Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-09-21

rougn cobbles for portion OF tho dis
tance, while some is dirt road.
Sundry materials have been Used on
the cross-town streets on the West
Side. Front street ia paved with
belgian block, some of which is In
bad shape. Second street is paved
with friedrich and cobble stones. the
firebrick being in good condition.
Third street has q surface of friedrich
in good shape and rough cobbles, whilo
a portion is dirt road, some Of which
IS level and some uneven. Fourth
street has uneven Belgian block and
! commissioners and macadam, some Of
which is covered with small stones
Fifth street 10 paved with friedrich,
Belgian block and coEblestones for a
portion of the distance, while some Of
| the remainder Is inacadamized and
some dirt road, and is in good con-
dition some Of the distance and fair
the remainder. Sixth street comprises
| nrebrick and cobhlestone pavements
and u dirt road, much of the paved
portion being in bad shape. The con-
dition Of Seventh street is similar.
Eighth street is paved with Belgian
| block and cobblestones and is rough.
| Ninth and Tenth streets are in good
| condition, having friedrich payements
and macadam roadways. On some of
the macadam loose stones were noticed.
A portion of Eleventh street is paved
with tirebrick, in which there are I'M
even places, while the new portion has
not been provided with an improved
surface.
Over Eleventh street there has not
been great deal of Improvement,
although some of tho streets are In fair
condition. Head street, which is a
wide thoroughfare and much used, is
macadalnized for couple OF squares
and is in splendid condition, while
Claymont, the chief highway Of that
section Of the city is in bad shape, a
portion being paved With uneven
eopbiestones and portion having no
pavement at all and resembling sum
mer road in the country. Thatcher
street, which is also enc of the prin-
cipal thoroughfares, although q trifle
uneven, is in fair condition. 1t has
been packed and resembles somewhat n
macadamized road. Brandywine and
Forrest streets are dirt roads, as are
also the streets east OF the p, w. q B.
railroad tracks. Vandeyer avenue.
which connects the lower with the
upper end of the Ninth ward, is
macadam for great portion of the
distance and is in pretty good con-
dition. A few loose stones and some
uneven places were noticed, chiefly on
the upper end, which is in Brandywine
Village.
In South Wilmington the streets are
chiefly macadamized or ordinary dirt
roads. Head street, the principal
business thoroughfare, which leads To
Third street bridge, is paved with
Belgian block portion of it's distance,
the remaining portion being clay,
sand, &C., which in some places is
several inches deep Portions of New
Castle avenue, Christiana avenue,
Claymont, Lobdell, Apple, Peach, A,
b and Chapel streets, which are also
much used thoroughfares, are in fair
condition, while other portions are in
bad shape, some squares being macada-
mixed while others are not. As rule,
most of the streets are very dusty in
dry weather and muddy in wet
weather. This section of the city bears
evidence of lack of attention, go far as
the streets are concerned. When the
South Sitle streets were visited large
and dangerous hole was noticed in |
Claymont street, wooden trunk |
having been broken in the middle Of |
the roadway. The principal streets |
south of Market street bridge have |
been improved in the last few months |
and are in good condition, although |
the oauseway is nor in as good shape
as it was several years ago.
In Hedgeyille most of the streets are
paved with cobblestones and are rough
and irregular in some places.
Horse owners who have occasion to
use the hill on Shipley street between
Second and Third complain that the
pavement is entirely too smooth for SO
great an incline, several horses having
been injured, it is said, ON this
account The people who are making
complaint think Belgian block should
have been put down. A resident OF
the East Side is authority for the
statement that Lombard street below
Third has been cleaned once this year.
Grass was noticed on Third street hill
between Tatnall and West, the square
oeing used very little, on account of
;he grade.