Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-03-24
STREETS AND SEWERS.

paving OF Second street from West to
Broome. Mr.. Healey himself presented
a numerously signed petition. Council.
man d. Il, Leary OF the Third ward in
advocating the paving OF the street de.
olared that the residents bad paid taxes
for years, it was thickly populated and
IL wns used by the WeccaGoe Fire 10.
lie said ii was very much in need of
some sort Of pavement. Ex- Council
mao Francis N. McNulty said he had
lived on Second street 20 years. The
people there pay taxes on all their
property. md some pay more than they
eau afford. lie held the street to be a
disgrace to the city. Further than that
he thought the southwestern part of
the city should have share OF the I'M
proved paving. Edward McGuira, presi
dent of the WecCacoe Fire Co., said
that the company needed good street
for getting to fires quickly. L. j.
Welsh, Il. 4. Dilworth and James Grant
all spoke in behalf Of paving the street.
Mr.. Dilworth remarked that hiR
brother, who is a Christiana huodrod
ROAD commissioner, said there WASH o
worse road in f)hristiana hundred.
President Pratt Of the board spoke of
the injury sometime caused to pave
ment by tearing 1T up to connect with
a sewer and thought il would be wcll
for the Second street people to make
their connections, The bnard hns had
Second street under consideration for
paving.
This weekly payroll vt S56l. o. was
| passed. Secretary Wiley rsparted col
| lectinns of Slg5. IS. City Treasurer
Curry reported balances of Sas, H.. OIL.
On the complaint Of police officers THO
board decided to replace the gas lamp
on Seventh street between Orange and
Tatuall streets, opposite Linden g
court.
Through the stopping of the eewer,
G.. A. 'Chadwick'a cellar at No. 30S
Maryland avenue was flooded In try
ing to find the trouble he contracted
some expense which the board will pay.
Permission was given to clean a tenn
norary drain, Ninth avenue and Duncan
street.
Sewer liens on Delaware avenue he
tween West and Washington were Gu
tered up.
Bids for printing the annual repurt
we're received from John NJ Rogers,
Mercantile Printing Go. and tho Star
| Publishing Co. For furnishing 325
copies, Rogers bid 81. 81 page Mer-
camille, Sl.3i. and Star, Sl.7j. For
furnishing four halftnne plates, Mr..
Rogers bid was $40; Mercantile's, s2l =;
Stars, SGT. 20. The matter was laid
over for one week.
IL was decided to divert the Eighth
street sewer into Jackson street ami the
Adams street sewer into Eighth street.
THE ANNUAL REPORT.
Secretary Wiley has completed the
annual report of the Street and Sewer
| Department anil il will shortly he
placed in the hands of the printer. On
February let, 1897. the balance to the
cradit of the department WAS $S7, 902. 30
the receipts since that time have been
1920. $50. 40, and the Disbursements
s235, 909. 95, leaving balance February
LIST, 1898, of ST2, 772.7 70. On this balance
the work OF the department must be
conducted until August list, when the
new appropriations will he received.
One of the principal improvements in
the year was the abolition OF the grade
crossing of the Baltimore e. Ohio rail
road at Pennsylvania avenue. The
Fourteenth street crossing is in course
of abolition. Progress is being made
10 tho matter looking towards the
abolition Of p, W. e. b. grade cross.
ings.
The suggestion has been made Ia
change the maine OF Thornton street,
which runs from Seventh to Eighth,
and Madison and Monroe, to Morrow
street, 80 that tho street from Seventh
to Ninth will bear the same name; tc
change the name of Morrow street near
StoeCkle's brewery to Stoeckle street,
and to name the city end of the vii.
mington & Great Valley turnpike, Con
cord avenue.
With the and Of the year there are
AZ. 6 miles Of paved streets ia the city,
divided as follows: Bubble stone,
Ii. 26i; granite block. 10. 2I0; tirebrick,
s. 350 macadam, Is. SIG. During the
year the following street paving was
done: Granite block, 8, l53. 20 square
yards macadam, o, 966. % square yards
brick, Is, jig. so square yards rubble,
2,l3l. 10 square yards. The streets i'm
proved amounted to about two and q
half miles The total expended in paw.
ing was sl7, i73 10.
In street cleaning the handcart patro
OF five men with barrels has prove very
satisfactory. They sweep each day
APO miles, or 79G. 81 miles 10 year.
The cost for this part of the cleaning il
81, 1856. OG a year. The rest Of tho city
is mostly cleaned by hand brooms at an
annual cost OF SO. lao. 40, thus making
the total coat of keeping the city
clean 80, 1886. 46, or IL cents per capita.
The department has two 600 gallon
sprinkling wagons. Eleven loads of Coz
gallons each will sprinkle one and {
half miles of street surface.
In the sewer department 7.9S miles
of Sewers wers built during the year,
making the total length of tho system
in the city 56. 575 miles, of which 40. q
miles are owned by the city and Z. ;s3;
miles are private. The cost of extend
ing and maintaining the sewer system
was S9e,0l4.9l. or the SO, 600 author
lied by the Legislature for the building
OF Silverbrook sewer, the abolition d
grade crossngs and improved stree
paving, but IL cents remains unex
pended.
Tho total cost of street lighting wa,
S3S, 1872. 49, At the beginning of the
year before TIE new lamps we're added
there were l53 arc lamps, and the an.
nual cost of maintaining was SIG, 135
rs. There are 5G6 incandsscent lamps,
costing Sl9. Sc each per year, or tota
of $40, 454. g. There are 600 gas lamps
costing S1G.G2 each, or total Of Sill,
COZ. 90 per year. At present. about %;
arc Tampa are in use, 100 having bear
added since January 1st. In Sc citisl
in this country the average cost for ar
arc lamp IL SOC 81 per year. Buffalo
N. ", with $500 arc lamps. pays $l0(
per lamp and Washington, d. c., witt
! BOG arc lamps, S91. 20, while Whining
ton. with few lamps compared witt