San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-09-15
THE MONEY DIVIDED UP.
The Report of the Special Committee
of the Fifty Thousand Dollars.

The Report of the Special Committee
of the Fifty Thousand Dollars.
To the Honorable Mayor and City Council;
CONTAMINATION special committee
to whom was referred the report of the
city engineer submitted to this council
at its last regular meeting, relating to
the expenditure of the fund realized By
the sale Of the S50,0OOin city bonds OF
1886, respectfully submit the following
report, to-wit:
Your committee recommends that the
sum OF eleven thousand dollars be allOt-
ted to each ward Of the city; that from
the said amount allotted to the Third
ward, the sum Of eight thousand dollars
be deducted and placed to the credit of
the second ward, makinga total of nine
teen thousand dollars to be expended in
said Second ward out of this years fund
for public improvements" and your
committee further recommends that in
asmuch as the city engineer declares that
the sum Of $1,000 heretofore recommend
ed to be set apart for the improvement
Of the plaZas, is entirely insufficient for
that purpose, and that no permanent i'm
provement Of said plaZas could be made
with the sum mentioned in connection
Herewith, that the said sum OF $1,000 be
expended in draining that portion of the
city situated east Of the Alamo plaza
and bordering upon Crockett, Blum,
Bonham and NacOgdOChes streets; and
your committee further recommends
that in the First ward OF the city San
Fernando street, from Laredo street for
the distance of two blocks, be paved
with the HelfOrd pavement, stone gut
tiers and wooden Curbs to be used If
necessary; it Is estimated by the city en-
gineer that this Improvement will cost
about $500. The remaining $500 your
committee recommends to be expended
on South Laredo street, beginning at the
end OF the present macadam. the street
to be paved with Telford pavement, us
ing rock cutters and wooden curbing
where necessary.
In the Second ward your committee
recommends that $1,000 be expended on
Dallas and other streets as decided upon
at the last meeting Of this council, and
that San PEDRO avenue be paved with
Telford pavement on one side of the
street car track, from Warren street to
the San Pedro Springs, stone cutters on
one side and wooden curbiDg If neces-
sary. This improvement 1t is estimated
will cost about 5000. Your committee
further recommends that $500 of the re-
mainder be expended upon Augusta
street in reducing the same to proper
grade, and the balance Of about $1,000
upon Main avenue, said avenue to be
paved in the same manner as San Pedro
avenue, viz: with Telford pavement.
In the Third ward, your committee re-
commend that 3rd street, from avenue
ID towards the river, distance Of $50
feet, be cut down to the grade in order
that the storm water may escape from
avenueD and the work upon that av-
enue be protected. Said Third street to
be graveled and guttered with stone gut
tiers and wooden curbing ifdeemed ne
cessary; gravel to be thoroughly rolled
with the steam roller. This, with the
amount hereiDbefore recommended to
be expended for drainage, will probably
consume the appropriation for this
ward.
In the Fourth ward your committee
recommends that Lavaoa street, from
Water street to Matagorda street, be i'm
proved to the amount Of $1,000; King
William street TO be graded and grsv-
eled to cost S4lS0. Presa street to-
wards the Sunset railroad crossing, be-
ginning at Alamo street, to be improved
to the amount OF $3.50, stone cutters
and wooden curbing to be used where
deemed necessary. The manner In
which the improvements herein recon-
mended shall be carried out Is left with
the council to decide whether said i'm
provements be made by the city as a
direct employer Of labor or by contract.
CURLING to be ordered where deemed
necessary by the council. All of which
is respectfully submitted.
A. |. LOCKWOOD,
Chairman Special Com.
n. MACKEY.
+. SCHREINER.