HomeMy Public PortalAbout1871 Annual Watertown Report ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE AUDITORS OF THE
TOWN OF WATERTOWN,
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING FEBRUARY 10, 1871,
COMPRISING
REPORTS OF THE TREASURER, SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS, APPRAISERS, COL-
LECTORS OF TAXES, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND HIGHWAYS, TOWN
CLERK AND REGISTRAR, ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT,
SCHOOL COMMITTEE, TRUSTEES OF THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY,
Cl ^X MISSIONERS OF CEMETEREY, ETC., ETC.
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1870•
Selectmen.
JOHN K. STICKNEY.
THOMAS L. FRENCH.
OLIVER SHAW.
Town Clerk.
JOSEPH CRAFTS.
Town Treasurer.
JOHN K. STICKNEY.
Assessors.
JOSEPH CRAFTS. JOHN K. STICKNEY.
ISAAC ROBBINS.
School Committee.
LUTHER T. TOWNSEND, Chairman, Term expires March, 1872.
H. J. EDWARDS, Secretary, „ „ 1873.
ALFRED HOSMER, „ „ 1871.
GEORGE K. SNOW, „ „ 1872.
ABRAHAM L. RICHARDS, „ 1873.
ABIEL ABBOTT, „ 1871.
Overseers of Poor and Surveyors of Highways.
JOHN K. STICKNEY. THOMAS L. FRENCH.
OLIVER SHAW.
Constables and Truant Officers.
GEORGE PARKER. EZRUM V. HOWARD.
HENRY F. BRIGHT.
Collector of Taxes.
JOEL BARNARD, JR.
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4 TOWN OFFICERS.
Auditors and Appraisers.
JOHN COOLIDGE, JR. WILLIAM H. CLARK.
H. J. ED WARDS. GEORGE N. MARCH.
JAMES SHARP.
Fence Viewers.
JOHN COOLIDGE, Jx. GEORGE K. SNOW.
WILLIAM C. S. HARRINGTON.
Field Drivers.
ZACHARIAH BOODY. GEORGE PARKER.
EZRUM V. HOWARD. ROBERT F. HORNE.
HENRY F. BRIGHT. CHARLES H. BRADLEE.
CHARLES WHITNEY. DANIEL D BOND.
E. P. EMERSON. WILLIAM ROBINSON.
WARD M. OTIS. J. HENRY BEAN.
Surveyors of Lumber.
WILLIAM H. DADMUN. GEORGE C. SANGER
Trustees of Free Public Library.
JOIN WEISS, Term expires March, 18i2.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE, 1871.
GEORGE N. MARCH, 1871.
JOSIAH STICKNEY, „ 1872.
JESSE A. LOCKS, 1873.
ALFRED HOSMER, 1873.
Commissioners of TVeetomac Pale Cemetery.
GEORGE N. MARCH. GEORGE K. SNOW
MILES PRATT.
OFFICERS APPOINTED BY THE SELECTJIE.V.
Police.
GEORGE PARKER. EZRUM V. HOWARD
Sexton and Undertaker.
ALEXANDER GREGG.
Pound Beeper.
Z. BOODY.
Who is also keeper of the Almshouse.
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TO«'N OFFICERS.
Sealer of Weights and Measures.
WILLIAM L. STILES.
Surveyors and Measurers of Wood and Bark.
SAMUEL S. GLEASON. FREDERICK McMASTER.
ARTEMAS B. ROGERS. ROWRT B. SAFFORD.
Clerks of the Market.
SAMUEL S. GLEASON. J. ALBERT SULLIVAN.
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Janitor of Town Hall.
LUCIUS T. BROWN.
.Measurers of Grain.
CHESTER LYMAN. ALBERT C. LYMAN.
SAMUEL S. GLEASON.
Public Weigher and Superintendent of Hay-Scales.
THOMAS PATTEN.
Private Weighers of Hay, Coal, etc.
JOSEPH H. GRL_NT. ROYAL F. GILKEY.
Engineers of Fire Department.
ATWOOD D. DREW. CHARLES W. BERRY.
GEORGE PARKER.
Superintendent of Streets.
GEORGE H. SLEEPER.
TOWN GRANTS & APPROPRIATIONS.
()"rrants of money made by the Town of Watertown, for the
year 1870, and ordered to be assessed upon the Polls
and Estates of the Town, according to Law, the said
grants being appropriated as following, namely : —
For the support of schools, $142000.00
„ highways, 12,000.00
„ „ „ the poor, 29500.00
bridges and culverts, 1,000.00
Paying interest on town debt, 3,500.00
„ portion of 1,000.00
Discount and abatements of taxes, 29500.00
Insurance, 200.00
Free Public Library, L700.00
Contingent expenses, 19500.00
Salaries of town officers, 1,400.00
Fire Department, 2,400.00
Police, 2,200.00
Concrete sidewalks, 1,000.00
Culvert on east side of Hain Street, 19500 00
$48.400.00
Grants of money made by the Town of Watertown during
the year 1870, for which the Town Treasurer was
authorized to borrow money on the credit of the '.town.
The amount and appropriation being as follows, viz : —
For construction of reservoirs, $57000.00
The amount borrowed was, $4,500.00
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ASSESSORS' REPORT.
VALUATION AND TAKES OF THE TOWN OF WATERTOWN,
FOR THE YEAR 1870.
The valuation of Real Estate is $2,773,181.00
„ „ „ Personal „ 1,3917899.00
Total valuation of Estates is $4,165,080.00
The whole number of Polls is 1,040.
AMOUNTS ASSESSED.
State Tax, $6,975.00
County, Tax, 29839.51
Town Grants, 489400.00
Overlayings, 94.07
$58,308.58
Tax on 1040 Polls at $2.00 each, $2,080.00
„ Estates at $1.35 per ct. on
$4,165,080 is 56,228.58
$58,308.58
The sum of $471 o 6 has also been assessed
as additional taxes, $47.65
Number of dwelling-houses, 587
„ horses, 347
„ cows, 238
„ oxen, etc., 13
„ acres of land taxed, 2,07711-
JOSEPH CRAFTS,
JOHN K. STICKNEY, Assessors o f
ISAAC ROBBINS. Watertown.
8 ASSESSORS' REPORT.
To the Auditors of the town of W(ttertown:
GENTLEMEN, —I herewith submit my report of the col-
lections of taxes for 1869.
DR.
To balance of taxes unpaid, per acc't 1869-70, $3,257.66
interest collected on taxes of 1869, 263.84
$3,521.50
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By cash paid Town Treasurer, as per receipts, $3,386.52
abatement per Assessors' certificate, 134.98
$39521.50 4
Respectfully yours,
GEORGE L. NOYES,
Collector.
WATERTowN, February 20,1871.
We have examined the foregoing account of George L.
Noyes, Collector, and find the same to be correct.
JOH-N COOLIDGE, JR.,
GEO. N. MARCH, '
W. H. CLARK, Auditors.
H. J. EDP' ARDS,
JAMES SHARP,
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To the Auditors of the Town of ZYcatertown :
GENTLEMEN, —I herewith submit my report of the col-
lection of taxes for 1870.
DR.
To whole amount of taxes committed, $58,308.58
additional taxes, 47.65
interest collected, 60.31
$589416.54
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By cash paid County Treasurer, County tax for
18709 $2,839.51
paid T )wn as per receipts, 46,352,77
discounts allowed, 1,592.81
abatements per Assessors's certificates, 841.25
balance taxes uncollected, 6,790.20
$589416.54
Respectfully yours,
-JOEL BARNARD, JR.,
Collector.
WATERrowx, February 20, 1871.
We have examined the fure;oing account of Joel Barnard,
Jr., Collector, and find the same to be correct.
JOHN COOLIDGE, JR.
GEO. N. MARCH,
H. J. EDWARDS, Auditors.
W. H. CLARK, i
JAMES SHARP,
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
.RECEIPTS.
Cash balance in treasury Feb. 10, 1870, $59417.93
Ree'd of Geo. L. Noyes, taxes and interest 1869, 3,386.52
of Joel Barnard, jr., „ 1870, 462352.77
ON ACCOUNT ALMSHOUSE.
of Town of Belmont, support of pau-
pers, 318.30
of keeper of Almshouse, produce
sold, 234.09
of Daniel Bond & Son, for produce, 3.00
of sundry persons, for hay, 156.95
of surveyors of highways, for hay,
for horses, and board of men
employed on the highways, 1,033.50
1,745.84
ON ACCOUNT MGMVAYS.
for labor on Reservoirs, 22.40
for ;ravel and labor, of Superinten-
dent of Streets, 31.12
for labor on bridges and culverts, 211.75
for new culvert Hain Street, 416.40
for new Reservoirs, 660.10
for brain for 1 horse and teaming, 135.50
1,477.27
Amount carried forward, $589380.33
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Antount brought forward, $58,380.3,1
ON ACCOUNT SCHOOLS. ,
Rec'd of C. C. `1cLauthlin, sale of books, 186.32
of State Treasurer, Town's share of
School-Fund 324.17
510.49
ON ACCOUNT RESERVOIRS.
of David H. Priest, et. al., labor, 87.00
from sale of old lumber, 11.52
98.52
from L. T. Brown, Janitor, et. al.,
for rent of Town Hall, 642.82
from Thomas Patten, one half pro-
ceeds of hay scales, 78.78
of County Treasurer, Town share of
Dog tax, $237.89
of State Treasurer, reimbursement of
State Aid for 1869, 1,212.66
State Treas., Corporation Tax 1870, 4,133.00
from sale of old pump, 3.00
„ „ old Hearse house, 10.00
„ Elmore Russell, sale of grave
lot, 5.00
„ A. T. Mills,
lot, 5.00
„ Mrs. Lowell, „
lot, 6.00
„ Geo. Lane, „
lot, 6.00
22.00
of State Treasurer on Town Note,
being borrowed on account of
Reservoirs, 4,500.00
Amount carried forward, $69,809.49
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Amount brought forward, $69,809.49
Disposition of Receipts charged to Town
appropriations, 48,400
Less discounts and abatements, 2,500
459900.00
Transferred to School account 510.49
„ Almshouse account, 1,745.84
„ Highway account, 1,477.27
„ Reservoir account, 98.52
„ State Aid account, 1,212.66
„ State Tax, 6,975.00
,. New Reservoirs, 4,500.00
„ Contingent Fund, 7,389.71
$69,809.49
EXPENDITURES.
SCHOOLS.
Appropriation, $ 14,000.00
Transferred from receipts, viz : —
Sale of books, and town's share of School Fund, 510.49
Transferred from Contingent Fund to meet defi-
ciency, 19689.10
$ 16,199.59
Paid salaries to Teachers, viz
HIGH SCHOOL.
To Solon F. Whitney, Principal, one year, $19 700.00
Miss Charlotte E. Wheeler, Assistant, 1 year, 750.00
Miss Porter, Assistant, one term, 200.00
CENTRE GRA3I\1AR SCHOOL.
To Benjamin F. Boyden, Principal, part 1 year, 1,095.00
Amount carried forward, $3,745.00
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Amount brought forward, $3,745.00
To E. IV. Andrews, Principal, part 1 year, 205.00
hiss Annie W. Carey, Assistant, one year, 550.00
Miss Anna M. Magee, 6 6 4 6 513.88
WEST GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
George S. Turner, Principal, one year, 1,300.00
EAST GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
Warren T. Copeland, Principal, one year, 1,300.00
EAST INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
Miss Clara M. Bailey, Principal, one year, 500.00
SOUTH INTER_VIEDIATE SCHOOL.
Miss Harriet Robbins, Principal, one year, 500.00
WEST INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
Miss Ellen M. Crafts, Principal, one year, 500.00
CENTRE INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
Miss H. Estelle Varney, Principal, part of year, 535.89
Miss Morton, part of year, 56.40
Miss Helen M. Souther, part of year, 14.10
EAST PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Annie E. Coolidge, Principal, one year, 475.00
CENTRE PRIMARY SCHOOL NO. 1.
Miss Fannie Robbins, Principal, one year, 475.00
CENTRE PRIMARY SCHOOL No. 2.
Miss L. A. Otis, Principal, one year, 483.00
SOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Adelaide Horn, Principal, one year, 475.00
WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL.
Miss Lyda Wicks, Principal, one year, 475.00
Miss Mary D. Patten, Assistant, one year, 400.00
Amount carried forward, $8,758.27
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Amount brought forward, $897.58.27
MIXED SCHOOLS, SUMMER VACATION.
Miss A. A. Keith, Centre, 51.00
Miss Minnie C. Brown, East, 72.00
Miss Anna Mason, 30.00
$12,656.27
CARE OF SCHOOL-HOUSES.
To Lucius T. Brown for care of four houses, 706.66
Warren T. Copeland, care of one house, 132.00
$ 838.66
FUEL FOR SCHOOL-HOUSES.
To Royal Gilkey for coal, 163.50
J. Baldwin it 722.66
Aiken & Woodward, charcoal, 81.60
$ 967.7 6
MAPS, TEXT-BOOKS, STATIONERY, &C.
Paid to C. C. McLauthlin per bills, 75.82
`'Darren T. Copeland per bills, 2.18
W. A. Wilder & Co., books, 141 .13
H. J. Edwards per bill, 4.28
Thompson, Bigelow & Brown, maps, 92.25
$315.66
INCIDENTAL SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Paid Oliver Ditson, music, 1.95
Woolworth & Ainsworth, 1.60
Samuel S. Gleason, brooms and soap, 4.40
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L. T. Townsend, expressage, telegrams, etc., 8.00
Pathfinder Printing Office, programmes, High
School, 20.00
'L. T. Brown, cleaning school-houses, 18.32
W. T. Copeland, cash paid for printing, 6.00.
Amount carried foriaard, $60.27
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Amount brought forzvnrd, $60.27
Paid Gilbert Cutting, tuning piano, 2.00
Charles Stodder, High School Apparatus, 16.00
Rockwell & Churchill, diplomas, 12.00
Pathfinder Printing Office, 7.00
T. Mullen, lettering Hi`rh School Diplomas, 2.00
S. S. Gleason & Co., mats and dusters, 20.32
11allett, Davis & Co., tuning pianos, 5.00
L. T. Brown, labor on trees, 2.00
Norcross & Blaisdell, pump, High School, 12.35
Luther Bent & Co., repairing furniture, 12.40
Mrs. David Riley, washing school-house, 8.00
Norcross & Blaisdell, labor, etc., 52.05
Samuel S. Gleason, duster and brooms, 12.57
I. L. Hammett & Co. slating, 89.84
L. T. Brown, extra labor, etc., 32.80
Thos. A. Upham, repairs of philosophical in-
struments, 11.00
Lee & Shepard, book, 4.67
J. L. Ross, settees, &c. in High School, 395.50
Wm. L. Stiles, labor, 91.18
William Rogers, clocks, &c. 18.25
Rockwell & Churchill, printing, 6.00
L. T. Brown, car fares and washing School-
houses, 6.50
Chas. P. Keith, brooms, 4.75
S. S. Gleason & Co., oil, soap and brooms, 2.30
Miles, Pratt & Co., new furnaces, Nest, 450.00
Thus. L. French, labor and materials, 3U.78
Thos. P. Emerson, expressage, 20.25
Luther Bent & Co., brushes, 11.25
Alfred Howes, hard-ware, 10.86
Win. L. Stiles, lamps for evening schools, 7.40
Amount carried forward, $1 ,417.29
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Amount brouyht forward, 1 ,417.29
Paid 1. L. Hammett, Geo. Solids, 2.85
Seth E. Sparrow, brooms, 1.10
$1421.24
8MMIART OF SCHOOL EXPENSES.
Paid teachers, 122656.27
care of School-houses, 838.66
for fuel 66 967.76
text-books, stationery, etc., 315.66
incidental school expenses, 1,421.24
$16,199.39
AL3ISHO USE.
DR.
To appropriation, 2,500.00
transfers from receipts, viz.,
town of Belmont, .318.30
keeper of almshouse, produce, 234.09
D. Bond & Son, 46 3.00
sundry persons for hay, 156.95
board of horses and men employed
on highways, 1,033.50
4245.84
transferred from contingent fund, 253.02
$4,498.86
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By cash paid for sundry, purposes, viz.,
LABOR ON FARM.
Zachariah Boody, 1 year salary, 500.00
Cornelius Coffee, 5.00
Maria B. Glidden, services in house, 155.50
hay, brain, meal, and straw, 474.88
Amount carried ,forward, $1,135.38
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Amozint brought forward, $1,135.38
PI:OVISIONS. !MEAT, ETC.,
Mason &-, Parker, 107.87
W. H. Lyinan, 180.35
Danl. Bond & Son, 121.55
409.77
FISH.
R. S. '.\Ierrvman, 4.40
11. Ro(ers, 68.91
73.31
GROCERIES, ETC.
By S. S. Gleason & Co., 434.83
S. Noyes & Co., 126.38
S. E. Sparrow, 13.87
P. B. Pendergast & Co., 108.64
G. A. Ale•teliam, soap, 44.48
728.20
DRY GOODS.
Otis Bros., 85.51
IV ourse & Barnard, 50.43
135.94
CLOTHING.
A. B. Robers 69.30
A. McMaster, 12.50
81.80
BOOTS AND SHOES.
S. H. Coombs, 47.75
A. D. Drew, 20.35
68.10
F", ,NITURE, REPAIRS. ETC.
L. Bent & Co., 16.62
W. L. Stiles, 26.67
43.29
Amount curried forward, $2,675.79
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Amount brought forrcard, 2,675.79
FUEL.
B. Whitney, carting wood, 17.00
R. Gilkey &- Co., coal, 75.27
G. H. Sleeper, 21 cords wood. 63.00
155.27
HARDWARE.
A. Howes, 13.42
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL ADVICE.
By J. A. Sullivan, 43.51
C. F. Page, 8.98
L. B. Morse, 22.50
A. Hosmer, 15.50
90.49
REPAIRS ON BUILDING.
T. L. French, labor, 17.75
Geo. Peirce, corn barn, 154.89
John Barnard, painting, 13.88
186.52
REPAIRS ON HARNESSES, WAGONS, ETC.
E. G. Tarbell, 5.00
J. Hall, 21.43
T. Patten, 11.01
37.46
MANURE.
D. B. Morrill, night soil, 30.00
SUNDRIES.
Zachariah Boody, sundry expenses for
paupers 20.77
B. Whitney, exp. to Tewksbury, etc., 17.00
Schlegel &-, Co., for seed, 2.30
Z. Boodv, sundries, 28.09
J. S. Milner, care W. Sanger 8.00 76.16
Amount carried toruRrd, 3,2ti5.11
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Amount brought forivard, $3,265.11
J. E. Stanley, bonnet for lfrs. Woods, 5.00
11enry Bright, butchering hogs, 8.00
G. 11'. Russell, collar and horse hire, 11.00
T. P. Emerson, express, 1.15
Z. Boody, sundries at .almshouse, 264.93
Highways, brain for horse and
teaming, 135.50
452.58
$3,690.69
ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS OUTSIDE OF ALDISHOUSE.
John Welch and daughter.
Paid J. `'ielly board, $72.00
Paid James Hughes, 108.00 $180.00
William Runey.
Paid Co nmonwealth of Massa-
chusetts for board at Tewks-
bury, 37.00
George Robbins.
Paid Deborah Bright, for
board etc., 60.00
Paid L. B. horse, ALD., 15.00
Paid J. A. Sullivan, medicine, 9.7 9
Paid Samuel Richardson, M.D., 6.00
90.79
Travellers.
Paid S. S. Gleason, refreshments, 30.33
Mrs. 11. Welch.
Paid S. S. Gleason, groceries, 3.00
Mrs. C. Burns.
Paid R. Gilkey, coal, etc., 5.75
Paid Samuel Noyes & Co.,
groceries, 5.02
Amount carried forward, $ 351.89
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Anaozcnt brotcght forward, $351.89
Mrs. G. Smith.
Paid C. J. Barry, fuel, 47.25
Paid City of Boston, 50.00
97.25
Mrs. Al. Finn.
Paid S. S. Gleason, groceries, 5.09
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 3.00
Paid D. Bond &C Son, provisions, 2.55
10.64
Mrs. Jeremiah Fuller.
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 8.75
Mrs. Plunket.
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 5.50
Mrs. T. Austin. r
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 5.50
Mrs. Ryan.
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 5.50
Frederick D. Robbins.
Paid Treasurer Reform School,
Westboro', 10.85
Mrs. McGara.
Paid S. S. Gleason, 1.95
�Irs. Flanagan.
Paid S. S. Gleason, groceries, 2.10
Mrs. W alder.
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 7.25
Terence Riley.
Paid R. Gilkey, fuel, 6.25
Mary A. Chant.
Paid City of Charleston, 11.00
mount c(trried forward, $324.43
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Amount brought forward, $524.43
Timothy Jones. (Case of Small Pox.)
Paid J. IIeburn, nursing, 54.00
L. Bent a. Co., 4.00
J. Corcoran, bedding, 61.00
S. S. Gleason, groceries, 2.46
Miles Pratt, stove and furniture, 15.25
William L. Stiles, 3.15
Alfred Hosmer, M.D., 26.00
165.86
Nancy W. Stone.
Paid City of Boston, 79.50
Elizabeth Walker.
Paid City of Boston, 36.38
31ary Skinner.
Paid Ci*y of Boston, 2.00
$808.17
Expense in Almshouse, 3,690.69
Expense outside, 808.17
Total expense of Almshouse, $49498.86
HIGI1 TVA YS.
Appropriation, $12,000.00
Transferred from Receipts, 1,477.27
$13,477.27
Paid Superintendent as per pay roll,
April, $112.50
Alfred Howes, sled;e handle,
April, .25
Labor as Per pay roll, May, 199.45
George II. Sleeper, salary, 100.00
Perkins, Coffin �C Co., grain, 44.78
Dodge Gilbert Lk, Co., tools, 13.81
Ames Plow Co., scraper, 11.40
Amou?d carried forward, $482.19
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Amount brought foru:ard, $482.19
R. Gilkey, coal, 10.45
G. 11. deeper, pad- roll, June, 945.85
George F. P;ussell, one home, 137.50
Perkins, Coln & Co., -rain, 73.08
S. S. Gleason, oil, 1.13
G. H. Sleeper, salary, 100.00
J. W. Hartford, gravel, 8.40
Parker & Gannet, tools, 40.00
G. H. Sleeper, pay roll, July, 9 53.05
Coffin, Dlagee & Co., brain, 53.00
S. S. Gleason, oil, 4.00
Geo. H. Sleeper, pay roll, Aug., 975.23
Coffin, Magee & Co., grain, 52.90
John Tucker, repairs, 12.50
Knox & Angier, stone, 196.03
G. H. Sleeper, payroll, Sept., 11142.25
John Dickinson, 514 loads
gravel, 102.80
Coffin, Magee & Co., grain,
September, 66.7 0
J. C. Stone, 125 loads gravel, 25.00
Alfred Howes, hardware, 22.40
G. Pierce, barricades and labor, 17.71
S. S. Gleason, oil and powder, 12.8.5
Philip \Tu�eiit, Getting edge stone, 82.00
John Madden, repairing wac ons, 19.80
Thomas Livermore, labor, 13.50
'Albert Brackett, coal, 64.00
G. 11. Sleeper, salary, 100.00
G. 11. Sleeper, pa} roll, Oct., 960.61
Turner, Kidney d; Co., paring
streets, 288.83
Amount carried forward, $6,963.80
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.mount brought ,foricard, $6,963.80
A. Jaekon, labor and materials, 240.75
Cotten, Magee & Co., train, 48.90
Cabel Kingman, punip, 39.38
Charles F. Pane, horse medicine, 5.45
S. S. Glea=on, oil, 3.50
John Boss, repairing watons, 1.8.(9(i
C. F. P.i;,re, horse livament, 2.00
J. A. Sullivan, alcohol, 1.25
G. 11. Sleeper, salary, 100.00
G. H. Sleel)er, pay roll, Nov., 899.65
D. 1lcCarthy, stone, 62.40
James E. Gill, stone, 108.00
R. Gilkey, coal for crusher, 57.89
Magee �- Co., grain, 57.20 Coffin,
Ross, Ilittenger &- Co., repairs
on el usher, 26.72
S. S, Gleason, oil, 7.50
J. NV. Turner, stone, 5.63
G. H. SleeOer, pay roll, Dec., 956.25
G. H. deeper, salary, 300.00
Coffin, Magee & Co., train, 42.00
D. McCarty, 52 ton stone, 31.20
N. D. Tilton, Tepairinc engine, 18.25
Parker &,- Gannett, 3.00
Boyd & Cate, stone, 9.50
G. 11. Sleeper, pay roll, Jan'y, 322.85
Day & Collins, cement pil►c, 96.27
G. Peirce, fencin;r labor, and
stack, 7.1.84
J. 1d. C1ill, 113 tons stone, 67.80
Miles Pratt & Co., repairs on
crusher and stone, 43.95
Aniount carried forward, $10,610.89
24 TREASURER 98 REPORT.
Amount brought forward, $109610.89
Coffin, -Magee & Co., Grain, 42.00
John Madden, repairin( wagons, 37.00
Edwin McCarty, 60 tons stone, 32.60
W. C. S. Harrington, 46 tons
stone, 28.75
Win. L. Stiles, material for
plastering, 17.90
John Ross, repairing wanon, 13.00
S. S. Gleason, soap and oil, 7.97
G. 11. Sleeper, 8 tens stone, 4.80
J. A. Sullivan, medicine for horse, 2.50
John Tucker, repairs on wanon, .75
Almshouse account, hay and
board for men, 19033.50
G. H. Sleeper, salary, 500.00
Coffin, -Magee & Co., grain, 62.10
Thos. Patten, repairing harness, 53.84
G. H. Sleeper, pay roll, 56.25
G. H. Brooks, 81 loads screeninns, 40.00
Antipas Jackson, blacksmitlung, 35.62
Alfred Howes, hardware, 24.21
John Dic;:enson, gravel, 24.00
Royal Gilkey, coal, 23.16
John 'Madden, repairing wagons, 2 2.00
D. 'IcC'artv, stone, 21.40
John Ross, repairs on wagon, 21.00
S. S. Gleason &-, Co., stone, 19.40
S. S. Gleason & Co., oil for crusher, 7.00
James Hall, shoeing horses, 4.57
T. P. Emerson, express, 1.80
2,143.21
Amount carried .forward, $12,7 54.01
TREASURER'S REPORT. 25
Amount brought forty ard, $12,754.01
Transferred to Contingent Fund, 723.26
139477.27
BRIDGES AND C UL VE-t TS.
