Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners (1913) (1914) (14593218368)

Identifier: reportofboardofm00mass_19 (find matches)
Title: Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners (1913)
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Massachusetts. Metropolitan Park Commission.
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Contributing Library: State Library of Massachusetts
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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upon the use of the Welsbach street lights, which,with the increasing cost of naphtha, are expensive and notwholly satisfactory in power. Investigation shows that it isadvisable in some localities to change to electric lighting, butthis cannot be done properly without the installation of conduitsfor underground wiring, and the Board finds difficulty in ar-ranging for this because it is not provided with funds to enableit to put in the necessary conduits at its own expense, and isunable to make contracts for more than one year, which is tooshort a period of time to induce the electric light companiesto incur the initial cost of putting in conduits. It is stronglyrecommended that the Board be provided with the funds forinstalling conduits, or given the power to make contracts fora longer period than one year. As in previous years, the bath-houses at Revere, Nahant andXantasket have proved inadequate for the service necessary tomeet public convenience at times of extreme summer heat. The
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1914.) PUBLIC DOCUMENT —No. 48. 17 bath-houses have always been self-sustaining, and will probablycontinue to be so, but the revenue derived from them is sufficientonly for maintenace of equipment and for ordinary repairs.It has been possible to make slight alterations which have materi-ally increased their capacity without asking for special appro-priations, but enlargements and substantial alterations to meetchanging conditions cannot be made out of present revenue.Where the Board has provided simpler conveniences, at even aslow a price as 5 cents per individual for their use, in an effortto provide for more bathers, the number using the simpler con-veniences has been small as compared with the number usingthe more expensive conveniences. Future enlargements willprobably be best accomplished by rooms provided with lockersand shower baths, for which a lower price can be charged thosebathers who provide their own suits. If this results in in-creasing the accommodations of the bath-h