The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-31
In Concurrence

The following petitions were referred:
William ]. Gindele, sewer in Canter-
bury Street; Boston & Maine Railroad
| Company, water pipe in Lincoln Street;
III. NJ McManus heirs, compensation for
| damage caused by the overflow of
sewer in Cambridge Street.
Notice of a suit against the city by
N. e. Smith was referred to the city
solicitor.
Orders were adopted as follows: Au-
/ thorfzing the mayor to make contract
with Joseph Marc Aurele, for the use
of land for sewer purposes on Fair
| mount Avenue; for. payment of $3.50 to
John Splits as compensation for per
sonal injuries received through a de-
feet in Piedmont Street; for payment of
$6.4S to jeremiah d. Sullivan, overpaid
as taxes; for paving Woodland Street in
| front of the fire engine house with
granite blocks, cost $294.42; for con-
struction of sidewalk on east side of
Canterbury Street, cost $597; for gravel
sidewalk on west side of South Hard
| ing Street from Green to Lafayette,
cost 1898: for sidewalk on north side of
Market Street from end of present walk
to railroad tracks, cost 1892; for gravel
sidewalk on east side of South Hard
| ing Street from Green to Lafayette,
cost $S9S; transferring $5790.21 of the
dog fund to the account of Public Lii
brary; transferring $1,000 of the dog
! fund to the incidental account for OK
| penses of the dog officer; directing the
| committee on streets to report at the
next meeting of the order adopted July
l, for a cinder sidewalk on Granite
Street; directing the superintendent of
sewers to report at the next meeting
what orders have been adopted and
what steps have been taken to relieve
the residents on Camp Street from the
overflow or surface water.
Superintendent of Public Buildings
| Charles H. Peck, reported, as to the
| cause of the delay in the erection of
the Beacon Street engine house, that
the building is being erected by Eli
Belisle and under the superintendent
of the architect, George H. Clemence.
The causes that have delayed the cree
of the building have been not only the
waiting for material for construction
but in time lost in changing the differ
ent kinds of mechanics to other jobs
and then resuming work on the arrival
of the material wanted The time lost
in waiting for timber for first floor
ioist, four days; for second floor beams
rejected and new ones supplied. four
days: for Indiana limestone window
stills, two weeks; for first story window
caps, three weeks; for stone stills and
window caps and sills stone trimmings
for piers and arches, four weeks. The
blue limestone used as called for by the
specification was not obtainable in
Worcester and had to be shipped from
the quarries in Indiana to the con-
tractors. for the stone work.
Another delay was caused by the
waiting for special duplex hangers for
the support of second floor beams.
1t will be seen that the delays have
been caused principally in the ship
ment of the lumber from the South and
the limestone from the West, and have
delayed the contractors on the Eastern
Avenue engine house, but not to such
an extent. The work and material used
in the construction Of the building to
the present time has been satisfactory
to the architect and myself"
In regard to the necessary changes
at the fire engine house on Webster
Street, Superintendent of Public
Buildings Charles H. Peck says: That
the changes desired by the occupants
include an addition on the northerly
side, extending from the hose tower
to the front of the building, making a
room by IA feet, to be used by the
floor-men, and in which will be placed
the electrical apparatus for the fire
alarm This addition would be similar
to the one put in at Hose house on
Cambridge Street"
On recommendation Of the committee
on education, the petitions of the
School Committee for an addition of six
rooms to the Uusala Street school and
for an addition of eight rooms TO the
Gates Lane school were referred to the
committee on public buildings.
On recommendation of the same COM
mittee, the petition of the School Com
mittee for the purchase of land adjoin
ing the Classical High School was re-
ferred to the next City Council and the