Appropriation, $1,000.00
Transferred from Contingent funds, 1,094.16
$2,094.16
Paid G. Peirce, lumber and labor on
bridges, $156.36
Thomas L. French,labor,bricks,
and cement, 19.61
Philip N ugent, labor, 36.00
Fuller and Sons, lumber, 149.02
jti. S. Blanchard &- Co., timber, 71.66
Joel Ro )inson, iron works, 63.83
Davis & Farnham, frames and
grating, 137.53
Philip Nugent, labor, 52.00
Bixby & Cole, repairs on Arsenal
bridge, 517.23
George Peirce, stock and labor
on Etna Mills and Creek
bridges, 206.51
Clapp Bellow, placing buoys
at bridges, 130.00
A. 1lcUonald & Co., covering
stones, 76.00
Thomas L. French, stock and
labor on cesspools, 47.89
Highways account, 211.75
R. Gilkey & Co., lumber, 1.31.22
Day & Collins, drain pipe, 45.75
„ 41.80
4 2,094.16
26 TREASURER'$ REPORT.
NETS CULVERT ON MAIN STREET.
Appropriation. $1,500.00
Transferred from contingent fund, 49.51
$1,549.51
Paid T. L. French, bricks and labor, 227.26
Day &- Collins, drain pipe, 905.85
Highways account, labor, 416.40
$1,549.51
SIDEWALKS.
Appropriation, 1,000.00
Transferred from contingent fund, 51.60
$1,051.60
Paid D. F. Tripp cC Co., concrete walk, 313.8 7
„ „ 392.61
„ 345.12
$1,051.60
STATE TAX FOR 1870.
Whole amount assessed, as required by
warrant, $6,9 7 5.00
Transferred from receipts and paid State
Treasurer, 67975.00
NEW RESERVOIRS.
Treasurer authorized to borrow a sum of
money not exceeding $5,000.00, for
building reservoirs, etc.
The amount borrowed, was $4,500.00
Transferred from receipts, 98.52
$4,598,52
Paid Thomas L. French, Fayette street, 287.91
Charles Whitney, labor and material, 535.82
Thomas L. French, Arsenal Street, 94.72
Thomas L. French, Summer Street, 7.50
Amount brought forward, $923.95
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Amount brought forward, $925.95
Thomas L. French, 2,050.77
George Peirce, stock and labor, 98.51
Alex. McDonald, 3 sets well covers, 36.00
John Tucker, 3 reservoir covers, 5.25
William L. Stiles, lanterns and oil, 3.70
Hi` i ways account, labor on 3 reservoirs, 660.10
A. D. Drew, filling 3 reservoirs, 116.00
Sturgis &, Briaham, plans for reservoirs, 25.00
3,921.28
Transferred to contingent fund, 677.24
$4,598.52
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Appropriation, $2,400.00
Transferred fr )m contingent fund, 174.60
$2,574.60
Paid Jas. Boyd &; Sons, repairing hose, $53.66
S. S. Gleason, refreshments, 19.14
Newton & Watertown Gas Liaht
Company, 14.00
Cameron &- Ross, repairing engines, 4.80
New England Hose Co., 400 feet
hose and couplings, 468.00
Pay roll of Engine Co. No. 1, 199.17
„ „ „ 21 195.83
Engineer's salary, 87.50
Hook and Ladder Company, 57.50
A. D. Drew, repairs on engine, 25.00
S. S. Bachelder, refreshments, 20.00
William Moore, steward Engine
No. 1, 12.50
Amount carried forward, $1157.10
28 TREASURER 3S REPORT.
Amount brought forward, $1,157.10
John Ross, repairs on engine, 5.00
Hunnewell & Co., repairs, 3.05
R. Gilkey, coal, 8.25
S. S. Gleason, sundries, 52.14
A. D. Drew, sundries, 54.00
George IV. Bright, steward No. 2, 12.50
James Boyd & Sons, leather hose, 516.70
Andrew P. Mills, steward, 5.00
Newton & Watertown Gas Light
Company, 8.10
T. P. Emerson, expressage, 9.00
Aiken & Woodward, charcoal, 3.17
Geo. Peirce, labor on engine house
and stock, 38.90
A. B. Rogers, coats for H. & L. Co., 127.50
S. S. Gleason, refreshments, 30.30
John Ross, labor, 9.75
A. D. Drew, charcoal, 9.50
Newton & lV atertown Gas Co., 5.40
Pay roll Encrine Co. No. 1, 235.86
„ „ Book & Ladder Co., 7-5.00
S. L. Batchelder, refreshments, 26.00
Wm. A. Moore, steward, 25.00
Enoch Robinson, locks and keys, 16.25
Win. A. Moore, cleaning engine, 5.00
Albert F. Alen, indse., 7.50
John F. Ireland, lettering coats, 3.00
Engineer's salary to 'Nov. 1, 87.50
Newton & Watertown Gas Co., 8.55
Clark & Fox, 2 brackets, 3.00
E. G. Tarbel, bells, oil and chamois
skins, 25.00
Alfred Howes, hardware, 1.58
$2,574.60
IT
TREASURER'S REPORT. 29
STATE AID.
Transferred from receipts, being reimbursement
for 1870, $1,212.66
Paid William Wall, 168.00
Charles F. Jackson, 72.00
Mary McCabe, 28.00
John Hallahan, 168.00
Mary Severance, 48.00
Sybil B. Lamson, guardian, 8.00
Alson K. Sumner, 36.00
Henry G. Peirce, 168.00
Deborah Bright, 48.00
Horace W. Otis, 72.00
Otis A. Pollard, 33.00
John .McCarthy, a iardian, 8.00
$85 i.00
Transferred to contingent fund, 355.66
$1,212.66
S",ABIES OF TOWN OFFICERS.
Appropriation, $1,400.00
Transferred from contingent fund, 25.00
— $1,425.00
Paid School Committee salary, 1869-70, 250.00
Auditors and Appraisers salary,
18709 75.00
Assessor's salary, 1870, 450.00
Overseers of Poor, salary, 1870,
Surveyors of H'ways, 1870, 300.00
Selectmen, 1870,
Town Clerk, 1870, 12.5.00
Town Treasurer, 1870, 200.00
it „ services on State
aid, 1870, 25.00
$1,425.00
30 TREASURER'S REPORT.
POLICE ACCOUNT.
Appropriation, $2,200.00
Paid George Parker, $912950
Joseph P. Shorey, 87.50
Henry F. Bright, 93.90
Ezrum V. Howard, 742.50
Royal Gilkey for coal, 10.87
Newton and Watertown Gas Co., 86.40
Joseph Crafts, rent of office, 75.00
Special police, July, 1870, 22.50
Aiken & Woodward, charcoal, 1.50
AV. L. Stiles, lantern, 2.10
S. S. Gleason, 50
$25035.27
Transferred to contingent fund, 164.73
$2,200.00
ACCOUNT OF MONEY BORROWED IN AXTIC-1-
PATION OF T I ES.
To cash received on Town note, *Larch 21,
1870, for $1,000 ; discounted at Hamilton
National Bank, $969.85
Cash received of Hamilton National Bauk, on
Town note, April 8, 1870, for $3,000, 2,911.71
Cash received of Hamilton National Bank, on
Town note, May 5, 18709 $3,000, 2,927.96
Cash received of Hamilton National Bank, on
Town note, for $3,000, June 8, 1870, 2,945.00
Cash received of Hamilton National Bank, on
Town note for .$6,000, J►ily 19 1870, 5,907.00
Cash received of Pequossette Lodge on Town note, 450.00
$16,111.52
Cash transferred from contingent fiend to pay
interest and discounts on above notes, 351.98
$16,463.50
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CR.
By Cash paid Town note at Hamilton
National Bank, Sept. 10, $1,000.00
Cash paid Town note at Hamilton
National Bank, Sept. 18, 3,000.00
Cash paid Town note at Hamilton
National Bank, Sept. 21, 3,000.00
Cash paid Town note at Hamilton
National Bank, Sept. 26, 3,000.00
Cash paid Town note at Hamilton
National Bank, Oct. 1, 6,000.00
Cash paid Town note at Pequossette
Lodge, and interest, Oct. 10, 463.50
$16,463.30
PAYMENT OF TOWN DEBT.
Appropriation, $1,000.00
Transferred from contingent fund, 375.00
$1,375.00
Paid Geo. F. Norcross, 375.00
Lowell Institute for Savings, 1,000.00
1,375.00
TOWN N DEBT OF 1871.
Town debt per account of 1870, $48,968.00
Borrowed from State Treasurer, on
town note, per account of Reser-
voir, 4.500.00
— 539468.00
Amount paid on Town debt as above, 1,375.00
Present Town debt, 529093.4.0
INTEREST ON TOWN DEBT.
Appropriation, $39500.00
32 TREASURER's REPORT.
Paid E. J. Norcross 1 year's interest
on note of $200, $12.00
Boston Five Cents Savings' Bank
1 year's interest on note of
$10,000, 600.00
Eliza Glines, 1 year's interest on
note of $1,000, 70.00
George F. Norcross, 8mo., 36
days on note of $375, 16.62
Thomas Pierce, 1 year's interest
on note of $1,000, 60.00
Lowell Institute for Savings, 1
year's interest on note, $8,725, 494.88
Lowell Institute for Savings, 1
year's interest on note,$8,000, 460.00
Lowell Institute for Savings,
Gold Premium on above note, 110.60
Lowell Institute for Savings, 1
year's interest on note, $5,500, 330.00
Mrs. Luke Forbes, 1 year's inter-
est on note for $2,000, 120.00
Mrs. Luke Forbes 1 year's inter-
est on note of $1,000, 70.00
State Treasurer, 1 year's interest
on note of $9,268, 556.08
Waltham Savings Bank, 1 year's
interest, on note of $900.00, 63.00
Harriet N. Faxon, one year's in-
terest on note of $300.00, 18.00
Ann I. Norcross, one year's inter-
est on note of $700.00, 42.00
39023.1
Transferred to coutin(ent fund, $4 7 6.82
$3,500-M
n
TREASURER'S REPORT. 33
INS UBdATCE.
Appropriation, $200.00
Transferred from contingent fiend, 26.06
Paid Premium insurance on Town
Hall, $3,000, $91.00
$226 00
Premium insurance on Alms
House buildings and stock,
$3,000, 35.00
Premium insurance on school-
house in South District, $3,000, 90.00
Premium insurance on two pianos,
$800.00, $10.00 $226.00
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Appropriation, $1,700.00
Paid Geo. N. March, Treasurer, $900.00
„ „ 300.00
„ 200.00
„ 200.00
„ 100,90 $1,700.00
CONTINGENT ACCOUNT.
DR.
Appropriation, $1,500.00
Transferred from receipts, 7,389.71
„ Reservoirs, 677.24
„ State Aid, 355.66
„ Interest account, 476.82
„ Police 164.73
„ Hibhway 723.26
$11,287.42
5
34 TI:EASURER'S ICEPO►.T.
Amount brought foruvurd, $11,287.42
Less transferred to Schools, $1,689.10
„ Discount, 351.98
„ Town Debt, 375.00
Insurance, 2 6.00
„ Fire Department, 17 4.60
„ Bridges, &-c., 19094.16
„ New Culvert, 49.51
„ Sidewalks, 51.60
„ Alnishouse, 253.02
„ Salaries, 25.00
$4,089.97
$7,19 7.45
CIS.
By Paid. David H. :Mason, Counsel on ac-
count of Charles River Road, $300.00
L. T. Brown, Janitor of Town Hall,
services, 73.10
Aaron R. Gav, Stationery and
Stamps, r 9.7 5
Hugh Hart, trimming trees on streets 6.25
Pathfinder Printing Office, Town
Reports, 456.00
Newton and Watertoivn Gas-Light
Co., street lamps, 134.58
Newton and Watertown Gas-Light
Co., Town Hall, 80.50
Newton and Watertown Gas-Light
Co., Lipper Hall, 5.50
Parker and Shorey, services as Truant
Officers, 60.00
C. C. McLauthlin, stationery and
printing, 33.31
Amount carried forward, $1 ,158.99
TREASURER'S REPORT. 35
Amount brought ,forward, $1,158.99
Joseph Crafts, preparing statistics C.
It. Railroad, 7.00
Charles J. Barry, damage to fence, 3.00
N ourse and Barnard, crockery for
Town Hall, 2.70
Alfred Howes, hardware, 1.44
S. S. Gleason, pail and broom, 95
L. T. Brown, -services as Janitor of
Town Hall, 46.10
A. L. Richards, services on Charles
River Railroad, 62.00
R. Gilkey, coal for Town House, 18.23
Win. Ro ers, care of Town clock, 12.50
L. T. Brown, services as Janitor
Town Hall, 21.00
S. S. Gleason, tub and pail for Town
House, 1.66
Wm. L. Stiles, services as sealer of
weights, etc., 10.00
Alexander Great, labor in Old Cem-
etery, 5.00
Newton and Watertown Gas-Licht
Co., 32.85
C. C. 1lcLauthlin, books and print-
ing, 24.18
Isaac Robbins, use of horse, &c.. for
Assessors, 12.00
Stephen Holmes, raising flagstaff, 10.00
:Michael Fisher, mowing Cemetery, 9.00
L. T. Brown, services as Janitor
Town Hall, 7.50
Luther Dent cl'-, Co., repairing settees, 2.25
Amount brouPub for-hard, $1 ,448.37
to
36 TREASURER'S REPORT.
Amount brought forward, $1,448.37
Newton and Watertown Gas-Light
Co., on account Upper Hall, 2.25
Samuel Noyes, scrubbing-brush, 2.00
Joseph Crafts, survey and plan of Ar-
senal Street, 76.00
Thos. P. Emerson, expressage, 15.77
Wm. Rogers, care of Town clock, 12.50
Aiken cL Woodward, charcoal Town
House, 8.50
Joseph Crafts, transcript of Votes,
etc., 3.60
Estate of R. James, for fixing gas pipes, 1.50
George Peirce, fencing Materials and
labor, 150.30
George Peirce, labor on street signs, 5.92
Alfred Howes, hardware and ropes, 10.08
Little cC Brown, Herricks Town
Officer, 3.00
Patrick Flannery, lighting street
lamps, 8.00
Stephen Holmes, lowering flagstaff, 10.00
Geo. F. Morgan, copy of Records
for Assessors, 30.30
Newton and Watertown Gas Co.,
street lamps, 192.44
H. J. Edwards, legal services, 50.00
C. C. McLauthlin, printing, etc., 20.97
Newton and Watertown Gas.Light
Co., Lower Hall, 13.95
George Phinney, advertising, 7.00
H. M. Stimson, 2.50
Newton and `'Watertown Gas-Light
Co., Upper Hall, 90
Amount brought forwartl, $2,075.85
TREASUIRER98 REPORT. 37
Amount brou:;lit forivard, $290 7 5.85
Caleb Kinohani, for pump, 27.00
Thomas L. French, brick paving at
Town House, 105.06
Henry F. Bright, killing dogs at
$1.00 each, 47.00
L. T. Brown, janitor services, Town
11a11, 44.50
Alexander Gregg, burial of infant, 13.00
W. Rogers, care of Town Clock, 12.50
L. T. Brown, janitor services, Town
Hall, 8.50
S. L. Batchelder, refreshments, 4.00
George W. Bright, repairing Town
pump, 3.00
Thomas L. French, labor at Town
pump, 2.15
Joseph Crafts, writing and serving
notices on abattors of roads, 8.55
Henry F. illoore, damages on account
of wife's injury received at Bemis
bridge, 250.00
Newton & Watertown Gas Light Co.,
street lights, 153.46
Newton & Watertown Gas Light Co.,
lower hall, 58.50
Newton & Watertown Gas Light Co.,
upper hall, 11.25
L. T. Brown, janitor services, Town
Hall, 50.00
L. T. Brown, janitor services, Town
Hall, 24.00
John Barnard, glass for street lamps, 21.00
Amount carried forward, $29919.32
38 TREASURER 11S REPORT.
Amount brouglct forward, $2,919.32
Joseph Crafts, making up Pauper Re-
turns, 12.50
P. J. Flannery, lighting Myrtle
Street lamp, 12.00
Stephen Holmes, lowering flagstaff, 10.00
William L. Stiles, sundries at Town
House, 9.68
George Peirce, casing new pump, 5.96
C. C. 1lcLauthlin, printing and
stationary, 5.50
Alexander Gregg, returns of deaths, 5.00
Clark &-- Fox, repairing gas fixtures,
Town Hall, 3.50
Henry Russell, sign on Pleasant
Street, 1.00
S. S. Gleason, broom, .70
Joseph Craft, recording births, mar,
riages, and deaths, and indexing, 5.1.10
Thomas Patten, charge of Hay-scales, 39.39
John K. Stickney, incidentals per
account, 38.90
George B. Stockwell, carriage hire, 33.50
R. Gilkey, coal at Town House, 21.50
John Pa(re, work on Town House, 17.78
Selectmen Perambulation of Town
lines, 12.50
William Rogers, care of Town Clock, 12.50
T. Roger. , care of Town Hall, 10.50
11. F. Merrifield, tending draw, 10.00
Elijah Pratt, ringing bell on holidays, 5.00
T. P. Emerson, expressage, 4.22
E. G. Tarbell. repairing pump boxes, 3.90
Amount carried fortaard, $3,2.18.97
TREASURER'S REPORT. 39
Amount brou7lit fortcccrd, $3,248.97
Thomas Patten, two weighing books, 3.75
Alfred Howes, hardware, .25
Joel Barnard, Jr., collecting taxes
1870, 279.23
Sum of Contingent expenses, $3,532.18
Cash balance in Treasury, 3,665.27
$7,197.45
ASSETS.
Cash in Treasurv, $3,665.27
Outstanding taxes in hands of Joel
Barnard, Jr., 6,790.20
Due from State on account State aid
paid in 1870, 857.00
$11,312.47
LIABILITIES.
Due schools payable in March, $5,000.00
Fire Department, payable in
May, 450.00
Interest on town debt, payable
on or before June 1, 1871, 1,400.00
Surplus, 4,462947
$11,312.47
i
40 AUDITORS' REPORT.
STATEIVENT OF TO IVY J)EBT.
To whom indebted. Amount.) Rates of Maturity.�
L tc rep..
Per cent.
Lowell Ins. for Savings, $8,000 5.75 1876, Oct. 7.
„ borrowed 6,725 5.50
with privilege of paying $1000
each year after 15 years had
expired. The instalments are
payable as follows, *1,000 7 ` 1869, Oct. 6.
1,000 5.50 1871, „
1,000 5,50 1872, „
1,000 5.50 1873, „
1,000 5.50 1874, „
j 1,000 5.50 1875, „
*This is on demand, no provision'
having been made for its payment. I 11
000 5.50 1876,
725 5.50 1877, „
I
Lowell Ins. for Savings, 5,500 i 6 1888, April 21.
State of brass. 9,268 I 6 1878, May 23.
„ „ „ 4,500 6.50 1880, Dec. 20.
Luke Forbes, Estate of 2,000 6 Demand.
Mrs. Luke Forbes, 1,000 I 7 1870, Dec. 1.
Boston Five Cent Savings Bank, 10,000 I 6 1878, Aug. 5.
Eliza Glines, 1,000 ` 7 Demand.
Thomas Peirce, 1,000 6 „
OAnn I. Norcross, 700 6
Eliza J. Norcross, 200 6
Harriet N. Faxon, 300 6 1870, Oct. 1.
Waltham Savings Bank, 900 7 1870, Aug. 9.
Town Debt, 1$52,093
AUDITORS' REPORT. 41
ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR 1871.
— 1870. 1 1871.
For what purpose. Amount Amount Amount
Appropriated.i Expended. Recommended
School Expenses . . . . . . Rees. 8»0.49
i 14,000.00
14,550.49 16,199.69 16,000
Fire Department . . . . . . 2,400 2,574.60 1,400
Support of Poor . . . . . . 2,500 2,743.02 2,500
Highways . . . . . . . . 12,000 11,276.74 12,000
Bridges and Culverts . . . . 1,000 2,094.16 1,000
Interest on Town Debt . . . . 3,500 3,023.18 3,800
Salaries . . . . . . . . . 1,400 1,425.00 1,500
Discounts and Ab ttements 2,500 2,569.04 2,500
Paying Portion of Town Debt 1,000 1,175,00 2,010
Police . . . . . . . . . . 2,200 2,035.27 2,000
Insurance . . . . . . . . 200 226.00 1,150
Free Public Library 1,700 1,700.00 1,350
Concrete Sidewalks . . . . . 1,006 1,051.60 1,500
Enlarging Culverts on Spring
and Church Streets. 700
Continuation of Culvert on
southside Main Street. I 700
Culvert from Cuba to Green
Streets. ' 600
Culvert on Galen Street . . . 1,200
Contingent Expenses . . . . 1,600 3,532.33 1,500
53,400
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42 AUI)ITOR9S REPOI;T.
SCHEDULE AYD VALUATION ON TOWN
PROPERTY.
