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Excerpt from Annual Report of the Boston Transit Commission: For the Year Ending August 15, 1900 To The City Council of the City of Boston: In compliance with statutes of 1894, chapter 548, section 24, the report of the Boston Transit Commission for the year ending Aug.15, 1900, is respectfully submitted: Subway. At the date of the last report the subway was practically completed, only minor details of interior finish being wanting, and during the present year the expenditure upon the structure as originally planned has been less than $20,000, the greater part of this amount being final contract payments. Interference with the Subway Structures by Corporations owning Structures in Streets. It has frequently happened that workmen employed by corporations having underground structures in the streets have not paid due regard to the necessity for preserving intact the outer coating of the subway. While the corporations concerned cheerfully promised to carefully avoid doing any injury, their workmen in many cases neglected to use due diligence, and therefore the following communication was sent to His Honor the Mayor: Boston, Oct.31, 1899. To His Honor the Mayor, Josiah Quincy: Dear Sir: I am instructed by the Commission to again call your attention to the above matter and would refer you to my letter of June 10, and also to a communication from our Chief Engineer under date of October 5. It is not regarded as a duty of this Commission to maintain a supervision over work in the streets in the vicinity of the subway structure. 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.