertrude H. Brooks.
Higher Primary. Nellie M. James.
Lower Primary. Edith M. Stebbins.
TRAINING SCHOOL.
(Merrimack street, corner Union.)
Principal. Caroline E. Wing.
Head Assistant. Bertha A. Burgess.
The principal is also assisted by the sub-teachers, i. e.,
members of the training class. The school embraces the
first four years of school work, in the following grades:
Lower Primary, Higher Primary, and Lower Middle.
There are four rooms, two of lower-primary grade.
SPRING-STREET SCHOOL.
Principal. Annabel Emerson, Higher Middle.
Lower Middle. ' Fannie D. Moulton.
Higher Primary. Nellie I. Sanderson.
Mixed Primary. Lura B. Gage.
Low^er Primary. Lizabell Savory.
Lower Primarv. Helen E. True.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 375
MAIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Principal. Mary W. Mitchell, Higher Middle.
Lower Middle. Gertrude A. Burns.
Lower Middle. Mary A. Clement.
Higher Primary. Lottie M. Clement.
Higher Primary. M. Minnie Sturtevant.
Mixed Primary. Hattie O. Willand.
Lower Primary. Kate T. Clarke.
Lower Primary. Mabel F. Robinson.
PEARL-STREET SCHOOL.
Principal. Mary G. Tynan, Higher Middle.
Lower Middle. Nellie M. Smith.
Higher Primary. Ella Hope.
Lower Primary. Georgia M. Cheney.
PARKER SCHOOL.
Principal. Mary E. Moulton, Higher Middle.
Lower Middle. Lois M. Magoon.
Higher Primary. Delle E. Haines.
Lower Primar}-. Blanche M. Folsom.
LOW^ELL-STREBT SCHOOL.
Principal. Helen M. Morrill, Higher Primary.
Lower Primary. Mary S. Richardson.
Lower Primary. Katharine A. Frain.
PARTIALLY GRADED SCHOOLS.
Amoskeag. Lettie M. Smith.
Mixed Primary. Clydie M. Flanders.
Goffe's Falls.* Etta L. Stearns.
Mixed Primary. Maud M. Greaney.
UNGRADED SCHOOLS.*
No. 1. Stark. Inez M. Warren.
2. Harvey. Emma J. Ela.
* Subui'ban.
376 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 3. Youngsville. Louis H. Bailey.
4. Webster's Mills. Josephine L. Riddle.
5. Mosquito Pond. Nellie M. Atwood.
SPECIAL TEACHERS.
Music. Fred B. Bower.
Jennie C. Heath.
Drawing. J. Warren Thyng.
Manual Training. Fred E. Browne.
JANITORS.
High School.
Charles F. Jack. Engineer, David T. Robinson.
FranJclin-strcet and Training Scliools.
Varnum H. Hill.
Lincoln-street School.
William Stevens.
Ash-street and Pearl-street Schools.
John S. Avery.
Webster-street and Straw Schools.
William J. Powers.
Yarney and Parker Schools.
Robert Cook.
Hallsville School.
William H. Newry.
BaTcersvillc School.
Edwin N. Baker.
Bimmon and Main-street Schools.
William F. Conner.
REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. 377
Wilson School.
J. S. Washburn.
Spring-street and Lowell-street Schools.
S. H. Batchelder.
Amoskeag School.
Frank D. Hanscom.
XIII.— School Year, 1897-1898.
Fall term of fourteen weeks opens September 13, 1897
closes December 17, 1897. Vacation of two weeks.
Winter term of twelve weeks opens January 3, 1898
closes March 25, 1898. Vacation of two weeks.
Spring term of eleven weeks opens April 11, 1898
closes June 24, 1898. Vacation of eleven weeks.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY.
To the City Councils of the CUy of Manchester:
The Trustees of the City Library respectfully present
their forty-fourth annual report of the affairs of the
library, and, accompanying the same, the report made to
them by the treasurer of the board, giving an account of
the sums received and the expenditures made by him in
behalf of the board from the funds in their possession
and under their control; and also the reports of the two
librarians made to the board, giving in detail the statis-
tics of the operation of the library during the time each
has been in charge of the library in the past year.
From the reports of the librarians it appears that the
library has been open for the delivery of books the same
number of days as the two previous years, viz., three
hundred and six, during which time seventy-eight thou-
sand one hundred and forty-one books w^ere delivered for
home use, an average of about two hundred and fifty-six
per day. In addition to the above number delivered for
general circulation, sixteen thousand eight hundred and
thirteen books were delivered for use in the reading
room, an average of about fifty-five per day. The
total number of books delivered for general circulation
and for use in the reading-room was ninety-four thou-
sand nine hundred and fifty-four, an average of about
three hundred and ten per day. As compared with the
year preceding, the circulation for home use shows an
381
382 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
increase of eleven thousand six hundred and sixty-three,
and the number delivered far use at the reading-room an
increase of one thousand three hundred and thirty-three.
The total circulation was twelve thousand nine hundred
and eighty-six greater than the year previous, and was not
only the largest circulation but also the largest net gain
in circulation since the library was established.
The number of periodicals regularly received at the
library during the year was seventy-eight — fifty-five by
purchase and twenty-three by gift — and on the comple-
tion of the respective volumes they have been bound and
placed upon the shelves for general circulation.
One hundred and thirty-six volumes were withdrawn
from circulation during the year, having become so worn
and defaced as to be unfit for further use. Of these and
of others retired from circulation in previous years for
like reasons fifty-four volumes have been replaced at a
cost of fifty dollars and eighty-five cents.
The work of re-classifying and re-cataloguing the
library, though somewhat interrupted by the change in
librarians, has been continued during the year, and the
present librarian reports the number of books re-classi-
fied as six thousand seven hundred and fiftj'-one, and the
number re-catalogued as seven thousand and twenty-
three.
Accompanying the report of the librarian will be found
the names of the persons donating books to the library
during the year, with the number presented by each per-
son. Among these are sixtj'-nine volumes of Swedish
books purchased by Hon. Moody Currier at a cost of one
hundred dollars. Due acknowledgment has been made
in behalf of the trustees to all who have in this manner
shown their interest in the increase of the library.
The report of the treasurer shows that during the year
the sum of one thousand thirteen dollars and fifty-nine
cents has been expended for the purchase of books and
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 383
the sum of one Imndred seventj'-nine dollars and eighty-
seven cents for the purchase of periodicals, making a
total expenditure for both these purposes of eleven hun-
dred ninety-three dollars and forty-six cents. Of the
amount expended for the purchase of books, the sum of
fifty dollars and eighty-five cents was used for the pur-
chase of books worn out and withdrawn from circulation,
and the sum of seventy-two dollars and fifty-six cents
was taken from the income of the Dean fund for the in-
crease of that department of the library. Exclusive of
these two items the sum expended for the purchase of new
books was eight hundred and ninety dollars and eighteen
cents, leaving a 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, of four hundred
and seventy-two dollars and fifty-seven cents.
The balances at the close of the year of the accumu-
lated income of the several funds under the control of
the trustees were as follows:
Dean fund |7,731.07
Mary E. Elliot fund 1,340.98
Eliza A. Eaton fund 4G8.77
During the year sixtj'^one volumes were purchased
from the Dean fund at a cost, as above stated, of seventy-
two dollars and fifty-six cents.
The incidental expenses of the library for the past
year have been three thousand six hundred and eighty
dollars and forty-seven cents, included in which amount
is the sum of six hundred and eighty-three dollars and
twenty cents expended on account of re-classification of
the library and additions to the card catalogue.
The expense of conducting the library for the past two
or three years has been somewhat larger than the average
of former years, occasioned, as stated in the last report,
by the employment of additional assistants to the libra-
rian, necessitated by increased circulation and the ar-
rangement keeping the library open additional hours, and
384 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
also the additional cost of lighting the library by electri-
city instead of gas. The items which make up the amount
of these incidental expenditures, bills for which have
been paid by the city treasurer upon the approval of the
trustees from the sum appropriated for the library, will
be found in detail in the annual report of the city.
In April last, Miss Kate E. Sanborn, who for the pre-
vious three years had acceptably filled the position of
librarian, and under w^hose progressive and faithful ad-
ministration the affairs of the library had been brought
to a high standard of efficiency, tendered her resignation
to take effect on the first day of June following.
The trustees accepted the resignation of Miss Sanborn
with great regret, and in this report desire to place on
record their appreciation of her earnest endeavor for- the
accommodation of the patrons of the library, and her
fidelity to duty, always manifested during the term of
her service as librarian. The position made vacant by
the resignation of Miss Sanborn was filled by the election
of Miss Florence E. Whitcher, of Lexington, Mass., who
assumed the duties of the position December 1, 1897.
Miss Whitcher has for a number of j^ears been librarian
of the public library of Lexington, Mass., and the trustees
entertain no doubt but she is well qualified by experi-
ence to fill the position of librarian of our city library
and will prove a competent successor to Miss Sanborn.
The trustees return their acknowledgments to the mem-
bers of the city councils, and particularly to the com-
mittee on lands and buildings, for the courtesy and con-
sideration with which their suggestions relating to the
library have been received and carried out
April , 1898.
In board of trustees read and approved and ordered
transmitted to the city councils.
WILLIAM C. CLARKE,
Mayor.
N. P. Hunt,
Clerk.
TREASURER'S REPORT.
To the Board of Trustees of the City Library:
The treasurer of the board submits the following ac-
count of the receipts and expenditures by the board of
the funds received on account of the library:
1897. Dr.
Jan. 1. To balance of appropri-
ation 1677.35
May 21. Kate E. Sanborn,
catalogues sold . . 19.20
Kate E. Sanborn,
book lost 2.47
Kate E. Sanborn,
balance of fines. . 149.66
26. Moody Currier, for
books 100.00
31. Kate E. Sanborn,
catalogues sold. . 9.80
Kate E. Sanborn,
books lost 7.19
Kate E. Sanborn,
balance of fines. . 85.29
June 9. appropriation for
books for 1897... 1,000.00
12,050.96
Jan, 1. To balance of income
of Dean fund. . . . |7,291.87
income of Dean fund
coupons 108.00
385
25
386 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
July 1. To income of Dean fund
coupons 190.00
interest on accumu-
lation of income
to July 1, 1897,
Manchester Sav-
ings Bank, Book
No. 16445 92.56
interest on accumu-
lation of income
to July 1, 1897,
Manchester Sav-
ings Bank, Book
No. 24442 144.34
Oct. 1. income of Dean
fund, Guaranty
Savings Bank,
Book No. 4078. .. 67.34
interest on accumu-
lation of income
to Oct. 1, 1897,
Guaranty Savings
Bank, Book No.
4557 9.52
17,803.63
Jan. 1. To Mary E. Elliot fund $2,000.00
balance of interest,
Mary E. Elliot
fund 1,230.20
Oct. 1. interest on Mary E.
Elliot fund to
Oct. 1, 1897, Guar-
anty Savings
Bank, Book No.
2009 68.80
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 387
Oct. 1. To interest on accumu-
lation of income
Oct. 1, 1897, Guar-
ant}' Savings
Bank, Book No.
2010 141.98
13,340.98
Jan. 1. To Eliza A. Eaton fund |3,000.00
balance of interest,
Eliza A. Eaton
fund 353.52
Oct. 1. interest on Eliza A.
Eaton fund to
Oct. 1, 1897, Guar-
anty Savings
Bank, Book Iso.
4327 103.15
interest on accumu-
lation of income
to Oct. 1, 1897,
Guaranty S a v-
ings Bank, Book
No. 4328 12.10
3,468.77
|16,664..34
1897. Cr.
Jan. 5. Paid New England News Co., peri-
odicals 111.17
Publishers' Weekly, period-
icals 3.00
George II. Policy & Co., peri-
odicals 0.00
15. Publishers' Weekly, period-
icals 5.00
Journal of Commerce, books 21.60
388 ' ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Jan. 29. Paid New Hampshire Historical
Society, books $8.00
30. Boston Book Co., periodicals 5.00
Feb. 2. New England News Co., peri-
odicals 15.72
12. Little, Brown & Co., books. . 1.50
13. Francis P. Harper, books.. 4.70
17. W. B. Clarke & Co., books. . . 67.70
18. Granite Monthly Co., books 1.25
March 2. New England News Co., peri-
odicals 13.00
3. Little, Brown & Co., books. . 2.00
Publishers' Weekly, books.. 3.50
12. Publishers' Weekly, books.. 3.50
13. W. B. Clarke & Co., books. . 91.22
25. D. L. Miller & Co., books 15.00
April 2. New England News Co., peri-
odicals 10.82
5. Publishers' Weekly, books.. 12.50
8. W. B. Clarke & Co. (Dean
fund), books 72.56
29. W. B.Clarke & Co., books... 19.97
30. Little, Brown & Co., books. . 1.50
May 5. New England News Co., peri-
odicals 10.80
13.' W. B.Clarke & Co., books... 43.77
21. Sampson, Murdock & Co.,
books 2.00
Cleveland Public Library,
books 10.00
John B. Clarke Co., books. . . .50
George F. Willey, books 1.00
Temple & Farrington Co.,
books .20
27. T. H. Castor & Co., books. . . 98.57
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 389
June 4. Paid New Eugland News Co., peri-
odicals 116.25
5. Little, Brown & Co., books. . 4.25
W. B.Clarke & Co., books... 58.99
W. B. Clarke & Co., (replaced)
books , . 50.85
18. T. H. Castor & Co., books 15.68
July 8. W. B. Clarke & Co., books. . . 30.44
Aug. 4. New England New s Co., peri-
odicals 10.12
13. Little, Brown & Co., books. . 3.50
20. Little, Brown & Co., books. . 1.50
Aug. 4. New England News Co. peri-
odicals 16.83
5. Little, Brown & Co., books . . . 2.00
Sept. 4. New England News Co., peri-
odicals 8.68
6. Lawyers' Co-op. Pub. Co.,
books 5.00
11, D. Appleton & Co., books. . . 5.00
20. Temple & Farrington Co.,
books .40
Oct. 6. New England News Co., peri-
odicals 11.29
W. B. Clarke & Co., books. . . 150.30
9. H. Reinbeimer & Co., books 10.00
12. Town of Dover, Mass., books 1.70
Nov. 3. ■ New England News Co., peri-
odicals 14.20
10. Boston Book Co., books 105.00
Dec. 2. ' New England News Co., peri-
odicals 11.99
9. W. B. Clarke & Co., books. . . 92.69
16. Little, Brown & Co., books . . 3.75
390 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Dec. 31. Balance of appropriation |930.06
Balance of Dean fund income. . . . 7,731.07
Balance of Elliot fund and in-
terest 3,310.98
Balance of Eaton fund and interest 3,408.77
116,601.34
The expenditures for the incidental expenses of the
library for the year ending December 31, 1897, the bills
for which have been paid through the office of the city
treasurer upon the approval of the committee 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 |441.66
Services of assistants to librarian 1,170.03
Fuel 374.57
Gas 28.98
Electricity 209.18
Insurance 125.00
Binding 175.44
Eebinding 190.29
Re-classification and cataloguing 683.20
Supplies 82.65
Printing 59.45
Water 16.00
Newspapers 0.00
Incidentals 57.42
13,680.47
RECAPITULATION.
Balance December 31, 1896 |3,251.95
Appropriation for 1897 4,500.00
— 17,751.75
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 391
Paid trustees for purchase of books |1,000.00
incidental expenses 3,680.47
Balance of appropriation December
31, 1897 3,071.28
17,751.75
Kespectfully submitted.
N. P. HUNT,
Treasurer of Trustees of City Library.
December 31, 1897.
We have examined the foregoing report and find the
same correctly cast and properly vouched.
WILLIAM C. CLAKKE,
WALTER M. PARKER,
Committee on Accounts, City Library.
December 31, 1897.
I certify that I have, examined the several items of re-
ceipts 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 E. DODGE,
City A^lditor.
LIBRARIANS' REPORTS.
To the Board of Trustees of the Manchester City Library:
Gentlemen, — Following is a report of the work which
has been done during the first five months of the year,
and the condition of the library June 1, 1S97:
Cash on hand January 1, 1897 1171.33
Amount received from Jan. 1 to May 31, 1897:
For fines 1112.29
catalogues, 49 at 20c 9.80
books lost and paid for. . . 7.19
Paid to N. P. Hunt, treasurer, May
21, 1897 1171.33
Paid for expressage and incidentals 27.00
129.28
$300.61
198.33
Balance on hand May 31, 1897, paid to
N. P. Hunt $102.28
Since January first 5,195 volumes have been classified,
and 5,452 volumes catalogued. They include Language,
Literature, Book Arts, and Periodicals. The classes re-
maining to be done are Philosophy, Religion, Social Sci-
ence, Medicine, and Reference books. It is not possible
to state the number of volumes they contain, but they are,
for the most part, small classes. Upon the completion
of the catalogue and classification there are a few things
to be done which up to this time it has been impossible to
do, owing to the pressure of the work in connection with
re-arranging and re-cataloguing the library. The pam-
392
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 393
plilets need to be counted, sorted, arranged, and many of
them bound. There are also many duplicate yolumes
which require sorting, among them a large number of
United States goyernment publications, which may be
returned to Washington and exchanged for • yolumes
which the library lacks. Sixty-nine yolumes of Swedish
books haye recently been receiyed, the gift of ex-Goyer-
nor Currier. They are now being bound, but haye not
yet been accessioned or catalogued.
It will be remembered that the report for 1890 showed
a large increase in the circulation of books. This in-
crease still continues, and up to this date there has been
a much larger increase of each month oyer the corre-
sponding month of 1896, than there was for 189G oyer
1895.
In closing my work as librarian, I cannot refrain from
expressing ni}- appreciation of the good will which the
trustees have always shown toward me, and the uniform
courtesy and kindness with which they haye treated me.
I realize that the successful administration of any library
is as much due to the efforts of the assistants as to those
of the librarian, and I cannot speak too highly of the zeal,
efficiency, and faithfulness with which my assistants haye
done their work. Their aid has been inyaluable in my
endeayor to serye the public, and to bring the library
into as high a state of usefulness as possible.
Respectfully submitted.
KATE E. SANBORN,
Lihrarian.
May 31, 1897.
To the Board of Trustees of the Manchester City Lihrarij:
(jentlemen, — I herewith submit the forty-fourth an-
nual report of the city library:
Whole number of accessions Dec. 31, 1896. . . . 40,558
394
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
Added during: the year 1897:
By purchase G12
By gift 432
Periodicals bound 110
Whole number at present
Including:
Maps 16
Pamphlets 702
Bound volumes 40,991
Number of periodicals regularly received:
By purchase
By gift
Number of days the librar}- was open for read-
ing and distribution of books
Number of voltimes delivered for home use. .
Average per day
Largest number any one day, February 27. . . .
Largest number any one month, March
Smallest number any one month, June
Number of volumes delivered in the reading-
room
Average per day
Total circulation for 1897
Number of cards used on deposit
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
Number of books lost or injured and paid for. .
Number of volumes repaired at the bindery. .
Number repaired and covered at the library. .
1,154
41,712
41,712
55
23
30G
78,141
256
568
7,572
5,869
16,813
55
94,954
5
722
11,722
107
428
136
54
12
921
15,610
REPORT OP" THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 395
Amoimt received from June 1 to Dec. 31, 1897:
For fines $143.66
catalogues, 31 at 20c 6.20
books lost and paid for 3.38
1153.24
Paid for expressage and incidentals 39.77
Balance on hand January 1, 1898 |113.47
During 1897 the total circulation for the year has been
almost ninety-five thousand, and attention shouldbe called
to the fact that this number does not include the use of
reference books, and a great many other works that are
constantly being consulted, and of which no record can
be made. The number of books issued for home use has
shown a steady increase throughout the year, 11,653
more books having been issued than in 1896. The num-
ber of books used in the reading-room has not increased
so much this year as during the preceding one. An in-
crease in this direction cannot be expected, as the library
offers no accommodations for readers, and until a large
and convenient reading-room can be provided, the useful-
ness of the library in this department of its work will be
seriously affected. Still, there has been a slight gain
during the past year, 1,333 more books having been used
in the reading-room than in 1896, making a total gain in
circulation during 1897 of 12,986,— nearly 13,000. The
library needs a large, well-appointed reading-room, where
students, as well as persons using the magazines and ref-
erence books, can be accommodated. The present read-
ing-room is entirely inadequate for the growing needs
of the city, and the library could reach a much larger pro-
portion of the people if more suitable accommodations
were provided.
The number of books classified during the whole year
has been 6,751, and the number of those catalogued
396 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
7,023. The first of December the work of classifying
Religion according to the new system was begun, and is
smaking good progress.
Sixty-one books have been purchased with the Dean
fund.
It is hoped that during the coming year the privilege
of taking two books at a time will be granted to bor-
rowers, provided that only one of these be a work of fic-
tion. Many of the larger libraries are now adopting this
method. The increased use of the library and the accom-
modation it offers to readers in all cases where it has
been introduced are greatly in favor of its adoption.
This will involve a change in the delivery system, but it
is hoped that the change can be effected with very little,
if any, inconvenience to the patrons of the library.
Seven books were missing at the annual examination
of 1897. Of this number four were works of fiction, two
were volumes of poems, and one was a scientific work.
There are some improvements about the building that
are necessary and should be made as soon as possible.
New step-ladders are a very imperative need, and should
be of an improved kind, made to run quietly, as that will
add. greatly to the comfort of readers. It would not be
necessary to put them in all the alcoves at once, but if a
few were provided each year the expense would be com-
paratively small, the safety of the assistants would be
assured, as some of the ladders now in use are really be-
yond repair, and at the same time the appearance of the
library would be very much improved. Linoleum for the
reading-room and for some of the aisles and alcoves of
the book room is very much needed, as the floor cannot
be properly cared for in its i^resent condition, and so
much dust is a great injury to the books.
Respectfully submitted.
FLORENCE E. WHITCHER,
Lihrarian.
DONATIONS TO THE CITY LIBRARY.
Books. Pampb.
Aguilar Free Library, New York City. . . 1
American Conference on International
Arbitration 1
Amlierst College 5
Apprentices' Library, Philadelphia, Pa. . 1
Austin, Mrs. Josephine 1
Baillie's Inst. Free Library, Glasgow. ... 1
Baltimore, Md. — City Library 8
Berlin, N. H.— Public Library 2
Bigelow Free Public Library, Clinton,
Mass 1
Birmingham, Eng. — Free Libraries 1 4
Boston, Mass. — Public Library 1
Bradley, Denis M., Bishop 2
Bridgeport, Conn. — Public Library 1
Brookline, Mass. — Public Library 1
Brooklyn, N. Y. — Library 1
Cambridge, Mass. — Public Library 1
Campbell, A. H 1
Carnegie Library, Pittsburg, Pa 1
Carvelle, H. DeW 5 348
Chains, F. H 2
Children's Aid Society, New York 1
Christian Science Association, Manchester 1
Clarke, Arthur E 7
Clarke, William C 2
Cleaves, George P 1 1
Clough, John F 2
Cole, S. M 2
397
398 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
College of New Jersey, Princeton, N. J. . . 1
Concord, N. H. — Public Library 2 3
'" " Water Department .... 14
Conn, Dr. G. P 3
Currier, Moody 69
Detroit, Mich. — Public Library 1
Dover, N. H. — Public Library- 2
Enoch Pratt Free Library, Baltimore, Md. 1
Evanston, 111. — Free Public Library. .... 1
Everett, Mass. — Public Library 1
Fairmount Park xVrt Association, Phila-
delphia, Pa 2
Ferguson, Dr. John 33
Fitz Public Library, Chelsea, Mass 1
Fletcher Free Library, Burlington, Vt. . . 1
French, John C 1
Friends' Free Library, Germantown, Phil. 1
Grand Kapids, Mich. — Public Library... 1
Grant, J 1
Green, Andrew H 1
Hartford, Conn. — Public Library 1
Harvard College 1
Hawaiian Islands — Department of For-
eign Affairs 1
Hayes, J. S 1
Henniker, N. H. — Free Library 1
Hoar, G. F 1
Holland, Denis A 1
Hubbell, Mark S 1
Indian Bights Association 7
Jersey City, N. J. — Free Public Library. . 1
John B. Clarke Co 110 13
Kidder, Joseph 1
Lancaster, Mass. — Town Library 2
Lawrence, Mass. — Free Public Library. . 1
Library Company of Philadelphia 6
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 399
Lowell, Mass. — City Library 2
" " Water Board 2
Lynn, Mass. — Public Library . 1
Lytle, J. J ' 1
McCormick Harvesting Machine Company 1
Maimonides Free Library, New York City 1
Maiden, Mass. — Public Library 1
Manchester, Eng. — Public Free Libraries 1
Manchester, N. H. — Board of Water Com-
missioners 1
" " Chief Engineer Fire
Department 1
" " City Auditor 16
" " Street and Park Com-
missioners 1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. . . 4
Melrose, Mass. — Public Library 1
Minneapolis, Minn. — Public Library 1
Moore, W. E . 2 3
Morse Institute Library, Natick, Mass .... 1
Mount Holyoke College, S. Hadley, Mass. 1
National Municipal League, Philadelphia,
Pa 1
New England Society in Brooklyn, N. Y. . 1
New Hampshire. — Agricultural College. . 3
^' Centennial Home for
" the Aged 1
" Ins, Commissioner ... 1
" Library Commission . . 1 1
" Secretary of State 9 2
" State Library 2
New Haven, Conn. — Free Public Library 1
New York City. — Mercantile Library 1
Newark, N. J. — Free Public Library 2
Newberry Library, Chicago, 111 3
Newton, Mass. — Free Library 1
400 ANNUAL OFFICIAL KEPORTS.
Nickerson, Sereno D 2".
Omaha, Neb. — Public Library 1
Parker, H. E 11
Paterson, N. J. — Free Public Library. ... 1
Peabody Institute, Baltimore, Md 1
Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery 1
Peoria, 111. — Public Library 1
Philadelphia, Pa. — Free Library 1
Portland, Me. — Public Library 1
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. — City Library 1
Providence, R. I. — Public Library 1
Bobbins Library, Arlington, Mass 1
St. Louis, Mo. — Mercantile Library 2
Salem, Mass. — Public Library 3
San Francisco, Cal. — Public Library 1
Scranton, Pa. — Public Library 1
Smiley, Albert K 1
Society of Colonial Wars, Washington,
D. C 1
Somerville, Mass. — Public Library 1
Southbridge, Mass. — Public Library 1
Staples, C. J 10
Steward, J. F 1
Stockbridge, E. E 1
Stokes, Anson P 1
Straw, Herman F 2
Syracuse, N. Y. — Central Library
Thomas, Douglas H
Union Publishing Company
United States. — Agricultural Department
" " Bureau of Education. . . .
" " Civil Service Commission
" " . Fish Commission
" " Interior Department....
" " Labor Department
" " Smithsonian Institution
1
1
1
59
1
4
2
4
1
39
3
6
4
11
. REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF THE CITY LIBRARY. 401
"United States.— State Department 2 S
" " Superintendent of Docu-
ments
" " Treasury Department , .
" " War Department
University of California
University of Pennsylvania
Unknown
Uruguay
Venn, Theo. J "
Washington City Free Library
Wliymper, E '.
Wilmington Institute Free Library
Winchester, Mass. — Public Library
Winthrop, E. C, Jr
Wisconsin. — Free Library Commission . . 1
Woburn, Mass. — Public Library 2
Woman's Hospital Aid Association, Con-
cord, N. H 1
Worcester, Mass. — Free Public Library. . • 1
Wyman, E 2
137
130
3
1
5
1
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
1
Periodicals Presented.
Le Bulletin.
Bulletin of Bibliography.
Case and Comment.
Catalogue of United States Public Documents.
Great Round World.
Holy Cross Purple.
Home Market Bulletin.
L. A. AV. Bulletin of Good Roads.
Manchester. — Advertiser.
" Budget.
" Echo (High School).
26
402 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Manchester. — Emerald.
" Union.
Manifesto.
Monthly Bulletin Bureau of American Kepublics.
New Earth.
Notes and Queries.
Official Gazette of United States Patent Office.
Plymouth Record.
Temple.
Tennessee University Magazine.
Travelers' Record.
Veterans' Advocate.
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.
Gentlemen of the City Councils:
In making a report as City Solicitor, for the year 1897,
I would return my thanks for the kind treatment I have
received at your hands, and for the confidence which a
unanimous re-election for another year would seem to
denote. I also would acknowledge the courtesy and con-
sideration received at the hands of all other city officers
with whom I have had official relations during the year.
My report for 1897 must be short, unless I should go
into unnecessary details, which would be of little interest
to you or to the public. No cases in court have been tried
during the j'ear, and for the reason stated in my last
report, that questions of law must first be determined by
the full bench, before a satisfactory trial can be had of a
majority of the pending cases; and it is hoped that a decis-
ion of such cases will be reached the coming year.
The water-works cases remain in the same condition
as in January, 1897. One case was tried by jury several
terms ago, and resulted in a verdict for the city, and
since then the plaintiffs have manifested no desire to
try another, but it cannot be definitely stated when more
trials will be demanded.
Maier v. Manchester, which was a suit for personal in-
juries received by the plaintiff by being thrown over an
embankment on South Main street, where there was no
railing, was adjusted out of court. One of the board of
aldermen was the principal witness against the city, and
405
406 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
it was deemed advisable not to hazard a jury trial, and a
settlement, which I deem fair to both parties, was
effected.
The following new actions were begun during the year,
and are now pending, yiz: Cross, adni'x, v. Manchester,
Turcotte, adm'r, v. Manchester, Wilkins \. Manchester,
Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. v. Manchester, and Foster
et al. V. Manchester.
Ada Cross, the widow and administratrix of Bert S.
Cross, who was found dead in the water-works canal in
the summer of 1896, has filed a petition for leave to bring
a suit against the city to recover damages for his death,
alleging a defective highway owing to an unsuitable fence
along the canal.
E. V. Turcotte, administrator of Ferdinand Allaire,
has brought a suit for damages for the death of Allaire,
who was injured in West Manchester while engaged in
cutting down a large tree, while in the employ of the
board of street and park commissioners. The questions
of law above mentioned arise also in this case.
Joseph Wilkins of Suncook has filed an appeal from
the award of the board of mayor and aldermen for dam-
ages for land taken in the laying out of Cypress street.
N. M. Foster and others have also filed an appeal from
the decision of the mayor and aldermen, w^ho refused to
lay out a northerly extension of Walnut street.
The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company has brought
suit asking for an abatement of a part of its tax for 1897,
alleging that the taxable value of its property is but
14,000,000, instead of |G,000,000, as fixed by the assessors.
This involves over $40,000, and is perhaps the most im-
portant case to which the city has been a party for years.
It has been referred by the supreme court to a committee
consisting of Hon. J. G. Bellows of Walpole, Hon. A. S.
Batchellor of Littleton, and Hon. John Kivel of Dover,
REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR. 407
who will try the facts the coining summer and repoz't
thereon to the court, who will then decide upon the merits
of the case.
The foregoing covers court matters, and I will close
this report by stating that the numerous and detailed
duties of the position have been performed to the best
of my ability, and, I trust, to your satisfaction.
Kesi^ectfully submitted.
EDWIN F. JONES,
City Solicitor.
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR.
REPORT OF THE MILK INSPECTOR.
To His Honor the Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City
of Manchester, N. H.:
Gentlemen, — I have the honor to submit the following
report for the department of inspection of milk and
butter for the year 1897 :
I inspected 187 samples of milk and, on the whole,
found them quite satisfactory. In a few cases where
they ran low or were in some way adulterated I would
notify the dealer, and the result proved satisfactory.
LICENSES.
The state law requires that every person who conveys
milk in carriages or otherwise, for the purpose of selling
the same, within the limits of the city, shall be licensed
annually by the inspector of milk, and shall pay fifty cents
to the use of the city. Every person selling milk or offer-
ing it for sale in a store, booth, or market place, shall pay
fifty cents, which fee is paid but once, by the dealer in
milk, and is not transferable. When I was first ap-
pointed to fill this office I found several owners of stores
and restaurants that had changed hands and were sell-
ing milk without the required license, but after notifying
them they took out the required license.
Number of licenses issued to dealers conveying milk by
carriages or otherwise for purpose of sale, 151.
Number of new registrations of storekeepers and
keepers of restaurants engaged in the sale of milk, 51.
Total number of registrations, 202.
411
412 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Amount of money received and turned over to the city
treasurer, |101.
SKIMMED MILK.
No dealer in milk, and no servant or agent of a dealer,
shall sell, exchange, or deliver, or have in his custody or
possession with intent to sell, exchange, or deliver, milk
from which the cream or anj part thereof has been re-
moved, unless in a conspicuous place above the center,
upon the outside of every vesse'l, can, or package from
or in which such milk is sold, the words "skimmed milk"
are distinctly marked in letters not less than one inch in
length.
There has been but one complaint made to me that the
law was not carried out. Upon investigation I found
that the complainant was not acting in good faith, and
nothing was done with the case.
Property of the city held by the inspector at present is
as follows:
City records, milk grip, 10 pint cans, 1 case containing
lactoscope, thermometer, 2 glass cylinders for cream
tests, etc., 1 package filter paper, 2 specific gravity scales,
1 pipette, and 3 odd pieces of chemical apparatus.
ARCHIE F. PRECOURT,
Inspector of Milk.
REPORT
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
REPORT
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
To His Honor the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Coun-
cils:
In compliance with the ordinance of said city, the Over-
seers of the Poor herewith present their annual report
for the year 1897:
The whole number of families that have received more
or less assistance off the farm during the year has been
one hundred and forty, consisting of four hundred and
fifty persons, all of whom have a settlement in this city,
except those people whom the overseers of the poor
found in a destitute condition and who could not obtain
help from any other direction. Section 1, chapter 84,
Public Statutes of New Hampshire.
The whole number of paupers supported at the county
farm during the year has been eight, more or less of the
time, at a cost of two dollars per week for each person,
all of whom are insane and incurable.
The whole number of minor children supported at the
State Industrial School during the year has been five,
more or less of the time, at a cost of one dollar and fifty
cents for each minor child.
In compliance with sections 1 and 2, chapter 116, Pub-
lic Statutes of New Hampshire, passed at the January
session, 1895, in relation to dependent minor children
being supported at almshouses, the said minor children
.415
416 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
having a settlement in this city are supported as follows:
At St. Patrick's Orphans' Home, Hanover street, six
two months of the time at a cost of one dollar and twenty-
five cents per week for each minor child.
At Notre Dame de Lourdes Home, in charge of the
Gray Nuns, West Manchester, four minor children, at a
cost of one dollar per week for each minor child, more
or less of the time.
All of the said minor children have educational ad-
vantages.
The overseers of the poor have given eight hundred and
twenty orders to the paupers off the farm during the year.
The said orders consisted chiefly of orders for groceries,
fuel, medicine, board and clothing, care and emergencies.
The whole amount allowed to the several persons who
applied for assistance from time to time, from the several
wards of the city, during the year, was as follows:
Ward 1 I2S4.G5
Ward 2 51.90
Ward 3 395.30
Ward 4 38.3.37
Ward 5 1,817.13
Ward 6 663.13
Ward 7 157.25
Ward 8 675.33
Ward 9 1,281.51
15,709.57
MISCELLANEOUS BILLS ALLOWED.
Printing and stationery 137.75
F. X. Chenette, burial of Fillia
Welcome 17.50
State Industrial School, board of
inmates 2,878.00
12,933.25
Total amount allowed |8,642.82
REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR. 417
Cash collected and paid to the city treasurer
as follows:
From Perre Daniel, for board of
Emma Daniel flG.OO
From county of Hillsborough, for
board of inmates State Industrial
School 2,689.50
12,705.50
Total cost to the city $5,937.32
There are uncollected bills due the city amounting to
four hundred and thirty-nine dollars and seventy-two
cents.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
Ward 1, WILLIAM H. MAXWELL,
Ward 2, T. L. QUIMBY,
Ward 3, B. F. GARLAND,
Ward 4, CHARLES B. CLARKSON,
Ward 5, PATRICK COSTELLO,
Ward 6, CHARLES FRANCIS,
Ward 1, WILLIAM MARSHALL,
Ward 8, C. S. McKEAN,
Ward 9, THOMAS C. STEWART,
Overseers of the Poor for the City of Manchester.
A true copy of records. Attest.
William H. Maxwell,
Clerk of the Board.
Aid to Soldiers, Sailors, and their Dependent
Families.
To the Mayor and Gentlemen of the City Councils:
In compliance with sections 1 and 2, chapter 81, Laws
of the state of New Hampshire, passed at the June ses-
sion, 1881, in relation to indigent soldiers and sailors of
27
418 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
the War of the Rebellion, the overseers of the poor here-
with present their annual report under the head "Aid
to soldiers and sailors and their dependent families," for
the 3' ear 1897.
The whole number of indigent soldiers and sailors wlio
have had more or less assistance during the year has been
ten, consisting of six families, all of whom have a settle-
ment in this city, at a cost of .f 128.74,
All of which is respectfull}' submitted.
Ward 1, WILLIAM H. MAXWELL,
Ward 2, T. L. QUIMBY,
Ward 3, B. F. GARLAND,
Ward 4, CHARLES B. CLARKSON,
Ward 5, PATRICK COSTELLO,
Ward 6, CHARLES FRxlNCIS,
Ward 7, WILLIAM MARSHALL,
Ward 8, C. S. McKEAN,
Ward 9, THOMAS C. STEWART,
Overseers of the Poor for the City of Manchester.
A true copy of records. Attest.
William H. Maxwell,
Clerk of the Board.
REPORT
BOARD OF HEALTH.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
To His Honor the Mayor:
The Board of Health submit the following report for
the year 1897:
Mr, John C. Bickford having been appointed to succeed
William J. Starr, the board organized by re-electing Dr.
C. W. Downing president and William K. Bobbins clerk.
The last of April we were called to mourn the death of
Dr. C. W. Downing, and May first Dr. William M. Parsons
was appointed to serve out the unexpired term. Mr.
John C. Bickford was then elected president of the board
for the remainder of the year.
EXPENDITURES.
Salaries 1629.17
Labor 2,365.38
Office furniture 61.39
Printing and advertising 186.83
Postage and envelopes " 24.65
Traveling expenses (teams and carfare) 178.10
Express 11.95
Telephone service .36.75
Gas 4.24
Legal expenses 13.00
Fumigating lamps 24.60
24 samples water analyzed 60.00
Experimental plumbing work 24.60
Antitoxine 228.93
42J
422 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Diphtlieria examinations $140.00
Disinfectants 230.60
Aid given families quarantined 98.27
Board, fuel, etc., for pest-house 83.01
Sundries 3G.39
14,442.86
The expenditure for labor is somewhat less than usual
this year on account of changes in the inspectors em-
ployed. Disinfectants and apparatus therefor have cost
more than usual, for tv^o reasons: First, because this is
the first whole year in which the board has done all the
fumigation after contagious diseases, and second, be-
cause the formaldehyde process is somewhat more ex-
pensive, and, besides, there was a larger number of cases
of contagious disease. Also the outbreak of diphtheria
at the Children's Home and among the pupils attending
the Pearl-street school occasioned an extra amount of
fumigation. In all 601 rooms were fumigated, making
the average cost per room about 39 cents. The process
has worked well so far as we can determine, and from the
reports of many capable investigators who have made
careful and satisfactory tests with it we feel warranted
in continuing the use of the formaldehyde gas fumigation.
The expense for antitoxine and culture tests for diph-
theria is also larger, because the physicians have em-
ployed them more and apparently with good results, since
the fatality from this disease has been reduced by eleven
per cent compared with that of last year.
MEETINGS.
The regular weekly meetings have been continued, the
time having been changed from Wednesday evenings to
Tuesday evenings at seven o'clock. The public have
become accustomed to this, so that special meetings have
been seldom necessary. About the usual number of spe-
cial meetings for trips of inspection have been held.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 423,
INSPECTORS.
Earh' in the year Mr. Clough severed bis connection
with the board and no inspector was hired in his stead
until July, when Mr. William B. Blake was employed.
Mr. Barrj' retired May first and Mr. Carl O. Seaman
was employed to give special attention to the enforcement
of the plumbing regulations.
THE TLUMBING RULES.
. Mr. Seaman is a journeyman plumber, whose skill and
good judgment have been well shown in this city by
actual experience at the trade. Before beginning his
duties as inspector he went to Boston and worked with
the jilumbing inspectors in all parts of that city. Enter-
ing upon his duties he modified the methods of inspec-
tion previously" employed in many respects, the most im-
I)ortant being the system of calking in all ferrules with
lead-pipe starts, and calking in iron traps, then applying
the water test to all with the stack. This system, has
worked very satisfactorily.
It seems necessary to use cellar drains in some sec-
tions of the city, and these are usually connected with
the main sewer. As a precaution of safety when the
main sewer becomes clogged, or is flooded by hard show-
ers, the board have required such cellar drains to be pro-
vided with back-water valves or some other device satis-
factory to the plumbing inspector.
Many requests are still made for permission to locate
water closets in cellars and basements, and in all such
cases the premises are examined by the plumbing in-
spector before permission is granted, and the citizens
have thus been able to avail themselves of the valuable
counsel of a. skilled and disinterested plumber in the loca-
tion and arrangement of their plumbing, often at a sav-
ing of expense to themselves and always avoiding unsan-
itary conditions.
424 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
There are a great many varieties of sanitary traps upon
the market and an equal variety of claims made for and
against them. The board has been often asked to ex-
press an opinion for or against such traps, but has re-
frained from doing so from lack of unbiased information.
Therefore the plumbing inspector was instructed to use
his spare moments in fixing up at the office an apparatus
for testing traps. This is now completed and most of
the varieties of traps have been secured and provided
with windows so that the seal and the action of liquids
passing through may be observed, and we shall soon be
in possession of valuable original information upon this
subject, and citizens who are interested may visit the
office and see for themselves the action of any trap on the
market.
The regulations in general have been well complied
with and the plumbing workmanship of the city steadily
improves from year to year.
SCHOOLHOUSES.
Early in the summer the plumbing inspector was in-
structed to make an examination of the drainage of all
the schoolhouses, which he did, and his report, which is
herewith included, was sent to the school board and the
committee on lands and buildings of the city councils.
All the principal defects noted were repaired during the
summer vacation and at the Ash-street school the entire
plumbing system was remodeled and relocated.
