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1882 City of Portland. Auditor's Twenty-Third Annual Report of the Receipts and Expenditures of the City of Portland, for the Financial Year 1881-82, April 1, 1881, (both inclusive), March 31, 1882, with the Mayor's Address, and Annual Reports of the Several Departments, made to the City Council March, 1882 Portland (Me.)

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This Report is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@UMaine. It has been accepted for inclusion in Maine Town Documents by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@UMaine. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CITY OF PORTLAND. * AUDITOR'S TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT

OP THE RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES

OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND, FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR 1881-82.

April 1, 1881, (both inclusive), March 31, 1882.

WITH THE MAYOR'S ADDRESS,

AND Annual Reports of the Several Departments,

MADE TO THE CITY COUNCIL MARCH, 1882.

PORTLAND, ME. FOED & RICH, PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS, COKNEK EXCHANGE AND FORE STBEETB. 1882.

INDEX.

Address of Mayor 12 16 Abatements 26 32 Auditor's notice about bills 24 Accounts of Auditor 26 32 Accounts of Treasurer 104 105 Accounts of Committee on, reports of do 106 Advertising 32 74 Appropriations 23 26 74 Armories 62 81 Assessor's valuation of real and personal estates 87 94 Auditor's report 18 26 32 Atlantic & St. Lawrence Bailroad sinking fund 86 Balance in treasury 18 63 Balance standing to the credit of various accounts 20 City Government, members of, 1882-3. 7 Cemeteries and public grounds 26 36 75 City Building 20 25 26 32 74 80 City Debt 20 69 74 City notes 26 32 City property, real and personal 96 City property, in various departments 99 Committee on accounts, report of auditor 68 Committee on accounts, report of treasurer 106 Committee on reduction of city debt 65 Committee on Revised Ordinances 36 Contract with Portland Water Co 109 Contingent account 26 34 56 75 County taxes 28 53 79 Damages on streets 27 37 98 Decrease of city debt 71 Deering's Oaks 20 Discount on taxes 26 37 75 Drains and sewers 20 26 37 75 80 Dog licenses 57 INDEX.

Evergreen Cemetery 27 37 58 75 Evergreen Cemetery Ordinances 109 Evergreen fund 29 08 Expenditures 18 32 Expenditures, estimated 74 81 Expenditures, recapitulation of 81 Estates, valuation of 87 Fees and Fines 60 80 Fire department 20 27 39 60 76 Fire department, salaries 20 27 40 76 Forest City Cemetery 27 38 60 75 Gaslights 21 27 41 76 Harbor 76 Health 21 27 42 76 Income 25 31 Income, estimated 25 31 Income, recapitulation 64 Interest 27 42 61 76 Investment of sinking fund 25 61 Investment of Evergreen fund 67 Liquor agency 21 25 42 61 Licenses 61 80 Loans 32 Land sold 61 Mayor's address 12 16 Members of the City Government, 1882-83 7 Monthly expenditures 54$ Notice of auditor 24 Notes receivable 61 Overlayings and abatements 27 42 61 Ordinances, Evergreen Cemetery 109 Ordinance, Water Co 107 Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad 27 43 76 Portland & Rochester Railroad 27 43 76 Police contingent.., 28 43 77 Police salaries , 28 43 77 Poor, support of 28 48 63 81 Printing and stationery 27 44 77 Property, real and personal 96 Property in departments 98 Public buildings 28 44 77 Railroad taxes 62 80 Recapitulation of Expenditures, etc 55 81 Receipts 25 Reduction of city debt 65 Reform School—State 28 53 Rents 62 80 Rent of armories 62 81 Remarks of Mayor Senter 9 Reserved fund 22 28 77 Revenue 25 V

Salaries 28 45 77 Schools 22 28 50 62 80 School salaries 51 28 78 School for the deaf 28 52 62 78 Shailer School house (Munjoy) 28 52 79 Sinking fund 63 72 Sinking fund, Atlancic and St. Lawrence railroad report 86 Sinking fund, reduction of city debt 19 65 State Reform School 28 53 79 Statement of monthly expenditures 54i Statement of appropriations and expenditures 67 Stocks and bonds 100 State pensions 23 28 63 Streets, sidewalks and bridges 22 28 47 78 Summary 73 Support of Poor 22 28 48 63 78 Taxes 63 90 Taxes, discount on 26 37 75 Taxes, State 28 54 79 88 Taxes, County 28 53 79 81 Treasurer's accounts 104 105 Treasurer's balance 18 105 Trust funds 82 85 Valuations of estates and taxes assessed 87 Water and hydrants 23 28 54 79 Water Company contract 107 Ways and means 80 Ward lines 101

APPENDIX. Burials, superintendent's report 134 135 City Marshal's report 118 123 City Physician's report 157 City Solicitor's report 131 133 City Civil Engineer's report 141 156 Fire Department, Chief Engineer's report 85 89 Fire Department, Relief Association 93 Fire Department, fires and alarms 94 Fire Department, location of fire alarm boxes 103 Fire Department, list of reservoirs 104 Gas Agent's report 159 Harbor Master's report 158 Hydrants, location of and reservoirs 100 Names of fire engines 89 93 Names of members of fire engine companies 89 93 Poor, Overseers report 105 117 Report of Truant Officer 136 Report Inspector of Milk 137 140 Report Civil Engineer 141 INDEX.

School Committee's report 1 9 48 School appropriations and expenditures 16 School districts 55 School Committee's names T8 School Teacher's names 79 82 School statistics 14 49 76 77 School for the deaf 10 Superintendent of school buildings 12 Superintendent of burials 134 135 Sewers, superintendent's report 141 156 Streets, Commissioner's report 124 130 Truant officer's report 136

instead of sewer on Cumberland street, read sewer on Com­ mercial street. CITY GOVERNMENT, 1882-3 MAYOR, CHARLES P. LIBBT. CITY CLERK, HOSEA I. ROBINSON. ALDERMEN", ALBION LITTLE, Chairman. Ward 1.—Samuel Thurston, Ward 4.—Edward B. Winslow. " 2.—Robert M. Gould. " 5.—Marquis P. King. " 3.—John C. Tukesbury. " 6.—Albion Little. Ward 7.—Holman S. Melcher. COMMON COUNCIL. SYLVESTER MARR, President. L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk. Ward 1.—Henry Trefethen, Ward 4—Charles M. Cushman, Horace A. Hallett, William McAleney, David B. Ricker. John W. Sullivan. Ward 2.—John V. Bradley, Ward 5.—James F. Hawkes, John J. Lappin, Augustine D. Smith, William T. Murray. John H. Fogg. Ward 3.—Augustus H. Prince, Ward 6.—Sylvester Marr, Horatio Clark, Thomas Shaw, Samuel B. Kelsey. Charles D. Brown. Ward 7.—Stephen B. Winchester. Edward A. Noyes, Alvin Jordan. PRINCIPAL CITY OFFICERS. City Clerk.—Hosea I. Robinson. City Treasurer and Collector.—Henry W. Hersey. City Auditor.—Cyrus Howell. City Solicitor.—Wm. H. Looney. City Civil Engineer.—Wm. A Goodwin. City Commissioner of Streets.—Hanson S. Clay. City Physician.—William Cammett. City Marshal.—Cyrus K. Bridges. City Messenger.—John L. Shaw. City Assessors.—Stephen Marsh. Cyrus K. Ladd. George C. Burgess. City Chief Engineer of Mre Department.—Granville H. Cloyes. Names of members of former City Government may be found in Report of 1875. Each succeeding Report gives the names of the City Government for the year ensuing.

REMARKS OF HON. MAYOR SENTER,

At the closing meeting of the City Government of 1881-2, in response to the RESOLUTION OF THANKS. Alderman Chapman offered the following, which was un­ animously adopted: Resolved, That the thanks of this Board be and are here­ by tendered to His Honor, Wm. Senter, Mayor, for the im­ partiality of his rulings in presiding over our deliberations; for his courteous treatment in the general business incident to our relations with him, and our best wishes for his future happiness as we sever our official relations. Mayor Senter responded as follows: MAYOR SENTER'S RESPONSE. G-entlemen of the Board:—I take occasion in separating from this Board to thank you for the support and assistance you have rendered me in my endeavor to discharge the du­ ties which devolved upon me; also to make a few general remarks incident to the occasion. But a few years since, and our financial condition was not hopeful. Through the efforts of our predecessors, a system of economy was established, which has been partially suc­ cessful. Two years has produced a very decided and satisfactory change in the condition and prospects of our city. The change is due to the share we have had in the general pros­ perity of our country, and to the increase in the general and legitimate business of our State, in our lumber, commercial and fishing industries, and the increase of the trade and manu­ factures of the city. The promise is good for the future. The same course pursued by the City Government for a few years to come, which has marked its business for a few years past, will soon make our taxes too light to be burden­ some. 2 10 REMARKS OF MAYOR SENTER. In a few years our bonds, at their maturity, can probably be refunded at a lower rate of interest than we are now pay­ ing, our interest in the Portland & Ogdensburg be disposed of to the reduction of our debt, and the increase of taxable property will go far to reduce our taxation. We may congratulate ourselves on the condition of our city's affairs at present. We rank high in point of health and have not suffered from pestilence or calamity. Our dif­ ferent departments of city work show in the main excellent results. If I should specify any one in particular I know that you would all agree with me in naming our Evergreen Cemetery and our street department. There is no anticipated extraordinary expenditures for the coming year, beyond the usual routine, except it may be for the proposed sewer on Cumberland street, and it must sooner or later be commenced. We may flatter ourselves that in all the business of the city in expenditures under the appropriations, that we show good results for the money expended. Some propositions of doubtful propriety will have to be settled by the next Council. Some of the present board are elected for the next year, and my best wishes go with you, and hope that the year to come may be one in every respect most satisfactory. I shoiild omit a plain duty did I fail to notice the work done in this building by city officials. And too often much of the valuable service done in our different departments is overlooked. The treasury under Mr. Hersey, with the effi­ cient clerks; the Auditor, City Clerk and our Civil Engineer deserve high praise. Add to these the labor of our Assessors and our Overseers, with their competent Secretary, Mr. Ba­ ker. All these different departments are carried on quietly, efficiently and the officers are content to faithfully perform their duties and claim no praise for the service they render. It is only to those who are conversant with the care and preservation of this building, who appreciate the useful ser­ vices of our engineer, janitor and messenger. Our reporters deserve much credit for their patience with us, their industry and faithfulness in fairly representing us and reporting our doings. LIBBY. 11

I believe that all connected with city affairs have been actuated by a desire to do their duty, and that no disposition has been manifested to take personal credit for faithfulness and watchfulness for the interests of the city. Our fellow citizens will form a right estimate of such without our sound­ ing our own praises.

INAUGURATION OF MAYOR LIBBY.

A special meeting of the City Council was held ot 10 A. M. to-day, March 22, for the purpose of electing a Mayor, as the two city elections had resulted in no choice. IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN. The Board was called to order by His Honor Mayor Senter—all present—and the clerk read the vote announcing no election for Mayor by the people. IN JOINT CONVENTION. Both Boards having met in joint convention, Mayor Senter presiding, the Clerk read the record of the last city election. The Mayor stating they would vote for one of the four candidates receiving the highest number of votes at the last city election. City Clerk Robinson called the roll, and the vote stood as follows: Whole number of votes 27 Necessary for a choice 14 Charles P. Libby had 18 And Mr. Libby was declared elected. Alderman Little moved a committee be appointed to wait on the Mayor elect and request his presence. Alderman Little and Councilmen Noyes and McAleny were appointed said committee. Mayor-elect Libby appeared with the committee ; the oath of office was administered by the City Clerk, after which Mayor Libby spoke as follows: 12 MAYOR'S ADDRESS.

MAYOR LIBBY'S ADDRESS.

Gentlemen of the City Council : The unusual delay in completing the organization of the City Gov­ ernment renders it inexpedient that I should attempt at this time to deliver any formal address, and yet as it may aid you in discharging the important duty of fixing the appropriations and salaries for the ensuing year to understand clearly the financial condition of the city, I will briefly call your attention to a few facts. The following is a statement of our municipal debt: Total municipal debt including $787,000 of bonds is­ sued in aid of the Atlantic & St. Lawrance railroad, $207,000 of bonds issued for interest on Portland & Eochester railroad account, and $121,500 issued for interest on Portland & Ogdensburg railroad account $2,052,000.00 Outstanding building loan bonds secured by mortgage of real estate 325,000.00 Bonds issued in aid of Portland & Rochester Railroad 1,043,500.00 Bonds issued in aid of Portland & Ogdensburg Rail­ road. 1,200,000.00

Gross debt March 22, 1882 $4,620,500.00 AVAILABLE ASSETS. Gas stock (1,700 shares) and notes receivable, &c 105,817.95 Sinking fund 20,504.40 Building loan bonds secured by mortgages 325,000.00 Bonds secured by sinking fund and mortgage of At­ lantic & St. Lawrance Railroad 787,000.00

$1,238,322.35

Net debt at date without deduction of value of Port­ land & Ogdensburg railroad stock and bonds held by the city $3,382,177.65

The gross debt has been reduced during the past year $67,- 600. by the payment of that amount of municipal bonds, and will be further reduced by transfer of unexpended balances MAYOR'S ADDEESS. 13

and surplus income at the close of the financial year March 31,1882, the exact amount of which cannot be given until the books are made up, but will probably exceed $8,000. The city has no floating debt, and the expenditures of the past municipal year will not exceed the appropriations. An examination of the above figures shows that our muni­ cipal debt proper is $936,500. Of the balance $3,359,000. is due to aid extended to railroads, of which $787,000. is well secured by mortgage and sinking fund of the Atlantic & St Lawrence railroad, and for the remainder we hold as security 7,143 shares of the stock, and $1,250,000. of the mortgage bonds of the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad, which are a first lien on the " mountain section " and a second lien on that part of the road which extends from Portland to North Conway. April 1,1877, the total debt of the city was, $6,050,200. In that year a statute was passed prohibiting the creation of any further municipal debt, not to be paid by taxes of the year in which it is incurred, " so long as the aggregate debts and liabilities of said city exceed five per cent, of its valua­ tion." This prohibition, however does not extend to any loan made for the purpose of renewing any existing indebtedness. This act was passed on application of the city pursuant to the recommendation contained in the report of the commiss­ ioners appointed by the city in 1876, to examine into the affairs of the Portland and Rochester and Portland and Og­ densburg railroads. This report first aroused our citizens to a realization of the unfortunate financial condition into which we had drifted and the necessity of a more economical ad­ ministration of our municipal affairs. A constitutional amendment of like character applicable to all towns and cities in the State was adopted the same year. This legisla­ tion marks a new era in our municipal finances. Since 1877, our municipal indebtedness has been reduced $1,429,700. or at the rate of nearly $300,000. a year. Our appropriations during the past year were smaller than they have been for ten years, and the rate of taxation was lower than at any time since 1864. The stimulus which this lower rate of tax­ ation has already given to all our municipal interests is a matter of common remark, and demonstrates that the future 14 MATOB'S ADDBESS. growth and prosperity of our city depend largely upon a still further reduction of the burdens which have so long rested on property and capital in our midst. I deem it of paramount importance that the rate of taxation should be kept down, and, notwithstanding some additional and unex­ pected burdens are thrown upon us this year, that the rate should not be increased. The State tax will be the same as last year; the county tax will be nearly $10,000. less. From the best information I have been able to obtain as to the probable requirements of the different departments of the municipal government I am of the opinion that no increased appropriations as a whole will be required. Some, I think, may be reduced. Nearly $200,000. of our municipal debt falls due this year. This can be renewed at a lower rate of interest. A four per cent bond in our present financial condition should sell at par. We have no floating debt, and can create none. We are bound to live within our income. By the refusal of the Grand Trunk Kailway to pay the in­ terest on our bonds issued in extension of the original loan to the Atlantic & St. Lawrence railroad, an additional burden is thrown upon the city to the extent of the annual interest $47,220. The history of this matter is as follows: When the bonds that had been originally issued in aid of the Atlantic & St. Lawrance railroad were about to fall due in 1868, it was found that the sinking fund established for their payment would be insufficient for that purpose, and the railroad company requested the city to extend the balance of their obligations amounting to $787,000. on the ground that they were not able to meet the same. Legislative sanction was sought and obtained, and October 31, 1868, an agree­ ment was entered into between the city and the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Company by which the city agreed to extend for the term of eighteen years so much of its loan to the railroad as would not be paid by the sinking funds. The agreement further specifies that "it is understood by "the parties that the city will be obliged to issue its new bonds "to an amount equal to the unsatisfied balances of the compa- "ny's obligations, * * * * and the city engages that it " will offer to the railroad company the option of procuring the MAYOR'S ADDRESS. 15

"negotiation of the same at reasonable times and at the most "favorable rates to be obtained in the market, * * * and "the parties of this instrument further agree that their inten­ sion is to provide for the ultimate payment of all the balanc­ es of the company's obligations aforesaid in the manner which "shall be least burdensome and most advantageous to the "parties, but iviihout pecuniary loss or detriment to the city in "any event." In accordance with this agreement the city issued its bonds to the amount of $787,000. payable in eighteen years from their date with six per cent, interest, and negotiated them with the aid of the railroad company. Provision was also made in the agreement for payments by the railroad company of the semi-annual interest due on the bonds, and for annual payments, into the sinking fund. These payments were regu­ larly made until 1881, when the company tendered to the city the sum of $428,431.10, which with the amount in the sinking fund was claimed to be in full of " the unsatisfied balance of the company obligations given to the city." The city declined to receive the amount, claiming it had extended the debt for the term of eighteen years and was not bound to receive payment of the same until the expiration of that time, that it could not do it without great " pecuniary loss and detriment" as its bonds were outstanding, which had been issued at the company's request in renewal of the earlier bonds, and would continue to draw interest at a higher rate than could be obtained on the money tendered in payment. The money was thereupon paid by the company to the commissioners of the sinking fund who hold the same, draw­ ing only three per cent, interest awaiting a settlement of the controversy. Actions have been commenced by the city for that purpose which will be argued before the law court in July next. Meanwhile, an additional sum for interest growing out of railroad loans must be provided for by taxation. I have entered thus fully into some features of our finan­ cial situation in order that you may see the necessity of guarding carefully against any unnecessary expenditures which might entail an increase in the rate of taxation the present year. 16 MAYOR'S ADDRESS.

As regards the condition and working of the several de­ partments of the city government, my acquaintance with most of them is yet too slight to enable me to offer any sug­ gestions of value. Later I may find it expedient to exercise the privilege which is granted to the Mayor by the city charter of communicating " from time to time to the City Council, or either board such information, and recommending such measures as the interests of the city may require." Appreciating the circumstances under which I am called to the office of chief magistrate of our city I deem myself pecul­ iarly fortunate in being associated with a City Council which contains so many members who are identified with important business interests, and who can supplement my inexperience by their practical judgment and wise counsels. It will be my pleasure to co-operate with you in every effort made to promote the interests of our city. CHARLES F. LIBBY, Mayor. CITY OF PORTLAND.

IN BOARD OP MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, ) May 1, 1882. j Ordered, That the Auditor of accounts be and he hereby is authorized to make his annual report of receipts and ex­ penditures of the city, for the financial year, in print, and that seven hundred copies of the same be printed for the use of the city, and for distribution; and that there be appended thereto a copy of the Mayor's address, copies of the treasur­ er's accounts, also copies of the reports of other city officers, returned to the city council at the close of the past muni­ cipal year.

Read and passed. Sent down. Attest, H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, j May 1, 1882. \ Read and passed, in concurrence. Attest, L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk.

Approved. CHARLES F. LIBBY, Mayor.

A true copy. Attest, H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk. AUDITOR'S REPORT.

AUDITOR'S OFFICE, May 13, 1882. To the Honorable City Council: GENTLEMEN :—The ninth section of the ordinance respect­ ing the office of " auditor of accounts " prescribes : " That it shall be the duty of the auditor of accounts to lay before the city council, annually, at such time as the council may direct, an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be raised for the ensuing year, under the re­ spective heads of appropriations; and shall, also, annually, at such time as the council may direct, make and lay before said council, a statement of all the receipts and expenditures of the past financial year, giving in detail the amount of appropriation and expenditure for each specific object, the receipt from each source of income, the whole to be arranged as far as practicable to conform to the accounts of the city treasurer; and said statement shal' be accompanied by a schedule of all the property belonging to the city, and an exhibit of the debts due from the city." The requirement of the first clause of the foregoing sec­ tion directing "an estimate of money necessary to be raised for the ensuing year, under respective heads of appropria­ tions," be made, and in obedience to order of council, it was my pleasure to present under date of the first instant. In conformity with the latter requirement, and in accord­ ance with the order of May 1, I now have the honor to submit to the city council my report for the financial year 1881-2, which commenced with the 1st day of April, 1881, and ended with the last day of March, 1882. The receipts into the treasury from all sources have been .... $888,058 23 The balance in the treasury at com­ mencement of the year was . . 145,179 42 -$1,033,237 65 The expenditures as per auditor's account have been 900,950 45 Leaving a balance^ in the city treas- ury at the close of the year, of . $132,287 20 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 19

SINKING FUND FOE EEDUCTION OF CITY DEBT. The receipts of this fund during the past year has been as follows: Balance standing to the credit of that account at the commence­ ment of the year, with the in­ vestment $92,356 40 To which there was added by amount raised by taxation in accordance with an ordinance of the city requiring not less than one per cent of the funded debt (with certain exceptions) to be raised in the taxes each year . 35,631 00 And from various other sources in conformity with the provisions of the ordinances establishing the fund 26,994 18 $154,981 58 From which has been paid of the funded debt of the city falling due the past financial year . 67,600 00 Amount transferred to income account 47,220 00 $114,820 00 Leaving an available balance of account standing to the credit of this fund at the close of the year of $40,161 58 Which can only be applied to the purchase of the capital of the city debt, as it may fall due, under the direction of the Committee on Reduction of the city debt. CITY DEBT.—TEMPORARY. Temporary loans were authorized by the City Council, in anticipation of receipts from taxes; but by arrangements made by the treasurer, such loans were rendered unnecessary. The city has no temporary city debt. Other authorized loans are arranged to be paid from the sinking fund. 20 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

CITY DEBT.—PERMANENT. Payments on account of the fund­ ed debt of the city the past year have been for city notes ma­ tured, paid from sinking fund for reduction of city debt, . . Municipal bonds, f 67,600 00 Showing a decrease of the municipal funded debt the past year of this amount, no bonds having been issued. Over drafts in a few appropriations were covered by a transfer of undrawn balances being sufficient for the pur­ pose, besides the balance carried to " sinking fund." CITY BUILDING. The expenditures for this purpose include the necessary repairs of the building and of steam apparatus for heating the same, fuel, pay of engineers and janitor, and for gas used in the hall and rooms occupied for city purposes. Repairs on the county wing of the building, authorized by the committee on public buildings, in accordance with the terms of the "lease," are included in these expenditures. The gross expenditures the past year, $10,357 29. DRAINS AND SEWERS. The report of the superintendent of drains and sewers, to be found among the reports of the various departments an­ nexed, furnishes the necessary information in regard to the location of sewers laid the past year, length of same, cost per foot, and assessment to individuals, etc. Total expenditures, $13,518 40. DEERING'S OAKS. But slight improvements were made in these grounds the past year; though with commendable zeal the committee "made the most" of their limited appropriation. FIRE DEPARTMENT. The expenditures of this department, exclusive of the pay to companies, engineers of steamers, and the chief and his assistants, but including the cost of repairs upon steamers, new hose, etc., together with the amount paid for general expenses, in which is included the expenses of the Fire Alarm Telegraph. The particular workings of the department are fully set forth in the report of the Chief Engineer. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET. 21

Amount of expenditures, 120,093 10, not including the ex­ pensive repairs upon the "Machigonne." In this amount however, is included payment of a new engine from the Manchester Locomotive Works, retaining the old name of Portland, No. 2. There are now five steamers in use in the department, viz: "Machigonne," "Portland," "Cumberland," "Falmouth," "Casco," besides two held in reserve, though in rather poor condition. If to the ordinary expenses of the department is added the salaries paid to companies and engineers of steamers, with those of the chief engineer and four assistants for the past year, charged under the head of fire department salaries, and salaries, the entire expenses of the department for the past year will be $31,778 05. GAS LIGHTS. The expenditures for street lamps and lighting the past year, have been $18,139 36. There were 454 gas lamps in use January 1st, 1882, 109 lamps for burning naptha and kerosene, are in use in Wash­ ington and other streets at North end and West end, and 2 on the bridge leading from Clark street, where there are no gas mains, and 7 on Peak's Island. In all 116. HEALTH. The expenditures in this department have been almost wholly for the clearing of the outlets of drains running into Back Cove. The salary of the City Physician is charged under the head of salaries, and his services are mostly in connection with the board of Overseers at the Alms House department. The few cases of small pox that have appeared, has made but slight additional expense to the department thus far; the total expenditure being $613 13. LIQUOR AGENCY. The amount of payments as well as receipts are for the year past. The agency is managed by a committee of the board of aldermen; the agent making weekly deposits into the city treasury. The receipts to the city treasury are in the nature of " special deposits," being applicable only to the payment of the bills of the affencv. 22 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

Receipts, $24,685.00; payments, $26,548.60. The over draft supplied from surplus balance of last year. RESERVED FUND. Five thousand dollars was appropriated to be held in re­ serve till the close of the financial year, to be transferred to supply deficits in overdrawn appropriations. At the close of the financial year, by vote of the city council, the amount was transferred to the general balance for over expenditures in other appropriations. STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND BRIDGES. The appropriation of $50,000—with the amount received from the fire department for the use of horses to haul the fire engines—of $7,500.00 is in addition to the above. The gen­ eral expenses were less than the appropriation and receipts, amounting to $57,458.65—an occurrence worthy of special note. The report of the street commissioner will give the gener­ al items of expenditures on particular streets. SUPPORT OF POOR. The expenditure in this department of the city during the past year has been $21,704.03; in which is included the cost of repairs of buildings, fences, &c. Amount received from this department carried to " Income," $1,510.93. SCHOOLS. The current expenses for sustaining the public schools the past year, are as follows: For salaries of teachers in the various branches, including music, languages, penmanship, and salary of Superintendent, $61,313.50. Besides ordinary expenses for repairs of school buildings, fuel, stationery, fur­ niture, chemicals, and salary of Superintendent of school buildings, amounting to $18,434.23. The report of the school committee and of the teacher of penmanship, music, &c, may be found in the appendix. The school for the deaf, under the direction of the school committee, and for details connected therewith, reference may be had to their report. The building and furnishing a brick school house on Mun- joy has been completed, and it has been occupied since the beginning of the "fall term." Its location is on North street, and the city council have adopted the name of "Shailer AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 23

School," in memory of Rev. Dr. Shailer, deceased, a memo­ rial of his long and valuable services as a member of the school board of this city. STATE PENSIONS. By a law of the State, passed by the Legislature of 1866, and continued by succeeding legislative action, pensions were granted under certain restrictions, to soldiers or sailors who served in the war of 1861, or in case of death, to their widows or orphan children, or dependent mother or sister; and by order of the Governor and Council, it was made the duty of municipal officers of towns and cities to examine carefully all claims for pensions under the law, certify and forward the same to the Governor and Council, and if allowed, they were returned to the treasurers of the several towns and cities, who are required to pay them quarterly to the parties in person, in whose favor the pension certificate was drawn, to be reimbursed by the State. There has been paid the past year on this account, to quarter ending December 31st, the sum of #1,332.00. This amount has been paid from cur­ rent receipts, bills sent to State department, approved, and amount refunded to the treasurer. •WATER AND HYDRANTS. This appropriation was made for the setting and repairs of hydrants and drinking fountains, with other incidental ex­ penses, and to cover the contract made with the Portland Water Company, dated September 24,1870, for the stipulated sum of $4,000. annually. The expenditures were $6,286.73. NOTE Number of hydrants and their location, may be found In the report of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department. APPROPRIATIONS. But few of the departments have exceeded the appropria­ tions as on City Building, Drains, Sewers, &c.; where a defi­ ciency existed, a transfer from unexpended appropriations was authorized for the payment. The balance of, or the sur­ plus of unexpended appropriations, being more than sufficient to meet the over expenditures, were so applied. The surplus remaining of unexpended balances, as will be seen by the statement in another portion of this report, is carried to the 24 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

SINKING FUND, or credit of "committee on the reduction of the city debt." Accounts in detail of the city property, the city debt, and all other statements required by the ordinance establishing this department, will be found under their appropriate heads. All of which is respectfully submitted, CYRUS NOWELL, Auditor of Accounts.

AUDITOR'S NOTICE.

CITY OF PORTLAND, j Auditor's Office, City Building. \ The first day of each month is PAY DAY on all bills prop­ erly approved. All bills against the several departments must be presented to the AUDITOE on or before the 25th of the month preced­ ing their payment on the first of the succeeding month. All bills not so presented lie over to the next month. All bills presented for payment must specify what the arti­ cle or articles were for, and for what department, and when for labor, where it was performed, with proper dates. Items charged to different appropriations or departments should be made on separate bills. The Auditor desires parties whose claims against the city have been duly allowed, to be prompt in their calls to receive payment,—and when bills have been once presented ascer­ tain if allowed, before duplicating the amount on a subse­ quent bill, as is sometimes done. AUDITOR'S AHNTJAL EKPOET. 25 REVENUE. The REVBNTJE to the city the past year has been derived from the following sources, viz : INCOME RECEIPTS. City Building, . . . . $3,582 29 Drains and Sewers, . 2,745 75 Fees and Fines, . 4,570 03 Interest, 13,666 41 Licenses, .... 80 00 Rents, .... 4,134 29 Railroad and Telegraph Tax, 2,079 29 Support of Poor, 1,510 93 Schools, .... 16,937 89 Armories, rent of, 400 00 $49,706 88 Receipts, from various sources, not estimated, .... 11,248 69 Taxes, collected by H. W. Hersey, collector, .... 758,360 61 $819,316 18 Received from ordinary sources and applicable to the current expenses of the city.

The following items are of a differ­ ent class, viz : Sinking fund receipts, $6,120 98 Evergreen cemetery, . 13,006 44 Evergreen fund, . 2,652 13 Forest City Cemetery, 160 00 Land sold, cash receipts. 3,000 00 Dog Licenses, 70 00 Liquor Agency, . 24,685 00 Notes receivable, due on,and paid, 5,047 50 Investment of sinking fund Bonds matured and paid, 14,000 00 "3,742 05 $888,058 23 N. B.—$47,220. was transferred from sinking fund account to income account. APPROPRIATIONS, 1881-82.

Statement of the APPROPRIATIONS made by the City Council to meet the expenditures of the City of Portland, for the financial year which began with the first day of April, 1881, and ended with the last day of March, 1882. Also, a statement of the drafts made by the auditor on the treasurer against such appropriations. N". B.— The excess of expenditures over the appropriations in all cases was met by transfers from other appropriations duly authorised by the City Council.

APPROPRIATION, EXPENDITURES, OBJECT OF APPROPRIATION. ORIGINAL, ETC. PER AUDITOR'S REPORT. Abatements, transfer, $1,045 46 Advertising, Appropriation, 900 00 *City notes, reduction of city debt, Balance, 78,356 40 Appropriation, 35,631 00 Eeceipts, 16,067 30 " additional, 14,000 00 Surplus, income, 10,926 88 154,981 58 Transfer, 47,220 00 40,161 58 City Building, Appropriation, 10,000 00 Contingent, Appropriation, 16,000 00 Eeceipts transferred to sinking fund, Cemeteries and public grounds, Appropriation, 3,000 00 Committee on revised Ordinances, Balance, 2,500 00 Drains and sewers, Appropriation, 12,900 00 Discount on taxes, Appropriation, 20,000 00 Damages on streets, Appropriation, 2,500 00

Amount carried forward. $109,007 04 $128,012 11 *Less $47,220 of this amount by order "Income" account. of City Council transferred to AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EBPOBT. 27

EXPENDITURES, APPROPRIATION, OBJECT OF APPROPRIATION. ORIGINAL, ETC. PER AUDITOR'S REPORT. Amount brought forward, $109,007 04 $128,012 11 Evergreen Cemetery. Balance, 1,566 17 Appropriation, 1,700 00 Eeceipts, net, 13,006 44 16,272 61 15,840 97 Forest City Cemetery. Balance, 637 15 Appropriation, 150 00 Eeceipts, 160 00 947 15 208 30

Fire Department. Appropriation, 19,000 00 20,093 10 Eeceipts transferred to sinking fund, Fire department—salaries. Appropriation. 10,900 00 10,774 95

Gas Lights. Appropriation, 17,500 00 18,139 36

Harbor. Appropriation, 300 00 Health. Appropriation, 1,000 00 613 13 Interest. Appropriation, 127,580 00 126,124 35 Liquor Agency. Balance, 2,184 00 Eeceipts, 24,685 00 26,869 37 26,548 60 Overlayings & abatements, transfer, 842 91 842 91

Portland & Ogd'g E. E. Balance, 8,100 00 Appropriation, 72,000 00 80,100 00 72,780 00

Portland and Eoch'tr E. E Balance, 2,055 00 Appropriation, 62,610 00 64,665 00 62,760 00

Printing and Stationery. Appropriation, 2,000 00 1,525 26

Amount carried forward $476,984 08 $484,263 04 APPROPRIATION, EXPENDITURES, OBJECT OP APPROPRIATION. ORIGINAL, ETC. PER AUDITOR'S ACCOUNT. Amount brought forward. $476,984 08 $484,263 04 Police Salaries. Appropriation, 27,000 00 26,050 00

Police Contingent. Appropriation, 800 00 674 69

Public Buildings and H. & L. House. Appropriation, 3,300 00 1,724 40 *Reserved Fund, transferred, 5,000 00 Salaries. Appropriation, 27,000 00 25,888 88 Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges. Appropriation, 50,000 00 Receipts, 7,520 00 57,520 00 57,458 65 Support of Poor. Appropriation, 22,000 00 21,704 03 Schools. Appropriation, 18,898 00 18,434 23 School Salaries. Appropriation, 64,030 00 61,313 50 School for the Deaf. Appropriation, 1,550 00 Receipts, 1,640 00 3,190 00 2,699 91 "Shailer" School-house (Munjoy), Balance, 10,568 00 Appropriation, 300 00 10,868 00 12,087 50 State Reform School. Appropriation, 1,200 00 983 56 tState Pensions, Receipts, 1,332 00 1,332 00 Taxes, County. Balance, 17,954 84 Appropriation, 36,589 74 54,544 58 40,707 49 Taxes, State. Balance, 73,992 66 Appropriation, 137,054 20 211,046 86 139,341 84 Water and Hydrants. Appropriation, 6,500 00 6,286 73 •Transferred to other accounts. tRef untied by State. AUDITORS ANNUAL REPORT. 29

BALANCES of last year, $234,895 40 Appropriations, original, 813,892 94 Appropriations, additional, 3,000 00 Receipts other than from taxes, 79,234 05 Transfer from overlayings, 842 91 Transfer from abatements, 1,045 46 Surplus income, 10,926 88 $1,143,837 64 Less bonds (investment of sinking fund), matured, paid, 14,000 00

$1,129,837 64 Less, amount transfered from sinking fund, per order of city council, ap­ proved March 7th, being amount estimated as "Income" due from G. T. Railway on loan to A. & St. L. R. R. 47,220 00 $1,082,617 64 Actual expenditures, 900.950 45 $181,667 19 Balances (per order of city council) standing to the credit of the follow­ ing accounts, viz: Committee on reduction of the city debtit,, 40,161 58 State tax, balance, 71,705 02 County tax, balance, 13,837 09 Advertising, 326 31 Cemeteries and public grounds, 68 90 7,607 14 Contingent expenses, 650 22 Discount on taxes, 431 64 Evergreen cemetery, 9,500 00 Evergreen fund investment, 12,132 94 Evergreen fund account, 738 85 Forest City cemetery, 125 05 Fire department salaries, 300 00 Harbor, 386 87 Health, 1,455 65 Interest, 320 77 Liquor agency, 950 00 125 31 Police salaries, 1,575 60 Police contingent, 474 74 Public buildings, 216 44 Printing and stationery, 1,111 12 State reform school, 463 77 Salaries, 2,716 50 Schools, AmountSchool salariescarried, forward, $107,381 51 30 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL BEPOBT.

Amount brought forward, $107,381 51 School for the deaf, 490 09 61 35 Streets, sidewalks and bridges, 295 97 Support of poor, 4,000 00 City bonds, in aid A. & St. L. E. E., 7,320 00 Coupons in aid P. & O. E. E., 1,905 00 213 27 Coupons in aid P. & E. E. E., $181,667 19 Water and hydrants,

Ordinance Relating to Appropriations.

The ordinance relating to the office of auditor provides, that "no money shall be paid out of the city treasury unless the expenditures or terms of the contract shall be vouched by the chairman of the committee, or of the board under whose authority it has been authorized and made, nor unless the same shall be examined by the auditor, approved by the com­ mittee on accounts, and drawn for by the mayor." By the same ordinance it is provided, that "whenever the appropriations for the specific object shall have been ex­ pended, the auditor shall immediately communicate the same to the city council, that they may be apprised of the fact, and either make a further appropriation, or withhold, as they may deem expedient." Hence the necessity of applying to the city council for additional means, if, from any cause, an orig­ inal appropriation becomes expended. The additional means thus asked for can only be furnished by an authorized transfer from some existing appropriations having a surplus, or from unexpended balances of appropriations. In this manner the city council retain a knowledge and con­ trol of all the expenditures, as none can be made unless an appropriation for the same is expressly authorized by them. ATHHTOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 31

INCOME, 1881-82.

Statement of "ESTIMATED INCOME," for meeting the ex­ penditures of the City of Portland, for the financial year 1881—82, with an account of the actual receipts during that year:

Q^lTunrc ACTUAL ESTIMATED SUUltliKBi RECEIPTS. UECEU'TS. City Building, $3,582 00 $3,000 00 Drains and Sewers, 2,745 75 2,500 00 Fees and Fines, 4,570 03 1,400 00 Interest, 13,666 41 59,000 00 Licenses, 80 00 50 00 Rents, 4,134 29 3,700 00 Railroad and Telegraph Taxes, 2,079 29 500 00 Support of Poor, 1,510 93 1,400 00 Schools, 16,937 89 14,000 00 Armories, rent of 400 00 450 00 Actual Income, 49,706 88 86,000 00 "Amount transferred from Sinking fund, per order of City Coun 3il, 47,220 00 96,926 88 Estimated Income, 86,000 00

Surplus cash income carried to committee on reduction of city debt, $10,926 88 *Being amount of interest estimated to be received from G. T. R. R. (unpaid). 32 AUDITOE'S ANNUAL BEPOBT.

CITY EXPENDITURES.

Statement of the expenditures made on account of the CITY OF PORTLAND, during the financial year 1881-82. Commencing with the first day of April 1881, and ending with the last day of March, 1882. ABATEMENTS. Paid back sundry abatements to different par­ ties, made after payment of taxes, . . $1,045 46 Per item No. I of Treasurer's account. ADVERTISING. Paid for newspapers and advertising, . . $573 69 Per item No. 2 of Treasurer's Account. CITY NOTES, LOANS. Paid city notes maturing this year, viz: City debt maturing this year, paid from sink­ ing fund for reduction of city debt, . . $67,600 00 Per item No. 3 of Treasurer's Account. = CITY BUILDING. Expenditures on account of city and county building, including the expense of steam- heating, repairs and alterations, and of the portion occupied by the county, viz : REPAIRS. Carpentery, lumber, etc., .... $297 00 Slating, plastering, etc., ... 73 68 Plumbing, 373 65 Hardware, 48 45 Painting 35 H Repairs on roof, 1,172 45

Amount carried forward, $2,000 34 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 33

Amount brought forward, $2,000 34 STEAM HEATING. Pay of engineer and assistant, $1,350 00 Coal, etc., .... 2,383 73 Repairs on steam heating appa­ ratus, waste, hardware, etc., 129 05 Stove for engineer's room, . 5 50 $3,868 28 GAS FIXTURES. Gas consumed in hall, . . 624 75 Gas consumed in other rooms and offices, .... 2,446 00 FuRNiTURE,and repairs of, brooms, brushes, crockery, etc., . 243 61 Clocks, and repairing, . . 8 00 Paid for ice in messenger's room, 27 00 WASHING, cleaning, cleaning car- pets,removal of rubbish, shov­ eling snow, ice, etc., . . 176 85 JANITOR, salary of, and assis- tance, ..... 713 00 Paid for water filterer, 4 00 Paid for scales, for weighing gold, 24 00 Paid for taking down flag staff, and for signal halyards, 11 00 Paid for window awnings, 10 00 Paid for clock, for fire alarm, telegraph room, . 70 00 Paid for ventilator, and other repairs, .... 90 71 Paid for sprinkling in front of City Building, 25 00 Paid for removing "Lafayette tree,"in front of city building, 14 75 .11.10,357 29 Per item No. 4 of Treasurer's Account. " 34 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

CONTINGENT. For the following expenditures which are not chargeable under any other head. CARRIAGE HIRE, ETC. Traveling expenses of committees and mem­ bers of the city government and others when in the employ of the city, not charged elsewhere, • 45 35 RECORDS. Preparing State pension list, voting list, &c, 155 00 Paid H. W. Hersey's bill of sundries, . 14 01 POSTAGE, revenue stamps, expresses, telegrams etc., 176 57 LEGAL EXPENSES, paid for service, etc., 236 72 " " " of citations by ward constables 25 42 Brown Artillery Company and Montgomery Guards, each $50. for fitting up armories. . 100 00 Paid for setting curb, and laying sidewalk in front of Maine Gen'l Hospital on Arsenal St. 69 14 Paid for repairing City Seal, 1 00 Paid for fitting up Regimental Head Quarters, 21 65 Paid toward defraying expenses of the Re-un­ ion Celebration of Maine Soldiers and Sail­ ors Association, per order of City Council, approved June 25th, .... £,500 00 Paid Telephone Co., rent of instrument at police station, . . . . 50 00 Paid for refreshments for ward officers on election days, ...... 136 85 Paid for rent of armories, .... 438 37 Paid gas bills for military companies, 214 75 Paid rent of safe deposit vault to Nov. 9,1882, 75 00 Paid for Petroleum Inspector's instruments, 2 50 Paid for counterfeit detector, 3 00 Paid for sanding sidewalks last year, 47 50 Paid for Police dinners, 4th July, 50 00 Paid John Walsh for sewer right of way in Middle Street, 1 00 Paid on account of sewer in Emery Street, 37 50

Amount carried forward, 14,401 33 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 35

Amount brought forward, 14,401 33 GARFIELD OBSEQUIES, paid for band, music, hall decorations, printing, &c, 468 11 Paid for support of Charles Lamar, (blind boy) 150 00 - Paid for examination of land titles, 30 00 Paid Nancy Lannagan for moving house on North Street, 300 00 Paid for "Tablet" and setting in Shailer Schoolhouse, 96 45 CrviL ENGINEER, instruments for, and repairs of, 18.63 DISTRIBUTION of tax bills, posting bills and no­ tices, and carrying ward lists to islands, 47,00 HARBOR COMMISSIONERS, services for one year, 364.00 Paid Portland Dispensary, .... 150.00 Paid for photograph, ..... 20.00 TOWN OF CAPE ELIZABETH, for tax on upland and flats adjoining Forest City Cemetery, 17.28 PUBLIC LIBRARY, Paid treasurer, per order city council, 1,100.00 MEMORIAL DAY, Paid per order city council, to executive com­ mittee of Bosworth Post No. 2, G. A. R. for "Memorial services," .... 300.00 CLAIMS paid by order city council and of com­ mittee on claims. Paid William Alexander and others "the ex­ tra" on Oaks sewer, ..... 113.31 Paid James Witherington, personal injury, 25.00 Paid John W. Marston, 100.00 Paid A. M. Clifford, 26.50 Paid Maurice Cummings, 125.00 Paid Charles H. French, 300.00 Paid Mary Borland, 75.00 Paid Mitchell H. Chase, damage to self, horse and hack, 41.25 Paid M. H. Hanson, injury to carriage, 5.00 Paid Sam'l L. Taylor, overflow of water, 6.00 Paid James H. Leonard, " " " 13.00 Paid W. B. Quint, " " " 35.00 Paid J. H. Sawyer, damage to horse, 40.00 Paid Albert Marwick, damage in dock, Dy­ er's wharf, 25.00 Per Item No. 5 Treasurer's Account. $8,392.86 36 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. CEMETERIES AND PUBLIC GROUNDS. Labor and material, grading, cutting grass, for trees, railing paths, and for care of trees in park, 354 53 Labor on fountain, lumber, etc., housing the same, ...... 16 70 Tools, and labor trimming trees in the streets and promenades in the city, Paid for making sewer box, . Paid for shoveling snow, and care of Lincoln park, Paid for storage of tools, Lincoln park, Paid for sprinkling around " " Labor, lumber, shrubbery and repairs in Western Cemetery, .... Labor, lumber and repairs in Eastern ceme tery, Oversight of Eastern cemetery, Paid for labor making and painting tree boxes and trucking at Eastern promenade, Paid for labor, setting out trees, etc., at West­ ern promenade, .... Paid for moving barn on Boyd street to pre serve trees, Paid for tree boxes and duck, Paid for trees for public grounds, Paid for labor, grading, cutting trees, and material used in and about Deering's Oaks, Paid for earth, stone, chips, etc., . Paid for Fertilizers, seeds, etc., Paid for flooding rink in 1880 (balance), Paid for same in 1881, .... Paid for water pipe to supply the pond, Paid for trucking band stands, Per Item No. 6 of Treasurer's Account. $2,931 10 COMMITTEE ON REVISED ORDINANCES. Paid Clarence Hale, balance for compiling, . $250 00 Paid Dresser, McLellan & Co., for publishing, 1,363 53 Paid for block papers, 4 00 Per Item No. 7 of Treasurer's account. $1,617 53 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 37

DRAINS AND SEWERS. Cost of construction of new sewers and re­ pairs of old ones, construction of new cul­ verts and repairs of old ones, in various streets in the city; all the materials and repairs of tools furnished by the city, and the work done by the day, except for new sewers laid by contract. Total expenditures, $13,518 40 Per Item No. 8 of Treasurer's Account. ' N. B.—For a further detailed statement of the operations in this department, reference may be had to the report of the superintendent of sewers. See Appendix. DISCOUNT ON TAXES. Three per cent, discount on taxes on 1881, paid on or before October 30,1881, 819,349 78 Per Item No. 9 of Treasurer's Account. DAMAGES ON STREETS. Paid Rt. Rev. Bishop Healey, for land for continuation of Sheridan street, 11,116 00 Paid Maine Savings bank, for land and house (Larkin property, so called), for the same street, 1,500 00 Paid George Trott, for strip of land in laying out Sterling street, Peak's Island, 10 00 Per Item No. 10 of Treasurer's Account. $2,626 00

EVERGREEN CEMETERY. Paid railroad fares for engineers and others, 5 15 Paid for lumber, labor, tools, nails, hardware, seeds, powder, and fuse, .... 466 14 Paid Fred'k Fox, services in Ramsey settlem't, 150 00 Paid " " for bill of trees, 700 00 Paid for ornamental shrubs and climbing vines, 400 89 Paid for dressing, and turf, (in part,) . 635 23 Paid W. H. Dow, and others, for trees, 140 69

Amount carried forward, $2,498 10 38 AUDITOR'S AXNUAL KEPOBT.

mount brought forward, $2,498 10 Paid for labor and water piping and drain pipe, 52 84 Paid for postage, telegraphing, etc., 9 35 Paid for 1530 sq. feet of land of F. G. Stevens, for stable, ...... 153 00 Paid for picture frames, .... 5 25 Paid for printing and stationery, 115 15 Paid for grain and feed for fowls, 51 62 Paid W. T. Small's bill as secretary and treasurer, 200 00 Paid W. T. Small, for transportation, . 100 00 Paid I. D. Cushman " " 100 00 Paid W. M. Marks, " " 100 00 Paid C. E. Jose, for transport'n former year, 75 00 Paid for building carriage house, fence, work on seats, labor and timber, 666 02 Paid C. 0. Tolman, for labor, 67 00 H. N. Jose, for 52 fender stones, . 156 00 Paid for masonry, ...... 39 02 Turf, loam, foundation rock, dressing, plants, flowers, and labor performed in grading and ornamenting walks and paths, under the direction of the superintendent, including his salary; by order of the trustees, . . 11,449 62 Per Item No. 11 of Treasurer's Account. $15,840 97

For detailed account, see report of the trustees, in the Appendix. FOREST CITY CEMETERY. Town of Cape Elizabeth, for taxes on flats and upland adjoining cemetery, (see con­ tingent). Service of superintendent, $2 per day when employed, 122 25 Paid for lumber, labor, etc., .... 86 05

Per item No. 12 of Treasurer's Account. $208 30' ATJDITOB'S ANNUAL KEPORT. 39

FIRE DEPARTMENT. Ordinary expenses, excepting salaries, etc. STEAM FIRE ENGINES, ETC. Hauling of steam fire engines by city teams, $7,500 00 2000 feet leading, suction hose, couplings, etc, 1,837 15 Machinist and blacksmithing, repairing on engines and apparatus, .... 523 34 Trucking wet hose from fires, 121 00 Washing bedding, etc., .... 189 00 Fuel for engines and houses, .... 515 46 Extra for services of engineer, in vacation, . 82 00 Shoveling snow from reservoirs and hydrants, 9 60 Gas for engine houses, 523 50 Horseshoeing, harnesses new, and repairing old, etc., ...... 72 30 Hauling Hook and Ladder truck, 730 00 Furniture, bedding, etc., for engine houses, 54 16 Hose stock, and repairing, and labor at hose house, and cleaning hose after fires, and cleaning hook and ladder truck, 588 32 Paid secretary to Board of Engineers, . 25 00 Expenses fire alarm telegraph, (ordinary,) .... 391 56 1 Tapper and lightning arrester, 14 00 Striker for bell tower, Caseo St. church 450 00 Labor and lumber for bell tower and freight on striker, . 42 56 Paid for Cedar poles, etc., . 22 60 2 signal boxes and keys, . . 250 00 Wire, insulators, etc., . . 149 84 25 anti-hums, .... 3 75 Rent of telephones to Oct. 1, '82, 150 00 Paid superintendent's salary, . 900 00 2,374 31 Stoves, hardware, etc., . 79 87 3 Columbian gas savers and fixtures, 57 75 Relief valves, .... 300 00 Rubber valves and springs, . 24 00 Silver badges, .... 230 15

Amount carried forward. $15,836 91 40 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

Amount brought forward, $15,836 91 Paid for printing and stationary, . 28 85 Paid for repairs on resevoirs, and salt, 9 75 Dirigo Hose company, allowance, 100 00 Painting and lettering jigger, 16 00 Painting hose carriage, wagon, etc., 92 75 Painting ladders, .... 3 00 Paid for drain pipe, 42 00 Paid for hose, couplings and rubber packing, 39 73 Paid for repairs on hose carriage, etc., 98 55 Paid for brass hydrant head, 65 00 Paid for new steamer " Portland " 3,500 00 Paid for expenses incurred in purchasing steamer, .... 75 21 Paid incidentals, sundry expenses, mixed ac­ count of expenditures, 164 35 Paid carriage hire by committee, . 21 00 Per Item No. 13 of Treasurer's Account. #20,093 10

FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SALARIES. Salaries of officers and members exclusive of Chief Engineer and Assistants, which are charged under the head of salaries. Payment for six months, ending July 1, 1881, Jan. 1,1882 Machigonne—Steamer, $475 50 $475 50 Portland, " 470 00 475 50 Cumberland, " 475 50 475 50 Falmouth, " 470 00 470 00 Casco, " 4-75 50 475 50 Hook & Ladder Co. No. 1, 669 00 669 00 Hook & Ladder Co. No. 2, 329 45 339 00 3,364 95 3,380 00 3,364 95 Pay of officers and men, $6,744 95 ENGINEERS OF STEAM FIRE ENGINES. Five, 12 months each, at $800 per year, 4,000 00 Steward of Hose Company at Libby's Corner, 30 00 Per Item No. 14 of Treasurer's Account. $10,774 95 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 41

GAS LIGHTS, STREET LAMPS. Gas for street lamps, at $2.50 M feet, net, .... $5,281 20 Gas for street lamps, at $1.85 M feet, net, . . . . 5,704 67 810,985 87 Lighting, extinguishing and cleaning, . 4,257 45 Repairing lanterns, ..... 36 10 Glass for street lanterns, .... 34 67 Lantern tops, and cocks, .... 127 08 Ladders, repairing, ..... 2 50 Repairing mains and fitting service pipes to sundry lamp posts, ..... 37 48 Freeing pipes from frost, .... 25 00 Globes, lantern frames, reflectors and freight, 142 85 $15,649 00 CARE OF NAPTHA AND OIL LAMPS ON WASH­ INGTON AND OTHER STREETS. Kerosene oil and naptha, . . $711 46 Lighting, extinguishing and clean­ ing, ,349 00 Repairing lanterns and burners, . 107 92 Lamp posts and setting. 13 65 Alcohol, chimneys, wicks, matches, etc., ...... 14 67 Trucking and freight, . 85 85 Gasoline and vapor attachments, 40 00 Glass for lanterns and cutters, . 53 71 Lanterns, posts, burners, frames, etc., 104 10 Building naptha store room at Peaks Island, .... 10 00 $2,490 36 $18,139 36 Per Item No. 15 of Treasurer's Account. ^~ ~~ Number of street lamps using gas 454 ; using naptha and oil, 109, including 7 on Peak's island. HARBOR. For Harbor Commissioner's services see contingent.') 42 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL KEPORT.

HEALTH.—SMALL POX, ETC. Paid D. Blanchard, for cleansing pest-house, 9 00 Paid Dr. Geo. H. Cummings for vaccinating school children, 59 50 Constructing drain, repairing cees-pool and paving about the same, in rear of Newbury, near India street, ..... 177 56 Paid for labor on Back Bay, mill-pond and sewer outlets, ...... 355 70 Paid for drain in Howard street, . . . 10 50 Paid for hardware, 87 Per Item No. 16 of Treasurer's Account. $613 13

INTEREST. Amount paid interest on the funded debt of the city, ...... $124,776 20 Amount paid on " Clapp " Trust fund for the Female Orphan Asylum to date, 480 00 Amount paid on the " Clapp " Trust fund for poor widows, ...... 240 00 Amount paid on " Moulton " Trust fund for 60 00 Widow's Wood Society, .... 568 15 Interest on Evergreen fund, Per Item No. 17 of Treasurer's Account. $126,124 35

LIQUOR AGENCY. Paid Liquor bills, . $23,554 63 Paid Agent's bill for salary, . 1,000 00 Paid assistant's bill for salary, 500 00 Jugs, trucking, and small wares, 448 97 Paid rent bill, 1,000 00 Paid N. Bell Telephone, year's rent of in strument, .... 45 00

Per Item No. 18 of Treasurer's Account. $26,548 60 OVERLAYINGS AND ABATEMENTS. Paid on sales of property sold city, for non­ payment of taxes, $842 91 Per Item No. 19 of Treasurer's Account. • AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 43

PORTLAND & OGDENSBURG RAILROAD. Paid interest coupons on city bonds issued in aid of said railroad, $72,780 00 Per Item No. 20 of Treasurer's Account. = PORTLAND & ROCHESTER RAILROAD. Paid interest on city bonds issued in aid of said railroad, $62,760 00 Per Item No. 21 of Treasurer's Account. == POLICE CONTINGENT. Conveyance of, and aid in arrest of prisoners carried to lock-up, medical attendance, etc., $83 95 Provisions to prisoners and lodgers, . . 46 07 Conveyance of boys to reform school, . 10 00 Medicine and Medical attendance, . . 14 13 Paid for 20 padlocks, .... 25 00 Paid for lock and keys, .... 30 Repairing funiture for office, ... 14 13 Painting room, ...... 1 54 Ice in office and lock-up, .... 27 00 Burying dead animals, .... 26 77 Telegraphing, handcuffs, postage, oil, fluid, lanterns, brushes, brooms, matches, . 63 95 Paid mending rubber hose, ... 50 Paid amount appropriated for salary of the agent of W. C. T. Union for services ren­ dered female prisoners at the police station, 200 00 Paid for trucking, and disinfectants, . . 50 Paid for washing, twelve months, . . 144 00 Paid for stationery, 1 50 Paid for removing rubbish and snow and for signs, 15 35 Per Item No. 21 of Treasurer's Account. $674 69 POLICE SALARIES. Paid services of regular day and night police —thirty-six—at the rate of $730 per annum each, when on duty, with extra for islands three months, $26,050 00 Per Item No. 22 of Treasurer's Account. 44 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS. MARKET HALL BUILDING (Old City Hall), Repairs, alterations, etc., ... 64 39 BUILDING corner Congress and Market street, Heater for Liquor Agency, 49 05 Repairs on building and stable, 323 57 ENGINE HOUSES, Repairs on, and stables connected, viz, : No. 1 Engine House, "Machigonue," 26 88 No. 2 Engine House, "Portland," 122 32 No. 3 Engine House, "Cumberland," 76 06 No. 4 Engine House, "Falmouth," . 134 51 Repairs on House No. 178 Brackett street, 14 24 Repairs on Hose House, South street, 281 66 Repairs on Ward room and H. & L. House on India street, ..... 274 54 Repairs on Hay Scales and sealing do., 22 44 Repairs on stable, Hanover street, 120 57 Paid care of ward rooms and gas, 100 26 Paid for table for ward room No. 4, 2 00 Paid for fitting up Cadet's Armory, 23 00 Paid for repairs in new market house, 46 63 Paid for repairs and painting roof of powder magazine, ...... 28 69 Paid for labor in Ward 7, ward room, . 1 88 Paid for new floor in ward room Peaks Island, 11 71

Per Item No. 24 of Treasurer's Account. $1,724 40

PRINTING AND STATIONERY. For the various departments, except the school committee, fire department, overseers of the poor, Evergreen cemetery, including printing city documents and blanks of va­ rious kinds,. notifications, tax bills, blank books and binding, stationery for the use of the city council and city officers, . . $1,525 26 Per Item No. 25 of Treasurer's Account. =^== AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 45

SALARIES. Paid salaries of the following city officers for the financial year 1881-82. MAYOR, William Senter, balance of 187 9-80, $73.38, u ti 1,459 67 Charles F. Libby, . 140.33 $1,500 00

CITY CLERK, Hosea I. Robinson, (salary, exclusive of fees,) and for clerk of committees, . 1,100 00

CITY TREASURER, Henry W. Hersey, . . 2,500 00 Treasurer's Clerks, . . 1,800 00 4,300 00

CITY AUDITOR, Cyrus Nowell, 1,400 00 CITY CIVIL ENGINEER, William A. Goodwin, . 2,100 00 Assistants, (1st and 2d), 1,600 00 3,700 00

CITY MESSENGER, John L. Shaw, 800 00

CITY PHYSICIAN. George H. Cummings, 500 00

JUDGE OF MUNICIPAL COURT. 1,000 00

CITY SOLICITOR. Clarence Hale, 666 13 Wm. H. Looney, 35 87 702 00

ASSESSORS, Stephen Marsh, 900 00 Lot C. Nelson, . 900 00 Cyrus K. Ladd, 900 00 2,700 00

Amount carried forward, $17,775 38 46 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

Amount brought forward, $17,775 38 ASSISTANT ASSESSOES, T. A. Bowen, Ward 1, 96 days at 2.25, $216 00 Thos. Pennell, " 2, 94 211 50 E.A.Leighton, " 3,108 240 75 H.M.Sargent, " 3, 4 9 00 C.C.Douglass, " 4, 99 222 75 H.S.Trickey, " 5, 36 81 00 Oren Ring, " 5, 56 O. W. Eldridge,'- 5, 4 126 00 Chas. H. Rich, " 6, 42 9 00 W.H.Plummer," 7, 87 94 50 John M. Stevens, distributing tax bills 195 75 in Ward 6, 61 days at $2.25, . . 137 25 1,543 50 COMMISSIONEE OF STEEETS, Hanson S. Clay 1,200 00 SUPERINTENDENT OP BUEIALS, James S. Gould, 150 00 RINGEE OP CITY BELL. William A. Stillings, .... 200 00 SUPERINTENDENT OP CLOCKS, William S. Lowell, 150 00 POLICE DEPAETMENT, Cyrus K. Bridges, Marshal, . $1,300 00 James M. Black, Deputy Marshal, 780 00 Jesse H. Crowell, " " 780 00 2,860 00 HAEBOE MASTEE, C. H. Knowlton, 400 00 FIEE DEPARTMENT, G. H. Cloyes, Chief Engineer, 550 00 Chas. W. Cushing, Assistant, 90 00 Chas. D. Skillings, " 90 00 Amory H. Rogers, " 90 00 90 00 A. S. Mitchell, 910 00 CLEEK OP COMMON COUNCIL, L. Clifford Wade, 200 00 TEUANT OFPICEE, Charles A. Beal, 500 00

$25,888 88 Per Item No. 26, Treasurer's Account. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 47

STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND BRIDGES. VAUGHAN'S BRIDGE, repairs on, . 921 64 Tending draw, . . . . 500 00 1,421 64

TCTKEY'S BRIDGE, repairs on, . 520 58 Tending draw, ... 325 00 845 58

STROUD'WATER BRIDGE, repairs on, 139 30 CLARK ST. BRIDGE, " " . 343 10 STATE ST. " " " . 382 46 Sidewalk Bricks, .... 2,258 00 Curbstone and nagging stone, . . 302 60 Paving stones, weighing and wharfage, 388 93 Concrete walks and repairs, . 326 05 Shoeing horses, .... 440 26 Iron and iron work, 25 96 Repairing and sharpening tools, . 461 31 Carts, sleds, and wagon repairing, 751 36 Harnesses, etc., and repairs of, 720 03 Hay and straw, .... 1,842 03 Grain and meal, .... 2,655 17 Horses purchased and exchanged, 1,065 00 Hardware, tools, lanterns, etc, 320 69 Land rent for storage of carts, 18 00 Sprinkling streets, not elsewhere charged, 18 50 Granite blocks, ..... 7,117 21 Paid for cement and repairing surface drains, 127 61 Sand, gravel and earth, purchased for grad­ ing and paving streets and walks, 190 80 Labor, paving streets, gutters, crossings, and resetting curbstones, 3,155 70 Grading Pearl and Park streets, . 682 00 Labor, lumber, trucking, etc., sundry bills, general repairs, 182 55 Paid for repairs on crusher, coal and trucking, 311 23 " " coal for stable, .... 55 52 " " coal screens, 20 00 " " plank walks on Pearl and other sts., 248 83

Amount carried forward, $26,817 42 48 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL KEPOKT.

