The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . beginning of 1882 was $2,582,300, an increase of$70,400 in a year. Expenditures were: For schools, $173,729; high-ways, $132,572. There were in the public schools 11,887 P-^pil^, at an expense of$ each; 222 teachers were emjjloyed. The Thomas street school-house was enlarged at an expense of $10,324. The construction of the Pine Meadow sewer was successfully andeconomically executed. This relieved the East Worcester street was relocated at an expense of $53,107 for construction,and $20,338 damages. ADMI
The Worcester of eighteen hundred and ninety-eightFifty years a city . beginning of 1882 was $2,582,300, an increase of$70,400 in a year. Expenditures were: For schools, $173,729; high-ways, $132,572. There were in the public schools 11,887 P-^pil^, at an expense of$ each; 222 teachers were emjjloyed. The Thomas street school-house was enlarged at an expense of $10,324. The construction of the Pine Meadow sewer was successfully andeconomically executed. This relieved the East Worcester street was relocated at an expense of $53,107 for construction,and $20,338 damages. ADMINISTRATION OF SAMUEL E. HILDRETH. From January i, 1S83, to January 7, 18S4. In December, 1882, Samuel E; Hildreth,t Republican, was electedover Mayor Stoddard by a majority of forty-four in a total vote of8,282. * Elijah Brigham Stoddard was born in Upton, Massachusetts, June 5, 1S26, and gradu-ated at Brown University in 1847. He has served in both branches of the Legislature,,and is a member of the State Board of Education. f See sketch in Biographical SAMUEL E. HILDRETH. The Worcester of 1898. 63 The city debt in 1883 was §2,652,700. Expenditures in several of thedepartments were as follows: .Schools, $183,365; highways, $109,753;Fire Department, $50,812; police, seventy in number, $78,988; poor,$46,445; street lights, $42,821. The Millbury street school-house was built at a cost of $31,503, andthe Winslow street school enlarged at a cost of $16,413. On the 6th of February the order passed to take Tatnuck brook f(_)radditional water supply. The necessary work was completed Novem-ber 27, the cost being $223,574. Total cost of water works to date,$1,603,988. The Pine Meadow sewer was completed at a cost of $15,000. The city purchased the first steam-roller for use in the HighwayDepartment. Electric lights were first used in the streets. PoliceStation No. 2 was established in the Island district, with head-qtiarters in the Lamartine street engine-house. ADMINISTRA
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