A number of cases of diphtheria having occurred
among the pupils attending the Pearl-street school, it
was closed by the school board and the matter referred
to the board of health. Careful inspection and examina-
tion of the building was made by the board in connection
with the sub-committee of the school. While nothing
could be found to indicate that the disease originated
there, it seemed quite probable that it had been trans-
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 425
mitted from pupil to pupil there. The place was thor-
oughly fumigated, the basements whitewashed, the
drinking cups boiled in soda, solution, and the stock of
lead pencils burned. The building was declared sanitary
and the scliools opened, a special report of the findings
being submitted to jour honor at the time.
TENEMENT BLOCKS.
About the same number of tenement blocks required
attention this year as last. In some the entire system
of drainage was condemned and modern arrangements
substituted at the instance of this board. There are yet
many blocks where the drainage is far from satisfactory
and must soon be replaced. In some places the old
vaults have been connected with the sewer, making
latrines of them, in others small latrines have been in-
stalled in place of water closets. All these, as usually
cared for in tenement property, are nuisances and no
better — often worse — than the old privy vaults, and their
eradication is equally necessary. In a number of places
where sewer connections have been required, the old-
style direct-pressure water closets have been set outside,
but it is found that to save the expense of water, and the
danger tof freezing, the water is shut off for weeks at a
time, and they become more offensive and dangerous than
the old vaults. The setting of water closets out of doors
is now earnestly discouraged b}' the board.
DISPOSAL OF GARBAGE.
It is a matter of sincere regret that the past year has
brought no improvement in the place or manner of dis-
posing of waste and rubbish. We would therefore re-
iterate the suggestions of previous reports and if possi-
ble make them more emphatic.
The clean swill is gathered by private swill gatherers
426 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
and the city-farm teams; the latter taking- what is left by
the former, who often mix what they leave with ashes
and dirt to such an extent that it cannot be taken as swi-ll
and is left by both. This, with all wastes and refuse of
the streets and alleys, is collected by the scavenfjjer teams
of the street department. There is not the slightest
effort made to keep the perishable and imperishable mat-
ters separate, as required by city ordinance. Tliis is
now, as in the past, carted to low land and used as tilling,
ostensibly for streets but often practically for building
lots, the principal locality being along the valley of Cem-
etery brook, which is typical of all the others. Formerly
these fills known as the city dumps were a considerable
distance from residence property, but as the city has
grown, dwellings have been erected all about them,
some almost on them.
"NAliat are these dumps then? Simply huge piles, often
twent}' to thirty feet deep, of all imaginable kinds of
refuse, the greater bulk being of perishable matter, much
of it when gathered being dry enough to burn. The rest
is swill that has been spilled or deliberately mixed with
so much other rubbish that it is unfit for feed or fertilizer,
tin cans containing portions of vegetables, fish, or meat,
papers and rags that are too much soiled to be fit for sale
as paper stock, and the promiscuous materials gathered
from lawns, gardens, and the back streets. The ashes,
brick, lime, etc., constituting imperishable matter is
ostensibly used to cover the rest, but practically it is
mixed with the rest and no attemi)t is made at covering
worthy the name.
In these great piles there is always moisture enough
to keep up a fermenting and rotting process. They are
perfect culture media for all sorts of germs and from the
nature of the material it is safe to presume the presence
of all those causing the common contagious and infec-
tious diseases. For these germs there is ample chance
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 427
for distribution bv the winds, by rag picliers stirring up
the surface, by flies swarming about the filthier portions,
and probably most of all by rats which infest these dumps
in great numbers, and overrun the neighboring dwelling
houses. They burrow through the entire mass making
holes w^hich serve as vents for the foul and dangerous
odors and gases that are constantly being generated in
volumes far exceeding all the sewer gas of the entire city.
A small heap of such refuse upon any street or premises
in the city would be complained of as a nuisance and we
would compel the owner or person responsible to remove
or abate it. But these immense dumps which are much
more dangerous nuisances, and which if is quite impos-
sible to remove or abate, are built by officials of the city,
and so far we have been unable to prevent it.
Collecting refuse from many streets and piling it up
in a few to rot is not cleaning the city. The material
might better lie scattered about the streets exposed to
the purifying effects of sun and air. Therefore of the
116,000 appropriated for scavenger service all has been
worse than wasted so far as the sanitary condition of the
city is concerned, except the small proportion paid to the
city farm for work that has been well and faithfulh' per-
formed.
We therefore consider these dumps as unclean, un-
sightly, unsanitary, disgusting, and dangerous to the
public health. Not wishing to take our own views as
final in so important a matter, we early in the year sent
a circular letter to the physicians of the city asking their
opinion of the method adopted by the city for the dispo-
sition of wastes. Thirty-one replies were received, all
condemning the system and declaring it dangerous to
the public health. A communication was sent to the city
government regarding this matter, and certain amend-
ments to the city ordinances were proposed^ which it was
thought might aid in the separation of the various kinds
428 . ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
of refuse and thus improve the sanitary condition of the
city. Botli tlie communication and the amendments
were disregarded and the same old system continued
without the slightest endeavor to remedy the evils com-
plained of. In view of this fact and the numerous
complaints of citizens, your board felt compelled, in jus-
tice to themselves, the complainants, and the general
public, to ask the supreme court to issue an injunction
against the creation of these dumps within the sanitary
limits of the city. Considering the plea of poverty and
promises of greater care in collecting on the part of
the officials having the work in charge, the matter has
been allowed to rest without a hearing to the present
time, but the board feels that it is their duty to ask the
court to give an early hearing upon the petition and deter-
mine whether or not the public health is to be continually
endangered in this matter.
Whatever the manner of final disposal, it is essential
that the perishable and imperishable wastes be kept
apart, and the first condition necessary to this end is
that they be collected separately, because people will
not keep them separate when all are mixed in the same
cart for removal. To aid in this direction we would
renew our request that private swill gatherers be put
under license regulation.
The only really sanitary manner of final disposal of
such refuse is by burning. Crematories such as would
dispose of all the refuse of this city are in successful oper-
ation in other cities. If such cannot be had on account
of the expense, then only the moist and putrifying portion
should be collected and that taken to a considerable dis-
tance from the city and there disposed of under orders
from the board of mayor and aldermen as specified in
chapter 9 of the city ordinances.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
429
ISOLATION HOSPITAL.
The only place to which we can remove a case of con-
tagious disease at present is the old makeshift known as
the pest-house, located in the most popular park of the
city. It grows poorer each year, so that now the service
it renders is not worth what it costs the city to support it.
We would once more respectfully urge upon your Honor
and the city councils the great and immediate need of
an Isolation Hospital.
The following tables show the number of cases of con-
tagious and infectious diseases reported during each
month of the year, and the deaths resulting therefrom;
also the average number of cases and deaths for the last
tw^elve years, which is inserted for purposes of com-
parison.
Membra-
nous
croup.
Diph-
theria.
Typhoid
fever.
Measles.
Scarlet
fever.
Vario-
loid.
Totals.
Months.
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31
Q
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m . ^
o —
CO si
cj
in
03
0
o5
03
03
O
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1
o5
V
yi
O
Deaths.
Cases.
2
V
Q
Q
January —
1
1
34
15
10
21
13
1
7
2
2
2
1
4
6
1
4
5
1
11
17
13
10
5
7S
1
1
4
3
1
1
11
252
71
31
6
4
9
3
5
2
1
1
292
92
42
33
26
IS
5
20
41
41
41
35
681
10
4
2
5
2
February... .
Marcli
April
2
1
1
3
3
1
2
4
2
1
1
12
8
11
12
54
May
June
July
1
2
12
19
10
11
148
5
7
1
2
'J9
September. .
9
10
5
1
2
6
387
3
1
November..
8
1
14
2
1
10
December...
4
54
Totals...
1
430
ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Membra-
UOU9
croup.
Diph-
theria.
Typhoid
fever.
Measles.
Scarlet
fever.
Vario-
loid.
Totals.
Years.
in
CO
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Q
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Q
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1885
*
*
*
*
*
•
*
*
12
17
17
14
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
*
12
11
14
10
*
73
126
79
41
21
26
7
42
47
103
148
18
9
17
30
23
9
2
5
1
11
11
28
29
*
*
28
35
36
36
76
33
79
74
73
81
78
20
12
18
12
16
17
18
11
15
21
21
20
11
*
*
94
44
259
63
25
44
110
67
55
500
387
5
4
1
5
3
2
5
3
4
3
3
*
*
*
187
54
298
89
451
212
223
68
61
54
36
6
9
9
4
6
2
11
2
8
1
1
1
*
*
*
*
*
392
428
438
211
554
408
418
260
763
681
79
1886
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1887
48
1888
5"
1889
48
1890
^^5
1891
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1892
oq
1893
23
1894
55
1895
4S
1896
I
6fi
1897
54
Inspection of these tables will show that the deaths
from these diseases for 1S97 is about an averajie of the
previous three years. The remarkable prevalence of
measles in January, February, and March swells the cases
reported to an unusually large number.
Diphtheria was pervalent during the winter months.
The cases reported exceed those of 1896 by forty-five,
while only a single death more than those of 1896 was
recorded, thus making a considerable decrease in the
percentage of deaths. That this is due in part to the in-
creased employment of the antitoxine treatment there
seems scarcely a doubt. The quarantine and disinfection
have been carefully followed this year as last, and no
case has been traced to another that had been jireviously
recognized.
*No returns ruade during this j'car.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
DEATH RETURNS.
431
TABLE SHOWING THE MORTALITY OF THE CITY BY DISEASES
AND BY MONTHS FOR THE YEAB 1897.
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ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
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REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
TABLi:.—Co7ilinued.
433
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KEPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 437
Again we must note an increase in the deaths of chil-
dren, and by reference to table beginning on page 431 it
will be seen that the causes of death are very largely
ailments that are preventable by sufficient care and
proper food.
Consumption (various forms of tuberculosis) still
claims eleven per cent of the total deaths. With these
two matters we can do little more than has been done
until further legislation empowers us to control the sale
of milk and requires consumption to be reported the same
as the other contagious diseases, so that we may work
intelligently toward its prevention.
Pneumonia and its varieties caused ten per cent of the
total deaths, and bronchitis eight and one half per cent.
These are both much higher than last year. As they are
not contagious diseases they are not usually considered
as coming within the realm of officers of public health,
but as they commonly follow exposure of weakened sys-
tems, it seems proper that the public be at least warned
of their fatality and reminded that they are in greater
part preventable by sufficient care.
We include herewith the report of the health inspec-
tors, the plumbing inspector, upon the school buildings,
and a special report of the board upon the Pearl-street
schoolhouse.
In conclusion we would express our thanks to your
Honor and the city councils, as well as many citizens who
have given us encouraging assistance.
Respectfully submitted.
JOHN C. BICKFORD,
WILLIAM K. ROBBINS,
WILLIAM M. PARSONS, M. D.,
Board of Health.
Manchester, N. H., October 30, 1897.
REPORT ON PEARL-STREET SCHOOLHOUSE.
Eon. William C. Clarice, Mayor and Chairman of ScJiool
Committee:
Dear Sik, — Eight cases of diphtheria, two of them
fatal, having been reported from the Pearl-street school,
some alarm was felt among the pupils of that district and
the sub-committee closed the school, requesting the board
of health to make the proper investigation and decide
when the school might be opened with safety. Accord-
ingly this board, together with the sub-committee of the
school and interested citizens, have made three special
inspections of the building, in both favorable and unfa-
vorable weathei', and with varying conditions and uses
of the warming and ventilating apparatus, w^hich is of the
Smead system. We have not been able to produce back
drafts and can find no evidence that foul air from the
closets has entered the school rooms, nor can we find any
indication that the building was a casual factor in the
breaking out of diphtheria among the pupils.
As this disease becomes infectious in its earlier stages,
there was possible communication of it among the pupils
by personal contact and the common use by all of the
drinking cups and lead pencils.
The dark closet where slight odors were detected has
been torn out. The basement walls have been white-
washed; the pencils burned; the drinking cups boiled in
strong lye and washed, and the building thoroughly fumi-
gated.
We can therefore report to you that we believe the
Pearl-street school is entirely free from danger of diph-
438
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 439
theria or other contagious disease, and recommend that
the school be opened for regular work Monday, November
1. In this connection we would suggest the use of indi-
vidual drinking cups and lead pencils in all the schools.
JOHN C. BICKFOED,
WILLIAM K. ROBBINS,
WILLIAM M. PARSONS, M. D.,
Board of Health.
INSPECTORS' REPORT.
Gentlemen of the Board of Health:
We beg leave to submit the following as the report of
the sanitary inspectors for the year 1897 :
Vaults and privies inspected 706
Vaults inspected after cleaning , 318
Water closets inspected 1,995
Yards and alleys inspected. . : 1,491
Cellars inspected 2,290
Barns and outbuildings inspected 194
Tenements inspected 552
Barn cellars inspected 173
Latrines inspected 26
Teams and riggings of excavators inspected. ... 22
Soaperies, slaughter-houses, etc., inspected.... 21
Cleaning or repairs were ordered as follows:
Vaults and privies cleaned 148
Yards and alleys cleaned 420
Cellars cleaned 766
Barn cellars cleaned. 59
Sheds, etc., cleaned 51
Tenements cleaned 84
Water closets cleaned or repaired 584
Vault covers repaired 8
Leaky drainpipes repaired Ill
Houses within 100 feet of a public sewer and not con-
nected therewith, 51.
Openings other than leaks in the drainage system were
found in 24 places, and same were closed by order of the
440
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 441
department. One thousand five hundred and five sinks
have been examined, and 415 have been provided with
traps.
Sewage was found running on the surface of the
ground in 87 places, and such nuisances were abated
either by entering the sewer or carrjing away in some
manner not offensive.
In doing the worlv of the department it has been neces-
sary to malie 3,230 calls, and to write 1,051 letters.
Two hundred and eighty-nine complaints have been
investigated. In 225 cases the inspectors have been able
to give relief, and in 64 cases it was found that no cause
existed, or that same was beyond the control of the de-
partment.
Seventeen dead animals have been properly disposed
of.
One hundred and twenty-five hens and small animals
have been removed from cellars.
Twenty-eight swine and cows have been discovered
being kept within the sanitary limits of the city, without
licenses. Same were ordered removed or licenses
procured.
Twenty complaints were made against the scavenger
service; in each case the proper parties were notified and
relief afforded.
Twenty-seven persons were discovered throwing gar-
bage in the back streets and lake, and were warned
against the practice.
Private swill collectors have been warned forty-five
times to be neater in their work.
Twenty-six catch-basins or street cesspools have been
flushed or repaired by order of this department.
Eighty-five notices have been prepared and served,
and proper returns made.
A sanitary inspection has been made of 21 bakeshops.
442 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Two theatres were ordered cleaned and put into proper
sanitary condition.
Circus gronnjds have been inspected G times, and nui-
sances abated 3 times.
Stable bedding was found in back street in 21 places^
and ordered removed.
The dumps have been inspected 38 times, and nuisances
there to the number of 4 abated by the street department.
One hundred and fourteen nuisances not otherwise clas-
sified have been abated through the efforts of this depart-
ment.
Thirteen samples of water secured from Lake Massa-
besic and springs and wells about the city have been
sent away for analysis.
Householders have been given 26 permits to clean their
own vaults.
Permits to the number of 1,517 have been granted for
the burial or removal of dead bodies, and the returns for-
warded to the city registrar.
A statement of mortality has been prepared each
month, and copies sent to over two hundred other towns
and cities, to local physicians, etc.
Contagious and infectious diseases have been reported
as follows: Measles, 380; diphtheria, 149; tj'phoid fever,
78; scarlet fever, 54; membranous croup, 14; varioloid,
0; total, 081. Five hundred and seven of these cases were
reported by physicians, 102 by householders, and 72 were
discovered by the inspectors. The inspectors were
unable to trace the cause in 377 cases; in 273 cases the
connection with some previous case was clearly trace-
able. Colds were probably the cause in 15 cases; G cases
were contracted outside of the city; and in 8 cases it was
reasonable to attribute the cause to unsanitary sur-
roundings.
In 119 cases disinfectants were being used. The in-
spectors ordered their use in 183 cases. At most of these
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 443
latter places mstrnctioiis were given as to their use, and
in many cases the department furnished the disinfect-
ants.
Bedding burned for contagious diseases 3 times.
In 62 cases patients were found well isolated, and in
198 cases inspectors were obliged to order isolation. In
nearly all of these cases it was necessary for the inspec-
tors to give instructions as to the steps to be taken.
Nine houses were watched to see that the rules of iso-
lation were complied with; and 7 funerals were attended
to prevent a too public observance of the same.
Six hundred and one rooms where disease had existed
were fumigated by the inspectors.
One hundred and six children who were attending
school, and 57 people who were working and living in
houses where contagious disease existed, were either re-
strained from attending school and employment, or in-
structed as. to thorough isolation from the disease until
all danger from contagion had jjassed.
Nine cases have been cared for at the contagious dis-
ease hospital.
Four hundred and forty-two houses have been pla-
carded, and the placards removed at the termination of
the disease.
About 3,000 pamphlets issued by the State Board of
Health have been distributed in the localities where con-
tagious disease existed.
Weekly reports of contagious and infectious diseases
have been sent to the State Board of Health, Concord,
and the United States Marine Hospital service, Washing-
ton, D. C.
The inspectors have each in turn patroled the shores of
Lake Massabesic, Sundays, holidays, and part of every
other day from June 1 to October 1.
Thirteen people who were found bathing in the lake
were driven out and warned not to enter it again.
444 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Twenty-seven dead fish were removed from the lake
or its shores, and buried.
Urinals and slophoppers inspected, 34.
Found unsanitary, 7.
Steamboats inspected 21 times.
Warned parties about throwing swill in lake 20 times.
Found swill and other refuse close to cottages 15 times.
Nine persons were warned as to the disposal of sink-
water.
Four parties were caught washing clothes in the lake,
and one throwing w^ashing water in the lake. Both were
reprimanded and warned.
Nuisances to the number of 114, not otherwise classi
fled, were abated.
Several picnics and band concerts were attended, to
prevent the careless disposal of waste and rubbish in the
lake or on its shore.
Banana skins, sawdust, tin cans, paper, and rubbish of
all sorts, have been removed whenever found.
PLUMBING INSPECTIONS MADE.
Number of jobs reported 669
tank water closets 1,061
pressure closets 32
Kelley & Genesee closets 30
sinks 716
bath-tubs 451
wash-bowls 416
wash-trays 91
slop-hoppers 6
urinals 15
Other fixtures not classed above 34
Total number of fixtures put in 2,852
The pipe put in was tested with water in 589 places.
At 16 places where water was not accessible, the smoke
test was used in place of water.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 445
A total of 2,007 inspections were made of the work
during its progress and after its completion.
At 379 places work was found defective. In all such
cases the defective work was removed and proper work
substituted therefor.
In several cases plurnbers were found trying to deceive
the inspector, but in most cases the work has been more
expertly done than in previous years, as several parties
who were inclined to be dishonest, or were incompetent
from lack of knowledge and experience, have discontin-
ued the occupation.
The inspector has been to some trouble to secure from
his reports the following statistics as to new buildings,
which he thinks may be interesting:
Total number reported 217
Single tenement buildings 74
Two-tenement buildings 54
Three-tenement buildings 19
Four-tenement buildings 2
Six-tenement buildings 2
Nine-tenement buildings . . . . .~ 1
Eesidences 29
The new buildings include the Boston & Maine depot,
Elliot Hospital Memorial building, mill for Devonshire
Manufacturing Co., Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital,
and 32 other buildings, viz : ten-footers, cook rooms, car-
riage houses, stables, etc. Total number of new build-
ings, 217; estimated value, |775,000.
The inspectors desire to express their thanks to the
honorable board who have so ably directed their efforts;
also to all who have aided them in the work of the depart-
ment.
WILLIAM B. BLAKE.
JOHN F. LOONEY.
CARL O. SEAMAN.
446 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
At the request of the board of health, riumbing In-
spector Carl O. Seaman made an examination of the san-
itary condition of the public schools. His report was
forwarded to Mayor Clarke and presented to the school
board. The document follows:
Report of Plumbing Inspector.
Manchester, X. H., May 29, 1897.
To the Members of the School Board and Committee on Lands
and Buildings:
Gentlemen, — Believing that the health of the children
of the city while in attendance at our public schools
should receive the watchful care and attention of all upon
whom any authority may rest in regard thereto, we have
caused the several schoolhouses of the city to be in-
spected, in order that any defects in their sanitary condi-
tion may be made known to you, and that such repairs
may be made during the summer vacation as seem neces-
sary for the health of the attendants. Feeling confident
that you will gladl}' make such changes and improve-
ments as will insure protection against dangers from de-
fects in the sanitary construction or condition of the
school buildings of the city, we submit herewith the re-
port of Mr. Carl O. Seaman, the inspector of plumbing,
trusting that you will deem it worthy of attention with-
out further comments from us.
Yours very truly,
JOHN C. BICKFOED,
WILLIAM K. BOBBINS,
WILLIAM M. PARSONS, M. D.,
Board of Health.
To the Board of Health:
Gentlemen, — In accordance with your directions I
have examined the plumbing and sanitary condition of
the several schoolhouses, and submit the following report
as to their condition:
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 447
ASH-STREET SCHOOL.
Found plumbing very unsanitary. All water closets
poorly flushed through a three fourths inch lead pipe, and
nearly all without light. Could not find that the soil-pipe
ran through the roof. Closets and plumbing in general
very bad, and twentj^ years out of date.
WEBSTER-STREET SCHOOL.
Found water closets (latrines) automatically flushed.
Trap to sink in south end of basement sj'phons and breaks
the seal, permitting odors to escape to second floor.
Found blow-off to steam boiler entered in drain pipe, and
drain pipe badly broken where blow-off enters; sewer gas
<3ould escape freely. Found two two-inch joints of lead
pipe to soil-pipe made with cement and loose. Found
soil pipe carried above roof on outside of building through
four-inch galvanized iron j^ipe.
BLODGET-STREET SCHOOL.
Found old vaults still in use. Sink waste on east side
runs off very slowly.
FRANKLIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Found water closets poorly lighted and flushed. Flush
operates by door. Found two-inch joint of soil-pipe to up-
stairs sink leaking. Soil-pipe run above roof in two
places through four-inch galvanized pipe on outside of
building. Plumbing in general very bad.
MAIN-STREET SCHOOL.
Found closets insufficiently flushed because they oper-
ate by doors, and the bad odors are noticed from them
all over the building in hot weather. Boiler blow-off
enters sewer. Found leak in two-inch soil-pipe because
not properly supported. Urinals very poor. Soil-pipe
runs through roof outside in two places through galvan-
ized iron pipes.
448 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
LOWELL-STREET SCHOOL.
Foimd water closet in outhouse flushed by door; soil-
pipe runs through roof; one sink which is thought to be
trapped in the ground.
SPRING-STREET -SCHOOL.
Found Smead system in use; dry water closets in use
in outhouse; Akron sewer pipe for four sinks in building;
sink waste is of one-inch lead pipe.
TRAINING SCHOOL.
Water closets dark; lighted by gas; poor flush operated
by door; all supply pipes need cleaning out; principal
complains of bad odors coming from plumbing all the
time. Plumbing in general very bad.
RIMMON SCHOOL.
Wash-bowls and sinks are in good condition. Dry sys-
tem of water closets; no odor; no complaint.
HALLSVILLE SCHOOL.
Found dry system of water closets in use. Sinks all
in good condition. Soil-pipe runs through roof. Prin-
cipal complains of insufficient ventilation in lower story
of building. '
VARNEY SCHOOL.
Found Smead system of dry water closets in use. No-
ticed bad odors coming from them. Found all fires out
that keep the system going. As it depends on forced
ventilation to keep odors out of the building, the closets
as they are are worse than vaults in the basement.
About one half of the closets are dark. Soil-pipe runs
through roof through two-inch pipe in two places. One
conductor pipe found broken. Middle room on east side
of building, on first floor, is not properly Ventilated.
REPORT OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH. 449
WILSON SCHOOL.
Plumbing modern and in good condition. Not kept as
clean as it should be.
PEARL-STREET SCHOOL.
Smead system of plumbing in fair condition. No com-
plaints. Two sinks in basement need better foundation.
Wash-bowls in some of the rooms need cementing be-
tween bowl and slab. .
BAKERSVILLE SCHOOL.
Modern plumbing in fair condition. Water closets
work by seat. Some need repairing. Some flush too
soon; one not at all; and some seats need repairing. One
sink in the girls' basement leaks in trap.
PARKER SCHOOL.
Modern plumbing. Several water closets on girls'
side need repairing, and one on boys' side.
STRAW SCHOOL.
Modern plumbing in good condition. Urinals here out
of date, very poor design.
To put the buildings in proper sanitary condition, I
would recommend the following:
At Ash-Street School. — This entire system should be
relocated and replaced by modern plumbing.
At Webster-Street School. — The sink-trap in south end
of the basement should be replaced by a non-syphon trap.
The blow-off to the steam boiler should be disconnected
from the sewer, and the two-inch joints of lead pipe
should be made according to the plumbing rules. The
Akron pipe in the basement should be replaced by iron
pipe. The urinals should be connected with the sewer
and provided with an automatic flush of water.
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450 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
At the Franklin-street and Main-street Schools. —
The water closets should be provided with better light,
and changed so as to flush in a different manner. The
urinals should be replaced b}^ a new system. The steam
blow-off from the boiler should be disconnected from the
sewer.
At the Training School. — The water closets and ui'inals
should be relocated and replaced by a new system, and
the water supply pipes should be increased in size.
At the Varney School and Hallsville School. — The dry
system of closets and urinals should be replaced by a
modern water-carriage system.
At the Straw School. — The urinals can be made san-
itary by supplying a slate safe and back.
With repairs and alterations made as above, the sev-
eral buildings will be in fair sanitary condition for the
present, but only for the present, for I am satisfied that
the Smead, or a similar system, with dry closets attached,
is not desirable; that, in fact, there are too many ways by
which, with slight negligence or oversight on the part of
attendants, the rooms may become flooded with air from
the privy vaults.
Respectfully submitted.
C. O. SEAMAN,
Inspector of Plumbing.
REPORTS
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES AND
CEMETERY FUNDS.
REPORT
OF THE
TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES.
Pine Grove Cemetery.
To the Trustees of Cemeteries ami to the City Councils:
The sub-trustees of the Pine Grove cemetery make
report as follows:
During the year 1897, no radical change has been made
in the policy of conducting this cemetery. The same
superintendent has been continued in office, and the gen-
eral management of the grounds has been satisfactory
to the sub-trustees and, they hope, to the public also.
The ai^pearance of the cemetery was never better than
during the past warm season, and all improvements are
now made with an eye to future development as well as
to present needs.
Eighty lots have been sold during the year, in all, —
nineteen on the lawns under perpetual care, sixteen on
Riverside and three on Chapel Lawn; sixty with lawn
restrictions, so called (by which all lots are graded before
sale and no walks are constructed between the lots) ; and
one of the old unrestricted lots. Only three of the unre-
stricted lots are now left, and hereafter, in accordance
with the policy adopted some years ago, no more of this
kind will be laid out. All lots will be sold either with
lawn restrictions or under perpetual care. Experience
has clearly demonstrated the advantage of this policy
453
454 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
and the appearance of the grounds has been much bet-
tered thereby. There are now unsold fifty-four lots on
Riverside Lawn and fifteen on Chapel Lawn, all under
perpetual care; and thirty-five lots with lawn restric-
tions remain, ready for sale.
During the year about one half of Pine Lawn, which
lies just east of Riverside Lawn, and which is designed
to accommodate a growing demand for small lots under
perpetual care, has been graded; and it is intended to
grade the remainder early in the coming season, and the
lots thereon will be ready for use. The section just
south of Riverside Lawn has been graded and is ready
for top-dressing in the spring, and will be prepared as
soon as possible for sale into lots with lawn restrictions.
The ''Field of Manesquo" has been enlarged by the ad-
dition of a section adjoining on the south, and four hun-
dred additional iron markers for the graves procured.
More care is given each year to these public grounds,
and it is the desire and intention of the sub-trustees that
they shall be well looked after.
In preparing the new lot section, it became necessary
to remove the old house, which had fallen into decay and
was unoccupied; and it was sold and moved away by the
purchaser. Torn down it was of no value, and its re-
moval was imperative. The sub-trustees deem it highly
advantageous that they were able to get a small sum for
it and have it removed without cost to the cemetery.
A section of the grounds lying south of the Swedish
Lawn was during the year reserved for the Swedish Evan-
gelical Mission church and Swedish Baptist church under
an agreement and conditions similar to those under which
the Swedish Lawn was reserved. They are to be known
as the Swedish Mission Lawn and the Swedish Baptist
Lawn.
A great and lasting improvement in the southern part
of the cemetery was effected in the spring by the repairs
REPORTS OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES. 455
which the board of street and park commissioners, at the
request of the sub-trustees, made on the Calef road.
Gutters or ditches were made on the sides of this high-
way, and the surface water, which formerly flowed across
the cemetery, is now conducted away by them, and much
trouble in rainy seasons is avoided. The sub-trustees
are grateful to the street commissioners for the prompt-
ness and efficiency with which they responded to the
request of the board.
A work horse and harnessi were purchased in the
spring, and a saving made over the expense of hiring, as
was formerly done. Nearly twelve hundred yards of con-
crete were laid in the avenues during the j'ear, and a
large amount of earth, when the Calef road was rebuilt
by the street railway, w^as procured for filling at an ex-
pense extremely low, and will be very useful in the work
of the coming season.
Several receptacles for rubbish were placed in various
parts of the grounds with good results, and it is hoped
that as the people learn of their existence, there will be
a still greater willingness to place dead flowers, papers,
and other rubbish in them, instead of throwing it pro-
miscuously over the grounds. A little care on the part
of the visitors will save a good deal of needless labor for
the employees, and add greatly to the appearance of the
cemetery.
The rules and regulations prescribed hj the sub-
trustees for the management of the cemetery have been
printed, and the lot owners can obtain copies by apjjly-
ing to the superintendent.
The Merrill yard, which is under the charge of this
board, has received considerable attention the past year.
The walks have been cleared, the trees trimmed, monu-
ments and stones cleaned and straightened, and the gen-
eral appearance of the yard improved. It is a very neat
456 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
and attractive yard, and there are still quite a number of
desirable lots unsold.
Without going into greater details, the expenses over
which this board has control have been kept within the
appropriations; and the sub-trustees hope that the re-
sults of the year's work will receive the approbation of
the trustees, the city councils, and the people.
EDWIN F. JONES,
For the Board of Hnh-Trustees of the Pine Grove Cemetery.
Valley Cemetery.
The sub-trustees of the Valley cemetery submit the
following report:
During the year 1897 the Valley cemetery has been
cared for on the same general plan as in former years.
About the usual amount of work has been done during
the year, in the ordinary care of the grounds. Perma-
nent improvements have been made as follows:
Raising the bank wall and setting the fence over on
Pine street, at a cost of |4.36. This work was made neces-
sary by the raising of the grade of Pine street. On the
avenue leading by the city tomb, which was considered
unsafe, especially in winter, about 225 feet of jjipe rail-
ing have been put up at a cost of |115. On the Auburn-
street side there have been some improvements by chang-
ing the grades of the lots and removing trees that were a
damage to them. If the work is carried out as begun,
it will greatly improve that part of the cemetery.
On the west side of the valley there has been an im-
provement made by grading the bank, which was rough
and unsightly.
No. of bodies in tomb 67
interments 60
removals 11
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES. 457
Cash received:
For water 1340.00
Care of lots ' 736.00
Sundries 259.91
Tomb fees 271.50
Interments = 167.00
Kemovals 38.00
11,812.41
Cash paid city treasurer |1,800.00
Cash paid C. H. G. Foss 12.00
Balance -41
11,812.41
Respectfully submitted.
GARDNER K. BROWNING,
BUSHROD W. HILL,
S. P. CANNON,
Suh-Trustees Talley Cemetery.
Amoskeag Cemetery.
The sub-trustees of Amoskeag cemetery submit the
following report:
A change in the management of the cemetery has been
made during the past year, owing to the death of the
former superintendent, James E. Bailey, who died Sep-
tember 7, 1897. Mr. Bailey was also a member of the
board of trustees, and in both oflQces was faithful and
conscientious in the discharge of his duties. The va-
cancy in the board was filled by the election of Mr. A. D.
Maxwell, and the trustees elected Mr. George Harwood
superintendent.
Four burials have been made in the yard during the
year. The paths, which, for some unaccountable reason,
were dug out several years ago, have been filled up with
gravel and the cemetery presents a better appearance
458 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
than ever before. The iron fence lias been painted. It
was intended to add more fence, but the entire appropri-
ation was used up in filling the paths.
Several applications have been made for lots, but
there are none to spare. For several years the project
has been contemplated of purchasing more land of the
Amoskeag Company, but it has not as yet been carried
out. The city is growing in this direction, and if land
is to be obtained it must be bought before houses get too
near and the occupants object to the purchase of new
cemetery land.
WILLIAM WATTS,
A. D. MAXWELL,
WILLIAM H. HUSE,
Sul)-Trustees of Amoskeag Cemetery.
TREASURER'S REPORTS.
To the Trustees of Cemeteries:
Gentlemen, — I herewith present to you the annual
report of the money received during the year ending
December 31, 1897:
Pine Grove Cemetery.
Number of deeds delivered during the year, seventy-
one.
To cash received for the same. . . . |2,443.90
interest received for the same 30.14
cash received from superin-
tendent 2,786.16
15,260.20
Cr.
By treasurer's receipts $2,300.00
superintendent's receipts .... ^ 2,786.16
cash on hand 174.04
15,260.20
Valley Cemetery.
To cash received from superintendent |1,800.00
Cr.
By superintendent's receipts |1,800.00
Kespectfully submitted.
FRED L. ALLEN,
Treasurer of Trustees of Cemeteries.
459
460 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
I hereby certify that I have examined the accounts
of Fred L. Allen, treasurer of the trustees of cemeteries,
and find the same correctly cast and properly vouched
for.
JAMES E. DODGE,
City Auditor.
To the Trustees of the Cemetery Fund:
Gentlemen, — I herewith submit to you the fifteenth
annual report of the funds received and expenses paid to
December 31, 1897:
Pine Grove Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand January
1, 1897 \ 133,237.42
Receipts during the year :
From George A. Parsons |114.04
W. G. Everett and S. F.
Murry 186.30
Charles A. Merrill 185.01
A. W. Dole 165.00
C. W. Clement, Adm'r 176.00
David H. Young 170.50
John K. Wilson 172.40
Willis P. Fogg 147.32
Sarah B. Batchelder ., 144.00
Mrs. Ada and W. H. Eaton . . 149.93
M. Albertine Olzendam 300.00
Clarissa Jenks 129.60
Mrs. S. J. Wheeler 1.33.96
George A. Clark and Mary
A. Jones 198.00
Frank T. Weeks 108.00
REPORT OF THE TRUSTEES OF CEMETERIES 461
From Mrs. C. L. Richardson |136.00
heirs of Mrs. J. C. Clough. . 115.20
Lizzie Kelley 100.00
S. S. Marden 111.00
Charles A. Morgan 104.43
Mrs. E. E. Weeks and Mrs.
S. Amsden 108.00
Josiah Laselle 97.46
Edith M. Sargent, Sadie C.
and Almira P. Dow 375.00
Armenia J. Blaisdell and
Emily A. Dustin 140.25
John H. Buswell 143.55
Louisa R. Cheney, C. W.
Cheney, J. E. Cheney, and
Clifton Williams 220.00
Mrs. Charles Fradd and Min-
nie Klinge 100.00
D. H. Maxwell and J. W.
Lane 165.00
14,428.95
Total permanent fund Dec. 31, 1897. . . . |37,666.37
Cr.
By bonds on hand January 1, 1897 |30,700.00
Bonds bought during the jeav. . . . 4,500.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 2,466.37
137,666.37
Income on hand January 1, 1897. . |2,757.28
from interest on bonds... 1,622.50
from savings bank deposit 106.27
Cr.
Expenses paid during the year:
Daniels & Downs |2.20
Manchester S. «& R. Co 40.00
$4,486.05
462 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Palmer & Garmon |83.38
Palmer & Garmon 14.10
John B. Varick Co 1.68
B. A. Stearns 857.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 3,487.69
$4,486.05
Valley Cemetery.
Amount of i)ermanent fund on hand January
1, 1897 '. $12,218.03
Receipts during the year:
Irene Hunt $300.00
A. J. Lane, executor. 200.00
A. J. Lane, executor 100.00
Richard T. Green, executor 202.50
Louis S. Brooks, executor 73.52
Helen M. Jones 126.00
Dudley P. Ladd, executor 124.00
Mrs. Moody Carter 108.00
Charles H. Kimball, administrator 100.00
D. C. Moulton 126.00
John C. Lyford 100.00
Charles Bunton 114.00
1,674.02
Total permanent fund December 31, 1897 $13,892.05
Cr.
By bonds on hand January 1, 1897 $10,800.00
Bonds bought during the year 2,700.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 392.05
$13,892.05
Income on hand January 1, 1897. . $1,070.14
from interest on bonds .... 596.25
from savings bank deposit 47.53
1,713.92
report of the trustees of cemeteries. 463
Cr.
Expenses paid during the year:
C. H. G. Foss 1267.50
Palmer & Garmon 12.05
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 1,434.37
11,713.92
GALE FUND, VALLEY CEMETERY.
Income on liand January 1, 1897. . |103.45
from fund 9.82
from savings bank deposit 3.38
$116.65
Cr.
By cash paid C. H. G. Foss |6.00
from savings bank deposit 110.65
1116.65
Piscataquog Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand January
1, 1897 1350.00
Cr.
By bonds on hand January 1, 1897 |300.00
Bonds bought during the year 50.00
1350.00
Income on liand January 1, 1897 |73.08
from interest on bonds. .. . 15.00
from savings bank deposit 5.98
$94.06
Cr.
Expenses paid during the year:
C. A. Eowell $3.00
C. A. Rowell 3.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 88.06
$94.06
464 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
MARY P. HARRIS FUND, PISCATAQUOG CEMETERY.
Amount of fund January 1, 1897 |.500.00
Cr.
By bonds on hand December 31, 1897 $500.00
Income on hand January 1, 1897. . |289.33
from interest on bonds. . . . 27.50
from savings bank deposit 4.69
1321.52
Cr.
By cash on hand December 31, 1897 |.321.52
Merrill Cemetery.
Amount of permanent fund on hand January
1, 1897 1487.89
Cr.
By bonds on hand January 1, 1897. $450.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 37.89
Income on hand January 1, 1897. . $43.32
from interest on bonds .... 22.50
from savings bank deposit 2.94
Cr.
$487.89
$68.76
By cash on hand December 31, 1897 $68.76
Respectfully submitted.
FRED L. ALLEN,
Treasurer Cemetery Fund.
This is to certify that I have examined the books of
accounts of Fred L. Allen, treasurer of tlie trustees of
the cemetery funds, embracing the receipts and expen-
ditures for the year 1897, and I find the same correct and
REPORT OF THE TREASURER OF CEMETERY FUND. 465
properly vouched. I have also examined the securities
in which said fund is invested and find as follows :
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Bonds of the citv of Manchester, N. H. :
5 per cent, 1913. |14,700.00
5 per cent, 1942 20,500.00
Cash on hand 2,466.37
Total amount of bonds and cash Decem-
ber 31, 1897 137,666.37
VALLEY CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.:
5 per cent, 1913 |4,800.00
0 per cent, 1942 8,700.00
Cash on hand 392.05
113,892.05
PISCATAQUOG CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H. :
5 per cent, 1942.^ 1350.00
Mary P. Harris Fund.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H.:
5 per cent, 1942 foOO.OO
MERRILL CEMETERY.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H. :
5 per cent, 1913 |200.00
5 per cent, 1942 2.50.00
Cash on hand 37.89
Total amount of bonds and cash Decem-
ber 31, 1897 1487.89
Total permanent fund December 31, 1897 |52,896.31
JAMES E. DODGE,
Auditor.
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REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE SINKING FUND.
REPORT
TRUSTEES OF THE SINKING FUND.
To the Trustees of the Sinking Fund:
Gentlemen, — I herewith transmit to you the fifth an-
nual report of the receipts of this board for the year end-
ing December 31, 1897 :
Dr.
Total amount of fund Jan. 1, 1897,
for the payment of improvement
bonds 120,577.15
Appropriation for 1896 15,000.00 ,
Appropriation for 1897 20,000.00
Income received from interest on
bonds 1,410.09
Income received from savings bank
deposit 27.35
$57,014.59
Or.
By bonds on hand January 1, 1897 |20,000.00
Bonds bought during the year. . . . 35,000.00
Premium paid for bonds 1,790.00
Accrued interest on bonds 184.44
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 40.15
$57,014.59
469
470 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
Db.
Total amount of fund Jan, 1, 1897,
for the payment of water bonds |43,597.72
Water-works hydrant service, 1896 16,800.00
Water-works hydrant service, 1897 17,175.00
Appropriation for 1897 5,000.00
Income received from interest on
bonds 2,006.50
Income received from savings bank
deposit 67.42
184,646.64
Or.
By bonds on hand January 1, 1897 |42,000.00
Bonds bought during the year 37,000.00
Premium paid for bonds 2,497.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897. . 3,149.64
184,646.64
Dr.
Total amount of fund for the payment of
school bonds, appropriation 1897 |2,000.00
Or.
By bonds bought during the year |2,000.00
Respectfully submitted.
FRED L. ALLEN,
Treasurer Sinking Fund.
This is to certify that I have examined the books of
accounts of Fred L. Allen, treasurer of the trustees of the
sinking fund, embracing the receipts and expenditures
for the year ending December 31, 1897, and find the same
REPORT OF TRUSTEES OF SINKING FUND. 471
correct and j)roperly vouched. I have 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, 1900 |15,000.00
4 per cent, 1908 10,000.00
4 per cent, 1913 5,000.00
4 per cent, 1914 5,000.00
4 per cent, 1915 4,000.00
4 per cent, 1917 16,000.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897 40.15
— 155,040.15
For the payment of water bonds :
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H. :
4 per cent, 1900 ^2,000.00
4 per cent, 1909 10,000.00
4 per cent, 1910 6,000.00
4 per cent, 1913 10,000.00
4 per cent, 1914 18,000.00
4 per cent, 1916 11,000.00
4 per cent, 1917 22,000.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897 3,149.64
182,149.64
For the payment of school bonds.
Bonds of the city of Manchester, N. H. :
4 per cent, 1914 |2,000.00
Total amount of sinking fund Decem-
ber 31, 1897 1139,189.79
JAMES E. DODGE,
Auditor.
GAS LIGHTS. OIL LAMPS, AND
ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC
LIGHTS.
