Cambridge City Finances Report 1885 86 Debt and School Stats
The annual report shows funded city debt around 28 percent of valuation with water debt separate. It notes sinking funds, cemetery extension cost, and a push to reduce floating debt. School statistics for 1885 list pupil counts 9,651 and 224 teachers plus library, water works, and street improvements.
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Lee Street
Tony Brook
Hopkins Fund
Cambridge Public Library
Lynn City Finance Outlined In Hart Inaugural Address
Mayor Hart presents a ledger of Lynn finances detailing municipal loans and bonds totaling about 2.45 million dollars. He lists assets including sinking funds, schoolhouse funds, water funds, and cash on hand as the council opens with officers elected and sworn in.
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Lynn
Ronayne
George O. Tarbox
Ward
James L. Hill
North Congregational Church
George D. Hart
Charles E. Parsons
Parsons
Connellan AH. B. Falls
Arthur B. Breed
T. Hi. Ronayne
Charles Ek. Warsons
H.S. French
H. S. French
J. W. Berry
Water Board
Breed
Lewis
Sinderson
Buffum
Lovering
Baldwin
Chamber
H. B. Lovering
J. R. Newhall
J. W. Tewksbury
A. A. Breed
Elbridge Young
Whittredge
Graves
J. M. Stone
Vaunciimen Heath
Leslie
Davis
David Knox
W. W. Mudge
Leroys. Nevens
C. H. Dowing
Asa E. Swain
S. Mansfield
Lewis R. Whippen
Hart
City Hall
Sanborn
Highland
Sanborn Schoolhouse
Highland Schoolhouse
Gloucester Mayor Addresses City Affairs In Inaugural
Gloucester Massachusetts January 4. Mayor Parsons outlines general department conditions in his inaugural address. He calls highways below standard and police demoralized, criticizes past appointments, urges a trustworthy marshal, and notes efforts to close houses of ill fame. He backs a city hospital and property revaluation to cut taxes.
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Gloucester
Mast
Parsons
Tarr
Wecessary
Sta Es
Poe
Fire Department
Isaac W. Story
Common Council
John H. McCormick
Alfred 9. Stickney
George H. Morse
Page
George Douglass
Samuel F. Quimby
William D. Lufkin
New Mayor Declares Support for Civil Service Principles
Lawrence Mass January 4 The city government was inaugurated this morning with the new mayor openly endorsing civil service principles and pledging administrative reform. The event set a tone for a more merit based municipal administration in Lawrence.
Malden Inaugural Highlights Water Supply and City Finances
Malden’s new government outlined urgent needs including water supply from Spot Pond serving Melrose Medford and Malden. Coggan’s address noted main line progress, debt levels, and proposals to unite building oversight while relocating the city treasury office. Population and valuation trends were reported with a call for evening schools and civic improvements.
Greene Sworn In As Mayor of Fall River
Mayor William S. Greene takes the oath in a crowded council chamber as Rev H D Kimble and Judge J C Blaisdell oversee the ceremony. The address highlights city finances debt with water debt dominating the figures and urges strong street lighting and continued evening schools and a county truancy school.
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Fall River
H. D. Kimbsll
St. Paul's Methodist Episcopal Church
J. C. Blaisdell
District Court
William S. Greene
Eny
City urges rights to Watuppa Reservoir for municipal needs
The speaker recalls legislative grant to the Watuppa Reservoir Company and argues the eastern water body now serves essential domestic uses. He recommends urging the Legislature to grant additional rights and to build an iron 1,000,000 gallon tank on Reservoir Hill near the standpipe, not costing over $17,000.
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Watuppa
Meyer Whipple Reviews Brockton City Finances
In Brockton on January 4 the new city government opened with the mayor and council taking oaths. Mayor John J. Whipple presented the city’s finances, noting funded debt of 529000, assets of 35101, and net indebtedness of 320748 along with recent tax reductions and a sewerage emphasis. Major valuations, expenditures, and officer appointments were reported, including the board of health and city marshals.
Waltham Mayor Outlines 1885 Debt and 1886 Prospects
Mayor Stone presents a financial view showing gross funded debt at 475 922 including water and ordinary debts as of Jan 3 1886. He notes 25 000 net increase for 1885 and a possible 123 000 borrowing capacity after permanent improvements. He proposes an industrial school and cautious sewerage actions awaiting legislative input.
