The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-03
MAY PAVE CASTOR STREET.
BRICK OR ASPHALT LIKELY TO BE
USED THERE.

The Present Shell Pavement Badly
Worn and the Con structiOn of the
House Drainage Sewer Through
the Street Likely to Give the Pave
ment Its Finish-City VIII Pay for
Proportion of Damage Due to
House Drainage in Case the Street
Is Paved-The Big french Machine
VIII Soon BE at Work on CASTOR
street.
The big trench on East Broad street
is being rapidly pushed southwark. As
soon as the sewer is completed to Bolton
street the Carson trench machine will be
taken off of East Broad street and put
| to work making the cut along Castor
street
The division of the house drainage force
now on Bay street east Will have com
pleted its work there by that time and
will take up the work East Broad
street After passing Bolton street the
work of excavation will be very much
, lighter, the depths averaging about six
feet. AS the soil is soft this work can cas-
lily be done by hand, while the trench
machine viii be used for making the deep
er cut on CASTOR street
The Castor street sewer will run clear
+ across the city from East Broad to West
| Broad. The deepest excavation will be
about eighteen feet. An eighteen-inch
sewer will be laid on the street for the
purpose of connecting all the southwest
ern territory with the eastern outlet This
! change was decided upon by the House
Drainage Committee at the time the city
decided TO undertake the work, the object
being to carry as much of the sewage as
possible below the city instead of allowing
the entire outflow from the western half
of the city to be emptied near the foot Of
West Broad street.
The construction of this sewer through
Castor street has brought up the question
of repaving that street. The present shen
pavement now on the street is a mere
crust and the large excavation which will
be necessary to making nd the hauling
OF pipe and other material there win be
little of the shell pavement left by the
time the work is completed. BY the house
drainage contract the contractors were
required 20 replace ell pavements torn up
by them in the same condition as before
the work was undertaken. The city hav-
/ ing assumed the place of the contrac tors,
/ w III nave 10 ltpItGt IT'S CIV II pay GultillS
1t is realized however, that to simply
restore the old shell pavement to its pres
ent condition would be of little advantage
to anybody. The pavement is already so
| badly worn that the street would have
to be entirely resurfaced in a short time.
/ This has brought up abe question of a new
and more satisfactory pavement The
question has been informally presented to
/ d number of the residents on CASTOR
street ana has been generally approved. 1t
| is realized that CASTOR street needs bet
Ger pavement and that the prospective
tearing up of the street for the house
drainage affords the opportunity of Sc
| curing a new pavement on very reason
| n BILE terms as the city would have to pay
| the sum chargeable against the house
! drainage for tearing up the shell pave
ment as well as It's usual one-third of the
| total cost This would considerably re-
| duce the assessments against the property
| owners.
The only question to be decided is what
material should be used for the new pave
ment Chairman Dixon of the Street and
| Lane Committee favors vitrifed brick, the
! prick pavements elsewhere having proven
! very satisfactory and costing little TO
maintain, besides costing less than as
! phalt in the first place. Some of the res
| idents of Castor street however, prefer
asphalt as being the most suitable pave
ment for the street, and the one which
| would add most to the appearance and
value of properly there. 1t may be that
! the same question of brick or asphalt,
/ which was so holly contested in the case OF
/ Oglethorpe avenue. will be fought over
| again in tie case of Castor street.
CASTOR is a comparatively narrow street,
! being under thirty feet in width. As the
present curbing will suffice for the new
! pavement there viii be no expense on this
| score and the contribution of the city on
/ the score of house drainage will still fur
! Their tend to decrease the expense to the
| property owners. The present shell pave
ment was laid in 1889, for which the prop
erty owners paid their assessments. Some
4 of the property owners will doubtless feel
that the amounts paid by them in 1889
should be deducted from the assessments
/ for the new pavement, but 1t is not likely
! that this will be allowed, as the state law
regulating such Improvements gives the
| city a free hand in such matters and
| places no iimita ton on the number of
times that property owners may be as
| sessed for street improvements
/ In case the Council should decide 10
! pave CASTOR street as is more than like
/ Nv. the shell removed from that street will
4 be used to harden other streets Price
street, from CASTOR south TO Henry being
one of the streets that is likely TO get
/ the benefit of the debris.