HomeMy Public PortalAbout1877 Annual Watertown Report AN--N'7UAL REPORT
OF THE AUDITOR OF THE
TOWi OF WATERTOWN
FOR THE
YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1817.
CONTAINING
REPORTS OF THE TREASURER, SELECTMEN, ASSESSORS, APPRAISERS, COLLECT-
ORS OF TAXES, OVERSEERS OF THE POOR AND HIGHWAYS, TOWN
CLERK AND REGISTRAR, ENGINEERS OF THE FIRE DEPART-
3IENT, SCHOOL COMMITTEE, TRUSTEES OF THE FREE
PUBLIC LIBRARY, ETC., ETC.
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PRESS OF ROCRIV E, 1, 1, AND CHURCHILL,
No. 39 AltCIi STREET.
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TOWN OFFICERS, 1876,
Selectmen, Surveyors of highways and Overseers of the Poor.
WILLIAM H. INGRAHAM, Chairman, OLIVER SHAW,
WARD M. OTIS, Secretary, HAYES W. MACLTRDY,
NATHANIEL C. SANGER.
Town Clerk.
TILDEN G. ABBOTT.
Town Treasurer.
JOHN K. STICKNEY.
Assessors.
GEORGE L. NOYES, Chairman, CHARLES J. BARRY,
JOHN W. TUTTLE.
School Committee.
JOHN MI'RRAY, Chairman pro tem., Term expires March, 1877.
Rim. M. M. GREEN, Secretary, it It 1. 1879.
M$a. ANN M. HAPGOOD, 01 44 it 1877.
WILLIAM If. DADMLIN, " If 1877.
CHARLI;S W. STONE, 1877.
One vacancy.
Auditor.
EDWARD B. EATON.
Constables and Truant nfjrcers.
GEORGE PARKER, EZRI-Ai V. HOWARD,
SAMUEL F. STEARN$.
Collector of Taxes.
GEORGE L. NOTES.
4 TON%'N OFFICERS.
Appraisers.
HAYES W. MACURDY, NATHANIEL C. SANGER,
WARD M. OTIS.
Fence Fieuers.
JOHN COOLIDGE, Jo,,,., DANIEL A. TAINTER,
EZRU M V. HOWARD.
Trustees Free Public Library.
ALFRED IiOSMER, M. D., Chairman, Term expires March, 1879.
CHARLES J. BARRY, Secretary, °° t& {l 1879.
GEORGE N. MARCH, Treasurer, {i 10 1877.
A.. C. STOCKIN, [{ {( 1878.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE, °' 1877.
GEORGE K. SNOW, '° °° 1878.
Field Drivers.
GEORGE C. LUNT, LEWIS BROWN,
LUTHER BENT, HENRY W. LOCKE,
JOHN ROSS, LEVI A TURNER,
GEORGE E. TEELE, ROBERT L. DAVIS.
Officers crppohitecl by the Selectmen.
Regular Policemen.
GEORGE PARKER., EZRUM V. HOWARD.
0 Policemen with pay when on duty.
THOMAS CARROLL, RICHARD NEWMAN,
SAMUEL F. STEARN S.
Policemen appointed u-ithout pay.
JAMES F. BURKE, HIRAM 1bicGLAUFLIN,
FRANK E. FORBES, JOSEPH COLLINS,
GEORGE H. GREGG, ALEXA:ti DER A. BARKER.
NATHANIEL GEE, EDWARD PATCHETT,
GEORGE E. S. HUTCHINS, E. F. YOUNG,
OSCAR F. KNOX.
Fire Polite with pay while on duty.
H. B. CHENEY, L. ALLEN SIIAW,
H. P. HUBBARD, OWEN McGRATH,
FRED E. WATERHOUSE.
TOWN OFFICERS. 5
Beeper of Lockup.
HIRAM McGLAUFLIN.
Superintendent of Highzrays.
WILLIAM PERKINS.
Sexton, and Undertaker.
ALEXANDER GREGG.
Pound-Beeper and Beeper of Almshouse.
ZACHARIAH BOODY.
Sealer of Weights and .Measures.
GEORGE H. GREGG.
Surveyors and Measurers of Mood and Bark.
CHARLES W. BERRY, WILLIAM H. PEVEAR.
ARTEMUS B. ROGERS, HARRY E. DADMUN.
Clerks of the .Market.
J. ALBERT SULLIVAN, GEORGE PARKER.
,71casurers of Grain.
FREDERICK IIUTCHINS, JOIiN BOYCE.
Public Weigher and Superintendent of Hay Scales.
THOMAS PATTEN.
Pp-irate O'eighers of Ilay, Coal, Lire Animals, etc.
EDWARD I3. EATON, L. I'. IIAMMOND,
WILLIAM II. PEVEAR, WILLIAYi P. 11 ARRIS,
TIMMAS GAVEN, B. F. WYETI1.
.Engineers of Fire Department.
GEORGE 11, ATOORE, CHARI.ES W. BERRY,
WILLIAM E. FARWELL.
Janitor of Town Hall.
ALEXANI)ER GREGG.
TOWN GRANTS AND APPROPRIATIONS.
Grants of money made by the town of Watertowu for the
year 1876, and ordered to be Assessed upon the polls and
estates of the town according to law, except the amount of
$10,000 to be drawn from the contingent fund.
Almshouse, support of poor, $3,000 00
Bridges and culverts, 600 00
Care of cemeteries, 75 00
Contingent, 1,000 00
Discounts and abatements, 4,000 00
Dalnages on Market St., and cost of cross-walk,
Alt. Auburn to Spring St., 4,821 79
Door in en-ine-house, altering, 100 00
Extension Morse St., 950 00
Fire department, 51572 00
Free public library, 1,500 00
Highways, 8,000 00
Interest on town debt, 7,000 00
Insurance, 1,000 00
I. B. Patten, Post 81, G. A. R., 100 00
Layhig out and widening 11Talnut st., 2,600 00
Police, 3,150 00
Printing, 800 00
Schools (including $800 appropriated f(ir books
and stationery), 19,800 00
Sidew'diis, 2,500 00
Street-lights and lamp-posts, 3,500 00
Salaries, 3,000 00
TOWN GRANTS AND APPROPRIATIONS. 7
Town debt, paying portion of, $5,000 00
Town Hall, heating, lighting and care, 1,000 00
$79,068 79
By vote of the town, the following sum was
appropriated as follows :From contingent fund, $10,000 00
`Toted, to assess balance of town grant on the
polls and estates of the town, according to law, $69,068 79
Voted that the amount of dog-tax for 1875 be appropriated
to the Free Public Library.
Amount received, $330 05
Less killing 17 dogs, 17 00
Balance to Free Public Library. $313 05
Voted, that the overlayings on taxes, and all other sums
received into the treasury, not specially appropriated, or per-
taining to definite departments, be placed to the credit of the
contingent fund.
JANUAI?Y 11, 187 7.
Voted, that the Selectmen be empowered to transfer from
the contingent fund such sums of money as may be necessary
to ma lie good overdrawn appropriations of other departments.
Voted, that the sum necessary be appropriated to pay the
defic•ieneY in the expense for the Fourth of July celebration,
and that the oration delivered on that day he printed in the
corning town report.
ASSESSORS' REPORT.
VALUATION AND TAXES OF THE TOWN OF WATERTOWN FOR
THE YEAR 1876.
The valuation of Real Estate is, $5,471,630 01)
66 6(' Personal Estate is, 2.294,540 00
Total valuation, $71766,170 00
The whole number of poili is, 1,347.
A31OUNTS ASSESSED.
State tax, $7,104 00
County tax, 2,68E 46
Town 01rants, 69,068 79
Overlay inns, 2,447 68
$81 .908 93
Tax on 1,347 Polls, at $2.00 each, $2,694 00
r< <` Estate, $1.02 on $7,766,170, 79,214 :43
$81,908 93
The sum of $42 7.21 has also, been .,;sewed a► ,
additional taxes, 427 z1
The number of Houses in town is 861
Horse• 6 L 452
< << Cows .< 224
•� hulls 4
Oxen << <<
Acres of Land taxed is, 2,041+11.733 ft.
Respectfully submitted,
GEO. L. NOYES, Assessors
CHAS. J. BARRY, of
JOHN W. T LITTLE, ll'atertown.
COLLECTOR'S" REPORT.
To the Auditor of the Tozv?z of 11,atertoun: —
I herewith submit my report of the collection of taxes for
1874-75-76.
FOR 1874. DR.
To uncollected taxes per report Feb. 1, 1876, $793 85
64 interest collected, 115 47
$909 32
CR.
By cash paid Town Treasurer, per receipts, $909 32
FOR 1875. DR.
To uncollected taxes, per report Feb. 1, 1876, $20,906 74
interest collected, 882 20
$21,7 88 94
CR.
By cash paid Town Treasurer, per receipts, $209620 05
balance taxes uncollected, 1,168 89
$21,788 94
FOR 1876. DR. --- —
To amount of taxes committed, $81,908 93
additional taxes, 427 21
hank tax, 11044 49
interest collected, 42 31
$811,422 94
10 COLLECTOR 98 REPORT.
CR.
By cash paid Town Treasurer, $64,348 03
<< " " County Treasurer, County tax for
18769 2,688 46
Balance uncollected, 16,386 45
$83,422 94
Respectfully yours,
GEO. L. NOYEs, Collector.
The above statement has been duly examined and found
to be correct, proper vouchers having been presented.
E. B. EATON, Auditor.
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AUDITOR'S REPORT.
SCHEDULE OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES FOR THE
FINANCIAL YEAR ENDING JANUARY 31, 1877.
RECEIPTS.
Cash in Treasury, Feb. 15, 1876, $539 90
Received of Geo. L. Noyes, collector, taxes
and interest, 1874, 909 32
Geo. L. Noyes, collector, taxes
and interest, 1875, 20,620 05
Geo. L. Noyes, collector, taxes
and interest, 1876, 64,348 03
Borrowed of Union Market National Bank, in
anticipation of taxes, at 5 per
cent., 36,000 00
Mereantile Savings Institution
for one year from August 9,
1876, at 6 per cent., 20,000 00
ON ACCOUNT OF ALMSHOUSE.
Received of City of Cam])ridge, sup-
port of paupers, $32 75
City of Lowell, aid of
John Rose, 55 10
Town of Belmmit, sup-
port of paupers, 313 44
City of Boston, aid of
Daniel Quinn, 12 00
12 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Received of Commonwealth of Mas-
saebusetts, support of
paupers, $88 37
Highway,hay for horses, 318 50
Highway, labor, Z.
Boody, 45 00
Z. Boody, sale farm
produce, 41 70
Wm. Wallace, on ac-
count of relit, 35 00
$941 86
ON ACCOUNT OF HIGHWAYS.
Received of Bridges and culverts;
labor, $247 50
Laying Out and w iden-
ing Walnut street,
labor, 469 00
Extension Of Morse
street, labor, 444 25
Wm. Perkins, use of
derrick, 27 00
Wm. Perkins, sale of
loam, 34 25
Wm. Perkins, labor
and material, 22 95
$1,244 95
ON ACCOUNT OF TOWN HALL.
Received of A. Gregg, Janitor, rent
to Feb. 1, 1877, $505 33
$505 33
ON ACCOUNT OF POLICE.
Received of H. McGlauflin, board
of travellers, $30 00
$30 00
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 13
ON ACCOUNT OF SCHOOLS.
Received of Treasurer of Common-
wealth, school fund, $121 93
— $121 93
ON ACCOUNT OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Received of Geo. B. Moore, for
water pumped, $13 00
Geo. B. Moore, for
manure, etc., 36 50
$49 50
ON ACCOUNT OF SIDEWALKS.
Received of Hiram Whitney, $135 00
James Sullivan, 16 60
Elmore Russell, 13 72
Mrs. Gallagher, 6 50
Geo. B. `'Wilbur, 29 25
D. Sullivan, 10 90
J. H. Conant, 28 11
J. P. 1llellidre, 80 90
E. Fitzwilliam, 23 49
Henry Russell, 34 22
$378 69
MISCELLANEOUS.
Received of Brighton Nationn] Bank,
tax and interest Boyd
dam and .3 acres vof
laucl, $181 87
Alt. Aulmni Corpora-
tion, tax and interest
land adjoinim C(Ime-
etery, 376 34
14 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Received of Mt. Auburn Corpora-
tion, for fees paid E.
R. Hoar, Esq. $25 00
Mt. Auburn Corpora-
tion,for land released
from taxation, 2,500 00
Mt. Auburn Corpora-
tion, for interest, 3 31
West Boston. Savinas
Bauk,taxand interest
S. J. Lowell estate, 160 46 .
W. W. Dearborn, tax
and interest Cutter
lot No. 42, 96 67
G.Hart,tax and interest
Cutter lot No. 14, 181 87
G.Hart,tax and interest
Cutter lot No. 30, 77 55
J. F.Wheeler, trial jus-
tice fees, 34 35 `
S. E. Sparrow, license
as auctioneer, 2 00
AIrs.Nfary Crafts,Grave
lot No. 142, 51 75
A.Grez(r,frl',tVe 1()t gnu,
sold, A. L. Derby, 15 00
Quincy Alutual Insur-
ance Co., return pre-
mium, 154 12
Traders and Mechanics
Mutual Insurance
Co.,return premium, 9 00
Fitchburg Alutual In-
surance Co., return
premium, 45 00
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 15
Received of Treasurer Common-
wealth, corporation
► tax, $1,691 00
Treasurer Common-
wealth, bank tax, 15530 82
Treasurer Common-
wealth,State aid,'75, 700 00
County Treasurer, dog
tax, 330 05
Town Treasurer, inter-
est on John Temple
ton Fund to Decem-
ber 21, 1876, 175 00
Thos. Patten, fees for
weighing at town
scales, 174 08
$154,204 80
EXPENDITURES.
To cash paid Almshouse, $4,714 63
Bridges and culverts, 644 62
Contingent, 21448 01
Care of Cemetery, 75 00
Discountsandabatem'ts, 3,806 89
Damages Market street,
and footway expenses, 4,821 79
Extension Morse st., 950 00
Free Public Library, 11813 05
Fire Department, 5,065 82
High ways, 9,351 82
Interest on town debt, 6,758 13
Insurance, 910 75
I. B. Patten Post 81
G. A. R., 100 00
Laying out and widening
Walnut street, 2,600 00
Police, 3,186 04
16 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
To cash paid Printing, $784 44
Schools, 211203 17
Salaries, 3,000 00
Sidewalks, 3,124 06
Street lamps, 3,367 67
Town debt, paying por-
tion of, 5,000 00
Town Hall, 1,337 17
Templeton fund, 175 00
Water supply and drain-
age, 643 29
Borrowed money, 56,000 00
State Aid, 810 00
State Tax, 7,704 00
Bank Tax, 1,051 81
$151,447 16
Balance in Treasury, 2,757 64
154,204 80
ALMSHO UTSE.
To Appropriation, $3,000 00
City of Cambridge, support of poor, 32 75
Loieell, aid to John Rose, 55 10
Town of Belmont, support of poor, 313 44
Treasurer of Commonwealth, support of poor, 88 37
Z. Boody, Supt., sale of farm produce, 41 70
IIighways, hay for horses, 318 50
labor Z. Boody, 45 00
City of Boston, aid to D. Quinn, 12 00
Wm. Wallace, house-rent, 35 00
Contingent, transferred as authorized Jan. 11, '77, 772 77
Expenditures, $4,714 63
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 17
SALARIES, ETC.
Z. Boody, salary as Sul)eriutendent, $462 50
Dlary A. Holmes, services, 77 00
Anti Al Aska, services, 34 34
Bridget Cusic, 6 00
$579 84
FISH.
M. Rogers, $18 32
PROVISIONS, MEAT, ETC.
W. Howes, $44 80
F. T. Fay, 13 38
W. H. Lyman, 49 16
H. P. Mason, 27 15
E. S. Plaiste,l, 51 26
$185 75
GROCERIIES.
C. W. Berry, $254 14
Samuel Noyes &, Co., 109 89
$364 03
DRY GOODS AND BOOTS AND SHOES.
S. H. Coombs, $37 15
Otis Brothers, 105 17
$142 32
CLOTIIING.
A. B. Rogers' $32 60
FUEL.
R. Gilkey, $54 00
A. Braelcett, 67 00
2w $121 00
18 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
HARDWARE, TOOLS, ETC.
A. Howes, $12 68
R. H. Paine, 3 03
W. L. Stiles, 4 48
$20 19
FURNITURE.
L. Bent & Co., $13 66
GRAIN AND FLOUR.
Coffin and Magee, $294 60
BLACKSMITH WORK.
W. C. Foley, $4 78
John Ross, 30
James Hall, 13 49
$18 57
CARPENTER WORK.
S. F. Stearns, stock and labor, $0 95
R. Gilkey, fence stuff, etc., 7 53
$8 48
HARNESS REPAIRS.
Thomas Patten, $11 75
MISCELLANEOUS REPAIRS.
E. S. Carr, repairing slates on barn, and
roof of house, $23 00
Henry Russell, wall paper and hanging, 8 70
N. C. Sanger & Sons, glazed sash and
glass, 2 40
John Page, paint, 68
John Tucker, wheelwright repairs, 8 7 5
$43 53
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 1��
MEDICINES AND MEDICAL ATTENDANCE.
J. A. Sullivan, $25 4
Dr. L. B. Horse, 23 00
$48 45
MISCELLANEOUS.
John B. Rogers, billing hogs, $8 00
Howard Brothers, ice, 10 80
«'alker, Pratt ,_f-, Co., range and funnel, 10 75
Z. Boody, pigs, 20 00
49 seed potatoes and corn, 4 30
<< << sundry expenses, fares, etc., 14 98
$128 8a
f
ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS OUTSIDE OF ALMSHOUSE.
Armstrong, Irwin, aid by various per-
sons, $32 75
Bacon, Elizabeth, aid by City of Bos-
ton, 18 12
Benton, Alrs. Perrin, aid by City of
Caa.mbrialre, 5 30
Bean, Mrs. J., aid by various persons, 13 00
Bright, Geo., 44 64 64 22 00
Burke, .Tames, 4, << 44 24 50
Chant, Ifni-%, A., aid by City of Boston, 9 02
Carev, 11 a:,. .Mary, aid by various per-
sonR, 14 88
Crehan, Airs., aid by various persons, 4 00
*Chaise, Charles, << 58 27
Chase, Mrs. C., << 72 00
Chaise, G. 11., « << << G 75
Dailey, Ann, aid by City of Cambridge, 36 00
* Deceased.
20 AUDITOR'S P.EPORT.
Dunn, Mrs., aid by various persons, $39 50
Drury, Mrs., " " '' 18 57
Dunn, Norah, aid by Worcester Lu-
natic Hospital, 86 73
Daniels, Mrs., aid by various persons, 10 73
Donahoe, Mr., " " " 15 20
Eagan, Alrs., " " 3 50
Flynn, Mrs., " " " 229 33
Fin", Mrs., " 23 25
(Gallagher, Mrs., " " " 3 00
Harrington, Con., " " " 7 88
Higbee, Mrs. C., " " " 45 85
Mall, Mrs. H., 26 00
Hall, Mrs. T., " " 37 00
He$eran, Mrs., " " G 75
Hanberry, Bate, aid by Common-
wealth of Mass., 177 25
Kerwin, Catherine, aid by City of
Lowell, 12 00
Kenney, llrs. Ann, aid by various
persons, 28 25
Kelley, 3',rs., aid by various persons, 118 32
Keleher, 11rs. C., aid by various per-
sons, 24 00
*Kelley, John, aid by various persons, 21 70
Lem►uins, Mrs. L., aid by various
persons, 8 50
Martin, Mrs. W., aid by various per-
sons, 54 88
Harden, C. T., aid by various persons, 24 00
1lurray, Mrs., " " " 13 P3
Milner, F. S., " " " 28 50
Mahoney, J. 7 00
DlcGuire, Mrs., " " " 55 80
*Deceased.
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 21
McCormack, C., Rid by various persons, $5 75
McFeeley, J., aid by Commonwealth
of Mass., 1 92
Maher, Christopher, aid by various
persons, 3 00
Osborn,lra J., aid by City of Fitchburg, 72 00
Quinn, Daniel; aid by various persons, 33 00
Robbins, F. D., aid by Commonwealth
of Aiass.9 39 14
Riley, Mrs., aid by various persons, 83 40
Ross, Wm. (child), aid by board paid, 3 75
Dose, John, aid by various persons, 119 97
Relaan, Bridget, aid by various per-
sons, 5 00
Regan, Mrs. D., aid by various persons, 82 25
Skinner, Aiary, aid by City of Boston, 54 02
Stone, Nancy W., it it 01 100 00
Smith, Mrs. R. and child, aid by City
of Somerville, 17 40
Smith, Airs. R. and child, aid by med-
ical attendance, ,5 00
Sprague, Miles, aid by various persons, 58 00
Spalane, J., it << 49 18 00
Sprague C., 3 65
Travellers, aid by refreshments, etc., 58 19
Victory, Mrs., aid by various persons, 16 00
Walker, F.lizzibeth M., aid by City of
Boston, 24 00
Ward, John Ai., aid by City of Boston, 3 82
Welsh, John and daughter, aid at
$12.00 per month, 11 months, 132 00
Welsh, John, aid at $10.00 per month,
one month, 10 00
White, Airs. C'.., aid by various person-,, 26 55
Welch, Mrs. AL 13. it cc 41 61 05
Whitney, W. F., 84 68
22 AUDITOR's REPORT.
Prisoners, aid by Middlesex House
Correction, $117 56
$2,682 71
$4,714 63
BANK TAX.
To am't reed of Treasurer Commonwealth, $1,530 82
it paid 66 f6 1,051 81
Balance to contingent, $4 7 9 01
BRIDGES AND C UL VENTS.
To appropriation, $600 00
contingent, transfer authorized, Jan. 11, 1877, 44 62
$644 62
EXPENDITURES.
G. Fuller cC Son,plank for Brighton bridge, $39 28
I-I. IV. 1llacurdy, labor and spikes for
Brighton bridge, 57 34
R. Gilkey, plank for Brighton bridge, 30 03
46 Arsenal It 26 96
Berry &Moody, labor and spikes for Arse-
nal bridge, 33 15
Berry& Dloody,labor and spikes for paper-
mill bridge, 3 85
111. Whiting, labor, stock, etc., paper-mill
bridge, 3 55
S. F. Stearns, labor, stock, etc., paper-
mill bridge, 2 00
R. Gilkey, plank, paper-mill bridge, 21 48
Highways, labor on culvert on Water-
town street, 214 00
AUDITOR 9S REPORT. 23
O. F. Knox &- Co., covering stone,culverts, $25 89
A. Howes, drain pipe, culverts, 53 35
W. C. Foley, grate bars, " 5 93
T. L. French, mason work, culverts, 11 58
R. Gilkey, lumber and cement, culverts, 7 33
Highways, labor, culverts, 33 50
R. Gilkey, cement and plank, Morse-st.
bridge, 75 40
$644 62
CARE OF CEMETERIES.
To appropriation, $7 5 00
EXPENDITURES.
A. Gregg, mowing grass, and labor,
75 00
C ONTINGENT.
To appropriation, $1,000 00
Brighton Bank, tax and int. on Boyd dam.
and land, 3 acres, 181 87
Mt. Auburn Corporation, tax and int. on
land adjoining cemetery, 376 34
Mt. Auburn Corporation, fees to E. R.
Hoar, Esq., 25 00
Mt. Auburn Corporation, release of land
from taxation, 29500 00
Mt. Auburn Corporation, interest, 3 31
J. F. Wheeler, trial justice fees, 34 35
S. E. Sparrow, auctioneer's license, 2 00
West Boston Savings Bank, tax and in-
terest, S. J. Lowell estate, 160 46
George Hart, tax and rent, Cutter lot 14 181 87
30 77 55
24 AUDITOR's REPORT.
W. W. Dearborn, tax and int., Cutter
lot 42, $96 67
Quincy Mutual Ins. Co., return premium, 154 12
Fitchburg << 66 it 46 45 00
Traders and Mechanics Ins. Co., return
premium, 9 00
A. Gregg, sale grave lot 142, 51 75
<< 66 66 66 80!119 15 00
State Treasurer, corporation tax, 1,691 00
<< << balance bank tax, 479 01
Thomas Patten, fees for weighing town
scales, 174 08
Overlay taxes 1876, 2,447 68
County Treasurer, killing 17 dogs, 17 00
$9,723 06
EXPENDITURES.
Berry & Moody, repairing town scales, $75 73
it 66 fencing on Morse, Ar-
senal, and Walnut sts., 250 06
W. C. Foley, fence, posts, spikes, sta-
ples, on Walnut st., 25 57
John Page, painting bay-scales, 3 20
A. Cummings, mason work bay-scales, 6 50
Wm. Rogers, care town clock, 50 00
S. F. Stearns, killing 57 dogs, 57 00
Thos. Patten, scale books, 3 60
9 " salary as weigher town
scales, 87 04
Thomas Gavin, digging well, Common
street, 55 25
Caleb Kingman, pump for well, Com-
mon street, 36 00
O. F. Knox &- Co., stone watering-
trough for well, Common street, 24 00
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 25
Otis Brothers, flagging at well, Com-
mon street, $6 25
W. O. Aleri ithew, repairing staff and
sending topmast down, 25 25
R. H. Paine, rope for flag-staff, 4 14
G. B. Stockwell, horse-hire, police
distributing warrants, etc., 46 50
G. S. Bowen, clipper at town pump, 75
A. Hones, chain for dipper at town
pump, 35
H. F. Alerrifield, raising draw,Brighton
bridge, 21 70
O. F. Knox & Co., raising draw,
Brighton bridge, 13 30
11'. J. Mills, painting engine-house, 50 00
C. C. McLautlilin, stationery to town
offices, 19 91
J. F. Lovering (Rev.), preparing and
delivering oration 4th Jnly, 125 00
Johnson & Clarke, ribbons, etc., for
decoration 4th July, 18 33
J. W. Pinkham, bunting for decoration
4th July, 20 63
N. C. Sanger & Son, lumber for seats,
4th July, 28 03
S. F. Steams, labor preparing for 4th
July, 22 90
Geo. 11. Gregg, sealing weights and
measures, 45 00
T. G. Abbott, recording births, mar-
riat;es and deaths, 104 36
T. G. Abbott, postage, 5 00
' A. Gregg, returns of deaths, 22 75
A. Gregg, repairing tomb, 3 00
t
26 AUDITOR 18 REPORT.
J K. Stickney, treasurer, recording
deeds, $23 80
J. K. Stickney, treasurer, stationery
and postage, 5 00
W. A. Learned, staking street lines, 66 25
W. A. Learned, plans, specifications,
bridge, Howard street, 35 00
R. Al. Pulsifer, advertising, 7 50
F. H. Keyes, expense meeting board
of health, 2 06
T. P. Emerson, expressage, 4 95
J. H. Critchett & Son, expressage, 45
S. L. Batchelder, refreshments to town
officers, Nov. 7, March 6, 24 00
Geo. H. Sleeper, order given by
Joseph Crafts, Oct., 1875, settled
by advice of counsel, E. R. Hoar,
I,sq., 87 50
L. T. Brown, ringing bell town meet-
ings, etc., 4 50
G, L. Noyes, preparing statistics, etc.,
against division of the town, 12 00
G. L. Noyes, postage and check book, 13 75
G. L. Noyes, looking up bank: and
corporation tax, 15 00
G. L. Noyes, ringing bell, Feb. 22,
July 4th, 3 75
E. V. Howard, signs prohibiting bath-
ing, 3 00
E. V. Howard, expense of lawsuit
with J. 11'. Hartford, 50 00
George F. Morgan, abstracts, deeds,
mortgages for assessors, 44 70
C. II. Bradlee, binding town reports, 11 00
W. Al. Otis, postage and telegraphing, 3 39
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 27
W. AL Otis, town clerk,Pro tenz., 10 00
Jesse F. Wheeler, legal services before
harbor commissioners, 50 00
J. B. Goodrich, legal services, Mt.
Auburn, Sawyer cases, etc., 407 69
E. R. Hoar, legal services, 35 00
S. S. Gleason, services against division
of town, 100 00
F. H. Forbes, services against division
of town, 50 00
Sundry persons, services on fire in-
quest, John Barnard fire, 120 62
$2,448 01
The following amounts were transferred
from this account by the Board of
Selectmen a., authorized by vote of
the town, Jan. 11, 1877, to meet
deficiencies in these departments :—
Almshouse, $772 77
Bridges and culverts, 44 62
lIighways, 106 87
Police, 6 0.1
Schools, 1,281 24
Sidewalks, 245 37
Water supply and drainage, (;4.� 29
State aid, 110 00
-- $3,210 20
Balance unexpended, 4,064 8
$9,723 06
DI.4CO UNT AND ABATE, 31EN TS.
