to the public on November 28, 1912. The entire outlay for both was appropriated from the George F. Parkman Fund income. GEORGE F. PARKMAN FUND. By the will of the late George F. Parkman, various real estate properties worth between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 were left to the City, the income therefrom to be expended for the maintenance and improvement of the Common and such parks as were in existence January 12, 1887, and no part of it to be used for the purchase of additional land for park purposes. The bequest was accepted by the City Council, March 9, 1909, since which date most of the realty has been sold and the proceeds invested. On February 1, 1922, the principal of the fund in the custody of the City Treasurer amounted to $5,392,877. In the fiscal year 1921-22, the income from the fund was $210,975, i. e., 4.07 per cent. PUBLIC BATHS AND GYMNASIA. MAIN BATH HOUSES, OPEN ALL THE YEAR. CABOT STREET.-203 Cabot street, Roxbury. Brick building, containing 45 shower baths, a swimming pool, 75 by 25 feet, and a gymnasium. Opened to the public in September, 1905. Total cost of building, $108,690. CHARLESTOWN.- Corner Bunker Hill and Lexington streets. Brick building (old City building remodeled), containing 28 shower baths and a gymnasium. Opened to the public in March, 1913. Total cost, $49,000, approximately. DOVER STREET.- 249 Dover street. Brick building, containing 30 shower baths for men and 11 for women, also tub baths. No gymnasium. It includes a laundry where all the towels and part of the bathing suits used in the department are laundered. Opened to the public in October, 1898. Total cost (including $14,154 for land), $88,267. NORTH BENNET STREET.- North End. Brick building, containing 65 shower baths, 400 lockers and a gymnasium. Opened to the public in April, 1909. Total cost (including $36,800 for land), $136,186. BATHS AND GYMNASIA IN OTHER CITY BUILDINGS, OPEN ALL THE YEAR. CHARLESBANK.-Charles street, West End, two houses (i. e., for men and women), 12 shower baths in each; outdoor gymnasium. COPLEY SCHOOL.-Bartlett street, Charlestown, 12 showers for men, 10 showers for women. EAST BOSTON GYMNASIUM.*— 116 Paris street, 74 shower baths. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.- Corner Columbia road and Bird street, Dorchester, 26 shower baths and a swimming pool. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.- South street, near Sedgwick street, Jamaica Plain, 19 shower baths and a swimming pool, 75 by 24 feet. * On the site of the new East Boston Gymnasium was located the first indoor municipal gymnasium in the United States, so far as known. It was opened to the public in 1897. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.- Broadway, South Boston, 65 shower baths, i. e., 40 for men's section, 23 for women's, and two extension showers for boys. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.— Tyler street, South End, 40 shower baths. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.- Vine and Dudley streets, Roxbury, 28 shower baths for men's section, 28 for women's and 6 in gymnasium. WARD 6 GYMNASIUM.- 642 Harrison avenue, South End, 13 shower baths. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.- Washington street, near Ashland, Roslindale, 18 shower baths. MUNICIPAL BUILDING.-River street, Hyde Park, 25 shower baths. In the calendar year, 1921, the total number of baths taken in the 14 indoor bathing places was 1,527,171, of which 74.3 per cent were by men and boys. BEACH BATHS. DEWEY.- Medford street, Charlestown, single house, for men, women and children. FREEPORT STREET.-Dorchester, one house, for men and women. L STREET.-South Boston, for men and boys. MARINE PARK.- Dressing closets, lockers and showers, for men and women. NORTH END PARK.- Commercial street, two houses, for men and women. A laundry connected with these bath houses launders part of the bathing suits used in the department during the summer bathing season. SAVIN HILL.-Dorchester, single house, for men, women and children. TENEAN.- Neponset, single house, for men, women and children. WORLD WAR MEMORIAL PARK-East Boston, two houses, for men and women, and one house for boys. FLOATING BATHS. MERIDIAN STREET.- East Boston, two houses, for men and women. CEMETERY DIVISION. When in November, 1920, the Cemetery Department was consolidated with the Park Department, the five trustees of the former were superseded by the Park Commissioners, who reorganized it as the Cemetery Division of the Park Department, thereupon taking charge of Mount Hope Cemetery and all the burying grounds owned by the City. Mount Hope Cemetery (the largest of all) was bought by the City in 1857 for $35,000, and additional land has been purchased since. It is bounded by Walk Hill, †The L street seaside bath, opened in 1866, was the first municipal bath established in the United States, so far as known. Harvard, Canterbury and Paine streets, Ward 24. The Board of Cemetery Trustees was first appointed under the ordinances of December 21, 1857, and annual reports have been published since 1859. All the cemeteries formerly under control of the said Board but now in Copp's Hill, Charter and Hull streets, 89,015 square feet. Granary, Tremont street, opposite Bromfield street, 82,063 square feet. King's Chapel, Tremont street, near School street, 19,344 square feet. Market Street, Market street, Brighton, 18,072 