Reports of the boston finance commission, Volume 41909 |
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Page 74 - Bleiler crusher was not operated at all during the months of April, May, June, July, August, September, October and November, during which months the pay roll shows a total payment to these classes of men of $2,382.13.
Page 195 - Like other industrial questions this must be considered on business principles and in the light of the facts so far as these are known. It cannot be intelligently decided offhand or by mere casual opinion. It is hardly necessary to say that there is a wide range of opinion in the public mind as to the comparative value and economy of the several pavements, and even among municipal engineers opinion is more or less divided. It is, therefore, proper to say that what follows represents my own personal...
Page 308 - ... paid per great square being 29 cents for granite pavement and 26 cents for asphalt and brick pavement. These prices are equivalent respectively to 26.1 cents and 23.4 cents per 1,000 square yards. In all these cases the contractor supplies at his own expense all the equipment required for the work. Other cities might be named, but it is sufficient to say that as a rule the contract price for machine sweeping and caring for the sweepings very seldom exceeds 25 cents per 1,000 square yards swept...
Page 95 - York in 1906, the average price for concrete was $6.21 per cubic yard, equivalent to $1.03 per square yard of 6-inch foundation, and the average price for the wood-block pavement was $2.85 per square yard. Only two small contracts, aggregating 1,877 square yards, were carried out in 1907, the prices for each being $5.95 per cubic yard for concrete and $2.85 per square yard for the wood-block pavement. All these pavements are on heavy-traveled, down-town streets, and the guaranty is for ten years....
Page 250 - The mayor and board of aldermen of the City of Boston may grade and construct sidewalks, and complete any partially constructed sidewalk in any street [of such city* as the public convenience may require, with or without edgestones, as said board shall deem expedient, and may cover the same with brick, flat stones, concrete, gravel or other appropriate material, and may assess upon the abutters on such sidewalks in just proportions, not exceeding one-half...
Page 42 - Since 1905 nearly all the rock crushed at this plant has been brought from other localities, the ledge being exhausted. Taking the ten fiscal years 1897 to 1906, inclusive, the output and cost of producing crushed stone at this plant, as shown by the city accounts, has been as given in Table 12. The total cost with interest and depreciation charges added being shown in the last column. Table No. 12. FISCAL YEAR.
Page 197 - The relative, but not the actual durability, or life, of most of the pavements in common use is fairly well known to engineers, though the public generally has a wrong, conception of it. We shall be compelled, therefore, to make use of the best information available in the discussion that follows, and it is obvious that the conclusions arrived at may be only approximately correct, but the errors due to lack of complete data are likely to be so small and unimportant that they will hardly change the...
Page 85 - PAVEMENT. The prices paid to contractors for constructing sheetasphalt, bitulithic and wood-block pavements in Boston for the past years have all been, in my opinion, excessive. This statement applies to the pavements proper rather than to the incidental work embraced in the contracts. The contract prices for such incidental work appear to be, usually, fair and reasonable and conform closely to the prevailing prices for similar work in the city.
Page 169 - ... of work done but unit prices and total cost, or they must at least give all the elements necessary to derive both the total cost and the cost per unit of work. A statement, for instance, which gives the contract prices and the total cost of a street pavement is of little value unless it gives also the number of square yards paved...
Page 103 - The actual charge on the ledger was originally $26,964.65. Later, an additional charge for 1,570 blocks at 7 cents ($109.90) was made, and the account was credited with 40,450 blocks, said not to have been used on the work, at 7 cents ($2,831.50), making the net charge as it now stands on the books $24,243.05, for, apparently, 1,200 blocks at 6J cents and 346,645 blocks at 7 cents, a total of 347,845 blocks used.