Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-06-24
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Petitions for the Paving Of East Second
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ret'uons Tor the Paving Of East Second
street--ttiher isnsiness.
AT the meeting OF the Board OF the
| street and Sewer Directors Tuesday
nignt an opinion was received from City
Solicitor Robert q. Harman as to what
should he done with the check for
s2,OuO which +. Blumenthal IS Co.
paiu over to tho department in pay
ment, as provided by tho Legislature,
for closiug the bed OF Read stIeet. MIR.
flarnan's opinion was that the money
snouiu go direcr into the city treasury.
iho hoard instructed Secretary Wiley
10 lake the check to. tho city treasurer.
From tho Jessup 81 Moore Paper Co,
came complaint that the bridge over
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad at
Eighteenth streyt was in an unsafe
condition. The railroad company will
be asked to make 1t safe.
Thomas Ennis of No. 16 Robinson
street made claim for S25 damages
which he alleged to havo BEEN done to
bis wagon by its being broken at the
gutter al Seventh ami Church streets.
Tbe claim WAS bot allowed.
On account of the work to be done
in extending the Market street sewer
from Elliott avenne to Twenty-third
street the secretary was instructed to
notify the Wilmington City Railway
20. TO taxa up the western tracks be.
tween those Two points. George A.
Messick OF the Pusey a. Jones Co.
headed a delegation which urged the
paving OF Second street from French to
Poplar. and residents of East Second
street urged the paving OF the street
from Poplar to Lombard. Employees of
the Pusey ~ Jones Co., the phiIadel-
phia, Wilmington g. Baltimore Kali.
road Co., the Remington Machine Co.
and the IIobdell Car VIII Gel Co., were
represented in peIitlons presented.
those who ride bicycles to and from
work desiring the street paved so that
they may use 1t instead of having to
ride down Front street. President
Pratt said that the department was
considering the matter of paving Third
street and thought that might meet the
request of the workmen.
5. II. Hayward OF the Board of Edu-
cation asked the board to grade Scott
street between Eighth and Ninth, for
the benefit of thu scholars of School
No. III. II the street ne graded, the
Board Of Education is to lay the side
walk.
Permission was granted the Park
commission TO put lnlets IN the park
drive at West street. Ap inlot will be
placed in front OF the Washington en-
gino house on French street above
Third and the gutter plates now in
front OF the house will be removed and
the gutter relaid so that the apparatus
may reach the street with less trouble
than before.
The matter of grade on Fifth avenue
and Coleman street was referred to the
city engineers. According to dele
CATION which was present the plans of
the grade as it stands put the house
below the street, The street com.
missioner will pave the sidewalks in
cRses whore owners, after notification,
nave failed to do 8, and the expense
will be charged up to tho owners.
The directors ure considering whether
they had be:ter remove two trnes that
stand in the lins of the walk on the
southerly side Of Tenth street, between
Market and King. Final action was
not taken. The directors do not wish
IN sacrifice the trees unless it is neces.
sary.
The Wilmington Plumbing and Heat.
ing Co. received license.
The secretary reported collections of
S282. 40. The weekly pay roll of sos. VI
was approved. The report of the city
treasurer bad not come to hand at last
nights meeting.