The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1896-08-25
uire raising from six inches to two feet.

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| above mentioned, exclusive of cost of raising
houses and the consequent damages is S2sO0.
Plans are being prepared at the request
of the committee on laying out new streets
for widening of Portland street from
High street to ST. John street, a distance of
about 3,40O feet. The present width of the
street is &C feet, and the proposed widening
will add 80 feet to the northerly side. This
street forms the southerly boundary of Deer
ing's Oaks to Grove street and from this
street to st. John street, distance of
1890 feet all of the property on the northerly
side except about 800 feet is owne by the
city and is known as the Almshouse proper
ty.
The new line of the proposed wideni n g
will be parallel with the present lines, ex-
cept at the intersection with st. John street.
where the line will curve southerly from
Longfellow avenue to give a better entrance
to st. John street, and to avoid the bridge
abutmenU of the Portland q Rochester.
The plans as prepared for this widening
are as follows: beginning near the foot of
High street a width of &c feet is reserved in
the city for street railway tracks. On either
side is to be n drive 10 feet in width, and
each drive is bordered by a lawn eight feet
in width, and then q walk of eight feet to
the building lines. The centre space above
mentioned is to be raised six inches above
the grade of the driveway, and enclosed by
curbing, except at interesecting streets
where an opening is to be left having the
full width of the intersectng street. The
entire centre space, except what may be
required fer the rails and street intersec-
tons, is to graded with loan and sown to
grass. The space between the tracks is to
be nine feet, which will give ample room
for centre line of ornamental poles to car
ry wires and also for low-growing shrubbery
if desired The space between the outer
rail and roadway will be four feet. The lawn
ON either side of the drive will be eight
feet in width, and is to be reserved for
shade trees. The widening, if approved by
the city council, will make a parkway of
one of our most important approaches to
the city, and as the conditions now are
should not be an expensive improvement
for the city to undertake.
With regard to the construction of the
north side intercep ing sewer, devised to
remedy the Back Bay nuisance, Mr.. Fernald
says:
The main sewer begins at the easterly end
of.the solid fill of the.marginal way near
Tulley's bridge, thence through the Way
between Washington street and the cas- terly
through Cove and Fox streets to Anderson
street. This section is 1860 feet in length
and is TOUR feet in diameter. From this
point the sewer will extend through Ander-
son street to Lincoln, and thence through
and then through private lands and across
Alder, Hanover Paris, Mechanic, Brattle
and Canton streets to Green street. This
section is 1896 feet in length, and the dame
ter is three feet eight inches the grade of
the sewer to this point will be .05 per cent
This sewer will then cross private land to
behring's Oaks, and through the Oaks fol-
lowing contours which will not give excess
siye cutting to the centre of Grove street,
a distance of 2265 feet. Six hundred and
seventy-fve feet of this section will be 80
inches in diameter and the remainder 81
inches. From the centre of Grove street the
sewer will cross the almshouse valley to
Portland street, near, Forest and thence
through Portland to St.John, astotal distance
of 1910 feet, diameter q inches, grade 10 per
cent From St. John street the sewer will
extend westerly through Portland street,
q distance of 410 feet. This section will be
ID inches in diameter, and will have a
grade of 10 per cent. From this point a
14-inch sewer will pass through private
lands or proposed streets on grade of 20 per
cent for a distance of 2o40 feet to Douglass
street, which will be the westerly terminus
of the interceptor.
The total expenditure in the street depart
ment for the year was $50, 1872. Sc. The appro-
priation of $4,000 made by the city council
has been increased by the receipts collected
from street railways and other sources to
SS1, 474. 10. A transfer of $500 from the street
to the sewer appropriation was made.
The value of crushed stone on hand at the
end of the year was S45.26
The following is detailed statement of
the amount of money expended on each
street during the year: Adams, $3.21 Am
derson, $685. Arsenal, .$I7S.17; B, $50. Is;
Beckett, SS5.12 Bracket, $1OS.o5 Bramhall,
SlO56; B rown $2s.s5; &c, 1910; Canton,
$622.13; Carleton, $14I97, Carter, $27S. 20;
Casco, S495; Central, $3.95; Chadwick,
$57.s1 Charles, $12.35; Cherry, S156S; Chest
nut, $2364; Clark, $3.50. 16; Clifford,
$81.49; Commercial, $275.s5; Congress
$10,59O.53; Cove, $15.74; Crescent, S75.96;
Cross, $3.50; Cumberland, S3,619 As; Cutter,
$500; Danforth, 37t9O; Deering, $163 SS;
between High and State, $500 10; Eastern
promenade, S262; Ellsworth, S436.42;
Elm, S1,124; Emery, S16l.23; Ex-
change, $723.61; Federal, $19764;
Fletcher, sS9s2; Fore, S144.29; repairing re-
tanning wall S698. IA; Forest, 1880; Franklin,
$76s.SS; Frederick, $38.41; Free, S79.12 Free
me Mt place, S2.65; Gilman, S411.2S; Gould,
$3.50; Grant, $241.65; Gray, 1881 Green,
$3s380o7; Greenleaf, $3.50; Grove, S3O2.55;
Hancock, $s6.8S; High, $213.5S, Hill, $64.49;
Howard, S294.S3; Huntress, $23.2s; India,
$6O92; Kennebec, 1891 Lewis, $155.s1 Lin
coin, $S1.3l; Locust, S33.S5; Lowell, S43.6 s;
Madison, S13.1 May, $325.5o; Mayo, 1912 26;
Mechanic, 1886; Mellen, 500. 20; Merrill,
$41.26; Middle, $13943; Milk, 1886; Monroe,
Ss.o7; Montgomery, $157.43; Montreal, $500 IT;
Monument, $37O3; Morning, $634.97; Myrtle,
$4.s1; Neal, S12234; Newbury, $247.71
North, $1S5.93; Oak, S71s52; Orange, S41.32;
Oxford, S155.28; Park, $3.50; Payson,
$1,252.s7; Pearl, $24.25; Pine, S7s.S3; Plum,
S22. 56; Portland, $3S626; Preble, So. 10; Rob-