Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-05-13
STREETS AND SEWERS.
Tuesday Nights session OF the Directors OF
That Department.

Autkuuy NtEntb Session OIL DifcCtufb Oh
That Department..
w. H.. Wostbrook, superintendent of
the Delaware and Atlantic Telegraph
and Telephone Co. and Thomas Nc.
Corklo. president of the Delmaryia
Telephone Go. appeared before the
Street and Sewer Commission Tuesday
night and asked that they he released
from the rule made by the department
compelling both companies to use one
trench for their conduIts on Orange
street between Niuth aud Tenth. TIE
directors agreed TO inflow the companies
to use separate trenches, one on each
side of the street.
Willard Salisbury appeared for the
Jessup IL Moore Paper Co. to see what
arrangements could be made for paying
tho company's share OF the expense in
building Silverbrook sewer. He was
informed that the Ford Morocco Co. had
paid one half of its share OF the expense
and Mr.. Salisbury then said the Jessup
q Moore Co. would attend to their
share Immediately.
A. ID. Warner sent communication
to tho board calling attention to the
condition of Front street from Market
TO Washington. The department has
obp Va iuoio
tho condition of the street at nearly
every meeting. No action had been
taken in the matter, because the
directors have been expecting the City
Railway Co. to lay double tracks along
Front street. The secretary was in.
strucred to communicate with the rail
way officials and arrange for confer
euce.
Petitions wore received requesting
that an arc light be placed at Eighth
and Church streets and that Anchorage
street be opened from Uedar street to
Fifth avenue.
The return of tho commission to con-
denim the property at the northeast
corner Of Fifth and Walnut streets was
accepted. The award was s400.
Property owners from Fifth to Eighth
streets on du Pont were given 10 days
in which to set curb, and it was
decided to macadamize Fifth street for
distance of l35 feet east OF du Point
street. IL was decided to place light
at the intersection OF Fourth and Con
nell Streets, and petition from resi-
dents of Franklin street, between
Seventh and Eighth to have light
there continued was read, but ITO action
taken.
Engineer Hatton submitted an esti-
mate Of the cost Of sewer on Union
street from Fourteenth to Seventeenth.
The cost will be S1.870 and receipts
81, 335. lie also submitted en- estimate
for a sewer on Head street from
Eleventh to Twelfth streets. The cost
would be 1910 and the receipts 1856.
President McCorkle Of the DelmarviH
Telephone Go. was granted an extension
OF six months in which TO complete the
work OF laying conduits and erecting
poles. The present grant would have
expired May 18TH.
Joseph IL. Carpenter, Jr., asked to
have the beil of Twenty ninth street,
east of Monroe street brought to grade.
as the Water Department will nut lay
pipes there until this ia done. The
street commissioner was instructed to
have the city ashes dumped there for a
time.
Contractor Logue was granted per-
mission to sat curb ON Twenty ninth
street from Tatnall to Morse and cum
munication from the Levy Court asking
to have curb reset on Eleventh street
near the bridge was referred to the city
engineer for investigation.
The weekly payroll of St53. 63 was
passed and the secretary reported col
lections of s91O 80. The balance in bank
was reported to be $40, 1884, S.