To appropriation, $49000 00
interest on taxe-,1, '74, '751 9761 1,039 1.18
$51039 98
28 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
EXPENDITURES.
J. H. Norcross, abatement tax on laud
1870 to 1875, $17 71
Geo. L. Noyes, collector, abatement
tax 1874, 115 94
Geo. L. Noyes, << «
tax 1875, 642 56
Geo. L. Noyes, << <<
tax 1876, 782 39
Geo. L. Noyes, << discount
tax 1876, 2,248 29
$3,806 89
Balance unexpended, $1,233 09
$3,039 98
DA31AGES MARKET STREET, AND EXPENSE OF
FOOT IVA Y, ETC.
To appropriation, $4,821 79
EXPENDITURES.
Union Market National Bank, note due
June 7, '7 6, $4,821 79
EXTENSION 31ORSE STREET.
To appropriation, $950 00
EXPENDITURES.
W. A. Learned, staking out and working
plan, $5 75
Almon S. Morse, laud damages and
fencing, 500 00
Hi(rhways, labor, 444 25
$950 00
AUDIT01' I.17,14)UT. 29
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
To appropri:ttion, $5,572 00
G. It. ll►►+►rc•, prim tins t�-Mer, 13 00
•• •• sale of manure, etc., 36 50
$5,621 50
EXPENDITURES.
PAY—ROLL.
M d of Engineers, to Fel). 1, '77, $350 00
lln" orn (15) Steam Fire Engine
Co., to Feb. 19 '779 756 25
hook&Wder Co. (15), to Feb. 1, '77, 751 67
I1. V-4;huAin, enginemun, 999 00
11. G. P-lrce, driver, 855 03
J. 11. Holt, stoker, 81 25
ei ginema❑ one week, 19 25
11. C. Peiree, driver one week, 16 50
$3,828 95
BAY, STRAW AND GRAIN.
Levi �1i1► �, i,a� , $276 07
1,. �. (. +,tti►►t, h:+� , 23 33
T. P. Ert+l•tw(ln, Irl*v :1nd strait-, G4 88
T. L. Frert, It. Oral%.. 23 20
(_' ,ffin �� �1a ►� � , ;'rain, 232 80
$620 28
FCP.I, AND Llnirr.
R. Gilkrt', coal Anil good. $40 55
N. W. Ga i Light Co., ,ERR• 73 65
$1144 20
RHnFhr.
W. C. F(+ley, $49 90
IN. B. Thompw)n, 23 20
$73 V)
30 AUDITOR 9S REPORT.
REPAIRS.
Geo. -McWhirtcr, harness repairing, $19 90
John Madden, wheelwright work, 14 10
J. H. Critchett & Son, packing, 3 00
Eliza G. Peirce, washing bedelothing, 24 00
John Ross, blacksmith work, 59 10
George E. Teele, painting, repairs on
hose carriage, 4 50
S. F. Stearns, carpenter work, stock
and labor, 9 62
Moses Whiting, carpenter work, stock
and labor, 9 07
T. Patten, leather on hose pipes, 1 25
A. Howe, hardware, etc., 12 00
R. H. Paine, " '4 5 38
N. C. Sanger & Son, glass, 1 75
A. T. Mills, setting glass, 1 25
Walker, Pratt & Co., machine work
and orates, 12 77
Jas. Boyd & Sons, repairing hose, 33 25
Hunnenian & Co., rubber washers, 1 20
Hollingsworth & Whitney, soda ash, etc., 1 51
C. W. Berry, brooms, matches, oil, etc., 27 18
Whittier Machine Co., repairing steam
fire engine, 51 78
Boston Nickel Plating Co., valves, 1 13
J. O. Leary, repairing fire hats, 2 00
— $295 74
MISCELLANEOtiS.
T. P. Emerson, expressage, $7 45
J. H. Critchett & Son, << 2 25
A. S. Buckingham, mud curtain, 4 00
S. E. Woodward, medicine for horses, 1 20
L. Bent & Co., chairs, 2 50
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 31
Jas.. Harrison, rubber hose, $1 40
H. A. Winship 8c Co., fire hats and
hose pipe, 58 50
J. H. Cole & Co., hose stuffing, 56 25
$133 55
$5,065 82
Balance unexpended, 555 68
$5,621 50
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
To appropriation, $1 ,500 00
Dog tax, 313 05
$1,813 05
EXPENDITURES.
George N. Afai ch, Treasurer, $19813 05
HIGHWAYS.
To appropriation, $89000 00
bridges and culverts, labor, 247 50
" :Morse-st. extension, " 444 25
Widening Walnut st. " 469 00
1Vm. Perkins, use,of derrick, '27 00
sale of loam, 34 25
{f " labor and material, 22 95
contingent, amount transferred, authorized
Jan. 11, 1877, 106 87
$9,351 82
EXPENDITURES.
C'•ARRTING AND LABOR.
Almshouse, Z. Boody, running crusher, $45 00
T. Livermore, " " 7 50
Win. Perkins, pay-rolls, 6,780 01
$6,832 51
32 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
MATERIALS FOP ROADS.
J. W. Hartford, gravel, $30 60
Al. Fallon, << 15 00
Tho9. Williams, << 20 40
J. Lyons, 66 24 00
J. E. Cassidy, << 50 00
M. Hughes, 24 00
M. McDonald, stone, 90 00
H. W. Baxter, 96 248 00
A. Bailey, << 2 10
A. B. Chamberlain, it 5 00
T. Gavan, stone and sand, 26 50
Wm. Perkins, stone and g ravel, 24 00
F. W. R1ead, broken stone, 560 00
$1,119 60
HAY, STRAW AND GRAIN.
Almshouse, hay, $318 50
Coffin & Magee, grain, 279 85
$598 35
HORSE SHOEING AND REPAIRING TOOLS.
W. C. Foley, $150 41
John Ross, 10 90
$161 31
REPAIRS.
J. W. IV, ilson & Co. , repairing
engine to crusher, $20 94
John Madden, wheelwriglit work, 8 25
Walker, Pratt & Co., castings, 21 58
Blare Crusher Co., << IN 85
Thous. Patten, harness repairs, 45 52
R. H. Paine, tools and hardware, 35 10
A. Howes, << fit 15 73
Boston and Albany R. R. Co., freight, 4 95
$229 92
AUDITOR IS REPORT. 33
STREET SIGNS.
W. J. Breen, painting, $4 00
Geo. E. Tee 1 e, 10 00
John Page, 64 2 25
Al. Whiting, stock and labor, 14 75
$31 00
FENCING.
R. Gilkey, lumber, $66 12
Berry &. Moody, stock and labor, 58 21
Geo. L. Moody 16
it 1 60
S. Stearns, it << 3 05
H. IV. Alacurdy, it << 2 00
$130 98
MISCELLANEOUS.
H. Hart, sodding bank at footway, $9 90
S. Noyes & Co., hogshead and oil, 8 70
Chas. Whitney, derrick, 125 00
W. A. Learned, staking street lines, 14 50
C. F. Jackson, street grades, 16 ]0
Geo. 11. Sleeper, breaking roads, 9 00
H. Gilkey, fuel at crusher, 64 95
$24,� 15
$ 51 62
IYTEREST ON TOWN DEIST.
appi-opi-i;ition, $71000 00
ESPENDITUIMS.
Lowell Institution for Savings, 1
t ,ir oil $8,01u►, at 54 per cent., $460 00
Lf)«•(,,, in,litution for Savin,rs, 1
c'u- 4,n $5.500, at 6 per cent., 330 00
3w
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34 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Lowell Institution for Savings, 1
year on $1,725, at 51 per cent., $94 88
Treasurer Commonwealth, 1 year
on $9,268, at 6 per cent., 556 08
Treasurer Commonwealth, 1 year
oil $4,500, at 61T per cent., 292 50
Boston Five Cent SaVings BHuk, 1
year on $6,000, at 6 per cent., 360 00
Boston Five Cent Savings B.wk, 1
year oil $10,000, at 7 per cent., 700 00
Mrs. Luke Forbes, 6 mos. on
$3,000, at 7 per cent., 105 00
Mrs. Luke Forbes, 6 mos. on
$3,000, at 6 per cent., 90 00
Mrs. Eliza Glines, 6 mos. on
$1,000, at 7 per cent., 35 00
Mrs. Eliza Glines, 6 mos. on
$1,000, at 6 per cent., 30 00
Eliza I. Norcross, 1 year on $200,
at 7 per cent., 14 00
Eliza I. Norcross, 6 mos. on $200,
at 6 per cent., 6 00
Ann I. Norcross, 1 year on $700,
at 6 per cent., 42 00
Hinckley & Co., 1 year on $4,000,
at 6 per cent., 240 00
Watertown Savings Bank, 6 mos.
oil $11,500, at 7 per cent., Z 402 50
Watertown Savings Bank, 6 mos.
on $11,500, at 6 per cent., 345 00
Mercantile Savings Institution, 6
mos. oil $24,000, at 7 per cent., 840 00
Mercantile Savings Institution, 12
flays on $4,000, at 6 per cent., 8 00
4
• t
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 35
Mercantile Savivas Institution, 6
mos. on $20,000, at 6 per cent., $600 00
N1. S. B. Whitney, 1 year on
$1,500, at 7 per cent., 105 00
Annie A. Learned, 1 year on
$1,000, at 7 per cent., 70 00
North American Insurance Co., 1
year on $5,000, at 61 per cent., 325 00
John Templeton Fund, 1 year on
$27500, at 7 per cent., 175 00
Union 1Tarket National Bank, dis-
count on note, 532 17
$6,758 13
Balance unexpended, 241 87
$7,000 00
INS URA.NCE.
To appropriation, $1,000 00
EXPENDI'i URES.
W. H. Ingraham, premium in-
suranee on town-Ball, enaille-
house, school-homw: s, $445 50
W. H. Ingraham, premiuin in-
snrance on town-hall, eno ine-
houge, school-house, 365 25
Premium insurance on free 1)iillliC
library-, 100 00
--- $010 75
Balance unexpended, 80 25
$1,000 00
L B. PA TTEN POST Rl, G. A. R.
To appropriation, $100 00
36 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
EXPENDITURES.
C. C. White, Treasurer Post 81, $100 00
LAYING OUT AND WIDENING WALNUT STREET
To appropriation, $25600 00
EXPENDITURES.
Emery M. Mayo, land damages
and moving building, $2,100
John Campbell, setting fence in
front of his premises, 10 00
C. F. Jackson, survey and Man, 21 00
Highways, labor, 469 00
$2,600 00
POLICE.
To appropriation, $3,150 00
H. McGlauflin, board of lodgers, 30 00
Contiugent transfer, authorized Jan. 11,
1877, 6 04
$3,186 04
EXPENDITURES.
Geo. Parker, regular, 1 year to
Feb. 1, 18771 $1,013 75
E. V. Iloward, regular, 1 year to
Feb. 1, 18775 1,013 75
S. F. Stearns, special, 2 7 6 80
Thos. Carroll, << 213 11
R. Newman, 'c 224 25
James Burke, {L 133 10
H. B. Cheney, << 11 00
L. A. Shaw, 8 25
F. L. "'aterhouse, ' 8 25
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 37
H. P. Hubbard, special, $8 25
O. McGrath, 9 62
James F. Russell, 29 50
H. McGlatuBin, keeper of lock-tip,
1 year, to Feb. 1, 18779 60 00
H. B. Cheney, fire, 22 50
C. L. Nve, << 2 25
O. McGrath, 46 13 50
L. A. Shaw, 21 75
H. P. Hubbard, 24 00
F. L. Waterhouse, ,, 1 50
C. W. Berry, sand, soap, matches,
etc., 3 86
N. W. Gas Li( Co., gas, 47 20
J. F. Bryan, gas-fittin;, 5 72
W. J. Mills, painting and setting
glass, 1 50
Noses Whiting, rep-Ariug lock-up, 2 38
Geo. E. Teele, painting lanterns, 75
L. Bent & Co., mattresses and
blankets, 23 00
Geo. Parker, handcuffs, etc., 6 50
$3,1 si; 04
PRINTING.
To appropriation, Voti 00
EXPENDITURES.
Rand, Avery & Co., 1,100 town
reports, 1,050 cater reports, $666 36
F. G. Barker, rules and regula-
tion cards, etc., 5 75
C. W. Silsbee, 1,000 clog tax
notices, 75
C. C. blcLauthlin, warrants, bill-
heads, tax bills, etc., 65 58
38 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Rockwell & Churchill, licenses mud
Llauks, $13 00
Conaa & Newhall, 75 votiug lists, 33 00
$734 44
Balance unexpended, 15 56
$500 00
SALARIES OF T073'N OFFICERS.
To appropriation, $3,000 00
EXPENDITURES.
H. J. Edwards, school committee,
'75—'76, $50 00
F. H. Rice, school committee, '75—
'7 U, 50 00
John Coolid,e, Jr., school com-
mittee, '75—'76, 5C 00
Rev. M. M. Green, school com-
mittee, '75—'76, 50 00
A. L. Richards, school committee,
'75—'76, 50 00
C. Walker, estate, school commit-
te.W, '75—'76, term, 37 50
D. B. Flint, school committee, '75—
'76, 1 term, 12 50
Geo. L. Noyes, ass'or taxes '76'-77, 200 00
Chas J. Barry, << << << 200 00
John « . Tuttle, 200 00
Geo. L. Noyes, Coll. << 16 600 00
W. H. I❑brahatu, selectman, '76' 7, 150 00
Oliver Shaw, c c 66 1,i0 00
I-1. W. Alacurdy, << 150 00
N. C. Saner, << 150 00
AVard Al. Otis, 150 00
Jo,hu K. Stickney, treasurer, 350 00
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 39
Tilden Cr. Abbott, town clerk, '7 6—'77, $250 00
E. B. Eaton, auditor, 64 150 00
$3,000 00
SIDE WALKS.
To appropriation, $2,500 00
Amount received from abutters, 378 69
Contingent, transfer authorized
Jan. 11, '77, 245 37
$3,124 06
NOTE.—There is due from abutters the sum of$640.20.
EXPENDITURES.
Tainter & Tripp, concrete laid, $3,118 92
O. F. Knox & Co., corner curbstone, 5 14
$3,124 06
SCHOOLS.
To appropriation, $19,000 00
64 books and stationery, 800 00
Treasurer Common-wealth, pro-
portion school fund, 121 93
Continent, am't transferred,
authorizes] Jan. 11, '77, 1,281 24
$21,203 17
EXPENDITURES.
Byron Groce, 1 year, $2,000 00
Geo. S. Turner, 1 yrar, 19330 00
W. 11. Crocker, 1 year, 1,300 00
B. S. Andrew,' 5 lllos., 650 00
G. T. I)ippolcl, French, 5 mos•, 402 49
11. G. Cart.'v, 111"ic9 5 mos., 300 OU
11111gla B. I.oWl, 1 year, 900 00
40 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Ellen Al. Crafts, 1 year, $800 00
Lilla Frost, 1 year, 630 00
Sarah F. Coolidge, 1 year, 500 00
Hattie B. Crafts, 1 year, 500 00
Mary D. Patten, 1 year, 500 00
Etta B. Dadmun, 1 year, 500 00
Nellie E. Williams, 1 year, 500 00
Mattie Chase, 1 year, 500 00
Bertha M. Whitney, 1 year, 500 00
Nellie Bradlee, 1 year, 500 00
Lyda F. Wicks, 1 year, 500 00
H. Maria Tucker, 1 year, 490 00
Alice I. Norcross, 1 year, 490 00
Emma H. McLauthlin, 1 year, 400 00
Laura A. Gale, 5 mos., 360 00
Annie M. Gregory, 300 00
Lottie M. Bemis, 244 00
E. C. Gear, 250 00
Mannee B. Patten, 130 67
Harriet Robbins, 140 00
Kate L. Barrows, 64 50
Carrie Merrill, 20 00
Joanna, M. Riley, 3 50
$15,705 16
SALARIES OF JANITORS.
Nathaniel Gee, $1,231 50
Mrs. Julia Sullivan, 75 00
Mrs M. Austin, 99 96
$1,406 46
FUEL FOR SCHOOL-HOUSES.
R. Gilkey, coal, $544 00
A. Brackett, 16 11089 57
Aiken & Woodward, charcoal, 113 43
$1,7 4 7 00
,,j
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 41
BOOKS AND STATIONERY.
C. C. .11eLauthlin, books, etc., $724 23
Nieh(ils &, Hall, drawing materials, 156 25
Lockwood, Brooks & Co., looks, 23 71
T. 11'. Thaxter, dra«-inc board, etc., 10 50
$914 69
REPAIRS.
A. Howes, hardware, etc., $19 77
R. H. Paine, << 25 47
Walker, Pratt & Co., stove and
furnace repairs, 128 85
A. Cummings, mason work, 99 58
F. Cuni,nin-s. << 16 .55
J. T. Blaisdell, carpenter work. 28 72
Berry & Moody, 16 6• 56 51
11. «". .11acurdy 66 64 132 70
ller,ry- Russell, pail,tin(r and ghlzir,g, 19 90
J. F. Bryan, pill,,,) repairing 27 liG
Geo. S. Bowen, stove repairing, 20 37
E. O. Morris, a; ent, slating
Centre school-house, 146 38
E. 11". Owens, repairing roof ,Etna
• :lfills house, ]2 85
In;fall, & Kendricken, repairing at
High School house, 173 65
.J. Charak, repairinb locks tied
fit t ink 6 40
C. W. Berry-, brooms, Soap c�t��,, 78 88
Mrs. Austin, cle:Il,in, house1
Mrs. Sulliv:,u << <<
-t 00
U
,'�1 ,001; 74
i
42 AUDITOR'S REPOR,r.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Parker & Howard, truant officers, $60 00
Gilbert Cutting, tuning and repair-
ing pianos, 3 80
Wm. Rogers, cleaning clocks, 21 i 5
Henry F. Miller, use of pianos, 60 00
F. H. Rice, postal,_a and telegraphing, 4 82
T. P. Emerson, expressage and
moving pianos, 6 90
M. Hiland, chair, 3 50
H. Whitney, cleaning clock, 2 00
J. A. Sullivan, chemicals, 1 20
H. N. Smith, supper for 5 men, 2 50
J. S. Conant, engraving for diplomas, 42 00
A. Mudge & Son, printing 35 00
Pollard, Leighton & Co., colored bows, 2 25
F. G. Barker,printing programmes, etc., 12 35
L. Bent & Co., moving and repair-
ing settees, 43 40
T. Gavan, removing ashes, etc. 11.2 i 5
First Parish, use of vestry and fuel, 8 90
— $423 12
$21,203 17
STREET LIGHTS AND LAMP POSTS.
To appropriation, $39500 00
EXPENDITURES.
Newton and Watertown Gas Light Co.,
gas, care, lighting, $1 ,992 90
Globe Gas Light Co., care and lighting, 1,131 00
Globe Gas Light Co., repairing lan-
terns, 10 00
AUDITOR I S REPORT. 43
W. A. Carroll, care and lighting, $22 40
J. H. McDonough, " " 35 63
W. T. Macurdy " " 72 92
Joseph Chadbourne, ' " 11 07
Abner French, " " 22 00
John Coolidge, it 10 00
John Coolidge, Jr., " " 11 00
Davis cf-, Faruum, AN"ga Co., lamp
pets (3), 27 00
Tufts Brothers, copper lanterns (3), 21 75
$3,367 G7
Balance unexpended, 132 33
$3,500 00
S T.A TE TAX.
To amount asses.,ed, $7,704 00
Paid Treasurer Commonwealth, 7,704 00
STATE AID.
To amount from Treasurer Common-
wealtli for 1875, $700 00
To contingent, traiisferrecl as zuthor-
ized Jan. 11, 18779 110 00
$810 00
EXPENDITURES.
Charles F. Jackson, 12 nimitlis, $72 00
Jahn Hallihan, .r 144 00
11. (a. fierce-, << 120 00
H. W. Otis, 7 2 00
Deborah Iiril-ht, 11 •' 48 00
Saruli W. 1�-ljitj.9 12 " 50 00
(). A. Pollard, 4 1.
Soli 00
,Vary McCabe, 64 ' 48 00
44 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Mary Severance, 12 months, $48 00
Maria Levally, 66 64 48 00
Andrew L. Flohr, << << 48 00
Mary L. Sawtell, 3 66 12 00
Mary Murphy, 1 '6 4 00
$810 00
TOWN DEBT.
To appropriation, $59000 00
EXPENDITURES.
Lowell Institution for Savings, Oct. 7,
1876), $1,000 00
Mercantile Savings Institution, Aug.
1876, 4,000 00
$5,000 00
TOWN HALL, HEATING, LIGHTING, AND CARE OF.
To appropriation, $1,000 00
A. Gregg, janitor, rent to Feb. 1, 1877, 505 33
$1,505 33
EXPENDITURES.
R. Gilley, coal, S184 00
A. Brackett, coal, 274 54
N. W. Gas Light Co., (TI, 311 10
A. Gregg, janitor, salary, 432 00
46 extra labor, GG 00
C. IV. Berry, maps, soap, sand, etc., 11 73
NValker, Pruitt & Co., ash Sifter, 1 25
J. F. Bryan, pas-fitting, 2 .50
R. Il. Paine, tacks, keys, etc., 2 09
W. L. Stiles, Vienna shades, 12 00
H. IV. Macurdy, carpenter work and
stoc-k, 1 75
L. Bent & Co., repairing chairs, 2 35
AUDITOR IS REPORT. 45
S. E. Woodward, alcohol for lighting, $4 00
John Fisher, clewing ice from gutter, 6 25
W. J. Mills, 8 50
Howard Brothers, ice, 10 00
E. O. 'Morris, repairing roof, 7 11
$1,337 17
Balance unexpended, 168 16
$1,505 33
TE31PLETON BENEFICENT T FUND.
The Templeton Fund, $2,500, income of which is distrib-
uted annually according to the terms of the. bequest, st,itement
of which can be seen on page 65 of Town Report for 1874,
is loaned to the town by the Selectmen, they holding the
Town Treasurer's note for the „mount, and collecting annually
(Dec. 21) interest at the rate of seven per cent., which is
the income to be distributed.
To interest on $2,300 one year, to Dec. 21, 1876, $175 00
EXPENDITURES.
S. Noy-es & Co., hoods deliverer] sun-
dry persons, by order of Selectmen, $11 00
C. IV. Berry, goods delivered sundry
perr,ns, I,y order of Selectmen, 30 00
W. II. Lyman, goods delivered sundry
persons, by order of Select men, 8 00
Otis Brothers & Co., goods delivered
siinrlr%• persons, by order of Selectmen, 92 00
florne 13rother�, goody delivered sun-
dry porso14, by order of Selectineu, 2 00
li. Grilkey, goods dcliverc d sundry
persons, by order of Selectmen, 16 0
Otis Brother+► oods delivered. sundry
persons, by order of Selectmen, 16 00
- $175 W
46 ALDITOR's P.EPORT.
TPA TEFL SUPPLY AAVD DRAINAGE.
To contingent, transfer authorized Jan. 11,
1877, $643 29
EXPENDITURES.
Chas. F. Jackson, services survey-
ing, etc., $56 00
W. A. Learned, services survey-
ing, etc., 90 00
Samuel Noyes, rent, 32 49
E. Houghton, services surveying, 37 50
Wm. Coombs, services drauglits-
man, 195 00
W. R. Nichols, services analyzing
water, 60 25
H. N. Stone, use of hump, 16 00
Thos. Gavan, use of hoisting
apparatus, 10 50
Bowen & Bryan, repairing pump, 6 00
R. Gilkey & Co., lumber, 4 25
J. U. Critchett, expressage, 2 00
N. & W. Gas Light Co., gas, 1 80
T. McCarthy, labor, 37 00
J. Dardis, 6, 31 50
P. Sullivan, << 22 50
T. Boyle, << 21 00
T. Dardis, 4 19 50
$643 29
NOTE—The above bills, having been contracted in excess of the appropria-
tion provided in 1875, were paid under the following protest: "Assumed and
paid, without admitting or recognizing the legality of the same."
AUDITOR 9S REPORT. 47
STATEMENT OF ASSETS AND LIABILITIES EX-
CL Ii SI VE OF TOWN DEBT TO PEB. 13, 1877.
ASSETS.
Cash balance in hands of Treasurer, V 757 64
Due from State on account of St.ite Aid, 810 00
Outtu►icliug Taxes 1875, in hands of G.
L. Noyes, 1,168 89
Outstanding Tuxes 1876, in h.u►ds of G.
L. Noyes, 16,386 45
Silk Factory l,uildin, honjht for taxes
1871, 450 00
Uncollected taxes on Boyd property, 1872,
1873, 1874, 304 67
Uncollected taxes oil BO yd property, 1875, 107 00
Uncollected taxes on Cutter, lot No. 85,
Norwood Park, tux 1873, 21 23
Uncollected tuxes on Cutter, lot, No. 83,
Norwood Park, tux 1874 and 1875, 29 09
LTncolic'eted taxes on R. Drm-3-, land and
hnildinLs, south side Main street, for
1872, and expenses, 253 82
Uncollected taxes on R. Drury, for 1874
and 1875, with interest to Jan. 1,
1876, 486 90
Uncollected taxes, 13ridget licLuughlin,
laud and building o❑ "' Islam Su
called, hort,ht for taxes 1874, with
interest to Jan. 22, and expenses, 23 86
48 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
Uncollected taxes, Ann :McLaughlin, land
and buildings, Galen street, bought
for taxes 1874, with interest to Jan.
22, and expenses, $91 42
Uncollected taxes, George Volens, lot 55,
Boyd land, bought for taxes 1874,
with interest and expenses, 58 93
Uncollected taxes, Matthew Cooney, land
and buildings on Court, westerly
from Cottage st., bouglit for taxes
1874, with interest and expenses, 20 66
Uncollected tuxes, Durham & Saunders,
lots 1 to 9 inclusive, lots 18 and 19,
lots 23 to 30 inclusive, and lot 34,
land on Alount Auburn and Walnut
streets, bought for taxes 1874, with
interest, expense to Jan. 229 1876, 390 31
Due from abutters for sidewalks, 640 20
$249001 07
LIABILITIES.
Note clue North American Insurance on
demand, borrowed 1874 in anticipa-
tion of taxes 6 % interest, $5,000 00
Note due Union Market National Bank,
due Feb. 15, 1877, borrowed in an-
ticipation of taxes, 6,000 00
11,000 00
Surplus, $13,001 07
The above statement closes the report of the financial
department for the year. The town debt has been reduced
$5,000.00, in accordance with the provision made for that
AEDITOR'8 REPORT. 49
purpose. The debt is now $86,893.00, and dra%rin<r annivil
interest as follows : — (See table, pages 52 and 53. )
$102000 00 at 7 of $700 00
4,500 00 at 6"' of 292 50
63,668 00 at 6 of 3,820 08
8,000 00 at 53 Vo 460 00
725 00 at 5� of 39 88
$86,893 00 $5,31 2 46
Respectfully submitted,
E. B. EATON,
Auditor.
4w
50 Ati UITOWS REPORT.
ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR 1877.