Amount brought forward, s817 42 Paid for damages blasting in Pearl street, 20 00 " " blasting ledges in streets, 353 30 " " " " in High street, 536 00 " " powder and fuse, 32 25 " " removing stump in Preble street, 17 25 " " filling-in Fox street, 150 00 " " taking down flag poles in street, 10 00 " Telephone Co., for rent of instrument, 11 67 Paid for veterinary surgeon, 81 40 " " pasturing horses, 110 00 " " labor on Island ave., Peak's island. 34 55 " " repairing street sweeper, etc, . 54 50 " " harness composition, soap, etc., 22 08 " H. S. Clay, for board of horse, 165 00 " for carriage hire for use of committee, 33 00 Miscellaneous, 100 86

$28,549 28 Labor done by men on streets under the di­ rection of the street commissioner, being the amount of monthly pay rolls, viz. : April, $2,121 07 October, $2,490 86 May, 2,472 06 November, 2,368 83 June, 2,985 60 December, 1,931 65 July, 2,675 66 January, 1,919 66 August, 2,792 32 February, 2,362 46 September, 2,782 98 March, 2,006 22 $15,829 69 $13,079 68 15,829 69 $28,909 37 Per Item No. 27 of Treasurer's Account. $57,458 65 SUPPORT OF POOR. For expenses of Alms house and for supplies furnished to paupers who were not inmates, and all other expenditures connected with the department, viz: SUBSISTENCE. Provisions and groceries for paupers in house, for family of keeper and out­ door relief, ...... $6,753 47

Amount carried forward, $6,753 47 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 49 Amount brought forward, 3,753 47 Fuel for Alms house and distribution for out-door relief, coal and wood purchased etc., Stipends and assistance to poor persons who are not paupers, SUPPORT OP PAUPERS belonging to the city by other towns, SALARIES. Keeper and matron of Alms House, Chaplain, Cook and nurses in hospital, Labor on farm and help in house, Crockery, hardware, etc. Clothing, boots and shoes, etc. Dry Goods, Printing and stationery, Funiture, stoves, and carpeting, Paints, painting, potash, ice, etc., Medicine, ..... Consulting and other physicians' bills, Undertakers' bills, for coffins, etc., Harnesses, repairs of, . Baskets, tubs, seeds and other small stores, Blacksmith work and shoeing horses and cat tie, and repairing carriages, Plumbing and water piping, Grain, meal and straw, Repairs house, buildings, labor and material Paid for repairing clock, Paid for ice, Paid for swine, Paid for scale and weights, INSANE HOSPITAL. Board, etc., of insane persons at hospital, Amount of bills rendered by treasurer of Alms House, not enumerated elsewhere, Salary of Secretary and Treasurer, Miscellaneous, .... Per Item No. 28 of Treasurer's Account. $21,704 03 50 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

SCHOOLS. The expenses of the school department, exclusive of salaries of teachers, have been as follows, viz : SCHOOL HOUSES, (16 in number,) besides rooms used temporarily, repairs on, altera­ tions, etc.: Carpentry, .... $2,058 62 Masonry and stock, 359 64 Painting and stock, 177 61 Slating and stock, 199 14 Hardware and iron work, 106 38 Bells, hanging and repairs of, keys, etc.. 121 24 Stoves, funnel, and repairs of, etc., 204 46 Plumbing, gas fitting, water piping, etc.. 1,833 70 SCHOOL EXPENSES. Clocks, repairs of, and thermometers, 76 25 Diplomas for graduates of high school, 48 77 Furniture, fixtures, mats, brooms, brushes, 1,053 49 Books and stationery, 1,434 78 Printing, advertising, etc., . 268 73 Fuel, coal and wood purchased, etc., 4,215 26 Engineers of steam heating, and janitors of High and North school buildings, $1,200 00 Janitor at Butler school, . 500 00 $1,700 00 Janitors of other schools, (except islands,) $1,727 33 Sweeping, cleaning, trucking, removal of snow and ice from sidewalks, including $40 for shoveling snow at High school, 521 20 Chemicals and apparatus .... 66 40 Blackboards and repairing and shades, . 454 04 Pianist, and tuning piano, and use of for High school, graduation exercises 11 60 Paid American metric bureau, 13 56 Paid Prang & Co., for cards, . 80 00 Paid for standard regulator, .... 15 00 Paid for removing trees from school grounds, 9 00

Amount carried forward, $16,756 20 AUDITOR S ANNUAL REPORT. 51 Amount brought forward, Jae,75 6 20 Paid for cleaning vaults, 41 00 Paid for estimates for re-modeling school house, 50 00 Care of temporary school rooms, . 40 00 Gas light in school rooms, 54 50 Plants in school grounds, 20 00 Repairs and changes in high school building, 56 40 Ascertaining No. and age of school children, 300 00 Miscellaneous, . 87 07 Salary of superintendent of school buildings, 700 00 ISLAND SCHOOLS. Incidental expenses of island schools; stoves, preparing fuel, carting, cleaning, etc.; re­ pairing school house, etc 249 06 Janitor's salaries, . ... , 80 00 Per Item No. 29 of Treasurer's Account. $18,434 23 SCHOOL SALARIES. Salaries of teachers in public schools, viz. High school, ..... 9,505 00 North school, 11,581 50 West school, 2,255 00 Cumberland street school, . 4,670 00 Butler school, ..... 5,656 00 Shailer school, ...... 1,635 00 Centre street grammar and primary No. 3, . 3,981 00 Primary school, No. 1, ... 2,555 00 Primary school, No. 2, . 2,625 00 Primary school, No. 4, 2,095 00 Primary school No. 5, (training school), 1,400 00 Primary school, No. 6, ... 1,850 00 Primary school, No. 7, . 1,300 00 Primary school, No. 8, 2,455 00 Primary school, No. 9, . 1,457 50 Teacher of penmanship, 1,400 00 Teacher of music, .... 1,050 00 Superintendent's salary, 2,250 00 Island schools,—Peak's Island, 1,068 00 Island schools,—Long Island, 524 50 Per Item No. 30 of Treasurer's Account. $61,313 50 52 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. Salary of teacher and assistants, $2,230 00 Paid for books, stationery, charts, etc., 130 20 Paid for fuel, and preparing do., . 46 00 Paid for furniture, repairs, etc., in rooms, 93 71 Paid rent bill, one year, 200 00

Per Item No. 31 of Treasurer's Account. $2,699 91

SHAILER SCHOOL HOUSE, North street, (Munjoy.) Paid contract and bills for school house as progressing: Paid Spencer Rogers, balance con­ tract, $4,537 00 Paid Spencer Rogers bill of extras, including labor in fitting to­ gether and putting in place all the desks and seats, building platforms, coal bins, and for labor and lumber building board fence, 706 31 5,243 31 Paid Green & Jordan, balance of contract, 650 00 Paid Green & Jordan, bill of ex­ tras, including paving front room in basement, as per agree­ ment, 302 64 952 64

Paid Green & Jordan, for carting granite and delay in its delivery, 100 00 Paid Portland Company, for boilers and steam heating apparatus, 1,875 00 Paid James Miller, contract, and bill for ex­ tra plumbing, 319 04 Paid Wm. Gray, contract and bill for paint­ ing and bronzing radiators and pipes, . 503 11 Paid Kelley, Devine & Co., contract for lath­ ing and plastering, 590 00

Amount carried forward, 19,583 10 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET. 53

Amount brought forward, $9,583 10 Paid M. B. Bourne & Son, balance of contract, slating, ...... 200 00 Paid John D. Mannix, balance of contract, granite, ...... 60 00 Paid W. D. Ames, balance of contract for galvanized iron work, .... 114 00 Paid J. A. Swasey, balance of contract for blackboards, ...... 126 88 Paid D. M. Mannix, for stone posts, 115.00 Hawkes Bros., for stone work, 6.00 21 00 Paid Novelty Mn'f'g Co., for desks, seats etc., 1,400 00 Paid trucking bill and bill for cleaning win­ dows, 150 90 S. H. Pike, for iron fence, .... 89 00 Paid Thos. Laughlin & Son, for erecting iron fence, ...... 102 05 Paid C. H. Kimball, architect, balance, 200 00 Paid Eliphalet Clark, remittance of sewer as­ sessment of school house lot, 40 57 Per Item No. 32 Treasurer's Account. $12,087 50

STATE REFORM SCHOOL. For subsistence and clothing of boys belong­ ing to this city sent to the reform school at the rate of $1.00 per week for each boy, in accordance with the laws of the State, . $983 56 Per item No. 33 of Treasurer's Account. == STATE PENSIONS. Pensions allowed by the State to soldiers in the war of 1861, or in case of death, to their wid­ ows, or orphan children under 12 years of age. Advanced on State account, since reimbursed, $1,332 00 Per Item No. 34 of Treasurer's Account. == TAXES—COUNTY. Paid balance on County tax of 1880, $17,954 84 Paid tax of 1881, in part, . 22,752 65 40,707 49 Per Item No. 36 of Treasurer's Account. 54 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

TAXES—STATE. Paid balance on State tax of 1880, $73,992 66 Paid tax of 1881 in part,. . 65,349 18 $139,341 84 Per Item No. 35 Treasurer's Aocovnt. WATER AND HYDRANTS. Paid Portland Water Company, per contract, to July 1, 1882, for use of water one year, 4,000 00 Resetting drinking fountains, setting hy­ drants and branches, repairing and truck­ ing* 41 50 Paid for water gates, less discount, 100 00 Labor and material on and repairing hydrants3 and drinking fountains, 618 03 Paid for labor at hose house, 322 00 Paid repairing breaks in water pipes at times3 of fires, 140 15 Paid for nozzles for post hydrants, 108 00 Paid for post hydrants, valves, freight, etc., 639 00 Paid for galvanizing iron pump, . 13 00 Paid for repairing reservoirs, 4 45 Paid for tools and repairing, 29 53 Paid for labor and lumber for gates, 265 03 Paid for drain pipe for hydrants, . 6 04

Per Item No. 37 of Treasurer's Account. 3,286 73

Total expenditures of the City of Portland for the financial year 1881-82, . $900,950 45 STATEMENT OF MONTHLY EXPENDITURES, For the City of Portland, in the various Departments, for the Financial Year. April 1, 1881, to March

Object of Appropriation. April. May. June. July. August. September. October. November. December

Abatements, Advertising, 24 75 19 25 17 25 5 25 171 74 10 37 129 28 City Notes, 1,100 00 1,000 00 31,500 00 3,000 00 568 08 390 55 1,261 1,292 43 343 81 City Building, 321 15 1,890 55 256 15 600 56 256 15 590 90 2,580 901 06 265 80 1,097 55 Contingent, 197 75 886 37 178 12 189 10 616 01 176 284 14 101 69 111 10 Cemeteries and Public Grounds, 250 00 782 84 312 96 251 70 Committee on Revised Ordinances, 244 72 95 61 3,006 62 6,219 46 3.117 49 215 18 Drains and Sewers, Discount on Taxes, 1,500 00 10 00 Damages on Streets, 597 15 1,943 80 2,530 18 1,755 21 1,982 99 1,458 44 1,812 58 985 49 1,068 99 Evergreen Cemetery, 88 50 38 30 20 75 6 25 5 00 9 50 38 00 268 65 742 61 985 81 529 12 479 53 930 02 Forest City Cemetery, 338 30 1.045 62 5,614 15 447 93 333 30 333 30 Fire Department, 123 35 333 30 3,698 25 333 30 333 30 ^33 30 363 30 215 39 129 70 145 38 405 64 119 00 Fire Department Salaries, 236 06 33 8,342 57 144 68 190 09 Gas Lights, .... 3,475 50 47 41 62 40 50 151 83 45 62 50 40 30 9 00 87 Health, 2,622 3'J 25.182,3624 04 4,770 00 2,270 67 8,647 50 9,225 00 3,062 50 4,455 00 10,667 50 20,647 50 Interest, .... 2,698 89 2,354 48 2,091 98 2,418 82 2,197 61 Liquor Agency, 4,560 00 2,430 25,830 00 5,850 00 1,911 01 Overlayings and Abatements, 1,500 22,500 00 2,745 2,100 00 2,264 00 2,358 00 2,305 00 2,177 2,188 2^050 00 2,183 00 Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad interest 2,280 85 13 141 36 Portland & Rochester Railroad interest, 40 00 23 70 38 26 05 26 93 27 67 32 261 48 258 28 160 173 64 Police Salaries, 403 6 25 1 65, 64 45 55 159 24 60 32 422 Police Contingent, 601 354 23 403 73 18 324 98 4,792 48 324 98 495 98 540 Public Buildings and H. & L. house 5,136 5,453 24 5,286 18 4,817 9,768 22 3,116 26 2,788 37 4,514 79 4,799 57 6,066 Printing and Stationery, 932 28 906 39 5,615 1,332 56 3,528 20 1,090 23 1,208 81 2,832 55 1,648 88 1.553 Salaries, .... 6,169 89 2,883 812 30 794 11 574 64 630 07 755 108 75 2,517 Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges, 6,289 1,825 6,588 00 5,681 5,735 75 258 75 5,887 6,011 75 Support of Poor, 173 225 00 6,413 2,834 88 280 31 200 00 169 17 415 286 04 Schools, 1,400 247 00 790 00 60 00 49 50 319 04 School Salaries, 260 242 71 School for the Deaf, 40,400 00 33,592 66 23,000 00 Shailer School House, 3,000 00, 5,000 9,954 84 20,000 00 State Reform School, 86 10 490 2,520 05 150 70 222 44 213 24 171 93 165 11 2,019 80 State Pensions, $30,961 83| $54,154 94 $47,622 21 $153,120 59 136,511 05 $71,194 31: $73,670 62 178,147 61 $55,232 06 Taxes—State, Taxes—County, CITY OF PORTLAND, Water and Hydrants, AUDITOR'S OFFICK, March March 31, 1882,-Inclu sive.

January, February. March. Total.

1,045 46 $1,045 46 195 80 573 69 19,500 00 10,000 00 1,500 00 67,600 00 1,723 34 856 69 852 29 10 357 29 579 16 472 10 387 78 8,392 86 35 72 43 56 25 88 2,931 10 1,363 53 4 00 1,617 53 571 83 11 70 35 79 13,518 40 19,349 78 19,349 78 1,116 00 2,626 00 1,201 23 242 64 262 27 15,840 97 2 00 208 30 8,290 14 390 88 368 64 20,093 10 3,713 30 333 30 333 70 10,774 95 7,695 77 488 51 139 28 18,139 36 613 13 15,817 50 8,310 00 11,863 85 126,124 35 2,013 23 1,920 92 1,684 56 26,548 60 842 91 842 91 4,260 00 29,850 00 72,780 00 33,750 00 2,265 00 62,760 00 2,146 00 1,926 00 2,073 00 26,050 00 41 78 49 05 81 60 674 69 221 36 108 36 38 48 1,724 40 51 75 52 75 108 25 1,525 26 324 98 878 48 7,494 10 25,888 88 3,545 96 3,211 08 3,293 26 57,458 65 1,518 66 798 54 3,118 84 21,704 03 748 78 944 58 1,011 92 18,434 23 6,025 50 6,028 50 6,543 37 61,313 50 256 35 277 73 382 50 2,699 91 100 00 55 57 6,253 51 12,087 50 233 71 983 56 1,332 00 1,332 00 40,349 18 139,341 84 2,752 65 40,707 49 68 57 178 49 6,286 73 $158,361 62 $37,585 43 #104,388 18•1900,95 0 45

OETLAND, K, March 31, 1882. CYRUS NOWELL, Audtiaa ri AssaaiM*.

AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 55

RECAPITULATION OF EXPENDITURES IN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. Abatements, Advertising, City Notes, loans, City Building, Contingent, etc., Cemeteries and Public Grounds, Committee on Revised Ordinances, Drains and Sewers, Discount on Taxes, Damages on Streets, Evergreen Cemetery, Forest City Cemetery, Fire Department, Fire Department Salaries, Gas Lights, Health, .... Interest, Liquor Agency, Overlayings and Abatements, Portland k Ogdensburg Railroad interest, Portland & Rochester Railroad interest, Police Salaries, Police Contingent, Public Buildings, Printing and Stationery, Salaries, .... Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges, Support of Poor, Schools, . . . • School Salaries, School for the Deaf, Shailer School House, North Street, (Munjoy) State Reform School, State Pensions, Taxes—CountyTotal expenditures, , as stated on page 54, ),950 45 Taxes—State, Water and Hydrants, AUDITOR'S OFFICE, March 31,1882. CYRUS NOWELL, Auditor of Accounts. 56 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

CITY INCOME.

Statement of the INCOME received on account of the CITY OF PORTLAND, during the financial year 1881-82. Commencing with the first day of April, 1881, and ending with the last day of March, 1882. CITY BUILDING. Received for rent of city hall, $1,831 00 And of county for heating, . . 1,751 29 3,582 29 Per Item No. 1 of Treasurer's Account. CONTINGENT. Received of Sheriff Sawyer, Deputy Andrews, and from policemen, for sale of liquor ves­ sels, (carried to sinking fund,) . . $914 98 Per Item No. 2 of Treasurer's Account. DRAINS AND SEWERS. Received from assessments on sundry persons for their proportion of the cost of new sew­ ers, and for the right to enter old ones, viz: Anderson street, $21 57 Boyd street, - 16 12 Bradford street, 4 30 Bramhall street, - - - 14 63 Carey's Lane, - - - - 26 92 Carleton street, 21 15 Congress street, 356 05 Commercial street, - 18 03 Cumberland street, - - 193 91 Danforth street, - - - - 114 23 Deering street, 79 86 Elm street, - 73 62 Everett street, - - 60 12 Exchange street, - - - 68 80

Amount carried forward, 11,069 31 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 57 Amount brought forward, 1,069 31 Federal street, 7 08 Fore street, 38 78 Fox street, 44 41 Grove street, ...... 18 00 Hanover street, - - - - 29 36 High street, ..... 178 20 India street, .... 9 42 Lafayette street, ------19 44 Locust street, ... . 12 38 Mayo street, - . - 60 72 Melbourne street, - 146 86 Merrill street, 21 48 Munroe street, - 14 21 Myrtle street, ... - 10 08 Newbury street, - - - - 10 78 North street, -.---- 156 98 Oxford street, - - - - 37 31 Pearl street, - - ... 80 78 Pine street, - - 88 93 Portland street, .... 29 60 Quebec street, - - - - 237 80 Quincy street, 38 13 Salem street, - - - 15 86 School street, - - . . - 32 26 South street, ... 22 12 Spring street, ... - - 103 40 State street, ...... 76 84 Walnut street, 41 67 Washington street, 49 35 Waterville street, 27 67 Winthrop street, - 16 54

Per Item No. 3 of Treasurer's Account. $2,745 75 DOG LICENSE. Received of owners of dogs for licenses, under ordinance approved March 30, 1878, car­ ried to sinking fund, 170 00 Per Item No. 4 of Treasurer's Account. (5) 58 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

EVERGREEN CEMETERY. Received for sale of lots, viz.: 1 lot, $15 00 Hot, - 20 00 5 lots at $25, 125 00 1 lot, .... 28 00 6 lots at 30, 180 00 9 lots at 40, ... 360 00 53 lots at 50, 2,650 00 3 lots at 55, 165 00 1 lot, .... 60 00 2 lots at 681, 137 50 3 lots for 100 00 2 lots for 175 00 4 lots for ... 250 00 4 lots for 250 00 2 lots for 85 00 3 lots for - 125 00 $4,725 50 Less 25 per cent, of sale of lots as above, which is by "ordinance" made transferable to "Evergreen" fund, .... 1,181 38 $3,544 12 Received from individuals for grading, care and improvement of lots, digging graves, cutting grass, sale of wood and stone, 8,323 47 *Rec'd for 1 year's intr'st on investment bonds, 570 00 *Rec'd " " balance of amount, 568 85 Per Item Wo. 5 of Treasurer's Account, $13,006 44

[*Changed by Ordinance, from Evergreen fund, and appropriated to improving and ornamenting the grounds and lots in said Cemetery.] EVERGREEN FUND. Perpetual Care. By ordinance it is provided that' 'the trustees are authorized to fix upon any lot or lots such price for perpetual care, as in their judgment would be just and proper, as between the city A.UDITOE'S ANNUAL BEPORT.

and the applicants for the same; and they may refuse to grant perpetual care upon any lot the condition of which is detrimental or un­ satisfactory to them." "Upon a receipt of a certificate from the trustees setting forth the section, number and lot-holder's name and residence, together with the class of care and price of the same, the city treasurer shall issue to the party or parties therein named, a bond for perpetual care, upon the payment of the price agreed upon in such certificate." Amount received from this source the past year, from the following named individuals, or their representatives: Moses Merrill, in name of Jas. L. Merrill, 1 lot, - - f25 00 Mrs. O. K. Brett, Julia W. Howe, Louisa P. Woodman and Caroline A. Woodman, 1 lot, - - 100 00 William T. Smith, 1 lot, 25 00 Mrs. William Scagel, 1 lot, 25 00 Edward P. Staples and John Oxnard 3 lots, - - 75 00 William Ferris, 1 lot, - 25 00 James E. Sturgis, 1 lot, - 25 00 J. S. Winslow, 4 lots, - 100 00 B. Cushman, 1 lot, (Philadelphia,) 75 00 Albert W. Colby, 1 lot, 25 00 Mrs. N. A. Hersom, 4 lots, - 100 00 Sophronia Hamblen and Evelina Stevens, 2 lots, (Deering,) - 37 00 Charles H. Smith, estate of W. H. Smith, 1 lot, - - 25 00 James K. Emery, 1 lot, - 50 00 Heirs of Ashur Ware, 2 lots, - 50 00 Charles P. Rolfe, 3 lots, - - 75 00 John J. Gerrish, 3 lots, - 75 00 Thomas Shaw, 6 lots, 250 00 Amount carried forward, 60 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

Amount brought forward, $ 1,137 00 Mrs. Major H. Sweetsir, 2 lots, - 50 00 Mary Ann Kilborn, 1 lot, - 25 00 Augustus D. Brown, 2 lots, - 50 00 Theodore A. Josselyn, 2 lots, 50 00 Charles J. Walker, 4 lots, 100 00 $1,437 00 Received by transfer of 25 per cent, for sale of Evergreen Cemetery lots, - 1,181 38 Received for transfer of Evergreen Cemetery lots, applicable only to this fund, 33 75 Per Item No. 6 of Treasurer's Account. $2,652 13

FIRE DEPARTMENT. Received for sale of engine Dirigo, $200 00 Received for sale of old hose, - 100 00 Received for use of engine at Turn­ er's Island, - - 25 00 Received for sale of old wheels, - 25 00 Received from other sources, - 10 00 (carried to sinking fund), $360 00 Per Item No. 7 of Treasurer's Account.

FOREST CITY CEMETERY. Received from sale of lots, viz : 20 lots at $8, - .... $160 00 Per Item No. 8 of Treasurer's Account. '

FEES AND FINES. Received of Enoch Knight, Esq., Judge of Municipal Court, court fees, and fines re­ turnable by him, - - $1,302 52 Of George F. Gould, do, do., 369 08 $1,671 60 Of County Treasurer, for fees and fines re­ turnable at his office, ... 2,752 65 Isaac D. Sawyer, Sheriff, jail fees, - 145 78

Per Item No. 9 of Treasurer's Account. $4,570 03 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 61

INTEREST. Rec'd from dividends in stocks of Portland Gas Light Company, - - $8,500 00 Rec'd for accrued interest on taxes, 4,605 64 Rec'd interest on notes held by treas. 560 77 $13,666 41 Per Item No. 10 of Treasurer's Account. == INVESTMENT OF SINKING FUND. For payment of bonds matured, (carried to sinking fund,) $14,000 00 Per Item No. 11 of Treasurer's Account. == LAND SOLD. Cash payments on land sold to Maine Central Railroad, (carried to sinking fund,) . . $3,000 00 Per Item No. 12 of Treasurer's Account. == LICENSES. Received for license for circuses, . . . $ 80 00 Per Item No. 13 of Treasurer's Account. == LIQUOR AGENCY. Amount received from Liquor Agent, . . $24,685 00 Per Item No. 14 of Treasurer's Account. NOTES RECEIVABLE. Received for W. S. Waterhouse, 2 notes, . 198 75 Received from W. S. Dimmock, note in part and note, 198 75 Received from Samuel Richards, on 2 notes, 200 00 Mary E. Scott, 100 00 D. Connor, 100 00 J. H. Barton, 3 notes, 900 00 S. B. Winchester, 150 00 Bishop Healey, in part of Bishop Bacon's note, 3,000 00 Wm. J. Day, 100 00 Libby & Dimmock, in part, .... 100 00 (Carried to sinking fund.) Per Item No. 15 of Treasurer's Account. $5,047 50

OVERLAYINGS AND ABATEMENTS. Collected on taxes, $756 69 Per Item No 16 of Treasurer's Account. 62 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL BEPOKT.

RENTS. Received for rents of city property, as follows: Market Hall building, Market Square, - $1,775 00 House No. 178 Brackett street, - 125 00 House No. 125 Spring st., '81 and bal. of '80 156 25 Chamber over H. & L. house, 99 India street, 125 00 Hay scales, balance of '80 $74 99 '81 450 00 524 99 Rent of stores and tenements, corner of Con­ gress and Market sts., and Liquor Agency, ,225 00 Rent of Market stalls, Silver street Market, 24 30 Land rents on Congress, Weymouth and Port­ land streets, - .... 61 50 Rent of powder magazine, ... - 75 00 Rent of Larkin house, Sheridan street, - 21 00 Rent of Lincoln Hall, ... 21 25

Per Item No. 17 of Treasurer's Account. $4,134 29

RENT OF ARMORIES. Rec'd from State Treas. for rent of Armories, $400 00 Per Hem No. 18 of Treasurer's Account. ^^^^ RAILROAD TAX. Received from State Treasurer, for Railroad and Telegraph tax, - - - $2,079 29 Per Item No. 19 of Treasurer's Account. : SCHOOLS. Received from State for proportion of bank tax of 1880 and 1881 - - - - $4,669 35 Received from State for proportion of mill tax of 1881 and 1882, - $12,018 54 Received from State on High School account, 250 00 Per Item No. 20 of Treasurer's Account. $16,937 89

SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. Rec'd of Thomas Tash, for tuition of pupils, $1,640 00 Per Item No. 21 of Treasurer's Account. ' AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 63 SINKING FUND. Received of G. T. Railway Co., for one year's rent of Gait's wharf, - - - $4,336 00 Interest on investment of sinking fund, - 510 00 Per Item No. 22 of Treasurer's Account. $4,846 00

STATE PENSIONS. Received from State for pensions, to quarter ending December 31, 1881, refunded, - $1,332 00 Per Item No. 23 of Treasurer's Account. ' STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND BRIDGES. Received cost of sidewalk and stone, - 20 00 Hauling steam fire engines, charged to fire department, (carried to sinking fund), - 7,500 00 Per Item No. 24 of Treasurer's Account. $7,520 00

SUPPORT OF POOR. Received from Overseers of the Poor for sale of produce from farm, for collections from other towns and individuals, for support and expenses of paupers, etc., - - $1,510 93 Per Item No. 25 of Treasurer's Account. ' TAXES. Received of Henry W. Hersey, collector of taxes, for 1881-82 for collections made by him, - - - $682,907 38 Same, collections of previous years, - - 75,453 23 Per Item No. 26 of Treasurer's Acoount. $758,360 61

BALANCE in the treasury at the commence­ ment of the year, $145,179 42

TOTAL INCOME of the city of Portland for the financial year ending March 31, 1882, including balance in the treasury at the commencement of the year, as above, $1,033,237 65 64 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

INCOME-RECAPITULATION.

City Building, 13,582 29 Contingent 914 98 Drains and Sewers, 2,745 75 Dog Licenses, 70 00 Evergreen Cemetery, 13,006 44 Evergreen Cemetery Fund, .... 2,652 13 Fire Department, 360 00 Forest City Cemetery, 160 00 Fees and Fines 4,570 03 Investment of Sinking Fund, .... 14,000 00 Interest, 13,666 41 Land Sold, 3,000 00 Licenses, ...... 80 00 Liquor Agency, 24,685 00 Notes Receivable, 5,047 50 Overlayings and Abatements, .... 756 69 Rents, 4,134 29 Rent of Armories, 400 00 Railroad and Telegraph Tax, .... 2,079 29 Schools, 16,937 89 School for the Deaf, 1,640 00 Sinking Fund, 4,846 00 State Pensions, 1,332 00 Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges, . . . 7,520 00 Support of Poor, ...... 1,510 93 Taxes, 758,360 61 .$888,058 23 Balance in the treasury at the commencement of the year, 145,179 42

TOTAL AMOUNT, as stated on page 63, $1,033,237 65 Expenditures as stated on page 54, . . 900,950 45 TREASURER'S BALANCE, per statement on page 18, $132,287 20 AUDITOR'S OFFICE, March 31,1882. CYRUS NOWELL, Auditor of Accounts. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 63 CITY OF PORTLAND. IN COMMITTEE ON REDUCTION OP CITY DEBT, | March 3, 1882. To CYRUS NO WELL, Auditor of Accounts: SIK : — You will please charge to account of the " Committee on Reduction of City Debt," the following described matured City Notes, paid during the present financial year, viz: Certificate No. 1,462 $ 500 Due Feb. 1, 1882. 1,479 500. Jan. 1, 1882. 1,515 600. Sept. 1, 1880. 1,533 500. Mch. 1, 1881. 1,544 1,000. ii ii 1,980 1,000. July 1, 1881. 1,981 1,000. 1,982 1,000. 1,983 1,000. 1,984 1,000. 1,985 1,000. 1,986 1,000. 1,987 1,000. 1,988 1,000. 1,989 1,000. 1,990 1,000. 1,991 1,000. 1,992 1,000. 1,993 1,000. 1,994 1,000. 1,997 1,000. 1,998 1,000. 1,999 1,000. 2,001 1,000. 2,003 1,000. 2,004 1,000. 2,005 1,000. 2,006 1,000. 2,007 1,000. 2,008 1,000. 2,009 1,000. 1,010 1,000. 2,011 1,000. 2,012 1,000. 2,013 1,000.

Amount carried forward, $33,100 66 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

Amount brought forward, $33,100 Certificate No. 1,014 1,000 Jan. 1, 1882. « " 2,018 1,000 " « " " 2,020 1,000 " " « " 2,021 1,000 " <• " " " 2,022 1,000 " " " " 2,023 1,000 " " " " 2,024 1,000 " " " " 2,025 1,000 " " « " " 2,027 1,000 " " " " " 2,028 1,000 " « « " " 2,029 1,000 " " « " " 2,032 1,000 " " « " 2,033 1,000 " « « " 2,034 1,000 " " " " 2,035 1,000 " " " " " 2,036 1,000 " « " " " 2,037 1,000 '• " " " 2,040 1,000 " " « " " 2,041 1,000 " " " " 2,042 1,000 " " » " " 2,043 1,000 " " « " " 2,044 1,000 " " " " " 2,045 1,000 " " " " 2,046 1,000 " " « « " 2,047 1,000 " » » BOND. CERTIFICATE. 169, registered 180, 1,000 Feb. 1, 1882. 170, " 181, 1,000 " « « 281, " 313, 1,000 July 1, 1881. 282, « 314, 1,000 " « " 284, " 316, 1,000 " » « 289, " 519, 1,000 " " " 299, " 331, 500 » " « 328, " 367, 2,000 Jan. 1, 1882. 433, " 507, 1,000 " « "

$67,600 00 Total,—Sixty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. WM. SENTEE, 1 Commitm Mayor, on CHAS. J. CHAPMAN, I Beductim Chairman of Board of Aldermen, \ SAMUEL THUKSTON, of President of Common Coum.il .-,•, 7j^ AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 67 STATEMENT OF THE APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND, FOR THE FINANCIAL YEAR FROM APRIL 1. 1881. TO MARCH 31, 1882, INCLUSIVE, VIZ: APPROPRIATIONS. Balance of last year $234,895 40 Appropriations, original 813,892 94 Appropriations, additional 3,000 00 Receipts other than from taxes 79,234 05 Transfer from overlayings 842 91 Transfer from abatements 1,045 46 Surplus income, net 1,143,8310,9267 6848 Less bonds (investment of sinking fund matured), 14,000 00 $1,129,837 64 Less, amount transferred from sinking fund, per order of city council, approved March 7th, being amount estimated in Income as due from G. T. R. on loans to A. St. L. R. R $47,220 00 $1,082,617 64 EXPENDITURES 900,950 45 $181,667 19 BALANCES. Standing to the credit of the following accounts, viz. : Committee on reduction of city debt $40,161 58 Advertising 326 31 Cemeteries and Public Grounds 68 90 Contingent Expenses 7,607 14 Discount on taxes 650 22 Evergreen Cemetery 431 64 Evergreen Fund Investment 9,500 00 Evergreen Fund Account 12,132 94 Forest City Cemetery 738 85 Fire Department Salaries 125 05 Harbor 300 00 Health 386 87 Interest 1,455 65 Liquor Agency 320 77 Police Salaries 950 00 Police Contingent 125 31 Public Buildings 1,575 60 Printing and Stationery 474 74 State Reform School 216 44 Salaries 1,111 12 Schools 463 77 School Salaries 2,716 50 School for the Deaf 490 09 Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges 61 35 Support of Poor 295 97 City Bonds in Aid A. & St. L. R. R 4,000 00 Coupons in Aid P. & O. R. R 7,320 00 Coupons in Aid P. & R. R. R 1,905 00 County tax, balance 13,837 09 StatWatee rtax Auditor'& ,Hydrants balancs e OFFICE. , CYRUMarch S31,1882 NOWELL. , Auditor71,7021 of35 2027Accounts. $181,667 19 68 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

CITY OF PORTLAND.

AUDITOR'S OFFICE, May loth, 1882. To the Honorable City Council: GENTLEMEN :—Herewith I have the honor of presenting my account of the APPROPRIATIONS and EXPENDITURES of the City of Portland for the financial year ending with March 31, 1882. Respectfully, your obedient servant, CYRUS NOWELL, Auditor of Accounts.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, May 22, 1882. Read and referred to Committee on Accounts. Attest : H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, May 22, 1882. Read and referred in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk.

CITY OF PORTLAND.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, June 5, 1882. The "Joint Standing Committee on Accounts," to whom was referred the statement of the City Auditor, of the Appropriations and Expenditures of the City for the financial year ending March 31, 1882, ask leave to submit the following REPORT. We have examined the Auditor's accounts of expenditures, comparing the several items with the entries in the books of the office, and find the same properly authorized and correctly stated. The results are as stated in the accounts submiited for examination. HOLMAN S. MELCHER, ) Committee JAMES F. HAWKES, > on SAMUEL B. KELSEY, ) Accounts.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, June 5,1882. Read and accepted. Attest: H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, June 5, 1882, Read and concurred. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk. AUDITOR'S ANN'JAL REPORT. 69

CITY DEBT. (MUNICIPAL.)

The EXISTING FUNDED DEBT of the city at the close of the financial year, amounts to f 2,052,000 00 due, payable as follows: TRUST FUNDS, viz.: for the benefit of poor widows, . $4,000 00 Female Orphan Asylum, . 8,000 00 Widow's Wood Society, . 1,000 00 $13,000 00 Due in 1869, (outstanding) 500 00 Due in 1871, " 500 00 Due in 1882, Coupon, 125,000 00 Due in 1882, Registered, . 28,500 00 153,500 00 Due in 1883, Coupon, 83,000 00 Due in 1883, Registered, . 14,500 00 97,500 00 Due in 1884, Coupon, . 61,500 00 Due in 1884, Registered, 23,500 00 85,000 00 Due in 1886, Coupon, 171,500 00 Due in 1886, Registered, . 154,500 00 326,000 00 Due in 1887, Coupon, 169,000 00 Due in 1887, Registered, 209,500 00 378,500 00 Due in 1888, Coupon, 222,000 00 Due in 1888, Registered, 139,000 00 361,000 00 Due in 1890, Coupon, 45,500 00 Due in 1890, Registered, 54,500 00 100,000 00 Due in 1891, Coupon, 67,000 00 Due in 1891, Registered, 22,000 00 89,000 00 Due in 1892, Coupon, 36,500 00 Due in 1892, Registered, 33,000 00 69,500 00 Due in 1893, Coupon, 19,500 00 Due in 1893, Registered, 11,000 00 30,500 00 Due in 1894, Coupon, 19,500 00 Due in 1894, Registered, 44,500 00 64,000 00

Amount carried forward, $1,768,500 00 70 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

Amount brought forward, $1,768,500 00 Due in 1895, Coupon, 81,500 00 Due in 1895, Registered, 73,000 00 154,500 00 Due in 1896, Coupon, 78,500 00 Due in 1896, Registered, 10,000 00 88,500 00 Due in 1897, Coupon, 20,000 00 Due in 1897, Registered, 20,500 00 40,500 00

$2,052,000 00 Against this amount there are be­ longing to the city 1700 shares of stock of the Portland Gas Light Co., .... $85,000 00 Amount to credit of the Commit­ tee on reduction of the city debt, 40,161 58 Trust funds on which the city pay the interest only, 13,000 00 Notes receivable, secured, . 7,817 95 $145,979 53 $1,906,020 47 Also, 7,143 shares Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad stock, par value, $100 per share, market value undetermined, Also 1350 Mortgage Bonds of the Portland & Og'burg R. R. Co., of Nov. 1, 1871 issue, payable Nov. 1, 1901—par value, $1000 each, $1,350,000, market value. Deduct municipal bonds, for which the city is fully secured by mortgage and sinking fund of At. & St. L. R. R. Company, $787,000 00

Balance of municipal loans, un­ secured, except by property owned by the city in its corpor­ ate capacity, .... $1,119,020 47 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 71

DECREASE OF CITY DEBT.

(MUNICIPAL.)

The FUNDED DEBT of the city on the 31st of March, 1881, was . . . $2,119,600 00 No notes have been issued this year. The payments have been as follows, viz.: City notes matured and paid from sinking fund for reduction of city debt, . 67,600 00

$2,052,000 00

Funded debt, March 31st, 1881, . . $2,119,600 00

Funded debt March 31st, 1882, . . 2,052,000 00

Decrease of municipal funded debt for the year, $67,600 00 SINKING FUND.

The following amounts were received during the year 1881-82 on account of the SINKING FUND, being yearly items which are required to be placed to the credit of the Commit­ tee on the Reduction of the City Debt, by the second section of the ordinance establishing a Sinking Fund, viz.: ANNUAL APPROPRIATIONS. From city taxes, as required by Ordi­ nance, being one per cent, of the funded debt (net) of the city, . $35,631 00 SURPLUS BALANCES. Being the surplus of unexpended bal­ ances other than those carried forward, 1,828 82 Surplus of cash income, . . . 10,926 88 INTEREST. From interest on investment of sink­ ing fund, 510 00 Paid by G. T. Railway, one year's . rent on account of lease of Gait's wharf, ..... 4,336 00 From land sold .... 3,000 00 Dog licenses, 70 00 Notes receivable, paid, 5,047 50 Sale of liquor vessels, 914 98 Sale of Dirigo engine, old hose, wheels, etc., ..... 360 00 $62,625 18 BALANCE of last year, April 1, 1881, to the credit of the sinking fund for the reduction of city debt, 78,356 40 Amount of investment in city bonds, 14,000 00 0,92,356.40

$154,981 58 Payment of city notes maturing dur­ ing the year, per order of Commit­ tee on Reduction of City Debt, . $67,600 00 Amount transferred to " Income," to supply estimated deficiency of in­ terest from G. T. R. R., per order of City Council, March 7th, . 47,220 00 $114,820 00 Balance of account, .... $40,161 58 By the ordinance establishing the sinking fund it is provided in Sec. 1," That the Mayor, the Chairman of the Hoard of Aldermen, and the President of the Common Council, shall be a committee, to be called the Committee on the Reduc­ tion of the City Debt." And it is made the duty of the Auditor to conform to all orders in writing which shall be made and signed by all the members of the said committee. Under the written instructions of the committee, notes paid and cancelled have been charged to the account of said committee of $67,600.00, to­ gether with the sum of $47,220. as above, leaving balance of account as stated. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 73 SUMMARY. Total municipal debt, including the $787,000 secured by mortgage and sinking fund of At. & St. L. B. E. and $207,000 issued for interest on Portland & Eochester E. E. account, and $121,500 issued for interest on Portland & Ogdensburg R.R. account, $2,052,000 00 Bonds issued to Portland & Eochester Eailroad Co., 1st loan, due July 1, 1887, $700,000 00 Less bonds cancelled and charged off by order of the city council, approved May 8, 1880, 72,500 00 627.500 00 Second loan to said E. E. Co., due July 1,1897, 450,000 00 Less bonds of said issue cancelled and charged of by order of city council ap­ proved as above, .... 34,000 00 416,000 00 Bonds issued to Portland & Ogdensburg E. E. Co., due September 1, 1907, $1,350,000 00 Less bonds of said issue cancelled and charged off by order of city council approved May 8, 1880, . . . 150,000 00 1,200,000 00 $4,295,500 00 Less assets, sinking fund, . . . $40,161 58 Less assets, stocks, notes receivable, and trust funds, 105,817 95 ______145,979 53 Less value of $1,350,000 of Port- $4,149 520 47 land and Ogdensburg Eailroad Mort­ gage bonds of Nov. 1, 1871, issue, . Also value of 7,143 shares of stock of said company, (not estimated,) . *Bonds issued to Building Loan commis­ sioners, secured by mortgage on real estate, $895,000 00 Less amount paid and cancelled prior to April 1, 1882, 570,000 00 325,000 00

4,474,520 47 •Not passed through Auditor's accounts. (6) 74 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

Appropriations for the Financial Year 1881-82. AND AN ESTIMATE OF THE "WAYS AND MEANS OF MEETING THE SAME.

By the ninth section of the ordinance respecting the office of Auditor of Accounts, he is required to lay before the City Council, annually, at such time as the council may direct, an estimate of the amount of money necessary to be raised for the ensuing year under the respective heads of Appropriations. Such estimates were duly made and laid before the city council in May last; they were referred to the committee on estimates, by whom an order was reported which passed the city council. The order was in substance as follows: Ordered, That to defray the expenditures of the city of Portland for the financial year which commenced with the first day of April, 1881, and ends with the last day of March 1882, the following sums of money be, and the same are here­ by, respectively appropriated for the objects and purposes as explained in the Auditor's estimates for 1881-82, viz: ADVERTISING. For subscription to daily papers and the cus­ tomary advertising therein, 1900 00 CITY DEBT. For the annual appropriation required by the ordinance to be applied to the "reduction of the city debt," not otherwise provided for, 35,631 00 CITY BUILDING. For necessary expenses in the various city offices occupied by the several departments of the city, expense of cleaning and lighting hall; expenses, repairs, and alterations of building; cost of steam heating rooms occupied for city and county purposes ; repairs on boiler and house, salary of engineer, assistants, janitors and incidentals, ...... 10,000 00 Amount carried fonvard, $46,531 00 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 75

Amount brought forward, $46,531 00 CEMETERIES AND PUBLIC GROUNDS. For care and improvement of cemeteries and public grounds and promenades in the city; setting out and trimming trees in streets; with other expenses of burial grounds, . f 3,000 00 CONTINGENT EXPENSES. For all expenses of the city not included under other heads of appropriation, embracing, among other items, "Fourth of July " expen­ ses, and other celebrations; of elections, legal expenses, traveling expenses of committees, not otherwise charged ; music in streets, pos­ tages, telegrams, refreshments, etc.; also, payment authorized to Portland Institute and Public Library, with other sums ordered by the city council, 16,000 00 DISCOUNT ON TAXES. For discount allowed to parties paying their taxes under the three per cent, discount ordi­ nance, 20,000 00 DRAINS AND SEWERS. For constructing of new common sewers and re­ pairing old ones, new culverts for street drainage, and repairs of old ones, and for all other expenses connected therewith, . . 12,900 00 DAMAGES ON STREETS. For damages for land taken in laying out, wid­ ening or extending streets, or claims arising therefrom, 2,500 00 EVERGREEN CEMETERY. For necessary improvement of grounds and fences, pay of superintendent and introduc­ tion of water, etc., under the direction of the trustees, 1,700 00 FOREST CITY CEMETERY. For expenses of grading, labor on walks and paths, setting out trees and plants, repairs on fences, etc., pay of superintendent, and all other incidental expenses, .... 150 00 Amount carried forward, $ 102,781 00 76 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

Amount brought forward, $102,781 00 FIRE DEPARTMENT—ORDINARY EXPENSES. For expenditures of fire department, excepting salaries of officers and members, including ex­ penses of fire alarm telegraph and pay of superintendent, $19,000 00

FIRE DEPARTMENT.—SALARIES. For pay of officers and members of the fire de­ partment, excepting the salary of chief en­ gineer and assistants, and including the pay to engineers and firemen of steamers, hook and ladder and hose companies, . . . $10,900 00 GAS LIGHTS. For payment of gas, lighting, cleaning; for posts, lanterns, lamps, oils, and all other ex­ penses of lighting the streets of the city, . $17,500 00 HARBOR. For keeping harbor clear of ice and other ob­ structions, $300 00 HEALTH. For necessary expenses, under the direction of Board of Health, and on account of back bay and incidental expenses of pest-house, . $1,000 00 INTEREST. For interest on city debt, trust funds, and such temporary loans as may be required, . . $127,580 00 PORTLAND & OGDENSBURG R. R.— Coupons for Int. For interest coupons on bonds issued in aid of Portland & Ogdensburg R. R., and due in September and March, .... $72,000 00

PORTLAND & ROCHESTER R. R.— Coupons for Int% For interest coupons on bonds issued in aid of Portland & Rochester R. R., and due in July and January, $62,610 00

Amount carried forward, $413,671 00 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL KEPBOT. 77

Amount brought forward, $413,671 00 PRINTING AND STATIONERY. For printing, binding and stationery, required by the city council and in the various city offices, $2,000 00 POLICE SALARIES. For payment of salaries of policemen, exclusive of the salaries of the marshal and deputies, . (All the fees received by the department, or that would accrue for service of warrants, witness fees, mittimus fees, and all other com­ pensations received directly or indirectly, from whatever source, for services rendered in an official capacity, being paid into the office of the city treasurer in accordance with police regulations). $27,000 00 POLICE CONTINGENT. For ordinary expenses of the police department and lock-up, furniture, bedding, badges, food and medicine furnished persons arrested, and other needful assistance, carriage hire for con­ veyance of prisoners, trucking, burying dead animals, and other expenses of the depart­ ment, (the city marshal paying his own horse-keeping,) $800 00 PUBLIC BUILDINGS. For the ordinary repairs, alterations, care of and fitting up the public buildings belonging to the city, except school houses and the new city building, and H. & L. house, . . . $3,300 00 RESERVED FUND. Amount to be held in reserve till the close of the financial year, to be transferred to supply deficits in overdrawn appropriations, . . $5,000 00 SALARIES OF CITY OFFICERS. For payment of the salaries of various city office, and Judge of the Municipal Court, . $27,000 00

Amount carried forward, $478,771 00 78 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

Amount brought forward, $478,771 00 STREETS, SIDEWALKS AND BRIDGES. For the usual expense of paving, repairing and grading streets, laying sidewalks, and repairs on bridges, tending draws, building protection walls, etc., ...... 50,000 00 SUPPORT OF POOR. For gross expenditures to maintain and support the alms-house, Greely hospital, and city farm and buildings in charge of the overseers; as­ sistance to paupers, and outside relief to those poor persons who, not being paupers, are proper objects for such assistance, under the direction of the overseers of the poor, (based upon the following estimates: Subsistence, ..... Fuel for house and distribution, . Labor on farm, Clothing, bedding, etc., Transportation of paupers, and support of, at insane hospital, Salary of keeper and matron, Repairs on buildings and fences, . Chaplain, salary of, and teachers, Treasurer and Secretary, salary of,) Gross amount required, .... 22,000 00 SCHOOLS. For ordinary expenses of the public schools, salaries excepted, as per estimate of the school committee, 18,898 00 SCHOOL SALARIES. For the payment of the salaries of the superin­ tendent and teachers in the public schools, 64,030 00 SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. For salaries of teachers, assistants, stationery, &c, (to be expended by the school committe,) 1,550 00

Amount carried forward, 1635,249 00 AUDITOB'S ANNUAL EEPOET. 79

Amount brought forward, $635,249 00 SCHOOL HOUSE.—(MUNJOY.) For any deficiency arising in finishing or fur­ nishing, 300 00 STATE REFORM SCHOOL. For clothing and subsistence for boys sent from this city to that institution, at the rate of one dollar per week, 1,200 00 TAXES.—STATE. For this city's proportion of the State tax, as­ sessed for 1881, 137,054 20 TAXES.—COUNTY. For this city's proportion of the county tax, as­ sessed for 1881, 36,589 74 "WATER AND HYDRANTS. For amount to Portland Water Company as per order of city council, and for purchase and setting of hydrants, under the direction of the committee on fire department, . . 6,500 00 Estimated expenditures, f 816,892 94 80 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT. WAYS AND MEANS, OB ESTIMATED INCOME.

An estimate of the ways and means (aside from taxation,') of meeting the expenditures of the city of Portland, for the fi­ nancial year 1881-82, commencing with the first day of April, 1881, and ending with the last day of March, 1882. CITY BUILDING. Estimated receipts for use of new city hall, and from county's proportion of cost of steam heating $3,000 00 DRAINS AND SEWERS. Estimated amount receivable from persons, for right to enter the city sewers, . . 2,500 00 FEES. Estimated amount receivable from fees of police department, municipal court, powder house, and all other sources, . . . 1,400 00 INTEREST. Estimated amount receivable for interest on stocks and bonds, and on outstanding taxes collected, 59,000,00 LICENSES. Estimated receipts for licenses for circuses, theatres, exhibitions, etc., ... 50 00 RENTS. Estimated amount of rents receivable for stores, market stalls, hay scales, and market hall, 3,700 00 RAILROAD TAXES. Estimated amount to be received from the State for railroad taxes, .... 500 00 SCHOOLS. Estimated amount to be received from the State for this city's proportion of school fund, etc., 14,000 00

Amount carried forward, $84,150 00 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 81 Amount brought forward, $84,150 00 SUPPORT OF POOR. Estimated amount to be received from Over­ seers of the Poor for sale of Products from the city farm, towns for the support of paupers, and all other sources of income, 1,400 00 ARMORIES. Estimated amount to be received from the State for furnishing armories for military companies, 450 00

Estimated income, total, 186,000 00

RECAPITULATION.