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Stone
Grove Street
Leland Charity Fund
Board of Health
Taunton Mayor Warns on Overstepping Appropriations
Taunton Mayor Henry Wall urges strict control of departmental spending after noting history of approaching or exceeding appropriations. He outlines 1885 municipal debt figures, sinking funds, and required tax revenue for 1886 to cover deficits, while urging no new debt unless urgent.
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Wall
Holyoke Inaugural City Government Formed under Mayor O Conner
In Holyoke Mass January 4 the city government opened with Mayor O Conner taking oath and addressing the council. He listed city indebtedness totaling about 965 095 dollars with bonds and bills payable and provided a cash assets breakdown including sinking funds and uncollected taxes.
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FHo_LYoKr
Mass
City Hall
Father Haskins
St. Jerome Church
Griffin
O’conner
Holyoke Water
Holyoke
Westfield
Municipal Histor
J. Doyle
Canan
City growth prompts pay-as-you-go policy and reforms
The speaker argues that rapid city growth justified past lavish outlays but warns against extravagance causing bankruptcy. He calls for a pay-as-you-go approach, limiting street spending to public needs, collecting unpaid sewer assessments, buying land for a public park, expanding high school facilities, careful liquor license decisions, and building an almshouse and City Hospital.
Newburyport Inaugural City Government Pledges Economy
Newburyport sets its new city government in place with Mayor Charles C. Dame taking oath and outlining finances. He cites a net debt of 1 3 449, urges law enforcement, economy in the poor department, and notes the Hor ton fund valued at 24 000 with 12 000 in land and buildings.
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Newburyport
Charles C. Dame
Stevens
Henry E. Mott
Moses Brown
Thomas £. Colter
Dame
Amesbury
E. P. Shaw
Chelsea Inaugural: Endicott Presides as Indebtedness Falls
Chelsea city government members were sworn in at City Hall with Mayor Eugene F Endicott addressing growth and debt reduction. He noted a net debt drop of 32497.69 and taxable property gain of 346000, alongside school enrollment of 5289 pupils and 95 teachers. The mayor urged two new patrolmen and a sergeant grade, then committees were named for various wards and city functions. The council elected J K Montgomery as chair and adjourned to Jan 12, with speeches on accounts and public property and rules adopted for 1885.
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Chelsea
Rev
F. W. Sample
D. Frank Kimball
Eugene F. Endicott
Endicott
Aldermanic Chamber
J. K. Montgomery
Loud
Montgomery
French
Walker
Roberts
Allen
Stone
Collier
France
Walker and Loud
Collier and Allen
Allen and Roberts
Alles
Charles A. Staith
Arthur B. Champlin
Charles A. Currier
Legge
Ewell and
Aldrich
City finances and services under Mayor Kimball's 1885 report
Abstracted figures show 1885 balance $9,118.93 and receipts $1,084,551.76 with total taxable property rising to 21,134,520 for real estate and 7,855,600 for personal estate. Departments note sewerage committee, four new schools, water works prosperous, meters proposed, parks costs, street lights, fire and police spending, and Newton circuit railroad due October next.
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Kimball
Board of Health
Prainige Commission
Farlow Park
Newton
New Bedford Adopts Budget Cuts and Fewer Liquor Licenses
New Bedford Mass January 4 The city council was organized and Mayor Roteh’s address urged cutting department expenses and reducing liquor licenses. The report covers waterworks progress 50 miles of pipe and pumping plant expansion, sewers two miles added, schools costing 100000 with 13 teachers and 5500 pupils, and proposed charter changes to seer oversers.
