The Monmouth inquirer., 1894-05-03
$4,000 90
STREETS AND SIDEWALKS.

STREETS AND SIDEWALKS.
There has been the USUAL complaint of
the muddy condition of the streets during
the past winter, but on the whole the
streets have not been so bad as during the
previous winter, which was an unusual
one. The last winter was a mild one and
the rain or snow fall instead Of being held
in suspension on the surface by the froz-
en- ground underneath, rapidly found its
way into the soil or was carried away by
the cutters. Besides, the roads were not
disturbed as they had been two years pre-
viously, and the heavy dressing of gravel
of the previous year had become more
solidly packed and thus aided the drain
age of the road-bed.
Perhaps the only way in which the
streets Of the town can be nlasle- to give
satisfaction is to pave those in Tine centre
Of the business part of the town, and to
macadamize the ones next subjected to
the most travel. The cost of this would
be heavey burden in addition to that Of
the Improvements just completed, but as
these grow to be self-sustaining, or. nearly
so, the work of paving and macadamizing
might be gradually carried out without
materially increasing the rate of taxation.
Board is of the opinion the work ought
not to be commenced.
During the last year six new crossings
have been laid, namely At Broadway
and Murray street; at Murray and
Broadway on Mclean street and
Kiowa avenue, the new street on the Hull
estate; across the alleyway on Institute
street; at Union avenue and Washington
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and three old crossings have been relaid
namely At Court street and Bennett ave-
nue.; on Throckmorton and South streets,
and on East Main, opposite Judge Ben
netts Office.
The Street Superintendent reports that
he has used $500 biicks and II barrels of
cement in repairing culverts and bitches.
On the streets he has used 126 loads of
gravel, III of cinders and $50 of com
mon sand, besides l 900 loads of sand from
the sand-field owned by the town. He
has also issued 60 permits to open the
streets to connect with the sewer and wa
ter systems, and has served 20 notices rel
ative to laying new sidewalks and repair
ing old ones. Also that he has been fur
nished with new road machine and two
new scrapers and has sold the old road
machine for $50. Also, that he has col
lected and paid over to the Town Treas
urer subscriptions of $40, from j. NJ.
Voorhees,, SIS from Charles Patterson and
$40 from VIM. I'll. Forman an account of
piping and filling the old ditch on South
street on the line of their properties
The open bitches on the west side of
South street between the railroad crossing
and Throckmorton street, and on the
northerly side of Centre street along the
line of the property Of James I. Burtis,
were laid with "a inch pipe and covered
very much to the improvement of the ap-
pearance of the neighborhood and to the
health of the town.
The old wooden culvert at the junction
of Main and South streets has been taken
out and replaced with brick culvert
larger than the old one, and covered with
heavy flag stone.
In the hollow on Conover street, in or
der to properly cover the sewer pipes, a
| filling of about four feet, under the instruc-
tions of the Sewer Engineer, had to be
made in order to protect the sewer from
freezing The road bed had to be widened
and the work involved the moving of not
less than thousand loads of earth. 1t
proves to be great improvement to the
appearance of that section of the town as
well as to the road, which alone would
have warranted the cost of the improve
ment.
The hollow on Bennett street in the
rear of the county property was also filled
in about 18 inches, making the street lew
ell almost from end to end, and so graded
as to drain the surface water from either
end of the street.
During the year sidewalks have been
ordered to be laid on the north side of
Marcy street from Conover to South
streets on George street from Manalapan
to Yard avenues on a small section of
South street south of Brinkerhoff ave-
nue. on the north side of Clinton street /;
on the east side of Hudson from Mechan-
ic street to the Central r. r. crossing +;
and on the west side of Court street from
Main street to the property of William I'll
Carson. When these sidewalks are laid
to the satisfaction of the Board the Sec
tions so improved will be entitled to be
included in the lamp district.
BOARD OF HEALTH.
The report of the Board of Health
shows that the health Of. the Town has
been good There were several cases of
scarlet fever, none of which proved fatal,
and several cases of diphtheria, two of
| which resulted fatally. Altogether there
were forty DEATHS nearly all of which
/ resulted from diseases of a character not
influenced by ordinary sanitary condi-
tions The report gives in classified de-
tail the causes of deaths and the ages and
sex of the deceased persons.
Since the last report the Board has