A strip, 20 feet wide, through Franklin street, from Walnut street to Fulton street, reserving use of surface to previous owners; area, 10,208 square feet. A strip, 35 feet wide, through Fulton street, from Franklin street to Ericsson street, reserving use of surface to previous owners; area, 42,606 square feet. A strip, 12 feet wide, from Mt. Vernon street, in Dorchester, to Dorchester bay, together with a triangular piece bordering on said strip and Mt. Vernon street, reserving use of surface to previous owners; area, 6,238 square feet. A triangular piece of land on the southeasterly side of Mt. Vernon street, reserving use of surface to previous owners; area, 742 square feet. SUBWAY. From the junction of Shawmut avenue and Tremont street, Two-track From the Public Garden, opposite Church street, to the junction of Boylston and Tremont streets wo e Two-track Thence under the Common to Park street . ". to . Four-track Thence under Tremont street to Scollay square . * . Two-track Thence under Cornhill . to & g e o * . Two-track Thence under Hanover street to Washington street . . Two-track Under Adams square and Washington street to corner Esanover street . . Three-track Thence under Washington street and under and through property taken by the Boston Transit Commission for the City of Boston so e † o * g e . Four-track Approximate cost of subway and alterations requested under Chapter 500, Acts of 1897 to e to o Leased to the West End Street Railway Company for twenty years, from August 28, 1897, at a rental of 4% per cent. per annum of the cost. $4,410,000 EAST BOSTON TUNNEL. Single tube tunnel for street-car traffic from Maverick square, East Boston, under Lewis street, across the Harbor, and by way of State street to Scollay square . . Two-track Approximate number of feet completed to date © . 4,600 feet Approximate cost to January 31, 1903 . © e to $1,550,000 To be leased when completed to the Boston Elevated Railway Company for # of 1 per cent. of the gross earnings of that company. WATER—WORKS. Brookline Reservoir, situated in Brookline, with a capacity of 115,000,000 gallons; area of property, 1,447,576 square feet. Fisher Hill Reservoir, Brookline, with a capacity of 15,000,000 gallons; area of property, 459,670 square feet. Parker Hill Reservoir, Roxbury, with a capacity of 7,200,000 gallons; area of property, 197,614 square feet. East Boston Reservoir, on Eagle hill, East Boston, with a capacity of 6,000,000 gallons; area of property, 220,875 square feet. East Boston Pumping Station and lot located on Condor street, East Boston. High service tank on Mt. Bellevue, West Roxbury; capacity, 122,000 gallons. West Roxbury Pumping Station and lot, located on the corner of Washington street and Metropolitan avenue, West Roxbury. High service tank on Orient Heights, capacity 122,000 gallons; area of property, 11,395.5 square feet. Machine shop, stable, wharf and pipe-yard on Albany street; area of property, 98,100 square feet. Workshop and a stable, corner Medford and Tufts streets, Charlestown; area of property, 13,050 square feet. Aqueduct location, Chestnut Hill avenue, to High Service Pumping Station, 299,593 square feet. Pipe route from Beacon street to Boylston street, Brookline; area of property, 232,880 square feet. Strip of land at Point Shirley, Winthrop, containing 7,725 square feet. Strip of land from Parker Hill Reservoir to Fisher avenue, containing 2,887 square feet. Strip of land between Heath and Lawn streets, Roxbury, containing 5,707.5 square feet. The main pipes leading from the receiving reservoirs in Brookline and Brighton, and from Walnut street, Somerville, to the city, and the distributing pipes laid in the City Proper, South Boston, East Boston, Roxbury, Dorchester, West Roxbury, Brighton, Charlestown, etc. Total length 727.2 miles, varying in size from 2 to 48 inches in diameter. Also the Cochituate aqueduct from Brookline Reservoir to Chestnut Hill Pumping Station. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES DEPARTMENT. Various sets of standard weights and measures, etc., 6 horses, 6 wagons, 1 pung, and 6 harnesses. WIRE DEPARTMENT. Test Board, capacity 220 volts and 300 amperes. Auxiliary Test Board, capacity, 220 volts and 150 amperes. Auxiliary Test Board, capacity 220 volts and 75 amperes. Weston Direct Reading Voltmeter, No. 3,317, 300 volts. Weston Direct Reading Voltmeter, No. 4,747, 15 volts. Weston Direct Reading Ammeter, No. 926, 150 amperes. Weston Direct Reading Voltmeter, No. 3,438, 1,500 volts. Weston Direct Reading Mil-Ammeter, No. 2,433, 1,500 mil-ammeters. Weston Direct Reading Voltmeter, No. 6,020, 300 volts. Weston Direct Reading Ammeter, No. 2,428, 500 amperes. Weston Direct Reading Ammeter, No. 2,381, 50 amperes. 