St. Paul daily globe., 1895-08-11
FIVE MILES
OF ASpHHLT.
ST. PAUL IS MAKING a GREAT
PAVING RECORD FOR
1898.
GIVES WORK TO HUNDREDS.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS FOR
THE YEAR WILL AMOUNT
TO $45O,OOO.
GIVES WORK TO HUNDREDS
OUTLINE OF THE GREAT WORK.
Totals SyyelIed by the Water
works Department and Gas
Light Company.

The street improvements for st.
Paul for the year 1895 will cost in
the neighborhood of S45O,OGO The
/ chief expenditure will be incurred by
the paving, the cost of which will
amount to $2S5,000 in round numbers.
The next item of expense is the sum
of $4,000, which the waterworks de-
! partment will have paid out by the
| close of the year for new mains and
the laying of the same. The third
| and last Improvement is the work of
the ST. Paul Gas Light company,
which has supplied many of the prin-
cipal streets of the city with new
mains.
The most interesting of these i'm
| provements is, quite naturally, the
most obvious. 1t is the street paving
Sewers, water pipes and gas mains
are quite as indispensable in their
way, but the labor and skill required
to properly lay them are not visible
after the work is completed and the
result is covered with six or eight
| feet of earth.
| But the new pavementS the eye can
behold and rejoice in. They are a
boon to the whole nervous system,
just as some of the old pavements
are a positive shock to it.
A recapitulation of the amount of
paving already finished this year,
the amount contracted for, that ad-
vertised for, and lastly, the amount
for which final orders have been is
sued, may prove interesting to the
| taxpayers of st. Paul.
SEVENTH STREET ASPHALT.
The most conspicuous new pave
ment laid in 1895 up to date is, of
course, the Seventh street asphalt
! pavement, which extends from Seven
| corners to Brook street, distance
Of 6,940 feet, or almost one and one
third miles. This work, which was
completed over four weeks ago, was
| performed by Hennessy & Cox. The
contract price was $S5,103, of which
the city retains Is per cent as Sc
| curity for the contractors ten-year
guaranty to maintain the pavement
in perfect condition. The average
number of men employed on the
Seventh street work was about 80,
though on some days there were as
many as 100, including those work
ing at the stone crusher.
Continuing with the asphalt pave
ment, the next work undertaken was
that of paving Sixth street from Sib-
ley street to Smith avenue. Hennes-
! O. a1c Of
upon a bid of S43, 3,9S0.S0, the distance
to be paved being 4,073 feet. This
Improvement has just been COM
| pleted. About fifty men were en-
| ployed on the work, the result of
which is displayed to better advan-
tage than on Seventh street, as Sixth
street is not occupied by street car
| tracks
The contract for paving Fourth
street with asphalt from Broadway
to Seven corners, and Third street
from Seven corners to Pleasant ave-
nue., is also under way. The Warren
Scharf Asphalt company is doing
this work, upon which it is already
employing from forty to fifty men,
y
more. The distance to be paved on
Fourth street is 5,022 feet, and that
on Third street 1872 feet, over a mile
in all. The Fourth street contract
amounts to $31, 1872, and the Third
street pavement will cost $5, ,231.52, a
total of $37,O23.32.
OTHER WORK PROTECTED.
The foregoing are the only asphalt
contracts under which work has been
completed or started, but there are
two more streets, St Peter and West
Fifth, which it is certain will be paved
with asphalt this season, and it is ex-
pected that third street will be SINH
larly improved before the snow flies
and that is Wabasha street. from
Third to College avenue. The council,
during the past week, has awarded the
contract for paving West Fifth street,
from Wabasha street to West Third,
with asphalt, to the Warren-Scharf
Asphalt Paving company, whose bid OF
$25,S6S was the lower of the two re-
ceived, that of Hennessy & Cox be-
ing over S27, coo. The distance to be
paved is 1859 feet. The contractors will
probably begin the work in the course
of a week or ten days. and finish it be-
fore the end of September.
St. Peter street is to be paved with
asphalt from Third street to Tenth
street. The contract was awarded over
two weeks ago to Hennessy & Cox,
whose bid amounted to $50, ,24O, which
is a trifie less than 81 per square yard
the lowest figure for asphalt pavement
ever submitted in st. Paul. This re-
suited from the competition between
the Trinidad and the Bermudez AS
phalt companies which, since the begin
ming of the season, has reduced the
price Of asphalt pavement 60 cents per
square yard, though the last con-
tract-that for paving West Fifth street
Indicates a partial restoration of for
mer prices, inaSmuch as the pavement
will cost S2.13 per square yard. The
distance to be paved on st. Peter street
is 2,263 feet, and as Hennessy & Cox
will begin work at once, the job should
be completed four weeks hence.
In the case of Wabasha street the sit
uation is this: The council has passed
the final order for paving this street
with asphalt from curb to curb. from
Third street to College avenue-a dis
tance OF about 2,4G6 feet. The board of
public works has already begun adver-
t1s1ng for bids, and as the advertising
continues for
TEN SUCCESSIVE DAYS.
the bids should be opened on or about
Aug. q. This done the board will rec
ommend to the council that the con
tract be awarded to the lowest resDop-
sible bidder There are no regular
meetings of the council after Aug. u
until Sept. and 5,-but through the ala
OF special or adjourned meetings, the
contract could be let and work com
. menced by Sept. l, or certainly not