The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-04-28
Storm Water Sewerage Should
First be Placed i'm Streets.
Ths Present Plan Will Cut of the
Proposed Paving of Third
Street.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS NEWS

regular meeting last night to discuss
the street paving question, but arrived
at no definite conclusion. The three
members were in session until IL 80
p. IN. and IL is evident from their
statements today that they do not APP
provo Of beginning work this year on
the street improvements to be made
with the $3.50, 900 bond issue. s.
II was decided last night to have
City Engineer l. A. Washington meet
with the board this evening, and at
the special session of the board the
street paving matter will be further
considered.
Engineer Washington thinks, as do
members Of the board. that the surface
sewerage should all be put in and the
streets be given time to settle. before
work on the paving begins. The
streets ought to have at least six
months to settle, and IL the surface, or
storm water sewerage, lad been put
in asst year, when there was plenty
OF time, the city might begin work
now.
IL is understood that the members
agree with City Engineer Washington
that no streets should be paved out
side the sewerage district, which goes
no farther out that Ninth street, and
from Trimble to Tennessee streets.
The reason Of this is that the city in
tends in few years to sewer another
district, and il the streets are paved
outside the present sewer district. It
would neoessjtate the tearing up of a
large part of the paving, practically
ruin the street, and necessitste much
of the work being done over
The present plan seems to be to Sc
lect rs the streets to be paved only
those in the territory circumscribed
by the river, Ninth street and Trim
BILE and Tennessee streets. This will
cot of the proposed paving of Third
street to the Island creek bridge, and
the paving of Fifth or Sixth street to
the I. O. freight depot.
The board has another matter of i'm.
portance that will come up shortly. 1t
is that of sprinkling the streets.
Merchants and others now pay 30
cents a month each for street sprink-
ling and the sprinkling is over COM
paiatively a small area.
1t is understood that the street car
company is willing to purchase a
tarmway sprinkled and sprinkle al
the streets on which cars run for $500
a month, which would include u large
part of the city and in addition would
cost much less than the present way.
The matter is to be taken up by the
board of public works at once.
The members of the board of public
works favor persons being compelled
to connect with the sanitary sewerage.
While some people claim that it can
not be forced, others claim that 1t il
done in many other cities, and can be
done here as well.
lit is shame the way some people
in the sewer district allow filth to run
into the cutters, said q member to-
day. "Some Of the large boarding
houses in the sewer district run all
kinds of slops and filthy water right
out into the cutters and only recent
ly stopped concern that had for years
been running tho dirty water from it,
plant in the heart of the business Sec
ton of the city, not only into the gut
ter, but over the top of the sidewalk
as we'll. And barber shop was also
running all its filthy bath water into
the gutter until we stopped it. One
way we intend to have people in the
district connect with the sewerage il
by refusing permit to tear up the
streets. When the streets are paved
there will be no gutter into which to
run the filth and they will have to
connect with the sewerage or let it re-
main in their own house.
1t is probable that the board will