For schools, $20,707 00
Fire department and engineers, 5,700 00
Support of poor, 3,500 00
Highways, 8,000 00
Bridges and culverts, 11000 00
Interest on town debt, 6,200 00
Salaries, 3,000 00
Discounts and abatements, 49000 00
Paying portion of town debt, 5,000 00
Police, 3,150 00
Insurance, 550 00
Free public library, 1,500 00
Concrete walks, 1,000 00
Contingent, with other credits, 2,000 00
Street lights, and lamp posts, 3,750 00
Printing, 800 00
Heating, lighting, and care of town hall, 1,000 00
Care of cemeteries, and an for do., 150 00
Isaac B. Patten Post, 200 00
Drainage, 500 00
Addition to engine house, 1,200 00
$72,907 00
AUDITOR'S REPORT. 51
SUMMARY OF RECEIPTS, APPROPRIATIONS AND EXPENDI-
TURES FOR THE YEAR ENDr G JANUARY 31, 187 7.
Transfers ( L7ncx-
IAppmpri-nI Receipts. to Depart. Total Ex- ended
atios. ments Over- penditures. Balances.
drawn.
Almshouse . . . . . $3,000 00 $941 86 $771 77 $4,714 63
Bridges and Culverts . . . 600 00 . . . 44 62 644 621 . .
Carr of Cemeteries . . . . 75 00j . 75 OM
Contingent . . . . . . 1,000 00I 8,723 06 . . . 2,448 01 *$7,275 05
Miscounts and A',atements. 4,000 00, 11039 98 . . . 3,806 89 1.233 09
Damages on Market at.,etc. 4.821 79i . 4,821 79 . . . .
Extcuaion Mor:me at. . . . . 950 00! . 950 00
Fire Department . . . . . 6,572 u01 49 50 . . . . 5,065 82 555 68
Free Public Library . . . . 11501) 00 313 05 . 1,813 115 . . . . .
Ifjgbwayd. . . . . . . . 8,000 00, 1,244 95 106 87 9.351 8.2 .
Interest . . . . . . . . . . 7,000 00 . . . . . . 6,758 13 241 87
Insurance 1 000 00I . 25
1. 13. Patten Post 81,�G.A.R. �101) 00 ]00 00 89
Laving out Walnut at. 2,600 00: . . . . . . . . . 2,600 M
Police. . . . . . . . . 3,150 00i 30 00 .6 04 3 11% 04 • • .
Printing. . . . . . . . 800 00 . �784 44 15 56
schools . . . . . . I 19,91)u 00 121 ta0 1,281 24 21,20-t 17
Sidewalks. . . . . . . . . 2,500 00 373 69 245 37 3,124 06. . . . .
Street lights . . . . . . . . . 3,500 00 . . .
Salaries . . . . . . . . . . 3,O�ui 00 3,367 67 132 33
Town DAt . . . . . . . . 5,iK)O ou ' ' ' 3,000 00 . . . .
Town Hull . . . . . 1,0110 00 505 33 . . ' 1,000 00
Templeton Fund . . . . . 1 . • • • • 1,175 17 108 16
75 W 175 00
Water Supply and Drainage. . . . . 643 29 643 29 . . . .
Cash in Treaaury Feb.10, 1876. . . . 539 90 '
Tagus paid to Feb. 13,1877,less '
Interest eallecteti (carried to
Di.+counts and !abatements).
and Overlay 'faxes carried to,
Contingent. Each hem being
included in the rrceipta of its
respective accounts 82,389 74
]Honey borrowed . . . . . . 66,00o 00 . . . . . . . . . .
State Aid 700 OU .
Kate Tax paid . . •110 00 810 An ,
Rank Tax (sec Account) . . , . . . . ' ' . 7,704 00
Corporation Tax(to Contingent) ' . . . . . .
Borrowed Money paid . , • . ' . ' ' • • • .
Balance In Treas., Feb. 13, 1877 . . . . . ' . . . •56,000 00
2.767 64 . . . .
$153.152 99 . . . .
*From balance of Contingent A-ccount deduct transfers $3,210:30, leaning an actual
balance of$4,064.85 attiy.
52 AUDITOR'S REPORT.
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Ot'Property at 'lo2vn Farrn, pertaining to and used on Roads.
Horses, $975 00
Harness, carts, wagons, tools, etc., 729 00
Stone-crusher enbine and covering, 19525 00
Materials for roads, 311 25
$3,540 25
APPRAISEMENT
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pertaining to and used on the Town Farm.
Live stock, $380 00
Grain and produce, 841 93
Farming utensils, etc., 719 75
Furniture in house, 933 55
Groceries and provisions, 232 00
$3,10 7 2;5
A detailed inventory of the above property can be seen at
the Selectmen's rooms.
H. W. AIACURDY,
N. C. SANGER, 11 rai.•F r,�.
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WARD M. OTIS,
SCHEDULE AND VALUATION OF TOWN PROPERTY.
TOWN FARM, —
311 acres of land, $1,000, $31,500 00
Building on the same, as
follows, viz. : —
House, $2,500 00
Baru, 3,000 00
Hospital, 1,200 00
6,700 00
33,200 00
Personal property,as per-ppraisement, $3,107 25
Used on roads, 3,..40 25
$6,647 50
TOWN-HOUSE AND LA\D, AND ENQINE-
HOUSE, —
12,92G feet of laud, $12,920 00
Town-house and Engine-house, 35,000 00
Furniture in Town-House, including
heating apparatus, 4,500 00
52,420 00
HIGH SCHOOL-HOUSE, —
57,010 feet of land, $11 ,400 00
High School-house and furniture, 40,000 00
51,400 00
Philosophical apparatus, 2,000 00
Library and piano, 800 00
CENTRE SCHOOL-ROUSE, —
15,315 feet of laud, $4,000 00
School-house and furniture, 12,000 00
Piano, 250 00
$16,250 00
SCHEDULE AND VALUATION OF TC1WN PROPERTY. .57
FAST S- H(MIL-HO['SE, —
27.37S feet of land, $2,500 00
Schim l-house and furniture. 12,000 00
Pian 250 00
$14,7 50 00
F.S-T !';-C}IOOL-IIOL'.SE, —
21.51)41 f--ct of land, $2,250 00
Schi,- I-house and furniture, 14,000 00
$16,250 00
N F«' IV E,'T SCHOOL-lI JCSF.. —
Laiid 4S, 120 feet, $2,500 00
school-house and furniture, 7,000 00
$9,500 00
SOUTH SCHOOL-HOUSE, — r
11 .K3t) feet of land. $2,000 00
�.}c , ►1-}ic,usC i nd furniture, 14,000 00
$16,000 00
Free Public Lil,rary an(] furniture, 12,000 00
Tron safe at Town Treasurer's, 40 00
lby-wales, 200 00
6rarel lmnk on Beaeon hill, 1 2-5
acre lend, 1,1500 00
Water-cart, 400 00
AI`P►1'ATT'g T,-RFD RY l' rim DEPARTMENT, —
`tesm F ire-engine :,nil Th,-mc-carrin e, $4.2�i0 00
4 h"mes uRcd on En.ine and Hose-car-
riag'e, 11000 00
lhse, h:irnv.gmea and furniture, a,750 00
tiew hook-and-lad.1f.r 'I'ruc•k, 1 .200 00
4 T1nae-carriareg, 450 00
Tender wagon and equipments, 3.50 00
$11 ,000 00
Total Valuation town property, $2499357 50
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TREASURER'S REPORT.
WATERTOWN, Feb. 13, 1877.
In submitting my report of receipts and expenditures for
the year ending January 31st, 1877, I would say that your
Auditor has made monthly examinations of my accounts,
and given a detailed statement, in his report, of the same,
rendering it unnecessary to repeat them here.
The receipts have been, $154,275 98
The expenditui es have been, 151,518 34
Balance remaining in the treasury, $2,757 64
JOHN K. STICKNEY, Treasurer.
The accounts of J. K. Stickney, Esq., Treasurer, have
been duly examined by nie, proper vouchers have been
shown for exlenditures, and the balance as above given is
coiTect.
EDw ARD B. EATON, Aud t eor.
A LIST OF KRYMEN,
As prepared by the /Selectmen, Feb. 5, 1877, to be passed
upon at the Annual March meeting.
Andrew, George W., Ding, William S.,
Barker, J. G., Learned, Samuel,
Barnes, John H., Locke, Henry 1V.,
Bean, James M., Mayo, Emery M.,
Bent, Luther, :11cLauthlin, Joseph L.,
Berry, Frank, Noyes, George L.,
Blaisdell, James T., O'Brien. Jahn,
Bowen, George S., Otis, H. W.,
Brigham, Charles, Payson. Gilbert R.,
Bright, Charles H , Peirce, George,
Brooks, Rufus F., Perkins, William,
Burnham, Charles H., Phelps, Jor is,
Chaney, Alden D., Priest, Philemon,
Clark, lienrY W., Rogers, Artemus B.
Coombs, S. H., Rosebrook, Alvin E.,
Corson, W. W., Russell, George F.,
Critchett, J.imes H., Sanger, Charles E.,
Dow, Benjamin H., Sherman, William,
Drake, Nathan, Shipton, Ambrose J.,
Farivell, William E., Sleeper, George H.,
Fewkes, Jesse, Sprague, Chester,
Flint, D. B., Stone, Joshua C.,
Gerould, Lyman P., Stone, Joseph H.,
Gilkey, Royal F., Tainter, Daniel A.,
Hall, John, Tainter, George,
Harris, Porter, West, Thomas P.,
Howes, Samuel C., Whitnev, Hiram,
Howard, William C., Wisirell, Henry M.,
Jackson, Charles F., Woodward, J. B.
Kendall, Francis,
Published by order of the Selectmen.
TILDEN G. ABBOTT,
Town Clerk.
REPORT OF TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR.
BIR TSS.
The whole number of births registered during the year
1876 is 139, — 14 less than in 1875. The number of births
is in the r;itio of 1 to 36.68 of the whole population.
Of the whole number born, 77 were males and 62 were
females.
One hundred and thirty-two were born in Watertown, 132
Two were born in U. S. A. grounds, 2
One was Newton, Mass., 1
One <, 11 « Salem, << 1
One Oi Cambridge, 1
One 1, It « Boston, 1
One cc 61 Waltham, « 1
139
There were born of American parents, 47
Is " Irish parents, 41,
" " English parents, 2
c c 41 c c c c Swedish parents, 1
" American and foreign parents, 14
English and Irish parents, 4
cc << cc cc English and Scotch parents, 3
English and Spanish parents,
German and Irish parents, 1
139
NoT,.—The last Census taken (1875) r ory
eP WaterttiWn as having 5,099 inhabitants.
64 REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR.
.3 ARRIAGES.
The whole number of marriages recorded for 1876 is 68,
— 5 more than in 1875.
First marriage of both parties, 57
and second marriages of both parties, 10
<< and fourth marriages of both. parties, 1
68
Number of marriages both parties native born, 25
foreign born, 32
native and foreign born, 11
68
Oldest couple married, Groom's age, 59 years.
Bride's �� 41
Youngest couple married, Groom's age, 19
Bride's 1, 19 <<
The number of intentions of marriage is 74.
Ratio to population, 68.91.
OCCUPATION OF Gr.Oo�Is.
Meebanics, 16 ; Laborers, 11.1 ; Coachmen and Hacklnen,
5 ; Clerks and Book-keepers, 3 ; Merchants, 3 ; Provision
Dealers, 3 ; Sea Captains, 2 ; Teamsters, 4 ; Barber, 1 ;
Milk Dealer, 1 ; Engineer, 1 ; Printer, 1 ; Shirt Cutter, 1 ;
Confectioner, 1 ; Starch Baker, 1 ; Harness liake.r. 1 ; Far-
mer, 1 ; Contractor, 1 ; U. S. Soldier, 1 ; Victualler, 1 ;
House Servant, 1. Total, 68.
DEA THS.
The whole number of deaths registered for 1876 is one
hundred and twenty-one (121) — or two (2) more than in
1875.
REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK AND ]REGISTRAR. 65
The ratio of deaths to the population is as 1 to 42.14.
Of the whole number of deaths fifty-four (54) were
males, and sixty-seven (67) were females.
CONDITION OF PERSONS DECEASED.
Single persons, 83
Married 26
Widowed 4 c 12
121
NAME, AGE AND CONDITIOti OF SOME OF THE OLDER
PERSONS DECEASED.
Years. Months. Days.
John Morris, 90 3 3 Male. Widower
Josiah Stickney, 87 Male. Married
Matthew Thoml.son, 81 Hale. Widower
Marti- Dunne, 80 8 27 Female. `'Widow
Antipas Jackson, 80 6 Male. Widower
Lucy Pratt, 80 27 Female. Married
Betsey Learned, 80 Female. Single
'Moses Binney, 79 4 18 Male. Widower
Henry Derby, 76 8 20 Male. Widower
George French, 74 5 12 -tale. Married
Caleb Ladd, 74 1 5 -Male. Widower
Julia Riordan, 74 Female. Widow
Lydia. Sprague, 73 6 Female. Single
Willi:1111 iurnllam, 71 1 12 Male. Married
Eliz,lbeth Costello, 67 Female. Widow
Adeline C. Lyman, 65 2 25 Female. Married
John Cullen, 65 Male. Married
George Albert Brown, 63 3 22 11,11e. Married
Sarah J. Comstock, 61 4 24 Female. Married
John Dunne, 61
Catherine 1lillnlare, 60 -tale. Married
SW
Female. Single
66 REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR.
The number of persons deceased, under 5 years of age, is 55
cc cc cc cc cc betw'n5&10yrs.of acre,is 9
cc c< << �� �G " 10 20 `L cC cc 5
fc Cc cC c< 20 &-30 << 12
cc Lc cG (c i< << 30 & 40 if cf << 10
is 11 if 16 Ci cc 40Ck+ 50 G. cc c 2
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c< fc cC 11 cc 60 &n 70 " << 7
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The number of deaths of persons native born is 103
c c c c c c c c foreign " 16
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place of birth unknown, 2
121
The number of deaths of native-born parentage is 57
it 11 foreign " " 59
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native aiid foreign parentage is 5
121
C.A USES OF DEATH, IN ALPHABETICAL ODDER.
Accident (killed by Consumption (Plilino-
cars), 2 nary), 17
Accidental, 1 Consumption of the
Apoplexy, 2 bowels, 1
Brain disease, 2 Convulsions (infantile) , 1
Bronchitis, 2 Croup, 2
Brio,ht's disease, 4 Croup (membranous), 4
Cerebral meningitis, 1 Diplitheria, 9
Cancer of the uterus, 1 Diarrbcea, 2
Cholera, infantum, 6 Diarrh(ra (infantile), 2
Congestion of the lungs, 1 Dysentery, 3
r�
REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR. 67
Enclocarditis, 1 1 Paralysis, 2
Fibrous tumor of the Peritonitis, 1
uterus, 1 Pneumonia, 3
Gangrene of the lungs, 1 I Puerperal septicremia, 1
Heart disease, 2 Premature birth, 2
Hernia, 1 Scarlet fever, 11
Iiooping-cough, 1 Still-born, 7
Hydrocephalus, 1 Senility, 5
Idiocy, 1 Suicide by hanging, 1
Infantile, 6 Scald, 1
Inflammation of the bow- Spinal Menincritis, 1
els, 2 Rheumatism, 2
Iseburia, 1 Unreturned, 1
Altirasmus, 1
itletria(piierperal fever), 1 I 121
68 REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR.
NOSOLOGICAL TABLE.
CAUSES OF DEBTS. TABULAR LIST.
CLASS 1. ZYMOTIC DISEASES.
Order 1. Miasniatic.
Cholera infantum, 6
Croup, 2
Croup (membranous), 4
Diarrhoea, 2
Diphtheria, 9
Dysentery, 3
Hooping-cough, 1
Metria (puerperal fever), 1
Rheumatism, 2
Scarlet fever, 11
41
CLASS 2. CONSTITUTIONAL DISEASES.
Order 2. Tubercular.
Consumption, 17
Hydrocephalus, 1
18
CLASS 3. LOCAL DISEASES.
Order 1. Nervous System.
Apoplexy,
Brain disease, 9
Cerebral meningitis, 1
Convulsions, 1
Idiocy, 1
Paralysis, 2
Spinal Meningitis, 1
10
REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK AND REGISTRAR. 69
Order 2. Organs of Circulation.
Endocarditis, 1
Heart disease, 2
3
Order 3. .Respiratory Organs.
Bronchitis, 2
Lung diseases, 2
Pneumonia, 3
7
Order 4. Digestive Organs.
Consumption of the bowels, 1
Hernia, 1
Inflammation of the bowels, 2
Peritonitis, 1
5
Order 5. Urinary Organs.
Iseburia, 1
Nephria, (Bright's disease), 4
5
Order' G. Generative Organs.
Disease of the uterus, 2
CLASS 4. DEVELOPIIENTAL DISEASES.
Order 1. Of Children.
Infantile, 8
Premature birth, 2
Still-born, 7
17
Order 2. Of Wonien.
Puerperal septicaemia, 1
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Order 3. Of Old People.
Senility (old age), 5
Order 4. Diseases of Nutrition.
Alarasmus, 1
CLASS 5. VIOLENT DEATHS.
Order 1. Accident or -Yegligence.
Filled by cars, 2
Scald, 1
3
Order 4. Suicide.
By hanging, 1
Order G. Violent Deaths not classed.
Casualty, 1
Unreturned, 1
2
Total, 121
DOGS.
The number of male dogs licensed the past year is 210
44 << female 1' << << << 14
Total number licensed, 224
Amount received for licenses : —
210 male dogs, at $2.00 each, $420 00
14 female <, <, 5.00 << 70 00
Total Bross ain't received, $490 00
Clerk's fees : —
224 licenses, at 20 cents each, $44 30
Total net amount received for licenses, $445 20
REPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK A\D REGISTRAR. 71
MIDDLEsrx, ss., December 1, 1876.
Tilden G. Abbott, Esq., Town Clerk of the town of Water-
town, has paid into the Treasury of the County of Middlesex
four hundred and forty-five i u dollars, for doh licenses, as
by his account of Nov. 29, 1876.
AMOS STONE,
County Treasurer.
The whole number of dohs killed during the past year as
by return of Sam'l F. Stearns, constable, is 57.
LIBRARY NOW IN SELECTMEN'S Room.
Laws of the United States, 3 vols. 80
General Statut-s of Mass., 1836 to 1872, 4 vols. 80
`` " C4 with supplement, 2d ed., 2 vols. 80
Acts and Resolves of Bass., 1860-18761 16 vols. 80
Herrick's Town Officer, 1 vol. 80
-Mass. Special Laws, from the adoption of the Con-
stitution to A.D. 18709 12 vols. 80
Mass. Digest, by Bennett & Heard, 3 vols. 80
Mass. Term Reports, from 1804, 17 vols. 80
Pickering's Term Reports, vols. 1 to 24 inc., 24 vols. 80
lletcalf's << 1 to 13 inc., 13 viols. 80
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blase. Reports, 1)'y A. G. Browne, jun., Noq. 97 to
110, and Vols. 115, 111, 116. 117, 112,
118, 119, 21 vols. 80
Public Documents of Vass- from 1858 to 18 9 5,
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Mass. Register and .1lilitary Record,
History of Mass. in civil war, by �choulcr, 1 Vol. 80
1 Vol. 80
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Record of Mass. Vols., 1861-65, by the Adjutant-
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Industry of Mass., 1860, 1 vol. 8°
Census of Mass., 1860, 1865 and 1875, 3 vols. 80
Journal of Valuation Committee, 1860, 1 Vol. 80
Acts and. Resolves of the Province of Mass. Bay,
from 1692 to 1741, 2 vols. 80
Plymouth Colony Laws, ed. by Wm. Brigham, 1 Vol. 80
Ancient Charter and Laws of the Mass. Bay, Pub.
by order of the General Court, 1814, 1 Vol. 80
Railroad Commissioners' Report, 1872, 1 Vol. 80
Reports of State Board of Health, 1871 to 1876, 6 vols. 80
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Notes on General Statutes, by U. H. & Geo. G.
Crocker, 2d edition, 1 Vol. 80
Report of State Board of Education, 1871, 1873
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Watertown Town Reports, from 1860 to 1876, 8 viols. 80
Perpetual Laws of the Commonwealth of Massa-
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Respectfully submitted,
TILDEN G. ABBOTT,
Town Clerk.
REPORT OF THE SELI:t.`1'ME .
At the last annual '.%Lo-- 1, sleeting the town voted to con-
tinue the same number on the Board of Selectmen, leaving
the care 6f its streets and paupers to devolve upon them as
it had the previous year. The course your town ofvers had
pursued. mi-I Ow rvi,innivnilati-n and su.-gestions that tl►ey
submitted for the consideration of the town, were thoroughly
disruawd and generally approved. ,Some alterations were
Made, perhape wisely, Lut, in the main, the estimates sulr
mitt+ed by the Boapl were adopted, and in the only instance
where a material reduo ion wigs 1118(1e, —we refer to the
appropriation for schools, — your Onnlnittee having those
UWAUrs in rhatgr have been obliged to call upon to
sappty, from your contingent fund, the deficiency that the
reduction in the grant occasioned.
Ile long depremion in buaine9e, with the attendant prcek of
employment for laborers which that depression has caused,
h" made necessary for the aim--house a larger sum than was
9TUDW for that department ; hot from no other department
has therr peen anything but trifling demands. Fortunately
the state of the rontingent fiind ryas such that we could hay
thO" JOills and not call for a loan.
Thu ronulitiom of your Treasury will be clenrly -tet. forth
in the Reports of your Auditor and Treasurer, and will
receive, we tn1+it, Your careful contiMeration ; anal We take
pleaaurr in Uyin$ 0) you that no exigeney has ari-4en that
hr Obliged your Bipard to call spoon the town for any extra
sppr+npriation during the current year.
74 REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
Since our last annual meeting the town has lost the ser-
vices of one who for years had filled prominent positions,
and who, at his decease, held the important office of Town
Clerk. We refer to Capt. Joseph Crafts, so long and so
well known to you all. At an adjourned meeting the tows►
elected a successor, and we think the town was fortunate
in securing the services of one so well qualified for the
position.
At the last annual meeting two unsettled questions were
referred to the Selectmen for adjustment. One was the
question of the maintenance of Antoine Bohmein, a pauper,
who, at the time of the division of the town, and when an
arrangement was made between this town and Belmont for
the future support of the poor, was in the Tewksbury Alms-
house ; consequently his name did not appear in the schedule.
The claim for his support was so evidently just, that we have
pressed it upon their attention, and trust it will soon be
satisfactorily settled.
The other was the settlement of the claim of N. H.
Crafts for extra service, and also the payment of certain
laborers employed by him in making his surveys. We have
paid the laborers, under the advice of Judge Hoar, and as
directed by vote of the town ; and while no effort has been
spared by the Board to settle with Mr. Crafts, we have as
,yet been unable to get his report, although we have his
assurance that it shall be submitt-A before the annual
meeting.
Authority was given to borrow money, if necessary, to
settle those bills, but the contingent fund was sufficient
without a loan.
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
In the early part of June we received from the Secretary
of the Commonwealth a copy of an order that passed our
Legislature, and accompanying it a copy of a joint resolu-
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN. 75
tion adopted by both Houses of Congress, in which it was
recommended to the several towns in this county, " that the
people should assemble on the approaching Anniversary of
our National Independence, and that they cause to have
delivered, on such day, an historical sketch of said town
from its formation, and that a copy of said sketch may be
filed, in print or manuscript, in the clerk's office of the
county ; and-that an additional copy, in print or in manuscript,
be filed in the office of the Librarian of Congress, to the
intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of the
progress of our institutions during the first centennial of
their existence."
Our citizens at once took measures to carry out this reso-
lution. Arrangements were made for a public meeting, and
for an historical address ; also for a display of fireworks in
the evening. These arrangements were successfully carried
out, the Public Schools, the Grand Army, the Fire Depart-
meut and the citizens in general, joining in the celebration.
By vote of the town, this address is printed with this An-
nual Report, as also the welcoming address by the President
of the day.
The largest part of the expense incurred was paid by the
liberal subscriptions of our citizens ; a small balance of less
than one hundred dollars was assunied by vote of the town.
310 UNT A UB UI?N CE UETER y.
It will be recollected that at the last March meeting a
communication was received from the Mount Auburn Cenie-
tery Corporation, which was " reft�rred to the Selectmen,
with authority to act in the matter."
The corporation had revived their claim for permission to
use one hundred acres of the territory of Watertown in
addition to the acres now enclosed, for burial purposes, thus
depriving the town of the one part of its area, as
far as taxes were concerned ; for, as you are aware, no
76 REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN.
grounds used for burial purposes can be assessed. It seemed
a matter of great importance to your Board, and we at once
appeared before the Committee of the Legislature and op-
posed their claim. After a patient hearing the committee
declined to grant their petition, and advised that we confer
together, and agree, if possible, upon certain terms where-
by the town would release to the Mount Auburn Corpora-
tion the lots known as the Watrus lot and the Chant land ;
also that portion of the Stone farm which had been assessed
as garden and house-lot. After several meetings with their
President and Trustees, we consented, on the part of the
town, that the Mount Auburn Corporation might use the
above-named lots for burial purposes, upon the payment to
the town of the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars ; which
sum the corporation paid to your Treasurer, as per his
report, and ,your Board signed the necessary release ; and we
will here remark, that it will be well for the town in future
to carefully guard its interest in the adjoining lands.
BURIAL-GROUNDS.
Last year the town granted the sum of seventy-five dol-
lars, and this year the sexton having the grounds in charge
reports that an additional sum of seventy-five dollars will be
required to new-gravel the walks, and do such other neces-
sary work as the grounds require to put them in good order ;
and we recommend that the sum of one hundred and fifty
dollars be appropriated for the care and repairs of both
burial-grounds.
LOCH-UP.
The lock-up remains under the charge of Mr. McGlauflin
and the receipts therefrom have been passed into the Town
Treasury.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN. 77
THE FIRE POLICE.
To those who have been so unfortunate as to require them,
their set-vices have been valuable, and we recommend their
continuance, as the expense to the town is small.
ADDITION TO THE ENGINE-HOUSE.
From time to time the attention of your Board is called
to the necessity of additional room for the horses used by
the Fire Department, and also for the convenience of those
members of the department who are obliged to sleep on the
premises. One year ago we said that we believed that a
wise economy called for an appropriation of money for the
above purpose, and to-day we repeat the recommendation.
The Engineers' report will give you fuller details, and to
that we earn:tly call your attention, and also to their sug-
gestions upon the further extension of iron water-pipes.
BRIDGES J D CULVERTS.
The bridge over the river at fftna Mills may require
thorough repairing before the year is past. It will call for
an outlay of about $500 if new timbers are put in, but it
may last another season. It should be carefully examined
from time to time for the safety of travel.
The bridge over the I11i11 creek, near the paper mill, will
require to be rebuilt, at a cost of about $100.
The bridge on Arsenal street, near North Brighton, will
call for new planking, which will cost about $100.
Other places will swell this stem to about $1,000.
The Fitchburg Mailroad Company enlargcId their culvert
under their track, ijear the Baptist church, and we trust it
will relieve the flow of water on Spring street.
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DRAINAGE.
Petitions for drains have been brought before the Board,
but the town not having made an appropriation for that pur-
pose, we were unable to construct them. The sum of $500
will be required to build such drains as prayed for, and seem
to the Board to be necessary.
TEMPLETON FUND.
This fund remains in the hands of the Town Treasurer,
the Selectmen hold nt a note therefor. The income was ex-
pended, as required by the provisions of the will. About
fifty families enjoyed a " Merry Christmas " thereby.
TOWN DEBT.
The debt of the town has been reduced the past year to
the amount of $5,000, as per vote of the town ; and the
Board recommend that the sum of $2,500, that was received
from Mt. Auburn Cemetery, should be applied to the further
reduction thereof, in addition to whatever sum may be
appropriated for that purpose. V
The rate of interest has also been reduced from seven to
six per cent. on about $40,000 ; and if any other notes
become due, and are to be renewed, the Treasurer should
avail himself of the lowest rate current.
