Morning journal and courier., 1883-06-26

River Boulevard and dSewer--Other Mat | ters.
 A special meeting of the Board Of Pnbiic Works was held last evening. Present, His | Honor Mayor Lewis (presiding), Messrs. Holcomb, Pond, Gilbert, Feldman and Ssr- gent.
 Bids for building sewer in Nash street from Lawrence to Eagle street were opened as follows:
 Matshsw K Kehos: 27ss a1 % %
 Lawrence oBrien. 3127 50 O,Brien. Bids for sewer in WhalIey avenue from University Place to Garden street were open ed as follows Matthew Kehoe s5e6 % Patrick Maher 805 % 1alcassa .ssao at5 17l zlPatr1ck S SSl oo oo Anthony Carroll. 798 50 The contract was awarded to Matthew Kehoe.
 Bids were opened for sewer in Wall street as follows: Patrick Maher .s1 GOO % Anthony Carroll 959 co Matthew Kehoe 902 % Michael Fitzpatrick. ......:......... s6S 80 Lawrence oBrien. en..--..-...-.......--..-- 949 50 The contract was awarded to Michael Fitz- patrick.
 Bids for constructing pavement on Kim berley avenue, from Howard avenue to the south line of the brick yard, were opened as follows:
 Richard Connors sixty-nine cents per square yard. Q. w. Blakeslee < Son, seventy cents per square yard. e. Pohlman, ninsty five cents per square yard.
 The contract. .wes finally awarded to Rich ard Connors The board adjourned to rooms 10 and II to hear parties interested in the proposed
 boulevard and sewer from Oyster Point to Whalley avenue. The order came from the Court of Common Council asking that the board inquire and report as' to the cost of the layout.
 Massena Clark was first called and said he was opposed to the boulevard and sewer at present, as he did not think either were needed at this time. Frank S. Platt, representing Theodore Hotchkiss, opposed the layout as proposed, as it would seriously damage Mir. Hotchkiss' property.
 Charles Morris, representing himself and the estate of Austin Hurlburt, opposed the layout. He said that it would destroy three hundred and fifty five in length of building lots belonging to him which were located on Lamberton street.
 Vice President Reed, of the New York
 road said the only objection his company
 had to the road was the bridge where it crossed the track of their road He thought
 the road was necessity and that it should
 be eighty feet wide. David Ahern, representing himself and
 Mary Ahern, had no objection to the layout. He thought the street should not be less than sixty feet wide and thought perhaps it would
 be better if it was eighty feet wide. Mr- Atwater. representing Truman filling,
 thought the proposed improvement unneces. S0rY and was ODDO6ed tO if George J. Faulhaber appeared es repre-
 sentative of several property-holders and was
 in favor of the proposed layout. O. W. Blakeslee did not object to the
 boulevard running across his meadow, but
 did not want to be assessed for a sewer.
 Patrick Morrissey, for St. Francis orphan
 asylum, said they did not object to the pro
 posed improvement Thomas H. Fulton favored the improve. ment and thought the roadway should not be less than eighty feet wide. Orders for sidewalk on Grand street, be- tween Jefferson and Olive streets, and for sidewalks en Edwards street and several oth- CT streets were read and the city engineer
 WAS directed to give lines and grades and the
 clerk to notify parties. Resolution that the Board of Public Works inquire what compensation, if any, was due Michael McGovern for crossing his land
 was referred to the committee on streets Adjourned.