1410 Bath Tubs. 1252 Wash Tubs. 321 Slop Closets. 85 Garden Hydrants for Hand Hose. 6 Tumbler Washers. 16 Private Fountains. During the year, six meters have been applied, and three removed from the premises of water takers, making the total number now in use eighty-four. They are attached to a variety of manufacturing establishments as follows: A. H. Hews & Co. Bullard & Scott. Botanic Garden. Bay State Glass Co. Batchelder, Moore, & Co. Braman, Shaw, & Co. Boston and Albany R. R. Co. Boston and Lowell R. R. Co. Boston Chemical Works. Boston Rolling Mill Boston Stamping and Manufacturing Co. Boston Car Wheel Co. Beal & Hooper B. P. Clark & Co. Bay State Color Co. C. L. Jones C. B. French. Cambridge Gas Light Co. Cambridge Stamping Co. John Reardon & Sons J. J. Gray. Little & Brown Mt. Auburn Cemetery Revere Sugar Refinery Union Railway Co. Woodbury & Co. Welch, Bigelow, & Co. Whittemore & Hale 2 2 2 The annual inspection of all buildings supplied with Fresh Pond water has been made as required by the City ordinance, and a very few slight leaks only were discovered. The fixtures throughout the city are believed to be in more complete repair than in any former year. Respectfully submitted. A. F. FIFIELD, Water Registrar. THE Committee appointed to examine the accounts of the Water Registrar for the financial year ending Nov. 30, 1873, herewith submit the following REPORT: Your Committee have examined the books and accounts of the Water Registrar, and compared them with the vouchers, and find that the same are correct. Respectfully submitted. SAMUEL SLOCOMB, Committee. GEO. P. CARTER, 3 REPORT OF THE SUPERINTENDENT OF THE WATER WORKS. To the Cambridge Water Board: GENTLEMEN,- The fiscal year of 1873 having expired on the 30th day of November, the Superintendent of the Cambridge Water Works very respectfully presents to your Honorable Board his Annual Report for that year, it being the ninth year of the control of the Works by the City. In making this Report, I experience much pleasure in being able to inform you that the Works in my charge continue in a highly prosperous and satisfactory condition. No very serious damage has occurred in any of the branches of the work, with the exception of some unimportant breakages on lines of the oldest and smallest pipes. The active management of the Works remains unchanged, the same officers occupying the positions they have filled for many years. Engine House. We are now pumping the water consumed in the City with one of H. R. Worthington's Duplex Pumping Engines, of a daily capacity of 5,000,000 gallons. Size of steam cylinder, 21 inches for high pressure, and 36 inches for low pressure, with a fourfeet stroke. Size of water cylinder, 32 inches. Speed of engine, 47 strokes per minute. Amount of water discharged at each stroke, say 300 gallons. The only reserve pumping power that have at present consists of two old style Worthington pumpngines, put in during the year 1856. The help required at mping works consists of one engineer, one assistant, and two firemen. There were 775,583,000 gallons of water pumped the last year, consuming 1,535,400 pounds of coal; this includes banking fires. The average number of gallons pumped daily was 2,124,884. The pumping time for the ten months of the year while using our large pump was 3,159 hours 15 minutes, being a daily average of 10 hours 25 minutes. Pond. The water in the pond is of the very best quality; and I think all complaints that have been made in regard to the water can be traced directly to the large amount of vegetable matter which has been deposited in the shallow part of the pond. If this was removed, we should have the purest water of any city in the vicinity, and no doubt satisfactory to all our consumers for domestic or manufacturing purposes. The gates at the outlet on Alewife Brook have been closed, to prevent the drainage of the meadows from flowing into the pond, with the exception of the time required by the laws of the State for them to be kept open, to allow the fish to pass in and out. The following table shows the height of the water in the pond at the end of each month of the year: The 24-inch force main is in good condition; only a few slight leaks have occurred on it during the year. A new 30-inch force main has been laid the present season, leading from the new enginehouse to the reservoir, and will be ready for use when the new works are completed. |