Gas Lights in Use.
Clarke and Chestnut.
Appleton, west end.
Salmon, between Elm and Canal.
Blodget 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.
East High ajid Maple.
Lowell and South.
Concord and Belmont.
Amherst and Belmont.
Concord and Beacon.
Lowell and Beacon,
• East High and Belmont.
East High and Hall.
Belmont and Central,
Willow and Merrill.
Auburn and Franklin.
475
476 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
One light on State.
River, near Turner Hall.
Milford and Bowman.
Milford and B.
River and Douglas.
Dover and Granite.
Oil Lights in Use.
Clarke and Adams.
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 Quiney.
Granite and Quincj.
Mast road and Riddle.
Carroll.
Bowman.
A and B streets.
Light near the Huntress gardens.
Mammoth road and Cohas avenue.
Mammoth road and Island Pond road.
Mammoth road and Cilley.
Mammoth road and Young.
Massabesic and Hall road.
Massabesic and Taylor.
Belmont and Green.
Valley and Taylor.
Valley and Cypress.
Cypress and Prout avenue.
'gas lights, oil lamps, and electric lights. 477
Jewett and Yoimg.
Young and Taylor.
Three lights on Kiver road, south of Blue store.
Ten lights in Goffe's Falls.
Three lights in Youngsville.
One light on Candia road, near Noah Reed's.
One light on Candia road, near Walter Cody's house.
One light at junction of Lake avenue and Hanover.
One light on Island Pond road, Mill-Dam House.
Amherst and Beacon.
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 Gilniore'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 roads.
One light at junction of Proctor and Candia roads.
Electric Lights in Use.
No. 1. Cypress and Massabesic, - arm.
2. Massabesic and Old Falls road, pole.
3. Lake avenue and Beacon, arm.
4. Central and Hall, "
5. Lake avenue and Massabesic, "
478 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 6, Wilson and Laurel, arm.
7. Merrimack and Hall, "
8. Manchester and Hall. "
9. Manchester and Wilson, "
10. Hanover and Ashland, "
11. 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 Lincoln, "
22. Hanover and Lincoln, "
23. Manchester and Lincoln, "
24. Merrimack and Lincoln, "
25. Laurel and Lincoln, "
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, "
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. 479
No. 42. Myrtle and Beech, arm.
. 43. Pearl and Beech, "
44. Bridge and Beech, 'f
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 and Union, "
59. Lake avenue and Union, "
60. Central and Union, "
61. Laurel and L^nion, "
62. Merrimack and Union, "
63. Manchester and Union, "
64. Hanover and Union, "
65. Amherst and Union, "
66. Concord and Union, "
67. Lowell and Walnut, "
68. Lowell and Union, "
69. High and Union, "
70. Bridge and Union, "
71. Bridge and Walnut, "
72. Orange and Union, "
73. Prospect and Union, "
74. Brook and Union, "
75. Pennacook and Union, "
76. Webster and Pine, "
77. North and Pine, pole.
480 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
^0. 78.
Sagamore and Pine,
arm.
79.
Blodget and Pine,
u
. 80.
Harrison and Hazel,
u
81.
Prospect and Pine,
t(
82.
Myrtle and Pine,
u
83.
Orange and Pine,
11
84.
Pearl and Pine,
li
85.
Bridge and Pine,
il
86.
Tremont square.
pole.
87.
High and Pine,
arm.
88.
Lowell and Pine,
a
89.
Concord and Pine,
i(
90.
Amherst and Pine,
(I
91.
Hanover and Pine,
a
92.
Manchester and Pine,
a
93.
Merrimack and Pine,
a
94.
Laurel and Pine,
a
95.
Central and Pine,
a
96.
Lake avenue and Pine,
a
97.
Cedar and Pine,
((
98.
Auburn and Pine,
((
99.
Cedar and Chestnut,
u
100.
Park square,
pole.
101.
Lake avenue and Chestnut,
arm.
102.
Central and Chestnut,
u
103.
Merrimack square, east,
pole.
104.
Merrimack and Chestnut,
arm.
105.
Manchester and Chestnut,
a
106.
Hanover and Chestnut,
<i
107.
Concord square, east.
pole.
108.
Concord square, west.
'■•'
109.
Chestnut and Concord back street,
arm,
110.
Chestnut and High,
a
111.
Chestnut and Bridge,
il
112.
Chestnut and Pearl,
u
113.
Chestnut and Myrtle,
a
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. 481
No. 114. Chestnut and Harrison, arm.
115. Chestnut and Brook, ''
IK). Pennacook and Chestnut, pole.
117. Salmon and Chestnut, "
118. Webster and Chestnut, . - arni.
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, '*
120. Langflon street, pole.
127. Dean and Elm, arm.
128. Prospect and Chestnut, "
129. Orano-e and Elm, "
130. Kidder and Elm, '^
131. Elm east back street, on Pearl, "
132. Bridge and Elm, "
133. Washington and Church, "
134. Birch and Lowell, "
135. Lowell and Elm, "
136. Elm east back street, 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 street, "
142. Stark street, "
143. Market and Franklin, "
144. Market and Elm, "
145. Hanover and Elm east back street, "
146. Elm and Manchester,
147. Dean avenue and Elm west back street, "
148. Elm and Merrimack, "
31
482 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No.
i49.
Franklin and Merrimack,
arm.
150.
Middle street,
a
151.
Merrimack square, west.
pole.
152.
Elm and Central,
arm.
153.
Elm and Lake avenue,
a
154.
Elm and Spruce,
a
155.
Elm east back street, between Spruce
and Cedar,
pole.
156.
Elm and Cedar,
arm.
157.
Franklin and Granite,
a
158.
Elm and Auburn,
a
159.
Elm and Green,
u
IGO.
Elm and Valley,
i(
161.
Elm and Brown avenue,
i(
162.
Summer and State,
pole.
163.
Granite and State,
arm.
164.
Granite bridge, east.
pole.
165.
Bedford and Granite,
a
166.
Canal and Granite,
a
167.
Depot and Canal,
«
168.
Central, between Franklin and Canal,
a
169.
Bedford and Central,
arm.
170.
Canal and Merrimack,
a
171.
Canal and Middle,
a
172.
Canal and Stark,
li
173.
Canal and Mechanic,
a
174.
Canal and Spring,
i(
175.
Canal and Bridge,
a
176.
McGregor bridge, east,
pole.
177.
Canal and Hollis,
<i
178..
Canal and Dean,
(I
179.
Canal and Langdon,
arm.
180.
Eiver road and North,
a
181.
Amoskeag bridge, east.
0
182.
Amoskeag bridge, west.
0
183.
Amoskeag watering-trough.
pole.
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. 483
No. 184. Amoskeag brick store, pole.
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. Sulliyan and Main, pole.
195. Beauport and Sullivan, "
196. Main and Schuyler, "
197. Wilton and Main, arm.
198. Douglas and Main, "
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.
206. School and Third,
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, «
214. Parker and West, "
215. Winter and Parker, "
216. Main and Mast, pole.
217. Main and Milford, arm.
218. Main and A, "
219. Carroll and Milford, "
484 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
:. 220.
Old Mast road and Mast,
arm.
221.
Hall and Amherst,
a
222.
Laurel and Maple,
a
223.
Central and Wilson,
((
224.
Harrison and Pine,
u
225.
Massabesic and Belmont,
pole.
226.
Union and Appleton,
arm.
227.
Elm and Young,
pole.
228.
Franklin and Pleasant,
arm.
229.
Elm and Appleton,
i(
230.
Milford and Riddle,
((
231.
Nutt road and Portsmouth Railroad,
pole.
232.
Lake avenue and Canton,
a
233.
Laurel and Hall,
arm.
234.
Beech and Brook,
i(
235.
Kidder and Boyden,
pole.
236.
Myrtle and Walnut,
arm.
237.
Bridge and Linden,
a
238.
Lowell and Ashland,
((
239.
Lowell and Belmont,
li
210.
Pearl and Union,
a
241.
Salem and Union,
pole.
242.
W^ater street.
arm.
243.
Arlington and Ashland,
ii
244.
Orange and Oak,
a
245.
Prospect and Oak,
a
246.
Arlington and Russell,
a
247.
AYalnut and Gore,
i(
248.
Laurel and Milton,
a
249.
Massabesic and Hospital road.
pole.
250.
Lake avenue and Wilson,
arm.
.251.
Bridge and Ash,
((
252.
Franklin and Depot,
a
253.
Spruce and Union,
((
254.
Malvern and East High,
#
255.
Hanover and Highland,
pole.
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. 485
No. 256. Auburn and Beech, pole.
257. Kidder and Wliitnev, "
258. Valley and Jewett, "
259. Concord and Derry, "
260. Auburn and Union, "
261. Harrison and Walnut, arm.
262. West Hancock and Second, pole.
263. Douglas and West, "
264. Hooksett road, Amoskeag, "
265. Ash and Prospect, arm.
266. Canal and Salmon, pole.
267. Harrison and Russell, arm.
268. Gates and Dubuque. pole.
269. Baker and Elm,
270. Auburn and Maple, "
271. Pine and Salmon, "
272. Adams and Appleton, "
273. Clarke and River road, arm.
274. North Main and Bremer, pole.
275. Beech and Cedar, "
276. Cass and Lake avenue, "
277. Mast and Riddle, "
278. Brown avenue and Baker, arm.
279. Brown avenue and Hancock, pole.
280. Clarke and Union, arm.
281. Brook and Maple, pole.
282. Market and Canal, arm.
283. Brook and Hazel, pole.
284. Webster and River road, "
285. Webster and Walnut, "
286. Chestnut, near Ray brook, "
287. Concord and Beech, arm.
288. Prospect and Linden, pole.
289. Pearl and Morrison, "
290. Concord and Hall, arm.
486 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 291. Merrimack and Belmont, arm.
292. Spruce and Beacon, "
293. Belmont and Grove, "
294. Bowman, near Milford, "
295. Amory and Rimmon, pole.
296. Pine and Valley, "
297. Manchester and Milton, "
298. Mammoth and Candia road, "
299. Cypress and Hayward, "
300. Conant and Rimmon, "
301. Cartier and Kelley, "
302. Monmouth and McGregor back street, "
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.
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.
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. 487
No. 326. Milford and Bismarck, pole.
327. Merrimack and Wilson, arm.
328. Pennacook and Canal, pole.
329. Adams and Cartier, "
330. Amherst and Ashland, arm.
331. Putnam and Bartlett, pole.
332. Auburn and Chestnut, arm.
333. Laurel and Laurel avenue, "
334. Hanover and Belmont, '*
335. Lowell and Malvern, . "
336. Wilson and Adams, "
337. Lincoln and Silver, "■
338. Somerville and Jewett, "
339. Elm and Kay brook, "
340. Amory and Bartlett, "
341. West Hancock and Dartmouth, "
342. Monroe and River road, "
343. Marion and McGregor, "
344. South Main and Harvell, "
345. South Main and Hancock, "
346. Boynton street, "
347. Mast road and Forest, "
348. North and Union, "
349. Kelley and Rimmon, "
350. Coolidge avenue, near Kelley, "
351. Buzzell and East High, "
352. Mechanic and Elm back street, "
353. Harrison and Maple, "
354. North and Bay, "
355. Front and Dunbarton, "
356. Orange and Linden, "-
357. Myrtle, near Belmont, "■
358. Taylor and Young road, "■
359. Nutt road and Auger avenue, "
360. Union and Grove, "
488 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 361. Kelley and Alsace, arm.
362. Main and Wayne, '"
363. S])ru(e and Barry avenue, "
364. Lowell and Hall, "
365. Central and Canal, "
366. Myrtle and Elm back street, "
367. Wilson and Silver, "
368. Beech and Young, "
369. Beech and Lawrence Railroad, "
370. Lincoln and Cedar, "
371. Wilson and Spruce, "
372. Laurel and Beacon, "
373. Harrison and Oak, "
374. Pearl and Oak, «
375. Liberty and Webster, "
376. Wentworth and Bell, "
377. Montgomery and Conant, "
378. Massabesic and Hall road, "
379. Summer and Hall, "
380. Harrison and Ash, "
381. Bridge and Highland, "
382. Lowell and Chestnut, "
383. Spruce and Chestnut west back street, "
384. Tilton and Bowman avenue, "
385. Prince and Boynton, "
386. Carroll and Charlestown avenue, "
387. Beech and Silver, ''
388. Beech and Portsmoutli Kailroad, "
389. Merrimack and Franklin west back street, "
390. I'rospect and Elm back street, "
391. Pine and Pennacook, "
392. Sagamore and Walnut, "
393. Bridge and Belmont, "
394. Cypress and Valley, «
395. Carpenter and Union, "
GAS LIGHTS, OIL LAMPS, AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS. 489
No. 396. North River road and Rowell, arm.
397. North River road and Stark park, "•
398. Hanover and Grant, "
399. Page and Portsmouth Railroad, "
400. Central and Cass, "
401. Second and Schiller, "
402. Mast and Bowman, "
403. North Union, "
404. Gore and Ash, "
405. South and Elm, "
406. Beech and Nutt road, ''
407. Ashland and East High, "
408. Laurel and Belmont, ''
409. Lake avenue, near Beacon, "
410. Pine and Green, "
411. Hanover and Page, "
412. Beech and Green, "
413. New Mast road and Wilkins, "
414. Derryfield park, "
415. Charles street, "
416. State, near Granite, "
417. T'nion and Valley, "
418. Union and Silver, "
419. Valley and Wilson, "
420. Auburn and Wilson, "
.421. Cedar, near Maple, "
422. Thornton and Sullivan, "
423. New Mast road and D, "
424. Pearl and Belmont, "
425. State, south of Granite, "
426. State east back, '*
427. Elm and Shasta, "
428. North and Walnut, "
429. Nutfield Lane, nortli of Amherst, "
430. Elm and Elm avenue, "
490 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
No. 431. Arlington and Warren, arm.
432. Merrimack and Belmont, "
433. Amory, near Montgomery, "
434. Granite bridge, center, pole.
435. Prospect and Hall, arm.
436. Grove and Beech,
437. Union and Whitford,
438. Bedford road,
439. Elm and Carpenter,
440. North and Chestnut,
441. Blodget and Union,
442. Dearborn and Taylor,
443. Union and Myrtle,
444. River road, near Otis,
445. North Adams, near Ray brook,
446. A street, near B street,
447. Elm west back and Winter place,
448. Amherst and Chestnut,
449. Salmon and Beech,
450. Summer and Dearborn,
451. East High and Hall,
452. Myrtle, west of Hall, •
453. Merrimack, east of Beacon,
454. Tavlor and Vinton,
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
To the City Councils:
Gentlemen, — The auditor herewith submits to your
honorable body his auuual report.
WORK OF THE OFFICE.
There have been made during the year the usual annual
examinations of the accounts of the treasurer, city clerk,
water-works, superintendents of Pine Grove and ^'alley
cemeteries, tax collector, superintendent of city farm,
superintendent of schools; monthly examination of the
accounts of city weigher, quarterly examination of the
accounts of chief of police, semi-annual examination of
the account of the clerk of the police court; and compila-
tion and superintendence of the publication of the annual
report.
About six thousand bills against the city have been
examined and certified as correct. All the pay-rolls for
the street and park commission, schools, fire department,
water-works, police department, cemeteries, city farm,
and city officials, have been examined and certified to.
Twelve monthly drafts, amounting in the aggregate to
11,340,844, have been drawn on the city treasury.
Accounts have been kept with all the appropriations,
with the treasurer, and tax collector.
493
494 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS,
EXPENDITURES.
The amount of appropriation for auditors
department was |2,000.00
Expended for salaries |1,860.00
Expended for supplies 60.65
Balance transferred to reserved
fund 79.35
12,000.00
Eespectfully submitted.
JAMES E. DODGE,
City Auditor.
REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER.
Dr.
To Tower, Giddings & Co., water bonds. . |100,000.00
Tower, Giddings & Co., premium on
bonds 6,248.00
Curtis & Motley, temporary loan 100,000.00
Manchester National Bank, temporary
loan 50,000.00
F. S. Mosley & Co., temporary loan 50,000.00
F. S. Mosley & Co., premium on loans . . .75
E. L. Day & Co., temporary loan 50,000.00
E. C. Smith, city hall 98.50
M. J. Healy, police department 47,815.01
John C. Bickford, police department.. 1,451.64
Fred L. Allen, treasurer Pine Grove
cemetery 2,300.00
B. A. Stearns, Pine Grove cemetery... 2,786.16
C. H. G. Foss, Valley cemetery 1,800.00
county of Hillsborough, paupers off the
farm 2,689.50
A. F. Precourt, milk licenses 92.50
trustees cemetery fund, bonds 7,750.00
A. B. Eaton, city scales 457.89
William E. Buck, tuition 349.05
William E. Buck, free text-books 208.68
N. P. Kidder, rent of tenements 5.82
E. C. Smith, rent of tenements 202.55
H. D. Lord, rent of tenement. 67.06
George E. Morrill, taxes of 1893 85.00
George E. Morrill, taxes of 1896 51,880.13
George E. Morrill, abatement of 1896. . 965.78
495
496 ANNUAL OFFICIAL REPORTS.
To George E. Morrill, taxes of 1897 1570,072.76
George E. Morrill, abatement of 1897.. 0.58.81
George E. Morrill, old taxes 457.71
George E. Morrill, interest on taxes. . . 1,449.91
E. C. Smith, dog licenses 2,l;U.31
E. C. Smith, billiard table licenses 8.S2.43
EL C. Smith, show licenses 77.00
N. P. Kidder, show licenses 658.00
N. P. Kidder, sewer licenses 1,980.12
E. C. Smith, sewer licenses 3,71().50
E. C. Smith, lunch-cart licenses 67.50
street and park commissioners, for sup-
plies furnished sundry persons 81.42
health department, antitoxine sold.... 69.55
F. L. Allen, treasurer, unclaimed bills
prior to December, 1892. . 29.64
street and park commission, amount re-
ceived from Manchester Street Rail-
way 3,899.39
Charles K. Walker, water-works 125,719.17
E. G. Libbey, city farm 4,560.54
E. C. Smith, temporary merchants 50.00
B. Tafts, peddler's license 20.00
Solomon Kaplan, peddler's license. . . . 20.00
town of Londonderry, school tax, 1896 39.15
Abraham Sharpiro, peddler's license. . 20.00
Simon Lowanstan, peddler's license... 20.00
Barnett Custen, peddler's license 20.00
M. Kurtz, peddler's license 20.00
Aaron H. Weinstein, peddler's license. . 20.00
Joseph Breault, gray horse, fire depart-
ment 20.00
M. Rosenblum, peddler's license 20.00
S. Levenson, peddler's license 20.00
Israel Seidel, peddler's license 20.00
REPORT OF THE CITY TREASURER. 497
To N. J. Bachelder, secretary, four fifths
expense disposing of two glandered
horses |18.40
George E. Morrill, collector, redemption
taxes, 1895 398.26
George E. Morrill, collector, redemption
taxes, 1894 1,444.1(>
George E. Morrill, collector, redemption
taxes, 189G 2,G35.60
George E. Morrill, collector, redemption
taxes, 1895 1,437.92
Dana Dubin, peddler's license 20.00
county of Hillsborough, coal for court
house G6.87
state of New Hampshire, four fifths ex-
pense of killing glandered horse 14.40
executor estate of James A. Weston,
legacy bequeathed to city of Manches-
ter for observatory on Oak Hill 5,000.00
C. W. Boynton, land sold on Spruce St. 182.00'
C. W. Boynton, interest on notes 20.02
St. Raphael's school, desks 45.00
J. E. Lanouette, overdraft 11.75
Clark M. Bailey, overdraft lO.OO
Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital, over-
draft 30.00
J. H. McKenzie 82.40
Solon A. Carter, insurance tax 2,9(34.7.5
Solon A. Carter, railroad tax 35,255.86
Solon A. Carter, savings bank tax 48,516.24
Solon A. Carter, literary fund 3,511. G8
Charles W. Boynton, land sold on
Spruce street 182.09
New England Telephone & Telegraph
Co., discount on October tolls .54
32
498 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
To John B. Clarke Co., overdraft 15.50
town of Londonderry, school tax, 1897 . . 38.87
T. C. Stewart, board of Emma Daniels 16.00
Total receipts for year 1897 $1,302,0.33.33
Cash on hand January 1, 1897 240,961.57
Unpaid bills December 31, 1897 18,323.80
$1,561,318.70
Cr.
By January draft |59,219.76
February draft ' 143,549.68
March draft 43,399.26
April draft 38,009.83
May draft 48,203.50
June draft 116,404.70
July draft 102,437.06
August draft 112,584.38
September draft 155,804.49
October draft 46,218.14
November draft 361,291.28
December draft 113,721.92
Total drafts of year 1897 $1,340,844.00
Unpaid bills January 1, 1897 80,098.53
Cash on hand December 31, 1897 140,376.17
$1,561,318.70
FRED L. ALLEN,
Treasurer.
To the City Councils of tJie City of Manchester, N. H.:
Gentlemen, — I have examined the accounts of Fred
L. Allen, city treasurer, for the year ending December
31, 1897, and find proper vouchers for all payments, and
all receipts duly accounted for.
RECEIPTS. 499
The net cash on hand January 1 was |160,863.04
Keeeipts during the year 1,302,033.33
Total $1,462,896.37
Amount of drafts during the year |1,340,844.00
Net cash on hand December 31, 1897 122,052.37
Total 11,462,896.37
The cash balance taken December 31, 1897, I find to
be as follows:
Deposited in Suffolk National Bank |21,057.00
Deposited in Second National Bank 113,678.98
Deposited in olHce safe 4,702.28
Deposited in Commonwealth National Bank 937.91
Gross amount of cash on hand |140,376.17
Deduct amount of bills unpaid 18,323.80
Net cash on hand December 31, 1897 $122,052.37
Respectfully submitted, together with a tabular state-
ment of the receipts and expenditures of the city for the
year 1897.
JAMES E. DODGE,
City Auditor.
STATEMENT OF THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDI-
TURES OF THE CITY OF MANCHESTER
FOR THE YEAR 1897.
Receipts.
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Received from :
Direct city taxes $630,213.91
Cost and interest on taxes. . . 1,449.91
631,663.82
500 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
lU CULC-l OCWC-1
to keep dog
2,131.31
to sell milk
92.50
to keep billiard and
pool tables, and
lunch carts
399.93
to shows and exhi-
bitions
735.00
to peddle
270.00
$9,325.36
Rents 373.93
SUNDRIES.
Received from :
City scales |157.89
Miscellaneous sources 579.49
11,037.38
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Received from text-books and tuition |557.73
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Received from fines and costs |19,2G6.65
PUBLIC PLACES.
Received from :
Pine Grove cemetery |5,086.16
Valley cemetery 1,800.00
16,880.16
WATER-WORKS.
Gross receipts |125,719.17
CHARITABLE, PATRIOTIC, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Received from :
City farm 14,560.54
Hillsborough county, board-
ing paupers and Industrial
School inmates 2,689.50
RECEIPTS. 501
James A. Weston estate,
Weston Observatory |5,000.00
112,250.04
MISCELLANEOUS.
Received from :
Premium on bonds and notes
sold 16,248.75
Interest on notes 20.02
Land redeemed from tax sale 6,422.22
Manchester Electric Railway,
on account of paving 3,899.39
Land sold 364.18
116,954.56
Total ordinary receipts during the
year 1897 |854,034.80
TEMPORARY LOAN.
Received from loans in anticipation of tax
of 1897 1250,000.00
STATE.
Received from :
Insurance taxes |2,964.75
Railroad taxes 35,255.86
Savings bank taxes 48,516.24
Literary fund 3,511.68
$90,248.53
BONDED DEBT.
Received from :
Water bonds sold |100,000.00
Cemetery bonds sold 7,750.00
1107,750.00
Gross receipts |1,302,033.33
Net cash on hand January 1, 1897 160,863.04
$1,462,896.37
502 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Paid interest on water bonds . . |40,414.00
interest on city bonds . . . 41,406.00
interest on cemetery
bonds 2,268.75
interest on temporary
loan, anticipation tax,
1897 2,834.79
Paid city hall $2,949.97
printing and stationery . . 1,735.90
incidental expenses 16,167.71
mayor's incidentals 280.50
city officers' salaries.... 14,627.18
city auditor's department 1,920.65
sinking fund trustees 27,000.00
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTMENT.
Paid street and park commis-
sion 13,427.91
repairs of highways 21,203.80
snow and ice 4,983.61
new highways 8,381.97
land taken for highways. . 912.00
watering streets 3,762.64
paving streets 7,031.79
macadamizing streets.... 14,472.74
grading for concrete 5,450.96
scavenger service 15,260.85
street sweeping 2,318.22
lighting streets 53,889.73
bridges 3,407.52
city teams 6,723.94
186,923.54
164,681.91
EXPENDITURES. 503
Paid repairs of sewers |5,830. 16
new sewers 35,698.29
bicycle path 564.36
Eiver road and Elm-street
sewer 5,258.06
rebuilding A m o s k e ag
bridge abutment 3,541.90
paving Elm and Granite
streets 15,552.80
1217,073.55
engineer's department.
Paid engineer's department $4,780.91
HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
Paid health department |4,366.85
school DEPARTMENT.
Paid repairs of schoolhouses . . . |5,872.74
fuel 6,628.26
furniture and supplies. . . . 1,451.84
books and stationery- ...... 59.13
printing and advertising . . 304.43
contingent expenses 3,111.94
care of rooms 5,720.28
evening schools 1,388.15
teachers' salaries 77,037.17
salaries school committee,
clerk, truant officer 1,090.00
salary of superintendent 2,300.00
evening school, mechan-
ical drawing 364.36
free text-books 6,320.36
manual training 1,370.86
— . 1113,019.52
604 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CITY LIBRARY.
Paid city library |4,679.97
E'IRE DEPARTMENT.
Paid fire department |60,811.28
fire-alarm telegraph 1,917.35
hydrant service 17,175.00
'■ 179,903.63
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Paid police station |2,526.57
■ police court 3,630.94
police commission 38,584.90
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Paid repairs of buildings |3,489.01
Parker school lot 287.74
new schoolhouses 52,128.74
Weston Observatory 4,997.94
WATER-WORKS.
Paid water- works |65,113.97
water-works sinking fund 17,175.00
PUBLIC PLACES.
Paid commons |4,526.80
West Side park 12,000.00
land on 'Squog river 1,750.00
Stark and Derryfield parks 5,003.84
Pine Grove cemetery 8,304.87
Valley cemetery 2,997.40
Amoskeag cemetery 337.06
Merrill vard 57.53
144,742.41
160,903.43
>2,2S8.97
$34,977.50
EXPENDITURES. 505
CHARITABLE, PATRIOTIC, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Paid paupers off the farm
18,319.21
citv fariu
8,486.55
indigent soldiers
181.71
Women's Aid Home
300.00
Sacred Heart Hospital . . .
300.00
free beds, Elliot Hospital
300.00
Emergency ward, Elliot
Hospital
300.00
free beds, Notre Dame de
Lourdes Hospital
300.00
semi-centennial history . . .
600.00
decoration of soldiers'
graves
399.51
militia
1,000.00
band concerts
300.00
dedication of Weston Ob-
servatory
147.90
dedication new high-
school building
84.75
$21,019.66
ABATEMENTS.
Paid abatement of taxes |1,452.43
TEMPORARY LOAN.
Total of ordinary municipal expen-
ditures 1821,414.28
Paid loan made in anticipation of tax for
1897 1250,000.00
BONDED DEBT.
Paid school bonds |10,000.00 ,
bridge bonds 25,000.00
water bonds 100,000.00
: 1135,000.00
506 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STATE AND COUNTY TAXES.
Paid state tax |G8,225.00
county tax 66.204.72
.1f!134,429.72
Grand total of expenditure during
the year |1,340,844.00
Cash on hand December 31, 1897 |140,376.17
Less unpaid bills 18,.823.80
Net cash on hand 122,052.37
$1,462,896.37
. Interest.
Appropriation |47,500.00
Transferred from water-works
account 40,414.00
■ $87,914.00
Expenditures.
Paid Curtis & Motley, discount
on $100,000 notes, 5
months, 26 days $1,388.45
R. L.. Day & Co., discount
on $50,000 note, 2
months, 11 days 315.56
Manchester National Bank
discount on $50,000 note 620.40
F. S. Moseley & Co., dis-
count on $50,000 note, 4
« months, 15 days 504.38
coupons on bridge bonds 2,406.00
coupons on water bonds. . 40,414.00
1896* .
1897 •.
$143,088.90
]G0,S63.04
$528,960.27
0,213.91
Costs and
interest on
taxes.
$1,031.31 1 $3,236.48
1,449.91 6,696.62
$1,281.07 $80.00
2,131.31 1 92.50
$175.00
226.93
$620.50
1,078.00
$585.26 $4,494.12
373.93 4,560.54
and Indus-
trial School
inmates.
$3,400.71
2,689.60
$15,476.44
364.18
II uiiiui» tt'rcsion ........
sold. j bonds sold, redoeniod.
$10,378.00l $531.46 ' $4,423.46
6,248.7.'; 20.02 G,422.22
REC E 1 PTS.
$884.06
579.49
$313.43
457.89
$505.98 $64,005.51
EXPENDITURES.
189G..J $41,446.00 | $30,362.00 $1,912.48
1897.. 40,414.00 \ 41,406.00 i 2,268.75
$925.01
2,834.79
$5,816.61
2,949.97
$1,969.77
1,920.66
$53,046.86
44,742.41
> SUWBIt UEPARTMRNT.
$3,712.03
.3,427.91
Uepaira of
higliways.
$23,621.72
26,187.41
$18,617.62
8,381.97
$2,911.12
912.00
$4,196.48
3,762.64
$6,320.69
7,031.79
$15,652.80
$19,848.48
14,472.74
$5,035.82 $14,991.10
5,450.96 15,260.85
$2,968.44
2,318.22
$51,426.60
53.889.73
$4,336.88
3,407.52
$138,756.73
$3,541.90 ,
EXPENDITUR E S.-™«tinued.
ICriglnoors*
dejiart-
llenllh do.
partnicnt.
Printing atid
Mtutloncry.
Incidental
i>.\piMiac».
Mayor's
Incidentals.
$249.64
280.60
I'IBE DEl'ABTMENT.
fUULIC BUILUtNUS.
WATBR-WOH,«.
PUBLIC PLACES.
TKAH,
Ml»Jclhi.
I'i'^'^^: nooks.
Fire depart-
ment.
Flrc.alarm
telegraph.
Hydrant
service.
New school-
„ , houses, lands.
Hepalrs. buildings and
furniture.
Construction,
repairs, and
current ex-
penses.
Sinking
fund.
Comniotis.
Land.
Stark and
nerrytleld
parks.
Pino Grovo
cemetery.
Volley
cemetery.
AmoHkcnK
comctory.
Paupers off
the farm.
City farm.
Notre-Panie
de I.ourdes
hospital.
India
soldi
WM..
1897..
$6,895.25
4,780.91
$4,163.39
4.366.85
$1,938.55
1,785.90
$16,526.42
16,167.71
$8
i2.G5
$3,877.37 1 $1,000.00
3,679.9?! 1,000.00
$63,567.62
60,811.28
$1,730.42
1,917.36
$16,800.00
17,175.00
$7,549.68 $121,258.86
3,489.01 ' 52,416.48
$95,993.05
65,113.97
$16,800.00
17,176.00
$4,351.15
4,526.80
*13.750.00
$5,000.00
6,003.84
$8,693.54
8,304.87
$3,006.84
2.997.40
$349.72
387.06
$12,140.67
8,319.21
$8,463.89
8,486.65
$300.00
300.00
$285
181
•Se
0 Reports tor
1894 and 18i»
for coinpnrlHO
B With other y
,a...
RECEI PTS.
Mlscolln-
1 1 1
Court flnes
ami costs.
Pino Giovc
oemetory.
GrosB
receipts,
waterworks.
Total m-di- ; LOAN.
TAXES UECBIVKD FKOM THE STATE.
'est on IjIIikI
dssold. redeemoil.
Bridges.
City scales.
Kleetric
railroaJ.
Tnilion
and text-
books.
Vallov
ceniftei-y-
Weston
dTiiing tlie 1
year, exclud- ' i
ing cash on | Temporary. , Bonded,
hand. '
.nsurance
Kailroad
.Savings
bank tax.
Litevavv
fund.
from loans
and state
ceipts (luring
the year, in.
eluding cash
on hand.
531.46 $4,423.46
20.02 0,422.22
$384.06
579.49
$1,228.00
$313.43
457.89
$3,890.?.9
$505.98
5.57.73
$64,005.61
49,266.65
$5,119.23
5,080.16
$1,900.31
1,800.00
$6,000.00
$128,907.03
125,719.17
$777,037.62 $100,000.00 $456,000.00
854,034.80 250,000.00 107,750.00
$2,632-50
2,964.75
$29,530.64
35,255.86
$50,770.79
48,516.24
$3,869.60
3,511.68
$642,803.53
447,998.53
$1,. 562,930.06
1,462,896.37
EXPENDITURES.
STKEET
AKD SEWEIl UEPAliTMENT.
SCHOOL
.EPAimiEKI
udinfT for
.Scavenger
teams.
Street
sweeping.
I.lBlitlng
streets.
Hridges.
tenanec.
Amoskcag Granite
bridge street bridge,
abutment. ^
city teams.
Repairs of
sewers and
drains.
New sewers.
Bicycle patli.
Sinking
fund.
Repairs
of sebool-
bonses.
Fuel.
Furnituro
and sup.
piles.
Books and
stationery.
l?rinting
and adver-
tising.
Contingent
expenses.
Care ot
Evening
schools.
Salaries of
Teachers' eolJooi corn-
salaries, nuttees
aim truant
omcers.
SalaiT of
superinten-
dent of
schools.
Evening
schools
mechanical
drawing.
Free text-
books.
Hannal
training.
5,035.82
5,450.96
$14,991.10
15,260.85
$2,968.44
2,318.22
$51,426.60
53.889.73
$4,336.88
3,407.52
$3,541.90
$138,755.73
$6,285.70
6,723.95
$5,421.63
5,830.46
$71,629.32
40,956.35
$504.36
$15,000.00
27,000.00
$6,678.38
5,872.74
$6,784.03
6,628.26
$1,114.14
1,461.84
$46.04
69.13
$429.56
304.43
$1,857.79
3,111.94
.$5,031.56
6,720.28
$1,061.50
1.388.15
$72,838.95 $1,100.00
77,037.17 1.090.00
$2,300.00
2,300.00
$356.25
364.36
$5,058.42
6,320.36
$1,403.29
1,370.86
EXPENDITURE S.-com.nukd.
CIIAItlTY, PATRIOTISM, PHILANTHROPY.
Tax abate-
ments.
Total of ordi-
nary municipal
expenditures.
$1,057,637.29
821,414.43
Debt.
Temporary
loan.
stale tax.
County lax.
Total of loan
debt and
state and
county tax
expenditure.
Griind total of
expenditures.
tark and
en-yfleld
parks.
Pine Grove
cemetery.
Volley
cemeteiy.
Amoskoag
cemetery.
Paupers off
the faiTH.
City farm.
Notre-I>ame
de Lonrdes
hospital.
Indigent
soldiers.
Decora-
tion of
soldiers'
graves.
Band
Militia.
Weston Ob- Women's
servatory. Aid Home.
Seml-Cen-
tennial cel-
ebration.
beds? El- 1 i"";?;'
Emergen-
cy wai-d,
Elliot lios-
pltal.
Casb on hand.
ts.ooo.oo
$8,593.54
8,804.87
$3,006-84
2,997.40
$349.72
337.06
$12,140.67
8,319.21
$8,463.89
8,486.55
$300.00
300.00
$285.86
181.74
$407.47
399.51
$300.00
300.00
$800.00
1,000.00
$300.00
$2,000.00
$300.00 1 $300.00
300.00 300.00
$300.00
300.00
$1,183.96
1,462.43
$110,000.00
135,000.00
$100,000.00
250,000.00
$68,226.00
68,226.00
$66,204.72
66.204.72
$344,429.72
519,429.72
$1,402,067.01
1,340,844.00
$160,863.04
6,003.84
$4,997.94 1 300.00
122,062.37
ly.fT
.ui^,u? ' ooHr
'l!Ht
lol alioq-jii
SINKING FUND. 507
Paid coupons on improvement
bonds 115,980.00
coupons on school bonds. . 9,200.00
coupons on city bonds. . . . 6,200.00
coupons on Granite bridge
bonds 5,120.00
coupons on cemetery
bonds 2,268.75
interest on security note 2,500.00
Total expenditures . . . ; |86,92.3.54
Transferred to reserved fund 990.16
187,914.00
Paym,ent of Funded Debt.
Appropriation 135,000.00
Received from sale of bonds. . . 100,000.00
'■ $135,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid water bonds • |100,000.00
school loan bonds 10,000.00
Granite bridge loan bonds 25,000.00
'■ .fl.35,000.00
Sinking Fund.
Appropriation |27,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid sinking fund commis-
sioners 127,000.00
508 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Reserved Fund.
Appropriation |10,000.00
Uuclaimed bills covered into
treasury, j)er resolution of
December 7, 1897 29.64
Transferred from the following
accounts :
Interest 990.46
City hall 1,050.03
Printing and stationery 264.10
Mayor's incidentals 19.50
Auditor's department 79.35
Street and park commission 172.09
Land taken for highways. . . . 4,088.00
Watering streets 1,237.36
Macadamizing streets 527.26
Street sweeping 681.78
Bridges 592.48
Scavenger service 739.15
New sewers 4,301.71
Lighting streets 1,110.27
Health department • 33.15
Fire department 188.72
Police station 273.43
Police court 269.06
Weston Observatory 2.06
Dedication of Weston Ob-
servatory 2.10
Dedication of high-school
building 65.25
Parker school lot 12.26
Valley cemetery 2.60
Amoskeag cemetery 12.94
Pine Grove cemetery » 195.13
Fuel 1,371.74
RESERVED FUND.
509
Furniture and supplies
1548.16
Books and stationery
40.87
Care of rooms
279.72
Evening schools
111.85
Evening school, mechanical
drawing
85.64
Manual training
129.14
Care of Merrill yard
42.47
Paupers off the farm
2,205.79
Indigent soldiers
118.26
Decoration 'of soldiers' graves
.49
Abatement of taxes
547.57
Fire-alarm telegraph
82.65
132,454.28
Expenditures.
Transferred to purchase land
on Piscataquog river |1,750.00
Transferred to the following accounts:
Parker school lot 300.00
Dedication of Weston Ob-
servatory 150.00
Dedication of high-school
building 150.00
Bicycle path 600.00
Incidental expenses 4,167.71
Cit}' officers salaries 17.18
Eepairs of highways 1,698.08
Snow and ice 489.33
New highways 1,999.49
Paving streets 2,081.79
Grading for concrete 450.96
City teams 223.94
Eepairs of sewers 830.46
Paving Elm and Granite
streets 495.31
510 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Engineer's department
1280.91
Police commission
581 90
Commons
26.80
Stark and Derryfield paries. .
3.70
Repairs of sclioolbouses
2,872.71
Contingent expenses
1,411.91
Printing and advertising. . . .
1.13
. Teachers' salaries
3,037.17
Free text-books
1,320.36
City farm
186.55
Repairs of buildings
1,531.07
New schoolhouses
2,599.89
Transferred to new account. .
2,939.52
Temporary Loan.
Receipts.
Received from Manchester Na-
tional Bank, on note of |50,-
000, dated July 1, 1897 150,000.00
Received from Hanover Nation-
al Bank, New York, on four
notes of 125,000 each, dated
June 10, 1897 100,000.00
Received from Suffolk National
Bank, Boston, on note of |50,-
000, dated July 30, 1897 50,000.00
On note of $50,000, dated Sep-
tember 29, 1897 50,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid Manchester National Bank
note dated July 1, 1897 .$50,000.00
52,454.23
1250,000.00
CITY HALL. 511
Paid Hanover National Bank,
New York, four notes of |25,-
000 each, dated June 10, 1897 flOO.OOO.OO
Paid Suffolk National Bank,
Boston, two notes of |50,000
each, dated July 30, 1897, and
September 29, 1897 100,000.00
1250,000.00
City Hall.
Appropriation |1,000.00
Expenditures.
fuel and lights.
Paid Manchester Electric Co.,
electric lights |131.70
People's Gas-Light Co.,
gas 180.74
Union Electric Co., elec-
tric lights 291.79
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 97,195
lbs. coal 253.84
J. M. Clark, 20 tons coal 128.00
D. M. Poore, wood 11.50
1997.57
WATER AND TELEPHONE.
Paid Manchester Water- Works,
use of water 1342.15
New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co., use
of telephones 75.00
1417.15
512 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CLEANING OFFICES, ETC.
Paid Clark M. Bailey, brooms. . |1.13
John H. Cole, services as
janitor 516.00
J. S. Holt & Co., soap 5.62
A. M. Eastman, soap .60
John B. Hall, soap, toilet
paper 1.50
Manchester Mills, 600 gal-
Ions soap 11.00
Manchester Hardware Co.,
brushes .25
Mrs. Mary Nolan, labor
cleaning offices 104.00
Oscar Perkins, services as
janitor 575.00
J. K. Rhodes, janitor for
8^ days 17.00
F. H. Thurston, Germol,
soap 11.00
J. J. Holland, borax. 1.00
Talbot & Co., disinfectant 10.45
J. B. Varick Co., brooms,
dusters, brushes 25.20
J. H. Wiggin & Co., soap,
matches, oil 3.50
FURNITURE, FIXTURES, SUPFLIES.
Paid Adams Brothers, lime |0.95
Clark M. Bailey, toilet
paper 3.50
J. (t. Ellinwood, photo-
graphs 1.50
Peter Harris, keys, etc ... . 1.25
L,283.25
CIIY HALL.
Paid John B. Hall, 1 thermom-
eter
11.25
Kimball & Hobbs, sole
leather, hose, etc
6.00
Manchester Electric Co.,
15 lamps
3.75
Manchester Hardware Co.,
hinges, cord
.57
B. F. Shepard, keys, re-
pairing chair
1.25
Paid James W. Hill Co. :
1 flag
7.50
_■_ J^lLl^ ••••
Crash and bunting
2.75
Hanging and taking down
awnings
19.17
INCIDENTAL REPAIRS
i.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, lumber and
labor
14.34
J. J. Abbott, paint, glass,
and labor
2.85
E. M. Bryant & Co., labor
and fixtures .
