Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-07
PAVING ON NINTH STREET
Railroad and Wholesale hOuSs Desir'
Improvement At Once.
COMPLAINT AGAINST THE PLUMBERS
Tear Up PavIng Taking Out
Permits and Neglect 10 Have IL
Restored in It's Original
Condition.

A resolution calling for the paving OF
Ninth street from Broadway to First av-
enue was introduced at the meeting Of the
city council last night, final action on
which will be had November q. 1t was at
first proposed to have this block paved with
brick on concrete base, but as It was
doubtful whether. owing to the lateness OF
the season, concrete could be laid this
year, specifications we're adopted providing
for either concrete or Council Bluffs brick
base. This improvement is desired by the
Groneweg & shoentgen company. whose new
warehouse at the corner Of Ninth and
Broadway is nearing completion. and the
Illinois Central and Union Pacific Railroad
companies. The street at present is AL
most impossible owing to the heavy haul
ing consequent on the building Of the
Groneweg & Shoentgen company's ware
house.
Complaint was made that the plumbing
companies failed to secure permits as re-
CURED by ordinance when their work ne
cessitated the tearing up OF pavement, A
number Of instances were cited where the
streets had been torn up and the paving
improperly relaid. Attention was called
to the provisions Of the ordinance govern
ing the matter which require that before
any paving Is torn the company doing the
work must secure a permit and deposit
with the city clerk a sum sufficient to pay
the cost of r~elnying the pavement. which
has TO be done by the contractor who orig
inslly laid the paving. In one instance
on Broadway where the New York Plumb
ing company was alleged to have not lived
up to the requirements Of the ordinance
and left the paving in a bad condition, the
city marshal was. instructed to notify the
company to take out the necessary permit
within five days or else 'be arrested"
The city solicitor at the suggestion Of AL
derman Lougee was instructed to draft a
notice to be served on the plumbing, water
works and gas companies, calling their at
tention to the provisions of the ordinance
and the fact that the city henceforth in.
tended to see that they we're enforced.
Delay Laying Sidewalks.
Several of the aldermen complained that
the sidewalk contractors we're not making
an effort to carry out the contracts. and
this brought Contractor Wickham to his
feet with a statement that the sidewalk
! contractors we're unable to get their work
which was completed, measured up and
partial estimates allowed on It. He
claimed the delay was due to the city en-
gineer's force having more work than 1t
could properly attend TO. He also ADMIT
! ted that there was a scarcity of sidewalk
I brick and that none Of the yards had any
to sell. ~-
Leonard Everett was granted permission
to move a two-story frame building onto
! Twelfth street between Broadway and Az
enue A. On September l the council passed
an ordinance extending the FIRE limits to
Thirteenth street In order to forestall the
moving OF this house to this location. Mr..
Everett explained to the council that the
building was intended for a hotel and that
1t would face Twelfth street and not be
within fifty feet Of Broadway. Aldermen
Fleming and FINLEY voted against granting
the request on the grounds that the Are
limits had been specially extended to pre-
vent the placing OF this frame building al
this point.
The Sisters Of Mercy were granted per.
mission to lay a private sewer from the
new Mercy hospital to connect with g
private sewer on Frank street, the latter
connecting with the main sewer on Wash.
ington avenue.
The contract with John Nelson for thu
public dumping grounds at Thirty-sevent
street and Avenue X was renewed for tho
six months from October 1 to April 1 at Sa
. month. During the summer months tn,
contract was at $50 a month.