BUILDING DEPARTMENT. OLD CourT Hous E, December 20, 1900. HON. THOMAS N. HART, Mayor of the City of Boston : . SIR, - I herewith submit an estimate of the expenditures for the coming fiscal year, as follows: Salaries: Commissioner . o to $5,000 00 Clerks . te * to 21,450 00 Building Inspectors . to 41,400 00 Plumbing Inspectors. te 17,800 00 Gasfitting Inspectors. * 11,300 00 — $96,950 00 Other expenditures: Printing and binding of records, reports and documents, stationery, and general supplies . $6,000 00 Conveyance . * e 4,000 00 Telephone, rental and repairs e to e 600 00 Securing of buildings, maps, plans, and incidentals . e so te 1,500 00 *o-oom-mo 12,100 00 $109,050 00 Very respectfully yours, BOARD OF APPEAL. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, 60 DEvoNSHIRE STREET, BosTON, January 10, 1901. HON. THOMAS N. HART, Mayor of the City of Boston : SIR, - In reply to your Circular No. 13 I would say that basing the probable needs of the Board of Appeal for the year 1901 upon the payments made during the year 1900, the amount of appropriation should be $2,500. It is impossible to foretell the amount that may be needed for any one year, as no salaries are paid, and the payment is made for actual services and for such expenses as may be incurred. The payment for services in any one year is limited by statute to $3,000. * Yours respectfully, ARTHUR G. EvKRETT, r CEMETERY DEPARTMENT. - BosTON, MASS., December 15, 1900. HON. THOMAS N. HART, Mayor of the City of Boston : SIR, - The following is an estimate of expense in detail for the year 1900–1901 of the Cemetery Department. Respectfully submitted, J. ALBERT BRACKETT, Chairman, Cemetery Department. ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES FOR YEAR 1900–1901 IN - CEMETERY DEPARTMENT. MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY. Weekly pay-rolls: 30 men, 12 months . $22,766 00 27 men, 9 months . * 13,409 00 Hay and grain . © e 1,100 00 Wiring and fixtures for elec tric lights to to e 1,000 00 Greenhouse supplies . to 1,000 00 Hardware and plumbing. (Carrying water further into grounds) . • • 900 00 Painting and repairing . & 800 00 Coal . so e so fo 750 00 Lumber for fences, etc. e 700 00 Manure and fertilizer . © 600 00 Carried forward . te $43,025 00 Browght forward . . . $43,025 00 Bricks, lime and cement o 600 00 Trees and shrubs o o 400 00 Tools o g e o 400 00 Blacksmith's supplies . © 400 00 Stationery and printing e 400 00 Safe for office . {-} & 400 00 Repairing vehicles . . 350 00 Grave-markers (slate) . e 300 00 Derrick . to o o 300 00 Paving blocks . e o 300 00 Telephones (2) . e e 265 00 Harness and repairing . to 250 00 Shelter tents for funerals (2), 250 00 Stable supplies o 200 00 Lowering devices Q. o 150 00 Explosives . o e • 150 00 Sail-cloth . to o © 100 00 Veterinary Service . . 100 00 This estimate includes the care of the Granary, King's Chapel, Central burialground in the city proper, South street and Walter street, West Roxbury District, and the supplying of trees, shrubs and plants for all the city burial-grounds. * EvKRGREEN CEMETERY. To develop land in front of in condition . e {o 2,500 00 Ten men (five months) e 2,620 00 Five men (seven months) . 1,820 00 Custodian's salary • • 1,000 00 Board and shoeing horse . 235 00 Sign-posts and grave-markers 200 00 Tools and sundries o so 200 00 This estimate includes the care of the Market street burial-ground (Brighton.) Carried forward Brought forward . DORCHESTER NORTH AND SOUTH, EUSTIs Custodian's salary (including labor, teaming, etc.). © $3,000 00 Grading Eustis street and Hawes grounds o * 1,200 00 Telephone at Dorchester North ground . e o 50 00 BENNINGTON STREET CEMETERY. Slate grave-markers (4,300) $1,700 00 Custodian’s salary e to 900 00 COPP's HILL BURIAL–GROUND. New concrete paths . o $750 00 BUNKER HILL AND PHIPPS–STREET Custodian’s salary e & $400 00 Bunker Hill: Phipps street: - $59,915 00 4,250 00 2,975 00 1,815 00 $68,955 00 Brought forward . © $740 00 $68,955 00 Teaming . © e • 10 00 Repairing old tombs . o 300 00 1,050 00 OFFICE OF CEMETERY DEPARTMENT. General superintendent’s sal ary . e © $3,000 00 Clerk and messenger's salaries . . . & e to 1,520 00 Secretary's salary. e o 1,500 00 Printing and stationery o 500 00 Telephones (two) se © 260 00 Furniture . o © o 250 00 7,030 00 Removing snow and ice from sidewalks adjoining cemeteries . o o e o 500 00 Grand total . e e o e ... $77,535 00 W BosTON, MAss., December 15, 1900. HON. THOMAS N. HART, SIR, - The estimate of income of the Cemetery Department can only be made up on the basis of the past earnings. The following estimate is made up from the earnings from December 1, 1899, to December 1, 1900. As these earnings are dependent upon the sale of lots, number of interments, and work ordered done in reference to lots, etc., it can be readily seen that the same may be, for the coming fiscal year, greater or less than the estimate herein placed. The volume of business in the cemeteries, which have no earning capacity, varies from time to time. EARNINGS OF THE CEMETERY DEPARTMENT FROM DECEMBER 1, 1899, TO DECEMBER 1, 1900. Mt. Hope Cemetery . e e o e $20,162 92 Evergreen 66 (Brighton) . & © 2,629 18 Bennington-street Cemetery (East Boston) . 463 00 |