The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-02-21

Select Councilman Wade NJ. Finn was
a well pleased man last night, for the
reason that the ordinance providing
for a Nitritled brick pavement on Car
bon street, Providence road Diamond
avenue and Court street, passed finally
in select council and only needs the
recorders signature to become law.
The necessity of paving this thor
oughfare has been recognized for long,
weary years, and for a decade and
half effort after effort has been made
to secure a pavement of some kind
They were all fruitless and year after
year people continued to drive through
the mud, which spring and fall COW
cred the roadway.
When the ordinance paving Provi-
dence road and North Main avenue
from Court street to the city line was
introduced, it was sought to have the
pavement extended to the Carbon
street bridge, but did not succeed, and
a separate measure had to be pre-
pared.
To tell of all the obstacles that piled
| up in the way of this necessary i'm
| provement would require a volume.
WHERE IT WILL BE LAID.
| The measure as passed last night,
provides for vitritied brick pave, to
begin at the westerly end of the Car
bon street bridge and continue along
| Carbon street and Providence road to
the corner of Diamond avenue, where
| the Eureka house stands; north, on
| Diamond avenue to Court street, and
west, on Court street, to Providence
! road, where it will connect with the
end of the pave laid two years ago.
This arrangement avoids the hill be-
tween the Eureka house and Court
| street.
| 1t is one Of the most important pub
| lie improvements of recent years, since
| it will give a continuous stretch of
pavement from Lacllawanna avenue to
the Dickson City line. The stretch to
be laid under last nights ordinance is
about mile in length. The ordinance
provides that within ten days after it
becomes a law, the chief engineer of
the city is to make the assessment ac-
cording to the foot front rule.
| The new resolutions introduced last
night and passed were as follows:
Reducing occupation assessment of
George Schumacher from 500 to $75.
| Providing for paying Karl Gunster
| Charles Reueber, Harry Ferber and
Frank Rensselaer, So for their work in
pumping water from the cellars on
South Washington avenue flooded dur
ing the December freshets. They are
| call men.
Directing chief engineer of the bureau
| of engineering to prepare plans and es-
| innate of cost and specifications for
sidewalks on Fillmore avenue between
Washburn street and Jackson street,
Directing chief engineer to prepare
plans and an estimate of cost for OPEN
ing and grading Beech street between
Meadow and Moltke avenues.
ON TWO READINGS.
The following ordinances passed on
first and second readings: Transferr-
ing certain uneXpended appropriations
amounting to 81, 1913 for the street de-
partment; for three electric lights in
the Sixth ward; for payment of claim
of NJ. +, Wymbs of $50 for damages
done to his building by the wagon of
the Columbia Chemical company run
| ming into it; for two electric lights in
| the Fifteenth ward: for an electric light
| in Hallstead court between Mulberry
| street and Linden street: for three
electric lights in the Third ward; for
two electric lights in the Fourth ward !;
for two electric lights in the Thirteenth
| ward.
Councilman OMalley succeeded in
having passed on third reading an Or
dinance providing for the construction
of section A of the eighteenth sewer
district in the Twentieth ward. 1t will
be the first sewer built III the ward and
will cost $4,000.
Other ordinances passed on third
reading provide for cleaning and paint
ing the Cedar avenue and Lackawanna
avenue bridges; for an electric light at
Monsey avenue and Ash street in the
Seventh ward and for the appointment
of four police surgeons.