15 ampere I. C. Ammeter, No. 21,507. 200 ampere T. & H. portable Ammeter, No. 29,421. Standard Portable Alternating and Direct Current Voltmeter, No. 1,044, 300 volts. Reflecting Galvanometer, Condenser, Telescope, Scales, etc. Bichloride of Silver Batteries, 150-cell and 60-cell. Queen Testing Set, No. 389. Generator, 50,000 ohms. Discharge Key. Reversing Key. Lamp-stand and Scale. Shunt Coil. Set Double Connector Post. Set Standard Resistance Coil. High and Low-Potential Testing outfit. Wheatstone Bridge. Horses. Goddard Buggy. Express Wagons. Business Wagon. Sleigh. Sets of Harness. Robes. Blankets. Miscellaneous tools used in connection with overhead construction. Draughting Instruments. TRUST FUNDS. BABCOCK MUSIC FUND. By the will of ARCHIBALD BABCOCK, who died August 10, 1862, the sum of $3,000 was bequeathed to the City of Charlestown, and accepted by the City Council of that city, November, 1862, upon the conditions and for the purposes expressed by him in his last will and testament : “The income to be annually expended in procuring the services of musicians, or of a band or bands of musicians, to perform in public in the City of Charlestown, within its present limits, free to all its citizens, one-half of said income to be annually expended in procuring musicians, or band or bands of musicians, to play on or near the small common at the “Neck,” so-called, at the corner of Main and Cambridge streets, preference to be given to citizens of Charlestown, due regard being had as to ability and quality.” Deposits in the Charlestown Five-Cents Savings Bank . . $3,000 00 BOSTON FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND. By chapter 107 of the Acts of 1880, the Mayor of the City of Boston for the time being (and his successors in office), the Fire Commissioner of the City of Boston for the time being (and his successors in office), were constituted a body corporate for the purpose of receiving and holding all sums of money, and real and personal estate, not exceeding in the aggregate two hundred thousand dollars, which may be given, granted, bequeathed, or devised to it for the benefit of members of the Boston Fire Department, or their families, requiring assistance, or for the benefit of any persons, or the families of any persons, who have been such members, requiring assistance. The property so held shall be known as the Boston Firemen’s Relief Fund. The said body corporate shall have authority to manage and dispose of the same and the income thereof according to their best discretion, subject to the provisions of any and all trusts which may be created for the purposes aforesaid. In accordance with the provisions of the foregoing act, the followingnamed persons, viz., the Mayor, Patrick A. Collins, Fire Commisioner, Henry S. Russell, now constitute the Board of Trustees; Patrick A. Collins, Mayor, President; Henry S. Russell, Treasurer; Michael J. Lafferty, Secretary. The following was the condition of the fund January 31, 1903: Nine City of Boston Three and one-half per cent. Bonds, $62,000 00 TWelve ** “ Four per cent. Bonds * e . 88,000 00 CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS. Amounts paid by the owners of lots, the income from which is to be expended by the Board of Cemetery Trustees for the perpetual care of lots. Dorchester North Burial Ground Trust Funds. – Invested in: City of Boston Three and one-half per cent. Bond for $700 00 City of Boston Three per cent. Bond for . to 300 00 Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1903 260 50 $1,260 50 Dorchester South Cemetery Trust Fund. — Invested in: City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds for . $400 00 City of Boston Three per cent. Bonds for 250 00 Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1903 48 00 $698 00 Evergreen Cemetery Trust Fund. — Invested in: City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds for . to to to $2,700 00 City of Boston Three and one-half per cent. Bonds for . 