1.   Historical note

2.   Scope and content

3.   Provenance

4.   Processing note

5.   Inventory

6.   Subjects


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 East Providence Water Company Records

 Water service company in East Providence

 Business records, 1878-1932

 Size: 5 linear ft.

 Catalog number: MSS 6 sg 10

 Processed by: Harold E. Kemble, 26 July 1977


©Rhode Island Historical Society

Manuscripts Division

 


Historical note:


            The East Providence Water Company was incorporated in May, 1895 by Marsden J. Perry, Darius F. Goff, Ellery H. Wilson, Benjamin Wilson and Benjamin A. Jackson. In October the company purchased the works and water rights of the East Providence Fire District and undertook thereafter to provide domestic water services in East Providence. As of 1900 the principle shareholders were Marsden Perry and Frank A. Sayles, who had received stock in payment for water rights owned by the Agawan Finishing Company on Ten Mile River. Charles E. Pierce was superintendent until c. 1920 and A.B. Lisle was treasurer. Although the works were located at Hunt's Mill in the village of Rumford, the company offices were in the Turk's Head Building in Providence. The company purchased land adjacent to the works and developed an amusement park to help offset the losses of running the water works. The property and business were transferred in September, 1922 to Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc., and were sold in 1927 to the City of East Providence.


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Scope and content:


            These records pertain to a domestic water service, 1878-1932; location and installation of mains; an amusement park. Of interest are materials found in the section titled "Rate Case Materials" which include: tables of rainfall runoff and water flow along Ten Mile River; construction of the Central Pond by the Central Cotton Mills Establishment; copies of the company charter and by-laws; and historical information about the company and its antecedent.


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Provenance:


Sayles Finishing Plants, gift, 25 December 1971.


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Inventory:

 

Item 1             Journal                                                Oct 1905 - Nov1908

Item 2             Journal                                                Sep 1908 - Dec 1916

Item 3             Journal Voucher                                 Jan 1926 - Dec 1932

Item 4             Ledger                                                Oct 1909 - Jan-1917

Item 5             Ledger                                                Apr 1917 - Jun 1918

Item 6             Ledger                                                Jan 1923 - Oct 1929

Item 7             Analysis of Reserve for Depreciation 1922 - 1925

Item 8             Profit and Loss Statements                 Dec 1917, Jun 1918

Item 9             Cash Receipts                                     Jan 1910 - Dec 1913, Dec 1917

Item 10           Cash Receipts                                     Jan 1918 - May 1925

                                    New Installation; changes of meters; discontinuances, etc.

Item 11           Cash                                                    Oct 1908 - Oct 1916

                                    Book 1

Item 12           Cash                                                    Jan 1927 - Jun 1932

                                    receipts and disbursements

Item 13           Customers Ledger                              1908 - 1914

Item 14           Payrolls                                               Sep 1909 - Dec 1917

Item 15           Payrolls                                               Jan 1918 - Dec 1922

Item 16           Sales                                                   Jan 1902 - Sep 1911

                                    land

Item 17           Sales                                                   Jan 1921 - Dec 1921

                                    meters, faucets, misc.

Item 18           Sales                                                   Jan 1922 - Jan 1923

                                    misc. sales

Item 19           Bills                                                    1918

Item 20           Charges, Miscellaneous                      Aug 1908 - Mar 1915

Item 21           Job Book                                            Jan 1910 - Dec 1915

                                    Book #1

Item 22 

     Folder 1      Services and Cost of Extensions        1923 - 1926

     Folder 2      Inventories                                          Mar 1913

     Folder 3      Inventories                                          Jan 1918 - Dec 1922

     Folder 4      Inventories                                          Dec 1923

     Folder 5      Inventories                                          Dec 1924

     Folder 6      Valuations                                          Dec 1927

Item 23

     Folder 1      Accounts and Financial Info               1 Sep 1893 - 31 Jul 1928

     Folder 2      Charts                                                 1923 - 18 Aug 1925

     Folder 3      Contracts, Legal Acts, & Statements

                                    Contracts                                4 Nov 1892, June 1900

                                    Legal Acts                              13 Jun 1878, 7 Oct 1892

                                    Sworn Statements                   15 Sep 1927

     Folder 4      Correspondence                                  14 April 1925 - 18 May 1925

     Folder 5      Inventories                                          1893 - 1926

     Folder 6      Inventories                                          1893 - 1926

     Folder 7      Inventories - misc.                              1910- 25 Apr 1925, n.d.

     Folder 8      Report                                                 ca. 31 Dec 1922

                                    Gross Reproduction Cost as of December 31, 1922 on Basis of Fair Prices

     Folder 9      Report - statistics                                Jan 1915

     Folder 10    Report - untitled                                 ca. 1925

                                    court, regulatory, and inventory data

     Folder 11    Report - untitled                                 ca. 1923

                                    court, historical, and inventory data

     Folder 12    Reports and records - misc.                1923 - Jan 1927, n.d.

     Folder 13    Rule Book                                          Mar 1922

                                    2 copies

     Folder 14    Survey - Pitometer Water Waste        16 May 1924



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Subjects:


Agawam Finishing Company

Amusement parks - Rhode Island - East Providence

Business records - Rhode Island - East Providence

Business records - Rhode Island - Rumford

Central Cotton Mills Establishment

Central Pond Dam

East Providence Fire District

Goff, Darius F.

Hunt's Mill

Jackson, Benjamin

Lisle, A.B.

Omega Pond Dam

Perry, Marsden J. (Marsden Jasiel), 1850-1935

Pierce, Charles E., superintendent

Public utilities - Rhode Island - East Providence

Public utility districts - Rhode Island - East Providence

Rain and rainfall

Sayles Finishing Plants

TARSCO Corporation

Ten Mile River Watershed (Mass.)

Wachusett River Watershed (Mass.)

Washburn Wire Company

Water districts - Rhode Island - East Providence

Water quality - Rhode Island - East Providence

Water resources development - Rhode Island - East Providence

Water rights - Rhode Island

Water-storage - Rhode Island - East Providence

Water supply - Rhode Island - East Providence

Wilson, Benjamin

Wilson, Ellery Holbrook, 1848-1906


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