7.34
A. L. Franks & Co., lamps
and labor
1.90
George Holbrook, mate-
rial and labor
14.00
Head & Dowst Co., mate-
rial and labor
33.79
Lessard & Hevey, plumb-
ing repairs .
2.96
J. Y. McQueston Co., re-
pairing table, etc
13.85
Pike & Heald Co., mate-
rial and labor
28.57
33
513
149.44
514 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. B. Varick Co., asplial-
tum 10.95
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co. :
Electric fixtures, per contract 18.25
Material and labor 7.50
Paid C. L. Wolf:
Material and labor, ladies'
toilet 10.60
Material and labor, city hall
roof 4.50
SUNDRIES.
Paid C. A. Hoitt & Co., use of
200 chairs flO.OO
A. Elliott & Co., premium
on insurance policy No.
106,470 31.16
Total expenditures
Overdraft, C. M. Bailey
Transferred to reserved fund
Printing and Stationery.
Appropriation
Expenditures,
assessors and inspectors.
Paid John B. Clarke Co., print-
ing 50 blanks |10.00
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
Blank books and covers 55.00
Pens, pencils, paper, ink, etc. 14.27
L51.40
141.16
12,939.97
10.00
1,050.03
14,000.00
$2,000.00
''i).Zi
PRINTING AND STATIONERY. 515
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid The John B. blarke Co. :
Advertising- sale non-res-
ident lands $75.00
Printing 25,000 bills 25.00
1100.00
MESSENGER.
Paid W. p. Goodman, envelopes and note-
heads 10.95
CITY CLERK.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing blanks, lists, bill-
heads, etc 171.50
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
Rubber bands, envelopes. . . . 1.85
Blank book and cover 6.00
179.35
AUDITOR.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing:
Billheads, statements |28.00
800 copies city report 1,046.60
50 reports lettered ' 5.00
Binding 150 reports 150.00
Stamping seal 1.00
$1,230.60
ENGINEER.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing 1,000
license blanks |6.50
CITY TREASURER.
Paid W. P. Goodman, blotting
paper, book 14.61:
516 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.,
pay-roll sheets |10.50
E. J. Knowlton, P. M.,
envelopes 10.90
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing:
1,000 blanks 2.00
Blanks and blank books 12.00
Binding 1 pay-roll book 3.50
MAYOR.
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., enve-
lopes and paper |1.03
W. P. Goodman, pencils,
books 1.60
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing:
300 inaugural addresses 65.00
400 slips, 300 envelopes 3.50
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.,
stationery 30.31
MILK INSrECTOR.
}.54
1101.47
Paid J. Arthur Williams, 100 postals and
printing |1.60
CITY COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co., printing:
Blanks, postals, etc |7.75
Advertising 12 times 27.60
Paid The Nate Kellogg Co.,
printing notices, blanks,
postals, etc 16.75
Union Publishing Co., ad-
vertising 12 times 27.67
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
517
Paid J. Arthur Williams, cards,
blanks, etc $6.85
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
$86.62
$1,735.90
264.10
$2,000.00
Incidental Expenses.
Appropriation $12,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 4,167.71
$16,167.71
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, division No. 2 :
January $24.00
February 30.00
BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS.
Paid O. D. Abbott, M. D $11.75
D. S. Adams, M. D 3.50
J, L. Beaumier, M. D .25
J. S. Brown, M. D .25
J. F. Brown, M. D .75
H. W. Boutwell, M. D 30.25
H. T. Boutwell, M. D .50
A. A. E. Brien, M. I) 18.25
J. L. Burnham, M. D 5.75
L. P. Beaudet, M. D 1.00
Lillian G. Bullock, M. D. . .25
E. Bernier, M. D 1.00
Rev. A. Carlsson 5.75
$54.00
518 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Charles Corey, M. D |1.00
I. L. Carpenter, M. D 9.00
Charles Chirurg, M. D. . . 3.00
James M. Collity, M. D. . . ' 32.50
Rev. N. L. Colby 5.00
Rev. C. R. Crossett 2.50
Rev. T. E. Clapp.. 4.50
Rev. J. A. Chevalier 13.25
Rev. A. C. Coult .25
Rev. I. H. C. Davignon. . . 20.50
E. B. Dunbar, M. D 10.25
John F. Dowd, M. D .75
G. M. Davis, M. D 5.75
Henry Duchine, M. D 3.50
Mary S. Danforth, M. D. . 0.00
C. M. Dodge, M. D 3.00
Charles E. Dodge, M. D . . . 12.00
C. W. Downing, M. D 1.00
. R. H. Dillon, M. D .75
John Ferguson, M. D 24.75
John Ferguson, Jr., M. D. .50
George Frechette, M. D . . 13.50
J. E. Fortier, M. D 11.50
L. M. French, M. D 18.75
C. F. Flanders, M. D 47.00
E. N. Fugere, M. D 28.00
Arthur Fournier, M. D . . . 10.00
Moise Guerin, M. D 24.25
J. H. Gleason, M. D 4.75
N. E. Guillet, M. D .25
M. Guggenheim, M. D . . . . 5.25
S. J. Girouard, M. D 1.75
G. H. Greeley, M. D .25
William Holland, M. D. . . .25
Thomas C. Hill, M. D. . . . 2.00
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 519
Paid George C. Hoitt, M. D
10.75
G. W. Hazelton, M. D....
.50
Kev. P. Hevey
15.25
Eev. C. E. Hennon
20.25
J. A. Jackson, M. D
19.75
N. P. Kidder
635.75
M. E. Kean, M. D
29.50
P. G. Laberge, M. D
13.25
J. E. Lemaitre, M. D
9.50
J. D. Lemay, M. D
15.75
H. D. Lord
31.00
J. E. Larocbelle, M. D
8.75
J. E. A. Lanouette, M. D . .
18.00
Rev. J. J. Lyons.
6.50
M. V. B.Morse, M. D
.25
C. A. Manning, M. D
2.00
G. B. Morey, M. D
2.75
Jacob W.Mooar,M.D....
1.00
J. W. D. McDonald, M. D.
11.75
Clara Odman
3.75
Anna Pollmer
11.00
W. M. Parsons, M. D
2.00
Frederick Perkins, M. D . .
9.00
W. H. Pattee, M. D
6.25
C. A. Palmer, M. D
.50
George Porter, M. D
.25
Eev. 0. D. Patch,
2.75
William Richardson, M. D.
2.25
a. F. Eobinson, M. D
3.75
C. S. Eodier, M. D
7.75
J. E. E. Eoy, M. D
4.25
F. C. Stewart, M. D
2.75
Serville St. Pierre
18.25
A. G. Straw, M. D
1.75
Z. L. Straw, M. D
7.00
Gillis Stark, M.D
29.25
520
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid C. B. Sturtevant, M. D. .
18.00
V. N. Sikorsky, M. D....
1.50
E. Sylvain, M. D
12.75
J. Sullivan, M. D
27.00
L. Tremblay, M. D
2.25
Arthur J. Todd, M. D...
.50
George D. Towne, M. D.
3.50
E. C. Tremblay, M. D
34.75
W. F. Templeton, M. D . .
1.00
R. S. True, M. D
.50
Harry P. Watson, M. D . .
1.25
G. M. Watson, M. D
.75
Hermann Wellner, M. D.
1.75
A. F. Wheat, M. D
3.00
G. L. Wakefield, M. D...
1.25
Ellen A. Wallace, M. D..
3.25
G. A. Weaver, M. D
.50
L,473.75
DAMAGES AND JUDGMENTS.
Paid Adams & Tasker, settle-
ment of claim
Aug'uste Blanchet, glan-
dered horse
T. E. & M. T Burke, set-
tlement of claim, inju-
ries to horse
Cavanaugh Brothers, set-
tlement of claim, breach
of contract
Demas Dwinell, settle-
ment of claim, damage
to real estate
Frank A. Dockham, settle-
ment of claim
20.17
5.00
43.00
250.00
125.00
50.00
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 521
Paid A. L. Dodge, destroying-
diseased animals |13.00
A. D. Gooden, settlement
of claim, damage to real
estate 100.00
Selina H. Hoag, settle-
ment of claim, damage
to real estate 125.00
J. G. Jones, settlement of
claim, damage to wagon 3.00
Ellen Kelliher, settlement
of claim, personal in-
juries 250.00
James Kelliher, settle-
ment of claim, injury to
property 250.00
Andrew Leckie, settle-
ment of claim, damage
to property 50.00
Theresia Maier, settlement
of claim, personal in-
juries 1,300.17
Joseph St. John, settle-
ment of claim, injuries
to horse 25.00
Gordon Woodbury, settle-
ment of claim, damage
to real estate 250.00
A. J. Wilkinson, glan-
dered horse 4.00
LEGAL EXPENSES.
Paid E. H. Carroll, expenses
incurred at legislature,
session 1897 1300.00
},213.34
522 EEPOHT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Dana W. King, recording
deeds, etc.... |3.28
Thomas D. Luce, certify-
ing appeals, etc 3.00
John H. Riedell, legal ser-
vices 10.00
Ezra S. Stearns, engross-
ing acts 6.75
CITY COUNCILS AND COMMITTEES.
Paid Fred L. Allen :
Expenses to Boston sundry
times, to deliver bonds, ne-
gotiate loans, etc |23.80
Express and telegrams .88
Expenses to Concord .72
Paid George W. Bailey, use of
teams 118.50
John A. Barker, care of
boiler, city library 135.50
Bo3'd Brothers, use of
teams 43.00
^'Le Bulletin," advertising-
notices 5.00
J. E. Bernier & Co., ad-
vertising notices 21.00
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Blank book G.50
Advertising notices 33.71
Paid F. X. Chenette, use of
teams 10.00
W. J. Freeman, use of
teams 70.00
C. S. Fifleld, use of teams 10.00
W. P. Goodman, direct-
ories 97.50
1323.03
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 523
Paid E. T. James, use of teams $63.50
E. J. Kuowlton, P. M.,
stamps 84.50
O. D. Knox, expense in-
curred by committee on
lare department to Low-
ell, Lawrence, Nashua. . 9.25
Manchester Street Rail-
way, car tickets 82.50
J. C. McKeon, advertising
licenses 5.00
New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co., use of
telephone, solicitor. . . . 36.00
Plummer & Brown, use of
teams 25.00
Felix Provencher, use of
hack 5.00
Charles H. Simpson, use
of teams 100.00
Union Publishing Co., ad-
vertising notices 41.02
Whitten & Fifield, use of
teams 20.00
G. E. Wheeler & Son, use
of teams 15.00
CITY LIBRARY.
11,065.88
Paid John B." Varick Co., broom, duster,
brush 13.43
STREETS.
Paid Union Manufacturing Co.,
numbers |3.60
C. H. Wood, painting signs 3.85
17.45
624 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CITY SCALES.
Paid C. B. Clarkson, services
as weigher |30.00
John Driscoll Co., clean-
ing pipe, etc 1.25
W. P. Goodman, stationery 2.30
D. M. Poore, coal and wood 23.50
John B. Varick Co.,
brooms .74
MILK INSPECTOR.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
advertising notice 6
times $11.25
Union Publishing Co.,
advertising notice 7.16
MAYOR.
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., sta-
tionery 110.09
Daniels & Downs, covers,
oil, oil can .72
Grace E. Downer, services
as clerk 330.00
W. P. Goodman, pencils,
envelopes, books, direc-
tories 6.f)0
S. Louise Hill, typewriting
3i days 7.00
James W. Hill Co., 12 fans .30
Paid E. J. Knowlton, P. M. :
Stamps and postals 107.00
500 large envelopes 11.26
$57.79
$18.41
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES. 525
Paid Francis Pratt, Jr., pens. . |3.00
Paid Temple .& Farrington Co.:
Fountain pen and ink 2.75
Paper, envelopes 13.65
Mucilage, ink, note books . . . 1.50
Paid George P. Wallace, type-
writer ribbons 2.00
Maude Young, services as
clerk 200.00
Smith Premier Type-
writer Co., repairing
machine 8.15
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid E. K. Coburn Co., cash
book, index, ink |8.35
H. E. Daniels, typewriting
3 copies tax list 5.25
W. E. Gilmore, writing
tax bills 13.50
"Independent Statesman,"
advertising non-resident
tax list, 1896 7.50
Paid George E. Morrill:
Taxes bought June, 1897 6,066.70
Delivering tax bills 98.25
CITY CLERK.
Paid E. E. Coburn Co., blank
books 125.25
W. P. Goodman, ledger,
envelopes, etc 9.00 -
Florence M. Kidder, ser-
vices as clerk 520.00
1701.32
6,199.55
526 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Novelty Advertising Co.,
blanlvs, stamp, ink, pad' |12.05
E. C. Smith, envelopes,
postals, seals, etc 30.12
Temple & Farrington Co.,
blank books, mucilage,
ink, etc 18.00
C. A. Trefetlien, repair-
ing clock : .75
CITY TREASURER.
Paid D. J. Adams, fitting keys |0.15
Blanche E. Bullock, ser-
vices as clerk 540.00
E. R. Coburn Co., sta-
tionery 13.60
Daniels & Downs, type-
writing 2.36
W. P. Goodman, cards and
envelopes 20.10
E. J. Knowlton, P. M., pos-
tals and stamps 35.00
Temple & Farrington Co.,
pencils, mucilage, etc. . . . 1.92
COURT HOUSE.
Paid D. J. Adams, repairing
lawn mowers |5.00
L. M. Aldrich, screws,
labor 1.05
Moore & Preston, 30^ tons
coal • 183.00
Timothy P. Shea, janitor 488.33
John B. A'arick Co.,
brooms, duster, sponge,
etc 2.88
1615.17
1613.13
1680.26
INCIDENTAL EXPENSES.
527
SCHOOLS.
'aid James W, Hill Co.
, cotton
11.26
John B. Yarick Co.,
broom.
cotton waste . . .
2.63
'aid insurance on High
school :
John Dowst
60.00
Clarence M. Edgerly.
60.00
A. Elliott & Co
60.00
Everett & Smith. .. .
60.00
Charles L. Harmon . .
60.00
D. A. Holland
60.00
D.W.Lane
60.00
Richardson & Goggin
60.00
John A. Sheehau ....
60.00
Stark & Blanchet...
60.00
ASSESSORS.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
advertising
John F. Gillis, furnishing
$14.25
transfers of real estate
12.00
G. H. Nichols, use of team
6.00
People's Gas-Light Co.,
mantle and chimney. . .
.90
B. W. Robinson, deliver-
ing blanks
3.75
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
Pamphlet Laws
100
Blocks
24
SUNDRIES.
Paid American Express Co., ex-
'
press on reports
111.02
Amoskeag National Bank,
use of vault. . .'
25.00
1603.89
138.14
528 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Prof. E. R. Angell, exami-
nation of spring water |3.00
George W. Bailey, storage
of ambnlance 19.00
C. M. Bailey, V. S., exam-
ining diseased animals 21.00
A. T. Barr, testing weights
and measures 1.00
E. T. Bartlett, M. D., analy-
sis of spring water 15.00
Harry J. Briggs, making
sewer book for city clerk 76.65
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 2 tons
coal, Hallsville liose-
house 13.00
E. R. Coburn Co., paste. . .20
J. M. Clark, 2 tons coal,
Hallsville hosehouse... 13.00
First N. H. Battery, pow-
der and firing national
salute July 1 46.00
town of Goffstown, taxes 2.17
John H. Hayes, stamps,
stationery, etc., ward
clerk ...\ 1.98
John B. Hall, vaccine
points 15.15
Manchester Water- Works,
use of water, 129 Man-
chester street 3.38
Kenneth McDonald, mov-
ing desks 3.00
!N. E. Confectionery Co.,
food for isolated family 2.00
Ellen H. Richards, exam-
ination of spring water 15.00
CITY officers' salaries. 529
Paid Clarence H. Sargent, trees foO.OO
H. E. Smith, M. D., exam-
ination of spring water 30.00
Charles J. Senter estate,
entrance to sewer 46,80
George D. Towne, M. D., 1
visit Oscar Swanson... 1.50
Temple & Farrington Co.,
100 mailing boxes 4.00
F. H. Thurston, bottles. . . 1.00
Union Electric Co., lights
at Hallsville hosehouse 19.24
Sarah Whelpley, use of
land in West Manches-
ter, in full for all claims
to date, June 9, 1897. . . 50.00
J. H. Wiggin & Co., gro-
ceries for isolated fam-
ily 1.08
17
Total expenditures |16,167.71
City Officers' Salaries.
Appropriation |18,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 17.18
,017.18
Expenditures.
central department.
Paid William C. Clarke, mayor |1,800.00
Fred L. Allen, treasurer. . 1,200.00
Edwin F. Jones, solicitor 800.00
Nathan P. Kidder, clerk . . 27.50
34
530 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Edward C. Smith, city
clerlv
$872.50
George L. Stearns, clerk of
common council
200.00
Tliomas W. Lane, buildirig
inspector
100.00
Asa B. Eaton, weigher. . .
400.00
John A. Barker, messenger
699.97
E. C. Smith, milk inspector
12.50
Archie F. Precourt, milk
inspector
287.50
J. K. Rhodes, messenger
24.00
John M. Crawford,
weigher
39.00
Richard J. Barry, acting
mayor
60.00
5,522.97
CITY PHYSICIAN AND OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
Paid Irying L. Carpenter, M.
D., city physician $600.00
W. H. Maxwell, ward 1. . . 25.00
Thomas L. Quimby, ward 2 25.00
Benjamin F. Garland,
ward 3 25.00
Charles B. Clarkson,
ward 4 25.00
Patrick Costello, ward 5 25.00
Charles Francis, ward 6 . . 25.00
William Marshall, ward 7 25.00
Charles S. McKean,ward 8 25.00
Thomas C. Stewart, ward 9 25.00
William C. Clarke, chair-
man ex officio . 25.00
CITY officers' salaries. 531
Paid William H. Maxwell, clerk
of the board |100.00
Judith Sherer, matron of
pesthouse 360.00
11,310.00
SCHOOL OFFICERS AND BOARD OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Paid W. E. Buck, superintend-
ent of schools 12,300.00
Curtis W. Davis, truant
officer 750.00
W. C. Clarke, chairman
ex officio '. 10.00
E. B. Woodbury, clerk of
board 150.00
George B. Eogers, presi-
dent of common council,
ex officio 10.00
Walter B. Heath, ward 1 10.00
Elliott C. Lambert, ward 1 10.00
A. P. Home, ward 2 10.00
Charles H. Manning, ward
2 10.00
George D. Towne, ward 3 10.00
Louis E. Phelps, ward 3. . 10.00
Henry D. Soule, ward 4 . . . 10.00
Rev. N. L. Colby, ward 4 10.00
James P. Slattery, ward 5 10.00
John T. Kelley, ward 5. . . 10.00
Herbert E. Richardson,
ward 6 10.00
Edson S. Heath, ward 7. . 10.00
E. B. Woodbury, ward 7. . 10.00
Luther C. Baldwin, ward
8 10.00
532 KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Ned T. Wallace, ward 8. . |10.00
Robert E. Walsh, ward 9 . . 10.00
Henry I. Lemay, ward 9. . 10.00
BOARD OF ASSESSORS.
Paid Henry E. Lewis, ward 1 . . $152.50
John E. Stearns, ward 2. . 207.25
David O. Fernald, ward 3 940.00
Harrison D. Lord, ward 4 387.50
George F. Sheehan, ward 5 177.50
George H. Dudley, ward 6 480.00
Robert Leggett, ward 7.. 127.50
Eugene W. Brigham, ward
8 475.00
John T. Hannigan, ward 9 115.00
Hiram Forsaith, assistant 85.00
N. Nichols, assistant 285.00
John Cayzer, assistant... 42.50
Henry F. Stone, assistant 67.50
Isaac L. Whittemore, as-
sistant 99.50
C. B. Clarkson, assistant. . 42.50
Charles W. Brown, assist-
ant 65.00
Harvey L. Currier, clerical
services 185.00
Arthur W, Rowell, clerical
services 135.00
Louis Comeau, interpreter 65.00
Jean B. Rejimbal, inter-
preter 72.50
J. N. St. Germain, inter-
preter 42.50
13,390.00
t,249.25
auditor's department. 533
TAX COLLECTOR.
Paid George E. Morrill:
Salary, balance due year end-
ing 1895 1850.00
Commission on old taxes 19.20
Salary, balance due year end-
ing 1896 850.00
Commission on old taxes. . . . 25.76
Salary, year ending Novem-
ber 30, 1897 800.00
12,514.96
Total expenditures $18,017.18
Auditors' Department.
Appropriation $2,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid James E. Dodge, salary as
auditor |1,200.00
Lizzie M. Cogswell, ser-
vices as clerk 660.00
11,860.00
SUPPLIES, ETC.
Paid Clark M. Bailey, paper, . . |1.71
Barton & Co., towels,
hassock ., 1.13
Paid The Carter's Ink Co. :
Typewriter ribbon 1.00
Coupon book 4.50
534 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., blottiiig
paper 10.50
John B. Clarke Co., print-
ing bills and postals. . . 10.00
Paid Lizzie M, Cogswell, cash paid:
Making book rest .50
Postal cards, express 1.90
Washing office towels, soap,
etc , 3.40
Paid James E. Dodge, express
paid .25
W". P. Goodman, stationery 3.90
Lovejoy & Stratton,- 1
clock 1.75
Lyon's Platinum Pen Co.,
pens 9.00
Manchester Hardware Co.,
twine .30
Paid- Temple & Farrington Co. :
Book, pencils, etc 2.50
3 books 5.55
Paid John B. Varick Co., screw
drivers, tacks, twine
holder .78
Wycoff, Seamans & Bene-
dict, adjusting type-
writer 1.95
George P. Wallace, carbon
paper 1.00
160.65
Total expenditures |1,920.65
Transferred to reserved fund 79.35
12,000.00
STREET AND PARK COMMISSION. 535
Mayor's Incidentals.
Appropriation $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid Boyd Brothers, team hire |37.00
Paid William C. Clarke:
Team hire 1G8.00
Entertainment of Chelsea and
Boston oflScials, and other
incidental expenses 75.50
Total expenditures $280.50
Transferred to reserved fund 19.50
$.300.00
Street and Park Commission.
Appropriation $3,600.00
Expenditures.
salarie-s.
Paid H. P. Simpson, chairman $G00.00
George H. Stearns 600.00
Byron Worthen 600.00
CLERICAL SERVICES.
Paid Julia F. Stearns $5.33.28
George H. Stearns 468.00
L. Robinson 10.00
USE OF TEAMS.
Paid H. P. Simpson. . ., $1.50.00
George H. Stearns 150.00
Byron Woitlien 150.00
$1,800.00
L,011.28
$450.00
536 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
OFFICE SUPPLIES.
Paid T. S. Buck, stamps $3.46
Paid The Carter's Ink Co.:
Ribbon and carbon paper. . . . 1.50
Coupon book . 4.50
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
Blanks and letter heads 8.25
Cloth signs 4.00
200 reports 34.05
Paid H. W. Eastman, cut of
Weston Observatory . . . 2.50
J, G. Ellinwood, photo-
graphs 24.50
W. P. Goodman, books and
stationery 11.65
E. J. Knowlton, P. M.,
stamps 5.00
New Engjand Telephone &
Telegraph Co., use of
telephone 39.93
Temple & Farrington Co.,
blank books 7.00
John B. Varick Co., brush
and broom .73
SUNDRIES.
Paid H. P. Simpson, expenses of commis-
sion to Boston & Worcester
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
1147.07
$19.56
J,427.91
172.09
13,600.00
REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS. 537
Repairs of Highways.
Appropriation |20,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 1,698.08
121,698.08
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per i)aj-roll,
division No. 1:
May 13.00
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2 :
January |15.63
March 48.75
April 355.89
May 810.71.
June 1,766.19
July 1,778.83
August 3,058.03
September 1,613.59
October 326.59
November 331.58
December 118.36
110,251.15
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 4:
April 154.00
June 215.87
July 55.00
September 203.24
October 52.50
1580.61
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 5:
January |8.00-
538 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
April 13.75
May 28.00
June 152.87
August 135.99
September 31.00
October 50.62
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 6:
May $128.87
June 26.87
July 58.12
August 18.50
September 36.00
October 18.11
December 7.50
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 7:
April 11.38.00
May 206.71
June 361.97
July 558.25
August . 386.36
September 170.62
October 73.75
November 96.12
December 20.75
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 8:
January |7.00
May 223.62
July 401.91
August 185.71
September 281.62
$410.23
1323.97
12,015.86
REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS. 539
October |129.39
November 8.35
December 31.80
11,269.40
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 9:
May 191.25
June 29.75
September 23.00
November 20.75
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 10 :
January |119.06
February 29.21
March 130.97
April '. ... 315.87
May 611.73
June 775.12
July 665.37
August 556.37
September 498.62
October 121.02
November , 168.40
December 96.12
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 12:
August 112.00
November 373.75
LUMBER AND OTHER MATERIAL.
Paid C. W. Farmer, 50 posts. . . |6.25
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber and labor 43.72
Charles Millar & Son, pipe 136.43
64.75
14,087.86
$385.75
'640 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid A. C. Wallace, lumber and
labor 1179.44
David Wells, 934 posts. . . 112.08
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid A. N. Clapp, tools |2.2.5
Manchester Hardware Co.,
pick handles, scoops,
rope, nails, bolts, etc. . . 28.00
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware 109.92
BLAOKSMITHING AND REPAIRS.
Paid James Benson, sharpen-
ing tools : . . 15.15
F. W. Blood Roofing Co.,
repairing slate roof, 303
Hanover street 2.00
James R. Carr & Co., mate-
rial and labor on foun-
tains 17.36
James H. Cram, sharpen-
ing tools 2.00
O. L. Hevey, connecting
watering-trough, Amos-
keag 3.68
Paid T. A. Lane Co., material
and labor:
Fence rail 4.89
Fountains 119.93
Paid Lessard & Hevey, mate-
rial and labor. 13.43
Wallace Laird, building
culvert 40.00
1477.92
1140.17
REPAIRS OF HIGHWAYS. 541
Paid C. S. McKean, filing saws $1.85
Pike & Heald Co., repair-
ing water pipe 3.39
C. H. Kobie Co., concret-
ing roadways 473.23
C. L. Wolf, pipe and labor 14.22
STONE, GRAVEL, CLAY, ETC.
Paid G. W. Campbell, 495 loads
gravel 149.50
William H. Coburn, 100
loads gravel 85.00
M. E. Dickey, 102 loads
gravel 6.30
Edwards O. Dodge, 86
loads gravel 8.60
Mark E. Harvey, 94 loads
gravel 9.40
Ralph E. Hall, 61 loads
gravel 6.10
Frank Libbey, 29 loads
gravel 2.90
James Lovering, 11 loads
gravel 1.10
J. F. Moore, 200 loads
gravel 12.00
Byron E. Moore, 260 loads
gravel and clay 15.60
J. A. Poore, 582 loads
gravel 58.20
J. M. Richardson, 18 loads
gravel 1.80
R. P. Stevens & Co., 13
loads stone chips 6.50
1701.13
542 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Thomas Walker, Jr., 20
loads gravel |1.20
R. N. Whittemore, 50
loads gravel 3.00
1267.20
SUNDRIES.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, filing saws |0.35
John Campbell, use of
water 3.00
Concord Foundry Co., 1
fountain 100.00
John Driscoll Co., dippers,
boxes 14.40
S. L. Flanders, 2 pails .30
J. W. Fiske, brackets for
fountain 3.75
1121.80
Total expenditures |21,203.80
Transferred to snow and ice account 494.28
21.698.08
Snow and Ice.
Appropriation |4,000.00
Transferred from repairs of
highways account 494.28
Transferred from reserved fund 489.33
14,983.61
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2 :
Januarv 1341.60
SNOW AND ICE. 543
Februarr |1,867.39
March /. 435.20
November 79.25
December 275.86
$2,999.30
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 4:
February 132.50
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 5:
February $35.13
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 6:
February |89.00
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 7 :
January 148.37
February 167.50
March 67.12
December 64.12
$347.11
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 8:
February $38.50
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 9:
February $20.50
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division Xo. 10:
January $205.12
February 825.58
March 208.25
December 70.10
$1,309.05
544 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUPPLIES AND MISCELLANEOUS.
Paid A. N. Clapp, ax, pail |1.20
Manchester Hardware Co.,
shovels 1-50
C. H. Robie Co., 141 loads
sand 1^-10
Union Snowplow &
Wagon Co., 1 8-foot
snowplow 75.00
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Shovels 1.50
Iron, shoes, scoops 19.22
.fll2.52
Total expenditures $4,983.61
New Highways.
Appropriation |5,000.00
Balance from last year unex-
pended 1,382.48
Transferred from reserved fund 1,999.49
$8,381.97
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid men, as per pay-roll, division No. 2:
January \ 132.40
February 40.50
March 32.40
April 242.13
May 672.60
June 312.43
July 401.64
NEW HIGHWAYS. 545
August $1,221.6G
September 1,626.53
October 166.27
November 107.02
December 32.40
Paid men, as per pay-roll, division No. 7:
June 1400.75
September 612.33
November 22.37
TOOLS AND HARDW^^RE.
Paid Manchester Hardware
Co., lanterns, globes... |2.75
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware 150.10
STOXE AND OTHER MATERIAL.
Paid Charles A. Bailey, cover-
ing stone 121.60
Luther Proctor, wood for
blasting 12.00
$4,887.98
$1,035.45
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 8:
June 1330.97
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 10:
May 1422.09 .
June 30.00
July * 142.25
August 619.86
September 420.92
11,635.12
1152.85
35
$33.60
546
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUNDRIES.
Paid C. C. Babbitt, work on
Maple street |6.00
W. H. Coburn, grading
Second street 300.00
1306.00
, Total expenditures |8,381.97
Damage of Land Taken for Highways.
Appropriation $5.000.00
Expenditures.
Paid John B. Bickford $300.00
Joseph K. Mitchell 612.00
Total expenditures 1912.00
Transferred to reserve'd fund 4.088.00
$5,000.00
Watering Streets.
Appropriation $5,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2 :
January $31.62
February 3.60
March 5.02
April 183.78
May 397.]9
12,539.46
WATERING STREETS. 547
June |303;05
July 444.12
August 335.06
September 445.45
October 261.35
November 48.25
. December 80.97
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
Xo. 10 :
January |5.50
February 7.44
April 74.25
May 124.00
June 88.50
July 191.25
August 99.00
September 143.87
October 148.85
November 18.05
SUPPLIES, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight |1.26
John T. Beach, repairing
sprinkler, etc 54.75
Head i& Dowst Co., lumber 6.38
C. H. Hutchinson, cast-
ings and labor 4.10
Thomas A. Lane Co., labor
and material on stand-
pipes 39.01
Pike & Heald Co., repair-
ing sprinkler .40
71
548 REPOKT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. L. & H. K. Potter,
sprinkler attachments. . |140.00
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 76.57
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2:
May 1415.96
June 386.00
July , 637.90
August 559.61
September 273.07
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 7:
May 156.00
June 36.00
July 70.50
August 34.25
September 47.75
1322.47
Total expenditures |3,762.64
Transferred to reserved fund 1,237.36
15,000.00
Paving Streets.
Appropriation |5,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 2,031.79
17,031.79
12,272.54
f244.50
PAVING STREETS. 549
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 10:
January $55.12
February 122.78
March 8.25
April 43.75
May 224.81
June 386.73
July 279.90
August 355.37
September 341.38
$1,818.09
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co 111.36
PAVING STONE, GRAVEL, ETC.
Paid C. A. Bailey, paving stone |849.77
Paid Brooks & Brock:
82 loads sand 72.90
Paving stone 323.16
Paid J. H. Coburn, 175 loads
paving 306.25
Daniel Connor, 16 loads
stone 28.00
F. M. Goings, 30 loads
paving 45.00
C. H. Robie Co., 95 loads
sand 90.25
$1,715.33
CONCRETING.
Paid C. H. Robie Co $240.80
550 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. Hodge:
504 stakes |11.09
Lumber and labor 2.40
Paid Soule, Dillingham & Co.,
paving Elm back street
and Granite street 710.06
Temple & Farrington Co.,
cardboard .50
Head & Dowst Co., lumber 5.12
1729.17
Total expenditures |7,031.79
Paving Elm and Granite Streets.
Appropriation |10,000.00
Received from Manchester
Street Railway 3,899.39
Transferred from Amoskeag
bridge abutment account. . . . 1,158.10
Transferred from reserved fund 495.31
$15,552.80
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2 :
July 1140.00
August 537.23
September 200.00
1877.23
Paid Soule, Dillingham & Co., paving Elm
street |2,757.3S
MACADAMIZING STREETS. 551
STONE, GRAVEL, SAND, CEMENT.
Paid C. A. Bailey, paving
blocks 14,968.11
Brooks & Brock, sand and
gravel 79.25
Paid C. H. Robie Co.:
318 loads sand 302.10
32 loads roofing 96.00
Paid J. A. & A. W. Walker,
cement 667.50
16,112.96
CONCRETING.
Paid C. H. Robie Co 15,730.23
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad, freight |75.00
Total expenditures $15,552.80
Macadamizing Streets.
Appropriation $15,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2:
June $2,264.78
July 1,316.95
September 1,406.63
October 282.18
$5,270.54
552 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 10:
September |1S.75
October 1,964.77
November 1,357.55
FUEL, FREIGHT, WATER.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 25
tons 1,400 lbs coal |9D.94
Boston & Maine Kailroad,
freight 110.19
People's Gas-Light Co., 35
chaldrons coke 140.00
water-works, use of water 30.00
George Young, 20 cords
wood 45.00
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid A. N. Clapp, fuse, nails,
etc $5.21
B. H. Piper Co., sledge
handles 39.61
Paid John B. Varick Co. :
Dynamite, fuse, etc 693.12
Iron, hammers, packing,
paint, etc 91.76
LABOR, CASTINGS, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing Co. :
Oil 127.54
Steel and labor 22.09
Paid James Briggs & Son, pipe
for smokestack 1.50
,341.07
1431.13
$829.70
MACADAMIZING STREETS. 553
Paid Climax Road Machine Co.:
1 stone crusher, less freight. . |2,412.51
Plates, sprockets, etc 74.66
Paid W. M. Darrah & Co., roof-
ing material 3.40
The Farrel Foundry & Ma-
chine Co., plates and
bearings 91.00
S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., repairs on crusher
engine 111.74
Paid C. H. Hutchinson:
1 collar,^ steel, plate, etc 24.56
Repairing road roller 7.57
Paid Head & Dowst Co., lumber
and labor . 155.42
Paid The Ingersoll-Sargeant
Drill Co.:
Repairs on drill 118.25
Hose couplings, etc 7.22
Paid Kimball & Hobbs, hose
and couplings 65.00
Thomas A. Lane Co., nips,
valves, ells 28.73
Lambert Hoisting Engine
Co., 1 set grates 10.84
Lessard & Hevey, pipe,
. etc .96
Manchester Locomotive
Works, repairing road-
roller 565.74
Vacuum Oil Co., oil 46.00
C. L. Wolf, hose, smoke
pipe, etc 3.05
$3,777.78
554 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STONE.
Paid Charles A. Bailey, 749
tons crushed $711.55
H. Willey, 42i tons 21.25
.f7.32.80
SUNDRIES.
Paid American Express Co.,
express |2.20
James W. Hill Co., 4 flags .52
Hartford Steam Boiler
Inspection & Insurance
Co., insurance 50.00
Frederick Perkins, M. D.,
attendance on Charles
Chabot 37.00
189.72
Total expenditures |14,472.74
Transferred to reserA^ed fund 527.26
115,000.00
Grading for Concrete.
Appropriation 15,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 450.96
$5,450.96
Expenditures. •
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
April $66.39
May 140.38
June 173.38
25.12
GRADING FOR CONCRETE. 555
Julv 1113.39
August 99.26
September 312.95
October 67.70
November 128.59
December 249.67
11,351.71
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 7:
May 162.87
June 12.50
October 19.75
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 10:
May 1138.38
July 126.93
August 28.63
September 455.27
1749.21
Paid Soule, Dillingham & Co., labor 139.18
STONE AND CONCRETE.
Paid C. A. Bailey, curbing |52.67
Warren Harvey, cesspool
and edge-stone 1,610.15
C. H. Robie Co., concrete 626.21
Mead, Mason & Co., con-
crete 513.56
12,802.59
SUNDRIES.
Paid Charles Francis, grading
and filling sidewalk ....
1225.00
Palmer & Garmons, cut-
ting stone
131.15
556 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Frederick Perkins, M. D.,
attendance on Patrick
Campbell |27.00
1883.15
Total expenditures |5,450.96
Scavenger Service.
Appropriation |16,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2:
January |7(50.26
February 571.22
March 911.19
April 1,148.72
May 696.89
June 785.63
July 586.70
August 762.62
September " 692.66
October 528.27
November 830.26
December 691.96
18,969.38
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 7:
September |22.00
October 25.75
November 41.50
December 19.25
1108.50
SCAVENGER SERVICE,
557
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 10 :
Januarv |162.49
February 199.26
March 215.35
April 386.81
May 161.00
June 236.00
July 145.88
August 151.50
September 196.50
October 200.27
November 184.93
December 238.71
12,478.73
CONTRACT.
Paid city farm, scavenger service 1 year, 1
month 12,708.30
TOOLS AND HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware
Co 10.85
John B. Varick Co 77.44
SUNDRIES.
178.29
Paid John T. Beach, 1 dump-
cart 1100.00
Freeman & Merrill, straw 28.83
Gage &McDougall, oats. . 317.50
Head & Dowst Co., lumber 8.00
M. B. Jones, hav 85.32
558 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Partridge Brothers, 1,200
bushels oats 1378.00
1917.05
Total expenditures 115,260.85
Transferred to reserved fund 739.15
116,000.00
Street Sweeping.
Appropriation |3,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
April 1175.20
May 131.54
June 305.36
July 118.46
August 113.96
September 267.08
October . 340.42
November 155.44
December 4.53
11,611.99
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 10:
January |16.50
April 18.50
May 58.11
June 113.63
July • '. 126.86
August 62.00
BRIDGES. 559
September 188.00
October . ! 65.90
November 44.23
December 3.10
REPAIRS, SUPPLIES, ETC.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight |2.02
Hickory Broom Fibre Co.,
refilling brooms 87.50
John B. Varick Co., hoes
and brooms 19.88
1596.8?
$109.40
Total expenditures $2,318.22
Transferred to reserved fund ' .', 681.78
13,000.00
Bridges.
Appropriation $4,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
January $9.76
^larch 5.40
April 5.12
May 216.01
June 75.78
July 163.80
September 227.99
October 107.02
November 78.14
December 5.40
$894.42
560 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 10:
April 13.50
July 9.00
September 20.50
133.00
Paid Head & Dowst Co |76.80
LUMBER, STONE, HARDWARE.
Paid Head & Dowst Co., lumber |258.42
Manchester Hardware Co.,
• hardware 29.60
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 38.57
Paid A. C.Wallace:
Lumber 668.25
Plank 704.89
.$1,699.73
REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid J. J. Abbott, painting Mc-
Gregor bridge |421.32
James K. Carr & Co.,
paint and labor 20.35
C. H. Hutchinson, labor on
bolts, etc 11.90
Groton Bridge Co., paint-
ing Granite bridge .... 250.00
. 1703.57
Total expenditures $3,407.52
Transferred to reserved fund 592.48
$4,000.00
Rebuilding Amoskeag Bridge Abutment.
Appropriation $4,700.00
CITY TEAMS. 561
Expenditures.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
amount expended in rebuild-
ing east abutment of bridge |3,541.90
Total expenditures |3,541.90
Transferred to ai^propriation for paving
Elm and Granite streets 1,158.1(>
14,700.00
City Teams.
Appropriation |6,500.00
Transferred from reserved fund 223.94
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 2:
January |82.83
February 187.97
March 209.11
April 161.01
May 116.13
June 153.20
July 119.25
August 142.25
September 170.09
October 1.32.88
November 187.86
December 177.56
36
,723.94
,840.14
562 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 10:
January 123.50
February 31.50
March 20.75
April 37.50
June 15.75
July 14.00
August 14.00
September 22.25
November 24.50
December 19.25
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
commons:
June 142.24
July 180.00
GRAIN, HAY, STRAW.
Paid Adams Brothers |20.39
Ame&Co 30.00
William Corey 99.56
Freeman & Merrill 703.84
Gage & McDougall 326.00
Albert H. George 172.71
Granite State Grocery Co. 13.00
John P. Griffin 40.70
A.H.Hill 30.22
H.O.Hill 28.32
D. Kerwin 29.70
C. R. Merrill 28.88
S. Mullins 13.64
G. F. Mills 119.11
Partridge Brothers 469.75
C. D. Welch...; 131.94
F. B. Worthley 20.80
$223.00
^222.24
12,278.56
CITY TEAMS. 563
HARNESSES AND REPAIRS.
Paid The Fred Allen Co., re-
pairs and supplies |21.00
John F. Kerwin, repairs
and supplies 30.90
Kimball Carriage Co., re-
pairs an'd supplies 114.10
H. C. Ranno & Son, repairs
and supplies 50.55
John A. Ballou, repairs
and supplies 9.70
I. S. York, repairs and
supplies 21.15
CARRIAGES, CARRIAGE' REPAIRS.
Paid John T. Beach, carriage
repairs $113.33
O. A. Craig, 1 one-horse
sled 20.00
Manchester Hardware Co.,
sled shoes, etc 8.75
John B. Varick Co., 1 pair
wheels, ironed, with
axles 47.35
HARDWARE.
Paid J. H. Farnham, files |9.61
Manchester Hardware Co.,
tools and hardware. . . . 96.61
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware 325.88
1247.40
1189.43
14.32.10
564 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR,
LIVE STOCK, VETERINARY EXPENSES.
Paid A. F. Abbott, V. S., visits
and medicine |106.30
Paid Cavanaugh Brothers :
1 pair horses 287.50
Difference in trading horses 115.00
Paid E. H. Currier:
Campho-naphthaline .50
Nitre 1.40
Paid A. L. Dodge, V. S., visits
and medicine 9.25
J. L. Golden, V. S., visits
and medicine 12.00
W. B. Mitchell, medicine 11.95
A. A. Potter, salve 1.00
John B. Varick Go., alco-
hol, witch hazel 5.85
B. F. Welch, difference in
trading horses 30.80
WATER, GAS, TELEPHONE, FUEL.
