The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1890-10-10
FIGURING ON IMPROVEMENTS.
City Engineer Dunlap Makes
Some Important Estimates.
Rudolph Herring Expected Here Monday
"s'""y the Sewerage Problcm-s14.3s
Front Foot for the Paving of Salem
hvenue-Othcr Streets can be Done for
si1.aO Front Foot.

-othcr streets can be Done for
SI1.9O Front Foot
The finance committee of the Citv
Council is considering the cost of tbs,
Improvements for which it is proposed
TO issue bonds, and will report as soon
as accurate estimates are made. The
bonds are proposed to DO issued for sew
erage, street improvements, a city sur
Vey' improving and enlargirg the iail
and providing an electric fire alarm.
MIR. Rudolph Herring, one of the most
eminent sanitary engineers in the
country, is expected to arrive here next
Monday to look over the ground and
make recommendations for a svs tenn of
sewerage. 1t will probably take him
two or three weeks to make the neces-
sary investigation and report. Couu-
Gilman Sklnker, who is also an enr;-
neer, has given the matter of the i'm
provements needed much consideration.
and said to a TIMES reporter yesterday
that he thought the Finance Committee
could secure the necessary informa-
tlon In time TO report ut the next rcgu-
iar monthly meeting of the Council
ing some estimates OF the cost OF the
improvements needed, and said to the
reporter that it would require about
So0o,O00 To pave and macadamigc the
principal streets, and to lay sewers in
the thickly populated part of the city
where they are now needed. ''Aly idea
ABOUT the sewerage construction" said
Alr. Dunlap, lis that the work be pushed
forward rapidly so as to relieve those
~ f,tt ,,.1,.N 4. ~.
gered by the want of proper sewerage,
instead of taking several years to do
the work"
Mr.. Dunlap furnished the reporter the
following estimates Of the cost of street
improvements, which he said is accur-
ate, according to the present cost of ma
terial and construction:
Salem avenue, Belgian block or asphal
pavement. S7.l6 per front foot on each
SIDE. MIR. Dunlap says the paving of
Salem avenue will cost more than other
streets, because it is low.
Jefferson and other business streets.
brick and Belgian block, $5.05 per front
foot on each side. Mncadam for re-
sidcnt streets will cost 81 80 per front
foot on each side.
The streets that should be paved are
Campbell, from Roanoke and Woodland
Pask, distance of about $500 feet:
Saieift avenue from Roanoke street to
Randolph, 1000; Railroad avenue from
Henry to Randolph, 1900; Holiday from
Campbell to Fifth avenue, 500; Randolph
from Railroad avenue to Fifth avenue,
LOCO; Jefferson from Railroad avenue to
l'ullitt, 1000; Nelson from Railroad
avenue to Fifth avenue, 1000, Horny
and Commerce from Railroad avenue to
Fifth avenue, 1000 feet each.
According to the estimate of City
Engineer Dunlap, the cost of having
the streets paved with Belgian
block or asphalt would be about $50, 900.
large part of the resident streets
should be we'll macadamized. and it is
safe to say that Sa25.OO0 would put the
streets in passable condition, taking
Mr.. Dunlap's figures as basis The
understanding referred to is not such as
has been done already, but is composed
of three layers of stone of different
grade. the coarser being placed first and
the other finer ones on top. Tho maca-
dam is pressed with very heavy roller,
and, when properly laid, makes smooth,
hard street.
About the cost of the city survey Mr.
Dunlap said that it is hard to make an
estimate as the amount of work neces-
Sary cannot be aScertained until it
is undertaken.
Aside from the sewerage, which is one
of the principal improvements for which
it is proposed to issue bonds the other
things specified will cost only few
thousand dollars. The improvements
that will soon be absolute necessities
cannot be made for much less than
100000. and the finance committee
will hardly recommend smaller
amount.
Rncins Yesterday.
WEsTcHEsrER PARK, Oct. 9.--[Spe-
cial First race, mile and one-siX-
tccnth-Eon won, Raceland second,
Salvini third time 1:5S. Second race,
thrcc-fourths mile-Annie won, Mi
chael second, L'Intriguante third; time
l:l7}S. Third race, mile and one-fourth
Montague won, Lavina Belle second: