Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1890-04-10
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btreets ana SeNVers-Htds Tor Grade
hng and Paving nighwaYs-Eirc-
trIc Poles 0n Market StreeL-heeI-
ing of the directors.
Tho regular weekly meeting OF the Street
and Sewer Department was held Tuesday
evening.
Tue weekly payroll amounting to 1887
was ordered paid. The city auditor 70.
ported collections for loans amounting to
$l4232.
After some discussion the following reso-
luton was adopted:
Resolved, That John JacOby be given until
rs o'clock on Thursday evening, to furnish
bon " IN mo sum Of tiO'COO, for the cUnstruc-
ton NJ tho iutefrcpting sewer, with surctias
satisfactory the Board Of Directors of the
street aud sewer Department otherwise the
contract Will DO reconsider and cancelled
communication was received from the
board OF Port Wardens, granting the de-
partment this right to construct an outlet
for the tntercepriug sewer on the Brandy
wine Mt the foot of Sixteenth street.
The sidewalks il front OF Noe. 6l8 and
SIC Market street were ordered paved
within "a hours.
William Forrest Informed the department
tSat his elk new houses GU Oade street
we're hnished, and asked that ashes be put
ON the street. The city does not own tho
street and he was Informed that II would
be accepted as soon as It had been filed to
grade, eurbed aud paved.
This following communication on the cost
OF the BrHndywlue intercepting sewer sys.
lem v7Ha recnivB1:
In conformRnce with your request to mako
estimate Of the cost of building tho proposed
Brnndywine inteTceptinS sewer and the
brauchss necessary to mako the sewer OF
placucni value To the portion of the city OF
which it Is Intended To drain and also dts
chiet ohlecD TO protect the purity Of the water
supply Of tho city, have the honor 10 submit
tho following Hs an approximate estimate OF
the cost oil the work that should be- done a'
soon puasible.
Inh fnrt ,,tt
wine inteceptnG HewSr from tho mouth Of
Crooked run 10 tho foot Of sixteenth sireBt IL
$40 4l6,iOi 10 per cent Tor engineering expenses
and extras, i4Dll.bi, walnut street sewer
Ntuth 10 The foot OF Walnut street, ~, Gi1,. ~:
French street sewer from Tenth 10 sixteenth
and Walnut streets, SASH 81; King street from
knuclt g between Tenth and Eleventh TO inter-
,ceptor at Market street, s2,3i6i0 Market street
from knuckle bstween Tenth and Eleventh TO
interceptnr mt bridge nbutmeut, S2,sI29l:
Orange street, from Tenth To Fourteenth
$l,S]H.1ti: Ihtuul strCct,f rom Delaware avenue
10 Fourteenth s2,ls1ll; Mnst street, from Dcl-
aware avenue 10 intercei tor nj foot OF West
Ia5Siin: Washington street, from Delaware
avenue 20 Fourteenth, tl,fDtSi; ieiferson,frum
Delaware avenue 10 fourteenth, s.,lgl.O
Fourteenth, from Jefferson u orange, 81 ,a5li. ib
Adams from Delaware avenue IN Wuwaspt,
and To Jackson. sl,Jl22G jackson, from Della
ware avenue 10 intcrceptor AZ loot Of Jack son,
S32BG.iE; Van Buren, from Delaware avenue to
lpyeriug avenue aud thence 10 jackson,
slbiemi lowering avenue, from BrOOinc to
Van Buren,, tl,i3.SN; Harrison, from Delaware
avenue 10 lowering ayenne,fi3TO.A; Franklin,
from Deiawa venho to lowering avenue
Sl,2l6.ia; Bruomo, rom Delaware avenue 10
iovpriiIs uvruue, al ilS49: Ilayton from and
Of present sewer OH tillpin avenue 10 n(erccpt-
ing sewer, si,.9hl9; troekeh run sewer, from
lowering avenue 10 beginning Of intervening
srwer, :l,6JS.Oi Total, ,ga,sI7.t7.
