City Of Somerville Massachusetts Annual Reports 1916 PDF Download

Excerpt from City of Somerville, Massachusetts, Annual Reports, 1916: With Mayor's Inaugural Address Delivered January 1, 1917 Lumber, copper, pipe, cement, and the many other mate rials and supplies the city uses have increased in cost far above the ordinary. Consider cement alone. The city use-s quantities of it in the construction of streets, sidewalks and buildings, - during the past year over barrels. In 1915 cement was a dollar a barrel; today it is a dollar and' a half; an increase in cost to the city of over in this one item alone. Other materials and supplies have all gone the sam way, and if we carry on our city, we must pay the cost. I cannot at this time see any possibility of a reduced tax' rate the present year, and if this high cost of living continues. It must undoubtedly be increased. The tax rate was reduced last year, but the credit should be given where it belongs, - to the economy in state manage ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.