Coun. BALLANTYNE-Mr. President, I suggest that the veto be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Coun. KENNY-Mr. President, I don't wish at this time to take the time of the Council in discussing the proposition in respect to an all-theyear-round bath house on Broadway, South Boston, nor do I understand that it would be in order at this time to do so. I assumed that the communication from the Mayor would be placed on file, and I would like to have also on file my letter to him, in which I advocate the signing of the order and express my dissent, in a way, to his veto.

The communication from the Mayor was placed on file.

The first item needed will be for asphalt

repairs estimated at...

$40,000

The second item needed is for rebates

for artificial stone sidewalks..

20,000

37,700 square yards asphalt pavement on concrete base,

37,700 square yards granite blocks on concrete base, grout joints..

Shawmut avenue, Dover to Brookline

10,500

Clinton street, Merchants row to Com

OPENING OF MARKETS, JUNE 16.

The following was received:

City of Boston,

Office of the Mayor, May 31, 1916.

To the City Council:

Gentlemen, I submit herewith a petition from the lessees of the Faneuil Hall and Quincy Markets who desire the privilege of keeping open on Friday, June 16, until 9 p. m., and closing all day Saturday, June 17, 1916.

In conformity with the desire of the lessees, I recommend the adoption of the accompanying order.

Respectfully,

JAMES M. CURLEY, Mayor.

Ordered, That Faneuil Hall and Quincy Markets be allowed the privilege of keeping open until 9 p. m., on Friday, June 16, and closing all day Saturday, June 17, 1916.

(The petition referred to was signed by Prior & Townsend, Inc., and very many others of the two markets referred to.)

The order was passed.

Fruit street, Charles to Blossom street North Grove street, Cambridge to Fruit

PETITIONS REFERRED.

The following petitions were received and referred to the committees named:

Claims.

James Henderson, to have refunded the amount paid for permit to build a house at 82 Johnswood road.

Alice G. Keating, for compensation for injuries caused by a defect in sidewalk at 151 Princeton street.

Walter Spratt, for compensation for damage by sewage at 59 West Seventh street.

Max Ulin, for compensation for damage to automobile because of the absence of a light at Chelsea drawbridge.

Albert J. Carpenter, for compensation for damage to automobile by a city automobile at the corner of Dudley and Greenville streets.

Joanna B. Casey, for compensation for damages to garbage receiver at 27 Greenbrier street by a city employee.

Clifton S. Day, for refund of amount paid for sidewalk privilege at cellar No. 7, New Faneuil Hall Market.

Ernest Fitzgerald, for compensation for injuries received by being run over by a ladder truck at the corner of Walden and Arklow streets.

George B. Hinman, for compensation for damage

to automobile by a city team.

I. Hoffman, for compensation for damage by sewage at 31 Porter street, East Boston.

James Leonard, for compensation for damages at house 34 Bardwell street by the construction of a sewer in Ballard street.

Joseph Rugo, to be paid for blasting out trench for water pipe at 1465 Blue Hill avenue, and for making repairs to sewer at 75 Hancock street.

Mrs. Nellie B. Sherry and Mrs. Daniel J. Green, for compensation for damage to clothing by a city watering cart.

Sullivan's Somerville Express, to be paid for damage to team by a city cart. M. K. Wood, to be paid for clothing damaged by a watering cart on Summer street.

Isaac Blankenberg, to be paid for stopping up of sewer and damages at 18 Leverett street.

W. H. Shrewbridge, for compensation for damages at 8 Maple park, caused by shutting off of water.

County Accounts.

Communication from East Boston District Court concerning increase of salary of probation officer in said court.

Executive.

Petitions for licenses to sell, rent or lease firearms, viz.: A. Berman, 346 Washington street, Ward 5. Michael DeAngelis and Brother, 165A Salem street, Ward 5.

S. J. Diab, 741 Washington street, Ward 5.
S. J. Diab, 493 Washington street, Ward 5.
Gutlon Brothers, 2012 Washington street,
Ward 12.

Kirkwood Brothers, 23 Elm street, Ward 5.
Vara Brothers, 3 Prince street, Ward 5.

Petitions for permits for children under fifteen years of age to appear at various places of amusement, viz.:

M. Agnes Gillen, Bates Hall, evening of June 2. Mary F. Dowd, Steinert Hall, evening of June 30.

STORAGE OF OIL.

Notices were received of intention to continue the use of premises for explosives or inflammable fluids, viz.:

Charles H. Curtis, keeping of gasolene, 509 Centre street. Carson Trench Machine Company, keeping of gasolene, 16 Dorrance street.

