. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . 870, the town having accepted acharter from the legislature. Full plans and estimates were CITY GOVERNMENT. 51 presented and adopted and the works constructed in water supply was taken from Scott and Shattuck brooks, tributaries of Falulah brook, with four reservoirs, Scott, Overlook, Marshalland Falulah. Water forthe high service is takenfrom Scott and Overlookand for the low service fromMarshall and Falulah. Thetour reservoirs have a ca-pacity of about 300,000,000gallons. Scott is 450 feetabove the track of the Fitch-burg railroad, Ov
. Fitchburg, Massachusetts, past and present . 870, the town having accepted acharter from the legislature. Full plans and estimates were CITY GOVERNMENT. 51 presented and adopted and the works constructed in water supply was taken from Scott and Shattuck brooks, tributaries of Falulah brook, with four reservoirs, Scott, Overlook, Marshalland Falulah. Water forthe high service is takenfrom Scott and Overlookand for the low service fromMarshall and Falulah. Thetour reservoirs have a ca-pacity of about 300,000,000gallons. Scott is 450 feetabove the track of the Fitch-burg railroad, Overlook 405,Marshall 216, and Falulah236. The mode of supplyis by gravitation and it isgratifying to know that thesupply of water for lire ser-vice, as well as for do-mestic use, will doubtlessprove sufficient for the nextten years. The water commissionerschosen in January, by thecity council in convention,are Charles II. Brown,Thomas C. Lovell, SamuelD. Sheldon. Superintend-ent of water works, ThomasC. Lovell ; water registrar,A. W. F. ssssssssssssssssssssssss^ CITY ENGINEER AND SUPERINTENDKNT OF WATER WORKS. Thomas C. Lovhll, is a native of West Boylston, bornMarch 21, 1846; spent his early life in his native town:studied civil engineering with Phineas Ball of Worcester ; 52 FITCHBURG, PAST AND PRESENT. came to Fitchburg in 1869 and opened an office as civil en-gineer : was elected superintendent of water works in 1875,as water commissioner in 1879, an<^ c^y engineer in 1880,which position he still holds. There have been but two city engineers previous to , George Raymond in 1873-4, ant^ Thomas C. Shel-don 1875-6-7-8-9. WATER REGISTRAR. A. W. F. Brown, was born in Chelsea in 1864, Aprilj : lived afterwards in Greenfield, Mass., and moved toFitchburg in 1872 ; was elected water registrar in Janu-ary, 1885. HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT. The highway department of Fitchburg has many obstaclesto meet in the faithful carrying out of its work, by reason ofthe demand for new
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