Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-11
THE CITY'S STREETS
A Schedule of Improvements for
Next Year.
THOROUGHFARES TO Be IMPROVED
Estimating on an Expenditure of
Four Hundred Thousand Dollars.
THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS

THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS
Property owners in different parts of the
city will be much interested in the schedule
submitted the Commissioners of streets and
avenues recommended for Improvement
next year, and for which appropriations
will be asked. From time to time The Star
has printed the letters of interested citi-
zens to the Commissioners urging the i'm
provement next year of the streets they
were inteI ested In. and the outcome has
been WATCHED for with great interest. All
Of the citizens associations have presented
a schedule of streets that were considered
the most in need of improvement, and the
matter has caused wide discussion. And
justly So for there are dozen or more
streets in each section of the city greatly
in need of improvement.
1t was stated in The Star Of August u
that the new street schedule would be made
up en- a basis of a 100000 appropriation.
and that the streets which were on the
schedule this year, which could not be i'm
proved, owing to the limited appropriation,
would take precedence over the new ones
recommended. All of these statements
has been submitted. One hundred and TWEEN
ty thousand dollars has been apportioned
for improvements in the northwest part of
the city. The southwest is given $4,000,
Georgetown $4,000 and the northeast and
southeast each are above ed $4,000.
The schedule according to sections, CIV
ing the streets to be improved, the charac-
ter Of the improvement and the cost there
of, Is now before the Commissioners. 1t is
as follows:
Northwest.
Virginia avenue, from G to E, pave,
5000; LIST street, from o to P, pave, $4,000;
W street, from 18th to 14th. pave. 5000;
Florida avenue, from LIST to North Capitol,
pave $1,000; T street, from 7th to 9th.
pave, 5000; Riggs street, from New Hamp-
shire avenue to 10TH pave, $4,000; U street.
from 18th to 18th, pave. $4,000: l street,
from H to K, pave, $4,000; T street, from
Tth to Florida avenue. pave, 5000; Rhode
Island avenue. from New Jersey avenue to
Florida avenue, pave. 5000; K street, from
street, from NJ to N, pave, $1,000; 22d street.
from F to Virginia avenue. pave, 5000;
Cedar street. from 18th to 10th, pave 5000;
o street, from New Jersey avenue to LIST,
$500.
Southwest.
D street, from 7th to 9th, pave. 5000;
F street, from 7th to 10th. pave. $4,000;
I street. from Sd to 9th, pave, $4,000; Sd
street, from H to X, pave. $4,000; 81
street. from D to e, pave, 5000; Virginia
avenue, from South Capitol to Delaware
avenue pave, 5000; N street, from ~ to
9th, pave, 5000; Van street, from Sd to
AZ, pave, $1,000; Delaware avenue, from
K to L, grading and repairing, 5000.
Northeast.
M street, from I'd to Florida avenue.
pave, $4,000; Florida avenue, from 9th to
NJ, pave, $4,000; street, from sth'to 9th,
pave, $500; D street, from Maryland
avenue to 9th, pave. $500; F street. from
Sd to 9th, pave. $4,000; Florida avenue,
from NJ to Brentwood road. G. and NJ. $12.-
600; 10th street, from East Capitol to c,
pave, 5000; 4th street, from X to L. pave,
81, 600; L street, from North Capitol east
ward, G. and R.. $4,000.
Southeast.
10th street from Pennsylvania avenue to
I. pave, $500; 9th street from Pennsyl-
vania avenue to South Carolina avenue,
pave, $500; I street from 9Th to 18th,
pave, $4,000; South Capitol street from
H to X, pave, 1000; South Carolina ave-
nue. from It'll to 9th, pave, $4,000; c street
from 18th to 18th, pave. $4,000; Kentucky
od 18th street from East CAPITOL
to D, G. and R.. 5000; L street from 4th
to 9Th, G. and r., 5000; E street from
18th to 14th, g. and r., 5000; 4th street
$4,000; E street from Sd to 4th, G. and R.,
$500; 9Th street from E to G, G. and R.,
5000.
Georgetown.
M street from Dist to 32d, pave, $1,000;
NJ street, SD to 34th, pave, $1,000; NJ street.
S4th to 35th, pave, 5000; NJ street, 35th to
Both. pave, $4,000; 27th street, M to P,
grade and repair, 5000; Olive street, 18th
to 10Th, pave, $1,000.
County Schedule.
AS has been the custom, all of the roads
to be improved will be separately provided
ard appropriated for. The correct list as
recommended is as follows:
For grading and regulating Sherman ave-
nue., Roanoke and Irving streets, $4,000.
&C ntinuing improvement, provided this ap-
preparation shall be available for removing
buildings, terracing banks and replacing
feroes of Garfield Hospital grounds.
For paving Florida avenue from Connec-
ticut avenue to 18th street. completing
work, $1,000.
For grading and crawling Albemarle,
3Sth and Yuma streets between Connecticut
avenue extended and Tenleytown road,
completing improvement, $1,000.
For grading and regulating road connect
ing Broad Branch road with Chevy Chase
Circle completing improvement, 5000.
For grading Massachusetts avenue ex-
tended, continuing improvement, 10000
For grading and regulating Belmont and
Kalorama streets between 18th street and
Columbia road, $1,000.
For grading and regulating California
avenue, 23d, 24th and streets, Belair
Heights, $4,000.
For grading and regulating Yale, Bis
marck Princeton, Harvard and Columbia
streets between It'll and 14th streets. $4,000.
For grading and regulating Columbia
road, 10th street northwest extended.
Prospect. Crescent Superior. Erie and Cen
trail streets, Meridian Hill, continuing i'm
provement, 5000.
For grading and regulating Wilson street,
lie Droit Park. 5000.
For paving Spruce street. LIE Droit Park,
from Hardwood avenue, $500.
For paving Hardwood avenue from Maple,
$4,000.
For grading and regulating Trinidad ave-
nue. from Florida avenue to NJ street, $1,000
For grading and crawling Providence
street, Brookland, 5000.
For grading 22d and oath streets. Lang
don, $4,000
For grading and regulating 18th street