The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-11-10
new BRICK STREETS
The Street Committee Decides
on Which to Pave.
A wrangle Is Anticipated Over the
Part the Present boards
Are to Play.
NEW BOARDS WANT ALL CREDIT

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the local legislative boards over begin.
ming the work preliminary to building
the $500, 600 worth Of brick streets.
A meeting Of the street committee was
held this morning in Mayor Yeiser's
Office, at which it was decided to re-
commend to the boards at their next
meeting that the streets that are to be
paved by the bond issue be as follows:
Third street from Kentucky or
Court, to Broad street, thence to Far
ley's store.
Fifth street from Kentucky or Court
to Trimble, Trimble to Sixth and Sixth
to the Illinois Central freight depot.
Broadway and Jefferson streets
from Fifth TO 18th.
Court street from Fifth to Ninth.
First, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth
streets from Kentucky to Jefferson
street Eighth street is not open.
The committee meeting was called
for 10 O'Clock this morning. There
were present Councilmen Harmon,
Potter and Hummel and Alderman
Kirchoff
Mr.. Charles Robertson, the contrac-
tor, stated that the bid he made for
improving Husbands street from Third
to Fourth did not cover everything
desired, and he consequently declined
to sign the contract. As result th'
city will advertise for new bids.
Councilman Hummel then presented
a report embodying the above recon
mendations relative to which street
shall be paved. Councilman Harmon
who is to be member of the new
board, stated that he did not think the
present board should have anything tc
do with the street paving to be done
with the money secured by a bond is.
sue. He thought it all ought to be
left to the new board which goes into
office January /.
Councilman Potter and Alderman
Kirchoff, who with Councilman Hum
mel retire in January, did not seem
to coincide IN this view, and Council.
man Harmon. who had business to
attend to, left the meeting.
After discussing the matter, the
other three signed the recommendation
to the two boards, and alderman
chamblin signed it later, and rs they
constitute majority of the committee,
the recommendations will go to the
! boards as report from the joint street
committee.
Councilman Potter stated afterwards
tn at he didn't understand why the
present boards were not just as well
qualited and as competent to start the
brick street work as anyone. He de.
clared that the preliminaries should
be started now. so every thing will b.
ready to begin work early in the
spring
This view will probably be taken by
a majority. of members of the two
boards. If these prelimiuaries are de.
ferred until the new board goes into
office in January, it Ia claimed there
will not be time enough to then start
things off ani have the work begin az
soon as advisable.
At present the question seems to
ha, resolved itself into one of wheth.
or the present board shah get any Of
the credit for the brick streets or shall
leave it all to the new board. The
prospects are that the present boards
will insist ON doing as much work as
possible before the new board goes in
nearly two months hence, aud allow
the new boards to take up the work
where they leave Off. This theory is
strengthened by the fact that over half
of the present council and half the
board of aldermen will retire in Janu-
ary, and those who are to 60 ont of
office seem to want to leave as much
to their credit as possible. This. to-
gether with the fact that the work
should be started without delay, seems
to indicate that majority Of the pres
emit boards will insist on beginning