. Annual report of the Street Dept. of the City of Boston. ndition with the ex-ception of the old Winthrop, which cannot possibly bemade to do service more than one or two more years. STREET WATERING DIVISION. Expenditure. 178, Not including water-bills of $76, The season of 1897 was a very difficult one, unusalweather prevailing until late in the fall, making it necessaryto extend the street watering season. The increase in ex-penditure over last year of about -$7,500 was made necessaryby this lengthening of the season. To properly cover the work of street watering, a largerapprop
. Annual report of the Street Dept. of the City of Boston. ndition with the ex-ception of the old Winthrop, which cannot possibly bemade to do service more than one or two more years. STREET WATERING DIVISION. Expenditure. 178, Not including water-bills of $76, The season of 1897 was a very difficult one, unusalweather prevailing until late in the fall, making it necessaryto extend the street watering season. The increase in ex-penditure over last year of about -$7,500 was made necessaryby this lengthening of the season. To properly cover the work of street watering, a largerappropriation should be made available ; and I would recom-mend that for the coming year the watering of all the citystreets be placed under the supervision of this department,and advantage be taken of the Act passed by the Legislatureof 1897, authorizing this work to be done and the costassessed on the owners of the abutting estates. At thepresent time the city undertakes the care of macadam streetsonly, and the watering of paved streets is done by subs crip-. ,t Department. 23 tion to private contractors; thus the burden bears unfairly,and the results are not satisfactory. In certain sections ofthe city, particularly in the poorer quarter, where the streetsare paved, no watering is done for the reason that the peopleare not able to pay, or their great numbers make it difficultfor arrangements to be made for the work by individualefforts. Under the Assessment Act the cost of street wateringwould be assessed on the property, and the amount would beso small that it could hardly be felt as a hardship. Studiesare being made along this line, and it is probable that theCity Council will be asked to authorize the department toundertake the street watering under the Assessment Act. As mentioned in my last report, it was expected that athorough trial would be given the electric watering car ser-vice. The matter, however, was blocked by the managementof the West End Street Railway Company, an
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