Salary of superintendent and wages of engineers, firemen, janitors and necessary assistants . . $26,000 00 Floor-washing . o o * o & o 3,200 00 Window-cleaning © to so & o Ç 800 00 Removing ashes and snow . e © • e 400 ()() Laundry work . e * g o e to 300 00 Telephone service o to e e e e 1,400 00 Cleaning woodwork, walls and ceilings of offices and corridors . e & to g e * 1,600 00 New carpets, cleaning and repairing old ones g 600 00 $34,300 00 The estimates for furnishing supplies and making repairs on the Court-house will be furnished by the Superintendent of Public Buildings. Respectfully submitted. FRED H. SEAVEY, WATER DEPARTMENT. BosTon, December 16, 1904. HON. PATRICK A. COLLINS, Mayor of the City of Boston : SIR, - In accordance with instructions contained in your circular No. 33 of December 12, 1904, I submit here with an estimate of the receipts and current expenditures of the Water Department for the financial year 1905–1906: ESTIMATED RECEIPTs. Income from sale of water . to & & . $2,421,759 63 Income from other sources. & © te so 25,000 00 Total * to © e g g . $2,446,759 63 ESTIMATED CURRENT ExPENDITUREs. Salaries and wages, including engineers . . $375,000 00 Water-pipe castings, water gates, small iron castings, brass and composition castings, lead and lead pipe, lumber, stable account, teaming, damages, tools, hardware, meters and repairs, repairing streets, printing and stationery, blasting, fuel, travelling expenses and transportation, etc., etc. © go g is * se 170,000 00 Figured on the same basis, the current expenses of the present year, as estimated at this date, will be approximately the same amount. Very respectfully, E. S. SULLIVAN, Water Commissioner. HON. PATRICK A. COLLINS, SIR, - The $300,000 issued under the loan authorized by order of the City Council, approved July 31, 1903, will be nearly, if not wholly, expended at the close of the present financial year, and a new loan of $330,000 should be authorized to meet the needs of the department for extension and renewal of mains, etc., and for the construction of a water-pipe tunnel across Fort Point channel at Dover-street bridge during the coming year. In anticipation of such loan, I have made my estimate for current expenses the same as last year. MFSSAGE OF THE MAYOR TRA NSWIITTING COMMUNICATION FROM THE CITY AUDITOR RELATIVE TO COMPENSATION OF COMMIS_ SION ON HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS. OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, To the Board of Aldermen : I transmit here with a communication from the City Auditor stating the amount of compensation received by the members of the Commission on Height of Buildings, and the appropriation to which the amount was charged. Respectfully, PATRICK A. COLLINS, Mayor. CITY OF BosTon, AUDITING DEPARTMENT, CITY HALL, January 9, 1905. HON. PATRICK A. COLLINs, Mayor of the City of Boston : SIR, - In reply to the order of the Board of Aldermen of January 2, 1905, requesting information as to the compensation paid to the Commission on Height of Buildings in the City of Boston, and to what appropriation it was charged, I would state that the compensation was $2,000 to each member, and was paid from the Reserve Fund. Respectfully submitted, IN BOARD OF ALDERMEN, January 9, 1905. Ordered to be printed, and placed on file. RELATIVE TO THE MASS ACHUSETTS GAS CITY OF BOSTON, The Honorable the Board of Aldermen : GENTLEMEN, - On January 16, 1905, you passed the following order: Ordered, That the Corporation Counsel be, and he hereby is, requested to furnish the Board of Aldermen at its next meeting the following information: Whether or not the Massachusetts Gas Companies is a voluntary association, and whether or not its stock, owned by residents of Boston, is subject to taxation; whether or not the capital stock of said Massachusetts Gas Companies is issued in part on the stock of the New England Gas and Coke Company; and whether or not the New England Gas and Coke Company is a voluntary association, and whether or not the stock of said New England Gas and Coke Company, owned by residents of Boston, is subject to taxation. Although information of the kind requested seems to be outside of the duties required of me by ordinance, I will answer the questions as far as I have information on the subject. 1. The Massachusetts Gas Companies is an association whose property is held by trustees under a deed of trust. |