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New Reprono
Mass
Edmund Wood
Common Council
William A. Mackie
Loring T. Parlow
James D. Thompson
Board of Health
Roteh
Worthington
Pupi
Appointment of License Commissioners Recommended in Lowell
Lowell Jan. 4 1886 city government formed Alderman Crowley became chairman Sawyer president of the common council on the twenty first ballot Mayor Abbott outlines financials including total net city debt 2 451 723 70 and a decrease of 208 330 39 for 1885 He urges library director removal for cause six licenses board to enforce law and notes police fire health in good condition water works self sustaining and to require safe streets under civil service reform
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Chia
Makin
Greenlawn Cemetery
Boston Street
Licenes
Raymond
Malden
City Hall
Elisha S. Converse
J. K. C. Steeper
Board of Aldermen
Lorin C. Fuller
George I.’. Babbitt
Universalist Church
Marcellus Coggan
Filer
Melrose
Medford
Ravine Road
Trenton Street
Washington Street
Ion
James Pierce
George L Gardner
Leverett D. Holden
George E. Hitchcock
Lowell
Crowley
Walter M. Sawyer
James C. Abbott
Abbott
Fewer Meetings of the Council as Economy Plan
Haverhill reports the 1886 city government installation. Mayor Weeks delivers inaugural address urging fewer council meetings to cut expenditures. The speech cites school payments, highway, poor, and fire department costs, city farm inmates, hydrants added, and a city debt of 430,553 with a 41,118 reduction from last year.
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Alvisbhouse
Almshouse
State Reform School
State Industrial School
Middlesex House of Correction
Haverhill
Sheldon
S. E. St. John
Highway Department
Poor Department
City Farm
Fire Department
Art City
Worcester Inaugural Marks City Governance and Fiscal Steps
Worcester inaugurates its new city government with John R. Thayer as aldermanic president and E. J. Comins as common council president. Mayor Samuel Winslow orders 80 policemen, appoints a city marshal, adds ten on duty, and vows strict liquor law enforcement. The city reports net debt reduced to 2,594,914 with a sinking fund of 721,563. City stock swaps with Fitchburg and Boston, Barre and Gardner to be sold to fund debt. Dr. Albert Wood elected trustee at large for City Hospital. Dr. Joseph Sargent declines re-election and donates 4500 to hospital works.
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Brockton
J. M. Shaw
Packard
J.G. Brooks
Gardner
John Jay Whipple
Ziba C. Keith
John J. Whipple
Albert R. Wade
C. W. Gardner
George A. Wheeler
George Tower
Uriah Macey
Yi Bennett
Board of Health
J. H. Harris
Harvey F. Bird
Worcester
John R. Thayer
E. J. Comins
W. Ansel Washburn
Albert Wood
Joseph Sargent
Albert Curtis
Board of Aldermen
S. H. Coe
Samuel Wicslow
Fitchburg Railroad Company
Boston, Barre and Gardner Railroad
Winslow
Fitchburg Inaugural Reports City Finances Solid
Fitchburg unveils a new city government led by Mayor Frederick Fosdick with Henry Jackson as city clerk and N A Willis as treasurer. The debt stands at $635,124 after a yearly drop, and a $17,600 plan aims to replace cement pipes with iron to protect Main Street from fire. The council backs liquor prohibition and funds a police aid audit, while property value climbs to $1,057,161.
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Fitchburg
Henry Jackson
N. A. Willis
Charles Fosdick
J.E. Kellogg
Frederick Fosdick
Fosdick
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Mayor Cook Predicts Prosperity for City in New Year
Northampton January 4 Mayor Cook in his third inaugural address cites general citizen prosperity and growing manufacturing strength. He notes tax rate cut from 1450 to 1250 per 1000, reports past year appropriations 114 600 expenditures 119 658 and receipts 139 463. Net city indebtedness 414 428 with property value near 497 530. He urges Bridge Street grading and macadamizing, West Street grade change for Forbes Library access, and calls to lower water use charges given water works income. He supports the Forbes Library site but prefers merging with Clark Library to cut operating costs.
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Northampton
Cook
Bridge Street
Main Street
Pomeroy Terrace
West Street
Forbes Library
Clark Library
Metcalf Promises Aggressive Liquor Law Enforcement
Edwin D. Metcalf and Springfield officials were inaugurated at City Hall with Mayor Metcalf naming E. C. Potts city marshal. The new administration opened its first session amid a sizable audience and a prayer by Rev. Michael Burnham, pledging to enforce liquor laws.
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Springfield
Edwin D. Metcalf
City Hall
Michael Burnham
First Congregational Church
A. T. Folsom
Metcalf
E. C. Potts
English Opera by American Singers at New York Academy
A large English opera company presented at the Academy of Music New York last night led by Mrs. Thurber and Charles Locke. The project aims to produce English opera with American performers and a full European style program.