TOWN FARM, —
312 acres of land, $1292,50.00
Buildings on the same, 3,500.00
15,750.00
Personal property, as per appraisement, 2,911.08
Used on roads, 49898.00
7,809.08
TOWN HOUSE AND LAND, —
12,920 feet of land, 6,460.00
Town house, 15,000.00
21,460.00
Furniture in Town house, 500.00
HIGH SCHOOL-HOUSE, —
23,264 feet of land, 2,300.00
High School-house and furniure, 139000.00
159300.00
Philosophical Apparatus, 117 73.00
Library and piano, 975.00
CENTRE SCHOOL-HOUSE, —
15,318 feet of land, 2,000.00
School-house and furniture, 12.00f 1.00
149000.00
Piano, 500.00
EAST SCHOOL-HOUSE, —
27,378 feet of land, 1,000.00
School-house and furniture, 12,000.00
_— 139000.00
Amount carried forward, $115,609.08
AUDITOR`S REPORT. 43
Amount Lroicght forward, $1159609.08
`'EST SCHOOL-IIOUSE, —
21,500 feet of land, 860.00
School-house and furniture, 11,000.00
119860.00
SOUTH SCIIOOL-HOtiSE, —
11,830 feet of land, $1,180.00
School-house and furniture, 11,500.00
12,680.00
Two fire-engines and apparatus, 5 extinguishers, 1,000.00
Hook and ladder carriage, 125.00
Gravel bank on Beacon Hill, 1 2-5 acres of land, 700.00
Hay-scales, 300.00
Land on Mount Auburn Street, adjoining cemetery
land, 71,950 feet, 1,800.00
Free Public Library and furniture, 79500.00
Iron safe at Town Treasurer's, 65.00
New cemetery, 149000.00
$1419099.58
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INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT
Qf Personal Property at the Almshouse in Watertown,
pertaining to and used on the Poor Farm.
LIVE STOCK, —
1 horse, 275.00
3 cows, 225.00
4 hogs, 60.00
25 fowls, 25.00
585.00
HAY, etc.,
11 tons of hay, at $30 per ton, 330.00
1 1-2 tons of rye straw, at $25 per ton, 37.50
Lot corn fodder bedding, etc., 10.00
377.50
GRAIN, —
28 bushel corn, at $1.00 28.00
28 bushel rye, at $1.00 28.00 r
1 bushel cotton-seed meal, 1.13
1 bushel indian meal, 1.00
58.13
WAGONS, FARMING-TOOLS, etc., —
1 water trough, 5.00
1 meal box, 1.00
1 hay cutter, 15.00
Amount carried ,forward, 21.00 $17020.63
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Amount brought forward, 21.00 1,020.63
1 feed box and shovel, 5.00
2 grater pails, 75
3 ladders, 2.50
1 cart-harness and extra pieces, 12.00
1 wagon-harness, ncw, 35.00
1 double harness, 25.00
1 falter, 1.00
3 cattle chains, 1.75
1 grain chest, 5.00
3 shovels, 3 manure forks, 7 hoes, 7.00
2 iron rakes, 1.00
2 bug hoes, 2.00
2 flails, 1.00
4 baskets, 1.50
1 mowing machine, 75.00
4 hay forks, 2.00
1 lot scythes, rakes and cradle, 6.00
Sundry tools in shed chamber. 2.50
1 cultivator, winnowing machine, 4.00
1 tent, 5.00
1 derrick and ropes, 20.00
4 ploughs, 30.00
1 sleigh, 5.00
1 Harrow, 8.00
1 hay wagon,. 5.00
1 express wagon, 60.00
2 scalding tubs, 1.50
1 grind stone, 1.00
4 axes and saw horse, 4.00
3 wood-saws, 2.00
1 oil can, 50
1 vise and tools in shop, 5.00
Amount curried forward, 358.00 $1,020.63
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48 INVENTORY AND APPRAISEIIENT.
Amount brought forward, 358.00 $1,020.63
1 stove, 7.00
Bench and old furniture in shed chamber, 13.50
I 1 ice chest, 1.50
25 flour barrels, 4.25
1 horse rake, and 2 loafer rakes, 7.00
1 lot of ropes and blocks, 1().()()
1 hot-bed sash, 1.O1
1 pair steps, 1.5U
1 lot of old iron, 2.00
1 lot of manure, 150.00
2 ox yokes, 2.00
5.57.75
FUEL, —
20 cords of appletree wood, 160.00
FURNITURE, etc., —
1 fire extinguisher, 40.011
1 sett measures, 50
1 meal chest, 2.00
1 wrenber and 4 washboards, 8.50
Tin ware, 25.00
10 pails, 2.00
Baking pans, 2.51.)
9 flat irons, 6.50
1 brass kettle, 1 enamel kettle, 4.0H►
1 lot of pots, jars, and jugs, 3.00
Steelyards, hammer, and allger, 1.50
Chopping knife and trays, 1.50
1 lantern, 1.00
5 oil-cans and oil, 6.50
1 dinner bell, 1.50
1 table and wash bench, 2.50
1 table-in cellar, 50
Amount carried forward, 109.00 $1,738.38
INVENTORY _%_tiv "PRAISEMENT. 49
Amount bruityltt forward, $109.00 $19738.38
5 broonis9 1.50
6 wash tubs, 6.00
1 churn, 2.50
1 cook store and furniture, 18.00
1 esten�ion table, 5.00
1 secretary- and bookcase, 7.00
1 old stele eight-day clock, 25.00
22 chairs, 6.60
8 table-cloths, 8.00
26 crash towels, 7.80
Knives, fbrks, spoons, etc., 6.00
7 lamps, 3.00
lU yards calico, 1.00
4 bedsteads, 6.00
13 bunks, 19.50
1 washing machine, 4.00
17 feather betas, 28 pillows, 4 bolsters, 100.00
3 chambers, 3.00
17 straw beds, 15.00
25 pairs of sheets, 13.00
39 comforters and quilts, 48.75
Underclothim, 6.00
2 clothes-horses, 4.00
2 clothes-'baskets, 1.00
I lot medicines, 3.00
Table condiments, 2.50
Meat Flock in cellar, 3.00
1 portable closet, 2.00
1 bit-stock and bits, 2.00
4 chests, 2.00
Crockery in keepers room, 25.00
1 portable closet in kitchen, 2.00
1 bureau, 3.00
1 looking-rlaes, .50
Amount carried forward, - $2,210.03
50 INVENTORY AND APPRATSEMENT.
Amount brotight forward, $2.21,'.03
IN PAUPERS' HALL.
1 long table, 3.00
Oil covering for same, 3.00
Small table and clock, 1.50
1 stove, 6.00
Crockery, 3.00
2 lamps, .50
1 air-tight stove, 1.50
18.50
IN SOUTH-WEST CHA3 BER.
1 bedstead, 3.50
1 feather bed, 1 straw bed, 2 pillows,
1 bed spread, 2 comforters, 10.00
1 wash stand, bowl, and ewer, 2.00
1 Table and cover, 2.00
1 liglit-stand and 3 chairs, 1.25
1 carpet, 1.50
20.25
IN NORTH-EAST ROOM, OR PARLOR.
1 portable grate, 7.00
1 card table, 3.00
1 carpet, 15.00
3 curtains and fixtures, 3.00
1 looking glass, 3.00
1 sofa, 10.00
6 cane seat chairs, 1 rocker, 7.50
Law book and testament, 2.00
50.50
IN SOLTTH-END ROOM.
1 bureau, 2.50
3 curlains, fixtures, and maps, 1.50
4.00
Amount carried foricard, $2.299.28
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Amount brought forward, $2,299.28
1 carpet, 2.50
1 chest, .50
1 bed stead, 3.50
1 feather bed, 1 mattress, 1 spread,
2 comforters, 2 sheets, 2 pillow
cases, 20.00
38.50
IN SOUTH-EAST CHAMBER.
1 bureau, 4.00
1 store, 1.25
3 curtains and fixtures, 1.25
1 bedstead, 3.00
3 comforters, 2 sheets, 2 pillow cases,
1 bed spread, 1 Straw bed, 9.50
19.00
IN NORTH-EAST CHAMBER.
1 bedstead 2.50
1 mattress, 3.00
2 comforters, 4.00
1 white spread, 1.25
1 fair sheets and pillow cases, 2.50
Curtains and fixtures, .75
1 cylinder stove, 2.00
1 table cover and chairs, 1.00
17.00
PRODUCE.
4 bushel beans, 8.00
1 lot potatoes, 125.00
10 bushels Carrots, 6.00
4 bushels beets, 6.00
Lot pop corn, 5.00
150.00
Amount curried forward, $2,515.78
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52 IN`'ENTOUY AND APPI:AISF.AIENT.
Amount brought forward, 2.51.5.78
GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS.
Meal in chest, 2.()()
60 pounds sugar, 7.20
185 pounds lard, at 20 cents per Pound, 37.00
3-4 barrel crackers, 3.00
2 barrels flour, 20.00
Molasses and cask, 6.00
Pickles, 1.50
Matches, .60
2 1-2 pounds tea, 2.00
1400 pounds pork, 210.00
6 hams, 30.00
Butter, 16.00
20 pounds tobacco, i0.00
1 1-2 barrels soap, 8.00
1 bushel apples, 1.50
Hops, 1.00
16 bars soap, 4.00
1 barrel beef, 30.00
Vinegar. 3.00
$392.80
1 lot of shingles, 2.50
ANIMALS, BIPLEMENTS, AlYD MATERUL USED ON ROADS.
5 horses, $11100.00
$1,100.00
3 sets lead harnesses, with extra pieces, 75.00
1 cart harness, new, 20.00
2 „ worn, 23.00
4 halters, 5.00
3 whifHetrees and spreaders, 3.00
Amount carried ,forward, $4.011.08
INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT. 53
Anioient brought forreard, $4,011.1 8
3 heavy challis, 8.00
3 carts, 120.00
1 large wagon, 35.00
I lumber 75.00
2 large sleds, 65.00
1 roller, 75.00
1 large plow, 20.00
1 road scraper, 12.00
4 snow plows for foot-paths, 20.00
1 lot tackle and fall, 6.00
7 bushels meal, 3.50
1 gravel scraper, 10.00
1 drab;and drag-plank, 15.00
1 tool-box, 5.00
1 large plow fc r roads, 20.00
2 gravel screens, 12.00
1 hogshead, 1.00
$630.50
HAND TOOLS.
1 jack, 2.00
5 wheelbarrows, 10.00
3 wrenches, 1.00
2 forks, and 6 iron rakes, 4.00
4 iron bars, 8.00
10 shovels, 10.00
10 picks, 10.00
4 stone hammers, 9.00
1 spirit level, 2.00
Lacinb leather, 2.50
Powder and fuse, 3.0,
2 drills, 6.( 0
$67.50
Amount carried forward, $4,709.08
54 INVENTORY AND APPRAISEMENT.
Amount brought forward, $4,709.08
STONE BREAKER AND MACHINERY.
1 stone crusher and elevator, $1,000.00
1 engine and belting, 1,000.00
Covering over crusher, 100.00
$2 9100.00
MATERIAL FOR ROADS.
1500 tons of stone (Part crushed), $66 2-3 $1,000.00
$77809.08
RECAPITULATION.
ROADS.
Horses, $1,100.00
Harnesses, etc., carts, wagons, etc., 630.50
Hand tools, 67.50
Stone crusher, engine and crusher, 2,100.00
Material for roads, 1,000.00
4,898.00
FAR'M.
Live stock on farm, 585.00
Hay and straw, 377.50
Grain, .58.13
Farming utensils, etc., 557.75
Fuel, 160.00
Furniture in house, 627.40
Produce, 150.00
29515.78
Amount carried forward, $4,898.00
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Amount brought forward, $2,515.78 $4,898.00
Groceries and provisions, 392.80
Shingles, 2.50
2,911.08
$7,809.08
JOHN COOLIDGE, JR.,
II. J. EDWARDS,
JA.IIES SHARP, Appraisers.
W. H. CLARIt,
GEORGE N. .1IARCH.
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SELECTMENS ' REPORT
For the year ending February 10, 1871.
Contingencies are constantly arising in town matters which
preclude the possibility of foreseeing events. In some de-
partments, the appropriations the past year have been ex-
ceeded, but the Board feel assured that in no instance has
money been expended uselessly, and that from the following
statements (under respective heads), it will be apparent.
In combinii g the offices of " Overseers of the Poor" and
� Survevors of Hir h«ways," with that of " Selectmen," the
labor has been multiplied and the duties made more arduous
in consequence. It may be advisable to consider this matter
in selecting officers for the ensuing year.
The present aspect of the growth and prosperity of the
town is auspicious, and it is to be hoped that the same gen-
erous spirit may pervade the public inind in the future that
has in the past. Our town is as favorably located as any in
the vicinity of the metropolis, and there is no reason why it
should not increase and prosper. Public improvements are
great incentives to encourage this, and the Board feel it in-
cumbent on them to recommend liberal appropriations for
Nidewalks and drainage as well as for highways.
Since the Free Public Library was instituted, there has
existed an apparent necessity for a town seal. In this view,
after conferring with the Trustees and Librarian, a device
was obtained froin Dr. Francis' history of the town of Water-
town, which was considered un the whole appropriate, and is
respectfully submitted.
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58 REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
In rertard to the building of the new reservoirs and repair-
ing old ones, all has been clone that was required, and at a
less cost than was anticipated. Two of the new ones contain
about 45,000 gallons each, the other an immense well, con-
taining at the Present time a depth of water of over 12 feet.
For further particulars, see Engineer's report.
The selectmen, having been instructed to have the Arsenal
bridge repaired, have attended to that duty, and finding that
the expense of the same would not exceed $1,000, did not
deem it expedient to ask for an extra appropriation. This
will, however, account for the excess over the appropriation
for " Bridges and Culverts." They have also, (in connection
with the town of Brighton) placed buoys above and below
the two bridges for their protection.
SA VING,S BA-N K.
During the past year, a Savings Bank has been opened for
deposits, and it is presumed the institution will commend
itself to every good. citizen. It is in a flourishing condition,
and doubtless will be the means of induci;,g many a poor
man to lay by a dollar for future emergencies, which in the
past may have been invested in poorer securities.
JOHN K. STICKNEY,
THOMAS L. FRENCH, Selectmen.
OLIVER SHAW,
REPO R T
OF
SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS .
The Surveyors of Highways have continued the same
system as that adopted the previous year, under the superin-
tendence of Mr. GeorCre H. Sleeper, who has performed his
duty faithfully. The roads are now in a very tolerable con-
dition, yet there is great room for improvement. The appro.
priations for t.ie past two years have by some seemed to be
large ; but it must be borne in mind that the heavy travel
thr„ugh our principal avenues increases annually, and it is
the opinion of the Board that in order to keep the roads
good, the same Amount should be appropriated for the ensu-
ing year. Our drainage is very poor, and although much has
been done during the past year in this department, there
remains a great deal yet to do, and the Board earnestly
recominended that a liberal appropriation be granted for
culverts, and also call especial notice to the deplorable con-
dition of the following localities, viz. :—Galen street, from
near the Newton line, to the South school-house, Alain
street, from the west side of Cuba, to the east side of Green
street, territories completely inundated, and where large coin-
munities are forming ; they also recommend the continuation
of the culvert on the south bide of Alain street, to a point
opposite the Methodist (church ; and further recommend the
enlarging of the culverts under ,Spring street, Church street,
and the street running past the Methodist Church. Parties
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60 REPORT OF HIGHWAY SURVEYORS.
llvinc on the line of this brook are always liable to be ,
flooded, and the only remedy is in enlarging all the culverts.
Below is a statement of material used on the roads the
past year : —
STATEMENT OF CRUSHED STONE.
On Main Street.
Lenbth 350 feet, width 30 feet, 248 yards.
Mt. Auburn street.
Length 2,500 feet, width 30 feet, 1,770 yards.
Arsenal street,
Length 1600 feet, width 30 feet, 1,133 Yards.
Market street,
Length 2,500 feet, width 25 feet, 1,475 yarda.
Pleasant street and Square,
Length 800 feet, width 25 feet, 471 yards.
5,097 yards.
Less gravel covering on above, 11609 „
Total stone, 3,488 yards.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
JOHN K. STICKNEY, Surveyors of
THOJIAS L. FRENCH, Highways.
OLIVER SHAW.
REPORT
OF THE
OVERSEERS OF THE POOR .
OwnvG to the constant chances in the Settlement and
Pauper Laws, the duties of this office are becoming more
complicated.
By Sec. 3, Chap. 392 of the Acts of 1870, " any person
who shall have served as part of the quota of any city or
town in this C ,mmonwealth, for a time of not less than one
year, or become disabled from wounds or disease received or
contracted while engaged in such service, or while a psis
oner in the hands of the enemy, and the wife or widow and
minor children of such person shall be deemed thereby to
have acquired a settlement in such city or town."
During the past year, the Board have received notice
from several cities and towns that they have had applications
for aid from persons who served, (as they say), as part of
the quota of Watertown, but on examination, their names
cannot be found on the "Town Records ;" they therefore re-
commend that some suitable person be employed to perfect
the records that such cases may be properly decided.
The town farm during the past year has been under the
charge of -Mr. Zaebariah Boody, who has discharged his
duties acceptably, everything about the house bears testi-
mony to the valuable services of 11�Irs. Boody. Owing to the
building; of a grain house, and expenses attending the case of
Small Pox, the appropriation has been slightly exceeded.
62 OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
One death has occurred during the year, to wit : J1r.
Coolidge P. Woods. William Rooney, Jr., has been sent
to the " Perkins Institute for the Blind."
Travellers lodged during the year ending Oct. 1, 1870 :—
At the Station House, - - - - - - - - 193
At the Almshouse, - - - - - - - - - 21
In conclusion, the Board Would recommend the erection of
a " Pest House," somewhere on the town farm.
JOHN K. STICh\EY. Overseers of
THOMAS L. FP ENCH, the Poor.
OLIVEIL SHAW.
REPORZT
OF THE
ENGI\EELS OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
OIZG AN-IZ_1TI0-.N. ATwOOD D. Dr.Ew, Chief .Engineer;
CILII:LEs `V . BEP.L'Y, Asststant, GEORGE PARKER, Assist-
alit.
There is one engine company, and one hook and ladder
company, comprisin�� at present, as follows :-No. 1. —Torrent Engine Co., fifty men. Foreman, —
IV ILLI A-iI ROGEINS.
Hook & Ladder Co., fifteen men. Foreman, — JAMES
EIALL.
During the year 1869 there were two engine companies,
the Torrent " and Relief," comprising forty men each. But
in May last the Relief company withdrew from the depart-
ment, on account of there not being suitable room in the
psesent engine house to give separate and satisfactory accom-
modations to each of the companies.
In order to make the department as effective as possible,
the number of men on the Torrent company was increased to
fifty, so that in case of necessity, both engines could be
worked at fires. This arrangement has proved partially satis-
factory, although the number of men is too small to work
both engines a great length of time. The men are well dis-
Posed and willing to do their duty, although firemen's duty is
hard and tiresome.
64 REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
FIRES
There have been five fires within the limits of the town
during the past year, viz. : —
1870. May 23. A barn belonging to Mrs. William
Stone, oft' Galen street.
„ .,, 28. A barn belonging to D. Sullivan, Pleas-
ant Street.
„ Sept. 12. The Starch Factor v, Starch Factory
lane.
„ „ 17. A barn belonging to S. R. Payson, Bel-
inont Street.
„ 18. A barn belon(ing to Mrs. J. Ritchie,
Bemis Street.
The loss at Mrs. Stone's was about $1,000 ; insured —
partially.
The loss at D. Sullivan's was about $200 ; insured —par-
tially.
The loss at Starch Factory was about $4,000 ; insured —
partially.
The loss at Mr. Payson's was about $5,000 ; insured —
partially.
The loss at Mrs. Ritchie's was about $1,000 ; insured—
partially.
At. the Starch Factory, the department saved the contigu-
ous buildings ; and also saved Sullivan's house.
APPARATUS.
The apparatus consists of two five and one half=inch Hun-
neman ]land engines, which are in gaud order ; . 900 feet of
leather hose, 300 feet of which is not eery serviceable ; 700
feet of linen hose, a portion of which is in bad condition.
AVe are forced to repeat our statement of last year in sub-
stance; viz. : — that it is impossible to prevent the hose froin
perishing, without better accommodations for cleanin,, dry-
ing, etc.
REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 65
A Hook and Ladder carriage, with the hooks and ladders,
which are in fair condition for service.
RESERVOIRS.
The town has, during the past year, done a good work in
respect to reservoirs. Three new ones have been built, and
the old ones cleaned and repaired, so that there are now six
reservoirs, established as follows : —one on Palfrey Street,
one on Summer Street, one on Arsenal Street, one on Phillip
Street, one on Fayette Street, and one on Cuba street. The
facilities for extincuishing fires, have thus been largely in-
creased, in the central portion of the town.
NECESSARY APPROPRIATION.
If the department is to continue under the present arrange-
ment, for another year, the sum of fourteen hundred dollars
($1400) wil be required to defray expenses.
But it is hoped that a more comprehensive view of the
matter will be taken by the town, and that its action will be
such as to render the Fire Department more effective, than it
can possibly be under the present system. We have already
noted the want of proper facilities for the care of hose ; the
want of suitable accommodations in the present house for two
separate engine companies, of sufficient size to work both en-
gines for a Iona time. Muscles will tire and wear out, and
this is liable to happen when the most service is required.
hesides, between separate engine companies it is nett to im-
po,,isible to prevent rivalries and jealousies, which are very
apt to work adversely to the interests of the town. In ac-
cordance with suggestions made in our last report, the town
chose a committee to prepare plans and specifications for a
new brick engine house, with hose tower and alarm hell,
which committee will submit a favorable report.
We respectfully submit that the building of such a house
would give ample accommodations to the Fire Department,
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Bb REPORT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
besides furnishing many, other accommodations to the town.
And by the substitution of a steam fire engine and appliances,
for the present, or a part of the present apparatus, would
furnish a power which never tires, does immensely better ser-
vice at fires, and as but few men would be required to make
up the organization, would do away with all the objectionable
features pertaining to hand engine companies. There is no
town, in our judgment, for miles around, where a steam fire
engine could be of more service in case of a severe fire, than
the town of Watertown.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
A. D. DREW, Engineers
C. W. BERRY, of the
GEORGE PARKER. Fire Department.
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR.
BIRTHS.
The whole number of births registered during the year
1870 was 106 ; 20 less than in 1869.
The number of births is in the ratio of one (1) to 40.93
of the population.
Of the whole number born, 57 were males, and 49 fe-
males. 103 were born in Watertown, and 1 in Newton.
There were born of American parents, 35
„ foreign 61
„ American and foreign parents, 10
106
The population of Watertown, according to the census of
1870, is 4,337.
MARRIAGES.
The whole number of marriages recorded for 1870 was 80 ;
8 less than 1869.
First marriage of both parties, 65
Second 1
First of one and second of the other, 12
„ „ third „ „ 2
80
No. of marriages both native born, 23
„ „ „ foreign „ 36
„ „ one native the other foreign, 21
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68 REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR.
AGES OF SOME OF TIIE PARTIES :►TARRIED.
Oldest couple, Groom, 78, Bride, 69
Y oun rest couples, „ 231 „ 17
„ „ 21, „ 20
„ „ 2211 „ 20
„ „ 211 „ 20
„ „ 221 „ 19
„ „ 239 „ 17
„ „ 239 „ 19
„ 9 23, „ 19
„ 23, „ 20
„ 249 „ 19]
„ „ 241 „ 19
„ 25, „ 18
„ „ 269 „ 16
'rhe number of intentions of marriages recorded is 63.
The ratio of intentions of marriage is as 1 to 67 of the
population.
NOTE. Persona solemnizing marriages arc required bylaw
to make return of the same to the Town Clerk or Registrar
between the first and tenth days of each month.
DEATHS.
The whole number of deaths registered for 1870 is 13 ; 20
less than 1869.
Of the whole number of deaths, 35 were males, and 38
were females.
The ratio of deaths to the population is as 1 to 59.41 of
the population.
The condition of persons deceased as per Record was,—
Single persons, 47 ; married, 17 ; widowed, 9.
Age and condition of the 11 oldest persons deceased.
1 , .gyred 73 years, female. widow.
2, 69 73 1 6 mos. 16 days, male, married.
REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR. 69
3, abed 7 5 years female, single.
49 " 76 " 5 mos. male, married.
► 5, it 78 " 8 " 10 days, " it
69 " 82 " female, widow,
71) it 83 " 9 " 15 days, " it
81 << 85 GG 46 <<
91 << 87 << 3 it << <<
10, " 89 " 10 " 14 days, male, married.
ill " 92 " 1 " 10 " female, widow.