STREET LIGHTS.
We have added six new posts the past year, and have
chanted the eighteen oil lamps to naphtha lights, the oil not
giving satisfaction. The whole number now in use is 167.
Of these, 84 are gas, at a cost of $22.50 each per annuni ;
and 83 are gasoline, at a cost of $18 per light.
The price for the gas lamps has been reduced $2.50 each
the past year ; the gasoline lights remain at the old rate.
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN. <<�
The question of further reduction should receive the early
attention of the new Beard, as no arrangement has be(!ii
made for the current year.
There are petitions already filed for additional hosts,
which should receive the consideration ()f the town.
COVC-BETE WALKS.
We have extended the concrete walks on Ift. Auburn
street to Arlington street ; also from Green street to Etna
Mills on Pleasant street ; also over a portion of Fayette
street, and the whole length of Green street, on the west
side.
There has been a petition to your Board for a walk to be
laid upon the south side of Main street, from the horse-
railroad depot to Green str_et. But to lay the walk over
that distance `i ould involve the necessity of removing the
large old trees on the south side of the street, and the Board
hesitated about doing such a job without an expression from
the town. The inain avenues of the town have already been
provided with concrete walks, and it would seem as if no
large sum would be required the current year. We tru 4
that all persons who contemplate petitioning for Nv tills will
present their wants before the appropriation is made.
LAYING OUT AND WIUENIXG STREETS.
lVidnut street has been widened and the location near the
Union 11arket Depot somewhat changed, as per vote of the
town. The depot was removed further east, and the Iower
crossing was discontinued.
The increased width at the railroad crossing has greatly
added to the public convenience.
Morse street has been extended to Watertown street and
opened to the public travel.
The public convenience and necessity require that Stim-
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mer street should be extended to the house of D1r. Flaunay,
.cud also that Fayette street should be extended as far west
as the house owned by Edward Whitney, Esq. ; and a portion
.of the expense should be borne by the abutters.
TAX SALE OF DEAL ESTATE.
From time to time the Collector of Taxes has been obliged to
enforce collection of taxes by sale of real estate. The spirit
of speculation which has been abroad in the community, and
the laying out of farms into house-lots and putting the same
uupon the market, followed by the very serious depression in
-business, has largely increased the number of those sales.
'The Board, in view of that increase and of the difficulty
.attending such collection by sale, thought it necessary to pass
.an order instructing the Collector upon some points that we
deemed necessary for the safety of the T.)wn Treasury. The
vote was, that the Collector should leave with the Town
'Treasurer a bill of items containing the amoVut of tax, and of
.all legal charges and costs incurred by such sale, and that the
Town Treasurer, on receipt of bill, should enter it upon a book
of record, to the intent that the rights of all parties interested
Should be protected, and that the treasury of the town should
suffer no loss ; and we recommend that the Town Treasurer
shall be paid a fair compensation for keeping this book- of
record.
And we would also ask that the town instruct. the Treas-
urer, upon the sale by the Collector of any such property
where the town is the purchaser, at once, upon the receipt
of the proper deed, to tale possession of the said property-to
the use of the town, and if there is any income derived
therefrom, after paying just and necessary charges, the
balance to be applied to payment of the taxes, as required by
.law.
This subject we consider of great importance to the tow" ;
REPORT OF THE SELECTMEN. 81
for if any such sale is made, and an imperfect title is given, by
reason of error on the part of the town or Collector, the pur-
chaser can recover back from the town the amount of money
paid, and ten per cent. interest from the date of payment.
In conclusion, we would say that we have endeavored in
all things to keep in view the spirit of your last annual
meeting, —we refer to the careful expenditure of the public
funds. You are aware that it makes no difference what
your grant may be, your roads and bridges must be kept
passable or the town will be held liable, and the poor and
needy must be helped to the necessaries of life.
Those departments alone, of any in our control, show a
deficiency, and that but trifling. The depression that
weighed so heavily on business last year still continues, and
the same prudence that prevailed then should govern us
now. We believe that a feeling of gratification was experi-
enced by our c.tizens at the reduction in their tax-bills the
present year, and we trust that the current year will continue
that feeling.
In making our estimates for the ensuing year we have
kept this in view, and we would urge upon you the necessity
of making all the appropriations for the current year at the
annual meeting, thereby avoiding the increase of the per-
manent debt of the town.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. INGRAHAM,
OLIVER SHAW, Selectmen
H. W. AiACURDY, V
N. C. SANGER, Watertown.
WARD M. OTIS,
6w
REPORT OF ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
TO THE HONORABLE BOARD OF SELECTMEN :—
The Board of Engineers of the Watertown Fire Depart-
ment herewith submit their annual report of its condition for
the year ending Feb. 1, 1877, with a statement of expenses
for maintaining the same, and such recommendations as we
think will add to its efficiency.
ORGANIZATION.
Geo. B. Moore, Chief Enqineer, Chas. W. Berry,
Assistant, Wm. E. Farwell, Secretary.
Pequossette Steam Fire Engine Co., fifteen men, with
engine-man, stoker and driver ; James R. Harrison, Fore-
man.
A. D. Drew Hook and Ladder Co., fifteen Wien, Al. B.
Coligau, Foreman; the engine-man and driver are perma-
nently employed, and may be found at the engine-house at
all times, and the officers and members of the companies are
experienced In fire duty and have performed that duty
satisfactorily.
APPARATUS.
We have under our charge one steam fire engine fully
equipped, one four-wheeled hose carriage, one hook and
ladder carriage with all the apl)liances, one fuel walron for
conveying coal and extra hose, and four two-wheeled hose
carriages located at the different manufactories in town,
REPORT OF ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 83
each containing a sufficient quantity of hose to protect the
immediate neighborhood. The present hook and ladder
carriage is larger and heavier than is necessary for the use of
our department, and we would recommend that the engineers
have authority to exchange it for one better adapted to our
wants. The whole apparatus belonging to the department
is in good repair.
HOSE.
We have for the use of this department 3,700 feet of
servicable hose, 2,350 feet of leather, and 1,350 feet of Boyd's
patent cotton ; and from the fact that it has not seen much
service during the past year, we consider this amount
sufficient for the present.
WATER SUPPLY.
There are nine reservoirs in town, and seven hydrants ;
their location may be found by reference to last year's
report ; and we hope the suggestions offered last year in
regard to the extension of the water-pipes will be favorably
considered, as we think it necessary that something should
be done in that direction the present year, either by con-
tinuing the pipes through Church street as far as Summer
street, or locating a reservoir in that vicinitS•, as the scr�•ices
of the department would he rendered more valuable by so
doing ; and we would recommend that the town appropriate
the suin of $1.50 for the purpose of thoroughly equipping
the three hose carriages to be used in connection with water-
pipes, and that a company of six men be appointed to take
charge of each, and receive the same compensation as the
fire police, their services to be required only when the pipes
are used.
84 REPORT OF ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT.
HORSES.
We have four horses connected with this department, well
used to the service, and in good condition. The stable is
altogether too small for our accommodation, as referred to in
last year's report. The trouble that has arisen during the
past year for want of more room in the stable has satisfied
the Board that it will be for the best interest of the town to
have it enlarged without delay. We estimate the expense
for making the necessary alterations at $1,200.00, which
sum, we recommend, should be raised and granted for that
purpose.
FIRES AND ALARMS.
This department has responded to twenty alarms of fire
during the year. Of this number, eight were for fires out of
town. The amount of property destroyed, as near as can be
ascertained, was $14,200.00, which was wholly covered by
insurance.
EXPENDITURES AND RECEIPTS.
The expenses of the past year are as follows : for salaries,
$3,828.95 ; for hay, grain and straw, $620.28 ; fuel and light,
$114.20 ; shoeing horses, $73.10 ; incidentals and repairs,
$500.00 ; and for the support of the department the ensu-
ing year we respectfully recommend an appropriation of
$5,700.00. The items are as follows : —
Salaries, $3,900 00
Hay, grain and straw, 700 00
Fuel and light, 200 00
Shoeing horses, 100 00
Incidentals, 300 00
Repairs, 500 00
$5,700 00
REPORT OF ENGINEERS OF FIRE DEPARTMENT. 85
The receipts of the department, the past year, from the
sale of stable manure and sundries, and use of steamer,
amount to $49.50, which sum has been turned in to the
Town Treasurer. The fire police are a valuable addition to
the department, and we hope the organization will be con-
tinued.
In closing this report, we desire to express our thanks to
the Committee on Fire Department for their willingness to
support us while we have endeavored to Make this depart-
ment as efficient as possible. Our thanks are also due the
officers and members of the different companies, for their
promptness in performing their various duties, as well as the
police officers. for the service they have rendered us by their
vigilance in giving alarms of fire.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
GEORGE B. MOORE,
CHARLES W. BERRY,
WILLIAM E. FARWELL,
Board of Engineers 11: F. D.
WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING.
To Ezruna V. Howard, a constable of the town of Watertown,
greeting: —
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you
are hereby required to notify and warn the legal voters of
Watertown, to meet in the Town Hall on Monday, the fifth
day of March next ensuing, at nine o'clock A. M., to act upon
the following articles, viz. : —
ARTICLE 1. To choose a moderator for said meeting.
ART. 2. To choose all necessary town officers for the
ensuing year.
ART. 3. To hear the reports of town officers and of
committees heretofore appointed, and act thereon.
ART. 4. To grant such sums of money as may be thought
necessary for the uses and expenses of the town for the en-
suing year, and for paying a portion of the town debt, direct
how the same shall be raised, or act thereon.
ART. 5. To see what method the town will adopt for the
collection of taxes for the ensuing year, choose a collector
of taxes, and act thereon.
ART. 6. To see if the town will adopt the jury-list, as
submitted by the selectmen, or act thereon.
ART. 7. To see if the town will authorize the Town
Treasurer to borrow on the credit and behalf of the town,
under the direction of the 'selectmen, such sums as may be
necessary for the use of the town, not exceeding fifty thou-
sand dollars, in anticipation of the taxes, or act thereon.
ART. 8. To see if the town will grant the sum of two
hundred dollars to Isaac B. Patten Post G. A. R. for the
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WARRANT FOR TOWN MEETING. 111111111 87`
purpose of assisting the Post in defraying the expenses
of decorating the graves of the deceased soldiers on the
next Decoration day, direct how the same shall be raised, or
act thereon.
ART. 9. To see if the town will construct a reservoir
near the junction of Common and Spring streets, grant
• money for that purpose, direct how the same shall be raised,
or act thereon.
ART. 10. To see what action the town will take with
reference to watering the streets, grant money for that pur-
pose, direct how the same shall be raised, or act thereon.
ART. 11. To see if the town will construct a Fire-Alarm
Telegraph, extending from the engine-house to the east, west
and south parts of the town, grant money for that pur-
pose, direct how the same shall be raised, or act thereon.
ART. 12. To see if the town will make the necessary
alterations in the engine-house, as recommended by the
selectmen and board of engineers, grant money for the
same,or act thereon.
And you are required to notify and warn the legal voters
aforesaid, by leaving at every inhabited house in the torn a
printed notice containing all the articles to be acted upon,
and also by posting up two or more of such printed notices
in conspicuous public places in the town, seven days at
least previous to the time of such meeting.
Hereof fail not, and make return of this warrant with
your doings thereon, to us the subscribers, on or before
the time of said meeting.
Given under our hands at Watertown, this twelfth day of
February, A.U. 1877.
W. H. INGRAHAM,
OLIVER SHAW, Selertmen
H. W. 17ACURDY, o f
N. C. SANG ER, 11 atertow n.
WARD M. OTIS,
SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS' REPORT.
The open winter of last year, and the consequent rutting
of the streets, called for more repairs upon the main avenues
than former years. There has not been as large a quantity
of crushed stone applied to the streets this year as there has
been in former years. Main, Galen, Aft. Auburn, and
Pleasant streets have each received a dressing where deemed
most necessary. Arsenal street has been widened apart of its
extent, and has been fenced and graded to better accommodate
the public travel. Market street has also been fenced near
the river.
NValnut street has been widened and graded. To com-
plete that job as seemed necessary called for more labor of
men and teams than the appropriation made for that purpose
would pay for. I, however, completed the work, paying
the balance out of the regular highway appropriations.
The large amount of labor on our sidewalks has also
drawn heavily upon our reduced appropriation but it would
seem as if that call was about over, as most of the streets
are now supplied with concrete sidewalks. I have not as
large a quantity of stone at the crusher as I have had in
some of the former years, owing to the fact that on account
of the great fall of snow the men and teams have been em-
ployed in clearing the walks and breaking out the streets,
and, further, the great depth of snow in the fields rendered
it impossible to dig the stone from any lot.
We lost a valuable horse last summer, and have not bought
one since. I should recommend that an appropriation be
made to purchase another this spring.
REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT OF STREETS. 89
In conclusion, I would remind you that the grading of the
sidewalks and the labor on Arsenal street have been paid from
the highway appropriation ; and these, together with the ex-
traordinary expense attending the cleaning of the snow this
winter, has made the department slightly exceed its appro-
priation.
WM. PERKINS,
Suhe)•intendent of 8treeb .
i
E
REPORT OF SURVEYORS OF HIGHWAYS.
We have continued Mr. William Perkins as Superin-
tendent of Streets, and we refer you to his report.
We have endeavored to keep the streets in their usual
good condition, by the use of crushed stone, as far as the
appropriation would allow.
We have found it difficult to procure gravel to cover the
crushed stone that has been applied to the streets in the east
part of the town. lVe have been informed by the Superin-
tendeut of Streets that he has examined a gravel-pit, on laud
of D. A. Tainter, that promises to yield a large quantity of
good gravel. We would recommend to the town the pur-
chase of the lot, if it can be bought at a fair price.
The Union Railway Company caused some inconvenience
to the public travel by throwing the snow from their track
on the travelled way, and also by salting the rail through
Main street. We had several interviews with the officers of
the road, and we thinl: that after a. fair understanding of our
complaints they were disposed to do all we could reasonably
require of them to avoid any further annoyance.
Respectfully submitted,
W. H. INGRAHAM,
OLIVER SHAW, Surveyors of
11. W. MACURDY,
Si yh trays.
N. C. SANGER,
WARD i\i. OTIS,
REPORT OF OVERSEERS OF THE POOR.
There has been no demand upon the Treasury of the town
for any repairs upon the Almshouse buildings, or for the
erection of any additional room, the house being sufficient
for the present accommodation of the inmates ; the trifling
repairs which are always incident to such an establishment
have been paid from the regular appropriation. The out-
side aid is becoming a very large draft upon the grant made
for this institutior .. The number who are able to support
themselves during the summer months, but are obliged to
call for partial support as soon as their employment ceases, is
constantly increasing. It will he seen from the Auditor's
Report that the excess of expenditure for this department is
largely due to this outside call ; the balance leas been paid
from the contingent fund agreeably to vote of torn.
The whole number of persons supported at the Almshouse,
as returned to the State March 31, 1876, was 22.
The cost per week, exclusive of interest on the value of
the farm, buildings, etc., was $3.40 per week, for each
Pauper.
The Almshouse has remained in charge of Ali . Boody
and his wife, whose excellent management has made it a
Comfortable home for the inmates, at no excessive cost to
the town.
We know of no extra, demand for money the present year,
beyond what the outside aid requires.
92 REPORT OF THE OVERSEERS OF THE POOL.
INMATES OF THE ALMSHOUSE FOR THE
ENTIRE YEAR.
Name. Age.
* Joseph Mackin . 80 years.
* Lucretia Norcross 70 4
John R. Tufts 66 <<
* Eliza D. Tufts 65
Antonio Bomene . 52 <<
Gerry Haber 47
Abigail Gardner . 58
Mary Wood79
Patrick Hughes 70 <<
Samuel Bacon 6)3
FOR A PORTION OF THE YEAR.
Ann Al. Welch, age 23, left Sept. 2, 1876.
Fred Welch, 44 29
William
Swan, << 46, caiue Jan. 2, 1877. There now
1'Vil liam Bond, 64 529 66 64 229 44 111 46
Willie Rooney, << 18, is at Perkius Inst. Blind Asylum.
Fred D. Robbins, << 19, at State Reform School, Westboro'.
Those marked thus * this town is entitled to $1.10 per
week, for each one, from town of Belmont; also $32.59 per
cent. of whatever sum is paid for outside aid, to Nancy 11".
Stone, now living in Boston.
IV. H. INGRAHA'-Ni'�
OLIVER SH AIV I Overseers
H. W. MACURDY, ` of the
N. C. SANGER, Poor.
WARD M. OTIS,
SCHOOL REPORT.
THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
or
WATERTOWN ,
FOR 18 7 G-77.
BOSTON
PItESS OF ROCKWELL AND
NO, 89 ARCII STREET.
1877 .
WATERTOWN, Feb. 6, 187 i.
IN School Committee, j'oted, That the Annual Report of the School
Committee, as presented by the chairman, be adc pted.
Attest: 14. M. GREEN,
Secretary.
REPORT .
THE condition of the School Committee for the past
year has seldom met its parallel in the history of the
town.
A series of unexpected resignations of its members
has taken place, and the vacancies have been filled
from time to time by a joint convention of this Board,
together with the Board of Selectmen. These changes
finally culminated in the removal of the chairman from
town, and a consequent resignation. The loss of
service of so many persons of ability and experience
seemed for a time to be almost irretrievable, but the
work remained; and experience testifies that if the
agency of men is only transient, the great cause of
public education is permanent and ever-enduring.
By the earnest co-operation of all the teachers with
the committee, a iair progress has been made and
some good results liave. been attained.
The ScIlool Committee, a5 at present organized,
consists of
Term expires.
John Murray, Cliairm:in, lwi) tee. 1877
M. 31. Green, Sccretary 1879
Ann M. IIapgoo l 1877
NVm. If. I)adinun 1877
C. IV. Stone 1877
Vacancy to be filled . 1877
4 SCHOOL REPORT.
The town will elect to fill the Board of School
committee—
Two members for three Sears.
One 44 11 two 94
Two (G « One CC
HIGH SCHOOL REGISTER.
BYRON GROCE, Master.
ELLEN M. CRAFTS, AssWant.
MRs. E. C. GEAR, Teacher of French.
ExxA H. McLAUGHLIN, Teacher of Drawing.
For the year.
Whole number of pupils registered 72
<< << boa's cG 44
<< girls " 28
Number over Fifteen Fears of Aye.
let Term. 2d Term. 3d Term. Year.
Whole number 61 40 39 61
Boys . 38 23 22 38
Girls . 23 1 117 23
A new form of diploma, of three grades, was pre-
pared by the Committee for the classes of 1876 and
thereafter. The first grade, « with special honor," is
awarded to those who, graduating either in three or
four years, have obtained an average in scholarship of
eighty-five per cent.; the second grade, " with honor,
to those who have obtained eighty per cent.; the third
grade is awarded to those obtaining seventy-five per
cent., — this per cent. being the basis uj on which
pupils are admitted into the High School, and upon
which promotions are made in the schools at the close
of the year.
SCHOOL REPORT. 5
Diplomas of these grades were awarded to the
classes of 1876, as follows: —
Four years' Three years'
Course. Course.
First grade, 1 2
Second grade, 1 0
'third grade, 1 U
Without grade, . 1 2
The names of the four years' graduates are : —
Euc ene D. Russell, Frank Al. Cheney, Wm. F. York
and Mabelle W. Walker.
Three years' diplomas were awarded to Eva A.
Howard, Nora C. Hallahan, John A. Coffin and
Howard O. McLauthlin.
In the last r sport, in the list of recipients of diplo-
mas, the name of Frank E. Coolidge was wrongly
printed Frank E. Coffin.
The following recent graduates of the school
entered college in September or October, 1876: —
Lena Gilkey entered Wellesley College, Wellesley,
Alass.; Alice Patten entered Boston University, Bos-
ton, Mass.; John B16dgett entered Brown University,
Providence, R. I.; Eugene Russell entered Harvard
College, Cambridge, Mass.
The graduating exercises of the classes of 1877
will take place in June.
HIGH SCHOOL.
This institution is a just cause of admiration for its
facilities for training, and preparing its pupils for a
finished education; its regular course is four Fears.
and its curriculum is arranged with such profusion
6 SCHOOL REPORT.
that a pupil who has the ability to conform to its rules
may be prepared for college and for professional
life.
Statistics, however, show that only a small number
of pupils ever enter the school with this object in
view, and that a great majority, for various reasons,
cannot remain for the full period of the course; and
the inquiry is constantly arising, whether, under the
present system, there can be given that care, attention
and training, which shall educate all this majority of
pupils in those practical studies by whose aid their
future avocation and calling in life, however humble,
may be refined and blessed.
In the month of March the position of teacher of
the French language will be vacated by limitation,
and if, on reflection, it should be thought best to
appoint for first assistant a teacher of varied gifts,
there would be an assurance that a twofold work
would be accomplished in the future, to wit, the
maintenance of a high standard of training for its
full course, and the use, in the first two years, of
some different studies, -- book-keeping especially to
be prominent, even though it is taught only in a
simple form of single entry, the knowledge of which
is invaluable to boys or girls, and the loss of this
practical training may be irrecoverable in after years.
When it shall be the good fortune of the town to
elect a Board of School Committee, the members of
which intend, when accepting the office, to retain it
for the full term, this subject will then receive
thoughtful attention.
A&
SCHOOL REPORT. 7
THE CENTRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
The Centre Grammar School is the largest in
town. From its central location, it must in the future
maintain this position. And it has been a source of
gratification to the Board that it has a corps of
teachers whose efforts have been successful and
whose system of teaching is progressive, command-
ing the respect of the pupils and the confidence of
the parents. As an evidence of its advance, the
committee will state that a large number of the
pupils are already fitted for and will soon graduate
into the High School.
BOUNDARY L XES OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS AS
ESTABLISHED BY THE SCHOOL CODTMITTEE.
The " South District " includes that portion of the
town south of the Charles river.
The " East District" includes all east of the line
Of School street continued to Charles river.
The division line between the « Nest and Centre
Districts '' is as follows, viz. : commencing at the
cjorner of Pleasant and Cross streets, through the
latter to Main street, through Main to Tliaxter street,
through Thaxter to White's avenue, through White's
avenue to its northern terminus.
The " Centre District " comprises all that portion
Of the town not included il] the above districts.
WEST SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Public attention has beex.Y attracted to this district
in a marked degree, a new policy having been intro-
8 SCHOOL REPORT.
duced in the appointment of a woman to fill the
place of teacher of the Grammar School.
By a rule of the Board, the person holding this
position is expected to act as superintendent over the
other schools and maintain good order around the
building. During the past summer two petitions,
signed by a large majority of the citizens of this dis-
trict, have been received, asking for a change of
teacher.
At a public hearing granted by the Board, their
united testimony tended to show that in their view
proper discipline and good order could be maintained
within and without the schools only by substituting
a male teacher as the head of the schools. There
was a unanimity of sentiment Expressed by the
parents of the pupils, and other residents of the dis-
trict, that the present incumbent is a highly educated
lady, and under more favorable circumstances her
success would be unquestioned. The action of the
committee in disposing of this matter consisted in
making some changes in the minor departments, and
the reappointment of the present teacher to be the
head of the school. • It was the fortune or misfortune
of this lady teacher (Miss Loud), that in accepting a
reappointment she was obliged to accept the situation
with all its responsibilities remaining and its per-
plexities undiminished; and time will soon deter-
mine whether this system of employing female
principals is so far successful as to exert its influ-
ence upon the other teachers, and flowing out, em-
bracing all the parents, commanding their sympathy
and aid, and so acting upon the children in and out
:e
SCHOOL REPORT. 9
of school that do(•ilitti- and obedience shall largely
prevail.
At the Smith School, where a like experitnellt is on
trial. in the appointment of Miss Gale as head teacher,
all the evidence tends to show that good order
prevail., not only in the schools, but also in and
ari)und the buildili(s adjoining, and oil the surround-
ing play-m—owids.
T111•; EAST SCHOOLS.
The condition of the East Grammar School, tinder
the care of 'Mr. Crocker, is promising, and shows a
good degree of care and attentimi on the part of the
teacher. Several of the pupils will advanee front this
to the Ili;�h St pool. In the other (lep.irtlnent, 1)y the
unit)n ()f• the Intermediate and PrimarY into one school,
the att(-ndauce has been large; and credit is clue
to AIi C;uoliclgc, the teacher, for the courage and
zc':il displayed in trying; to make this school a success.
The cominittee anticipate that there will be some
pupils advanced front this to the Graininar School,
and, with less in Ilun l)ers, the school Islay he continued
as at present organized.
VIS1Tfi.
Nu[nbei, of visits 1)3- incli� lclnal nlc•illbers of tll(�
crminlittee 201
Number (if visits by other persons 229
1__1I31:1� OF (.1111-IMEN IN TOWN.
The .1�.�•.��►i:4 for 18 7(; rel aril 871 children in
town 1)c't.«•ccn fire and of "ell Year, of age.
10 SCHOOL REPORT.
SCHOOL—BOOKS.
The number of books belonging to the town, dis-
tributed in the various schools, is as follows: —
No.of Books.
High School 8 00
Centre Grammar 871
46 Intermediate, No. 1 523
CL GG GL 2 462
Primary, " 1 328
" " " 2 274
44 3 513
'Pest Grammar 308
Intermediate 364
Primary, No. 1 125
cc 4,6 cc 2 . 200
Etna Drills Primary- 50
South Grammar 260
" Primary 150
East Grammar 513
Intermediate and Primary 285
At Mr. McLauthlin's book-store . 69
The reports from all the schools show that excellent
care. is Used with the text-boobs supplied by the town,
and credit is due to teachers and pupils for a full ap-
preciation of the generosity of the town in giving
books to be used in all the schools. If, on a further
trial of this experiment, the same good results should
ensue, the town will be amply repaid in the accom-
plishment of one object, naively, by showing that the
scholars are trained to habits of neatness and order,
and a due regard for the care of public property.
SCHOOL REPORT. 11
RESIGNATION AND CHANGE OF TEACHERS.
The resignation of Mr. Henry G. Carey, teacher of
music, was received with regret; his method of teach-
incr was so satisfactory and effective that its fruits
remain; and this method, so far as practicable, is
continued Under the instruction of the several teachers.
-To appointment to fill this vacancy has been made.
Upon the resignation of Miss Amia, M. Gregory,
teacher of drawing, Miss Emma, 11. McLaughlin,
assistant teacher, was appointed to fill the vacancy.
At the Centre School Miss H. Robbins resigned
the position of teacher, after many years of valuable
service in the schools of the town. Miss Frost was
promoted to fill the place made vacant by this resig-
nation, and Miss H. 13. Crafts was chosen as second
assistant. Miss Etta B. Dadmun was transferred
from Primary to Intermediate 1i o. 1.
At the East Grammar School a vacancy occurred
by the resignation of Mr. B. S. A1ldrews, and 1Ir. N.
II. Crocker was traik ferred from the South School to
fill the place, and hiss Laura, A. Gale appointed as
teacher of the Solith G'raminar School. hiss Chase
-%vas transferred from the AVest Scholl to the Centre
Primary. Miss 1I. 11. Patten was appointed a�
assistant teacher at the AV st Intermediate School.
Hiss L. Wicks 'vas transfcrred froin the Etna
Mills Schools to 010 West Intermediate, a111I Miss
Lottie Bemis appointed to fill the vacancy.
12 SCHOOL P.EPOUT.
SCHOOL BUILDINGS.
A special appropriation is requested for the paint-
ing and repair of four school buildings, the Centre,
the East, the South and the West. - The committee
estimate the cost at eleven hundred dollars.
At the Centre School there is in use, for heating the
building, a steam apparatus, and also a furnace; at a
moderate cost the radiators could be extended, giving
ample heat throughout. the building; the fu rnaee would
not be needed, and a saving of fuel would result. At
the West School there are three furnaces in use, the
practical result of which is, the consumption of a
larger amount of fuel than is used in any other school
building in town, with no eorresi)onding favorable
advantages to sanction it.