Estimated expenditures as stated on page 79, -1816,892 94 Estimated income, as per statement on page 81, 86,000 00

Balance to be provided for by taxation or other­ wise, . . . . ' . • . . 730,892 94 To meet this requisition a gross tax was order­ ed and assessed to the amount of . . 766,436 30 Deduct for abatement and losses, . . . 35,543 36

Amount required, f 730,892 94 82 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET. TRUST FUNDS. THE CLAPP FUND FOR POOR WIDOWS. By the will of the HON. ASA CLAPP, the sum of $4,000 was bequeathed to the City of Portland, in trust, the "inter­ est thereof at six per cent., to be annually distributed on the first Monday of January, by the Mayor and Aldermen of said City, for the time being, or such other person or persons as said city may appoint, to the poor widows, inhabitants of said city, and such married women as, in consequence of the neglect or vices of their husbands, may at that season of the year be suffering the want of the common necessaries of life." In accordance with the above, the mayor and aldermen ap­ pointed the "Widow's Wood Society" to distribute said in­ terest on the first Monday of January, 1882. THE CLAPP FUND FOR THE FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM. By the same will, the sum of f 8,000 was also left to the City of Portland, in trust, "the interest thereof, at six per cent., to be paid to the Treasurer, for the time being, of the Female Orphan Asylum, of said Portland, in quarterly pay­ ments—to be applied by the managers of said Asylum ac­ cording to their discretion, for the benefit of the children of that institution." These trusts were accepted by the city in 1849. By the will of the late WILLIAM MOULTON, Esq., the siim of one thousand dollars was bequeathed to the City of Port­ land, in trust, the interest thereof to be paid semi-annually to the managers of the "Widow's Wood Society," for the benefit of said society. This trust was accepted by the city in June, 1869. THE BROWN MEMORIAL TRUST FUND. BE IT KNOWN, that I, JOHN B. BEOWN, of the City of Portland, in the County of Cumberland, and State of Maine, in memory of my deceased son, JAMES OLCOTT BEOWN, and of his deep interest in the cause of education, and the gen­ eral diffusion of its blessings and benefits, do by these presents, give and grant unto JACOB MCLELLAN, Mit/oi of AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT. 83

said city, HENRY P. LORD, Treasurer, of said city, and JOSEPH C. NOYES, Chairman of the School Committee of said city, and to their several successors in said several of­ fices, during their continuance therein, the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, in five bonds of the State of Maine, num­ bered 2,760 to 2,764 inclusive, for one thousand dollars each, dated June 1, 1864, and payable in twenty-five years from date, with interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum— in trust for the following sole objects and purposes : First. To keep said sum invested as it now is, until the maturity and payment of said securities, and upon such ma­ turity and payment to re-invest the same; and also from time to time, as the same shall accrue under the provisions of this declaration of trust, to invest any surplus of the in­ come of said fund, in such. National or State securities as they shall deem the most profitable and safe,—and to keep the same so invested and re-invested forever. Second. To apply annually the annual income of said fund, or so much thereof as shall be therefore required, to the pur­ chase of silver medals in all respect similar to the one depos­ ited herewith with said Trustees, and to be called "THE BROWN MEMORIAL MEDAL,"—and to the establishment at Bowdoin College, in Brunswick, in the State of Maine, of four scholarships, to be called "THE BROWN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIPS," as hereinafter provided, to wit: In each of the years from eighteen hundred and sixty-five to eighteen hundred and seventy-five, both inclusive, six med­ als shall be purchased; three of which shall be awarded by said Trustees, at the time of their graduation, to the three best scholars, of not less than one year's standing in said school graduating from the Boy's Department of the Port­ land High School,—and three to the three best scholars, of similar standing, graduating from the Girl's Department of said school. In each of the years from eighteen hundred and seventy- six to eighteen hundred and eighty-five, both inclusive, eight medals shall be purchased,—four of which shall be awarded as hereinbefore provided, to the four best scholars in each department aforesaid of said Portland High School. And in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and an- 84 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. nually in every year thereafter, ten medals shall be purchas­ ed,—five of which shall be awarded, as herein before provided to the five best scholars in each department aforesaid of said Portland High School. From the time of their establishment to and including the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, each of said scholar­ ships shall be of the annual value of fifty dollars in money— and from and after the year eighteen hundred and seventy- five each of said scholarships shall be of the annual value of seventy-five dollars in money,—until the principal of this trust fund shall amount to the sum of seven thousand and five hundred dollars,—from and after which time the whole income of said fund, after deducting the cost of the annual medals as hereinbefore provided, shall be annually applied to the four scholarships—making the annual value of each equal to one-fourth part in money of the annual income of said fund less the cost of the annual medals aforesaid. A scholarship shall be established in the year eighteen hun­ dred and sixty-six :— and at the close of the collegiate year at Bowdoin College aforesaid, in August of that year, and of every succeeding year, the annual value thereof shall be paid by said trustees to the best scholar in the then Freshman class at said college, who graduated at the Portland High School aforesaid, after having been a member thereof not less than one year. Another scholarship shall be established in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-seven; and at the close of the collgiate year at Bowdoin College aforesaid, in August of that year, and of every succeeding year, the annual value thereof shall be paid by said trustees to the best scholar in the then So­ phomore class at said college, who graduated at the Portland High School aforesaid, after having been a member thereof not less than one year. Another scholarship shall be established in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-eight; and at the close of the collegiate year at Bowdoin College aforesaid, in August of that year, and of every succeeding year, the annual value thereof shall be paid by said trustees to the best scholar in the then Junior class of said college who graduated at the Portland High School aforesaid, after having been a member thereof not less than one year. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 85

Another scholarship shall be established in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine; and at the close of the collegiate year at Bowdoin College aforesaid, in August of that year, and of every succeeding year, the annual value thereof shall be paid by said trustees to the best scholar in the then Senior class of said college who graduated at the Portland High School aforesaid, after having been a member thereof not less than one year. Any surplus of income not required for the purchase of medals, or for the payment of scholarships, shall be invested as before provided, and added to the principal, until the princi­ pal shall amount to the sum of seven thousand and five hun­ dred dollars. If in any year before the fund shall have increased to the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, there should not be in any class a person entitled to the benefit of the scholarship thereto pertaining, the amount thereof shall be invested as before provided, and added to the principal of this fund. And if any year after the fund shall have increased to the sum of seven thousand and five hundred dollars, there should not be in any class a person entitled to the benefit of the scholarship thereto pertaining the amount thereof shall be applied by said trustees to the founding, or to the increasing of a library for the Portland High School, as aforesaid. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I, the said JOHN B. BROWN, have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal; and the said Jacob McLellan, Mayor of the City of Port­ land, and Henry P. Lord, Treasurer of the City of Portland, and Joseph C. Noyes, Chairman of the School Committee of the City of Portland, in testimony of their acceptance of said Trusts, have hereunto subscribed their names, this first day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five. JOHN B. BROWN, [SEAL.] Witness,—JOHN RAND. JACOB McLELLAN, Mayor of the City of Portland. HENRY P. LORD, Treasurer of the City of Portland. JOSEPH C. NOYES, Chairman the School Com­ mittee of the City of Portland. 86 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Company.

Report of the Commissioners of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence R. R. Sinking Fund, July 31, 1881.

To the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Portland and to the Directors of the Atlantic & Hi. Lawrence Railroad Company : The Commissioner of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad Sinking Fund, established by the Act of the Legislature of Maine of March 3, 18(58, for the purpose of providing for the balance of the Company's obligations to the City of Portland, present their annual report of the amount and investment of the Fund at the close of the year, July 31, 1881. The following is a statement of the increase of thi fund from the begin­ ning, by annual contributions and by interest, and of its present amount: YEARS. PRINCIPAL. INTEREST. 1809 $ 4,162.50 $ 33.00 1870 9,196.88 180 43 1871 25,000.00 2,712.51 1872 25,000.00 954.89 1873 25,000.00 4,637.33 1874 25,000.00 6.082.08 1875 25,000.00 7,800.11 1876 25,000.00 8,949.87 1S77 25,000.00 11,046.19 1878 25,000.00 13,214.59 1879 25,000.00 18,625 88 1880 25,000.00 18,529.21 1881 8691,861.4428,502.0S6 §119,031.326,265.234 691,861.46 $810,892.79 Less debit balance of premium account, 9,220.10 Total fund, $S01,666.69 The investments are as follows : City of Portland Bonds $ 297,500.00 County Bonds, 4,000.00 United States Bonds 10,000.00 Deposit on interest,... 470,691.23 Cash, 19,475.46 $801,666.69 The Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, which Company, under its lease of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad, is bound to pay into the Sinking Fund the amount necessary to retire the obligations to the City of Portland, paid into the hands of the Commissioners in January last, the sum of $428,502.08, which, with the amount already in the fund, made the full sum of $787,000.00. At the request of that Company, the Commissioners then tendered the Fund to the City authorities, who declined to receive it, contending that such payment was not in conformity with the agreement with the City. Under the Act establishing the Sinking Fund, the Treasurer of the city is ex officio custodian of the securities and uninvested moneys of the Fund. CHARLLS E. BARRETT, I SAMUEL E. SPRING, J Commissioners.rnmmMoners Portland, July 31, 1881. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 87

VALUATION OF ESTATES AND TAXES ASSESSED,

FROM EIGHTEEN HUNDRED FIFTY TO EIGHTEEN HUNDRED EIGHTY-ONE, INCLUSIVE.

Valuation. Increase. Decrease. Taxes. Increase.

$13,364,238 $91,741 31 15,694.247 $2,330,009 100,738 15 $8,996 84 16,467,703 773,456 114,118 44 13,380 29 17,755,612 1,287,909 129,937 33 15,518 89 18,962,514 1,206,902 126,711 59 20,502,763 1,540,249 148,735 74 22,024 15 21,143,171 640,408 187,518 16 38,782 42 22,373,729 1,230,558 184,983 83 22,240,290 $133,439 197,471 90 12,488 07 22,159,800 80,490 205,105 50 7,693 60 22,072,500 87,300 244,888 60 39,732 10 23,482,900 274,353 06 1,410,400 29,464 46 23,306,700 176,200 320,919 95 25,111,204 369,599 33 46,566 89 1,804,504 48,670 38 26,951,939 1,842,735 573,085 93 28,021,570 1,067,631 805,285 96 203,486 60 29,004,115 982,545 741,568 05 232,200 03 28,313,845 690,270 715,853 20 28,572,478 737,525 95 21,672 75 26,881,239 258,633 710,815 49 308,761 28,953,715 775,641 59 64,826 10 28,924,350 72,476 746,946 75 29,365 28,682,110 768,882 46 21,935 71 29,821,012 242,240 769,606 30 30,723,936 1,138,902 792,710 40 723 84 31,042,501 902,924 786,458 27 23,104 10 30,660,355 318,565 791,876 87 30,892,845 382,146 798,277 12 5,418 60 30,671,154 232,491 807,806 42 6,400 25 30,184,928 221,691 780,210 20 9,529 30 31,153,656 486,226 819,882 23 31,495.885 968,728 766,434 30 39,672 03 342.229

Number of polls returned this year, 8,761. 88 AUDITOE S ANNUAL KEPORT. STATE TAX.

The STATE TAX assessed for 1882, is $1,063,509.91. Portion to be paid by the City of Portland, 1137,054.20. The State tax paid by the City of Portland from 1850 to 1882, inclusive, is as follows : 1850, $ 12,208 36 1851, to 1859, inclusive, 14,650 65 1860, 27,374 94 1861, 34,208 07 1862, 54,707 44 1863, 65,640 44 1864 174,970 44 1865, 328,032 44 1866, 164,037 41 1867, 107,238 44 1868, 89,372 44 1869, 125,104 44 1870, 176,713 68 1871, 147,274 42 1872, 169,353 87 1873, 147,274 42 1874, 147,274 42 1875, 117,835 27 1876, 110,475 35 1877, 88,395 91 1878, 117,835 17 1879, 117,835 17 1880, 147,274 43 1881, 137,054 20 1882, 137,054 20 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 89 COUNTY TAXES FOR 1882. The following is the County tax assessed upon the several towns in Cumberland County for 1882: Portland, ....'.... $27,144 00 Baldwin, . 279 52 Bridgton, . 986 00 Brunswick, 2,396 19 Cape Elizabeth, 1,670 98 Casco, 237 60 Cumberland, 497 91 Deering, . 2,308 86 Falmouth, 687 27 Freeport, . 874 98 Gray, 511 87 Gorham, . 1,249 53 Harpswell, 447 41 Harrison, . 283 28 Naples, 217 72 New Gloucester, 732 15 North Yarmouth, 333 14 Otisfield, . 234 57 Pownal, . 271 69 Raymond, 204 04 Scarborough, 698 01 Sebago, 164 18 Standish, . 556 27 Westbrook, 1,365 28 Windham, 734 15 Yarmouth, 913 40 Making a total of $46,000, as the ( bounty tax levied on the above towns by the County Commissioners for the present year. The total number of polls in the county is 21,539, and the total value of estates, $51,530,510. cou NT Y 1^A X , I*38 2 The County tax assessed for 1882 by the County Commis­ sioners of the County of Cumberland, is $46,000.00. This City's proportion of the same u $27,144.00. (7) 90 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EBPOET. TAXES. The following statement will show the amounts asessed on the polls, and on the real and personal estates of the city of Portland for the several past years, together with the pur­ poses for which they were severally assessed : 1870. Taxes raised from real estate, $444,009 80 " " " personal estate, 308,786 79 " " " 7,615 polls, at three dollars each, 22,845 00 Total, $775,641 59 For the City's proportion of State tax, $176,713 68 " » " " County tax, 40,278 64 City tax, 526,890 00 Overlayings, 31,759 27 Total, $775,641 59 1871. Taxes raised from real estate, 433,837 50 " " " personal estate, 289,271 25 " " " 7,946 polls at three dollars each, 23,838 00 Total, $746,946 75 For the City's proportion of State tax, $147,274 42 " " " " County tax, 44,225 41 City tax, 533,230 00 Overlayings, 22,216 92 Total, $746,946 75 1872. Tax raised from real estate, $454,191 40 " " personal estate, 291,546 06 " " " 7,715 polls at three dollars each, 23,145 00 Total, $768,882 46 For the City's proportion of State tax, $169,353 87 " County tax, 28,349 62 City tax, 549,505 00 Overlayings, 21,673 97 Total, $768,882 46 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 91

1873. Tax raised from real estate, $444,382 50 " personal estate, 301,142 80 It l( " 8,027 polls, at three dollars each, 24,081 00 Total, $769,606 30

For the City's proportion of State tax, $147,274 42 " " " " County tax, 34,019 23 City tax, 552,575 00 Overlayings, 35,737 65 Total, $769,606 30

1874,. Tax raised from real estate, $453,530 00 " personal estate, 314,568 00 C( ... " 8,204 polls, at three dollars each, 24,612 40

Total, $792,710 40 For the City's proportion of State tax, $147,274 42 " " " " County tax, 34,019 23 City tax, 575,910 00 Overlayings, 35,506 75 Total, $792,710 40

1875. Tax raised from real estate, $451,370 85 U it " personal estate, 309,170 42 ££ U " 8,639 polls, at three dollars each, 25,917 00 Total, $786,458 27

For the City's proportion of State tax, $117,835 27 » " « " " County tax, 40,823 66 City tax, 595,325 00 Overlayings, 32,474 34

Total, $786,458 27 92 AUDITOE'S ANNUAL EEPOET.

1876. Tax raised from real estate, $467,712 50 " " " personal estate, 298,796 37 " " " 8,456 polls, at three dollars each, 25,368 00

Total, $791,876 87

For the City's proportion of State tax, $110,475 35 " " " " County tax, 40,744 05 City tax, 613,277 00 Overlayings, 27,380 47 Total, $791,876 87

1877. Tax raised from real estate, $476,680 00 " " " personal estate, 295,641 12 " " " 8,652 polls at three dollars each, 25,956 00 Total, $798,277 12 For the City's proportion of State tax, $88,395 91 " " " " County tax, 46,494 31 City tax, 625,674 00 Overlayings, 37,712 90 Total, $798,277 12

1878. Tax raised from real estate, $489,926 40 " personal estate, 292,188 02 " 8,564 polls, at three dollars each, 25,692 00 Total, $807,806 42 For the City's proportion of State tax, $117,835 17 " " " " County tax, 38,554 82 City tax, 618,072 54 Overlayings, 33,343 89

Total, $807,806 42 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 93

1879. Tax raised from real estate, $495,645 00 " " " personal estate, 258,978 20 " " " 8,529 polls, at three dollars each, 25,587 00 Total, $780,210 20 For the city's proportion of State tax, $117,835 17 " " " " County tax, 19,885 85 City tax, 610,766 00 Overlayings, 31,723 18 Total, $780,210 20 1880. Tax raised from real estate, $504,318 60 " " " personal estate, 290,099 63 " " " 8,488 polls at three dollars each, 25,464 00

Total, $819,882 23 For the City's proportion of State tax, $147,274 43 " " " " County tax, 32,954 84 City tax, 604,280 00 Overlayings, 35,372 96 Total, $819,882 23 1881. Tax raised from real estate, $467,328 05 « " " personal estate, 272,825 25 » " "• 8,761 polls, at three dollars each, 26,283 00 Total, $766,436 30 For the City's proportion of State tax, $137,054 20 « « « " County tax, 36,589 74 City tax, 557,249 00 Overlayings, 35,543 36 Total, $766,436 30

8@="See page 87, for taxes from 1850 to 1881, inclusive. 94 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET. ASSESSORS' VALUATION REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATES. The valuation of the real and personal estates of the city of Portland, for the year 1870, and subsequent years, is as follows: 1870. Valuation of real estate, 117,077,300 00 " " personal estate, 11,876,415 00 Total, $28,953,715 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-six dollars on one thousand. 1871. Valuation of real estate, $17,353,500 00 " " personal estate, 11,570,850 00 Total, $28,924,350 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars on one thousand. 1872. Valuation of real estate, $17,468,900 00 " " personal estate, 11,213,210 00 Total, $28,682,110 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-six dollars on one thousand. 1878. Valuation of real estate, $17,775,300 00 " " personal estate, 12,045,712 00 Total, $29,821,012 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars on one thousand. 1874. Valuation of real estate, $18,141,200 00 " " personal estate, 12,582,736 00 Total, $30,723,936 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars on one thousand. 1875. Valuation of real estate, $18,423,300 00 " " personal estate, 12,619,201 00 Total, 31,042,501 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-four and a half dollars on one thousand. AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 95 1876. Valuation of real estate, $18,708,500 00 " " personal estate, 11,951,855 00 Total, $30,360,355 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars on one thousand. 1877. Valuation of real estate, $19,067,200 00 " " personal estate, 11,825,645 00 Total, $30,892,845 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars on one thousand. 1878. Valuation of real estate, $19,212,800 00 " " personal estate, 11,458,354 00 Total, $30,671,154 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents on one thousand. 1879. Valuation of real estate, $19,825,800 00 " personal estate, 10,359,128 00 Total, $30,184,928 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars on one thousand. 1880. Valuation of real estate, $19,777,200 00 " " personal estate, 11,376,456 00 Total, $31,153,656 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-five dollars and fifty cents on one thousand. 1881. Valuation of real estate, $19,886,300 00 " personal estate, 11,609,585 00 Total, $31,495,885 00 Rate of taxation, twenty-three dollars and fifty cents on one thousand. See page 87, for valuation of former years, from 1850 to 1881, inclusive. 96 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

AN ACCOUNT OF THE REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF PORTLAND, MAECH 31, 1882.

STOCK AND BONDS. Notes receivable, ...... $7,817 93 Seventeen Hundred Shares in the stock of the Portland Gas Light Co., at their par value of $50 per share, . . 85,000 00 7,143 shares Portland & Ogdensburg Railroad stock, par value, $714,300 00. == LANDS AND BUILDINGS. According to the following valuation: DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY AND LOCATION. VALUE. Interest of city in New City Buildings, corner of Congress and Myrtle streets, ...... $200,000 00 New two story Brick Engine and Dwelling House and stores, east corner of Market and Congress streets, and land adjoin­ ing on Congress street, containing in all about 9,000 square feet, 19,000 00 Two story Brick Engine House, stable and land, 30 by 50 feet, west side Brackett street, 1,500 square feet, . . . 4,000 00 Two story Frame House and land west side Brackett street, containing about 2,000 square feet, .... 2,500 00 Three story Brick Engine House and land, 23 by 51 feet, north side Congress street, near Oak street, 1,173 square feet, . 3,200 00 Two story Brick Engine House and Ward Room and land on Congress street, next north-east of the Observatory, contain­ ing 6,776 square feet, ...... 10,000 00 Three story Brick School House and land, rear First Parish Church and south side of Cumberland street, and passage way from Congress street, 37,749 square feet, (High School,) . 45,000 00 New three story Brick School House and land, including funeral lane, south side Congress street, containing about 38,500 square feet more or less, (North School,) . . . 100,000 00 One story Brick School House and land, east side of Casco street, 60 by 105 feet, 6,030 square feet, .... 4,800 00 Two story Brick School House and land, on Monument street, 67 by 140 feet, 9,940 square feet, .... 7,000 00 A mount carried forward, $395,500 00 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. 97

Amount brought forward, $895,500 00 Three story Brick School House and land, west side Chestnut street, 84 by 112 feet, 9,408 square feet, . . . 15,700 00 Three story Brick School House and land, west side Centre St., averaging about 96 by 170 feet, 16,320 square feet, . . 21,500 00 One story Brick School House and land, north side Spring St., 57 by 1S1 fee , 8,607 square feet, .... 7,000 00 Two story Granite and Brick Engine House, and land, north side of Spring street, near State street, 50 by 79 feet, 4,740 square feet, ...... 12,000 00 Two story Brick School House and land, west side of Park St., 90 by 210 feet, 18,900 square feet, .... 21,400 00 One story Brick School House and land, east side of Walnut street, 125 by 57 feet, 7,125 square feet, . . . 4,500 00 Three story Brick School House and land, east side Brackett street, 62£ by 249 feet, containing about 15,560 square feet, . 17,000 00 Two story Brick School House and land, Lowell street, 100 by 114 feet, 11,400 square feet, ..... 4,500 00 Two story Brick School House and land, east side Vaughan St., 75 by 130 feet, 9,800 square feet, .... 5,800 00 Two one and a half story Frame Houses, Peak's Island and Long Island, 1,000, 1,200, 2,2C0 00 Brick School House and land, Peak's Island, . . 6,0C0 00 Market Hall, Stores and Market House and land, 16,705 square feet, more or less, junction of Congress and Middle streets, 34,000 00 Two story building, Mariner's spring and land, corner South and Spring street, 22 by 88 feet, 1,936 square feet, . . 6,000 00 Hay scales and land, west side Green street, containing 15,000 square feet, 5,000 00 Hose House and land, west side of South street, 20 by 115 feet, 2,322 square feet, 4,000 00 Stable, shed and land, foot of Hanover street, 250 feet front, and flats to the channel, ..... 4,200 00 City Alms House and city farm, 56 acres, more or less, with buildings connected, ...... 50,000 00 Lincoln Park, bounded by Congress, Federal, Pearl and Frank­ lin streets, containing 108,428i square feet, or about 2\ acres, 65,000 00 Market Lot, bounded by Market, Fore, Milk and fcilver streets, containing 24,359 square feet, ..... 30,000 00 Wooden Market House on lot, ..... 6,465 00 Land on Washington and North streets, . . • 3,000 00 Land on Myrtle street, adjoining city building lot, containing about 2,000 square feet, ..... 1,000 00 Vacant land, thirty-one acres south side Congress street, near Cumberland and Oxford canal, with flats to Fore river channel, sold to Maine Central Railroad, Twenty-four acres foot of Bramhall's hill, and Powder Magazine, .... 8,400 00 Three acres in Eastern Promenade, to shore, . 2,700 00 Three acres south side Congress street, to Arsenal, 900 00 About 500 square feet, corner of Lafayette and Quebec streets, °0 00 Amount carried forward, $733,815 00 98 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT.

Amount brought forward, 1733,815 00 Vacant land, about 3,320 square feet, corner of Washington street and Eastern Promenade, 200 00 Passage-way between Atlantic and St. Lawrence 200 00 streets, ...... Brick stable in Ward No. 3, near steamer Casco's 2,000 00 house, ...... Ward room and land, India street, lot 4,481 square 9,900 00 feet, ...... 100 00 Small stable rear of city building, Land of Lucy Todd and others, adjoining Market Hall, westerly junction Congress and Middle 2,000 00 streets, ...... Land and small house on Poplar street, of Bernard 500 00 Daley, ...... 8,550 00 School house lot, corner Pine and West streets, 32,375 00 containing 8,825 square feet, Brick school house on Pine street lot, finished, 10,500 00 Deering's Oaks, corner Portland and Grove streets, 730 00 containing about 50 acres, 3,636 00 Brick Powder House, and old arsenal building, School house lot (Munjoy), Brick school house {Munjoy) North street, unfin­ ished, ...... $814,309,7926 000 Less land sold Geo. P. Wescott, D. W. Clark & Co., and others, 4,639 00 $809,663 00 N. B. Land taken for Sheridan street, as far as settled, was an actual purchase by deed, and belongs to the city, though, as will be seen in the record of its "laying out," it is called damages, and is charged under the head of Damases on Streets. CEMETERIES.—Seven acres, Eastern Cemetery, corner of Congress and Mountfort streets. Fifteen acres, Western Cemetei-y, corner Danforth and Vaughan streets. Sixty acres flats and uplands, Forest City Cemetery, Cape Elizabeth, less 16 71-100 acres and 11 6-10 acres, sold D. W. Clark & Co., approved June 10, 1879. EVERGREEN CEMETERY.—The area of the Cemetery, and cost of same, is as follows, with the names of parties from whom the land was pur­ chased : NAMES. AITRHS. POST. Oliver Buckley, Feb. 28, 1852, 28.33 1 3,333 00 Oliver Buckley, Feb. 28, 1852, passage way, .83| William Stevens, Feb. 28, 1852, 26.21 1,966 00 .036 10 00 Oliver Buckley, June 3, 1866, .0203 1 00 H. B. & H. M. Hart, April 9, 1857, 3.886 1,000 00 Jane Stray ton, June 9, 1869, .512 75 28 E. B. Fobes, June 10, 1869, 51.327 8,892 22 11.903 2,086 52 Stevens' heirs, Nov. 1, 1869, 44.138 11,050 00 (i. M. Stevens, Nov. 1, 1869, 11.5 2,875 00 Storer Libby & als., Nov. 20, 1871, 13.25 1,325 00 Storer Libby & als., Nov. 20, 1871, 2.05 1,000 00 E. B. Howard, May 11, 1876, 14.30 4,700 00 .0103 45 50 Charles W. Goddard, (trustee), April 28, 1880, E. PTotal. Chase, , June 12, 1880, 208.3226 $38,449 52 F. G. Stevens, July 29,1880, AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPOET. 99

By the above it will be seen that the Cemetery contains about 209 acres, costing in all $38,602,52. The portion laid out in lots, ponds, &c, is as follows: Area occupied by ponds and avenues around them, 6.58 acres. Area occupied by passage way from plains road, .83 Area occupied by lots and avenues, 69.30 Total, 70.77 acres or by slight increase to about 71 acres. There are in the Cemetery proper six miles of avenues, seventeen feet in width; two miles ten feet in width; seventeen miles of paths three feet in width. There are 4660 lots in the Cemetery, and 2912 lot holders. CITY CIVIL ENGINEER'S DEPARTMENT. List of instruments, furniture, etc., belonging to the City of Portland, in charge of the City Civil Engineer, are enumerated in his report.

OTHER CITY PROPERTY. FuENiTtrKE in the various rooms and offices in City Government House. CEMETERIES—One City Receiving Tomb in Eastern Cemetery. Dead House in Eastern Cemetery. One City Receiving Tomb in Evergreen Cemetery. Funeral cars and harnesses, shovels, spades, tools, etc., in Forest City and Evergreen Cemeteries, are under the charge of the Superintendents. HAT SCALES, in charge of the Weigher of Hay. PLATFORM SCALES, in charge of the City Weigher. STANDARD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, in charge of City Sealer. LAMPS, four hundred and fifty four gas lamps and posts in use, and one hundred nine naptha and oil lamps on Washington and other streets, and seven on Peak's Island. The average cost, yearly, of maintaining gas lights in the streets the past year being about $35. and of oil lamps about $16. 100 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL EEPORT.

RECAPITULATION OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY.

STOCKS AND BONDS, . . . $ 85,000 00 REAL ESTATE, .... 809,663 00 NOTES RECEIVABLE, . . . 7,817 95 7,143 SHAKES P. & O. RAILROAD STOCK, par value $ 100. per share. 1,350 MORTGAGE BONDS P. & O. RAIL­ ROAD, dated Nov. 1,1871, payable Nov. 1, 1901,—of $1,000. each.

Total, .... $902,480 95

THE MUNICIPAL FUNDED DEBT of the city, after deduct­ ing such portion as is already provided for, amounts to $1,119,020.47 as per statement on page 70, and the above ta­ ble shows that the city hold, in its corporate capacity, real estate, within the sum of $309,357.47 sufficient for the pay­ ment of the funded debt. ATJDITOE'S ANNUAL EEPOET. 101

WARD LINES.

The revision of Ward Lines, adopted by the city council February 19,1872, fixes the boundaries of the several Wards as follows, viz: WARD NO- 1.—Commencing at the harbor, at a point par­ allel with the line of the centre of Waterville street, thence on such line to the centre of Monument street, thence on such line to the centre of Mountfort street, thence on such line across Congress street to the centre of Washington street and Back Cove Bridge to the channel of Back Cove ; comprising all the city territory north and east of this line. WARD NO. 2.—Commencing at the harbor, at a point par­ allel with the line of the centre of India street thence through the centre of India street to Congress street, thence through the centre of Congress street to Locust street, thence through the centre of Locust street to Cumberland street, thence through the centre of Cumberland street to Boyd street, thence through the centre of Boyd street at the channel of Back Cove; comprising all the territory between this line and the before mentioned line pf Ward one. WAKD NO. 3.—Commencing at the harbor, at a point par­ allel with the line of the centre of Market street, thence through the centre of Market street to Congress street, thence through the centre of Congress street to a line parallel with the south-west line of the lot of land on which the City and County building stands, thence on the south-west and northwest lines of said lot to Myrtle street, thence through the centre of Myrtle street to the channel of Back Cove; comprising all the territory between this line and the before- mentioned line of Ward two. WARD NO. 4.—Commencing at the harbor, at a point par­ allel with the line of the centre of Maple street, thence through the centre of Maple street to Pleasant street, thence 102 AUDITOR'S ANNUAL REPORT. through the centre of Pleasant street to Oak street, thence through the centre of Oak street, to Congress street, thence through the centre of Congress street, to Casco street, thence through the centre of Casco street to Cumberland street, thence through the centre of Cumberland street to Hanover street, thence through the centre of Hanover street to the channel of Back Cove ; comprising all the territory between this line and the before-mentioned line of Ward three. WARD NO. 5.—Commencing at the harbor, at a point par­ allel with the line of the centre of Park street, thence through the centre of Park street to Congress street, thence through the centre of Congress street to State street, thence through the centre of State street, across Portland street to the creek that divides Portland from Deering ; comprising all the ter­ ritory between this line and the before-mentioned line of Ward four. WARD NO. 6.—Commencing at the harbor, at a point par­ allel with the line of the centre of Clark street, thence through the centre of Clark street to Pine street, across Pine street to West street, thence through the centre of West street to Carlton street, thence through the centre of Carlton street to Congress street, thence through the centre of Congress street to Grove street, thence through the Centre of Grove street to the line dividing Portland from Deering ; comprising all the territory between this line and the before-mentioned line of Ward five. WARD NO. 7.—Comprising all the territory south-west of the before mentioned line of Ward six. The equalization of the Wards, Feb. 19,1872, gives the number of voters in each, at the time these Ward lines were established, as follows, viz : Wardl, . . 892 Ward 5, . . 946 Ward 2, . . 912 Ward 6, . . 897 Ward 3, . . 949 Ward 7, . . 870 Ward 4, . . 948 REPORT

OF THE CITY TREASURER. 104 TREASURER S ANNUAL REPORT.

Dr. City of Portland, in account current from April 1,1881, to

1882. To cash paid on Mayor's orders and Mar. 31. charged to the following appropria­ tions, viz: Abatements, $ 1,045 46 Advertising, 573 69 City Notes, 67,600 00 City Building, 10,357 29 Contingent, 8,392 86 Cemeteries and Public Grounds, 2,931 10 Committee on Eevised Ordinances, 1,617 53 Drains and sewers, 13,518 40 Discount on Taxes. 19,349 78 Damages on Streets, 2,626 00 Evergreen Cemetery, . 15,840 97 Forest City Cemetery, . 208 30 Fire Department, 20,093 10 Fire Department,—Salaries, 10,774 95 Gas Lights, . 18,139 36 Health, 613 13 Interest, 126,124 35 Liquor Agency, . 26,548 60 Overlayings and Abatements, 842 91 P. & O. Railroad, coupons in aid, 72,780 00 P. & R. Railroad, coupons in aid, 62,760 00 Police Salaries, 26,050 00 Police Contingent, 674 69 Public Buildings, 1,724 40 Printing and Stationery, 1,525 26 Salaries, .... 25,888 88 Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges, 57,458 65 Support of Poor, . 21,704 03 Schools, .... 18,434 23 School Salaries 6] ,313 50 School for the Deaf, 2,699 91 Shailer School House, . 12,087 50 State Reform School, . 983 56 State Pensions, 1,332 00 Taxes, State, .... 139,341 84 Taxes,—.County, . $900,9540,7007 495 Water and Hydrants, . 132,286,2876 2730 Total of Mayor's orders, Balance to new account, 1,033,237 65 TREASURER S ANNUAL REPORT. 105

March 31, 1882. With H. W. Hersey Treasurer and Collector. Cr.

1882. By cash received and credited to the fol­ Mar. 31. lowing accounts, viz : l City Building, ..... $3,582 29 2 Contingent,. 914 98 3 Drains and Sewers, 2,745 75 4 Dog Licenses, 70 00 5 Evergreen Cemetery, . 13,006 44 6 Evergreen Fund, . 2,652 13 7 Fire Department,. 360 00 8 Forest City Cemetery, . 160 00 9 Fees and Fines, . 4,570 03 10 Interest, .... 13,fi66 41 11 Investment of Sinking Fund, 14,000 00 12 Land Sold, .... 3,000 00 13 Licenses, .... 80 00 14 Liquor Agency, . 24,685 00 15 Notes Receivable, 5,047 50 16 Overlayings and Abatements, 756 69 17 Rents, ..... 4,134 29 18 Rent of Armories, 400 00 19 Railroad and Telegraph Tax, 2,079 29 20 Schools, .... 16,937 89 21 School for the Deaf, 1,640 00 22 Sinking Fund, 4,846 00 23 State Pensions, 1,332 00 24 Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges, 7,520 00 25 Support of Poor, . 1,510 93 26 Taxes 1881, under disc't, $645,319 31 " 1881, after do 37,588 07 " 1880, and previous years, 75,453 23 758,360 61 $888,058 23 Balance cash on hand April 1, 1881, 145,179 42

1882. $1,033,237 65 Apr. 1. By balance of account this date, ~$T32;287"2l5 CITY OF PORTLAND, TREASURER'S OFFICE, April, 1, 1882. 106 TREASURER'S ANNUAL REPORT.

CITY OF PORTLAND.

TREASURER'S OFFICE, May 15th, 1882. To the Honorable City Council: GENTLEMEN :—I have the honor to submit herewith my account as Treasurer and Collector, for the financial year ending March 31, 1882. Your obedient servant, H. W. HERSEY, Treasurer and Collector.

IN BOARD OP MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, June 5,1882. Read and referred to Committee on Accounts. Attest . H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, June 5,1882. Read and referred in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk.

CITY OF PORTLAND.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, June 5,1882. The "Joint Standing Committee on Accounts," to whom was referred the account of the Treasurer and Collector for the financial year ending March 31, 1882, beg leave to REPORT. That we have examined the same and find the accounts correctly vouched and properly stated. The balance of cash in the hands of the Treasurer at the close of the year was $132,287.20. HOLMAN S. MELCHER, ) Committee JAMES F. HAWKES, > on SAMUEL B. KELSEY, ) Accounts.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, June 5,1882. Read and accepted. Attest: H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, June 5,1882. Read and concurred. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk. ORDINANCE. 107

CONTRACT WITH PORTLAND WATER CO. FOR SUPPLY OF WATER.

This memorandum of agreement made and entered into at Portland, in the State of Maine, this twenty-fourth day of September, A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy, by and between the City of Portland, a body corporate and politic, established by law, by its Committee on Hydrants and drinking fountains, hereunto duly authorized by an order of the City Council, approved August 2, 1870, and acting within the scope of said order, party of the first part and the Portland Water Company, a corporation established and organized under the laws of the State of Maine, and having a place of business at said Portland, party of the second part. WITNESSETH: That, for the consideration hereinafter men­ tioned, the party of the second part agrees with the party of the first part to furnish water for drinking fountains for per­ sons only, to be erected by the party of the first part, at the following places in said City of Portland, viz: One at or near the old City Hall. One at or near the new City Hall. One at or near the new Post Office. One at or near the corner of Congress and Washington streets. One on Congress at or near the head of State street; and also to furnish to the party of the first part, water for foun­ tains for man and beast, for drinking purposes only, to be erected by said party of the first part in the following places, viz: One at or near the Grand Trunk Depot, and one on Green street in said Portland, also to furnish to said party of the first part, water for urinals to be erected as aforesaid at the following places, viz: One at the old City Hall, and one in the rear of the new Post Office. The water for all said fountains to be furnished 108 ORDINANCE.

in such amount and volume as may be needful therefor, and the location of said fountains and urinals to be subject to change at the determination of said party of the first part. Said party of the second part, also agree to furnish to said party of the first part, water for sprinkling the street in front of the new city building, and to the engine houses, for the trial of engines, and for flushing of sewers. The party of the first part to make all necessary connections therefor. And in consideration of the premises, the party of the first part hereby agrees to pay for the water for said fountains) urinals and other purposes named, the sum of four thousand dollars per annum, in semi-annual payments of two thousand dollars each, on the first days of January and of July in each year. The first payment to be made January the first, A. D., eighteen hundred and seventy-one. In witness whereof, the party of the first part by the Chair­ man of said Committee on hydrants and drinking fountains, and the party of the second part by their Vice President here­ unto duly authorized, have hereunto affixed their hands and seals, the day and year first above written. WM. SENTER, Chairman, [SEAL.] GEO. H. WALDEN, [SEAL.] J. F. LAND, [SEAL.]

C. K. GREEN, [SEAL.] Vice President of the Portland Water Company. The understanding of the Water Company is, that the foregoing contract includes the fountain set at the foot of Centre street, called Gorharu's Corner. C. K. GREEN, Vice Pres't P. W. Co.

JV. B. The obligation of the Water Company to supply water for use in the Public Buildings and School Houses, also for the extinguishment of fires and for three Public Fountains, etc., is contained in ordinance and contract, approved March 3,1868. ORDINANCE. 109

ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL, TOGETHER WITH THE Regulations of the Board of Trustees for the Govern­ ment and Control of Evergreen Cemetery.

CITY OF PORTLAND.

IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-TWO.

AN OKDINANCE For the Government and Control of Evergreen Cemetery. Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Portland, in City Council assembled, as follows: SECTION 1. The tracts of land situated in the town of Deering, purchased by the city of Portland of Oliver Buckley and William Stevens, by their several deeds dated February 28, 1852, containing about fifty-five acres, were set apart and appropriated under the revised ordinances of 1855, for the burial of the dead of the city of Portland, to be known as "Evergreen Cemetery," adjacent to and adjoining said cemetery or which may hereafter be purchased to extend its limits, shall be included in and subject to all the ordi­ nances or regulations herein or hereafter made for the government and control of said Evergreen Cemetery. TRUSTEES. SEC. 2. The board of trustees shall consist of three members. The mayor shall, in the month of April, annually appoint, subject to the approval of the board of aldermen, a suitable person as trus­ tee of Evergreen Cemetery, to hold such office for a term of three years (unless sooner removed), and until his successor is appointed and confirmed, and each annual appointment so made shall be to fill the vacancy occasioned by reason of the expiration of a trustee's term of office. The mayor may, two-thirds of the board of aldermen consenting, 110 ORDINANCE. remove for sufficient cause any member of the board of trustees after a full and fair investigation in which the said trustees shall have the right to be heard in defense, and any vacancy in the board of trustees whether by removal, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by the mayor and aldermen by appointment and confirmation as aforesaid; the trustee so appointed to hold such office for the residue of the term of the trustee whose place he fills. The board of trustees shall, in the month of April or May, an­ nually, organize by the choice of a chairman, and also a secretary and treasurer, who shall be one of their own number. The chair­ man shall preside at all meetings of the board (when present). The secretary and treasurer, acting as secretary, shall keep a record of the doings of the board of trustees, and attend to all cor­ respondence. He shall annually make out and submit to the city council a statement of the general condition and affairs of the cemetery, which statement shall be submitted to the city council in connection with the detailed statements of Evergreen Fund and the Cemetery Ac­ count by the city treasurer at the close of each financial year. The secretary and treasurer, acting as treasurer of the trustees, shall receive all money not paid directly into the city treasury. All bills against the cemetery, shall be submitted to him for ex­ amination, and he shall then submit the same to the board of trus­ tees for approval before payment. He shall keep a detailed account of all money received by him from any source in connection with and belonging to the cemetery, and of any and all expenditures made through him. He shall at least once in three months, make out a detailed state- mont of all receipts and expenditures, and turn the same over to the city treasurer together with all funds in his possession, as shown by such statement. He shall carefully examine and make up from the superinten­ dent's time book, the pay roll of all the employes of the cemetery, and pay out the same to such employes. He shall give bond in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be ap­ proved by the board of mayor and aldermen, for the faithful per­ formance of his duties. He shall receive the sum of two hundred dollars per annum for his services as secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees, to be paid from the cemetery account. He shall perform such other duties as are imposed upon him by this ordinance. ORDINANCE. Ill

SUPERINTENDENT. SEC. 3. The board of trustees, shall at their organization, or as soon thereafter as may be, appoint some suitable person as superin­ tendent of the cemetery, who shall act under their direction and control in the care of the cemetery, and the trustees may confer upon him such authority as they deem advisable, subject to this or­ dinance in the general control and management of the cemetery. It shall be his duty at all times in connection with the trustees to see that this ordinance is rigidly and impartially enforced. He shall be liable to removal at any time by the trustees for in­ competency, dishonesty, or for any cause which they deem sufficient. He shall be ex-officio an undertaker, and shall have all the powers of the same. OCCUPANCY OF LOTS. SEC. 4. The trustees are authorized to determine and regulate such price for the occupancy of lots in the cemetery as in their judgment, the location, surroundings and condition of the same would seem to warrant, and the city treasurer upon receipt of a cer­ tificate from the trustees setting forth the name of the person or persons together with the section, number and price of such lot or lots shall, upon the payment of the price specified in said certifi­ cate, make out and deliver to such person or persons a certificate in the following form : CITY OF PORTLAND. "Know all men by these presents, that the City of Portland, in consideration of - dollars paid by , hereby give and grant to the said , his heirs and assigns forever, the right to occupy for the purpose of burial, Lot No..., of section—, in Evergreen Cemetery, belonging to the city, situated in Deering, being the lot described by that number on a plan of the cemetery on file in the office of the city treasurer. This right is granted, and is to be held and enjoyed subject to all such general regulations as have been or may be adopted by the city council or under their authority, for the management and care of the cemetery, and the due observance of order therein, and the same shall not be assigned or transferred without the consent of the trustees and city treasurer indorsed thereon. In witness whereof this instrument is subscribed by , in behalf of the city, this day of , A. D. 18— , City Treasurer. The trustees are prohibited from issuing certificates of sale of lots except as follows, viz: To citizens of Portland. To non-resident tax payers or any non-resident representing a Portland family, deceased, and buried in any cemetery belonging to the city. To residents of the town of Deering at an advance of twenty-five per cent, upon the price charged to citizens of Portland. 112 ORDINANCE.

No person shall hereafter purchase and hold for, or transfer to any citizen of Deering, or other non-resident, any lot in Evergreen Cemetery. Any such transfer shall be void; and the person making such transfer shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. But any person holding a certificate of occupancy of any lot or lots purchased prior to the adoption of this ordinance, may transfer to any non-resident such right of occupancy in any lot or lots so held by written consent of the trustees and city treasurer indorsed upon such transfer, provided the person making such transfer shall pay into the city treasury a sum equivalent to twenty-five per cent, of the original cost of such lot or lots so transferred. EVERGREEN FUND. SEC. 5. One fourth part of the amount received from the sale of lots, exclusive of grading, in Evergreen Cemetery, and all sums re­ ceived from transfer of lots, together with all donations made by the holders of lots, or other persons, shall constitute a fund to be called "Evergreen Fund," the interest of which shall be appropriated to improving and ornamenting the grounds and lots in said ceme­ tery and keeping the same in good order under the direction of the trustees. The city treasurer shall have the care and custody of said fund, and such portion of the same as may not be wanted for immediate use in accordance with the provisions of this ordinance, may be loaned to the city on interest, or securely invested under the direc- of said trustees, and all interest received, during each year, above the expenditures made, shall be added to the principal of the fund and he shall, at the close of each financial year, report to the city council the condition of the fund. CEMETERY ACCOUNT. SEC. 6. The city treasurer shall keep a record in which shall be entered all lots, agreeable to the plan of said cemetery, with their number and section, and with columns ruled for the names of the purchasers of each lot, the price, and date of sale. He shall, also, open a cemetery account, in a book kept for that purpose, in which shall be entered all moneys received on account of said cemetery • and all moneys so received shall be and hereby are constituted a fund to be appropriated exclusively for the purpose of improving and ornamenting said cemeterj'. The city treasurer shall, at the close of each financial year, report to the city council a detailed statement of all receipts and expendi­ tures for the past year, as shown by such cemetery account. For the general improvement and care of the cemetery, the trus- ORDINANCE. 113 tees are authorized to employ from time to time such number of men as, in their judgment, the interests of the cemetery require, and the pay roll (of such employes) so made and maintained, to­ gether with all expense incurred by such improvement and care, shall be taken from such cemetery account. BURrAL UPON LOTS. SEC. 7. Burials are prohibited upon any lot the right of occu. pancy of which is in the city of Portland. Provided however, that the trustees may by written consent allow such burials to be made for a limited period where the person or persons interested shall contract for the purchase of such right of occupancy in the lot or lots so buried upon, and if such person or persons shall fail to fulfil such contract of purchase within the time specified in said written consent, the trustees may, after thirty days from the date of a notice to that effect to such party or parties interested, cause such body or bodies to be removed to Forest City Cemetery, in Cape Elizabeth, at the expense of the party or parties for which such burial was made. Provided further, that the trustees may and they are hereby au­ thorized to set apart a plat of land in the cemetery to be kept in good condition for the sale of graves to parties unable to purchase lots, and the trustees are authorized to adopt and regulate such price for the same as in their judgment is just and proper, and if any person purchasing a grave shall thereafter purchase the right of oc­ cupancy in any lot in the cemetery and remove such body, such person shall be allowed in such purchase the cost of said grave exclusive of opening and filling the same, and in case of such re­ moval the space so vacated, and the right to occupy the same, shall revert to the city. No intarment shall be made upon any lot for hire, nor without the permission of the recorded holder of the lot or his legal representa­ tive. All graves in Evergreen Cemetery made hereafter shall be five feet in depth, unless otherwise ordered by the trustees. IX GENERAL. SEC. 8. A space of not less than three feet in width shall be re­ served for ornamental purposes on the front of all lots facing avenues, and of two feet in width on lots fronting paths, and no interment shall be made therein. Lots for tombs may be sold in places approved by the trustees, but no tomb shall be erected wholly, or in part, above ground with­ out permission of the trustees, and all such must be furnished with 114 ORDINANCE. shelves having divisions allowing interments to be separately made and perfectly sealed, so as to prevent the escape of unpleasant effluvia. Such portions as are above ground must be faced with granite or marble. The holder of each lot shall have the right to erect any proper stones, monuments, or sepulchral structures thereon, and also to cultivate trees, shrubs and plants on the same, subject to the ordinances and regulations of the cemetery, but no tree growing upon any lot or border, or within any walk or avenue, shall be cut down or destroyed by any person without the consent of the trustees in writing. Any person violating this ordinance shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. If any trees or shrubs, situated in any lot, shall, by means of their roots, branches or otherwise become detrimental to the adja­ cent lots, avenues or paths, or unsightly or inconvenient to passen­ gers, it shall be the duty of the trustees, and they shall have the right to enter the said lot and remove, or cause to be removed, the said trees or shrubs, or such parts thereof as are detrimental, un­ sightly or inconvenient. All lots hereafter sold shall be graded under the direction of the trustees at such price as may be determined upon by them, and all sums received for such grading shall go into the cemetery account provided in Sec. 6, and no person shall be employed to grade lots except by consent and under direction of the trustees, and no deed shall be issued by the city treasurer to any party until the price of the lot and grading shall have been paid. The grades of all lots will be determined by the trustees, and all workmen employed in the construction of vaults, enclosing of lots, erection of monuments, etc., must be subject to the control and di­ rection of the superintendent acting under the direction of the trustees, in all matters appertaining to the general regulations of the cemetery. This ordinance shall not only apply to employes of the cemetery, but to any and all parties who shall enter the cemetery, for such purposes, and any party who shall refuse to comply with this ordi­ nance and the regulations of the cemetery, shall be prohibited from performing further work in the cemetery. The grading of any lot in the cemetery, or the change of the grade of any lot once established by the city, except by an employe of the cemetery acting under direction of the superintendent or trustees, is prohibited, and any lot holder or his representative who sliall cause this ordinance to be violated by reason of procuring any ORDINANCE. 115 person for such purpose (except as above) shall be liable to a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. No person except an employe of the cemetery acting under di­ rection of the superintendent or trustees, shall hereafter enter Ev­ ergreen Cemetery for the purpose of caring for lots for hire; and no trustee, superintendent or employe of the cemetery shall be allowed to be personally interested in or receive compensation for any such care of lots, but any and all receipts from such care shall go into the cemeteiy account provided in Sec. G, and any person violating this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars for each offence. The regulations governing the use of water taken from the pipes in the cemetery, either by hose or otherwise, shall be under the control and direction of the trustees. No foundation for any stone, tablet, monument or ornament, which foundation shall be wholly or in part of stone or brick, shall be laid in the cemetery except by the city of Portland. Provided, however, that the trustees may, if deemed advisable, authorize under their direction and supervision the construction of such foun­ dations by parties other than the city. No person shall hereafter attach any chain, wire, rope or other article used as a guy to any tree in the cemetery without the con­ sent of the superintendent or trustees in writing, and an}' person %riolating this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence, and the super­ intendent or trustees may remove any guy so attached and the party or parties attaching the same in violation of this ordinance shall be liable for any and all damage caused by such removal. The transportation of loaded teams containing stone, granite, marble or other heavy substance through the front main entrance, shall be prohibited by the trustees when in their judgment the same would be detrimental or injurious to said entrance, and any person or persons who shall continue such transportation when so prohibited shall be fined not less than fifty dollars for each offence; and the trustees are further authorized to prohibit such transporta­ tion under the same penalty, through such avenues as they may from time to time designate. The erection of wooden fences or headboards of wood are prohibited. Horses must not be left unfastened or fastened except at posts provided for such purpose, and any party violating this ordinance shall be liable for any damage which may occur by reason of the same. 116 ORDINANCE.

Any person who shall be found within the limits of the cemetery making unseemly noises, discharging firearms, driving at a rapid rate through the avenues, throwing stones or other missiles or other­ wise conducting himself in a manner unsuitable to the purposes to which the grounds are devoted, or in violation of any ordinance or regulation of the cemetery shall be liable to arrest and imprisonment or fine. No trustee or superintendent shall be personally interested in any contract for labor or materials used in the cemetery, and the viola­ tion of this ordinance shall be sufficient cause for such trustees' or superintendent's removal from office, and any trustee or superinten­ dent who shall receive and retain or appropriate to his own use any funds of the cemetery of any description shall be subject to immedi­ ate removal from office. Each trustee shall be entitled to draw from the cemetery account the sum of one hunded dollars per annum, which sum shall be in full for all expense of transportation to and from the cemetery. The trustees shall have power to adopt and enforce such regula­ tions for the government and control of the cemetery as are not in­ consistent with this ordinance.

UNDERTAKERS. SEC. 9. No person except a licensed undertaker of the city of Portland, or the superintendent acting as such, shall remove to or deposit for burial in Evergreen Cemetery any body of a deceased person, and any person violating this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. It shall be the duty of every undertaker who shall hereafter re­ move to Evergreen Cemetery any body of a deceased person for bur­ ial or for deposit in the receiving tomb, to at once notify the super­ intendent of burials and also the secretary and treasurer of the trustees, upon a blank for such purpose, to be procured by such un­ dertaker (of said secretary and treasurer) of the name, age, resi­ dence and nature of the disease of which such person died, and if buried, of the section, number and name of the lot-holder upon whose lot such burial was made, or if a body is placed in the receiv. ing tomb awaiting burial, it shall be so stated upon such return, and in addition to the name, age, residence and disease, the date of such deposit and when such body shall be removed for burial, the fur­ ther statement of the section, number and lot-holder's name shall be added to such return, by such undertaker, and the secretary and treasurer shall cause a record of every return so made to be kept for ORDINANCE. 117

the use and information of the cemetery, and the license of any un­ dertaker who shall wilfully violate this ordinance, shall, upon com complaint of the trustees, be at once revoked by the mayor and aldermen. No person or persons shall hereafter open any grave, either for the burial or removal of a body in the cemetery, except by and under the direction of the superintendent or trustees, and for any grave so made or opened, the trustees may collect a sum not exceed­ ing two dollars for a person over five years, and one dollar and fifty cents for a person under five years of age, at any season of the year when the ground is free from frost and snow, otherwise an addition of one dollar for each grave may be added, and any undertaker for whom such grave shall be so made or opened, either for deposit or removal of a body, shall be liable to the city for such expense, to­ gether with any additional expense incurred at the request of such undertaker, and he shall at least once in three months pay to the treasurer of the trustees the amount of all expense so incurred for graves or otherwise. No body of any deceased person shall be deposited in the re­ ceiving tomb, except that of a lot holder in the cemetery or a person entitled by reason of the wish or consent of a lot holder to be buried upon such lot-holder's lot, or of a person the grave of which shall have been purchased as contemplated in section 7, or of a person for whom the price of a lot in the cemetery shall have been deposited with the city treasurer. No body of any deceased person shall hereafter be removed to Evergreen Cemetery, either for burial or deposit in the receiving tomb, except between the hours of seven o'clock, A. M., and seven o'clock, p. M., nor shall any body be removed in or from said ceme­ tery except between the hours above stated, and any undertaker or other person violating this ordinance shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence. CARE OF LOTS. SEC. 10. There shall he three classes or conditions for perpetual care of lots, viz: First, The care of grass only, which is designed to cover the keeping of the grass in good condition, and properly cut. Second, The care of grass as contemplated in the first class, and also the care of such trees, plants, shrubs, myrtle or hedge, as may be placed upon the lot for which care is granted, which is designed to cover the general care of such trees, plants, &c, but not the fur­ nishing or replacing of either. Third, The care contemplated in the first and second class, and 118 ORDINANCE. also of all granite, stone, marble or other work appearing upon such lot at the time of granting the care, and such additional granite, stone, marble or other work thereafter placed upon such lot, as the trustees may by written indorsement upon the bond of care consent to include in the same. The trustees are authorized to fix upon any lot or lots such price for perpetual care as in their judgment would be just and proper, as between the city and the applicants for same, and they may refuse to grant perpetual care upon any lot, the condition of which is detri­ mental or unsatisfactory to them. Upon the receipt of a certificate from the trustees setting forth the section, number, and lot holder's name and residence, together with the class of care, and price of same, the city treasurer shall is­ sue to the party or parties therein named, a bond for perpetual care, upon the payment of the price agreed upon in such certificate. The trustees or superintendent may contract with lot holders, or their representatives for the care of lots by the season, at such price as may be agreed upon. All ordinances on Evergreen Cemetery heretofore adopted, are hereby repealed. This ordinance shall take effect when approved. Approved, April 4, 1882.

STATE OF MAINE.

IN THE YEAK OF OUK LORD ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY-ONE. An Act additional to chapter two hundred and seventy-five of the Private and Special Laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-three, conferring certain powers on the city of Portland in relation to Evergreen Cemetery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in Leg­ islature assembled, as follows : SECTION 1. The city of Portland may ordain reasonable by-laws and regulations for the government of Evergreen Cemetery, and shall have full power and authority to impose and enforce penalties for the breach thereof, and for the punishment of offences com­ mitted in said cemetery. SEC. 2. All by-laws and regulations heretofore ordained by said city of Portland for the government of Evergreen Cemetery are, and shall be valid and in force; and all penalties imposed under the same, and for the breach of the same, and for punishment of offen­ ces committed in said cemetery, shall be enforced. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect when approved. Approved, January 31, 1881.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF TIIE

SCHOOL COMMITTEE,

TO THE

CITY OF PORTLAND,

MARCH 6,1882.

PORTLAND, ME. FORD & RICH, PRINTERS AJ»D PUBLISHERS,

COBNEB EXCHANGE AND FORE STREETS. 1882. CITY OF PORTLAND.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, March 6,1882. Received and ordered to be printed. Sent down. Attest : H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 6,1882. Received and ordered printed, in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk. REPORT OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE.

In compliance with the statute, the superintending school committee present to the citizens of Portland their annual report. The usual routine of business has been properly attended to and the care and general supervision of the schools have received as much attention as their importance demanded and as time would permit. Considering the high degree of excellence to which our schools have attained it could not be expected that there would be any marked change for the better in any one year, still we think there has been a steady gain and that the schools as a whole are in a more satisfactory condition than they were one year ago. The present course of study prepared by a special com­ mittee from this board has now been in use one year, and has been productive of good results. It has met with some opposition but mainly we think from those who have not fully understood its scope and meaning, or possibly from some disinclined to put forth the proper effort, to make the thorough preparation necessary to meet its requirements in the school-room. The course was intended to be so arranged as to give the pupils enough of what are generally understood to be the more important studies to occupy the greater portion of their time during school hours, and something of the many other studies of general interest to awaken in their minds, if possible, a desire for further knowledge of the subjects treated, or any other subject within their course, thereby inducing them to seek for whatever information may be obtained out of school, by ob­ servation, conversation or general reading, which may be of greater benefit to them in after life, when they become the men and women of the day. 4 APPEND LX.

