The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-03-23
STREETS and SEWERS.
Annual Report of Secretary Wiley Prese ut
ed TO the Board Last Night.

The Street and Sewer Department last
night received from Secretary Wiley his
annual report. II shows that at the end
of the year there were 476 miles OF paved
streets In the city. Two miles and a half
of streets had been improved d
In the sewer department z S8 miles of
sewers wers built during the year, making
the total length OF the system In tho city
&c. $50 miles, of which 40 "a miles are owned
by the city and 1889 miles are private.
The cost Of extending the sewers was
Sl24,74 65 aid of maintaining ths system,
$95,0l421.
During the year the grade crossing of
the b. & o railroad at Pennsylvania ave-
nue. has heen abolished and another one at
Fourteenth street is in course Of being
abolished, while the p. w. & b. railroad
is pushing as rapidly as can be expected
the abolition of grade crossings on its
line.
The five barrel men on the. street, each
swept 20 miles of street each day of the
the year. The cost was $l,1S6.06. Other
cleaning cost SS,14940. The lighting of
the City was by means of 265 arolights
In fifty-six cities in this country the
year. Buffalo, N. Y, with 250O arc lamps,
pays 800 per lamp and Washington, d.
c., with 900 arc lamps. SOL rs while VIII
mingtoh, with few lamps compared with
8 such cities, pays only 500 . year for each
lamp, and the more lamps used the price
Is less.
At the beginning of the year before the
new lamps were added there were l53 s.aro
lamps, and the annual cost of maintain.
ing was SIG, 1878. There are 569 inoandes-
cent lamps, costing $l8 Sc each per year, or
a total of $l0,454 g. There are 6yO gas
lamps, .costing SIG. 50 each. or total of
81 500 90 per year.
The curb set and sidewalks laid during
the year was as follows. Curb reset, 1s,.
brick sidewalks laid, 1854 square yards;
cement sidewalk laid, 298 81 grading and
paving crossings, $3.50 square yards grad
ing and paving CUTTERS, 2.5154 square
yards; grading and paving GROSS cutters,
225.6; grading and filling with clnders.
2946 square yards, combined curb aud
gutter laid, s467 llnsal feet. new centre
The departments receipts amounted to |
$s9O, 7SO.4 45, aud the expense s2359o9. 9s.
There is balance of s72, ,77267 to
the current expense fund. There IL a
balance of - cents to the special fund of
$75,000 which the last Legislature author
izod for the building of Silverbrook sewer,
the abolition Of grade crossings and i'm
proved street paving, Bids Of the Star
Printing Company, New Castle Printing
Soihpuhy auu oouu III. AtoBeT6 lOr pEluV' |
Ing the report were received and action !
postponed. The Mercantile Company's |
was the lowest
The weekly business of the department I
was transacted soon. City Councilmen
Leary and Healey, officers Of the Weccacos
Fire Company, and many Second street |
property owners sent another petition ask |
ing for the paving of that Street, The
board informed the petitioners that the |
Improvement would be made this year.
Wilson street residents also asked to |
have the street paved from Ninth to Tenth |
streets. Action was postponed. 1t was de-
street in front of Linden's court