SCHOLARS NEIITHE[I ABSENT NOR TAII:DY DURItiG THE
YEAR,.
High School.
Frank M. Cheney. Eleanor S. Green.
Henry H. Morse. Anna E. Adams.
Clara A. Farwell. Ida F. Worcester.
Maggie G. Riley. Jesse F. Cate.
Nellie C. Edgcomb. Ruth P. Howard.
Frank Burke.
Centre Grammar.
L. R. Kinsman. Ella A. Hayden.
Wade C. Wheeler. Grace I. Barker.
SCHOOL REPORT. 13 r
J. L. Kinsman. R. W. Frost.
Abbie M. Farwell. E. T. Dadmun.
Abbie -AI. Fitz. D. Al. Murphy.
Hattie H. Norcross. S. E. Proctor.
Centre Intermediate X6. I.
Jennie Watt. Patsy O'Halloran.
Centre Intermediate 1'NT6. 2.
C. Beef. Arthur Teel.
West Grammar.
Ames Learned. Alice Dellyer.
Fannie Gill. T. Ewen.
George Parke,% 11lable Learned.
West Interm.ed iate.
illary Phalon. Ruth Roblllsoll.
Henry Howard.
TT est Primary -. o. I.
Effie Howard. George 11feWhirter.
C. Coffee. C. Robbills.
Lizzie McWhirter.
TVs Primary -1 o. ?.
George Howard. 1Tellie Wall.
Etna Mills.
Hannah Delay. Katy Shea,.
Henry Brady. J. Rose.
Nellie Reilley. J. Shea.
A;
14 SCHOOL REPORT.
South Grammar.
Richard James. E. H. Mosman.
South Primary.
Frank Burns. Willie Cobb.
East Grammar.
.East Intermediate.
John McNamorra.
SCHOOL REPORT. 1rJ
t
Teachers and their Salaries. •
SCHOOL. TEACHER. SALARY.
High...... . . .. .. .. ..... Byron Groce...... .... . ... .. . $2,000
" ...... .. .. .... ..... Ellen M. Crafts . . . .. .. . ..... . 800
<< E. C. Gear...... ...... .... ... 500
East Grammar. . ..... ... W. H. Crocker. ..... . . .. .. .. . 1,300
" Primary .. .... ..... Sarah F. Coolidge .. . . ... ..... 500
Centre Grammar. .... .. . Geo. S. Turner .... ... .•., 1,300
" '` Lilla Frost.... 600
" 41 ••••• • •• Hattie B. Crafts...... . .. .. .... 500
" Intermediate, No. 1 Etta B. Dadmun . ..... .. .. ... 500
" " 2 Mary D. Patten .. .. 500
Primary, No. 1 .. . Alice T. Norcross . . ... .. ..... 500
" " 2 •• 1-I. Maria Tucker.... .... . .... 500
" " " 3 ... Samantha Chase. .... .
500
South Grammar Laura A. Gale .... ...... ..... 800
" Primarv. . ..... ••• Nellie E. Williams. . ..... ....
• 500
West Gnumnar . . .... ... Ilulda B. Loud.... . ..... . ... . S00
" Intermediate . ..... Lvdia F. Nicks . .... .... . .... 500
" Primmy, No. 1 . .. . Bvrlha At. IVIlitnev..
000
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" 2 •••• Nellie I>:radlee .... . ..... . .... 500
m
Assistant Interediate... Al. B. Pa+tten...... ..... • .100
Nana Alills Primary...•• ' Collie 11 Bemis
400
Teacher of Drawing.. .. ..; I;tnma it. 1ieLaut;hlin . .... . ..
i 000
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16 SCHOOL REPORT.
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REPORT OF SUB-COMMIITTEE ON ACCOUNTS.
EXPENDITUBES FOIE SCHOOLS FOR THE YEAR
ENDING JA2VUARY 31, 1877.
Salaries of teachers, $15,705 16
Salaries of janitors, 1406 46
Books and stationery, . 904 19
Fuel, . 4 17755 90
Repairs, 915 36
Incidentals, 516 10
$21,203 18
Appropriation by the town at A1areh
meeting, $19,800 00
Town's share of the school fiend, 121 93
Transferred from contingent, 1,281 24
$21,203 17
JOHN MURRAY,
Af. AT. GREEN,
W. H. DADMUN,
Coln m i f fc e.
18 SCHOOL REPORT.
ESTIMATED EXPENSES FOR 1877-78.
Salaries of teachers, $15,700 00
Care of school-houses, 19407 00
Fuel, 11600 00
Incidentals and repairs, 17000 00
Books, 1,000 00
$20,707 00
The report is respectfully submitted for the action
of the Board and Town.
JOHN 111iTRRAY,
Chairman, pro tem., School Coiwni.ttee.
NINTH ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
OF THE
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY
OF THE
TOWN OF WATERTOWN,
1877 .
BOSTON :
PRESS OF ROCKWELL AND CHURCHILL,
No. 39 ARCS?1 STREET.
1877.
7
BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR 1576 7 7.
GEORGE N. MARCH Term expires 1877.
JOSHUA COOLIDGE 1877.
GEORGE K. SNOW 18 7 8.
A. C. STOCKIN 1878.
CHARLES J. BARRY 1879.
ALFRED HOSMER 1879,
ALFRED HOS NTF.R, Chairm(m.
CHAS. J. BARRY, Secretary.
GEO. N. MARCH, Treasurer.
Executive Committee.
ALFRED HOSMER, CHARLES J. BARRY,
GEORGE N. ➢iARCH.
Coitunittee opt Books.
ALFRED HOSMER, JOSHUA COOLIDGE,
A. C. STOCKIN.
Committee on Finance.
GEORGE N. MARCH, CHARLES J. BARRY,
GEORGE K. SNOW.
Librarian.
SOLON F. WHITNEY.
Assistant Librarian.
Miss NELLY BRADFORD.
TRUSTEES' REPORT.
The occasion which requires this Board to present its
Muth Annual Report to the Town,surprises us with the sugges-
tion that almost a decade of years has elapsed sinc+- the estab-
lished fact of a Free Public Library in our midst gave fresh
courage and satisfaction to the friends of education and
progr+-ss in Watertown.
The law which incorporates so much of the elenientq of
repetition and monotony into the current of the average in-
dividual life, applies with great force to the course of evenfb
which make up the doings of our Library in the successive
years of its existence. I c-t the experience of the last twelve
months has not failed to furnish some reasons for congratu-
lation. In adding nearly five Per cent. to the Direst circu-
lation ever before attained during the same period, a uisteri:til
and significant gain has been made to the measure of success
which had been the pride of the Library in it= earlier days.
Still betterthan this evidence of the increasing use of our books
is the fact that the Public Library stands protiiinent atnong the
many things to which the Centennial Year has inipart.ed a new
quality of importance. As a lasting and ill(] us.cblr iustitu-
tion its rank has been sensibly elevated, and defined with :a pre-
ei-4�ion that. none c-:tn faiil to underst:uid. Thc� perm:+ne>>t ur,*an-
izat.ion of an assoc•i:ition 'of librarians, e11`eeted ill 1'hil:adelphia
not many munt.hs since, has created a new profession, chanve+l
with labors and studies which relate to questions of the highcat
interest, and to problems whose scalution is often perplexed
with difficulty. The movement has placed the nienihers of
this body in a position which will enable them to confer upon
4 TRUSTEES REPORT.
the community all the benefits and advantages that must in-
evitably accriie from an energetic and a well-regulated combi-
nation of their labors in that special department, and a care-
ful and frequent comparison and correction of their individual
ideas. Henceforth there will be a power, ever vigilant and
active, which will systematize and economize, in a degree of
perfection never before known, all that pertains to the for-
mation ;ind administration of Public Libraries.
If there were any doubt as to the magnitude and impor-
tance of the subject involved, or the rapidity with which it has
grown snider the stimulus of thorough investigation, a full
and final ans%ver would be found in the Special Report issued
last year from the Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Education, upon the history, condition and management of
the Public Libraries of the United States. We have here A
volume of nearly twelve hundred pages, rich in the wealth
and minuteness of its statistics, abounding in information and
su`rgestions, and presenting an immense variety of topics in
the several contributions and discussions of those whose
perfect familiarity with the matter in hand gives to their
utterances all the weight of reco,nized iuthori-y.
Our own Library cannot fail to feel the influence of the new
movement, and receive its due share of all that has been
thought and said and done in behalf of institutions of this
glass.
The accessions made by purchase during the last year
(three hundred volumes), have been unusually small, and
necessarily so from the fact that the sum appropriated for the
Library was very much less than what was recommended by
the Trustees. With the current expenses vei;r nearly a con-
stant sum from year to year, and reduced to the lowest point
that is consistent with the safe, intelligent and efficient man-
agement of the Library, any reduction in the annual appropria-
tion inures, by its whole amount, to the disadvantage of the
Library. For a very large number of readers, the latest
TRUSTEES' REPOR-T. 5
additions furnish the strongest attractions, and in many
instances it is enough that a book ib new in the simple fact
of its accessibility ; but in the majority of cases the demand
is for some work that is new in time, fresh now and to-day.
The reputation of a newspaper depends in no small measure
upon the quality and date of its last issue. And as the pop-
ularity and utility of the Library stand in a very close rela-
tion with the character of its most recent purchases,there should
be the largest possible liberality in furnishing means where-
with to procure those books which represent the best among
the latest thoughts of the age, and have a power to influence
and improve which comes only from the force of freshness and
novelty. In the physiological world the process of diges-
tion may be much improved by the judicious use of condiments.
In an analogous manner, the mental assimilation may be
sluggish and imperfect unless it be occasionally- quickened
by a touch of the stimulating and acceptable ideas that
emanate with special effect from the living brains of cotem-
porary writers.
As heretofore the Trustees bespeak a discreet generosity
towards the Library, and for the ensuing year ask an appro-
priation of fifteen hundred dollars ; to which suns the dog-
tax will of course be added.
The report of the Treasurer shows that perfect equilibrium
between income and expense which has always characterized
his annual accounts.
Interesting information will be found in the annexed re-
port of the Librarian, who, to his ordinary assiduous and
conscientious devotion�to his duties, has added acts of self-
sacrificing liberality which are entitled to honorable ineiition.
To him and to his assistants, for their continued and invalu-
able services, the Trustees return their thanks, and acknowl-
edge obligations, to the silin of which each passing year
makes its addition.
It is much to be regretted that the Town has heretofore
G TRUSTEES' REPORT.
manifested such decided indifference in the matter of a suita-
ble building for the Library. It would be superfluous here
to repeat what was said in the last report, and to urge again
the argument in favor of the desired change, drawn from the
alarming insecurity of our property.* And this part of the
subject may be dismissed with the simple remark that the
reasoning acquires new force with every purchase made, and
with each donation received.
There is a new consideration that forces itself upon our
attention in a very perplexing way ; and that is the imme-
diate need of more room. The space assigned for books in
the Library is so nearly full, that the question of where we
shall locate the accessions of the coming year is one for
which at present we have no solution ; as we have exhausted
all the inexpensive expedients which for two years have en-
abled us to enlarge, as occasion required, the book-storing
capacity of the Library. Something must be done ; option
is no longer an available element ; necessity should determine
action. And in the opinion of the Board some step should
be taken at once, looking towards the early erection of such
a structure as will assure the safety, independence, conven-
ient administration and comfortable growth of the Library.
Incidental to this movement, when completed, would be the
release for more advantageous uses of more than one-half of
the lower story of the Town Hall.
If the Town will procure a suitable piece of land, the
Trustees are ready and anxious to undertake the work of
raising by sul)scription a sufficient sum to give us the build-
ing that we have so long foreseen in our imaginations, and
hope soon to look upon with our eyes. The members of
the Board are impelled to do this no more by a sense of the
pressing necessities of the Library, than by a strop; con-
*The card catalogue alone represents a value of one thousand dollars at
least.
TRUSTEES' REPORT. 7
viction that the attempt must succeed. They would consider
themselves false to the trust which they hold, should they
cease.to agitate this important and somewhat di$icult ques-
tion, and only hope that their fellow-citizens will be induced
to coincide with them in their own conclusion that in this
matter municipal action is an urgent duty.
Signed in behalf and by authority of the Board.
ALFRED HORNIER,
Chairman.
February 12. 1877.
8 TRUSTEES REPORT.
GEORGE N. MARCH, TREASURER,
IN ACCOUNT WITH THE
TRUSTEES OF THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
RECEIPTS.
1876.
Appropriation $1,500 00
Amount of dog tax 313 05
Sale of catalogues and fines 96 90
$1,909 95
EXPENDITURES CONTINGENT.
Paid S. F. Whitney, librarian and assistant . $600 00
Nellie Bradford, assistant librarian 400 00
For gas to April, 1876 55 13
" " " July, " 30 38
" Oct., it 28 35
" Jan., 1877 52 50
C. C. McLaughlin, printing and binding 29 72
Nichols & Hall, cards and pencils . 10 84
T. P. Emerson, express 4 50
Sundry payments by librarian, postage, etc. 25 84
Critchett & Son, express 1 20
Henry Russell, painting 3 59
$1,242 05
BOOKS AND PERIODICALS.
Paid New Eng. Sub. Agency, periodicals for 1876 $50 15
In advance " it " " 1877 105 60
Estes & Lauriat, for books 22 50
l{ {G <[ . 99 32
« << 33 21
{l 11 50
49 « << 16 00
Lee & Shepard, " 60 11
it 44 « 39 29
45 29
TRUSTEES REPORT. q
Paid Commissioner of Patents, drawings and specifica-
tions of patents, to Sept., 1876 $26 00
Commissioner, ex. vol., Nov., 1875 10 42
D. Appleton & Co., books i 00
B. B. Russell, °' 1 50
F. Leypoldt, sub. to journal . 5 00
$GG7 90
$1,909 95
i
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
To the Trustees: —
GENTI.E3tr.,N, —In accordance with the regulations of the
Library, I submit to you this my ninth annual report.
The essential facts of the growth and use of the Library
for the year, as compared with former years, are presented
in tabular forth in Appendix I.
The increase in the circulation for the past year is not
quite five (4.7) per cent. The smaller appropriation of last
year has given us a much smaller number of new books.
This has made the circulation less than it otherwise would
have been, for with less activity in business there has been
greater leisure for reading and study.
Would it not be a proper question to lay before the finan-
ciers of the town, whether a Generous appropriation for books,
at a time like this, is not dictated by prudent foresight and
wisdom. "Time is money." In time of peace prepare for
war." In times of leisure prepare to act intelligently when
the time for action comes. Could not money, judiciously
expended for such books as would be used, do much to pre-
pare for, even to hasten, the time of prosperity we all desire
to see ? Would it not tend to make the labor of our citizens
uiore effective? Will it not, in every way, make our town
a snore desirable place of residence? So, with increased
numbers and increased property, shall we not find our bur-
dens of taxation lighter?
Tile additions to the Library, both of bound volumes and
of pamphlets and papers, have, of course, been fewer in
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 11
number than in the preceding year, but the number of acces-
sions by gift nearly equals the number purchased. A list of
the givers, with the number given by each, may be found in
Appendix II.
The decrease in the amount of fines collected is due rather
to our improved system of mail notices, which, being sent
more quickly after the book is due, tends to make individual
fines smaller in amount, although they are probably more
numerous than when the circulation was smaller. The object
of the fines I do not understand to be revenue, but rather to
promote the more rapid circulation of volumes.
It gives me pleasure to aclinowledge the helpfulness and
efficiency of both of my assistants. The amount of service
rendered by them so cheerfully, with personal interest, with
evident pleasure, may be appreciated by those who under-
stand the minuti:e of library work. Certainly the value of
their service is not gauged by the limited salaries our appro-
priations will allow. The question may be asked whether
the amount of service might not be diminished. It seems to
me that it would be for the best interests of the Library and
the town rather to encourage an increase. Printed rat;L-
lognes, at best, will not take the place of the personal service
of the attendant in a Library. Tile assisLants come to know
the books as they know their friends, and they are ever
ready to lend a courteous ear to all inquirers, to help by per-
soual advice to the choice of the desired book, or to show
to the student the resources of the Library on any subject.
They will take especial pleasure in helping any one follow
out any line of inquiry which tends towards sonic useful
end. That this aid may be given at the moment called for
with bast loss of time to the inquirer, their leisure should
be employerl in extending the subject catalog no, and in mul-
tiplyinn the number of ite cross references to all subjects
likely to be made a matter of examination from each hook
treating of them. I would therefore, suggest an increase in
1
12 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
the number of hours during which the Library is open, if in
the opinion of those who use the Library this is desirable.
This could be made at slightly increased expense, and the
additional time secured to the assistants could be spent for
the good of the Library.
I have the pleasure of announcing a donation from Hol-
lingsworth & Whitney to the Library of a supply of covering
paper, of excellent quality, sufficient to last the Library two
or three years, of the value of over thirty dollars.
The immediate wants of the Library, besides new books to
be added as they are published from time to thue, are new
additions to our standard English works, for which there is
a considerable demand which we are unable to supply, and
for a choice selection from the better class of German
and French works in their own languages.
The number of calls for some readable and instructive
book in French or German is increasirg. I hope you will
be able to set apart a small sum for the direct importation
of books from France and Germany to meet this demand.
The Library, being a public educational institution, is entitled
to import books free of duty. It would be well to add to
this list certain English boobs in durable bindings, which
can be obtained at less price in England than in this
country.
The combination of American publishers and booksellers,
now, fortunately for us, broken, has tended to reduce the
number of books which we have been able to purchase
during the past year. The coming year, with opportunities
for direct importation, will be more favorable in this respect.
We need to provide for the binding of many of our
periodicals and pamphlets, which will make, for a small
expenditure, valuable additions to our volumes for circula-
tion and reference. There is now a prospect of having a
completed index to the great mass of periodical literature,
from the combined efforts of different librarians in different
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 13
parts of the country. This will make far more valuable the
sets we have, and be a special inducement for us to complete
sets of periodicals now imperfect.
That the enforced leisure of many, caused by depression
in business, has been improved, our reading-room and circu-
lation have shown. Perhaps never has the rending-room
been so well used as during the past winter. In this con-
nection can we not see the wisdom of those who provided,
even when the burdens of the war were still upon us, the
means to organize this Library. Ours was the fort--third
Library 111 the State. The cause of free Libraries for the
people is gaining favor. Now one hundred and seventy-
two Libraries have been established in this State. With the
increase in the number and size of Libraries, the increase in
their usefulness is still greater. It is a fact not at all dis-
creditable to thi town that she has collected and maintains
for the free use of all her inhabitants over ten thousand
volumes, and nearly as many panlphlets. What h.is been
accomplished should spur us on to make this collection still
more valuable.
Some wealthy well-wisher of his own town could confer a
great blessing by moderate expenditure for a building to
hold and protect these.bool:s for future use.
A few pict:ires and other works of art might find in such
a building an appropriate room for their exhibition, which
the town would ever delight to honor, for is not this the
home of some of the muses? We have within our ],)orders
one of the finest private nit collections to be found in the
country, while artists known wherever the English lanatiage
is spoken have found here their earl�r home. RgDille +11, Flor-
ence may absorb the attention for the present of one Miss
Hosiner, but Roston appreciates and encourages the artistic
labors of other daughters of ours ; while who shall say how
many Mute, inglorious 111iltotlq" of art, if we nlrly he
allowed the figure, may find inspiration for still nobler Mork
14 REPORT OF THE LIMURIAN.
within our borders might be helped and quickened by a few
paintings, engravings, sculptures, and hooks on art, which are
doubtless waiting for a safe and durable house to receive them.
With an art room we would have a room fitted with cases
to receive specimens of natural history. A nucleus for a
museum, interesting to all, instructive to the you>>g, could
be easily furnished,— is within easy reach. Quite a number
have already expressed a desire to see a Library building
erected, and have offered to lend a Helping hand by way of
contributions. Will some one come forward and enjoy the
hon(,r of leading in such a work?
ti'F,7hat has been said in past reports in regard to the
opportunity for usefulness presented by this Library
is more and more true. If the number of gentlemen of
means and large culture and influence, who are made
responsible for this trust, could be increased by making the
number oil the board of trustees larger. I doubt not that
more ready means would be found to extend the sphere of
usefulness of this Library and give it a home of its own
where increased safety and hope of greater permanency
would bring to it larger contributions. All who have
served thus have been impressed with the as yet unappre-
ciated opportunities fair good. By appointing a larger num-
ber, more would see, as you do, from the interior working of
the Library, its great means of usefulness.
A few words might be added, if I should yield to a
feeling which I find, by watching the working of the
Library, growing stronger, in regard to a more liberal hand
in supplying the demand for popular books. The views of
the founders of this collection, and the experience of most
engaged in managing similar institutions, are in favor of
giving all something they can appreciate and enjoy and will
delight to read, if not objectionable in spirit or form, though
some of it may not satisfy- the more critical ; and then, by
more liberal supply of higher kinds of literature, and by
^ REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 15
personal aid and influence, gradually leading to the perusal of
: that which is getter. One man, a few weeks since, oil
signing his name, and taking his first book, a volume of
Mrs. Southworth, said, "It's better for me to be reading this
than standing around the corners, or in the beer-shops."
He will read travels and biographies soon, and history, and
works on his trade or business, and before long books of
` science. If all men who do no better would do no worse, our
4 saloons, our police courts, our prisons, our almshouses,
would fall into disuse, and money now spent upon them
would make our town one of the best known as well as the
happiest and most prosperous in all this wide land.
The supplement presented with this report is the seventh.
The time is soon coming when we shall need to have these
eight alphabets combined in one. Already the managers of
our nearest sister Library, who have a catalogue more
recent by two years than ours, are discussing the need of
a new one. We have the means of printing, at aiiv
time the town may demand it, a catalogue under one
alphabet. More than half of the expense, and many months
of time, which others would need, can be saved b1' its fi•atll
the possession of a card catalogue, which, with some
rearrangement and perhaps some extension, will give us as
full and complete a catitlogne as the town would care to
print. In one Library near its the rooms were closed over a
year to enable them to make a catalogue. In many places
serious interruptions would result from an attempt to make
a. new catalogue. We could, in a tnanth's time, or as soon
as the cards could be transcribed, and with no interruption
whatever to the freest use of the books, have, at any time,
the manuscript of a new catalogue ready for the printer. I
wish, however, as no doubt you do also, to see the books
shelved in more permanent quarters before this work of
re-ratiilogtiing, or rather of reprinting, shall be necessary.
We cannot be accuse(l of selfishnQss when we almost envy
16 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
the liberal bequests which some of our sister towns, Con-
cord, or Newton, or Lancaster, or Woburn, for instance, have
received. Yet in due time, if we faint not, the helping
hand will appear.
Gentlemen, in closing, allow me to express the opinion
that if all, according to their means, would signify their
willingness to put their hands into their treasuries as freely
as you have already, the tenth year of our history, upon
which we now enter, would not close before our more than
ten thousand volumes would be comfortably and respectably
housed in a building devoted to the work of aiding and
supplementing all other agencies for the elevation, instruc-
tion, and general enlightenment of all our people.
All of which is respectfully submitted,
SOLON F. WHITNEY,
Librarian.
EF.PORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 11
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APPENDIX II.
LIST OF GIFTS OF BOOKS, PAMPHLETS AND PAPERS.
Papers. Pamph. Vote.
Abbott, Rev. G. S., "The Watchman........ .... 4
Abbott, Grafton T..... ...... ...... ...... ....... I
American Unitarian Association, 11 Christian Regis-
ter" and "Unitarian Review........ .... ..... 53 12
Astor Library, N. Y....... .... . . .... ........... 1
Barry, Mrs. C. J.............. . .... ...... ...... 164 48
Boston Public Library.... ..... . ...... ...... .... 6
Boston Soc. of Natural History...... . ..... ...... 1
Boston Water Board...... .... .... ...... . ...... I
Boutwell, Hon. Geo. S....... .... .... ...... ..... I
Bradford,N....... .... ...... .... .... .... .... ... 1
Bradford, Mrs. Ruth A....... .... ........ ....... 20
Brazilian Commissioners to Phila....... .... .... . 6
Brookline Public Library.... ............ ...... . 1
Cambridge, Common Council of ...... .... .... ... 1
Chicago Public Library.. .......... ............. 2
'Cobden Club," London.... ............ ........ 2
Coburn, Edward. ..... ...... ........ .... ..... . . 1
Concord Public Library...... .......... .... ..... 1
Dana Library, Cambridge...... ...... .... ........ 3 1
Dedham Public Library... .. ................. 1
Ditson, Oliver & Co., "Dwight's Journal of Music" 28
East St. Louis Public Library...... ............. 1
Fitz, Charles F. . ..... .... ...... . ... . ......... I
Garnett, Algernon S..... .... .... .... ...... ..... 1
Holden, J. Dana . .... .. .. ...... ...... .... .... . 1
Horne, Dr. C. F., -World's Crisis...... .... .... 18
Hosmer, Alfred, M. D. ...... ...... .... .... ..... 119 104
Lancaster Public Library...... .... ...... ...... . 1
Lathrop, Mrs. L. W.. ......... .......... ....... 4
Lawrence Public Library.... .... .... .... ...... . 5
Lowell City Library....�.... .... .... ...... .... .. 1
McLauthlin, C. C....... .... .... ...... ...... .... 28
Mareh, Geo. N..... .... ...... .... .... .......... 9
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture............ .. 1
Massachusetts Society 's Our Dumb Animals" -... 13
Massachusetts State Board of Health...... ....... 1
Melrose Public Library.... ............ .... ..... 1
New Bedford Public Library.... .......... ...... 1
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Papers. Pamph. Vols.
Newton Public Library . . .. .. .... . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . 6 1
Nigers, Mrs. C.. . .... . . .... .... . . . . .. . . . . . . .. .. 4
Patent Riglit Gazette .. .... .... . .. . . . . . . .. .. .. . . 4
Sherman,William.... .. . . .. ...... .... .. .. . . . . .. 4
Smithsonian Institute.... .. .. ...... .. . . .... .... . 1 3
Snow, Geo. K..... .. .. .. .... . ... . . .. . . .... .. .. 8 2
Stebbins, S. B. .... .. .. . . .. . . .... . . .. . . . . . . .. . . 1
Technologist . ..... . . . ... . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
U. S. Bureau of Education.. .. . . .... . . . . . . .. . . .. 2 1
Waltham Public Library.. .. . . . . .. .... . . .. . . . . .. 1
Warren, Hon. W. W. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . . ... 1 4 11
Wayland Public Library. ... .. .... .... . . .. . . . . .. 1
White, Smith & Perry, °� The Folio .... .. .... .. .. . 12
Whitney, Edward. ... . . .... . . . . .. .. .. . . ...... .. 22 13
Whitney, Solon F.. ... .... .. .. .. . . .. .. .. ...... . 77 15 93
Williams, Icon. J. Al. S. " Official Gazette of the
Patent Office.' . ..... .. .. . . . . .... . . . . . . . . .. . 17
Woburn Public Library.. .. .. .. . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. . 1
Worcester Public Library. ..... .... .. . . . . . . . . .. . 1
YaleCollege. ..... .. .. .... .... .... .. .. .. .. . . . . . 1
290 392 296
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APPENDIX M.
LIST OF PERIODICALS ON THE TABLES OF THE READING-
ROOM.
Agriculturist, The. Nature.
American Journal of Science and Arts. N. E. Historical Register.
American Library Journal. N.E. Journal of Education.
American Naturalist. North American Review.
Appleton's Journal. Official Gazette of the U. S. Patent
Atlantic, The. Office.
British Quarterly. Our Dumb Animals.
Christian Register. Pequossette.
Contemporary Review. Popular Science Monthly.
Dwight's Journal of Music. Publisher's Weekly.
Eclectic Magazine. Punch.
Edinburgh Review. Quarterly Bulletin of the Nuttall
Folio, The. Ornithological Club.
Galaxy, The. Sanitarian, The.
Good Words. St. Nichoias.
Harper's Magazine. Scientific American.
International Review. cc cc Supplement.
