The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1874-03-02
CITY REPORTS.
The Street Commissioner.

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for harnesses, and the remainder for straw
repairs on carts and sleds, smith work. shoe.
ing, stable utensils, medicines, and miscella.
neous. In the latter account $22.ll2 fo
labor payroll $ll, 6S1 for paving and settin.
curbstones, $284S for crusher-eng 1856
for bridge labor. material and bridge attend.
ance, $3.50 for hired teams, 1854 for bricks
$l532 for paving stones, $1,000 for curbstone
$2S59 for miscellaneous, and the remainde,
for iron work, tools, concrete and plank
walks, gravel, carpentry, masonry, stone cut
ting, lumber, nails, and wharfage.
The following are the expenditures for Ia
Dor, material, &c., ON streets, sidewalks, and
bridges, the sum total of which will exceed the
amount expended on account of the United
States paying part of the expense of paving
around the public buildings, and the railroad
company for part of the same in front of their
depot.
STREET EXPENDITURES.
Alder street, $1S0.2O; Anderson street,
$99.75; Arsenal street, $17.75; Atlantic
street, $228.56; Avon street, $533.74; Beck
EFT street, $79.l6; Bracket street, $7I7.S6
Bradford street, $l9.77; Brattle street, $40 I;
Boyd street, $363.79; Burnham street. $62.-
%; Canton street, So; Carlton street, 49,
So; Carroll street, $372.90; Carter street,
$1,0l4.24; Centre street, $S15.77; Chapel
street, $40.S7; Church street, $29.44: Chest
nut street, $3ll.27; Clark street, $759.l4;
Commercial street. including paving around
Custom House, $l4,734,9l; Congress street.
$3,222.l6; Court rear of Fore from
Pearl to Silver streets, $200.66: Cross
street. S5S9.S0; Cumberland street, $237.S !;
Danforth street, $452.68; Deering street,
$4,000; Elm street, $245.35; Emery street,
$l773.02; Everett street. $500; Exchange
street including around Postoffice $4656 so :;
Federal street, $365.7S; Fox street, sos. SO !;
Fore street, $4,Sl9.84; Franklin street. $4O2.-
SO; Free street, 1922; Green street, $685.
80; Green street Oeering's Bridge $l573.-
40; Grove street, $lS2.68; Hammond street.
$500; Hampshire street, $l79.23; Hanover
street, $897.86; High street, $663.S6; How
ard street, $264.25; India street, $44.95:
Lincoln street, $3l5.76; Lowell street, $685.
10; Madison street, $4l.75 Market street,
$174.60; May street, $51.S2; Mechanic
street. $500; Melbourne street, $424O; Mel
len street, $66.94; Middle street, $7OO.O6;
Milk street. $3.50; Mountfort street 49,. 02:
Munjoy street, $l63.65 Myrtle street, $780,
Al; Neal street, 1886; Newbury street, 1884,
Il; North street, $4,6S8.55; Oak street, $24.-
so; Oxford street, $121.02; Paris street,
$203.50; Park street, 1885; Pearl street.
$1,6Sl.l9; Pine street, $2S7.79; Pleasant
street, $35495; Portland street, $234.23;
Preble street, 5000; Quebec street, $3O.75;
Sherbrooke street. 5000; Smith street, $l1.-
sc; South street, $59.47; Spring street, So
037.69; Spruce street. $6S.l0; State street,
$4,000; St. Lawrence street, $65.4O; Stone
street, $l4.37; Thames street, $1,000 Thorn
as street, $l2o.eS; Vaughan street, $664.29;
Walnut street, 1882; Washington street,
$222.69; Waterville street, $4Oi.a7; West
street. $84.74; Wilmot street, $30S.l2; York
street, $ll3.96; Crushing Stone, $l9l.75.
Total So, 6S2.33.
