Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-03
MANY NEW IMPROVEMENTS.
A Red Letter Day for the Public Works
Committee-Herron Hill Park Is a Go
The p " 6z C. SldIurs Are Not.

A Red Letter Day for the Public works
Committee-Herron Hill Park is a Go
The p, v. & C. sldInss Are Not.
The Committee on Public Works yesterday
laid over the ordinance for the grading paving
and curbing of Roup street, as there was q
large remonstrance against it on account of .
proposed change of the grade, putting some Of
the best houses six feet below the grade.
An ordinance opening Wallingford street.
from Neville to Bellefeld streets, was laid
over, and ordinances for grading and maca-
damizing De Soto street sewer on South
Twelfth street and sewers on Rosencrans and
Hughes alleys were negatived. The following
ordinances were recommended
Authorizing the construction OF sewers on Gen.
ter avenue, Shingles street, Kosciusko alev.
Carey alley, TAYLOR street, Rebecca street. Cabot
alley, Twenty-eiRhth street, Fortieth and Butler
streets. Maurice street. Howard alley and Thirty
fourth street, Mulberry alley, between sixteenth
ana and SetSeen entgneirhtS
and and Twenty-ninth streets; spring alley, between
Twenty.eighth and Tw.nty-nlnth reets;Twenty-
ninth street, from Liberty street to Allegheny
river: kirkwood street. from Collins to Hiland
Hsne 0T dn rsn1 to
Beatty street: Authorizing the paving and curb. b
Ing OF ANDERSON ayenIe, from Fifth avenue to the
Thirty-sixth street. grading Of Renfrew street;
grading Of Emily street, from Craft avenue to
ford avenue to Ridge street; grading Bayard
street, from Neville to Anderson avenue grading,
paving and curbing of Howe street, from Hiland
curbing of sheridan street, from Station to HOev-
eller streets; Vine, from Rose to Reed streets;
Geneva, from Main to Forfy-fourth streets: Lin
coin avenue, Brady street. Fifth avenue to Forbes
street: Wharton street, Twentv-hrst to Twenty
second streets: Jumonvile street. from Fifth
avenue to Forbes street: Sheridan street. from
Thirty-seventh to Thirty ighth streets; Bertha
street, from Grandview to Virginia avenues.
Opening Daum street, from Ivy to Roup streets:
opening Selma street, from Rippey to Margaretta
street; Murdoch street. Renfrew street, from
Achilles to Euclid avenue; Larimer avenue, from
station to Broad streets; kirker street, Irwin
avenue. from Shady avenue to Forbes street; Poe
alley, from McCandess to Fifty-second streets;
Ford street, from Deviliers to Granville streets;
York alley, from Bates to Louisa streets; Albion
hela street. from Sylvan avenue to Jullymtt
street; Finance street. from Homewood avenue
to city line
An ordinance setting aside the grounds about
poses and authorizing the Chief of the Depart
ment of Public Works to improve the same
and designate it as Heron Hill Park, was also
recommended, as was an ordinance authorizing
che grading, paving and curbing of Washing
ton avenue from BeltZhoover avenue to the
east line of Beltzhoover borough, the street
being dividing line between the city and that
borough, and the residents of the borough to
pay their proportion of the cost.
The report of a subcommittee appointed to
investigate the petitions from the Pittsburg,
Virginia and Charleston Railroad, Philips &
Co. and Schultz & Co., for rights to lay switch
tracks on Josephine streets. were read and
recommendation. The subcommittee reported
negatively, saying the switch tracks would be a
great injury to many citizens and benefit to
very few.