Journal of Chemistry. Scribner's Monthly.
Literary World. Unitarian Review and Religious
London Quarterly. Magazine.
Manufacturer and Builder. Westminster Review.
Nation, The. Woman's Journal.
1VATERTOWN
FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
THE SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT.
1577 .
24 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
Agriculture. Johnson, S. W. How crops feed.... .... .... ... .... 344.11
Loring, Geo. B. The farm-yard club of Jotham.... . ..... .. 344.14
New York state agricultural society, Transactions of.... ....
'full, J. The horse-hoeing husbandry.... .... ... ...... .... 926.1
Aiken, S. C., as a winter resort for invalids. Pamph..... ........ .. 11.1.24
Alcott, Louisa M. hose in bloom. B., 1876. 160. (2 cop.) . ....297.11,12
Silver pitchers : and Independence. B., 1876. 160. (2 cop.) 297.4.5
Alford, Henry. A plea for the Queen's English. L., 1865. 160. .. 441.19
Alger, Horatio, jr. Shifting for himself. B., 1876. 160 ...... .... 283.43
Alger, Win. R. Public morals: or the true glory of a state. (Elec-
tionsermon.).. .... .... . ..... .... .... .... .... .... .... .. M.3.25
Allen, W. F. and J. H. Manual Latin grammar. B., 1868. 12°.. 574.7
Allibone, S. A. Poetical quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson.
Phil., 1875. 80...... . ..... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... . *145AG
Prose quotations from Socrates to illacaulay. Phil , 1876. 80 *143.15
America. Draper, J. W. Thoughts on the future civil policy of
America...... .. .... ...... ...... .... .... ...... .... ...... 1064.21
Manning, S. American pictures drawn with pen and pencil.. 357.15
American social science. association. Printing for the blind. A re-
port. B., 1875. Pamph....... .... . ..... .... .... .... .... N.3.4
Ames, Mary Clemmer. Bee Clenuner, Mary.
Among my books. Second series. James Russell Lowell .... . ...• 410.15
Amongst machines. A book for boys. N. Y., 1376. 12C. ..... . .. 330.4
Anderson, Rasmus B. and Bjarnason, Jon. Viking tales of the
north. CNe., 1877. 120 . ..... . ..... .... .... .... .... .... 10G1.13
Andersson, C. J. Notes of travel in southwestern Africa. N. Y.,
1875. 12c.... .... .... .... ...... .... . ..... .... .. ...... .. 323.24
Arbitration, Geneva. Report of clerk of court of commissioners of
Alabama claims. Davis, John . .. .... .... .... .... .... .... M.7.14
Arboriculture, Prizes for, offered by the trustees of the Mass. society
for promoting agriculture.... .... ....... .... ...... .... .... AL1.4
Architecture, Treatises on. Iiosking, Win.. ..... .... ...... ..... .. 927.4
Arithmetic. See Colburn, Dana, P., Eaton, J. S., Greenleaf, Benj.,
and Robinson, H. N.
Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. B., 1876. 160 .... .... ..•• 510.9
Art and mythology, The symbolical language of. Knight, R. P..... 466.5
Astronomy. Blake, J. L. First book in astronomy.... ••..•••••.• 926.6
Fitz, Ellen E. Handbook of the terrestrial globe..... •••• •• 333.17
At the councillor's. John, E..... ...... ...... . ...... ...... . . . .:. 275.44
Axon, W. E. A. The mechanic's friend. N. Y., 1875. 120. . .•.• • 910.5
lWating to aquaria,bronzing, cements,drawing, dyes,electricity, gild-
ing, glass-working,etc.,etc.
Badger, H. C. The humble conqueror; a discourse commemorative
of the life and services of Abraham Lincoln. B., 1865. Pamph. Di.4.23
WATERTOWN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY.
LIST OF BOOKS ADDED DURING 1876.
THE SEVENTH SUPPLEMENT.
Books with no location number must be called for by title.
Ahadie, 11. and sons. French grammar. Phil., 1823. 160.... .... 574.9
Abbot, Ezra. Catalogues of the (Harvard) college library.... . .... N.5.14
Abbott, Edward. Long look house. B., 1877. 16°. Silhouettes.. 275.56
Paragraph history of the American revolution. B., 1876. 1G° 850.5
Paragraph usto y of the United States. B., 18Ia. 18°..... 850.4
Revolutionary times. B., 1876. 161...... . ........... .... 850.6
Abbott, E. A. and Seeley, J. R. English lessons for English people.
B., 1876. 160 ...... ...... .... ....... ..... . ..... .... .... 410.17
Abercrombie, J. Philosophy of the tnorsal feelings. N. Y., 1834. 16' 561.19
Achsah : a Neer England life study. Round, W. M. F....... . ..... 275.49
Adams, John Quincy. Memoirs. C. F. Adams. Peril., 1874-7 G.
11 vols., 81.... . ..... ...... ... .... . ..... ........... .... 776.1-11
Adams, Win. T. (Oliver Optic.) Living too fast. B. 8c N. Y.,
1874. 160...... .... .... .. ...... . ..... .... .... ...... .... 275.59
Rich and humble. B., 1872. 160. (2 cop.).... .. ....944.14 & 960.3
Vine and olive. B. & N. Y., 187G. IGO.... ....... .... .... 2-83 46
Africa. Andersson, C. J. Notes of travel in southwestern Africa .. :12;.24
Warner, C. A Mummies and Modems.... ....... .... .... 324.21
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Treatise on arithmetic. B., 1864. 12.. .•. •• •.•..•.• • .•••• 930.4
Education. Barnard, Henry, ed. American journal of education.
4 viols..... ..... .... . ...... .... ...... ... ..... .. . T.L.
— Hamilton, Sir Win. Discussions on philosophy and liter-
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— Hill, Thomas. Integral education. Inaugural address at
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Huxley, F. H. Addresses in America. IV. University edu-
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National education association. Addresses and journal of
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Egypt. Sharpe, Samuel. History of Egypt from the earliest times
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— Warner, C. D. Mummies and Moslems.... .. .. .... ....... 324.21
Election sermons. (Mast.) Alger, W. R. January 1, 1862. . . .... M.3.25
— See also Green, R. G. ; Lothrop, S. K.; Stone, A. L. ; Quint,
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B., 1875. 8°. Port. and 8 pi. . .... .... .. .... .... .. .. .. .. 4G7.13
Oration, and a chronicle of the siege of Boston.... .... .... . 1, 37.b
The preservation of the States United. Charlest., 1860..... M. 4.26
Elsie Dinsmore. Finley Martha.... .... ...... .... .... .... .... .. 297.6
EIsie's girlhood; a sequel to "Erie's holidays ...... .... .... ....... ?97.8
Elaie's motherhood; a sequel to "Elsie's womanhood... .... .... .... `'"►7.10
Elsie's womanhood; a sequel to "Elsie's girlhood' . ..... ...... ... 297.9
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Address at Concord, April 19, 1875. See
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Emorv, W. 11. Notes of a military reconnoissance from Fort LeaV(-,n-
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English grammar. Morris, Richard. English grammar. (Literature
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Greene, S. S. ; Kerl, S. ; Nutting, J. H. ; Harvey, T.
W. ; Tennev, W. J.
T:ngliAh literature. Brooke, Stopford. (Literature primers.)...... 420.5
Epitaphs. Churchyard literature : a choice collection of American
F,reilia.epitaphs. Kippax, J. R... .. .... .... ..
"" ... .... ....
• •• 10G1.12
(Fiction.) N. Y., 1876. 160. ....
Europe. Creighton, M. The age of Elizaheth .•' .•.. •.. ..� . .... SiO.2
Field, If. M. From the lakee of Killarney to the Golden Born. .124.23
— Freeman, E• A. Hi+tory of Europe. (History primers.) ... 850.7
hale, E• The fall of the Stuarts, and Western Europe
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Geography.. Wheeler, G. M. Geographical and geological surveys
west of 1000, in 1872. .... .... .... ...... .. .. .... . ..... .... 327.15
- Persia. See Persia.
Geology. Agassiz, L. Geological sketches. 1st and 2d series. .... 330.G,7
Crosby, W. O. Report on the geological map ot Massachu-
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- Geikie, Archibald. Geology. (Science primers.).... ...... 311.31
- Hayden, F. V. Geological survey of the territories. Re-
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- Taylor, J. E. Geological stories...... .... ...... ...... .... 340.7
- Wheeler, G. Al. Surveys west of 100°, in 1872.... .... .... 327.15
German political leaders. Tuttle, Herbert...... ...... .... .... .... 771.21
Contents.-I. The Chancellor-Prince Bismarck. II. Ministers. III.
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Gill, W. W. Life in the southern isles. L., n. d. 1G° .... . ...... 310.2
Gilman, Maria. My ten-rod farm; or how I became a florist. B.,
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Giraffe Bunters, The. Reid, Mayne. ................ ...... . ...... 960.2
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Gladstone, W. E. An inquiry into the time and place of Homer.
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- The Turco-Servian war. Bulgarian horrors and the question
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Gold of Chickaree, The. Warner, Susan and Anna.... .... . . ..... 275.53
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Good win-Talcott. See Talcott, 11. B. Goodwin.
Gough, John B. Autobiography . ..... .... .... . ...... .... ...... . 771.34
Graham, Ennis. " Carrots" : just a little boy. L., 1876. 160 .... 283.45
Grape culturist, The. Fuller, A. S. . ...... .... .... .... . ..... •... 344.13
Gray, Asa. Darwiniana: essays and reviews pertaining to Darwin-
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Greece. Cox, G. W. The Athenian empire . ..... . ..... . ......... 850.11
- - The Greeks and the Persians ...... . .. . ..... .. . .... .... 850.3
Mahaffy, J. P. Classical antiquities. I. OBI Greek life-... 420.7
Stanhope, Col. Leicester. Greece in 1823 and 1824....... .. 8G.i.4
- T.�fre, C. A. History of Greece .... ... ..... .. .. .... ...... 85o.8
Warner, C. D. In the Levant . ..... .... . ..... . ...... .... 323 24
Greek and English lexicon. Liddell and Scott.... . ...... ...... .. . *145.17
Green, J. II., ed. History primers.
I. Europe............................................................. s.,4.7
11I. Greece. Fyffe, C. A......................................... 850.6
IV. Rome. Creighton, M............................................. tl�0.0
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Fraser, 'Tytler, C. C. Jonathan. N. Y., 1876. 160. ..... ...• .... 296.6
Free trade. Cobden, Richard. Russia, Turkey, and England. . .... 1010.11
- Cobden Club. Free trade and the European treaties of com-
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Stuart. J. Al. Tile history of free trade in 'Tuscany..... .... 1010.10
Freeman, E. A. History and conquest of the Saracens. L , 1876. 841.5
- IIistory of Europe. (History primers.) .... .... .. .... .... . 850.7
Freeman, Samuel. The probate directory. B., 1812. 160.... .... 662.1
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French gr .inmar. Magill, E. H.. ... .. .... .... . ..... . ...... ..... . 574.5
French literature, IIistory of. Vol. I. From its origin to the renitis-
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Fridthjofs saga. Tegncr, E-aias...... .. .... .... .... .. .. .... .... 1061.13
Fruthingham, O. B. Knowledge and faith and other discourses. N.
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--- Transcendentalism in New England, N. Y., 1876. 120. .. .. 5:i6.8
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Googrnphy. Bradford, T. G. Comhrehenedve atlas.... . . .... o
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Conlentv.-Madame Roland; Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin; Mary W.
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IV. The Roman triumvirate. Merivale,C............................. 8,90 10
V. The Athenian empire. Cox, G. W................................. Sb0.11
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Greene, S. S. First lessons in Grammar. Phil., n. d. 120 .. .. • .• 561 29
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" Horticulture. Buist, R The American flower-garden directory.... 346.12
CnItivator and country gentleman...... ..... . ..... .... ...
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Pope, Alex. Poetical works. B.. 1R08. 8 v. (Vol. `? warding.) 160. 750.1-8
Porter, E. G., and 'Stephenson, IT. At. Souvenir of 1775. Lexing-
ton. B., 1875. 4(-'. Cuts...... .... ...... .... ...... . ..... N.9.6
Porter, Noah. Introduction to lialf ha,urs with modern scientists... 321.3
Porter, 'I'. C., and Coulter, J. M. Synopsis of the flora of Colors&).
W., ]AN. Pamph. .... .... .. .. ...... . ..... .... .... ...... 326.23
Porteus. Beilby. Sermona. IIartf. 1 NOu. 80 ...... . ...
� � 5"G.10
Prendergast, 1'. Ilandbook to the mastery series. N. �'., 18t;8. . l2c. 560.10
- The mastery series. French. N.-T., 18G8. 12':....... . . ... 574.11
'I'hc niastery series. German. N. 1., 18G8. 120...... .... -574.10
Prentice, G. D. Poems. Cin., 187G. 120. Port..... .. . ..... .... 740.2
Prentis>a, Mrs. E. The home at Greylock. N. Y., 1876. 12" :175.52
Preeton, ITArri,% W. Troubadours u B
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., It0s".. 410.24
Printing for the blind. Report of committee of American Qocial
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Procter, Adelaide A. Poems. B., 1R73. 1G°. . 741.36
Prnffatt. J. !'lac cnrir,siti� s aamd lavr of wills. 3.•F., lM;►;• `•' u'.•.'
Pushkin, Alex. Marie: a story of Russian love. Chic., 1877. l6c'. 2JG.16
46 REPORT OF THE LIBR RUN.
Putnam, A. P. A sermon occasioned by the death of Rev. George
Bradford. 1859. B., 1859. Pamph....... ....... ........ M.9.13
Putnam, Israel, Life of. Tarbox, I. N....... ...... ...... .... .... 775.27
Quint, A. H. Sermon at the annual election (Mass.), 1866. B.,
1866. Pamph....... ...... ...... ...... .................. M.3.27
Quotations. Allibone, S. A. Poetical quotations from Chaucer to
Tennyson..... .... .... .... . ..... ...... ............ ...... *145.16
- Prose quotations, from Socrates to Macaulay............... *145.15
Radiation. Tyndall, John .... ...... ...... ...... .... .... .... .... 910.4
Randolph, Sarah N. Life of Gen. Thomas J. Jackson .... ...... .. 7 73.24
Rawlinson, George. Manual of ancient history. L., 1869. 80.... 844.9
- Seventh great oriental monarchy. (Persia.) L., 1876. 80.
20 maps and pl., 56 cuts..... ...... ....... ...... .... ...... 1047.9
Regnault, M. V. Elements of cl►emistry. Phil., 18G7. 2 vols..... 346.5,E
Reid, Mayne. The giraffe-hunters. B., 18G7. 161. 8 pl....... ... 91;0.2
-- The young yagers. B., 1857. 160....... .... ...... ....... 960.1
Religion. Beecher, Catli. E. Common-sense applied to religion... 512.28
- Spear, S. T. Religion and the state..... . ......... .... .... 510.15
- Winchester, S. G. Importance of family religion.......... 510.13
See also Sermons and Theology.
Reynolds, Grindall. Concord fight, Apr. 19, 1775. B., 1875. Pamph. N.9.10
Rice's trowel bayonet, Experiments with. Spring£, 1874 ...... .... 111.6.8
Rich and humble. Adams, W. T. (2 cop.). ...... ..........944.14 &, 960.3
Richardson, B. W. Diseases of modern life. N. Y., 1876. 121).... 955.27
Ring of Atnasis, The. Bulwer-Lytton, Robert....... ............. 284.32
Ritchie, Leitch. The romance of history. France. L., n. d., 12°. 275.37
Robinson, 11. N. Progressive higher arithmetic. N.Y., 1863. 120. 930.2
Progressive intellectual arithmetic. N. Y., 1859. 160...... 561.23
Progressive practical arithmetic. N. Y., 1859. 121........ 930.3
Progressive primary arithmetic. N. Y., n.d., 16. ...... .... 561.24
Robinson Crusoe's money. Wells, David A. ...... . ... .. .... .... 475.12
Rocky mountains, Exploring expedition to, in 1842. Fremont, J. C. 346.11
Roe, E. P. Near to nature's heart. N. Y.. 1876. 120. ..... .... . 275.51
Rogers, R. V. The law of the road; or wrongs and rinhti of a tray-
eller. S. F & N. Y., 1876. 163............ ........ .. .... 662.3
Rogers, T. J. American biographical dictionary. Easton, 1824. 8°. 725.24
Rolfe, W. J., and Gillet, J. A. Cambridge course of elementary
Physics. Astronomy. B., 1865. 12. ... 930.7
- Cohesion, adhesion, chemical affinity and electricity...... 930.5
- Natural philosophy. B. & N. Y., 1869. 120.... ........ 930.6
Rollin, Charles. Ancient history. Edin., 1775. 10 vols. 160......860.1-10
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 47
Rome. Busk, R. H. Roman legends. A collection of the fables
and folk lore of Rome.. .. .. .... ...... . ... .. . ... .. .... .. .. 440.7
Capes, W. W. Roman history. The early empire. ... .... . 850.12
Creighton, M. History of Rome. (History primers.). . ..... . 850.9
Huidekoper, F. Judaism at Rome. B. C. 76 to A. D. 140.. 530.11
Ihne, W. Early Rome from the foundation of the city to its
destruction by the Gauls .... ...... . ..... . . . .... . . . . . . .... 850.13.
Merivale, C. The Roman triumvirates. ... . . .... . . .. . . . . .. 850.10
Roscoe, H. E. Chemistry. (Science primers.) N. Y., 1876. 160. 311.30
Rose in bloom. Alcott, L. M. (2 cop.)..... ..... . .. .... .... ... 29 7.11,12
Ross, C. H. The book of cats. L. 1868. 160 . ..... . . ..... .... .. 930.1
Round, W. M. F. Achsah. B., 1876. 120 . ... .. . ... .. . . .. .. .. . 275.49
Round my house. Notes of rural life in France in peace and war.
Hamerton, P. G. .. .... .... ...... . ... .. .... .. . ... .. .. . . . . 0 22.17
Rubens, Peter Paul, Life of. Calvert, G. H. . . ..... .. .. . . .. .. .. . . 771.33
Rumford, Count. See Thompson, Si?- Benjamin.
Russell, Thomas. See Nason, Elias, and Russell, Thomas.
Russell, Wm., and Goldsbury, J. Introduction to the American
common-school reader and speaker. B., 1,845. 12c.. .. .. .. 560.11
Sanborn, F. B. Emancipation in the `Vest Indies. Concord, 1872.
Pamph. . ..... .... .. . .... . . ..... . ..... .... . . ..... .. .... M.2.10
Saracens, History and conquests of. Freeman, E. A. .... .... .... . 841.5
Sargent, Epes. Pronouncing spelling-book. B., 1864. 1G". ..... . ;('0.14
Standard fifth reader. Part II. B., 1864. 120 . . .. .. . . ... . 560-13
Standard fourth reader. B., IsG4. 12D. . ..... . . .... . .... . 561).12
Say, Jean B. Treatise on political economy.... .... .... .... . ..... I064.20
School hymn-book. B., 1850. 160. ..... .... . . ..... .... ...... ... 7 45.17
School question. McQuaid, Bishop, and Abbot, F. E. The public
school question as understood by a Catholic American citizen
and by a liberal American citizen .. .... ...... . . ..... . ..... 5G3.2G
Spear, S. T. Religion and the state. .. .. .... .. . ..... . .... . 510.15
Schntzenberger, P. On fermentation. N. Y., 1876. 120. 25 cuts. 342.30
Schuyler, Eugene. 'Turkistan. N. Y., 1876. 2 viols. 80. Maps,
platesand cuts .. .. ...... .. .... . ..... ...... .. .... . ..... .. .12r)."1.4
Science. Baird, S. F. Annual record of science and industry for 1875. 1121.25
Bixby, J. T. Similarities of physical and religious knowl-
edge .... .... .... .... .... ...... .... ............ .... .. .. 5 10.11
Blackwell, Antoinette B. The sexes throughout nature. .... 330.3
Boston society of natural history, Condition and doings of.
1867 .... . . .... .. .. .. .. .. .... . ..... ...a ...... ...... .... . N.2.14
Buckley, Arabella B. A short history of natural science.... 344.9
Ralf hours with modern scientists. 2 vols. ,,,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, ,, 321.3,4
Con6rn6e.-Vol. I. General introdnction, Porter,Noah tan the physical
basis of life,Huxley, T.R. Currelation of vital and phyrlcal forces, Barker,
48 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
Science. Half hours with scientists. (continued).
G.F. As regards protoplasm,—reply to Ansley.—Stirling,J.A. On the
bypothesis of evolution,Cope,E D. Scientific addresses: On the methods
and tendencies of physical investigation; Onbazeand dust; on the:scientific
use of the imagination,Tyndall,Jobn.
Vol.11. Action of natural selection on man, Wallace, _1. It. Spectrum
analysis. Roscoe, Prof. Spectrum analysis in its application to the heavenly
bodies,Huggine,Wm. Spectrum analysis as applied to the sun. Lockver,
J. N. The sun and its phenomena on its atmosphere, Young,C. .1. The
earth a great magnet, Mayer, A.M. The mysteries of the voice and car,
Rood, U.N.
Paley, Wm. Natural theology .... ....... ...... .......... T.L.71
Smithsonian Inst. Annual reports. 18:53-18 7 5 ...... ...... 936-916
— Contributions to knowledge. Vols. 10 to 21, and Harvey
on the marine algae of the U. S. 2 vols. 40. ...... .... .... 968.-
- Miscellaneous collections. Vols. 3 to 12...... ...... .... 947.-
Thompson, Sir Benj. Complete works ...... ....... ...... 467.9-12
White, A. D. The warfare of science. . ..... ...... ...... .. 340.9
World of wonders: a record of things wonderful in nature,
science and art ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... ...... 337.6
Science primers. Foster, M. Physiology...... .... .... .... . ..... 311.28
Geikie, A. Geology.......... .... ...... ...... ...... .... . 311.31
— Physical geography........... ...... ...... .... ..... . 311.27
Roscoe, 11. E. Chemistry ..... ...... ...... .... ...... .... 311.30
Stewart, Balfour. Physics. ..... . ...... ...... ...... ...... 311.29
Scott, Walter. Castle Dangerous ...... ............. ...... ...... 271.2
Highland widow...... . ..... .... .... .... .. .. .... .... .... . 271.6
Life. of Napoleon Bonaparte. 3 v ols. 8Q ........•. ...• ..717.22-24
Scudder, 11. E. Dwellers in fire-sisters court. N. T.. 1876. 160.. 2196.14
Dien and manners in America one hundred years ago. N. Y.,
1876. 160.... .... .... . ..... .... .... .... .... .... .... .... 71.32
Sears, F.. 1I. Diemorial of Rev. Jared Al. Ileard. B., 1864.
Pamph........ ...... ...... . ..... ...... ............ ...... D1.4.30
Seashore and prairie. Thacher, Al. P..... ...... ........ ..... .... 320.7
Self-culture. Channing, «m. E..... .... ...... .... .... ...... .... AL2.7
Senses. The five senses of man. Bernstein, J. ...... .... ...... .. 343.19
Sermons. Bellows, H. W. The supernatural.... .... ...... . ..... M.4.22
Bradford, Claudius. The higher law.... . ..... .... ...... .. Al.5.1
Davis, Hasbrouck. Branches and garments .... ...... .... . Al.9.10
— The living Christ: a sermon for Easter day.... .... ...•.• D1.9 11
Francis, Convers. The dust to earth, the spirit to God. ..... DI.9.8
— Sermon at the ordination of Rev. Benj. hent, 1826-... . D1.3.7
Iiuntington, F. D. Permanent realities of religion . ..... ... M.4.25
Livermore, Abiel A. Discourses . ... .... ..•• . •••. .•.• •••. 5:30.10
Porteus, Beilby. Sermons on several sub3ects .... .... .... . 526.10
Ward, M. Discourses on Christian faith and practice ....:. 510.12
Weiss, John. Discourse occasioned by the loss of the
<<Arctic...... .... .. .... .... .... .... .... ...... .... ....... M.4.17
REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN. 49
Sermons. lj eiss, Jolm. Our private and public stewardship .. ••.• A1.4.18
— L;nity and peace.... ...... . ... ...... ...... .... .... .... 31.4.16
— Woman in the temple, The .... ...... .... ...... .... .... A1.4.1 5
I oun;t, E. J. The-ministry: a farewell discourse .......••• A1.4.34
Sewers. Opinions in the matter of common sewers in Cambridge.
A1.8.29
Sbakspeare. Wit, humor and Shakspeare. Weiss, John.... ....•• 410.19
Sharpe, Samuel. History of Egypt. L., 1876. 2 vols. 161 .... .860.11,12
Shifting for himself. Alger, Horatio, jr. ...... ...... . ..... . ..... . 283.43
Sights and insights. Whitney, A. D. T. (2 cop.) ....275-30,:31 ; 275.32,33
Silk-growers' guide. Kenrick, Wm..... .... .... . .... .... .... .... 340.10
Silver pitchers, and Independence. Aleott, L. 31. (2 cop.) ...... 2117.4,5
Simon, John. Filth-diseases and their prevention. B., 1876. 1G'. 955.28
Slavery. Child, Lydia -1. The right way the safe way, proved by
emancipation in the British Nest Indies and elsewhere ...... A1.2.14
Foster, Stephen S. The brotherhood of thieves, or a true
picture of the American church and clergy. (1843) .... .... 11.2.13
Garrison, Win. L. The abolitionists, and their relation to
thewar. ...... . ..... ...... . ..... .... ....... ..... .... .... M.122
Goodloe, D. R. The southern platforni, or manual of south-
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Sanborn, F. W. Enianc•ipation in the W. Indies ...... .... . M.2.10
Woodworth, C. L. The full enfranchi ement of the negro .. 111.2.11
Stables, Samuel. Thrift. N. Y., 187G. 120 ...... ...... .. ..... .. 410.16
Smith, Ethan. View of the Hebrvws. Poultney, 1825). 16'' . ..... 352.41
Smith, Win., and Drisler, II. First Latin reading book. N. T.,
1866. 160...... ...... ...... . ..... .... .... .... .... ...... 574.12
Smith, Erin. W. The speller's manual.... ..... .... . ........... .. ')f;0.1..5
Smithsonian Institution. Annual report of the board of regents for
1875. Wash.) 1878. 89. 244 cuts ....... ...... ...... ....
Contributions to knowledge. Vols. 20 and 21 . ..... .... .... —
Atiseellaneuus colleetions. Vols. 3-1.2 ...... .... .... .. .. ..
Smythe, J. Y. Some observations upon the civilization of thc-«'ea-
ern barbarians. B., 1876. 12-� . ..... ...... . ..... .... .... 41n.1A
Snip and Whip and some other boys. Davis, J." k. ...... .... .. .. . 29G.17
Snow, George K. Lahellin_r-machine patent, &c•. B., 1,474 .. .... M.1;.;1
Atachine for folding and pasting paper. testiluouy, se...... .. A1,�;.7
Soule, Ric-ha rd. memorial of the Sprague I lmily. 13., 1847. l( . 71 2.29
Sound, Theory of, in its relation to inusie. BLtserna, 1)........ .... :131.16,
,Snuth B000n flats. Report of eoninrittee, with plans.... .... . ..... AS.rc.-':3
~pain. brine and olive; or young Atnerica in Spain and Portugal.
Adam*, W. T. ... . ...... .. .... ... ..... . .... .. .... .. .. _S 3.4 a;
spa ildin;r. R. Cr. .'l,ddrvot at banker's building, centennial 91,0111111S. 1.9.15
-**YN4
�1►►•aker's garland and lilerary bouquet. Vol. 3.... .... . 17 ' ti
Spear. Sxn►'I, 'f. Religion and the state. N. Y., lt;7t;. 1G. .. . ....
l>lu.l;i
50 REPORT OF THE. LIBRARIAN.
Spelling. Smith, W. W. The speller's manual....... . ..... ...... 560.15
See also Sargent, E. ; DeWolf, I). F.; Edwards, R., and War-
ren, M. A. ; Sargent, Epes; Willson, M.
