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Ocm17241103-1907.Pdf (9.562Mb) mmmt^mfimt^^mt^mmimmmtmmmm 7>M •oe«-»bAfo m ft vici Of o^. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/annualreportofbo1907boar Public Document No. 11 TWENTY-NINTH ANNUAL EEPORT BOARD OP HARBOR AND LAND COMMISSIONERS. Foe the Year 1907.^ BOSTON: WEIGHT & POTTER FEINTING CO., STATE PEINTEES, 18 Post Office Square. 1908. Approved by The State Board of Publication. 'AM •iO VI hi ; Commonfca^all^ 0f P^assarl^nsetts^ REPORT To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commomvealth of Massachusetts. The Board of Harbor and Land Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of law, respectfully submits its annual report for the year 1907, covering a period of twelve months, from ISTov. 30, 1906, being the twenty-ninth annual report of the Board since its establishment by chapter 263 of the Acts of 1879. The present organization of the Board is as follows : George E. Smith, chairman, Henry J. Skeffington, Samuel M. Mans- field. From Dec. 1, 1906, to 'Nov. 30, 1907, the Board has given 202 formal and informal hearings, and has received 169 peti- tions for license to build and maintain structures and for privileges in tide waters, great ponds and Connecticut River, to dredge material, to remove material from beaches, and for other purposes. One hundred and six licenses for structures and privileges in tide waters, great ponds and Connecticut River have been granted during the year; also 37 permits for dredging, for the removal of material from beaches, and for other purposes. Inspections have been made at various times by and under the direction of the Board, of work completed and in progress of sites of authorized work, under appropriations made by the Legislature; also upon petitions and plans presented of the sites of proposed work in tide waters; various structures built 4 HARBOR AND LAND COMMISSIONERS. [Jan. under licenses; sites of alleged dumping of material into tide waters; Connecticut Eiver; great ponds; State boimdaries; town boundary survey work. Through transactions of the Board there has been paid into the treasury of the Commonwealth during the past year from sales, rents, licenses, leases and other sources, and credited to the Commonwealth's flats improvement fund and the harbor com- pensation fund for Boston harbor, the aggregate sum of $80,- 857.29. During the year 14 contracts were m.ade, involving the esti- mated expenditure of $260,654.50. A' list of these contracts and those pending, with details relating thereto, may be found in the Appendix. METROPOLITAlSr DoCKS. Chapter 93 of the Resolves of 1907 is as follows : — Resolved, That the board of harbor and land commissioners is hereby directed to investigate and report to the next general court as to the cost, and advisability of constructing and maintaining a system of metropolitan docks in the city of Boston, to be owned and controlled either by the Commonwealth or by the said city. [Approved May 28, 1907. In pursuance of this resolve, the Board submits the follow- ing report, and the two accompanying maps of Boston har- bor: — The subject of ownership and control of docks and wharves in Boston involves a consideration of several matters pre- liminary to any finding as to the cost and advisability of a system of docks and wharves to be under either Commonwealth or municipal control; and the Board has assumed that the fol- lowing statements, covering work done by the Federal govern- ment, the Commonwealth and the city of Boston, for the im- provement of the port of Boston and in aid of commerce, by .dredging its channels and docks, also statistics showing the present wharf and dock facilities, including the several railroad terminals, the foreign and coastv^se commerce of the port, together with the maps referred to above brought up to date from original surveys by this Board and the government, will enable one to more fully understand the present situation, and • 1908.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 11. 5 aid in determining what is required to advance the prosperity not only of the city of Boston but of the Commonwealth. In 1897 an exhaustive report was made to the Legislature by the State Board on Docks and Terminal Facilities, estab- lished by chapter 291 of the Acts of 1895 as a board of inquiry into the " Wants of the port of Boston for an improved system of docks and wharves and terminal facilities in connection therewith." in- . This special board was also directed to consider and vestigate, among other matters, the policy of a public owner- ship and control of docks and wharves in Boston ; the advantages and disadvantages of this form of control in other ports of the United States; the extent to which it has been adopted in for- eign ports, and the reason why it has been considered essential to