The Portland daily press., 1882-03-07

| pital and attended and dispensed medicine. t.
| 412 out patients from the poor house, durlni
| the year. :.
The three wards of the hospital have been il
| constant use during the year, and at times WI
have been short of beds and room.
| The hospital with its efficient nurses full.
| maintains its credit as resting place for I'M
| homeless sick. :,
There have been received 125 orders from th'
| overseers of the poor and 522 professional caiu
| have been made about the city.
Fortunately there has been no occasion 10
| opening the pest house except to air the rooms
| aud arrange the furnace for possible use.
City Engineer.
Mr.. w. A. Goodwin offers an elaborate repor
of which we present the following abstract:
| STREETS.
! No change of line or grade of an occupied
| street has been made during the year. Sheri
dan street has been extended from Congress tt
| Cumberland street, distance of 1856 feet, AZ
| feet wide, making virtual extension OF Pop
lar. the name of Poplar has been changed to
| Sheridan street, which now extends from
Adams to Walnut street. continuation o
! Island Avenue, Peaks Island has been laid
! out from point near the Bay View house tc
| lands of j. W. Brackett and thence to the
easterly end of the island, distance OF little
| more than mile and quarter, the first OIL
| feet, being 60 feet wide, the remainder 30 feet
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| out running easterly from Island avenue neaI
| the old school house, GAL feet long and 81 feet
| wide. The case of change of lines OF Congress
street at Libby's corner which was ordered by
! the City Council in 1867, but has not been ac-
| complished, has come before the committee
| several times during the year. 1t has not been
| deemed advisable to abandon long area oi
graded streets (about 400 square feet), and tc
| grade an equal surface with fill OF twelve tc
| fifteen feet on land which would have to be
purchased, for the sake only OF more direct
| alignment of the street. Street lines have
been given for building purposes in thirty-sev'
en- instances and grade points in forty-seven
both apart from lines and grades of sewers.
SURVEYS AND PLANS
have cen made of extension of Sheridan ST.,
continuation Island avenue; Sterling St.; Ey
ergreen Cemetery; Eastern avenue; lands con
veyed to Maine Central Railroad Company
| the sewerage system of the city, except Nun
ioy previously finished So sheets of streets
REMEMBERED; details of proposed drives and
tree sites on the promenade and the oaks;
sheets assessment. .plansof sewer built last yeal
and also of other sewers and outfalls.
STREET NUMBERS.
The engineer urges again the necessity o1
people procuring the proper new numbers for
their houses repeating what has been printed
several times on the subject.
PUBLIC GROUNDS.
promenades, in the Oaks, Lincoln Park, ceme
teries except Evergreen, and street trees. Al
the Eastern Promenade curved driveway
diverging from the central drive at the foot of
Quebec street, and coming in at foot OF Mel
bourne street, has teen laid out, and planted
with trees, but not graded. At the WesterI
Promenade the driveway has been extended
from Pine to West street, trees planted, gras;
plats and driveway turfed and trimmed, and
% elms and rock naples planted. AT the Oaks
the sewer embankment has been raised three
feet to top of the manhole covers, and graded
a width of 20 feet making driveway along the
pond and across the westerly side of the filled
mill pond area to the old railroad embank
ment, making the driveway 30 feet wide when
filled to grade. between the pond embankment
and tannery. This water slope has been turfed
a curved railing set around the cove, with
many seats, drives graded and turfed, sixteen
trees planted, two temporary bridges con.
structed across the pond gullies, a curved
driveway scut through the woods from the
lawn north of the pond to Grove street and
thence to the intersection of Portland and
Grove streets. This is intended to be the main
entrance and is laid out 30 feet wide but moi
graded. sObiections have been made that the
drive over this area will spoil the parade
ground. The engineer thinks peoples park
is of more Importance than parade ground
The plan of the Oaks made in 1879 though
followed and approved has not yet beer
formally accepted by the City Council. The
cost of work done during the year is as fol-
lows: On the Eastern Promenade, $323.26, in
elusive sof care of the premises; Western
Promenade, Still, and ia the Oaks, 81, ,314.
So, total $1,S15.22. The appropriation was
So 900, leaving the sum of 81, 78 for care OF
Lincoln Park, Eastern and Forest City ceme-
teries and the trees of the city.
uNPRoDUcT1vE REAL ESTATE.
The plans of city lands, laid out in house
lots on st. John street-between Congress and
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Portland streets-east of Weymouth-have
been accepted and recorded in the registry Of
deeds. Thirty-four lots have been sold and
paid $45S % taxes last year. The value OF the
rest will be enhanced by the Maine Central
Railroad occupation. North of Portland street
a street parallel with st. John street has been
projected to the county road near the Deering
mansion. Lots 100 feet deep on these streets
would open, for building purposes 10000
square feet city lands.
BRIDGES. Is.
The ordinary annual repairs will keep the
bridges in safe condition. Thorough repair OF
Tukeys bridge was deemed unnecessary al
present, although it needs it, but by renewing
a new few piles, caps and stringers, with spar
shore in the draw piers and new plank for de.
fective ones, no further repairs will be required
the coming year.
SEWERS
The following new sewers have been built
during the year,
Congress, Weymouth and Portland streets.
Danforth, "K,' Vaughn and Orchard streets.
Everett street.
Melbourne street.
Market and Newbury streets.
Sherman street.
Washington street.
A full and detailed description of all sewer
work done during the year is contained IN the
report.
Franklin street sewer should be extended
from its present temporary outiall Directly te
Back Cove. A sewer in Turner street and an
extension of the Pine street sewer to Vaughn
street have been petitioned for and should be
constructed without unnecessary delay. The
location of Myrtle street sewer should DC
changed as herein before stated. Inc condl'
tions of the Back Cove sewerage question have
not been changed since the date of my last an
nual report, and to that report on this question
respectfully refer.
RECAPITULALI0N.
Rebuilding, repairs and clearing old sewers 36149e
Culverts new, rebuilt and repaired.. 1888 ~
Dock dredging oo4'oe
Total. -. ~ lo,t lO.01
Amount of estimate and appropriation. 100000
Balance. ce.......................... .$57o.9l
The amount of unforeseen, and therefore un
| estimated, work in the above named items o.
| rebuilding is greater than the balance between
| expenditure and estimate.
The assistant engineers have been IaltnIu
and competent.
CITY MARSHAL.
Cyrus K. Bridges, city marshal, reports al
| follows:
| The force consists of thirty-eight men, viz
| one marshal, two deputy marshals, nine day
| patrolmen, twenty-four night patrolmen, one
| day turnkey and one night turnkey. There
| has been but one change in the force. Officel
| Benz. Gribben resigned July 9th, and Gran
| Vile Frank was appointed in his place.
Our sick record shows that there ha'
| been more sickness in the force during the
| past year than ever before occurred in any two
| years All who have been sick, except two
| have fully recovered. Officer Levi s. PenneLl
| on the 10th of August, broke his leg while
attempting to get ON horse car, SO badly tina
| amputatioh was necessary.
| The following table shows the number
arrests, and for what cause, and al SO the viola
| tions of city ordinances: 30,
Assault and battery. Los
Assault on police officer. rc
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