Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-24
FOR1Y-FODR BLOCKS
q NEW PAVEMENT
Immense Amount of Paving
Will Be Laid on Various
Streets This Summer
ADVOCATES IMMENSE RESERVOIR
Ordinances for Paving Adopted and
Resolutions of Intent INTRODUCED
Council Would Build Reservoir to
Hold City Water-Doctors Must Re-
port to Clerk-Will Analyze Milk.

With the paving on South Third ave.
nue. that is under way, and the ordi-
|%nances passed authorizing work. and
the resolutions of intent for additional
streets introduced at Thursday nights
council meeting, the city will have for
ty-four blocks of new pavement before
the summer ends. Four blocks are under
the course of construction on Third
avenue; an ordinance WAS passed au-
thorizing eight blocks on Church street,
from First to Ninth, and Two on Fourth
avenue, from State to Church Reso-
~lutions of intent covering thirty other
blocks were introduced, and will be
acted upon at the next regular meet
ing, May Is.
The streets covered by the resolution
OF intent are South Niuth street from
Main to Boone; Lincoln street from
Second avenue to Third street. Byron
street, from Second to First avenue:
State street from First to Sixth street;
North Second n rom Byron to
Riverside street; Grant from First ave-
nue. to Third street; Sixth street from
State to Church; West Main street from
the end of the present paving to Thir-
tenth street and North street from
Second avenue to First street. OF this
amount twenty-five and one-half blocks
are to be of asphalt and o and one
half, hat on Main and North streets.
being of brick. The original intention
was to pave Fourth avenue from State
street to the Northwestern right of way,
but this vas cut down to two blocks.
The resolution brought up covering the
paving on South First venue North
Fourth and Park streets, was passed
over until the regular May meeting,
when it is very likely it VIII be postpon-
ed Indefinitely. II the council contin-
ues in its present apparent mood until
May is, it is very probable most of the
streets covered by the resolution will
be ordered paved. BY wards the paw
ing being done, ordered and for which
resolutions have been introduced, is
into the First, twelve and ne-
half blocks; Second, fourteen and e
half blocks: Third, twelve blocks;
Fourth. five blocks. OF the new work
not already under way ta.t one block is
in the Fourth ward. from Main to
Church streets, on Fourth avenue, and
even this small pittance was resisted
by Kreutzer.
Would Better Water Supply.
Now that the purity of the city's wa
ter supply has been questioned, the city
council is casting about for a possible
remedy. The one proposed is to erect
an immense tank holding 100000 gall
Ions 1t some point neal the pumping
station, probably in Pierce's Park. in
which to store the city's water, thus
doing away with the present gallery
system now used as a reserve supply.
The present gallery would be don away
with, as would the line OF pipe under
the river where 1t is thought seepage
has entered and Il line would be laid
from the pumping station to the reser-
voir, into which the water would be COL
lectel, and from which 1t would be
pumped directly into the mains. So Sc
riously is this matter under considera-
ton that a resolution introduced by
Mcbride, i%nstructing the water works
committee to employ E.. z. Mack to pre-
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ervoir of this size, carried. A similar
recommendation was introduced in
Greene's report of the water works COM
ter n the result of the two analyses.
Doctors Must Report.
The council proposes to find out ex-
actly how many cases of fever there
are in the city, and when it met as a
board of health, a resolution was passed
ordering each physician of the city to
make out a detailed report showing the
number OF cases, with name of patient
and street and address. Each case
must be reported daily, as to the con-
dition of the patient, and is to be made
to the city clerk on suitable blanks
which will be furnished. Councilmen
are of the opinion that some of the ply
~sisians have exaggerated the situation.
Will Analyze the Milk.
1t also seems to be the opinion of
some of the ouncil that perhaps the
milk being sold about the city may
not be as pure as it should be. A res
olution was adopted ordering a chemist
to be employed to analyze the milk
peddled by each of the several milk
men of the city.
Federation Pleads for Clean Streets.
Mr.. Webster read a communication
from the City Federation of Women's
Clubs, in which it makes a most sensi-
BILE n earnest plea for cleaner streets.
The federation asked permission to
place along Main street receptacleS for
holding waste paper and refuse, and
asked that the city council consider
seriously the matter of the purchase of
q street sweeper, advocated by Mayor
Jones in his annual address. Another
excellent suggestion was made by the
ladies to the effect that the city woul
set aside one day each month as house,
cleaning day, and the ladies would see
that a committee in each ward was APP
pointed to oversee the work of clean
ing lawns and p~arkways. The fedora
alton also expects to place on the court
house lawn flower beds, and it is asked
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