Paid Manchester Water-Works,
use of water |68.00
People's Gas-Light Co.,
gas 156.94
New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co., use of
telephones 72.00
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 10
tons coal 60.00
John Perham, wood 6.56
LUMBER, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid James Baldwin Co., lum-
ber 116.38
1581.55
1363.50
CITY TEAMS. 665
Paid James Briggs & Son, gal-
vanized iron and labor. .
$8,2^
F. W. Blood Eoofing Co.,
material and labor
4.44
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber, labor
114.16
C. H. Hutchinson Foun-
dry & Machine Works,
castings, lumber, labor.
7.53
J. Hodge, planing lumber
1.50
Kimball & Hobbs, oil
suits, etc
5.83
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co.:
1 torch
5.00
Material and labor
3.20
Paid G. W. Rief, lumber, belt-
dressing
6.35
L. & W. T. Seiberlich,
paint, glass, etc
2.42
A. C. Wallace, lumber. . .
1.69
C. L. Wolf, stovepipe and
labor
4.30
HORSE HIRE'.
Paid C. B. Danforth
13.00
C. H. Simpson
65.50
MISCELLANEOUS.
Paid C. M. Bailey, globes. .....
110.13
Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight on horse
4.20
Paid A. N. Clapp:
Kerosene
17,89
Sandpaper, spikes, etc
1.27
$181.09
$68.50
566 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John Driscoll Co., dippers,
wire, etc |6,25
Peter Duval, filing saws . . 7.20
Eager & Co., soap, ginger,
etc 7.25
G. A. Hoitt & Co., 2 chairs 3.75
Henry W. Parker, lime
and salt 2.60
E. D. Rogers, axle grease 5.50
Temple & Farrington Co.,
books and pencils 22.69
G. R. Vance, oil can .20
R. M. West, 2 ladders 7.50
$96.43
Total expenditures $6,723.94
Repairs of Sewers.
Appropriation $5,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 830.46
$5,830.46
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll,- division
No. 2:
January $136.17
February 42.87
March 74.51
April 157.23
May 490.11
June 335.65
July 450.65
REPAIRS OF SEWERS, 567
August 1233.87
September 548.53
October 293.53
November 89.74
December 236.79
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 10:
January |56.38
February 49.62
March 88.70
April 27.83
May 324.66
June 285.38
July 243.37
August 487.57
September 220.12
October 124.87
November 119.33
December 57.88
MATERIAL, LABOR, ETC.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight |42.66
John Driscoll Co., dippers,
copper wire, etc 9.50
Warren Harvey, cesspool
stone 150.53
C. H. Hutchinson Foun-
dry & Machine Works,
castings, etc., and labor 181.78
Kimball & Hobbs, 6 oil
suits 13.50
Thomas A. Lane Co., mate-
rial 2.33
13,089.65
12,085.71
568 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.,
pails, oil can |2.89
H. W. Parker, cement 17.36
Pike & Heald Co., dippers,
pipe, etc 8.35
John B. Varick Co., weld-
ing 3.70
J. A. & A. W. Walker, 250
barrels cement 222.50
$655.10
Total expenditures |5,830.46
New Sewers.
Appropriation $40,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
April $280.61
May 1,292.21
June 2,907.51
July 2,120.95
August 866.30
September 2,926.36
October 1,311.71
November 1,382.94
December 733.00
$13,821.59
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 7:
April $110.00
Mav 798.75
NEW SEWERS.
569
June 1811.94
July 611.12
August 781.61
September 484.88
October 282.75
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 10:
April 154.39
May 320.13
June 1,216.68
July 566.45
September 641.00
October 1,418.31
November 223.32
December 56.25
HARDWARE.
Paid A. N. Clapp, nails, ham-
mer, axes 15.08
Manchester Hardware Co.,
nails, rakes, shovels,
lanterns, globes, etc. . . . 202.72
John B. Varick Co., steel,
dynamite, fuse, drills,
files, pails, spikes, etc. . . 784.81
,881.05
14,496.53
— 1992.61
SE'WER PIPE.
Paid Pike & Heald Co
16,056.81
MATERIAL, LABOR, ETC.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad:
Labor of section men guard-
ing track while sewer was
570 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
being laid in Wilson street,
November, 1896 |10.65
Putting timbers under track
in West Manchester 5.50
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., coal. . 113.94
Carson Trench Machine
Co., 1 block hook with
swivel 8.15
A. N. Clapp, kerosene. . . . 40.30
Frank L. Elliott, fuse and
powder 563.98
Paid C. H. Hutchinson:
Castings 180.82
Labor on drills 25.08
Paid The Ingersoll-Sergeant
Drill Co., drill, hose,
couplings, supplies .... 510.06
Thomas A, Lane Co., mate-
rial and labor 73.70
Manchester Locomotive
Works, iron castings,
etc 1,275.37
Moore & Preston, coal .... 181.51
D. M. Poore, coal 183.39
B. H. Piper Co., pick
handles 1Q.50
James Robertson, 1 der-
rick and trucking 110.00
Wingate & Gould, 3 pairs
rubber boots 8.00
M. F. Whiton & Co., steel '
hoist 33.52
5,334.47
CEMENT, BRICK, STONE, LUMBER.
Paid J. H. Coburn, 2 loads logs |8.00
Warren Harvev, stone. . . . 78.53
RIVER ROAD, CLARKE, AND ELM STREET SEWER. 571
Paid W. F. Head & Son, 231 M.
brick 11,178.10
Paid The Head & Dowst Co. :
Lumber 508.75
Cement 2.50
Paid Kimball Carriage Co., 36
M. brick 201.60
J. A. & A. W. Walker,
cement 778.75
12,756.23
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight 1253.55
Pike & Heald Co., dippers,
labor 5.45
Myra Whittemore, right to
build sewer tlirough
land 100.00
1359.00
Total expenditures 135,698.29
Transferred to reserved fund 4,301.71
$40,000.00
River Road, Clarke, and Elm Street Sewer.
Balance from last year unexpended $5,697.57
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
January $852.59
February 1,190.69
March 956.14
572 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
May 1476.51
June 19.50
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.,
graphite $0.10
John B. Varick Co., dyna-
mite, fuse, etc 1,128.18
CEMENT AND LUMBER.
Paid Luther Proctor, oak lumber $16.00
H. W. Parker, 10 casks
cement 10.52
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight |0.25
L. B. Bodwell & Co., coal 256.31
Carson Trench Machine
Co., grates for engine. . 9.50
J. G. Ellinwood, photo-
graphs of Gould house 12.00
C. H. Hutchinson, labor
on drills, etc 4.50
The Ingersoll-Sergeant
Drill Co., valves, nuts,
bolts, piston, etc 99.54
Thomas A. Lane Co., pipe,
packing, etc 4.54
Moore & Preston, coal .... 105.69
Pike & Heald Co., pipe. . . 115.50
,495.43
11,128.28
J6.o2
$007.83
Total expenditures $5,258.06
Transferred to new account 439.51
15,697.57
COMMONS. 573
Bicycle Path.
Appropriation, transfer from reserved fund $600.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 7:
October |191.60
November 102.25
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
division No. 8:
October $45.00
November 212.59
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. J. Abbott, i)ainting
signs 14.25
L. M. Aldrich & Co., lum-
ber and labor 4.42
Commons.
Appropriation $4,500.00
Transferred from reserved fund 26.80
$293.85
^257.59
Paid labor of men and teams, as per commons
pay-roll:
November $4.25
^8.67
Total expenditures $564..30
Transferred to nev^^ account • 35.64
$600.00
t,526.80
574 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-rolls;
January |179.75
February 259.89
March 83.87
April 265.00
May 197.25
June 285.98
July 145.86
August 308.11
September 78.73
October 378.85
November 486.75
December 207.62
PLANTS, TREES, ETC.
Paid Clark & Estey, rose bushes |5.00
J. A. Chamberlain, trees. . 2.00
O. Hardy, trees 8.50
A. G. Hood, plants 60.00
J. S. Holt & Co., ashes 90.00
Ingram & Richmond,
plants 35.00
Fred Johnson, trees 2.00
Frank Koener, plants. . . . 20.00
The Kirby Floral Co.,
plants 60.00
James Richards, manure 10.50
Ray Brook Garden Co.,
plants 64.00
F. S. Worthen, plants 35.00
12,877.66
1392.00
COMMONS. 575
WATER AND ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Paid Manchester Water- Works,
use of water 1700.00
Union Electric Co., elec-
tric liehts 36.00
REPAIRS AND GENERAL EXPENSES.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paint |.37.94
L. M. Aldricli, filing saws,
lumber 6.06
Adams Brothers, salt. ... .60
Boston & ]Maine Railroad,
freight .80
J. R. Carr Co., paint nnd
labor 38.30
Albert Davis, pine boards 14,00
W. E. Goodwin, repairs on
fountains 6.72
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber, labor 22.46
Peter Harris, ke^'S .50
J. Hodge, lumber, labor. . 33.23
Paid C. H. Hutchinson Foundry
& Machine Works:
Repairs on scrapers, lawn-
mowers, etc 14.16
Labor on castings, etc 8.70
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co., 18
dippers 4.50
Manchester Hardware Co.,
tools and seed 45.74
Manchester Locomotive
Works, castings and
labor 47.04
1736.00
1439.39
576 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Pike & Heald Co., pipe |2.16
Pope & Trudell, sharpen-
ing tools 1-S5
Leander Pope, sharpening
tools 16.80
C. H. Kobie Co., material
and labor 33.50
G. K. Vance, pipe 1.50
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware 71.10
A. C. Wallace, lumber... 17.73
Wingate & Gould, rubber
boots 14.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. B. Dupaul, barrels |3.50
John Fullerton, expenses
to Boston to get 6 guns
given the city 46.00
Edward McMahon, rent of
barn ..". 29.00
Paige & Mj'rick, police
badge 1.25
K. G. Sullivan, tobacco
stems 2.00
181.75
Total expenditures $4,526.80
Stark and Derryfield Parks.
Appropriation |5,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 3.70
Balance from last year unex-
pended .14
15,003.84
stark and derryfield parks. 577
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll,
commons :
January f 33.0()
February 13.37
March 78.75
April 140.12
May 736.00
June 1,046.50
July 726.32
August 806.06
September 911.87
October 94.75
SHRUBS, PLANTS, TREES, ETC.
Paid O. Hardy, trees and
shrubs 187.60
J. S. Holt & Co., ashes 56.50
Manchester Hardware Co.,
grass seed 37.64
Partridge Brothers, seed 3.90
TOOLS, HARDWARE, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid D. J. Adams, fitting keys |0.85
L. M. Aldrich, lumber, etc. 1.93
J. H. Coburn, paving 29.75
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber and cement .... 22.96
Thomas A. Lane Co., mate-
rial and labor 11.24
Manchester Hardware Co.,
tools and hardware. . . . 67.63
37
1,586.74
1185.64
578 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Manchester Water- Works,
use of water |24.00
Merrill & Laird, building
cesspools 18.90
C. E. Palmer, tin, solder,
labor 8.70
Leander Pope, sharpening
tools, etc 14.25
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware 31.25
1231.46
Total expenditures |5,003.84
Lighting Streets.
Appropriation $55,000.00
• Expenditures,
electric lights.
Paid Manchester Electric Co.:
Charges. Discounts.
January |4,206.00 $27.87
February 4,207.08 18.49
March 4,207.07 13.38
April 4,207.08 15.97
May 4,207.08 13.32
June 4,242.05 16.22
July 4,283.75 18.64
August 4,290.37 27.91
September 4,302.92 9.97
October 4,307.96 8.00
November 4,346.16 13.10
December 4,350.83 11.93
151,158.36 1194.80
Less discount 194.80
150,963.56
LIGHTING STREETS. 579
GAS.
Paid People's Gas-Light Co. :
January |53.06
February 53.0G
March 43.82
April 44.10
May 40.18
June 35.14
July 31.36
August 32.48
September 35.00
October 39.34
November 47.74
December 49.98
CARE OF GAS AND OIL LAMPS.
Paid E. p. Cogswell, lighting
street lamps |54.93
William Brooks, lighting
lamps at GofEe's Falls. . 104.30
Patrick Dobbins, lighting
lamps at Goffe's Falls. . 104.40
F. W. Elliott, lighting
lamps and oil for same
to January 1, 1898 15.39
Charles D. Francis, light-
ing lamps 189.92
Joseph Goodwin, lighting
lamps 1,316.00
Mrs. Mary E. Reed, light-
ing lamps at Massabesic
to January 1, 1898 9.00
1505.26
$1,793.94
580 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUPPLIES.
Paid Clark M. Bailey, chimneys,
wicks, burners, etc |41.75
Paid A. N. Clapp:
Kerosene 50.74
Gasoline 125.50
Matches, lamps, chimneys. . . 5.05
Paid Eager & Co., matches. . . . • .75
Noah B. Reed, oil and
supplies to September
1, 1897 6.00
John B. Varick Co., glass,
matches, burners 23.33
Paid C. L. Wolf:
Lanterns with gasoline fix-
tures, and labor putting up 287.00
Repairs on fixtures 14.71
1554.83
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight $2.64
Boyd Brothers, use of
hacks 17.00
J. P. Brown & Co., use
of hacks 10.00
Plummer.& Brown, hacks
and team 12.50
C. C. Perry, use of hacks 20.00
Felix Provencher, use of
hack 5.00
Whitten & Fifield, use of
hack 5.00
172.14
Total expenditures 153,889.73
Transferred to reserved fund 1,110.27
155,000.00
engineer's department. 581
Engineer's Department.
Appropriation |4,500.00
Transferred from reserved fund 280.91
$4,780.91
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid W. H. Bennett, engineer |1,200.00
Harrie M. Young, first
assistant 712.25
George W. Wales, second
assistant 858.00
Harry J. Briggs, third
assistant 697.50
Alfred Dodge, assistant. . 586.50
L. B. Webster, labor 112.50
Herbert L. Watson, labor 28.00
Frank A. Fox, labor 1.50
Ella M. Barker, clerk... 373.12
$4,569.37
TEAMS, AND TEAM EXPENSES.
Paid A. F. Abbott, V. S., visits
and medicine |13.75
Manchester Street Rail-
way, tickets 10.00
J. B. McCrillis & Son, car-
riage repairs 1.90
125.65
TELEPHONE.
Paid New England Telephone & Telegraph
Co., use of telephone |36.30
SUPPLIES AND OFFICE EXPENSES.
Paid W, L. Blenus, repairing
tapes 11.65
582 KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. R. Coburn, paper, pen-
cils, copy book, envelopes, etc. |15.75
Paid The Carter's Ink Co. :
Typewriter ribbons 2.00
Coupon book 4.50
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
150 reports 45.00
Blank book 9.50
Binding books 19.00
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., pine stakes 20.00
Frost & Adams, drawing
supplies 25.88
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber and labor 2.99
Manchester Index Co., 1
index 1.00
A. Mantell & Co., 12 sheets
transfer paper 1.50
SUNDRIES.
Paid G. W. Wales, 36 yards
cord 10.72
Harrie M. Young, cash
paid for telephone. ... .10
$148.77
).82
Total expenditures .^,780.91
Health Department.
Appropriation |4,400.00
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. * 583
Expenditures.
SERVICE'S.
Paid C. W. Downing, M. D. :
Salary as member of board
of health for year ending
February 1, 1897
1200.00
Three months' services
50.00
Paid W. K. EobbinS, salary as
member of board of
health for year ending
February 1, 1897
200.00
William J. Starr, salary as
member of board of
health for lOf months . .
179.17
Richard J. Barry, sanitary
inspector
225.00
William B. Blake, sanitary
inspector
348.75
Herbert S. Clough, san-
itary inspector
78.00
John F. Looney, sanitary
inspector
721.13
Carl 0. Seaman, sanitary
inspector
577.50
Charles B. Clarkson, 11^
days' labor
23.00
M. Alma Fracker, clerk . . ,
204.00
Ethel A. Marston, clerk. .
200.00
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
Bulletins |36.90
Circulars, letter headings, etc. 125.65
300 reports 14.28
$3,006.55
584 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., sta-
tionery 16.80
W. P. Goodman, station-
ery 3.30
"Le Bulletin," printing
2,000 circulars 4.00
Ethel A. Marston, post-
age, pencils, etc 12.95
Novelty Advertising Co.,
blanks 6.00
Temple & Farrington Co.,
1 directory 2.50
PESTHOUSE.
TEAMS.
Paid G. W. Bailey, teams |11.00
Paid W. B. Blake:
Carfares 21.55
Job team 2.50
Paid R. J. Barry, carfares 8.50
H. M. Clougli, team 1.00
Herbert S, Clough, car-
fares 4.25
F. X. Chenette, teams 5.50
W. J. Freeman, teams .... 4.00
C. S. Fifield, teams 10.50
E. T. James, teams 6.00
John F. Looney, carfares 36.90
C. O. Seaman, carfare. ... .10
Whitten & Fifield, teams 15.50
Paid C. A. Hoitt & Co., 1 spring |3.50
- Judith Sherer, board sun-
dry persons 44.66
1212.38
1127.30
HEALTH DEPARTMENT 585
Paid A. D. Sherer, lumber and
labor 19.73
G. W. Whitford, coal and
wood 38.00
SUPPLIES FOR ISOLATED FAMILIES,
Paid Annis Flonr & Grain Co.,
groceries |4.02
L. B. Bodwell & Co., coal
and wood 2.25
A. H. Cate, groceries. . . . 12.49
James M. Collity, M. D.,
medical consultation ... 3.00
W. B. Blake, medicine and
wood 2.50
H. S. Clough, whiskey and
disinfectants 1.45
J. M. Clark, coal and wood 12.65
E. L. Caswell, coal and
wood 3.15
T. F. Fifield, groceries. . . 11.26
Freeman & Merrill, hay. . 2.48
A. L. Gadbois, groceries. . 2.42
J. F. Healy, groceries .... 8.01
O. D, Knox & Co., gro-
ceries 1.69
John F. Looney, oil, eggs,
whiskey, etc 2.42
McQuade Brothers, gro-
ceries 1.75
Noyes & Prince, groceries 11.07
F. H. Thurston, disin-
fectants, prescriptions.. 13.42
J. H. Wiggin & Co., gro-
ceries 1.16
)5.89
197.19
586 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
OFFICE EXPENSES AND SUPPLIES.
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing
Co., disinfectant lamps $14.50
H. S. Clough, telegrams. . .90
Paid Charles H. Coburn:
Laying birch floor 25,00
1 water tank and cover 2.00
Paid G. V. Demers, paint and
labor 2.70
M. A. Tracker, envelopes,
stamps, postals 11.85
Paid C. A. Hoitt&Co.:
1 hall tree 6.75
1 ice chest, etc 5.94
1 rubber mat, 1 rug, 1 hassock 3.50
Paid James W. Hill Co., 4
shades 5.20
Lehn & Fink, antitoxine. . 45.00
Library Bureau, 1 card
index outfit 15.00
n. K. Mulford Co., anti-
toxine 90.78
New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co., use of
telephone 36.45
Paid People's Gas-Light Co.:
Gas 2.94
Mantles, chimney, shade 1.30
Paid F. C. Kobinson, 1 lamp. . . 7.50
L. A. Salomon & Co.,
methyl 47.30
Paid John B. Varick Co.:
Wood alcohol 187.45
Lantern, varnish, etc 2.60
1514.66
HEALTH DEPARTMENT. 587
SUNDRIES.
Paid Brodie Electric Co., drill-
ing holes in generator
plate 10.80
Burnham, Brown & War-
ren, legal services. ..... 13.00
L. B. Bodwell & Co., ice
from July to January. . 4.74
W. B. Blake, express, dis-
infectants, telephone,
expenses to Concord . . . 6.60
Herbert S. Clough, express .90
Arthur K. Day, M. D.,
diphtheria examination 116.00
Harold C. Ernst, M. D.,
diphtheria examination 24.00
M. A. Fracker, express
and laundry 1.45
John F, Looney, express,
disinfectants, etc 1.90
Ethel A. Marston, express,
freight, laundry, etc ... . 8.85
New Hampshire College
of Agriculture, water
analyzed 60.00
Paid W. M. Parsons, M. D.:
Traveling expenses attending
meeting American Board of
Health at Philadelphia 40.50
Membership fee 5.00
Paid Pike & Heald Co., plumb-
ing material, etc 22.19
C. O. Seaman, disinfect-
ants, lumber 1.37
588 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid star Stamp Co., badges. . . $3.00
Snelling & Woods, disin-
fectants 2.58
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
ftepairs of Schoolhouses.
Appropriation $3,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 2,872.74
Expenditures,
masonwork.
Paid B. W. Robinson $315.55
Z. B. Stuart 311.86
PAINTING AND GLAZING.
Paid J. J. Abbott $33.97
J.S.Avery 80
W. F. Conner 2.00
Curtis & Peterson 1.95
Joel Daniels i& Co 4.04
C. F. Jack 2.00
W. H. Newry .75
Eben Paul 1.77
John A. Sargent 440.66
CONCRETING.
Paid C. H. Robie Co
$312.88
$4,.366.85
33.15
$4,400.00
$5,872.74
$627.41
$487.94
$97.34
REPAIRS OF SCHOOLHOUSES. 589
WOODWORK,
Paid George H. Dudley, lum-
ber and labor . . /. |811.56
J. Hodge, door, blinds, etc. 44.00
PLUMBING, IRONWORK, AND REPAIRS.
Paid D. J. Adams, repairing
locks, fitting keys, etc . . |12.42
Amoskeag Manufacturing-
Co., castings, chain, etc. 109.20
S. C. Austin & Co., repair-
ing lightning rods, etc. 45.50
C. W. Anderson, repairing
clock 2.00
E. M. Bryant & Co., repair-
ing bells, etc 48.79
Henry Boone, repairing
clock 1.50
Cressey & Colby, repairing
flue rod .50
W. M. Darrah & Co., roof-
ing material and labor 109.12
Paid A. L. Franks & Co. :
1 desk push 1.00
Supplies and labor 107.37
Paid W. F. Gill, repairing clock 1.75
The Head & Dowst Co., re-
pairing roof and labor. . 10.82
Peter Harris, sharpening
lawn mowers, unlocking
doors 5.40
R. D. Jenkins, reseating
chairs 1.35
$855.56
590 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid T. A. Lane Co., material
and labor, electric lights,
plumbing, etc., sundry
schoolhouses 1291.63
Lessard & Hevey, plumb-
ing material and labor. . 2,438.73
H. I. Lemay, repairing
clocks 3.00
Pike & Heald Co., material
and labor, plumbing,
etc 191.79
W. L. Spaulding, plumb-
ing material and labor 211.82
W. H. Sullivan, material
and labor, retinting
rooms 51.00
C. P. Still, stone steps 2.50
George S. Perry. & Co., re-
pairing sharpeners" .... 7.30
Charles A. Trefethen, re-
pairing and cleaning
clocks 20.50
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. S. Avery, setting glass $0,50
Paid W. F. Conner:
Cash paid for work 4.00
Mending hose, etc .25
Paid J. G. Jones, trucking .... 5.25
A. A, Jenkins, tuning
pianos 31.00
Napoleon Lemay, fixing
flag rope 1.50
Manchester Slaughtering
& Rendering Co., fer-
tilizer stock 8.00
13,674.99
FUEL. 591
Paid Mrs. Charles Miller, labor
at Straw school |1.50
A. E. Newton, 12 force
pumps 12.00
'S. J. Russell, cleaning
vaults 25.00
Edward Sears, fixing flag
rope 2.50
B, A. Stearns, loam and
grading 38.00
1129.50
Total expenditures $5,872.74
Fuel.
Appropriation $8,000.00
Expenditures.
COAL,
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 718
tons 400 lbs. coal. . $3,954.35
Dunlap & Wason Coal Co.,
206 tons 428 lbs ' 1,340.06
D. M. Poore, 6 tons coal . . 37.50
E, V. Turcotte, 131 tons,
1,345 lbs. coal 859.14
WOOD.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., wood $5.50
J. M. Clark, wood 121.13
Gilman Clough. wood 24.20
Dunlap & Wason Coal Co.,
pine and hard wood,
sawed 62.00
),191.05
592 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid W. E. Dunbar & Co., 34^
cords wood |138.50
Moore & Preston, wood . . . 24.25
D. M. Poore, hard and pine
wood 31.63
1407.21
SUNDRIES.
Paid C. B. Clarkson, 15 days' labor as
weigher $30.00
Total expenditures |6,028.26
Transferred to reserved fund 1,371.74
18.000.00
Furniture and Supplies.
Appropriation $2,000.00
Expenditures.
physical and chemical apparatus, supplies, etc.
Paid Tebbetts & Soule |258.37
HARDWARE.
Paid Manchester Hardware Co.,
snow shovel, bell, chain,
brushes, etc $14.24
John B. Varick Co.,
brooms, brushes, dus-
ters, mats, pails, etc. . . . 299.80
$314.04
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
Paid Boston School Supply Co.,
reading chart $14.15
FURNITURE AND SUPPLIES. 593
Paid O. D. Case, & Co., black-
boards 1116.64
E. R. Coburn Co,, 3 sets
pantograph 12.00
Oliver Ditson Co., music
books 20.75
Educational Publishing
Co., subscription to
'Trimary Education,"
January 1, 1898 1.00
The Greenwood School
Supply Co., 1 duplicator
and ink 3.02
J. L. Hammett Co., maps
and globes 112.00
Paid New England Publishing
Co., subscription to:
"Journal of Education" 2.50
"American Teacher" .50
Paid Prang Educational Co.,
models, etc 31.66
Temple & Farrington Co.,
Bibles 3.75
FURNITURE.
Paid W. & L. E. Gurley, survey-
ors' instruments |120.00
Paid C. A. Hoitt &Co.:
Chairs 21.01
Tables, matting, shade, polish 15.49
Use of chairs 10.34
Paid Jossehn & Read Co.,
tables and chairs 27.25
Kimball & Hobbs, rubber
mats, lettered 177.75
mi.Ql
594 KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid F. E. Nelson, mugs, cups,
duster |5.87
Paid George S. Perry & Co.:
Ink wells
24.45
Chucks for sharpeners
6.75
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.,
1 shade
.97
Weston & Hill Co., 1 flag
12.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid Adams Brothers, salt...
10.65
Barton & Co., crash,
cheese cloth
.98
Daniels & Downs, engross-
ing diplomas
48.25
Frank W. Fitts, 306 yards
ribbon
21.19
S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., lumber
.75
T. F. Fifield, oil, can, soap
3.88
H. J. Holmes, oil
.36
James W. Hill Co., 1 roller
and cord
.61
W. F. Hubbard, sawdust
.40
C. H. Kimball, drumheads.
sticks, and hooks
5.88
Paid Kimball & Hobbs:
Shoe pegs
.70
Rubber bands, tips, cloth. ...
2.91
Paid Manchester Broom Co.,
brooms
.50
Manchester Mills, soap. .
12.25
Albert Nettle, chimneys. .
.60
Paid People's Gas-Light Co.:
1 stove and tubing
5.60
Mantle and chimney
.60
121.88
BOOKS AND STATIONERY. 595
Paid Pike & Heald Co., mop
waste, dustpans, meas-
ures, shovels, etc $12.32
Standard Oil Co., oil ... . 1.50 .
Temple & Farrington Co.,
500 tags .65
F. H. Thurston, disin-
fectant 17.50
A. C. Wallace, sawdust.. 1.50
1139.58
Total expenditures $1,451.84
Transferred to reserved fund 548.16
$2,000.00
Books and Stationery.
Appropriation $100.00
Expenditures.
sundries.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co., pos-
tals and printing $1.50
W. P. Goodman, books and
stationery 12.01
E. J. Knowlton, P. M., pos-
tage stamps 25.00
New England Publishing
Co., subscription to
"Journal of Education"
and "American Primary
Teacher," to January 1,
1897 3.00
Novelty Advertising Co.,
envelopes, cardboard .... 9.12
596 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid George P. Wallace, rib-
bons and carbon paper $4.00
E. B, Woodbury, postage
and stationery 4.50
159.13
Total expenditures |59.13
Transferred to reserved fund 40.87
1100.00
Printing and Advertising.
Appropriation 1300.00
Transferred from reserved fund 4.43
1304.43
Expenditures,
sundries.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.,
printing blanks $2.75
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
Blanks, cards, circulars, lists,
etc 245.44
400 reports 50.74
Binding books 5.50
Total expenditures 1304.43
Contingent Expenses.
Appropriation |1,700.00
Transferred from reserved fund 1,411.94
_ 13,111.94
contingent expenses. 597
Expenditures,
freight and cartage.
Paid J. G. Jones |104.09
C. A. Winberff 9.00
WATER, GAS, ELECTRIC LIGHTS.
Paid Manchester Electric Co.,
electric lights $62.25
People's Gas-Light Co.,
gas 308.14
Union Electric Co., elec-
tric lights 231.85
water commissioners, use
of water 966.00
ANNUAL GRADUATION.
Paid F. P. Colby, moving
pianos |6.00
Oliver Ditson Co., music. . 13.58
Daniels & Downs, engross-
ing diplomas 2.60
C. A. Hoitt & Co., use of
52 chairs 2.00
Paid Opera House Co.:
Use of opera house 75.00
Coupon tickets 1.15
Paid Frank T. Weeks, taking
tickets at opera house 2.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid W. E. Buck:
Cash paid for express, freight,
telegrams |39.07
Use of team 79.50
1113.09
11,568.24
$102.33
598 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. P. Brown & Co., use of
team ....'... |3.00
Louis Bailey, cash paid
for water, Youngsville 6.00
Curtis W. Davis, use of
team 150.00
Paid Emma J. Ela:
Cash paid for carrying water 18.50
Cleaning schoolrooms 1.75
Paid S, B. Hope, use of team,
carrying special teacher
of music to suburban
schools 82.50
Mrs. J. J. Kimball, piano . . 200.00
E. J. Knowlton, P. M., pos-
tage 10.00
E. C. Lambert, expenses to
Boston for teacher 6.32
Byron Moore, water priv-
ilege for Goffe's Falls
school 6.00
Albert Somes, cash paid
for cartage books, etc.,
from Straw to High
school 50.77
Inez Warren, cash paid
for carrying water 3.50
D. A. Simons, rent of
100 chairs 4.00
SCHOOL CENSUS.
Paid W. H. Andrews, 14 days. . |35.00
Charles W. Brown, 14 days 35.00
George H. Chadwick, 14
days 35.00
C. B. Clarkson, 14 days. . . 35.00
1660.91
CARE OF SCHOOL-ROOMS.
599
Louis Comeau, 14 days. . . |35.00
Hiram Forsaith, 11 days 27.50
E. Parker French, 14 days 35.00
W. E. Gilmore, 14 days. . . 35.00
Harry C. Graf, 14 days.. 35.00
F. G. B: Kemp, 14 days. . 35.00
Frank C. Lindquist, 14
days 35.00
T. E. McDerby, 14 days... 35.00
A. W. Ro well, 14 days 35.00
J. B. Rejimball, 14 days. . 35.00
Nathan A. Sleeper, 14 days
and use of team 41.00
John C. Smith, 14 days. . . 35.00
Paid Henry F. Stone:
16 days 44.00
Use of team 9.00
Supplies 5.37
Paid J. J. Sullivan, 14 days 35.00
George Sheehan 10.00
Total expenditures
The John B. Clarke Co., overdraft
IGG1.87
13,106.44
5.50
J,111.94
Care of School-Rooms.
Appropriation
Expenditures,
janitors op schoolhouses.
Paid John S. Avery fCOO.OO
Nellie M. Atwood 37.00
H. G. Batchelder 250.02
$6,000.00
600
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid S. H. Batchelder |399.9G
Edwin N. Baker 350.04
James E. Bailey 127.53
W. F. Conner 525.00
Kobert Cook 250.02
Ida E. Corning 37.00
Clarence Drayton 9.35
Emma J. Ela 49.00
Charles Ellis 23.33
F. D. Hanscom 42.51
V. H. Hill 500.04
C. E. Jack 550.02
W. H. Newry 474.96
Fred Perron 73.00
Almon Proctor 22.50
W. J. Powers 300.00
D. T. Kobinson 280.75
William Stevens 399.9G
J. S. Washburn 350.04
Inez M. Warren 40.25
Charles Watson 14.00
SUNDRIES.
15,706.28
Paid Nellie M. Atwood, cash
paid for cleaning school-
rooms |2.50
Mrs. Ida E. Corning, clean-
ing school-rooms 2.00
Mrs. Charles Ellis, labor
at Straw school 1.50
Charles Golding, cleaning
school-rooms, Youngs-
ville 3.00
EVENING SCHOOLS.
601
Paid Mrs. E. M. Martsch, clean-
ing school-rooms, Goffe's
Falls 15.00
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
114.00
),720.28
279.72
16,000.00
Evening Schools.
Appropriation
11,500.00
Expenditures.
SALARIE-S.
Paid L. H. Carpenter
165.00
Charles E. Cochran
184.00
Honorie J. Crough
182.00
Mabel S. Chasse
28.00
Beatrice Daly
24.00
Sarah B. Dunbar
49.00
W. W. Forbes
52.00
Julius Hegewald
82.00
M. C. Henry
50.00
Tilla E. Johnson
21.00
Maggie G. Linen
90.00
Carrie G. Mason
4.50
William J. Mooar
52.00
Marv McLaren
4.50
Arthur W. Morgan
180.00
Mary E. Paige
54.50
Arthur W. Rowell
87.00
Elizabeth Walsh
4..50
E, R. Wood
8.00
11,222.00
602 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
JANITORS.
Paid V. H. Hill 191.40
Morton E. Sanborn 23.00
1114.40
SUNDRIES.
Paid Harry B. Ciller, rent of
room y. 140.00
J. G. Jones, cartage 2.50
T. A. Lane Co., labor on
gas pipe 2.00
E. W. Poore, wood 7.25
151.75
Total expenditures |1,388.15
Transferred to reserved fund 111.85
11,500.00
Teachers' Salaries.
Appropriation 174,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 3,037.17
$77,037.17
Paid teachers, as per pay-roll :
January |7,450.47
February 7,632.28
March 7,671.45
April 7,321.34
May 7,649.65
June 7,639.88
September 7,371.45
October 8,166.32
November 8,102.08
December '. 8,032.25
Total expenditures |77,037.17
FREE TEXT-BOOKS. 603
Evening School, Mechanical Drawing.
Appropriation |400.00
Expenditures.
salaries.
Paid H. W. Allen |180.50
John M. Kendall 180.50
$361.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid John B. Varick Co., 12 triangles $3.36
Free Text-Books.
Appropriation $5,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 1,320.36
Expenditures.
FREE' TEXT-BOOKS AND i
SUPPLIES
id The American Book Co. .
$752.86
Allyn & Bacon
59.03
E. E. Babb & Co
111.32
Boston School Supply Co.
19.10
Cheney Globe Co
12.50
The Century Co
3.50
Clark & Estey
.29
E. R. Coburn Co
3.06
T. H. Castor & Co
18.36
Total expenditures $364.36
Transferred to reserved fund 35.64
$400.00
5,320.36
604 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid The Clark Manufacturing
Co
110.80
Dodd, Mead & Co
282.00
Oliver Ditson Co
16.82
Eagle Pencil Co
63.60
W. P. Goodman
38.75
Ginn & Co
931.90
J. L. Hammett Co
396.92
D. C. Heath & Co
123.65
Houghton, Mifflin & Co . . .
37.93
Henry Holt & Co
61.52
Harper & Brothers
8.83
G. F. King & Merrill
426.53
G. F. King & Co
228.91
Kasson & Palmer
3.00
King-Richardson Publish-
ing Co
709.24
C. H. Kimball
1.65
Longmans, Green & Co, . .
4.00
Lee & Shepard
13.79
Leach, Shewell & Sanborn
35.11
Maynard, Merrill & Co. . .
75.75
Manchester Ink Co
• 8.25
Novelty Advertising Co. .
1.75
The Prang Educational
Co
550.33
George S. Perry & Co
77.00
Silver, Burdett i& Co
24.70
Thompson, Brown & Co.
69.80
University Publishing Co.
40.25
John B. Yarick Co
3.00
William Ware & Co
587.14
Werner School Book Co. .
5.30
George P. Wallace
1.00
F. W. Woolworth & Co. . .
1.00
15,820.24
MANUAL TRAINING. 605
SUNDRIES.
Paid Frank W. Fitts, cotton. . |0.12
Fannie L. Sanborn, ser-
vices as clerk in superin-
tendent's office 500.00
$500.12
Total expenditures $r),.320..3G
Manual Training.
Appropriation |1,500.00
Expenditures.
Paid Fred E. Browne, teacher |1,199.91
Hanover-street Laundry,
washing aprons 3.40
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber and labor 04.41
J. Hodge, lumber and
labor 49.80
C. A. Hoitt & Co., 1 chair 1.75
W. F. Hubbard, 25 feet
cherry and planing. . . . 4.75
Manchester Hardware Co.,
screw eyes .24
Manchester Electric Co.,
fuses, lamps 1.75
Palmer, Parker & Co.,
lumber 17.31
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 27.54
11,370.86
Total expenditures $1,370.86
Transferred to reserved fund 129.14
11,500.00
606 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
City Library.
Balance from last year unex-
pended ' 12,843.05
Appropriation 4.500.00
$7,343.05
Expenditures.
librarian and assistants.
Paid Kate E. Sanborn, libra-
rian 1375.00
Florence E. Whitcher,
librarian G6.06
George H. Fletcher 504.50
Arthur H. Fletcher 318.13
George W. Swallow 279.00
Arthur N. Tasker 5.85
L. B. James 53.90
W. C. Swallow 9.75
11,612.79
CATALOGUE AND CATALOGUE SUPPLIES.
Paid Library Bureau, cards,
list sheets, etc 130.98
Louise E. Newell, copyist 273.30
Edith O. Simmons, copyist 408.90
Paid Temple & Farrington Co. :
Ink, paper, envelopes 12.32
5,000 cards 19.60
1745.10
BINDING, REBINDING, AND RESEWING.
Paid Boston Bookbinding Co. . |174.09
Temple & Farrington Co . . 204.39
1378.48
CITY LIBRARY. 607
WATER, LIGHTS. FUEL, INSURANCE.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
63 tons, 435 lbs. coal |369.69
Wood 4.88
Paid Clough & Twombly, insur-
ance premium 125.00
People's Gas-Light Co.,
gas 28.98
Union Electric Co., elec-
tric lights 269.18
Water- Works, use of
water 16.00
$813.73
NEW BOOKS.
Paid trustees of city library |1,000.00
SUNDRIES,
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
2.50 reports, 1895 f 18.15
300 reports, 1896 21.00
"Daily Mirror," one year. . . . 6.00
Paid G. R. Fletcher, cash paid
for cleaning 18.27
N. P. Hunt, postage, 1896,
1897 4.76
C. F. Livingston, printing
book covers 20.30
W. E, Moore, printing
labels 1.00
Thomas A. Lane Co., 24
lamps 6.00
Mary E. Bobbins, expenses
to Manchester to meet
trustees 11.16
608 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Kate E. Sanborn, cash
paid for cleaning |16.23
U. D. Tenney, mending
portrait 7.00
1129.87
Total expenditures |4,679.97
Transferred to new account 2,663.08
17,843.05
Fire Department.
Appropriation |6] ,000.00
Expenditures.
service's.
Paid Thomas W. Lane, chief
engineer |1,300.00
Fred S. Bean, assistant
engineer 175.00
Ruel G. Manning, assist-
ant engineer 175.00
Clarence R. Merrill, as-
sistant engineer 175.00
Eugene S. Whitney, assist-
ant engineer 175.00
Fred S. Bean, clerk 25.00
12,025.00
Paid teamsters and engineers, as per pay-
roll:
January $2,262.93
February 2,269.43
March 2,264.89
April 2,262.93
May 2,318.93
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 609
June 12,305.14
July 2,339.01
August 2,393.68
September 2,148.52
October 2,361.50
November 2,271.68
December 2,359.39
CALL MEMBERS.
Paid Engine Co. No. 1:
For year 1897 |1,690.00
• Extra labor 8.00
Paid Engine Co. No. 2:
For year 1897 1,680.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Engine and Ladder Co. No. 3:
For year 1897 2,285.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Engine Co, No. 4:
For year 1897 1,690.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Engine & Ladder Co. No. 5:
For year 1897 2,450.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Engine & Ladder Co. No. 6:
For year 1897 2,450.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Chemical Engine Co. No. 1 :
For year 1897 475.00
Extra labor 4.00
Paid Hook-and-Ladder Co., No. 1:
For year 1897 1,820.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Hose Co. No. 1:
For year 1897 1,685.00
Extra labor 8.00
39
127,858.09
610
REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Hose Co. No. 2 :.
For year 1897 |1,685.00
Extra labor 8.00
Paid Hose Co. No. 3:
For year 1897 910.00
Extra labor 8.00
OTHER LABOR.
Paid F. O. Bartlett, labor as
driver 182.50
C. A. Butterfleld, labor as
driver 20.25
F. W. Bond, labor as
driver 31.50
John W. Finn, labor as
driver 9.75
Alfred Gustafson, labor
as driver 27.00
William Gage, labor as
driver 42.00
Herbert W. Jenne, labor. . 41.25
Thomas Smith, labor as
driver 21.00
LAUNDRY.
Paid Mrs. Charles Cutler |21.59
Mrs. G. M. Goodwin 18.00
Mrs. H. H. Hulme 50.74
L. A. Lamson 7.50
W. Morse 8.21
Margaret Powers 58.62
Mrs. M. L. Porter 8.25
Mrs. Annie Roberts 4.00
Mrs. Susie E. Reed 9.50
L.A.Sawyer 18.70
Mrs. C. C. Tinkham 19.48
118,904.00
$275.25
1224.59
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 611
FURNITURE, ETC.
