The Department of Public Buildings has also nearly completed the renewal and rearrangement of the wires for electric lighting in a portion of the market which with much of the wiring in the stalls and cellars had been condemned as unsafe by the Department of Wires. Such of the wiring as came within the premises occupied by the lessees has been renewed at their own expense to the satisfaction of the department, the city caring for such as comes in the passageways of the market building. The installation of the electric light in the market building was first done in 1890, and was approved by the inspectors of the Edison Electric Light Company, and the Board of Insurance Underwriters. Experience has shown the necessity of improved methods of construction, and when the work which is being done by the Department of Public Buildings is completed every element of danger will have been removed, so far as the best methods can provide. The rentals due the city have been promptly paid, and the regulations for the government of the market cheerfully complied with. During the year I have condemned and destroyed as unfit for food, nine hundred and eighteen (918) pounds of poultry; two hundred and thirty-eight (238) pounds of mutton ; three hundred and ninety (390) pounds of fish; one hundred and ninety-two (192) ducks and other small game; two hundred and seven (207) rabbits; seven (7) carcasses of venison ; forty-three (43) bushels of potatoes; four hundred and five (405) baskets of berries; and have sent large quantities of fruit and vegetables to the dumping scow. The police assigned to the Market Department have made ninety-seven (97) arrests for the following offences: Drunkenness thirty-two (32); larceny and embezzlement forty-one (41); picking pockets two (2); assault and battery twelve (12); cruelty to animals ten (10). The annual income from rents of stalls, cellars, and outside stands under the lease which expired March 31, 1902, was $84,999. By order of the City Council it was provided that new leases should be granted for five (5) years to date from April 1, 1902, and the rentals apportioned so that the income to the city would be 30 per cent. more than the amount received under the leases which expired March 31, 1902; in accordance with which order the amount now received for the above premises is $110,552. But the full amount of this increase does not appear in the receipts for 1902, as one quarter's rent (from January 1, 1902, to April 1, 1902) was received under the lease which expired March 31, 1902. The income from the department for the year 1902 has been as follows: From rents of stalls and cellars in Faneuil Hall and New pired March 31, 1902 § t g & e o $20,898 00 From rents of stalls and cellars in Faneuil Hall and New Faneuil Hall Markets, 9 months under new lease . . 81,564 00 From rents of outside stands from January 1 to August 1, & 1902, 6 months under previous rentals . e e to 703 50 From rents of outside stands from August 1, 1902, to January 1, 1903, 6 months under new rentals e e & 900 00 From weighing fees, city scales . * & & e g 364 61 From sale of old funnel . * * g g g te so 10 50 Total income . so & e * g g * . $104,440 61 The appropriation for the department for the year 1902 was, $9,500 00 and it has been expended as follows : For salaries . * e $ se & e . $7,700 00 - Total . is t * o e e & so & 9,331 05 Leaving balance unexpended * g g & * so $168 95 The property in the department belonging to the city is as follows: Electric light wiring in Faneuil Hall and New Faneuil Hall MTU S I C D EP A R T MENT FOR THE YEAR 1902–03. BosTon, February 1, 1903. HON. PATRICK A. COLLINs, Mayor of the City of Boston : DEAR SIR, - The Board of Music Trustees respectfully submit their annual report. In this document, for the first time, the departmental year is made to correspond with the regular financial year, and the period covered is the twelvemonth ending January 31, 1903. During that period the membership of the Board has undergone one change: May 1, 1902, Mr. Charles T. Dolan was appointed to serve out the unexpired term of Mr. James M. McLaughlin, and Mr. John A. O'Shea was reappointed for a term of five years. May 22 the Board reorganized, Mr. Dolan being elected Chairman and Mr. William A. Leahy being re-elected Secretary. The names and terms of the present Trustees follow: CHARLES T. DOLAN, Chairman . . Term to expire April 30, 1905 PHILIP GREELY so e g e ( & { { “ 1903 ALFRED P. DE WOTO . & e e G. G. { { ‘‘ ‘‘ 1904 HAROLD E. BRENTON . & * o 6 & { { “ “ 1906 FINANCIAL STATEMENT. The appropriation for the department this year was $15,000. The expenditures were $15,229.04. Office expenses consumed $2,169.73 of this amount, and the remainder was devoted to concerts. The following is an itemized table of the expenditures: Office expenses go e e so $2,169 77 Of the winter concerts, eleven were given in February and March, 1902, completing the winter season of 1901–2, and eighteen were given to February 1, 1903, beginning the winter season of 1902–3. The number of concerts given during the year from the funds of the Music Department was sixty-seven. The Municipal Band also paraded on June 17, and gave two concerts on July 4; and special orchestras were organized for the reception to the French Embassy on May 31, and for the exercises at Faneuil Hall on July 4. The expense on these five occasions was defrayed from other funds. o |