Annual Message of ... Mayor of Philadelphia: Containing the Reports of the Various Departments |
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amount appropriation assessed avenue awarded Belmont Filters bills boulevard branch sewers bridges Broad street building Bureau of Fire Bureau of Surveys Bureau of Water call your attention cent City Ice Boats City of Philadelphia completed contractor cost Date of Letting December 31 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC Department of Supplies Description of Contract diphtheria East Fairmount Park erected estimated expenditures expense Extension and Filtration filtered water Frankford Frankford creek grade crossings HEALTH AND CHARITIES Hospital House Ice Boats Improvement JOHN WEAVER July 29 June June 27 Lardner's Point Pumping Limit of Contract linear feet loan lowest bidder McNichol miles Museums paving Pennsylvania Pennypack creek Pipe plans Point Pumping Station police preliminary filters property owners pumpage Queen Lane Race to Walnut railroad company Receipts repairs repaving requisition Reservoir Roxborough High Service schedules Schuylkill river tion Torresdale Upper Roxborough Water Supply-Continued West Philadelphia Worthington Duplex yards
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Página 91 - I have the honor to submit herewith the Second Annual Report of the Reclamation Service".
Página 21 - Annual report of the Department of Public Works for the year ending December 31, 1912.
Página 81 - I have the honor to submit the second annual report of the Director of the School of Journalism.
Página xiv - ... amusement like the theatres, there is no doubt that the same kind of defective work may be done in other buildings, and even in private houses, and where this defective wiring exists it is a well known fact that it is a menace, and that fire may result therefrom at any time. Bureau of City Property. . I call your attention to the report of the Chief of the Bureau of City Property attached to the report of the Director of Public Safety, and especially to that part of it that sets forth the permanent...
Página xiii - Bureau that an ordinance should be passed compelling the gradual taking down of the overhead wires and putting them underground. It should be done in such a way, however, as not to injure the various companies owning the wires or interfering with their proper and efficient service to the public, but it is certainly a menace to the safety of the citizen if we are to add every year over sixty-nine thousand poles and seventeen thousand miles of overhead wire to that which we have already festooned over...
Página x - ... for any purpose. I am very well satisfied with the work of the Police Bureau and I think your Honorable Bodies by a comparison of Philadelphia, in regard to the existence of vice, with any other City of the world of its size, will be assured that the police officers here have done their full duty. I take this opportunity of saying to you, and through you to your constituents that we may well be proud of our Bureau of Police from its Chief to the lowest patrolman for the excellent way that they...
Página 13 - The report of Chief Hill of the Bureau of Building Inspection shows that during the year 8,398 permits were issued for 14,152 building operations, the estimated value of which was $28,967,760. In addition to this there were 1,263 permits for elevator work of a value of $638,380, making a total value of work under the care of the Bureau of $29,606,140. Permits were issued for 6,635 dwellings of an estimated cost of $15,155,415, and 63 frame dwellings at a cost of $115,610.
Página xxxiii - April 1, 1904, and the full capacity of the filtration plant without the preliminary nlters being put rnto use of December 13th. Contracts have been let for the preliminary filters at Belmont, and when those are completed it will very much enlarge the capacity of the plant.' As you are aware, both Upper and Lower Roxborough Filtration Plants have been in operation for some time, and both these plants and the Belmont Filtration Plant are doing good work in the matter of filtering water, but there...
Página vii - Company stock, to which they had subscribed in 1854, as well as subscribing for other railroad stock for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the advancement of the City's business interests. This stock had been held as collateral security for certain loans, the last of which were paid during 1904, and during the fifty years that the city had held this stock, b;it a very small amount in dividends had been received by the city.
Página xli - ... for the apparent purpose of having the contract awarded to them and then making some arrangements with the next highest bidder so that he can withdraw and the next highest bidder have the contract, or he will bid low in the expectation of furnishing a grade of article much below the standard, you can appreciate the difficulties we have to contend with.