The number of persons who died under 5 years of age was 33
• " " " between 5 & 10 5
it " it 10 & 20 " 4
• " '• 44 " it 20 & 30 " 1
•• " " " it it 30 & 40 " 5
•• " it " " " 40 & 50 " 6
i " " " " " 50 & 60 " 1
60 & 70 " 7
" " 70 & 80 it 5
" it 80 & 90 " 5
90 & 100 " 1
73
The number of deaths of persons native born is 64
foreign •' 9
73
The number deaths of persons of native born parentage is 34
foreign " " " 33
b
native or foreign born
parentage is •2
The number of deaths of persons of unknown parentage is 4
73
CAUSES OF MORTALITY.
Apoplexy, 2 Heart disease, 1
and old age, 1 Inanition, 1
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Brights disease, 1 Infantile, 7
Cholera Infantum, 7 Liver disease, 2
and. dropsy I Eucephaloid, cancer of 1
on the brain, 1 Meuingites, 1
Cholera Morbus, 1 Tubercular Meuingites, 1
and Peri- Old age, 5
tonitis 1 and Insanity, 1
Chronic affection of the Plithisis, 4
Caeum, 1 Rheumatism and Pleurisy, 1
Consumption, 5 Scald, 1
Convulsions, 1 Scirrhus, (womb dis.) 1
Croup, 1 Still born, 6
Diabetes, 1 Tuberculosis of Lungs, 1
Diptheria, 1 Typhoid fever, 1
Dropsy, 1 Typhoid Pneumonia, 1
<< on the brain, 2 Ulcerated disease of bladder, 1
Drowned, 1 Unknown, 1
Dysentery, 2 Whoopitir cough, 1
Dyspepsia and Eethynia, 1
Epilepsy, 1
Fever, 1
Granular Kidneys, 1
Total, 43
Facts concerning births and deaths required by statute, to
be returned to the Town Clerk.
"In the record of births, the date of the bitrh,;the place of birth,the name of
the child, (if it have any), the sex and color of the child, the names and the
places of birth of the parents, the occupation of the father, the residence of
the parents, and the date of the record.
In the record of deaths, the date of the death, the name of the deceased,
the sex, the color, the condition, (whether single, widowed or married),the
age, the residence, the occupation,the place of death. the place of birth, the
names and places of birth of the parents, the disease or cause of death, the
place of bHrial, and the date of the record."
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH CRAFTS, Town Clerk.
REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR. 71
DOGS.
The whole number of dogs licensed the past year is 149.
males, 144 ; females, 5.
Amount received for licenses, viz : —
144 male dogs at $2 each, $288.00
5 female dogs, at $5 each, 25.00
$313.00
From which deduct clerk's fees : —
149 licenses, at 20 cts. each, $29.80
Pziid County Treasurer, as per receipt, $283.20
The whole number of dogs killed during the past year, as
per return of Henry F. Bright, Constable, is forty-seven
(47).
Respectfully submitted,
JOSEPH CRAFTS,
Z own Clerk.
LIBRARY IN SELECTMENS' ROOM.
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Geology Mineralogy, Botany, and Zoology of
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Ichnology of New England, by Edwd. Hitch-
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Suppplement to do., by do. 1 vol. 411
Invertebrate Animals of Mass., by A. A. Gould. 1 vol. 80
Report on the Fishes, Reptiles, and Birds of Mass, 1 vol. 80
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Mass. Bay. Ed. by N. B. Shurtleff,
72 REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR.
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4. Parts 1, 2, and 5. 5 vole. 40
Ancient charter and Laws of the Mass. Bay,
Pub. by order of the General Court, 1814 1 Vol. 80
Acts and Resolves of the Province of Mass Bav,
from 1692 to 1714. 1 Vol. Imp. 80
Journal of House of Reps. of the Province of
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REPORT OF TOWN REGISTRAR. 73
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Mass. Reports, by A. Gr. Browne, Jr. 5 vols. 8°
Public Documents of Mass. from 1856 to 1869,
inclusive. 42 vols 8°
Respectfully Submitted,
JOSEPH CRAFTS.
Town Clerk.
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LAWS
OF THE
TOWN OF WATERTOWN.,
CONCERNING
TRUANT AND OTHER CHILDREN.
COMiIIONWEALTH Or 11ASSACHUTETTS.
MIDDLESEI SS.
At the Superior Court, begun and holden at Canzbridye,
within and for the County of-Middlesex, on the second
Monday of Decenzbe-, being the fourteenth day of said
month, Anno Domini, 1863.
W. H. Ingraham, Town Clerk of the Town of Water-
town, presents to this Court the following code of By-Laws
for approval, to wit : —
" By-Laws of the town of Watertown concerning truant
and other children, and police, and police regulations,
adopted by the town, Nov. 3d, 1863.
"1st. There shall be annually elected by the inhabitants
of the town, at their annual meeting in Dlarch, at least three
suitable persons, to be called Commissioners for Truant
Children, who shall hold their offices for one year, whore
duty it shall be to make and enter complaints against all such
persons as are named or described in the first section of the
two hundred and seventh chapter of the Laces of the Com-
monwealth for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two, en-
titled " An Act concerning Truant Children and Absentees
from School.
"' Be it enacted, etc., as follows: —
" ` SECT. 1. Each city and town shall male all needful
provisions and arra.nmements concerning habitu,il truants, and
also concerning children wandering about in the streets or
public places of any city- or town, having no lawful occupa-
r
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BY-LAWS., 77
tion or business, not attending school, and growing up in ig-
norance, between the aces of seven and sixteen years ; and
shall also make all such by-laws respecting such children as
shall be deemed most conducive to their welfare and the good
order of such city or town ; and there shall be annexed to
such by-laws suitable penalties, not exceeding twenty dollars,
for any one breach ; provided, that said by-laws shall be ap-
proved by the Superior Court sitting in any county in the
Commonwealth.'
ld. The Almshouse of the town is hereby assigned as
the suitable situation named in said act.
" 3d. Complaints under these by-laws shall, whenever
practicable, be entered by said commissioners before any mag-
istrate or court having jurisdiction of the offence in Water-
town, Cambridae, or Waltham.
"4th. Habitual truants shall, upon a first conviction, be
punished by a ne of not less than five dollars, or by impris-
onment in the Almshouse, as the court or magistrate may be
determined : upon a second conviction, they shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment as
aforesaid ; upon a third conviction, they shall be punished by
a fine not exceeding fifteen dollars, or by imprisonment as
aforesaid : upon a fourth conviction, by a fine not less than
twenty dollars, or imprisonment -aforesaid.
5th. Children wandering about in the streets or public
places of the town, having no lawful occupation or business,
not attending school, and arowina up in ignorance, between
the ages of seven and sixteen years, shall, upon a first con-
viction, be punished by a fine of not less than ten dollars, or
by imprisonment in said Almshouse for such time as the
magistrate or court may determine. Upon a second convic-
tion, t4ey shall be punished by a fine not exceeding fifteen
dollars, or imprisonment as aforesaid. Upon a third convic-
tion, they shall be punislred by a fine of not more than twenty
dollars, or by imprisonment as aforesaid.
i 8 BY-LAWS.
Gth. Before snaking complaint as aforesaid, the said com-
missioners, or either of them, shall report to the School Com-
mittee of the town, for the time being, the residence of and
condition of the person or persons to be complained of, with
their names, and the names, residence, and condition of their
parents or guardians, and such other material facts concern-
in; such persons as may come to their knowledge ; and the
said commissioners shall receive and follow such directions
concerning said persons as the School Committee may see fit
to give ; but if, within ten days after making such report, the
said School Committee shall not give anv such directions, the
said commissioners shall forthwith enter their complaint
before the proper magistrate or court.
" 7th. The said commissioners shall each receive such an-
nual compensation for their services as the selectmen for the
time being shall determine. Such compensation shall con-
tinue until the expiration of their term of office. In case of
resignation, the commissioners so resigning shall be entitled
to a proportional amount of said compensation.
bth. The selectmen, at their first regular meetilip, after
these By-Lacs shall be approved, and thereafterwards at
their first regular meeting after the annual meeting of said
inhabitants, shall divide the town into three suitable districts,
and shall assign one of said tommissioners to each district,
who shall have the special charge and superintendence of the
same, and of all the aforesaid persons residing or found or
being therein : but it shill be the duty of each commissioner
to report to the School Committee any offence within his
knowledge, whether committed within his own or anv other
district.
"9th. The School Committee of the town for the time
being may exercise, if they choose so to do, the general
charge -and superintendence of the doings of said commission-
ers, who shall in such case be subjeef to the orders of said
Committee.
BY-LAWS. 79
10th. The said commissioners shall be organized as a
board, in the m)nth of March annually, excepting in the
year 1,563, when they shall be so organized as soon as may
Le after the approval of these By-Laws by the court, by the
choice of a chairman, who shall also be the secretary of the
board.
" 1lth. The said commissioners shall keep a fair record of
their procee,lings, and of the offences complained of, with
the acquittals or convictions, and the punishments awarded
therefor, and the names and residences of the persons com-
plained of, and the names and residences and occupations of
their parents or guardians, which, or a copy of which, shall
be delivered to the chairman of the School Committee on the
fifteenth day of every January, and shall be open to the ex-
amination of the School Committee, or any of them, at all
times.
" 11th. The School Committee, in their annual report to
the town, are requested to present an abstract of th: com-
missioners' report, with a particular statement of their action,
if any, upon the matters embraced therein, accompanied by
such observations in relation thereto as may be required for a
full understanding of the operations of the board.
POLICE, AND POLICE REGULATIONS.
13th. The Selectmen shall appoint annualy two or
more police officers, whose special duty it shall be to see that
these police regulations are duly enforced ; and who shall
remain in office until others are appointed in their stead, sub-
ject to removal by the Selectmen.
" 14th. The police officers shall receive from the Town
such compensations as the Selectinem may deem reasonable.
15th. They shall disperse all gatherings in the street
and elsewhere, by day or niglit, of noisy men or boys, and
may and shall take into custody all disorderly persons, and
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persons found wandering at unreasonable hours, and in sus-
picious places, and hold them in custody until they can be
brought before a magistrate for examination.
16th. All idle or disorderly children, who shall mis-
spend their time in the streets or fields during school-hours;'
all persons who shall by day or night congregate noisily
in or about the streets ; or disturb the public quiet, by unau-
thorized ringing of the church -or other bell or in an other
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improper manner ; or who shall engage on Sunday in idle
sport, or needless labor, or fishing or hunting ; or who shall. at,
any time deface, pull down or injure any building, fence, or
sign, or other structure in this Town, not under his own right-
ful control ; or shall tresspass on any property, real or per-
sonal, or wrongfully remove therefrom or injure thereon any
tree, plant, shrub, fruit, or vegetable ; or who shall create
any disturbance of or in any lawful meeting of the citizens
or people of this Town ; or be guilty of using profane or
obscene language in public, or in the hearing of others ; or
who shall indecently expose his person, by bathing or in any
any other way, in sight of the public road or of any private
dwelling ; or who shall ride or drive any animal or vehicle
with dangerous speed along any public highway ; or shall
permit any dangerous animals to go at large ; or shall dis-
charge firearms in or near the street ; or make any need-
less or alarming noise or tumult ; or leave or occasion any
needless obstruction, or make any nuisance in the highway,
or on the sidewalks, or on the bridge over Charles river ; or
move any building, without permission in writing from one
of the Selectmen, along or across any street ; —shall for
each and every one of such offences be severally liable to a
fine not exceeding twenty dollars.
" 1 nth. The cede of By-Laws approved by the Court of
Common Pleas of the County of Middlesex on the 2d Mon-
day of December, A.D. 1856, is, on the approval of these
Bc-Laws, as hereinafter provided, hereby repealed."
BY-LAWS. 81
" "These By-Laws shall take effect from and after their
approval by the 6uperior Court of the county of Middlesex.-
And on this thirteenth day of February, A.. D. 1864, the
fore,,oina By-Laws, being seen,and understood by the Court,
are approved.
A true rupy of the code of By-Laws adopted by the town,
m approved by the Superior Court.
.lttest JOSEPH CRAFTS, Town Clerk.
THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
COMMISSIONERS OF THE WEETOMAC VALE CEMETERY.
GEO. K. SNOW, TREASURER. IN ACCOUNT WITH THF. TOWN
OF « ATERTOWN. ,
Balance on hand March 1st, 1670, S417.14
Received from lease of land, 170.00
it 66 sale of apples, 18.00
Balance, $605.14
(CEO. K. SNOW,
Trees. Commissioners W. T: Cemetery.
The Commissioners of the Weetomae Vale Cemetery can
only report, that, as no applications have been oracle for lots
during the rear, they would beg leave to repeat the recom-
mendations of last year, viz.
First, — That the (,rounds of the Weetomac_Vale Ceme-
tery be offered K)r sale, and that if a satisfactorY price can
be obtained, that it shall be sold.
Second, — That a portion of 1-mid adjoining the cold Burial
around near the villa,•e, be purchast-d and laid out a� a town
burial (round.
Third, — That a lot of ground near Mount :lLuburn Ceni-
etery be also purchased and laid out as a town burial `mound.
GEO. K. SNOW,
Commi vionerR.
CEO. N. MARCH
INDEX.
Page,
Almshouse Account, 16
Almshouse, Inventory of, 46
Almshouse, Report of Overseers of, 61
Assessors' Report, 7
Assets, 39
Borrowed Money, 30
Bridges and Culverts Account, . 25
Cemetery Commissioners' Account, 84
Collector's Report, 18619, 8
Collector's Report, 1870, 9
Contingent Account, 33
Culvert, Main Street, 26
Dogs, concerning, 71
Expenses, per estimate, 41
Fire Departmen-,, Account W, 27
Fire Department, Engineer's Report, 63
Highways, Account of, 21
Highways, Report of Surveyors, 59
Insurance Account, 44
Interest on Town Debt, 31
Liabilities, 39
Library Account. 33
Police Account, 30
Regristrar's Report, 67
Reservoirs, 26
Salaries, 29
School Expenses, 12
Selectmen, Report of, 57
State Aid, 29
State Tax, 26
Tax, (Synopsis of) from 1820 to 1870, 74
Town Debt, 40
Town Grant, 6
Town Officers, List of, 3
Town Officer's Salary, 29
Town Property, Valuation of, 42
Treasurer, Report of, 10 and 56
'Truants, 13y-Laws respecting, 76
SCHOOL ('OMMITTES's REPORT, 1
LfRRART. Trustees and Librarian's Report, 1
THIRTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
TOWN OF WATERTOWN.
1870- 71 .
Ll
Iy�TER
BOSTON :
PATHFINDER PRINTING OFFICE,
5 LiNDALL STREET.
1871.
WATERTOWN, February 12, 1871.
In School Committee, voted ",unanimously that the Annual
Report of the School Committee, as presented by the Chair-
man, be adopted.
Attest : H. J. EDWARDS,
Secretary.
The undersigned members of the Committee desire, in this connection,
to state explicitly their position in regard to that portion of the report of the
chairman contained in the first three pages of the report, in which the matter
of the Bible in the Public Schools is discussed. Not having been connected
with the Committee of last year when this subject was first agitated, we
have no desire to become a party to the resurrection of this subject; and we
desire to giial fj our adoption of the report by excluding all of that portion
in which this matter is discussed.
H. J. EDWARDS.
A. L. RICHARDS.
REPORT .
The Committee in presenting their Annual Report for '
1870-71, desire to thank their fellow-citizens for the general
support received from them, and for their ready endorsement
of most of the changes contemplated in the last report.
We regret, however, that certain very important measures
did not meet with expected approval, in consequence of
which we find ourselves under the necessity of again urg-
ing them upor public attention.
We take occasion also at this point, to allude to that part
of our last report which received such general disapprobation
the section entitled " The Bible and our Public Schools."
After ample time for reflection, and weighing carefully
all the public expressions which have been made respecting
that part of the report, and discovering that in some instances
opposition came from quarters where least expected, we are
all the more impressed with the importance of the controverted
section, and, no less true to former convictions, we frankly
say in behalf of the present members of the committee holding
over from 1869-70,* that not one word or syllable of that
discussion in form or manner, can be by us in the least
abated.
And, notwithstanding all opposition, we shall ever main-
tain that a School Committee has the most unqualified right
to discuss freely in its report or elsewhere, any great ques-
tion that has relation to matters of public education. The
*' They are L. T. Townsend, A. IIosmer, and G. K. Snow.
6 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 9S REPORT.
importance of having our education, as to kind and extent,
entirely under State or National control, and the importance of
retaining the Holy Scriptures as the foundation of our civil
and educational privileges, and as the source of all correct
moral influence, in opposition to any form of religion or
non-religion, was never felt to be more imperative than at the
present time. And we repeatedly affirm that these matters
cannot be by all lovers of free institutions too highly estimated
or too frequently insisted upon. Those who would hesitate
to endorse the action of the committee were they to intro-
duce I I more rather than less of the Bible" into our schools,
would, upon this subject, do well to learn a lesson from
modern atheists and materialists. Huxley, one of the most
noted Enalish advocates of a form of materialism, which
zn
practically excludes God from the universe, has recently pro-
nounced very decidedly in favor of the introduction of the
Bible as a reading book into common schools. His position
is, that there must be a moral substratum to a child's edu-
cation to make it valuable ; and that there is no other source
from which this can be obtained at all comparable with the
Bible."
Nor can we express the least sympathy for any person who
would, through any thing resembling fear or policy, shrink
from such discussions. Fear and political policy, in a coun-
try of republican institutions, are things that should not be
known or thought of when matters of public interest are be-
fore the people. Tumidity upon such issues, betrays a lack
of confidence in the right of public speech, and a lack of
confidence in our free institutions, which, more than any thin
else, should excite our alarm and fill us with well-grounded
apprehension. This fear, or hesitancV, of teaching religion
and scriptural morality in our public schools, ought to be
deprecated ; and if our statutes are, in this respect, defect-
ive, it is time that somebody had spoken in behalf of intro-
ducing into our legislation reformatory measures.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 7
Of the propriety of presenting in a town report, the re-
lation of the Bible to our school system we are thoroughly
convinced. Those who say, leave such matters to the legisla-
ture, see, it seems to us, but half the truth. The legislature,
if not recreant to its trusts, must embody in its enactments,
existing public sentiments : it can do nothing more. En-
lighted public opinion must be the law of our land. It is
this principle, Blackstone has in mind when he speaks of a
law of nature, "whereunto if anv statute be contrary, it is not
valid." We, therefore, look upon it not as the privilege
merely, but the duty also of the School Committee to create,
respecting all educational matters, a correct Public sentiment ;
and this is exactly what we have tried to do.
In behalf of the two members of the board who have for
five years held the chairmanship,* we desire to say, that if
such views respecting the rights of School Committees, and
Zn
if such sentin ents as have been expressed in this and earlier
reports, are distasteful to our fellow-citizens, there is a
remedy,—elect such men to office as will not broach them.
But unfortunate will be the day when School and other
Committees must be thoroughly bitted and bridled before
election, less in the discharge of their duties they shall speak
or act so freely as to shock somebody's prejudice or excite
fears, lest somebody will be offended.
The Chairman begs leave also to state, why his report did
not receive in the public town meeting last year, and why it
will not receive in the same meeting this year, his personal
defence. It is not through fear of meeting the issues pre-
sented in fair and honorable debate on the platform or in the
press, but because lie has no time or disposition to encounter
the ordinary ranting onslaughts, which, much to the regret, if
not disgust of the mass of our worthy and intelligent citizens,
are made upon whatever report the School Committee may
be pleased to present.
'� Alfred Hosmer, M.D., and the present chairman.
8 SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
We have tried to speak so fully and plainly in our reports,
and have tried to fortify the positions taken witli facts and
reasoning so conclusive, as to require no public explanation..
But, if in this we are shown to be mistaken, none can Sur-
pass the readiness with which we shall re-state whatever is not
fully understood.
As a member of the School Committee, the Chairman has
one year longer to serve, but having no desire to occupy this
position under existing circumstances, or to longer misrepre-
sent public sentiment, if he has misrepresented it, he hereby
most respectfully tenders to the town his resignation as mem-
ber of the Committee, to take effect at the organization of the
new board for 1871-72.
ORGANIZATION OF THE PRESENT SCHOOL
G 0111 AUTTEE.
The School Committee holding over from 1869--70 were
.Alfred Hosmer, Luther T. Townsend, and George K. Snow.
There were chosen at the 'larch meeting 187 0 : —
For three years. HENDErsoN J. EDWARDS,
ABRAHA,-,i L. RICHARDS.
For one year, GEORGE E. PRIEST.
George E. Priest resigned October 17, 18 70.
At a joint meeting of the School Committee and Board of
Selectmen, November 14, 1870, Rev. Granville S. Abbott
was elected to fill the existing vacancv. Mr. Abbott subse-
quently resigned.
At the second meeting of the joint Boards, December 21,
Abiel Abbott, Esq., was elected and has since served.
The School Committee, as at present organized, consists of
Term expires.
Chairmmn. — L THER T. TowNSEND, 1(�7 2.
Secretary. — HENDERSON J. EDWARDS, 1873.
AI,FI�ED HOSMER, 1871.
GEOItGE K. SNOw, . 1872.
ABRAIIAm L. RICHARDS, . . 187 3.
ABIEL ABBOTT. . 1871.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 9
SLB-COMMITTEES.
Sigh School.
L. T. TowvSEND, Chairman, entire Committee.
Centre Grammar. Centre Intermedtaie and Primary.
A. HOS\IER, Chairman. A. L. RICHARDS, Chairman.
A. L. RICHARDS. A. HOSIER.
A. ABBOTT. G. K. S-,-ow.
East Astrict. Nest District.
G. K. S-ow, Chairman. H. L. EDWARDS, Chairman.
A. HOSIIER. A. ABBOTT.
A. L. RICH_1RDS. G. K. SNOW.
South District.
A. ABBOTT, Chairman.
H. L. EDWARDS.
L. T. Tow-.isEND.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
It has been found necessary during the past year, to incur
some additional expense in order to make suitable accommo-
dations for our scholars, and to keep our buildings in an im-
proved condition. Owing to a large increase in the number
of High School scholars, it was found necessary to fit up the
west room on the first floor. The benches in the principal's
room were accordingly moved below, and new ones obtained
for his room. This, for the immediate present, affords ample
accommodationy. But the town, at no distant date, must
make provision for a High School building, which shall be
both more comm-olious, and, at the same time, more attrac-
tive. Surrounded as we are by fowns which take an honor-
able pride in beautiful school edifices, it will not answer for
us to rest contentedly with what may have been satisfactory
twenty years Vigo. A town's credit is often justly estimated
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by its public buildings. Cries of poverty, and wearing rao
bed coats, never yet increased a man's business ; nor will the
same cry and inferior public buildings add to the general
thrift of any town or State. High rate of taxes will not
deter from moving into town such a class of citizens as we
need ; but this most certainly will be done by poor school
accommodations.
In the West District we found it necessary to replace the
old furnaces with new and better ones. The building is now
rendered perfectly comfortable, even in the coldest of weather.
A Grammar School in the South District will soon become
an imperative necessity. It is possible, even quite likely,
that the Committee will also find it necessary to open a
Primary School at Bemis's Factory, the coming season ; to-
gether with a second Primary School in the East District.
We must also look for an influx of population into the
town, in the vicinity of the new cattle yards. We therefore
recommend the town to secure, without delay, a lot suitable
for school buildings, somewhere in the neighborhood of the
Arsenal.
At the present valuation of real estate, the town can make,
it seems to us, no better investment than the purchase of
such a lot, especially since such a purchase will soon become
a necessity, even at any price.
PRIMARY SCHOOLS.
The re-arran(Tement contemplated in our last report, relat-
ing to Primary Schools, has been effected. The plan, it will
be remembered, was to avoid the overcrowded condition of
our school-rooms by having half the scholars of a given
Primary School attend in tlic forenoon, and the other half in
the afternoon. Some confusion and objection, both of which
were anticipated, at first resulted. But by inakin`r certain
chances in the original plan, and earefully watching its work-
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 11
ings for a year, we are thoroughly convinced as to the wisdom
of this measure, and unqualifiedly recommend its continu-
ance. We have saved thereby, the expense of furnishing new
school-room accommodations and additional Primary teachers,
and we believe that the scholars have made as much, and
possibly more improvement, than they would have under the
former system.
