The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-01-01
krd Some Of the Improvements Which
h Has Projected During Past YeaI.
MANY PROJECTS FOR next YEAR.
Streets to be Paved and q Net.
!. work of Sewers to be Laid.-.
y Total Cost of Same.

number of buildin.ss erected, some or
the. structures cost anywhere from
$4,000 to $4,000, making the average
figure as large as last year.
The total number of permits issued
by the city clerk was 2G7. Among the
new structures was the Folwell block,
one of the most elegant in the city.
Then comes the adjoining block owned
by l.. F.. Moushey. the Cle1vell building,
In course of erection at Market and
Ninth streets, the Catlin building in
South Market. near Tenth street, the
residence of F.. p. Chase i'm North Mar
ket street.
: Building permits do not engage the
entire attention of City Clerk L. n. Ley
and Assistant Clerk Harry Schaub.
They have other matters of an i'm
portant nature TO attend to. They are
the city's bookkeepers, and every mat
ter OF finance or expense first passes
through their hands, before reaching
the outside world.
The work finished by the city council
this year alone is large. They have
legisated and passed upon 10 ordi-
nances and resolutions, about 75 per cent
of which pertained to new improve
ments. The following are some Of the
streets improved:
East Seventh, East Eighth and East
Ninth streets, paved from Market to
Cherry street.
Sanitary sewer laid on Logan avenue
from Lake street to Aultman avenue.
Sewer on Cassidy street from Third
street to Elizabeth street.
Shorb street improved from Fourth
TO FRANKLIN street. -
nd yNAl1c
Sidewalks laid fr9ro Trscarawas to
Eighth street
North Rex Street paved, from Tus-
caraTas TO CoNrth street.
Schr6yer street opened from Tuscara-
was to South street, west of the c.. T. &
v. railway track. q
Fourth street paved from Market
street to Cleveland avenue.
Fulton street improved from Fourth
street to Linden avenue.
Cassidy street graded from Fifth to
Summit street.
Woodland avenue graded and side
walks laid, from Aultman to Grover
avenue.
Chance avenue grade established from
Cleveland avenue to Oxford street.
B Worley avenue graded and cinder
walks laid from Chance avenue to
Lake street.
Sewer built on Alexander aysnue.
West Lake street graded and cinder
walk laid. from Cleveland avenue to
Fulton street
Housed street narrowed from the first
alley north Of Lathrop street to the
first alley south.
Linden avenue opened, and property
appropriated for the same.
1 Mulberry street to be paved from
CHERRY to Ninth street
North Walnut street to be graded
rom Hiram Wise's addition to Lake
rect. -
'ast Eighth street to be improved
,-~-.- Warner avenue to Hartford street
.F-ng.
ing sHaxIette avenue from Lin
dsh dSsHhckiHehue kkiVHehue to out lot 2ls.
Grading West William street from
Cleveland to Mckinley avenue.
OTHER MATTERS.
One of the matte;t, will receive
the attention of the city council at the
beginning of the new year. will be the
paving of North Walnut street from
Fifth street to Lake street. The city
engineer has been requested to report
an estimate of the cost.
west Second Third and Fourth streets
will also probably be paved, from
Market street to Mckinley avenue.
Sewer district No. l., has also been
established by the sewer commissioners
with the assistance of the city engineer
As soon as the work can be carried for
ward, an immense network of probably
ten miles in length of sewers will be laid
in the eastern part of this city, costing
i'm all probability 100000 The sewer
starts at Center street and continues
along Spring street to the north cor
poration line.
Within, the next fifteen days w. III
Ramm & Company Will be called upor
to place waste paper receptacles on .thf
public streets. They were given permis.
sion to establish these boxes through
an ordinance parsed nearly thret
months ago.
The franchise granted the new teie.
phone company and the extension ol
tho franchises to the electric street rail-
! way company, were passed during the
year. Lighting ordinances for tn
Pennsylvania. and c.. T. g. ". and w
& L. T.. railway tract %. were passed
These are the first ones ever adopted by
the city Of this nature.
The sum of $4,000 has been invested
by the city in registered bonds. The
bonds were forwarded to the fisca
agents Kountze Bros, of New Yorl
city, who sent them to the ingurane,
commissioner OF this state for registra'
tion. This is the first experience of, thii
city In this respect
Dozens of records are required by tn,
city TO register the proceedings of th'