The Washington times., 1901-09-21
IMPROVEMENT OF STREETS
The Annual Report of the Comput-
ing Engineer.
Data of the Surface Division for the
Last Fiscal Year The Highways
Repaired J. and Hand
Labor-Sun.. rh Done.


Last Fiscal Year The Highway,
Repaired ! and Hand
Labor-Sun. -rk Done
c. B. Hunt, the Computing Engineer. in
charge of the surface division of the En-
gineer Department, yesterday submitted
his annual report for the fiscal year end
ed June 30, 1861. In opening the report.
Mr.. Hunt gives a summary of the work
done under the several appropriations
during the year. and in explanatory para
graphs gives the details of the improve
ments undertaken and those completed.
Mr. Hunt gives certain data with refer
ence to work done by contract and that
accomplished by day labor under the su-
pervision of the department, and certain
conclusions are drawn relative to the
comparative value of the two.
The work of the Office under the ap-
preparations for the Improvement and re-
pairs of streets, the construction of coun-
ty roads and suburban streets. and the
paving of roadways and streets by per-
nit respectively, was as follows:
Asphalt, six inch base, square yards
2O.756.53 17el2. IS, 2,463.92; total, 4O,Ss2so
Vitrified block cutters, square yards, T.
4s2.H, 2,7sl, 1876; total, 7,640.I7. Asphalt
block. square yards, 10. 1892. none, 6,S70l1;
total, Ii, ,353.63. Macadam, square yards,
4l,25. f,7Sl, none; total, 3d. sos. Cobble
cutters, square yards II, ,423.5i L, ,134, none;
total, q. 5.557-5f- Ordinary grading, cubic
yards, 33. .195. 259. .22, 1850; total, 3oo.257.
Macadam grading. cubic yards, 4,ll6, 1,733
none; total, 5.S49. Old cobble removed.
linear feet. PISS, LIS, none; total. 13. .Ss6.
Old curb removed, linear feet. 1e,s1l-22,
4S.40, none; total, IL, 1,0e0.62. Curb set, linear
feet, 59.S09.07. $4,000, none; total, 4l,Sls.21
Curb reset, linear feet, 7.496.15. 1861, none;
total, 7.652.05.
In the report of the Superintendent of
Streets says Mr.. Hunt, '-all day labor
under the appropriation for Repairs to
streets is consolidated. 1t seems proper
to segregate certain items of work which
are accordingly itemized as follows: The
roadway of Bates Street shstween First
Street west and North Capitol Street was
macadamized and provided with cobble
cutters; the roadway of B Street north
east, from Twelfth to Fourteenth Streets.
was graveled and provided with cobbie
cutters; general repairs were made to the
asphalt block roadways of d Street south
east from Second to Third Streets; Sew
enth Street northeast, from North Caro-
lima Avenue to East Capitol Street, and
Maryland Avenue northeast, from Eighth
Street to Twelfth Street; the roadway of
Street northwest. from Thirty-fourth
to Thirty-fifth Streets. was macadamized
and provided with cobble cutters; the
roadway of l. Street southwest, from Sec
ond to Four-and-a-half Streets, was
spiked graveled and rolled; the roadway
of Street southeast, from Sixth to Sew
enth Streets, was generally repaired and
rolled and the cutters relaid; the roadway
of Sixth Street northeast. between L and
NJ Streets. was regraveled and the cobble
cutters relaid; the roadways of F Street
northeast, between Thirteenth and Four
teenth Streets and of Fourteenth Street
northeast, between E and F Streets, were
macadamized and provided with cobble
cutters; the roadway of Street north
west adjacent to the Western High
School grounds. between Thirty-fifth and
Thirty-sixth Streets, was macadamized
and provided with cobble CUTTERS the
roadway of G Street northeast, from
Fourteenth to Florence Streets. was
graveled and rolled and provided with
cobble cutters; the roadway of First
Street southwest. from to " Streets,
was spiked, graveled and macadamized
and rolled; the roadway of Fourteenth
Street northeast, from F Street TO Mary
land Avenue was macadamized and pro-
vided with cobble cutters; the roadway of
i Street southwest. between First Street
mi Delaware Avenue. was macadanized
ai,i the cutters relaid; the roadway of
Twelfth Street northeast. from c Street
to Maryland Avenue was macadamized
and provided with cobble cutters; and the
roadways of Virginia and Georgia Ave
nues southeast, between Ninth and Elev-
enth Streets. and of Ninth Street south
east, from Georgia Avenue to Virginia
Avenue. were macadamized and rolled and
the cutters relaid.
THE principal items of work under the
appropriation repairs to roads We're: !
The grading of Providence Street between |
Thirteenth and Fifteenth Streets: the |
Ynacadamizing of Trinidad Street, in |
Kings subdivision of Trinidad; the ma
cadamizing of Concord Street between |
Tenth and Thirteenth Streets, Brookland:
the macadamizing of Flint Street. Bright
wood Park. the macadamizing Of klingie
Road from Linnean Hill Road to Rock
Creek, and the macadamizing of Newark
Street from Wisconsin Avenue eastward
IAN an incident to the expenditure, by
contract, of the bulk of the appropriation
for Improvement and repairs repairs
to concrete payements' and construction
of county roads, and on account of
other appropriations not under the con-
troll of the Surface Division, there were
executed miscellaneous items of work
amounting to s3s 1884.
"Unier a special authorization con-
tained in the current appropriation bill
bids were received for operating the Dis
trict quarry at Dickerson. Nd, for terms
of one, two, three and five years, and a
contract for a fiye-year term was exc
cuted with the Standard Lime and Stone
Company, of Baltimore. Md. Mr.. Daniel
rates. Under this contract the quarry
was operated during the past year with
a largely increased output over the pre-
ceding year, due in a large part to the
peculiar circumstance that under the
operation of the schedule for improve
msnt and repairs a large amount of ma
cadam had 10 be supplied On streets pro-
vided TO be graded and regulated. For
the ensuing and succeeding years the
number of graded and regulated streets
on the schedule are relatively few. and the
demands on the quarry from this source
will be very greatly fsduced. On the
other hand, 1t is hoped that appropria-
tons for repairs to streets and repairs
to roads win be of such proportions as
will enable full advantage 10 be taken OF
this large supply of first-class construc-
ton material at a practically constant
rate.
Another provision of the current ap-
preparation bill which resulted in large
practical advantages was that which au-
thorized the transfer to the credit of a
succeeding fiscal year Of the unexpended
balances of the appropriations for paving