Paid W. A. Dakin & Co., 2 mop-
wringers |o.00
Paid C. A. Hoitt & Co. :
Iron bed 7.50
Mattresses, springs, etc 29.00
Pillows, comforters 9.50
Chairs, shades 7.75
Matting 12.25
Ice tank, etc 5.50
Paid James W. Hill Co., pillow
slips, sheets, crash 18.57
R. K. Home, 1 towel rack .35
Kimball & Hobbs, mat-
ting 3.13
D. A. Simons, 3 mat-
tresses 19.47
1118.02
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing 100 reports. . . . |45.56
W. P. Goodman, copying
book 1.36
Paid Nate Kellogg Co., printing:
Reports, postals, cards, etc . . . 103.15
Binding cards and rosters. . . 8.55
Paid Temple & Farrington Co.,
books and stationery 11.78
Union Publishing Co., ad-
vertising 16.52
Engine Co. No. 1 10.00
Engine Co. No. 2 10.00
Engine & Ladder Co. No. 3 10.00
Engine Co. No. 4 10.00
Engine & Ladder Co. No. 5 10.00
612 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR,
Paid Engine & Ladder Co. No. 6 |10.00
Chemical Engine Co. No. 1 10.00
Aerial Truck Co. No. 1 10.00
Hose Co. No. 1 10.00
Hose Co. No. 2 10.00
Hose Co. No. 3 10.00
1296.92
WATER, GAS, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, TELEPHONE,
Paid New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co., use of
telephones $295.41
People's Gas-Light Co., gas 807.10
Union Electric Co., elec-
tric lights 64.86
water commissioners, use
of water 460.58
11,627.95
FUEL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell &Co.:
142 tons, 1,243 lbs. coal |845.36
Wood 11.00
Paid George Brown, sawing
and splitting wood 4.50
Alfred F. Davis, wood 7.00
Dunlap & Wason Coal Co.,
50 tons coal 300.00
S. L, Flanders, wood 32,30
J, E, French, wood 15.00
E. V. Turcotte, 34 tons,
930 lbs. coal 224.03
11,439.19
FREIGHT AND TRUCKAGE.
Paid John W. Wilson $9.15
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 613
SUPPLIES.
Paid H. K. Barnes, 8-foot jacket
suction, etc
110.65
Clark M. Bailey, 13 brooms
5.77
Paid J. A. & W. Bird & Co.:
Bicarbonate of soda
20.00
Sulphuric acid
11.06
Paid Boston Woven Hose &
Rubber Co., 1 nozzle. . .
10.00
Brodie Electric Co., 2 bells
6.00
Cavanaugh Brothers, 3
horses
425.00
Cornelius Callahan Co.,
gong
15.00
The Daniels-Cornell Co.,
soap
41.98
S. L. Flanders, oil, oil cans,
chimneys
16.44
D. M. Goodwin, brooms. .
8.50
A. W. Harris Oil Co., valve
oil and cans
6.05
T. F. Hannaford, 12
brooms
4.75
W. F. Hubbard, 10 barrels
sawdust
1.00
A. S. Jackson, bottles and
corks
9.00
Thomas A. Lane Co., hose.
couplings, lamps, shade
53.50
C. W. H. Moulton, 1 set
locks
20.00
Manchester Mills, 460 lbs.
waste
21.95
Paid Pike Manufacturing Co. :
Disinfecting fluid
10.50
Axle grease
1.50
614 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid F. O. Pierce Co.:
Sal ammoniac .f 8.80
Bristle sweep 11.32
Paid Pike & Heald Co., kettle,
stove, dippers, etc 13.21
C. N. Perkins & Co., 1 noz-
zle and attaching 1.75
Plumer & Holton, reefers,
jackets, overalls 104.00
Revere Rubber Co., wash-
ers 1.13
S. E. Spencer, 40 hat-
bands 4.00
H. Stratton, 60 lbs. lead. . 2.40
F. H. Thurston, Germol. . 2.50
D. B. Varney, brass cast-
ings, etc 40.69
Weston & Hill Co., cotton,
crash 10.52
PLUMBING, REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing
Co., finishing brass
sheaves, hangers, etc. . . |28.25
Cornelius Callahan Co.,
repairing hose 1.00
The Electric Gas-Lighting
Co., battery and covers 17.00
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber 2.92
J. Hodge, lumber and
labor .35
Hutchinson Foundry &
Machine Works, door
weights 6.66
$898.97
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 615
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co.,
plumbing material and
labor $15.64
Joseph LeFavour, repairs
on Chemical engine. . . . 3.00
H. J. Lawson, iron and
labor 1.05
Pike & Heald Co., mate-
rial and labor 10.96
Manchester Locomotive
Works, repairing en-
gine, boiler, and gear. . . 56.00
G. W. Keed, repairing fire
bucket .75
C. A. Trefethen, repairing
indicator .50
A. C. Wallace, lumber. . . . 1.28
1145.36
HARDWARE.
Paid John B. Varick Co 1310.83
VETERINARY SERVICES AND MEDICINES.
Paid A. F. Abbott, V. S., visits
and medicine |67.00
Charles M. Bailey, V. S.,
visits and medicine 25.25
E. H. Currier, medicine. . 3.50
N. Chandler, ointment... 4.50
Z. Foster Campbell, med-
icine 4.95
A. L. Dodge, V. S., visits
and medicines 33.50
The Granite Pharmacy,
medicine 1,.30
F. K. Hubbard, colic cure 2.00
616 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid P. C. Lamprey, alcohol,
etc "^ 14.75
G. B. Peavy, medicine. . . . 3.00
A. D. Smith, medicine, etc. 8.80
Snelling & Woods, med-
icine 12.06
C. A. Williams, medicine 1.83
• CARRIAGE REPAIRS.
Paid Couch & McDonald |21.60
Manchester Locomotive
Works 155.23
J. B. McCrillis *& Son 223.03
Sanborn Carriage Co. . . . . 24.84
BLACKSMITHING.
Paid C. H. Bodwell |4.00
Cressey & Colby 108.55
T. Hickey 24.75
A. Lemire 57.65
Mahaney & McSweeney. . 370.00
J. O. Tremblay 197.50
J. F. Woodbury Co 65.50
HAY, GRAIN, ETC.
Paid Adams Brothers $46.02
B. W. Cate 12.71
Freeman & Merrill 162.79
Gage & McDougall 1,280.06
A.H.Hill 71.86
J. F. Kerwin 7.50
W. F. Merrill 572.94
C. R. Merrill 2,072.91
Nichols & Allen 208.22
Partridge Brothers 212.00
1172.44
$424.70
$887.95
1,647.01
FIRE DEPARTMENT. 617
HARNESS REPAIRS AND SUPPLIES.
Paid W. H. Adams, repairs... |117.35
The Fred Allen Co., repairs 45.20
Paid Charles E. Berry:
Collar and hames 26.00
Repairs 2.05
Paid W. E. Greeley, repairs. . . . 2.45
John F. Kerwin, supplies 3.12
Paid H. C. Ranno & Son:
Repairs 70.60
Whips 17.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid T. Bloomey, sawing and
splitting wood |2.25
Joseph Breault, use of
horse 83.25
Cavanaugh Brothers, use
of horse 78.25
John Costello, sawing
wood 2.25
Tilton F. Fifleld, matches,
oil, soap 10.48
S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., sawdust '. . .70
A. M. Finney, cleaning car-
pets 5.61
W. F. Hubbard, sawdust .30
Thomas W. Lane, paid for
postage, express, cart-
age, freight 14.95
H. F. W. Little, filing saws 1.05
G. W. Reed, pasturing
horses 29.00
$283.77
618 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid C. H. Simpson, use of
hacks 115.00
C. A. Trefethen, cleaning
clock 1.00
E, V. Turcotte, use of
horse 17.50
N. J. Whalen, soap .50
$262.0a
Total expenditures |60,811.28
Transferred to reserved fund 188.72
161,000.00
Fire Alarm Telegraph.
Appropriation |2,000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per paj -roll :
January 152.00
February 48.00
March 48.00
April 52.00
May 52.00
June 52.00
July 54.00
August 52.00
September 52.00
October 52.00
November 52.00
December 54.00
1020.00
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. 619
Paid Oscar Bineau
14.50
W. Hill
1.50
E. A. Sears
5.50
Charles S. Willis
1.00
SUPPLIES.
Paid American Electrical
TN^orks, wire
$53.52
James Baldwin Co., 350
vj^ t^T^m-K^^
pins
3.50
J. H. Bunnell & Co., bells,
zincs, jars
34.31
Brodie Electric Co., insul-
ators, magnet, repairs,
etc
30.75
James R. Carr Co., paint. .
7.75
John C. Gold, repairing
climbers
1.75
J. Hodge, lumber and
labor
26.30
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber
3.46
Kimball & Hobbs, leather,
gloves
5.90
Thomas A. Lane, pipe
3.52
Paid The N. E. Gamewell Co. :
Fire-alarm boxes
225.00
Lightning arresters
18.00
Repairing repeater, indicator
27.14
Paid Pike & Heald Co., gaso-
line, copper
1.40
F. 0. Pierce Co., vitriol . . .
34.68
J. B. Prescott & Son, 50
3-pound zincs
11.50
112.50
620 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Talbot Dyewood & Chem-
ical Co., vitriol |107.87
D. B. Varney, zinc castings 282.00
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 75.22
Washburn & Moen Manu-
facturing Co., wire 216.45
C. L. Wolf, pipe . 1.05
$1,171.07
SUNDRIES.
Paid W. B. Corey, drawing
poles... 13.50
H. F. W. Little, filing saws .35
J. B. McCrillis & Son, re-
pairing and altering
wagon 86.00
Sanborn Carriage Co.,
sharpening bar, welding
bit 1.45
Union Manufacturing Co.,
plating pliers 3.95
John W. Wilson, freight
and cartage 18.53
$113.78
Total expenditures |1,917.35
Transferred to reserved fund 82.65
12,000.00
Hydrant Service.
Appropriation $17,175.00
Expenditures.
Paid water-works, rent of 687 hydrants .... $17,175.00
POLICE STATION. 621
Police Department. — Station.
Appropriation $2,800.00
Expenditures.
service's.
Paid Frank P. Wiggiu, janitor |642.25
WATER, GAS, ELECTRIC LIGHTS, FUEL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 107,-
260 lbs. coal |280.12
People's Gas-Light Co.,
gas 63.14
D. M. Poore, wood 31.25
E. V. Turcotte, 41 tons,
1,505 lbs. coal 271.40
Union Electric Co., elec-
tric lights 574.21
water-works, use of water 338.79
J. F. Wyman, 2 tons coal 13.00
11,571.91
LAUNDRY, ETC.
Paid Clark M. Bailey, brooms,
mops, toilet paper, mop
waste, etc 121.83
The Daniels-Cornell Co.,
matches 2.75
Griffin Brothers, soapine. . 6.50
Mrs. A. M. George, wash-
ing floors, etc 68.10
James W. Hill Co., crash 4.88
J. S. Holt & Co., soap 8.00
J. N. Lacourse & Co., soap 1.00
John Morley, cleaning
paint 17.50
622 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John B. Varick Co., mop
waste, brooms, duster,
etc 17.60
J. H. Wiggin & Co., soap,
matches, paper . 13.75
Mrs. J. F. Wiggin, wash-
ing towels, blankets, etc. 63.85
SANITARY.
Paid C. W. Lerned, disinfect-
ant 125.00
F. H. Thurston, Germol,
etc 18.25
REPAIRS, ETC.
Paid L. M. Aldrich, lumber and
labor 120.71
John Driscoll Co., repair-
ing ash barrel 1.50
Thomas A. Lane Co., re-
pairing gas pipe .20
Pike & Heald Co., globes,
pipe, repairs 4.46
Leander Pope, repairing
bunk chains, etc 8.59
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 3.19
SUNDRIES.
Paid T. F. Fifield, oil |0.60
Charles A. Hoitt & Co.,
spring for chair 2.25
David Labell, labor 1.00
$215.76
$43.25
138.65
POLICE COURT. 623
Paid Manchester Coal & Ice Co.,
ice from July to Oct. 20 $8.90
Joseph Qiiirin, 1 barrel
crackers 2.00
$14.75
Total expenditures |2,526.57
Transferred to reserved fund 273.43
12,800.00
Police Department. ~ Court.
Appropriation |3,900.00
EXPENDITURE'S.
#
SERVICES.
Paid John C. Bickford, clerk. . fOOO.OO
Isaac L. Heath, police
justice 1,500.00
George Prescott, associ-
ate justice 300.00
, 12,400.00
CONVEYING PRISONERS.
Paid Healy and Cassidy 1781.00
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid A. S. Campbell & Co.,
printing civil dockets,
etc. 199.50
The John B. Clarke Co.,
3,000 writs 12.00
Temple & Farrington Co.,
books and stationery . . 6.15
1117.65
624 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUNDRIES.
Paid M.. J. Healy, cash paid for witness
fees, etc ". $.332.29
Total expenditures ' |3,630.94
Transferred to reserved fund 209.06
$3,900.00
Police Department.— Commission.
Appropriation |38,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 584.90
$38,584.90
Expenditures.
services.
Paid Michael J. Healy, chief of
police $900.00
John F. Cassidy, deputy
chief 800.00
Harry Loveren, chairman
of commission, salary. . 150.00
N. S. Clark, commissioner,
salary 100.00
F. P. Carpenter, commis-
sioner, salary 100.00
A. B. Brown, police ma-
tron 418.00
regular patrol 22,1.33.95
extra time of regular pa-
trol 801.15
special patrol 10,567.12
$35,970.22
i
1298.25
POLICE COMMISSION. 625
FEEDING PRISONERS.
Paid Diet Kitclien |222.40
Hannah Green 41.80
W. D. Ladd & Co 21.07
Paris & Tremblay 5.50
Joseph Quirin 2.48
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarice Co.,
printing envelopes, let-
ter headings, blanks,
etc 134.75
E. R. Coburn Co., blotting
paper 6.75
Clark & Estey, pens and
paper 1.50
W. P. Goodman, books and
stationery 46.49
Star Stamp Co., 1 stencil .54
Temple & Farrington Co.,
books, paper 4.05
PATROL SYSTEM EXPENSES.
Paid A. F. Abbott, V. S., at-
tendance and medicine $2.25
Adams Brothers, straw,
salt, etc. 11.10
Samuel Adams, labor on
wires 20.00
W. H. Adams, strap and
snap 1.10
The Fred Allen Co., har-
ness-dressing ,. 8.00
40
$94.08
626 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Automatic Time Stamp &
Register Co., time stamp
ribbons |4.00
Gordon Biirnham Battery
Co., glass cells 44.00
E. M. Bryant & Co., sup-
plies 7.12
W. B. Corey, trucking pole 2.00
Daniel Cronin, hay 60.26
A. L. Dodge, V. S., sewing
wound 1.50
Paid George A. Durgin:
Repairs, etc., patrol wagon. . . 35.00
Repairs and painting ambu-
lance 74.00
Paid George Dunnington, rope,
blankets, collar, repairs 14,50
Richard Ebbitt, V. S., at-
tendance and medicine 7.50
Paid A. Filion:
1 2-seated sleigh 140.00
Repairing wagon 5.75
Paid Freeman & Merrill, oats,
corn, feed 33.10
Gage & McDougall, oats. . 12.00
A. H. Hill, oats 11.00
The Head & Dowst Co.,
labor 3.5.6
J. Hodge, 50 arms and
labor 19.30
Peter Harris, repairing
harness 1.50
Mahaney & McSweeney,
shoeing horse .65
POLICE COMMISSION.
627
Paid C, H. Morse, expert ser-
vice, drawing specifications,
etc
1107.00
Paid Municipal Signal Co. :
Supplies
16.50
1 automatic register
250.00
Paid New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co. :
Rent of private line and in-
struments
234.00
27 6-pin cross arms
6.75
ister paper
21.99
Pettingell-Andrews Co.,
electrical supplies
140.22
Perkins & Franks, elec-
trical material
9.44
Partridge Brothers, hay.
straw, etc
155.21
Charles E. Perry & Co.,
register paper
21.61
Sanborn Carriage Co., re-
pairs
18.20
Paid N. J. Whalen :
Stock food
4.50
Repairing harnesses, etc
44.65
Paid T. J. Wiggin, hay
20.40
J. F. Woodbury Co., horse
shoeing
51.12
Paid Zeigler Electric Co.:
Labor and material putting
police movements in first-
class order
11.40
Repairs
8.57
1,640.75
628 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
HARDWARE AND REPAIRS.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paint and
setting glass |21,86
L. M. Aldrich, lumber and
labor 33.21
James Baldwin Co., 100
pins.... 1.00
S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., stock and labor . . . 35.46
A. L. Franks & Co., elec-
trical supplies 4.28
George Holbrook, lumber
and labor 9.75
Kimball & Hobbs, rubber
tubing and washers 4.90
Thomas A. Lane Co.,
plumbing material, la-
bor, etc 11.75
Manchester Hardware Co.,
hardware 6.78
Pope & Trudell, repairing
chains, etc 1.00
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 64.09
TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH.
Paid New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co., use of
telephones 1286.83
Western Union Telegraph
Co., telegrams 12.25
1194.08
$299.08
REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS. 629
SUNDRIES.
Paid L. W. Colbj, photograph-
ing criminals |47.00
H. P. Diamond, labor as
lineman 19.00
John B. Hall, medicine. . . 2.40
Charles A. Hoitt & Co., 1
chair and cushion 8.00
J. J. Holland, medicine,
etc 6.80
John P. Lovell Arms Co.,
3 handcuffs 7.00
H. C. Wallace, photo-
graphs 2.00
J. AY. Wilson, trucking . . . 1.24
193.44
Total expenditures $38,584.90
Repairs of Buildings.
Appropriation $3,000.00
Transferred from reserved fund 1,531.07
$4,531.07
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
January $24.00
February 30.00
$54.00
630 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CITY LIBRARY.
Paid George W. Hamlin, jmint-
ing, varnisliing |39.24
Thomas A. Lane Co., mate-
rial and labor .60
Joseph St. Laurent, lum-
ber and labor 22.04
Pike & Heald Co., mate-
rial and repairs 6.78
C. L. Wolf, plumbing ma-
terial and labor 5.76
POLICE STATIONS.
Paid J. R. Carr Co., painting
and glazing
166.37
W. M. Darrah & Co., re-
Tf ^ ^*^^ '
pairing roof
28.46
J. B. Huntley, labor on
closet
.50
Thomas A. Lane Co., labor
on water pipe and closet
7.22
Joseph St. Laurent, raate-
rial and labor
18.95
Paid Shirley & Smith :
Kalsomining and patching. . .
55.00
Pointing brick work
11.60
Paid C. L. Wolf, 1 sink and set-
ting UD
6.75
*-■'■■'-*& ^r'
ENGINE-HOUSES.
$74.42
$194.85
Paid J. J. Abbott, glass and set-
ting same, sundry houses. . . . $7.55
REPAIRS OF BUILDINGS. 631
Paid James E. Carr Co.:
Paper, paper hanging, mold-
ing, etc 1309.50
Painting and glazing 16.61
Paid The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber and labor 1.19
J. B. Huntley, plumbing
material and labor, sun-
dry houses 385.31
C. E. Palmer, solder, pipe,
labor 3.85
Perkins & Franks, electric
bell 1.00
Pike & Heald Co., plumb-
ing material and labor,
sundry houses 26.50
C. H. Robie Co., concreting 8.36
Joseph St. Laurent, lum-
ber, etc., and labor, sun-
dry houses 615.99
Thomas Smith, lumber
. and labor 257.26
W. H. Tebbetts, painting
and papering 99.19
C. L. Wolf, plumbing ma-
terial and labor 99.12
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 54.29
11,922.65
COURT HOUSE.
Paid D. E. Guiuey, repairing
water-closet $1.50
Joseph St. Laurent, lum-
ber and labor 19.67
632 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid John B. Varick Co., grass
seed, brooms $10.20
C L. Wolf, plumbing ma-
terial and labor 99.82
SCHOOLS.
Paid Bobrick School Furniture
Co., 48 No. 2 desks and
seats 1100.80
Warren Harvey, 1 step,
Parker school 20.00
Paid The Head & Dowst Co.:
Gilding letters 8.50
Teaming, labor 18.61
Paid J. B. Huntley, 1 vent cap .45
Paid Joseph St. Laurent:
6 posts 12.00
100 tree boxes 150.00
Paid C. A. Trefethen, 1 clock. . . 3.50
C. L. Wolf, labor on gas-
lights, etc., Webster-
street school 40.95
SUNDRIES.
Paid F. W. Blood Roofing Co.,
repairing roof, etc |6.35
James R. Carr Co., paper,
paper hanging, etc., city
tenements 16.40
Joseph St. Laurent, lum-
ber, labor 3.64
Lovejoy & Stratton, care
city clocks 470.25
C. H. Simpson, use of
hacks 95.00
1131.19
$414.81
NEW SCHOOLHOUSES. 633
Paid 0. A. Trefethen, care of
city clocks 189.00
C. L. Wolf, plumbing re-
pairs 16,45
1697.09
Total expenditures |3,489.01
Transferred to new account 1,042.06
New Schoolhouses.
Balance from last year unex-
pended ' 152,152.86
Transferred from reserved fund 2,599.89
t,531.07
154,752.75
« Expenditures. — IIioii School.
ARCHITECT.
Paid W. M. Butterfield $1,757.90
CONTRACT.
Paid The Head & Dowst Co. :
Balance due |135,750.00
Extras 1,471.71
Curbing around lot 2,253.00
Besetting curbing and one
additional piece 55.25
Paid Ames Manufacturing Co.,
2 bronze tablets 275.00
Bobrick School Furniture
Co., 480 desks and seats 2,232.00
Edward Hodgkinson, grad-
ing grounds 295,00
634 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Perkins & Franks, electric
apparatus 1892.90
C. H. Robie Co., concreting 985.14
C. A. Hoitt & Co., furni-
ture 813.58'
Paid Thomas A. Lane Co. :
Heating, balance due 3,635.00
Extras 66.36
SUNDRIES.
Paid Mrs. B. Abbott, labor |6.60
Paid O. G. Brown:
808 loads loam 1,212.00
40 loads clay 40.00
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
advertising 8 lines 5
times 1.00
Mrs. Delaney, labor 2.25
Jones & Co., paint 10.30
Kimball & Hobbs, hose,
etc 31.22
Mrs. B. E. Landers, labor 8.10
John L. Morley, labor. . . . 42.45
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll :
July 105.77
August 25.03
September 36.15
Paid Vedal Nadeau, labor grad-
ing 7.65
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware, etc ,- 107.54
E. M. West, ladders 3.70
,724.94
WATER-WORKS. 635
Paid Union Pnblisliing Co., ad-
vertising notice |().l-i
11,645.90
Total expenditures |52,128.74
Transferred to new account 2,624.01
154,752.75
Parker School Lot.
Transferred from reserved fund by resolu-
tion, July 6, 1897 $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid Mead, Mason & Co.:
Concreting |237.74
Grading 50.00
Total expenditures |287.74
Transferred to reserved fund 12.26
1300.00
Water-Works.
Balance from last year unex-
pended 117,387.36
Cash received from w^ater rents 125,719.17
Premium on bonds sold 6,248.00
1149,354.53
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll :
January $1,296.32
February 1,483.84
636 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
March |1,22S.20
April 1,786.04
May 2,701.56
June 3,193.67
July 2,277.39
August 2,276.29
September 2,805.69
October 2,480.44
November 2,705.01
December 2,259.96
,494.41
Paid labor of men, as per pay-roll, division
No. 2:
January |274.68
April 1,043.90
May 321.10
August 2,143.50
September 20.00
13,803.18
Paid E. A. G. Holmes 255.55
GENERAL EXPENSE.
Paid F. W. Elliott, dinners, an-
nual inspection $19.25
W. C. Clarke, 12 meetings
of board 48.00
Paid Henry Chandler:
14 meetings of board 56.00
Clerk 100.00
Paid Alpheus Gay, 26 meetings
of board 104.00
Charles H. Manning, 13
meetings of board 52.00
Charles T. Means, 13 meet-
ings of board 52.00
WATER-WORKS.
637
Paid Harry E. Parker, 13 meet-
ings of board
A. C. Wallace, 14 meetings
of board ■
152.00
56.00
Paid C. K. Walker:
Salary as superintendent
Gas
1,999.93
23.83
Express and telegrams
Postage
Electric light
Sundries
15.60
24.20
1.69
12.95
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid T. S. Buck, stamp, pad, ink |0.76
A. S. Campbell & Co.,
printing 18,800 notices 24.00
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
1,000 postals 11.50
19,500 bills 35.00
1,000 half-letter heads 4.00
650 reports 64.80
5 plates and inserting 20.00
Cut 7.00
Advertising, 1 line 29 times. . 7.55
Kepairing and binding book 4.90
Paid E. R. Coburn Co., station-
ery 18.45
Temple & Farrington Co.,
blank book 14.75
Union Publishing Co., ad-
vertising 1 line 27 times 7.25
TEAMS, TELEPHONE, FUEL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co. :
Wood $5.00
Coal 286.01
12,617.45
$219.96
6B8 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid F. X. Chenette, use of
barge " |6.00
W. E. Dunbar & Son, pine
wood -25
C. S. Fifield, use of team. . 2.00
Paid E. T. James, use of
teams 33.50
New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co., use of
telephone 144.00
John L. Proctor, wood. . . . 7.50
J. A. & A. W. Walker, 290
tons, 1,130 lbs. coal 868.95
Whitten & Fifield, use of
team 2.00
J. F. Wyman, wood 6.00
G. W. Whitford, wood. . . 2.00
LAND.
Paid Charles H. Bartlett, land
as per deed 1650.00
K. J. Barry, land as per
deed 150.00
Frank W. Elliott, land and
buildings as per deed. . . 2,500.00
Martha D. Gould, land and
buildings as per deed. . 600.00
Luther S. Proctor, land
and buildings as per
deed 600.00
Mary O. Pierce, land as
per deed 1,400.00
Fred Whittaker, land and
buildings as per deed. . 300.00
George Young, land as per
deed 250.00
11,363.21
16,450.00
1813.50
WATEK-WORKS. 639
LEGAL SERVICES.
Paid Drury & Peaslee, legal
services 1311.70
Dana W. King, recording
deeds 7.62
Joseph A. Hutchinson and
others, costs in land
damage suit 484.38
AYilliam Morrill, record-
ing deeds 9.80
HARDWARE, BLACKSMITHIXG, FREIGHT.
Paid Boston «& Maine Railroad,
freight $575.77
Cressey & Colby, sharpen-
ing tools, etc 369.98
James Cram, repairing
picks, etc 5.01
Amos Latouche, teaming
wood 24.00
Manchester Hardware Co.,
hardware 70.86
John L. Proctor, drawing
53 tons coal 21.20
John B. Varick Co., hard-
ware 508.24
SUPPLIES.
Paid Adams Brothers:
Cement |47.80
Hay and salt • 2.03
Paid Boston Lead Manufactur-
ing Co., solder and lead pipe 49.76
1,575.06
640 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Boston Belting Co. :
Hose and couplings $30.94
Packing 16.91
Paid Builders' Iron Foundry,
sleeves, bends, branches, etc. 365.75
Paid Chapman Valve Manufac-
turing Co. :
Gates 380.28
10 hydrants 283.50
1 spindle 2.39
Paid Chadwick Lead Works:
300 pigs lead 1,022.31
Keel and pipe 32.61
Paid P. C. Cheney Co., wiping
waste 54.15
A. N. Clapp, oil 40.80
Coffin Valve Co., 5 gates . . 75.00
Dickey & Coleman, 21
cords, 7f feet manure.. 131.80
W. E. Dunbar & Son, 75
loads filling 25.00
Edson Manufacturing Co.,
pump heads, dia-
phragms, etc 18.25
S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., flue cleaner 1.88
Garlock Packing Co., pack-
ing 28.12
Hays Manufacturing Co.,
stop boxes, rods, etc .... 416.25
Hersey Manufacturing
Co., meters 455.35
Paid The Head & Dbwst Co. :
Brick 70.20
Cement 5.00
AVATER-WORKS.
Paid J. Hodge:
300 meter boxes
$90.00
Lumber
6.07
Paid C. A. Hoitt & Co., chim-
neys
1.00
I ngersoll- Sergeant Drill
Co., wire, battery, etc.
25.14
C. M. Kemp Manufactur-
ing Co., guides for No. 1
stock
.37
Kimball & Hobbs, 25 rub-
3.75
Tbomas A. Lane Co.,
valves, unions, gaskets.
etc
192.43
Ludlow Valve Manufac-
turing Co., valves
292.30
Leonard & Ellis, machine
oil
133.28
Lead Lined Iron Pipe Co.,
pipe and couplings
991.82
H. J. Lawson, copper. . . .
2.60
Manchester Locomotive
Works, manhole covers,
sleeves, plates, etc
788.10
National Meter Co., meters
1,497.70
Neptune Meter Co., me-
ters, etc
344.50
Newark Brass Works,
' cocks, feed screws, etc.
556.40
New England Water Pipe
Co., nips, ells, couplings
119.70
Norwood Engineering Co.,
hydrants, etc
662.00
Pike & Heald Co., pipe, etc.
19.01
641
642 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Rensselaer Manufacturing
Co., 10 gates |115.00
Richards & Co., 250 pigs
lead 686.12
I. F. Sturtevant, lumber. . 239.87
Thomson Meter Co.,
meters, etc 227.15
Union Water Meter Co.,
meters, etc 1,174.05
Vacuum Oil Co., cylinder
oil 87.76
George R. Vance, 6 pails. . 6.00
Walworth INIanufacturing
Co., screws and gear. . . .67
George Woodman & Co.,
couplings, nips, etc.... 56.00
W. A. Wood & Co., waste 14.11
Henry R. Worthington,
shaft, jacket elbows 4.77
McNeal Pipe & Foundry
Co., pipe 8,806.07
REPAIRS.
Paid Amoskeag Manufacturing
Co., repairs on wagon. . $3.75
American Steam Gauge
Co., repairing gauge, etc. 2,40
E. M. Bryant & Co., elec-
trical supplies and labor 2.34
Crosby Steam Gage &
Valve Co., repairing
gage 3.50
W. M. Darrah & Co., slat-
ing material and labor 8.64
120,009.82
WATER-AVORKS. 643
Paid Hei'sey Manufacturing
Co., repairing meters. . . |12.65
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber and labor 12,50
George F. Higgins, con-
creting 25.00
J. Hodge, lumber and
labor 4.10
Thomas A. Lane Co., labor
on electric lights 2.00
Manchester Locomotive
Works, material and la-
bor on gears, bolts,
valves, etc 97.49
National Meter Co., repair-
ing meters 74.40
C. H. Robie Co., repair-
ing roadways 84.35
Thomson Meter Co., re-
pairing meters 3.80
Union Water Meter Co.,
repairing meters 42.20
George R. Vance, tin, pipe,
and labor 30.78
• SUNDRIES.
Paid town of Auburn, taxes on
land and buildings |178.48
Warren Brown, services
and expenses, land cases 61.25
Dudley & Doherty, engi-
neering 18.00
F. L. Follansbee, moving
building 20.00
1409.90
644 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid J. Gott, cleaning vault. . . |3.00
New Hampshire Insur-
ance Co., insurance on
Hunter buildings, 3
years 25.00
Joseph B. Sawyer estate,
labor surveying 49.50
sinking fund commission-
ers, hydrant rentals. . . . 17,175.00
George L. Tatro, use of
steamboat 10.00
George W. Townsend, ser-
vices of diver, and ex-
penses caulking pipe. . . 46.70
7,580.93
Total expenditures |82,288.97
Transferred to interest account 40,414.00
Transferred to new account 26,051.56
1149,354.53
Pine Grove Cemetery.
Appropriation $8,500.00
EXPEXDITURE'S. •
L.\BOR.
Paid labor of men and fefims, as per pay-roll :
January 1148.76
February 193.20
March 149.26
April 277.26
May 379.37
June 619.31
PINE GROVE CEMETERY. 645
July 1509.23
August 667.59
September 672.84
October 464.26
November 370.70
December 184.87
Paid Charles Cameron |9.37
Mark Harvey 4.00
C. Henderson 6.75
PLANTS, SHRUBS, LOAM, ETC.
Paid A. H. Chadbourne, orna-
mental shrubs 125.80
James A. Colby, 271 loads
loam 406.50
Frank Goings, 37 loads
loam 37.00
A. G. Hood, plants, etc. . . 140.45
Luke Brothers Co., rose
bushes and shrubs 30.00
Manchester Slaughtering
& Eendering Co., ferti-
lizer 20.00
Manchester Street Rail-
way, 2,170 loads gravel 138.50
Agnes Phillips, 104 loads
loam 119.00
Milton K. Putney, 145
loads loam 217.50
C. C. Webster, 368 loads
clay 368.00
estate of C. C. Webster,
160 loads clav and loam 223.50
$4,636.65
120.12
L,726.25
646 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
WATER, TELEPHONE, INSURANCE, FUEL.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co., 2 tons
coal 114.00
A. Elliott & Co., premium
on insurance policy. . . . 2.50
Manchester Coal & Ice Co.,
1 ton coal 7.00
New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co., use of
telephones 85.05
water commissioners, use
of water 347.25
R. E. Wilson, coal 14.00
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing :
1 blank book |2.25
Receipts, blanks, bills bound 40.00
Paid W. P. Goodman, station-
ery 6.70
E. J. Knowlton, P. M.,
stamped envelopes .... 4.36
W. E. Moore, printing
cards 1.50
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paint, letter-
ing, etc 121.79
L. M. Aldrich, lumber and
labor 102.68
Frank S. Bodwell, labor of
men 14.50
John Driscoll Co., dippers 2.10
$469.80
154.81
PINE GROVE CEMETERY.
Paid Kichard Evans, white-
washing and patching
ceilings $7.45
Freeman & Merrill, cement 2.60
Hartwell Foundry Co.,
402 lot markers 60.30
The Head & Dowst Co.,
lumber, etc 7.16
J. Hodge, lumber and
labor 27.48
C. H. Hutchinson, labor
on fence 3.60
Thomas A. Lane Co.,
plumbing material and
labor 26.14
Pike & Heald Co., labor
and material 4.27
C. H. Robie Co., concret-
ing 740.63
Morton E. Sanborn, 12
sprinklers 8.00
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware 98.80
TEAM EXPENSES.
Paid Adams Brothers, oats |3.69
A. F. Abbott, V. S., pro-
fessional services 7.00
C. H. Bodwell, shoeing
horse .80
A. L. Dodge, V. S., pro-
fessional services 1.00
Thomas Hickey Co., shoe-
ing horse 6.75
64t
1,127.50
648 KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Partridge Brothers, hay,
grain |78.50
B. F. Welch, 1 horse.... 100.00
I. S. York, harness, collar,
halter 42.00
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boyd Brothers, use of
hack 15.00
E. F. Jones, clerk of trus-
tees one year 25.00
12.39.74
130.00
Total expenditures |8,304.87
Transferred to reserved fund 195.13
18,500.00
Valley Cemetery.
Appropriation |3.000.00
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid labor of men and teams, as per pay-roll :
January 165.00
February 77.87
March 63.50
April 149.18
May ^ 205.74
Jane ' 262.13
July 215.37
August 212.89
September 258.19
VALLEY CEMETERY. 649
October 1180.00
November 153.10
December 76.10
Paid B. F. Baseomb, team and
labor 145.00
William Berwick, team . . . 1.00
Frank M. Going;*, team
and labor 37.20
"WATER AXU TELEPHONE.
Paid New England Telephone &
Telegraph Co., use of tel-
ephones 136.00
water commissioners, use
of water 37.50
TURF, LOAM, PLANTS, ETC.
Paid B. F. Bascomb, sand,
loam, turf, etc |62.65
A. H. Chadbourne, shrubs 2.40
J. Francis, plants 57.00
Frank M. Goings, loam. . . 13.00
A. G. Hood, plants 23.95
J. H. Johnston, loam.... 12.50
John B. Yarick Co., seed,
etc 24.31
PRINTING AND STATIONERY.
Paid E. J. Knowlton, P. M.,
stamped envelopes .... |4.35
Temple & Farrington Co.,
ink, pens, book, etc. . . . 12.35
,919.97
$86.20
173.50
1195.81
116.70
650 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
REPAIRS, TOOLS, IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid The Head & Dowst Co.,
building wall and fence,
per contract |436.00
C. A. Hoitt Co., 9 chairs.. 7.47
Kimball & Hobbs, 2 mats 3.00
Thomas A. Lane Co., hose
washers .75
Manchester Hardware Co.,
tools and hardware. . . . 3.70
Palmer & Garmons, set-
ting stones 17.25
Paid Pike & Heald Co. :
Iron fence 115.00
Plumbing material and labor 54.16
Paid C. H. Robie Co., concret-
ing ' 11.47
Z. B. Stuart, mason work 12.05
William Sutcliffe, repair-
ing tools .90
John B. Varick Co., tools
and hardware ........ 31.47
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boyd Brothers, use of
team |2.00
S. P. Cannon, clerk for
sub-trustees 10.00
$693.22
$12.00
Total expenditures $2,997.40
Transferred to reserved fund 200.00
13,000.0(1
MERRILL YARD.
Amoskeag Cemetery.
Appropriation
Expenditures.
LABOR.
Paid James E. Bailey 136.75
G. C. Harwood 1.50
R. D. Heath 16.50
A. McGafifey 19.50
Paid pay-roll, commons:
July 70.86
August 108.95
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. H. Coburn, 50 loads
gravel $60.00
E. T. James, teams 3.50
Manchester Water- Works,
use of water 12.00
Palmer & Garmons, set-
ting headstones 4.50
C. H. Simpson, use of team 3.00
Total expenditures
Transferred to reserved fund
Care of Merrill Yard.
Appropriation
EXPENDITURE'S.
LABOR.
Paid Charles Cameron, labor. . |16.50
Mark E. Harvey, labor. . . 6.50
651
1350.00
254.06
3.00
1337.06
12.94
1350.00
1100.00
652 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Palmer & Garmons, mate-
rial and labor |28.53
Whitten & Fifleld, use of
teams 6.00
157.53
Total expenditures 157.53
Transferred to reserved fund 42.47
1100.00
Purchase of Land for West Side Park.
Appropriation |12,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid Edward Wagner |12,000.00
Land in West Manchester.
Appropriation, transferred from reserved
fund $1.750.00
Expenditures.
Paid G. F. & E. C. Swift $1.750.00
Weston Observatory.
Appropriation, legacy from James A. Wes-
ton estate $5,000.00
Expenditures.
contracts.
Paid Davis & Raynes, plans
and specifications $91.00
DEDICATION OF WESTON OBSERVATORY. 653
Paid Warren Harvey, stone
work $163.75
Paid The Head & Dowst Co. :
Building 4,553.00
Extras 19.24
$4,826.99
SUNDRIES.
Paid J. P. Brown & Co., use of
hacks $15.00
The John B. Clarke Co.,
advertising 13.00
pay-roll, commons, Sep-
tember 133.50
Union Publishing Co., ad-
vertising 9.45
$170.95
Total expenditures $4,997.94
Transferred to reserved fund 2.06
$5,000.00
Dedication of Weston Observatory.
Appropriation .$150.00
Expenditures,
sundries.
Paid G. W. Bailey, use of teams $10.00
Boyd Brothers, use of
teams 5.00
The John B. Clarke Co.,
programs 4.60
- W. J. Freeman, use of
teams 10.00
654 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid E. T. James, use of teams |10.00
Manchester City Band,
music 50,00
Odd Fellows' Building
Association, use of
chairs 10.00
D. A. Simons, use of chairs 8.30
C. H. Simpson, use of - *
teams 10.00
A. M. Winchester, dinners,
Grand Lodge Masons.. 30.00
1147.90
Total expenditures 1147.90
Transferred to reserved fund 2.10
.$150.00
Dedication of New High School Building.
Appropriation |150.00
Expenditures,
sundries.
Paid G. W. Bailey, carriage. . . |5.00
The John B. Clarke Co.,
l^rinting programs and
badges 13.25
W. J. Freeman, carriage. . 5.00
E. M. Hawes, trucking
chairs 2.00
E. T. James, carriage 2.50
W. J. Tucker, services and
expenses 50.00
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM." 655
Paid A. M. Winchester, board
Dr. Tucker and W. W. Col-
burn 17.00
184.75
Total expenditures $84.75
Transferred to reserved fund 65.25
1150.00
Paupers off the Farm.
Appropriation |10,525.00
Expenditures.
groceries, meats, etc.
Paid Barlow & Nye |15.00
Bartlett & Thompson 40.00
Bessette & Trahan 30.00
Burke Brothers 4.00
John F. Cahill 81.95
C.H.Clark 13.00
A. M. Eastman 2.18
E. C. Eastman 45.93
Eager & Co 30.00
H. Fradd & Co 91.41
T. F.-Fifield 34.93
Carl A. Friborg 30.00
Griffin Brothers 886.90
A. H. Gray 35.00
A. G. Grenier, estate 7.00
Henry C. Hall 7.00
Joseph Huard 166.94
John F. Healy 82.00
O. D. Knox & Co 154.00
J. ISr. Lacourse 11.00
656 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid P. D. Lynch
1203.00
Lainoreaux Brothers ....
55.02
G. C. Lord
15.00
E. Marchand
116.00
Thomas H. Mahoney
100.00
McQuade's Market
206.90
A W. Morse
53.00
Edward F. Murray
50.00
Ulric Messier
45.00
Noves & Prince
78.26
F. X. Parent
10.00
E. W. Perkins
62.00
D. M. Poore & Son
126.00
Edmond Pinard
45.00
0. W. Price
10.00
Eugene Quirin
161.00
Joseph Quirin ..."
31.00
Paris & Trembhiy
18.00
Queen City Marl^et
12.00
Swinston & Kobinson. . . .
12.00
D. A.. Shanahan
48.00
H. A. Tirrell
21.00
Trahan & Co
28.00
J. 0. Turcotte
20.00
Moise Verrette
59.90
Calixte Vigneault
100.00
Henry W eber
25.00
FUEIi.
Paid L. B. Bodwell & Co
$18.00
V. Bourque
27.00
Charles Boisclair
39.00
S. A. Blood
9.00
Charles Cota
3.00
W. E. Dunbar & Son
13.75
13,659.32
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM. 657
Paid Dnnlap & Wason Coal Co. |7.00
S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. 3.00
Philias Graveline 28.00
S. Lavoie 20.00
David Lovering 3.00
Joseph Masse 10.50
Moore & Preston 22.00
John Moss 2.25
John Perham 2.50
D. M. Poore 10.00
John P. Russell & Co 126.75
Louisa Schink 17.25
E. V. Turcotte 12.25
J. F. Wyman 32.13
1406.38
BOARD AND CARE AND RENT,
Paid C. M. Bennett ^27.00
county of Hillsborough.. 490.91
W. H. Gilmore 127.04
Thomas Kelley 7.00
Christina Maycock 33.53
Agnes Massey 32.00
New Hampshire Asylum
for Insane 22.56
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Hospital 84.00
Napoleon Paris 23.00
Celia H. Pressey 57.72
D. L. Robinson 15.00
State Industrial School.. 2,464.01
St. Patrick's Old Ladies'
Home 64.00
St. Patrick Orphans'
Home 120.00
St. Mary's Orphans' Home 28.00
Fred Weissbach 104.74
William \yhelpley 40.00
42
J,746.54
658
KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
CLOTHING.
