new officials were created — an assistant superintendent and a purchasing agent. When appointed by your Honor again to take charge of the department in January, 1902, the services of the new officials were dispensed with, without impairing in the slightest degree the efficiency of the real working force of the plant. Respecting the effect of the eight-hour work-day contributing to advance the cost of operation to the city, as compared with the nine-hour work-day, it is quite obvious that it does so, and it has a like effect in every department of the city; but I am of the opinion that it affects this department with greater force than the others in which a large amount of ordinary labor is employed. In my annual report for the year ending January 31, 1900, after observing carefully the first seven weeks' operation of the plant under the eight-hour work-day, I said: “None of the private printing establishments have less than a nine-hour work-day. The difference in working time will undoubtedly make a material difference in the product of an establishment such as the printing plant — more of a difference, in my judgment, than it would make in the field of what is generally termed unskilled labor. Roughly estimated, the difference in production will be about 11 per cent.” Now, after watching closely for over a year the effect of the short work-day in this department, I regard the estimate then made as practically correct. o Yet, notwithstanding the eight-hour day, and the fact that only the same rates have been charged for printing, etc., as would have been charged by private concerns working on a nine-hour basis, this department shows a net gain to the city during the past year of $4,616.83. In estimating, private printing establishments invariably figure to make a profit of at least 15 per cent. If any public department is carrying superfluous help, as sometimes happens, such as I have noted in relation to this department during 1900–01, it will fail to render services equivalent to its cost.

The following is a statement of the appropriations and revenues received from printing, postage, etc., also expenditures

paid to January 31, 1903:

CREDITS OF PRINTING DEPARTMENT COLLECTED FROM
FEBRUARY 1, 1902, To JANUARY 31, 1903.

Balance January 31, 1902 $11,888 30
Appropriation . to & go e to 25,000 00
Revenue from Printing, uncollected Feb. 1, 1902, 14,668 50
Printing done at plant, as follows:
Assessing Department $13,017 62
Auditing Department 321 65
Art Department . to 8 73
Atlantic Avenue Extensio 134 33
Abolishment of Grade Crossing 76 15
Building Department . e of 1,379 51
Bath Department . © e e 536 67
Board of Aldermen, Contingent
Fund . to to 1,011 34
City Clerk Department 382 00
Cemetery Department 280 71
City Messenger Department 1,100 63
Collecting Department . to 1,078 53
Clerk of Committees Department 264. 12
City Council, Incidental Expenses, 3,523 05
City Council Proceedings so 6,766 94
Court of Registration * to 209 58
Common Council, Contingent Fund, 427 28
Engineering Department 600 60
Election Department 18,854 92
Fire Department 1,347 29
Health Department 4,417 50
Hospital Department 1,980 23
Relief Station t 655 57
Institutions Department:
Boston Almshouse and Hospital,
Long Island . * o g 267 98
Charlestown Almshouse “s & 18 00
Pauper Institutions, Office Ex-
penses & g & 192 50
Carried forward $58,853 43 $51,556 80
Brought forward
Parental School . ©
House of Reformation, Long
Island . & g & to
Placing-Out and Office Expenses,
Boston Insane Hospital o
House of Correction, South
Boston te g
Deer Island de to e e
Penal Institutions, Office Ex-
penses . & e te so
Institutions Registration
Library Department
Law Department
Lamp Department . © * g
Laying-Out and Construction of
Highways . g
Mayor’s Department
Music Department *
Market Department g e o
Overseers of the Poor Department.
Police Department .
Police Signal Service .
Liquor License
House of Detention e
Public Buildings Department.
Park Department . g g
Public Grounds Department .
Public Celebrations
Registry Department
Schoolhouse Department
Schools e
Street Department :
Bridge Division .
Ferry Division
Paving Division .
Sanitary Division
Sewer Division e
Street Cleaning Division
Watering Division
Central Office
Sewerage Works &
Cambridge Bridges . &
Street Laying-Out Department
Street Laying-Out and Construction
of Highways e V a e io
Street Laying-Out Sewer Assessment,
Sinking Fund .

Carried forward

Brought forward . e . $101,880 19 $51,556 80 Soldiers’ Relief Department . o 217 22 Sealer of Weights and Measures Department e e e g 259 27 Statistics Department . o o 2,983 97 Treasury Department . o e 350 06 Water Department: Commissioner’s Office . o o 312 12 Income Division . o e © 2,248 91 Distribution Division . e e 801 38 Wire Department . o o o 1,026 06 County of Suffolk: Superior Civil Court . o & 7,027 68 Superior Criminal Court . e 1,554 57 Superior Court . o o g 3 64 Probate Court . o & o 19 56 Auditor and Treasurer o o 43 22 Medical Examiner & o g 56 56 Municipal Court, West Roxbury, 88 33 Municipal Court, South Boston . 232 20 Municipal Court, Charlestown . 178 39 Municipal Court, Roxbury . o 4 14 Municipal Court, East Boston . 9 72

$119,297 19

Total . . . . . . . $170,853 99

ExPENDITURES OF PRINTING DEPARTMENT PAID FROM FEB— RUARY 1, 1902, To JANUARY 31, 1903, As Follows:

Accounts unpaid January 31, 1902 © o . $15,793 67 Pay-roll payable January 31, 1902 o e o 1,714 21 Pay-roll:

February e o $6,347 92

March . * e 6,105 80

April . o do 6,614 19

May o o o 7,711 31

June o e & 8,134 78

July o o * 7,854 27

August . e to 10,972 05

September . o 6,880 15

October . & e 7,316 59

November . e 7,857 11

December e e 6,572 57

January o © 9,029 03

Extra overtime . 562 01

—— $91,957 78

Carried forward . e . $91,957 78 $17,507 88