The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-01
DUNNS AFTER CONTRACT
They Nant to Lay the Asphalt Pave
on Monroe Avenue.
PAvlNG or MULBERRY STREET
Property owners from Clay TO Prescott
Avenue DO Not Want a Pave Yet.
Ordinance to Pave spruce Street
Ready for Mayors signature.


pany will no longer have monopoly
of the asphalt business of the city. AT
last evenings session of common coun-
Gil bids were opened for paving Mon
roe avenue from Vine to Myrtle streets
and 1t was discovered that Dunn
Brothers had bid against the Bar
Der company for laying sheet
asphalt pave on the portion OF
the street specified above. The
bid of the Barber company was S2.5S
per square yard and Dunn brothers
S22S. The latter also agreed to reset
old curb or put in new curbing at price
less than that asked by the Barber
people. An effort was made to have the
paving committee report on the bids
forthwith but II was unsuccessful. IL
was an important matter the mem-
hers of the committee said and they
desired to give 1t full consideration.
An ordinance allowing the property
owners on Mulberry street from Mifflin
to Prescott avenues to pave that street
was introduced and referred to COM
mittee. There We're sixty-four signers
to the petition for the pave and reso-
luton was passed directing the city
clerk to publish notice of the pending
ordinance together with the names of
the petitioners.
Attorney F. W. Stokes representing
the property owners on. Mulberry street
between Clay and Prescott avenues.
presented petition objecting to the
laying of pave on that portion of the
street for the reason that extensive
building operations are in progress ana
that IL would be necessary to tear up
the pave every little while. The petit
ton was also referred to the commit
tee.
SPRUCE STREET PAVE.
The ordinance providing for paving
Spruce street. between Wyoming and
Franklin avenues passed on third read
ing. Asphalt will he the pave and the
city and property owners will jointly
bear the expense. The ordinance has
passed the select council and Is now
ready for the mayors signature.
private contract will be made for the
paving and ii Is expected that 1t will
be laid before the knights Templar
concsave Is held in this city.
Councilman Zeidler introduced a res
olution which was approved allowing
the knights Templar to erect tempor-
AIRY wooden building l50X25 feet to be
used for the reception of those who
come here to attend the conclave. The
building will be erected on the lot
owned by Clark Il Snover between the
Penn Avenue Baptist church and the
rockingham theater and Will face
Penn avenue a bond In the sum OF
$500 is NJ be filed to remove the build
ing before June |.
An ordinance was passed on first and
second readings apprODriating $1,000 to
purchase land owned by the estate of
T.. j. Mccormack for the opening OF
| Penn avenue between Phelps and Ash
streets. The following passed ON third
| reading: Providing for Il sewer on
| Penn avenue from New York street to
| the Fourteenth sewer district main
sewer: establishing grade of Robinson
street and certain portions of Ninth
| and Jackson street and providing for
the paving of these thorOughfares with
Belgian blocks: providing for a lateral
sewer on Canouse avenue from the
Fourteenth district main sewer to New
York street. providing for three electric
lights in the Nineteenth ward; provid-
ing for sewer on Sanderson avenue,
New York street, Fordham court and
Monsey avenue.
NEW RESOLUTIONS.
The following resolutions were intro
duced and adopted: Directing the city
engineer to give grade lines On Cross
street from city line to intersection of
Myrtle street so that property owners
may lay sidewalks on said street; d.
recting the building inspector to make
plans and specifications for cells for
women in the central police station;
| directing the chief Of the fire depart
ment to erect a fire hydrant at Brick
| avenue and Mary street, In the First
| ward: directing the street commission
er to repair the culvert in Evans court
between Swetland and Pettibone streets
| also extending the culvert on Petit
| bone street between Main avenue and
| n
| gineer to give proper grade on Price
| street between Chestnut street and
| Fairview avenue: instructing the city
| engineer to prepare plans and an esti-
mate of cost for sewer on Washing
| ton avenue from the German cemetery
along Washington avenue to Larch
street. Larch to Wyoming, Wyoming to
! the Fourteenth district main sewer;
| giving permission to Michael O'Malley
and J. c. Long. of Green Ridge. to con-
meet their properties with adjacent sew
ers; correcting the assessments of c. p.
| Stack and j. l.. Hobbs for building a
| lateral sewer on Penn avenue, between
| Green Ridge and Delaware streets; CIV
| ing property owners on the westerly
| side of Penn avenue from Green Ridge
| to Marion street permission to con-
| struct q sewer at their own expense to
connect with the Marion street sewer.
| A resolution directing the light and
water committee to consider II there
! is economy in lighting the municipal
building with Wellsbach lights and to
report the result Of their finding to
council was referred to the committee.
SETTLING THE CLAIMS
A communication was received from
City Solicitor Torrey advising that the
claim of II. A. Davis for damages
caused by the grading of Twelfth street
be settled for $S5 and that of Mary Nc
| Coy for damages due to the grading of
| Twelfth street be settled for 1925. The
| suggestion was approved Of and reso-
| lutions passed authorizing the settle
ment of the claims. A select council
resolution settling the claim of N. c.
| Collie against the city arising from the
grading of Tenth street was approved.
The action of select council in adopt
| ing these resolutions was concurred in:
| Awarding the contract to +. Thornton
& Co. for constructing the lateral sew
er on Wheeler avenue, from Mulberry
to Vine streets. at $2.02 per lineal foot:
awarding to the same firm for $1.54 per
lineal foot the contract for a sewer on
! Webster avenue from Myrtle to Ash
streets; directing the city clerk to re-
tion to sell to the city the plot adjoin-
ing Nay Aug park, as welL-as the map
accompanying the proposition.
A communication was received from
the executors of the estate of John j.
Gordon asking 1900 for the damage
done three lots and house, the prop
cry of the estate. by the grading of
Gordon street in the Seventh ward.