The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-05-23
MUCH WORK FOR
STREET DEPARTMENT
The Annual Tour of the Joint Street
Committee Resulted in Many Rec
concentrations, All of Which Were
ADOPTED by Select Council.

Adopted by Select Council.
ON its recent tour of the city d
Joint committee of council found
enough wnk 20 hp donr - keep the
city street department: uu' Of mis-
chief for many months. Their report
MIS- RECEIVED n the "rcrlar meeting
"f select uuuncii and without Il y OBJ
1'rtirns beng raised the entire Sched-
Ulc Of ~ur! r"conmcndtG was adopt
.! E"iorc being in force. however.
Ia" report must he coucurreJ in by
cni:mnu council. The schedule con-
Ia rs several mighty important roc nm
mendatso,S. among otter things the
opening nt several streets. which i'm
piuNements are sadly needed. One
thing which was neglected. however.
was the naming of the streets and
numbering of the houses. for the lack
ri which tho city is unabi" to secure
the additional mail carrier so badly
needed Postmaster Thomas hopes,
however. to soon persuade the council
men to ak" some action in this line
and it is possible common council may
Tdd this to the schedule on next Mon
day night. The schedule in full is as
follows:
Crown and ditch ,iorion avenue.
Widen old bridge over canal north
of White bridge by filling in dirt on
east side and ditch Cottage street so
water can run into the canal.
Re-plank bridge At intersection of
Brooklyn and Greenfield streets before
the winter
Cut down three trees in the sidewalk
in front of Patrick Tooians property
on Brooklyn street.
Open iron pipe corner Willow and
North Brooklyn streets.
Grown and ditch Willow street. pro-
vided the residents move the fences
back to the fence line.
Crown and ditch North Scott street
Crown and ditch South Hospital
street
Raise the brick paving In front of
catch basins on corner or Seventh
avenue and Church street.
Crown and ditch South Church
street from Seventh to Ninth avenue.
Grade Ninth avenue from South
Main to Washington streets and put
up a fence on north side from Main
street to top Of wall
Grade South Church street from
Ninth avenue TO Tenth avenue as per
profile adopted December %. 1895.
Crown and ditcl: South Church street
tn carry water into the swamp.
Crown and ditch south end of Wash
ineton street.
Grade South Washington street from
Ninth avenue to top of hill as per pro-
!ilo adopted.
Put in largo crate at the intcrScc-
ton OF Eighth avenue and Arcnba ld
street and take out thirty fee. of
twelve inch pipe,
Grade Dilton street from Tenth
avenue to creek, providing the fence
Is moved back.
Crown ard ditcn Grove street from
ton of Hill tn Brook street.
Crown and ditch Rcynshanhurst
street pnd turn water across the
street.
lay = twelve inch surface water
sewer from Canaan street down GRAY
itv avenue and put in two inlets.
TAX" uu twelve inch iron pipe at the
corner Of Maple avenue and Birkett
street and lay crosswalk,
Put in twelve inch iron pipe twenty
four feet across Gilbert street.
Put faestoneS across the cutters on
the corner of Summit avenue and Bill
keit street,
Put in twelve-inch iron pipe twenty
four feet luuG on the corner of Oak
avenue ana Brkctt street.
Crown and ditch Drummond avenue,
east of Belmont street
Crown ana ditch Oak avenue west
nf Belmont street,
Crown and ditch I.athrope avenue.
Fut II fence or the west side of Rich
'nund street, along the I.athrop prop
ertr.
trade several inches off Clark ave
nue. between belmont and Richmond
street.
ON Laurel street, near Darte avenue.
there is aiways water in the center of
the street. Investigate and repair the
street,
Put in twelve-inch pipe at Durkin's
corner, on Scott street.
Lay crosswalk on alley south of
Postmaster Thomas property, on South
Main street
Open new street through Brennan's
property, along the north side of
Roman Catholic cemetery, provided Mr..
Brennan donates thirty-five feet in
Width of land
Clean dirt ont of culvert under Pow
ierly road, opposite Battle avenue.
Put n twelve-inch iron pipe twenty
our feet long at William Burke's prop
,rty, on Powderly road. to take the
place of wooden culvert,
Take up twenty four feet of twelve
inch iron pipe at No. high trestle
The MATER is blocked off below.
Have iron work in the white bridge
that is corroding repaired and painted
Crown and ditch street from Farview
to Green street.
Put in IA twelve-inch iron pipe thirty
SIX inches long across Hospital street
al the intersection of Fallbrook street.
The stone culvert under Seventh ave-
nue from Main street To the I.acka-
wanna river is caying in at the river
snd, Fifteen feet of II must be taken
down and rebuilt.
Widen Fallbrook street from Earvtew
street to Barrett's alley. and Iay a
.wenty-four inch terra Gotta pipe
through the Newcomb property