Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-10-08
ACROSS SKUNK HOLLOW.
LIFE BREATHED INTO THE SCHEME FOR
BRIDGE.

The Committee on Public Works Does Not
Street Improvement Ordinances Affirma-
lively Recommended.
Some months ago THE DISPATCH pub
lished the fact that a number of residents in
Bloomfield and vicinity were considering
the advisability of having erected bridge
across Skunk Hollow, near Ben Venue
station, ON the Pennsylvania Railroad. 1t
was stated at the time that if the bridge was
built it would bring that part Of the city
into close communication with Schenley
Park ana the Carnegie art buildings. The per-
sons back of the scheme said the bridge could
be built at little expense. and would make an
outlet into Oakland from Bloomfield via Belle
field avenue, which will run to the S75, 600 en-
trance to the park. When the bridge is built
the residents of Bloomfield can get to or from
the park in 20 or Is minutes.
The scheme to build the bridge has matured,
and at the meeting of the Committee on Public
Works Yesterday an ordinance was introduced
for the construction of a bridge from Ella
street, Sixteenth ward, to Ridge street, Thir-
teenth ward. The ordinance was presented by
Select Councilman Warren. Its originators re-
side in the Sixteenth ward, and proposed that
the expense OF the bridge should be borne by
the parties benefited under the street i'm.
provement act. They had calculated that the
structure would cost about $4,000.
The property benefited would be all the prop
erty fronting on streets In the Bloomfield dis
trict and considerable of that in the Eleventh
and Thirteenth wards, from which the $4,000
was to be raised. Some members of the Public
Works Committee, knowing of the ordinance,
had fortified themselves by making inquiries
as to the probable cost of such a bridge, and
had found that a bridge of very ordinary
design, to answer the purpose, would cost at
least Sl50U00. When the committee met yester-
day this information was quietly passed around,
and when the ordinance came up for considera-
tion it was ordered returned to Councils with
negative recommendation. 1t will come up
again, however, if it does not go through.
A petition for the opening and grading of an
extension to Halket street. Fourteenth ward,
was referred to a committee. The following
ordinances for street Improvements were given
an affirmative recommendation:
Opening Almeda street from Second avenue to
Glenwood avenue; Blair street from Woodlawn to
Melanctnion streets Eading gt0n, IRON mn, momewood
10 Renwick: Breed. from South Thirteenth to
South Fifteenth Daum, from wilkins to Negley
Fifty-third, from Butler to Holmes; Robinson,
from AllequipPa to Berthoud; Junilla, from
avenue to Rebecca; Fifty-ffth, from Butler to the
Allegheny river; Webster, from Roberts to Mer-
Monon gaheia, from Mobile to Talymet; Wool
slayer alley. from Main street to Friendship
alleys; Kilbuck street. from Flowers street to
Blair's property line; Watson street, from Try to
Shingles street.
For Mulberry alley. from South
Twenty-sixth to South Twenty-seventh streets;
Dresden alley, from Fifty-third to Fifty-fourth
streets:TOwnsend and Colwell streets, from Clark
to Fulton: Forbes, from land to st. Pierre;
Highland, Bryant, Mellon and Hampton streets,
from point 50 feet north OF Grafton street to
Negley avenue; Larimer avenue, from Wtnslow
street to Third avenue: Howley and Thirty-eighth
streets, from Thirty-ninth street to Penn; Ma
hone: from Soho street to Center avenue; Ed
mond. from Torley to Liberty; Rock and Lawn
m lRt tn K
son to Hays; Baum, from Liberty to Cypress;
Spring alley, from Twenty-seventh to Twenty
eighth: Corey alley, from South Twentieth to
South Twenty-frst on Old Run, near Penn ave-
nue., from Fifth avenue to Denniston avenue;
Coral street, from present sewer to Negley ave-
nue.: Berlin alley from Fifty-fourth to Fifty
fifth: Arabelia street, from Shady avenue to
Howe street,
Grading, paving and curbing Howe street. from
Plummer to Valley; Niflin, from Thirty-eighth
to Denny; Mifflin. from Thirty-eighth to Thirty
ninth; Ledlie from Ridge to Bedford; Carnegie,
from McClain to Fifty-fourth. Changing the
name of Coward alley to Coward street. Board
walk on Josephine street, from South Twenty
sixth to Picnic.