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LOCATION. N oet Remarks. No. 1...... Friend St. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,676 2. . . . . . Paris St., East Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 9. 3. . . . . . Harrison aw. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 3. 4. . . . . . Dudley St ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,923 5. . . . . . Fourth St. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,469 6. . . . . . River St., Dorchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 16. 7. . . . . . Meeting House Hill........|............ See Engine-house 17. 8–14. . . . Fort Hill Sq. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 25. 9. . . . . . Main st., Charlestown ..... 4,290 | Chemical 9 in this building. 10. . . . . . Centre St., West Roxbury. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 28. . 11... . . . . Chestnut Hill av., Brighton, ... . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 29. 12. . . . . . Tremont St... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,311 || Chemical 12 in this building. 13. . . . . . Warren av... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . See Engine-house 22. 15. . . . . . Boylston, cor. Hereford St., . . . . . . . . . . . . Engine 33 in this building. 16... . . . . Roslindale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,729 | Engine 45 in this building. 17. . . . . . Harrison av. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,134 18. . . . . . Pittsburgh St... . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,363 MISCELLANEOUS. LOCATION. Noet Remarks. Repair-shop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bristol'St. 23,679 Fire Dept. Headquarters...| Bristol st. ( ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ,04 Fuel-house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Salem St. . . . . . . . . . . . 417 Fuel-house... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Main St., Ch’s’m.... 2,430 Fuel-house... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dorchester St. . . . . . . 1,610 Fuel-house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Washington St...... 1,007

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STEAM FIRE-ENGINES. — Forty-three in service, located as follows: Twelve in City proper, four in East Boston, six in South Boston, five in Roxbury, six in Dorchester, three in Charlestown, four in West Roxbury, and three in Brighton. FIRE-BOAT. — One in service, located India Wharf. HoRSE Hose—WAGONS. — Forty-three in service, located as follows: Twelve in City proper, four in East Boston, six in South Boston, five in Roxbury, six in Dorchester, three in Charlestown, four in West Roxbury, and three in Brighton. Hook—AND-LADDER CARRIAGES. — Eighteen in service, including five extension ladder trucks, located as follows: Seven in City proper, one in East Boston, two in Roxbury, two in South Boston, two in Dorchester, one in Charlestown, two in West Roxbury, and one in Brighton. CoMBINATION TRUCKS. — Nine in service, located as follows: One in City proper, one in East Boston, one in Roxbury, two in South Boston, one in Charlestown, two in Dorchester, and one in West Roxbury. COMBINATION WAGONS. — Two in service, located as follows: One in Dorchester, one in Charlestown. CHEMICAL ENGINES. – Ten in service, self-acting, located as follows: Three in the City proper, one in East Boston, one in Charlestown, one in South Boston, two in Roxbury, one in West Roxbury, and one in Brighton: WATER—TOWERS. — Two in service, located in City proper. PortABLE EXTINGUISHERs. – Carried on all of the ladder trucks and hose carriages, and located in the department houses. HoRSEs, –Three hundred and eighty-two.

VETERINARY HospitaL. — Atkinson street, on lot containing 64,442 square feet. FUEL-WAGONS. — Thirty-nine, each capable of conveying about two tons. WAGONS. — Seventeen for Chief of Department and District Chiefs (fourteen in service, and three in reserve) and one buggy. PUNGs. – Forty-eight, forty-three for carrying hose, two for jobbing, and three for Fire-alarm branch. District Chiefs' sleighs, seven. FIRE-L ADDERS. — Three hundred and ten of different sizes. Hosł. — 113,050 feet of leading and 1,054 feet of suction. SPARE APPARATUS. – Eleven steam fire-engines, five hose wagons, four hook-and-ladder carriages, three chemical engines, and one fire-boat. RESERVOIRS. — Two hundred and seven, of which twelve are located in East Boston, eighteen in South Boston, thirty-nine in Roxbury, eight in Dorchester, forty in Charlestown, fifteen in West Roxbury, one in Brighton, and the balance in the different wards of the city proper. They contain from 15,000 to 55,000 gallons each. REPAIR-SHOP. — In the repair-shop, one 25-horse power steamengine, cylinder 9 by 31 inches, Putnam Machine Company; one 26-inch by 26-inch iron planer, 8-ft. table, 12-ft. bed; two 14-inch swing engine lathes, 6-ft. bed; one 14-inch swing engine lathe, 10-ft. bed; one No. 2 upright drill, four blacksmiths' forges, one furnace for heating tires, one 28-inch swing standard engine lathe, one 14-inch speed lathe, 5-ft. bed; one 14-inch swing patent engine-lathe, 5-ft. bed; one 25-inch shaping machine, one 68-inch radial drill, one duplex and one Blake pump for feeding boilers, one Knowles triplex pump for testing hose, one patent goose-neck belt drill, one band-saw, one circular saw, one monarch boring machine, together with numerous smaller tools and appliances, and also tools for repairing hose and harness. Three upright tubular boilers, 100-horse power. Two dynamos for lighting and fire-alarm, one tire upsetter in the blacksmith-shop, One No. 2 Blake pump in the hose and harness-shop, for testing hose. HYDRANTS. – For supplying water in case of fire 7,606, viz.: In the city proper 1,504, in South Boston 623, in East Boston 428, in Roxbury 1,242, in Dorchester 1,785, in West Roxbury 1,049, in Brighton 575, in Charlestown 355, also on Deer Island 19, on Long Island 6, on Thompson’s Island 2, on Gallop's Island 2, and on Rainsford Island 5, Quincy 11. The hydrants are located at a distance of 250 to 300 feet from each Other.

