New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1870-07-29
ST, CHARLES AVENUE.

st. Charles avenue, formerly known as
Nayades street, is about to be thoroughly
renewed for considerable distance, IN
paving, sewerage, etc. This plan OF RE-
construction" is part of a system OF dram
age by sewers which, it is expected, Will
be gradually applied to the whole cltYand
its future extensions When once COM
pIeted, this system of drainage Will go tar
to secure New Orleans from the recurrence
of epidemics, which. for generations, have
stood in the way Of progress
The improvements now under notice
will extend from Tivoli Circle to Toledano
street. a distance of over seven thousand
wards main sewer is to be constructed
along the centre of, st. Charles avenue,
under the railroad track, the width Of
which will be diminished to twenty-eight
feet. On each side of the track new
Nicolson pavement will be laid down,
borde-ed ON both sides by stone curling.
The benefits Of the sewer about to be
constructed will be felt on al the streets
running parallel to st. Charles avenue,
between it and the river; for as there is
slight declination of ground from the river
inland, the accumulation OF water from
rains Will find it's way along the cutters
Of the cross streets into the sewer in the
avenue.
The sewer is to be SO constructed as to
empty into the Melpomene canal, whence
the water runs into ianal Claiborne, and
then, by means of the draining machine
erected out there, is sent into tie swamps
beyond.
The sewer will start from Tivoi Circle
toward Melpomene street at q gentle de-
clination; in the same way it will have a
declination from Toledano street to Me-
pomene street At each starting point it
will be three and a half feet deep by two
and a half feet in width while opposite
Melpomene canal the depth will be five
feet three inches, by width Of three feet
six inches 1t will be egg-shaped, and
built OF the best lake brick At several
points it will be accessible by. man
holes.
The side cutters of the streets crossing
st. Charles avenue will at that point d.
verge into single gutter, which, crossing
the avenue, will empty into the sewer.
These crossing cutters viii be- like the
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properly cemented. They viii be covered
with cast-iron plates, as will be the di-
verging ducts leading from the side gut
tiers of the cross streets into the gutter
crossing the avenue and emptying into
the sewer. The cast-iron plates at each
crossing, when laid down, will have the
shape Of the capital letter Y, and each
plate will have the name of the street cast
in relief upon its surface. This will be
much better plan than the old fashioned
mode Of putting up occult signs, often
difficult to discover, and frequently unde-
cipherabie when found.
St Charles avenue, when completed,
according to the plans made by the
City Surveyor, W. H. Bell, Esq, will be
one of the finest streets in the city of New
Orleans
The Opelousas Journal states that last
Saturday night. after service at Plauuemine
Brulee Church. Mr.. JET. Sloane and his son.
young man eighteen or nineteen years old.
We're killed by Il man named Reeves and his
son. the son doing the actual killing. it is be-
levei. The difficulty was engendered by
previous i'll feeling. Reeves came TO Ope-
lousas and delivered himself to the authori-
ties. Tie son of Reeves is yet at large.