The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-10-10
The Enlargement Of Hins School
hoHses Will Cost $i16.OO0
SHORTAGE OF CURLING STONE
Threatened By Non-Arrival OF FUR
schooners from Sullivan, Me.-Large
Falling on I'm Number OF Tax Bills
Paid and the Amount Received.

re aired and renovated. 1t IL not how
ever generally known tho amount of
money these improvements involved.
1t was stated on the best
authorlt this morning that for the alter
alton and additions O nine school build
ings the SUN Of $1l5 600 will be expe ded.
This is "a pretty atif figure and there are
not a FEW who say that IL would have
b ei mucn better had a slightly larger
UNI been used aud entireiy new build
ngs secured.
1t is sal that he additions to some OF
the buildings have cost as high as twenty
t Ousand dollars. This sum IL Is b believed
with n slight addition would "A pro-
videi a new bu idi & much better ad-
ap ed toschool purposes than The patched
up old buildings can ever be. Far this
reas n tue feeling is growipg tina a IA 9
AXE has been mad In this matter.
Another use OF complaint il that the
improvements were begun SO late that
they could not be completed in time {
the beginning OF the school year In Sap
tembsr. The result os the DELAY has
bern to cause serious inconveI-
fence and interruption TO the school
work. On the other nand ir Is claimed
that when the improvements are all COM
pleled the cty will have practically new
school buiidIugs aud at "A less c st than IL
the structures had been newly built
Throughout.
Running shorr.
The public works depar ment is getting
a little anxious over the non-arrival OF
four sc ooners laden with curling tone.
The supply on baud is nearly ex au 80
and unless the schooDers rive vituin n
week work will have to be stopped Ia this
part cular line OF high way improvement.
TIE vessels re the Georsietta. tue Two
Br1thers. the Geierd Banks and the
Victory. Two II them / ed from Sui
Iva ., Me-, on Sep. Is, another on he
following day and the fourth on Sept.
20. The aggr. z ,te OF heir carsoes 10 be-
tween 5000 aud 5000 Ieet of granite
cui bine Since they sailed nothing has
been heard from lhem. Toe aver <
tire occup e for a trip from Sullivan to
this p ,rt is one week. The officials at
the public works deparl ment attrib tie
the delay in the arrival OF tie vessels to
adverse win IL.
They do not fear that any mishap has
lefall-n the srhoo e =. but think they
nave put into some OF the ports along the
coast to await favorable wi DIS aud
weather.
Providenc is doing quite a bust
ness with Maine just now. Re-
Gently "a biz 20 tract for sewer pipe
was closed with the Port AMI
Stone company IN the plpe now being
used here is fur ished by tiat concern.
AMI at the public work. department. IL is
believed thai very advantageous terms
ave been spcur q for the city.
This W. u d se.m to be the case when It
is stated that the city gets a discount o
75 p r ent. from card rates. Moreover. the
pipe must he passe by tie inspec or
employed b. the department. before IL
Is accepted. Formerly the inspection
was made here, but the makers of the
pipe decided that in the end it would be
cheaper to have the inspection made ut
he worSs so AZ to save tie cost OF carry
ing the rejected pipe back to Portland
Ir IN Providence.
Now tie inspectors expenses to and
FIR IN Portland n while engaged there
are paid hy the Iacturers and none
but first c Ass pipe re ,ches this city.
Sewer Contracts Awarded.
The commissioner OF public works has
awarded contracts Tor sewer connections
as follows:
+ r laying L.62) feet of one-half inch
y pc In CIR We, III i'm. aud River s reefs to
Ev, rsou s. Liidell; 42) feet IL inch pipe
la TX rniau street iron Candace T., Pekin
street; $40 feet 15-inch pipe aud 760 feet 10
nch pipe in Lilac s rect from Grams
ton to Salem street; 725 feet H.
inch pipe in Moore stree
from Updike street to Elmwood ave iue:
200 feet If l2-luch pipe in Potter street
near Weybosset; 7So feet ls-iIch brick
sewer aud 1856 feet l2-inch pipe Sc yer in
Rhodes aud Eddy slreeGs to George K
Newman.
Contracts for sewers in Jewe,t and Sen
ter streets " ere not awarded on account
Of some difficulty Nth the Grade.
Mr.. Newman, VINO secured all hut one
OF he contracts, is also at work on the
big Dorrance street so yer. He expects to
start on tie new work witliu a few days.
How the Taxes Are Coming In.
At times yesterday there was n line Of
taxpayers in the treasurer's Office wait
ing their turn to settle wit I the city and
arly in the day 1t looked as though
the number II accounts settled
would be as large as on tie CORES
p n ling day OF the previous year This.
however, did not pr We to tie the case as
here was n falling of Of seve ity-seven In
the number of bills and u. S0l.S7 In the
amount received.
The bills p lid were so in number. az:
g~regatiug in amount s40.479. 10 as
.g.i,st Gf7 hills am SlG 7Sf Oh for tina cor.
responding day lust year. TIE total
number OF bills paid since the
city treasurer began receiving taxes
$ 27s1 and the amount s2l4. l21 20 This
Ia a falling of from LIST year o. 1853 In
the number of bills and so, 791 50 in the
amount received.
IL the same ratio OF decrease In contin.
ued until the Esd, the number OF
taxpayers will have TO pay eight per
for their dill ,toriness, wilt b~i cor
..-,x,IfnuIu laryer than a. was IN ilul