The morning times., 1896-07-18
.MEND|hG THE R0ADWAfs
Improvements Ordered at an
Expe-se of 100000
STREETS REsURFAcED
Water Mains Are Provided for and
Water Connection With Mains
Already Made-Cost VIII Be As
sessed A inst p rOperty to Deserved.
Promotions and Transfers.

The Commissioners have completed a
| schedule OF street improvements upon
which the work as to be done during the
current year, which will inyovle an expendi-
ture aggregating nearly 100000. The
thorougtfares are confined to no particular
section, but the list embraces those which
require resurfacingOr relaying, and are as
follows:
NorthWest-H street, from Vermont ave
nue. 10 Fourteenth street, to cost Sc, 500;
r street, approaches to bridge. $500;
Seventh street and Louisiana avenue, with
asphalt block, $4,6s1; Connecticut avenue,
between Q an ndRstBeets, Sc, 900; New Y ork
avenue, between Tenth and Eleventh
streets, resurface present roadway, $3, $50;
N street, from Twenty-sixth to Thirtieth
street, asphalt block, $2,5s2; Eleventh
street, from street to New York avenue,
50, 661; street, between Nineteenth and
Twenty-first streets, $6,127; Eighteenth
street, between NJ street and Massachusetts
avenue, 81, so: o street, between Ninth and
Tenth streets, $3,5l7; L street, between
Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, $6,337.
Southwest-C street, between First and
Four-and-a-talf streets, take up present
roadway and lay six-inch hydraulic base,
$l2, SS5; street, between Four nd a half
and Sixth streets, same improvement, So
6l 4; T. street, between Second and Third
streets. same Improvement. $3,Si7; II
street, between Third and Four-and- "a half
streets, same Improvement, $5 ,S26.
Northeast First street, betw cen b
street north and A street south. take up
present roadway between d street north
and East Capitol street and lay a six-inch
hydraulic base. and resurface between
East Capitol and A street south. S11 900.
PROVISIONS FOR WATER.
Water mains are to be laid at an early
date as follows:
In east and west alley of square 36T.
ITO feet Of three-inch pipe; in the north
side of Rhode Island avenue. 330 feet OF
six-inch main; in north side of North
Carolina avenue. $40 feet of six-inch main.
1t was ordered also that the i,.,proved
alley in square 6T6 and alley in square
514 be repaired. and the cost charged to
current appropriations.
Water connections have been ordered
TO he made as follows. the intention to do
the work having been previously adver-
tised and no objections being made:
In F street. between Seventh and Ninthh
streets northeast. estimated cost $S5.2S;
to lots on Third street southwest. betweo.-
II and X streets. cost S97 80; to lots in
ID street northeast. betwe Maryland
avenue and Ninth street. SS4.24: to lots
in Riggs place. between New Hampshire
avenue and Ninth hstreetnorthwest. $205.s0.
the cost III each instance to be assessed
against property to be served.
The Commissioners have directed that
before the roadway of F street. between
Seventh and Ninth streets northeast shall
he paved. water main be laid distance
of fifty-one feet in Eighth street. corr
mencing at the intersection OF present mains.
corner of Eighth and streets.
THESE GET MORE PAY.
Changes IN the clerical force of the Dis
trict Engineer Department We're yesterday
ordered to he made, as follows:
W. G. Allen. clerk at ST 200 per year.
was transferred to be inspector OF cleo
trio lighting, at So per day: j. b. C. Ship
man. superintendent OF. lamps, at 81 ,OoO
per anDun, transferred TO cIerkslIip at
81 200: II. ID. Maulin inspector or lamps,
at 5000 per annsn appointed superintend-
ent at 81 900, viee shipman: W. 2. Keene.
Inspector OF lamps TN temporary roll at
So per day, traIIsfe rred to be inspector, al
$500 per year.
All of the foregoing changes ordered to
take effect July Il, 1896.
W. H. O'ConDor, clerk on temporary roll,
at $3.50 per day. was transferred to posi-
tion Of clerk In Engineer office, at 81 200
pti ySdI, VIC IL y. SculU TeSlRDeu, pro-
motion to take effect July 8, 1896.
G. II. Lanham inspector in the office
of superintendent of streets, was trans
ferred 10 be conputer-and draughtsman, at
81 per day, the order to take effect July
1, 1896.
n. l.. Boyd, employed in the water de-
partment as laborer, was placed on the
roll as driver, with compensation at the
rate OF $40 per month, to take effect July
1, 1896.