Of those, who, it is said, require a large portion of their time out of school to prepare their daily lessons, by careful observation it is found to be, a few who are hard to learn, or those who have too many outside matters to take up their time or attract their attention, or those, perhaps, who find close application to study during school hours, distasteful, relying too much upon luck, or upon their teachers in cases of emergency. Those who are in love with school and its duties, have no difficulty in preparing their daily lessons, and that too, for the most part, during the hours of school. The course as it is now arranged, with all its defects, if its aim and provisions is fully understood by the teachers, and faithfully carried out, cannot fail to produce the best of re­ sults. It would be an exceedingly difficult task to prepare a course that would exactly suit the taste and meet the wants of every pupil. With the best course that it would be possible for human wisdom to devise and also with the best and most faithful teachers that could be found to carry out its provi­ sions, even then we should fail to obtain the excellent results desired, unless we have diligent and earnest students and the hearty cooperation of the parents in all matters pertaining to their school duties. The plan adopted by the committee some four years ago, of dividing up the large rooms in our school buildings, used principally for the purpose of study and general exercises of the whole school, into smaller ones and enlarging the smaller class rooms, making them all of a suitable size for one class only, placed in charge of one teacher who is held responsible for proper instruction and discipline of the class, has given such entire satisfaction that the committee have been pleased to continue the plan to some extent this year. The rooms on the second floor of the Centre street build­ ing have been entirely remodeled, making of the large room and the two small recitation rooms adjoining four school rooms of a seating capacity for about forty pupils each. The old hall has been extended to the front of the building, which serves not only for a passage way to the rooms, but also for a clothes room for the pupils. REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 5

Windows have been placed in the upper part of the hall partitions for purposes of light and ventilation. They are furnished with single combination seat and desk. These are now as commodious, well lighted and ventilated school rooms as can be found any where in the city. The rooms on the third floor need to be similarly remod­ eled, and when this is done, it will be one of the best build­ ings for school purposes to be found anywhere. The old vaults to this and Park street building have been removed and water tanks put in their place, like those in the High school building, which have thus far proved a decided success, and now all the objectionable features of the old vault system are removed. During the year the City Government built and furnished with the most approved modern school furniture, a substan­ tial two-and-one-half story brick building on the summit of Munjoy hill. It has eight large rooms; with a seating capac­ ity of about fifty pupils in each room, each pupil having a single seat and desk. The four rooms on the first floor are seated for primary, and the four on the second floor for the grammar grade. Connected with each room is a teacher's closet, and also a clothes room of suitable dimensions. The corridors are spacious; the stairs from either entrance are wide, of easy grade and wholly within the building where they will always be free from rain, ice and snow. This is a great improvement over the entrances to other school build­ ings. The doors at both entrances swing either way to guard against the possibility of any accidents in case of a panic. That part of the basement not needed for the heating appa­ ratus, coal and water-closets, has been fitted up for a play room for the smaller pupils during the inclement weather. The building is heated by steam. The steam pipes in large numbers running around the rooms, furnish an abundance of heat by direct radiation to thoroughly warm them, even dur­ ing the severest winter weather. This is not in accordance with the plan recommended by the committee, who favored heating the rooms by indirect ra­ diation, which furnishes pupils with a constant supply of warm, pure air, so much needed to keep them in a proper 6 APPENDIX. physical condition to study. There can be no fault found with the amount of heat furnished, though there may be with the ventilation, if not carefulljr looked after by the teachers, even then they will find great difficulty in properly ventila­ ting the rooms Avith the present arrangement. Taking all things into consideration it is one of the best buildings for school purposes in the city, and one of which the people in this part of the city can well be proud. It supplies a much needed want to relieve the crowded condition of the school in this portion of the city which has long been felt to be an imperative necessity. It is a beautiful site with a commanding view of Casco Bay with its many islands, and the surrounding country for miles. This building, named in memory of our late distinguished and lamented co-laborer, the "Shailer School," was turned over to the committee, Oct. 15th, with the following appro­ priate dedicatory exercises:

Prayer by Rev. G. D. LINDSAY. Singing by young ladies of the Grammar classes, under direction of Mr. HAZELL, teacher of Music in the public schools. Address and presentation of the keys, by His Honor, Mayor SENTER( to the School Committee. Reply by Supervisor JOHN BREWER, Jr., on behalf of the School Committee. Address by Rev. Dr. HILL. Music. Remarks by members and ex-members of the school committee and by Hon. HENHY H. BURGESS, Rev. G. D. LINDSAY, and others. October 17, at the earnest solicitations of the people of this section, there was organized in this building a school of full primary and grammar grades, not however without some grave hesitation as to the wisdom of this plan on the part of some members of the committee. The pupils for this school are those who live on the hill, and were taken from the first primary and the North school, thereby doing away with the colony in the Chestnut street building, and reducing the numbers in those schools to the proper number of pupils that should be under the control of each teacher for their proper care and instruction. The classes were placed in charge of competent and expe­ rienced teachers, under the general management of Miss S. P. REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 7 Walker, as principal, a lady of culture and extensive experi­ ence in the school room. There -was, at first, a slight want of harmony, attending the bringing together so large a number of scholars from other schools until they became accustomed to their new surround­ ings and the new order of things ; no more so perhaps than might be expected would attend any new enterprise of the kind. With this exception the school has, thus far, been as successful as its most sanguine advocate could have antici­ pated. Some improvements are needed in the Spring street and School street buildings, to meet the pressing wants in these localities. When these are completed the school accommo­ dations will probably be sufficient to meet the increasing wants of the city for several years to come. For an account in detail of the school property and the repairs made during the year by your faithful and efficient Superintendent of School Buildings, we refer you to his report which is herewith appended. The Portland School for the Deaf, a full account of its es. tablishment, its purposes and aims, the difficulty attending its methods of instruction and the great benefit to this unfor­ tunate class of pupils, in making them intelligent men and women, so ably set forth in our previous reports, has contin­ ued with more than its usual prosperity during the year. Miss Ellen L. Barton, the principal, has been ably seconded in her efforts to promote the best interests of the pupils by her assistants, who become much more interested in them the longer they are under their care and the better they become to understand their pressing necessities. Their physical needs and care make large drafts upon the teachers' time out of school hours. Miss Mary H. True, the former principal of the school, was employed as teacher on her return from Europe, where she had been some four years teaching the deaf and perfecting herself in the very difficult science of visible speech. She has contributed largely to the success of the school during the year. The number of pupils has increased seven this year with a 8 APPENDIX. fair prospect of a still greater increase next year, thereby re­ minding us that the school stands very much in need of larger and better accommodations to meet its growing wants, which the city cannot well afford to neglect to furnish to any dis­ tant day. The High School under its present efficient management assisted by a full corps of faithful teachers has met with usual degree of prosperity during the year. The present arrangement of the rooms, well heated and lighted, affording every facility for the movement of classes and giving every possible advantage for the physical comfort of the pupils, has contributed largely to the success of the school, and that it was wise to make these changes no one has now any doubt. The expenditure needed to make these improvements, though considerable was small in comparison with the bene­ fits that we hoped to be derived therefrom, and we believe that it has already been more than repaid in the preservation of the health and mental vigor of the pupils. The students seem to manifest more than their usual in­ terest in the school, and have advanced so far in their course of study and have climbed so near to the top of the hill of success that they are unwilling that the proficiency they have made and the high degree of excellence to which they have attained shall remain a secret any longer, hence "The Observer" appears, a sprightly paper published monthly by the " Franklin Scientific Association " of the school, which sets forth in a very happy manner the various incidents oc­ curring in the school, the progress made by the pupils, be­ sides presenting and discussing the leading topics of the day. The Normal practice school on Spring street continues to increase in favor and efficiency. It has been so successful for preparing teachers for permanent positions in our schools that it has become to be quite generally understood, that, if not the best, still, it is one of the best places to prepare for a successful teacher, and that an application for a situation as teacher will meet with but little favor from one who has not prepared herself carefully for her work in this school, or given satisfactory proof of her fitness to discharge the duties of the school-room by a similar preparation elsewhere. All REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 9 of its graduates have situations, and though they may not all be at present permanent, still, they probably will be as soon as the proper vacancies occur. The teachers have faithfully discharged their duties to the schools, and have heartily co-operated with the superinten­ dent in carrying out what they have understood to be the wishes of the board, and the committee would bespeak for them in the future as in the past, the sympathy and hearty co-operation of the parents in the discharge of their arduous but important duties. No cases of discipline, requiring the attention of the board, have occurred during the year. Cases of corporal punishment are on the decrease, and it is to be hoped that the pupils may become so alive to their sense of duty and obedience to wholesome authority, and so sensitive of the reputation they are forming while in school, as to lead them to conduct themselves in such a manner as not to require this brutal and degrading method of punish­ ment to be inflicted. It is also greatly to be desired that the teachers shall exhaust all other means at their command, to obtain obedience to authority and conformity to proper reg­ ulations, before they resort to this method, so that, if possible in the near future, corporal punishment may be recorded among the things of the past. Truancy has received r.ll the attention that was possible to be given to it by one man. The truant officer has been in­ defatigable in his efforts to put an end to it, and has in a measure kept it under control, but he has come far sliort of the object desired. He has found that the most difficult cases to control are those who are out of school with the knowledge and consent of the parents. It would add greatly to the interest and usefulness of the schools if some means could be devised to break it up entirely. For a full and detailed account of the various departments of our schools we refer you to the reports of the superinten­ dent, principals and special teachers, accompanying this re­ port. For the committee, L. A. GHAY. 10 APPENDIX.

PORTLAND SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF. TEACHERS.—ELLEN L. BARTON, PRINCIPAL. Residence, 26 Free St. MARY H. TRUE, ASSISTANT. " 88 Park St. KATE A. SHAW, " " 105 Free St. LAURA 6. AMES, " "6 Portland St.

PUPILS. Names. Age. Eesidence. Entered School. Ames, Lottie B 12 Woolwich, May, 1879. Barrett, Thomas H 22 Weld Sept., 1879. Barnard, Lena E 7 Portland, Jan., 1879. Boothby, Samuel M 11 South Parsonsfield,... Aug., 1877. Campbell, Maria H 22 Portland Oct., 1876. Carsley, Annie L 13 Harrison, Aug., 1877. Carsley, George F 15 New Gloucester, Oct., 1876. Colby, Nellie 10 Brunswick, Oct., 1881. Dudley, Lizzie A 17 Bangor, Sept., 1879. Flint, Leonas L 18 Norway Sept., 1879. Goold, Millard F 6 Hallowell Sept., 1881. Harden, Henry B 23 Portland, Oct., 1876. Hamilton, Adelma J 16 Falmouth, May, 1877. Hanson, Frank J 12 Berwick Sept., 1879. Hanson, Harry L 16 Berwick, Sept., 1879. Hudson, Carrie M 12 Portland, Oct., 1876. Jennings, Carroll G 9 Dexter, Aug., 1881. Libby, Angier H 26 Saccarappa, Aug., 1877. Merrill, Nettie A 9 Bethel, May, 1881. Parker, Almon C 10 Lisbon Falls May, 1881. Perkins Carolyn 13 Rochester, N. T Oct., 1881. Plmnmer, Ethel A 6 Brunswick Jan., 1882. Ramsey, Georgie 9 Lewiston Sept., 1877. Shaw, Willie E 12 Portland, Sept., 1879. Willis, Mace 9 Gorham, Jan., 1880. Wilson, Caroline 16 Cape Elizabeth, May, 1881. PRINCIPAL'S REPORT. To the Superintendent and School Committee of Portland: GENTLEMEN:—The following report is respectfully sub­ mitted, for the year ending March 1st, 1882. At the time of our last annual report, we had been nearly a year refusing applicants admission to our school, as state beneficiaries, on account of insufficient appropriation. The increase made by the last legislature, however, has made it possible to receive all who have applied since that time, and our number has increased from eighteen to twenty-six. Two came from Brunswick, one each from Dexter, Cape Elizabeth, Hallowell, Bethel and Lisbon Falls, and it may be REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 11 regarded as an encouraging indication that these children are sent to us younger than the same number at any previous time, and we look forward to better classification as a result. The attendance during the year has been good. There has been little interruption from illness with the exception of a short time during the spring, when the measles, in a light form, went through the school. Aside from illness and de­ lays in returning to school after each vacation, there are few causes which effect attendance. Members of the school, old and young, consider it a privilege to attend regularly and promptly. Your appointment of Miss Mary H. True, to a position on our staff of teachers which took effect at the beginning of the school year in Sept., has contributed largely to the pros­ perity of the year. Miss True brings large experience and rich endowments for this work, and we were most fortunate in securing her services at a time when they were greatly needed. Miss Shaw developes much ability in adapting her quick parts to the extraordinary needs of our unfortunate class; while Miss Ames proves a teacher of unusual devotion to the work, and to the individual members of the school, who re­ quire much personal care. Our school-room has been from time to time enlarged, until it now embraces in one, three of the original Fraternity class­ rooms. One additional room, on the floor above, is also oc­ cupied for work in articulation. Methods of instruction remain unchanged. The greatest care and thought are bestowed upon lip-reading, inasmuch as proportionate with proficiency in lip-reading are the deaf restored to the hearing world. The lack of suitable text-books is seriously felt by us, as by all schools for the deaf, and much time is consumed in preparing written exercises to take their place; and here per­ mit me to acknowledge the ready and generous response which all demands for apparatus and aids of all kinds have met from your board; and again to call your attention to the services of Drs. E. O. Files and E. E. Holt, and the generos­ ity of the officers of the Maine Central, the Boston & Maine 12 APPENDIX. and the Portland & Rochester Railroad companies, also the courtesy of the officers of the Portland Fraternity. Respectfully submitted, ELLEN L. BARTON, Principal. Portland School for the Deaf, March 1st, 1882.

REPORT OF SUP'T OF SCHOOL BUILDINGS.

PORTLAND, March 30th, 1882. To the Honorable Board of Superintending School Committee: GENTLEMEN : In presenting to you my fourth annual re­ port, permit me to say that these reports must of necessity partake very much of the same character, as the work to be done on the school buildings from year to year is very simi­ lar. We close this municipal year with the addition of one new school building, first class — the Shailer School House, on North street, making in all sixteen school-houses belonging to the city, containing one hundred and thirty-five rooms, and one building used temporarily for the Deaf school, containing three rooms, making the whole number of school-rooms one hundred and thirty-eight. I have endeavored during the year to keep the buildings in good repair, and trust that I have meet with your approval. Quite extensive repairs and alterations have been made in Park, Center and Chestnut street school-houses. The change at the Center street school is a decided improvement. The new rooms and furniture were greatly needed, as was also the change from the old privies to the water closets, with the privy sink attached. There has also been added one room to the West End school, which will accommodate about thirty scholars. Attention has been given to all the school buildings during the year, and the necessary repairs have been made upon them, and still there is much more that needs to be done. The change made from wood to coal in heating the school-houses is a very great improvement, both in regard to comfort and economy. I notice that the bill for fuel in 1870, twelve years ago, was about $4,900. This present year, with the addition of the Butler, Shailer and Deaf schools, making an increase of REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE. 13 twenty rooms more to heat, the bills for fuel are $4,200. Six of the school-houses are heated by steam, two by furnaces, and the remainder by coal stoves; and just here I would call your attention to the condition of the boilers in the North School. They are the Harrison boilers, such as was removed from the High school building three years ago. They have been in use for fifteen years, and should be replaced this present season. It will not be safe or judicious to use them longer. Another improvement that is very desirable is the introduction of gas into the cellars of the school-houses heated by steam. We have it in two, and there are four others where it is needed very much. I would also call your atten­ tion to the Shailer school building—the need of snow-irons on the roof, to protect the children from the slides during the winter—a small expenditure now may save a much larger one in the future ; the slating on the roof of Brackett, Park, Centre and Chestnut streets school houses, needs a thorough repairing instead of patching them as we have been doing for the past few years. I make these suggestions, hoping that provision will be made for them the present year. The amount expended for the year just closed, for school purposes, including repairs, fuel, furniture, stationery, books for indigent pupils, and school supplies generally, has been 118,433.94, leaving a balance unexpended $464.06. Respectfully submitted, F. E. PRAY, Superintendent of Public School Buildings. 14 APPENDIX.

REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS.

To the Superintending School Committee of Portland: GENTLEMEN:—In compliance with your rules, I beg leave to submit to you my fifth annual report of the work and con­ dition of the schools with the usual statistics. GENERAL STATISTICS. I POPULATION. Population of the city, census of 1880, 33,829 Number between 4 and 5, not admitted to school 587 " 5 and 6, 713 " " 6 and 16, . 6,400 " " 16 and 21, 3,204 Number of persons between 4 and 21 yrs. of age, April '80, 10,904 II

SCHOOLS A ND DISTRICTS. Number of school districts, 17 " " Island 2 " " High school, . 1 " " Grammar schools, 7 " " Primary schools, . 13 Ungraded schools, Long Island, 1 School for deaf, . 1 Whole number of schools, 23 Ill SCHOOL HOUSI ,s. High school house, ..... School rooms, 8; class-rooms, 15; seats, 850. Number of grammar school houses, The Cumberland street grammar school occupies eight school rooms in the high school building. Number of school houses for primary schools alone, " " ward rooms used for (; " " REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 15

IV.

TEACHERS. Number of teachers in the high school, 12 Male, 4; female, 8. Number of teachers in grammar schools, 36 Male, 5; female, 31. Number of teachers in primary schools, female, " " Long Island—ungraded, Special teachers, penmanship, drawing and music Portland school for the deaf, 4

Total, 131 V.

Whole number enrolled, .... 6,687 Males, 3,710; females 2,977. Average number belonging, of all grades, . . 4,494 " attendance in all grades, . . . 4,183 " per cent, attendance, .... 93.1 Whole number enrolled in high school . . . 485 Average number belonging, 332; attending, . . 320 Per cent, of attendance at high school, . . 96.4 Whole number enrolled in grammar schools, . . 1,600 Average number belonging, 1,111; attending, . . 1,057 Per cent, of attendance at grammar schools, . . 95 Whole number enrolled in primary schools, . . 4,602 Average number belonging, 3,018; attending . . 2,765 Per cent, of attendance at primary schools, . . 91.6 Number enrolled under 6, 728 « '• from 6 to 16, .... 5,606 " " over 16, ... . 353 Attending parochial and private schools, estimated, . 1,300 VI.

SCHOOL APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDITURES, 1881-82. Ordinary Appropriations. Excess. Expenditures. Salaries of teachers, $64,030.00 $2,716.50 $61,313.50 Fuel, repairs, jani­ tors, &c, 18,898.00 463.77 18,434.23

$82,928.00 $3,180.27 $79,747.73 16 APPENDIX.

Special Appropriations Excess. Expenditures Portland school for deaf, $1,550.00 ) ffi

Total, $94,535.14 RECAPITULATION. Ordinary Expenditures. Salaries, repairs, fuel, &c, $79,747.73 Special Expenditures. Portland School for deaf, tuition, $1,640.00")

New Shailer school house, expended, 12,087.50 Total expenditure for schools, $94,535.14 Amount received from State, 16,687.89 " " " tuition Portland .School for Deaf, 1,640.00 " " " city, for schools and school houses, 76,207.25

Total, $94,535.14 Excess of appropriations carried to city fund, $3,670.36 " " expenditures on Shailer school house over balance left, 1,219.50 Cost per scholar on whole number enrolled, for tuition, 9.16 Cost per scholar on whole number enrolled, for incidentals, 2.75

Total cost per pupil enrolled, 11.91 Cost per scholar on average belonging, 17.72 Cost per scholar on average attending, 18.98 VII. CITY VALUATIONS AND TAXES, APRIL 1, 1881. Valuations: Keal, $19,886,300; Personal, $11,609,585; Total, $31,495,885.00 Amount expended for schools, (ordinary,) per $1.00 of valuations, 2\ mills. Amonnt assessed for taxes—State, $137,054.20; County, $36,589.74; City, $592,792.36; Total, $766,436.30. Per cent, for tax of schools, (ordinary,) .104. For fuller details see appendix. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 17

SCHOOL ACCOMMODATIONS. The school accommodations have been enlarged the past year by the addition of the Shailer School House on Munjoy Hill. This building, one of the finest school buildings, in some respects the best, in the city, situated in a desirable lo­ cation on North street, furnishes the long needed relief for the North School and for Primary No. 1. These two schools had become so crowded by the long delay in furnishing addi­ tional rooms, that on the opening of the Shailer School, Oct. 17, there were found pupils enough to fill all its rooms with­ out leaving any room vacant in Primary No. 1, and but one empty room in the North School building. Thirty-seven of the thirty-eight school rooms in the eastern part of the city are, most of them, well filled with school children, leaving now comparatively little spare room to meet the needs soon to be felt again in this growing district. Most of the school buildings of the city are in quite good repair. A great improvement has been made this year in the second story of the Center street building furnishing there, as described in the committee's report, four fine school rooms of proper size instead of one large room with two small recitation rooms. A similar change on the lowest floor would render this building one of the best for its purposes in the city. Five of our oldest buildings, now used for Primary schools: viz, the Chestnut St., the Casco St., the Spring St., the Park St. and the School St. buildings, need remodeling at an early day, in order to meet properly the present and prospective needs of these districts. These buildings are old, as at pres­ ent arranged quite inconvenient, and unequal to the demands of the school population which they are expected to accom­ modate. They are too valuable to be overlooked any longer, and with a moderate outlay their value and usefulness can be greatly increased. While the city has been erecting the so much needed Butler and Shailer school-houses at the western and eastern extremities of the city; and while the additional work of completely remodeling the West, the Cen­ ter street, Brackett street and the High school houses has been going on; these five small primary school houses have received no repairs further than have seemed necessary to protect the (2*) 18 APPENDIX. property, and render them sanitarily inoffensive. The line of policy which the city has marked out for herself, and has so generously pursued the past few years, of giving to all her children adequate and suitable school accommodations, will not be relinquished, it is hoped, until these small buildings containing in the aggregate about fifteen hundred school children, are placed in as good condition as the other school buildings of the city are in. No great outlay need be called for in any one year, but these buildings should one after another receive the attention of the school Board and of the city government until all five are properly renovated. We ask for these buildings no other treatment than a judicious manufacturer, mechanic, or other business man would bestow upon them to insure a dividend if he were using them in his private enterprises. The city in its recent expenditures upon school buildings has raised its educational stock in an enlightened market a very large per cent., and it ought not now to leave so important a portion of it at a discount, especially when so little additional outlay, and that so gradual as to be scarcely felt, will place the whole at a premium. She may well be proud to continue to cherish her schools, for they are more than ever before, giving her credit at home and abroad^ and by her fostering care, and by this alone, will they continue to do so. The city can pretty well see through the large expenditures, which after long delay she has felt it necessary to make in the erection and modification of school buildings: the small outlay now left to be made will add greatly to the efficiency and credit of the schools and cost comparatively little money. It will put all our school buildings in such condition that, in showing them to strangers, citizens shall no longer feel compelled to go by any of them to save our credit. Attention should be given from time to time to the condi­ tion of school furniture to secure for the health and the comfort of pupils desks and chairs of the proper height and size. Single desks are much superior to double ones, and when new desks are to be procured, this should be borne in mind:—even many of the double desks now in use may be easily cut in two, forming two single desks from one double one. The great ease with which good order may be maintained REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 19

in rooms supplied with single desks, without resort to corporal punishments, would well repay the slight expense required in making this change. Parents and pupils as well as teachers would all appreciate this improvement. PARTICULAR SCHOOLS.

SHAILER SCHOOL, PRIMARY AND GRAMMAR. It was expected that the building to be occupied by this school would be ready for use at the beginning of the school year in September, but owing to various inexplicable delays it was not ready for dedication until the middle of October; and even then it was in several respects hardly ready for oc­ cupancy. As the building approached completion it became a matter of considerable interest to the committee to deter­ mine just what the organization of the new school should be. On this point the citizens on Munjoy Hill entertained very decided preferences, so much so that their wishes could not properly be overlooked in the final decision. Owing to the delay in the completion of the building, and to the advanced state of annual school work in the grammar grade, there was some hesitation on the part of those most conversant with our schools, and in this your superintendent certainly shared, to interrupt the work of all the grammar classes in the North school so late in the term by dividing these classes and transferring sections of them to a new school. In­ deed so much aversion is there generally in the community to such transfers that the city council within the year had elevated the principle that "children residents of this city whose parents remove from one school district to another during school time, shall be allowed to elect which school they will attend until the next vacation," to the dignity of a city ordinance. Other considerations, such as the necessity of an addition­ al male principal and the consequent increased expense oj the school, the impossibility of maintaining so perfect classifi­ cation with the number of pupils in this district in two gram­ mar schools, added to this hesitation. To meet the persis­ tent wishes of parents and others residing on Munjoy Hill, School Board at last established there a new Grammar school district by cutting off from the North Grammar School dis- 20 APPENDIX.

trict all the territory lying east of a line running through Adams, Sheridan, Poplar and North streets, and transferring from the North Grammar School about 175 pupils, more than one-third its whole number. This territory, most of which had belonged to Primary No. 1, and but a small portion to the North Primary District, was, by a line running through Cumberland, Merrill and Turner streets, divided into two Primary Districts, the northerly one to constitute the Shailer Primary school district, the southern portion to continue as Primary No. 1. Every effort has been made to render this interruption to the pupils transferred to this school, the least possible under the circumstances; with that in view a most careful selection of teachers for the school has been made. The particular supervisor of this school, Mr. Brewer, has been especially unwearied in his exertions, spending a large amount of time in the interests of this school during its organization. It is too early yet to weigh accurately the final result of these changes in the upper grades, time will be required to show it. In all classes of the primary grade, where there is much less objection to the changes in term time, an especial relief has been felt in bringing the younger children into a school so much nearer their own homes. Sections of all the classes of the primary and grammar grades have been established in the Shailer School. Of necessity in the four rooms containing the six classes of the primary grade, parts of two classes have been placed in several of the rooms, in all except the room containing the children of the sixth class. The upper classes of the grammar grade are small, as are also those left in the same classes in the North School from which these were taken. The first and second classes in each of these schools contain together too many pupils for a single room under one teacher, and so these classes though small have been kept separate. The third and fourth classes have each been sufficiently large, and in the Shailer School even larger than desirable for one teacher. In the formation of the new school it has been a doubtful problem, as above in­ timated, whether so large a school containing all the grades below the High School can be maintained at the highest de­ gree of efficiency in discipline and instruction under a female principal,—whether the weight of discipline in such a school REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 21 does not require masculine strength. The solution of this problem has been entrusted to a lady of large experience and rare qualifications for the task, at the same time her own ef­ forts have been supplemented by the aid of some of the best talent in the city as assistants. The conditions to an affirma­ tive solution of the problem are as favorable as they can be made, still in the mind of the principal herself, as well as of your superintendent, the question is still unsolved. In reach­ ing a final result the opinion of the lady principal, after suf­ ficient time has been allowed for trial, will of course be given great weight. The classes in the school have been doing good work con­ sidering the time at which the school was put into operation, and its progress has been commendable. Some of the pupils transferred to the Shailer school at first presented the appearance of having the expectation, if not the hope, that in the new school there would be a relaxation of the wholesome restraint under which they had been held in the North School; but when it was found that this was not to be the case, they have with few exceptions, quietly submitted to proper school discipline. Before leaving the consideration of this school, I wish here to recognize the hearty co-operation of the whole committee, whatever individuals may have thought of the wisdom of the decision to transfer the grammar grade to this building, in making careful appointments and transfers of teachers to this school. Especially is the promptness, with which the supervis­ ors and principals of the North and West schools even jeopard­ ized their own schools in parting with efficient teachers to en­ sure the success of the Shailer school, worthy of recognition. I wish also to call to notice the careful transfers of other well tried teachers, and those trained in the Practice school, to to places in those schools made vacant by these transfers. This careful handling of their rooms by supervisors during these changes, thus securing small loss to their schools where disaster seemed likely to result, emphasises the value of care­ ful and judicious supervision on the part of the school board. MONUMENT STREET PRIMARY, NO 1. This school remained in its usual crowded condition until October 17th, when on the opening of the Shailer school it 22 APPENDIX. was very sensibly relieved. In consequence of using only four rooms for primary children in the Shailer school house, the number taken from the Monument street school was not so great as was at first expected. The numbers still left have been such as to require the use of all the rooms in this build­ ing, some of them now containing over fifty pupils, and all of them being well filled. The condition of the school previous to the relief was by no means satisfactory, but the overbur­ dened teachers could by no means be held accountable for this, for they were doing all that any teachers could do,— were even wearing themselves out with over work. Since their number of pupils has been reduced, the quality of their work has very materially improved, and will doubtless con­ tinue to do so. This school occupies one of the best build­ ings in the city and has the advantage consequently of being well graded. The colony from this school which has for two or three years been located in the engine house on Congress street was with its teacher removed to the Shailer school on the opening of that school, to the great delight of the children and to the satisfaction of their parents. NORTH SCHOOL, PRIMARY AND GRAMMAR. This school continued through the last school year in its usual condition, and as last reported,—crowded in all the rooms containing classes of the primary grade, and in some of the rooms of the grammar grade. On the opening of the Shailer school in October, about one hundred and seventy- five pupils of the grammar and only thirty-five pupils of the primary grade were taken from this building. The grammar department was reduced by three rooms,—one of the first class, one of the second, and one of the fourth; while the two sections of the third class were also somewhat diminished in size. The portion of the fourth class which had formed a colony at Chestnut street was brought back, and the two teachers that had been with that colony, together with three others, five in all, were transferred from the North school to the new school. Two grammar school rooms were by these changes left vacant in the Norlh school, only grammar school pupils enough to fill six rooms being left. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 23

As the primary department of the North school had not been sensibly relieved by the organization of the Shailer school, so few having been taken away, it was at once found necessary to open another primary class in this building, using one of the grammar school rooms left vacant on the third floor for the purpose. This has to some extent relieved the primary rooms in this building. That the work and discipline of the North school have not been more seriously interrupted during the last term by the withdrawal of one-third of the pupils of its grammar, and by considerable changes in many of the rooms of its primary department, is unquestionable proof of the excellence of the system under which the school is organized and conducted. CHESTNUT STREET PRIMARY NO. 2. This school has been unfortunate for several years in its frequent changes of teachers, in its crowded condition, and in the illy devised arrangement of its several rooms and ac­ cessories. The present year has been comparatively a pros­ perous one. During the first term and until November of the last term, owing to the lack of sufficient rooms for its large number of pupils, the rooms containing the three low­ est classes were over crowded, and the classification in all the rooms very imperfect. Since the opening of the Shailer school, and the consequent withdrawal from the third story of the Chestnut street building of pupils belonging to the North school, the classes in this school have been entirely re­ constructed. One teacher has been added to the school and there are now seven occupied rooms, two rooms being devot­ ed to the sixth class, and one room to each of the other five classes respectively. Since this arrangement was made this school has become, next to the North school, the best classi­ fied primary school in the city. This improvement in the classification of the school is beginning to show itself in better work in all the rooms. The building is one of sufficient value in structure and lo­ cation to authorize the recommendation of its interior reno­ vation and rearrangement at no distant day. With slight expense it could be changed from one of the most awkward and inconvient to one of the most convient and useful school structures in the city. 24 APPENDIX.

CENTER STREET GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY NO. 3. There has been but one change among the teachers of this school for the past year. A very acceptable teacher, Miss H. M. Lewis of the sixth class resigned her position at the end of the school year in June and Miss Addie L. Libby, who had just graduated in the Practice class, was appointed to her place. The work of the latter teacher appears so far very satisfactory. The sixth class is now so large that the increase of the spring will require the addition of another teacher. In the summer vacation, as described in the report of your Board, very material improvements were made on the second floor of this building. By a change in the partitions on this floor four good class rooms with proper entry ways have ta­ ken the place of three ill-sized rooms. In these new rooms the first, second, third and fourth primary classes have been placed. The fifth and sixth classes still occupy rooms on the first floor. These changes are a material improvement in the school. Excellent work has been clone in this school through the year. The writing in the fifth class primary has been espec­ ially good for so young children. This shows what can be done with the pen by very young children, when the teacher puts her heart as well as hand into the work. Much other work in various classes in this school is to be equally commended. CASCO STREET PRIMARY NO. 4 The classification in this school owing to the lack of rooms in the building, has always been imperfect. There are only five rooms for six classes, and this requires the placing of two classes in one room, or as is generally done, parts of two classes in several rooms. In most of our buildings of this descrip­ tion, ilie two or three rooms devoted to the lowest classes have been usually the ones that have suffered by having parts of two classes assigned to each of them. The same has been the arrangement until this year in this building. The last term, however, the Principal in this school has made a perfect classification in the two lowest rooms, and the im­ proved appearance of the work, especially in the room con­ taining the fifth class, has been very marked. The teachers of the classes above have found their double classification a source of extra labor and of some annoyance. The teachers REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 25 in this school, with one or two exceptions, have had much experience, and are able to cope with the difficulties of im­ perfect classification, Though the work of these teachers is all that can be expected and reaches a high degree of excel­ lence, yet an additional room added to their building, as has been before recommended, would make their work easier and more satisfactory for them, as well as more profitable to their pupils. There are children enough in this district to fill an­ other room, and it is again earnestly urged that this building be thoroughly examined with reference to permanent improve­ ment and enlargement. Early in the year an efficient assistant, Miss C. V. Sprague was taken from this school to become Principal of Primary No. 2, and her place has been filled by Miss M. S. Sturdivant, a teacher of less experience in our schools but of considerable experience in teaching elsewhere. Her progress since her appointment has been satisfactory. SPRING STREET PRIMARY, No. 5.—PRACTICE SCHOOL. The various classes of this school have been doing their usual good work the past year. The fifth and sixth classes have been smaller than usual since the promotions in June, but the other four classes have been so large that the two class-rooms devoted to their use have not had seating capacity sufficient to accommodate them. The necessity for change and improvement in this building, as well as an increase in its capacity, is too apparent to need further remark. How this can be done at a slight expense compared with the bene­ fits to be gained, has been pointed out in previous reports, and your sub-committee on school buildings, on making ex­ amination of the building and of plans of changes, have fully concurred in the view that these improvements should be made by the city government without longer delay. The use and value of this school as a training school for young teachers is set forth in another place. A report of its princi­ pal will be found in Appendix II. PARK STREET PRIMARY, NO. 6. This school consisted of four rooms containing its six classes up to the end of the present school year in June, while the Brackett street Primary No. 8 could scarcely sit its six classes in seven rooms. By a change in the lines be- 26 APPENDIX. tween these two contiguous districts in the summer vacation, the Park street district was considerably enlarged and its number of pupils increased, while at the same time needed relief was furnished to the Brackett street, and to some ex­ tent to the Vaughan street Primaries. One teacher was transferred from the Brackett street to the Park street school in August, since which time five rooms have been occupied. The grading of the rooms has been greatly improved, and the work is in a corresponding degree better. The work in all the rooms is commendable. SCHOOL STREET, PRIMARY NO. 7. This school has been under the same instruction as last year. There are three rooms for six classes, two classes in each room. This arrangement is not an inconvenient one, except that the room containing the two lowest classes is usually over crowded. This has been the case much of the present year, but the teacher being one of experience has managed the large number of children in her care, sometimes over-sixty, very nicely. All the classes in this school have been doing good work. BRACKETT STREET PRIMARY, NO. 8. This school has been subject to several changes among its teachers in the course of the year. Miss L. A. Short was absent on account of sickness during the first term of the present year and Miss F. I. Knight acted as her substitute. Miss G. W. Oaksmith and Miss A. E. Greely resigned near the beginning of the same term, and Miss J. A. Simonton was appointed to one of these vacant places and Miss A. S. Berry was on her request transferred from Monument street to fill the other place. At the end of the term this last teacher was transferred to Park street in consequence of a change in the district lines alluded to under that school. However good work the teachers of a school would do under ordinary circumstances, changes like these described must inevitably affect it, while throwing increased care and labor upon the Principal of the school. The classes having been somewhat reduced in size at the beginning of the term by the transfer of territory, and no changes having occurred among the teachers, more satisfac­ tory work has been done in this school the last term than in the previous one. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 27

VAUGHAN STREET PRIMARY, NO. 9. This school has been under its regular teachers for the en­ tire year, and has consequently made good progress. This primary district has been from time to time diminished in size, but being large in extent, and containing, as it does, a considerable portion of the unoccupied land in the western end of the city, the natural growth of the population of the district immediately fills up again its three rooms, so that further diminution in territory or addition to its school rooms has to be made. During the last term the supervisor found it necessary to ask the sanction of the Board to place for a time a large class of primary children in the ward room in this building, to relieve the room containing the 5th and 6th classes. Contrary to expectation it has been found necessary to continue the class in this room through the winter. WEST SCHOOL — GRAMMAR AND TKIMAKX. The West school has been gradually improving the past three or four years in its classification, in the regularity of its attendance, in scholarship and deportment, and in fine in everything that makes up a good school. This improvement is due in part to the changes made in the building, rendering it more convenient for school work, and in part to an addi­ tional interest in the school on the part of parents. It is to be hoped that this latter influence will continue to increase, since, if it does, it is sure still further to increase the value of their school. If projected improvements be made on the unoccupied lands belonging to the city above the Boston & Maine Trans­ fer station, the West and the Vaughan street school-houses will at once be found inadequate to meet the school demands of this rapidly growing population. The transfer of this land to the Maine Central railroad, for the erection of their shops, is so far perfected that these conditions will soon be realized. CUMBERLAND STREET GRAMMAR SCHOOL. This school has gone through the year doing effective work, and without suffering any changes in its teaching force. It is an important school, situated, as it is, at the centre of the city; and it deserves what it is hoped will before long be granted to it, a building of its own equal in its plan and in 28 APPENDIX. its equipments to the ones now occupied by the Butler and Shailer schools. The children of this portion of the city have long climbed to the third story of the High school building, and, when there, several of their rooms are not sufficiently lighted for use as study rooms. We do not allude to this need of a new grammar school building in the centre of the city with the expectation, or even the suggestion, that one be built by the city this year, or even the next, but that the school-needs of this part of the city may not be overlooked. The rooms now occupied by the school can profitably be de­ voted to High school uses, such as school-hall, library, lecture rooms, etc., whenever the grammar school shall be better provided for. BUTLER SCHOOL, GRAMMAR. Although subject to some changes in its teaching force, this school has been much more fortunate in this respect this year than it was the preceeding, and its work has been con­ sequently more effective. It being in some important re­ spects the best organized and the best equipped grammar school in the city, much is expected of it, and I believe it is meeting reasonable expectations. The excellence of the new building has been alluded to in previous reports, and the chil­ dren of our citizens are reaping the benefits of it. Miss M. J. Tukey, a valuable teacher, has been absent from the school most of the year on account of ill health, and has finally re­ signed her place. Miss S. S. Dennison has been away on leave of absence the last term of the year. Misses M. S. Murch and N. A. Moxey have filled places in the school tem­ porarily, and with credit to themselves, the former all the year, the latter for the past term. This, and the Cumberland street grammar school, it must not be forgotten, are compar­ atively new schools, each formed, scarcely more than two years since, from two unmixed schools. Within that time the principal and several of the teachers have been changed in this school, but considering these circumstances, the school has made satisfactory progress. Traces of its former organi­ zation as two schools are still apparent, but they are from year to year disappearing, faster indeed than it was reason­ able to expect. The work of the principal and his assistants the past year is worthy of praise. KEPOET OF SUPERINTENDENT. 29

IIIGn SCHOOL. No changes occurred among the teachers of this school during the first term covered by this report. At the begin­ ning of the second term, Mr. Isaac B. Choate, a gentleman of very high reputation as a classical scholar, took the place in the classical department relinquished by Mr. George A. Perry. Mr. Choate after a trial of four months resigned his position, and Mr. A. S. Thayer, Principal of the Shewsbury High school, was selected to fill the place, and has just finish­ ed the term in a satisfactory manner. This department of the High school has necessarily suffered loss from these changes, but it is believed that under its present instruction and management it will soon reach a more satisfactory stan­ dard than it has lately occupied. The other departments of this school have been during the year in a very efficient condition. A more particular ac­ count of the work of the school may be found in the Report of the Principal of the School. Appendix I. ISLAND SCHOOLS. Peak's Island. The two departments of this school have both been in good condition during the year. The Principal of the school was away on leave of absence during the first four months of the present school year, but his substitute, Mr. H. Patten filled the place so acceptably that there seemed to be no serious break in the school work. In the primary department there was a change of teachers at the end of the Spring Term; Miss M. A. Noyes having re­ signed, Miss A. Foster was elected to fill the place. These young ladies being both graduates of the Practice school and their discipline and work so similar, the school seemed hardly to have changed teachers at all. Long Island. The school here began in May and contin­ ued for the Spring, Summer and Fall under the charge of Miss H. C. Fickett, assisted in the first term by Miss C. E. Jenkins, and in the Fall term by Miss S. A. Holmes. Dur­ ing this time it was well attended. In the Winter it has been for three months in charge of Mr. Alfred King, an under­ graduate of Colby University, and a graduate of the Portland High School. Mr. King has done all for this school that one could now do in the winter season. The attendance, how- 30 APPENDIX. ever, is so small and so irregular in the winter, owing to the distances children have to travel in unbroken paths, that the value of the school during the winter season is very little compared with its value in the summer. As the same chil­ dren now attend this school in both winter and summer, and as few attend in winter at all, it is without hesitation that the recommendation is made to commence this school in April and run it continuously, with one week of vacation the first of July and another later in September perhaps, until Decem­ ber, and then discontinue it until April again. TEACHERS. The teachers of Portland are faithful, earnest and efficient. Many of them in the past have had more work assigned to them than they could do well. The care and instruction of over fifty children in one room by one teacher was unreason­ able, and scarcely anything more could be expected of her than simply to keep them together and hear them recite, hence teachers and pupils both have suffered loss. But when the demand has come for real instruction in the primary schools, the teacher with sixty or seventy pupils is not found able to do work to be compared with the ones having only half that number: In these large schools some teachers have broken down in health, others have resigned, and with others the work has dragged along, unsatisfactory, but under the circumstances excusable perhaps. Fortunately for this most important interest the overcrowded condition of our schools has been remedied. The number of pupils in these schools has been reduced to reasonable limits, and teachers are meet- ting the present demands more satisfactorily. This especial­ ly applies to schools of the lower grades where from various causes the tendency to overcrowd rooms has been the strong­ est. It is not to be denied that schools with forty to fifty-five pupils in a room are more expensive, in a mere money point of view, than schools containing in each room sixty to sixty- five pupils, but the former pay much better on the sums in­ vested. Good schools may cost more than poor ones but they make infinitely better returns to the city, and are much more creditable both to the city and to teachers. As schools im­ prove and higher demands are made on teachers, it is a pleas- REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 31 ant duty to testify to an increasing interest among them, and to marked progress in their work. CHANGES AMONG TEACHERS. The changes for the year among the teachers, are in brief as follows : Mr. Geo. A. Perry relinquished his place in the classical department of the High school in July, and Mr. Isaac B. Choate was appointed to succeed him and entered upon his work in August; but the latter relinquished the same in De­ cember. He was followed by the present incumbent, A. S. Thayer, the following month. Miss Emma L. Robinson, was granted leave of absence for the term at the North school in July, and Miss S. P. Walker was appointed her substitute in August. Misses S. P. Walker, M. F. Adams, A. K. Blanchard, L. M. Hooper, and E. M. Barrows were transferred from the North school to the Shatt­ er school in October. Miss Ann M. Garwin resigned her place in the North school in April, and Miss Hattie E. Brown after a leave of absence of several weeks in the spring, finally resigned her place in August. Misses E. M. Brrrows and N. C. Laughlin from the practice school, were appointed in their places in the North school in August. In November it was found necessary to open an additional Primary room in the North school, and Miss E. I. Fassett was appointed temporarily to the place. Miss E. A. Baker was transferred from the Butler school to the North Gram­ mar school in March, and Miss E. A. Taylor from the North Grammar school to the Butler school at the same time, these changing places so as to bring each nearer her own home. From the Butler school Miss M. J. Tukey has been out on leave of absence the entire year. Miss B. D. Clark was out the first term of the year, but resumed her place in August. Miss E. A. Taylor was out also on a leave of absence from March until July, and Miss S. A. Dennison from August to the end of the year. Misses M. S. Murch and N. A. Moxey have occupied temporary places in this school. Miss S. M. Lewis resigned her place in the Centre street school in July, and Miss A. L. Libby was appointed to the place in August. Miss L. A. Short was out on a leave of ab­ sence from Brackett street Primary the first term of the year; Miss F. I. Knight filled the place for six months as 32 APPENDIX. substitute. Miss C. E. Gould has been absent from the Chestnut street primary the last three months, and Miss M. It. Jordan has acted as her substitute, and in the same school an additional room was opened in October, and Miss A. A. Moses appointed to the place. Miss A. S. Berry was trans­ ferred from the Braekett street to the Park street school in August, owing to a change in district lines. A new room was opened in the Vaughan street primary, in October, and Miss C. E. Jenkins appointed temporarily to the place. Miss L. A. Sawyer was transferred in October from the West school to occupy the first place in the pri­ mary department of the Shailer school, and Miss E. C Thur- low was transferred to the West school at the same time to supply the vacant place. Misses F. I. Knight and N. A. Richards were appointed in October, to places in the primary department of the Shailer school. On Peak's Island Mr. E. W. Wilbur, Principal of the school, was absent on leave of absence from August to Feb­ ruary, and Mr. H. Patten acted as his substitute. Miss M. A. Noyes relinquished her place as assistant there in August, and Miss A. Foster from the Practice school was appuinted to it. Seven teachers have, as may be seen, resigned their places in the course of the year, and fourteen new ones have been appointed. The various transfers have been made mostly on the ground of convenience, and adaptability. These changes seem numerous when grouped, but when scattered over the work of an entire year, they are less observable, but often ac­ companied by unpleasant influences upon the schools affected by them. TEACHER'S MEETINGS. The grade meetings of the teachers of the various classes have been regularly attended, and with the best results. In these meetings the principals and teachers of the grammar and higher primary classes have, with the Superintendent of Schools, considered their work and discussed the various methods of doing it. The teachers of the lower classes have not only considered their primary work, but have listened to stated lectures from the Superintendent, and others in regard to it. REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 33

TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION. The teachers of Portland have, as an association, continued their monthly meetings during the year, on the first Monday evening of each month. At these meetings statistical infor­ mation respecting each school and class-room in the city is given. Discussions have been held on various topics pertain­ ing to school work, and several lecturers have been secured by the committee of teachers having that in charge, and these lectures have been a source of much interest and profit. The following is a more particular outline of the exercises at various monthly meetings of the teachers' association: March 4. "Banking." Talk by ¥iu, E. Gould, First National Bank, Portland. April 4. "Language—how to acquire a proper use of it." Paper. Mr. Morrill. May 2. "How can our pupils be induced to talk?" "How can they be trained to use their voices properly ?" Discussion. June 6. Matters of general interest discussed. Sept. 5. Election of officers. General business. Oct. 10. "Mental training as a part of the school work in all grades." Several papers by Teachers. Nov. 14. 1—"Uniformity through the grades in the work of developing mental habits." 2.—"Importance of care in the arrangement of written work." Papers and Discussion. Dec. 5. "Science of teaching." Hon. J. W. Dickinson, Secretary Board of Edu­ cation, Massachusetts. Feb. 6. "Nature of Education." Dr. Harris, Concord, Mass. IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE YEAR. The improvements for the year may be briefly stated:— 1. The opening of the Shailer school in the new school house on Munjoy Hill adds eight rooms to the school accom­ modations in a part of the city long needing it. This has en­ abled the Board to diminish the number of pupils in nearly all the class-rooms in the eastern part of the city, to withdraw pupils from the ward room near the observatory, and to bring the colony of the North school, located for a year at Chestnut street, back to their own school;—this has been a great gain. 2. Important improvements have been made in Center street building, including the reseating of four rooms; in pro­ viding seats in a small additional room in the West school; also in the sanitary conditions of several of the other buildings, as may be seen in the report of the Superintendent of school- buildings, page 12. 3. A more systematic use has been made of the revised Programme of school work. In following this teachers and pupils find a desirable variety in instruction and study. While in the fundamental branches such as reading, spelling, penmanship, arithmetic, and geography, more intelligent and (3*) 34 APPENDIX. practical work has been done than ever before in a single year, by means of a more systematic and orderly arrangement of the work and a more careful division of it among the suc­ cessive classes, much other information as, for example, in minerals, in plants, in natural history, in physiology and in physics, has been imparted. Especially has the correct use and proper application of the English tongue been promoted by constant practice and criticism in every class of each grade. Harrington's speller has been found a very efficient help in the fourth grammar classes as well as in all the classes in the primary grade, and it is the impression that its use may be profitably extended one class higher than we now use it, or into the third grammar class. GRADED SCHOOL WORK Under our new programme of school work, as has been as­ serted more effective work has been done in the schools dur­ ing the past year than in any previous year. The work in the various studies is more systematically arranged and better divided among the successive teachers, so that, as a class of children passes successively from teacher to teacher, there is more of unity in the work, each teacher resuming the work of the preceding one with more intelligence of what has been done before, and a better appreciation of what is now to be done in her own class preparatory to the next. This symme­ try of school work extends not only through the classes of a single school, but through parallel classes of all the schools of the primary and grammar grades. The effect of this unity of school work is already apparent in the m ore uniform and bet­ ter preparation of primary classes for the grammar grade, and of the grammar classes for the high school. It is further seen in the better discipline and the better habits of study of pupils as they reach the higher grades in their school life. This progress is a legitimate result of the saving of time both by the cooperation of the teachers and by better division of school work. While in systematizing schools and school work it is the aim that all teachers of the city shall have the full benefit of the work of teachers who precede them, of the combined expe­ rience of others of their own grade, and of the advice of REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 35 those whose work is to follow, still they are left to exercise their own individuality in selecting the means and methods of performing their work, being held accountable only to reach in the end satisfactory results. Those teachers who, in ways of their own, can secure the best attendance with the least trouble to others, who can show classes the most orderly with the least apparent effort to secure order, who can exhibit pupils the most ready to choose the right and avoid the wrong, the best prepared intellectually for higher work at the end of the year without undue fatigue to themselves or to their pupils, who think and say less of marks than they do of what marks, if used at all, should represent, these are the teachers most highly to be commended,—this is the kind of work most deserving praise. It is sometimes claimed, and perhaps thought, that in striv­ ing to secure cooperation among teachers, and symmetry of school work in a system of graded schools, it is necessary to merge individual pupils into the grand whole, that it becomes necessary to neglect the individual in our care for the many. But is this a necessary defect in a system of graded schools ? Quite the opposite is true; it is a defect more likely to attach to ungraded schools than to graded ones from the very nature of the case. It is a defect of poor teaching and of over­ crowded schools anywhere. But when it is claimed that the same teacher with forty pupils of about the same age and at­ tainments is more likely to neglect individuals than if she has forty of all ages and grades, it would seem that the one making the claim does it either without consideration or without experience. Such a claim if well made strikes at the foundation of all division of labor. It would annihilate the manufactory in which the beautiful Waltham watch is brought to such a degree of perfection, and remand the whole metal back into the little shops where each workmen is re­ quired to do the whole work.

THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. The question, whose is the public school, is often raised, and it receives various and vague replies. If a formulated reply were required, it would often be "that the school belongs to the city authorities and to the teachers who carry 36 APPENDIX. them on.;' This is no more correct than to say that the edifice belongs to the architect and to the workmen engaged in its construction. These it is true, determine its proportions and its strength. If faithful and earnest they will take an interest in their work, and its excellence will show their effi­ ciency and skill. So of the schools. Their condition and value will depend largely upon the intelligence and efficiency of the school authorities and teachers who shape their work and instruct them, but who, when their terms of service are over, take their places as individuals of the general public whose duty and privilege it is to support and use the schools. Again, it would be replied by many "that the public schools belong to citizens and to parents who support and patronize them, and to the children who attend them." This is as true as it is to say that the streets and bridges belong to the men who are taxed to build them, and the travelers who pass over them. It is not always true that we own that which we pay for, or that which we construct and use. The body politic to which we belong, the State, has a higher than an individu­ al claim. Whatever the safety, or even the welfare, of the State demands, that must, under law, be relinquished by the individual. Under its organic law the State has a right to its citizens and to their property when necessary for its pres­ ervation. It has been supposed in despotic countries that strong defences and a standing army are a protection to a State; hence, in such states individuals are required to do military service, and to contribute of their means to pay for building public defences. It has been found in more enlight­ ened countries, and especially in republics, that intelligence widely diffused among the people, even high intelligence,gives strength to a State, adds to its security, and best secures prosperity and happiness; therefore, such States, for their own self protection and aggrandizement provide for the in­ telligence of their people by establishing public schools, and by requiring the attendance upon them of their future citizens, the children. The public school, then, belongs to the State, and it is provided for and its expenses are borne, in part at least, directly by the State, and in part by its subordinate municipalities, as roads and bridges are required to be built and kept in order for the public good. With this in mind REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 37 we can more intelligently inquire, What are the proper limits of the public school ? LIMITS OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOL. The basis on which school moneys, raised and possessed by the State of Maine, are appropriated for school purposes is according to the number of youth in its municipalities be­ tween the ages of four and twenty-one years. This fact would seem to indicate in this state, the limits of school life and of school work. It is made by statute the prerogative of school committees, it is true, to determine what classes of children may be admitted to the various grades of schools under their charge, but whether any children between the ages of four and twenty-one can properly be excluded from all the schools of a town or city in this state may admit of question. They are not so excluded from the schools of any other town or city in the state, except our own; and whether such children should be excluded from the schools of the largest and wealthiest city of the state is now one of the questions to which your attention is solicited. In this city children under five years are now excluded from school by Chap II., Art. 3, of Rules and Regulations; and even those above five years may be refused admission to the sixth or lowest class in the schools when all the seats are occupied, (See Chap. III., 12.) There are in Portland by the last school census, April 1881, about 600 children between the ages of four and five years, and supposing half of them are ready to attend the public schools, these are enough to fill eight or ten rooms, about one room in each primary school district, without taking into account many above five years, now excluded for want of room in those seasons of the year most favorable for child­ ren to attend school. Should the city undertake to remodel and repair yearly one of our primary buildings needing it, it is none too soon for the committee to consider what additional rooms will be needed in those buildings; and the question whether sub- primaries, or kindergarten, are proper classes to be connected with our public schools, and if proper classes whether it is or not advisable to give them a place, should receive its proper consideration before determining what school rooms are now, and will soon be, required. 38 APPENDIX.

It is rather surprising that children between four and five years are given a place in the public schools in the rural dis­ tricts where it is perfectly safe, perhaps profitable, for them to roam at pleasure and without care in the yards, fields, and roads, while in the city where the yards are limited, often unfit for them, and the streets dusty and unsafe, they are obliged to be subject to these inconviences and perils because there is no school room open for their reception. If the schools, to which children of this age are to be in­ vited, are to be like the old time mixed or primary school, we should say, leave them upon the streets. The peril is less and the mud and dust is better for them out of doors than the rigid restraint to be found within. Kindergarten. In Froebel's kindergarten this old school restraint is removed. "Nature asserts herself and has fair play." The gifts given to the children for occupation and for instruc­ tion are received with pleasure, and the occupations are a pastime as well as a discipline for them. In these schools the senses are early cultivated, the fingers are trained to be ready to the touch, the ear to be quick to hear, and the eye to judge accurately of color, form, and dis­ tance ; above all the language of children is here cultivated. This early instruction of children is most profitable, as on it as a foundation all future attainments are to be built up. The year then from four to five is one of the most valuable of school life. It is a public assertion of Carl Schuvz, founded on experiments with his own children, that "a child of four years of age may have learned four languages." Ought then the time of a large proportion of our children between four and five years, so far as pertains to school work, to be practi­ cally lost? St. Louis and some other cities have established kinder­ garten or sub-primary schools, with the best results, and many of the ablest educators of the country are strongly recom­ mending an earlier admission of children to school, and schools suited to these new demands are ably advocated. The spirit that dominates in Froebels' kindergarten, to­ gether with some of his methods and gifts, have already been introduced into the first year of our primary instruction in this city. This has made these schools more than tolerable REPORT OP SUPERINTENDENT. 39 to children,—it has made them attractive. The present ex­ cellence of our primary schools is largely due to this; and hence it may be forcibly asked, do not the 600 children of our city between four and five years alluded to above be­ long to the State at four years as much as they do at five or six years of age, and is not this claim in an educational sense to be recognized in providing school privileges ? These chil­ dren cannot speak for themselves, and those of them that need the schools most have not parents likely to speak for them. So we have here ventured to present their claims to the School Board and to citizens for consideration. I do not know that any intelligent person pretending to have the welfare of his State and city at heart, ever publicly questions the propriety of maintaining, even in a high degree of excellence, the ordinary primary and grammar schools. In establishing and maintaining these, the welfare of citizens and the demands of the State too closely harmonize to admit of this question. Some may, and probably do, criticise their form and management, and the length of time they are run, but these criticisms avowedly aim to improve the schools, not to eliminate them. When we reach the High school grade the case is somewhat different. As with the lowest grade so here the question is often raised, "What is the proper limit of school life and school work ? Many children who enter the primary schools, do not for various reasons reach the grammar school, but this is seldom or never urged as a reason for neglecting to provide grammar school instruction for those who finish the primary course. That many who enter the grammar school do not finish its course, but withdraw before reaching the High school, while to be regretted, is not here any more than in the case of the grammar school a reason why High school instruction is not to be furnished for youth, who reach the limit of grammar school instruction, although it is sometimes urged as such. Our school system and our schools are a unit, and are as much one school as the several classes of a school of fifty pupils in a rural town or district constitute one school. The only difference is that in the rural school the classes consist of only three or four pupils each, and are in the same room and under one teacher, while in a city each class consists of 40 APPENDIX. three or four hundred perhaps, and occupies many separate rooms and as many teachers. The duty is the same to the State and to the individual in both cases, viz : to begin school instruction as early and continue it as late as under the cir­ cumstances the State requires or can expect. In Portland between 150 and 200 youth annually finish the grammar school course of instruction at an average age of about 15 years 6 months. Shall this be the limit of their school life? The parents of very few of them wish to put them at regular industrial employments at this early age. Eliminate the high school and the education of most of them is at an end. If one quarter of them should be sent away from the city to school, and that is a high estimate, the ex­ pense to citizens of sending away that small number would be many times the expense incurred now by the city in edu­ cating the whole, to say nothing of the risks attending the education of children of that age away from the restraints of home. A still worse feature than the expense of educating those sent away, however, is that over one hundred youth of each year's class, and of the whole High School containing four classes over 300 between the ages of 15 and 19 years now under regular instruction would be left idle and upon the streets at an age when they should be, as they are now, securing the best part of an education. Would this meet the reasonable expectations of the state? Would it be creditable to the city? Would it be a saving of money even? Do those who here and elsewhere pronounce the High School an expensive luxury look at these facts? and are they ready to face this responsibility? The people of one or two cities of our country have been led by reckless arguments inconsiderately to abolish their High Schools; but such have with great unanimity restored them again as soon as they had realized the mischief they had wrought. PORTLAND SCHOOL FOE DEAF. The number of pupils in this school has been constantly increasing ever since its organization. At the beginning of the present school year it was found necessary to supply another teacher, and Miss Mary H. True, who had on its first REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 41 establishment had charge of the school, being now about to return from Europe where she has been for three years oc­ cupied in similar work with a single pupil, her services were secured. The school now numbers twenty-six pupils under the in­ struction of one principal with three assistants. Two of these teachers, Miss Ellen L. Barton the principal, and Miss Mary H. True her first assistant, have had a long and successful experience in this work elsewhere as well as here; the other two have been thoroughly trained in our own school. To one unaccustomed to this work the number of teachers may seem large in proportion to the number of pupils under tuition, but one familiar with such work would be quite differ­ ently impressed. Without experience one can scarcely realize the obstacles that the teacher of the deaf has to encounter and the slownessof the progress with which he must be satisfied. In nothing except in excellence of methods can this school be fairly compared with the ordinary graded school. Here the instruction can rarely be given to classes. The pupils being of various ages and various degrees of attainments in consequence of having entered the school at different times and for other causes, the instruction must be mostly in­ dividual. The methods of instruction to be employed with youth de­ prived of the sense of hearing are necessarily very laborious, and the advance is exceedingly slow, both teachers and pupils working at such an immense disadvantage. Every device that ingenuity can invent has to be used with untiring pa­ tience in imparting even a little instruction. We keenly feel for the blind in the difficulties that beset them in their struggle for knowledge, but with unimpaired hearing their means of acquiring information from others is vastly superior to that of a child deprived of the sense of hearing. Besides the immense labor to be done in their proper instruc­ tion, the constant care of these unfortunate pupils, most of them away from their homes, and all of them cut off from the ordinary means of communication with others, falls heavily upon the principal of this school. She holds all the corres­ pondence with parents respecting their coining here, procures proper boarding places for them when here, looks after their 42 APPENDIX. treatment, listens to their wants and their complaints. The care of their health, their clothing, and other material needs, as well as of their school work and moral habits, falls upon her. This oversight of these pupils out of school, as well as when under instruction, is of more importance, and adds a graver responsibility than their intellectual progress involves. This is the most important part of the work of the principal. As the number of pupils increases her time must be still further given to this general supervision, and her able assist­ ants, with such addition as becomes necessary, must do a still larger portion of the ordinary instruction than now. The principal must necessarily be mainly responsible for the whole management of the school, and its success hitherto testifies to the excellence and efficiency of her work. Before dismissing the consideration of this school, I wish it were possible to say something that would attract the at­ tention of the benevolent, who possess adequate means, to its present and future wants. It is feared such persons look up­ on it as a public school, and conclude that as such the muni­ cipality will take care of it. It is true that to encourage its establishment in Portland and to provide instruction for a small number of its own deaf children at home instead of sending them abroad, the city council has made a small an­ nual appropriation for the school, without which it could not have been at first established or carried on so long. It is true, also, that the Legislature of the State has, after thor­ ough investigation into the merits of the school, allowed its beneficiaries to attend here on the same terms as at Hartford, and, that no applicants may be refused, has increased its an­ nual appropriation for this benevolent object. The friends of the unfortunate in our midst should bear in mind that the wants of such an Institution are numerous, and that to be an honor to the city and the state it should possess buildings containing school-rooms and domitories, and it should be in other respects equipped suitably to meet its in­ creasing wants. There appears by the late census reports to be in Maine about two hundred deaf persons under twenty one years of age; and of these about sixty are at present under instruc­ tion in schools for the deaf, these 60 being nearly equally EEPOET OF SUPERINTENDENT. 43

divided between Hartford and Portland. Twenty or thirty more perhaps are not yet old enough to go away from home to school, and several others have already completed their course of instruction at Hartford. After all deductions are made, there remain about one hundred deaf children in our State who ought to be brought under proper tuition. Many of these children belong to poor and uneducated parents who are indifferent to their children's needs or do not know how to meet them. It is therefore the duty of the benevolent to to provide for them. The need of such a school in Maine has been too clearly proved to admit of doubt. It is already established here in Portland. Will our citizens take care of it, or finally allow it to go elswhere? The establishment of so beneficent an institution as a school for the deaf if well provided for, is a credit to any place. Such a school should be cherished in the same spirit as an asylum for the blind, or any other similar institution for the unfortunate. Particulars relating to the year's work in this school will be found in the report of the principal, p. 10. PRACTICE CLASS. Since this class was established, in June, 1878, thirty-one young ladies, having finished its course of one year's practice and study, have graduated from it, and nine more have been members of the class the present year. Several others have been members of the class for a shorter period than one year. The young ladies who have graduated have been, with one or two exceptions, residents of Portland and graduates of Portland High School. All these have re­ ceived appointments to our schools, some of them even before they had graduated; and twenty-five of them now have places as teachers in our schools; while such of them as have left the employ of the city have left on their own account. From this it appears that the Practice class not only furnishes the means to the daughters of our own citizens for special preparation for teaching, paying them a moderate salary while under this course of preparation, but it secures to them permanent places, when they have availed themselves of this opportunity for preparation, by enabling them to show themselves apt and fit for the work. It is 44 APPENDIX. proper to add that very few, who take the year's drill in the work of teaching under the direction of an expert in the work, are found to fail of being more than ordinary teachers. There is of course a difference in teachers of the same edu­ cation and preparatory training, some evincing natural tact while others are intractable and slow. Special training may be equally profitable for all, but it will not put all upon the same level. It is then of the utmost importance that none but young ladies of superior natural aptitude for the work of teaching should be admitted to, and retained in, this prepara­ tory school, if we are reasonably to expect to draw from it superior teachers. As the applicants for admission to the class have become more numerous more discrimination than ever before should be used in appointments to the school. A further account of the school is contained in the report of the Principal: Appendix II. SCHOOL ATTENDANCE. In comparing the school attendance of towns and cities there are only three numbers so well fixed as to be valuable to base comparative estimates upon. These are; 1st, the number of inhabitants in the town; 2d, the average number of pupils in actual attendance during the year; and 3d, the number of days in the year during which the schools are in session. In Portland there now about 35,000 inhabitants; the average number of youth in actual attendance in our schools the past year were 4,183; and the number of days in which they were in attendance, or in which the schools were in session, were 198. Approximately we may say then that one eighth of our population has been in the school room during 198 days, or about two thirds of the secular days of the year. We here give, for the purposes of comparison, the popula­ tion in 1880, the average attendance, and number of school days for the year 1881, together with the number of teachers and current expenses for schools, of Portland, and of several other cities of about the same size,—cities noted for the ex­ cellence of their schools: Population, Av. Attend. Days of No. of Current 1080. In 1881. School. Teachers. Expenses. Portland, Me., 33,829 4183 198 130 $79,347.73 Springfield, Mass., 33,340 4223 198 117 96,533.33 New Bedford, Mass. . 26,875 3620 200 104 77,330.00 Hartford, Conn., 42,553 4540 201 151 164,714.81 Oakland, Cat, 34,556 5238 205 133 160,453.74 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT. 45

Besides keeping the daily "attendance" in school our teachers keep also a daily "number belonging,"—a technical term meaning, as here used, simply the number of pupils that have been in school within three days; this number being dimin­ ished three days after the permanent withdrawal of a pupil from our system of schools, or after his continuous absence from school for that time from any cause. This rule for fixing the "number belonging" was adopted and recommended for gen­ eral use by the National Teachers' Association at their annual meeting in 1872. As all our teachers use the same rule the per cents of attendance obtained by comparing this number with the "attendance" have with us some significance. It should be observed that these per cents are affected by per­ manent withdrawals and by retention by sickness,—causes beyond a teacher's control, and somewhat uniform,—as well as by absences allowed by parents and caused by truancy,— for which last parents and teachers are responsible. For reasons apparent to those familiar with the schools, as the unusual prevalence of contagious diseases, and possibly from a somewhat less parental care for school attendance owing to discussion on the length of the school year, the school attendance has not this year been up to the standard of the two or three previous years, while the demands upon the truant officer have seemed to be considerably increasing. The truant officer has been assiduous in meeting these de­ mands, and in his work of restoring pupils to school and of bringing into school children not before in attendance he has been efficiently aided by the Municipal Court and the police force of the city. Acknowledgement is also due to the Provi­ dent Association, and to other benevolent agencies, in cloth­ ing needy children suitably to attend school. The truant officer's annual report will show his work more in detail. RECOMMENDATIONS. 1. A change in the school year at Long Island, so that this school shall commence in April and close at Thanksgiving; the long vacation to occur during the winter months. 2. A modification, and thorough repair, the next summer, of the Spring street school house, to adapt it to its present use as a Training and Model School, and to make it suitable to meet the needs of that district, 46 APPENDIX.

