The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-02-09
SWEEPING OF STREETS
WORKS BOARD HAS PREPARED THIS
YEARS SPECIFICATIONS.
1t Is Hoped that tho Contract Price
for All the Work VIII Not
Exceed 100000.

The city Of Indianapolis is getting ready
to make a contract for sweeping it's streets
in 1902. The specifications that the con-
tractor to whom the work will be awarded
must follow were announced yesterday,
with the list of improved streets that will
be regularly swept. The contract is one
Of the largest hat the city let's annually,
and, it is stated, is a source of considera-
BILE profit to the contractor that secures
the work. Last year II cost Indianapolis
about $4,000 to keep the streets free of
dirt, and it Is hoped by the present board
that the 1902 contract may be awarded at a
smaller figure.
1t Is announced that the boards inten-
ton is TO let the entire contract to one
individual or to one company. With the
bid q check for $500 as an evidence OF good
faith must come. 1t is provided that the
bidder must file his bid on a scale Of so
much per 10000 square feet of roadway.
The board reserves the right to annul the
contract for cause five days after notice
shall be given. No part of the contract
may be sublet without the consent of the
board. The city is to be held free from all
responsibility for carelessness or neg
ligence on the part of the con-
tractor or from suits on viola
tons of patent rights arising through
the use of certain kinds of sweeping ma
chimes by the contractor. The successful
bidder must file with the board a bond
of $4,000. Endorsed by a security company,
binding him to fulfill his contract faithfully
and intelligently. 1t is provided that COM
pensatiOn for the work shall be made
monthly by means of vouchers issued and
signed by the board. A section is inserted
regarding the rate at which labor shall be
paid. LabOrerS Will receive S1.50 per day;
for a horse, cart and driver $3.50 shall be
paid; for "A team Of horses and a driver
$3.50 shall be paid; for a two-horse scraper
81, and for a fOur-hOrse scraper 50. The
contractor is bound TO sweep the streets
between 8 o'clock at night and 6 o'clock
in the morning, and TO keep down dust by
previously sprinkling the sections of the
streets to be swept.
NUMBER OF SWEEPINGs.
The principal streets of the city in the
downtown district are to be swept six times
every week. Some OF the sections that will
be most carefully attended to are: Wash
ington street, between Delaware street and
Capitol avenue; Market street, between
Capitol avenue and Monument place: Mar
ket street, from Monument place TO Della
ware street; Monument place entire; IlIi-
nois street, between Louisiana street and
Ohio street; Meridian street, between the
Union Railway station and Ohio street;
Pennsylvania street, between Maryland
street and Ohio street; Delaware street,
from the Union Railway station to Ohio
street; Massachusetts avenue, from Penn
sylvania street to Delaware street: Jackson
place, from Illinois street TO McCrea street;
Louisiana street, from McCrea street to
Meridian street.
Sections of streets in the business dis
trict, but out of the main center of the city
will receive attention three times weekly.
Among these sections are: Washington
street, from Capitol avenue to West street:
Washington street, from Delaware street
TO East street; Ohio street, from West
street to Illinois street; Ohio street, from
Delaware street to East street; New York
street. from West street to East street;
Maryland street. from Missouri street to
Alabama street; Louisiana street, from uli-
nOis street to Capitol avenue; Georgia
street, from Senate avenue to Delaware
street; Illinois street, from Ohio street to
North street; Meridian street, from Ohio
street TO North street: Pennsylvania street,
from Ohio street to North street; PennSyl-
vania street, from Maryland street to the
Belt Railroad; Delaware street, from Ohio
street to North street; East street. from
Washington street to North street; Mas
sachusetts avenue. from Delaware street to
East street; Indiana avenue, from Illinois
street TO West street; Virginia avenue,
Kentucky avenue, from Washington street
to the Big Four Railroad.
other improved streets in the residence
sections OF the city will be swept twice
weekly for the most part. The alleys i'm
proved are to be swept once weekly. The
contract will extend from March l, 1902, to
Dec. 81, 1902.