The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-05-07


Repairing Center Street station house 1000
Opening Price street ........;...,.... l,OO
Bridge at Driving park ............... l,VO
Sewer basins at Seventh street and
Railroad avcnue ue.......,....,,......... 800
Iron fence on culvert i'm Sixth ward. 125
Basin, corner of Main avenue and
Jackson street NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 100
THINK IT is Illegal
1t was finally agreed to refer the
Sanderson measures to the estimates
committee with the understanding
that the conference committee might
have them for guides if it wished
them. The appropriation ordinance
was later passed on third reading and
now goes back to common council. Mr..
SandersOn and Mr.. Chittenden voted
against the measure on the ground
that the omission Of the state tax
item made it Illegal.
City Engineer Phillips communica-
tion responsive to a request for his
opinion on the advisabiity of permit-
ting the laying of r rails on Mulberry
street was received 1t was as fol-
lows:
Scranton, Pa, May G. 1897.
To the Honorable, the Select Council.
Gentlemen:-I desire to explain my APP
proval of the use of the i rails on paved
streets.
Immediately after the receipt of the res
Olution from your honorable body | al
dressed a communication to engineers AMI
others Of sixty-scven cities requesting the
benefits of their experience and opinions
as to the use of y rails on improved
streets. Forty-eight have answered and
nineteen have either declined or neglected
to answer up to this date. | have also
al do amt, nc Of ,A a vi
Gus rails in several cities. The result of
all this is that | am convinced that a L
rail with any kind of the improved pave
ments properly laid is actually less OBJ
struCtiOn in the street than the girder or
fiat rail with its broad head. The Old ar
gumCnt for the fiat rail no longer holds
good in these days of good street improve
ments and rapid transit. Tracks are laid
on streets that street cars may run on
| them for the accommodation of the gen.
| eral possible 90 per cent. of the)
| public, and streets are paved for the ac-
| Comodation of vehicles.
The people in this, as in other cities de-
| mand rapid transit, and in order to ac-
| Comodate them wagon or vehcular traffic
| must and should go where it belongs on
| the sides of the streets
| We should. though, make all possible
| efforts in laying our tracks and pavements
so as to make it easy and safe for veli-
| cles to cross the tracks.
To aid us in this the street car com
| pahy should asst US by laying better
| traCh and pave between the rails.
| | would respectfully suggest to councils
| the necessity of requiring more modern
! track construction or rather foundation
| for the tracks than the present practice or
citv CITY If does not barmoniZe Win tha t avs az,
pensivc concrete foundation prepared for
'',r r pTre',iritS L Uu'siuS vi thc trachS
nniform NV rnod 'G fopaGotin v,,t5,i ~
adjoining payements or trouble and dis
hguration of our streets are the result
The switch question in the resolution
| have not considered further than | con-
'lu.r 1t my uutE 10 explain that snould
you uetlue 10 allow the company TO con-
on that nart of NTnIhorr,, straat tSn ia,,,o
occommndation or roaduSa,, as ~, 49,,
avenue, between Linden and Pine streets,
at present. Respectfully submitted,
Joseph p. Phillips,
City Engineer
1t was referred to the railway COM
mittee in conjunction with the city So
| licitor.
Colonel Ezra II. Ripple, r. ]. Moore
and p. J. Mccain, the park commits
sioners, submitted a communication
| from "A. X. f.SRtIIOil, ld1uSCdne artist,
| showing that it would cost SS3. 600 TO
put Nay Aug park in good shane. This
communication was in response TO a
request made by councils for such in
| nation. 1t was referred to the park
committee.
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NAAh" Al ia ENolONS'
An ordinance was introduced bv Mfr
McAndreW permitting the Scranton
Railway company TO extend IFS lines q G
follows; on I,uZeIne street from the
present end of the track to Twenty
fourth street and thence along Twen.
ty-fourth street to citv line Wash.
burn street from the nresent end q,
the track 70 Grant ayerua and an
Grant avenue to Jackson etreet onI
on Jackson street tn citv linz Rron,.
lev avenue from, SwetIord 80 Tasn,,
etta street. also ON Tofo,otto 80,
from Rron1rev ayenra 70 IJa, D.,
avenue Su,o,Iard ,t,,.a+ rr,,., -,
nreeert a,,d 90 tho troa,, 80 -
avanra tn pattaho,a .,,,t -
Narl,et straat fro,, Nortt ~.
n,,a to oi,,. H. VI "'
NJ pooi,a ir,t,,,,,,,., -. -..,,.
similar to tba nra ,lr,siIa5 t I'i,ar'o ,''i,e
Iast ,,ao, ,,ar,,,itt,r ~ 60 aiiu , nllieo