commercial development in certain seaports. The conclusion of this board in respect to public o^vnership •— was : That a portion of the foreshore should forever be preserved in the ownership and control of the people, for uses and purposes such as the needs of changing conditions may from time to time require, but that it is neither necessary nor desirable that the entire foreshore of the harbor should be thus held; on the contrary, a diversified ownership is believed to be healthiest, and therefore the acquisition of certain parcels within the limits of the city of Boston, as hereinbefore described, is recommended. The parcels referred to in this report consisted of water front and flats at East Boston, and land and flats between Old Harbor and Neponset River, which were unimproved. This Board also recommended that a pier and dock be forthwith built on the Commonwealth's flats at South Boston : — with a view to meeting the demand for such additional accommodation; and that, when built, the same, if wanted for exclusive use, be leased for a term of not exceeding fifteen years; and when so leased, or fully occupied, another such dock be built, answering to the requirements of the then period, — and so on, as long as the demand shall continue. And if, meanwhile, a demand for a wharf or other improvement in the East Boston tract or in the Dorchester Bay tract shall arise, for foreign or domestic purposes, that then such improvement as may be wanted shall be made. In this way, it is believed, the advantages of public 6 HARBOR AND LAND COMMISSIONERS. [Jan. ownership as elsewhere demonstrated may be acquired and retained at this port, for the benefit of the present generation and posterity, at a minimum cost. The subject of inadequate anchorage ground for vessels in Boston harbor was also discussed by this special board, and action by the Legislature suggested and recommended. By chapter 486 of the Acts of 1897 the Legislature, acting upon the above recommendations, authorized the Board of Har- bor and Land Commissioners to take bj purchase or otherwise certain parcels of land and flats on the easterly side of East Boston, for the purpose of securing public ownership and con- trol of that portion of the foreshore of Boston harbor, from an area bounded southwesterly by the southwesterly side line of Sumner Street extended; southeasterly by the United States pierhead line ; northeasterly by the flats o\vned by the city of Boston and appurtenant to Wood Island Park; northwesterly by a line parallel with and 1,500 feet inside of or shoreward from said pierhead line, -— and appropriated $100,000 for the purposes specified in the act. In 1898 this Board made a taking, after the purchase of several of the more valuable smaller lots of flats lying near the improved and occupied end of Jeffries Point. N'othing, however, has as yet been done in the way of im- provement of this territory for commercial purposes by building structures or by dredging, inasmuch as the question involving the title of the East Boston Company, the largest owner, to certain flats taken by the Commonwealth, is as yet unsettled. The accompanying map of the inner harbor shows the area purchased and taken. The total expenditure from the appropriation of $100,000, to Dec. 1, 1907, is $32,568.77, which is for acquirement of land and flats and expenses incidental thereto. The Legislature, by chapter 513 of the Acts of 1897, acting further upon the above recommendations, directed this Board to construct the pier knoTsm as the Commonwealth pier, and a dock, on the northerly frontage of the Commonwealth's flats at South Boston, and appropriated $400,000 therefor. This pier was completed in 1901, at a cost of $381,877.09, and is 1,200 feet long and 400 feet Avide, with a dock of the same length 1908.] PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 11. 7 as the pier on the westerly side, adjoining the terminal of the ISTew York, N'ew Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, dredged 175 feet wide at the outer end, 200 feet wide at the inner end and 30 feet deep at mean low water. There is also a berth at the outer end of this pier, having the same depth as the dock. The dock on the easterly side has not been dredged to any extent, the depth varying from 4 to 15 feet at mean low water. This struc- ture was planned with a view to allowing an increase in the depth of the docks, if desired in the future, to 35 feet or 40 feet at mean low water, without endangering the structure. The core of this pier consists of stone walls enclosing solid filling, the dimensions being 1,150 feet in length and 300 feet in width, the solid core being surrounded on the easterly and westerly sides and at the outer end by a pile wharf or platform 50 feet wide, the total area of the pier being about 11 acres.
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