Sprague family, Memorial of. Soule, R. . ..... ...'... .... ..... .... 712.29
Spon, Ernest. Present practice of sinking and Loring wells. I..,
1875. 120. 273 cuts............. ...... ........ ..... .... 330.8
Stanhope, Col. Leicester. Greece in 1823 and 1824. With the life of
Mustapha :Ali........ ...... .... .... ...... .......... ...... 8d)5.4
Stanley, _Irthur, P. Lectures on the history of the Jewish church.
Parts I. and II. N. Y., 1876. 2 vols. 120 ...... ...... .. 536.9.10
Starboard and port: the "Nettie" along shore. Hepworth. G. H... 321.21
Statesman's year-book. Hanel-hook for politicians and merchants for
the year 1876. Martin, F. .... ...... ...... ....... .... .... 1010.8
Steem-engine. Bourne, J. Catechism of the steam-engine in its
various applications to nines,mills, steam navigation, railways
andagriculture.... .......... ............ .... .... ...... .. 910.2
-Recent improvements in the steam-engine in its various
applications. .... ...... ...... ...... .... .... .... .... ...... 920.4
- Treatise on the steam-engine..... .... .... ...... ..... .... 927.3
Burgh, N. P. The slide valve practically considered.... .... 9 10.3
Ewbank, Thomas. Progressive developm, nt of the steam-
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See Axon, Wnt. E. A. The mechanic's friend...... .... .... 910
Steele, J. D. A fourteen weeks' course in chemistry. N.Y., 1869. 930.11
A fourteen weeks' course in natural philosophy. N.Y., 1869. 930.10
Stephen, Leslie. History of English thought in the eighteenth
century. N.Y., 1876. 2 vols. 81...... .... .... ..........556.12.13
Stephens, George, transl. Tegner's Fridthiof's saga..... .... ...... 1061.13
Stephenson, Robert, Life of. Jeaffreson, J. C. ...... ......... ....736.24,25
Stewart, Balfour. Physics. (Science printers.) N.Y., 1865. 16". 311.29
Stirling, J. II. As regards protoplasm. See Science. Half hours
with, &c. Vol. I. .... .... .... ...... .... .... .... .... ..... 321.3
Stoddard, R. U., ed. Brie-it-brae series. Vol. VIII. Personal rem-
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160. P1. .. .. .. .... . . ..... .... .. .. I... . ...... ..... .... . 771.23
Vol. I1. Personal recollections of Lamb, 11arlitt and others. 771.24
Sans-souci series. II. 1%1en and manners in America one
hundred years ago....... ..... . .... ...... ...... . ..... .... 771.32
Stone, A. L. Sermon at the annual election (Mass.), Jan. 4, 18G5.
B., 1865. Pamph.. ..... ...... ...... ...... ...... . ..... .... I11.3.26
Stories. Holm, Saxe, (pseud.) ...... .... ........... ...... .... .. 273-38
Contrnte.- Draxv Miller's dowry. The cider's wife. Whose wife wag
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Wy-nn's love-letters+.
Storrs, R. S. The early American spirit and the genesis of it. N. Y.,
1875. 81. Pamph. . ..... ...... .. ..... .... ...... .... .... N.9.7
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Story, Isaac. A Parnassian shop, opened in the Pindaric stile. B.,
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Story of our country, The. Monroe, airs. L. B. .... ....•. . ••••• •• 940.5
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Stowe, H. B. uncle Tom's cabin. B., 1876. 120 ...... . •.• .•.• • 275 3G
Stretton, Iiesba. The crew of the Dolphin. N. Y., 1876. 160...• -994.23
Stuart, J. 'IN1. History of free trade in Tuscany. L., 1876. 16' .. 1010.10
Sumner, Charles. Our foreign relations. B., 1863 ....... .... .... lkf.2.4
The rebellion,its origin and mainspring. N.Y., 1861. Pamph. N.9.121
Swedenborg, Outlines of the religion and philosophy of. Parsons, T. 510.10
Swift, Jonathan, Life of. Forster, John. Vol. I....... .... .... ... 175.23
Swinton, W. Twelve decisive battles of the war. N. Y., 1873. 81. 1055.2
Switzerland and the Swiss. Byers, S. M.. .... .... •.•.•• ••.• •••• • 323.22
Taine, H. A. The ancient regime. N. Y., 1866. 120 .... ...• .•.• 774.22
Talcott,H?-s. II.B. G. The fortunes of Miss Follen. N.Y.,18 7 6. 120. 275.46
Tales from two hemispheres. Boyesen, II. H. .... .... .... .... .... 294.28
Talmud, Selections from.... .. ...... ...... ...... .... .... .... .. .. 526.11
Tarbox, Increase N. Life of Israel Putnam. B., 1876, 811 .... ... 7 75.27
Taylor, Bayard. Boys of other countries. N. Y., 1876. 120 ..... 940.6
Taylor, John. Persoi gal reminiscences. See O'heeffe, John....... 771.23
Taylor, John E. Geological stories. N. Y., 1874. 160. 175 cuts. 340.7
Taylor, R. C. Statistics of coal. Phil., 1855. 81. Dtaps and cuts. 346.9
Taylor, Tom. Still waters run deep. An original comedy, in three
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Teacher's model pocket register and grade book. Eldredge &
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Tegn6r, Esaias. Fridthjof's saga. See Anderson, R. B. Viking tales
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Tell, Wm. Florian, J. P. C. de. Guillaume Tell. ou la Swisse
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Temperance. Bridgett, T. E. The discipline of drink.... .... .... 7,iti.17
Weiss, John. An address before the Watertown Washing-
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.4ee also Smiles, Samuel. Thrift ..... ...... ...... . ..... .. 410.16'
Tenn•y, W. J. A grammatical nnalyzer. N. Y., 1,446. 160 ...... 560•21
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Texas. Baker, D. W. C. A Texas scrap-hook. ilhade up of the
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Theology. Arnold, 1llattl►ew. God and the Bible. A review of
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52 REPORT OF THE LIBRARIAN.
Ttieology. Bixby, James T. Similarities of physical and religious
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Church of Scotland. The confession of faith, the larger and
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Frothingham, O. B. knowledge and faith, and other dis-
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Thomas Wingfold, curate. Macdonald, George...... .... . ........ 275.39
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Ticknor, George. Life, letters and journals. B., 1876. 2 vols., 8c.775,.1!►,20
Timber, Cultivation of, and the preservation of forests...... ....... M.1.21
To Buddlecombe and back. Burnand, F. C..... ...... . ... .... .... 294.27
Todd, John E., ed. John Todd, the story of his life. N. Y., 1876.
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Tomlinson, Charles. A rudimentary treatise on warming and venti-
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Transcendentalism in New England. Frothingham, O. B. ......... 556.8
Travelling. The law of the road. Rogers, R. V. .... .... ...... .. 668.
Trevelyan, G. O. Life and letters-of Lord Macaulay. N. Y., 1876.
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Troubadours and trouvl•res. Preston, Harriet W. ...... ...... .... 410.`�
Tull, J. The horse-hoeing husbandry. L., 1822. 80............. 926.
Turkistan. Schuyler, Eugene .... ............ ............ ...... 326.3,
Tuttle, Herbert. German political leaders. N. Y., 1876. 160..... 771.2
Two admirals, The. Cooper, J. F........... .. .. ...... .......... 221..
Two destinies, The. Collins, Wilkie..... ...... ................ .. 275.
Tyndall, John. On radiation. N. Y., 1865. 160 .... ........ .... 910.
See Science. half hours, etc. Vol. I..... .... .... .... .... 321.
Tytler, Alex. Fraser. Elements of general history. Phil., 1813. 8°. 830.
Uncle Tom's cabin. Stowe, 11. B..... ..... .... .... .... .... ...... 275.
Underwood, Sara A. heroines of freethought. N. Y., 1876. 16°.
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United States. Abbott, Edward. Paragraph history of the Ameri-
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- Paragraph history of the United States.........• .... ...• 850.
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Bureau of education. Public libraries in the U. S. A. Their
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4rCongressional record. Forty-fourth congress... ............
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ACE� ,
ADDRESS OF W M. H. nNGRAII_ M, EsQ., AINID
ORATION BY REV. J. F. LOVERING,
AT THE
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION ,
01bite's hill (-robe, C'I(Matertolu», jflav'.,.
.rUIN 4T117 1876
i
CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION.
OPENING ADDRESS
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE. DAY, W. H. I\GR_tHA)1. ESQ.
I greet you with joy, fellow-citizens of Watertown, and
welcome you to the ceremonies of this grand Centennial
anniversary of the nation, this red-letter day in the calendar
of humanity.
And it is well as .ve stand, as it were. at the close of the
first century of the nations life and usher in the second cen-
tury, I say it seems right to cast a look back to the commence-
ment of the grand drama, bring before our minds, if possible,
the scenes as they were then, measure, as it were, the ground
t we have passed over, mark the progress we have attained, and
see if we have realized the Hopes of our fathers, and have
to proved ourselves worthy of the struggles that they made in
our behalf
Follow-citizens, I count it no small thing to he a resident of
c an old town whose record for one hundred and fifty years before
the great struggle, whose conduct throughout that trial and in
all the scenes since, has been so worthy of review. Another
will go over this history for you to-day , I can touch but lightly
upon it. and leave to him to give you fuller detail. But I
caunot refrain from saying to you, flat tills old town opened
its doors to the Continental Congress when the soldiers of
England forced them to flee from I;oston.
•a�
4 ADDRESS.
They came to those whose hearts beat high with holy pur-
pose, men who counted loss in such a cause as the greatest
gain.
Verily, they came unto their own, and their own received
them. They cast fear aside; and welcomed the struggle.
Writing after the adoption of the Declaration of Independ-
ence, John Adams said that coming generations would usher
in this day with the ringing of bells and the firing of cannon.
With prophetic eye he saw what it must cost in blood and
treasure, but lie knew that the prize would be worth far more
than the cost.
Let us consider f'or a moment the purpose of that struggle,
for the nation has passed through three successive wars, each
having a definite and somewhat different purpose. Their pur-
pose in the first was; to found a government upon Human
rights, a government that derived all its just powers from the
consent of the governed : and nobly they struggled in support
of that purpose.
The purpose of the second, or the war of 1812, was, to settle
the question of a man's right to change his nationality, and to
determine for himself under what government lie would live,
or what flag should protect him.
And here I would have those of our citizens of foreign birth
remember that this country has opened its arms to receive
every nationality, and has never faltered for one hour, or
failed in any crisis, to protect those who made this land their
home.
That contest was closed by the cannon of Perry, Decatur
and Bainbridge ; and although when the treaty of peace was
signed, not one word was said by either of the high contracting
parties, from that day to this, no demand for a surrender to a
ADDRESS.
foreign power of any man has been made, except in a single
instance, and that by the government of Austria upon the
commander of one of our vessels, in one of her own ports, for
the surrender of a man whom she claimed as one of her sub-
jects ; but they were met by an Ingraham, who, double-shotting
his (,uns, and clearing his deck for action, sternly replied, " If
you want this man you must come and take him." They did
not come, and this question was settled forever.
Pass we now to scenes of later date and sadder memories.
Into our nation's life had grown an institution utterly at
variance with the principles of our government. Tolerated at
first, it had grown so strong that it dictated the policy of the
government, and defied every effort that was made to control
or restrain it. Arrogant in spirit, when the p-)pula,r voice
declared against it in a choice of a President, it threw off
restraint, and undertook to overturn a govern
inent it could no
longer control.
Out of this state of things grew a twofold purpose for the
lait war : —
First. That the union of these States which our fathers
had founded and bequeathed to us, their children, might be
preserved : that this country, which stretches from the Atlantic
on the east to the Pacific on the west, and from the lakes on
the north to the gulf on the south, bound together by moun-
tain-chains and by rails of iron, should forever remain one
bovernment.
secon(t- 'rhe emancipation of a race.
That twofold purpose throbbed in our hearts when we called
our first meeting in the Town Hall, to provide for the defence
of the government and the flag which had been as.
aile�i
It glowed in the faces of the young men, and of the men in
ADDRESS.
middle life when they enrolled their names, and offered their
lives to the service of their country.
That purpose rang out in the majestic chorus of the John
Brown anthem, as the soldiers marched through the streets of
Baltimore; or camped on the batiks of the Potomac.
It was whirled with Sheridan over the plains of Winchester,
where he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat, and down
the Shenandoah, when he drove the flying Early out of that
valley, never to come back again.
That purpose was thundered from the cannon of Meade-at
Gettysburg, in response to the terrific charges of Lee and
Longstreet along his lines.
It gleamed from the bayonets of Sherman in his long march
from Atlanta to the sea, and was fully consummated at Appo-
mattox, when the last shot was fired, when the last rebel
flag was furled, when the sword of Lee was surrendered to
Grant ; then and not until then was it settled, that from that
time forth, we trust forever, that this nation should be one,
and nowhere beneath its flag should one main demand and
compel for his own use the labor of another, without paying
him his wages. Nowhere should one man own another as
merchandise. Nowhere, over this broad land, should one man
buy or sell another man's wife or child.
Venerable sir,' I welcome you as an honored guest
in the services of this day. One year ago, yourself with your
old companion in arms; the lust survivors of the soldiers of this
town in the war of 1812, accompanied your fellow-citizens to
Concord; to the first battle-field of the nation. To-day you
stand here alone. Your old companion has answered his last
* To Mr. L. Whitney, the last survivor in Watertown of tl►e war
181_'.
ADDRESS. 7
rc ll-call and has been mustered out. Lona may you remain
to enjoy the quiet of old age. Long may your presence be a
benediction upon us.
Scholars of the public schools of Watertown. we welcome
yc,u to this hillside to-day. The hopes of your country centre
in you. AS illina or not, we who are in active life must soon
+ step aside : for in this march of time there is no halt. Will-
ing or not. you must occupy our places. The ark of your
country's safety must rest on your shoulders. See that
you bear it bravely on. Enact good laws and maintain them.
Sustain the cause of education; of good order, of civil and
religious liberty, and when; one hundred years from to-day,
your children's children shall bather on this hillside, or on any
other hillside or plain where their lot may be cast, they shall
look out upon homes as happy, a country as prosperous;
because equally free.
And now; in closing. let me say to you, Soldiers of the
Grand Army of the Republic, he is no friend to his- country,
wbo_ in this Centennial year, this year devoted to peace,
seeks for his own gratification, or to further his ambition, to
open old scenes or to fan the embers of strife into flame ; but
neither is he a friend to his country, who. unmindful of the
terrible struggle we have passed through, proposes to surren-
der one single object gained in that struggle.
You know by personal experience what it cost in life and
limb, and we, and generations to come, must know what it will
cost to maintain the public faith and credit untarnished ; but I
repeat the words of the elder Adams. no matter what they
Bost, the country with its institutions will forever be worth
more than they have cost, and must forever be lnaintainea.
0RATI0
BY J. F. LOVERING. CHAPI.AI`-IN-CHIEF GRAND ARMY
OF THE REPUBLIC.
MR. PRESIDENT :—
You call me to an important and honorable duty. I at-
tempt its performance in good faith, though with a very
serious questioning of my ability, and with a profound sense
of the high demand of this hour.
But, fellow-citizens, we are under command to-day. We
are met, not only in compliance with the recommendation of
the chief magistrate of the nation ; we are met, not only to
honor the resolution of the " Senate and IIouse of Represen-
tatives in Congress assembled," but we are met at the call,
and by the authority, of those grand memories that make
our past heroic. There are days when the past wearies us
with its commonplace : clays when, as it were, our feet sink
heavily in the sands of a monotonous desert. — the stream of
life flows l,y us with deep, dark, untroubled current, ancl,
though undisturbed by any eddy, though unruffled by any
ripple, there seems to be the hopeless spirit of despair in its
stagnant calm. If on those clays we look back ; if we suffer
our thought to survey the sources of that stream of life : if,
under fancy's magic spell, we lift the drop-scene between the
past and the desert-like present, we shall see an arena on
which interests of large moment are contending ; we shall
trace through a varied panorama, even to stately mountain
ranges, the strange, the humble, the honorable beginnings of
that tide of life that flows so tamely in the present . we shall
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10 ORATION.
be lifted into the presence of deeds that are immortal, and of
men who must ever have a fadeless renown.
Richter, a German writer; gives us what lie calls, a
" Dream of the Universe." It is a weird picture of infinite
space, a swift journey from one zone of the heavens to an-
other. " Suddenly," he says, at one point of his dream,
9` the heavens above appeared to be emptied. Not a star
twinkled in the mighty abyss. No gleam of light broke the
infinite darkness. I thought to myself, ` At last, the universe
has ended.' I trembled at the thought of the illimitable
dungeon of pure, pure darkness which seemed to imprison
creation. I shuddered at the dead sea of nothinn in whose
unfathomable zone of blackness the jewel of the ;littering
universe seemed to be set and buried forever. Then a voice
said, ` Look up ! ' I looked. In a moment came a twilight.
In the twinkling of an eye a galaxy. Then with a choral
burst rushed in all the company of stars. For centuries gray
with age, for millenia hoary with antiquity. had the starry
light been on its road to us ; and, at length, out of heights
inaccessible to thought, it had reached us."
The wonderful dream is quite a reality when translated into
the prose of our ordinary life. Sometimes deep darkness
envelops us. Sometimes over us is a night without a star.
Sometimes no hope cheers us with the promise of a dawn.
The world about us seems to drift, without let or hindrance,
into the void. We lose heart. We have no confidence in
ourselves or others. The utter contempt of life that Shake-
speare puts into the mouth of Macbeth takes possession of
us, and we say : —
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
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• ORATION.
y 11
To the last srllahle of recorded time:
Anti all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle
Life*'s but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That writs anti frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot. full of sound and fury,
Sirnifyim nothing."
f Then, suddenly, a cliange comes o'er the vision of our
dream. We look back, we salute the immortals ! We recall
the brave lives and the heroic deeds of those who, long since,
made their exits. The fire still glowing in their embers
kindles a light in our lives. We burn with their flame. We
turn our records, on whose yellow and worn page the ink has
faded ; we decipher the writing of a century or two centuries
zoo. We let oui Imagination rehabilitate the scenes of the
past: we live, as it were, over :)gain the faithful lives of
faithful hearts : we enter, as it were, into a new world, and
have comradeship with heroes. And then, then, the life
about us seems more significant; duty is sealed with authority,
and a brave faith looks into a future bright with a radiance
kindled at the brilliant' illumination of the past. For the
uncouragement of a profoutider veneration for achieved great-
ness, for the quickening within us of a sense of personal
responsibility, for the understanding of the results which stay
up the edifice of the present, for the cheerful and enthusiastic
outlook iutu the future. let us, in eager and applauding
gratitude. look to that past.
In July. 1630, this place, then known by the Indian name
Pi;a;vtisset or Pequosette, was settled l,y Sir Richard Calton-
stall. This was two hundred and forty-six years ago, -- ten
years after the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth. The
V1
12 ORATION.
settlement was at first called Saltonstall*s plantation ; after-
wards, on the seventh of September, the Court of Assistants at
Charlestown ordered that " Trimountain be called Boston ;
Mattapan, Dorchester ; and the torn upon Charles river,
Watertown."* Watertown, so called because it was well-
watered," t4with many pleasant springs and rivulets. t was
shaped like a pyramid ; its base being on what is now called
Wayland, its south side being imperfect as it followed the
Charles river, — or, as it was originally called, the Massachu-
setts river, — holding no territory across the river excepting
that which is now possessed. Three ponds marked the angles
of this pyramid, and were included in the town, — Walden
pond, now in Concord, to the north ; Non-such pond, now in
Weston, to the south ; and Fresh pond; now in Cambridge. to
the east. When first settled, Watertown was equal in popu-
lation to Boston and Charlestown, and .or fifteen or twenty
years continued to be the most populous town in the colony.
It is worthy of remark that, in the early years of the town,
the church; i. e., the minister and the members of the church,
transacted all affairs, civil and ecclesiastical. The progenitors
of our present board of selectmen were called the body of
freemen. $ Freemen were alone entitled to vote, and no one
could be a freeman unless he was a member of the church.
After the settlement of the town the first work " was to
perfect a church organization.§ About forty men, says
*Prince's Hi.+t. New England, p.
t Johnson', — Wonder-workin;� Providence," Chap. 28.
$See Town Ilecords, 16,34. Agreed, by consent of the Freemen, that
there sliall I,e tliree persons cliosen for the ordorino, of the chill of fires;
one of them to serve as Town Clerk, and mall keep the records and acts
of the Town."
§This wa-A the second church organized in the Mass. Bay Colony; Salem
being the first. See Bond's History Watertown, p. 93o.
ORA,rioN. 13
Mather, subscribed a covenant in order unto their coalescence
in to a church estate." There were other settlers, who did not
sign the covenant, not being entitled to church fellowship.
We are justified in ascribing to the thoughtful and devout
intimacy between church and state, the tenacity with which,
throughout all our history, the people have clung to principle,
and defended their cause in the fear of God. It will be
remembered as one of the peculiar and special boasts of those
who claimed descent from the Plymouth Pilgrims, that before
they landed, while still on board the 11a vflower, under the hea(l-
lands of Cape Cod, they bound themselves together into a
" civil holy politic," signed a compact for a government of
"just and equal laws," " in the fear of God " and for the
general good."
This compact is referre 1 to often as the peed-germ of our
national constitution. The little shallop of eighty tow; 1,unlen
was freighted with the de•tinv of a nation. But we. too. 11mv
have our boast. On February K, l G3?. the Court of 11az:a-
chusetts Bay levied a tax upon the various town,, towards
making a palisade about the New Towne. Watertown was
assessed, as her proportion of the tax, ei;;ht pounds. Tile ruin
was not excessive, though large for that day. N,, ►yet.
however, had the warrant reached this town than a nneetilig
was called by Rev. George Phillips and Mr. Richard Browne)
and, at their instigation, the first protest ever uttere-1. in this
country, against " taxation without representation " was then
made. They declared, " it was not safe to pay inimecs after
that sort, for fear of bringing themselves and their pns-terity
into hondag(--." If, then, the Pilgrim Fathers have the honor
of planting the first germ of our national constitution, this
brave town of Watertown can claim the honor of publishing the
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first draft of that Declaration of Independence, which has
made this 4th of July the Festival of the Nation.
The increase of population in the town was so rapid that
we fii,(l in the town records, as early as 1635, this order
Agreed by consent of the freemen (in consideration there be
too many inhabitants in the town and the town thereby in
danger to be ruinated) that no forrainer coming into the town,
or any family arising among ourselves, shall have any benefit
of commonage or land undivided, but what they shall pur-
chase, except they buy a man's right wholly in the town."
This order is all the more emphatic, as to the danger to the
town of being " ruinated," since it comes after the migration
of quite a number of colonists to Wethersfield, the oldest
town in Connecticut, and the dispersion of others to new
plantations and towns not so crowded. In this year, also,
Dedham was founded by members of this town. This relief,
of the excess of population, did not prevent a further migra-
tion to Sudbury in 1637, " on account of their straitness of
accommodation and want of meadow.`' Concord and Lan-
caster, and many other towns, had in their settlement emigrants
from. Watertown. Indeed, not only throughout Middlesex
County, but in Worcester County, we frequently find names
of those who went from this place. " ,Martha's Vineyard was
first planted by a colony from Watertown." * Connecticut also
received from this place many accessions to her original
settlements. So late as December, 1775, I find a record in
our town-books of a public town meeting called by the select-
men, " to know the mind of the town, whether they would
empower their representative to petition the great and general
*Bond's History Watertown, p. 1003, who gives as his authority,
��Mayhew, pp. 364, 857."
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court with Weston for a tract of land, in some of the unappro-
priated lands in this province, suitable for a township to settle
their youths or young persons upon, for such reasons as may
justly be offered. And the vote passed in the affirmative."
It is interesting to notice in the early history of the town,
how thoroughly alive people were to the importanee of strict
attention to public and social duties. In these clays nothing
more than a formal warning is given to the citizens to attend
on town meeting; but in the town records of 1639 is this
forcible vote : —
" Ordered, that if any freeman be absent from any publick
towne meeting, at the time appointed, sufficient warning
having been formerly given, he shall forfett for every time to
ye towne 2`, 611."
In the year fo.lowing, this order was made more strin-
gent : —
" Ordered, that if any one of the nine men shall warn in
any person to the towne meeting, and that he refuseth to
come after lawful warning, he shall forfett to the towne 5%'?
Not only were the citizens held to their duty, but those
also who had been elected to office. The records inform us
that in 1639 it was t1 Or(lered, yt if any of ye ffreemen
deputed to order the civil affairs of ye Towne shall absent
himself from the Place of meeting past 9 of the clock in the
forenoon, he shall forfett to them every time 2R, 6d."
The selectmen, whatever suspicion of unfaithfulness may
be cast upon them by such a vote, seem to have been, on the
whole, impressed with the importance of their official duties.
and to have attended to them with commendable zeal. In
1665 the selectmen, at one of their meetings, agreed �� that
they would go two and two together ; to goe through the
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Towne, to examine how children are taught to read, and
instructed in the grounds of religion, and the capital law."
And on January 3, 1670, the selectmen agreed to go through
the town to see if children and servants be educated in the
English tongue, and in some " Orthodox catacise." Imagine
the venerable fathers of this community taking any such duty
upon them ! Or, imagine them so exercised as to the behavior
of our young people that they should visit the churches of th'
town, as was done in 1669 ! The town record for January
18th, of that year, says, that at a meeting at Isaac Stearns
his house, it was agreed that the selectmen shall take their
turn, every, man his day, to site upon the gallery, to look
to the youths, that they may prevent miscariges in the time
of public services on the Lord's day. And, also. that the
two constables shall be desired to take their turn to site there
also." The necessity for any such service indicates very
clearly that our great-great-great-grandfathers and grand-
mothers were not always, in their young days, as precise and
proper as their stiff' costume and impassive portraits might
make us believe. It is a little suspicious, too, when we read
the first items in the following bill, presented to the town in
1648 : —
" Due ould Iinap for mending the stocks and the consta-
ble's stand, for a bell-rope, and for mending the meeting-house
doore, and for a locke to said doore, and board and nails
6°, 6`' >>
Or, when we find it became the duty of the selectmen, if
not to set the fashion, at any rate to act as censors of the
fashion, in the following record of action, taken by them
April 12th, 1659 : -
- In reference to the law concerning the excess of apparell.
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the selectmen; being by said law enjoined to use the best
means for reforming of such enormities, as are therein speci-
fied — and taking notice of sundry persons in this towne, who
are in their habits contrary to said law , we do therefore
declare : yt' from henceforth none of our inhabitants except
such as the Law doth allow, do either weare silke goods, or
silke scarfs, gould or silver lace or buttons, ribonds at knees
or trussed handkerchiefs, upon the forfeiture of what penalty
the law doth apoynt, which is — that they shall be rated in
the country rate, after X200 in the same."
The limits of this address forbid any lengthy reference to
religious or educational affairs. It is enough to say here that
the church occupied a large degree of attention throughout the
early history of the town, and at a very early period a school
Ras instituted for the benefit of the children. almost the
first mention of this important matter was in 3650, when at a
general town meeting, It was voted and agreed upon," — ds
the record reads, — `t that `Ir. Richard Norcrosse was chosen
schoule master for the teaching of children to read and write
and so much of Latin according to an order of Court, as also
if any of the s'' Towne have any maidens that have a desire to
write, that the 8" Richard should attend them for the learnino,
off them, as also, that he teach such as desire to cast accompt,
still that the Town did promise to allowe 0 Richard fur his
imhloyment thirty Pounds for this year." Any such record
gives us the means of appreciating at a glance the wonderful
change in the social .and public life of these clays as compared
with the past. Perhaps it may be done more readily if we
recur to another kind of testimony. Governor Winthrop, for
instance, gives this reason for the nanie of Beaver Brack, then
within the limits of Watertown. IIe says in his " Journal ''
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that the brook was so named, " because the beavers had shorn
down great trees and made divers dams across the brook."
