The record-union., 1893-05-03
K-SFREET IMPROVEMENT.
The City Trustees Pass a Resolution
OF Intention.
1t VIII Be Laid With Bitumen, and
Not Done by PiecemeaI-Water
Works Boilers.

The City Board of Trustees held a spe-
cial meeting yesterday morning for the
purpose of considering the K-street i'm
provement matter. 4 resolution of in
tention was read and adopted for the
improvement of K street from Second to
Tenth-except such portion thereof as is
required by law to be kept in order or re-
pair by any person or company having
railroad tracks thereon-by removing
rock-paving, grading and laying street.
way of concrete six inches in thickness,
and with a top coating of hituminous
rock, grouted rock cutters, iron culverts,
and where not already done, stone curb
1ng and altering the catch-basins.
The specifications were then read. They
provide for the taking up of the present
cobble pavement, leveling the street, and
setting of the stone curbing preparatory
to putting down the concrete; specify the
quality of sand, percentage of cement
and bitumen to be used in the pavement,
and various other details of the material
and work.
The City Surveyor suggested that the
street railway company should be noti-
fed OF the resolution, that they might be
prepared to do their share OF the work
when the rest was being done.
The Trustees coincided in his idea and
stated that the work would have to be
done all at one time, and not delayed, as
Tenth street was.
Trustee Conklin moved that the street
railway company be notified of the ac-
ton of the board and that they should be
prepared to do their share of the work at
the same time the rest was being done,
and II was so ordered.
A discussion arnGa tn the naVInpnt
by the city of one-quarter of the cost OF
the improvement, and Trustee Conklln
held that, as this was a REINFORCEMENT,
the city could not be expected to stand
one-fourth of the cost, and the other
members agreed in his view.
The matter of using crushed granite or
crushed cobbles for the street crossings
throughout the city was also discussed.
The Mayor and Street Commissioner
favored crushed granite, and Trustee
Conklin favored screened gravel where
gravel had been used. He did not think
the crushed rock would amalgamate well
with the material of the street.
Separate specifications therefor were
read providing for crushed granite and
crushed cobbles, the pieces to run in size
from such as will pass through two
inch ring down to finer stuff suitable for
the work, and it was ordered that a notice
to contractors to present bids for furnish
ing each kind of material on May 9Th be
published.
y resolution was passed to call for bids
for improving X street in accordance
with the resolution of intention.
The board condemned lots 3, 6, and s,
ii and l, Third and Fourth streets, and
lots ), 6, 7 and s, Fourth and Fifth streets,
on the recommendation of the Sidewalk
Inspector, and the owners will have to
put down proper sidewalks in front OF
them Immediately. They all lie on the
north side of street, along China Slough.
The Hartford Steam Boiler inspector
reported the results of his inspections of
the boilers in the Water Works. lie
found two of them in good order and the
other two needed some repairs, with
which they viii run a year or two longer.
Tho report was received and placed on
file, and the board adjourned.