The plan as at present pursued, is the following
The members of the first class attend both the forenoon
and afternoon sessions ; any scholar above seven years of age,
belonging to either of the two lower classes may have the
privilege of attending both sessions. All others are allowed
to attend but one session per day.
INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLS.
The Committee are pleased to report that the changes sug-
gested respecting the Intermediate Schools have been inaugu-
rated, and are found to work admirably. Both teachers and
scholars entered into the new arangement with greater en-
thusiasm than was at first anticipated. The vote of the Com-
mittee relating to this subject, was the following
Voted, That the first classes in intermediate schools use 1?erl's first les-
sons in Grammar, and commence Greenleaf's written Arithmetic and
continue as far as Division. That the third calss use Greenleaf's new
written Arithmetic, commencing with 7th page.
We think at the yearly examination, it will be seen
that the scholars of these schools have mastered in a com-
mendable decree the introductory principles of Written
Arithmetic, together with the elementary principles of Eng-
lish Grammar.
12 SCHOOL CO1iMITTEE'S REPORT.
GRA-3111F .R SCHOOLS.
We still adhere to the views advanced in the last year's
report, that certain practical and scientific studies, for the
benefit of those scholars especially, who are obliged to cut
short their school-days, should be introduced into our Gram-
mar Schools. But as certain changes in the study plan of
our Intermediate Schools were first necessary, we have not
been able the past year to put our ideas into operation. We
expect, however, that the Committee will be able to do this,
during the year to come. We take the liberty, at least, of
suggesting to our Grammar School teachers, that if they have
not already done so, they had better at once prepare them-
selves upon the outlines of United States History, and upon
those general principles of Natural Philosophy which enter
into practical life, together «•ith the general principles of
Agricultural Chemistry, and also upon those parts of Physi-
ology which relate especially to the general laws of health.
Doubtless during the coming year they -,mill be called upon to
give instructions in these branches to those members of the
school who are not able to enter the High SeLool.
HIGH SCHOOL.
The Committee have striven to make the Hi;h School a
place where all influences shall be elevating and ennobling.
We have sought teachers who can inspire in their pupils, both
by precept and example, a spirit of true courtesy, a high
tone of morality, and desire for thorough scholarship. `V e
have no hesitancy in saying that we have succeeded. The
management of the school is complete, the tone of scholar-
ship high, and the attainments of the scholars sati:factory.
The Committee, it is well known, have met with unsuc-
cessful -apposition from certain quarter, respecting their
manaaenient of this school. I?ut we overlook it all ; we
cherish not the slightest ill will, or even unpleasant feelings
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE IS REPORT. 13
on account of any honest differences of opinion which may have
existed. Yet, from convictions of duty, we shall ever seek
to excite such general and lively interest in public education,
that any interference with school matters by any political
organization, except from good and sufficient reasons, will
be instantly frowned upon, and received such rebuke at the
polls or elsewhere, as will protect us from a second inter-
ference.
SIGH SCHOOL REGISTER.
SOLoN F. WHITNEY, Pri?acipal.
Miss C. E. WHEELER, Miss S. B. PORTER, Assistants.
Summer Fall Winter For the
Term. Term. I Term. Year.
""'hole number of Scholars registered, 40 69 60 77
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„ girls j 23 41 34 46
„ boys 17 28 26 31
Average No. of Scholars, 38 62.3 5.25
„ daily attendance, 37.1 60.5 49.
Percentage of attendance, .976 .97 94
Number of scholars over 15 years of age, 33 46 i 44 57
boys 17 14 17 18 22
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girls 19 29 26 35
Number of past-graduates in school, 2 2 3
Number of applicants for admission, 42
„ admission, 1 36 1 38
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Average age of those admitted, 15
The three girls of the first class in the 4-years English
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two years. Five scholars in the second class have taken
Latin as an extra study. There are ten candidates for
graduation at the close of the present year, two of them will
be fitted for college.
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THE CLASSICAL COURSE .
. 1
FIRST YEAR.
The studies are the same as in the first year of the com-
plete English course, with Arithmetic.
SECOND YEAR.
Latin, Greek, Geometry, Latin Composition, Natural
Philosophy, and Rhetoric and Composition.
THIRD YEAR.
Latin, Greek, Latin and Greek Composition, Logarithms,
Trigonometry, and Ancient Geography and History.
FOURTH YEAR.
Latin, Greek, Latin and Greek Composition, Ancient Geog-
raphy and History, with a review of Algebra, Geometry,
and Arithmetic.
A class will be formed for the Classical Course every
second year.
QUALIFICATIONS FOR ADMISSION TO THE HIGH SCHOOL.
1. Arithmetic, mental and written, as far as through
Cube Root.
2. Grammar, as far as to be able to parse and analyze
readily any simple English sentence, crivin( the defini-
tions of terms used, and rules both for the changes of
forin of words in inflection, and for their construction in the
sentence.
3. Geography, mathematical and political, including map
drawin,g.
4. reading, Spelling and Defining.
5. Penmanship.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 17
The Teachers, or Normal Class, which was recommended
in the last report, was formed, and instructions in Mental
Philosophy and in the theory and art of Teaching, were (riven.
But later, in consequence of withdrawals on account of
sickness, and for the purpose of teaching, the class was so
much reduced that it was discontinued for the present year.
Our purposes for the future and our study plans, however,
are not interfered with ; there is every prospect that the
class will be re-organized at the commencement of the n^xt
school year. And we shall be so well prepared for fitting
our own Hi(rh School (rraduates for the teachers work, that
we confidently recommend all who intend to enter this pro-
fession to first avail themselves of the facilities offered.
The Second Assistant, which was also a matter argued
in the last report, has already been employed.
The necessity of this step became apparent from the size
and condition )f the entering class.
But to still further justify our course before the town, we
wish to present the following table of statistics, gathered
from surrounding towns, to show that our action has been
too tardy rather than too premature
`umber of No.Recita- 'No. Scholars
Teachers. tives daily to to teach.
Teach.
Waltham, 4 6 , 24
Newton, 4 5 or 6 ! 31
Cambridge, 8 5 35
Brighton, 3 6 or 7 17
Brookline, 4 5 21
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Dorchester, 6 5 27
Jamaica Plain, 4 5 20
Watertown, 3 6 I 22
18 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 9S REPORT.
From the following table it will appear that we have not
been extravagant in the salaries paid to the teachers of the
High School.
Principal. : 1st Assistant. 2d Assistant.
1
Waltham, $2,000 $8W 700
i
Newton, 2,500 1,200 1,(M
Cambridge, i 4,000 2,500 2,000
Brighton, I 1,700 700 1 600
Brookline, 2.500 1,600 750
Dorchester, 3,50U 1,500 1,000
Jamaica Plain, 2,400 1,700 800
W atertown, 1,800 S00 600
In view of these facts is it not a strange question for one to
ask, "cannot a principal be found who is able, without assist-
ance, to do all the work the Hiah School requires : ' The
question hardly merits an answer. It is Prompted, we think,
with no regard to the interests of education, but solely with
an eye upon retrenchnzenh.?. With such parsimony in
school matters, one comes near losing his patience. ;Houle
a teacher present himself professing ability and a willingness
to undertake the Hiah school instruction without assistance,we . .
should say to him that he falls so far short of a due apprecia-
tion of the increasing demands of High School instruction, that
he is utterly unfit for the position. We should need u-)
other proof of his inability. One teacher, it is true, could,
if need be, go through the form of hearin`r fifty recitations
per day ; but hearing a recitation and giving instructions
upon difficult Points, are two things entirely ditferent. Sonie
of the classical and scientific studies require a full hour in
recitation ; what then, with one teacher, would become of the
remaining recitations, presented in our study plan?
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 19
We hope the town will never be so unwise as not to pro-
vide for our High School an ample and efficient Board of
Instruction.
SALARIES.
All that was said in the last report upon this subject, we
desire to reinforce the present year. It will be seen by re-
ferring to page 29 of the report, that we have advanced,
during the past year, the salaries of the male teachers, to-
gether with those of the High School Assistant, and that of
the teacher in Centre Intermediate School. This was found
necessary in order to retain our teachers. All parents regret
the loss of .Visa Varney from the school in which she has
been so successful.
But what could the Committee do? `Ve had already, ex-
ceeded the town appropriation ; the city of Cambridge came,
as repeatedly before, and offered greaterinducements than we,
under the circumstances, were at liberty to offer, and we were
obliged to accept the resignation, and lose one of our best
teachers. We again repeat that the town must not hesitate
to give
its teachers compensation equal to that paid by sur-
rounding towns, otherwise we shall soon lose all our most
desirable teachers, and only those whom others do not want
will remain.
We also submit to'the town the question, whether we ought
not to place the salaries of the Primary teachers more nearly
on par with those of Intermediate teachers. Every one is
aware that very much depends upon good beginnings. It is
the ablest teacher who can teach little thin-s best. It is ex-
tremely difficult to unlearn the instructions of a poor teacher.
Timotlieus, an ancient and celebrated flute player, was accus-
touned to charge twice as much to teach one who had had a
previous instructor, as to one in a state of ignorance. By
advancing the salaries of our efficient Primary teachers, they
will be more likely to retain their present positions, not
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20 SCHOOL h M 'CO ! ITTEE 8 REPORT.
seeking other employment or schools of higher grade ; and
we can thus secure to the town thoroughly :skilled labor,
where we sometimes think it is most needed.
TOWN APPROPRIATIONS FOR SCHOOLS.
We asked of the town, in our last report, the sum of
$15,250. This was no blind estimate of the Committee : but
the result of careful figuring. It was also the very lowest
amount with which the work of the year could be accom-
plished ; nor did this estimate include the furnaces of the
West District, or the new benches of the High School.
We thought there was a possibility that we might defer
these chanties for at least one year. Yet, notwithstanding
our close figuring, and omitting from our first draft, upon
solicitation of certain parties, those items above referred to,
the town saw fit to reduce the appropriation asked for, by
one thousand dollars. .
Ought not the Committee, after carefully studyin the
wants of the schools, to know the moneys needed ; and if so,
ought not its estimates to be the strict basis of the town's ac-
tion ?
A School Committee will be as anxious to save anv unnec-
essary outlay, as other citizens of the town ; they are to be
taxed with others, and will certainly- recommend economy
wherever economy is not suicide. But there is a kind of
parsimony which in the end is extremely extravagant and ex-
pensive. It is against this which we seek to guard ourselves
and the town. We hope, therefore, that no future Commit-
tee will be denied a reasonable appropriation ; that it will not
be subjected to unnecessary confusion and embarrassment ;
and that it will be fully aided and encouraged in doing for
the town what is fit and best.
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE IS REPORT. 21
TO W72Y EVENING SCHOOL:
This school has been established, and with results which
justifS the Committee in asking for it a special appropriation.
As an agency of refinement and civilization, evening schools
throughoat the country have come, or will soon come, to be
regarded as a public necessity. The State and town must
make provision to supply, to some extent, at least, defic-
iencies in early education. Enlightened communities are
the only political safeguard in our Republic against the de-
moralizing tendencies of the great tides of emigration, which,
from every country of the Globe, will soon be setting towards
our shores. All nations are coming to us to be civilized,
educated, and christianized.
In these evening schools we must open the doors to gen-
eral intelligence, and, so far as possible, excite a thirst for
knowledge, rather than leave the mind a helpless prey- to its
own ignorance and prejudice.
Viewed simply as a judicious political measure, we fail to
see why it is not well nigh imperative upon us to avail our-
selves of every means to make intelligence and culture as
general as possible ; and this can never be done while we do
not make ample provision for those who so eagerly seek, and
hinhly prize, the ojTortunities we now for the first time offer
in the Town Evening School.
UNGRADED SCHOOL DURING THE SU11I31ER
1�IONTHS.
An ungraded school was established in the Centre, also
one in the East Districts. As was expected, several of the
candidates for the High School, who failed in the first exam-
ination, attended the central school and made commendable
* For a specific statement, see report of H. J. Edwards, Chairman of Sub
Committee on Evening School.
22 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 18 REPORT.
improvement. The school in the East was quite well attended ;
but as it was the first trial with us and as the attendance was
very irregular, our expectations were not in these schools
fully realized. We shall hardly feel justified in repeating the
experiment the coming year, unless some special action of the
town shall authorize it.
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENCY.
The Committee are not a little disappointed that the toxvn
is so reluctant in its action upon the measure, so frequently
urged, of providing a Superintendent for our schools. Sooner
or later the mistake will, it seems to us, be discovered and
regretted.
It would seem that reasons sufficient to produce conviction,
had been presented in the reports of two rears past. But
we will present the following additional considerations : —
Those business and professional men who are suitable for
the management of school affairs ; who comprehend the work-
ings, wants, and necessary modifications of school systems ;
who can properly anticipate the demands of an increasing
population ; and who can judiciously superintend the outl.iy
of public funds, have every year less and less command of
their time. Competition on every hand is so sharp and close
that all men in order to succeed must, in a measure, be inen
of one idea. Their own business and professional duties at
least, will not admit of divided attention. They can easily
afford to pay for the time of another, but cannot afford to
give their own. And it is coming to be a fact, that a School
Committee composed of such men, will not do all that is ex-
pected of them. The present Committee do not hesitate to
acknowledge remissness. They have looked faithtully to the
general interests of the schools ; they have patiently studied
the fundamental questions of common school education ; they
have plans for meeting the general exigencies of the town
SCHOOL CO-31MITTEE'S REPORT. 23
school matters for several years to come ; but they have not
attended to the minutia., and to what, for the want of a bet-
ter term, we will call the drudgery of school affairs. They
have not had the time to do it. Visits of the Committee
upon the schools, will grow in numbers less and less yearly,
unless the Committee can be constituted of men so limited
in their range, as to regard the presence in the school-
room as the essential part of a Committees' work.
It is also true that the Committee have not had time, per-
sonally, to look after all the trifling repairs that have to be
made.r Doubtless, in this wav, there could have been a sav-
in(I to the town. By referring the settlement of certain bills
for damages to the parents of vicious or careless scholars,
things of this kind could be prevented and expense to the
town could be saved ; but who of the Committee has time to
make the necessary investigations. The repairs are ordered,
the bills press,rated, and what can the Committee do but en-
dorse the same? It has in some cases appeared to the
Committee, that charges for doing a Given amount of work
upon school buildings,'have been exorbitantly large.
We have in a few instances protested against such bills,
and then have seen no other way but to pay them. These
thinks will not improve. All know that there is a kind of
depraved tendency while feeding at a " public crib," to eat
the most possible with the least show of conscience. If such
really has been the case, in this town the surest remedy would
seem, to be the employment of a strictly honest and thor-
oughly vigilant Superintendent, who will buard as much as
possible against this evil, allowing in no individual case a
repititi.on.
Again, let us put this matter upon the ground of cousis-
tenev.
The town votes an appropriation of $12,000.00 for high-
ways. For the wise expenditure of this money, it is deemed
necessary to appoint a person to superintend the work and
24 SCHOOL CONIMITTEE'S REPORT.
outlay. We do not question the expediency of such a meas-
ure ; nay, we approve it. But the town votes for School
purpose an appropriation of $14,000.00 ; has, by actual
valuation, upwards of $70,000 invested in school buildings
and furniture, which need frequent repairs and alterations ;
employs twenty persons as teachers and janitors ; has in
training nearly a thousand of its future citizens, and still per-
sists in not heeding the oft repeated entreaties of the Com-
mittee, when urging the appointment of a School Superin-
tendent. What would be thought of a corporation leaving
this amount of property invested and this number of persons
employed, which did not encrage the services of a competent
person to have in charge the business of the concern ? Would
it be considered the height of recklessness not to mike
such provision ? Is it leas so respecting school matters?
The town must not consider its highways of more importance
than its schools. It does seem to us that if this proposed
measure could receive a few moments thoughtful considera-
tion, our intelligent fellow-citizens would no longer hesitate to
comply with the repeated request of this Committee.
RELATION OF TEACHERS TO COH-IIITTEE AND
P L"PILS.
Before closing the report we have a word to say respecting
our teachers.
The members of the Committee desire to make public
acknowledgement as to the uniform courtesy which has al-
ways been extended to them from the teachers.
V
Whenever changes have been proposed or suggestions
made, they have met from the teachers, without questioning or
parleying, a hearty response. No town, we think, can be
found where the relations of Committee and teachers have
been more harmonious than with us. Though we have not
visited the schools so frequently as the teachers may have
SCHOOL CONDUTTEE93 REPORT. 25
desired, still we have in other wars been more vigilant than
they suppose.
Respecting the relation between our teachers and pupils we
have noticed two things, which especially please us, —en-
thusiasin in their work, and a course of instruction and
discipline which has secured to the teachers the increasing per-
sonal regard of the scholars. To qualities which afford these
results we can safely predict success. Let there be no change
in this respect in the future. When a teacher outgrows en-
thusiasm in his profession, it is time he had quit it ; and
when scholars, as a rule, are found hating instead of loving
and respecting their teacher, it is evidence conclusive that
such a teacher is no longer fit for his position. It is with
pleasure that we say we have no such teacher among us.
Quintillian, two thousand years ago, gave advice so apt,
as to the general intercourse between teacher and scholar,
that we take tl.e liberty of inserting it.
Let a teacher adopt then, above all thin%s, the feelings of a parent
towards his pupils, and consider that he succeeds to the place of those
by whom the children were intrusted to him. Let him neither have vices
in himself, nor tolerate them in others. Let his austerity not be stern,
nor his affability too easy, lest dislike arise from the one, or
contempt from the other. Let hiui discourse frequently on what is
honorable and good, for the oftener he admonishes, the .more seldom
will he have to chastise: Let him not be of an the
temper, and
yet not a conniver at what ought to be eorrectvd. Let him be plain in
his mode of teaching, and patient of labor, but rather diligent in exact-
ing tasks than fond of giving thein of excessive length. In walking
with his pupil he must shorten his pace, give him his hand, and not go
on quicker than his companion can follow. Let him reply readily to
those who put questions to him, and question of his own accord those
who do not. In commending the exercises of his pupils let him be
neither niggardly nor lavish ; for the one ►Inality begets dislike of labor,
and the other Self-Complacency. In amending what requires correction,
let him not be harsh, and, least of all, not reproachful; for that very
circumstance, that some tutors blame as if they hated, deters many
young persons from their proposed course of study. Let him every
day say something, and even much, which, when the pupils hear, they
26 SCHOOL CO-AIJIITTEE'R IEPORT.
may carry away with them, for though he may point out to them, in
their own course of reading. plenty of examples for their imitation, yet
the living voice, as it is called, feeds the mind more nutritiously, and es-
pecially the voice of the teacher, whom his pupils, if they are but
slightly instructed, both love and reverence. How much more readily
we imitate those whoui we like, can scarcely be expressed."
RELATION OF THE CITIZEN TO PUBLIC
ED UCATION.
Never has there been a time when the problems of education
ought to receive such careful attention as now.
It is while contemplating these questions as essential ele-
ments of social and civil prosperity, that we have seemed in
this and the last report to speak with impatience in view of
measures looking towards restrictions and retrenchments ; we
have spoken earnestly because from an instinct of self-pres-
ervation. George Washington clearly saw in his day the
importance of common intelligence in a republic, and re-
garded means " for the general diffiusion of knowledge as of
primary importance."
Said Mr. Hoar, recently, " There is not a power vested
by the Constitution, either in the Congress or the people,
towards the exercise and accomplishment of which the education
of the people is not the surest, the most direct, and the cheapest
way." We sincerely rejoice to witness the earnestness with
which AIr. Hoar is urging his views upon the attention of
Congress. He is right, and should receive the indorsement
of every American citizen. Other nations, Russia and Eng-
land for instance, are starting upon a new career in matters
of education. The Czar had no sooner returned from the
Paris Exposition than he commenced treasures of educ•a-
010- tional reform. It is safe to sav that the entire En,li�h na-
tion is to-day, as never before, alive to these great and
fundamental principles. It was near the close of the last
session of her Parliament, that a law was passed to establish
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 27
a system of universal education, as necessary to the protec-
tion of her national supremacy. Mr. Gladstone, with a
keen eve to national interests, recently declared that the
it victory of Germany over France is the victory of the
common-school system of Prussia over the ignorance of the
French Empire."
Senator Nilson expresses the same Conviction, thus :—
A system of compulsory education, established for more than two
centuries in portions of Germany, and for more than a century and a
half in Prussia, has brought forth fruits which the world see. France,
with a fairer and more fertile country, with a prestige of a brilliant
military record, but with a population ignirant,priest-ridden, and emas-
culated of their manhood, lies beaten on every field and helpless at the
conqueror's feet. This lesson should not be lost on the American
people."
That is true. Consider for a moment ; we have in this coun-
try 1,00 7,000 illiterate white youth and adults ; we have also
another half million white children, under ten, growing up in
ignorance. These are and are to be invested with all the
rights of suffrage. Shall we not see to it as far as we have
power, that remedial measures, compulsory if need be, are at
once instituted which shall correspond somewhat to the con-
tingencies involved?
Ignorance is always the giant disturber of public peace
and public securities; our undivided efforts must, therefore,
do away with ignorance.
It is education which doubles a man's value, put him where
you may : we roust not, therefore, complain against or even
feel the burdens of taxation in the interests of education. It
is by liberally educating our people that we make for the
nation her surest political bulwarks and defences.
What we now urge are not provisions for sending a few
of our youth to universities and colleges, but to lift the whole
mass of our youth from a state of degrading ignorance into
one of intelligent citizenship.
28 SCHOOL C0.5".1ITTEE'8 REPORT.
Among the grand questions for us to ask and settle are
these, — are the millions of this country who are now
"clothed with the royal right of suffrage, and who are holding `
in their hands the sovereign power of this nation," suitably
educated for the trusts committed to them ? If not, share
no reasonable pains and board no taxable dollars, or the time
will come when dollars will be worthless. Do intelligent
citizens of our State, whose action at the polls may at no
very future day be neutralized by ignorance and prejudice,
comprehend the exigencies, which, for the next few years,
confront them? If not, let these questions receive their mer-
ited consideration, and the cause itself our earnest devotion.
Be it remembered that what D'Alembert says will apply to
our own republic unless enlightened. " There are two things
that can reach the top of the Pyramid, — the eagle and the
reptile." Let it never be forgotten, also, that national Perils,
contingent upon universal suffrage and unrestricted immigra-
tion which are not accompanied with general intelligence, are
equalled by no other dangers of however appalling magni-
tude. Repeated often and in all our households, should be
the startling counsels of one who, clearly seeing the force of
these considerations, moved resolutely and spoke nobly-, —
The human imagination can picture no semblance of the destructive
potency of the ballot-box in the hands of an ignorant and corrupt
people. The Roman cohorts were terrible : the Turkish janizaries were
incarnate fiends , but each was powerless as a child for harm compared
with universal suffrage without mental illumination and moral principle.
The power of casting a vote is far more formidable than that of casting
spear or javelin On one of those oft recurring days, when the fate of
the State or the Union is to be decided at the polls ; when all over the
land the votes are falling as thick as hail, and we seem to hear them
rattle like the clangor of arms, it is enough to make the lover of his
country turn pale to reflect upon the motives under which they may be
given, and the consequences to which they may lead. . . . . If they
emanate fi•om wise counsels and a loyalty to truth, they will descend
p like benedictions from Heaven to bless the land and fill it with song and
SCHOOL CONL MITTEE'S REPORT. 29
gladness, such as never have been known on earth since the days of par-
adise; but if, on the other hand, these votes come from ignorance and
crime, the fire and brimstone that were rained on Sodom and Gomorrah
would be more tolerable."—HORACE MAN-N.
VISITS.
Number of visits made by individual members of the Com-
mittee, 90.
Number of visits made by other persons, 199.
TE-ICHERS, A_YD THEIR SALARIES.
