The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-20
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BOARD OF SURvEYoRs.-A stated meeting
OF the Board of Surveyors was held Yesterday.
Petitions Tor sewers IN the following streets were
granted:-Sewer on Monterey street, between
Twelfth ana lhirteenth; on Nectarin4 street,
between Eighth ana Ninth streets; on Market
street, between Thirteenth and Juniper streets,
and on Oxford street from PalethoIp and Bedine
streets. Mr.. Roberts, chairman of the com
mittee to whom was referred the matter of
widening South College avenue ron Corinthian
avenue to Twenty-fourh street, and Poplar
street frem 1wentytouIth street to Pennsyl-
vania avenue, reported that lit is fair to
assume that the CibZerg south of Coates
street, visiting Fairmount Park, will enter
either at CallOwhill, Green, or Coates streets;
those between Coates end Thompson streets,
will enter the Perk at Poplar street; and those
north of Thompson street will enter the
Park ut Girard avenue. These, in all probabi-
lity, will be the i've main entrances to the Park.
Persons visiting the Park, either on foot or in
carriages will enter ii at the nearest point pro-
vided the entrance is safe, for they will get of
the pavement as soon as possible and also for
the same reason leave the Park at the nearest
point to their homes. GirGrd avenue from West
College avenue to the Park, is eighty feet in
width, and only one square north of Poplar
street. II Poplar street was sixty feet wide
from West College avenue to the Park II would,
In our opinion. Odate all the travel that
would pass in that direction. The only part of
Poplar street, west OF ofTwenty-fourth street, suit
able for fine dwellings, is that between Twenty
sixth and Twenty-ninth streets, being of limited
extent. Popier street being sixty feet in width
from Twenty-ourth street to West College
avenue, and from thence 10 the Park fifty feet in
width, and the south line straight, we deem it
better to widen that part from West College
avenue 10 the Park, by taking ten feet from the
lots the north side, thus making the north line
straight and continuous. South College avenue,
from CoIinthian avenue 10 Twenty-fourth street,
is now sixty feet in width, and we see no reason
for making it wider than Poplar street, west Of
Twenty-fouIth'
Attacked to the report was the following reso-
luton, which was adopted
ReSot0ed That the Boa1d OF Surveyors recon-
mend Councils to authorize the widening Of
Poplar street from West College avenue to Penr-
sylvania avenue, making it go feet wide, and
taking the additional 10 feet from the property
on the north side OF Poplar street.
Mr.. Davis presented plans for the extension of
the Fsirmount Park and Delaware River Rail
road irom GIrard avenue on ShackamaXon to
Beach, thence to Palmer, along Palmer to Girard
avenue, and thence to FrGnktord road, the pre-
sent terminus The plan was approved by the
Board. An apple alton for a sewer on FItzWater
and Thirteenth Streets between Twelfth and
Fourteenth and Shippen and Catharipe streets,
was referred to q committee, consisting of
Messrs. DAILY, Close, and Shedaker. After the
transaction Of some unimporGant business the
Board adjourned.