IN the upoyn estimates have proposed to
carry me rtiii water through the scwCrs, al
lowing " 10 enter Them by means Of east iron
inlets placed ia such positions as Ia intercept
the water IN til" side cutters, doing away
with the undesirable nui4nuccs-cgo-s glltteTg
bplinyn Il,,i.
the rain wat and sewage should be Hgoiled,
inHsinuch as IL ne easIthtus the buiding OF
very large and expensive sewers, which dur
ing the greater part OF tho time maintain such
u small how az to be unable To b, Sci -rlean4-
ing nnd thus delnand much labor and expense
III their maintenance nut In this Instance tho
torfiiory which u iH proposed TO sewer has such
steep and abrupt grade that 1t requires but Il
mcduu-siZnd pipe 10 carry oil b1th tho rain
Mitt"r aud the sewage, and Tie Sewers cannot
but help hritg seli-clranSiug: and again tho
water supply lies immediately at tho foot of
1his slope and tho street wlshings VIII nuces-
shtliy polute it 10 an undesirable degree. ana
tn | have Proposed to carry the street wntcr
down thr sop through thr sewer ana empty
II into the BlundyNlne while die sewage " III
bc Intercepted NJ the main sewer aud be car-
fird - point in the creek which for many
gears To come will not become Il. iaiisunce
have made no estimate Of the cost OF laying
me small lateral sewers which II will bc mOrcs-
mFy to lay IN tho sttcots running nj right
angles Ia those nave cited in my estimate bu-
cause they can he laid from time 10 time as
necessity dumauds u,
Respectfully submitted,
Y, tHALkLEY llATTOS,
Engineer IN Charge ul sewers.
BIDS FOR Rrad nH we're reserved rs luIuws /:
II, OtrbeTry, Y.ndever avenue between
Thatcher and ClaYmont streets, 10 cents
per 81 ars yard; Thirteenth, between
French and Lombard. IL cents per square
yard; Adams between Fourth and Flfth,
10 cents per square yard; FIJI b bstwean
Monroe and Adams, II cents per sqlare
yard; q. IL. Crumlish, Yandevar avenue, 10
cents; Tni'teenth, ~ cents. Adams, 10
Gems Filth stfest4, 10 cents; John Logue,
V4ndever avenue, ~ cents; Thirteenth, 10
ents; Adams street, 90 cents; Fifth street,
20 cents; Michael Riley, Fifth street, Is
genis; Thirteenth, Iii GEMS: VIndsver
avenue. 2ii coats: Adams, 10 cents; l.. d.
Long, Vaudpver avanus, 80 cents per cubic
yard Thirteenth street. ~ cents per cubic
yard; Martin KaoRh, Filth street, IA cents /;
Adams street, ID cents; Martin Il, K3ogh,
thirteenth sirset, Is cents; Nandavar
avenue, 10 cents; Fifth street, 10 csnls ;
Adams, 10 cents; j. A. MeCAulIey, Vaudever
avenue, 10 cents; rnlrtesntn street, II cents
Adams, 10 cents; Flhh, ID cents.
Bids for furnishing rubble paving stone
for the same streets were received as fol-
lows: Dazzle Dongherty, 81 So per perch
for Adams or Firth; 9i,65 for Ihilteenth
street. and CUTTERS and crossings 4l.75.
John Losue, Adams and Filth 81 As peg
perch; rhlrteenth, St.5O. j. H. FIamer,
Thirteenth, Sl.4s; cutters and crossings,
" 81. Lewis lJe5'dtlni, Adams and Filth,
cents per surface yard; Thirteenth
treet, 30 cents; cutters aaG CROSSINGS, 30
ents peg surface yktd; u anlywlne Gran
~ Company, 10 cents per yasd measured
u pavement.
The b ds were all laid over until this
v3nins.
Ihe Wilmington City Railway Company
Tas granted permission TO lay new rails on
,hcir south track of Delaware avenue, from
du Popt to patn6ll strsat1, and On the norlt
track from BrOOme to du Pout streets, pro.
vlded that where II was necessary 10 put IA
new timbafs the Work Oe done at a grade
fixed By the city engineer.
The railway company sent blue print oil
the iron poles II wants to put in the middle
Market street between Eighth aud Ninth,
to carry the trolley wire OF the el0ctrlc ran
way extension. Wha company was grau ell
permission to erect the poles, provided It
secured tho 81 Y agatnst ali resppnsihiityof
accident by reason OF the poles being IN the
street, and from the electric eurren carried
by tbs wires, by giving security bond.
The poles are to ba erected betwesn the
two TRACES, In tho middle OF the streat. Tha
base Is sunk six tact IN concrete, The total
length OF the poles Is q feot. TINS. ara ~
fest high above tue ground and thsre is a
Distance OF 10 feet from the ground TO the
trolley wire.
The Ford & Ryan Company was granted
permission TO lay a railroad siding On
Webb street to the south side Of Fourth
street
The city engineer was Instructed to mark
cub lines on the west side of Market street
between pwenty-fourth and Twenty-lfth
Etregts,