The age-herald., 1899-04-21
YEAR FOR STREET
 IMPROVEMENTS
Much Work Being Let Under
 the New Law,
CONTRACTS FOR s25,OoO
Let by the Board Wednesday Night Ordinances Introduced for That Much More-Will Probably
 Run Up to Several Hun
 dred Thousand.

Before many weeks go by there will be $50 600 worth of improvements work under way in Brmine ham. This includes the curbing grading and macadamiZing of streets and the construction of storm sewers.
 City Engineer Kendrick- said yesterday that the work had not started good Much of it was Leld up until the new law gov erning this work was passed and now it is coming in heavy. He predicted that before the end of the year it would run up to sev- eral hundred thousand dollars
 The old board of aldermen at its last meeting Wednesday night let contracts for something ike 900 worth of improve ments and ordinances were introduced by the chairman te the street committee call ing for probably that much more.
 Engineer Kendrick says that if all the petitions sent in by property owners are favoraDly considered, ordinances vii be in- troduced tor several meetings to come. He contends that work can be done cheaper under the new law than under the old, be- cause according to the letter, contractors were forced to take certificates and now they will get the cash. To prove this he
 
 cases received now are lower than those submitted under the former system.
 "The work under the new law will be done much cheaper than 1 expected" said MT. Kendrick. "The tendency of every thing is to go up now and l am really surprised at the figures. Again. there is so much work in progress that all of the contractors and engineers are already busy"
 What Contracts Call For
 The contracts let at the meeting of the board Wednesday night call for sanitary sewer and a storm sewer. The sanitary sewer will be put in neighborhood that has been petitioning for it several years The approximate cost is S4s50 and the sewer will be about three and one-half miles long. An ordinance authorizing its construction was passed last year, but the work was held up until the new law was passed in order to get it done cheaper, and the bids received Wednesday were consid- erably lower than those under the old ordi- nance.
 The storm sewer will run through the ---eler station neighborhood. It will be half mile in length, part of 1t brick and the rest | pipe. The estimated cost is $3,sOO. A few years ago extensive street improvements were made in that neghborhood, and the sewer is being put in to protect them. One of the contracts let by the board Wednesday night calls for five miles of curbing. This was let at 35 cents per llneal foot, and will amount in the end to about 5000.
 Another contract called for s3,45O worth of grading and macadamizing This in- cludes one block in Twenty-ninth street and three in Highland avenue. Highland avenue will have to be graded and macad- amized through a cut, which will be very expensive.
 All of the contracts were let to Burk- halter & Co.
 Considerable more work Is contemplate petition is being gotten up to have Twentieth street paved from where 1t nar- | rows on the Southside on out. The street is badly washed. and is said to need pay- ing badly.
 The block in Second avenue, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets, needs paving badly, and it is said that this work Is contemplated.