3. To consider the propriety of the admission into school of children between four and five years, and of the establish­ ment of suitable schools for such. In closing allow me to tender my thanks to the City Gov­ ernment for the generous provisions which they annually make for public schools, and to the members of the School Board for uniform assistance and support in my work. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS TASH, Supt. of Public Schools.

APPENDIX. —I.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL.

MR. THOMAS TASH, Superintendent of Schools, Portland. SIR :—The following report of the High School for the year end­ ing February 18th, 1882, is respectfully submitted: SPRING TERM. FALL TERM. Boys. Girls. Total. Boys. Girls. Total. Whole number of pupils enrolled, 137 195 332 146 219 365 Av. number belonging lor the term, 521 189 310 136 197 334 Average attendance, - 118 183 302 132 192 324 Percentage of attendance, 99 97 98 97 97 97 Number of days in the term, 97 136 The class, which was graduated June 30th, 1881, numbered forty four pupils, twenty-four girls and twenty boys. The '•' Brown Medals," eight in number, were awarded to Mabel F. Bicker, Alice L. Fuller, Octavia L. Cram, Carrie Thompson, Charles F. Flagg, George L. Fitz, Nat V. Shannon, Henry B. Peters. The class numbered upon its entrance to the school in 1877, one hundred and five pupils, fifty-six boys and forty-nine girls. Of this number nearly forty-two per cent, were graduated. The following was the order of exercises at the graduation of the class:— APPENDIX. 47

CLASS SONG riauist, LUCY L. FESSENDEN. SALTJTATORY,-In Latin, GEO. L. FITZ. ESSAY,—"Limp People," ALICE L. FULLIH. ORIGINAL DECLAMATION,—'An English Education," NAT V. SHANNON. ESSAY,-"Dress," OCTAVIA L. CEAM. PIANO DUET,—"La Italadine," JENNIE W. PAYSON, MINNIE U. HAZELTON. ORIGINAL DECLAMATION,—The Choice of a Vocation HENRY B. PETF.ES ESSAY,—Whitewash CARRIE THOMPSON. FRENCH RECITATION,-"Encore un Hymne," GERTRUDE P. DECELLIC. PROPHTTlli'iS ( B»ys. El.MEli N. BACHELDER. PROPHECIES,- |G1»l9> AJSN1J M UILS0N. CLASS POEM.-Mergolast CHARLES F. FLAOG. VOCAL SOLO,—"A Bird from o'er the Sea," ALICE E. HOWE. ESSAY,—Imagination, with Valedictory MABEL F. RICKER. The number of pupils admitted to the High School at the com­ mencement of the present term was one hundred and thirty-eight. Of these all but two entered the fourth class. There has been no change in the building, and no change in the corps of teachers except in the classical department. Mr. Isaac B. Choate took charge of that department until the end of the year 1KS1. Since that time Mr. Addison S. Thayer has had charge of that depart­ ment. The departmental system of teaching still shows the wisdom of that plan. Changes in text books are rarely made in this school and then only for good cause. During this year two changes have been made; the substitution of Wentworth's Algebra for Greenleaf's Algebra and of Avery's Philosophy for Norton's Philosophy. The teachers of those subjects think that the change of book has been of benefit. The course of study has remained the same, as it was established five years ago. It has had a fair trial and in the main, has obtained for itself the approval of teachers and pupils. The public have somewhat criticised it and parents have sometimes complained be­ cause certain things could not be studied and certain other things omitted. It has been admitted by them that the education of the school should be general in its character, and such as to best fit the pupils for success in life, and that it should not make all its pupils chemists, or botanists, or fit them for any other special object. When it is explained that the course of study is founded upon the sound basis of having three lines of instruction systematically car­ ried on, thus giving the pupils a foundation for their future work in any specialty that they may choose; that these three lines are Mathematical, Scientific, and Language, and although there are different studies, that each study in its respective line leads to tin- general result, the criticisms have to a great degree been met. Experience however teaches some leasons, and it has taught in 48 APPENDIX.

this school, I think, that the arrangement in these lines could he changed for the better, and I beg to suggest for the consideration of the Committee that the studies of Review Arithmetic and Book­ keeping be placed for the second year of the course instead of Geometry and Trigonometry; that the study of Geometry be placed in the last term of the last year, and that so much of the Trigonom­ etry as involves Logarithms and their use be taken up in connection with the Algebra. This subject of Logarithms can be taken up as is suggested, because the book which they now use treats the subject of Logarithms. I would also suggest that part of the first year be devoted to such exercises in English Grammar, in the use of capitals and punctua­ tion, in the derivation and formation of words, and kindred matters, as the teacher in Rhetoric would deem advisable, and that the study of Rhetoric proper commence a term later and continue for a year, if necessary, and that the other studies be moved up the line to corres­ pond. This change in the Language line leaves the study for the last term of the last year unprovided for, except the study of Men­ tal Philosophy be continued. I think some subject more closely allied with language and better fitted to the minds of the pupils could be found. Many other reasons for this change could be given, but it is need­ less at this time to state them. I would further suggest that these changes, if they are made, go into effect so far as they can at the beginning of the school year in August, 1882. The study of English Literature has been pursued with good re­ sults during the last year on Saturdays, and although no special day was assigned for the consideration of our renowned poet, Longfellow, I assure you that the pupils of this school are made acquainted with him and his writings in the regular course of study. It would be exceedingly gratifying to the teachers to have the parents visit the school on Saturdays and listen to the exercises on that day, or to visit on the other days of the week and listen to the regular exercises. In conclusion I would say that the teachers have uniformly aided me by their council in all matters and by their promptness in per­ forming the duties which have been assigned to them. Respectfully submitted, ALBKO E. CHASE, Principal. High School, March 1, 1882. APPENDIX. 49

HIGH SCHOOL.—SEMI-ANNUAL RETURNS.

Term ending June Term ending Feb. 18, 1882. ALBRO E. CHASE, 30, 1881. PRINCIPAL. CO 00 3 3 pa m O H Whole Number Enrolled 141 208 347 140 Average Number Belonging 134 194 328 136 Average Attendance 129 185 315 132 Per Cent, of Attendance 90 95 96 96 Whole Number Admitted 1 1 2 58 Number in Graduating Class 20 24 44 0 Number Cases of Truancy 1 0 1 1 NO. IN SEVERAL CLASSES. 20 24 19 " First Class 44 22 46 68 25 " Second Class 36 61 97 " Third Class 63 75 138 63 " Fourth Class 141 206 Whole number 347 145 AGE OF PUPILS AT DATE. No. between 12 and 13 years 0 0 0 0 " 13 and 14 " 1 2 3 1 8 13 " 14 and 15 " 37 5 70 20 " 15 and 16 " 38 33 86 37 16 and 17 " 31 48 96 42 " 17 and 18 " 22 65 61 29 3 13 '• 18 and 19 " 1 39 5 11 19 and 20 " 10 4 Over 20 years of age 141 4 347 1 Whole number 206 145 NEW PUPILS ADMITTED DURING THE TERM. From Private Schools 0 1 1 1 " New Residents 1 1 0 0 0 " Other Sources 0 0 26 " Brackett Street Grammar 0 0 0 " Center Street Grammar 0 0 17 " Cumberland Street Grammar. 0 0 10 0 0 3 " North School " West School 1 2 58 Whole number AVERAGE AGE OF SCHOOL AT DATE 16 17 17 16 17 Average age First Class 18 18 18 15 16 15 15 " '• at date of Admission .. No. of Teachers in School June 30, 1881 12 No. of School Days in Term ending June 30, 1881 97 No. of Teachers in School February 18, 1882 12 No. of School Days in Term ending February 18, 1882 136 No. of Pupils per Teacher 30 (4*) 50 APPENDIX.

APPENDIX.—II.

REPORT OF THE PRINCIPAL OF PRACTICE SCHOOL. ME. THOMAS TASH, Superintendent of Schools: SIB:—The following report of the Practice School, for the year ending February 17, 1882, is respectfully submitted. The annual examinations of the Practice Class occurred in June, and diplomas were awarded to the following members : Mary E. Scanlan, Edith M. Barrows, Nellie C. Laughlin, Arietta Foster, Nellie A. Richards, Addie L. Libby, Marietta S. Murch, Nellie A. Moxcey. All of them, since the opening of the fall term, have been appointed to situations in our public schools. The following young ladies comprised the class entering in Sept.: Marcia B. Jenks, Lizzie C. Fuller, Ella F. Latham, Kittie Wark, graduates of high schools, Isabelle Hamblin, Clara L. Smith, Lucy A. Whitely of the Gorham Nomal School and Mary E. Barbour, of the Salem Normal School. Miss Barbour, on account of sickness was obliged to resign in October, and the vacancy thus occurring was filled by the appointment of Susan A. Holmes, a graduate of the Gorham Normal School. Miss Wark, who entered Feb. 1881, has been transferred to the North School, and her place filled by Sarah J. Barbour, a graduate of the Salem Normal School. There has been but little demand made upon the school this year to furnish substitutes. The practice of doing so was found to be detrimental to the school in previous years and so was discontinued. The regular lesson at the close of the afternoon session has been given. The subjects that have been taken up thus far are, General Principles of Teaching, Questioning, Methods in Reading, Num­ ber, Form, Writing, Drawing and Music. The lessons in Writing and Drawing are given by Mr. Shaylor and those in Music by Mr. Hazell. Articles gleaned from Educational Journals are read and discussed, and criticisms and explanations in regard to the daily work are constantly given. No set methods have been followed, but we have taken from a variety of authors whatever seemed of the most practical value. In addition to the above work, the teachers have had the benefit of the New England Journal of Education, Primary Teacher and Education, which were furnished by the for­ mer graduates of the school. They have also been favored with ad­ dresses from members of the Committee and the Superintendent. The class graduating last June had the privilege of listening to a lecture on, "Knack and Tact" by the Rev. Dr. Hill. Each room in the building is in charge of two teachers, and the APPENDIX. 51 amount of individual attention each scholar thus receives, more than counterbalances any deficiency that may arise from the change of teachers every two months. This is proved by the fact that the children entering the grammar schools are reported as comparing favorably with children from other schools, and the children in the school have just passed the February examinations well. The Library, for which funds were raised last year, now numbers about sixty volumes. Through the generosity of the present class, the number is steadily increasing, and the present accommodations for the Library are not sufficient. A new book-case is very much needed. A set of American Encyclopaedia was presented to the Library by the School Committee, and we now need a Worcester's Dictionery and a Gazetteer. As the school-house is now constructed there are no dressing-rooms, and the children are obliged to hang their outside garments in the school-rooms, and this, especially in stormy weather, renders the air so impure that it must be injurious to the scholars. The school-yard also needs attention, for during the months of April, May, October and November, it is not a fit place for the children to play. Would not this be a good school-yard in which to try the experiment of brick pavements? The chairs and desks used in the Third Grade are of the same size as those in the Sixth, and are much too small for the children. Single seats and one grade in a room would render the government of the school easier, and add to the thoroughness of the work. A recitation-room for the teachers would be a great con­ venience and a saving of time, as all explanations and criticisms must now be given after school hours. I wish here to make an appeal in behalf of the graduates of our school. When a graduate of the Practice School is elected to a per­ manent situation, and does as good work as any other teacher in the same grade, should she not receive the full salary of her grade? If the year in the Practice School is not considered a sufficient test of her ability as a teacher, ought not six months more of successful work, in a school where she has to depend entirely on herself, be enough to entitle her to her full pay? Three years is a very long time for a teacher to work before receiving the average salary of $400. It is discouraging to girls who have only themselves to de­ pend upon, and who desire to still further fit themselves for their chosen profession. During the year the teachers have visited other schools in the city, and I take this opportunity of thanking the teachers of the different schools visited, for the courtesy and consideration they have shown them. 52 APPENDIX.

The school this year has been an especially pleasant one. The teachers have worked earnestly and faithfully. The children have had little sickness, and have been very constant in their attendance. Respectfully submitted, SARAH M. TAYLOR. A PP END IX.—III. REPORT OF TEACHER OP WRITING AND DRAWING. ME. THOMAS TASH, Superintendent of Schools, Portland : SIR:—The branches which have been under my supervision have received the same attention during the past year, as formerly, with the addition of an occasional visit to the sixth grade. Writing with ink has not, previous to this year, been commenced below the fourth grade, but as an experiment, one or two classes of the fifth and sixth grades have written book No. 1. The results so far show that a little time, say fifteen or twenty minutes per day, given to this exercise, prove it to not only interesting but profitable. I doubt if any other exercise of the day is more eagerly looked forward to than this. Without doubt all the classes of the sixth grade should begin writing the first year of school life. I would have them write on the slate the first half of the year, to be followed the second term with a tracing book with pen and ink. By tracing the copy, the form of letters, as well as some idea of combining them in simple words, is fixed in mind. In the copy books which have been prepared by myself the copies are so arranged that while each word receives its proper space, the words, even in the first book, succeed each other so as to form short sentences, thus securing from the outset attention to spacing between words, one of the most important of all principles governing good writing. Children may be able to write separate words well, and yet mate illegible work in arranging these same words in sentences. We have endeavored to acomplish both at the same time. In the books previously used pupils were required to write through five books before finding words arranged in sentences. Regarding the drawing in the primary grades, but little can be said for the lower grades, for not until the beginning of the present term have we had either cards for the pupils or manuals for the teachers. The first and second classes have done very good work— each class completing two books in the year. In the grammar grades more than double the amount of writing, outside of the copy books is now done than in former years. Not that double the time is taken, but on account of beginning earlier in APPENDIX. 53 the primary schools more facility in the use of the pen is acquired, so that now the fourth grammar classes will do equally as good, if not better, and quicker work than the first classes could do ten years ago. The books and papers of the pupils in all grades, as a rule, evince care and painstaking on the part of both teacher and pupil. If in any class the penmanship or drawing falls below the average, it may usually be attributed to one of two causes, viz:—either that the teacher does not have that firm hold of the class necessary to do good work in any branch, or that the class may have suffered from the absence of the regular teacher, rendering a temporary supply necessary, which in many cases has proved disastrous for a while. Of the first cause above mentioned it may be considered an axiom, that the general character of the work in all branches may, to a large extent, be determined by the average appearance of the work done in the writing and drawing books. If these do not show evi­ dence of neatness and care, other studies will be quite likely to suffer in the same direction. The second cause alluded to, is also a serious one, and one not easily remedied. Changes must of necessity occur in spite of the best endeavors of the committee, but the less often the better for the schools. The best remedy for such cases so far as I have noted has been in the establishment of the Practice School. There is much less jar and confusion in change of teachers on temporary supply, as a rule now, than before this school was organized. I have noticed this in many instances, as pupils often attempt to impose upon an inexperienced teacher by carelessness in the writing or drawing books. Teachers coming from the practice school have not only had some experience, but know about what to expect in the way of at­ tainment, and are therefore able to detect and check such attempts. This is especially true of the primary schools. Respectfully submitted, H. W. SHAYLOK.

APPENDIX.—IV. REPORT OF THE MUSIC DIRECTOR. MR. THOMAS TASH, Superintendent of Schools, Portland: SIK—Music has received much the same attention as last year, there having been no particular change in the programme of work or in the general plan of instruction. The quality of the work done compares favorably with that of the past, which is only to be expected with the yearly increasing 54 APPENDIX. intelligence of teachers and pupils; and when all the teachers shall have so thoroughly assimilated the subject that they can teach it as readily as the more familiar ones, still better results may be pro­ duced with the use of less time than is now devoted to music. I think that music, in common with some other branches taught in the public schools, is not at present developing the mental strength and individual ability of the pupil that it ought. Various causes contribute to this condition, and prominent in the present case is *he lack of a sufficient quantity and variety of well graded exercises for practice. Music is a study in which examples cannot be improvised to meet the wants of a class, by the average teacher; nor is there a generous supply of carefully prepared school text books on music, such as in nearly every other branch of study gives breadth and depth to the resources of every live teacher. Our music books are well adapted to pupils who possess a quick ear and ready mental application. Such learn to read well, and exhibit commendable skill. But what of the pupil less gifted with either musical ability, or a predisposition to work, who nevertheless must learn the same lesson as the others learn ? As a rule he will readily absorb the resvlt of their work, and under sufficient pressure will give it back as his own, with good effect; but in doing this, he has done nothing to enable him to attack the next lesson with more courage and certainty of success. Thus his power to grasp the difficulties of the study ia weakened, through a lack of that most healthful and necessary stimu­ lus to mental exertion, namely, the act of consciously achieving something. I believe there is many a pupil in school, who rarely, if ever, ex­ periences the pleasure of learning a new lesson solely by the con­ scious application of principles which he fully comprehends. It would greatly assist in removing this condition, so far as sing­ ing is concerned, if more music were given that a majority of the class could, with proper attention, sing readily and correctly at sight. This, at least, would leave no excuse for rendering undue assistance to pupils, or for continuing the practice of any exercise long after it has ceased to require any mental concentration on their part. It may be proper here to call the attention to the "School Board" to the fact that our grammar school music books have been in con- tant use for six years, and since they have been necessarily carried from room to room, and made to do double service, the wear and tear has been very great, and many of them now need to be re-bound in order to preserve them for further use. I have recently prepared a little pamphlet on the "Elements of APPENDIX. 55

Music," which is designed to make teaching in that direction more definite and uniform. It will also give any who are so disposed, an opportunity to say exactly how much less of the subject they would desire to have taught, than is contained therein. Respectfully submitted, THOMAS E. HAZELL. MARCH 13TH, 1882.

APPENDIX.—V. SCHOOL DISTRICTS. HIGH SCHOOL. District.—All territory within the limits of the city. GRAMMAR DISTRICTS. No. 1.—Shatter School. All that portion of the city east of a line running from the harbor through Waterville street to Adams, through Adams to Sheridan, through Sheridan and Poplar including both sides of Poplar to Walnut, through Walnut to North, through North including both sides to Tukey's bridge. No. 2.—North School. All that portion of the city east of a line drawn through the centre of Franklin street from the harbor to Back Cove, except the portion included in the Shailer Grammar School District. No. 3.—School on Centre Street. Centre street district is to in­ clude all that portion of the city enclosed by a line running from the harbor up Brackett street to York street, through York to Maple, including both sides of York street from High to Maple, up Maple to Pleasant, excluding both sides of Maple, down Pleasant to South, including both sides of Pleasant street, thence to the corner of Cen­ tre and Free streets, in a line that includes Spring below South, but excludes South street, thence down Free, excluding both sides of Free, to Middle, down Middle to Pearl, down Pearl to the harbor. No. 4.—Cumberland Street School. All that portion of the city bounded by the "North district" and Centre street district, and a line beginning at the corner of High and York, and running through High, excluding both sides of High, to Pleasant; through Pleasant, excluding both sides of Pleasant, to Oak; through Oak to Cumber­ land ; through Cumberland to Green; through Green street to Deer- ing bridge. No. 5.—Butler School. All that portion of the city between the "Cumberland street Grammar district" and "Centre street district," and a line drawn from Fore river passing in the rear of the Arsenal, and Ellsworth to Congress street, thence through Congress street to 56 APPENDIX. its junction with Grove street, including bath sides of Congress street, thence through Grove street, including both sides thereof, to the city line. No. 6.— West School. All that portion of the city west of the "Butler school district." PRIMARY DISTRICTS. No. 1.—All that portion of the city north-east of a line running from the harbor through Waterville street, including both sides, to Adams, through Adams to Sheridan including both sides to corner of Cumberland and Poplar streets, thence through Cumberland to Merrill, through Merrill to Turner, through Turner street to harbor line. Shailer Primary. All the Shailer Grammar School district ex­ cept that portion included in Primary No. 1. North Primary. All that portion of the city enclosed between the Shailer Grammar School District, and a line drawn from the harbor through tha centre of Pearl street to Middle street, thence through Middle street to Franklin street, thence through the centre of Frank­ lin street to Back Cove. No. 2.—School on Chestnut Street. All that portion of the city enclosed by a line running from Back Cove through Franklin street to Middle, through Middle and Free, including both sides of Free to Centre, through Centre, across to and through Elm street to Back Cove. No. 3.—Same as Centre street grammar district. No. 4.—School on Casco Street. All that portion of the city en­ closed by a line running from Back Cove through Elm to Congress, through Congress to Green, through Green to Deering Bridge. No. 5.—School on Spring Street. All that portion of the city enclosed by a line running from the corner of Tyng and York streets, through Tyng and Winter, including both sides of Winter, to Spring, through Spring to High, through High to Con­ gress, through Congress to Centre, down Centre to Free, up Free including both sides to South, down South, including both sides, (and Spring street east far enough to include T. J. Scannell's house, and Kilbourn's opposite,) to Pleasant, up Pleasant excluding both sides to Maple, down Maple including both sides to York, through York to Tate, leaving York from High to Maple in Centre street district. No. 6.—School on Park Street. All that portion of the city en­ closed by a line running from Deering's Bridge through Green to Congress, through Congress to High, through High to Spring, through Spring to Winter, through Winter to Pine, through Pine APPENDIX. 57

to West, through West to Carleton through Carleton to Congress, through Congress to Mellen, through Mellen including both sides, to the Mill Pond; also, this District includes the following terri­ tory : both sides of Winter street from Pine to Danforth, through Danforth to Tyng, through Tyng to York, through York to Brack- ett, through Brackett to Gray, through Gray to Winter. No. 7.—School on School Street. All that portion of the city enclosed by a line running from the harbor through Brackett to York, through York to Clark, through Clark to Danforth, through Danforth to Emery, through Emery to the harbor. No. 8.—School on Brackett Street. All that portion of the city enclosed by a line running from the harbor through Emery to Dan­ forth, through Danforth to Clark, through Clark to York, through York to Brackett, up Brackett to Gray, through Gray to Winter, up Winter, excluding both sides of Winter to Pine, through Pine to West, through West to Carleton, through Carleton and Thomas streets to Carroll, through Carroll to Vaughan and through Vaughan street to the harbor. No. 9.—School on Vaughan Street. All that portion of the city enclosed by a line running from the Mill Pond through Mellen, ex­ cluding both sides, to Congress, through Congress to Carleton, through Carleton and Thomas streets to Carroll, through Carroll to Vaughan, through Vaughan street to the harbor, thence by the harbor line to Fore river, thence running in the rear of the Maine General Hospital and Ellsworth street to Congress, through Con- ress to Grove, including both sides of Congress, thence through Grove street, including both sides of the same to city line. No. 10.— West Primary. Same as West Grammar District. No. 11.—School on Peak's Island. This district includes Peak's Island, Cushing's Island, House Island, Great and Little Hog Islands. No. 12.—School on Long Island. This district includes Long Island, Little Chebeague, and parts of Jewell's Island and Crotch Island. All the above lines run through the centre of the streets named, except as otherwise indicated. APPENDIX.— VI. COURSE OF STUDY IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR TEACHERS OF ALL GRADES. 1. The following outlined Course of Study and Programme is presented by the committee only as a skeleton for the general direc- 58 APPENDIX. tion of teachers. This they must aim to develop and animate by their own resources and daily study. 2. This programme does not attempt to mark out in detail all features of the work in our public schools, but rather to sketch in outline the general plan. The monthly meetings of the teachers of each grade held at the superintendent's office are intended to supple­ ment the programme by the opportunity they afford for a better understanding of special features of the work, and the best methods of accomplishing the same. By following this outline, teachers of the same grade are expected to reach with their classes quite uniform results. In order to allow freedom to the individuality of the teach­ er in the selection and use of methods, minuteness of detail has been avoided. Teachers will, therefore, make a study of methods and select such as are best adapted to their work; the quality of instruc­ tion being regarded as of first importance. In the adjustment of the programme to the schools much must be left to the skill and intelli­ gence of the teachers,—our school system should be elastic enough to admit of growth and progress. 3. It is of prime importance to extend and perfect the oral and written language of pupils; therefore accuracy of statement in in­ struction and recitation is expected in every grade of the school course. Even the slightest improprieties of speech should be cor­ rected. 4. Pure memorizing and mere repetition of any text book by pupils will not be tolerated; and, to avoid a tendency to this, teach­ ers are expected to prepare their daily school work so as not to refer to text books in assigning and hearing recitations, any more than pupils in reciting them. This is the course pursued by our most efficient teachers. 5. It is desired that a course of selected and collateral reading, adapted to the age of the pupils, independent of the ordinary read­ ers, be pursued in all the schools through the entire course; and for this purpose the committee have provided additional reading matter adapted to the wants of the several grades. Monthly Readers, Nursery, Wide Awake, St. Nicholas, and other subscription reading are especially intended for sight reading. Other selections are per­ mitted. 6. Every pupil is to be supplied with a slate, and teachers in primary schools should make this a most valuable auxiliary to their daily school work. Script writing is to be begun in the lowest grade, and written exercises are to be continued in every subsequent grade. APPENDIX. 59 PROGRAMME OF SCHOOL WORK.

PRIMARY SCHOOLS.

FIRST YEAR.—SIXTH CLASS.

FIRST TERM.

LANGUAGE.—Two lessons a day. Oral work:—Talk with pupils about familiar things, as objects in school room, pictures, etc.; encourage freedom in conversation, but teach correct forms of speech; tell and read stories, and lead pupils to reproduce what they can remember; in these and other ways strive to enlarge their ideas and their vocabulary and to improve their language. Poetry suited to the grade is to be committed and recited; this is to be followed up in all the classes of every grade. E^"Attention is to be given to the correct use of language in all the les­ sons in the school course. ORAL INSTRUCTION.—Two exercises a day. Conversational studies to distinguish: 1. COLOR—Red, yellow, and blue; green, orange, and purple; applying these colors to objects both present and absent; 2. FORM—To gain ideas of surfaces, kinds of surfaces; faces, kinds of faces; edges, kinds of edges; corners, etc., no definitions being used; 3. FAMILIAR OBJECTS; animals, plants, etc.; illustrate by pictures. READING AND SPELLING.—Three lessons a day at least. Use blackboard, chart and readers. Present first the idea, using objects, pictures, actions, etc., then the spoken word, finally the written or printed word on the black­ board, chart, etc.; write on the blackboard columns of words, as learned, both in print and script, adding new words as soon as learned; from these words form sentences both oral and written, and teach to read the written sentences; use and require conversational tones; teach Leigh's type with the accurate sounds of every character, and the spelling by sounds of words already learned; allow children to print and write sentences on their slates. Caution.—Write.plainly on the blackboards so that it can be easily seen by all, and in a style worthy of imitation. WRITING.—On slate fifteen minutes per day. The thirteen short letters written in the following order, with careful at­ tention to formation, viz.: i, u, w, n, m, v, x, o, a, e, c, r and s, each to be written separately and combined in short words, as man, nun, etc. Long pencils should be used. Teachers in this grade should write by the side of printed words upon the blackboard the same words in script that the pupils may be able to learn them by sight. Pen-holding should receive careful attention. DRAWING.—Slate— Placing dots to determine given distances, and draw- ingstraight lines in different positions, as vertical, horizontal and oblique; the relation of lines to each other, as parellal, perpendicular, intersecting or crossing to form different angles, and to be able to distinguish acute, obtuse and right angles. Drawing all the letters in the alphabet that can be formed from straight lines, as |, F, L, E, T, H, Y, V, W, X, Z, A, K, N, M, beginning with those forming right angles. NOTE.—Use long pencils, and give attention to proper position of body, hands and slate. Alwajs require the slate to be placed on the desk in a position directly in front of the pupil and the lower side of the slate to be parallel with the front edge of the desk. Begin with measure of one inch. 60 APPENDIX.

NUMBERS.—Two exercises a day. Use objects constantly, as numeral frame, dots, lines, fingers, blocks, slats, motions, etc., also slates and black­ board. Teach to recken accurately and rapidly; develop the idea of num­ bers 1 to 5, teaching but one number at a time, and making no combination greater than the number taught; add, multiply, subtract, divide, (see Grube'smethod); any number of objects up to rive to be known at sight; teach counting by objects, presenting in groups the numbers named; sepa­ rate composite numbers into their factors by objects; teach the Roman nota­ tions to V; teach the signs +,—, X, -H =, teach the pupils to write on their slates all figures and characters used, and see that these characters are well made. Music.—1. Pupils to be taught by rote all the songs and exercises on the first thirteen pages of the Primary Music Reader. 2. Also to recognize the staff, the G clef, and to name by the proper letters the lines and spaces of the staff. 3. Also to distinguish the following varities of notes, viz.: half, quarter and eighth notes, also to write them upon the slate. 4. The scale to be sung daily by the class, in imitation of the teacher. See that each scholar sings the scale correctly. PHYSICAL EXERCISES.—Three times a day, at least. Select and practice briefly, simple but pleasant exercises whenever children become weary and listless, (See Mason's Manual); ventilate the room during such exercises; take care of the health of pupils constantly, and teach them to take care of themselves. SECOND TERM. LANGUAGE.—The same as in the first term, only extended. OKAL INSTRUCTION.—The same as in first term, also teach under,— 1. COLOR, white and black and the effect of these in pigments on the foregoing colors in forming tints and shades without giving special names to tints and shades. 2. FORM, as kinds of lines, verticle, horizontal, etc. 3. SIZE, as large, small; larger, smaller; largest, smallest; long, short, etc.; broad, narrow, etc.; thick, thin, etc. 4. FAMILIAR OBJECTS extended, as part of human body, etc. READING AND SPELLING.—The same as first term. Use Leigh's Second Reader, to be begun earlier if practicable, and other supplementary reading, as Little Folks' Readers, Wide Awake, Nursery, etc. Oral spelling by sound is to be continued, and written spelling by letters may be begun. Alpha­ bets may be used for printing names and sentences with capitals and punc­ tuation. WRITING.— Continue work of first term, with remaining small letters. DRAWING.—Continue work of first term. NUMBERS.—Follow directions of first term; numbers from 1 to 10, teaching as before only one number at a time. Roman numerals to X. Use slates constantly. Teach first ten ordinal numbers. See that all the class perform what is required. Proceed very slowly, giving much time to those learning numbers with difficulty; suffer no errors to pass; cultivate accuracy and promptness. Music.—1. Songs and exercises through page 21 of the Primary Music Reader. 2. Notation to the extent presented by the first six pages of Mason's Music Charts, First Series. 3. Pupits to be taught to mark the time while singing the chart exercises. 4. Also to call by name and write on the slate whole, half, quarter and eighth notes, and the corresponding rests. 5. Daily scale practice, also singing from the numerals. PHYSICAL EXERCISES.—Continue the same as last term. SECOND YEAB,- FIFTH CLASS. FIRST TERM. LANGUAGE.—Same course to be pursued as in Sixth Class, also oral and written descriptions of pictures and objects. APPPED1X. 61

ORAL INSTRUCTION.—Two exercises a day. Continue as in Sixlh Class, also add in. 1, Color, Standard Colors, also irregular common colors, as brown, auburn, drab, grey, slate, &c.; 2, FORM, description of solids, kinds of angles and triangles; 3, SIZE, teach inch, foot, yard,—pint, quart, gallon,— quart, peck, bushel,—cent, dime, dollar. BEADING AND SPELLING.—Three lessons a day. Use Second Reader, common type, and supp'ementary reading. Easy pieces to be read at sight. Especial care to be given to articulation in reading from the reader pieces previously studied. Conversation on the lesson to be read, that it may be thoroughly understood and the proper intonation secured. Kead to class anecdotes from Cowdery and other authors illustrating moral truths. Teach correct position for reading, also proper maimer of holding book. Spell orally new words used, both by sound and letter, also dictate to be written sentences containing them; review the spelling of all words used; write sentences on board to be copied on slates, illustrating capitals, punc­ tuation marks, &c.; use the alphabets in printing words, names and sen­ tences. WRITING.—Fifteen minutes per day. Review the work of the sixth grade and in addition wrile all the remaining small letters. Practice much on slate and blackboard combination of letters in short words. Write on their slates the following capitals in the order given: 0, D, E, C, X, W, Z, Q, U, V, T, I and J. Drawing.—Review work of the sixth grade. Draw lines of different lengths, and divide into equal parts. Draw simple geometrical figures, as squares, triangles, rectangles, etc. Numbers.—Two lessons a day. Review previous work, Numbers 1 to 25; adding, multiplying, subtracting and dividing, making no combination be­ yond 25. (See Grube's method.) Form tables, 2's, 3's, 4's, 5's to 25, on board and slates. Continue ordinals and Roman numerals to 25. Teach pupils to give the time by clock and watch. Music.—Songs from Primary Music Reader on pages 21 to 32 inclusive. Mason's Music Charts, first series, pages 6 to 12 inclusive, to be accompanied with a uniform marking of time by the class and teacher; singing of scale daily, also practice in reading tones from the fingers or blackboard; Copying of simple exercises upon the slate once each fortnight. SECOND TERM. Language.—Same work as in sixth class, with additional attention to writ­ ing sentences, descriptions and stories, on slates and paper. Oral Instruction.—Same as in preceding lessons. Add lessons on quali­ ties of objects, as smooth, rough; hot, cold; brittle, pliabie; fragrant, etc.; on harmony of colors; and in form all four sided figures. Give attention to size and distance. Teach the necessity and means of ventilation. Reading and Spelling.—Finish Second Reader; continue supplementary reading and written and oral spelling, as directed in first term. Writing.—Write capitals A, N, M, T, F, H, K, S, L, G, P, B and B, sep­ arately and in. words. Teach the pupils to write their names. Drawing.—Draw squares on their diameters and diagonals. Draw rhom­ bus and be able to distinguish from square. Practice different triangles and be able to tell the difference. Draw familiar objects by straight lines. NOTE.—Pupils should be taught how to use the measure and rule to test their work and to draw straight lines. The best way to begin would be to allow them to rule a series of straight parallel lines, say half an inch apart, then put rules away and draw by free-hand lines of equal length and paral­ lel, midway between the ruled lines. Numbers.—Continue as in first term, with numbers from 1 to 50; ordinals to 50th; Roman numerals to L; teach the length of the meter and deci­ meter. Illustrate halves, thirds, quarters, with objects. Music—Songs from Primary Music Reader, pages 32 to 40 inclusive; Music Charts, First series, pages 12 to 20 inclusive; daily scale practice, introducing easy skips; copying as before. Physical Exercises.—Continued as before described. 62 APPENDIX.

THIRD YEAE—FOURTH CLASS.

FIBST TERM. Language.—Continue as before. Easy exercises to be written as dictated by teacher. Use Harrington's Speller for dictation exercises. Oral Instruction.—Geography of school yard; cardinal points of compass. Add in color, primary and secondary; teach the effect of mixing pigments, also the effect of colors on each other, and on the complexion; in form parallel lines, polygons, etc. Teach names of common house plants. Teach the need of proper exercise, proper mastication of food, temperance in food and drink. Reading and 8pelling.—Twice a day. Use Third Reader and supplemen­ tary reading as before; teach spelling as before; always correcting errors in written sentences. Writing.—Twenty minutes a day. Continue work of fifth class. Drawing.—See cards No. 1; also review the work of preceding grades, in­ creasing the rapidity of the work; divisions of the squares and rectangles to form ornamental figures, as the Greek, Maltese and Latin crosses, etc. etc; practice simple curves in different combinations. Meaning of quadrant, circle, chord, arc, etc. Numbers.—Two exercises a day. Numbers from 1 to 100. Tables to 10. Written columns of ten numbers to be added, the sum not to exceed 100; ordinals continued, Roman numerals to C. Constantly practice rapid com­ bination of numbers. Teach all the pupils to read the temperature by ther­ mometer. Teach fifths, sixths, sevenths, eighths, ninths and tenths by objects. Music.—Ten songs, selected by the music teacher from the Primary Music Header to be learned by rote; Music Charts, First series, pages 20 to 30 in­ clusive; review of the Primary Music Reader to page 40; sight singing from each new scale presented by the regular work from the Music Charts. Copy­ ing exercises continued. Physical Exercises.—Same as before.

SECOND TERM. Lanyuage.—Same course as before. Dictation exercises continued and extended. Oral Instruction.—Cardinal and semi-cardinal points of the compass; map of city; common plants to be distinguished, as May flower, violet, dande­ lion, etc. Beading and Spelling.—Same as last term. Writing.—Write with pen and ink, beginning Shaylor's Shorter Course. Drawing.—Combinations of curved and straight lines in the formation of vases, rosettes, etc. Draw the letters of the alphabet formed from curves in the following order: O, Q, C, G, J, U, D, P, B, R and S. Pupils should be called upon to present slates after the completion of each figure. Much of the work should be drawn line by line, copying from the black­ board, requiring pupils to draw the same line at the same time and not to erase a figure before presenting it. Numbers.—Same course as previous terms. Use numbers from 1 to 1000. Review tables thoroughly. Multiplication table to 12X12. Teach notation and numeration with objects. Extend numeration to tenths and hundredths illustrating with dime and cent. See that the use of the decimal point is well understood as well as the value of figures according to place: limit mul­ tipliers and divisors to one decimal place; Roman numerals to M. Music.—Ten new songs, selected as before; Music charts, First Series, pages 30 to 40 inclusive; sight reading from each new scale; also from the exercises in numerals on page 43 of Primary Music Reader; copying and scale practice continued. Singing by dictation and reading at sight from the blackboard. Physical Exercises must not be neglected. APPENDIX. 63 FOURTH YEAE.—THIRD CLASS. FIRST TEEM. Language.—Pursue the same course as in previous classes. Reproduction of short stories; description of pictures; short letters written, folded and di­ rected. Oral Instruction.—Work of preceding classes continued. Plants and ani­ mals, their parts and uses. Mineral, vegetable and animal products distin­ guished. Trees, kinds and uses. Specimens of woods to be observed and distinguished. Map of County. Bending and Spelling.—Twice a day. Use reader prescribed, and supple­ mentary reading provided. Use Spelling Book and selected words, oral and written. Teach carefully punctuation marks and abbreviations, also any diacritical marks used in the reading books. Writing.—Twenty minutes four times a week. Review slate work of the fourth grade on paper ruled to regulate height of letters. Write Shaylor's Shorter Course, No. 2. Drawing.—Use Cards No. 2; review work of fouth grade, and continue to draw from natural objects. It would be well for the teacher to show the pupils leaves of plants and flowers, and teach them to notice the fact that the contour of most natural forms in the vegetable kingdom is composed of curved lines. Allow them to copy from nature some of the simple leaves and flowers—first calling upon them to tell whether the general outline is eliptical or circular, with the general proportion. Numbers.—Continue as before. Use four fundamental rules in numbers as high as 10,000; multipliers of three figures; cultivate accuracy and rapid­ ity by constant drill; use frequent combination of numbers. Teach to write and read any combination of Roman numerals to the date of the year. Music.—Review of Music Charts 21 to 40 inclusive; each scale to be writ­ ten, with its appropriate signature prefixed; exercises on pages 41 to 54 in­ clusive of Primary Music Reader, to be used as sight-singing exercises; five new songs, selected by the music teacher; daily scale practice, dictation and sight-reading exercises as before. Physical Exercises continued. SECOND TEEM. Language.—Continue as before. Write exercises as dictated by the teach­ ers, from portions of readers previously studied. With special attention to capitals, punctuation, etc. Oral Instruction.—Continue as before. Complementary colors; review form, size and color; also animals and plants. Teach useful maxims in morals. Map of State. Writing.—Continue work of first term. Drawing.—Continue work of first term. Numbers.—Constant review of preceding work. Tables of compound de­ nominate numbers in common use, as, Lineal Measure 1 ft.=12 in., 1 yd. =3 ft., 1 rod=5J yards., 1 mile=320 rods=1760 yds.=5280 ft.; so with other measures. Teach one step reductions, using only these tables. Music—Second Music Reader to page 24; charts, second series, to page 16; exercises in numerals, to be written in notes; pages 14 and 15 of Second Music Reader; daily practice in reading at sight from the blackboard, sing­ ing by dictation, and scale practice. Physical Exercises continued FIFTH YEAR.—SECOND CLASS. FIRST TERM. Language.—Two exercises a day. Dictation exercises contined. Change statements into questions. Exercise pupils on statements, questions and commands. Letter writing extended. 64 APPENDIX.

Oral Instruction.—As before. Animals; qualities and properties of ob­ jects continued; trades, occupations, and articles of commerce. Reading and Spelling.—Six hours per week, two lessons a day. Use readers prescribed and supplementary reading furnished. Children are to read their own written exercises, also other script writing. Spelling from Speller and selected words. Writing.—Twenty minutes four times each week; complete and review Shorter Course No. 2. Drawing.—Use cards No. 3. Review the work of third grade and begin on paper. Meaning of symmetry. Draw equilateral triangle, hectagon, octagon, circle, and ellipse, and arrange lines symmetrically about the centre of these figures,—also draw common objects based on these geometrical forms. NOTE.—The difference between the hexagon and octagon, also oval and ellipse, and the best way of drawing them should be thoroughly understood. Pupils should be frequently called upon to produce drawings from memory. Drawing on the blackboard should also be encouraged, and while some of the pupils are at work on slates others should be required to draw the same upon the blackboard. Arithmetic. —Two exercises a day. Review four fundamental rules with extended practice, using decimals to three places, but not as multiplier or divisor; use in addition and subtraction the fractions halves, fourths, eights, thirds, sixths, twelfths, fifths, tenths, reducing to common denominators by inspection; teach one step reductions of denominate numbers with extended tables. Geography.—City, County and State maps, including the railroads, to be drawn on the blackboard, and their geography thoroughly learned. Gen­ eral divisions of land and water to be learned. Music.—Use Second Music Reader, pages 24 to 33 inclusive, also five songs to be selected by the music teacher; Charts, second series, pages 16 to 28 in­ clusive; reading at sight from the blackboard exercises written in different keys; written exercises in notes from the numerals. Scale practice in thirds. Physical Exercises every day.

SECOND TERM. Language.—Continue as before. Change affirmative sentences into nega­ tive ones; children should describe objects placed before them. Correct use and omission of a, an and the before nouns, also the proper use of this and that; correct errors of language in conversation and in writing. Oral Instruction.—Plants and trees with their parts continued and exten­ ded, including seeds, buds, flowers and leaves: comparison of similar objects. Beading and Spelling.—As first term. Writing.—Use Shaylor's Shorter Course No. 3; practice on sentences in blank writing books. Drawing.—Continue work of first term, drawing in blank books. Arithmetic.—Work of first term continued. In using decimals of three places, illustrate with dime, cent and mill; also with decimeter, centimeter, milimeter; deciliter, centiliter, milliliter, etc. Multiply, using in both factors one or two places of decimals. Also multiplication of fractions, three cases, using very simple numbers and fractions. Geography.—Natural divisions of earth's surface continued. New Eng­ land States, their boundaries, capitals, principal cities, rivers and railroads. Music.—Use Music Charts, Second Series, pages 28 to 40 inclusive; also two songs from Second Music Reader in each key studied from the Charts; writ­ ten work and practice in sight-singing in each new key; scale practice in thirds. Physical Exercises as before. APPENDIX. 65

SIXTH YEAR.—FIRST CLASS. FIRST TERM. Language.—Letter writing and dictation exercises continued; written de­ scription of minerals, plants and animals; also of places seen or studied about. Short oral and written accounts of important events of the day. Teach to distinguish nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs. Oral Instruction.—Minerals according to special programme furnished. Metals, their properties and uses, where and how obtained; mines; mining. Reading and Spelling.—Twice a day. Follow previous directions. Learn proper accent, emphasis, and inflections. Writing.—Use Shaylor's Shorter Course No. 4; writting in copy book three times per week, twenty minutes each lesson. Drawing.—Use book No. 1, alternating in blank books with practice on plain figures, reviewing principles of previous grades, making application in different figures, as in ieaves to form rosettes, vases and common objects, with some attention to designing. NOTE.—Pupils in this grade should be able to define in proper language the geometrical forms used in previous grades, and review all in this. Espe­ cial attention to rectilinear plaue figures. Dictation exercises should be practised as often as once in two weeks in all grades of the primary schools, and in all such lessons the language describing the forms to be drawn should be accurate, and clearly stated. Arithmetic.—Continue practice on four fundamental rules to secure accu­ racy and rapidity, reduction of fractions, as, 1-2=2-4=3-6=4-8=5-10= 5= 6-12, etc.; also, 462-924=231-462=77-154=11-22=1-2. Much attention to be given to factorins and cancellation, but less to greatest common divisor and least common multiple. Teach the more direct and shorter operations in arithmetic. Multiply and divide in whole numbers and decimals, results extending to decimals of three or four places. Division of fractions, using simple numbers and fractions. United States money in writing bills and accounts. Attention to be given to mental exercises through the year. Geography.—Elementary Geography studied, and about half finished, with review of previous work. Music.—Ten new songs from the Intermediate Music Eeader; intervals and chord practice from the third series of Music Charts; Practice of chro­ matic intervals; special attention to be given to the matter of expression; dictation and written exercises continued. Physical Exercises continued. SECOND TERM. Language.—Continue as last term. Parts of speech to be pointed out; teach the formation of such compound words as can be easily understood, the use and omission of the hyphens, and the meaning of the most common prefixes and suffixes; written exercises as before and dictation exercises with special reference to punctuation; minerals described. Oral Instruction—Minerals continued; proper reading matter pointed out with suggestions as to its use. Teach proper conduct at school, among strangers, on the street. Reading and Spelling.—As before directed. Writing.— Write Spencerian Shorter Course, No. 5, alternating with prac­ tice in blank writing books. Drawing.—Work of the term continued. Arithmetic—Proceed as far as to Addition of Denominate Numbers, and review preceding work. Geography.— Finish and review Elementary Geography. Geometry.—To Chap. XXX, and review. Music—Ten new songs from the Intermediate Music Reader; selected ex­ ercises, from the Third Series of Charts; more extended practice in scale, writing exercises in different keys. Physical Exercises.—Frequent exercises. (5*) 66 APPENDIX.

GRAMMAR SCHOOLS. FIRST YEAR—FOURTH CLASS. FIRST TERM. Language.—Use the text book prescribed; Teach the parts of speech, and the kinds of sentences. Draw attention to proper margin, paragraphs, &c, in written exercises; description of plants and trees to be written out; stories given under oral instruction are to be reproduced orally and in writ­ ing; naratives from history, also accounts of persons described in history, to be written; careful correction of errors in speech and writing. Poetry and prose to be committed and recited. Oral Instruction.—Lessons on plants, and on fruit and forest trees to be given according to special programme. Beading and Spelling.—Use the prescribed reader and supplementary rea 1- ing. Give careful attention to modulation and expression. Oral and written spelling from Speller and selected words; pupils are to keep lists of words which they are liable to misspell. Give pupils advice as to proper reading matter, with list of authors. Writing.—Thirty minutes three times per week. Write Shorter Course No. 6. Drawing.—Use Book No. 2, alternating with practice in blank drawing books. The teacher should take some pains to show that practical applica­ tion can be made of the figures in this book to industrial purposes, and require the pupils to bring in the results of their observation, making use of it in original designs in their blank books. As this book is confined mostly to curved lines it would be well for the teacher to allow the pupils to draw concentric circles with compasses, making the distances between the circumferences of the circles about half an inch, and then require them to draw freehand olher circles midway between each pair ruled. How to find the centre of circles and ellipses a)-eady drawn, together with all other questions that would naturally arise in connection with the drawing of these figures, should be taken up. Arithmetic.—One recitation a day, Finish compound numbers; surfaces and solids computed; bills and accounts made out and footed up; shortest methods selected; much test work in the fundamental rules. Special atten­ tion to be given to mental exercises in Arithmetic throughout the year. Geography.—Mathematical, Physical and Political Geography in genera], North America, United States through New England States. Map Drawing. History.—History of Maine to be read with oral questioning. Music.—Solfeggios practice from the Fourth Music Keader, pages 50 to 53 inclusive; ten new songs from the Fourth Music Reader; the study of the different intervals common to the major scale; the practice of chromatie intervals; sustaining chords of three notes. Physical Exercises.—Several times a day. SECOND TEEM. Language.—See first term. Text book as before. Continue writing from history. Continue the examination of compound words; the modifica­ tion of simple words by the common prefixes and suffixes. Dictation exer­ cises and letter writing continued. Oral Instruction.—Study of plants and trees continued as before, using specimens. Reading and Spelling.—See directions of first term. Writing.—Use No. 4 1-2 of the Kegular Series. Practice in blank books on selections from the Reader and History. Drawing.—Work of last term continued. Arithmetic.—Review of common and decimal Fractions. Go to Percent­ age, and review. Teach Metric System, excluding comparison with other measures except the value of 1 meter, 1 liter, and 1 kilo in our common measures. APPENDIX. 67

Geography.— Finish United States, giving special attention to capitals, large cities ahd places of historic interest. History.—History of Maine, as before, with oral tests. Music— Solfeggios, pages 53 to 56 inclusive; ten new songs from the Fourth Music Reader; the formation of the triads of the major scale; prac­ tice in singing the triads, and learning to distinguish the major from the minor; continue practice on chromatic intervals. Physical Exercises continued as before.

SECOND YEAK—THIRD CLASS. FIRST TEEM. Language.—Extend the work of previous grades; inflections of nouns, pronouns and adjectives; use the various forms in writing sentences, etc.; events and characters in U. S. History to be written out; standard authors to be read, and their excellences pointed out; poetry and prose recited. Oral Instruction.—Lessons on animals according to special programme; biographical and historical sketches to be told or read. Beading and Spelling.—Use the reader prescribed and supplementary reading matter; give attention to the rules and exercises, also to improve­ ment of the voice. Use the Speller and selected words; common words apt to be misspelled to be frequently written. Writing.—Thirty minutes three times per week; use Shorter Course No. 7, the first term. Drawing.—Use book No. 3, alternating with practice in blank books on spiral curves, scrolls, vase forms, simple designs for oil cloth, tiles and tex­ tile frabrics of various kinds. Arithmetic.—Percentage, including definitions; profit and loss, commission, interest; review preceding work and drill on practical portions; use many easy exercises, rather than few difficult ones; special attention to be given to mental exercises in connection with slate work through the year. Geography.—Dominion of Canada, Mexico, Central America, West Indies, South America; review all that precedes North America. History.—History of United States to be read, oral tests only to be given; discoveries and explorations; collateral reading. Music.—Solfeggios, pages 57 to 60 inclusive; ten new songs from the Fourth Music Reader; practice in singing the chromatic scale ascending; study of intervals and construction of triads, written and dictation exercises as before. Physical Exercises continued. SECOND TERM. Language.—Finish text book prescribed. Inflections of verbs and ad­ verbs; use these forms in writing; conjunctions and interjections; events and characters from history to be written out; further attention to be given to good literature; dictation exercises continued; prose and peotry to be recited. Oral Instruction.—Study of animals according to special programme con­ tinued; teach the necessity of physical exercise, with suggestions as to proper kind and amount. Beading and Spelling.—Same as first term continued. Writing.— Use No. 5 of the Regular Series; continue practice in blank books. Drawing.—Curvilinear plane figures of all kinds should be practiced and defined, reviewing work of fourth grade; careless work should not be allowed. Arithmetic—Continue Percentage; use under Interest only the rules to find interest and amount, including the rule to find exact interest; also 6 per cent, method; partial payments according to United States rule; true and bank discount including the Face of Note; give examples illustrating ordi­ nary business transactions, also write notes, receipts, orders, etc. 68 APPENDIX.

Geography.—Europe, with reviews ; travels and voyages described and written out. History.—UniteA. States History to be read with care to remember impor­ tant facts from one reading. Music.—Solfeggios, pages G3 to 70 inclusive; ten new songs; chromatic scale ascending and descending; construction of triads in the keys F and G; written work and dictation exercises as before. Physical Exercises continued.

