BROOKLINE STREET, Brighton, over Boston & Albany Railroad. CURTIS STREET, East Boston, over Boston & Albany Railroad. DANA AVENUE, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division, Hyde Park. DORCHESTER AVENUE, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Old Colony Division. EVERETT STREET, Brighton, over Boston & Albany Railroad. FAIRMOUNT AVENUE, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division and Station street, Hyde Park. GLENWOOD AVENUE WEST, over passageway connecting land of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Hyde Park. * GRANITE AVENUE, from Dorchester to Milton. HARVARD STREET, Dorchester, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division. HYDE PARK AVENUE, over proposed electric connection between Midland and Providence Divisions, New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Hyde Park. MAVERICK STREET, East Boston, over Boston & Albany Railroad. MILTON STREET, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence Division, Hyde Park. MORTON STREET, Dorchester, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division. MYSTIC AVENUE, Charlestown, over Boston & Maine and Boston & Albany Railroads. NEW ALLEN STREET, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence Division, Hyde Park. NORFOLK STREET, Dorchester, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division, near Dorchester Station. OAKLAND STREET, Mattapan, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division. PERKINS STREET (foot-bridge), over Boston & Maine Railroad, Charlestown. PORTER STREET, East Boston, over Boston & Albany Railroad. PRESCOTT STREET, East Boston, over Boston & Albany Railroad. REDFIELD STREET, Neponset, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Old Colony Division. RESERVOIR ROAD, Brighton, over Boston & Albany Railroad, Newton Branch. SARATOGA STREET, East Boston, over Boston & Albany Railroad. SARATOGA STREET, East Boston, over Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. SOUTHAMPTON STREET, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Old Colony Division. SPRAGUE STREET, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division, and branch of Providence Division, Hyde Park. SUMMER STREET, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division. SUMNER STREET, East Boston, over Boston & Albany Railroad. WEBSTER STREET (FOOT-BRIDGE), over Boston & Albany Railroad, East Boston. WEST FOURTH STREET, over New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Old Colony Division, So. Boston. IV. BRIDGES MAINTAINED BY RAILROAD CORPORATIONS. 1.- By the Boston & Albany Railroad. ALBANY STREET (over passenger tracks). HARRISON AVENUE. MARKET STREET, Brighton. TREMONT STREET. WASHINGTON STREET. 2.- By the Boston & Maine and Boston & Albany Railroads. MAIN STREET, 3.- By the Boston & Maine Railroad, Eastern Division. WAUWATOSA AVENUE, East Boston. 4.- By the Boston, Revere Beach & Lynn Railroad. EVERETT STREET, East Boston. 5.- By the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Midland Division. ATHENS STREET, South Boston. BOLTON STREET, South Boston. DORCHESTER AVENUE, South Boston. EAST RIVER STREET, at River Street Station, Hyde Park. GOLD STREET, South Boston. SILVER STREET, South Boston. 6.- By the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Old Colony Division. ADAMS STREET, Dorchester. CEDAR GROVE CEMETERY, Dorchester. MEDWAY STREET, Dorchester. SAVIN HILL AVENUE, Dorchester. 7.- By the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Providence Division. ALBANY STREET. ARLINGTON SQUARE. BAKER STREET, West Roxbury. BELLEVUE STREET, West Roxbury. BERKELEY STREET. BROADWAY. CANTERBURY STREET, West Roxbury. CENTRE AND MT. VERNON STREETS, West Roxbury. COLUMBUS AVENUE. DARTMOUTH STREET. GARDNER STREET, West Roxbury. HARRISON AVENUE. PARK STREET, West Roxbury. WASHINGTON STREET. WEST STREET, Hyde Park. WEST RIVER STREET, Hyde Park. V. BRIDGES MAINTAINED BY METROPOLITAN DISTRICT COMMISSION. CHARLES RIVER DAM. MATTAPAN, from Mattapan to Milton. NEPONSET, from Dorchester to Quincy. *NORTH BEACON STREET, from Brighton to Watertown. VI. BRIDGE MAINTAINED BY U. S. GOVERNMENT. VICTORY BRIDGE, over Neponset river, Dorchester to Quincy. II. Number of which Boston maintains the part within its limits IV. Number maintained by railroad corporations: 5. New York, New Haven & Hartford, Midland 6. New York, New Haven & Hartford, Old Colony 7. New York, New Haven & Hartford, Providence 16 V. Number maintained by Metropolitan District Commission, 4 1 Boston Proper side.- Head-house at termination of Eastern avenue. NORTH FERRY. Boston Proper side.- Head-house at termination of Battery street. The following seven steam ferryboats are in commission, four being of wood construction, and the last three, having steel hull: Main Office, 501 City Hall Annex, fifth floor. JAMES H. SULLIVAN, Division Engineer. Salary, $5,000. JOSHUA ATWOOD, Chief Engineer, Paving Service. Salary, $3,300. BENJAMIN F. BATES, Assistant Engineer, Paving Service. Salary, $2,900. The Division Engineer of this division has charge of the construction and maintenance of all public streets, the issuing of permits to open, occupy and obstruct portions of streets, the care and upkeep of the electric and gas lamps in the public streets, alleys, parks and public grounds, also the setting up of new lamps, and the placing of glass street signs and numbers therein, the numbering of buildings and the placing of all street signs. MILES OF ACCEPTED STREETS, FEBRUARY 1, 1922, BY DISTRICTS. NOTE.- Total area of the 606.33 miles of accepted streets, 11,459,009 square yards, or 2,367.6 acres, which area is 8.47 per cent of City's entire land area. In addition to the above total, there are accepted footways with total length of 1.31 miles. The accepted improved streets, alleys, etc., number 2,444. Besides these, there are about 2,900 private streets and alleys. For alphabetical list of public and private streets, with location in new wards and precincts, see Street Commissioners' 1921 edition of "Boston's Streets." Rebuilt in 1910, at cost of $39,500. 23.12 606.33 3.81 By the provisions of Chapter 312, Acts of 1911, the Commissioner of Public Works was authorized to install an efficient system of high pressure fire service for the business center of the City, appropriations therefor, amounting to $1,000,000, to be voted by the City Council in sums of not less than $150,000 each year. By Feb. 1, 1922, all of the loan appropriations had been expended, also a new appropriation of $300,000 (from general revenue instead of loan) plus $43,805 from a new loan of $120,000 ordered in 1921 for the construction of three pumping stations. The work completed, including the old salt-water fireboat line installed in 1898, comprises 11.63 miles of pipe with 310 hydrants. Total mileage of system to be 18.89. Two pumping stations are now in use SEWER AND SANITARY DIVISION. Main Office, 510 City Hall Annex. Salary, $3,500. EDWARD F. MURPHY, Division Engineer. Salary, $5,000. The Commissioner of Public Works who took charge of the department in April, 1918, merged the Sewer Service, Sanitary Service and Street Cleaning and Oiling Service, designating these three former branches of the Highway Division as the Sewer and Sanitary Division. The Division Engineer of this division has charge of the preparation of plans for and the construction of new sewers, the repairing and cleaning of existing sewers and catch-basins, the granting of permits for sewer connections, and the investigation of complaints as to defective drainage; of the cleaning and oiling of streets, also the removal of house offal and refuse in the various districts of the city. The total length of common and intercepting sewers on February 1, 1922, |