Date of
SCHOOL. Names. Election. Salary.
High School Solon F. Whitney 1866 $1,800
„ :Miss Charlotte E.Wheeler,IstAss't 1869 800
„ I " Susan Porter, 2d Ass't 1870 600
East Grammar Warren T. Copeland 1868 1,400
„ Intermediate Miss Clara A. Bailey 1864 500
„ Primary „ Annie E. Coolidge 1867 475
Centre Grammar George Andrews 1870 1,400
„ Il.iss Annie M. Carey, 1st Ass't 1869 550
„ Ellen M. Crafts, 2d Ass't 1871 500
„ Intermediate Ellen A. Souther 1864 500
„ Primary. No.I Fannie Robbins 1866 475
„ 2 L. A. Otis 1869 475
South Intermediate Harriet Bobbins 1863 500
„ Primary Adelaide Horn 1866 475
I
Vest Grammar !George S. Turner 1868 1,400
„ Intermediate Xiss Annie ;Mason 1871 500
„ Primary i Lydia Wicks 1868 475
„ I Mary I). Patten, Ass't 1868 400
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NUMBER OF CHILDREN IV TOWN.
The assessors for 1870 return eight hundred and seventy-
six (876) children in town between five and fifteen years of
age. There are also eighty-six (86) children over fifteen,
whose navies appear upon the school registers.
NU-31BEI, OF CHILDREN IN SCHOOL.
Number of children between five and fifteen, 665
6
4 it over fifteen, 86
under five, 0
Total, 751
Difference between number of children in town and number
in schoc l between five and fifteen years of years, 211
We hope the town will take some action which will be
effectual in preventing this large number of children from
absenting themselves from our schools.
SCHOLARS X EITHER ABSENT 2V OR TARDY D UR-
IN G THE YEAR.
High School.—Bertha NI.Whitnev,Fred. C.Nigers, Sarah
F. Coo�lid e, Manning B. Patten, Mary E. McLauthlin,
Nettie King, James D. Manahan, Lottie L. Bailey, Cora
A. Barker, Ellen J. Boynton, Jusephine A. Priest, Charles
H. (green, Hiram Kendall.
West. Grammar. — None.
West Intermediate. — None.
West Prim try. — Ruth W. Howard.
Emit (arctnimar. —NTnne.
East Intermediate. —Joseph E. Bird, Mary Powers,
32 SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
Alattie S. Coolidge, (Maggie Cox and Annie S. Nilson
absent two days on account of sickness.)
East Primary. —None.
South Intermediate. —None.
South Primary. —None.
Centre Grammar. —None.
Centre Primary No. 1. —None.
Centre Primary No. 2. — None.
Centre Intermediate. — None.
EXPENSES FOR 18 i O-1.
Salaries of teachers, $ 12,656 12
Care of houses, 838 66
Incidental expenses, 2,704.66
Sum total of expenses, $ 161199 44
Appropriation, $ 14,000 00
Town's share of School Fund, 3.24 17
From sale of books, 186 32 14,510 49
Deficit, 1,688 95
Had the appropriation, estimated by the committee, been
granted, and had the committee decided to make no changes
in the furnaces of the West District, or in the settees of the
High School building, instead of reporting to the town a
deficit of$1,688 95, we should have shown a surplus amount-
ing to a trifle above that given in our last report.
ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR 18 i 1-72
The following sums will be necessary- to meet the expenses
of our schools and educational interests the coming year : —
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 33
Salaries of teachers, $ 131000 00
(mare of school-houses, 850 00
Fuel, 1,000 00
Books and stationery, 150 00
Apparatus and library, 50 00
Salary of superintendent, 1,000 00
Expenses for evening school, 400 00
Incidental expenses, 1,000 00
$ 175450 00
The above report is respectfully submitted for the action
of the Board and the town.
L. T. TOWNSEND,
Chairman School Committee.
REPORTS OF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SEVE-
RAL SUB-CO-11311TTEES.
CENTRE GRAM-31AR SCHOOL.
The undersigned, for reasons which were long since stated,
and which acquire increasing force from year to year, is unable
to make such a report as should be expected from an official
charged with the supervision of this school. Therefore he
hesitates in the matter of attempting any criticism, or ex-
pressing any opinions concerning it. He believes, however,
that a minute and carefully-written history of the -chool, for
the past year, would furnish some special arguments, equal
in weight to any that have yet been presented, in favor of
appointing a superintendent of the Watertown schools.
During the first term of the year, Mr. Boyden resigned
his position as piaster of the school, and Mr. Geo. W.
Andrews was elected to the vacant place.
34 SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT.
For the prsent let it suffice of the latter, that if his success
as a teacher bears any reasonable proportion to his courage
and self-reliance, the scholarship of his pupils will entitle them
to a high rank. At the close of the same term, the commit-
tee were compelled to accept the resignation of Miss A. Magee,
one of the assistant teachers ; and they cannot allow her to
finish a term of service which commenced in 1864 without
testifying to the industry, fidelity, and professional growth
which she has exhibited.
The vacancy thus arising was filled by transferring from
the Nest Intermediate School bliss Ellen Crafts, who, now
relieved of the labor and responsibility of maintaining dis-
cipline, devotes herself to the work of instruction, with
every prospect of satisfactory results.
The progress of the school has been seriously interrupted
during the late extreme weather, by reason of the insuffi-
ciency of the furnace, which, even with an extravagant use
of coal, could not be forced to make the rooms cocnfortal)le
and safe. The furnace alluded to was selected and put in
by Geo. W. `Talker & Co., of Boston, in 1868, with the
guarantee that it should give entire satisfaction, and with the
agreement, that in case of failure, it should be removed and
replaced by a better one, without expense to the town. To
the demand recently made for another furnace, Walker & Co.
promptly acceded, and have furnished what promises to
return a reasonable equivalent of heat for the fuel consumed,
and to be sufficient for the necessities of the school at all
times.
For the Sub-Committee,
A. HOSIER, Chairman..
SCHOOL CONMITTEE'S REPORT. 35
CEX THE INTERMEDIATE AND PRIMARY
SCHOOLS.
The Centre Intermediate School has experienced several
changes during the year. In April the Committee were
obliged, on account of the illness of Miss Varney, to place
other teachers in the school for a few weeks : on Miss
Varnev's return to the school, it at once resumed its old
position of excellence.
Early in December the Committee were requested by Miss
Varner- to accept her resignation as teacher in Watertown,
which thejT did with regret. The public good would seem
to demand an advance in the salaries, rather than the loss of
our best teachers. Miss Souther, a lady passing a most
satisfactory examination and highly recommended, is now in
charge of this school. She seems capable and determined,
and we see no reason why she will not overcome the trials
always attending the successor of a highly successful teacher.
The Centre Primary Schools, at the commencement of the
year, were crowded, the teachers working hard to keep their
schools up to the reputation they had acquired.
Primary School No. 1 has for its teacher Miss Fannie
Robbins. The Committee expected from Miss Robbins a
good school, and have only to say their hopes have been
fully realized.
The teacher of Primary School No. 2 is Miss L. A. Otis,
a competent teacher, who is to be congratulated upon her
success in this school the past year. The school is in good
condition.
A. L. RICHARDS,
For Sub-Committee.
36 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 18 REPORT.
WEST DISTRICT.
The Nest Grammar School, under the able and judicious
management of Mr. Turner, has kept fully up to the stan(1-
ard, and in all respect: merits the commendation of the
Committee and of the parents, in this more, perhaps, than in
any other Grammar School of the town. The teacher and
the Coniihittee have felt it to be their duty to remonstrate
against the practice of parents in allowinn their children to
be absent at certain seasons from school ; it is to sac- the least
questionable economy in parents for the small amount which
children of this age may be able to earn, by working for the '
neighboring farmers, or in busy seasons at the mills, to allow
their children to be absent, often weeks at a time, not only
depriving the children so absent of the benefits of a thorough
course, but retarding the progress of the whole school. It is
most essential to those scholars who propose to enter the
High School, that their course in the Grammar School should
be unbroken, systematic, and thorough. An(] to them whose
education ends with the Grammar School, it is of vital
importance that the rudiments acquired here should be
thoroughly, accurately, and systematically acquired, to be of
any value to the recipient, for it is not an absolute amount
of knowledge that we seek to impart in the Grammar School,
but to supply the mind with materials to work with. and
materials to work by, and to develop to strengthen, and train
their powers by discipline. And this can only be acquired by
a faithful, persistent, and eon�tant endeavor, both by the
pupil and the teacher.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 37
WEST INTER3IEDIATE SCHOOL.
During the past year, this school has experienced a change
of teachers ; Miss Annie Mason succeeding hiss Crafts, who
has been transferred to the Centre Grammar School. The
general appearance of the school is commendable, although
subject to the same remarks as the Granimm, School in re-
gard to absentees. Miss Mason has enterer] upon her duties
with a degree of energy which cannot fail of success.
WEST PRIMARY SCHOOL.
This School, under the charge of _hiss Weeks, assisted by
Miss Mary Patten, presents substantially the same features
as list year : the discipline is good, and the children seem to
be thoroughly interested. The attempt of the Committee to
relieve this d-partment by dividing the attendance of the
scholars, has been but partially successful. As the rooms
are still overflowing, the only efficient remedy or relief for
this, the Committee believe to be the erection of a new
Primary School-house in the extreme west limits of the town.
This, we believe, to be an absolute necessity, as the crowded
condition of the present accommodations causes not only an
increase of the labors and cares of the teachers, but endan-
gers the health of the scholars.
For the-Sub-Committee,
H. J. EDWARDS, chairman.
SOUTH INTER XIEDIATE AND PRIMARY
SCHOOLS.
The order maintained in the South Intermediate is worthy
of especial notice. There has been no male teacher at the
South School-house, and upon Miss Robbins has fallen the
duty of conducting her own school and of preserving order
38 SCHOOL COMMITTEE 98 REPORT.
in the halls, yard, and' approaches to the school-house. The
attendance has been quite irregular, many of the scholars
finding employment at different kinds of labor during a part
of the year. «'bile absent, the necessary rigor of school
discipline has been relaxed, and upon their return, the rules
of the school have been irksome. Notwithstanding these
difficulties, the order has been excellent. (NVere I on the
Committee, I should recommend the increase of Miss Rob-
bin's salary). The inconstant attendance referred to, has had
its influence on the scholarship. Continued study and un-
divided attention will only secure brilliancy of recitation, and
indication of familiarity with the studies.
The South Primary at the beginning of the 3Tear was
larger than its room would accommodate, but the rule re-
quiring attendance but half the day, relieve it. Interest
manifested was good, and thoroughness was apparent. This
rule was objectionable to the parents ; they maintaining that
the public schools should relieve them of the care of their
children for five and a half hours of the day. But the rule
could not be avoided. I fail to find any grounds for main-
taining that, the school system was devised to supply public
nurseries.
For the Committee,
Respectfully,
GEORGE E. PRIEST.
EAST DISTRICT GRA EXAR, INTERMEDIATE,
AND PRI-MARY SCHOOLS.
The number of scholars attending school in this District
during the year has been somewhat reduced. The cause
being attributed to the ;reed of parents in taking their child-
ren from school for the purpose of having them work, either
• in weeding, picking fivit, &-c., on market farms, in Spring
and early Summer, or in leading horses for the ice-gatherers
in Winter.
SCHOOL COMMITTEE'S REPORT. 39
The only time in which the schools are nearly frill, is
during the Autumn for a few weeks. Some means should
be adopted to compel all children of proper age to attend
school.
If our schools are worth the keeping, truants should not
be allowed any longer to have their own way, but be looked
after and brought back.
Sickness has kept away a number of scholars at different
times during this Winter. The ungraded school, kept for
six weeks during the long Summer vacation, was attended
by some thirty or forty of the pupils of this District. The
attendance was very irregular, causing much trouble to
teachers of the graded schools when the fall term commenced,
by the habits they had acquired at the vacation school, of
being present or not, as they chose. Therefore the vacation
school was a failure, and we would not recommend its renewal.
The schools i a this District have the advantage of the con-
tinued service of well-tried and faithful teachers, who would
be pleased to have all pupils attend regularly.
The plan of allowing the younger scholars in the Primary
Schools to attend but half a day, has worked well, and we
would advise its continuance.
GEO. K. SNOW, Chairman.
WATERTOWN EVENING SCHOOL.
This school which the Committee have thought necessary
to establish, has far exceeded the expectations of all, and is
quietly performing an important work. It was at first estab-
lished in the Centre Grammar School-house, holding a ses-
sion of three evenings in the week ; but the large number of
applicants for permission to attend, compelled the Committee
to seek other and more commodious accommodation. Fin-
ally, the upper Town Hall was secured, and this now scarcely
answers the demand. The average attendance is about
40 SCHOOL COMMITTEE IS REPORT.
seventy-five scholars, of an average acre of eighteen years,
with nearly an equal division of the sexes. Reading, writin(,
spelling and arithmetic, comprise the course of studies, with
the exception of a class in bookkeeping. The Committee was
fortunate in securincr the services of Mr. Turner to take
charge of this school, but through the increasing number of
the pupils, they were obliged to increase the instructors, by
the addition of Miss Cary and ?Miss Mason as assistants.
These teachers are deserving of the highest praise for their
faithful and efficient labors in this department, their hearty
constant endeavors have been reciprocated by the pupils, who,
with scarcely an exception, have availed themselves of this
opportunity to make up for lost or neglected opportunities.
The school meets a long felt want in the town, and is deserv-
ing of the warmest support of the townspeople.
The pupils make their own selections in regard to which of
the studies they may desire to pursue, the majority pursuing
the whole course. No other department of the school sys-
tem of the town, in the opinion of the Committee, produces
or can produce such beneficial results in proportion to the
amount of money expended.
For the Committee,
H. J. EDW ARDS, Secretary.
.a
REGULATIONS FOR THE GOVERNMENT
OF THE TEACHERS, PUPILS, AND JANITOI-,S,
OF THE
PUIBUC SCHOOLS OF WATERTOWN.
FOR THE TEA CHERS.
Teache -s will be at their respective school-rooms fifteen
minutes before the opening of the session.
The school will he opened with reading the Scriptures,
"without written note or oral comment." Amend. Rev.
Stat. Chap. 57, 1862.
There shall be a recess of fifteen minutes in the middle of
each half day.
The hour for recess, as well as for opening and closing of
the schools, is to be closely observed.
Care must be taken that a free and healthful circulation of
air is preserved in the school-rooms, by opening doors and
windows, before and after school, and during recess, and by
regulating ventilators and registers to secure as nearly as
possible a mean temperature of 68 debi ees Fahrenheit.
A clue regard to neatne=s and order must be observed and
maintained in and around the school-houses.
TLe windows, ventilators, and doors are to be shut and
fastened in each school-room, before leavin` them at the close
of each session.
42 SCHOOL C0)31311TTEE'S REPORT.
Prompt notice is to be given to the Committee of any in-
jury done to any article or portion of school property, and of
any repairs that are needed ; and the teachers are to use all
possible care that no article or portion of school property in
their respective rooms be in any manner marked or injured.
When there are several schools in one building, it shall be
the duty of the male teacher (if there shall be one employed
in the building) to look after the ;eneral good order of the
house, entries, cellars, outbuildings, fences, etc., to prescribe
such rules as shall secure the good order of the same, and to
see that all school furniture is duly and properly cared for.
No scholar being a member of any school above the grade
of Primary Schools, who has been absent five consecutive
school-days in a term, except by reason of sickness certified
to the teacher by the parent, guardian, or attendant physi-
cian, shall be admitted to his or her seat, or restored to pre-
vious position in the class, unless by direct permission of the
Committee.
All teachers are expected and required to report to the
Committee all cases of irregular attendance and tardiness
which are not satisfactorily covered by the written excuses, or
the personal statements made by the parents or guardians of
the offending children.
FOR THE P CPILS.
The school-house will be opened by the teacher at least
ten minutes before the commencement of the school session,
and it is expected that no scholar will be about the school-
house before that time.
No scholar will be allowed to take from its place any
article of school furniture without the teacher's permission,
or to interfere in the least with the furnaces, stoves, registers,
etc., without-express orders.
Every pupil who shall accidently or otherwise injiire any
SCHOOL COMMITTFE's rEPORT. 43
part of the buildings, or any school property, shall be liable
to pay all damages.
Every pupil who shall, in or around the school premises,
use or write any profane or unchaste language, or shall cut
or draw any vulgar pictures, or in any way intentionally de-
face any property whatever, belonging to the school estate,
shall be punished in proportion to the offence, and shall be
liable to action at law.
The scholars shall pass through the streets on their way to
and from school, in an orderlv and becoming manner, and
so enter the school-room, and take their seats in a quiet and
respectful manner. They will not be allowed to make use
of the .chool-room, entry, or stairways at any time for play.
They shall take care that their books, desks, and the floor
around then are kept neat, and in good order.
All scholars are expected to hay due attention to the
clearnlines: of their persons, and the neatness and decency of
their clothes, not only for the purpose of forming good habits
of order, but also that the school may be at all times pre-
pared to receive friends and visitors in a respectable manner.
FOR 17HE JANITORS.
Thev shall see that the school-rooms are thoroughly swept
at least twice each week, and oftener it' necessity requires,
and that the entries and stairways are swept every day after
the close of the school ; also to see that the desks, settees,
chairs, and all the articles of school furniture, are kept
properly dusted and clean.
They shall make the fires in the stoves and furnaces in
their respectiN-e school-houses, and see that the school-rooms
during the season of making fires are at a temperature of 68
degrees Fahrenheit, at the opening of the schools.
The ashes from the fires must be carefully sifted, and kept
in such locality as not to en;ender fire ; and all due economy
must be used in the consumption of fuel.
•r
44 6CII00L UODI1TTEE�S REPORT.
The outer doors of the school-houses mint be carefully
r
locked b-
the Janitors N% hen they leave the premises.
The out-houses are to be kept in as vent condition as pos-
sible, and no rubbish or objectionable matter shall be allowed
to accumulate on the premises.
In the winter season, in case of snow, suitable baths roust
be made from the sidewalks to the doors of the school-houses. ,
But in cases of extraordinary storms, additional compensa-
tion for making baths may be granted by the Committee.
The foregoing regulations were passed in School Com-
mittee, April 12, 1 69.
Attest, JOSEPH CRIUTS,
Secretary.
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THIRD REPORT
o F
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE
MIME PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF TIIE
TOWN OF WATERTOWN.
BOSTON :
PA TIIFINDE' R PRINTING OFFICE,
J I.INUAI.L STREET.
1871.
7
Board of Trustees for 1870-71.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE, Term expires 1871.
GEORGE N. MARCH, Treasurer, „ 1871.
JOHN WEISS, „ 1872.
JOSIAH STICKNEY, „ 1872.
ALFRED HOSMER, Secretary, „ 1873.
JESSE LOCKE, Chairman, 1873.
Committee on Library.
JESSE A. LOCKE. JOHN WEISS.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE.
Committee on Accounts.
GEORGE N. MARCH. JOSIAH STICKNEY.
ALFRED HOSMER.
Librarian.
SOLON F. WHITNEY.
TRUSTEES' REPORT.
Ix accordance with the "Articles of Organization, adopted
by the town, July 13, 1868," the Trustees have the honor
to present to the town, in print, their Third Annual Report.
They take pleasure in acknowledging the very generous
support thus far granted to this institution, and would recom-
mend the continuance of a wise and generous policy whence
so much good must come both to the material and intellectual
interests of the town.
The Report of the Librarian, appended, will exhibit the
statistics of our progress, in the increase of the number of
persons using the Library and Reading-room, as well as in
the numbers of volumes taken out. But no figures can
measure the benefit conferred upon our busy people, especially
upon the young, many of whom are employed through the
day in the store, the workship, or the factory.
The contributions of our friends have put a carpet upon
the Reading-room, and a fine collection of magazines, reviews,
and other periodicals, upon the Reading-room tables. Many
finely illustrated works have been added to the "Books of
Reference," which are accessible to all readers in the Read-
ing-room. The number who frequent this room is steadily
increasing, and we haN-e no doubt will, when the value of
the books and periodicals is more fully known, be equal to
its capacity.
4 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
We would call upon all, especially as the number occupy-
ing the room is frequently large, to strictly comply with the
regulations, requiring that " no conversation or loud reading
be permitted " in the Reading-room, as it must be apparent
to all that unless some rule requiring silence be complied
with, the very object to which the room is devoted would be
defeated. We have little to complain of in this direction,
but a stricter attention to the one necessary rule, will be to
the advantage of all.
Many volumes have been added during the past year by
gift and by purchase, and we confidently hope that the num
ber from each source may be increased the cowing year.
The Report of the Treasurer, which is appended, shows a
healthy state in the finances. We have used the funds
placed at our disposal, according to our careful judgment, in
such a way as to give the town the greatest benefit for their
expenditure. It will be seen that a small revenue has been
received from the collection of fines and the sale of cata-
logues. This will be likely to continue. It would be for
the interest of the town and the Library, as well as for the
greater convenience of those who take the books, to have the
catalogues, with its supplement, more widely circulated. As
we have a plentiful supply, we have decided to offer the
balance at ten cents each.
The rooms, the arrangement of books, the card, acces-
sion, and alcove catalogues, are all in complete working
order. We are able to show very favorable statistics of the
rapidity with which books are received, changed, and deliv-
ered in the busy hours of the Library, as compared with the
best libraries in Boston and other places. This is accom-
plished in such a way that almost no loss comes to the town.
Over seventeen thousand cliarges have been made and can-
celled, and a very little more than one hundredth of one per
cent of the books issued remain unaccounted for. Great
praise is due the librarian for the thorough and perfect sys-
TRUSTEES' REPORT. 5
tem which he has adopted of cataloguein" and registering the
books. None but those acquainted with the details of a
librarian's duties, can estimate the amount of labor required
of him. Our librarian appears to make his onorous duties
easy by bringing to them an untiring and enthusiastic energy,
which is always a guarantee of success. The Trustees would
ask the town to make the following appropriations for the
Library for the ensuing year : —
Librarian's salary, $400.00
Janitor's and Assistant's, 123.00
Gas, fuel, etc., 225.00
Binding books, 50.00
Insurance, 50.00
Books, 500.00
Total, $1,350.00
The town will be called upon to elect two Trustees for the
term of three years.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
Signed in behalf of the Board.
JESSE A. LOCKS,
Chairman.
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REPORT OF TIIE LIBRARIAN.
To the T?•ustees of the Watertown Free Public Library:--
GENTLEMEN, — AS the second year of the practical work
ing of your Library draws to a close, it is my pleasant duty
to report to you the statistics which show how generally it is
used ; what donations of money and books have been received ;
and the general condition of the property entrusted to my
care.
The number of books belonging to the Library
and reported Feb. 7, 1870, was 4,683
The number of books presented during the year, is 417
„ „ „ „ added by purchase, is 265
„ „ „ „ „ „ binding pamphlets, 36
„ whole number now belonging to the Librarv,, 5,401
Number of pamphlets reported Feb. 7, 1870, 824
„ „ „ and papers donated during
the year, 19086
Number of pamphlets purchased during the year, 82
„ bound and counted with
books, 36
Whole number of pamphlets and papers belonging
to Library (exclusive of those subscribed
for in the Reading Room) , 1,956
Number of books covered during the year, 11088
„ „ persons subscribing to the obligations
and receiving cards to Feb. 7, 18709 727
Number during the year to Feb. 8, 18709 344
Whole number to Feb. 8, 1870, 1,071
Number of books consulted in the Reading-room, 469
„ volumes issued during the last year, 16,985
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Increase in number of volumes over the number
reported last year, 6,587
Among the many donations I may call your attention to a
complete set of the Scientific American, nine volumes bound,
and twenty-four volumes in numbers, nearly all of which
were contributed by 1Ir. George Tainter, who has also con-
tributed Tomlinson's Cyclopedia of Useful Arts, in forty-
three numbers, all of which are richly worth binding, as
they will become very valuable for reference. [17r. Tain-
ter has also contributed two large volumes, —A Dictionary
of Macbines, Mechanics, &c., By Oliver Byrne.]
