The Boston Mayor Reflects on Finances and City Reform
The address reviews tax limits, debt levels, and valuations, noting Boston's tax rate of 12.70 per $1000 with a five year average, debt totals, and large loans abroad. It defends fiscal restraint, praises the new charter, and argues for continued oversight to curb waste while supporting schools, paving, and public works. Nested issues include labor, public libraries, parks, and public safety.
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Boston
Health Department
Board of Health
Fire Department
Treasury
Inter
Department of Education
E Normal
Martin
Huntington Avenue
Boston department reports seek new reservoir and higher water supply
Abstracts from twenty eight department reports accompany the Mayor's address. The water board seeks funds for a larger and improved supply and a new reservoir. the East Boston ferries need 15000 for repairs and a new boat. park, library, health, police, and fire departments outline current needs, costs, and progress amid a lean budget.
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Water Board
Mystic
East Boston Ferries
East Boston
North Ferry
Park Commission
Charles River
Marine Park
South
Boston
New Court House
West End
Public Library
Tucker
Health Department
Vanderbilt Victory in Nickel Plate Rail Case
A Cleveland despatch reports Judge Jones and Judge Hamilton ruling in the Nickel Plate railroad case. The court found the first mortgage illegal and the bondholders under the second mortgage to be general creditors for 15 million dollars, ordered sale of the road, and affirmed 4 million in car trust certificates. It also ruled the consolidation of five state lines illegal in part but granted de facto corporate status to execute mortgages.
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Cleveland
J. M. Jones
E. T. Hamilton
New York, Chicago & St. Louis
Union Trust Company of
New York
Central Trust Company
Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railway
Nickel Plate
Vanderbilt
Lake Erie & Western Railway Plans Report After Dec. 14 Sale
The reorganized committee of the Lake Erie and Western Railway Company says it will settle accounts and issue a general report once the Dec. 14 sale to Samuel Thomas is confirmed. First mortgage bondholders on the three divisions will be paid in full with interest. The committee will arrange the stock assessment return or other disposition as directed by stockholders.
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Treasury Department
Boston
Turner
New York
Court House
Suffolk County
Supreme Judicial Court
Superior Court
Probate
Municipal Court
Registry of Deeds
Social Law Library
District Attorney
Law Department
Deer Island
Department of Public Schools
Stony Brook
Roxbury
City Messenger
Legislative Branch
East Boston
Board of Aldermen
Corporation Counsel
Grand Jury
MT. Hope
Cedar Grove
All P
Board of Police
George E. McKay
Faneuil Market
Faneuil Hall
Board of Fire Commissioners
Board of Health
West Roxbury
Dorchester
South Boston
Charlestown
Brighton
Lake Erie & Western Railway Company
Samuel Thomas
Mixed railroad earnings and rate changes in 1886 reports
The report aggregates quarterly and year to date earnings for Kansas City Kansas City area lines including Clinton Springfield and other routes. It notes a 10 percent rate increase by Philadelphia Reading on iron and steel and cites Los Angeles area rail consolidation rumors.
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Kansas City
Clinton
Springfield
Chicago & Atlantic
Philadelphia & Reading
Los Angeles Herald
J. F. Crank
Los Angeles & San Gabriel Valley Railroad
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Atchison Combination
Pacific Coast
San Gabriel Road
Atchison
San Bernardino
Railroad Gazette
Memphis
Fort Scott & Gulf
China Mutual elects broad list of directors at annual meeting
At the China Mutual Insurance Company annual meeting on State street, directors elected include Edward M. Brewer, T. Quincy Browne, T Jefferson Coolidge, John W Andrew Cutting, George J Dabney, John J Emery, Charles F Fairbanks, Osborn Howes, Alpheus H Hardy, William A Rust, Albert Lewis, William Perkins, Charles F Perry, N. W. Rice, J. Henry Sears, Howard Stockton, Cyrus Wakefield, Aaron D Weld Jr, I Goodwin Whitney, Charles F Wyman, Joseph A Iasigi, Stephen M Weld. Perkins later named president and George L DeBlois secretary-treasurer. Sheriff O Briens jail report notes 157 prisoners at Charles Street.
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China Mutual Insurance Company
State Street
Edward M. Brewer
T. Quincy Browne
T. Jefferson Coolidge
John W
Andrew Cutting
George 3. Dabney
John 8. Emery
Charles F. Fairbanks
Osborn Howes
Alpheus H. Hardy
William A. Rust
Albert Lewis
William Perkins
Charles F. Perry
N. W. Rice
J. Henry Sears
Howard Stockton
Cyrus Wakefield
Aaron
Denver and Rio Grande Western Earnings Report 1886
The Denver and Rio Grande Western reports 1886 net of 45 671 up from 35 022 in 1885, with gross for 1886 November at 101 449 versus 98 568 in 1885. Operating expenses fell to 55 778 from 68 541.
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Denver & Rio Grande Western
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Missisquoi Valley Railroad Directors Elected
The Missisquoi Valley Railroad Company has elected directors T. H. Perkins and A. Russ. Kasten and G. W. Gates.
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Missisquoi Valley Road
Missisquoi Valley
T. H. Perkins
A. Russ
Kasten
G. W. Gates
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Janis Log
Long Island
Aes Ea Eee
London
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Fisher Hill
Park Department
Back Bay Park
Franklin Park
Water Park
South Boston Point
Water Department
Lake Cochituate
Sudbury River
Printing Department
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South Boston Lunatic Hospital
Board OF Registrars OF Voters
New City Building
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Jamaica
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M. Doherty
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R. H. Carpenter
Richford
A. W. Lee
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Lage Erie & Western
China Mutual
O’brien
Charles Street
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