Excerpt from Annual Report of the Fire Department and Wire Division of the City of Boston: For the Year Ending 31 January, 1920 The total amount spent in maintaining the depart ment during the year was $2, 864, 040. 07. The increased cost this year over last year was because of the extra expenditure made necessary by the Wire Division which became part of the Fire Department June 10, 1919, increases in the number and salaries of employees: and the increased cost of supplies. 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.