Ellsworth Street, from Cross to Glen
Mt. Vernon Street, from Perkins to Broadway



1,150 feet
900 *'
625 *'
300 *'
600 '*

Mt. Pleasant Street, which was referred to in my last report, is
constantly and rapidly growing worse, and in my judgment, its
repair cannot be delayed beyond another season.
SERVICES.
The whole number of services laid for families and other pur-
poses was 93. Total length of pipe used, 3,969 feet; of feet
trenching, 4,248. Average cost of each service was $19.71. Fifty-
nine breaks have occurred during the past 3'ear, and were caused as
follows : —

By defective soldering, 27 ; by broken lead connections, 16 ; by
defective couplings, 7 ; by laying of drains, 5 ; by freezing, 4.
Eight services were stopped by fish. Twenty- one corporations,
which had become stopped b}'^ rust, were retapped. Thirteen ser-
vices on yard h3'drants were repaired. Forty cast-iron boxes have
been substituted for decaj^ed wooden ones.
16



STAND PIPES FOR WATERING STREETS.
Two have been set, one on Broadway, opposite the Public Par
and one on Somerville Avenue, near Merriam Street Repai
have been made upon seven, at an expense of $81 .30. The nu
ber now in use is 17.
DRINKING-FOUNTAINS.
Bj order of the Committee on Public Propert}', three small fouin.—
tains have been set, one in Davis Square, near Clarendon Block: ^
one in Union Square, and one on the Broadway Public Park, mak:-
ing the number now in use 9.
The large fountain set in Davis Square in 1877 has been in
constant use during the severest weather.
STOP-GATES.
