The Portland daily press., 1873-03-03

Hoes brooms brushes, lanterns, blankets,
oils, paints, soap, medicine, &c.. 40l 81
Lumber, nails, &c. streets. ........... $50 26
Labor and M iterials for bridges. ....... 9,619 81
Curbstone. Observation-Disclosures. 729 II
Paving stone. Observation-Disclosures. 2046 GA
Granise blocks... :.;..................... 1856 co
wharfage ami weighing .................. 344 81
Bricks. -. 2,S13 s.
commercial street carting gravel. 1926 70
concrete Walks. Observation-Disclosures. 2l5 25
Paving streets cutters, crossings, setting
and resettins curb. =. ;, 451s IS
T T Streets WOOD .."............... 4.425 rs
John CULVER, for labor. las 81
P sGo an ~ exchange o1... 1500 Oh
MMepiu's oi p.anK walks. ............... "a 81
Masonry, stone cutting, building fences,
= drains, &c....... ............ -. 756 81
Sundry bills ............ SIG 90
Rufus Tibbitts for gravel and stone 236 Is
The following are expenditures on streets,
sidewalks, &C.: Middle street, grading, paving,
reseatng curb, paving cutters, crawling, &c,
S5,OSo64; Pearl street, grading paving, reset
ting curb, repairing sidewalks, &C., 81, 467 ~ +;
Commercial street. paving cutters, crosswalks
graveling, &c, $2,01725; Market street. graz
ing. paving, setting and resetting curb, relay
ing sidewalks, &C., 81, S63.6l; Pine and Brack-
EFT streets, grading, paving cutters, crosswaiks,
setting and resetting curb, laying and relaying
sidewalks, Sc, 81, 4O2. IS; Fore street, paving
paving cutters, crosswalks, relaying sidewalks
graveling, concrete walks, $82S.50; Gray and
Winter streets, paving CUTTERS resetung curb,
relaying sidewalk. graveling, &C., S48l.00;
! icaodhe StiCCe, paving SUtttrS, reScCGluS CuTD,
repairing sidewalk, &c, 1S443; Maple and
Danforth streets, paving cutters, resetting curb,
relaylng sidewalk, graveling, &C., $3.50. 10;
Monlton street, paving cutters, relaying side
walk, graveling, SC, $29S.85: Temple street.
paving cutters, grayeling, Sc, s22926; Madi-
son street, paving cutters, gravelling, &C., $515-
%; Monroe street: paving cutters, gravelng,
&C., $423.96; Anderson street, paving cutters,
grSveling, &C., $5S0.42; Smith street, paving
cutters, grayeling, &C., 1886 Free street, re-
pairs, graveling, SC, $4,000, Congress street,
paving, repairing, and relaying sidewalks, cross
walks, resetting curb, graveling, &C., 81, l5I %;
Brown street. paving cutters, resetting curb, re-
pairing sidewalks, graveling, $24l.07; Hanover
street, paving cutters, resetting curb, repairing
sidewalks graveling, &c, $164.64; Franklin ST.,
paving crosswalks, resetting curb, relaying side
walks, graveling, &c, 1856 60; Bracket street.
paving cutters laying sidewalks, setting curb,
graveling, &c, $117.65; Quincy street, resetting
curb. and relaying sidewalk, $7200; Preble
street, graveling, &C., $l5475; Salem street,
paving cutters, graveling, &c, $135.00; Clark
street, repairing sidewalks, crawling, &C., $53;
Branihall street, setting curb, laying sidewalks,
&c, S45 Vaughan street, grading and set
laying sidewalks, crawling, Sc, $14O2s
street, graveling, Sc, $22.25; Federal street,
repairs and graveling, $50; Grove street, build
ing culverts, &c, $57 Thames street gravel
track. $44s3; Howdoin street, paving cutters,
setting curbs, &C., $685. Pine and Promen-
ade, setting curb, and laying sidewalks, SAG. 80;
Mellen street, paving cutters, repairs, gravel
Ing naS;S &C., SS64; New High street, grading,
walk, SC, SS66.6l; Portland street, paving
cutters, laying sidewalks, graveling, &c.,
$4,000; Hancock street, filling reservoir, &C.,
$4S.5O; North street, grading, $395.SS;. Neal
street, filing and grading, $500; repairs af-
ter sewers have been built. $660.00; repairs on
sidewalks on various streets, Ss09.9O; plank
walk, repairs of ;S74:37; small repairs
on Emery, Dow, Hill, Atlantic, Saint
Lawrence, Everett, Deering. Hampshire,
Newbury, Danforth, Oxford, Pine, State, Ce-
dar, Kennebec an Cumberland streets, $5142S;
scraping streets, cleaning out culverts, picking
stone, loading stone, scrapings, sand, curbstone,
paving stone, bricks, planks, rubbish and cart
ing same, $732488; shoveling snow, breaking
roads, cutting ice from CUTTERS, sidewalks, Sc,
and carting snow and ice, $1SS375; sanding
sidewalks, $146.00; carting sand to county roan,
$4,000; horses and drivers for steam fire en-
gines, $5s4O.0O. ..-s-,4, -,
There has been laid the PAST year 16, 252 square
yards OF pavement, viz: 1867 square yards OF
wood. Middle steet; 3300.2 square yards of cob
BILE stone, Market street; 1l47.7 square yards
c. bible stone, Fore street; Ito square yards cob
Bile stone, Middle street; 1854 square yards
cobble stone, Pearl street; 1927 square yards
cobble stone, Spring street; 1855 square yards
cobble stone, cutters; 1860 2 square yards cob
bic stone, crossings. .,,.-.-
sIDEwALKs. Ecm u
There have been laid and relaid the past yeaI
| 1855 feet of sidewalk, viz ~
| 1889 feet new brick walk; 1851 feet brick walk
| laid over 3l9 feet concrete sidewalk; 536 feet
plank sidewalk; the whole making 1875 square
yards.
cURBsToNE.
There have been set and reset IL ,297 feet OF
curbstone, viz:
1877 feet of new curbstone set; 6725 feet of
old curbstene reset.
| The vaiue of city property amounts to over
| $1,000. would recommend that the follow
| ing streets should be looked after: Fore street
near the Portland Company; the eastern end Of
| Middle street needs paving each side of the
horse railroad track; west end of Congress
| street needs pairing each side of the horse rail-
| road track; Spring street the same; also High
street from Congress to Spring; part of Ok
| ford street should have the cutters paved !;
Hanover, BrattIe Alder, east end of Federal
should be repaired and paved; West CONNER
cial street needs looking after badly, and a
stone abutment should be put under the Mar.
ginal Way Bridge; all the streets should have
the cutters paved for one half the expense will
keep them in repair that it now takes after gut
tiers are paved Sewers are recommended at
the west end of Danforth street and on St.
| John street, aud more culverts on Washington
street; the hill also at west end of Congress
street should be graded to the line of said street
| on the south side; Howard street should be
graded as soon as it is dry enough, as it is very
wet during the spring and autumn. A new
walk must be laid on St John street for the
safety of people passing over it. 1t is recon-
mended that part of Poplar street be discon-
tinued as there are no buildings on that part of
it, and if it is not SO heavy wall will have to
be built to keep it from caving in. Chestnut
street should be paved from Lincoln to Con-
gress street, owing to the heavy teaming
Vaughan's Bridge has been rebuilt the past
year and Tukey's Bridge thoroughly repaired
eI1d, Bridge has I. been repanked also
the back streets need looking after