Paid W. H. Cate
Dodge & Straw
Liglilbody & Burbank . . .
H. M. Moody
John Montplaisir
M. A. McDonough
J. L. Niven
Michael O'Dowd
P. F. O'Toole
G. L. Robinson
O. G. Trudeau
E. C. Wescott
Weston & Martin
MEDICINE', MEDICAL SERVICES,
Paid D. S. Adams, M. D., assist-
ing Dr. Carpenter
board of health, medical
treatment of isolated
children
Paid F. X. Chenette:
Burial, Mrs. Blanchard
Burial, Tillie Welcome
Paid Dr. C. F. Flanders, M. D. :
Examination F. P. Proctor. . .
Assisting Dr. Carpenter
Paid John B. Hall, medicine,
etc
Thomas C. Hill, M. D.,
assisting Dr. Carpenter
John Holland, medicine. .
W. B. Mitchell, medicine
Felix Provencher, burial
of child, J. Labonty. . .
|1.0()
1.50
13.60
2.00
1.50
2.38
3.50
7.00
12.40
3.00
23.00
3.50
1.00
175.38
FUNERAL EXPENSES.
13.00
52.25
25.00
17.50
3.00
5.00
132..30
3.00
3.93
4.95
10.00
PAUPERS OFF THE FARM. 659
Paid F. H. Thurston, medicine |1.60
E. V. Turcotte, burial of
Mrs. Cote and child 25.00
A. F. Wheat. M. D., con-
sultation with Dr. Car-
penter 3.00
A. J. Todd, M. D., assisting
Dr. Carpenter 3.00
1292.53
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boston & Maine Eailroad,
railroad tickets, sundry
persons $38.40
A. S. Campbell & Co.,
printing 4,000 billheads 24.75
Charles B. Clarkson, con-
veying sundry persons
to insane asylum 18.07
E. E. Coburn Co., rubber
bands ,50
The John B. Clarke Co.,
printing 2,500 blanks. . . 9.00
Nate Kellogg Co., printing
certificates 4,00
A. D. Maxwell, wood 2.00
Paid W. H. Maxwell :
Transportation sundry per-
sons to Concord and Gras-
mere 9.84
Postage 1.00
Paid C. S. McKean, meals for
six men 1..50
flOO.OG
Total expenditures |S,289.21
Overdraft, Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital 30.00
Transferred to reserved fund 2,205.79
$10,-525.00
660 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
City Farm.
Appropriation fS.flOO.OO
Transferred from reserved fund 486.55
Expenditures.
Paid E. G. Libbey, superin-
tendent 1500.00
Mrs. Annie Libbey, matron .300.00
HOUSE AND FARM LABOR.
Paid labor of men and women, as per pay-
roll :
January |137.52
February 181.89
March 118.99
April 117.04
■ May 146.68
June 207.96
July 158.85
August '. 209.31
September 188.49
October 166.05
November 206.82
December 155.78
Paid labor, as per pay-roll, division No. 2:
February .$6.34
April 5.67
September 8.03
December 11.63
18,486.55
1800.00
|2,055..38
131.67
CITY FARM.
661
Paid Flora Burpee
Carrie E. Buck
Andrew Crother . . . .
Richard Evans
Charles L. Fuller. . . ,
Daniel Griffin
Maria Leonard
Chester Majnard . . .
Jerry Mahoney
John T. Pitman
John L. Martin
Jacob Reed
Daniel Webster
Nellie F. Underwood.
Paid
14.00
2.25
6.60
4.00
14.67
10.27
3.43
7.33
5.S6
4.00
.75
7.33
1.50
3.50
FUEL.
L. B. Bodwell & Co., 13
tons, 160 lbs. coal
177.40
A. W. Prescott, 70 cords
wood
210.00
CLOTHING, DRY GOODS,
Paid Allen & Kimball, clothing
Barton & Co., dry goods. .
H. K. Boardman, boots
and shoes
Clark & Estey, stockings
Cushman & Hardy, shirts,
overalls, etc
George W. Dodge, boots
and shoes
G. W. Dodge Shoe Co.,
boots and shoes
F. C. Dow, boots and shoes
ETC.
15.60
4.74
40.00
4.25
20.92
20.65
8.70
10.11
175.49
1287.40
662 REPORT OF THE CIT^ AUDITOR.
Paid W. P. Farmer, boots and
shoes I2S.22
Lowell O. Fowler, boots
and shoes 12.90
James W. Hill Co., cam-
bric, cotton, buttons,
print, etc 43.59
A. & W. S. Heath, boots
and shoes 8.25
Patrick Kean, dry goods. . 27.29
F. P. Kimball, hose 3.00
Manchester One Price
Clothing Co., clothing. . 34.25
Manchester Stocking Co.,
5 dozen hose 3.25
William Marcotte & Co.,
^ underclothing 26.00
H. M. Moody, clothing 18.00
Miville & Deschenes, dry
goods 10.08
Plumer & Holton, under-
clothing, hats 28.46
Robitaille, LaFlamme &
Co., mittens, pants 10.75
The Raymond Syndicate,
•underclothing 6.85
E. Therien, boots and
shoes 7.25
Weston & Hill Co., dry
goods 10.83
E. C. Wescott, flannel and
cotton 14.17
MEATS AXD PROVISIONS.
Paid Annis Flour & Grain Co. .$77.35
C. M. Abbott 55.95
1408.11
CITY FARM. 663
Paid S. F. Adams |13.05
Barlow & Nve 249.74
Baker & Allen 30.20
L. Belli 7.30
Bixby's Market 9.22
G.W.Clark 19.62
The Daniels-Cornell Co... 632.56
Dodge & Laing 68.41
C. W. Draper 1.81
C. H. Durgin 2.75
The Granite State Grocery
Co 13.00
Granite State Beef Co. . . 4.12
Gloucester Fish Market. . 2..32
D. Johnson 8.52
W. D. Ladd & Co 9.18
Manchester Provision Co. 108.77
Manchester Beef Co 52.93
John J. McGovern 22.37
E. S. Newton 27.38
Parnell Brothers 213.93
Henrv W. Parker 53.95
Phoenix Market 32.81
D. M. Poore & Son 8.59
W. E. Prescott 4.90
Joseph Qiiirin 7.20
W. H. Raymond Grocery
Co .32.86
Tom Robinson 83.98
Summer-street Market... 155.94
Small & Jones 18.48
Sears & Co 11.40
John E. Towle & Co 74.51
J. O. Turcotte 23.36
J. H. Wiggin & Co 4.01
John M. Woodbridge 2.10
?2,144.,57
664 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
FURNITURE AND KITCHEN UTENSILS.
Paid Clark M. Bailey, tinware,
brooms, dusters |29.13
Charles A. Hoitt & Co.,
crockery, glassware, oil-
cloth, paper, etc 24.83
E. K. Home, crockery and
tinware 18.61
Kimball & Hobbs, table
oilcloth, etc 2.25
J. Y. McQueston Co., 1
chair 7.50
Paid Pike & Heald Co.:
Copper kettle 2.25
Tinware 11.40
Paid Taggart & Manahan,
chairs, crockery 14.36
MEDICINE, VETERINARY SERVICE'S.
Paid A. F. Abbott, V. S., visits
and medicine |27.60
A. L. Dodge, V. S., visits 9.50
Richard Ebbitt, V. S.,
visits 2.00
John B. Hall, medicine. . . 9.25
J. J. Holland, medicine. . 5.30
A. J. Hedborg & Co., medi-
cine 4.45
E. C. Smith, medicine. . . 1.45
F. H. Thurston, medicine,
etc 10.30
Charles A. Williams, med-
icine 5.17
Weeks & Potter, oil of
cedar 4.85
$110.33
179.87
CITY FARM. 665
BLACKSMITHING, HARNESSES. ETC.
Paid The Fred Allen Co., re-
pairing harnesses |1.55
John A. Ballon, blankets 21.00
George Dnnnington, re-
pairing harnesses 5.05
Thomas Hickey Co., horse-
shoeing 6.25
Kimball Carriage Co.,
robes, collars, bits, soap 58.65
J. F. Kerwin, blankets,
rope ties, etc 13.50
The Ranno Harness Co.,
feed bags 3.30
' J. O. Tremblay, horseshoe-
ing 84.40
N. J. Whalen, repairing
harnesses, etc 22.40
CARRIAGE' REPAIRS.
Paid Couch & McDonald, re-
pairs 137.05
George A. Durgin, repair-
ing wagon, etc 28.64
J. B. McCrillis & Son, re-
pairs 17.08
James Murphy, painting
and varnishing wagon. . 13.00
Sanborn Carriage Co., re-
pairs 9.05
HAY, GRAIN, AND OTHER FEED.
Paid Adams Brothers < |57.55
Cavanaugh Brothers 8.90
Thomas W. Emerson Co . . 2.35
1216.10
1104.82
666 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Paid Freeman & Merrill |77.82
Gage & McDougall 49.75
W.F.Merrill 7.20
C. K. Merrill 58.25
Partridge Brothers 197.85
1459.67
HARDWARE, FERTILIZERS, SEEDS, ETC.
Paid Adams Brothers |17.50
J. J. H. Gregory 7.85
Manchester Hardware Co. 16.64
John B. Variek Co 280.83
1322.82
INSURANCE,
Paid John Dowst, premium on
policy $17.50
A. Elliott & Co., premium
on policy 35.00
Jones & Perry, premium
on policy 17.50
Richardson & Goggin, pre-
mium on policies 52.50
John A. Sheehan, pre-
mium on policies 70.00
1192.50
PRINTING, ADVERTISING, STATIONERY, TELErHONE.
Paid The John B. Clarke Co. :
Advertising notices |0.50
Printing invitations 5.00
Paid W. P. Goodman, station-
ery 2.30
New England Telephone
& Telegraph Co., use of
telephone 44.90
CITY FARM. 667
Paid Novelty Advertising Co.,
ink, pads, etc |1.15
Sampson, Murdock & Co.,
1 directory 2.00
REPAIRS AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Paid J. J. Abbott, paint and
paper 131.50
D. J. Adams, repairing
lawn mower 1.00
Adams Brothers, lime, hair,
plaster 4.41
F. W. Blood Hoofing Co.,
repairing boiler 2.00
James K. Carr Co., paint,
paper, glass 37.64
Charles I. Earl, repairing
sewing machine 3.00
S. C. Forsaith Machine
Co., lumber 49.04
D. E. Guinev, plumbing
material and labor 7.15
Paid The Head & Dowst Co. :
Lumber and labor 25.62
Posts 10.00
Paid J. Hodge, lumber and
labor 19.37
Thomas A. Lane Co., pipe
and labor on tank 8.51
Pike & Heald Co., mate-
rial and labor 28.03
C, A. Trefethen, repairing
clock .75
C. L. Wolf, range linings
and grate, and labor ad-
justing same 16.67
155.85
$244.69
^68 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
SUNDRIES.
Paid Boston & Maine Railroad,
freight |2.52
L. B. Bodwell & Co., ice
and cutting ice 10.00
George W. Bailey, use of
hack 5.00
Paid Cavanaugh Brothers:
Pair horses |300.00
Discount 50.00
1250.00
Bay horse at auction 51.00
1199.00
Commission 5.10
201.10
Paid John S. Cole, use of pas-
ture in Auburn 45.00
A, N. Clapp, kerosene. . . . 41.70
The Daniels-Cornell Co.,
soap 24.68
Perry H. Dow, 1 Jersey
bull 12.00
W. J. Freeman, use of
hack 5.00
Charles S. Fifield, use of
hacks 10.00
William Hayes, cider bar-
rels ' 8.75
A. H. Hill, grinding corn,
etc. 174.83
Kimball & Hobbs, shoe-
makers' supplies 3.88
Paid E. G. Libbey, cash paid:
Return of escaped prisoners. . 20.49
INDIGENT SOLDIERS. 669
Postoffice box rent |6.00
"Daily Mirror," one year. . , . 5.00
Paid C. W. Lerned & Co., disin-
fectant 12.50
Manchester Mills, cotton
waste 1.02
Manchester Slaughtering
& Eendering Co., oil and
hogs dressed 4.50
J. J. McGovern, soap and
oil 9.60
John T. Pitman, 1 gander 1.50
Felix Provencher, use of
hacks 5.00
Quirin & Duhaime, 3 bar-
rels 5.00
L. P. Reynolds, tobacco. . . 12.58
C. H. Simpson, use of
hacks 15.00
R. G. Sullivan, tobacco
and pipes 10.54
J. O. Turcotte, tobacco. . . 33.21
water-works, use of water 177.90
Whitten & Fifield, use of
teams 17.00
Paid Gordon Woodbury:
Making cider 7.94
Grinding corn 5.04
1897.28
Total expenditures $8,486.55
Indigent Soldiers.
Appropriation $300.00
670 report of the city auditor.
Expenditures.
groceries.
Paid T. F. Fifield $20.00
E. Marchand 15.00
E. F. Murray 4.00
D. M. Poore & Son 70.00
1109.00
FUEL.
Paid S. C. Forsaith Machine Co. $2.50
D. M. Poore 7.00
C. E. Pollard 6.00
115.50
BOARD AND CARE.
Paid Mrs. Thomas McGrath. . . |32.00
Celia H. Pressey 8.00
140.00
MEDICINE, ETC.
Paid J. J. Holland |12.99
Edward C. Smith 4.25
117.24
Total expenditures |181.74
Transferred to reserved fund 118.26
$300.00
Women's Aid Home.
Appropriation $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid Women's Aid Home, appropriation
for free beds $300.00
DECORATION OF SOLDIERS' GRAVES. 671
Free Beds, Elliot Hospital.
Appropriation $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid A. M, Heard, treasurer, amount appro-
priated $300.00
Emergency Ward, Elliot Hospital.
Appropriation $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid Cora M. Dearborn, treasurer, amount
appropriated $300.00
Sacret Heart Hospital.
Appropriation $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid Sacred Heart Hospital, amount appro-
priated $300.00
Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital.
Appropriation . $300.00
Expenditures.
Paid Notre Dame de Lourdes Hospital,
amount appropriated .$300.00
Decoration of Soldiers' Graves.
Appropriation ; $400.00
672 report of the city auditor.
Expenditures.
Paid Louis Bell Post No. 3, G. A. R., ex-
penses incurred Memorial Day 1399.51
Total expenditures 1399.51
Transferred to reserved fund .49
1400.00
Militia.
Appropriation $1.000.00
Expenditures.
Paid Amoskeag Veterans flOO.OO
Co. C, First Regiment
N. H. N. G 100.00
Co. F, First Regiment,
N. H. N. G 100.00
Co. H, First Regiment,
N. H. N. G 100.00
Co. L, First Regiment
N. H. N. G.... 100.00
First Regiment Band 100.00
Joseph Frescbl Post, G.
A. R 100.00
Louis Bell Post No. 3, G.
A. R . 100.00
Manchester War Veterans 100.00
Manchester Cadets 100.00
11,000.00
Band Concerts.
Appropriation $300.00
COUNTY TAX. 673
Expenditures.
Paid First Regiment Band |150.00
Manchester City Band 150.00
^300.00
Semi-Centennial History.
Appropriation $600.00
Expenditures.
Paid Herbert W. Eastman |600.00
Abatement of Taxes.
Appropriation $2,000.00
Expenditures.
Paid sundry persons, on taxes abated $1,452.43
Total expenditures $1,452.43
Transferred to reserved fund 547.57
$2,000.00
State Tax.
Appropriation $68,225.00
Expenditures.
Paid Solon A. Carter, state treasurer $68,225.00
County Tax.
Appropriation $66,204.72
Expenditures.
Paid Hillsborough county $66,204.72
43
674 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Resolution Raising Money and Making Appropria-
tions for thie Year One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Ninety-Seven.
Rcsolv&d by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That the sum of six hundred and thirty thousand dol-
lars ($630,000) be raised for the use of the city for the year
one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897) by tax
on the polls and estates liable to be taxed thereon, which
sum, together with such unappropriated money as may be now
in the city treasury, or may hereafter come into it, shall be
appropriated as follows, viz.:
CENTRAL DEPARTMENT.
Interest $47,500.00
Eeserved fund 10,000.00
City hall expenses 4,000.00
Printing and stationery 2,000.00
Incidental expenses 12,000.00
Mayor's incidentals 300.00
City officers' salaries 18,000.00
Sinking fund 27,000.00
Payment of funded debt 35,000.00
Auditor's dej)artment, salaries, and expenses. . . . 2,000.00
STREET AND SEWER DEPARTMENT.
Paving Elm and Granite streets $10,000.00
Eebuilding Amoskeag bridge abutment 4,700.00
Board of street and park commissioners, salaries
and expenses 3,600.00
Eepairs of highways 20,000.00
Building new highways 5,000.00
Land taken for new highways 5,000.00
Watering streets 5,000.00
Paving streets 5,000.00
Macadamizing streets 15,000.00
APPROPRIATIONS. 675
Grading for concrete $5,000.00
Scavenger teams 16,000.00
Street sweeping 3,000.00
Lighting streets 55,000.00
Eepairs of bridges 4,000.00
City teams 6,500.00
Eepairs of sewers and drains 5,000.00
New sewers 40,000.00
Eemoval of snow and ice 4,000.00
exCtINEEr's department.
Salaries and expenses $4,500.00
HEALTH department.
Salaries and expenses $4,400.00
SCHOOL DEPARTMENT.
Eepairs of schoolhouses $3,000.00
Fuel 8,000.00
Furniture and supplies 2,000.00
Books and stationery '. 100.00
Printing and advertising 300.00
Contingent ex]3enses 1,700,00
Care of rooms 6,000.00
Evening schools 1,500.00
Teachers' salaries 74,000.00
Evening school, mechanical drawing 400.00
Free text-books 5,000.00
Manual training 1,500.00
CITY LIBRARY.
Salaries and expenses $4,500.00
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Salaries and general expenses $61,000.00
Fire-alarm telegraph 2,000.00
Hydrant service 17,175.00
676 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
Salaries and expenses of commission and force. . $38,000.00
Expenses of court 3,900.00
Care and maintenance of station 2,800.00
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
Eepairs of buildings $3,000.00
PUBLIC PLACES.
Care of commons $4,500.00
Care of Stark and Derryfield parks 5,000.00
Care of Pine Grove cemetery ■ 8,500.00
Care of Valley cemetery 3,000.00
Care of Amoskeag cemetery 350.00
Care of Merrill yard \ 100.00
Purchase of land for West Side park 12,000.00
PATRIOTIC, CHARITABLE, AND PHILANTHROPIC.
Support of paupers off the city farm $10,525.00
Maintenance of city farm 8,000.00
Support of indigent soldiers 300.00
Bed for city patients. Women's Aid Home 300.00
Bed for city patients, Elliot Hospital 300.00
Bed for city patients. Sacred Heart Plospital .... 300.00
Bed for city patients, Xotre Dame de Lourdes
Hospital 300.00
Support of city patients. Emergency Ward, Elliot
Hospital 300.00
Decoration of soldiers' graves 400.00
Militia .armories 1,000.00
Band concerts 300.00
Semi-celitennial historv 600.00
APPROPRIATIONS. 677
TAXES.
Abatement of taxes $2,000.00
State taxes 68,225.00
County taxes 66,204.72
Total amount to be raised by taxation. . . $630,000.00
Passed March 5, 1897.
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680 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Assessors' Oath.
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 appraise 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 kelp us God.
Valuation and Taxes.
The amount of taxes assessed on the polls and on the real
and personal estate, within the city of Manchester, N. H., for
the year 1897, was as follows:
Valuation. Rate per 81,000 Tax.
Eeal estate $35,831,832 $20.80 $537,302.10
Personal property. 3,363,014 69,950.01
$29,194,846 $607,252.11
No. of polls, 12,921 1,292,100 20.80 26,875.69
Totals $30,486,946 $634,127.80
The share distributed to Manchester of the
amount of tax assessed, as per returns made
by the corporations to state treasurer:
On railroads $35,255.86
On savings banks 48,516.24
On insurance companies 2,964.75
On literaiy fund 3,511.68
Grand tax total $724,376.33
For further information in relation to taxes collected by
the state, see State Treasurer s report.
VALUATION AND TAXES.
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TABLE OF TAXES DUE AND UNCOLLECTED.
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$1,205.71
1,264.85
1,163.94
1,580.13
1,397.03
1,687.08
1,968.41
2,588.95
4,106.58
3,578.13
5,538.26
i 56,758.63 \
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634,127.80
$1,205.71
1,264.85
1,163.94
Taxes of 1886
Taxes of 1887
1,580.13
Taxes of 1S89
1,397.03
1,687.08
Taxes of 1890
Taxes of 1891
1,968.41
Taxes of 1892
$1.95
9.60
46.28
399.88
51,373.85
564,731.57
2,587.00
4,096.98
3,531.85
5,138.38
5,247.10
68,737.42
Taxes of 1893
Taxes of 1894
Taxes of 1895
Taxes of 1896
$965.78
658.81
Taxes of 1897
Totals
$717,793.60
$1,624.58
$616,563.13
$99,605.88
TAX VALUATIONS, ETC., FROM 1890 TO 1897, INCLUSIVE.
Year.
Valuation.
Taxes.
No. polls. Poll tax. ^l^^^l^^
1890.
1891.
1893.
1893.
1894.
1895.
1896.
1897.
$24,207,740
24,872,492
25,932,044
27,439,742
28,391,710
28,861,122
29,443,668
30,486,946
$462,869.17
443,541.76
506,465.17
507,640.68
505,372.44
502,183.02
547,651.50
634,127.80
9,723
10,367
10,673
11,835
12,103
12,244
12,583
12,921
$1.91
1.78
1.95
1.85
1.78
1.74
1.86
2.08
$100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
For years prior to 1890, see reports of 1890 and 1891.
682 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Settlement of Account of George E. Morrill, Tax Col-
lector for City of Manchester, N. H., June 1 , 1 896.
Amount out- Balance out-
outstanding June Collected. standing June
1, 1S95. 1, 1896.
Tax list, 1885 $1,205.71 $1,205.71
1886 l,26i.85 1,264.85
1887 1,163.94 1,163.94
1888 1,580.13 1,580.13
1889 1,397.03 1,397.03
1890 1,687.08 , 1,687.08
1891 1,968.41 1,968.41
1892 2,594.80 $5.85 2,588.95
1893 4,134.33 27.75 4,106.58
1894 3,928.81 317.08 3,578.13
Amount collected $350.68
Credited by cash, as per treasurer's
receipt No. 202 $350.68
Interest collected, 1892 $1.62
1893 5.35
1894 27.25
1895 997.09
$1,031.31
Credited by cash, as per treasurers
receipt Xo. 200 $1,031.31
1895. De.
June 1. Balance due on settlement of 1893 list $4,259.48
1896. Ce.
May 12. By cash paid treasurer
per receipt Xo. 68. . . $170.00
By cash paid treasurer
per receipt No. 127.. 421.79
$591.79
December 31, 1896, due on 1893 list. . . . $3,667.69
ACCOUNT OF TAX COLLECTOR. 683
1895. De.
To warrant resident list $501,170.67
warrant non-resident list 1,013.35
voluntary list 613.13
$502,796.15
1895 and 1896. Ce.
By cash paid treasurer as per vouch-
ers Nos. 83, 100, 130, 148, 160,
201, in year 1895; and receipts
Xos. 79, 161, 201, in year 1896. . $496,094.14
By abatements " . 1,163.75
unpaid taxes, June 1, 1896. . . . 5.538.26
$502,796.15
City of Manchestee to Geoege E. Moeeill.
De.
To salary for year ending June 1, 1896 $1,650.00
commission on old taxes 19.20
$1,669.20
Ce.
By cash paid by treasurer, on account
of salary $800.00
balance paid by treasurer, as per bill 869.20
$1,669.20
Manchestee, N. H., December 31, 1896.
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 E. DODGE,
City Auditor.
684 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Settlement of Account of George E. Morrill, Tax Col-
lector for City of Manchester, N. H., June 1 , 1 897.
1886.
1887.
1888.
1889.
1890.
1891.
1893.
1893.
1894.
1895.
Amount out-
outstanOing June
1, 1896.
Collected.
Balance out-
standing June
1, 1897.
$1,205.71
$1,205.71
1,264.85
1,264.85
1,163.94
1,163.94
1,580.13
1,580.13
1,397.03
1,397.03
1,687.08
1,687.08
1,968.41
1,968.41
2,588.95
$1.95
2,587.00
4,106.58
9.60
4;096.98
3,578.13
46.28
3,531.85
3,928.81
399.88
3,528.93
Amount collected $457.71
Credited by cash, as per treasurer's
receipt No. 135 $457.71
Interest collected $1,449.91
Credited by cash, as per treasurer's
receipt No. 136 $1,449.91
1896. Dr.
June 1. Balance due on settlement of 1893 list $4,259.48
1897. Cr.
May 10. By cash paid treasurer,
per receipt No. 81... $85.00
$85.00
June 1, 1897, due on 1893 list $4,174.48
1896. Dr.
To warrant resident list $546,121.64
warrant non-resident list 1,529.86
voluntary list 828.10
$548,479.60
ACCOUNT OF TAX COLLECTOR. 685
1896, 1897. Ck.
By cash paid treasurer, as per vouch-
ers Nos. 128, 143, 165, 167, 210,
in year 1896; and receipts Nos.
51, 86, 127, 134, in year 1897. . . $541,678.29
By abatements, vouchers Nos. 189,
128 : 1,554.21
By unpaid taxes, June 1, 1897 5,247.10
$548,479.60
CiTT OF Manchester to George E. Morrill.
Dr.
To salary for year ending June 1, 1897 $1,650.00
commission on old taxes 25.76
$1,675.76
By cash paid by treasurer, on account
of salary $800.00
balance paid by treasurer, as per bill 875.76
$1,675.76
Manchester, IST. H., August 2, 1897.
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 E. DODGE,
City Auditor.
686 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Some Laws and Decisions Relating to Exemptions
from Taxation.
Constitution or New Hampshire, Article 82, Page 38,
Public Statutes.
encourageilent 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 advan-
tages of education through the various parts of the country
being highly conducive to promote this end, it shall be the
duty of the legislators and magistrates, in all future periods of
this government, to cherish the interest of literature and the
sciences, and all seminaries and public schools; to encourage
private and public institutions, rewards, and immunities for
the promotion of agriculture, arts, sciences, commerce, trades,
manufactures, and natural history of the country; to counte-
nance and inculcate the principles of humanity and general
benevolence, public and private charity, industry and econ-
omy, honesty and punctuality, sincerity, sobriety, and all social
affections and generous sentiments among the people; pro-
vide-d, nevertheless, that no money raised by taxation shall ever
be granted or applied for the use of schools or institutions of
any religious sect or denomination."
Public Statutes, Chapter 55.
Section 2. "Eeal estate, whether improved or unim-
proved, and whether owned by residents or others, is liable to
be taxed, except houses of public worship, twenty-five hun-
dred dollars of the value of parsonages owned by religious
societies and occupied by their pastors, school houses, semi-
naries of learning, real estate of the United States, state, or
town used for public purposes, and almshouses on county
farms."
EXEMPTIONS FROM TAXATION. 687
Section 11. "Towns may by vote exempt from taxation
for a term not exceeding ten years any manufacturing estab-
lishment proposed to be erected or put in operation therein,
and the capital to be used in operating the same, unless such
establishment has been previously exempted from taxation by
some town."
OPINION OF THE SUPREME COURT.
58 ]^. H. Eep. 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. Banh v. Bill-
ings, 4 Pet. 514, 561. So long as the existing laws remain
unrepealed, and the constitutional construction heretofore
adopted remains unchanged, contracts hereafter made under
these laws and that construction will be valid. If the legis-
lature 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 fol-
lows:
Gale Home for Aged and Destitute Women, N. H. Laws of
1889, chapter 199.
Elliot Hospital, X. H. Laws of 1881, chapter 178.
Manchester Women's Aid and Belief Society, organized in
January, 1875, N. H. Laws, 1891, chapter 283.
Orphanage and Home for Old Ladies (Catholic) on Hanover
street, N. H. Laws, 1883, chapter 56.
688 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
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.
Convent, Sisters Jesns Mary, French Catholic;
East Spruce street, near Beech:
Building $10,000.00
13,000 square feet of land 2,600.00
$12,600.00
Convent, Sisters of Mercy, Catholic; 415 Union
street, corner Laurel:
Building $30,000.00
12,600 square feet of land 6,300.00
Mount St. Marys' Academy, Catholic; from con-
vent lot east to Beech street:
Building $25,000.00
31,500 square feet of land 9,150.00
Lot south side of Laurel street, corner Union
street, Catholic; McDonald school:
Building $35,000.00
10,800 square feet of land 5,000.00
Hospital of the Sacred Heart and Old Ladies'
Home, Catholic; Amherst and Hanover streets:
Building '.....'... $14,000.00
40,500 square feet of land 30,375.00
St. Patrick's Orphan Asylums, Catholic; 184
Hanover street:
Building $47,000.00
40,500 square feet of land 40,500.00
St. Joseph's High School, Catholic; Lowell street,
Corner of Birch:
Building ". $12,000.00
8,000 square feet of land 8,000.00
$36,300.00
$34,450.0a
$40,000.00
$44,375.00
$87,500.00
$20,000.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 689
Union-street school, Catholic; corner Union and
Laurel streets:
Building $4,000.00
5,000 square feet of land 2,500.00
$G,500.00
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
'St. Joseph's school for girls. Catholic; corner Pine
and Lowell streets:
Building $10,000.00
Land included in cathedral lot $10,000.00
Convent of Holy Angels, French Catholic; Beau-
port street, corner Wayne, West Manchester:
Building $15,000.00
22,500 square feet of land 4,500.00
$19,500.00
Orphanage school, Beauport, Wayne, and Put-
nam streets; French Catholic:
Building $25,000.00
30,000 square feet of land 6,000.00
St. Augustine's academy, French Catholic; corner
Beech and Sj^ruce streets:
Building $8,000.00
15,000 square feet of land 4,500.00
St. Mary's parochial school, French Catholic; cor-
ner Wayne and Cartier streets:
Building $12,000.00
25,000 square feet of land 2,000.00
Eesidence priest St. Augustine's church, French
Catholic; ISTo. 383 Beech street:
Building $6,000.00
7,500 square feet of land 1,875.00
$7,875.00
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$31,000.00
$12,500.00
$14,000.00
$2,500.00
690 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Orphan children's school, parish St. Augustine;
251, 253 Lake avenue:
Building $13,000.00
10,000 square feet of land 5,000.00
Eesidence priest St. Anne's church. Catholic; No.
231 Merrimack street:
Building $5,000.00
8,820 square feet of land 2,646.00
$17,000.00
$7,646.00
Eesidence Catholic bishop; No. 145 Lowell street:
Building $40,000.00
24,000 square feet of land 12,000.00
$52,000.00
Eesidence 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
Eesidence priest St. Mary's church, French Cath-
olic; 376 Beauport street, West Manchester:
Building $2,500.00
5,000 square feet of land 1,000.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$2,500.00
$3,500.00
St. Anne's church. Catholic; Union street, corner
Merrimack:
Building $30,000.00
10,180 square feet of land 5,090.00
$2,500.00
St. Augustine's church, French Catholic; Beech
street, corner East Spruce:
Building $28,000.00
13,000 square feet of land 3,250.00
$35,090.00
$31,250.00
PKOPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 691
St. Joseph's cathedral and chapel^ Catliolic; Pine
street, corner Lowell:
Building $70,000.00
40,000 square feet of land 30,375.00
$100,375.00
St. Mary's church, French Catholic; Beauport
street, corner AYa.yne, West Manchester:
Building $25,000.00
70,000 square feet of land 14,000.00
$39,000.00
St. Eaphael's church and school, CTerman Catho-
Ijc; Third street, corner Ferry, West Manchester:
Building $35,000.00
8,000 square feet of land 3,400.00
$38,400.00
St. George's church, French Catliolic; Pine street,
corner Orange:
Building J $75,000.00
18,690 square feet of land 7,614.00
$82,614.00
St. Patrick's church and school, Catholic; Kelley
street, Cartier street, and Coolidge avenue:
School building $20,000.00
56,281 square feet of land 4,502.00
$24,502.00
First Baptist church; Union street, corner Con-
cord:
Building $28,000.00
11,250 square feet of land 6,750.00
$34,750.00
First Freewill Baptist church; Merrimack street,
corner Chestnut:
Building $12,400.00
12,600 square feet of land 12,600.00
$25,000.00
692 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Second Baptist church; Merrimack street, near
Pine:
Building $9,000.00
9,450 square feet of land 3,780.00
People's Baptist church; Chestnut street, corner
Concord:
Building $8,000.00
3,200 square feet of land 3,000.00
First Congregational church; Hanover street, cor-
ner Union:
Building $30,000.00
43,300 square feet of land 34,560.00
Second Congregational church; Market street,
comer Franklin:
Building $35,000.00
19,000 square feet of land 19,000.00
Third Congregational church; South Main street,
corner Milford, West Manchester:
Building $8,000.00
33,000 square feet of land 3,000.00
First M. E. church; Valley street, corner Jewett:
Building $8,000.00
11,400 square feet of land 1,000.00
St. Paul's M. E. church; Union street, corner
Amherst:
Building $35,000.00
10,010 square feet of land 6,000.00
Trinity M. E. church; School street:
Building $3,000.00
13,176 square feet of land 3,000.00
$13,780.00
$10,000.00
$64,560.00
$44,000.00
$11,000.00
$9,000.00
$31,000.00
$5,000.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 693
St. James M. E. church; Penacook street, corner
Pine:
Building $9,000.00
11,000 square feet of land 2,200.00
Grace church. Episcopal; Lowell street, corner
Pine:
Building $20,000.00
9,300 square feet of land 6,975.00
First Unitarian church; Concord street, corner
Beech:
Building $24,000.00
13,500 square feet of land 6,000.00
$11,200.00
$26,975.00
$30,000.00
First Universalist church; Lowell street, near Elm:
Building $17,000.00
10,000 square feet of land 15,000.00
Christian church, Protestant; Pine street, corner
Merrimack:
Building $6,000.00
9,000 square feet of land 6,700.00
First Presbyterian church, German; Second street,
corner Bath, West Manchester:
Building ." $3,000.00
10,000 square feet of land 2,500.00
Swedish Lutheran church, Protestant; Sagamore,
corner Pine:
Building $7,500.00
10,950 square feet of land 2,000.00
Swedish Evangelical Mission; Pine street, corner
Orange:
Building $6,500.00
Land 4,100.00
$32,000.00
$12,700.00
$5,500.00
$9,500.00
$10,600.00
694 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Swedish Baptist church; Arlington street, near
Maple:
Building $5,000.00
4,432 square feet of land 1,100.00
Second Advent church; Amlierst street, between
Pine and Union:
Building $5,100.00
4,500 square feet of land 3,375.00
City Mission chapel, Protestant; Merrimack street,
corner Beech:
Building $7,000.00
12,600 square feet of land 6,000.00
Westminster Presbyterian church; Brook street,
corner Hazel:
Building $15,000.00
10,000 square feet of land 2,500.00
South Manchester Union chapel, Protestant; Elm
street, south:
Building $2,500.00
10,747 square feet of land 1,000.00
Episcopal Mission church; North Main street,
corner School, West Manchester:
Building $3,500.00
19,412 square feet of land 4,000.00
Eesidence pastor St. Paul's M. E. church; Union
street, near Amherst:
Building $3,000.00
Eesidence pastor First Congregational church;
Ko. 590 Beech street, near Bridge:
Building $5,000.00
8,100 square feet of land 2,400.00
$7,400.00
$6,100.00
$8,475.00
$13,000.00
$17,500.00
$3,500.00
$7,500.00
$2,500,00
$2,500.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION. 695
Eesidence pastor Grace Episcopal church; corner
of 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 3,500.00
$7,000.00
Elliot Hospital, Protestant; East Manchester:
Building $23,000.00
Land 7,000.00
$30,000.00
Elliot Hospital lot; Hanover street, corner Chest-
nut: '
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
Women's Aid Home, Pearl street, corner Beech:
Building $15,000.00
57,530 square feet of land 10,000.00
$25,000.00
Manchester Children's Home; Webster street:
Building $20,000.00
55,000 square feet of land 2,500.00
$22,500.00
696 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Eesidence pastor Swedish .Lutheran church;
Sagamore street, corner Pine:
Building $3,000.00
10,200 square feet of land 1,030.00
$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
$2,500.00
$88,000.00
EXEMPT FROM TAXATION.
Church property, Catholic $351,231.00
Convent property, Catholic 68,400.00
Parochial residences. Catholic 12,500.00
Parochial schools. Catholic ,. 200,650.00
Hospitals and other charitable in-
stitutions 131,875.00
$764,656.00
Church property, Protestant $441,640.00
Parochial residences, Protestant. . . 10,000.00
Private school property, Protestant 7,000.00
Hospitals and other charitable in-
stitutions 188,000.00
$646,640.00
TAXABLE.
Land and buildings. Catholic $65,021.00
Land and buildings, Protestant. . . 14,170.00
$79,191.00
Total exempt and taxable $1,490,487.00
PROPERTY EXEMPT PROM TAXATION.
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TABULAR STATEMENT OP BONDED DEBT, CITY OF MAN-
CHESTER, N. H., DEC. 31, 1897.
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$400,000
400,000
300,000
300,000
300,000
200,000
200,000
1 100,000
$200,000
200,000
300,000
300,000
350,000
500,000
500,000
600,000
$13,850
18,850
20,000
26,000
31,000
36,250
42,250
50,000
$120,000
120,000
120,000
120,C00
50,000
$60,000
60,000
60,000
60,000
60,000
60,000
60,000
60,000
$155,000
155,000
155 000
1891
1892
1893
1894
1895
$100,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
$100,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
100,000
155,000
155,000
155,000
155,000
155,000
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funded at four
per cent.
Amount of six per
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on whicli interest
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Amount of six per
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on whicli interest
has ceased, not
yet presented for
payment.
$99,900
100
99,900
65,500
50,000
$100,000
$948,850
953,850
955,000
1,195,600
1,296,000
1,. 571, 250
1,917.250
1,890,000
$100
100,000
100
$100,000
200,000
300,000
400,000
400,000
$4,500
100
100,000
$20,000
230,000
220.000
$130,000
105,000
* $400,000 water bonds, issued January 1, 1872; $100,000 of these bonds re-
funded January 1, 1887; $100,000 re-funded January 1, 1892; $10u,000 re-funded
January 1, 1897.
t $200,000 water bonds, issued July 1. 1874; $100,000 of these bonds re-funded
July 1, 1890, and $100,000 re-funded July 1, 1895.
J $2,200 water bonds, issued in 1884, and other additional bonds each j-ear.
The city guarantees the perpetual care of lots in the cemeteries. Bonds
payable July 1, 1913.
BONDED DEBT. 699
Remarks. — The city guarantees the perjDetiial care of lots
in the cemeteries of the city to parties who pay $100 and
upward. There are $50,000 in cemetery bonds, so called, not
negotiable, in the hands of the city treasurer, which are in-
cluded in the $1,890,000.
Total amount of bonded debt, including ceme-
tery bonds $1,890,000.00
Net indebtedness for water purposes 900,000.00
Net debt after deducting water debt. . $990,000.00
As shown in the assessors' books for the year
1897:
The assessed value of personal property, in-
cluding poll tax $4,655,114.00
The assessed value of real estate 25,831,832.00
Total value for taxation $30,486,946.00
Tax rate, 2.08 per cent on a hundred.
Per cent of net indebtedness (excluding debt
for water purposes) to assessed valuation. . . 3.575
Per cent of net indebtedness (including debt
for water purposes) to assessed valuation. . . 6.527
Population, census of 1890 43,983
Population, census of 1880 32,458
Increase of population in ten years .... 11,525
Increase of population since 1890 (estimated) 16,000
No issue of bonds has ever been contested.
The interest on the debt has always been promptly paid at
maturity.
None of the bonds are stated specifically as being payable
in gold.
None of the bonds can be called for redemption.
A sinkinof fund was established in 1893.
700 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
The power of the city to borrow money in relation to the
water-works is limited to the sum of $600,000 by section 6,
chapter 70, New Hampshire Laws of 1871, entitled "An act
to enable the city of Manchester to establish water-works,"
except as further extended an amount of $300,000, by laws of
1891, chapter 26; and $200,000, by laws of 1895, chapter 172.
BONDED DEBT.
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REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
STATEMENT OF THE ANNUAL INTEREST CHARGE ON THE BONDED DEBT.
Year,
Six
per ct.
water
bonds.
Four
per ct.
water
bonds.
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Total
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annual
interest.
1890....
$27,000
24,000
18,000
18,000
18,000
18,000
12,000
9,000
$6,000
8,000
12,000
12,000
14,000
14,000
20,000
22,000
$9,500
9,500
9,500
9,500
$623.75
813.92
1,000.00
1,041 66
1,550.00
1,812.50
2,112.50
2,500.00
$7,200
7,200
7,200
$2,400
2,400
9..4nn
$6,200
6,200
6,200
6,200
6,200
6,200
6,200
6,200
$49,423.75
1891....
48,613.92
1892....
46,800.00
46,841.66
59,650.00
68,712.50
82,612.50
80,600.00
1893....
7,200 '> "inn
1894....
1895....
1896....
1897....
2,400
2,400
2,400
2,400
$8,000
12,000
16,000
16,000
$4,800
14,400
13,000*
SUMJIARY OF CITY DEBT.
Amount of bonded debt January 1, 1897 $1,917,350.00
Amount of cemetery bonds issued in 1897. . . 7,750.00
Accrued interest on bonded debt 40,300.00
$1,965,300.00
Amount of security note or bond f 100,000.00
$3,065,300.00
Amount of bonded debt paid in 1897 35,000.00
Total indebtedness December 31,1897. $3,030,300.00
AVAILABLE ASSETS.
Xet cash on hand December 31, 1897 $133,053.37
Taxes uncollected, list of 1897 56,796.33
* This amount will be reduced $1,400 annually by payment of principal.
t This loan was made by authority of resolution passed January 26, 1894, and renewed
March 3, 1896.
BONDED DEBT. 703
Stock of Suncook Valley Eailroad, estimated
value $14,500.00
Sinking fund December 31, 1898 139,189.79
$332,538.39
BONDED DEBT.
Total net indebtedness January 1, 1898 $1,697,761.61
Total net indebtedness January 1, 1897 1,730,476.43
Decrease $33,714.83
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VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 705
Valuation of Real Estate Owned by the City.
