Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-04-24

lhe regular weekly meeting OF the |
5treet and Sewer Commission was held
last evening, at which the following let /
ter from the Lobdell Car Wheel Com pany
was received and read:
II regret that there should be any liti- |
CATION between thls city and the company |
about the bank and eluice at G street. |
Inc iacts oil the case are as follows: The |
city wanted road to the river. A COM
mlttee of Council offered to open the |
street and make 1t such height as to |
prevent all the marshes above this point |
from being flooded by breaks In the banks
| below. Mr.. Aldrich agreed to give the
right OF way and extended to the city a
deed conveying the right of way for
public highway eighty feet In width TO the
bank and 220 feet In width additional
outside of the bank for wharf or land
ing. 1t was found that there was not
enough mud to make the avenue of the
proper height and Mr.. Aldrich agreed to
let them take 20 feet more by land,
which they did. In consideration OF this
Council agreed to put In q sluice in the
river bank free OF all expense to Mr..
Aldrich, or the Crane Hook Marsh Com
paDy, which was done. Council also
agreed 10 keep the bank In repairs for a
distauce of 100 yards on each side of the
centre line OF the street or avenue, and
did 30 until Mr.. Aldrich sold to this COM
pany. The Lobdell Company, however,
has not required the city to keep more
than 900 feet in repair, and Council has
heretofore paid to this company whatever
1t cost to keep these 800 feet OF bank in
repair, and further ree ogniZed the con-
tract In putting In sluice In place of teh
one first put in by the city.
snow the Lobdell Company wants
nothing bat what is right and fair under
the circumstances and is not willing to
relieve the city from kt eping this bank
and sluice in repair; nor Is this company
willing that the city should vacate only
the part outside the river bank ard 20
feet inside OF The samc If, however, the
city will yacate and surrender TO the Lob
dell Car Wheel Company all of G street
} to Its Intersection with Christiaua avenue
and the right to use as street or high
way the piece Of land called Duncan
avenue, extending northerly from q
street to the Chrstiana river, the Lobdell
Company will release the city from malu.
tanning tho sluice and bank, and will
execute an agreement to convey when
ever 1t shall be required by the city or
county, and free Of cost for the right OF
J way, all the land now owned by the said
I coml any, not to exceed eighty feet In
width, that may be necessary for the ex.
: tension Of Christiana avenue in straight
3 line. II there ever is a landing made on
, the Delaware below the mouth OF the
: Christiana 1t should be at or near where
ChristianR avenue extended In straight
. line will meet the same. Hoping that
this will meet with your approval, l re.
! main yours respectfully,
7, GEORGE q. LoBDELL, President"
Edward +. Kane was granted permis.
sion to tap Sixth street drain for the pur-
r pore OF draining the Central Hotel. Tn,
/; petition OF John n. Countiss, for permis
t sion to set lG8 feet OF curb on Claytoi
street between Ninth and Tenth streets
AID 100 feet on Nil th street, tetweet
Clayton aud DuPontstree was granted
Also the petition of w. F. Seeds to set Al
r. feet of curb on Kirk avenue, betweeI
1t Jackson and VanBuren streets.
IS The weekly payroll, amounting Il
# S90.7S, wss presented, and orders draw
II in i1ycr of the parties named.
d Tie City Auditor reported that he ha-
n collected liens amounting to 81 III so.
is The folio wing proposals were receives
IS for grading Market street, between Thir
= teenth and Fourteenth streets: ..-
e William Dougherty, 10 cents per squar
o yard; NJ. +. Keogh, 29a; Michael Riley
Is 25; j. A A1cCaulley, u. The contrae
/ was awarded to Dougherty.
Il Bias lor furnishing gutter stones wer
II received ss follows: John Bernot, q
cents per llneal foot; Nc endrick 81 Scott
81 cent.. The CONT act was not awarded
/, BIDS for grading aud repaying street
Il were received as follows; Davis & Broth
r, er, Sixth. Monroe to Madison,s18H cent
d per square yard; from Madison to Jeiier
o son, 1871; Walnut to Poplar, M; Mar
ket to King, l7i3; Scott, north of Della
ware avenue, l5@; West, from Front Il
Second, lSI4; Poplar, Front to Fourth
1888; Poplar, Fourth to Seventh, 1994
: shipley, from Fourth to Tenth, 20j6.
= William Sin mons, for SINE streets, Is
= Is, 18, is, IS, ls, 90 20, c,nts per squar
1 yard, respectively. The contract wa
a not awarded.