The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-04-10

| receives it without distress. Il the price
| OF coffee. 15c and 25c per package. Sold
| by all grocers.
storm sewer beginning at northwest
corner OF EmDoria and Thirteenth and
extending east ON north side of Thirteenth
to open ditch beyond Kansas Midland
railroad track with catch basins at inter
section of all streets crossed. Also one
| beginning at northwest corner of Topeka
and Central and extending east on north
side of Central to Chisholm creek with
catch basins at intersection of all streets
crossed. Also one beginning at northwest
| corner Of Central and Riverview and ex-
/ tending west on north side of Central TO
Little Arkansas river, with catch basins
at intersection of all streets crossed.
| This would enable the filing OF bitches
and improve Central avenue as driving
street after the street railway is con-
structed, and very materially assist in
getting relief from the storm water that
cannot successfully be carried in open
bitches with so little fall.
STREET DEPARTMENT
! Under the well directed efforts of Mr..
E. T. Allen, street commissioner, who
| vigorously demands that full days SER
vice must be rendered for a days, pay,
the results have been very gratifying For
details you are referred to the commits
sioner's full report
Nothing so seriously hampers this de-
partment or causes such unnecessary ex-
pense as the acts of thoughtless people
in throwing paper and all kinds of rub
bish on the sidewalks, streets and in the
cutters. This, with little consideration
for the public good by these people, could
easily be avoided. Children should be
taught, as is being done in other cities,
to refrain from this practice.
The time is at hand when all cross
streets on Douglas, from Wichita TO
Fifth. should be paved one block north
and one block south of said street, also
First and Second west from Main to Mis-
souri, Pacific railroad tracks. This would
materially aid traffic and relieve Main
and Douglas of a vast amount of mud
carried from these streets by vehicles
The city should own the sweeper and
sweep Main and Douglas six nights every
week as far as they are sprinkled, and
the residue of the paved streets two
tunes every week.
A graduated license might advan-
tageously be offered to all drays and
carts that use no wagon with tires less
than four inches wide and so arranged
that wheels will not track. thus using a
road maker instead of a road breaker.
Wichita has s4,3f9 square yards of
asphalt pavement, 1866 square yards of
brick pavement and 1881 square yards of
Colorado sand stone pavement equal to
nine miles of pavement &c feet wide, with
about $50 feet OF curb and guttering on
paved streets. The repair on Main street
pavement last year cost s23S TO- only a lit
tie more than one-eighth of the cost on
about one-half as much pavement on
Market street under a maintenance con-
tract
BRIDGES.
In my Judgment it would be good prac-
tice in the future when pile bridges
spanning Chisholm creek or any other
short spans require an entire new bridge,
to replace the same with shorter steel
spans erected on pneumatic piers with
sufficient strength to carry permanent
roadway. or better still concrete spans
time Gradually, it seems to me, this
could be done without much greater ex-
pense than new pile bridges, and taking
the repairs into account afterwards, with
much less expense.
STREET AND ALLEY OPENING.
Streets and alleys were opened as fol-
lows: Central avenue widened from Main
to alley west Of Water street; Indiana
from First to Douglas; Wabash from
First to Douglas; Indianapolis from
Water TO Wichita: alley between Fifth
and fremont south of Dauglas.
PERMANENT SIDEWALKS.
Permanent sidewalk constructed in the
city during the past year:
Total Iineal feet cement. 1856 1916 miles
Total hneal feet brick. $3.50 IL miles
Total meal feet cinder.. 5000 6.S miles
Grand total ..............1392 75 2T.5 miles
of which the city of Wichita constructed
1905 feet Of cement. which was charged
to abutting property; 1850 lineal feet Of
cinder walks, which was charged to abut-
ting property 80 feet of curling and
guttering was constructed by the city;
2l,1aO lineal feet Of cur6ing was con-
structed by private parties; 1855 feet OF
coping was constructed by private
parties.
Grand total of all kinds of work equals
30.34 miles.
EXPENSES OF ENGINEER DEPART
MENT.
Salaries .,........-. ........S 2s6.25
Supplies .......... .......... l52.23