3,400 00 City of Boston Three per cent. Bonds for . to e 2,250 00 Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1903 300 81 - $8,650 81 Mount Hope Cemetery Trust Fund. —Invested in: City of Boston Six per cent. Bonds for $2,000 00 City of Boston Five per cent. Bonds for * 1,000 00 City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds for . * d 42,325 00 City of Boston Three and one half per cent. Bonds for 19,101 00 City of Boston Three per cent. Bonds for . e 12,250 00 Cash in City Treasury, January 31, 1903 498 07 $77,174 07 RECAPITULATION OF CEMETERY TRUST FUNDS. Dorchester North Burial Ground Trust Fund $1,260 50 Dorchester South Cemetery Trust Fund 698 00 Evergreen Cemetery Trust Fund & 8,650 81 Mount Hope Cemetery Trust Fund 77,174 07 $87,783 38 CHARLESTOWN POOR'S FUND. Various bequests made by Richard Russell, May, 1674; Richard Sprague, will dated October 5, 1703; Thomas Căll, will dated January, 1772; Richard Devens, 1825; David Goodwin, March, 1826; Thomas Miller, April 2, 1833; Catherine Bradish, September, 1836; Daniel White, 1864; James K. Frothingham, 1864; Jacob Foss, 1865; Simeon A. R. I)eWolf, 1865; Reuben Hunt, 1866; Susan Nichols, 1892—for the benefit of the poor of Charlestown. By an act of the Legislature passed in 1825, the Board of Trust was composed of the selectmen of Charlestown, and the two senior deacons from each church, for the time being, and their successors in said office. By a subsequent ruling of Court this act was considered as including the two wardens of each Episcopal church. By act of annexation, the members of the two branches of the City Council, for the time being, residing in the Charlestown District, together with the senior deacons of the religious societies of Charlestown, now constitute the Board of Trustees. ". Invested as follows: City of Boston Bond for . & g & to e to . $20,000 00 Twenty-eight shares Bunker Hill National Bank, par . . 2,800 00 Warren Institution for Savings * so to te . 1,200 00 The income of the Pierce Fuel Fund (principal, $1,500) is paid to the Trustees of the above Poor's Fund by the Overseers of the Poor of the City of Boston. The principal is not included in the above statement. B. F. STACEY, Treasurer. CITY EIOSPITAL FUNDS. BALL FUND. — Bequest of the late JonAS BALL, the interest of which is to furnish clothing to indigent persons when leaving the hospital. Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond for . . $1,000 00 “HERBERT L. BURRELL ETHER PRIZE FUND.” — A gift of Mr. TownSEND WILLIAM THORNDIKE for the following purposes: “I hereby give to the Trustees of the Boston City Hospital the sum of one thousand dollars, to found the ‘HERBERT L. BURRELL ETHER PRIZE FUND.” From the interest of this fund I desire that money prizes shall be given semi-annually to the surgical house officer who administers ether or other anaesthetic in the most skilful and humane manner. Only surgical house officers of the Boston City Hospital shall be eligible to compete. The award is to be made by three judges, these to be appointed by the senior surgeon and the superintendent of the hospital. “In case no house officer is considered worthy of the prize, the interest shall be added to the principal. Should the principal increase to such an amount as shall be considered sufficient to warrant the offering of a second prize of a lesser amount, such second prize shall be established, and shall be known as the ‘WILLIAM H. THORNDIKE, ETHER PRIZE FUND.” “The sixteenth day of October being the anniversary of the discovery of anaesthesia, that date shall be one of the days on which a prize is to be awarded.” Invested in one City of Boston Four per cent. Bond for . $1,000 00 CHEEveR FUND. — Donation by Dr. DAVID W. CHEEveR, accepted by the trustees, March 20, 1889, the income of which is to be expended as per following extract from his letter: * “To purchase and present to each house surgeon when his term of service expires a small case (pocket case) of surgical instruments as a gift from me.” Invested in City of Boston Four per cent. Bonds for . . $3,000 00 SILAS DURKEE FUND. — Bequest of SILAS DURKEE. Extract from his will: “All the rest and residue of my estate and property I give, devise, and bequeath to the City of Boston, to have and to hold the same to said City of Boston, and its successors in trust, for the benefit of the Boston City Hospital forever.” Invested in City of Boston Three per cent. Bonds for . . $15,050 00 |