The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-07-12
MIR. RossELL WILL PUSH THEM.
The New Street improvements Will BE
Done Promptly.

Done Promptly.
1.-THE men who have been awarded the con-
tracts for making street improvements under
the new appropriations" said Captain Ros
sell to o HERALD reporter, twill begin work
at once There will be no delay about doing
the work. 1t will not be permitted. think
good men have got the contracts and will
push the work. 1t will be done systemati-
-cally, as we do things in the Army.
For example, the work must be begun all over
the District at the same time and l expect to
have the operations completed about the
first of June, 1892 wind and weather permit
ting,n
elbow about the county roads of which there
has been so much complaints"
"Well" said Captain Rossell, 'As far as
the Fourteenth street road is concerned, it is
well enough. 1t is impossible, within the ap-
preparations, to better It, AS for the Seventh
street road, we shall fix itup within three
weeks. And, by the way, we had endless
trouble with contract we had from the
Boundary OF the city to the end OF the rail
road track on Fourteenth street.
The reporter asked about the other country
roads and he was told that out ttowardAnacostia
and northwestward into Montgomery County
there was not single artery of produce lead
ing into the District that was not In a bad con-
dition, and subsequently the markets were
impeded.
The contracts for street improvements that
have been approved by the Commissioners are
as follows
For asphalt pavements-Fourt street. be-
tween G and D northeast; Sixth, between G
and D northeast; D, between Ninth and Penn
'sylvania avenue southeast; North Carolina
avenue, between Eighth and Eleventh south
east; Eleventh, between East Capitol and G
southeast; Tenth, between ID and Pennsylva-
mia avenue southeast; G, between Eighth and
Tenth northeast, to P. Maloney. NJ between
Four-and-ahalf and Sixth southwest, to An
drew Gleason.
Concrete pavements-D, between Seven
teentb aud Eighteenth northwest; Eighteenth
between ID and E northwest; Tenth, between
Sand i northwest; Riggs, between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth northwest; North Capitol,
between X and M northwest; Thirteenth, be-
tween Il and Florida avenue; U, between
Fourteenth and Sixteenth Third, between I
and northeast; Prospect, between Thirty
fifth and Thirty-sixth; N, between Thirty-fif
and Thirtysixth; Prospect, between Thirty
third and High; Thirty-sixth, between Pros
pect and o; Massachusetts avenue, between
North Capitol and First streets northeast; L
street. between Seventh and Thirteenth south
west, to Barber Asphalt Paving Company
New York avenue, between Florida avenue
and North Capitol street; New York avenue;
between Thirteenth and Fourteenth street&
Second street, between Maryland avenue and
G street southwest; Second street, between
E and F southwest; r street, between New
Hampshire avenue and Twentieth street; T
street, between Ninth and Tenth northwest;
n street, between Twenty-second and Twenty
fourth northwest; Caroline street, between
Fifteenth and sixteenth northwest, to Gran
ford Paving Company.
Grading, &c.-Florida avenue, between
First and Fourth northwest; Thirteenth street,
between d street and Pennsylvania avenue
southeast; Florida avenue, between Ninth and
square; street, between Second and Third
southeast; Second street, between street and
Virginia avenue southeast, to G. H. Eslin, and
Pennsylvania avenue, between Eleventh
streets and new bridge southeast, to NJ F.
Tally.