The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-11-14
STREET sPRINNLERs' COMPLAINT.
They Want Their MOney-Other Mat
ters Before the Board of Works.

They want Their MOney-Other Mat
ters Before the Board of Works.
Complaints and routine business engaged
most Of the attention of the Board Of
Works yesterday morning. The contract
for grading and crawling Ounce street,
from Prospect TO the first alley south of
Orange street, was let to South Brothers.
ar 81 cents a lineal foot IN each side. The
highest bid was 50 cents. A remonstrance
was filed against grading and crawling
the first alley north of Clifford avenue,
between Albemarle and Jefferson, and also
against the Improvement of the first alley
east of Albemarle street, between Clifford
and Orange avenues. The board took no
action. A petition filed asked for an cleo
trio light at the corner of Meridian and
First streets. One also asked for a light on
Olive, between Orange and Willow streets.
The board granted a petition asking for
the grading and crawling of Hamilton ave-
nue., from Michigan street to Clifford ave-
nue..
The Minehaha Granite Company asked
permission to use Wabash repressed brick
with which to finish their contract on West
Michigan street. The permission was grant
ed. Councilman Magel, of the Eighth ward,
asked for stone crossings at Ohio and Han
ma streets. The street commissioner has no
stone on hand, and Mr.. Conduit suggested
that the board wait until the spring before
II orders any more stone. Tn people are
apt to need stone crossings more when the
weather gets pleasant next spring than
they will this winter when the weather is
bad and the streets are muddy. A num-
city engineer reported that the cost of
grading ana graVeling illinois street, from
Fall creek to Twenty-sixth street, was
SIP, 432. 20, or $1.19 a lineal foot on each side.
Spihart x Hanson are the contractors. The
Improvement of Ohio street, from Randolph
10 Beville, cost $4,326; Peters q Dunn con-
tractors. The other final estimates were as
follows: Elder avenue, from Washington to
Decatur, 81, 231. "a; sidewalks of Illinois, from
Fall creek to Twentieth street, $2l9.25, Jen-
ford to Monroe, 81, 1908, Phillips & Lackey;
grading and graveling Sixteenth street,
from Illinois to Meridian, S62O.6S, Mann &
A. Westfeld made complaint that George
W.. Smith had been hauling dirt off Ei"ht-
zenith street contrary to law. There have
been numerous complaints Of inns Mad
from people living in the northern suburbs.
The board ordered the matter investigated.
The city engineer was instructed TO see
that there was a proper drainage at the
corner of Illinois and Twentieth streets
after the Improvement is completed: He
was also logged up about the inspection of
the cement on Illinois street,
from Twelfth TO Fall creek. The board
further called his attention to the complaint
that soft brick is about to be used in the
Elm-street sewer.
The American Telephone and Telegraph
Company was not granted permission to
string their wires on the Central Telephone
Company's poles until the new company has
determined upon the location of it's head
quarters in the city. The contract of this
c~ompany-the long distance one-requires
that it put its wires underground in the
business district.
Rehling, Roepke & Co. and FIVE other
sprinkling contractors protested about the
slow manner in which the assessment de-
partment is making up the assessment
rolls for Snrinklin2. Thew cav that their
contract with the city expired on Oct. 81,
and the rolls are not yet made W, although
a. number of property owners are anxious
and willing to pay their assessments. They
claim this is imposing a great hardship on
them, as the water company is charging
them interest on the amounts they owe for
water rents.