FIRE–ALARM BRANCH.

Telegraphic Fire-alarm Plant, the estimated value of which is $182,500.

BELLS OWNED BY THE CITY.

LOCATION. Material. weight in City Proper. Berkeley Temple, Berkeley Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 2,941 Chapman School-house, stored by Public Buildings Department. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steel. 3,109 Faneuil Hall. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “ . 5,186 Wells School-house, Blossom Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 1,675 * - Charlestown. Busské'Hill School-house . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 2,009 City Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { % 3,600 Warren School-house. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . € $ 3,000 Winthrop (old) School-house. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 o 3,000 Van Nostrand’s Brewery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 g 818

BELLS OWNED BY THE CITY. — Concluded.

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East Boston. Adams School-house, Sumner Street. ..................... Steel. 2,995 Princeton-street School-house..... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 2,470 Saratoga-street M. E. Church..... to s e o 'o e = * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * is e Steel. 1,968 Trinity Church, Trenton street........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 1,760

Sowth. Boston. Engine-house No. 1, Dorchester Street ... . . . . . . . . . ........ Composition. 2,911 Engine-house No. 2, Fourth Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £ 6 S00 Lawrence School-house, B Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steel. 3,400 Lincoln School-house, Broadway.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 3,110 Ticknor School-house, DOrchester street... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steel. 2,995

IDOrchester. Engine-house No. 16, Temple street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 4,149 Engine-house No. 17, Meeting House Hill................. 6 & 4,000 Engine-house No. 18, Harvard Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . £ 4 3,184 Engine-house No. 19, Mattapan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & © 2,927 Engine-house No. 20, Walnut street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . { % 3,061 Engine-house No. 21, Boston Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & 4 3,026 Roacbury.

Hook-and-Ladder house No. 4, Dudley Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 3,509 Lewis School-house. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & 4 3,104 Smith-street School-house..... ........................... & 4 4,083

West Roacbury. Bngine-house No. 28, Centre Street. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 4,000 Engine-house No. 30, Mt. Vernon street (old). . . . . * * * * * * * * Steel. 1,000 Engine-house No. 45, Roslindale. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 1,059

Brighton.

Engine-house No. 29, Chestnut Hill avenue. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Steel. 1,535 Engine-house NO. 34, Western a Venue... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Composition. 1,501 Engine-house No. 41, Allston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . & g 900

PUBLIC CLOCKS.

City Proper. — Christ Church, Salem street;

Odd Fellows' Hall,

Tremont street; Old South Church; Suffolk County Jail; State-street clock; St. Stephen's Church, Hanover street; Tremont-street M. E.

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In the various offices in City Hall, Court-houses, and all

the other

public buildings; in the school-houses owned by the city and in several

rooms hired for school and other purposes.

HEALTH DEPARTMENT.

The following property is in charge of the Board of Health:

In office of City Physician, books and surgical instruments.

GALLOP's ISLAND, containing about sixteen acres, was purchased in 1860, for $6,600, used as a Quarantine Station, on which are a dwellinghouse, barn, coal-shed, two hospitals, two buildings for the reception and care of immigrants, a bath-house, a disinfecting plant, and thirteen small buildings, formerly used as polling booths but now placed on the island for use as hospitals; steamboat wharf, storehouse for infected cargoes and other buildings, with the live Stock, farming utensils, merchandise, provisions, tools, etc., for carrying on the Quarantine Station.

SMALLPox HospitaL, Southampton street, two buildings erected in 1893.

The contents of the lot are about 52,660 square feet.

STEAMBOAT * VIGILANT.” This boat is about 734 tons burden, 95 feet in length, 17 feet beam, and 8 feet deep, and was built in Boston in 1886. Cost of boat and furniture, $18,000. Employed in quarantine Sery 1C0.

MoRGUE, North Grove street, surgical instruments.

Stable for twelve horses, North Grove street.

HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT.

