For hubs, rims, spokes, lumber and tools used For extra team work in collecting ashes, dirt, The amount in bills deposited with the city treasurer for collection during the year 1870, $33,064.17. There has been paid into the city treasury and credited this depart ment during the same period as follows: For offal of eleven Wards in city proper. For ashes sold paving department Amoun, carried forward $17,425 17 15,005 00 7.886 75 $10,316 92 Sale of old material consisting of ice chisel, old Of the above amount there has been paid in, during the present financial year. $31,519 78 The following table represents the whole number of entries. for cleaning vaults, by Wards, for the year 1870, together with prices for the respective seasons: There has been conveyed by a prison carriage furnished by this department, and for which no income is derived, the follow ing number of prisoners: From court-house to jail, and from jail to court-house From court-house to steamer Henry Morrison From court-house to House of Correction Total number conveyed 4,896 3,070 445 8,411 There has also been conveyed by prison vehicle furnished by this department, from the several station houses, morning and evening, to city lock-up under the court-house, and for which a charge of twenty-five cents per head is made to Police Department for such conveyance, as follows: Males, 7,645. Females, 2,919. Total, 10,564. The expenditures and receipts of this department having been given, your attention is called to the following subjects. STREET CLEANING. The city is divided into two districts, North and South, the division line being at Summer and Winter streets, and running in nearly the same direction. The whole city is cleaned twice in each week, during the seasons for sweeping and cleaning the same; during the stormy season, employees are placed at crossings on the principal thoroughfares and at railroad stations. Within the space of eight years, the increase of teams required for transportation of merchandise has nearly doubled, consequently the streets have accumulated more debris, and more labor would of necessity be required to keep the thoroughfares in a cleanly condition; as the proportion of labor has not been employed, and where more is required, an appropriation to meet such should be made. The estimates for this branch of the department, in order to meet the demands for a better state of cleanliness, I should estimate to be $40,000 additional to that made in the appropriation of 1870-71. Had the additional appropriation of $21,000, asked for in 1870, have been granted, the same would have been expended for the benefit of this department alone. The whole number of loads of street dirt collected during the year, was 34,186. Of this number a large quantity has been disposed of at convenient dumps, without charge; a large quantity has been piled at city stables for sale, and a considerable quantity has been sold. |