THIKD YEAR—SECOND CLASS. FIRST TEEM. Language.—Text Book; rules of syntax, illustrated by written exercises; letter writing; exercises from History; biographical and historical sketches. Oral Instruction.—Elements of Physiology and Hygiene, according to special programme. Beading and Spelling.—Use reader and selected pieces; strive by vocal exercises to improve the quality of voice; encourage pupils to form an opin­ ion of what they read; let selected pieces be read by class silently, in Geog­ raphy, History, etc., then question on what they have read. Writing.—Thirty minutes three times per week; Payson, D. and S. Book, No. 9, or some similar one from other series, alternating with practice in blank books on business forms—such as letters, notes, drafts, etc. Drawing.—Use book No. 4, alternating with blank books; practice in re­ view much of the work of preceding grades. Arithmetic.—Insurance; Taxes; Exchange; Duties; Equation of Pay­ ments ; with reviews. Geography.—Completed. History.—Use book prescribed; with abstracts from same, as weekly ex­ ercises. Music.—Ten new songs from the Fourth Music Reader; practice of the minor scale A. E; B, F sharp and C sharp; study of the chords common to the minor scale; writing the minor scales, and dictation exercises; more at­ tention to expression. Physical Exercises continued. SECOND TERM. Language.—Continue prescribed text Book. Writteii exercises, and cor­ rection of false syntax. Sketches of persons and events continued, also letter writing and business papers, as weekly exercises. Oral Instruction.—Inventions and discoveries; Steam, its uses. Electric Telegraph and Telephone. Climate. Beading and Spelling.—As before directed. Writing.—Continue work of first term. Drawing.—Conventionizing leaves and flowers from natural forms, and combining them in designs enclosed in geometric forms. The laws of repe­ tition and alternation of figures to cover surfaces should receive attention. Arithmetic.—Raiio and Proportion; Partnership; Mensuration; and re­ view. See previous directions. Geography.—Review, with much written work. Study particularly places mentioned in United States History, from historical maps on blackboard. History.— United States History finished and reviewed; Study with refer­ ence to the sequence and connection of important events. Music.—Ten new songs; study of minor scales and exercises, pages 75 to 78 inclusive; study of the different chords of the seventh in the different keys; write the minor scale in all keys presented; study of the sharp fourth and flat seventh in connection with change of key; written and dictation ex­ ercises continued. Physical Exercises continued. APPENDIX. 69 FOUETH YEAR.—FIRST CLASS. FIRST TEBM. Language.—Text book prescribed; weekly exercises in English Composi­ tion; transposition of Poetry to Prose, with other exercises previously de­ scribed. Declamations and recitations. Oral Instruction.—Selected topics from natural philosophy and mechanic arts; trade and commerce; architecture. Reading and Spelling.—Selected from various sources. Constitution o* United States as required by statute, to be read by pupils and explained by teacher, see resolve, next page. Careful attention to spelling in all written exercises. Writing.—It is recommended that in the first grade in place of any regular copy book some blank book in which are the more simple forms of book­ keeping such as Day Book, Ledger and Cash Book should be used, requiring the pupil to write out al the business forms connected with the memoranda of business, and to perform all the. examples in arithmetic that would arise; and that in all this work special attention to be given to penmanship to make it neat and business like. Drawing.—Book No. 5, alternating with practice in blank books; continue practice of original designs; designs for industrial purposes in different branches of industry, as for wooden and iron fences, stained glass, textile fabrics, tiles, etc. Book Keeping and Commercial Arithmetic.—Single Entry Book Keeping to be taught. Transactions to be written up through the various books used. Commercial forms written out; commercial examples in Arithmetic to be solved by methods used by commercial men. Geography.—Physical Geography begun. History.—English History, using History prescribed, with written tests. Music.—Ten new songs from the Fourth Music Reader; review of the signs and marks of expression used in singing; practice in writing chords in their different positions. Physical Exercises.—Continued. SECOND TEEM. Language.—Text Book critically reviewed. Abstracts from History to he written as ofren as once a week; portions of constitution of Maine to be written from dictation, with examinations on origin and meaning of same. Oral Instruction.—Selected topics from Astronomy, Painting, Sculpture, and Music; interesting information on topics of the day, etc., to be intro­ duced by pupils; see that this information is accurate and properly stated. Reading and Spelling.—Selected; see previous term. Writing.—Teachers should require of pupib care in the execution of all their written papers. Drawing.—Drawing of enclosing geometrical and ornamental forms with the aid of compasses and ruler, and symmetrical arrangement of conven­ tional leaves and flowers in these forms. In all work of original design, at­ tention should be given to the principles which govern good designing, viz. unity, symmetry and continuity. Teachers should be able to present correct and faulty examples, i. e., where the above principles are used correctly and where they are violated. Teachers can find such examples and have them put upon the black-board by some of the more skilful pupils. Drawing from models, casts, etc., should receive attention in this grade. Dictation exer­ cises should be frequently practiced in all the grammar classes. Arithmetic reviewed, taking also Stocks.Powers, Roots; and any other sub­ jects previously omitted in the grammar school course; mensuration re­ viewed. History of England completed and reviewed, also connected U. S. History reviewed. Advise pupils about reading history and biography. Geography.— Physical Geography finished. Mathematical Geography re­ viewed. . Music.—Ten new songs; practical analysis of part exercises into their component chords; simple general review. Physical Exercises continued. 70 APPENDIX.

The following is a resolve passed by the Legislature at its session in the year 1880 : STATE OF MAINE. Resolve in relation to school exercises and examinations. Resolved, That among the exercises of the public schools, shall be the reading of the constitution of the United States, and the consti­ tution of the State of Maine, as often as once in each term, by every scholar who has attained the age of fourteen years, either singly or in connection with a class, and that each scholar shall pass an examination at the close of each term, in the presence of the visiting superintending school committee or supervisor, on the first, eighth and thirtheenth articles of amendment of the constitu­ tion of the United States, and on article first of the constitution of Maine. And it shall be the duty of the teachers and of the super­ intending school committee or supervisor, in each town, to see that the requirements of the above resolve are carried into effect. [Approved March 18, 1880.]

THE HIGH SCHOOL.

EXTRACTS FROM THE RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE. The High School is established to furnish those pupils, who have completed the studies prescribed for the Grammar schools and are possessed of the requisite qualifications, with opportunities to pursue higher branches as a preparation for professional life, and for higher intellectual culture by a course of advanced study. Each pupil is required to pursue these branches of study. It shall have two courses of study, a classical and a general course. At the commencement of the course, parents or guardians may elect which course shall be pursued by the pupil. No deviation from these courses are to be made without good cause, to the satisfaction of the sub-committee of the school; and no pupil will be advanced to any class who has not attained an aver­ age rank in scholarship of seven and five-tenths in a scale of ten during the preceding year, except by a vote of the sub-committee.

GENERAL COURSE OF STUDY. FIRST YEAR.—FOURTH CLASS. First Term. Algebra. English. Chemistry Second Term. Algebra. Rhetoric. Botany. APPENDIX. 71

SECOND YEAR.—THIKD CLASS. First Term. Arithmetic. Rhetoric. Physiology. Second Term. Arithmetic Book-keeping,ing. j French or Latin. Natural History. THIKD YEAR. SECOND CLASS. First Term. Mechanics. French or Latin. Geology. Second Term. Physics. French or Latin. General Histor}'. FOURTH YEAR. FIRST CLASS. First Term. Geometry. French or Latin. General History. Second Term. Astronomy. Mental Philosophy. Political Economy.

CLASSICAL COURSE. FIRST YEAR.—FOURTH CLASS. First Term. Algebra. English. Latin. Chemistry. Second Term. Algebra. Rhetoric. Latin. Botany. SECOND YEAR. THIRD CLASS. First Term. Arithmetic. Greek. Latin. Physiology. Second Term. Arithmetic. Greek. Latin. Nat. History. Ancient Geography THIRD YEAB. SECOND CLASS. First Term. Ancient History. Greek. Latin. Mechanics. Second Term. Algebra. Greek. Latin. Physics. FOURTH YEAR. FIRST CLASS. First Term. Geometry. Greek. Latin. Second Term. Algebra. Greek. Latin. 72 APPENDIX.

EXPLANATIONS AND REMARKS. The study of English Literature is continued throughout both courses. The session of Saturday is mainly devoted to this study. Eecitations from the authors studied are required. Two themes each term are required from third class, four each term from the second class, and six each term from the first class. The number of sessions a week is six ; the number of hours a ses­ sion four and a half except on Saturday, when school closes at twelve o'clock; and the average length of the school "hour" for class exercises or study is forty-five minutes. In the general course of study five "hours" per week are devoted to Mathematics, five "hours" to Science, and five " hours " to Language. The studies in italics are, under certain regulations, optional studies. Permission to pursue these optional studies in addition to the regular course of study, will be allowed upon the request (in writing) of the parent or guardian of the pupil. But an optional study once taken, cannot be discontinued until the close of the term in which it is commenced. The scale of marking is upon a standard of ten ; and no pupil who does not attain an avarage of 7.5 for the year will be promoted. The time for study in the school is but ninety minutes each session for those who pursue three studies, so that one or more lessons should be thoroughly prepared at home. Parents are requested to see that the necessary time is daily devoted to study at home by the pupils of this school. APPENDIX. T3

APPENDIX.— VIII.

EXAMINATION OF HIGH SCHOOL CANDIDATES,

JUNE AND JULY, 1881.

AEITHMETIC. 1. A grocer bought butter @ 21§ cts. and sells it @ 28£ cts., what is the gain °J0 ? What would have been the loss % if he had given 28£ cts. and sold for 21f cts.? 2. A broker buys for me 25 shares of $100 stock at 121 °j0 ad­ vance, and charges \ % brokerage; how much shall I remit to pay for the same ? 3. If it cost $403 to insure a store and goods for two thirds their value, at a premium of 3£ %, what would be the loss to the owner on the property if burned ? 4. What is the interest of $435.20 at 6 % from Nov. 10th, 1880, to April 1, 1881 ? 5. I receive a 90 days' note for $1,305, for a house which cost me $1,200 cash, what do I gain on the sale ? 6. If there are 36 steres of wood in a pile 15 meters long, 1 meter wide; and 2.4 meters high, how many steres of wood will there be in a pile 20 meters long, 4 meters wide, and 3.6 meters high? 7. Find square root of 649.9844 ; also cube root of 157.625. 8. A rectangular farm containing one hundred acres is 100 rods wide; required its length ; also the cost of a diagonal fence dividing it into two equal triangular fields, the fence costing fifty cents per rod. 9. What is the L. C. M. of several numbers ? the G. C. D. ? Of what use are each ? Give examples of each. 10. Write a six months' note that would fall due to-day, you being the maker, your teacher being the payee; what expression in it makes the note negotiable ? How does the payee become holden for the note when discounted at a bank ? When must a note be protested ? How and by whom is this done ? For what purpose is it done ? 74 APPENDIX.

LANGUAGE. 1. Analyze by diagram: The accession of Elizabeth to the throne of England in 1558 was hailed with joyful acclamations. 3. Correct and punctuate properly: in the Time of wm. the conqueror Stockings were worn by both sexes and chains belts and other ornaments were common. Also explain the use of the cap­ itals in the sentence as corrected. 3. Write one sentence illustrating the use of the comma; another to illustrate the use of the semicolon;.another for the period. Write a sentence to illustrate the use of the interrogation point, and an­ other for the exclamation point. 4. Write properly a sentence containing a quotation. 5. Write three sentences in the following order: a simple; a compound, and a complex. 6. Correct: Grammar teaches us to speak proper; Who are you looking for ? They ride faster than us; The horse was stole; I had as lives study as play. 7. Write a complex sentence and contract it to a simple sentence; also write a simple sentence and expand it to a compound sentence. 8. Write the plural of money; t; 6; also the plural possessives of sheep ; valley; son-in-law. 9. Write out suitable for the printer: The Sun has sunk behind the hills the shadows o'er the landscape creep a drowsy sound the woodland fills as nature folds her arms to sleep. Is it prose or poetry ? What shows it to be so ? Is it simple, compound or com­ plex ? Name the subjects and predicates. Tell what the preposi­ tions show the relation between. Tell what verbs are transitive and name their objects. What is the mode and tense of has sunk? Which verbs are regular and which irregular ? Explain the punctu­ ation marks. 10. Write in proper form a letter applying for a situation in a business house stating education, and other qualifications. Address same to John Smith & Co., Publishers. MATHEMATICAL AND PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY. 1. What is the shape of the earth ? Give proofs of this. What is its size ? 2. What are the hemispheres ? In what way is the surface of the earth commonly represented by hemispheric maps. 3. What are zones ? How many are there ? Give their extent and situation. Explain the cause of the change in seasons, and de­ scribed the seasons in each zone. 4. What is climate? Give some of the principal causes that APPENDIX. 75 affect it. Does the climate of the same places seem fickle, uniform, or gradually changing ? Give proofs. 5. Why is the night cooler than the day ? the winter colder than the summer ? 6. How are winds produced ? Explain land and sea breezes; trade winds. 7. How are the surface rocks of the earth constantly changing ? What do they ultimately become ? Explain fully the causes. 8. How are rain and snow formed ? Why is there so much more snow and rain in some places than in others ? 9. What marked difference between sea water and spring water ? What causes this ? Explain the course of the water from the sea to the distant land, and from the land to the sea. 10. Describe the bottom of the sea and the changes going on upon it. How does the depth of the sea compare with the height of land ? What is the general character of the sea-floor as compared with the surface of the land ? ENGLISH HISTOEY. 1. Under whose control was England successively during the first ten centuries of the Christian Era ? 2. Describe briefly the Norman conquest 3. Give an account of Magna Charta. Had any of the rights confirmed by it been previously granted by the Crown ? 4. Describe briefly the reign of Edward I. 5. On what grounds did Edward III claim the French throne ? What objection did the French make to this claim ? Was his claim successful ? 6. Give an account of the Black Prince. What title of nobility was first conferred on him ? 7. What was the origin of the War of Eoses ? What was the first battle of that war ? How long did the war continue and what was its result ? 8. In what battle did Henry VII gain the crown of England? What of his title to the crown ? character of that monarch ? 9. What was the most important event in the reign of Henry VIII ? In what respect was his title to the English throne supe­ rior to that of Henry VII ? Give a brief sketch of the character of Henry VIII. 10. Describe the character of Queen Elizabeth; give an account of the Spanish Armada; name the Sovereigns of the House of Tudor; from whom did they receive the name? what of their character ? SCHOOL STATISTICS.

Age of High School pupils in years at date. Term ending yfhole No. Number in the several 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17| 18| 10 | 20 July 1, 1881.

Age of Grammar School pupils in years at date. CLASSES. pupil s t o School .

_ . _, .- enrolled. admitted . ag e o f 1s t

Days m Term, 82. ag e o f pu - x^unlshm't . attendanc e 9 | 10| 11| 12 | 13 | 14 | 15] 16 belonging . teacher . Averag e ag Av . seats . tha n on e year . o f truancy . i n sam e grad I o f 1 Class . SCHOOL. Age of Primary School pupils in years at date. Ipil s I o f numbe r graduated . attendance . cent , admitted . o f teachers .

lit. 2d. 3d. '4th. 5th. 0th. No . mor e Pe r Boys . Girls . Av . No y.rs . I Total . Av . No . No . Av . No . Mos . Yrs . Mos . Mos . No . Case s Corpora l 5| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 j Yrs . |Av High School, . . 141 206 347 328 315 06 2 44 13 70 80 96 6l| 13J 5 44 05 97 13S [ 17 IS 415 11 12 27 410 1 1 13 North Grammar,. 190 167 357 313 205 94 2 3 25 69 87 83 64 36 40 731 98 137 14 3 15 6 14 6 10 35 302 8 25 Cumberland Street, 141 158 299 280 267 95 0 48 5 27 53 85 60 47 2! 58 76 78 87 13 9 15 3 ! 8 3^ 304 3i 11 29 Center Street, . 41 41 35 33 93 3 2 9 7 12 f. 5 10: 13 18 14 1 1310 2 20 99 1 10 5 Butler Grammar,. 210 179 389 359 333 93 7 63 1 37 71 111 80 63 21 78 70 100 130 13 10 15 2 13 2 10 40 577 11. 31 35 West Grammar, . 20 30 56 47 46 96 If 1 4 6 13 15 12i 5 16 8 1? In 13 1114 11 I 2 28 85 3 Peak's Island. . 19 20 39 29 27 92 39 9 2 5 3 7 5 2j 3 9 I 4 0 13, 0,15 1 13 8 1 30 48 6 Totals and averages 627 55411811063 1000 503 57i 135 12 100 201 3101 264 104 92 210 246 316 393 1 1 I I 33 200 1598 23 52 103

North Priniarv, . . 650 318 968 816 748 91 59 30 84 123 US 149 144 111 209 118 155 115 123 126 331 9 10 13 1 8 9 17 49 940 45 86 Primary No. "l, . . 232 20'' 432 360 321 89 33 44 24 48 52 77 56 5' 61 60 62 61 71 04 64 HO 9 6 12 5 0 8 7 61 460 12 44 £3 No. 2,. . 183 165 353 275 243 88 42 26 29 45 51 43 61 41 39 37 36 4l' 67 40 58 111 8 9 II 11 5 3 6 59 338 5 7 3l No. 3, . . 228 68 296 246 222 90 29 23 28 32 30 29 40 38 28 71 3! 43 37 51 48 79 9 10 13 5 6 1 6 49 368 25 75 25 No. 4, . . 149 144 293 229 211 92 38 36 17 22 33 35 44 31 38 24 36 31 35 39 44 59 9 11 7 6 6 5 49 291 2 48 8 No. 5, . . 130 109 239 187 169 93 19 27 14 28 32 35 24 46 28 32 30 35 37 32 50 55 9 4 11 4 6 9 9 30 225 6 7 8 No. 6, . . 85 72 157 127 117 92 19 29 II 14 19 23 26 29 20 16 29 31 18 20 17 24 8 0 II 8 7 3 4 39 226 0 1 4 No. 7, . . 106 51 157 115 99 89 31 19 17 12 22 19 17 20 11 3D 19 19 23 20 18 58 8 6 13 5 8 3 52 102 5 22 8 No. 8, . . 200 173 373 305 280 92 59 43 34 55 51 47 42 48 41 65 49 44 46 51 59 124 9 5 12 4 5 9 7 53 379 1 46 6 No. 9, . . 79 69 149 127 117 93 16 12 3 25 19 24 24 21 20 12 13 28 20 21 23 43 9 112 2 5 11 3 49 170 0 0 3 West Primary, No. 10, 79 76 155 125 113 89 19 11 15 20 14 23 20 14 22 27 18 25 24 21 23 43 9 6 13 6 10 3 60 152 0 12 4 Peak's Island, . . 36 35 71 60 45 90 9 20 5 14 16 5 12 S 4 7 S 22 17 32 7 1 6 4 2 54 laOnglsland, ... 34 37 71 58 45 84 15 3 4 8 4 9 6 22 2 > 16 10 4 31 9 6 15 6 2 25 100 LBSSMfc and averages, 2196 1517 3714 3920 3730 90 361 207 212 402 466 490 619 503 432 608 453 538 5n9 609 533 1102 74 41 3S95 101 262 206 Grand Totals. • • 2961 2277 5242 4411 40)o| 91 I • 119 37 5003 1>5 315 SCHOOL STATISTICS.

23 • © Ago of II i^li School pupils in j'ears at date. o l Is l Term ending Whole NoNo. . M § 3 - - Number In the several 1 . g 2 * 13| 111 1», 16 | 17 It), IS ag e grad e

enrolled. pupil s t c ag e o f p u

Feb. 17,1882. •nr.n.j « belongin g •S n j seats . teachers . Case .

enroueu. ,o a » ^ •= Ag0 of (jraulmar s0i)0ol pupils in years at dato. CLASSES. Punishment . attendance . o f attendance . sam e o f teacher . Averag e Sell., . Days in Term, 118. S ~ « ° 8 o f truancy . i n I I IAV . I . I pil s admitte d numbe r •§ S « -a -I 9 1 m "I 1*1 13 1 '< '° "i; |Av . ag e o f numbe r admitted . No . graduated . M cent , a g 2§ g rs . Numbe r Corpora l Boys . Case s Girls . Av . Averag e Pe r Numbe r No . mor e tha n on year * No . Mus M< 8 Yrs .

Total . Av . I 1 Yrs . I I I I I I I SCHOOL. ^JS'S ° * o d n Age of Primary School pupils in years at date. ... l^los ^ J o!5ofcS>-6- ___- _ ' 1st. 2d. 3d. 4th. ."th. 6th S_ « __H_ 2 1013 ill '9| 30,4119 155 666J 299 Grand Totals, 3121 2374l5495l4576l428ll 941 995 I I M I I i II 12sl 36i6339l 179 86ll 78 APPENDIX.

SCHOOL COMMITTEE FOE 1882-83.

HON. CHARLES F. LIBBY, MAYOR, Chairman, ex-officio. 110 Park Street. MEMBERS. Name. Ward. Time Expiree. Residence. JOHN BREWER, JR., I 1884 10 Quebec. P. MCGOWAN, II 1883 36 Smith street, AARON B. HOLDEN, III 1884 147 Franklin, CHARLES 0. FILES, IV 1884 14 Brown. SIDNEY W. THAA/TER, V 1883 22 Deering. HENRY S. BURRAGE, VI 1883 75 Vaughan. LEVI A. GRAY, VII 1883 22 Carleton. THOMAS TASH, Superintendent of Schools, 64 Deering St. FRANCIS E. PRAY, 90 Carleton, Superintendent of Public School Buildings and School Supplies. Office hours 9 to 10 A. M. and 4 to 5 P. M. CHARLES A. BEAL, 20 Boyd, Truant Officer. Office, 18 first floor, City Building. Office hours, 9 to 10 A. M.

STANDING COMMITTEES OF SCHOOL BOARD. Text Books and Course of Study.—Messrs. Gray, Files and Thaxter. Examinations of Teachers.—Messrs. Files, Burrage and Holden. Estimates and Expenditures.—Messrs. Thaxter, Gray and. Holden. Rules and Regulations.—Messrs. Holden, Burrage and McGowan. Instruction and Discipline in High School.—The Mayor, Messrs. Gray and Files. School Rooms aud Repairs.—The Mayor, Messrs. Gray, Thaxter and Brewer. Drawing and Penmanship.—Messrs. McGowan, Brewer and Holden. Musical Instruction.—Messrs. Brewer, Files and McGowan. Special Committee, Portland School for Deaf.—The Mayor, Messrs. Burrage and Thaxter.

SUPERVISORS. High School.—The Mayor, L. A. Gray, C. O. Files, J. Brewer, Jr., P. McGowan, A. B. Holden, S. W. Thaxter and H. S. Burrage. North School.—P. McGowan, A. B. Holden and C. 0. Files. Shailer School.—J. Brewer, Jr. and P. McGowan. Cumberland street Grammar School.—L. A. Gray and A. B. Holden. Butler Grammar School.—S. W. Thaxter and H. S. Burrage. Center street Grammar and Primary No. 3.—P. McGowan and 8, W. Thaxter. Primary No. 1, Monument street.—J. Brewer, Jr. APPENDIX. 79

Primary No. 2, Chestnut street.—A. B. Holden. Primary No. 3, Center street.—Center street committee. Primary No. 4, Casco street.—L. A. Gray. Primary No. 5, Spring street.—L. A. Gray, S. W. Thaxter, J. Brewer, Jr., and Committee. Primary No. 6, Park street.—S. W. Thaxter. Primary No. 7, School street.—H. S. Burrage. Primary No. 8, Brackett street.—H. S. Burrage. Primary No. 9, Vaughan street.—L. A. Gray. West Grammar and Primary.—C. 0. Files. Peak's Island.—J. Brewer, Jr. Long Island.—J. Brewer, Jr.

CALENDAR. The school year ends on the Saturday next preceding the first Monday in July, and is forty-four weeks in length, inclusive of the following holidays and vacations: Thanksgiving and the day fol- lowihg; eight days including Dec. 25 and Jan. 1; the week includ­ ing Feb. 22; Fast day; the week including May 1; and Memorial day. fig-The Fall Term 1882, will begin Monday, Sept. 11.

SCHOOL SESSIONS. High School—Each, week day from 8.30 A. M. to 1.00 P. M., ex­ cept on Saturdays it closes at 12.00 M. Grammar ScAooZs.~9.00 A. M. to 12.00, and 2.00 to 4.30 P. M., every week day except Saturday. Primary Schools.—9.00 A. M. to 12.00 M., and 2.00 to 4.00 P. M., every week day except Saturday. Teachers' Monthly Meeting.—The first Monday evening of each month, from 7.30 to 9.00. Grade meetings the first week in the month. Regular Monthly Meetings of the School Board occur the fourth Monday evening of each month, at 7.30 o'clock. Office hours of Superintendent of Schools.—City Building, each week day, except in vacations, 8.00 to 9.00 A. M.

TEACHERS IN THE CITY SCHOOLS.

HIGH SCHOOL. Albro E. Chase, Principal, $2,000 51 Deering street. Arthur B. Morrill, Assist. Master, 1,200 778 Congress street Addison S. Thayer, Assistant, 1,000 106 Park street. Antoine Dorticos, " 850 12 Parris street. Emily W. Dana, Assistant Mistress, 80700 92842 Hig Cumberlanh street.d street. AlicSaraeh WarrenA. Gilpatrick, , 500 282 Cumberland street. Mary F. Baker, Carrie Goold, 500 18 Wilmot street. Inez A. Blanchard, 500 807 Congress street. Annabel Stetson, 500 97 Emery street. Amanda I. Boothljy, 500 152 Pearl street. 500 426 Cumberland street. 80 APPENDIX.

SHAILER SCHOOL.

GRAMMAR. Susette P. Walker, Principal, 700 284 Congress street. Marada F. Adams, First Assistant, 450 113 Franklin street. 597 Congress street. Annie K. Blanchard, Assistant, 425 75 Atlantic street. Lois M. Hooper, " 400 PRIMARY. Lizzie D. Sawver, Assistant, 400 93 Newbury street. Fannie I. Knight, " 400 50 Mayo street. 125 Oxford street. Edith M. Barrows, " 300 778 Congress street. Clara L. Smith, " 300

NORTH SCHOOL. GRAMMAR. A. H. Files, Principal, $1,500 165 Pearl street. Flora B. Coolidge, First Assistant, 600 Woodfords. tEmma L. Robinson, Assistant, 500 289 Cumberland street. Fannie E. Blake, 450 21 Locust street. "Lizzie H. Norton, 425 736 Congress street. Sarah C. Eastman, 425 51 Chapel street. H. C. Blanchard, 425 597 Congress street. Ellen S. Baker, 425 75 Wilmot street. Fannie A. Bancroft, 425 47 Deering street. Mattie Foley, 400 9 Parris street. Mary E. Looney, •Elizabeth A. Day, 400 184 Congress street. Marcia E. Ridlon, 400 58 Elm street. Nellie C. Laughlin, 400 335 Congress street Almira S. Jones, 300 45 Atlantic street. Margaret Taylor, 400 20 Smith street. Edwinna Hooper, *Emma 1. Fassett, 400 42 State street. Mary C. Whitney, 400 75 Atlantic street. Ida E. Sterling, 400 1 Montgomery street. Ella F. Strout, 400 37 Pine street. *Kittie Wark, Mary J. Pennell, 400 20 Smith street. Alice I. Evans, 400 81 Portland street. Carrie L. Barnard, 300 85 Oxford Street. •Mildred Evans, 425 27 Merrill street. 400 61 Melbourne street. 400 3 Green street. CUMBERLAND STREET 30GRAMMAR0 119 Stat e streetSCHOOL.. Daniel H. Dole, Principal $1,440 145 Cumberland street. Sarah A. Chamberlain, 1st Assis't, 600 Woodfords. Frances E. Hunt, Assistant, 450 1 Chapel street. Ellen M. Worcester, " 450 92 Clark street. Lydia F. Moulton, " 425 64 Free street. Mary E. Kilby, " 425 27 Cushman street. Ada B.Curtis, " 425 9 Eastern Pramenade. Emily A. Small, " 425 12 Hanover street. •Temporary. t Absent on leave. APPENDIX. 81

CENTER STREET SCHOOL, GRAMMAR AND PRIMARY No. 3. Lyman B. Shehan, Principal, *1,050 14 Brown street. Caroline O. Cole, Assistant, 42") 2115 Franklin street. Miry E. Jordan, 430 37 Hanover street. Mary E. Phvmmer. " 4)0 176 Newbury street. Lizzie F. Walsh, " 400 42 Hancock street. Clara C. Sawver. " 400 10 Parris street. EmilyS. Hunt, " 400 7 Park place. Addie L. Libby, " 300 3 Prospect street. Nellie A. Richards, " 300 155 York street.

BUTLER GRAMMAR SCHOOL. Geo. H. Bliss, Principal, SI,440 248 Cumberland street. Ellen C. Williams, 1st Asut. 000 145 Danforth street. Annie P. True, Asistant, 45(1 2 Hill street. Ellen D. Stevens, " 45i) 13 Hill street. Bessie D. Clark, " 425 Woodfords. Julia W. Gritlin, 425 425 202 New High street. Helen N. Bates, " 201 Spring street. Mary S. Murch. 400 Susan E. Grovei, " 425 103 Elm street. Eliza A. Taylor, " 425 05',)J Congress street. Nellie A. Moxcey, 400 42 State street. 7 Tolman place. WEST SCHOOL. Gli.OIMAR. Adrianna M. Carleton, Principal, §750 1020 Congress street. Susan 31. Bnzzell, 1st Assistant, 400 1051 Congress street. PHIMABY. Alice M. Hyde, Assistant, 350 00 Brackett street. Frances M. Fuller, " 350 1021 Congress street. EmmaC. Thurlow, " 350 140 Pine street. Lucy A. Whiteley, '' 300 32 3Ielbonrne street.

PRIMARY SCHOOL No- 1. Emina J. Wilson, Principal, $500 54 Chestnut street. Jennie M. P. Cross, Assistant, 400 33 Waterville street. Susan A. Clark, 400 21 Eastern Promenade. Minnie A. Hooper, 400 75 Atlantic street. Nellie N. Jordan, 400 13 Lewis street. Mary Scanlan, 3 JO 11 Washington street.

PRIMARY SCHOOL No. % Clara V. Sprague, Principal, $500 14 Dow street. Francella A. Evans, Assistant, 400 80 Wilmot street. Martha W. Blake, 400 21 Locust stieet. Ella E.Gould, 400 79 Elm street. Alice C. Moses, 300 147 Franklin street. Mary A. Reed, " 375 85 Myrtle street. Florence I. Pollister. " 400 156 Cumberland street.

PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 4. Isabella Garwin, Principal, S500 11 Prospect street. Sarah F. Colburn, Assistant. 400 12 Hanover street. Margaret S. Sturdivant, " 400 81 Winter street. Cora B. Towle, " 400 00 Tyng street. Jennie E. French, ,; 425 116 Franklin street. (5i) 82 APPENDIX.

PRACTICE SCHOOL-PRIMARi' SCHOOL No. Sarah M. Taylor, Principal, $000 42 State street. Sarah J. Harbour, Assistant, 100 42 Brown street. 53 Thomas street. Octavia L. Cram, " 100 1021 Congress street. Lizzie C. Fuller, " J00 10 Abler street. Isabelle Hamblen, " 100 64 Ueering street. Susan A. Holmes, " 101) 02 Free street. Marcia B. Jenks. " lo;i 7 Mountfort street. 85 Oxford street. Ella F. A. Latham, '• 100 Lizzie Wark, "PRIMARY SCHOOL100 NO. 0. Rosa E. True, Principal, $500 039 Congress street. A. H. Woodbury, 1st Assistant, 400 227 Brackett street. 350 Anna J. Goddard, Assistant, 97 Winter street. 350 Kate S. Batty, 400 42 Brown street. Addie S. Berry, " 277 Cumberland street, PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 7. Mary F. Stackpole, Principal, £500 105 Brackett street. Ophelia A. Grover, 1st Assistant, 40;) G59£ Congress street. Mary E. Fales, Assistant, 400 89 Spruce street. PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 8 Alicia Marks, Principal, $500 49 Carleton street. Augusta M. Stubbs, 1st Assistant, 400 207 Spring street. Lizzie A. Short, Assistant, 40J 217 Spring street. Clara A. Thurston, 40!) 217 High street. Josephine A. Simonton, " :W0 469 Cumberland street. Nellie A. Harper, " 350 307 Cumberland street. *Mabel R. Jordan, 30'J 2 Vernon Court. PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 9. Ella K. Loring, Principal, $500 7i)2 Congress street. Adelaide S. Hale, 1st Assistant, 400 219 New High street. Alice M. Kyle, Assistant, 400 00 Pine street. *Carrie E. Jenkins, " 300 207 High street.

PEAK'S ISLAND SCHOOL. Eben W. Wilbur, Principal, $800 Peak's Island. Arietta Foster, Assistant, 300 9 Brown street. LONG ISLAND SCHOOL. SUMMKIl THIiM. Hattie F. Lowe, $350 Long Island. TEACHER OF WHITING. H. W. Shaylor, 1,400 122 Pine street.

TEACHER OF MUSIC. Thomas E. Ilazell, $1,050 05 Spruce street.

PORTLAND SCHOOL FOR DEAF. Ellen L. Barton, Principal, 26 Free street. Mary H. True, Assistant, 88 Park street. Annie K. Shaw, " 105 Free street. Laura G. Ames, " 6 Portland street. •Temporary. INDEX,

Pago. Iteport. School Committee 3 Portland School for deaf 10 '• Superintendent School buildings li! Superintendent of Schools 14 General Statistics 14 School Accomodations 17 Particular Schools Ill Teachers 30 Teachers' Meeting 32 '' Association 33 Improvements for the year 33 Graded School Work 34 The Public Schools 3.1 Limits of the Public School 37 Portland School for Deaf 4(1 Practice Class 43 School Attendance 44 Recommendations 4.1 Appendix 4(1 Heport, Principal High School, 1 4ii High School Returns 4H Principal Practice School, II •">(: Teacher Writing and Drawing, III ~>1 '• llusic Director, IV 53 School Districts, Limits, V ~>5 Course of Study, Directions, VI "J7 Programme of School Work, VII 5'J " " Primary Schools, VII "ill " " Grammar Schools, VII (Hi " High School, VII 7u Examination Questions for High School, VIII 73 Statistical Tables 7(i School Committee 7S Sub Committees 7s Calendar 7'J Teachers 7'.'

ANNUALREPORT OF THE CHIEF ENGINEER OF THE PORTLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT,

CHIEF ENGINEER'S OFFICE, ) Portland, March 1, 1882. j To His Honor, the Mayor, and City Council: GENTLEMEN :—In accordance with the ordinance relative to the Fire Department, I have the pleasure to submit my first annual report of the same for the year ending, March 1, 1882. Comprising the roll of the several companies in the department, their age, residence and occupation, and the number of their badge; also a schedule of all property be­ longing to the city under their charge, with a record of all fires and alarms that have occurred during the year, and the cause thereof as near as could be ascertained, and the name of the owners and occupants, the loss and insurance on the same. Also the number and location of hydrants, reservoirs, and fire alarm boxes, with such other information for its fur­ ther efficiency as I think will be of interest to your honorable body, the citizens and the department. FIEES AND ALARMS. The whole number of fires and alarms from March 1, 1881, to March 1, 1882, were 52; of these 30 were telegraph alarms and the remaining 22 were by telephone. There were 7 general alarms call­ ing the entire department. The amount of loss as near can be ascertained was $63,854.00. The amount of insurance paid as near as can be ascertained was $51,019.00. Excess of loss over insurance, $12,835.00. (6*) 86 APPENDIX.

APPARATUS. The apparatus consists of five steam fire engines, and two hook and ladder carriages, six hose carriages, and five hose sleds in service. One hose carriage and one two-horse jigger, located at store house, corner of Spring and South streets, and two old steam fire engines not in service. There has been a new hose carriage placed in department building at Libby's Corner the past year with nine hundred feet of lead­ ing hose, to take the place of the old hand engine which has been sold and was formerly kept there. There has also been purchased without an extra appropriation a new steam fire engine of the Manchester Locomotive Company of Manches­ ter, N. H. the past year, and placed in engine house near city building, and in charge of Engine Company, No. 5. Engine No. 1, is being thoroughly repaired with new boiler, flues, etc., by the Portland Company, and will be in service in a few days; meanwhile Engine Company, No. 1, are using the old style Amoskeag engine, now twenty years old and very unsafe for fire duty. Engine No. 2, will need repairs the coming year, or rather should be sold and a new engine put in its place. Engines No. 3 and 4 are considered in good order for the present. Hook and ladder carriage No. 1, will need repairs the com­ ing year, while hook and ladder No. 2, is in perfect order. Several of the hose carriages will need slight repairs the coming year, but are in fair order. There is great need of ladders in the upper part of the city and I earnestly hope a hook and ladder carriage will be placed there before we lose life and property by the delay; as they are now located there are no ladders in wards 4, 5, 6, or 7. HOSE. There is in the department at the present time, eight thous­ and feet of good cotton rubber lined hose and four thousand feet of fair cotton hose, which is fast becoming worthless for fire purposes; there is also two thousand feet of old leather hose most of which is unfit for service. I would recommend the purchase of four thousand feet of new cotton hose the coming year, as there is not enough good hose at the present time to fill the reels immediately after a large fire, while waiting for the wet hose to dry. REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 87

HORSES AND HARNESSES. At the present time there is but one horse in the depart­ ment which is used to haul hook and ladder, No. 2; but when we consider the number of pieces of apparatus that should start at an alarm of fire, (five steamers, five hose car­ riages, and two hook and ladder carriages,) it seems to me that one horse is insufficient for the purpose, and I would earnestly recommend that there be a sufficient number of horses owned by the department to move the apparatus in case of fire. There has been alarms of fire the past year, that the apparatus that should respond at the first alarm, has not started for twenty minutes after the alarm had been given. There is not force enough to the Sebago water for fire pur­ poses at either extreme of the city, and in case of fire at either of the extremes, the engines must be used in every case, and as most of the buildings are of wood and on high ground, it is very essential the engines should be the first piece of apparatus to respond, and there should always be horses in the building to haul them. The apparatus has been hauled in the past by the street department, but as the interests of the two departments con­ flict, I think each department could do more and better work if they were separate. BUILDINGS. The buildings occupied by the Fire Department are not in first-class order, and some of them are poorly constructed for the use to which they are put. I would suggest that the buildings used by the fire department, be put under the control of the Fire Department Committee. HYDRANTS. The number of hydrants set are as follows : Post Hydrants, - - - 70 Street Hydrants, flush, - - - - - 81 Sidewalk Hydrants, flush, - 92 One 2£ inch Hydrant in rear of City Building, 1 Total, - - 244 There has been fourteen new hydrants set the past year to take the place of broken hydrants removed, and there has been sixty-seven hydrants repaired, drained and revalved; 88 APPENDIX.

twenty-eight new boxes put around them to take the place of those decayed. There are quite a number of hydrants that need repairs the coming year, and there are localities where there should be more hydrants set as soon as possible. RESERVOIRS. Whole number of reservoirs, sixty-four. There has been nothing done on reservoirs the past year. I would recom­ mend the cementing of the old reservoir on Adams street, as there is no water pipe in that street, and the buildings are all wood in that locality. FORCE OF THE DEPARTMENT. The force of the department consists of a chief engineer, four assistant engineers, five steam engines, and hose compan­ ies of fifteen men each; two hook and ladder companies of thirty men, and one hose company at Libby's Corner of twenty men. Total force, one hundred and thirty (130) men. AUTOMATIC RELIEF VALVES are used on all the engines except new engine, No. 5; they are a great benefit to the department in case water is not wanted in a building, as by their use the water can be stopped at any time at the pipe, by means of a shut-off nozzle con­ trolled by the pipeman. TELEPHONES. The telephones are a great benefit to the department, and to the citizens who have notified the department of fires the past year. FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH. The fire alarm telegraph has worked satisfactorily with few exceptions the past year. There has been two new fire alarm boxes added; one was located on the P. & R. R. engine house foot of Alder street, and the other is located on the corner of Fore and Deer streets. There has also been added a striker on the Casco street church bell, which has worked satisfactorily. I would recommend the purchase of two more fire alarm boxes, and a striker for the bell at Libby's Corner, the coming year. CONCLUSION. In closing this report I wish to compliment the officers and members of the department for the promptness with which EEPOET OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 89

they have responded to all alarms during the past year, and the efficient manner in which they have labored in subduing fires. My thanks are also due the committee on fire depart­ ment, for their cordial support and prompt response to all requests made to them to provide for the department. My thanks are also do to His Honor, the Mayor, and the City Council, for courtesies extended; also to the City Marshal and his department for valuable aid at fires. Gentlemen, you have a Fire Department that have shown themselves equal to any emergency, and are aware that their services are appreciated. All of which is respectfully submitted, GRANVILLE H. CLOYES, Chief Engineer.

STEAM FIRE ENGINE COMPANIES.

MACHIGONNE, No. 1.

No. of Bdge. NAMES. AGE. HESIEENCE. OCCUPATION. 1 Jere JUsley, Foreman, 51 83 Elm street. Undertaker. 88 Clarence Greeley* 32 46 Free street. Teamster. 18 E. W. Porter, Engineer, 51 15 Green street. Engineer. 113 Geo. Fisk, Fireman, 48 389 Cumberland st. Blacksmith. 62 Samuel Thurston, Pipeman, 46 61 Parris street. Teamster. 122 Isaac A. Hall, " 43 18 Green street. Engineer- 29 W. H. Perry, " 25 181 Clark street. Blacksmith, 77 Geo W. Abbott, " 29 33 Free street. Cooper. 71 T. Hammell, Hoseman, 39 14 Bradford street. Teamster. 126 James F. Rand, *' 36 20 Mayo street. Teamster. 48 J. W. C. Knight, " 58 231 Brackett street. Cooper. 127 B. A. Rand, " 39 386 Cumberland st. Clerk. 92 John F. Place, " 23 7 Cushman st. Painter. 85 Alonzo Quinn, " 34 — Middle street. Hostler. 79 W. E. Hanson, " 39 226 Brackett St. Carpenter. 68 42 — Congress street. Teamster. 39 Ai&rS&ett, }*•*"• 3ii — Congress. Teamster. The engine was built by the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, of Manchester, N. H., in 1871. It is a double reciprocating vertical engine, 7£ inch cylinder, 8 inch stroke. Pump 4| inches in diame­ ter, 8 inch stroke. Located on Congress street, near Oak. 90 APPENDIX.

POKTLAND, No. 2.

No of Bdge. NAMES. AGE. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION. 2 J. F. Blake, Foreman, 51 119 Congress street. Carpenter. 15 T. Dame, Clerk, 42 01 Franklin street. Shoemaker. J. Cousins, Engeneer, 8 North street. Engineer. 57 W. C. Loring, Fireman, 34 32 Munjoy street. Fainter. 61 E. Wallace, Pipeman, 32 10 Merrill street. Carpenter. 76 J. Winslow, " 37 5 Deer street. Cooper. 132 C. 0. Godlng, " 33 50 St. Lawrence st. Expressman. 108 A. M. Gray, " 42 71 India street. Painter. 75 A. Wallace, Hoseman, 34 21 Merrill street. Paintmaker. 111 G. W. Green, " 43 8 Monument street. Boatman. 118 F. H. Cushlng, " 24 87 Munioy street. Carpenter. 121 W. F. Frith, " 24 5j Washington st. Stove dealer. 52 G. A. Dow, " 23 26 Lincoln street. Harnessmaker. 93 J. M. Parker, " 38 24 Munjoy street. Carpenter. 24 C. H. White, " 24 37 Lincoln street. Teamster. F.. Lombard, 1 r.-.,%.-M P. Jenningsl (Drivers. Engine built by the Portland Company, January, 1865. Diame­ ter of cylinder, 8 inches; stroke of piston, 11 inches. Weight, 6,265 pounds. Located on Congress, near North street.

CUMBEKLAND, No. 3.

Wo. of AGE. Bdge. NAMES. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION. 3 B. H. Ball, 37 39 Clark street. Cooper. 7 H. S. Bennett, 44 65 Spruce street. Joinei. 17 A. Wiggin, Engineer, 41 178 Brackett street. Engineer. 21 A. H. Lenham, Fireman, 37 176 Brackett street. Cooper. 22 S M. Reid, 41 9 Dow street. Boxmaker. 25 G. C. Wiggin, 29 91 India street. Teamster. 27 G. M. Hodgdon, 36 3 Cushman court. Joiner. 47 Wm. Dunscomb, 31 2 Cushman court. Mason. 63 S. W. Joy. 44 4 Adams court. Mason. 69 M. N. Eldridge, 30 117 Brackett street. Teamster. 66 C. H. Rao, 23 219 Brackett street. Teamster. T. Morrill, 31 22) Vaughan street. Joiner. 8en1 C. B Knight, 30 70 Pine street. Painter. 54 W. H. Berry, 27 183 Clark street. Slater. 89 A. E. Knight, 26 70 Pine street. Painter. W. R. Frank, 1 „_*__, 109 JJnvers 123 Geo. Davis, ( - Engine built by Portland Company, 1870. Steam cylinder, 9f inches in diameter, 10 inch stroke; sleeve pump, 4f inches in di­ ameter, 10 inch stroke. Weight of engine, 6,800 pounds. Location, 176 Brackett street. REPORT OF UHIEF ENGINEER. 91

FALMOUTH, No. 4.

No ol AGE. Bdge. NAMES. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION. i A. F. Griffin, Foreman, 33 200 Braekett street. Gum maker. 133 D. S. Ray, Clerk, 25 7 Bradford street. Teamster. PT 1. H. Williams, Engineer, 43 150 Spring street. Engineer. B6 Waldo H ferry, Fireman, 25 191 Clark street. Clerk. 125 A. D. Harford, Pipeman, 25 — Lincoln street. Caulker. 1*9 S. D. Lincoln, " 33 8 Adams court. Carpenter. 131 A. 0. Fernald, " 30 — Preble street. Carpenter. 124 L. Castell, •' 35 8 Vine street. Painter. 31 D. H. Towle, Hoseman, 40 1 Bradford street. Teamster. 73 W. S. Timmons, " 43 — Anderson street. Teamster. 74 S. C. Stanford, " 48 84 Parris street. Teamster. 105 C. F. Scribner, " 28 18 Lewis street. Teamster. 53 C. A. Higgins, " 24 178 Braekett street. Teamster. US C. E. Timmons, " 41 — Madison street. Clerk. 38 E. H. Pearson, 36 221 Oxford street. Clerk. 78 W. H. Lord, 1 |w__, Rear 62 Braekett st. Teamster. 79 W. Waddell, J-0™06™*' 5 Bradford street. Teamster. Engine built by Amoskeag Manufacturing Company, Manchester, N. H., 1873. Double reciprocating verticle engine; diameter of cylinder, 7|- inches, 8 inch stroke. Pump, 4£ inches in diameter, 8 inch stroke. Weight of engine, 7,800 pounds. Located at 152 Spring street.

CASCO, No. 5.

No. of NAMES. AGE. Bdge. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION. 5 R. H. Murphy, Foreman, 54 — India street. Barber. 98 W. Hennessy, Cleric, 54 253 Oxford street. narnessmaker. C. P. French, Engineer, 46 — Congress street. Engineer. 107 J. Adams, Fireman, 47 37'Anderson street. Carpenter. 128 H. A. Fogg, Pipeman, 32 37 Preble street. Trunkmaker. 94 27 50 Wilmot street. Painter. 116 E. G. Waite, " 54 48 Oxford street. Painter. 43 J. F. A. Norton, " 28 — Lincoln street. Blacksmith. 35 W. Strong, Hoseman, 54 50 Washington St. Carriage pain'r 55 46 50 Wilmot street. Painter. 45 46 71 Federal street. Victualer. 101 R. H. Waite, " 47 22 Lincoln street. Victual er. 58 J. W. Dodge, " 32 — Smith street. Teamster. 91 W. E. Follett, " 39 20 Boyd street. Teamster. 28 A. S. Spaulding, " 44 1 Parris street. Printer. P.W.Wells, ) DH B. L. Sawyer, J "rivers. Engine built by Manchester Locomotive Works, Manchester, N. H., 1880. Second-class engine. Weight of engine, 7,000. Located on Congress street, near City Hall. 92 APPENDIX.

HOOK AND LADDER No. 1.

No. of Bdge. NAMES. AGE. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION. 10 R. W. Jaokson, 2ll 568 Congress street. Plasterer, 65 W. R. Giibben, 40 224 Pranklln street. Baker. 67 Edwin Sawyer, 71 180 Oxford street. Baker. 106 C. B. Hall, 60 16 North street. Painter. S W. P. Waterhouse, 37 7 Vine street. Painter. 61 B. J. Small, 40 12 Smith street. Clerk. 26 L. L. Baston, 41 116 Wilmot street. Teamster. 11 ThQ3. Payne, 29 268 Congress street. Blacksmith. 14 J. K Lorlng, 36 76 Green street. Teamster. 23 J. H. Flemming, 27 Truck house. Teamster. 42 Wm. Todd, 51 146 High street. Gilder. 102 C. C. Wells, 26 142 Newbury street. Teamster. 44 J. Simonds, 27 194 Congress street. Plasterer. 97 G. Ryorson, 36 159 Lincoln street. Boat builder. 96 C. A. Plummer, 29 229 Congress street. Fish dealer. 13 J. E. Cady, 23 31 Danforth street. Teamster. 117 R. Berry, 32 100 Lincoln street. Blacksmith. 38 L. Lombard, 37 238 Oxford street. Teamster. 36 S. Hodgdon, 36 37 Elm street. Joiner. 103 P. M. Floyd, 37 Driver City Team.

Truck built by Hunneinan & Co., Boston. Put in service Aug. 5, 1874. Weight, 5,000 pounds. Located on India street.

HOOK AND LADDEE, No. 2.

No. of Bdge. NAMES. AGE. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION'. 134 John N. Long, 35 100 Federal street. Trader. 112 F. H. Webster, 30 112 Wilmot street. Trunk Maker. 49 G. W. Piatt, 29 88 Fdre street. Cooper. 6 T. W. Scott, 30 Truck House. Upholsterer. 72 R. H. Brown, 26 183 Pearl street. 82 C. B. Todd. 35 52 Lincoln street. Hairdresser. 37 J. E. Ayers, 29 25 Parris street. Trunk maker. 59 I. A. Rich, 38 87 Fore street. 46 Geo. B. Kimball, 26 5 Locust street. 135 Adelbert Baker, 34 333 Congress street. Teamster. 56 J. H. Baker, 29 188 Pearl street. Driver.

Carriage built by Eemington & Moulton, in 1866. Weight, 3,700 pounds. Located corner Congress and Market streets. REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 93 DIEIGO HOSE, No. 6.

NAMES. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION. W. B. Quint, Foreman, Rear 968 Congress street. Soapmaker. T. (J. Harmon, Clerk, 110) Congress street. Cooper. ffm. Ryall, Steward, 18 Douglass street. Cooper. H. Batchelder, Hoseman, 344 Portland street. F. p. Burnham, " 1 Burnham street. Teamster. F. Small, " 103S Congress street. R R. employee. A. Palmer, *' Libby's Corner. Trader. C. R. Anderson, " Libby's Corner. Blacksmith. C. F. Parker, " 12 Burnham street. Trader. F. Ryall, « 3 Burnham street. Cooper 0. H. Flaherty, » 23 Hemlock street. Teamster. R. M. Rice, " 23 Hemlock street. Teamster. D. H. Watson, Jr., " 9 Forest street. R. R. employee. H. G. Smith, « 378 Portland street. Painter. L. T. Chase, " 6 Hemlock street. Teacher. L. F. Nelson, « 7 Burnham street. Potter. J. F. Shillings, " 1080 Congress street. Laborer. B. Lamb, " i Hemlock street. Salesman. F. Clark, " 1008 Congress street. Clerk. S. Libby, " 440 St. John street. Blacksmith. Carriage built by Talbot & Moulton, in 1881. Weight of car- riage 1500 pounds. Located on Burnham street, Libby's Corner.

BOARD OF ENGINEERS. ELECTED MARCH, 1881.

NAMES. AGE. RESIDENCE. OCCUPATION.

6. H. CLOYES, Chief, 44 147 Brackett street. Provisions. C. D. SKILLIN, Assistant, 38 29 Smith street. Painter. A. H. ROGERS, " 37 22 Wilmot street. Collector. C. W. CUSHING, " 46 87 Munjoy street. Carpenter. A. S MITCHELL, " 41 154 York street. Cooper. COMMITTEE ON FIRE DEPARTMENT. ALDERMEN.—John W. Deering, John C. Tukesbury. COUNCILMEN.—Whitman Sawyer, Chas. D. Brown, Horatio Clark.

TRUSTEES OF RELIEF ASSOCIATION OF THE PORTLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT—1881.

HENRY FOA, President. G. H. CLOYES, Vice President. J. C. TEWKSBURY, Treasurer. WM. HENNESSY, Secretary. SPENCER ROGERS. SAMUEL THURSTON. D. W. NASH. G. H. CLOYES. NAHUM LITTLEFIELD. CHAS. D. SKILLIN. CHAS. W. CUSHING. A. S. MITCHELL. JOHN F. BLAKE. JERE ILSLEY. R. H. BALL. A. F. GRIFFIN. R. H. MURPHY.. R. W. JACKSON. J. N. LONG. R. S. RAND. A. J. CUMMINGS. C H. RICH. CO FIRES AND ALARMS FROM MARCH 1, 1881, TO MARCH 1, 1882. tt- KIND OF LOCATION. IN .V B'LDING PAID. Mar. 9.00 a. in. Wood. 15 Mary Connor Adams street nothing. |Woman burned. 9.50 p. m. (( Still. Henry I. Morse Stetson's Court $ 150.00 $ 150.00 Incendiary. 8.15 a. m. It 60.00lUnknown. 42 Elias Chase Tate street 60.00 April 3 9.00 a. m. B'k&w. Still. J. E. Graney Free street Trifling. 100.00 Spark from open grate. 7.00 a. m. Wood. ft M. P. Emery Vaughan street 100.00 Unknown. 5 It 2.15 p. in. a R. Davidson Oak and Congress Sts. Trifling. 60.00 Sparks from chimney. 11.15 p. m. Brick. 24 90.00Unknown" . Jos. Russell Congress street 60.00 1,600.00 Brick. Still. Heirs of M. Lynch... tt 90.00 Pipe in pocket. Cumberland and Elm. 6.30 a. m. a 24 I. J. Brown Federal and Exchange. 1,600.00 100.00 Carelessness. a n 24 Martin, Pennell & Co tt it Trifling. none. tt 7.00 a. m. Wood. Stiil. W. G. Ray Brackett street 100.00 10. 00 Defective chimney. P3 24 Z " (( John Doyle G. T. R. R. Wharf.... .75 Sparks from locomotive. 28 4.05 p. m. Brick. 27 Fore street 0 30 7.05 a. m. tt 25 & 28 C. Sweetsir 10.00 Defective chimney. n Plum street Carelessness, (( G. T. R. Road tt nothing. tt May 17 (< Wood. Still. 40.00 40.00 Lamp explosion. 11.30p. m. S. H. & A. R. Doten. Merrill street tt tf t* Small's Book-bindery. 75.00 75.00 28 13 Lafayette and Quebec. 500.00 500.00 Carelessness. Jane 3 10.57 p.m. tt 56 I. P. Farrington Clothes near stove. 16 4.00 p. m. tt Still. Neal Danforth street Trifling. Spaik from chimney. 22 1 '.00 a. m. Kennebec street 5.00 p. m. Brick. 35 Alfred Roberts 25 Wood. Still. S. E. Spring York and Maple Overheated iron chimney. July 5 10.00 p. m. 4C 39 3.40p. m. J. L. Brackett Fore street Defective chimney. 14 Brick. 12 Hot iron. 21 8.20 p. m. Wood. 16 Littlefield & Wilson.. Congress street 500.00 500.00 Spontaneous combustion. 3.45 a. m. tt 16 C. N. Delano & Co... Fore street nothing. t« tt 21 Brick. Still. X. Ridlon Commercial street Unknown, 23 7.05 a. in. Wood. 37 Portland Co tt 150.00 150.00 Carelessness. a 37 Findley Carroll street 100.00 100.00 Phillip Flynn Congress street F. F.Hale Charles McCarthy Sawyer & Dyer Aug. 10.05 p.m. 62 Wood, R. F. Bucknam Park and York streets. $ 500.00 * 500.00 Unknown. tt 62 it E. R. Dyer it it tt Sept. 11.55 p.m. Still. Awning Fitzgerald Congress street trifling, Lighted cigar. Wood. T. Hopkins Long wharf trifling. Spark from chimney. Defective chimney. Oct. 11.45 p.m. 7 HollisTrue Smith street 700.00 700.00 50.00 7 W. S. Timmons i. ti none. it it 100.00 7 Mrs. C. Smith 100.00 10.30 p.m, 23 Commercial street Semi Annual inspection, 9.15 a.m. Still. Coal. Inspection Richardson's wharf... trifling. Combustion. 9.10 p.m. 23 Wood. C. H. O'Brion Long wharf 7,000.00 6,000.00 Unknown. 23 Heirs of D. T. Chase... it ti 250.00 250.00 t. ti 23 E. H. Chase 13,00000 6,000.00 G. E. Deering &Co.... 33.00 a 23 Commercial wharf 33.00 1.10 p.m, C. A. B. Morse & Co... Pleasant street trifling. Carelessness. o 12.45 a.m. 34 E. E. Upham 1,500.00 1,000.00 Incendiary. w 27 Commercial street Union Wharf Co u ii 1,800.00 1,800,00 H 27 Nov. _ 4.05 p.m. Motley & Winchester... York street 100.00 100.00 o 6 10.00 p.m. 33 Brick. Fore street Fire in sawdust in spitoon. Still. Mrs. Clary I* 9.00 p.m, Wood. 'Longshoremen Green street Lamp explosion. o Defective chimney 9 9.00 a.m. J. York Congress street 10.00 W Dec. 8 11.15 p.m 13 11,00000 7,000.00 Explosion of still. M (( Tracy Fish Point Clothes hanging near stove. 15 2.30 p.m Still. (( Smelting Co Oak street 13 a 150.00 150.00 Defective chimney. 16 6.15 a.m Emerson street H Still. RPayso. F. nBaco Tucken r 25.00 25.00 Carelessness. 7.15 p.m Congress street Unknown, Dec. 26 2.45 p.m 24 Wood E Lord 600.00 600 00 tt 24 Exchange street ti (( E. Lord & Co 1,800.00 1,800.00 Si 31 5.00 p.m Still. Brick E. S. Merrill Congress street 750.00 Gas explosion. it 600.00 3110.00 p.m 25 S.J. Anderson Temple street 300.00 300.00 Overheated range. o a ti ii 25 Hall & Patrick u it 383.00 383.00 H 28 Middle street Gas pipe leaking. Jan. 6 12.30 p.m (( G. C. Shaw & Co 10.00 10.00 Si 11 9.50 p.m 25 il u it 500.00 Spontaneous combustion. H Heirs of St. John Smith. ti tt 500.00 it tt H Twitchell,Chapman & Co 17,53800 S 24 1.20 p.m Still. Wood Congress street 17,53800 Unknown. I. P. Farrington trifling. u tt tt it Mrs. Kenney it 25 6.25 a.m. 12 & 16. Brick G.T. freight shed..., 700.00 700.00 Defective chimney; K G.T.U.R.Co 12.20 p.m. Still. Danforth & Brackett.. 5.00 5.00 Soot in chimney. Critish Consulate CO 28 5.00 p.m. 17 Wood Anderson street Carelessness. 17 ft C. A. Beckford .1 tt 50.00 Feb. 4 1.20 p.m. 57 G. A. Guptil Ligonia 25 1.45 a.m. 13 Portland Kerosene Co... Cumberland street 400.00 400.00 Unknown (( Mrs. S. C. Rowe 96 APPENDIX.

