Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-02-06
'EDGEFIELD.
Meeting Of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen.

Meeting Of the Board of Mayor and
Aldermen.
A regular meeting of the Board of Mayor
and Aldermen was held last night.
Present: Mayor Marks and Aldermen
Brooks, Hughes, Thompson, Hudnall, Muir
ray, Jenkins, Coleman, Hales, Wilson and
Lanier.
Alderman Jenkins from the Finance
Committee submitted the reports of the
Revenue Collector and Recorder, which
were received and fled.
Alderman Morrow from the Second
Ward, came forward and was sworn in BY
the Recorder.
Alderman Thompson from the Street
Committee, submitted a report in regard to
the proposed fill on Woodland street. The
committee had received three bids, and
recommended that the one of John Myers
at 90 cents per yard be accepted.
Alderman Brooks offered a resolution
providing that the proposed fill shall be
seven feet instead of fifteen feet and half,
which was adopted.
The report of the committee was then
received and suggestions concurred in.
Alderman jenkins, from the Finance
Committee, to whom was referred the cor
respondence between J. W. Graham, SUI
perintendent of the Public Schools, and
Rev. DR.. Sears, agent of the Peabody fund,
submitted bill appropriating $500 for the
support of the Public Schools, in addition
to other moneys appropriated for that pur-
pose. The bill was passed on three several
readings, under a suspension of the rules.
Aid. Thompson, from the Free Bridge
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MED with a general plan and profile of the
crossing of the proposed bridge across the
Cumberland, together with the plans of tres
tie and masonry by Maj. W. +. Foster, the
engineer. In his report of the surveys,
plans and estimates, Maj. Foster says:
81 find the most economical construction
will require a total length of bridging of
$40 lineal feet, divided into three equal
spans of 100 feet each. This will require
four masonry piers, two of which will be in
the river, and built upon the foundations of
the Old Bridge piers, which doubt not will
be found reliable for that purpose. One
pier Will be at the site of the old abut-
ment'i In Edgefeld, and the fourth upon the
top Of the rock bluff at the Nashville side
Of the river. l would recommend as the
most economical plan trestle approach at
each end. To prevent your enterprise from
all charge of Obstructing navigation, have
assumed the height of the bridge over the
boat channel at the same elevation as the
suspension bridge. In order to attain this
elevation, an ascending grade of five feet
per hundred is required from near the
Whites Creek pike to pier No. 2, or across
the first span of bridge. From that point
an ascending grade Of p feet per hundred
is adopted to meet the grade Of the
Public Square in Nashville. This plan will
place the floor of the bridge 112 feet above
the bed of the river in the boat channel,
and III feet above the bed of the river in
the west span. In order to prevent obstruc-
ton of Water street in Nashville, it will be
necessary to build the approach at the Nash
vile end well over to the south side Of
Bridge street, leaving the remainder thereof
as an outlet for Water street.
After referring to the fact that the ma
sonry should be first class, the engineer
says: "Your masonry is designed of such
size as to give you an open roadway
twenty feet wide in the clear, which should
be divided by slight partition or simple
guard timber into two roadways. A foot
walk on each side, five feet wide, should
dlSO 10 OuJoiuC buC lOdundJs
You should also require a struc-
ture to sustain a load of 2,240 pounds per
foot. Under these limitations, aud requir-
ing first-class material properly tested, the
bids submitted will easily determine the
most economical structure" The engineer
gives the quantities in detail as follows
Bridging, three spars, each 100 feet long;
total $40 feet; masonry in four piers, 1920
perches; trestle at each end 200 linesl feet,
average height "a feet; trestle at west end,
100 lineal feet, average height % feet; en-
Dankment at east end, 22,270 cubic yards;
at west end 2,071 cubic yards;
removal of old pier and abut-
nent, etc.
The report of the Bridge Committee and |
accompanying documents was received, and
! bill passed appropriating 500 to Maj.
Foster for services rendered.
Aid. Morrow offered resolution author
zing the Mayor to place himself in cores
with the Senator and Representa-
ives of this Congressional District, and en-
leavor to have a postofice established in
Edgefeld.
The Board then adjourned.