The record-union., 1893-03-28
STREET IMPROVEMENT.
The New Mayor Wants the Best
Streets 0btainabIe.
4 Petition for Bituminous Cock on Il
Street From Second to Tenth
Meets With Favor.

At yesterdays meeting of the Trustees
Mayor Steinman expressed himself de-
cidedly in favor of street improvement.
and said the material should be of the
best quality as being the cheapest in the
long run aud not needing repairs for
years to come, beside being pleasanter
and better in every way.
Messrs. J. w. Wilson and Hugo Horn
line presented petition from property
owners on h street, asking for the i'm
provement of that street from Second to
Tenth, by paving it with bituminous
rock. The petition represented total of
ISIS feet, being majority of the front
age
On motion of Trustee Conklin the pc
tition was referred to the Street Commis-
sioner, with instructions to call it up in
one week.
The board afterward passed a resolution
OF intention to improve the street in ac-
cordance with the terms of the petition.
y resolution of intention for improving
the block from ii to l, on Seventh street,
with macadam was introduced.
Mayor Steinman, in declaring himself
strongly IN favor OF the best streets and
NAC III "a w CAllCLb Va dIL VIC oAlCClSf SS1AL
he thought macadam was better than
gravel.
Trustee Green did not favor gravel on
or near the business streets.
Resolutions We're passed for the inn
provement of the alleys between X and
J., Twelfth and Thirteenth, and \ and O,
Tenth and Eleventh, with gravel.
TwENTY-FIRsT STREET.
J. +. Richardson stated to the board
Thof 10 ~ II q arc
Oh Twenty first street wished them 10
call up that street for improvement with
gravel from to w, and asked them to
pass a resolution of intention, so that the
work could be commenced.
c. l.. White did not wish to be con-
sidered as opposing Improvement. He
owned property on Twenty-first street,
between q and r. He was perfectly
willing TO see the street improved if it
was done all at once from y street up.
There is deep sink hole between
w and y streets. If the whole
street is called up, the expense Of
filling it VIII fall equally on all on the
street, but ifit is only called up from w
southwark the other two blocks can never
be Improved without breaking up the
owners of the property.
His lots, he said, are high, and all the
property from 2 to W is also, and he
thought the request was made in order TO
blocks and making the property
Oh the hill pay their proportion of the
cost OF the whole For his part, he was
willing to pay his share of the filling.
Mr.. Richardson acknowledged that
such was the purpose of the request. He
had already paid $1,000 for the grade at
the south end of the street, and did not
wish to pay any more.
City Surveyor Boyd said the first thing
done should be to establish the official
grade and determine whether there would
be an excess or a deficiency of material to
fill the depression. His men were now
at work on the street and he would soon
know the facts.
The board decided that a regular petit
tion must be presented.
OTHER PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS.
A resolution for improving Tenth street
from G to q was read, and the Mayor sug-
gested that it go over for week in order
TO see if the property owners would not
have it improved with macadam.
Trustee Conklin did not wish 10 deter
those desiring to improve by making it
60 expensive.
Some discussion ensued and the fact de-
Veloped that nearly 81, 900 remained of
the 100000 bonds issued with which to
pay the city's one-fourth of the expense
of improving streets.
Trustee Green thought it would be a
SOOu lUea 10 pItSCIlD6 Il llllllI WllDlD
which no gravel could be used.
Clinton l.. White. representing one of
the petitioners, thought that the city
could only object on the ground of
contributing one-fourth of the expense
for intersections. Gravel was as much as
the property-owners could afford. If
they could not get that they would have
to go without any improvement
George kuchler wanted Folsom gravel,
as il was all they could afford.
The matter was, after some discussion,
laid over one week.
a communication was received request
ing that the improvement of the alley be-
tween Ninth and Tenth, n and Q streets,
be deferred until July, when they would
be better prepared to pay for 1t.
on motion of Trustee Green the matter
was laid over one month.
A remonstrance from property owners
against the improvement of Twentieth
street, from + 10 II, was received and laid
over for one week, with instructions to
the Street Commissioner to investigate
and report thereon.
TOO MUCH WATER.
+. +. Dolan asked that the pump at Y
street be run night and day, i'll order to
relieve that part of the city from water
The opening in the N-street levee, he
said, was too small and the water accumu-
lated faster than it could be disposed Of
Trustee Green stated that the trouble
was with the water outside the levee
which was setting toward the city.
He was directed to investigate the situa.
ton and report thereon to the board.
THE SPECIAL TAX SUIT.
Grove L. Johnson asked the board tC
say-in the case of Burr VS.. Comstock, il
which Judge Catlin had decided that the
law levying a tax 10 pay the salaries o
special policemen was unconstitutional
bar ha, NJ fhaU u-1ntpH II n 1nl n
the Supreme Court.
on motion of Trustee Conklin, the
matter was referred to the Mayor, to be
reported on next week.
COMPLAINT ABOUT STREET sCRAPINGS
J. w. Keating. who owns property in
the vicinity of f and f. Eleventh and
Twelfth streets, complained that parties