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City of Melrose Annual Report CITY OF MELROSE MASSACHUSETTS Annual Reports 1917 WITH Mayor’s Inaugural Address DELIVERED JANUARY 2, 1917 PUBLISHED BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF ALDERMEN UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE CITY CLERK AND SPECIAL COMMITTEE THE KEYSTONE PRESS MELROSE, MASS. 1918 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Boston Public Library https://archive.org/details/cityofmelroseann1917melr INAUGURAL ADDRESS HON. CHARLES H. ADAMS MAYOR OF MELROSE DELIVERED JANUARY 2ND, 1917 Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board of Aldermen, Ladies and Gentlemen: At the beginning o£ the work for another year we should express our gratitude for the prosperity and advancemnt in 1916. Through the growth of the Cit> the extensive building operations, creating new property, we were able to reduce our tax rate without any general advance in property valuation. The rate was reduced from $23.70 to' $22.00. By the splendid progress of the City, the actual value of every property in Melrose was increased, but the value for taxation purposes Avas, with minor exceptions, not changed. We are able to so manage our affairs that the Budget was slightly less in 1916 than in 1915. How was it with you in your homes and in business? Did not your expenses increase in every line of expendi- ture? Did you buy anything so low in 1916 as before? On the whole, are you not surprised that our city has been able to get along without increasing your taxes? But all taxes are a burden, and a great burden to some, the subject of complaint and protest, often made by those best able to pay them, and we should seek to take from the people by taxation only the smallest amount possible for the needs of the city. But the type of a city we aim to maintain and the intelligent people who live here demand a still finer city, requiring the best of manage- ment to keep within a reasonable rate. Through the sinking funds we have paid off the $200,000 in School House bonds, having paid in 20 years in interest $160,000. The pay- ment of this debt will save $8,000 a year in interest, and about the same amount in contributions towards the principal. Interest Payments Our payments for interest are about $50,000 a year, varying with 4 CITY OF MELROSE the varying rates, which the Treasurer is obliged to pay on a great variety of loans. Boston Rubber Shoe Company In 1914 the Boston Rubber Shoe Company did not pay its cor- poration tax. It transferred its money and accounts to New York to avoid taxation and we lost $14,000. In 1915, in attempting to force the collection for both year’s the Attorney General made a compromise, accepting one year’s tax in place of two years, and it was understood that the Company would hereafter pay without protest. But they again appealed in 1916 and we are short again about $14,000. Other corporations are adopting the same methods of evasion, and the whole of our system of corporation taxation, so vital to a state filled with manufacturing industries, is to be tried out. Water Department The income of the water department has just reached a point sufficient to pay for water purchased, maintenance of the system, inter- est and the necessary new construction. A few years ago, before our water rates were reduced, the income of the department was $54,000. It fell to $39,000. Recently it has been gaining and now stands at $48,000 or $6,000 less than its highest point. By the careful renewal and repairs of pipes, for the prevention of waste, and the excellent management of the system, the waste of water has been constantly reduced until we stand second in a list of 21 places that make up the Metropolitan Water System. The first place is held by Milton. We are actually paying $8,000 per year less for water than 8 years ago. This work does not appear on the surface, but I consider it one of the best tests of the efficiency of our Public Works Department. Streets Our streets, with a few exceptions, are in excellent condition; better by far on the average than those about us in other cities. Men who travel much agree upon the general fineness of our streets. Do you know that when you consider water pipes, sewers, drainage, gut- ters, edgestones and sidewalks, that streets cost from $8 to $12 a foot. We have been improving the city with many granolithic walks and granite curbing, which is the most substantial, lasting and orna- mental work we can do. The city borrows the money, and the abut- tors pay one-half the cost. By a most liberal policy to encourage the construction of sidewalks, the abuttors are allowed to divide their cost into 10 annual payments, which is the most liberal arrangement per- mitted under the laws. Personally, 1 take small interest in the con- struction of fine roads for the automobile until the sidewalks are con- structed for those who walk. MAYOR’S ADDRESS 5 We have in this city over 50 private -ways, or unaccepted streets, some of which have been in use for 30 years, and I urge the accept- ance and improvement by the city of these private streets, to encourage their development, in preference to the laying out and building of new ones. Highlands Boulevard I regret very much that we have been unable to adopt any plan for the building of a broad road or boulevard from Ell Pond across the marshlands to Franklin Street at the Highlands. With the miserable car service at Franklin Square we need an easy and direct road to bring the Highlands into the center of the City. I am confident that the building of this boulevard is only temporarily postponed, to be taken up again, whenever the city becomes better informed upon its importance. Better Lighting Better street lighting and the proper spacing of our present lights is recommended. The White Way should be extended through Frank- lin Square and Franklin Street. There is not a well-lighted thorough- fare between the center and the Highlands. How shall we center their hearts down here, unless we give them streets and lights to make the way easy. Tremont Street may be improved with walks and lights, and widened by taking a strip of that low-priced land near the pond and along Ell Pond Park. Here is an opportunity for one broad avenue connecting two important sections. Growth of the City During the year, there has been constructed about $400,000 in new buildings, of attractive size and architecture, a development of property that is bringing fine people and a splendid reputation to the city. Much of the new property has been erected upon streets already established, where water and sewers and drainage are in. Here is a profit to the city that will shortly show in our general prosperity. There remains to be developed the South East section alone. It is accessible by narrow roads, few walks and lights, and is without sewers. We often hear of the beauties of the various sections of the city. The hill with Bellevue Avenue and Stratford Road, Wyoming Hill and the West Side, close against the Fells, and the Sewall Woods, swinging around the fine sections of the Highlands on both sides of the track. These are beautiful sections. And when you have seen them all, you may go to the South East and find our most picturesque and elevated section where you can live in sight of the sea and the mountains. 6 CITY OF MELROSE We bring children from the South East section to the Melrose public schools in a barge. They need a fine four-room schoolhouse to be a social center and an inspiration to those people of small means who are building homes and whose children will soon be the citizens of the city. The kind of citizens they become will indicate the care we give to them now. I recommend that these narrow roads be legally laid out the full width, while land is cheap, and their lines fixed, to be constructed only at such time in the future as the growth may justi- fy. Housing Laws Melrose early adopted an excellent building code which has helped to keep our building operations within lines that stand for light, air, sanitation and fire protection. Much depends upon the administration of this department, and our Inspector of buildings stands for a faithful compliance with the code, looking alwa^'s to the welfare of the v/hole city. We have adopted appropriate ordinances which require that all buildings shall be connected with a sewer, if a sewer is in the street, or a cesspool that is proof, built only with the approval of the Board of Health. \ The Boulevard to Lynn Woods The many great problems on the part of the Metropolitan Park system has prevented the extension of the Boulevard from Bellevue Avenue to the Lynn W'^oods. An effort will be made by our repre- sentative to secure legislation for its building out to Howard Street beyond the Saugus line, the coming year, and leaving the extension to the Lynn Woods for future legislation. Department of Parks During the year, the Horace Mann Park on Grove Street has been finished, making it an ornament and utility in a section filled with children and in a locality where much good will soon come from it. The ice-houses at Ell Pond with the land adjoining the pond are now secure to the city after years of agitation.
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