EXPENSES OF FIRE DEPARTMENT, FROM APRIL 1, 1881, TO MARCH 1, 1882.

Expense of fire alarm telegraph, including pay of superintendent, $1,251 41 Street department, hauling engine to fires 7,500 00 Coal and wood, for engines and houses 457 78 Gas for houses 523 50 Cleaning hose, repairing hose, and hook and ladder truck 523 57 New leading and suction hose and couplings 1,876 88 Hauling wet hose from fires 121 00 Hauling hook and ladder truck, including pay of driver 668 00 Two fire alarm signal boxes 250 CO Wire insulators, etc 149 84 Striker, Casco Church, labor, freight, etc 492 56 Extra services of enginemen in vacation 82 00 Furniture and bedding for houses 23 46 Stoves and hardware 73 93 Removing snow from hydrants and reservoirs, and salt 32 15 Washing for engine houses 166 00 Repairs on engines and apparatus, including paint 716 79 Salary of Secretary of Board of Engineers 25 00 Dirigo Hose Company, allowance 100 00 Printing and Stationery 28 85 Silver badges 230 15 Three Columbian gas saving fixtures 57 75 Horse shoeing, harnesses and blankets 79 85 Relief valves, rubber valves and springs 324 00 Drain pipe for hydrants 42 00 Rent of telephones 150 00 Hydrant chuck , 65 00 New steam fire engine 3,500 00 Carriage hire of Committee 21 00 Lanterns 10 00 Incidentals 206 99 CB. $19,724 46 SALARIES. One chief engineer $ 550 00 Four assistant engineers at $90 per year 360 00 Seven foremen at $75 per year 525 00 Seven clerks at $75 per year 525 00 Five firemen of engines at $75 per year 375 00 One steward of truck No. 1 50 00 Fifty-five hosemen at $66 per year 3,630 00 Twenty-six hook and ladder men at $66 per year.. . 1,716 00 Five engineers of steamers at $850 per year 4,250 00 $11,981 00 REPOKT OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 97 Property in charge of Engine Company, No. 1. 1 steam fire engine, 1 hose carriage, 1 horse sled, 2,220 ft. of cot­ ton hose, 28 feet suction hose, 1 hydrant chuck and connection, 50 feet small rubber hose, 2 whiffletrees, 1 strainer, 4 buckets, £ cord of soft wood, 3 torches, 4 pipes, 2 shovels, 1 poker, 3 oil cans, 7 nozzles, 1 stove, 1 coal hod, 18 chairs, 1 vise and bench, 4 belts and spanners, 2 jack screws, 3 spittoons, 1 crowbar, 1 ladder, 1 step ladder, 3 looking glasses, 2 stands, 2 maps, 2 dust pans, 2 brushes, 1 broom, 5 tons hard coal, 3 tons of engine coal, 1 table, 2 suction spanners, 2 axes, 1 gallon sperm oil, 3 gallons of kerosene oil, 3 bedsteads, 6 mattresses, 8 blankets, 8 sheets, 8 pillow slips, 4 quilts, 6 pillows, 4 comforters, 2 hose lighters, 2 monkey wrenches, 1 feather duster, 15 badges. JEREMIAH ILSLEY, Foreman. Property in charge of Engine Company No. 2. 1 steam fire engine, 1 hose carriage, 1 hose sled, 1 jigger. 1,800 feet cotton hose, 30 feet suction hose, 1 hydrant chuck and connec­ tion, 30 feet small rubber hose, 1 whiffietree, 2 strainers, 2 buckets, 2 feet soft wood, 4 torches, 4 pipes, 2 shovels, 1 poker, 6 oil cans, 6 nozzles, 1 spreading nozzle, 2 stoves, 1 coal hod, 12 chairs, 1 vise and bench, 6 belts and spanners, 1 jack screw, 4 spittoons, 1 crow­ bar, 1 step ladder, 3 looking glasses. 2 stands, 1 map, 1 drip pan, 1 dust pan, 1 brush, 1 broom, 4 tons hard coal, 1 table, 2 suction span­ ners, 1 whip, 3 horse hoods, 2 axes, 1 gallon sperm oil, 2 gallons kerosene oil, 2 pounds waste, 2 bedsteads, 6 mattresses, 8 blankets, 6 sheets, 8 pillow slips, 2 quilts, 5 pillows, 3 comforters, 1 clock, 1 grate, 6 hose lighters, 18 tin dippers and mugs, 1 boiler, 1 monkey wrench, 1 fire alarm gong, 4 lanterns, 4 towels, 1 wash stand, 1 bowl and pitcher, 1 carpet. JOHN F. BLAKE, Foreman. Property in charge of Engine Company No. 3. 1 steam fire engine, 1 hose carriage, 2 hose sleds, 1 jigger, 2,000 feet cotton hose, 20 feet suction hose, 1 hydrant chuck and connec­ tion, 25 feet small rubber hose, 2 whiffletrees, 1 strainer, 2 buckets, 1 cord soft wood, 3 torches, 5 pipes, 2 shovels, 2 pokers, 4 oil cans, 4 nozzles, 1 stove, 1 coal hod, 14 chairs, 1 vise and bench, 6 belts and spanners, 1 jack screw, 3 spittoons, 2 crowbars, 1 ladder, 1 step ladder, 1 looking glass, 1 stand, 1 dust pan, 1 brush, 2 brooms, 2 tons of hard coal, 1 ton engine coal, 1 table, 2 settees, 2 suction spanners, 1 whip, two axes, 1 gallon spern oil, 1 gallon kerosene oil, 2 pounds waste, 3 bedsteads, 4 mattrasses, 12 blankets, 8 sheets, 10 pillow slips, 4 pillows; 2 comforters, 2 clocks, 5 hose lighters, 20 mugs, 1 boiler, 1 monkey wrench, 4 towels. EICHAED H. BALL, Foreman. 98 APPENDIX.

Property in charge of Engine Company No. A. 1 steam fire engine, 1 hose carriage, 1 hose sled, 2,000 feet cotton hose, 35 feet suction hose, 1 hydrant chuck and connection, 50 feet small rubber hose, 3 whiffletrees, 1 strainer, 2 buckets, \ cord soft wood, 3 torches, 4 pipes, 3 shovels, 1 poker, 5 oil cans, 10 nozzles, 1 stove, 1 coal hod, 17 chairs, 1 vise and bench, 6 belts and spanners, 1 jack screw, four spittoons, 1 crowbar, 1 step ladder, 2 looking glasses, 1 drip pan, 1 dust pan, 1 brush, 1 broom, 3 tons of hard coal, 1 ton engine coal, 3 tables, 2 settees, 1 suction spanner, 2 axes, 1 gallon sperm oil, 2 gallons kerosene oil, 4 pounds waste, 2 bed­ steads, 2 mattresses, 8 blankets, 10 pillow slips, 4 pillows, 6 com­ forters, 1 clock, 5 hose lighters, 1 boiler, 1 monkey wrench, 1 feath­ er duster, 5 towels, 18 mugs, 8 lanterns. A. F. GRIFFIN, Foreman.

Property in charge of Engine Company No. 5. 1 steam fire engine, 1 hose carriage, 1 hose sled, 2,200 feet hose, 20 feet suction hose, 1 hydrant chuck and connection, 100 feet small rubber hose, 3 whiffletrees, 1 strainer, 3 buckets, 4 feet soft wood, 2 torches, 2 pipes, 2 shovels, 1 poker, 2 oil cans, 4 nozzles, 1 spreading nozzle, 2 stoves, 1 coal hod, 10 chairs, 1 vise and bench, 4 belts and spanners, 1 jack screw, 3 spittoons, 2 crowbars, 1 drip pan, 1 dust pan, 1 brush, 1 broom, 6 tons of hard coal, 1 ton engine coal, 1 table, 1 settee, 2 suction spanners, 2 axes, 1 gallon sperm oil, 1 gal­ lon kerosene oil, 1 pound waste, 2 bedsteads, 5 mattresses, 6 blankets, 6 sheets, 6 pillow slips, 2 quilts, 2 pillows, 1 clock, 1 tin dipper, 1 boiler, 2 monkey wrenches, 1 feather duster, 15 badges. R. H. MURPHY, Foreman.

Property in charge of Hook and Ladder Company No. 1. 1 hook and ladder truck, 2 extension ladders, 3 roof ladders, 8 single ladders, 2 torches, 7 plaster hooks, 1 large hook 136 feet rope and chain attached, 323 feet guy line, 1 hammer, 1 sledge, 1 vise, 2 pick mauls, 12 ladder dogs and chains, 1 cap wrench, 1 signal lan­ tern, 6 hand lanterns, 1 pair slide lanterns, 4 props, 2 pair ladder boots, 1 oiler, 6 crotch poles, 2 ladder wrenches, 1 auger, 1 hatchet and belt, 2 ladder rests, 1 Johnson pump, 50 feet small rubber hose, 8 buckets, 4 axes, 1 large gong on truck, 1 small gong wire and pull, 1 shovel, 2 stoves, 2 oil cans, 1 coal hod, 20 chairs, 1 jack screw, 1 broom, 3 tons hard coal, 3£ feet soft wood, 3 hay forks, 1 table, 3 settees, 1 gallon sperm oil, 1 gallon kerosene oil, 2 cot beds, 3 mat­ tresses, 2 comforters, 4 pairs blankets, 2 pairs sheets, 1 spread, 1 REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 99 clock, 2 boilers, 12 mugs, 1 feather duster, 1 wash basin, 9 window shades, 2 spittoons, 1 tapper, 1 copper boiler, 1 monkey wrench, 24 badges. E. W. JACKSON, Foreman.

Property in charge of Hook and Ladder Company, No. 2. 1 hook and ladder truck, 1 horse, 15 feet small rubber hose, 2 force pumps, 4 buckets, 2 torches, 6 shovels, 1 poker, 1 oil can, 2 stoves, 1 coal hod, 16 chairs, 1 jackscrew, 1 spittoon, 1 crowbar, 3 extension ladders, 4 single ladders, 2 roof ladder, 2 ladder hooks, 4 pitchforks, 4 hand lanterns, 1 signal lantern, 1 auger, 4 ladder dogs, 8 straps, 1 hatchet and belt, 250 feet of rope, 1 set traverse runners, 12 feet of chain, 1 curry comb and brush, 1 jack, 1 sign, 4 window shades, 1 carpet, 3 bunks, 1 dust pan, 1 brush, 2 brooms, £ ton hard coal, 3 tables, 1 settee, 1 harness, 1 whip, 2 horse blankets, 5 axes, 3 bedsteads, 3 mattresses, 3 blankets, 3 sheets, 3 pillow slips, 3 quilts, 3 pillows, 3 comforters, 2 boilers, 2 mauls, 1 monkey wrench, 8 mugs, 1 tapper, 11 badges. JOHN W. LONG, Foreman.

Hose 6. 1 hose carriage, 900 feet of leather hose, 1 hydrant chuck and connection, 5 buckets, 2 feet soft wood, 1 torch, 2 pipes, 2 oil cans, 3 nozzles, 2 stoves, 1 coal hod, 25 chairs, 16 belts and spanners, 1 broom, \ ton hard coal, 1 table, 2 settees, 2 axes, 1 gallon kerosene oil, \ pound waste, 56 tin dippers, 2 boilers, 7 lamps, 1 feather duster. W. S. QUINT, Foreman.

Property at Hose House, South Street. 2,400 feet leather hose, 50 feet small rubber hose, 1 force pump, 1 foot soft wood, 1 shovel, 1 poker, 2 oil cans, 3 stoves, 1 vise and bench, 7 belts, 7,000 feet rope, 70 blocks, 4 spanners, 4 drip pans, 1 dust pan, 2 brushes, 1 broom, 5 tons hard coal, 1 settee, 1 axe, 1 boiler, 1 monkey wrench, 1 set Morse coupling tools, 1 set Ameri­ can Hose coupling tools.

Property at store house, South Street. 1 hose carriage, 2 extension ladders, 1 pole, 2 water casks, 1 sin­ gle ladder, 1 snow scraper.

Property at Chief Engineer's Office. 1 desk, 1 table, 2 spittoons. 6 chairs, 1 carpet, 2 record books, 8 brooms. 100 APPENDIX. LOCATION OF HYDRANTS.

Atlantic near North, P Congress Square, S tt cor. Wilson, SL a cor. High, SI " Monument, SF tt cor. Park, P Brackett, cor. Arsenal, SF it cor. State, u cor. Neal, P tt cor. Vaughan, s a cor. Bradford, S tt cor. Portland, s Brown near Cumberland, SF Carleton near Congress, SFs Commercial cor. India, S tt near Brackett, SF ' opp. Gait Bl'k, SF Carter near Congress, P ' cor. Franklin, Cushman cor. Clark, SF ' opp. Burnham's Wh., SLs a cor. Emery, SF ' cor. Silver, P Cumb'd cor. Washington, SF ' cor. Pearl, S tt cor. Poplar, SF ' cor. Moulton, tt cor. Montgomery, SF ' opp. Widgery's Wh., SFs a cor. Anderson, S cor. Union, S a cor. Smith, S ' cor. Cross, 2, SSF tt cor. Mayo, S ' opp. Brown's Wh. , p a cor. Locust, SF ' cor. Maple, SF it cor. Boyd, S ' near High, SF a cor. Wilmot, ' cor. Park, SF a cor. Pearl, SFs ' cor. State, SF a cor. Myrtle, S ' fr. B. & M. Depot, SF it cor. Chestnut, S ' cor. Brackett, SF tt car. Cedar, S ' cor. Clark, SF tt cor. Elm, S •' cor. York, SF it cor. Preble, 2, SSF ' near Match Fac'y SF tt cor. Brown, S M. C. R. R. Yard , P it cor. Parris, P ' opp. Glass Works P a cor. Mechanic, SF ' cor. Emery, S tt cor. High, P ' near Vaughan's Br'g Cotton near Free, P • ' B. & M. Bound House ,2s* Deering opp. Henry, SF Cen'l Wirf i'mni \Yii,sl,,wV, S a cor. Mellen, P Cong ress cor. St. Lawrence, P a cor. State, P ' near North, 2, SP Danforth near High. SF ' cor. Washington, P tt cor. Park, P ' cor. India, p tt cor. State, P ' cor. Franklin, it cor. Winter, P ' cor. Wilmot, s a cor. Clark, SF cor. Pearl, s tt cor. May, SF ' cor. Chapel, ps a cor. Emery, P ' cor. Market, tt near Clifford, SF ' cor. Chestnut, 2, SPs tt cor. Vaughan, S ' , cor. Temple, S Exchange opp. Printers' Ex .SF ' cor. Elm, a opp. Milk, SF ' cor. Preble, SFs Fore cor . Vesper, SF ' cor. Brown, " opp. Portland Co., SF ' cor. Casco, s " cor. Mountfoa.1 SF ' cor. Oak, 2, SPs " front Eagle Sugar Co., P ' cor. Green, s " cor. India S REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 101

Fore cor. Franklin, p Newbury cor. Hancock, SF " cor. Kschange, p *> cor. India, 2, S*SK " cor. Plum, SF North cor. Cumberland, P " cor. Union, 2, SSF Oxford cor. Washington, P " cor. Cross, P u cor. Cleaves, S " cor. Cotton, SF it cor. Anderson, 2, SP " cor. Centre, S ii cor. Smith, s Federal cor. India, s it cor. Mayo, s " cor. Franklin, SF it cor. Boyd, " cor. Pearl, P it cor. Franklin, SFs " cor. Market, P a cor. Wilmot, 2, SSF " cor. Temple, P a cor. Myrtle, CI s " cor. Middle, P cor. Chestnut, s Franklin cor. Newbury, SF a cor. Cedar, s Free cor. Cotton, P a cor. Elm, s " cor. Centre, S it cor. Preble, 2, SSF " cor. South, SF Portland cor. Alder, 2, SSF •' cor. Oak, P a cor. Hanover, " front Dr. Morse's, P a cor. Parris, 2, SPs Franklin Wharf, S a cor. Mechanic, 2, SSF G. T. K. R. Yard, 2, PP it cor. Green, S Green opp. Hay Scales, SF a cor. High, " below Cumberland, s P it cor. Mellen, s " below Portland, SF " cor. Grove, s " front of Kicker's, SF a cor. Weymouth, s Hemlock near Congress, SF it cor. St. John, SF Kennebec n'r Brackett's ill, P it cor. Lowell, SF Lincoln cor. Mayo, S Park cor. Gray, SF " cor. Franklin, P " 3or. York, SFP " cor. Wilmot, Pleasant near Maple, P " cor. Pearl, 2. s SP a cor. High, SF " cor. Myrtle, it " cor. Chestnut, 2, s near Park, P " cor. Cedar, SP Pine near Winter, SF a cor. Brackett, SF " cor. Elm, s tt " cor. Preble, s cor. West, SF a cor. Thomas, P Merrill cor. Turner, s u " cor. Melbourne, p cor. Vaughan, S " cor. Congress, p St. Lawrence near Fore, P Munjoy near Fore, 1, SF " cor. Hoyt's Lane, P s. Spring cor. Centre, 2, SSF " near Monument, P a cor. South, P Middle cor. India, s a cor. Oak, SF " cor. Hampshire, s a cor. High, P " cor. Deer, s ti cor. Winter, SF " cor. Pearl, s it near State, S " cor. Market, SF ii cor. Brackett, SF " cor. hxchange, S ii cor. Clark, P " cor. Plum, S ii cor. Emery, SF " cor. Temple, P ii cor. Neal, P " cor. Union, S it cor. Thomas, SF " cor. Free, SF Salem cor. Clark, SF (H) 102 APPENDIX.

Salem cor. Brigg's, SF Washington cor. Fox, SF " cor. Orange, SF " cor. Madison, SF State near Spring, P cor. Monroe, SF " near Danferth, P Winter bet. Pine and Spring, P St. John near Portland, P " cor. Gray, SF Smith's Wharf, P Work House yard, 2, PP Spruce cor. Emery. SF York cor. Maple, SF Vaughan cor. West, SF " cor. High, SF " cor. Brackett, P " cor. State, P " cor. Bowdoin, SF " cor. Brackett, SF " opp. Carroll, SF G. T. K. K. Wharf, 2, P Thomas cor. Carroll, S One opp. Shed No. 1. Washington cor. Goold, P One opp. Shed No. 6.

P Post. S Street. SF Sidewalk Flush.

PUBLIC FOUNTAINS AND URINALS, IN THE CITY OF PORTLAND.

Fountain at Lincoln Park. Fountains for man and beast,—Congress, at Mountfort; India and Commercial; Market Square ; Portland near Green ; Portland, near Weymouth; Fore, near Centre. Total, (i. Fountains for persons only—Congress, at Lincoln Park; Congress, at City Hall; Middle, at Post Office; Commercial and Moulton; New City Market. Total, 5. Fountains for animals only,—New City Market. Urinals, Old City Hall.

NOTICE,—Keys to Fire Alarm boxes are kept in the houses and stores where the boxes are located; also in other houses and places of business in the vicinity of the boxes. When the boxes are lo­ cated on polos, keys are kept in the nearest houses or stores to the boxes. REPORT OF CHIEF ENGINEER. 103

LOCATION OF FIRE ALARM BOXES. NO. 1 12 o'clock,—noon,—true Portland time. 2 9 o'clock P. M.,—Fire alarm test. 6 Corner Fox and Hammond streets. 7 Corner Oxford and Mayo streets. 8 Corner Atlantic and Wilson streets. 9 Corner Merrill and Qubee streets. 12 Portland Company's Office. 13 Engine house, Congress near North street. 14 Corner Washington and Oxford streets. 15 Corner of Adams and Mountfort street. 16 Grand Trunk Depot. 17 Hook and Ladder house, India street, 18 Corner Franklin and Cumberland streets. 19 Corner Lincoln and Pearl streets. 21 Corner Franklin and Newbury streets. 23 Corner Market and Commercial streets. 24 Engine house, corner Market and Congress streets, 25 Corner Middle and Exchange streets. 26 Corner Chestnut and Oxford streets. 27 Corner Union and Fore streets. 28 Junction Free and Middle streets. 29 Corner Deer and Fore streets. 31 Corner Preble and Congress streets. 32 Corner Portland and Hanover streets. 33 No school in the afternoon,—stormy day. 34 Corner South and Spring streets. 35 Corner Maple and York streets. 36 Corner High and Danforth streets. 37 Engine house, Congress near Oak street. 38 Corner Congress and Walker street. 39 Corner Deering and Avon streets. 41 Engine house, Spring near State street. 42 Corner Danforth and Brackett streets. 43 Corner Commercial and Clark streets. 45 Engine house, Brackett near Pine street. 46 Horse Railroad Stable, Spring street. 47 Corner Portland and Weymouth streets. 48 Corner Pine and Thomas streets. 51 Corner Brackett and Vaughan streets. 52 Libby's Corner. 53 Forest City Sugar Hennery. 54 Corner Neal and Bowdoin streets. 56 Corner Salem and School streets. 57 Boston and Maine Transfer Station. 62 Comer Park and Commercial streets. 63 P. & K. engine house, foot of Alder street. 64 Foot of Green street. 65 Opposite Palmer's on Grove street. 104 APPENDIX. LIST OF RESERVOIRS, WITH LOCATION AND NUMBER.

SO. SCUTTLEB. NO. SCUITLBB. 1 Cumberland, near North, 2 33 Cumberland, near Green, 3 2 North, near Melbourne, 3 34 Cumberland, near Preble 3 3 Cumberland, c. Lafayette, 1 35 Portland, c. Alder, 2 4 St. Lawrence, c. Monum't, 2 36 Portland, c. Green, 2 5 Atlantic, off Gilbert's lane, 2 37 Congress, opp. Casco, 2 6 Adams, near Waterville, 2 38 Free, c. Oak, 3 7 Newbury, near Mountfort, 2 39 Spring, c. South, 2 8 Middle, c. India, 2 40 Danforth, c. Maple, 2 9 Federal, c. Franklin, 2 41 Pleasant, c. Centre, 2 10 Cumberland, c. Franklin, 2 42 Cong., front Plym'th ch., 2 11 Congress, head India, 2 43 State, c. Congress, 1 12 Mayo, near Oxford, 2 44 Spring, c. Winter, 2 13 Cumb'd, near Washington, 3 45 Spring, c. Neal, 1 14 Hammond, near Fox, 2 46 Danforth, c. High, 3 15 Middle, near Franklin, 2 47 Danforth, near Clark, 2 16 Deer, near Middle, 3 48 Danforth, near Emery, 2 17 Silver, near Milk, 2 49 York, c. Tate, 3 18 Exchange, near Middle, 2 50 Park, c. Spring, 3 19 Plum, near Middle, 2 51 State, c. Danforth, 1 20 Union, near Middle, 2 52 Brackett, near Carleton, 3 21 Free, c. Centre, 2 53 Brackett, near Vaughan, 2 22 Market square, 2 54 Brackett, near Gray, 3 23 Congress, head Temple, 3 55 Clark, c. Spruce, 3 24 Federal, c. Exchange, 2 56 Emery, near Spruce, 2 25 Cumberland, c. Pearl, 3 57 Salem, c. Brackett, 3 26 Cumberland, c. Chestnut, 2 58 Portland, c. Weymouth, 3 27 Wilmot, c. Congress, 1 59 St. John, 2 28 Oxford, c. Cedar, 3 60 Lowell, c. Burnham, 2 29 Oxford, c. Pearl, 3 61 Sumner, c. Mountfort, 2 30 Com'cial head Long wharf, 2 62 Monroe, opp. Jail, 1 31 Com., head Widgery's wh'f 3 63 Merrill, c. Turner, 2 32 Preble, near Congress, 2 64 Vaughan, c. Pine, 2

IN BOABD or MAYOB AND ALDEBMEH, March 10, 1882. Received and ordered to be printed. Sent down. Attest : H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 10,1882. Received and ordered printed, in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFOBJJ WADE, Clerk. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.

OFFICE OF OVERSEERS OF POOR AND Amis HOUSE, j Portland, February 28th, 1882. \ To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Portland: GENTLEMEN :—Again the swiftly rolling tide of time brings us to the point at which it becomes our duty to submit to you our annual report, and we are again able to say that the tide of prosperity which prevented to a great extent dis­ tress and suffering during the year previous to our last report has continued to flow through all the channels of business during the past year, and has been the means of supplying labor almost uninterruptedly to that class of our population who otherwise would have been largely dependent upon public charity for their support. During the year we have been called to follow to his last resting place one of our associates in the person of William Huse, Esq., whose positive worth in all the departments of public business in which by his fellow citizens he was called to act, is too well known to make neces­ sary any extended commendation from our hands. Suffice it to say that in the duties he was called to perform as one of the overseers of the poor, he was faithful to his trust and though called suddenly we can bear witness to the statement, that while a co-laborer with us in caring for the poor and destitute, his work was well done. We have had during the most of the year but eleven members. J. E. Sturgis, Esq., having removed to a western city very soon after the begin- ing of the year, and his place has been vacant ever since. (7*) 106 APPENDIX.

Mr. Huse having two years to serve when his decease occurred his place was filled by the election of Frank E. Lovell, Esq., to serve out his unexpired term. PAUPERS OUTSIDE THE ALMS HOUSE. The whole number of families who have received aid in the several ways peculiar to our department are two hundred and six, less by twenty-two than the previous year. The number of persons contained in these families are seven hun­ dred and forty-eight, less by one hundred and twenty than the number mentioned in our last report, an actual decrease of outside paupers during the year of about fourteen per cent. Eighty-nine of the above are widows, quite a propor­ tion of them having quite large families of children who can do but little for the support of the families of which they form a part, but the most of them attend the public schools of the city. Fifty-six men with families have been sick and laid aside temporarily, or are too old and infirm for any kind of work by which they could secure a living. Nine have pauper settlement in other towns within the state and twenty- two have been helped because of the desertion of the father and husband. Seven have applied for and received aid on account of the intemperance of the husband and father, who were in jail for drunkenness, while thirteen have received aid but once or twice for the year when they were in an emergency, and ten have received medical aid only, during the sickness of the wife and mother of the family. The kind of aid rendered to all the above two hundred and six families is as follows : Fuel only, twenty-three ; provisions only, three; medical attendance and medicine only, sixty-nine ; (the same as last year) fuel and provisions, seventy-five ; fuel, provisions, med­ ical attendance and medicine, thirty-six, a decrease of eleven from last year. The nationality of above are, Irish one hundred and two ; American, fifty-five ; English, twenty-two ; French, three ; colored, seven; Scotch, five ; Danish and Portugese, three each ; German four, and Swedish two ; foreign one hundred fifty-one ; native, fifty-five. The aid to families and persons of fuel and provisions for each month, is as follows : REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR. 107

No. FAMILIES. No. PERSONS. March, 87 363 April, 57 244 May. 43 173 June, 24 91 July, 28 123 August, 25 89 September, 29 126 October, 39 151 November, 60 l.",l December, 70 311 January, 93 477 February, 87 358 The pauper settlement of those who have received aid out­ side the almshouse, is as follows : In the city, one hundred and forty-two ; in other towns in the state, eleven ; no settle­ ment in the State, fifty-three. The number of widows who have been aided is the same as last year, and although some have died, and others with their children have become self- supporting, others still, and that too mostly from without the State have taken their places in the ranks of public bene­ ficiaries. The supplies to the class denominated outside poor has been 245 feet of wood; 178,500 pounds of coal; 10,010 pounds of flour ; 2,509 pounds of pork; 2,509 pounds offish; 1,003 quarts of molasses ; 43 pounds of tea ; 170 pounds of sugar ; 170 pounds of rice ; 170 pounds of oat meal ; 170 dozen crackers. The last five articles have been delivered mostly to the sick, or to such old and infirm persons as could not procure them from their own scanty means. The number of prescriptions for medicines has been nine hundred and seventy-three (973,) and the cost of the same has been three hundred twenty-three and 44-100 dollars. The total cost for support of outside poor is as follows : Fuel wood, $214 25 " Coal, 580 12 Provisions, $72 72 Medicines, 323 44 Total cost, ?1,990 53 The Secretary as usual, has made frequent visits on the most of the families receiving this outside aid, to ascertain as far as possible, whether or not their circumstances de­ manded the frequent aid which they were receiving, and we think it but just to say that in most, if not all cases, their 108 APPENDIX.

condition was such as to require all the benefits they were receiving at our hands. Alms House. At the beginning of the year Mr. and Mrs. Renselltier Greely were elected for the second time as Master and Matron, and the general appearance and management of the house has been as generally satisfactory as in former years. It is a fact well known to us who have had supervis­ ion and oversight of the poor that now find their home there, that their physical and mental condition is such that they can do but little labor either in the house or on the farm, and as a consequence, we are obliged to hire more in the house than for any previous year that those longest on the board have ever known. This fact, gratifying as it is in the pros­ pective view can but increase the cost attending the care and support of those who in their advancing years can find no home only such as is provided for them at the public expense. The number of inmates in the Alms House and house of correction one year ago was one hundred and thirteen. The number admitted on account of poverty has been one hun­ dred and forty-one, and the number committed to the house of correction from the Municipal Court has been twenty; the number discharged one hundred and twenty-seven; ran away, fifty-one ; died, two; remaining at the present time ninety-four. The average number for the year is ninety-four. The total expense for the year has been #11,104.99. The average cost of each inmate per week, $2.27. This includes salaries of master and matron, chaplain and all other persons employed about the farm and in the house, and the cost of board of those who eat at the keeper's table, repairs on house, out buildings and fences and all bills connected with the management of the house and farm. Gredy Hospital.—This institution as in other years since it passed into the hands of the Overseers of the Poor has con­ tinued during the year past to be a home for those who had none, to which they could go when overtaken by sickness which rendered them incapable of labor, and nothing has been left undone by the Hospital Committee to make the con­ dition of its inmates as comfortable as their condition would allow; during the year some changes have occurred in its attendants made necessary by the failing health of some who REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF POOR. 109

for several years had faithfully performed the duties to which they were called, and in consequence of this, and the fact that the daily average number of patients has been seven more than any previous year since it has been under our con­ trol additional attendants have been necessarily employed and changes have had to be made in one ward, which has added to the aggregate expense of the hospital and to weekly cost of each patient about fifteen cents. Every bed is now oc­ cupied and there is a prospect that such will be the case for some time to come. All the attendants as in other years have done their best to make the treatment of the patients coming there as successful as possible, so far as the faithful performance of their several duties could make it such. The number of patients one year ago was thirty. The number admitted during the year past has been one hundred and thirty-nine. The number of berths, six. The number discharged, one hundred and seven ; died, twenty-five ; ran away, two ; remaining at present time, fortjr-one. The ag­ gregate expense for the year past, $4,331.07. The average number of patients has been thirty-two; average cost of each patient per week, '¥2.60. Insane Paupers.—The present number of insane persons supported at the Insane Hospital at the expense of the city is seventeen. The number one year ago was fifteen ; com­ mitted during the year, five ; discharged one ; died, two. Of the number remaining the expenses of three of them are paid to the City Treasurer by their friends, and one has no pauper settlement in the State, and when the Governor and Council are satisfied of such non settlement, the State will assume the burden of his support while he may remain there. The total cost for the insane during the year has been $1,861.84. We are now experiencing some difficulty in get­ ting certificates of insanity of persons who are to be sent to the hospital at the expense of the city, because of a suit now pending against several physicians for issuing such certificates relating to a person claiming to be of sound mind when they were issued. We are of the opinion however, that their alarm is without any foundation as we believe the result of the trial will show, and that the difficulty under which we now labor will be but temporary. Because of it however, 110 APPENDIX. we are compelled to pay a large additional price for one per. son at a private asylum, for whom we could not obtain the proper certificates to bring her case before the mayor and al­ derman for proper adjudication. Stipends.—We have during the year past, as for many for­ mer years, paid a small cash stipend quarterly, to a class of persons whom we believed to be worthy of the same. The number of persons receiving the above are fourteen, the same as reported last year; three have died during the year and three have been added; of the number added we have found it necessary to largely increase their aid beyond the number who have died, so that the amount paid during the financial year will be somewhat in excess of the previous year. The persons representing this kind of aid are twenty-eight, and the total amount paid and to be paid for the year will be 1864.72 and the average to each person, $30.88. Per Cent, of Pauperism.—The number of persons who have received aid in various ways during the year has been one thousand and ninety-six, less by one hundred and twenty- one than last year, or about three per cent, of the population of the city, a slight reduction from the previous year. Children at the House.—The year past we have provided homes for but nine children, four boys and five girls, and these we have every reason to believe have such homes as shall fit them for usefulness, for which they could not be fitted in the squalid poverty of their own homes, or the bane­ ful influences of a home in the alms house. One reason why so many less than other years have found their way to the alms house, is because of the law passed by the Legislature'of the winter of 1881, and because of the home provided by Dr. Devoll and others of the benevolent ladies of our city near the West End, where quite a number of these unfortunate children have been furnished a comfortable home with all its attendant surroundings. Tramps and State Paupers.—The persons who travel from place to place, claiming to seek employment ,have not ma­ terially lessened during the year, and the persistence of which some of them press their claims to public support immediate­ ly on their arrival, would be worthy of all praise if it were employed in doing something by which they might gain an REPORT OF OVERSEEKS OP POOK. Ill honest support. In some few instances, humanity dictated that we should provide for them for a short time, which we have done and then sent them away under the Statute, and without expense to the city. Of this class of persons we have sent away, sixty-five, and the saving in transporta­ tion alone, has been one hundred and seventy-two dollars, to say nothing of what it might have cost had they remained in the city for a year or more, after their arrivcl here. We have sent away two at the expense of the city who came here more than a year ago, some of whom had received aid after being here one year, and some coming here by no route by which we could send them out of the state, as we did in the other case twenty-five persons, at an expense of one hundred eight and 68-100 dollars. Of the fifty-three families who have re­ ceived outside aid, the most of them landed here from Europe, some of them perhaps twenty years ago, but have never been here five successive years, without receiving more or less public aid which have prevented their acquiring settlement here, and if they should chance to remove to some other place within the state, that place would have to aid them, should they seek aid at the public expense, and this is the en­ couraging feature in regard to them, a feature very gratify­ ing to us when we receive notice from other towns and are able to show by our records that in all the years in which some of them claimed to have lived here, they have not made us liable for their support elsewhere within the state. The Farm.—The Farming Committee, as in other years, have striven to make this as great a success as is possible under the circumstances, and have made it available for the raising of such products as were suited to the use of the house and hospital, and a considerable quantity of such ar­ ticles as are an actual necessity have been produced, which has very materially lessened what would otherwise have been necessary to obtain by cash purchases only. The cash income however, has not been as large as last year from the fact that there was no market for sugar beets, and our efforts to make up the deficiency by raising sweet corn for packing purposes, did not prove so remunerative so far as cash income was con­ cerned, as did the sugar beets. The amount however which has come into the hands of the 112 APPENDIX.

Treasurer of the Board has been $485.91, less than last year by $398.50, a few dollars more than the amount received last year for sugar beets. The remainder of farm products are used in the house and hospital and for feeding the stock on the farm, and here it may be well to say that quite a saving as to cash purchases has been made by the raising of about three hundred and twenty-five bushels of oats, which has been, and will be used for feeding the stock employed in the necessary work on the farm and for the house. The grounds back of the hospital have been graded and laid down to grass, thereby greatly improving the surroundings of the hospital, and making available quite an area of land, which before was wholly unproductive, and the work has all been done by the inmates of the house. The estimated value of these improve­ ments are as follows :— By inmates of the house, $300 00 " teams on the farm, 100 00 " cash income from farm, 485 91 Total value of improvements and cash income,. . $855 91 Chaplain.—Rev. W. T. Phelan, has filled this position dur­ ing the year, and to say that he has as in former years done his duties faithfully is saying enough, as all who have known will bear abundant testimony. City Physician.—George H. Cummings, M. D., was at the beginning of the year, elected a second time to this office, and, as in the previous year, his work has been well done, meriting very generally the the approval of the board and of the committee who have had charge of the hospital. Work on Streets, etc.—The ill success attending our efforts in employing men with families to work on streets, and the further fact that we had no work to give such this year, has prevented us from employing any during the past winter and the result has been that it has cost us no more to aid what few applied for aid, than it has cost in other years, when we have given such applicants employment, for in quite a num­ ber if not in the majority of the men so employed, their calls were so frequent and their work so interrupted, that in the spring they would owe enough more than what all their labor amounted to, that we did not think it advisable to continue the practice longer. We have however employed the teams BEPOET OF OVEE3EEKS OP POOE. 113 on the farm, and the men who were inmates of the house, in working for the Committee on Cemetries and public grounds to the following extent: 8£ days, one yoke oxen, $ 21 25 9 days, one pair horses, 31 50 54 days, work of men, 54 00 Total, $106 75 Associated Charities.—This organization has seemed to possess more vigorous life during the past year, than any other since its organization. It has extended its area of labor to such an extent in providing for quite a class of per­ sons dependent upon either public or private charity, as to give great hope for its future. It lias materially aided all charitable organizations who have sought its aid in prevent­ ing imposition upon the charity they had to bestow. We hope for its future success and that its ultimate result will be to drive all imposters to some other means of obtaining a livelihood, than by preying upon either pubic or private charity for their subsistence. Expenditures from April 1st, 1881, to March 1st, 1882. Subsistence, including out-door supplies, and family of keeper and Greely Hospital $ 0,274 58 Repairs on house, out-buildings and fences, including labor, lumber, paints and oils, and hardware 611 39 Repairs on Greely Hospital, including labor, lumber, paints and oils, and hardware 360 50 Repairs on clothing and bedding, including bills for boots, shoes, leather, dry goods and straw 1,304 50 Repairs on furniture, stoves, &c 4'.)1 ;>1 Fuel for house, hospital and outside distribution 1,903 03 Insane paupers, including expenses to Augusta 1,309 64 Blacksmith work, repairs on carts, carriages, &c 101 05 Repairs on harnesses, blankets, &c 22 26 Exchange and purchase of stock on farm 12 00 Wooden ware, seeds, &c 109 02 Paupers in other towns in the State 8o 40 Grain, meal, shorts, &c • • • • "12 06 Medicines, including prescriptions to outside patiens, 573 97 Baker at the house 461 25 Work on the farm and help in house -•>'•'• 57 Repairs on steam works ","' 1 Burial of paupers, including lumber, &c. for coffins. . 8!) 83 Transportation of paupers out of State X Traveling expenses r rr Kerosene oil for lighting house and hospital 10o 00 114 APPENDIX.

Care of sick outside of hospital 57 14 Master and Matron of Alms house 600 00 Nurses and cooks in hospital 820 59 Chaplain 112 50 Horse and ox teamsters 672 00 Engineer of steam works 390 00 Secretary and treasurer 675 00 Stipends • 488 72 Miscellaneous expenses, including stationary, printing, consulting physicians, store-house clerk, &c 294 21

18,585 19 Estimated amount of bills for March, which makes the balance of appropriation 3,414 81

Making the total cost for the year $22,000 00 From which the following items may be deducted: Estimated cash income paid and to be paid City Treasurer for the year $1,400 00 Work in Deering's Oaks 106 75 1,506 75

Estimated net cash for financial year. . . . $20,493 25 The above statement shows increased aggregate expenditures over last year, which is accounted for in the lessened cash income and the lesser amount of work done on streets, &c, together with the in­ creased cost of all necessary supplies and more extended repairs on the buildings under our care. Accompanying this report we submit statement showing the Alms house and Hospital furniture and sup­ plies in the aggregate, and the stock and farming tools, together with the products of the farm, income, &c, in detail. Respectfully submitted, SEWALL LANG, Chairman. CHARLES H. BAKER, Secretary.

Alms House furniture and supplies on hand $7,429 22 Greely Hospital furniture and supplies on hand $1,835 70 REPOET OF OVEESEEES OF POOE. 115

STOCK AND FARMING TOOLS.

Two horses 300 00 600 00 Two horses 125 250 One Yoke Oxen 175 One Bull o.j Six Cows 50 3uo Nine Hogs 18 i@2 One Grind Stone y Twenty-three hens 50 11 50 Nine scythes and snathes 1 25 11 25 Twenty rakes 35 7 Five drag rakes 50 2 50 Five garden rakes 80 I Seven ladders 3 21 Four step ladders 2 50 10 Ten shovels 75 7 50 Ten wood saws and horses 1 12A 11 25 Thirty-four hay, garden and manure forks 75 25 50 Five pick axes 1 25 6 25 Five pick handles 20 1 Three sledge hammers 2 50 7 50 Two stone hammers 1 50 3 One paving hammer 1 Three axes 50 1 50 Twelve manure hoes 75 9 Two fodder cutters 50 1 One patent fire ladder 100 Four binding ropes 50 2 Five wheelbarrows 1 75 S 75 Fifteen hoes 65 9 75 Five iron bars 2 25 11 25 One lawn mower 15 Two spades 75 1 50 Nine yokes and bows 5 45 Nine chains 3 27 One horse cart 125 Nine sleds 15 I35 Two wagons 80 One express wagon and top 125 One sleigh 30 Two pungs 125 Six sickles 50 3 One jigger 200 One jigger lfi2 50 Three single harnesses 20 60 One set leading harnesses 4 Three sets double hornesses 45 135 Eight ploughs 1° 80 Four cultivators 5 20 116 APPENDIX.

Two seed sowers 2 25 Three harrows 8 Four hay racks 10 One Mowing Machine One horse rake • One " " One set joiners tools One set shoemakers tools Four ox carts 60 One night cart Two pairs wheels 20 One horse fork and rigging One hay knife One winnowing machine One tackle and fall One patent augur and spoon One hundred and sixty lights glass 8 Twenty pounds putty 6 One hundred twenty-five pounds white lead 8 Two quarts shellac 35 Half gallon coach varnish 1 23 Five gallons oil 65 Three gallons spirits turpentine 50 Two hundred feet planed boards 6 Four pounds yellow ochre 10 Half bale excelsior Six oil cans 50 Two grass hooks 50 Sixteen old chests and trunks Two cleavers 50 One pump and pipe One stove in joiner's shop One bush scythe and snath One pair garden shears One fountain Fifty pounds nails 4i One hundred and fifty lbs. steel wedges, drills and shims, 25 One two-horse wood cart One snow plow One stone drag Two street lanterns and fixtures , Seventy cords manure 4 Forty-nine tons hay 17 Seven and three-fourths tons straw 15 One ton salt hay House on Weymouth street One hearse Three sleigh robes, blankets, &c One hospital carriage REPORT OF OVERSEERS OP POOR. 117

CROPS PRODUCED ON FARM, INCOME, ETC. Eighty-five tons hay 17 1,44.5 Fifteen tons straw 12 180 Three hundred and twenty-eight bushels oats 55 180 40 One calf 4 50 Six hundred bushels potatoes 05 5T0 Twenty barrels apples 3 50 TO Twenty bushels pears 1 20 Sixty-five bushels onions 1 05 Eight tons sugar beets 6 48 Two tons blood beets 15 30 Two tons carrots 15 30 One thousand heads cabbage 12 120 Fifty bushels Y. E. beans 3 25 1G2 50 Two thousand pounds pork 11 220 Asparagus, strawberries, cucumbers, peas ifec 80 One ton squash 40 Ten bushels cranberry beans 3 25 32 50 Three hundred pounds butter 35 105 Three thousand two hundred eighty-two gallons milk 16 525 12 Seventy-five dozen eggs 25 18 75 Five tons corn fodder 12 00 Sweet corn 125 Rent of house on Weymouth street 25 Barrels, hhds., farm products etc., sold 384 44 Due from and received from other towns for supplies 813 21 Total ¥5,354 42 118 APPENDIX.

ANNUAL REPORT

OF THE CITY MARSHAL.

CITY MARSHAL'S OFFICE, ) Portland, February 28th, 1882. j

To the Honorable Mayor and Aldermen, of the City of Port­ land : GENTLEMEN :—I have the honor to submit this, my sixth annual report of the doing of the Police department, showing briefly the condition of the force, and a synopsis as the work done by it during the year ending Feb. 28th, 1882. ORGANIZATION. City Marshal, 1 Deputy " 2 Day Patrolmen, 9 Night Patrolmen, 24 Day Turnkey, 1 Night Turnkey, 1 Total, - - 38 CHANGES IN THE FORCE. There have been two changes in the force during the year. Officer Benj. Miles as I stated in my last report, resigned his office, June 5th, 1880. This vacancy was not filled until last March, when Granville Frank was appointed to fill the va­ cancy. Officer Frank has proved himself a very able and worthy member of the force. Officer Benj. Gribben, resigned his office on the day force July 5, and the vacancy has not yet been filled. REPORT OF CITY MARSHAL. 119

NAME AND RANK OF OFFICERS. City Marshal, Cyrus K. Bridges. Deputy " James M. Black. " Jesse H. Crowell. DAY PATROLMEN. Luther A. Sterling, Benj. Burnhani, Benj. W. Stover, Charles W. Hanson, Alonzo F. Harmon, John F. Langmaid, Ruel N. Field, Joseph H. Rice, Whitmore R. Garland. NIGHT PATROLMEN. Oliver A. Skillings. William S. Mor.-e, Winslow Lawton, Charles W Stevens, Horace S. Pride, Alexander Bell, Caleb K. Newcomb, Israel Hicks. Thomas S. Steele, Charles P Covell, Edward K. Heath, Joseph B. Warren, Geo. F. Harmon, William J. McCallum, Geo. H. (Jill, Frank Merrill, Joseph A. Fickett, Ellory \V. Rowe, David Y. Harris, Levi S. Pennell, John Massure, Granville Frank, Wilmot G. Jackson, Daniel O. Mclntire. Day Turnkey, Freeman T. Merrill. JSfiyht " Oliver II. Davis.

SICKNESS IX THE FORCE. Our sick record shows that there has been more sickness in the force during the past year, than has ever before oc­ curred in any two years since the force was organized, but I am glad to report that all those who have been sick, except two, have fully recovered and are now on duty.

CASUALTIES. Officer Levi S. Pennell, on the 16th day of last August, while attempting to get upon a horse car while said car was in motion, slipped and fell upon the track in such a manner as that both wheels passed over his leg just above the ankle, breaking both bones of the leg, very badly. A week later gangrene set in, causing amputation necessary. 120 APPENDIX.

NUMBER OF ARRESTS AND FOK WHAT CAUSE. Assault and battery 134 Assault on police officer 1 Affray 30 Adultery 5 Arson attempt at 2 Breaking and entering 39 Bastardy 3 Blackmailing 1 Common drunkards 11 Cruelty to child 1 Cruelty to animals 2 Drunkenness 589 Drunkenness and disturbance 855 Disturbing religeous meetings 4 Disturbing public school 1 Deserters 7 Embezzlement 2 Enticeing female from home 1 Evading fare 7 Forger}' . 2 Insane 18 Illegal transportation of liquor 4 Indecent exposure of person 4 Interfering with officer 1 Incest 1 Keeping house of ill-fame 7 Larceny 150 Larceny attempt at 1 Malicious mischief 41 Maintaining a nuisance 4 Night walking 5 Obtaining liquor by false pretences 3 Obtaining goods " " " 3 Open shop on the Lord's day 9 Passing counterfeit money 1 Polygamy 1 Perjury 1 Rape ,,. 1 Receiving stolen goods 2 Running away from home 22 Running away from city house of correction. 2 REPORT OF CITY MARSHAL. 121

Bobbery g Search and Seizure 154 Single sale 21 gelling liquor 7 Sabbath breaking 3 Suspicions of larceny g Suspicions of breaking and entering 3 Surrendered by bondsman 1 Truancy 12 Tramps 3 Using obscene language 1 Vagrants 46

2,336 Males 2,093 Females 243

2,336 VIOLATION OF CITY ORDINANCES. Allowing hogs to run at large 1 Allowing goats " " " " 2 Bathing within city limits 4 Allowing cows to run at large 2 Depositing rubbish in the street G Driving team without license 10 Discharging fire arms in city limits 1 Coasting on side-walk 1 Past driving 3 Keeping dog without a license 1 Keeping hogs within the limits 1 Obstructing the side walk 15 Playing bat and ball in the street 1 Resisting Police Officer 10 Shouting on the street ~'o Snowballing on the street 10 Throwing stones on the street 5

2,336 DISPOSITION OF THOSE ARRESTED. Taken before the Municipal Court l,47o Discharged without complaint 66^ Discharged by consent of complainant HI Delivered to officers out. of town "" (8*) 122 APPENDIX.

Delivered to United States officers 1 Delivered to Sheriff of Cumberland Co 15 Delivered to constables in the city 4 Delivered to truant officer 9 Delivered to officers on board ship 3 Committed to county jail to await action of grand jury 4 Committed to City house of Correction 14 Committed to county jail by order of court 7 Committed " " " " request of bondsman 1 Returned to their homes out of town 9

2,336 NATIVITY. Ireland 1,240 British Americans 15 United States 904 North Am. Indians 21 England 40 Colored Americans 31 France 2."> Greece 1 Germany ' 11 Italy 4 Scotland 11 Spain 3 Sweeden 16 AVales 2 Norway 1 Russia 2

2,336 TRAMPS AND LODGERS. The number of persons applying to us for lodgings during the past year, has been four hundred and sixty-one. NATIVITY. United States, . . 198 Colored Americans, 21 Ireland, .... 195 No. American Indians, 2 England, ... 21 British Americans, . 4 Scotland, ... 7 Sweden, ... 1 German}-, . . . .1 Russia, . . .1 France, .... 7 461 The table below shows the number of arrests for each month during the past three municipal years: 1882. 1881. 1880. March 175 209 146 April, 227 166 182 May, 189 156 174 June, 205 145 191 July, 222 188 217 REPORT OF CITY MARSHAL. 123

August, 287 168 222 September, 203 204 221 October, 199 163 223 November, 149 192 200 December, 184 147 16.5 January, 140 161 162 February, 156 165 110

2,336 2,065 2,213 STOLEN PROPERTY RECOVERED. The whole amount of stolen property recovered and re­ stored to owners, is two thousand two hundred and five dol­ lars. This amount is nearly all that has been reported to us as having been stolen. I think the records of the past year should be very gratifying, as no serious breach of the peace has occurred, and no extensive robberies. I claim that Port­ land has as faithful and efficient a police force as can be found anywhere in New England. LICENSES. The whole amount of money collected for licenses on hacks and drays, during the year, is two thousand four dollars and twenty-five cents ($2,004.25,) which amount I have paid over to the aldermen. MISCELLANEOUS. Stores found open and secured, 410 Stray teams found and put up, 39 Lost children found and taken home, 71 Fire Alarms given by police, 4 Sick and mad dogs killed, 6 Respectfully submitted, CYRUS K. BRIDGES, City 3Iar»hal.

IN BOARD OF MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, March 10, 1882. Received and ordered to be printed. Sent down. Attest : H. I. ROBINSON, City Clerk.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 10, 1882. Received and ordered printed, in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk. 124 APPENDIX.

ANNUALREPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF STREETS.

OFFICE OF COMMISSIONEE OF STBEETS, ) POETLAND, March 1,1882. ) To the Honorable Mayor and City Council: GENTLEMEN :—I have the honor to submit the following report of the operations of the Street Department, from April 1st, 1881, to March 1st, 1882. The amounts expended are as follows: Stables and Teams. Grain, hay and straw $4,007 16 Carts, sleds and repairs of 652 64 Harnesses and repairs of 482 47 Shoeing 394 74 Horses and exchange 1,065 00 Stable utinsils 13 11 Medicine and attendance 81 40 Miscellaneous 405 75 Pay roll teamsters 10,016 15 Total $17,118 42 Labor and Materials. Pay roll laborers $16,887 00 Tools and repairs of 598 67 Curbstone and freight 270 60 Crossing stone 80 00 Paving stone (cobble) and wharfage 377 13 Paving stone (granite block) freight and wharfage 7,095 01 Bricks 2,258 00 Paving and setting curbstone 3,155 70 Concrete walk and repairs 326 05 Bridges, repairs &c 2,262 34 Gravel and sand 190 80 Lumber for streets 427 24 Carpentry, nails &c 464 76 Carried forward, $34,393 30 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF STREETS. 125

Brought forward, $34,393 30 Mason work, stone cutting &c 170 60 Crusher 359 93 Iron work 4 94 Blasting 1,483 75 Drain pipe 32 34 Miscellaneous 157 86 Total $37,046 97 Amount of appropriation 50,000 00 Transfer from fire department 7,500 00 57,500 00 Amount expended to date 54,165 39 Balance $3,334 61

The following is the amount of labor and team work and materials for each street, viz: Anderson St. Labor and team work, 41 03 Materials, 24 00 $65 03 Arsenal St. Labor and team work, 117 95 Materials, 224 00 341 95 Atlantic St. Labor and team work, 15 30 Avon St. Labor and team work, 9 65 Blasting, 14 25 Materials, 27 00 50 90 Beckett St. Labor and team work, 7 75 Brackett St. Labor and team work, 256 61 Materials, 69 50 326 11 Brown St. Labor and team work, 16 00 Materials, 15 00 31 00 Carleton St. Labor and team work, 75 54 Materials, 16 25 91 79 Cedar St. Labor and team work, 59 05 Materials, 93 00 152 05 Center St. Labor and team work, 361 48 Materials, 786 20 Blasting, 35 87 1,183 55 Cherry St. Labor and team work, 11 00 Church St. Labor and team work, 11 30 Materials, 9 00 20 30 Clark St. Labor and team work, 190 00 Cleaves St. Labor and team work, 36 50 Cotton St. Labor and team work, 20 00 Commercial St. Labor and team work, 494 62 Materials, 93 00 587 62 Congress St. Labor and team work, 3,645 54 Materials, 6,142 14 9,787 68 126 APPENDIX.

Cross St. Labor and team work, $ 42 25 Cumberland St. Labor and team work, 273 33 Blasting, 13 75 Materials, 107 50 394 60 Cushman St. Labor and team work, 4 50 Materials, 21 50 26 00 Danforth St. Labor and team work, 212 74 Materials, 86 00 298 74 Dow St. Labor and team work, 54 67 Materials, 15 00 69 67 Everett St. Labor and team work, 9 75 Exchange St. Labor and team work, 55 17 Materials, 143 00 198 17 Federal St. Labor and team work, 91 34 Fore St. Labor and team work, 246 52 Blasting, 57 00 Materials, 87 00 390 50 Franklin St. Labor and team work, 449 45 Materials, 455 25 904 70 Free St. Labor and team work, 59 45 Materials, 123 25 182 70 Grant St. Labor and team work, 699 00 Materials, Green St. Labor and team work, 15 00 714 00 Materials, 162 27 Greenleaf St. Labor and team work, 102 00 264 27 Grove St. Labor and team work, 1 25 Materials, 3 50 Hammond St. Labor and team work, 17 00 20 50 Hanover St. Labor and team work, 7 75 9 22 Howard St. Labor and team work, 13 00 High St. Labor and team work, 83 45 Materials, 35 00 118 45 India St. Labor and team work, 54 00 Kennebec St. Labor and team work, 329 50 Lafayette St. Labor and team work, 22 00 Materials, 22 00 44 00 Laurel St. Labor and team work, 7 90 Materials, 7 80 15 70 Madison St. Labor and team work, 7 75 Maple St. Labor and team work, 27 25 Market St. Labor and team work, 7 75 Ma.rston St. Labor and team work, 118 00 Mayo St. Labor and team work, 7 70 Mellen St. Labor and team work, 50 85 Materials, 4 00 54 85 BEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF STREETS. 127

Merrill St. Labor and team work, $ 15 50 Middle St. Labor and team work, 444 50 Materials, 831 58 1,276 08 Monroe St. Labor and team work, 4 63 Monument St. Labor and team work, 62 37 Materials, 22 00 84 37 MONTREAL ST. Labor and team work, 05 25 MOODY ST. Labor and team work, 60 00 MOULTON ST. Labor and team work, 44 00 Materials, 25 00 69 00 MOTTNTFORT ST. Labor and team work, 20 75 MUNJOY ST. Labor and team work, 44 05 MYRTLE ST. Labor and team work, 208 30 Materials, 340 12 548 42 Newbury St. Labor and team work, 17 25 Materials, 17 34 34 59 Neal St. Labor and team work, 25 00 Materials, 21 00 46 00 North St. Labor and team work, 80 25 Owford St. Labor and team work, 146 98 Materials, 17 60 164 48 Park St. Labor and team work, 926 75 Materials, 881 25 Blasting, 190 00 1,998 00 Parris St. Labor and team work, 5 25 Pine St. Labor and team work, 98 12 Materials, 25 00 Pearl St. Labor and team work, 580 51 Materials, 1031 90 123 12 Blasting, 420 75 2,033 16 Portland St. Labor and team work, 93 42 Materials, 85 00 178 42 Preble St. Labor and team work, 150 12 Materials, 145 00 295 12 Plum St. Labor and team work, 30 50 QUEBEC ST. Labor and team work, 16 75 QurtfCY ST. Labor, 1 25 Materials, 8 00 9 25 SALEM ST. Labor and team work, 2 50 SHERMAN ST. Labor and team work, 23 50 Materials, 5 00 28 50 SILVER ST. Labor and taam work, 45 70 Materials, 65 70 111 40 SMITH ST. Labor and team work, 15 00 Materials, 40 00 55 00 SHERIDAN ST. Labor and team work, 7 75 128 APPENDIX.

