The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-08-03
REPORT ON STREETS
THE COMMITTEE SUB NIT SOME
RINGING RECOMMENDATIONS
OF GREAT VALUE.
SIDEWALKS MUST Be REPAIRED.

The Subject Gone Into Specifically and
vigorOusIy--The Work will be Push
ed--Property Owners NOtified--Un-
less Work is Commenced Within the
Next Ten Days, the Penalty will be
Applied Raleigh and CASTOR People
Must Build Their Bridge Over Nor
gan Sireet--Street Commissioner
Salary Increased--Many New Inn
provements ContempIated--A Whole
some Document.
To the Honorable Mayor and Board Of
Aldermen.
Your committee on streets submit
herewith the following report:
We are glad to be able to report that
the old well on Bloodworth street in
front of Mr.. A. B. Stronach's residence
has been filed. The street car track on
Hargett street which has been just
cause of complaint for so long has also
been taken up and that street from
Fayetteville to Wilmington has been put
in a good condition. However, this
street from Wilmington to Blount street
is in a very bad condition and we recon-
mend that it be macadamized as soon as
practicable and consistent with the pres
ent financial condition of the city.
The property owners on Wilmington
street between Jones and Lane streets
and those on Hargett street between
Fayetteville and Salisbury streets have
been given the twenty days notice re-
quired by the charter of the city before
we could commence work on those
streets. AS soon as the twenty days
notice expires We will push this work to
completion.
The work on Hillsboro street has been
commep ced, and We expect to have it
completed before our next meeting.
On July goth we addressed the follow
ing communication to Mr.. G. D. Heartt,
Chief of Police:
RALEIGH, N. c., July 20, 1895
Mr.. G. D. Heartt, Chief of Police, Ral-
eigh, n. @.
MY DEAR SIR At a meeting of the
Street Committee, held few days ago,
it was decided to request you to notify
the property owners on Hargett street,
from Blount 10 Wilmington, to repair
their sidewalks at once along said street,
either with hard brick, stone, or cement,
and if hard brick is used, the WalkWay
must be at least four feet wide in front
of residences, and in front Of bust
ness houses, it must be the entire width
of the sidewalk.
Please send out these notices as soon
as YOU can, and see that each property
owner complies with these requirements.
You will also notice that the thirty days
notice required to be given to property
owners along Martin street has expired,
and it is our desire that steps be imme-
diately taken to repair the sidewalks on
Martin street wherever it has not been
done by the property owners, and that
the cost of the same be charged up to
these respective property owners in COM
pliance with the City Charter.
Yours respectfully,
JOHN @. DREwRY,
Chairman Street Committee.
This street has been curbed from Viii
mington to Blount street, and as it is
one of the main thoroughfares in the
city, we thought it advisable to require
also that the sidewalks be paved. We
regret to report that We learn from the
Chief of Police that all the property
owners On Martin street between Blount
and Harrington have not complied
with the orders issued by him to
pave their sidewalks, and we
have again requested him to notify
them that unless this work is commenced
within the next ten days, he will be com
RI ~ $u
pliance, which is five dollars per day
until the work is done We should re-
greet very much to resort to such meas
ures to enforce the orders of this board
as your committee shall endeayor at all
times to pursue safe and conservative
course, with q view always to promote
the general welfare Of the city and all
Az c,r,seus. But whenever an oroel -,
issued By the board after mature delibe
ration, we feel that it should be enforced
at all hazards, and We have so instructed
the Chief of Police.
We learn from His Honor the Mayor,
that the Raleigh 4 CASTOR people have
taken no action in regard to building
bridge over Morgan street We have
requested him again to notify them that
we are ready TO extend West Morgan
street, and are waiting for them to com
ply with their contract, which was duly
signed by their attorney and agreed to
by the City of Raleigh, by which said
road was to build this bridge, and unless
said road takes some action within the
next sixty days, we recommend that the
City Attorney be instructed to take such
action as will require them to comply
with said contract.
We recommend that the city ordinance
concerning auctioneers, and the display
ing their goods so far as it relates to that
part of Hargett street, between Whining
ton and Blount, be rescinded, so as to
allow anyone who has an auction house
on this part of Hargett street to display
their goods for sale on the street for ten
feet in front of their sidewalks; pro
vided goods are not displayed or sold on
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