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the principal streets to Downer Landing, to Windmill Point in 

 Hull, and to Pleasant Beach in Cohasset, — a total length of 43 

 miles. Protection from fire is given by 187 hydrants, and water is 

 supplied to 1,336 customers, including all the hotels, steamboats, 

 railroads, street-watering carts, and public drinking-fountains, as 

 well as private dwellings for domestic, lawn, and other uses. 



It is fortunate for those who are thus benefited that prompt 

 measures were taken to secure Accord Pond to Hingham, there 

 being no other available source of supply within the limits of the 

 town. The increase in the assessed valuation of property in 

 Hingham for the 10 years preceding the introduction of water was 

 $193,342 ; the increase for the same number of years since the 

 works were constructed has been, as shown by the Assessors' 

 books, 8542,573. 



The present government of the company is as follows : — 



Ebed L. Ripley, President ; Starkes Whiton, Secretary and Treasurer ; 

 Geo. P. Hayward, E. Waters Burr, Ebed L. Ripley, Starkes Whiton, 

 Charles B. Barnes, William J. Nelson, Arthur Lincoln, Morris F. Whiton, 

 and Charles L. Goodhue, Directors ; Charles W. S. Seymour, Superin- 

 tendent. 



The Board of Directors are nearly all Hingham men. With 

 the exception of a small part of the capital stock which was taken 

 by the contractors to show their confidence in the enterprise, 

 both capital stock and bonds were subscribed for and are now 

 held by residents of Hingham and their immediate personal 

 friends, and the citizens of the town may be congratulated on the 

 success of an undertaking so closely identified with Hingham 

 interests. 