Again in the town records we find it " Ordered yt whosoever
shall kill a wolf in the Towne shall have for the same 5`."
That was in 16:,$. In k661, however, it was " Ordered by
vote that if any of the inhabitants shall kill any woulfe within
the Town bounds he shall receive of the towne fouerty shilling
besides what the country allows."
Foxes also commanded a bounty at the rate of one shilling a
head. Blackbirds were so great an annoyance that the town
paid 3'' per dozen, " provided," says the record,* " they carry
them to the constable, who is to cause their heads to be puled
off." These were the most formidable of wild beasts with
which Watertown had to deal ; although a writer in those
early times gives the following statement, which, whosoever
can listen to without a shudder, let hill- : —
" Concerning lions, I will not say that I ever saw any
myself; but some affirm that they have seen a lion at Cape
Ann, which is not above ten leagues from Boston ; some like
wise being lost in the woods have heard such terrible roarings
as have made them much agast, which must be either Devils or
Lions ; there being no other creatures which use to roar. saving
bears, which have not such a terrible kind of roaring." t
It is necessary to pass abruptly from these days of settl
ment under British rule to the days when Watertown, in con-
junction with all the towns of this noble Commonwealth, took
up the purpose which made us free ; which created out of
unimportant, or, at any rate, segregated colonies. a nationality
* 1res.
t Wood's °`New England's Prospect," p. 22. Quoted in Francis' History
of Watertown, 1). 14.
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which made the United States of America " the land of the
free, and the home of the brave," and our flag the symbol of
civil liberty, social rights, and the nation's honor. The record
of our town life in those days deserves, and will reply, the most
careful study. If we may entertain the thought that the work
that was done would have been done zvithout our " Public
Town Meetings," let it be remembered that the spirit and
determination shown by them represent the spirit and determi-
nation that existed in every town, and made it possible for this
colony to enter upon the struggle which won for it its splendid
renown. Every town was a miniature republic. Every matter
of public importance came before " Town Meeting," was de-
bated by all interested, and the final disposition made by vote
of those entitled to suffrage. And the several towns were not
isolated. Cominitt,-es of correspondence were appointed, which
were charged by the Tories with being the very source of
rebellion, by which the various towns were kept informed of
the; temper of the people in distant parts of the country. Of
course this served to educate a unanimity of sentiment, and
gave to each separate community what might be called a sense
of mass. One of the earliest and gravest annoyances felt by
the colony arose from heavy imposts. In ITO 7 — near the
close of the year—the authorities at Boston tool: action in the
matter, and appealed to other towns to resist the introduction
of foreign articles into our markets, and to encourage, as far
as possible, home manufactures. Especial reference was made
to the tax on tea, which was felt to be utterly subversive of the
rights of the people. Thus early the spirit was rou,;etl which
resulte(I in the hig tea-party in Boston in 17737 when, no
kettle being large enough to brew the drink, the harbor itself
IN as used. The letter issued by the selectmen of Boston was
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received by the selectmen of Watertown, and they took active
measures, as the record states, " to prevent our gold and silve
from giving us the slip," denounced "all foreign teas as expen-
sive and poisonous," and asserted that they were unnecessary
as " this continent abounding with many herbs of a more salu-
brious quality, which, if we were as much used to as th,
poisonous Bohea, would, no doubt, in time be as agreeable,
perhaps more so." Not content with thu3 recording their J
approval of the Boston resolves they issued the following
instructions to their representative to the General Court,
January 18, 1768 : —
" Sir, — We, your constituents, the freeholders and other
inhabitants of the town of Watertown, being legally assemble
and having deliberately considered the melancholy and dis- ,
tressed situation of our affairs, as of the Province in general,
so of our respective towns, and having with the greatest
pleasure and satisfaction beheld a surprising spirit to promote
economy, industry and frugality prevail in many of our towns
as appears from their resolutions and instructions given at large
to their representatives, particularly by the respectable town
of Boston; which to their IMMORTAL HoNOUR, took the lead ;
many of them, sacrificing their private interest to public good,
have set us a glorious example, which, with the utmost grati-
tude, we sincerely adopt,And, therefore, advise and charge you, sir, as our repre-
sentative, to govern and conduct yourself agreeable to these
salutary instructions given by our respectable metropolis to
their representatives, and we desire that you would be upon
your guard against any, who, under false pretences of patri-
otic zeal to their country, may endeavor to draw you into any
rash or disorderly measures either disrespectful to the best of
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sovereigns or unmindful to our mother country. But that
4 you coolly and dispassionately join and repeatedly join if ex-
pedient in all firm, vigorous. but most loyal and peaceable
measures in ascertaining our charter privileges and for ob-
taining relief of those grievances which otherwise threaten us
with impending ruin."
You will notice in this letter of instruction both the spirit of
independence and the spirit of loyalty to the existing govern-
ment. The colonists; at first, asked only for the redress of
wrongs. Statements to this effect crowd the pages of original
records in the history of our Commonwealth. Indeed in
ilrarch. 1775, on the day following the anniversary* of the
Boston massacre of 1770, not quite one year and a quarter
after the Boston tea-party, nine mmiths after the Boston
Port Bill came i1.to execution, Joseph Warren, in an ora-
tion delivered in Boston. said : An independence of Great
Britain is not our aim. No ! our wish is, that Britain
and the colonies may, like the oak and ivy, grow and
increase in strength together. The interest and safety of
Britain, as well as the colonies, require that the wise meas-
ures recommended by the honorable the continental con-
gress, be steadily pursued. But if these pacific measures are
ineffectual, and it appears that the only way to safety is
through fields of blood, I know you will not turn your faces
from your foes, but will, u11datIntedly, press forward, until
tyranny is trodden under foot, and you have fixed your
adored goddess Liberty fast by Brunswick's side. on the
American Throne."
Notice the date, — March 6, 1775. With all the prophetic
vision of a, keen-sighted patriotism, Dr. Warren cultld not
anticipate the events of a single month. Little did he dream
' The anniversary that year fe-11 on Sund.1%.
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how near were Lexington and Concord, when Liberty, with
her foot upon the overturned throne of Brunswick, should lift
her sword, under whose protection independence should be
secured throughout the land. Still less did he anticipate that
summer month, so near at hand, when his blood should help
consecrate Bunker Hill, and his memory, out of that baptism
of fire, rise to a glorious immortality. But if there were not
precise and detailed knowledge of future events possible to any
one, nevertheless we find such widespread forebodings as to
necessitate a careful preparation for what might happen. In
1774, a Provincial Congress was formed, —this town sending
Jonathan Brown as its representative. At the same meeting,
October 3, 1774, it was voted, that the collectors of taxes
should not pay any more money into the province treasury at
present." On the 17 th of the same month the town 14 voted to
mount and equip two pieces of cannon." An active interest was
excited in military preparation, and in January, 17 7 5, the town
" voted to grant and allow four coppers to each man for his
attendance once a week to learn military exercise, to be laid
out for refreshment, also voted to allow one shilling to pay for
fifim, at each meeting." At the battle of Lexington, one man
from this town was killed, Joseph Coolidge. That others
from this place were engaged in that battle we have evidence
in a couple of bills presented to the selectmen and paid by them.
They may be of interest to you. " Widow Dorothy Coolidge,*-
for rum the 19th day of April, for the men in the Lexington
battle, 12s. 8d."
Mr. John Draper, for bread at the Lexington battle on the
19th day of April, 1775, — X1, Is. 4d.''
* .lot the widow of Joseph Coolidge mentioned above. Her hu�:h;md's
name was Nathaniel, who died I evember 24, 1773, and was cousin, by
three removes, of the revolutionary hero.
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Aside from State pay given the soldiers, Watertown
granted to her officers and soldiers in 17177, X601. And in
177 8, voted " a further sum of X5 to each of the men that
went to White Plains in the year 177 6 ; and that the men
that went to the northward in the year 1776, with Captain
Edward Harrington, be allowed a further sum of X1, 13s., 4d.
each. On the 2d of July, 1 1776, Watertown voted " the
sum of six pounds, and six shillings and eight pence to each
person that shall enlist into the service for the town of Water-
town, for the present service, till Watertown's proportion is
completed." The town' also did its part in furnishing sup-
plies. Jan. 2, 1775, it voted " the sum of X53. 17 s.. 2d.,
to he improved [I like that word] for defraying the nec-
essary ch-(u•ges of this province, as may be thought proper
by the Provincial Congress." The same year it furnished
,; forty-nine coats to the general army. In 1781 it voted " a
hun(lred pounds hard money to furnish the town's quota of
beef."
One of the most interesting episodes in the history of
Watertown was the meeting of the second session of the
Provincial Congress here after its adjournment at Concord, on
the 22d of April, 1775, and of the third and last Provincial
it Congress, which met June 31, 1775. The first meeting of
lCongress in Watertown was ou Saturday, at four o'clock in
;the afternoon.* So pressing was the emergency that the
wetting was adjourned to seven o'clock Sunday morning ; and
the first work done was the passage of a resolution that an
army of 30,000 nien be raised for the defence of the colony.
&lao, resolved that 13,600 men be raised immediately by this
province. The next day the Committee of Safety was em-
* See Journal Second Provincial Congress.
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powered to impress horses and teams, and direct owners to
send their accounts to the Committee on Supplies. On the
26th, an address to the people of Great Britain was drawn
up and accepted, in which reference was made to the pillage
and slaughter of which the British troops had been guilty.
It claims that the colonists are still the king's " royal and
dutiful subjects," but that " to the persecution and tyranny
of his cruel ministry we will not submit , " and closes with an
expression of the hope that they, the British people, will use,
under God, every rational and manly exertion," so that,
in connection with the mother country, we shall be together
a free and happy people." In this spirit the war began and
continued. As we review thus briefly the events of those days,
—as we seek to enter into the life we look back upon after
the lapse of a hundred years, — we cannot but reverence the
noble purpose that took possession of our fathers with such
masterful power. In our 6wn town this vote was passed at a
" Public Town 1lleetincr in the Public Dleeting-house."
May 20, 17 7 6. A resolve of the late House of Repre-
sentatives. relating to the Congress of the thirteen united
colonies, declarin,, their independence of Great Britain," was
presented. The question was put to know the mind of the
town whether they will stand by and defend the same with
their lives and estate : and it passed in the affirmative unani-
mously." Such is the simple record of the resolute heroism
by which our nationality was secured, and this day made
forever honorable in the annals of our country, and in the
history of the world. Let us not fail in proud and grateful
exultation, as we look back to those days. Let us cherish
the memory of that yeoman valor that dared to accept the
solemn duty by which at the risk of life we might be free.
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Amid the prosperity of these days, amid the jubilee with
which we Greet this glorious centennial anniversary, let us not
fail to think, if it be only for a moment, of the sacrifice
made by the fathers and mothers of New England for their
sons and daughters.
And let us not, in doing this, fall into the grave mistake of
imagining that sacrifice and heroism were displayed only on
the field of battle. There, illustrious deeds were performed ;
there, where cannon thundered, and the old flint-lock
flashed: there, where the sword leaped from its scabbard, and
men met in the deadly conflict , there, where the red wine of
heroic life was poured out as a libation to liberty, and where
death spread his solemn banquet; — there; indeed, immortal
fame was achieved, and the costly: purchase for a nation was
paid. But sacrifice and heroism were also displayed in council.
.Men took fortune, reputation, life itself in hand, when they
dared to advise together concerning the interests at stake.
There were traitors and spies even in elect circles. John
Ilancock and Samuel Adams, who were honored by being;
excepted from the king's proclamation of pardon to the insur-
gent colonists, were consfantly in danger— and others with
them — from the stealthy treachery which, under the cruise of
friendship, sought to betray with a kiss. Yet not in council
only, as not on the battle-field only, was there noble display
of courage and patriotism. In homes where wives and
mothers cheered and sustained the courage of husbands and
sons with a smiling face that hid a tearful heart ; in homes
where wives and mothers stinted themselves to the barest
necessaries of life; in homes where love kept silent. in agony
of expectation and dread , in homes where women knelt and
prayed and wept, there was as noble and self-sacrificing
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heroism, there was as splendid a heroism as was ever illus-
trated in any committee of safety or in ally council of war.
By the privations, by the weary watchings, by the bitter
anguish of womanly hearts, this land achieved independence,
and became a nation. Let us honor, then, not only the
fathers, but the mothers, of the Revolution. Women spun
and wove, that homespun might clothe the soldier. Women
made cartridges and run bullets, that the minute-men might
have ammunition. `'omen's fingers wrought in every thread,
and helped set every star, in the glorious old banner under
which men fought, and which floats to-day, on every breeze,
from every flan staff and mast-head, wherever the iudepend-
ence of the united States of America is celebrated.
Another event in the history of this town and of the nation
claims brief mention, —the war of 1812. I need not say that
this war was, by no means, entered upon; or gone through with.
in the spirit of the Revolution. I need not tell you that there
was large diversity of opinion as to the need of it. Yet I am
sure all will agree that, however unpopular, the effect of the
war was to lift our nation to a more commanding prominence
among the nations of the world, and to secure for us, from
Great Britain, a respect she had never accorded it before.
The causes of the war may be briefly stated as follows : The
colonial trade ; the blockades by England ; the affair of the
Chesapeake : the impressment of seamen from American mer-
chant vessels. and the orders of the king in council. I find
only one reference to this war in our town records, and that
was the grant of a " sum in addition to the sum to be paid by
the government, including clothing, to the soldiers that are or
shall be detached for this town's quota of men, so as to make
their pay fifteen dollars a month." At the same meeting it
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was voted �— to .ulvance each roan ten dollars, when called to
march into actual service, in part of their monthly pay.' No
one from this town volunteered for the war. From the best
information readily accessible, I learn that fourteen were
drafted, and served for a short time in coast-guard duty.
About the middle of last month one of the soldiers of this war
died after a protracted sickness. I refer to Antipas Jackson,
who was born in Newton, but who has been, for many years,
a respected citizen of this town. In the war of 1812 he
served for a while at Dorchester Heights, and afterwards in
Boston Harbor? at Fort Independence. The only survivor of
those engaged in the war, from this town, is our aced and
highly-esteemed citizen, Mr. Leonard Whitney, now in his
eighty-fourth year. I learn from him that be went as
substitute for a n.an who had been drafted, and who —
having been married but a week — was reluctant to go to war.
It is to be presumed that he never regretted his decision in
the matter.
And now, fellow-citizens, it is my privilege to refer to a
conspicuous experience in the history of our town. I pass by
the quiet detail of ordinary life, however true it may be that
th-? best prosperity is garnered from fields which have been
tended in times of peace. I ask you to look for a, moment at
the aspect and conduct of the town as it faces that fact whicli
is set in black lines at the top of one page in your town
records— «'AK ! WAR ! where is no need for many words,
—not indeed that matters then in hand were unimportant,
but because they are still so fresh in your memories. 'It may
be said, without any hesitation, that this town, throughout the
war, preserved the honorable renown of its prat, and made
honorable the manhood of its present. It was true to its
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record of former excellence, — true to the noble fame of our
beloved Commonwealth, — true to the needs of the nation.
Even after the elapse of fifteen years, the following Preamble
and Resolutions, which I copy from the town records of April
22d, 1861, have the sound of the trumpet in them. Remem-
ber the date, April 22d, '61. It was just after the dastardly
insult offered our flag at Fort Sumter. Rebel hands had
shotted their cannon against it. Rebel hands had torn it
down and soiled its stars in the dust. Remember the date,
April 22d, '61. It was just after the eventful day when the
gallant Massachusetts troops, with the dust of Lexington and
Bunker Hill upon their feet, trod the streets of Baltimore. —
streets that then were sprinkled with better than royal blood —
the blood of American freemen. Remember the date.— April
22d, '61. Remember ! who can forget? The flash of the can-
non, whose thunder heralded the doom of slavery, and the
uprising day-star of liberty : — the flash of the cannon, fired
by rebel hate, lighted a beacon-fire on every northern hill,
kindled a flame of patriotism in every northern heart.
Remember ! who can forget? Every drop of blood with
which liberty — with a sword for a pen — wrote her sign-
manual upon Baltimore, was kindred to that which throbs in
our hearts. As I remember, I do not wonder at the spirit of
life that still makes the words to which I refer electric.
Hear them ! — " Whereas treason is rampant in a part of
the land, our national flag dishonored, and the existence of
our government threatened by armed and unscrupulous rebels.
and it Is therefore the duty of every community in this an-
cient Commonwealth to do whatever it is able to do for the
preservation of our glorious Union : and whereas an effort is
now made to enroll in the militia of this State a company of
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volunteers composed of citizens of Watertown, and it is the
earnest desire of the town to encourage the performance of
this patriotic duty : therefore —." Fellow-citizens, haven't those
words the rind of true metal? Sometimes we are told that
we are degenerate sons of immortal sires. Degenerate ! false
word. The waters are still risi►►g, — the tide is coming in !
What the fathers began, the children continue. Such words
are no solitary utterance. You Will find the echo of them all
over the land. As the waters of our beautiful Charles river
lift themselves to the embrace of the incoming sea, and in
that embrace are carried out past island and light-house, till
their sweet life enters into the broad life of the ocean, - 81)
these words entered into and became part of the life of the
nation, with other words charged with the same spirit of
righteous indignati ►n and. manly strength.
Therefore — " Therefore what? Therefore this town
" pledges its faith," — a noble phrase ! — " pledges its faith,''
to each and all, who become members of the company being
recruited, to look after the homes that are left. And this
therefore " is followed by another, making provision for
raising material aid to carry out the " pledge of faith." Su
the work went on. Men, who did not enlist, gave money
liberally. Women wrought their sweet tenderness into hus-
pit,al supplies. And the, Last was in value more than the
first; it was equalled only by the patriotism which went into •
the field. This is not romance, but fact. I nm to it
in many ways besides that of mere bodily couwfort. A sin-de
instance cannot he out of place. One gay, in the army. bear
the close of the war, some supWes from home wert, given me
by the ",anitary Commission. There were stockings, an(l
handkerchiefs, and needlebooks, and little bags with blue yarn
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and pins and needles, and bits of tape in them. Well, I gave
them to the boys. No use to give anything to that man,"
said the surgeon ; " he is dying." But I could not resist.
I had one bag left. I carried it to him. John, the fulks
at home have sent you something." Home ! " he uttered,
opening his shut eyes. `Yes; this bag comes from the San-
itary Commission, you and I have talked about." — Thank
you, chaplain," lie said, feebly: I small never use it, but
pin it up above my head, that when I open my eyes I can
see it." Time, and time again. he did look at it, till his eyes
closed to all seeing upon the earth. Thank God for womanly
sympathy and work, as well as for manly strength and
money !
Simply as a matter of statistics, it may interest you to
know that Watertown furnished 392 men for the war, —about
one in every nine of her population, a surplus of six over
and above all demands. The town raised and expended
$417205, aside from all State aid.
It might be expected that I should refer to places within
the limits of the town of special historical interest. — such as
the old burial-ground at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Grove
streets : the old house opposite, said to have been built by Sir
Richard Saltonstall for Rev. Mr. Phillips; the site of the
meeting-house in the new cemetery, within whose walls Con-
gress had its sessions, and whose old vane is still to be seen on
the steeple of the Methodist church : the Learned tavern, for-
merly on the site of the Spring hotel ; the old house formerly
near the Great Bridge, where Edes & Gill published ` The
Boston Gazette and Countrx Journal ; '' but space forbids,
aside from this hasty enumeration, more than a reference to
the Marshall Fowle house, formerly situated on Mt. auburn
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ORATION. 31
street. just where Marshall street begins, and which is now on
_Marshall street. directly opposite the High School-house.
Here the council met. at the time the Provincial Congress as-
sembled in the meeting-house ; here Joseph Warren spent the
night before the battle of Bunker Hill, and charged the ladies,
as he left the house, to prepare lint and bandages, for, as he
said, " The poor fellows will want them before niglit."
Across what was then known as the Great Bridge, on the
left-hand side, is an old house once known as the Coolidge
tavern. here General Washington stopped on his `ray to
take command of the army at Cambridge, and ate breakfast,
Mrs. Coolidge making for him a journey cake, i. e., Johnny-
cake. From this house he called on Congress, then holding a
se:�sion at the meeting-house, before he went to Cambridge.
Opposite the Coolidge house, a little way down Watertown
street, just before you reach Cooke's pond, is the old Cooke
house. In a chamber of this House, Paul Revere engraved
his plates, and, assisted by John Cooke, struck off the colony
notes, by order of the Provincial Congress."
Other places having a more local interest might be named,
but those given suggest memories that must always make
Watertown famous in the annals of the country. Famous !
yes, even though her territory has become so contracted.
Her good fame is secure. thouali her acres may he stolen.
Ilow great a chance there has been in this respect may be judged
from this, —the original area of the town was about 20.000
acres; 'its present taxable area is only 2,052 acres. Over
26.000 acres have been setoff from it. That is to qay. enou;li
territory has been taken from Watertown to make nearly thir-
teen towns of its present size.
But the buud f;1nie of Watertown does not rest merely upon
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32 ORATION.
territorial area, nor upon memories of a distant past. It is
secure in the honorable renown of her sons and daughters.
Their names are fragrant as household words to many of you,
and are cherished by those outside our borders as illustrating
eminent worth in many departments of active life. We have
lawyers and physicians, ministers and merchants, artists and
artisans, — men and women, who have an excellent record to
give of their lives, and who by their lives sustain the high
character this place of their nativity has won. I will not
attempt to enumerate such names. They may be left safely,
I have no doubt, to your own memories.
And now with what words shall I close? Shall I say, my
fellow-citizens, I thank you for your attention ? You know I
appreciate your courtesy. Shall I thank you fur the honor
of standing here? Fellow-citizens; it is an honor upon this day,
hallowed by so many illustrious memories and cheered by so
many inspiring hopes, to stand angivhere upon the soil of
America, under the Fla,, of our Union !
With what words shall I close? My fellow-countrymen. I
invite you once a,,ain to look back. Let the curtain which ten
years have let fall be upraised. What an innumerable com-
pany out of all nations gather to look with us, -- poets and
philosophers, statesmen and men of affairs. kinds upon totter-
ing thrones, with faces pallid with fear : and slaves. thanking
God that their broken shackles have fallen from them. Into
what face do we look ? What god-like form is that which
stands forth from all others? What majestic presence do we
salute? AVe greet the firm, resolute, benignant face of him,
who was; under God, the father of our country. We see the
stately form of one who was a hero among men. We bow
reverently before the noble presence of him whose feet once
(M.ATIO .
touched this soil, and consecrated it to liberty as he gent forth
to draw the sword of the country under the old Cambridge
elm. We salute the Commander-in-Chief of the Continental
armies, who knelt solitary and alone amid the snows of Valley
Fore, and then rose from his knees to fight the battles of his
t
country. We salute the brave soldier, the unflinching patriot,
and — more than all else—the good man,
Q) torclt PRIaS ) iIIQt0n
i
O Washington, well halt thou deserved the honorable
esteem of thy countrymen ; well mayst thou staid before
hum,mity. representing the loftiest devotion to human rights.
and that moral worth which is always clothed in unassuming
m,xlesty. On this (" q of our Centennial jubilee we remember
thy life and worth. Calm amid the tempest of conflicting
councils, imperturbable in the very shock of battle, governing
the minds of men in every emergency by the commandment of
a strong and evenly-poised manhood, thou (lost represent to us
the highest conception of patriotic wisdom, fortitude, decision
Rnd success. 0 thou immortal shade of immortal greatness,
map thy virtues be copied by us and our children: may thy
memory be the inspiration of our life as citizens: may we —
may this nation —seek to honor thee by defending and pros-
lwrinb the cause of constitutional independence, personal
liberty, and national virtue.
Again, I ask, with what words shall I close ? My fellow-
countrymen, as you turn from that immortal greatness which
makes our past majestic, I invite you to salute a manhood
that belongs to the present. Under the conditions of this
hour, after the action of the people rtgsemhle(l twice within the
►!OmpaA.q of a month, such manhood stands apart from all
34 ORATION.
temptation to intemperate praise on the one hand, or to unpro-
voked vituperation cn the other. Political partisanship has
no place here. On this day, therefore, we may associate with
the illustrious worth to which I have referred, a manhood con-
spicuous for heroic valor and practical good sense. The nation
honors itself as it salutes that manhood. To-day, as we recall
the fearful struggle within a score of years ; to-day, when we
exult in a country preserved and a people reunited ; to-day,
when the eagle sits with folded winos above our flag, and
Liberty, with sword-point dropped, lifts up the palm branch
of peace ; to-day, when from the surge of the Atlantic to the
tranquil tide of the Pacific, and from the hills of New England
to the savannas and rice-swamps of the south, the nation
lifts its exultant hymn of praise, —we whose hearts are fed by
northern blood ; we whose lungs breathe a northern air ; we
who remember the glorious renown of the living and the dead
who once wore the blue, and who are represented by the Post
of the Grand Army of the Republic that honors us with its
escort, — we will not forget to associate with the memory of
departed greatness which we name Washington, the heroic
manhood exemplified by the soldier and patriot, —
R [Dssts 6ranf .
Still again I ask, with what words shall I close ? I have
no words. I can speak to you only by the motion of my hand,
as I simply stammer I I Stand by the flag ! " Stand by the flag !
On every fold is written a glorious memory. Stand by the
flag ! Every star in its constellation is a brilliant promise of
a glorious future. Let the spirit of sincere and patient and
enthusiastic patriotism inspire us. Patriotism which with a
good memory garners up all the wealth the past gives us.
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' Patriotism which enforces the sacred obligations of the present.
Patriotism which throws wide open the gateway of the future
through which the nation may pass to its manifest destiny.
Patriotism which sums up all as it commands us to
STAND BY THIS; FLAG.
" Stand by the flag!—its stars, like meteors gleaming,
Have lighted Arctic icebergs, southern seas;
And shone responsive to the stormy beaming
r` Of old Arcturus and the Pleiades.
" Stand by the flag!—its stripes have streamed in glory,
To foes a fear, to friends a festal robe;
And sp:ead in rhythmic lines the sacred story
y Of Freedom's triumph over all the globe.
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" Stand by the flag!—on land and ocean billow,
By it your fathers stood, unmoved and true;
Living, defended—dying, from their pillow,
With their last blessing, passed it on to you.
" -Stand by the flag!—all doubt ant] treason scorning—
Believe, with courage firm, and faith sublime,
That it will float until the eternal morning
Pales, in its glories, all the lights of time 1 "
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INDEX .
PAGE-
Auditor's Report 11
Almshouse Account 16
Appraisement . 54, 55
Assessors' Report . 8
Bank Tag 22
Bridges and Culverts 22
Care of Cemeteries 23
Collector's Report . 9
Contingent Expenses 23
Discounts and abatements 27
Extension of :Morse street 28
Estimated Expenses for 1877 . 50
Fire Department 29
Fire Department, Engineer's Report 82
Free Public Library 31
Heating, Lighting and care of Town House . 44
Highways 31
Insurance . 3-1, 58
Interest Account 52
Interest on Town Debt . 33
Isaac B. Patten Post, 81, G. A. R. 35
Laying out and Widening walnut street 36
Jurymen, List of 62
Market street Damages, Footway, etc. . 2,14
Police 36
Printing 37
Registrar's Report. 63
Report of the Overseers of the Poor 91
Report of the Superintendent of Streets 88
Report of Surveyors of Highways 90
Report of the Selectmen 73
Report of Treasurer _ r
Salaries of Town Officers 38
Schedule and valuation Town Property 56
INDEX.
Sidewalks
State Ai'] 43
Statvi,tvtot of .1s:•ets and I.iabilitie:, ZIP
Strect Light.. and Lamp IVtt-z 42
Summar}, of Apprt)priatiuns. Receipts and Exp•.•nditures i
'I'a:u14c.ton Fund Income
Tuwn Debt
Town Grants and Appropriations
Town hall, rare of, etc. i
Town tfdi.ce-rs _
i Or Town _Meeting cti
AV at•.r `wiply and Diain;- _ _t;