New England Newspaper Publishing Company, keeping of gasolene, 19 Granite street. Abraham Snider, keeping of gasolene, 114 Homestead street.

J. R. Downing Company, keeping and sale of gasolene, 128-134 Kenrick street. Berwick Cake Company, keeping of gasolene, 18 Palmer street.

Mead-Morrison Manufacturing Company, keeping of gasolene, turpentine and naphtha, at corner Prescott and Orleans streets.

Boston Protective Department, keeping of gasolene at rear 4 Appleton street; 379 Atlantic avenue; 159 and 161 Roxbury street.

Boston Fire Department, keeping of gasolene at Andrew square, Ward 11; Boylston street, Ward 8; Bristol street, Ward 6; Bulfinch street, Ward 5; Callender street, Ward 21; Centre street, Ward 22; Columbia road, Ward 12; Dorchester avenue, Ward 20; Dudley street, Ward 12; Egleston square, Ward 15; Fort Hill square, Ward 5; Harrison avenue, Ward 6; Harvard avenue, Ward 24; Harvard avenue, Ward 25; Longwood avenue, Ward 14; Main street, Ward 3; Meeting House Hill, Ward 18; Oak square, Ward 26; Pittsburgh street, Ward 9; River street, Ward 8; Saratoga street, Ward 1; Tremont street, Ward 13; Walk Hill street, Ward 22; Warren avenue, Ward 7; Washington street, Ward 19; Washington street, Ward 23.

Placed on file.

STREETS IN NEED OF RECONSTRUCTION,

ETC.

The following was received:

Boston, May 26, 1916.

To the Honorable the City Council: Gentlemen, - The Finance Commission has received from your honorable body the following order:

Ordered, That the Finance Commission be requested to submit to the Committee on Appropriations a list of streets needing reconstruction, repairs or resurfacing in the order of their importance, with the precise location to be repaired, the number of yards to be repaired and the approximate cost of the work, the number of streets to be repaired for a possible expenditure of one million dollars.

In answer to this request, the Finance Commission respectfully submits the following report. This report is based upon a study of street conditions in the entire city made by its consulting engineer during the summer of 1915, and upon his more recent examination of the streets hereinafter scheduled. The order of the City Council limits the expenditure for street repairs to the sum of $1,000,000. Consequently, this requirement makes the task somewhat difficult, in selecting the streets most needing repairs from the large number of streets which are in need of repairs.

The selections submitted herewith are made according to the following considerations:

1. Those streets, whatever their importance as thoroughfares of traffic, that are in such bad condition as to endanger the safety of the traveling public.

2. Main lines of travel to important points in the city and to the various districts into which the city is naturally divided.

3. Streets whose repairs are necessitated on account of sanitary and other conditions in conjunction with traffic needs.

Consideration has also been given to the desirability of separating the traffic which now congests the smoother streets and diverting such traffic to its natural routes. The different districts have been studied in the same order and with the same boundaries as in the report of the Finance Com mission, Vol. XI., page 256 et seq.

The estimate of the number of square yards to be constructed and cost of the same are approximate only, as the Finance Commission has no means of obtaining the exact engineering data to make estimates. No consideration has been given to the construction of sidewalks, except such repairs as may be necessary on account of the resetting of curbstones and new curbstones where none now exist. The estimates are based upon prices for doing the work by contract, not upon prices for doing the work by the city force.

Where soft pavements are considered sufficient for the purpose, either bituminous macadam or asphalt has been specified. The consulting engineer states that the price estimated is a liberal one for bituminous macadam.

The consulting engineer, in company with representatives of the Public Works Department, has recently examined the asphalt streets in New Haven and Hartford, Conn., that have been laid upon a base of old macadam, during the past four years, at a price of approximately one dollar a

square foot, including all incidental work. The engineer reports that he found the streets in excellent condition. Some of these streets, which are now in use for the fourth season, are in better condition than any bituminous street in Boston, with the possible exception of Columbia road.

If approximately the same price could be obtained in Boston the commission believes that this form of construction should be adopted, as it would be manifestly unwise to continue the use of bituminous macadam. Bituminous macadam, however, when properly laid, is more economical for many of our streets than asphalt, at the prices which the City of Boston has been accustomed to pay. The streets selected are as follows:

or asphalt.

ern avenue.

3,000

$69,262

South street.

Ashland street.

12,700

18,000 82,000

$169,800