SPUING ST. Labor and team work, 1 83 OS SOMERSET ST. Labor and team work, 8 00 STATE ST. Labor and team work, 771 82 Materials, 579 58 Blasting, 265 75 1,617 15 ST. JOHN ST. Labor and team work, 380 10 Materials, 361 50 741 60 ST. LAWRENCE ST . Labor and team work, 1 25 SUMMER ST. Labor and team work, 31 75 Materials, 15 00 46 75 TAYLOR ST. Labor and team work, 30 50 TEMPLE ST. Labor and team work, 21 10 TURNER ST. Labor and team work, 6 50 TYNG ST. Labor and team work, 3 50 UNION ST. Labor and team work, 5 25 Materials, 20 00 25 25 VAUGHAN ST. Labor and team work, 28 00 WALNUT ST. Labor and team work, 6 50 WASHINGTON ST. Labor and team work, 227 11 Materials, 29 20 Concrete walk and rep'rs , 326 05 582 36 WATERVILLE ST. Labor and team work, 6 50 WEST ST. Labor and team work, 37 50 WILLIS ST. Labor and team work, 7 75 WILMOT ST. Labor and team work, 87 92 Materials, 63 00 150 92 WINTER ST. Labor and team work, 67 50 Materials, 113 00 180 50 YORK ST. Labor and team work, 140 00 VARIOUS STS. Labor and team work, 651 12 Materials, 895 64 1,546 76 ISLAND AVE. Paid C. & H. Trefethen, 13 50 Labor, &c, 3 00 16 50 CRUSHING STONE. Labor and team work, (includ'g engineer,) 868 87 Machine work, etc., 127 32 Materials and fuel, 220 93 1,217 12 CLEANING STS., GUTTERS, ETC., Labor and team work, 5,607 31 CLEANING CULVERTS, Labor and team work, 967 00 SCREENING AND CARTING SAND. Labor and team work, 2,512 82 SANDING WALKS. Labor and team work, 79 50 MOVING ICE AND SNOW. Labor and team work, 1,352 62 FIRE DEPARTMENT . Hauling apparatus, etc., 7,500 00 MlSCELLANEONS WORK. Labor and team work, 1,401 12 REPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF STREETS. 129

BRIDGES. VAUGHAN'S BRIDGE. Materials, 392 37 Paid J. S. Libby bill repairs, 425 34 Tending draw, 458 26 1,275 97 TUKEY'S BRIDGE. Labor and team work, 163 87 Materials, 191 54 Paid J. S. Libby bill of repairs, 435 56 Tending draw, 300 00 Smith work &c, 20 8so6 1,111 S3 STROUD WATER BRIDGE. Labor and team work, 7 12 Materials, 81 68 Paid D. Frazier, 6 00 " "Walter Fickett, 3 00 " W. Libby, carpentry, 44 25 142 05 CLARK STREET BRIDGE. J. S. Libby bill repairs, 106 38 Materials, 209 72 316 10 PAVEMENTS. There have been laid the past year, 14,954 yards stone pavement, viz: Granite block pavement roadway, 7,804 yards Cobble stone " " 586 " " " new gutter, 2,734 " " " " crossings, 516 " " " repairs " 435 « " " " gutter, 1,084 " " " " streets, 1,195 Macadamized pavement, 5,455

Total, 20,409 " CURBSTONE. There have been set and re-set, 5,250 feet, viz: Set, 2,388 ft. Re-set, 2,862 ft. 5,250 ft. SIDEWALKS. There have been laid and re-laid, 7,203 feet, making 8,011 yards, viz: Brick walk laid, 2,236 ft. 2,625 yds. " "re-laid, 4,967 " 5,386 " Number of new brick laid, 212,900 " " « « patching, 12,100 225,000 " « old " re-laid, 165,500 Total, 390,500 130 APPENDIX.

SCHEDULE OF PROPERTY IN CHARGE OF COMMISSIONER OF STREETS. 1 Stone crusher and engine. 1 Screw driver. 1 Street sweeper. 1 Cross cut saw. 1 Stump lifter. 1 Post auger. 1 Street roller (iron). 1 Scythe. 2 Stone rollers. 2 Paving pounders. 1 Derrick. 2 Hand saws. 25 Horses. 1 Spirit level. 9 Double wheel carts. 1 Grindstone. 5 Single " " 1 Square. 9 Double cart sleds. 1 Auger. 4 Single " " 2 Rakes. 1 Ax. 1 Jigger. 1 Iron pump. 2 Pung sleighs. 6 Tool boxes. 1 Lumber cart. 6 Steel wedges. 16 Sets double harness. 10 Buckets. 13 " single " 1 Copper kettle. 5 " lead 8 " " reins. 2 Powder cans. 5 " " bars. 6 Wheelbarrows. 4 " whiffletrees. 5 Sand screens. 4 Spare hames. 2 Stoves and funnel. 4 Surcingles. 10 Stone hammers. 40 Blankets. 30 Picks. 7 Spare collars. 1 Pickpole. 5 Hoods. 2 Spades. 18 Combs. 2 Short handled forks. 4 Brushes (horse). 50 Feet hose. 8 Dust brushes. i Barrel harness dressing. 29 Cast wrenches. 5 Gallons oil and can. 7 " jacks, 1 Cask spikes. 8 Stall hooks. 1 M. lumber. 1 Harness punch. 1,300 tons rough stone. 12 Grain boxes. 500 tons Paving stone. 6 Crow bars. 520 Yards granite paving blocks. 18 Brushes. 100 Feet curbstone, 2d hand. 1 Hay cutter. 250 Feet crossing stone. 7 Brooms. i Barrel oil (black). 4 Stable lamps. 4 Bars soap. 4 Chains. i Dozen lamp chimneys. fi Lanterns. 13 Oil cans. 4 Lantern globes. 7 Folks. 1 Basket. 60 Shovels. 2 Hand carts. 2 Monkey wrenches. 1 Barrel of cement. 30 Hoes. Respectfully submittedi Barre, l kerosene oil. 5 Grub axes. Crushed stone $ 160 00 5 Face hammers. HANSOSand Nan dS .grave CLAYr , 2,000 00 3 Hatchets. Hay Commissioner of Streets.140 00 Straw 30 00

IN COMMON COUNCIL, I March 6, 1882. J Read, and accepted, and ordered printed in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADB, City Clerk. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY SOLICITOR.

CITY SOLICITOR'S OFFICE. ) Portland February 28th, 1882. j To the Honorable City Council of Portland : I have the honor to submit the following report of legal matters, in which the city has been interested during the municipal year. At the date of the last annual report, Feb. 28th, 1881, the following cases were pending in court: The City of Portland, in equity vs. The P. & R. Railr'd Co. George D. B. Witham, vs. The City of Portland. Bridget Welsh, vs. Same. City of Portland, vs. Samuel Lawrence, et al. The Inhs. of North Yarmouth, vs. The City of Portland. William Alexander, vs. Same. John Donahue, vs. Same. Solomon R. Hawes, vs. Same. Since the date of the last report the following suits have been commenced: Maurice Cummings, vs. The City of Portland. State by indictment, vs. Same. Sylvan Shurtleff, vs. Same. Thomas C. Elwell, vs. Same. City of Portland, vs. Wm. K. Staples. vs. The At. & St. L. R'd Co. •' " vs. Same. The City of Portland, in eq., vs. the Portland and Rochester Railroad Co. The city has only a nominal interest in this suit, and the proceedings connected with it, having sold its inter­ est in the railroad in 1879. George D. B. Witham vs. The City of Portland. This was an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by reason of an alleged defect in the sidewalk on Milk street. The case was tried at the November term of the Superior Court, 1879; the jury then gave a verdict for the plaintiff of $6,500.; the case was then taken to the Law Court on several important 132 APPENDIX. questions of law. Since my last report the Law Court have decided the principal questions involved in the case in favor of the city, and have established a very important legal pre­ cedent in this class of cases. The city has judgement against the plaintiff; and the case is at an end. Bridget Welsh vs. The City of Portland. This is an action to recover for personal injuries sustained by reason of an al­ leged defect on Cotton street. The case was tried at the last May term of the Superior Court, when the jury disagreed and the ease has not been tried since. The City of Portland vs. Samuel Lawrence, et al. This case was fully reported in the last report. The defendant did not carry his motion to the Law Court, and judgment has been given upon the verdict. The Inlialitants of North Yarmouth vs. The City of Port­ land. This case was pending at my last report. It involved the question of the power of an emancipated minor to acquire a pauper settlement in his own right by residence. It was argued at the Law Court last July ; the court gave judgment in favor of the city. The cases William Alexander and John Donahue vs. The City of Portland were fully reported in my last report. They were adjusted by recommendation of the Committee on Judic­ ial Affairs and Claims. Solomon R. Hawes vs. The City of Portland. This is an action to recover for injuries resulting from an alleged defect in Oak street. The case has not yet been reached for trial. Maurice Cummings vs. The City of Portland. This was an action to recover for injuries sustained by reason of an alleged defect in the sidewalk on Middle street near Franklin street. Only a small amount was involved in the matter; and the case was adjusted by recommendation of the Committee on Judicial Affairs and Claims. State, hy indictment vs. The City of Portland. This is an indictment against the city, presented at the last September term of the Superior Court for creating a nuisance by deposit ing offal at the outfall of the sewer near Union wharf. The case has not come up for trial. It is quite probable that all litigation may be stopped by the carying out of a proposed plan with reference to sewers on Commercial street. REPORT OF CITY SOLICITOR. 133 Sylvan Shurtleff vs. The City of Portland. This is an ac­ tion of damages arising from the same state of facts alleged in the indictment. The action is just entered in Court and is not yet in order for trial. Thomas C. Elwell vs. The City of Portland. This is an ac­ tion for the recovery of damages sustained by reason of an alleged defect in Stroudwater bridge. The case is not yet entered in Court. The City of Portland vs. William K. Staples. This is an action of assumpsit for rent due to the city. I do not know that there is any defence set up by the defendant. The City of Portland vs. The At. £ St. Lawrance Railroad Co. These two actions are in covenant broken, for default in paying the interest upon the bonds of the city, issued in per- suance of an agreement between the city and the defendant company, dated Oct. 31, 1868, for the extension of the debt of the company to the city. The railroad company claim that the full amount of the unsatisfied obligations and in­ debtedness of the company to the city has been tendered to the city. The position of the city is that the acceptance of any such tender would not be within the terms of the agree­ ment and of the acts of the Legislature which led to the agreement, the debt not having matured and the proposed payment being obviously to the great detriment of the city in the matter of interest. One of the suits is brought for the default in payment in May and the other suit, for the default in payment in November. The cases will probably be reported to the Law Court and will be fully argued in July. Thus a judicial interpretation of the above mentioned agre­ ement and statutes will soon be obtained from the court. The docket is now nearly relieved of city cases requiring a jury trial. Probably not more than two or three of the cases above enumerated will require to be so tried. At the date of the last report proceedings by certain bond­ holders of the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad, by a bill in equity, had been commenced in the U. S. Circuit Court in New Hampshire. The rights of the city have not yet been involved in those proceedings. A demurrer was filed by the Railroad Company and has just been sustained by the court. There is nothing required of the city at present in the prem­ ises, but it may be necessary, at some future stage of the proceedings, for the city to intervene to protect its interests. Very Respectfully, CLARENCE HALE, City Solicitor. 134 APPENDIX.

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BURIALS.

OFFICE OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF BURIALS, ) March 1, 1882. j To the Honorable City Council of the City of Portland : The undersigned, Superintendent of Burials, herewith sub­ mits the following report: The whole number of deaths in the city during the muni­ cipal year ending February 28th, 1882, have been six hundred and ninety-one, (691). Died away and brought here for in­ terment, one hundred and sixty-four, (164). Total, eight hundred and fifty-five, (855), from the following causes, viz: Abcess 2 Liver complaint 6 Accident 14 Lung, disease of 18 Asthma 3 Lung fever 12 Alcoholism 1 Measles 24 Apoplex}' 6 Neuralgia 1 Bilious fever 1 Necrosis 1 Bladder, disease of 6 Nervous prostration 1 Blood poison 3 Old age 46 Bowels, disease of 7 Pneumonia 46 Brain, disease of 7 Paralysis 48 Bright's disease 11 Pentonitis 1 Cancer 21 Puerpual fever 1 Canker 4 Pulmonary tubercusia 1 Catarrh 1 Pyamaia 1 Child birth 4 Remittent fever 1 Cholera infantum 42 Rheumatic fever 4 Cholera morbus 4 Rupture 1 Congestion 4 Scarlet fever 3 Consumption 170 Scrofula 1 Convulsions 12 Spinal meningites 3 Croup 28 Spine, disease of 4 Diarrhoea 2 Still born 25 Diptheria 21 Stricture 1 Diabetes 1 Strangulation 1 Dropsy 15 Suffocation 2 Drowned 12 Syphilis 1 Dysentery 2 Teething 3 Gastric fever 1 Throat, disease of 1 Gangrene 1 Typhoid fever 18 REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF BUKIALS. 135

General debility 12 Tumor 4 Heart disease 33 Unknown ig Infantile 40 Uramia \ Insanity 2 Whooping cough \ Jaundice 1 Total. Kidney disease 10 .855

Still born 25 Forty to fifty 66 Under one year 108 Fifty to sixty 44 One to five 90 Sixty to seventy 59 Five to ten 25 Seventy to eighty 74 Ten to twenty 39 Eighty to ninety 38 Twenty to thirty 59 Ninety to one hundred 5 Thirty to forty 59 091 Died away and brought home for interment 104 Total 855 BURIED IN THE FOLLOWING NAMED CEMETERIES. Evergreen Cemetery, Peering 337 Calvary Cemetery, Cape Elizabeth 234 Forest City Cemetery, Cape Elizabeth 97 Western Cemetery, city 44 Eastern and City Tomb, city 49 Jews Yard, Cape Elizabeth 2 Peak's Island, 2 705 Died in the City and removed away 90 Total S55 SEXES. Males 430 Females 425 Total 855 Schedule of property belonging to the city of Portland, in charge of the Superintendent of Burials, viz: Two Head Houses, one in West and one in East Cemetery.; one hearse on wheels ; One pair traverse runners ; hoisting gear for eas­ tern tomb; two shovels; two rakes ; one pick axe; two saws : one hatchet; one basket; one hoe ; one bier. Respectfully submitted, JAMES S. GOULD, Superintendent of Burials for the City of Portland. 136 APPENDIX.

ANNUAL REPORT OF TRUANT OFFICER.

PORTLAND, February 21,1882. To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Portland: GENTLEMEN :—I have the honor to submit the following report of my official work for the past year, from March 2, 1881, to Feb. 2, 1882, inclusive: Number of visitations upon schools has been 836 Number of cards of investigation attended to 2,024 Number of families visited 1,940 Number of investigations on request of parents or guardians 52 Number of scholars returned to school without arrest 67 Number of scholars committed to school, recorded arrest 85 Number of scholars sentenced to reform school 1 Number furnished with clothing, supplied by the Provident Association and other sources 276 I have received from Superintendent of Schools, an earnest co-operation and support in the directions given me, for which I am under the highest obligations to. The parents and teach­ ers who have given information and aid, to the members of the Police department, who have given valuable assistance when required, to the Provident Association, to others, who have furnished clothing for indigent children in order to enable them to attend school, and to all kind friends, who have aided my work, I tender my sincere thanks. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES A. BEAL, Truant Officer. REPORT OP INSPECTOR OF MILK. 137

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR OF MILK.

To the Honorable Mayor ami City Council: The undersigned has the honor to report his doings for the year just passed in the office of Inspector of Milk, being the fourth year since the office was created. After having ad­ vertised according to law, the Inspector was in attendance at the office for the purpose of recording and licensing dealers, for the space of a month, but few reported themselves, and he was obliged to collect the names of the dealers so far as he could during his rounds for the inspection of the milk as offered for sale in the stores. During the four years there have been many changes in the personnel of the milk dealers both wholesale and retail. Some have sold out, others have failed, and others still have entirely retired from the business. The number of dealers licensed is, judging from the list, ap­ parently much less than in the first year the office was created, there being on the list for 1881, one hundred and seventy-seven dealers, of which forty-eight were wholesalers, against two hundred and thirty-eight dealers, of which eighty-four were wholesale, in 1878. The ordinance establishing the milk in­ spection seems to meet with a growing dislike, especially on the part of the retail dealers, some openly expressing their opposition thereto, some regarding it in the light of a sump­ tuary law, some wanting to know the use of it, some com­ plaining that the license fee of twenty-five cents takes away their small profit, some neglect to report themselves through ignorance and some through forgetfulness. The remedy for this is prescribed in the ordinance, but the Inspector has hes­ itated to avail himself of it, from the difficulty of securing evidence, and discriminating between those who wilfully ne­ glect the requirement, and those who render themselves in­ nocently liable through ignorance or forgetfulness. The Inspector would urge the passage of an additional sec­ tion to the ordinance, requiring all milk dealers who sell from wagons or carts to have their names legibly inscribed thereon (9*) 138 APPENDIX. under penalty. This requirement forms a part of the Boston ordinance, and could be adopted here with great advantage. As to the quantity of the milk, all the samples examined were of good color, taste and smell, answered well to the nail test, and eighty-four and one half per cent, of them showed by lactoscope between three and four per cent, of butter glob­ ules, which indicates milk of good standard quality as to its richness. There may have been some instances of "topping" of cans, and when a milk man fails to keep his milk well mixed as he deals it out quart by quart, those customers who get the last two or three quarts in the can are likely to fare no better than if they had bought so much skimmed milk. Perhaps some of them might have found cause in this for complaint. Two samples of milk have been submitted to the Inspector which were accused of occasioning unpleasant symptoms in those who partook of them. On referring these samples to the microscope, one was found to be what is termed "colostral" milk, that is milk drawn too soon after the cow had dropped her calf. The space of time after calving before the milk is fit for human stomachs is set down by German authorities as from four to seven days, never less than the former num­ ber. The other sample came from a cow affected with the disease termed the "garget," no complaint was made in either case. I have to acknowledge with thanks the kindness of Prof. F. L. Bartlett, and Dr. F. Gerrish for access to their fine instruments in these investigations. The literature of milk has acquired large proportions, having become very voluminous within a few years, and the subject of milk testing and analysis, and the control of the milk traffic in large towns and cities is by no means the least important or interesting. Through the thoughtful kindness of Messrs. B. Westermann & Co. of New York, I have been favored with copies of the works of Professors J. Feser, P. Vieth, Niclans Gerber, and Messrs. Bouchardat and Quevenne. Prof. Feser in his two lectures, discusses the milk control generally, and in particular the testing of milk by various instruments which bring the optical principle into action, concluding with a de­ scription of his own invention, which, he claims, and it is be­ lieved with justice, to be more easily handled and more accu- REPORT OF INSPECTOR OP MILK. 139 rate in its results than any other which had before been brought to notice. Professor Vieth gives a circumstantial description of more than twenty different modes of milk test­ ing, describing instruments which determine the worth of milk, by specific gravity, by the cream layer, by the yield of butter, by the centrifugal plan, and by the optical, with a critical comparison of the results given by each, with those obtained by an actual analysis, and concludes with a discus­ sion of the milk control in cities and in wholesale dairies. Prof. Gerber devotes his monograph to chemical analysis of milk, and Bonchardat and Quevenne treat of the testing and analysis of milk as practised in France. The firm above mentioned have also sent me the Milkwirth Schafbliches Tas- chenbush (Dairyman's Pocketbook) for 1882—a very poor imitation of which I have seen exposed for sale in some of our bookstores. It is a book which ought to be translated and placed in the hands of every milk farmer in the country, for the admirable arrangement of its blank pages for memoranda, and the collateral knowledge imparted on the subjects of feeding, keeping, and treating of neat stock and swine in health and disease. In a city like Portland, it seems desirable that the milk In­ spector should be provided with the means of making analysis for himself. Unless authorized by the City Government he cannot involve the city in expense by employing chemists to do this work, which is especially needed for verifying the ob­ servations made in what is termed in Germany the outside work, in contra distinction from that done in the laboratory. Chemists cannot be called upon to do this work for nothing, and though I have met with the most courteous reception of my applications, it will not do to ride a gift horse to death. It is somewhat discouraging for the Inspector to be obliged to rely on the bare indications of the Hydrometer and Lacto- scope for his support in seizing suspected milk and prosecut­ ing the seller. There is too much risk involved ; to the dealer in the amount of the penalty, and to the Inspector of the cost in case of a nonsuit. The remedy for this appears to be that the Inspector should have the means to practice analysis for himself. Of all the analytical proofs which have come under my notice, that practised by Prof. S. P. Sharpies of Boston, 140 APPENDIX. who is also Inspector of Milk for the City of Cambridge, seems to me to be the simplest and most practicable. The apparatus required for this is, however, rather expensive, as the plat­ inum dishes, and a good balance which are necessary, involve a cost of about two hundred dollars, to say nothing of the needful accessories, and if a good microscope be added there will be one hundred and fifty dollars more. With this appa­ ratus Prof. Sharpies states that he has carried along six analy­ sis together and completed them within the working hours of a day. An efficient milk inspection requires of the Inspector that he should devote his whole time to its prosecution. Some European authorities bring their police into the inspection in carrying on the outside work, leaving the principal Inspector to verify their results in his office. The whole thing is re­ duced to a very comjjlete system in Paris, Berlin, Vienna, and other large cities of Europe, and the standard of the milk is set very high. In Paris and Berlin if the milk is poorer than three per cent, of butter fat it is condemned. London and Vienna demand two and a half per cent., and all the milk so far as is known is submitted to test by the police. No matter if the seller has had his milk tested the day before, a new lot brought in today has to stand the hydrometer and themome- ter, that is if the seller don't succeed in smuggling it in. On this side the water things are slightly different. Four years experience have demonstrated the fact that an efficient milk inspection cannot be carried on for fifty dollars a year, and the matter has not been made any easier by the onerous tax laid upon me, which has absorbed thirty per cent, of my whole annual income, leaving me scanty means for furnishing my family with food and fuel, clothing and kero­ sene, not to speak of the thousand and one wants besides those incident to the needs of the animal system. If the City Government would remit the tax, and pay a corresponding sum in addition, or what would amount to the same thing pay me six hundred dollars, something more could be done. If the assembled wisdom of the city does not regard the Milk Inspection of sufficient importance for this, it will have per force to remain in statu quo. All which is respectfully submitted. H. T. CUMMINGS, Milk Inspector. PORTLAND, Feb. 28, 1882. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE CITY CIVIL ENGINEER.

OFFICE CITY CIVIL ENGINEER, ) Portland, March 6th, 1882. j To the Honorable Mayor and Board of Aldermen of the City of Portland : GENTLEMEN:—I have the honor to submit the following report of works in the civil engineer department for the year ending Feb. 28, 1882. STREETS. No change of line or grade of an occupied sheet lias been made during the year. Sheridan street has been extended from Congress to Cumberland street, a distance ol' 186 feet, 40 feet wide, making a virtual extension of Poplar, as well as of Sheridan street. In this view of the ease, the name of Poplar street has been changed to Sheridan street, which now extends from Adams to Walnut street A continuation of Island Avenue, Peak's Island, has been laid out from a point near the Bay View house to lands of J. W. Brackett, and thence to the easterly end of the island, a distance of a little more than a mile and a quarter, the first 511 feet, being 60 feet wide, the remainder 50 feet. Sterling street. Peak's Island, has been laid out, running easterly from Island avenue near the old school house, 641 feet long and 31 feet wide. The case of change of lines of Congress street at Libby's corner which was ordered by the city council in 1867, but has not been accomplished, has come before the committee several times during the year. It has not been deemed ad­ visable to abandon a long area of graded street, (about 7,400 square feet), and to grade an equal surface with a fill of twelve to fifteen feet on land which would have to be pur­ chased, for the sake only of a more direct alignment of the 142 APPENDIX. street; particularly as the change would involve an addition to the angle opposite the junction of Portland street, making it as large, within three degrees, as that which the proposed change was intended to avoid. The reversion of the discon­ tinued portions of the street to the original proprietors, which might become a source of damage and anoyance to present abutters on the street, has also been considered by the com­ mittee. By their order a plan has been made which shows the objectionable angle materially reduced by widening on land where damage therefor has been paid, and all graded street retained. This was done however, so late in the seas­ on that no action was taken thereon. It should be considered early in the coming season, the public interest demanding a widening of the street at the angle without unnecessary delay. The building which has heretofore been reported as encroaching upon the easterly side line of North street near Congress, has been moved back, clear of the line. Street lines have been given for building purposes in thirty- seven instances and grade points in forty-seven, both apart from lines and grades of sewers. SURVEYS, PLANS, ETC. Surveys and plans have been made of the extension of Sheridan street, with profile, cross-sections and proposed grade line; survey and plan of continuation of Island Ave­ nue, with adjacent property lines; plan of Sterling street; survey and two plans of recent addition to Evergreen Ceme- etery, with survey and plan of lots newly laid out; levels and profile for drainage of cemetery at Eastern avenue ; two plans and tracings of city lands proposed to be conveyed to the Maine Central Railroad Company, showing, also, city lots in the vicinity thereof; two sheets finished and one under­ way of sewerage systems of all of the city except Munjoy, previously finished, showing sewers existing and proposed, (when petitioned for,) with culverts and reservoirs, and con­ tour lines of equal elevation showing the lay of the land; thirty-five sheets of plans of proposed renumbering of streets not heretofore specially renumbered; plan, profile and cross- section of site of an alleged accident on South street; plan of site of lamp-post on Kennebec street at foot of Elm; plans of details of proposed drives and tree sites on the Promenades REPORT OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 143 and the Oaks; nine sheets assessment plans of sewers built during the year, together with detailed profiles for sewers in Emery and K streets ; plan and profile of Union street sewer outfall and cess-pool, and of a proposed intercepting sewer in Commercial street, from Maple and Hampshire streets re­ spectively, with an outfall at Long wharf. STREET NUMIiERS. Since the year 1874 every street in the city, with the ex­ ception of Deering street, (regularly numbered originally,) has been renumbered on plans made in accordance with an order of the city council of that year, and with the city ordi­ nances relative to numbering. In some of the streets the new and authorized numbers have been generally adopted, in others the old numbers remain, with enough of the new to render the new confusion worse than the old. It has been publicly stated that the forthcoming city directory will adopt the legal numbers as shown on the plans, in which case they will doubtless soon be applied. If the city were finished there would be no need of change of numbers, but every new building on unnumbered spaces, breaks in upon the old ar­ rangement, and, on some streets, numbers have been repeated over and over again. The present sj'stem which applies a number to a certain length of land which must remain for­ ever where it is now, stands upon an ordinance of the city and a special order of the city government for its present ex­ ecution.

PUBLIC GROUNDS. The appropriation under this head of expenditure though small, was as large as the city was in condition to expend judiciously, and has been applied by the committee, with great economy, to the carving out of pre-arranged details of work on the Promenades and in the Oaks, together with the regular work required at Lincoln park, on the shade trees of the streets and on the cemeteries, apart from Evergreen. At the Eastern Promenade a curved driveway, diverging from the central drive near the foot of Quebec street and coming in again at the foot of Melbourne street, has been laid out and planted with trees on both sides, but not yet graded. Its motive is to relieve the straight drive by a detour, at the same time breaking the monotony of the straight lines of 144 APPENDIX. trees. The rolling surface of the promenade will be noticed as giving somewhat the effect of lateral curves, which the narrow limits of the location make generally impossible. Thirty-eight trees, mostly elms, have been planted along the driveways during the year. In due course of time the main drive will be laid between the trees instead of on its present hap-hazard location. At the Western Promenade, the drive­ way in front of the residences between Pine and West streets has been extended to West street. The grass plat between this driveway and the main drive has been trimmed to shape, giaded up in low places, bordered with turf and sown with grass seed on all new earth. A triangular bed has been made at the head of Pine street, another at the head of West street, both laid down to grass, and on and about them twenty-two elms and rock maples have been planted. At the Oaks, the embankment over the sewer has been raised three feet to the top of the man-hole covers and graded to a width of twenty feet, making a driveway along the pond and across the westerly side of the tilled mill pond area to the old rail­ road embankment, requiring 1,486 cubic yards of earth, in addition to which 200 cubic yards of stone chips and rough filling have been deposited between the pond embankments and the tannery, the filling of which to grade will make the drive thirty feet wide. The water slope of this embankment has been turfed, a curved railing set around the cove at the foot of the pond and many seats have been set about the grounds; a drive has been graded from the State street en­ trance to the pond embankment, dividing and passing on both sides of the clumps of trees encountered on the way. These were bedded up with earth and turfed around. The motive here is a rural drive such as is found among our su­ burban woods. There is not length enough of upland at that place for a broad drive, and the trees which must have been destroyed to make room for such a roadway are surely of much greater value than a strip of rolled gravel or macadam however broad and smooth. Here have been planted sixteen trees, elm, ash, bass, maple, hemlock and birch, which will afford a test of the variety best adapted to the locality. Two temporary foot bridges have been built across the gullies at the head of the pond, indicative of what may be placed there REPORT OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 145

when the proper time shall come. A curved driveway has been cut through the woods from the lawn nortli of the pond following the top of the slope of the creek valley and coming out on the open plain near Grove street where the old wood road enters the woods, and thence passing towards the cor­ ner at the intersection of Grove and Portland streets and curving into each of these streets, leaving a plat at the cor. ner for trees and shrubbery. This is intended to be the main entrance and is laid out thirty-five feet wide but is not graded. Objection has been made to a drive across this area which has been designated by many as a parade ground. Competent military authorities among us assert that there is not room enough there if fully graded outside of the present trees, for the evolutions of a battalion, to say nothing' of a regiment. The desert of a parade ground, to be used for a few days in the year, in comparison with trees and lawns and shrubbery for every day service, should be fairly considered and it should soon be determined which shall be adopted, as trees, if they are to go there, ought to be planted without unnecessary delay. The plan of the Oaks made in 1879, though it has been followed in the above named details of work done, and thus far approved by the committee, has not been formally accept­ ed by the city council. It shows drives and walks, with lawns, trees, shrubbery and a fountain in place of the parade ground. The name " The Oaks," or " Deerings Oaks,"' for this public breathing place, seems to have become well estab­ lished. It is scarcely ever termed the "Park," and is a name so much fitter and better than the latter that special care should be taken to retain it. The place can probably never become a park with expensive park-like structures and acces­ sories, but will always be '-the Oaks" whatever may be done in or about it. The circuit of our public grounds, beginning with either Promenade and thence passing through our shaded streets and the Oaks to the other Promenade, affords a variety and natural beauty of scenery to be found in but few cities of this country. The foreground of these several landscapes and marine views will doubtless be cared for little by little as the means of the city will warrant. The attention of the city 146 APPENDIX. council is respectfully called to the plans of these areas of public grounds. The cost of work done during the year is as follows : On the Eastern Promenade 1323.26, inclusive of care of the premises; Western Promenade $177.11, and in the Oaks $1,314.K5 ; total, §1,815.22. The appropriation was £3,000.00, leaving the sum of $1,184.78 for care of Lin­ coln Park, Eastern and Forest City Cemeteries and the trees of the city. UNPRODUCTIVE REAL ESTATE. Immediately after the laying out of St. John street between Congress and Danforth streets, plans were made of all city lands bordering thereon and in the vicinity; also of those on Congress, Grant and Portland streets east of Weymouth street, all of which were laid out in house lots and duly numbered for sale. The plans were accepted by the city and have been recorded in the Registry of Deeds—thirty-four of these lots have been sold and have become tributary to the city in taxes to the amount of *4">8.25 for the past year. A large number of valuable lots for sale will be. seen on these plans, the value of which will be enhanced by the proposed establishment of the works of the M. C. R. R. Company on lands near at hand which have been recently conveyed by the city for that pur­ pose. On the plan of city lands north of Portland street, a street parallel with St. John street has been projected ex­ tending to lands of the Deering heirs and thence to the coun­ ty road near the Deering mansion. Lots 100 feet deep on these streets would open, for building purposes, 370,000 square feet of city lands equal in all respects to any in the neighbor­ hood of Portland. BRIDGES. Early in the season an inspection was made of Tukey's Bridge, with a view to thorough repair, including renewal of all defective piles, caps, stringers etc., an estimate for which was submitted. On further inspection with the committee, any very extensive repairs was deemed unnecessary for the present. While it is true that in almost every band of the piling there are piles girdled by worms, and some eaten off, it is also true that substitutes have been driven near them in most eases and that with renewal of a few piles, caps and stringers, with spur-shores in the draw-piers and the usual REPORT OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 147

»mount of defective plank, no further repairs will be required during the coming year. I would suggest that on driving new piles the old be drawn out or cut off instead of being left to stand useless, accumu­ lating mussels and kept swaying with the tide on the cross girders or hanging by the tenons to the caps. The ordinary annual repairs may be expected to keep the other bridges in safe condition. SEWERS. The following named sewers have been built during the year, with discription and expense, respectively, as follows; Congress, Weymouth and Portland street Sewers, beginning at a point in centre of Congress street, sixty-seven feet north-westerly from north-west line of Vaughan street, thence north-westerly through centre of Congress street, 694.5 feet to Weymouth street, thence with an angle to right 67.5 feet to a point 27 feet westerly from east line of Weymouth street, thence 200 feet to a point 25 feet westerly from east line of Weymouth street, thence with an angle to left, passing under water pipe 18 feet to a point 29 feet easterly from west line of Weymouth street, thence 112 feet to a point 30 feet from west line of Weymouth street, measuring on southerly line of Portland street, thence with a curve to left 76 feet to centre of Port­ land street, thence through center of Portland street 600 feet; thence with an angle to right 14 feet to Alms House Sewer. Total length 1782 feet. The first section of 226 feet is 12 in. cement pipe, 2d. section of 920 feet of 15 in. cement pipe, and the remaining 636 feet of 18 in. cement pipe, laid 9 feet deep except on curve at junction of Portland and Weymouth streets, where it is 8 feet deep, bends at angles. Cost of Sewer $2,055 53 City's proportion 685 18 Sum to be assessed $1,370 35 Area assessed, 246,256 sq. ft. Eate per 100 sq. ft., $0.55 647-1000. Danforth, "K," Vaughan and Portland street Sewers.— Begin­ ning at a point in centre of Danforth street, 11 feet westerly from west line of Storer street, produced; thence through centre of Dan­ forth street 923 feet to east line of Vaughan street, thence on a curve to left 28 feet; thence 15 feet to a point on south line of Dan­ forth Btreet, this point being 20 feet westerly from east line of "K" street reservation ; thence on same course 135 feet through "K Btreet to the top of slope; thence with an angle to right of fifteen 148 APPENDIX. degrees and forty minutes (15°40 ) 345 feet to high water mark. Total length 1446 feet. The. first section of 411 feet is 12 in. glazed pipe, 2d section of 540 feet of 15 in. glazed pipe, 3d section of 255 feet is 18 in. glazed pipe, then 225 feet of brick 24 in. in diameter and 15 feet wooden box 24x24 in.; laid 9 feet deep at point of beginning, 9 feet at south­ erly end of curve, 9 feet 135 feet southerly from southerly end of curve, 14 feet at brow of hill, 5 feet on hillside and six feet undei R. R. tracks. Again beginning at a point in centre of Orchard street 47 feet westerly from west line of Fletcher street, thence through centre of Orchard street 428.5 feet to east line of Vaughan street, thence on a curve to left 36.5 feet to a point in Vaughan street 26 feet westerly from east line of Vaughan street, thence through Vaughan street 201.5 feet to a point on north line of Danforth street, this point be­ ing 23 feet westerly from north-easterly corner of Danforth and Vaughan streets, thence with a slight angle to left 51.5 feet to Dan­ forth and "K" street sewers. Total length 718.0 feet. The first section of 116 feet is 10 m. cement pipe, then 323 feet 12 in. cement pipe, then 273 feet 15 in. cement pipe and the remain­ ing 6 feet is 18 in. glazed pipe; laid 9 feet deep at point of begin­ ning, 9 feet at a point 228 feet from point of beginning, 8.5 feet 247 feet from point of beginning, 8 feet at north line of Danforth street and 9 feet at terminus. Total length of Danforth, "K," Vaughan and Orchard streets sewer 2164 feet. Cost of Sewer $2,966 06 City's proportion 988 69 Sum to be assessed $1,977 37 Area assessed, 370,712 sq. ft. Rate per 100 sq. ft., $0.53 34-100. Everett street Sewer.—-Beginning at a point in centre of Everett street 41.5 feet westerly from the west line of Winthrop street thence westerly through centre of Everett street, 4.50 feet to east line of Fremont street, thence with a curve to right 29 feet to sewer in Fremont street. Total length 479 feet. Sewer is of 12 in. glazed pipe laid 9 feet deep at point of begin' ning, 9 ft. at a point 116 ft. easterly from east line of Fremont street, 4.2 ft. at line of Fremont st and 4 feet, at terminus. Cost of sewer $428 25 City's proportion 142 75 Sum to be assessed ,.$285 50 Area to be assessed, 40,113 sq. ft. Rate per 100 sq. ft., $0.71 17-100 REPORT OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 149

Melbourne street Sewer.—Beginning at a point in centre of Mel­ bourne street 91 feet easterly from east line of North street, thence easterly through centre of Melbourne street, a distance of 958.5 feet to line of Promenade; thence with a curve to right 75 feet, to a point 50 feet at right angles from west line of Promenade; thence 204 feet to a point 4 feet northerly from the northerly line of Quebec street produced and 109 feet on a parallel line to Quebec street, from westerly line of Promenade; thence with an angle to left 50 feet to Quebec street sewer. Total length 1287.5 feet. The first section of 378.5 feet is 12 in. glazed pipe. 2d section of 759 ft. 15 in. glazed pipe. 3d section of 150 ft. 18 in., glazed pipe; laid 9 feet at a point of beginning, 9 feet at line of Promenade, 6 feet at southerly end of curve and 7.3 feet at terminus. Cost of sewer $1,373 98 City's proportion 457 99 Sum to be assessed $915 99 Area assessed, 148,842 sq. ft. Kate per 100 sq. ft., $0.61 541-1000. Market and Newbury streets Sewer.—Beginning at a point in centre of Market street, sixty-five feet easterly from east line of Federal street, thence southeasterly through center of Market street 120.5 feet to line of Newbury street, thence on a curve to left 42 feet to line of Market street, thence northeasterly through centre of Newbury street, 223.5 feet to a line of Pearl street, thence with a curve to right 31 feet to sewer in Pearl street. Total length, 417 feet. Sewer is of 12 in. glazed pipe, laid 9 feet deep at point of begin­ ning. 9.0 feet at a point 21.0 feet westerly of east line of Market street, 10.4 feet at line of Market street. 9.0 feet at line of Pearl street, and 8.7 feet at terminus. Cost of Sewer $1,189 43 City's proportion -J plus $85.26 pre­ viously assessed on Savings Bank lot, 481 74 Sum to be assessed $707 69 Area assessed, 44,192 sq. ft. Kate per 100 sq. feet, $1.60 14-100. Sherman street Sewer.—Beginning at a point in centre of Sherman street 122.0 feet easterly from east line of Stale street, thence wes­ terly through centre of Sherman street 122 feet to line of State street, thence on a curve to right 43 feet to sewer in State street. Totallength 165.0 feet. Sewer is of 12 inch glazed pipe, laid 9.0 feet deep throughout. 150 APPENDIX

Cost of Sewer . $136 81 City's proportion , 45 60 Sum to be assessed $91 21 Area assessed, 17,029 sq. feet. Rate per 100 square feet $0.53 56-100. Washington street Sewer.—Beginning at a point in centre of Washington street 85.5 feet southerly from south line of Fox street produced; thence northerly through centre of Washington street 73 feet to a point; thence with a curve to left 47 feet to west line of Washington street, where it enters Fox street sewer. Total length 120 feet. Sewer is of 10 in. cement pipe, laid 7.2 feet deep at point of he- ginning, 8.7 feet at point of curve and 9 ft. at terminus. Cost of sewer $88 56 City's proportion 29 52 Sum to be assessed $59 04 Area assessed, 18,944 square feet. Eate per 100 square feet, $0.31 165-1000. REBUILDING AND REPAIRS OF SEWERS. The old sewer in Union street terminated at the retaining wall on the southerly side of Commercial street, the sewage discharging directly into the cribwork and earth filling of Union wharf, and thence working its way under the wharf buildings to the easterly dock. The result was a filthy con­ dition of the subsoil area around the outfall, which was never relieved by the free wash of the tide, out of sight and out of mind except as revealed by its stench. On demand of the wharf proprietors for redress, it was thought that a diversion of the sewer through the street to the open dock, where the outfall could be kept clear by dredging, would afford the re­ quisite relief. It was understood that this diversion would be satisfactory to the proprietors, if in addition thereto, a large catch basin would be built to inrercept the sewage be­ fore reaching the dock. Though the special function of such an appendage for the purpose alleged was not comprehended, the work was done, comprising the following details: The cesspool is of brick, 9 feet square inside and 9 feet deep, on timber foundation, with 12-inch walls and crown arched b oth ways to a square keystone with manhole and iron cover at grade of paving. From this are laid a 24-inch square plank drain 15 feet long, extending through the wall to the dock and a 24-inch brick sewer, 85 feet long and 6 feet deep, inter- REPORT OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 151 cepting the old sewer, curving at the upper end to meet it. The cost of the work was, for cesspool $337.81, for sewer $197.73; total 1535.54. The result is, at least, a free dis­ charge of sewage to the dock. With reference to the proposed sewer through Commercial street, it is perhaps sufficient, at this time, to state that the city must control an area sufficient for the location of its out­ fall section ; that no one of our old pile wharves is suitable, in respect of number and position of sustaining piles, to sup­ port that section, which should extend to the channel; that the sewerage area of the sewers, from and including Hamp­ shire street on the easterly end and Maple street on the westerly, is 260 acres, giving under a rainfall of one inch in an hour, one half of it reaching the sewer, the amount of 471,900 cubic feet of water per hour to be cared for; that by making the sewer 11 feet deep in Commercial street at Long Wharf the fall of its bed from Maple street would be three inches per 100 feet, and from Hampshire street still greater; that the fall from that depth in the street to extreme low water mark at the end of the wharf would be five inches per 100 feet; that if the tide was always on the ebb no question could arise of the effectual working of such a sewer; that the details and estimate submitted last autumn, in connection with troubles at Union wharf, are sufficient for the drainage of that area and for the completion of the sewer. On the other hand it may be stated that there is virtually as much length of flood as of ebb in Fore River and, though the sewage would discharge in six feet of water at low tide, it would still flow in the wrong direction for half the time, and though the sewer would doubtless effect a very great im­ provement over the present outfalls it should not be expect­ ed to settle in full the question of disposition of sewage in our tide waters, though in my opinion it will be the best thing to do. The only thorough solution of the problem here lies in the construction of a conduit to the nearest available point on deep water, and at that place a reservoir and pump­ ing works which shall commit the sewage to an ebb from which there shall be no return. A hundred engineers will be found ready to undertake every detail of this scheme for one man who will disclose where the money is to come from. 152 APPENDIX.

The old sewer in Emery street has been partially rebuilt. It was originally of brick from Spring street to a point 162 feet south of Dan forth street, and from that point to its out­ let was built of plank. The Boston & Maine and Maine Cen­ tral Railroads rebuilt with brick section across their locations and West Commercial St. For the past few years the cover­ ing of the old plank, section above the B. & M. R. R. has broken in in many places and has been repaired with new covering. In the month of May last, during a heavy rain, it gave way again, letting a large quantity of earth into the sewer, which accumulated in the 36 inch brick sewer at the foot of the B. & M. R. R. slope, dammed the sewage back and burst the sewer the whole length of the slope, about thirty- six feet. The work of clearing the lower section, 320 feet long and of rebuilding the arch of the sewer on the slope was begun at once, and completed at an expense of $236.08. Meanwhile a contract was closed for building a brick sewer alongside the wooden one between this slope and the end of the brick section near Danforth street. The sewer is oval 24x33 inches, 348 feet long and cost $1,350, including a man­ hole at the entrance of Salem street sewer and two culverts, one on Salem street and one near the top of the railroad slope on Emery street. This old wooden sewer in Emery street was built in 1867. It is now of brick with the exception of the out fall section 360 feet long below the M. C. and P. & 0. railroads at the sugar refinery. This section is submerged at every tide and the sides will probably stand securely, but the plank covering may be expected to give way in places at any time and should be inspected early in the coming season, and renewed if necessary. This should be done by opening and finishing a few feet in length at a time, as any considerable length of open ditch in the sugar house driveway would cause great damage to an important industry. The sewer in Myrtle street begins with what is termed "old county drain," coming from the old county buildings and now affording drainage for the City Building. It comes across the city lot in rear of City Building and enters Myrtle street about ninety feet south of Cumberland street, thenee running diagonally across Myrtle and Cumberland streets-to a point under the gutter on the east side of Myrtle street; about REPORT OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 153

80 feet north of Cumberland street, thence under the gutter about 50 feet, thence north westerly across Myrtle street, passing under a brick house to a point about 20 feet west of Myrtle street; thence with an angle to right, passing under the houses on south west and north west corners of Myrtle and Oxford streets, to a cess pool in the gutter on the west side of Myrtle street about 135 feet northerly of Oxford street. The bed of the sewer where it enters the cesspool is 1.5 feet lower than the bed of inlet to sewer afterwards constructed. The sewer is an eighteen inch square box, plank bottom, brick sides and thin ledge-stone cover. It is said to have been laid in the bed of an old water course and has caused great trouble by giving way in places hard to reach, deep under the side­ walk and roots of overgrowing trees. Three repairs of these breaks have been made during the year, including thorough flushing at an expense of $155.47. A sewer should be laid in the centre of the street from the rear of the City Building to the city sewer below Oxford street and to this the old county drain should be diverted either at Cumberland street or in rear of the City Building. The two plank drains of the old out fall section of this sewer have been united near the south­ erly line of Kennebec street, from which point an eighteen inch glazed pipe drain has been laid to the outlet, a distance of 165 feet, at an expense of $299.25. A permanent building was to be erected over the site, and the efficiency of the old sewers could not be trusted. It was tide work, which added much to the expense. One hundred feet in length at the upper end of Elm street sewer has been taken up, the trench cut down two feet at the head and thence through ledge, to the old grade and the pipe relaid, affording drainage to a cel­ lar which the former grade could not drain. Cost of work 1217.25. The drain for surface water on Commercial street, east of the Eastern R. R. Station, 168 feet long, has been taken up and relaid with fifteen inch glazed pipe instead of ten inch pipe, which has been used for culverts and otherwise. Cost of work, $194.37. Minor repairs have been made as follows: break in old plank sewer in Pearl street near Laurel, repaired by setting 15 feet 15 inch pipe in place of plank decayed; four feet of eighteen inch pipe set in place of old brick and (10*) 154 APPENDIX. stone drain broken in at Preble street; old private drain in Hanover street filled up; breaks repaired in old sewers and drains in Cotton, Brattle, South, Smith, Pine, Congress and Parris streets, most of them being in the old private drains. Manhole tops have been repaired in York street, at Park and in Park street, at Spring and outlet of old sewer in Portland street cleared at an aggregate cost of $327. for minor repairs and of $3,614.96 for all under the head of rebuilding and re­ pairs of sewers.

CULVERTS. New Culverts have been built as follows : One each on east side of State street below Cumberland; north side of Munroe street near Washington; west side Merrill street near Congress ; west side Green street near tannery and at easterly corner of Congress and Weymouth streets, at an aggregate cost of $394.70. Average $78.94. Culverts rebuilt, on Middle street, near Plum; two on Spruce street, between Emery and Clark; Pine street, near State; corner of Danforth and Maple streets ; Brackett and Danforth; Vaughan street opposite Bramhall; at corner of Cotton and Fore; Cross and Pore; Middle and Hampshire; Pore and Newbury and Myrtle and Oxford, at an aggregate cost of $533.74 ; average $41.06. Culverts repaired, at corner of Cross and Pore; Oxford and Mayo; Munjoy and Pore ; Oxford and Boyd; Plum and Pore; Park and Danforth ; Middle and Pearl; Central and Commercial; Hancock and Fore; Pore and Exchange; Middle and Franklin; Congress street at corner of Oak, Brown and Centre, respectively; Madison and Anderson; York and Maple; St. John at Hydrant; Brackett near Adams lane, and two at corner of Centre and Fore, at an ag­ gregate cost of $304.89 ; average $15.24.

DOCK DKEDGIXG. Offensive deposits have been removed from the sewer out­ lets in the docks of Commercial wharf, Union wharf and Long wharf at an expense of $115.00, $177.90, and $91.10, respectively; aggregate, $384.00, which should have been charged to the appropriation for Health instead of to that of sewers. The work had to be done by hand shoveling, two of the docks being too narrow at the head for admission of dredger and scows. EBPOET OF CITY CIVIL ENGINEER. 155

RECAPITULATION OF EXPENSE. New Sewers $8,238 62 Ke-building, repairs and clearing of old sewers, 3,614 96 Culverts, new, re-built and repaired 1,233 33 Dock Dredging 384 00 Total $13,470 91 Amount of estimate and appropriation, 12,900 00 Balance $570 91 The amount of unforseen, and therefore unestimated, work in the above named items of rebuilding is greater than the balance between expenditure and estimate. REQUIREMENTS. Franklin street sewer should be extended from its present temporary outfall directly to Back Cove. A sewer in Turner street and an extension of the Pine street sewer to Vaughan street have been petitioned for and should be constructed without unnecessary delay. The location of Myrtle street sewer should be changed as hereinbefore stated. The con­ ditions of the Back Cove sewerage question have not been changed since the date of my last annual report, and to that report on this question I respectfully refer. HEALTH. For the reclamation of an area of stagnant water and filth adjoin­ ing the passage way between Newbury and Middle streets east of Hampshire, a sewer has been built under the appropriation for Health and regularly assessed, as follows :—Beginning in a passage way from Hampshire street between Newbury and Middle streets, in rear of land of heirs of A. Cook; thence running six feet to a trapped cesspool in the corner of the lot owned by C. M. Plummer ; thence southerly across land of said Plummer 5 feet and of John Walsh 100 feet to Middle street; thence on same course 36.5 feet through Middle street to sewer in said street, entering the same on the westerly side line of said Walsh's land produced. Total length 147.5 feet. Sewer is of 10 inch cement pipe laid 4 feet deep at point of begin­ ning and 9.5 feet at old sewer. Cost of Sewer $154 27 City's proportion 51 42 Sum to be assessed $102 85 Area assessed, 19,025 square feet. Bate per 100 sq. ft. $0.54 06-100. 156 APPENDIX.

A section of Cedar street outfall has been replaced, cost $5.12. The outfall sections of Fox, Boyd and Myrtle streets, sewers in Back Cove have been extended 36 ft., 36 ft. and 54 ft. respectively, to keep in advance of filling which is in constant progress, at an aggre­ gate expense of f 96.33. The channels of all the sewer outfalls in the Cove have been cleared every day and the shore kept clean by a man regularly employed for that purpose at an expense of $289.60. Aggregate expense of all items with which this department has had to do, $545.22. INSTRUMENTS AND OFFICE FURNITURE. Instruments and furniture are on hand in this office, as follows, all in good condition except as otherwise stated: Two transits (1 old in fair condition), 3 transit staves, 1 level, 3 level rods (2 worn out), 1 sounding rod with nippers, 1 axe, 2 steel tape lines 100 feet (1 nearly worn out), 2 linen do. 50 and 66 feet, 1 do. 50 feet, 3 boxes for 50 feet tape lines, 1 case drawing instruments (in poor condition), 1 case small drawing instruments, 2 German silver protractors (1 in fair condition), 1 boxwood scale 2 feet, 2 do. 1 foot, 1 steel straight­ edge, 1 steel triangle, 6 rubber do, 2 rubber curves, 2 horn do., 1 case wooden do. from 5 to 100 feet radius, 3 drawing tables, 8 draw­ ing boards all old and worn, 1 birch writing table, 1 walnut do., 1 ash case drawers for general plans, 3 pine do. for sewer plans, pro­ files and special plans respectively, 1 cabinet with rack for rolled plans, 1 walnut desk, 2 swivel desk chairs, 7 common chairs, 2 stools 4 Ellis stand lamps for gas, 1 wall clock, 1 themometer, 8 iron paper weights, 2 nests color cups, 7 color brushes, 1 sponge, 1 feather duster, 1 pair shears, 3 ink-stands, 2 waste baskets, and an eight inch post auger. My assistants during the year have been Messrs. William S. Edwards 1st, and George N. Fernald 2d, who have per­ formed their several duties in all respects faithfully and well and to the entire satisfaction of all with whom they have been concerned. Respectfully submitted. WM. A. GOODWIN, City Civil Engineer.

IN BOARD or MAYOR AND ALDERMEN, March 6,1882. Received and ordered to be printed. Sent down. Attest: H. I. ROBINSOJr, City Clwlc. 1ST COMMON- COUNCIL, 1 March 6, 1882. J Read, and accepted, and ordered printed in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFJ-OBP "WADE, City Clerk. REPORT OF CITY PHYSICIAN. 157

ANNUALREPORT OP THE CITY PHYSICIAN

Portland, March 1st, 1882. To the Honorable Mayor and City Council of Portland: GENTLEMEN":—I have the honor to submit the following report for the year ending Feb. 28, 1882 : Number in the Hospital March 1,1881 30 Number admitted during the year 139 Number of births 6 Whole number.... 175 Daily average Present number in the Hospital 41 Discharged well or improved... 107 Ran away 2u Died CAUSES OP DEATH. Consumption, 6 ; paralysis, 4 ; Brights disease, 4 ; old age, 3; pneumonia, 3 ; puerperal fever, 1—developed outside of hospital; cancer 1; shock from a burn 1; shock from a fall 1. I have made three hundred and sixty professional calls to the hospital, and attended and dispensed medicine to four hundred twelve out patients from the poor house during the year. The threee wards of thhospital have been in constant use during the year, and at times we have been short of beds and room. The hospital, with its efficient nurses, fully main­ tained its credit as a resting place for the homeless sick. CITY POOR. There have been received one hundred and twenty-five orders from the overseers of the poor, and there have been made five hundred twenty-two professional calls about the city. PEST HOUSE. Etetunately there has been no occasion for opening the Pest house, except to air the rooms and arrange the furnace for possible use. Very Respectfully, GEORGE H. CUMMINGS, City Physician. 158 APPENDIX,

ANNUAL REPORT OF THE HARBOR MASTER

To the Honorable Mayor and City Council: GENTLEMEN :—As the present municipal year is about to close, your Harbor Master would beg leave to submit the following report: The usual business in the harbor during the past year has been much the same as in former years. During the year I have moved out of the channel of the harbor, two hundred and seventy-four vessels, viz: one hun­ dred seventy-six coasters, eighty-three fishermen, thirteen three-masters and two barques. Of these forty-six were in the track of the ferry-boat, ninety-four in the main channel and thirty-five in the course of the English Steamers. As before stated this trouble is mostly caused by the change of anchorage ground from the summer to the winter season. That the masters of vesseis lying in or going out of the harbor ma}7 be kept informed of their obligations, I have dis- tribited among them the past year four hundred copies of the Harbor regulations. Let me say in conclusion that I have endeavored to faith­ fully discharge the duties devolving upon me as harbor mas­ ter, and have made it my special care the first thing in the morning and the last at night, to see that the channels were all clear. Respectfully submitted, C. H. KNOWLTON, Harbor Master.

IN COMMON COUNCIL, March 6,1882. Received and ordered printed, in concurrence. Attest: L. CLIFFORD WADE, Clerk. REPORT OF GAS AGENT. 159

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT

TO THE STOCKHOLDERS OF THE PORTLAND GAS LIGHT COMPANY,

At their Annual Meeting, May l 8, 1881.

The consumption of gas for the year ending on the 30th lilt, was 41,980,000 feet, a falling off of 90,000 feet from last year. The quantity of coal carbonized was 3915.8 tons; 11,- 138 gall's of oil were used weighing 29.9 tons, making in all 2,945.7 tons from which 44,954,000 feet of gas was made, being 5.08 feet per pound of coal. The loss from leakage and condensation, etc., was about 6.6 per cent. The number of consumers on April 30th was 2,598, a falling off of seven. The number of street lanterns was 452, an increase of three. 632 feet of main pipe were laid during the year. 71,984 bushels of coke were sold, an increase of 4,597 bushels over last year, and of upwards of 16,000 bushels over 1879, when the consumption of gas was a million and a half larger. This result is owing to the use of tar in our furnaces. The retorts in our easterly stack of benches gave out last year. They were put in in 1877. They have been removed and the benches put in order during the past winter, and fifty new retorts have been ordered which will be put in the com­ ing summer but will not be used until the fall of 1882. The settings last much longer for standing a year before being put to use. The following agreement has been made with the City, and signed by both parties : 160 APPENDIX.

"It is agreed that the Gas Company will furnish gas to the City for the street lamps for one year ending June 1, 1882, at one dollar eighty-five cents per thousand feet; this price is made at the urgent request of the City Gas Agent in view of the pressing need for di­ minishing the City expenses this year, and is not to be considered as affording a measure of value, or as affecting in any way the price in future years. Fur other gas furnished to the City, they are to pay the same price as other consumers." This is a very low price for the street lamps, and will not be remunerative to this Company unless the efforts making to economize in the City expenditures shall be met in a like spirit in other departments, in which case we shall share in the benefit, with other heavy tax payers. The largest expenditures to be made this year will be for the renewal of our Purifiers. They have been in use over twenty years, and although with some repairs, they would probably last another season, it was thought expedient by your board of Directors to build new ones. A contract has accordingly been made with Davis & Farnham of Waltham, Mass., to furnish and put in a new set at a cost, including re­ pairs on the house, of about ten thousand dollars. It is ex­ pected that the work will be completed in July, when our make of gas is small. Part of the walls of the Purifier house have been out of plumb and cracked for many years, owing to imperfect foundation, and it is thought safest to take down the front wall and rebuild it. It is especially desirable to have this part of our work put in order this year, as it is probable that another year a new Gas-holder will have to be built, and either work requires the whole attention of our Engineer. The Holder built in 1858 had a bad foundation, and was so much injured by the settling, that it was thought in 1868, that it would have to be given up; but by ingenious appliances and careful nursing, Mr. Yorke has kept the upper section in use to the present time. The falling off in the con­ sumption of gas has had this advantage for us, that we have been able to get along with a Holder and a half, thus post­ poning so long the great expenditure required for the con­ struction of a new one.

E. H. DAVEIS, President.