Various streets, repairs of paving, etc,
$l4O.ll; small repairs of sidewalks, $l4l0.-
05; clearing streets, $4l66.53; cleaning cul-
verts, $673.75; repairs of streets after the
building of sewers, $7S0.93; moving ice and
snow, $2Sl9.l7; general work, .$l64S.2l;
sanding walks $302.26; screening and cart
ing sand, $l,l50.95; bricks furnished various
persons, $39S.4S; bridges, $l,99S.S9; fire
department for horses, drivers, board of
Hooks horse, and extra horses furnished So
521.11. Total 1922 ,O10.44.
PAVEMENT.
There have been laid the past year 1926
l. 10 yards of stone and wood pavement, viz:
wood pavements, roadway, 4SO6 square
yards; granite, roadway, 1910 square yards;
cobble- stone, roadway, 1920 square yards;
cobble- stones, cutters, 4243 square yards;
cobble- stones crossings, 2248 square Yards
cobble- stones, repairs, 6293 square yards.
SIDEWALKS.
Thore have baoy la;d and r,lo:J -roo
lineal feet making 1902 square yards as fol-
lows. Laid 1856 feet new brick walk; 678
new concrete, and 49, new plank. Relaid
1851 l-2 old brick walk. The total amount
of brick used was 379.632 of which l61.425
was old brick, and 33.207 new brick furnish
ed various persons. There has been 6I53
feet curb stones set and 50OS 1-2 feet reset.
RECOMMENDATIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS.
The amount of property in the hands of the
Commissioner amounts to $l6147.77.
The Commissioner would recommend that
Chestnut street, from Congress to Lincoln be
paved; Free, from Middle to Centre paved,
from Centre to High macadamized; Middle
street paved each side of the Horse Railroad
track; Exchange street, graded up and re-
paired and sidewalks repaired Commercial
street, from Maple street to Boston depot, and
from the Custom House to Grand Trunk depot
repaved Spring street from State street west
erly should be paved, and sidewalks repaired;
Congress street Pearl to India, and from High
to Vaughan should be paved, and large por-
ton of the sidewalks from Chestnut to High
relaid; Preble street, below Portland should
be macadamized and cutters paved, and so
also with Elm and Federal streets Washing
ton street needs cutters paved, more cnlverts
put ill., and macadamiZed, and stone abut-
ment under the Marginal Way bridge; Brack-
EFT, Danforth, Cumberland, Lincoln, and York
streets are in bad condition and should
be gravelled up and cutters paved.
The plank walks are in bad condition and
should be relaid and some of them replaced
by concrete which would be cheaper in the
end. Tukey's bridge needs new draw and
the piers replanked. Vaughan's bridge
should be replanked in part the coming spring.
All cutters crossing streets should be taken
up and culverts put in to take the surface
water, and not allow it to cross the streets,
for it makes travel dangerous. Most of the
repairs are temporary on the streets as the
appropriation is usually too small to do other
wise, and so they have to be repaired every
year. Finally he. hopes the ordinance in re-
gard to depositing ashes or rubbish in the
street will be rigidly enforced.
City Solicitor.
lue loloWluS lIcIcStiliS pdItiCdidlS diC
gathered from the report of Mr.. c. F. Libby,
City Solicitor up to January lst, 1874, when.
Hon. I. B. Reed was appointed. The making
of the report therefore fell to Mr.. Libby.
At the time of making the last report there
were 30 cases pending. During the present
year 13 cases have been argued or finally dis
posed of. Eight suits have been commenced
the present year.
Among the cases argued or finally disposed
of several are important. The case Daniel F.
Emery and John E. Donnell VS.. the city was
a suit to recover rent for the use of the "Hay
Lot" on Newbury street. from Jan. 1st, 1869,
to April lst, 1871, at the rate of $400 per an
mum. No price had been agreed upon when
the city went into possession of the lot and
the price demanded by the plaintiffs was
deemed exorbitant by the city; the question
was thereupon referred to the decision of a
jury who rendered verdict for the plaintiffs
at the last April term for the sum of $582.50,
Gncluding interest) sum less than that for
which the city had offered to compromise the
suit.
The case of George D. WEIGH VS.. the city /;
Benz. Welch VS.. the same; and Abby A.
Steele ct ais VS., the same; which were ap-
peals for land damages, on account OF the ex-
tension of York street land the discontinuance
of Beach street, have been settled by the Bos-