The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-04
THE STREET WORK OF 1892
Statement Showing the Streets Perma-
nently Improved, and What II Cost.
Almost Four Hundred thousand Dollars Ex-
pended in That DirectiOn-Plack's Con-
tract Canceled-MOrtality Report

Now that the end Of the year is approach
ing il is interesting to know how many
streets of the city have been permanently
improved during the past twelve months
In this time seventeen streets were paved
either with brick or asphalt lallsys not in
cluGedb and the total cost of the work
amounts to $500. ESQ "a. A good many of
these streets have been improved with q
view TO connecting other paved streets and
making continuous rosdways of good ma
terial. with the downtown streets as q
nucleus. The following list shows the
streets that have been permanently I'M
proved during the past year:
College avenue, with brick. from Eleventh to
seventeenth street; total length, 524.2o feet;
cost Per foot s6-5l; total cost, S54l So6 5.
Alabama, total length, 934 feet; cost per foot,
50. rs; total cost. S3 10000.
Meridian street. with brick. from Morris to
Palmer street; total length. 4.13l feet; cost per
foot. IS 20; total cost, $23.54S.52.
Stevens street. with asphalt, from Virginia ave.
nue. 10 East street; total length. 1892 feet; cost
per foot, 81 IL; total cost, 81 ,e9l 81.
PennsyIvania street, with asohalt. from New
York to st. Clair street; total length. 1881 feet;
cost per foot, $6.5e; total cost, So, no. 10.
Coburn street. with brick, from Virginia ave.
nue. TO East street, total frontage, 5,3So feet;
cost per foot, S4.2e; total cost. S23. l74.9l.
Massachusetts avenue, with asphalt, from Del
aware To East street; total frontage. 3.s93.6
feet; cost per foot, 1870; total cost, S53.e14.32.
College avenue. with asphalt; total frontage. g.
a2l-6 feet; cost per foot, $3.50; total cost. S23.-
south street, from Kentucky avenue to Penn
sylvania street. with brick; total frontage, soil
feet, cost per foot. %. 90; total cost, $33 .66l.60.
Susquehanna street. with brick. from New
York TO Vermont street; total frontage. s3S feet;
,ost per foot. $3.4S: total cost. $2.9l9.02.
Pennsylvania street. from sixteenth TO Seven
faanfh nth Qcnnalfs fnfQl frnnfaRa 2O1lo
feet cost per foot, 1897; total cost, S7,l12.56.
Virginia avenue. with asphalt, from Washing
ton street TO Maryland street; total frontage.
l.532 feet: cost per foot. S9.lS; total cost,
Meridian street. with brick. from McCarty to
Morris; total frontage. $500 feet; cost per foot.
$500: total cost, $24. l941 10.
Fletcher avenue. with brick. from Pine to Dill
Ion street; total frontage, 2,9s3 feet; cost per
foot. 1896; total cost, $~l6,5ST.70.
South street. with brick. from Delawar to vir-
Rinia avenue; total frontage, 2.672 feet; cost per
foot. 1913: total cost. BE-. 1878 So.
Pennsylvania street. with asphalt, from st.
Clair to Seventh, total frontage, 1927 feet; cost
per foot. $751;: total cost. $50, 529.27.
street; total frontage. I,f22 feet; cost per foot,
S4.s1; total cost, $S,2S2.6 So.
Alabama street. with asphalt. from Tenth to
Fourteenth street. total frontage, $500 feet;
cost per foot, S7.l5; total cost, $~24,534.l9.
Fletcher avenue: with brick from Noble to
foot s5.sS;; total COST. szsisS.7o. '''
Mortality Report.
The clerk of the City Health Board has
prepared his report for November. There
were las deaths, against Isl in the corre-
spending month of last year, of whom Isl
were white and IA colored: 70 male and 70
female; % died of consumption, Is of diph.
liberia, s of heart disease. Z of pneumonia.
10 of croup and z of typhoid
fever. Eighty-three were single.
IS married, IA widows. o windowers
and ] unknown; 40 were born in America.
2 IN England, Sin Germany. s in Ireland
and unknown: 80 were under five years of
age. For eleven months in the present
year the death increase was ~ and In jan
nary alone there was IN increase of ST
deaths.
There are at present in the city 9 cases of
diphtheria. IL of scarlet fever and 3 OF
measles.
Fiack's Contract Cancelled.
Yesterday morning the Board of Health
held o meeting. and cancelled the contract
held by Joseph Flack for furnishing milk
to the City Hospital. Several complaints
have from time to time been made that the
milk furnished the hospital was not what
1T should be, and the Health Board. the
other day. got hold of two samples. An