One other donation may be specially mentioned, in hope
that it may benefit the Library still more. The first Parish
Church have generously placed in our charge their Parish
Library, rich in works of scholarly and devout thinkers ; but
as the neat and accurate manuscript catalogue which accom-
panied the girt, shows that a few volumes needed to com-
plete sets are either lost or missing, and as these may
possibly be in some of the houses of the town, perhaps a
mention of the fact will restore them to the collection.
Among these are
Vol. 1 of Southey's Life of Cowper.
Vol. 4 of Follen's Works.
Vol. 2 of Greenwood's Sermons.
Vol. 2 of Malcom's Travels in Asia.
Vol. 1 of Ware's Zenobia.
At the annual examination of the Library, all the books
were found in their places, or have since been put in their
places, except six volumes : of these four are charted to per-
sons who have moved from town, and which we yet hope to
get, and two are missing.
We not only keep an account with each person which
shows the number and kind of books taken out, but we also
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keep an account of the number taken each day from each
alcove, thus enabling you to see the relative number of books
taken out in each class of subjects.
As we look at this record we must confess that too large a
proportion is from the alcove of Fiction. It may be ob-
jected by those opposed to Public Libraries, as many
read merely for amusement, and frequently books of an
ephemeral character, that free access to a large Library con-
twining all classes of books is of doubtful advantage. We
hope to show that, as the public are getting better acquainted
with the valuable books which you have placed upon the
shelves on almost every variety of subjects, and as the
young acquire a taste for reading by coming in contact with
good books, the tone of reading is steadily rising in charac-
ter. The figures which we have extend over too brief a
period to answer as a demonstation of this view, but taken
with the experience of other Libraries, they clearly point to
this result. And, gentlemen, how responsible a position
does yours seem to be when you consider that you have the
privilege of directing in so small a community as ours, the
choice of the ten thousand volumes taken into the hands of a
thousand persons, any one of which may pollute or purify
the very springs of human life. No man will at this late day
decry the uses of fiction, but will help to separate the wheat
from the chaff; will offer the inspiring and healthy-toned and
withhold the products of weak or diseased imaginations.
Says Dr. Noah Porter, in " Books and Reading : " "N o
intellectual enjoyinent is so delightful as this. No withdraw-
ment from one's customary occupations and associations is so
complete as that which a good novel effects ; no breaking up
of the cares and the sorrows, of the weariness and the fears
of ordinary life is so entire as that which an absorbtion in its
scenes and interest in its persona(es so easily accoin-
plishes. He adds : `° that this indulgence is attended
with special dangers and peculiar temptations we cannot
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deny ; but that the amusement and relaxation are inno-
cent and desirable, every rational man will acknowl-
edge. Many of the bravest workers for God and man,
have found this sort of relaxation to be most complete, and
have used it with the happiest results." It is made your
pleasant duty, by choice selection, to give " delight to a vacant
hour in surveying a quiet nook, a placid river, a luxuriant
valley, or an ample and varied panorama." People ask for
fiction. How much better to help to that " wise reading of
novels which is fitted to enlarge our acquaintance with human
nature, and in this way to give most valued instruction," than
to leave the young to " the mischievous influence of a certain
class of so-called romantic stories," which tend to " beget,
even in sober and sensible people, a romantic and dreamy,
habit of mind in respect to the chances of success in life, and
the conditions by which it is to be achieved." Would it not
be well, in t its connection, to suggest to the parents and the
teachers of the town, bow valuable a service they may per-
form for the young under their care, in helping to direct their
minds to books that will instruct and inspire, as well as
amuse.
But our statistics show an increasing demand for works of
travel, of history, of biography, of science, of polite litera-
ture. This, doubtless, is simply the evidence of growth in
a healthy taste, or of the good sober sense which leads all to
select the best they can enjoy.
I would suggest that all be asked to make known their
wants in any department of literature, by leaving with the
librarian the titles of books desired. A book really wanted,
is worth far more than any number of books, though written
with never-so-much talent, that simply keep the dust from the
shelves. We have few books that are never called for, and
while it is next to impossible to predict what will be wanted
next, it is certainly pleasant to answer a call for a really help-
ful book.
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Would it not be well to remind men in all the different
callings of life, —the farmer, the mechanic, the mantifac-
turer, — what provision has been made for this want, in select-
in- the books on our shelves? But then, you say, thev need
only examine our catalogue.
The Reading-room, which for sometime seemed to many a
doubtful experiment, can no longer be thus regarded. The
learned English review, the sallies of Punch, the fresh variety
of our best American magazines, whether in fresh works of
living pens, or with ;lasses that help one sweep the whole
field of current literature, or watch the progress of science
and art the world over, or peer into the minds of the present
thinking age, prove attractive to a constantly increasing nuin-
ber. Who shall say that the factory-boa- or mechanic ap-
prentices, just escaped from crowded and busy room, denied
the pleasures and advantages of schools or of travel, are
simply getting amusement, as they con the pictures, now so
excellent as to be attractive even to the well-travelled
and well-read divine.
The following is a list of the periodicals placed upon the
Reading-room tables : —
The Galaxy. Harper's Magazine.
The Atlantic. Harper's weekly.
The Folio. Agriculturalist.
Appleton's Journal. Advocate of Peace.
Every Saturday (2 copies.) The Eclectic.
Scientific American. Lippincott's Magazine.
Old and New. Horticulturalist.
Literary World. Edinburgh Review.
Chambers' Journal. Blackwood's Magazine.
Good Words. Westminster.
Dwight's Journal of Music. London (quarterly.
North American Review. Punch.
Littell's Living Age.
The Religious Magazine and Monthly Review.
Althollo-li it is almost impossible to determine the exact
number of persons visiting the Reading-room, or to tall how
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many of those who enter the room really improve its advan-
ta^es, it is evident to the most casual observer, that the num-
ber of readers and the time spent in reading, increases. `'4'e
hope, however, that while this is true, the necessity of mak-
ing it a Readiizg-room indeed, will become more apparent.
I have had the pleasure of callin, to your attention, the
liberality of nearly one hundred and fifty subscribers, who
have contributed a dollar each to furnish the floor and tables
of our Reading-room, and desire, through you, to thank them
for their most useful gifts. May they never have occasion to
regret their benefactions.
Appended to this report, will be found a list of the dona-
tions to the Library, whether in books or in money, which
have been received the last year. Also a list, arranged in
olphabetical order, of all the books added since the catalogue
was Printed a year ago. This list may serve as a supplement
to the printed catalogue.
Gentlemen, in closing, I might remind you of the gradual
adoption of the plan of the free public library, not only in
this State, the place of its adoption, — the first by public
taxation in Wayland, in 1847, — but throughout the country.
The free public library is becoming, with the public school,
not only the handmaid of learning and progress, but the en-
lightened safeguard of liberty and public morals.
`Vhile confining your attention to the ways of best pro-
moting present good, in Laving everything done that the in-
terests of such an institution, and the wants of the public
demand, you may look forward to the not far distant future,
when your labors will be more fully appreciated.
Most respectfully submitted,
SOLON F. WHITNEY, Librarian.
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LIST OF DONATIONS OF BOOKS AND PA31PULETS TO
LIBRARY.
Pamph- Bound
1870. Papers. lets. Vols.
Feb. 23. Rev. Luther T. Townsend . . . . . I
March 5. Hon. George At. Brooks, M.C. 4 1(;
„ 7. Rev. F. A. Whitney, Brighton . 1
„ 7. James M. Lewis, Arkansas . 1
19. Rev. William M. Perry, Geneva, N. Y. 2 1
„ 19. James E. Butts, Jr. . . . . . . . . 1 1
April 2. Henry Chase, Esq. . . . . . . . . 3 g
„ 2. Secretary of Board of Health 1
„ 2. Trustees of Public Library, Lancaster 2
„ 2. Dr. Jackson, State Library, State House 6 12
„ 2. Charles W. Raisbeck . . . . . . . 6 7,
„ 2. Directors of City Library, Lowell . . 2
„ 2. George N. March, Esq. . . . . . . 2
„ 2. John E. Horr,Brookline . . . . . . 1
„ 2. Justin Winsor, Supt. of Boston Pub.Lib'y 1
„ 13. State of Massachusetts . . . . . . 1
1124. William L. Stiles . . . . 1
May 14. Airs. Stephen Perry . . . . . . . 16 4
„ 14. William Stevens Perry . . . . . . 1
„ 18. Mrs. Ellen M. Sprague . . . . . . 4
„ 18. Airs. John L. Dimmock . . . . . . 33
„ 23. Alvin Adams, Esq. . . . . . . . . 152 75 22
June 20. Hon. Geo. M. Brooks, M.C. . . . . . I
„ 29. New Church Publication Society, Boston 21
July 11. lion. Walter Wells . . . . . . . . 1
PP 16. George M. Brooks, M.C. . . . . . . 2 1
it 27. Justin Winsor, Suet.Boston Pub.Library 1
Aug. 11. William L. Stiles . . . . . . . . 17 2
Sept. 5. Airs Ellen Sprague . . . . . . . 2
„ 5. George N. March . . . . . . . . 3
„ 5. Boston Public Library . . . . . . 11
„ 12. Massachusetts Legislature 6
Nov. 6. Miss Mary Hall . . . . 2
Dec. Edward B. Dickinson . . . . . . . 2
„ George 'Fainter . . . . . . . . . 640 43 12
(A whole set of Scientific American, and two Encyclopedias.)
18 i 1.
Jan. 9. Airs. F. W. Thayer, Belmont . . . . 55
„ 16. First Pariah Church . . . . . . . 261
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Pamph- Bound
15;0. Papers. lets. Vols.
Feb. 6. A Friend . . . . . . . . . . . 1
„ 6. Jesse A. Locke . . . . . . . . . 1
6. Charles H. Bradlee, " Every Saturday "
for Reading-room.
„ 6. Solon F. Whitney . . . . . . . . 35
Total numbers received . . . . . . 792 2% 417
The following persons contributed one dollar each towards
furnishing the tables of the Reading-room with periodi-
cals
John Weiss. Alfred Hosmer. T. L.French.
Joshua Coolidge. Oliver Shaw. Francis Kendall.
George N. March. W. H. Lyman. A. McMaster.
Abraham J. Lincoln. J. Albert Sullivan. C. C. White.
J. T. Blaisdell. Joel Barnard, Jr. C. A. Stanley.
Solon F. Whitney. J. Q. A. Pierce. William Sherman.
John E. Bradlee. J. H. Norcross. W. H. Clark.
Samuel Noyes. Charles H. Burnbam. Charles W. Raisbeck.
W. J. Copeland. J. G. Bellows. Luther T. Townsend.
John K. Stickne r. D. H. Priest. Nathaniel Whiting.
James Sharp. W. A. Blodget. James T. Bixby.
A. F. Lemon. Abiel Abbott. B. B. Titcombe.
N. Collins. A. L Richards. N. Fellows.
J. H. Critchett. George K. Snow. J. H. Stone.
Royal Gilkey. R. F. Gilkey. Samuel Walker.
Henry Russell. Alfred Howes. Miles Pratt.
J. W. Coffin. Samuel S. Gleason. J. G. Barker.
William Rovers. A. B. Rogers. James M. Bean.
George L. Noyes. Alexander Gregg. J. H. Conant.
C. F. Conant. C. F. Horne. William H. Russell.
W. FI. Dadmun. C. L. Woodworth. G. B. Stockwell.
C. B. Gardner. Henry Chase. Nathan B. Goodnow.
J. S. Pinkham. L. A. Turner. Luke Perkins.
Edward R. Eaton. L. Whiting, Jr. D. D. Bond.
Lint of persons who subscribed one dollar each for a
carpet for the Reading-room
Airs. S. F. Weiss. Mrs. M. A. Lord. Mrs. L. Rich.
„ L. C. Whitney. A. P. Page. „ West.
Miss A. A. Keith. H. A. Bosmer. „ Hazen.
Mrs. L. W. Titcomb. M. E. Fuller. Macurdy..
„ G. K. Snow. Ayers. Ross.
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Mrs. J. E. Bradlee. Firs. Abbott. Mrs. Alvin Adams.
„ Ann M. Hapgood. Dickinson. „ Waldo Adams.
William White. F. Kendall. Miss Adams.
„ J. Albert Sullivan. T. G. Banks. Mrs. Edward Adams.
„ Dr. Morse. Huckins. A Friend.
C. Ladd. „ Eaton. „
„ Coffin. John Mooney. Airs. Pierson.
„ L. Turner. George Priest. Whiting.
Miss Mary Barker. „ Bean. C. T. Barry.
Airs. C. W. Stone. E. R. Blanchard. T. L. French.
Miss Maria Brigham. Kidder. J. G. Blaisdell.
Mrs. Joel Barnard. Walker. A Friend.
Miss Rebecca Nourse. Miss Nellie Crafts. „
Mrs. J. H. Conant. Mrs. Nye. 'Airs. George N. March.
Miss Mary E. Coolidge. R. Gilkey. Meacham.
A Friend. Blodgett. E. C. Stevens.
Mrs. H. S. Perkins. Miss Sarah A. Stone. Chase
„ N. C. Sanger. Airs. Mason.
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FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
LIST OF B00KS ADDED BETWEEN FEB. 8, 1870, AND FEB. 8, 1871.
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WATERTOWN FILL PUBLIC LIBRAIM
List of Books added between Feb. 8, 1870, and Feb. 8, 1871.
LIn the card catalogue,these books will be found arranged by subjects and titles,
also. Not printed here to save expense.]
Abbot, Abiel. Sermons ; with a life. B., 1831. 120 . . . . . 545.12
Abbott, Jacob. Rodolphus. A Franconian story. . . . . . . 941.7
Abbot, J. E. Extracts from sermons of. B., 1830. 120 . . . . 551.E
Abbott, J. S. C. Empire of Austria. NY., 1859. 120. . . . 863.21
Acton, H. Dignity, office, and work of our Lord Jesus Christ. L.,
1833. 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551.2
Adams, W. T. In doors and out. B., n.d. 120 . . . . . . . 944.1
Addison, Joseph. Evidences of the Christian religion. B., 171J5.
160 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.5 2.1
Aiken, A., ed. The annual review. L., 1803-9. 80. . . . . . 437.1-17
Alcott, W. A. Young woman's guide. B., 1841. 160 . . . . . 522.25
Aldrich, T. B. The story of a bad boy. B., 1870. 160 . . . . . 942.1
Alison, A. Sermons. B., 1813. 80 . . . . . . . . . . . 544.3
Alexander, A. Evidences of the Christian religion. Princeton,
N.J., 1825. 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 545.9
Alice Bradford, or experimental religion. B., 1839. 160 . . . . 553.16
Alison,Archibald. Miscellaneous essays. N.Y., 18135. 80 . . . 436.4
Allibone, S. A. A critical dictionary of English literature, and
British and American authors. Phil., 1870. 80. 3 vols. . *F135.14
A. L. O. E. See Tucker, Miss Charlotte.
American Baptist .Missionary Union. Fifty-sixth annual report.
B., 1870. 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.9.1
American Unitarian Association. Tracts and discourses. B..
1826. 3 v. 120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541.18, 21.22
Anderson, H. C. Bilderbuch ohne Bilder. B., (1864.) 160 . . . 571.2
Andrews, Wm. Treatise on theological subjects. Camb., 1829.
120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542.1
Argyle, Duke of. See Campbell, G. D.
Art of Contentment. N. Y., 1803. 160 . . . . . . . . . . 552.13
Arthur, T. S. The mother's rule . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.6
Aspland, R. Three sermons. L., 1816. 120 . . . . . . . . 551.1
Auerbach, If Villa on the Rhine . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.4,5
Azeglio, Al. T. d'. Recollections of. L., 1868. 2 v. 120 734.15,16
MUSTEES' REPORT. 19
Baker, Samuel W. Cast up by the sea. Phil., 1869. 160. 941.1
Eight years wandering in Ceylon. Phil., 1869. 160 . . . . 351.16
Baldwin, T. and J. Thomas. A complete pronouncing gazetteer;
or, geographical dictionary of the world. Revised edition.
Phil. 181l). 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . *136.1
Bancroft, Aaron. Sermons. Wor., 1822. 80 . . . . . . . . 543.17
Banks,N. P. Emancipated labor in Louisiana. 1864 . . . . . M. 8.4
Barbauld, A. L. Forks. Life, by L. Aikin. N. Y., 1826. 2 v.
120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546.1,2
Baring-Gould, S. Origin and development of religious belief.
Part 1. Heathenism and 1losaism. N. Y., 1870. 120. . . 522.1
Barrow, Sir J. Mutiny of the Bounty. L., 1869. 180. . . . . 361.24
Beard, J. R. Sermons, with pravers, for families. B., 1832. 80. 545.4
Beauties and wonders of vegetable life. L., n.d. 160. . . . . . 932.9
Beecher, H. W. Lecture-room talks. N. Y., 1870. 120. 522.3
Beginning and growth of the Christian life. B., 1855. 120. 553.39
Bell, John. Importance and economy of sanitary measures to
cities. N. Y.,1869.. 80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 756.3
Bell of "Lion. B., 1840. 180 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552.36
Belsham, Thomas. Evidence and practical importance of the
Christian revelation. B , 1808. 160 . . . . . . . . . 542.19
Bemis, George. American neutrality : its honorable past, its ex-
pedient future. B., 1866. 80. . . . . . . . . . . . 935.2
Berkeley, G. F Tales of life and death. L., 1870. 2 v. 120 . . 943.4,5
Bible in the pu', lie schools. Cinn., 1870. 80 . . . . . . . . 565.2
Blackburn, H. Artist and Arabs. L., 1868. 80 . . . . . . . 315.6
Blair, Hugh. Sermons. B., 1792. 2 F. 80 . . . . . . . . 544.5,6
Blindpits; a story of Scottish life. N. Y., 1869. 120 215.15
Blundell, J. W. F. The muscles and their story, from the earliest
time. L., 1864. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 955.8
Blunt, Henry. Exposition of the epistles to the seven churches . . 546.16
Book about dominies. B., 1861). 160 . . . . . . . . . . . 561.2
Boston lectures (1870.) Christianity and scepticism 523.5
Boston light dragoons. Constitution, d.c., of. B., 1853 661.1
Bowden, J. The naturalist in Norway. L., 1869. 120. 932.7
Bradford, George. The Christian duty of patriotism. B., 1857.
b'j . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M. 3.1-3
Bradley, Mary. Birds of a feather. B., 1869. 160 . . . . . . 941.1.)
Handsome is that handsome does. B., 1869. 160 . . . 941.11
ltrazer,John. Divine influence on the human soul . . . . . . 552.35
Broadway annual, a miscellany of literature . . . . . . . . . 434.4
Brooks, Shirley. Aspen court. L., 1869. 160. . . . . . . . 941.5
Brown, S. G. Life of Rufus Choate. B., 1870. 120. . . . . . 734.9
Brown, NVm. History of missions. Phil., 1820. 80. . . . . . 54).1
Brown, Wm. C. The mother's assistant. B., 1841-44. 2 v. 80 . 434.1, 2
Bryant, W. C. Iliad of Homer. Trans. into Eng., blank verse . .*'435J,21
Buchner, Louis Force and matter. L., 1864. 120 . . . . . . 42 .7
Buck, Charles. Anecdotes. N. Y., 1831. 80 . . . . . . . . 6456
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Buckminster, J_ S. Sermons. B., 1829. 80 . . . . . . . . 65.1
Bulfinch, S. G. Holy Land and its inhabitants. Camb., 1834. 160 552.88
Lays of the Gospel. B., 1843. 160. . . . . . . . . . 651.35
Burnap, George W. Doctrine of the trinity. B., 1845. 120. . . 54r,.19
The sphere and duties of woman. Balt., 1841. 120 . . . . 646.21
Lectures on unitarianism. Balt., 1835. 120 . . . . . . . 646.18
Lectures to young men. halt., 1840. 120 . . . . . . . 546.20
Burnet, Gilbert Life of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. B., 1812
120 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . &U.9
Ilurr, E. F. Pater mundi. B., 1870. 160 . . . . . . . . . 632.1
Burty, Philippe. Chefs-d'oeuvre of the industrial arts. L. & N.Y.,
n.d. 80 200 plates and cuts . . . . . . . . . . . . 144.2
Bush, George. Life of Mohammed. N. Y., 1830. 160. . . . . 55323
Butler, Charles. Life of Fenelon. Balt., 1811. 160. . . . . 541.11
Butt, Isaac. History of Italy, from Napoleon I. L., 1860. 2 v.
80 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863.15,16
Byrne, Oliver. Dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work,
and engineering. N. Y., 1830. 2 v. 80. . . . . . *135.10,1
Cambridge, William G. Lelia Stewart. B., 1857. 120. 944.
Campbell, George D., D,&e of Argyle. Primeval man. L., 1869.
160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4426
Cappe, Catherine. Memoirs of the life of. B., 1824. 120. . . . 545.11
Cappe, N. Discourses. B , 1818. 80 . . . . . . . . . . . 544.2
Carnarvon, Earl of. See Herbert, H. J.
Catherine II, Life of. L., 1798. 3 v. 80. . . . . . . . . . 7 35.7-9
Cazin, Achille. Phenomena of light and beat. N. Y., n.d. 16°. 931.7
Cellerier, J. Authenticity of New Testament. B., 1838. 160. 551.30
Cervantes, Saavedra M. de. Don Quixote. Edinb., 1803. 4 v. 120. 942 2-5
Chalmers, Thomas. Sermons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 541.17
Chambers, Robert. Traditions of Edinburgh. Edinb., 1869. 120 . S,52 20
Chastellux,F. J. de. Travels in North America. L., 1787. 2 Y. 80. 313.1,2
Chateaubriand, F.A. de. Travels in Greece, &.c. N. Y., 1814. 80. 3151
Chatrian, A. Contes de la montagne. Paris, 1860. 160. . . . . 572.6
Child, L Al. Letters from New Fork. N. Y. and B., 1845. 2 v.
120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551.16,17
Mother's book. B., 1832. 120. 5469
Choules,J. O. Cruise of the North Star. B.and N. Y., 1854. 120. 312.3
Christian church, Nature of. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.29
Christian's treasure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542.14
Christie, William. Unity of God. Phil., 1808. 80. . . . . . 644.15
Church, P. Philosophy of benevolence. N. Y. and B., 1836. 120. 54514
Religious dissensions. N. Y., 1838. 120 . . . . . . . 641.14
Clarendon, Lord. .3(-e Hyde, E.
Clark, R. F.__ Mirthfulness and its exciters. B.. 1870. 120 . . . 433.8
Clark, R. W. Question of the hour: Bible and school fund. B.,
1870. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561.1
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Clarke, Adam. Manners of ancient Israelites. N. Y., 1825 160 . 34225
Clemens, S. T. The innocents abroad. . . . . . . . . . . 315.3
Coffin, C. C. Our new way round the world. B., 1869. 80. . . 314.1
Coleridge, S. T. Confessions of an inquiring spirit. B., 1841. 120. 552.7
Combe, Andrew. Physiology of digestion. B. 1836. 160. 931.9
Constitution of society, as designed by God. L., 1835. 80. 436.6
Cowley, Abraham, Essays. L., 1868. 160. . . . . . . . . 431.2
Cos, S. S. Search for winter sunbeams. N. Y., 1870. 80. . . . 3142
Craig, A. R. Book of the hand. L., 1867. 120. . . . . . . . 434.9
Craik, D. (M.) Al. A brave lady. N. Y., 1870. 80. . . . . . . 246.5
Unkind word, and other stories. N. Y., 1870, 120. . . . . 942.6
Crichton, A. Converts from infidelity. Edinb., 1827. 2 v. 160. . 553.2,3
Customs of the Jews. N. Y. and B., 1830. 180. . . . . . . . 553.24
Dallas, E. The gay science. L., 1866. 2 v. 80. . . . . . . 435.5,6
Dana, Al. S. B. Letters on the trinity. B., 1845. 1211. . . . . 546.3
Davidson, L. M. Poetical remains. Phil., 1841. 120. . . . . . 551.18
De Foe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. L., n.d. 80. . . . . . . 266.7
Denison, M. A. Music-master. B., 1863. 160. . . . . . . . 941.13
De Were, M. Sebele. Studies in English. N. Y., 1867. 120. . . 432.5
Devotional exercises, prayers and hymns for the use of communi-
cants. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.30
Dewey, Orville. Discourses and discussions on unitarianism. B.,
1840. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546.11
Discour;�s on human life. N. Y., 1841. 120. . . . . . . 546.12
Discourses on various subjects. N. Y., 1835. 120. . . . . 546.10
Dick, Thomas. Philosophy of the future state. N. Y., 1829. 120. . 545.15
Philosophy of religion. Brookfield, 1829. 120. . . . . . 545.16
Dickens, Charles. Home narratives. N. Y., 1854. 120. . . . . 944.5
Dictionary of polite literature. L., 1804. 2 v. 180 . . . . . . 141 -
Dircks, H. Life, times, and scientific labors of the Marquis of
Worcester. L., 1865. 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . 736.2
Disraeli, B. Lothair. N.Y., 1870. 120. . . . . . . . . . . 245.17
Doctrineg of Christianity. B., 1g09. 120. . . . . 545.10
Doddridge, P. Address on family religion. B., 1824. 120. 641.20
Life of Col. James Gardiner. B., 1811. 120. . . . . . . 542.:-,7
Dodge A. (Gail Hamilton). Battle of the books. Camb., 1870. 121. 432.6
Dowling, John. An exposition of the prophecies, supposed by Wm.