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Academy of Music
New York
F. B. Ihurber
Charles J. Locke
Europe
Locke
William Hock
Wagner
Bayreuth
Metropolitan Opera House
Verr Hock
L’arisfal
Perons
Parisfal
Alfred Godchaux
Varley
Herr Hock
August Dornback
Goatcher
Voegtlin
Theodore Thomas
Helene Hastreiter
Chicago
Pauline L’allemand
Syracuse
Paris
Dresden
Stuttgardt
Emma Juch
Annie Montagu
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Kate Bensberg
Helen Dudley Campbell
Charlotte Walker
Mathilde Philips
Charles Turner
Alfred Paulet
C. H.thompson
William Candidus
George Fox
W. H. Lee
E. J. O’mahony
John Gilbert
John Hanson
M. W. Whitney
W. H. Fessenden
Lakme
Rubenstein
Delibe
Grand Ballet
Sylvia
Hermann Goetz
Koeningsburg
Louis Koehler
Stern
Berlin
Ulrich
Hans von Buelow
Winterthur
Mannheim
Onera
Vienna
Leipsic
Goetz
Francesca da Rimini
Brahms
Gustav Franke
Franke
Shakespeare
Baptista
Padua
Katharine
Bianca
Hortensio
Lucentio
Petruchio
Verona
Lucentia
Mayor's Patronage Under New City Charter Reveals Appointments
The new city charter places the Mayor in control of most city offices, with exceptions for elected posts like city clerk and common council clerk. A detailed list shows salaries and incumbents, including health commissioner, city surveyor, corporation counsel, supt of sewers, and several registrars.
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Common Council
Tezener
City Hell
Mendelssohn Life Remembered In Hebrew Association Program
Dr Raphael Lasker reviews the life of Moses Mendelssohn before members of the Young Men's Hebrew Association at Spring field and Washington streets. The centennial death anniversary is noted for tomorrow. Mendelssohn rose from poverty to learn and write. he allied business success with philosophy and social reform in works like immortality and Jerusalem.
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Young Men’s Hebrew Association
Springfield
Washington Streets
Raphael Lasker
Moses Mendelssohn
Lasker
Israel Cohen
Mendelssohn
David Frenkel
Prussia
Lessing
Germany
Moses Mendelsshon
Jerusalem
Pickled Ants: Woodsmen In Maine Chase Sour Craving
In a Maine lumber camp tale the narrator and Al Churchill hunt large black ants for pickles after a poor berry season. They scout nests in fallen logs, scoop thousands of ants into a pail, and note the insects’ sour, acidic taste. The piece urges readers to study American ants.
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al Churchill
Maine
Canada
Darwin
Magazine of Art opens with features on history and craft
The Magazine of Art for the year ahead promises varied features and superb illustrations. It will cover photogravure wood engraving color printing and chromo lithography with essays on Egypt Assyria Persia Greece Phoenicia Byzantium and more.
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Egypt
Assyria
Persia
Greece
Phoenicia
Byzantium
William Holmeden
R. L. Stevenson
Austin Dobson
Randolph Caldecott
R.J
Cosmo Morkhouse
Mrs. Siddons
Andrew Lang
Alice Meyneil
Cosmo Monkhouse
Richard Heath
J. McNen Whistler
K. A. M. Stevenson
Brunswick Gallery
Sidney Colvin
W. J. Henderson
Moses, Cassell & Co
New York
Obituary: Horace H Stratton Malden janitor dies at 71
Horace H Stratton aged 71 a longtime Malden citizen and City Hall janitor died Saturday night Superintendent George Pinkham of the Fitchburg Electric Light Company died suddenly in Los Angeles California on Friday night He was married about a month ago and had just left for California for his health.
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Horace H. Stratton
Malden
George Pinkham
Fitchburg Plectric Light Company
Los Angeles
Cal
California
Heaka
Livestock Swindler Deceives Farmers in Keensyer Area
William Hafter of Keeysser West Virginia has swindled numerous interior farmers and cattle dealers by buying stock and issuing worthless checks drawn on the National Bank of Piedmont. Victims include John Day of Grant County who lost $1006 and Frederick Bond with $1200, among others with losses from $200 upward. Stock shipped east after purchase, aiding the scheme. Total losses are described as large.
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W. Va
William Hafter
National Bank of Piedmont
Grant County
Frederick Bond
Confederats
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