The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-09
WORK TO BEGIN
BY FIRST OF MAY
City Council Confirmed Con-
tract With Barber Asphalt Go.
FOR PAVING DOUGLAS AVE.
Eleven Petitions for Sidewalks
We're Granted Last Night.

| The city council met in adjourned ses-
sion last night and passed an ordinance
ratifying the contract with the Barber
Asphalt company and instructing the
mayor to sign the contract. The work of
| paving West Douglas avenue from Wich-
ita street to Seneca street is to begin
before the first day of May and must
be completed within four months.
The terms of the contract which was
confirmed last night are that the road
| way from Wichita street to Waco avenue
| is to be eighty-one feet wide; from Waco
| avenue TO the bridge the roadway is to be
| fifty-five feet wide and widening TO sew
enty feet at the Arkansas rivsd bridge.
| West of the river the roadway is to be
| seventy feet wide the entire distance.
The Barber Asphalt company is to pave
| the entire roadway except the street car
tracks and one foot each side of the
rails with Trinidad lake asphalt
According TO the contract there are to
be six inches of concrete, composed of
stone and hydraulic cement; on top OF
this is to be a binder of one ana - =
half inches, of bituminous cement. AID
a wearing surface of two inches of as
phalt. The company is required TO put
up maintenance bond equal to 80 per
cent of the estimated cost of the work
and is to keep the street in repair for
ten years from the date of its completion.
Mayor Mclean Will sign the contract
today and the company will be ready to
work within three weeks.
Last night the first petitions for per-
manent curb were read, as follows:
East side of Lawrence avenue, from
Thirteenth to Fifteenth streets.
West side of Larimer. from Twelfth to
Thirteenth street.
West side of Fern. from Douglas to
Maple avenues.
South side of Anderson, from Milwood
to Elm streets.
North side of Eleventh street, from
Emporia to ST. Francis avenues.
East side of Fern from Maple to Uni
yersity avenues.
East side of Wildwood, from Glenn to
Douglas avenues
East side of Jackson, from Tenth to
Thirteenth streets.
North side of Eleventh street, from
Carlos avenue to the alley south.
East side of Paramount, from Twelfth
to Thirteenth streets
West side of Paramount. from Twelfth
to Thirteenth streets.
The prayers of all the petitioners were
granted and the property owners given
thirty days to construct the walk be-
fore the contract will be let by the city
IOI the WOIh
Mr.. Andrews asked permission of the
council to build dwelling houses at the
corner of English and Market streets.
This is in the fire limits and the matter
was referred to the fire and water COM
mittee and the fire marshal to investigate
and report at next meeting.
The city attorney was instructed to
prepare an ordinance declaring il neces-
sary to open Lulu avenue from Gilbert
south to Indianapolis, and providing for
the appointment of appraisers to estab-
lish the damage and benefit districts and
appraise the same Mrs. Haymaker is
opening an addition south of Indianapolis
avenue and this street is the only one
available as an outlet from this addition.
On motion of Mr.. Isley the city clerk
was instructed to notify the Canton
Bridge company to begin work on the
bridge across Chisholm creek on Seven
teenth street. The contract was let 10
this company and they were to. have the
bridge completed by April 20, but have
not begun work.