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November, 1920, the Cemetery Department was consolidated with the Park Department, the five trustees of the former were superseded by the Park Commissioners, who reorganized it as the Cemetery Division of the Park Department, thereupon taking charge of Mount Hope Cemetery and all the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, Harvard, Canterbury and Paine streets, Ward 18. 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 charge of the Park Department, are as follows, with area: Bennington street, East Boston, 157,500 square feet. 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, 1,872 square feet. Mount Hope, Walk Hill street, 117 acres and 36,536 square feet. Phipps street, Charlestown, 76,740 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; Ord. 1925, Chap. 6.] WILLIAM J. CASEY, Superintendent of Printing. Term ends in 1926. The Superintendent of Printing has charge of all the printing and binding for the City departments, County courts and offices, also prints the official 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 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. 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.] JOHN P. ENGLERT, Superintendent of Public Buildings. 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, repair and furnishing of all buildings belonging to or hired by the City. CITY BUILDINGS IN CHARGE OF THIS DEPARTMENT. BUILDING AND LOCATION. OCCUPIED BY, ETC. Ambulance Station, National st., So. On leased land. Charity Building, 43 Hawkins st., with Overseers of the Public Welfare; part occupied by Family Welfare Soc. Municipal Building, City sq., Charles- Charlestown town. Court and Police Sta., 15th City Building, Norfolk and Washing- Public Library Br. and Wd. 17 ton sts., Dor. wardroom. City Building, Richmond and Washing- Public Library Branch. ton sts., Dor. City Hall, School st.. City Hall Annex, Court st...... East Boston Court House and Police Mayor's office, City Council chamber and City departments or divisions of same. 16 City Departments, etc. Dist. Court and Police Sta., 7th Jamaica Plain Library, South and Sedg- Public Library Branch. wick sts. Municipal Building, Jamaica Plain, Curtis Hall, baths and gymnasium. Municipal Building, Dorchester, Colum- Pub. Library Br., wardroom, bia rd. baths and gymnasium. Municipal Building, River st., Hyde Auditorium, wardroom, gymPark. nasium and baths. Municipal Building, Roslindale, Wash- Auditorium, Pub. Library Br., ington st., opposite South. wardroom, gymnasium and baths. Municipal Building, So. Boston, E. Municipal Court, Pub. Library Municipal Building, Ward 5 (now Wd. Pub. Library Br., baths, gym3), Oak and Tyler sts. Municipal Building, Ward 6 (now Wd. 9), Shawmut ave. and W. Brookline st. Municipal Building, Ward 12 (now Wd. 8), Vine and Dudley sts. nasium and wardroom. Auditorium, Pub. Library Br., gymnasium and baths. Pub. Library Br., baths, gymnasium and wardroom. CITY BUILDINGS IN CHARGE OF THIS DEPARTMENT.- Concluded. BUILDING AND LOCATION. OCCUPIED BY, ETC. Old Winthrop Schoolhouse, Bunker Hill Reconstructed, with gymnasium st., Charlestown baths and wardroom. Roslindale....... 19 Municipal Building...... Washington st. oppo Hyde Park...... 18 Municipal Building... site South. River st., and Central ave. Brighton.. 22 Old Town Hall. Washington st. The two buildings used as armories are Engine House No. 4, Bulfinch st., belonging to the City, and No. 130 Columbus ave., the latter occupied by four companies of Cadets, annual rent paid, $4,800. At 11 Beacon st., 10th floor, hired for Law Department at annual rent of $10,500, and at 274 Boylston st., three rooms for Medical Examiner of Northern District at $1,800 per year. In charge of this department also are the following City scales: North scales, Haymarket sq.; South scales, City stables yard, Albany st.; Roxbury scales, Eustis and Mall sts.; Jamaica Plain scales, Centre st. and Starr lane. PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. General offices, 504-506 City Hall Annex, fifth floor. [Ord. 1910, Chap. 9; Stat. 1910, Chaps. 553 and 571; Stat. 1911, Chap. 312; Ord. 1911, Chaps. 1 and 10; Stat. 1912, Chap. 348; Rev. Ord. 1914, Chap. 28; Stat. 1914, Chap. 324; Ord. 1916, Chap. 3; Ord. 1917, Chap. 2; Ord. 1921, Chap. 3.] JOSEPH A. ROURKE, Commissioner. Term ends in 1926. The Department of Public Works was established in 1911, consisting of the Street, Water and Engineering Departments combined under a single executive head (viz., the Commissioner of Public Works), the latter author * Hired for $600 per year. |