The following property is in charge of the Trustees of the Boston City Hospital: The land bounded by Harrison avenue, East Concord street, Albany street, and Massachusetts avenue. This lot consists of 430,963 square feet of land. Also the land to the southwest of Massachusetts avenue bounded by Albany street, Northampton street, and a passageway near Harrison avenue, consisting of 125,736 square feet. On the first lot is the Boston City Hospital proper, which consists of a group of twenty buildings. On the second lot mentioned is situated the South Department, for the infectious diseases, which consists of a group of seven buildings. The Trustees also have charge of a plot of land containing about 69,785 square feet, on the east side of Albany street in the rear of the hospital. On this lot are situated the ambulance stable, boiler-house, dynamo station, coal-pocket, and storage house. The Convalescent Home is situated on 610,500 square feet of land, at No. 2150 Dorchester avenue, near Dorchester Lower Mills. On this property is a three-story house, with a two-story ell, with accommodations for thirty-four patients and eight employés. There are also a barn, stable, shed, and a bowling alley. About one-half of this property is highly improved, and one-half woodland and pasture. The Relief Station on Haymarket square, lot contains 8,507 square feet of land, on which is a three-story brick building with a one-storied ell. The total amount of land in this department is 1,245,491 square feet or 28.1% acres. The number of buildings is thirty five.

CHILDREN'S INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.

MARCELLA-STREET HOME. — Building formerly occupied by the city of Roxbury as an almshouse. Additions and alterations were made in 1876–77 and 1881, for the accommodation of pauper and neglected children. Contents of lot, 338,337 square feet. No longer in use.

PARENTAL SCHOOL. — The Bolles estate, situated on Spring street, West Roxbury, consisting of about twenty-eight acres of land, dwellinghouse, farmer's house, stable, ice-house, boat-house, sheds, etc., was purchased in August, 1892, at a cost of $30,000, for a Parental School. There have been erected on this place a kitchen and a laundry-house, two temporary school buildings, three dormitories and hospital. In 1901 additional land to amount of 778,448 square feet was purchased at a cost of $35,262.27. Three new cottages have been erected this year. RAINSFORD ISLAND (with the buildings thereon), purchased in 1871 of the Commonwealth at a cost of $40,000, containing eleven acres. The buildings are occupied by the House of Reformation.

INSANE HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT.

Wom EN's DEPARTMENT. — In West Roxbury District,

This site, originally purchased as a Home for the Poor, has been occupied exclusively by the insane since 1887. Contains about fifty acres, and is bounded on southeasterly side by Harvard street, southwesterly by Morton street, northwesterly by Canterbury street, and northeasterly by Austin street.

On this estate are the original dwelling-house connected with the two institution buildings erected for the poor, three detached buildings for hospital wards, a building used for chapel and dining-room, with kitchen and storerooms, a boiler-house, with laundry in second story, a barn and stable, with silo, a hennery, ice-house, and two small outbuildings.

This plant provides for 250 patients.

Three hospital buildings and a mortuary are now being erected.

MEN'S DEPARTMENT. — Situated on Walk Hill and Canterbury streets, West Roxbury, and containing about thirty-five acres, was purchased in 1892 for a site for the new Lunatic Hospital, at a cost of $34,500. On it is a dwelling-house (twelve rooms). Two tracts of land, containing 41 22-100 acres adjoining the Pierce Farm, were purchased in 1893, costing $23,000. In 1901 the Trustees purchased a tract of land comprising over 24 acres at Canterbury and Morton streets, costing $54,104.35. There have been constructed for the Insane Hospital two hospital buildings, a domestic building, boiler, and power-house. The stable and barn were removed to new locations. Occupied by 250 patients.

PAUPER INSTITUTIONS DEPARTMENT.

ALMSHOUSE, Alford street, Charlestown, is situated on a lot containing 97,443 feet, near the Everett line, a short distance from the Malden bridge. The building is of brick, built in 1849; is 100 feet long by 45 feet wide, three and one-half stories high, with two wings, one story high, 39 feet by 19 feet, and two wings, two and one-half and three and one-half stories high, 45 feet by 23 feet. One hundred and twenty inmates can be accommodated. There are a large barn and other outbuildings upon the lot. LONG ISLAND. — The department controls about 167 acres. A building accommodating 350 persons was erected on this island in the years 1886 and 1887, and is now occupied by male paupers. A building for about 250 female paupers, a hospital with 250 beds, a chapel, seating 800, a power-house, about 116 feet long by 40 feet wide and two stories high (including laundry and bakery), a house for the superintendent, a hospital for consumptives with 51 beds, and a home for nurses, have since been erected There are a large barn, ice-house, piggery, and other farm buildings, and a reservoir with capacity of 1,000,000 gallons on the premises. ... STEAMER “JOHN HOWARD. "' – This boat is 38.14 tons burden, 70.7 feet long, 14.5 feet beam, 5.65 feet draught, and was built at a cost of $18,000. Her berth is at Long Island, where, being fully equipped for fire duty, she can be called on at short notice should a fire occur on any of the islands. The boat is used for the conveyance to and from the city of the visiting medical staff of the Long Island Hospital, the heads of the departments conducting institutions on Long, Rainsford, and Deer Islands, and the clergy officiating therein.

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