Miller to predict second coming of Christ in 1843. Prov.,
1840. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.7
Drake, S. G. History and antiquities of Boston. B., 1856. 80. . *867.3
Dumas, A. La tulipe noire. Paris, 1865. 16o. . . . . . . . 572.3
Les trois mousquetaires. Paris, 1865. 2 v. 160. . . . . . 572.1, 2
Duties of churches and rights of conscience. Salem, 1832. 80. . . 544.16
Edwards, A. B. Barbara's history. N.Y., 1865. 80. . . . . . 246.7
Eliot, R. R. Sermons. B,, 1810-34. 80. . . . . . . . . . 544.12
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Eliot, Wm. G. Early religious education. B., 1855. 120. - 654.4
Ellrod, 11. Ima, Rudolph von Hapsburgs erste .Jugendliebe. Ber-
lin, 1862. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 671.1
Emerson, R. W. Society and solitude. B., 1870. Mc� . . . . . 442.3 4
Enfield, W. Biographical sermons on the principal characters in
Scripture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 641.7
h.nglish traveller on revival of religion in America. B., 1828. 180. 653.18
Erckrnann, Chatrian. Contes de la montal;ne. Paris, 1860. 160. . 572.6
Essays and meditations. Eduib., 1762. 160. . . . . . . . . 552.12
Evans, J. Sketch of denominations of Christian world. B., 1807.
160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542.10
Testimonies in behalf of candor, etc. B., 1811. 1`0. . . . 512.11
Evans, R. W. Rectory of Valehead. Phil., 1822. 1G°. . . . . 553.22
Evidences and spirit of Christianity. . . . . . . . . . . . 6�33.32
Fairholt, F. W. Costume in England, history of dress. L., 1866.
120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 862.16
Farley, F. A. Scripture doctrine of Father, Son,and holy Ghost.
B , 1860. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 654.6
Farr, J. Sermons. B., 1833. 180. . . . . . . . . . . . 653.13
Female scripture characters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.21
Fenelon, selections from writings of. B., 1829. 120. . . . . . 541.10
Fessenden, Wm. P., Memorial addressess on life and character of,
delivered in U. S. Senate. Wash., 1870. 80. . . . . . . 7 36.1
Feudal castles of France. L., 1869. 80. . . . . . . . . . . 866.14
Feuillet, O. Camors. N.Y., 18G9. 120. . . . . . . . . . . 24514
Feval, Paul. Les units de Paris Paris, 1u66. 160. . . . . . 572.5
Figuier, Louis. Earth and sea. L., 1870. 80, 250 pl & cut . . 135.4
-- Mammalia. Their various orders and habits illustrated by
typical species. N.Y., 1870. b0, 261 pl. & cuts. . . . . . 1441
Primitive man. N.Y., 1870. 80, 2711 pl. & cuts. . . . . . 935.3
Reptiles and birds ; an account of the various orders; with a
description of the habits, etc. L., n.d. 80, 300 pl. & cuts.
143.6 & 144.1
Florian, J. P, C. de. Estelle Paris, 192.5). 240. . . . . . . . 572.7
Follen, Chas. Works, with memoir. B., 1841. 5 v. 120, . . 545.17-20
Fonvielle, W. de. Thunder and lightning. N.Y., 1869. 160. 931.6
Fox, Thos. B. Sketch of the reformation. B., 1836. 160. . . . 55234
Fos, W. J. Sermons on Christ and Christianity. L., 1831. 160. 546.23
Francis, Convers. Address July 4th, at Watertown. 1828. . . M. 3.7
Discourse, Dec. 22d, at Plymouth. 1832. . . . . . . . . M. 3.8
Memoir of Rev. John Allyn. 80. (pamph.) . . . . . . M. 3.6
Francklin, T. Sermons. L., 1765. 120. . . . . . . . . . 545.8
Frazer, I1. W. Seaside naturalist. L., 1868. 160. . . . . . . 93210
Fremy, Arnould. Journal d'une jeune fille. Paris, 1853. 160. . . 572.4
Friendly hands and kindly words. L., 1668. 120. . . . . . . 4425
Froissart, Sir John. Chronicles of England,France,etc. L. &N.Y.,
1868. 2 v. 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867.4, 5
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Froude,J. A. History of England from the fall of Wolsey to death
of Elizabeth. N.Y., 1870. Vols. 11 & 1.2. . . . . . . 862.4, 5
Gallenga, A. History of Piedmont. L., 1855. 3 v. 80. . . . 863.12-14
(German text.) Classiehe volks-literatur. Turandot, Schiller; Das
Abentheuer der Neujalirsnacht, Der Pascha von Buda,
Zschokke; Jud Suss, Die Betterlin voin Pont des Artes, Die
letzten Ritter von Marienburg, Der Mann im Monde, W.
Hauff: Phil., 1868. 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 573.1
Gidding, J. R. History of the rebellion. N.Y., 1864. 80. . . . 867.13
Gifford, James. Unity of God L., 1815. 80. . . . . . . . 544.17
Gilly, W. S. :Memoir of Felix Leff: B., 1832. 120. . . . . . 546.24
Gleig, G. R. Life of Duke of Wellington. L., 1865. 120. 734.19
Godwin, B. Lectures on atheistic controversy. B., 1835. 160. 551.13
Goodwin, E. S. Sermons. B., 1834. 160. . . . . . . . . . 552.1
Gorse, P. 11. Land and sea. L., 1866. 160. . . . . . . . . 931.13
Gough, J. B. Autobiography, etc. Springfield, 1869. 80. 735.6
Gould, A. A. Report on invertebrata of .Mass. B., 1870. 80. 152.14
Gould, S. Baring. See Baring-Gould.
Grant, J. Sketches of popular London preachers. N.Y., 1839. 120. 546.25
Green, J. H. Gambler's lite. Phil., n.d. 120. . . . . . . . 944.3
Gambling exposed. Phil., n.d. 120. . . . . . . 944.4
Green, S. Life of Mahomet. L., 1869. 180. . . . . . . . . 731.5
Greenwood, F. W. P. Sermons. B., 1844. 120. . . . . . . 546.6
Sermons of consolation. B , 18-1�4. 120. . . . . . . . . 546.3
Habits of good society. N Y., 1866. 120. . . . . . . . . . 432.7
Hale, M. Contemplations, moral and divine. Hartford, 1835. 160. 553.28
Hall, F. Life of Maximilian I., late Emperor of Mexico, with sketch
of Carlotta. N.Y., 1868. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . 734.11
Hall, R. Sermon on death of Princess of Vales. B., 1817. 120. . 641.20
Hamilton, E. Letters on formation of religious principles. Vol. 2. 541.26
Hamilton, Luther. Reasons for Unitarian belief. B., 1830. 120. . 546.17
Hanley, S. Caliphs & Sultans; tales usually omitted from Arabian
nights. L., 18118. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 912.7
Hamway, J. Advice from Father Trueman to his daughter, Mary.
Edinb., 1785. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 542.12
Hardee, W. Rifle and liglit infantry tactics. Phil., 1861. 240. 661.2
Harland, Marion. See Terhune, M. V.
Harris, J. Union; or divided church made one. B., 1838. 160. 552.18
Harte, F. B. Luck of roaring camp, etc. B., 1871. 160. . 441.5
Hartt, C. F. Geology and physical geography of Brazil. B., 1870.
80. . . . , . . . . . . . . . . 315.4
Hartwig, G. Polar world. N.Y., 1869. 80. . . . . . . . . 357.4
Harwood, E. Discourses on St. Paul's description of death. L.,
1790. 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544.13
Hay, Cecil. Club and drawing-room. L., 1870. 2 v. 120. 433.20,21
24 TRUSTEES' 1TEI'OI:T.
Ilazlitt,W. Plain speaker; opinions on books,men,and things. L.,
1870. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43328
Headley, J. T. Mstory of the persecutions and battles of Waldenses.
N.Y., 1850. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522 23
Heard, J. T. Historical account of Columbia lodge of free and ac-
cepted masons of Boston. B.,1856. 120. . . . . . 863.11
Heber, R. Palestine and other poems. Phil., 1828. 160. . . . . M3.5
Hedge, F. 11. Primeval world of Hebrew tradition. B.,1870. 160. 531.3
Herbert, H. J., Earl of Carnarvon. Reminiscences of Athens
and the Morea. L., 1869. 160. . . . . . . . . . . 312.9
Hickey, W. Constitution of U. S. A. Phil., 1847. 120. . . . . 663.4
History and pleasant chronicle of little Jehan de Saintre, with knight
of the tower, Landry, etc. L., 1862. 120. . . . . . . 945 3
Holland,J. G. Titcomb's letters to young people. N.Y., 1867. 120. 433.11
Holm, Lee. See Parr, H.
Home pictures of English poets. N.Y.,1869. 120. . . . . . . 433.
Homer. Iliad, translated by Wm. C. Bryant. B., 1870. 80. 435.1,
Homeward path. B., 1856. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . 554.1
Hood, E. P. Lamps, pitchers, and trumpets. (2d series.) NY.,
1869. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.2
Hooker, H. Popular infidelity. Phil., 1836. 120. . . . . , . 551.12
IIope, A R. Stories of school life. N.Y., n.d. 120. . . . . . 943.1
Hopley, H. Under Egyptian palms. L., 1869. 120. . . . . . 312.7
Howells, W. D. Suburban sketches. . . . . . . . . . . . 442.8
Hubbard, J. The church in glory. Westerly, R.I., 1868. 80. M. 3.5
Huguenots in France and America. Camb., 1843. 2 v. 120. . 652.14, 16
Huxley, T. H. Lay sermons, addresses,and reviews. N.Y., 1870.
120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443.1, 2
Hyacinthe, Father. The family and the church. N.Y., 1870. 120. 531.2
Hyde, E., Earl of Clarendon. History of the rebellion and civilL
wars in England. Oxford, 1827. 6 v. 80. . . . . . 866.17-2.'1
Ideal man. B., 1842. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 552.6
Immortality of the soul, Arguments for. Wor., 1808. 160. . . . 641.8
Invisible hand. N.Y., 1815. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.25
Irving, W. Life and voyages of Columbus. (Student's.) N.Y.,
1870. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 734.18
Irving, W. Student's life of Washington. N.Y., 1870. 120. . 734.17
.Tames, G. P. R. Life of Henry IV. L., 1847. 3 v. 80. . . 7 35.11-13
Jay, William. The Christian. B., 1828. 80. . . . . . . . . 644.14
Exercises for the closet. B., 1830. 2 v. 120. . . . . . 541.14, 15
Short discourses. Hartford, 1812. 2 v. 120. . . . . . 541.12, 13
Jewett, C. C. Smithsonian report. Notices of public libraries in
U.S.A. Wash., 1851. 80. . . . . . . . I . . . . 146.9
Smithsonian report on construction of libraries. Wash., 1852.
so. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146.8
Jones, A. D. Life of. B., 1842. 160.. . . . . . . . . . . 551.86
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Kennan, G. Tent life in Siberia, etc. N.Y. & L., 1870. 120. . . 312.8
Kenrick, T. Exposition of historical writings of N.Testament. B.,
1828. 3 v. 80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 525.1, 3
Keyser, R. Private life of old Northmen. L., 1868. 120. 852.15
King, C. W. Natural history of precious stones,and of the precious
metals. L., 1ti70. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933.5
Kin glake, A W. Eothen,traces of Eastern travel. N.Y., 1860. 120 312.1
King, P. Inquiry into constitution, etc., of the primitive church.
N.Y, 1841. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 523.3
Kingsley, H. Tales of old travel. L &; N.Y., 1869. 120. . . . 312.4
Kinaton, T. L. History of Fred. II., emperor of the Romans.
Camb. S, L., 1862. 2 v. 80. . . . . . . . . . . 867.11, 12
Kneeland, S. zinnual of scientific discovery for 1866-69. B., 1867-
69. 3 v. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 924.17-19
Kohl, J. G. Travels in Canada, etc. L., 1861. 120. . . . . . 313.3
Krummacber, F. Parables. Phil., 1841. 120. . . . . . . . . 551.19
Lamartine, A. History of the French revolution of 1848. B.,1849,
12o. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 852.14
Lothrop, J. Christ's warning to the churches . . . . . . . . 541.9
Discourse on Christian baptism. B.,1811. 120. . . . . . 542.20
Law, Wm. The divine life. B., 1842. 180. . . . . . . . . 652.22
Le Bas, C. W. Life of archbishop Cranmer N.Y., 1833. 2 v, 180. 532.26, 27
Life of Wiclif. N.Y., 18:3>2. 180. . . . . . . . . . . 552.28
Letters to Win. Wilberforce on hereditary depravity. B., 1799. 120. 542.8
Lewes, tit. J. elix Holt, the radical. N Y., 1866, 80. . . . . 246.8
Liberal Christian. Brooklyn (Conn.), 1823. 80. . . . . . . . 545.5
Life and its aims. Phil., 1854. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . 943.2
Lindsey, T. Historical view of unitarian doctrine and worship,
from the reformation. L., 1783. 80. . . . . . . . . . 543.8
Lippincott's pronouncing gazeteer. See Baldwin, T. &, J. Thomas. . *136.1
Locke, John. Essay on tit. Paul's epistles. . . . . . . . . . 552,20
Reasonableness of Christianity. B., 1811. 120. . . . . . 5425
Locke, Samuel. Sermon. B., 1810. 120. . . . . . . . . . 551.3
Loraine's faith examined and changed. B., 1836. 180. . . . . . 553.10
Lowell. J. R. Among my books. B., 1870. 120. . . . . . . 433.12
My study windows. B., 1871. 160. . . . . . . . . . 442.7
Loyson, C. See Hyacinthe, Le pore.
Ludlow, J. M. Popular epics of the middle ages of the Norse-Ger-
man and Carlovingian cycles. L., 1865. 2 v. 160. . . . 441.3, 4
Lyman, T. 3d. Papers relating to the Garrison mob Camb., 1870.
80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . N.2, 3
Lyttleton, Geo. (Lard). On the conversion of St. Paul. B.,
1810. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 561.3
Macdonald, George. Robert Falconer. B. 120. (2 cop.) . . . 945.1, 2
:McGee, Thomas D'Arcy. History of Ireland. L., n.d. 120. 862.3
4
26 TRUSTEES' REPORT.
AI'Ilvaine, C. P. Evidences of Christianity. N.Y., 1888 120. 651.10
Alalcom, 11. Travels in south-eabtern Asia. B., 1839. 2 v. 120. 651.21
llan's age in the world. L., 1b65. 80. . . . . . . . . . , 936.4
Alariou, F. Wonderful balloon ascents. N.Y., 1870. 160. 931,10
The wonders of optics. N.Y., 1869. 161,, . . . . . . . 931.5
Alark Twain. See Clemens, S. L
:harsh, G. P Lectures on the English language. N.Y., 1867. 120 4947
Man and nature, or physical geography. N.Y., 181.19. 120. . 434,6
Origin and history of the English language. N.Y., 1869. 120 434,5
Marshall, Mrs. L. A. My friend's family. B., 1819. 160. . . . 65337
Martineau, Harriet. History of peace: being the history of England
from 1816 to 1854. B., 1865. 4 v. 1211. . . . . . . b63.17-20
Providence as manifested through Israel. B., P333. 160. 653.17
The faith as unfolded by many prophets. B., 1833. 160. 552.31
Nartineau, James. Endeavors after the Christian life. B., 1844. 120 546.4
Mason, John. A treatise on self-knowledge. B., 1822. 180. . . 553.27
Massachusetts public documents for 1b70. B., 1870. 4 v. 80 6'J4.-
Massachusetts volunteers, Record of. B., 1868-70. 2 v. 40. *166.12, 13
Maundrell, H. Aleppo to Jerusalem. B., 1636. 180. . . . . 553.34
Medbury, J. K. Men and mysteries of Wall street. B., 1870. 120 433.6
Meditations for the sick and (lying. . . . . . . . . . . . . 553.33
'1lelancthon, Life of. Hartford, 1830. 180. . . . . . . . . 553.11
Mercantile library association, Constitution, by-laws, etc. . . . . N.4.16
hiller, Hugh. Articles on various subjects. . . . . . . . . . 433.10
Mitford, Mary R. Lite. Told by herself in letters. N.Y., 1870.
2 v. 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 724.23, 24
Moens, W. J. C. English travellers and Italian brigands. L., 1866.
2 v. 12. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312.5, 6
Mommsen, Theodor. Ilistory of Rome. N.Y., 1869-70. 4 v. 120. 852.10-13
Monstrelet, E. de. Chronicles (continuation of Froissart.) 1400-
1467. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 867.6, 7
Moore, Martin. Life and character of John Eliot. B., 1822. 160. 563.35
More, Hannah. Lady's pocket library. 1797. 160. . . . . . 552.23
Modern system of female education. Salem, 1809. 120. . . 642.13
Morehead, R. Series of discourses. Phil., 1810. 80. . . . . . 544.10
Morgridge, C. True believer's defence. B., 1837. 120. 651.11
Morison, John. Counsels to young men. B., 1834. 160. 553.12
Morris, Wm. The earthly paradise. Parts III. 8;, IV. B., 1870. 160. 743.4, 5
Motley, J. L. Historic progress and American democracy, (pamph.) N. 2 2
Murphy, J. J. IIahit and intelligence L., 1867. 8°. . . . . . 435.3, 4
Murr, Katers. Lebens-Ansicliten,nebst fragmentarischer Biographie
des Johannes Kriesler. Berlin, n.d. 160. . . . . . . . 571.3
Murray, Lindley. Power of religion on the mind. N.Y., 1808. 120. 542.6
Murray, Wm. 11. H. Music-hall sermons. B., 1870. 120.
:lluzzey, A. B. '11an a soul. B., 1842. 160. . . . . . . . . 552-10
The young maiden. B., 1840. 160. . . . . . . . . . 551 34
The young man's friend. B., 1836. 160. . . . . . . . . 552.29
TGCSTEES' RFP®rT. 27
Neal, J. 'Mutiny of the :`ore. L., 1869. 180. . . . . . . . . 361.23
Neils, Kate .1. Fine feathers do not make fine birds. B., 1869. 16". 941.10
Newell, E. F. Forty years an itinerant (NIethdoist) minister. . . 622.26
Newman. S. P. Rhetoric. N.Y., 1846. 16(). . . . . . . . . 442.2
New York election frauds. Wash., 1869. 80. . . . . . . . . N. 8.1
Nolen, E. H. Illus. history of the war against Russia. L., 2 v. 80. 867.1, 2
Mutt, Samuel. Sermons. B., 1835. 120. . . . . . . 551.25
01shausen, 11. Last days of the Saviour. B., 1839. 160. . 5524
O'Neil, H. Two thousand years lience. L., n.d. 12a. . . . . . 433.24
Opie, Amelia. A cure for scandal. B., 1839. 160. . . . . . 552.21
Origin of the material universe. B., 1850 120. . . . . . . . 434.3
Orme, Wm. Life and times of Richard Baxter. B., 1831. 2 v. 80. 545.2, 3
Orton, James, The Andes and the Amazon. N.Y., 1870. 120. 333.20
Orton, Job. Discourses. Sliewsbury, (Eng)., 1776. 2 v. 160. 511.3, 4
Life and character of Phillip Doddridge. L., 1824. 160. 642.26
Religious exercises recommended. Bridgeport, 1809. 120. 541.5
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Owen, John Spiritually minded. B., 1833. 120. . . . . . . 551.5
Paijkull, C. W. A summer in Iceland. L., 1868. 80. . . . . . 315.2
Paley, Wm. Natural theology. B., 1841. 120. . . . . . . . 523.2
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Palfrey,John G. Discourse at Barnstable on the 200th anniversary
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A harmony of �he gospels. B., 1831. 80. . . . . . . . 525.4
Sermons. B.,1835, 120. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546.22
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Pious thoughts B., 1834. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 563.14
Plato, The republic of. Camb. (Eng.), 1866. 160. . . . . . . 441.2
Plutarch's morals. B., 1870. 5 v. 80. . . . . . . . . . . 435.7-11
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Porter, James. The true evangelist. B., 1847. 180. . . . . . 5227
Prentiss, E. Stepping heavenward. N.Y., 1870. 120. . . . . . 245.18
Pressense, E. de. Rome and Italy at the opening of the ecumenical
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Prie9tley, Jos. Gen history of the Christian church. 1803. 6 v. 80. 643.2-7
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Protestant Episcopal Church. Journal of the convention of 1863
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28 TRUSTEES REPORT.
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Reformer,, distinguished, Biography of. . . . . . . . . . . 553.31
Lives of Wicliff, Cobham, Buss, Jerome, and Zisca. 5122
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Odd people. B., 1666. 160. . . . . . . . . . . . . 941.14
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Repository tracts for Sunday reading. L., 1820. 120. . . . . . 541.19
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Robbins, Chandler. Life of ll. E. Clapp. B., 1858. 160. . . . 5543
Rochetoucauld. Maxims and moral reflections. L., 1868. 180. 43
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Sacred memoirs; Adam to Joseph an(? Moses. B., 1835. 2 v. 120. 531.26, 27
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St. John, J. A. Life of Sir Falter Raleigh. L., 1869. 120. . 734.14
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Sandforth, John, 'Mrs Woman in her social and domestic character. 552.8
Sardoc and Miriam; a Jewish tale. . . . . . . . . . . . . 55211
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Society for promoting Christian knowledge, piety, and charity. The
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Life of Wesley; and the rise and progress of Methodism.
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Sparks, J. Trinitarian and unitarian doctrines. B., 1823. 80. . . 647.2
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Letters on the ministry, &e., of the Episcopal church.. 551.7
Spiritual interpreter. B , 1831-36. Vols. 1, 2, 5, 6, and 7. . 531.22-27
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Swedenborg, E. Angelic wisdom concerning divine love and divine
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Apocalypse revealed. N. Y., 1868. 2 v. 80. . . . . . 535.11,12
Delights of wisdom concerning conjugal love. N. Y., 1870.
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4-- Earths in our solar system called planets and earths in the
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Four leading doctrines of the new church. N. Y. 1868 . . . 534.1
Concerning heaven and hell. N. Y., 1868. 120. . . . . . :'34.2
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Last judgment and Babylon destroyed. N. Y., 1868. 80. . . 535.16
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True Christian religion N. Y., 1870. 80. . . . . . . . 535.13
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Ancestral stories and traditions of great families, illustrative of
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Whitman, B. Friendly letters to a universalist on divine rewards
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Causes ind evils of contentions among Christians. B., 1831. 160 542.17
Last th, ughts on important subjects. Camb , 1833. 120. 542.18
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Zollikofer, G.J. Sermons on the dignity of man. Wor., 1807. 2 v.
80. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .' . . . . . . . 544.7, 8