square feet. Mount Hope, Walk Hill street, 117 acres and 36,536 square feet. Rainsford Island, 43,560 square feet. South End, Washington and East Concord streets, 64,570 square feet. Warren, Kearsarge avenue, Roxbury, 54,500 square feet. PRINTING DEPARTMENT. Office and Printing Plant, 286 Congress street. [Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 31; Ord. 1911, Chap. 2; Ord. 1914, Chap. 6; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 26; Ord. 1920, Chap. 9.] WILLIAM J. CASEY, Superintendent of Printing. Term ends in 1926. Salary, $5,000. The Superintendent of Printing has charge of all the printing and binding for the City departments, County courts and offices, also prints the weekly publication, the City Record. He supplies them with postage stamps and attends to their requisitions for stationery. The municipal printing plant was established in March, 1897, the machinery and other equipment of a privately owned plant being purchased for $30,000. The annual appropriation for printing and binding certain City Documents ordered by the City Council, amounting in recent years to about $42,000, has regularly been paid to the department, the latter contracting with outside parties for all binding. During recent years its efficiency has been notably increased and it now ranks among the profitable public service enterprises. The total income for year ending January 31, 1922, was $419,038, of which $342,878 was received for printing and binding, $35,247 for stationery sales and $37,895 for postage stamp sales, also $3,018 for other receipts. The year's expenditures amounted to $387,706, leaving a net profit of $31,332. PUBLIC BUILDINGS DEPARTMENT. Office, 802 City Hall Annex, eighth floor. [Stat. 1895, Chap. 449, § 22; Rev. Ord. 1898, Chap. 32; Stat. 1913, Chap. 263; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 27; Ord. 1921, Chap. 1.] Fred J. KNEELAND, Superintendent of Public Buildings. Salary, $4,500. Term ends in 1924. FREDERICK C. WARD, Chief Clerk. Salary, $2,700. The office of the Superintendent of Public Buildings was established by ordinance on July 1, 1850, and annual reports have been published by the Superintendent since 1851. He has the supervision of the care and repair of all buildings belonging to or hired by the City, also the furniture and fixtures contained therein; attends to the hiring of such offices as are needed by departments which cannot be accommodated in City buildings; provides suitable wardrooms for public meetings of voters and purchases the necessary furniture, etc., for the public buildings. CITY BUILDINGS IN CHARGE OF THIS DEPARTMENT. BUILDINGS, WITH LOCATIONS. Occupied by, etc. Ambulance Station, National st., South Boston.. On leased land. Charity Building, 43 Hawkins street, including Overseers of the Public Welfare; part occupied by Associated Charities (rent free). Municipal Building, City square, Charlestown.... Charlestown Branch of Municipal Court and Police Station, 15th Division. City Building. Norfolk and Washington sts., Dor., Public Library Branch and Ward 21 wardroom. City Building, Richmond and Washington sts., Dor. Public Library Branch. City Hall, School street... City Hall Annex, Court street. Mayor's office, City Council chamber and City Messenger's office and Document rooms, Aldermanic chamber (old), also nine other City departments or divisions of same.* Sixteen City Departments, etc.† * Auditing, Treasury, Sinking Fund, City Clerk, City Planning Board, Registration Office of the Institutions Department, Soldiers' Relief, Statistics, Permit Office of Street Commissioners, Commercial, Industrial and Publicity Bureau. † Art, Assessing, Boston Sanatorium, Budget, Building, Collecting, Election, Health, Institutions, Public Buildings, Public Works, Registry, Schoolhouse, Street Laying-Out, Supply, Weights and Measures, Wire Division of Fire Department, Municipal Employment Bureau. CITY BUILDINGS IN CHARGE OF THIS DEPARTMENT.- Concluded. BUILDINGS, WITH LOCATIONS. Occupied by, etc. Cross Street Schoolhouse (Old), Cross st., Charles- Bogan Camp No. 14, L. S. W. V. town. Curtis Hall (See Municipal Building, J. P.). East Boston Court House and Police Station, Faneuil Hall, Faneuil Hall square. District Court and Police Station, 7th Division. Market stalls, etc., under hall. Faneuil Hall Market House, N. and S. Market sts., Quincy Hall and Produce Exchange, second floor, also Traffic Division, Etc., of Police Department. Franklin Schoolhouse (Old), Washington street... Ward 6 wardroom; Posts 15 and 7, Municipal Building, South Boston, E. Broadway.. Municipal Court, Public Library Branch, auditorium and baths. Municipal Building, Ward 5, Oak and Tyler Public Library Branch, baths, gymsts. nasium and wardroom. Municipal Building, Ward 12, Vine and Dudley Public Library Branch, baths, gymnasium and wardroom. sts. Old Armory Building, Maverick st., E. Boston.... Ward 2 wardroom; second floor, Post 159, G. A. R. and L. S. W. V. Leased. Old Chemical Engine House, Eustis st., Roxbury.. Upper part leased to Post 32, G. A. R. Leased to L. S. W. V. Leased to Bostonian Society. Old Winthrop Schoolhouse, Bunker Hill street, Reconstructed, with Smith Schoolhouse, Joy street. gymnasium, baths and wardroom, Ward 4. Leased to Post 134, G. A. R. Thomas Street Schoolhouse, Thomas street... Leased to Post 200, G. A. R. Overseers of Public Welfare. Wayfarers' Lodge, 30 Hawkins street.. |