High School, Beech street, corner Lowell:
Building $170,000.00
59,400 square feet of land 17,820.00 .
$187,820.00
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, comer Mer-
rimack:
Building $45,000.00
40,000 square feet of land 8,000.00
Ash-street school. Ash street, comer Bridge:
Building $50,000.00
57,537 square feet of land 17,262.00
Main-street school, North Main street, West Man-
chester:
Building $6,000.00
40,293.4 square feet of land. . 10,073.00
.Webster-street school, Webster street:
Building • $39,000.00
55,714| square feet of land. . . 13,928.00
Elodget-street school, Blodget street:
Building $1,500.00
9,000 square feet of land 3,600.00
$35,200.00
$26,600.00
$53,000.00
$67,262.00
$16,073.00
$52,928.00
$5,100.00
706 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Lowell-street school, Lowell street, corner Chest-
nut:
Building $1,000.00
9,000 square feet of land 9,000.00
Merrimaek-street school, Merrimack street, cor-
ner Union:
Building $15,000.00
18,600 square feet of land 6,300.00
Parker school. South Main street, West Man-
chester:
Building $20,000.00
13,650 square feet of land 2,047.00
Bakersville school. Elm street, south:
Building $10,000.00
24,184 square feet of land 3,628.00
Stark District school, River road, north:
Building $1,000.00
43,560 square feet of land 100.00
Amoskeag school, Front street, Amoskeag:
Building $1,500.00
6,000 square feet of land 1,000.00
Rimmon school, corner Amory and Dubuque
streets:
Building $17,400.00
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
$10,000.00
$21,300.00
J2,047.00
$13,628.00
$1,100.00
$2,500.00
$19,890.00
$4,250.00-
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 707
Harvey District school, Nutt road:
Building $2,000.00
31,780 square feet of land. . . . 100.00
$2,100.00
Webster Mills school, Webster Mills:
Building $i00.00
5,445 square feet of land 100.00
$500.00
Old Hallsville school, East Manchester:
Building $500.00
30,075 square feet of land 3,008.00-
$3,508.00
Youngsville school, Youngsville:
Building $500.00
51,228 square feet of land 100.00
$600.00
Mosquito Pond school. Mosquito Pond:
Building $400.00
10,890 square feet of land 100.00
$500.00
Pearl-street school:
Building $18,700.00
Land 3,200.00
$21,900.00
Varney school, Bowman street, corner Mast, West
Manchester:
Building $43,750.00
Land 6,700.00
■ $50,450.00
New Hallsville school, Jewett street, corner
Young, East Manchester:
Building $29,800.00
44,000 square feet of land 3,300.00
$33,100.00
Straw school. Chestnut street, corner Harrison:
Building $30,000.00
32,400 square feet of land. . . . 16,200.00
$46,200.00
708 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
New Wilson school, Wilson, Cedar, and Auburn
streets:
Building $30,000.00
40,000 square feet of land 5,000.00
$35,000.00
$732,556.00'
ENGINE-HOUSES.
Engine-house and stable. Central station. Vine
street : .
Building $31,800.00
31,718.86 square feet of land. . 25,438.00
ISTorth Main-street engine-house, Xorth Main
street, West Manchester:
Building $18,000.00
11,819 square feet of land 2,955.00
Webster-street engine-house, Webster street, cor-
ner Chestnut:
Building $12,000.00
8,510 square feet of land 2,180.00
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
Engine-house and wardroom, ward 9, Bimmon
and Amory streets. West ]\Ianchester:
Building $22,755.00
6,000 square feet of land 870.00
$57,238.00
$20,955.00
$14,180.00
$18,000.00
$6,666.00
$23,625.00
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 709
South Manchester hosehouse:
Building . . $4,200.00
4,278 square feet of land 684.48
$4,884.48
$145,548.48
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
$65,000.00
City hall, Elm street, corner Market:
Building $20,000.00
100,000 square feet of land. . . 150,000.00
$170,000.00
City farm. Mammoth road:
Building $5,000.00
46.66 acres, westMammoth road 70,000.00
81.55 acres, east Mammoth road 65,240.00
$140,240.00
Court house, Franklin street, comer West Mer-
rimack:
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 Chest-
nut:
Building $40,000.00
7,500 square feet of land 15,000.00
$55,000.00
710 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Slayton lot, Manchester street:
Police patrol stable $4,000.00
Building 300.00
2,908 square feet of land 4,700.00
$9,000.00
City stable and other buildings, Franklin street:
Building $15,950.00
44,656 square feet of land 89,312.00
$105,262.00
City stable, district Ko. 10 $1,000.00
City scales, Franklin street:
Building $300.00
Gravel lots, Goffstown:
2 acres $400.00
Police station, Clinton street. West Manchester:
Building $3,500.00
3,790 square feet of land 1,000.00
$4,500.00
Gravel lot, district No. 10, bought of Brooks &
Brock (city has right to remove gravel until
August 25, 1903):
1 1-3 acres $500.00
AYard 5 wardroom, Lake avenue:
Building $4,500.00
Land 1,000.00
$5,500.00
$651,802.00
PERSONAL PROPEETY OWNED BY THE CITY.
Property in care city engineer $1,149.00
in care chief engineer fire department . 107,177.50
in care street and park commission. . . 26,805.23
in care superintendent of schools 36,755.00
in care city messenger 3,000.00
in care city marshal and janitor 7,250.00
VALUATION OF REAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY. 711
Property in care superintendent of city farm. . . $12,544.87
in care trustees city library 30,000.00
in care superintendent of Pine Grove
cemetery 248.35
in care superintendent Valley cemetery 106.00
Stock in Suncook Valley Railroad, in care of
city treasurer 50,000.00
Personal property in care city weigher 1,000.00
$276,035.95
Uncollected taxes in 1897 $56,796.23
Net cash in the treasury, December 31, 1897. . . 122,052,37
$178,848.60
OTHEK EEAL AND PEESONAL ESTATE OWNED BY THE CITY.
Soldiers' monument $25,000.00
Permanent inclosure of commons 10,200.00
Amoskeag bridge over Merrimack river 25,000.00
Fountains and Avater-troughs on streets and com-
mons 3,600.00
City tomb 10,000.00
McGregor bridge 90,000.00
Granite bridge 130,000.00
South Main-street bridge, over Piscataquog river 28,450.00
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 Xo. 9 2,000.00
One bridge at Goffe's Falls 1,000.00
Expended on construction of sewers 625,103.73
$1,007,389.79
PARKS AND CEMETERIES.
Valley cemetery, 19.7 acres $200,000.00
Pine Grove cemetery, about 96 acres 46,700.00
Amoskeag cemetery, 1.23 acres ' . . . 4,340.00
Stark park, 28 acres 9,000.00
712 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
Derryfield park, 76 acres $25,000.00
Concord common, 4.48 acres 200,000.00
Tremont common, 2.25 acres 40,000.00
Hanover common, 3 acres 100,000.00
Park common, 3.49 acres 60,000,00
Merrimack common, 5.89 acres 200,000.00
Wagner's park, 9.85 acres 12,000.00
Land on Piscataquog river 3,500.00
$900,540.00
WATER-WORKS.
Eeal estate and personal property of water-works,
,at cost price $1,458,246.29
RECAPITULATION.
Eeal estate owned by the city, schoolhouses . . . $732,556.00
Eeal estate owned by the city 651,802.00
Eeal estate owned by the city, engine-houses . . . 145,548.48
Water-works at cost price 1,458,246.29
Personal property owned by the city 276,035.95
Uncollected taxes and cash 178,848.60
Other real and personal property 1,007,389.79
Parks and cemeteries 900,540.00
$5,350,967.11
PROPERTY ACCOUNT.
Inventory of assets, December 31, 1897 $5,350,967.11
Inventory of assets, December 31, 1896 5,236,208.62
Gain in valuation $114,758.49
auditor's office. ' 71,3
« Auditor's Office.
City hall building. Open from 8 to 12 a. m., 1.30 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 expendi-
ture, and is there a balance unexpended sufficient to pay this
Mil?
4. Are the number of articles in the bill, or the measure-
ments either of dimensions, quantities, or weights correctly
and fully stated, and is the proof of the d'elivery 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 coun-
cils to be called to the same?
6. Is the bill written in a fair legible hand, correctly cast,
arid on paper of sufficient length and width to admit of its
proper backing and filing?
7. If the bill is in part payment of a contract, the date and
the total amount of the contract, the amount already paid,
the amount of the work not yet completed, and the per cent
retained, if any, should be stated in 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 informa-
tion or correction as the circumstances of each case may
lequire.
714 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
COURT DECISIONS, LEGAL POINTS AND RULES, RELATING TO
THE APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL OF CLAIMS ASAINST
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 Munici-
pal Corporations, section 96, volume 1.
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 office. General Laws, chapter 46, section 13.
The executive powers of the city, except where vested in
tlie 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.
General Laws, chapter 46j 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
purchase of or contract with themselves, Avith any one of the
board, or with any firm of which one of said officials is ,a mem-
ber. Dillon's Municipal Corporations, volume 1, page 436,,
section 444.
Every bill against the city shall specify the particular
appropriation to Avhicli the same should Ijo eliarged, and the
moneys paid will be charged to such a})})r<)})riations only.
auditor's office. 715
He who is intrusted with the business of others cannot he
allowed to make sucli business a source of profit to himself.
All orders passed by the city councils authorizing a minis-
terial act to be performed by its agent or agents must be
strictly construed, and the act to be done must be specifically
stated.
The board of engineers have the authority of firewards.
(General Laws, chapter 106, section 11.) They have no
power conferred upon them by law or ordinance to purchase
new apparatus of any kind.
The joint standing committee on fire department have ad-
visory powers only.
The laws and ordinances require the city auditor to with-
hold his signature from all bills against any appropriation
Adhere 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 relating to the duties of the city auditor, approved
January 7, 1890.
The power of towns to raise and appropriate money is de-
rived solely from statutor}'' provisions, which restrict the
power to certain specified objects and other necessary charges.
Votes to raise or pay money for purposes other than those
prescribed by statute are void, and towns cannot be compelled,
and generally will not be permitted, to carry such votes into
efl!ect.
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. Epping, 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 telegraph, the chief engineer, to be sulmiitted monthly
716 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
to the approval of the board of engineers; for police depart-
ment, mayor and police commission; for police court, police
judge; for water-works department, superintendent, subject to
tlie rules of the board of commissioners and ordinances relat-
ing thereto; for city farm, superintendent; for overseers of the
poor, each overseer, subject to the rules of the board of over-
seers, and their monthly review and approval; for schools,
superintendent, or such person as the board of school commit-
tee 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, treas-
urer's office, tax collectors office, assessor's oflfice, auditor's
office, incidental expenditures, city physician, city messenger,
city solicitor, city engineer, — mayor; for cemeteries, superin-
tendents, subject to board of trustees (to consist of citizens
not members of the city councils); for health department,
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 lim-
itations and restrictions as the board of aldermen, acting as a
board, may require.
RESOLUTIONS. ORDERS. ORDI-
NANCES.
RESOLUTIONS, ORDERS, ORDINANCES
PASSED IN 1897.
City of Manchester.
TiESOLUTiON making a temporary loan of One Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That for the purpose of paying such claims against the
•city as may fall due before the fifth day of December, 1897,
the mayor be and hereby is authorized to make a temporary
loan for the use of the city, of a sum not exceeding one
Jiundred thousand dollars ($100,000), being in anticipation of
the taxes of the present year; giving for the same the notes
of the city, signed by the mayor and countersigned by the
•city treasurer.
Passed April 6, 1897.
City of Maxchester.
Pesolution appropriating $3,500 for the purchase of Land
on the bank of the Piscataquog river.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That for the purpose of purchasing a tract of land on the
1)3 nk of the Piscataquog river in West Manchester, there be
appropriated the sum of thirty-five hundred dollars ($3,500),
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720 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
and that said sum of money be obtained by the issuing of
the promissory notes of the city of Manchester, said notes
to be dated the same day as the date of the deed from the
owner of said land to the city, and to be payable to the order
of the maker of said deed, one half of the purchase price
July 1, 1897, and the other one half July 1, 1898, and to
bear no interest until after the date of payment of each of
said notes; and to be sign'ed by the city treasurer and coun-
tersigned by the mayor, and the mayor and city treasurer are-
authorized to do all things necessary to issue said notes.
Passed December 1, 1896.
City of Manchester.
Eesolution to discontinue certain Streets and Sewers.
Besolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
Section 1. That all streets and sewers as shown on the
city plan and wdthin the boundary of the land purchased by
the city, and known as the West Side park, be and are hereby
repealed.
Sect. 2. This resolution shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed May 4, 1897.
City of Manchester.
Resolution making a Temporary Loan of Two Hundred
Thousand Dollars.
17esoIved by the Mayor, Aldei*men, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That for the purpose of paying such claims against the
city as may fall due before the twenty-third of December,
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1897, the mayor be and hereby is .authorized to make a
temporary loan for the use of the city, of a sum not exceeding
two hundred thousand dollars ($200,000), being in anticipa-
tion of the taxes of the present year; giving for the same
the notes of the city, signed by the mayor and countersigned
by the city treasurer.
Passed June 29, 1897.
City of Manchester.
Eesolution for the Transfer of Money.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That for the purpose of paying a promissory note of sev-
enteen hundred and fifty dollars ($1,750), of the city of
Manchester, due July 1, 1897, being one of two such notes
'held by Augustus F. and Edwin C. Swift against the city of
Manchester, for the sale of a tract of land on the bank of
the Piscataquog river in West Manchester, purchased by vote
of the city councils in 1896, that there be transferred from
the appropriation for the reserved fund the sum of seventeen
hundred and fifty dollars ($1,750) to a special appropriation
for the purchase of land on the bank of the Piscataquog
river, and that said note, due July 1, 1897, be charged to
said appropriation for the purchase of land on the bank of
the Piscataquog river, and said sum of seventeen hundred
and fifty dollars ($1,750) is hereby appropriated for said
purpose.
Passed June 29, 1897.
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City of Maxchester.
Resolution relating to the Transfer of Money.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make
tlie following transfers:
From the appropriation for reserved fund to a special
appropriation, to be known as an appropriation for the dedi-
cation of the Weston observ,atoiy, the sum of one hundred
and fifty dollars ($150), and' that the joint standing commit-
tee on finance be and hereby is authorized to expend such
sum, or ,as much of it as may be necessary to defray the ex-
penses of said dedication.
Passed September 7, 1897.
CiTY" OF Manchester.
Eesolutiox relating to the Transfer of Money.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council ELSsem^bled, as follows:
That the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make
the following transfers:
From the appropriation for Ainoskeag bridge abutment to
the appropriation for paving Elm and Granite streets, the
unexpended balance of said appropriation for Amoskeag
bridge abutment.
Passed September 7, 1897.
RESOLUTIONS. 723
City of Manchester.
EESOLrxiON relating to the Transfer of Money.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make
the following transfers:
From the appropriation for reserved fund to a special ap-
propriation, to be known as an appropriation, for the dedi-
cation of the Manchester high school, the sum of one hun-
dred and fifty dollars ($150), and that the joint standing
committee on finance be and is hereby authorized to expend
such sum, or as much of it as may be necessary to defray the
expenses of said dedication.
Passed September 7, 1897.
City of Manchester.
Eesolution for transferring certain Money.
Resolved by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the
City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as follows:
That the city clerk be and is liereby authorized to make
the following transfers:
From the appropriation for repairs of liighways to the
appropriation for snow and ice, $4:94.28; from the appropria-
tion for reserved fund to the appropriation for repairs of
buildings, $500; and from the appropriation for reserved
fund to incidental expenses, $-1,000.
Passed October 5, 1897.
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City of ]\Ianchester.
An Order to erect certain Fire- Alarm Boxes.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the chief engineer of fire department be authorized to erect
certain fire-alarm boxes as follows:
On new Mast road near D street; at the corner of Merri-
mack and Beacon streets. The expense thereof to be charged
to the appropriation for fire-alarm telegraph.
Passed January 4, 1897.
An Order to build certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build certain sewers as follows:
In Dubuque east back street from Kelley street northerly
to Coolidge avenue west back street, and thence 200 feet
north of Bremer street in Coolidge avenue west back street;
in Milford street from Amherst road westerly about 300
feet; in Hanover street from near Beacon street to Highland
street; in Valley street from near Belmont to Cypress street;
in Harvard street from Wilson street easterly 200 feet. And
the expense 'thereof be charged to the appropriation for new
sewers.
Passed January 4, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to establish the grade of South Main street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the grade of South Main street from Boynton road to Bed-
ford town line be established as follows:
The intersection of South Main and Boynton on the west
side of South Main shall be 71.50; at 19 feet south of Boyn-
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ton road on -u-est side grade shall be 71.30; at 69 feet south
of Boynton road on west side grade shall be 70.70; ,at 119
feet south of Boynton road on west side grade shall be 70.10;
at 169 feet south of Boynton road on west side grade shall
be 69.60; at 219 feet south of Boynton road on west side
grade shall be 69.20; at 269 feet south of Boynton road on
west side grade shall be 69.00; at 319 feet south of Boynton
road on west side grade shall be 69.00. Then the grade to
fall 0.115 per 100 for 1,300 feet. Then at 1,619 from south
of Boynton road on west side grade shall be 67.50; then at
1,669 from south of Boynton road on west side grade shall
be 67.55; then at 1,719 from south of Boynton road on west
side grade shall be 67.70; then at 1,769 from south of Boyn-
ton road on west side grade shall be 68.00; then at 1,819
from south of Boynton road on west side grade shall be 68.45;
then at 1,869 from south of Boynton road on west side grade
shall be 68.80; then at 1,919 from south of Boynton road on
west side grade shall be 69.00; then 100 feet level ,at 69.00.
Then the grade to rise 0.125 per 100 for 400 feet; grade to
be 69.50. Then 50 feet from elevation 69.50 the grade shall
be 69.50; at 100 feet from first elevation 69.50 the grade
shall be 69.30; at 150 feet from first elevation 69.50 the
grade shall be 69.00. Then the grade to fall 0.467 per 100
for 900 feet grade shall be 64.80. At .50 feet from elevation
64.80 the grade shall be 64.55; at 100 feet from elevation
64.80 the grade shall be 64.10; at 150 feet from elevation
64.80 the grade shall be 63.50; at 200 feet from elevation
64.80 the grade shall be 63.00; at 250 feet from elevation
64.80 the grade shall be 62.60; at 300 feet from elevation
64.80 the grade shall be 62.30; then the grade to fall 0.1107
per 100 for 271 feet, grade shall be 62.00. The east side of
South Main shall be parallel to the west side of said street,
and one foot lower as shown on plans 993, 994, 995, 996 on
file in the city engineer's department.
And the same is hereby made the established grade of said
street.
Passed January 4, 1897.
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City of Maxchester.
An Order to estalDlish the Grade of Alsace Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the grade of Alsace street from Kelley street northerly to
Bremer be and is hereby made the established grade, as
follows :
The gi-ade at the intersection of the west line of Alsace
street and the north line of Kelley street shall be 142.22; at
50 feet north of Kelley street grade shall be 143.75; at 100
feet north of Kelley street grade shall be 145.90; at 150 feet
north of Kelley street grade shall be 147.75; at 200 feet north
of Kelley street grade shall be 149.10; at 250 feet north of
Kelley street grade shall be 149.80; at 300 feet north of Kel-
ley street grade shall be 150.00; then 250 straight grade .20
making elevation at the corner of Bremer and Alsace streets
150,50. The east side of the street shall be level with the
grade of said west side.
Passed January 4, 1897.
CiTi' OF Manchester.
An Order to Build Cleveland Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That,
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build to grade Cleveland street from its inter-
section of Second, thence easterly to the Merrimack river.
And the expenses thereof to be charged to the appropriation
for new streets.
Passed January 4, 1897.
OKDERS, 727
City of Manchester.
An Order to establish the Grade of Chestnut Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the grade of Chestnut street from Clark to Trenton street
be established as follows:
At northeast corner of Clark and Chestnut grade shall be
elevation 156.50. Then grade to rise 2.75 per 100 feet for
400 feet to elevation 167.50; then grade to rise 3.411 per 100
feet for 170 feet to elevation 171.60; then grade to rise 3.4-44
per 100 feet for 180 feet to elevation 178.00; then grade to
rise 2.913 per 100 feet for 413 feet to elevation 188, being
the southeast corner of Chestnut and Carpenter.
The northeast corner of Chestnut and Carpenter grade shall
be 190.35. At 36 feet from corner of Chestnut and Carpen-
ter, east side, grade shall be 191.50; at 86 feet from corner
of Chestnut and Carpenter, east side, grade shall be 194.40;
at 136 feet from corner of Chestnut .and Carpenter, east side,
grade shall be 197.85; then grade to rise 8.40 per 100 feet
for 100 feet to elevation 306.25. At 50 feet from elevation
206.25 grade shall be 210.20'; at 100 feet from elevation
.206.25 grade shall be 213.65; at 150 feet from elevation 206.25
grade shall be 216.65; at 200 feet from elevation 206.25 grade
shall be 219.10; at 247 feet from elevation 206.25 on the
southeast corner of Chestnut and Trenton the grade shall
be 221.00.
The grade of Chestnut street from Clark to Trenton street,
on west side, shall be as follows:
At the northwest corner of Clark and Chestnut grade shall
be 156.50; then grade to rise 2.75 per 100 for 400 feet to ele-
vation 167.50; then grade to rise 2.588 per 100 for 170 feet
to elevation 171.90; then grade to rise 2.611 per 100 for 180
feet to elevation 176.60; then grade to rise 2.949 per 100 for
412 feet to elevation 188.75, being the southeast corner of
Chestnut and Carpenter streets.
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The northeast comer of Chestnut and Carpenter streets
grade shall be 189.50. At 56 ^eet from corner of Chestnut
and Carpenter, west side, grade shall be 190.90; at 86 feet
from corner of Chestnut and Carpenter, west side, grade
shall be 193.55; at 136 feet from corner of Chestnut and
Carpenter, west side, grade shall be 197.20. Then grade to
rise 8.50 per 100 for 100 feet, grade shall be 305.70. At 50
feet from elevation 305.70 grade shall be 309.70; at 100 feet
from elevation 305.70 grade shall be 313.10; at 150 feet from
elevation 305.70 grade shall be 316.10; at 300 feet from ele-
vation 305.70 grade shall be 318.60; at 347 feet from eleva-
tion 305.70 on the southwest comer of Chestnut and Trenton
streets the grade to be 330.50.
Passed January 4, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to the Final Transfers for the year 1896.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the city clerk be and hereby is authorized to make the follow-
ing transfers, to wit:
To reserved fund:
From interest $1,800.51
printing and stationery 561.45
city officers' salaries 3,714.51
mayor's incidentals 50.46
auditors department 30.33
street and park commission 387.97
land taken for highways 3,088.88
watering streets 803.53
macadamizing streets 151.53
street sweeping 31.56
scavenger service 1,008.90
lio-htins: streets 573.40
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From health department $36.61
books and stationery 53.96
care of rooms 468.44
teachers' salaries 1,161.05
evening schools ' 438.50
evening school, mechanical drawing 143.75
manual training 96.71
fire-alarm telegraph 269.58
police station 487.69
police court 32.01
paving streets 320.69
police patrol .19
commons 148.85
Amoskeag cemetery .28
indigent soldiers 164.15
abatement of taxes 11,816.04
free cash in treasury in excess of appro-
priations 8,540.42
$24,281.83
From reserved fund:
To city hall $316.61
incidental expenses , 3,026.42
repairs of highways 312.78
snow and ice 308.94
bridges 336.88
grading for concrete 35.82
city teams 285.70
repairs of sewers 421.63
new bridge. Granite street 7,527.73
engineer's department 1,395.25
repairs of schoolhouses 578.38
fuel 284.03
furniture and supplies 114.14
printing and advertising 129.56
contingent expenses 257.79
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To free text-books $58.43
fire department 2,567.65
police commission 856.75
repairs of buildings 1,549.68
new sclioolhoiise, West Manchester 255.54
Valley cemetery 6.84
Pine Grove cemetery 93.54
paupers off the farm 1,640.67
city farm 463.89
decoration of soldiers' graves 7.47
new sewers 186.06
new schoolhouses 2,452.87
Total $25,471.04
Passed January 4, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to Claims and Suits against the City.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and the city solicitor be authorized to dispose of
suits against the city now pending in court, or which may
be entered in court during the ensuing two years, as they
deem best, and that they be a special committee to consider
claims against the city, with authority to settle such claims
as they deem proper, when the amount involved in such set-
tlement does not exceed two hundred and fifty dollars.
Passed Februaiy 9, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to print the Fifty-first Annual Eeport of the
Eeceipts and Expenditures of the City of Manchester.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the Joint standing .committee on fina'nce be, and they hereby
ORDERS. 731
are, authorized to procure, fpr the use of the inhabitants of
said city, the printing of the fifty-first annual report of the
receipts and expenditures of the city of Manchesttr, includ-
ing 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, police commissioners, overseers
of the poor, trustees, librarian and treasurer of the city library,
committee on cemeteries, 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; and also to pro-
cure the printing of the mayor's inaugural address of Jan-
uary 5, 1897, the expense thereof to be charged to the appro-
priation for printing and stationery.
Passed February 2, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase Horses for the Fire Department.
Ordered, If the Board of ^layor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and joint standing committee on fire department
be and are hereby authorized to purchase two horses for use
of the Manchester fire department, at a cost not exceeding
one hundred and twenty-five dollars ($125) for each horse
purchased. The expense thereof to be charged to the ap-
propriation for fire department.
Passed March 5, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to repair Public Buildings.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and build-
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ings be and are hereby authorized to make necessary repairs
ill and u}Don the public buildings, the expense thereof to be
charged to the appropriation for repairing buildings.
Passed April 6, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order authorizing the Committee on Setting Trees to
Expend $200 for Trees.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the committee on setting trees be authorized to expend two
hundred dollars ($200) for shade trees, the expense thereof
to be charged to the appropriation for incidental expenses.
Passed May 4, 1897.
City of ]\Ianchester.
An Order relative to the New High School.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and joint standing committee on lands and build-
ings be and are hereby authorized and empowered to carry
out and complete all contracts entered into by authority of
order of city councils jDassed September 3, 1895; and are
hereby invested with all the authority contained in said order.
Passed May 4, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to Build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build certain sewers as follows:
ORDERS. 733
In Silver street from Lincoln to Wilson street; in Beacon
street, from east of Beacon westerly about 150 feet; and the
expense thereof be charged to the appropriation for new
sewers.
Passed Jnne 1, 1897.
City op Manchester.
An Order to purchase Horses for the Fire Department.
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 two horses for use
of the Manchester fire department, the expense thereof to
be charged to the appropriation for fire department.
Passed June 1, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build a Sewer in Walnut Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be ,and are hereby
authorized to build a sewer in Walnut street, from Salmon
street southerly 175 feet, and the expense thereof be charged
to the appropriation for new sewers.
Passed June 29, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order for extra Electric Work at the N'ew High School.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the bill of Perkins & Franks for extra electric wiring and
734 KEPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
electric apparatus at the new high school, amomiting to
$730.50, be paid, and the amount be charged to the appro-
priation for new sehoolhouses.
Passed July 6, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Oedee relating to the Parker School Lot.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the committee on lands and buildings be authorized and em-
powered to complete the grading of the Parker school lot,
pet the steps, concrete the walks and sidewalks, and do other
necessary concrete work; and that there be .appropriated for
that purpose the sum of three hundred dollars ($300), and
that said sum of three hundred dollars be transferred, from
the reserved fund, and to be known as the appropriation for
the Parker school lot.
Passed July 6, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Oedee in relation to the Appropriation for Decoration
of Soldiers' Graves.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: Tlxat
the bill of Louis Bell post, No. 3, G. A. E., for expenses in-
curred on Memorial day, in decorating soldiers' graves, be
paid, and that it be charged to appropriation for decoration
of soldiers' graves.
Passed July 6, 1897.
ORDERS. 735
City of Manchester.
An Order to build a Sewer on Silver Street.
Ordered, If the Board of ]\Iayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street ,and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build a sewer on Sih-er street, from Wilson to
Hall street, and the expenses thereof be charged to the appro-
priation for new sewers.
Passed July 6, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect Electric Lights.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and the joint standing committee on lighting
streets be and are hereby authorized to erect the following
electric lights:
Corner of Amherst and Chestnut: comer of Salmon and
Beech streets.
Passed August 3. 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to Macadamize a Portion of Pearl Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to macadamize Pearl street, from Pine to Union
street, the expense thereof to be charged to the appropria-
tion for macadamizing.
Passed August 3. 1897.
736 report of the city auditor
City of Manchester.
An Order relative to the Publication of the Semi-Centen-
nial History of the City of Manchester,
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and joint standing committee on finance be and
they are hereby authorized to expend a sum not exceeding
six hundred dollars ($600), in aid of the publication of a
semi-centennial history of the city of Manchester, now in
process of compilation by Herbert W. Eastman, under the
direction of the special committee a]3pointed by the authority
of the last city council, which had in charge the recent semi-
centennial celebration, the expense to be charged to the spe-
cial appropriation for semi-centennial history.
Passed August 3, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order for the Apportionment of the Appropriation for
Militia Armories.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the one thousand dollars ($1,000) appropriated for militia
armories be apportioned as follows:
$100 to band. First Eegiment N". H. K. 0.
$100 to Co. C, First Eegiment N. H. N. 0.
$100 to Co. F, First Keg'iment N. H. N. G,
$100 to Co. H, First Eegiment N. H. JsT. O.
$100 to Co. L, First Eegiment ?^. H. N. G.
$100 to Manchester War Veterans.
$100 to Amoskeag Veterans.
$100 to Manchester Cadets.
$100 to Louis Bell Post, G. A. E.
$100 to Joseph Freschl Post, G. A. E.
Passed August 3, 1897..
ORDERS. 737
City of Manchester.
An Order to erect New Lanterns with Gasoline Attachments
in the District of Lake Massahesic.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and the joint standing committee on lighting
streets are hereby authorized to purchase and erect thirty or
more new copper top lanterns, with plate burners and fix-
tures attached for gasoline, with all the apparatus necessary,
at the district at -Lake Massabesic, and the expenses thereof
not to exceed three hundred dollars ($300), and to be charged
to the appropriation for lighting streets.
Passed Aug-ust 3, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to establish the Grade of Glenwood Avenue.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the grade of the northeast corner of Page and Glenwood
avenue shall be elevation 237.10; then the grade drops in
running east .90 feet per 100 feet for 730 feet, or to the Colby
land, The southeast corner of Page and Glenwood avenue
shall be elevation 237.60, and then the grade to drop .90 feet
per 100 feet for 730 feet in going easterly or to the Colby land.
And the same is hereby made the established grade of
said street, reference being made to plan on file in the city
engineer's department.
Passed August 25, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build Lake Avenue to Width and Grade
between Cass Street and Beacon Street.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
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738 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
instructed to build Lake avenue to width and grade between
Cass street and Beacon street, the same to be charged to the
appropriation for grading for concrete.
Passed September 7, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build certain sewers as follows:
In Union street from Silver to Hayward; in Prescott street
from Wilson street east about 208 feet; in Hayward street
from Belmont street to Cypress street; in Taylor street from
Valley northerly about 400 feet; in Amory street from Alsace
easterly about 200 feet.
And the expense thereof be charged to the appropriation
for new sewers.
Passed September 7, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build certain sewers, as follows:
In Grrove south back from east of Union to Beech street;
in Rimmon east back street from Kelley to Mason; in Everett
from Clarke street southerly about 300 feet, and the expense
thereof be charged to the appropriation for new sewers.
Passed September 7, 1897.
ORDERS. 739
City of Manchester.
An Order for the construction of a Bicycle Side-Path.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the sum of six hundred dollars ($600) be and is hereby trans-
ferred from the reserve fund to the street and park commis-
sion, and that the same be used for the construction of a
bicycle path on Hall road, commencing at the corner of Mas-
sabesic street and Candia road; said path to be four feet wide,
constructed of clay and cinders, built to the grade of the
present road, and the street and park commissioners are re-
quested to commence work immediately on the passing of
this order.
Passed October 5, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build a Sewer in Whittemore Land.
Ordered, If the Board of Common Council concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build a sewer in the Whittemore land accord-
ing to deed from Mrs. Whittemore, dated December 12, 1896,
and the Boston & Maine railroad, dated June 34, 1897, and
rights granted by Gustave F. and Edmond C. Swift, by deed
dated April, 1897, and as shown by plans of the same on file
in the city engineer's department, and the expense thereof
be charged to the appropriation for new sewers.
Passed October 5, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to build Certain Sewers.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the board of street and park commissioners be and are hereby
authorized to build certain sewers as follows:
740 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
In Maple street from Preseott to Hayward street; in Beech
street from Silver to Harvard street; in Harvard street from
Beech to Maple street; in Somerville street from Wilson to
Hall street; in Russell street from Harrison street northerly
350 feet; in Grove sonth hack street from Wilson easterly
about 200 feet; in River road north from Clarke street to Park
avenue proposed; in Central street from Belmont to Milton
street.
And the expense thereof he charged to the appropriation
for new sewers.
Passed November 2, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order to purchase Horses for City Farm.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur: That
the mayor and joint standing committee on city farm be
authorized to purchase one pair of horses for use at the city
farm, the price thereof not to exceed two hundred and fifty
dollars ($350) for the pair, the expense thereof to be charged
to the appropriation for city farm.
Passed November 2, 1897.
City of Manchester.
An Order relating to covering into the Treasury Unclaimed
Bills prior to December, 1893.
Ordered, If the Board of Mayor and Aldermen concur, That
the city treasurer be and hereby is authorized to cover into
the city treasury, by charging to the reserved fund, the sum
of twenty-nine dollars and sixty-four cents ($39.64).
The amount being the sum due sundry persons at various
times prior to December, 1893, and unclaimed, as shown on
the list in the treasurers office.
Passed December 7, 1897.
ordinances. 741
City of Manchestee.
in the yeae one thousand eight hundeed and ninety-
SEVEN.
An Oedinance changing the Names of Certain Streets.
Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council
of the City of Manchester, in City Council assembled, as
follows:
Section 1. That the names of certain streets in said city
be changed, as follows: Dickey street in West Manchester,
which was laid out by the board of mayor and aldermen,
August 28, 1891, running from South Main to West Hancock
street, to Goffe street.
Sect. 3. This ordinance shall take effect upon its passage.
Passed to be ordained August 3, 1897.
City of Manchestee.
in the yeae one thousand eight hundeed and ninety-
seven.
An Oedinance in Amendment to Chapter 14, Section 1.
Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council
of the City of Manchester, in City Council .assembled, as
follows:
That there be inserted after the words ^T)rick or stone,"
in the sixth line, the words "or sheathed with metal or other
incombustible material," so that said section when amended
shall read as follows:
Section 1. No person shall erect or build any steam
mill, furnace, foundry, blacksmith shop, house for storing
powder, nor shall any person use or occupy, or suffer any
other person to use or occupy, any building already erected
for such purpose, within the city of Manchester, unless the
742 REPORT OF THE CITY AUDITOR.
same is built of brick or stone or sheathed with metal or
other incombustible material, and the roof thereof covered
with slate or tin, or other incombustible material, and unless
the board of mayor and aldermen shall give a license therefor.
. Passed to be ordained December 7, 1897.
INDEX.
INDEX.
A
Abatement of taxes 673
Assets, statement and Inventory of 705
Annual interest charge on bonded debt 702
Auditor, city, report of 493
Auditor's department 533
Appropriations for 1897 by city councils 674
Appendix, school 353
Amoskeag cemetery 651
Amoskeag bridge abutment 560
B
Band concerts 672
Bicycle path 573
Bridges 559
Books and stationery 595
Buildings, repairs of 629
public, occupied by private parties 704
Board of water commissioners, organization of 88
report of 89
health, report of 421
Bonded debt, tabular statement of 698
detailed statement of, for 1897 701
annual interest charge 702
c
Churches, etc., valuation of, exempt from tax 6S8
City hall 511
officers' salaries 529
teams 561
officials, list of 3-22
engineer, report of 185
engineer's department, organization of 184
solicitor, report of 405
auditor's report 493
treasurer's report 495
councils, orders, ordinance.? 717
745
746 INDEX.
City auditor's department 533
farm GbO
library GOG
report of trustees of 381
treasurer's report 385
librarian's report 392
donations to 397
Contingent expenses GDG
Care of rooms 599
Commons 573
Cemetery, Pine Grove G44
Valley 648
Amoskeag G51
Cemeteries, report of sub-trustees of Valley 45G
Pine Grove 453
Amoskeag 457
treasurer of 459
treasurer of fund 4C0
County tax G73
D
Debt, payment of funded • 507
bonded, statement of 701
Decoration of soldiers' graves G71
Derryfield and Stark parks 576
E
Engineer's department 581
Expenses, incidental 517
mayor's 535
contingent 59G
Evening schools 601
school, mechanical drawing 603
Electric lights, location of 477
Elliot Hospital 671
Emergency Ward 671
Exempted from tax, property 688
P
Fund, reserved 508
Fuel 591
Furniture and supplies 592
Free text-books 603
Fire department 608
report of chief engineer 253
value of personal property 308
names and residences of members 309
location fire-alarm boxes 285
Fire-alarm telegraph 618
Farm, paupers off 655
city 6C0
INDEX. 747
G
Grading for concrete 554
Graves, decoration of soldiers' 671
Gas-lights, location of 475
H
Highways, new 544
laud taken for 546
watering 546
paving 548
macadamizing 551
grading for concrete on 554
scavenger service 556
sweeping 558
lighting 578
bridges 559
city teams 561
repairs of 537
Health department 582
board of, report ot 421
High School, dedication of 654
Home, Women's Aid 670
Hospital, Elliot, free beds 671
Sacred Heart 671
Notre Dame de Lourdes 671
Hydrant service 620
I
Inaugural address 25-85
Interest 50G
annual charge, bonded debt 702
Incidental expenses 517
Indigent soldiers 663
Inventory of assets 705
L
Laws relating to exemptions 686
Loan, temporary 510
Land in West Manchester 652
taken for highways 546
Lighting streets 578
Library, city 606
Legal points and rules relating to claims against the city ;.. 714
M
Manual training 605
Mayor's incidentals 535
748 INDEX.
Macadamizing streets • 551
Merrill yard 651
Militia 672
Milk inspector, report of 411
Municipal receipts and expenditures 499
Manufacturing property exempt from taxation 697
N
New highways 544
schoolhouses 633
0
Order to build Lake avenue to grade 737
to establish grade of Chestnut street 727
to erect certain fire-alarm boxes 724
relating to Parker school lot 734
to purchase horses for fire department 731, 733
to build certain sewers 724, 732, 735, 738, 739
to establish the grade of Alsace street 726
to establish the grade of Glenwood avenue 737
relating to the final transfers for 1896 728
relating to claims and suits against the city 730
to repair public buildings 731
relative to new High school 732, 733
relative to appropriation for soldiers' graves 734
relative to semi-centennial history 736
to erect gasoline lanterns 737
to construct bicycle path 739
relating to unclaimed bills 740
to establish the grade of So. Main street 724
to print fifty-first report 730
to purchase horses for city farm , 740
to erect certain electric lights 735
relating to pay of militia 736
to macadamize Pearl street 735
to build Cleveland street 726
to purchase trees 732
Ordinance amending section 1, chapter 14 741
changing name of certain streets 741
Ordinances, orders, resolutions 717
Organization of school board for 1897 369
Overseers of the poor, report of 415
Oil lamps, location of 476
P
Parks — Derryfield and Stark 576
Parsonages, valuation of, exempt from taxation 6S8
Paupers off the farm 655
INDEX. 749
Paving streets 548
Paving Elm and Granite streets 550
Payment of funded debt 507
Pine Grove cemetery * 644
Police department, station 621
court 623
commission 624
Printing and stationery 514
and advertising 596
Property account, real and personal 705
Public buildings occupied by private parties 704
Pa rker school lot 635
R
Reserved fund 508
Repairs of schoolhouses • 588
of buildings 629
of highways 537
Rooms, care of 569
Resolutions, orders, and ordinances 717
transferring money 721, 722, 723
to purchase laud on Piscataquog river 719
to discontinue certain streets and sewers 720
raising money and making appropriations for 1897 674
making temporary loan 719, 720
Report of board of Water commissioners 89
Superintendent of Water-works 91
City Engineer 185
Chief Engineer Fire Department , 253
Trustees of City Library 381
Sub-Trusteees of Valley cemetery 456
Pine Grove cemetery 453
Amoskeag cemetery 457
Treasurer of cemeteries 459
Treasurer of Cemetery Fund 460
Treasurer of Sinking Fund 4G9
Overseers of the Poor 415
Street and Park Commission 129
Committee on Sewers and Drains 209
City Solicitor 405
School Superintendent 321
Board of Health 421
City Auditor 493
City Treasurer 495
Real and personal estate owned by the city 705
property, exempt from taxation, other than public property G97
Rules, etc., relating to bills against the city (auditor's department) 720
Receipts and expenditures, 1897 506
municipal, for 1897 499
River road, Clarke, and Elm street sewer 571
750 INDEX.
s
Sacred Heart Hospital 671
Salaries of city offlcials 529
Salaries, teachers' 602
Scavenger service 556
School department, organization of 369
evening, mechanical drawing 603
superintendent's report 321
Schoolhouses, new 633
repairs of 588
Semi-centennial history 673
Sewers, repairs of 566
new 568
Sinking fund 507
treasurer's report 469
Snow and ice 542
Soldiers, indigent 669
Solicitor, city, report of 405
Stark and Derryfleld parks 576
Statement of bonded debt 698
public buildings occupied by private parties 704
State tax 673
Street and park commission 535
report of 129
Streets laid out, not built 202
Street sweeping 555
T
Tabular statement of receipts 'and expenditures 506
of taxation by Board of Assessors 678
Taxes, abatement of , 673
due and uncollected 681
Tax, state 673
county 673
valuations 681
Taxation, appropriations for 1S97 674
exemption 688
settlement of account tax collector 682-684
Teachers, list of 371
Teachers' salaries • 602
Teams, city 561
Temporary loan 510
Text-books, free 603
Training, manual 605
Treasurer, city, report of 495
V
Valley cemetery 648
Valuation and taxes, 1897 C80
INDEX. 751
W
Watering streets 546
Water- works, superintendent's report 91
commissioner's report 89
expenses 635
Weston Observatory 652
dedication of 653
Women's Aid Home 670
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