The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-28
MANY MEN WILL
WORK FOR CITY
ARE TO BEGIN TOMORROW.
ABOUT TWO HUNDRED WILL BE
PUT TO WORK.

VIII start Paving and Laying of
Water Mains and Much Work Is
Ahead-Over a Mile of Water Mains
Will BE Put Down at Once-This
Work Means n Big Improvement
for the City-Many Streets Ordered
Paved by COunciI-Park Avenue
Will BE Finished Soon.
Beginning tomorrow about 200 men
will be put to work on public i'm
provements by the city. This is out
side of the force regularly employed.
Street paving is to be started again,
and the laying of the water main extern
sions is also to begin. There are many
streets to be paved and over a mile of
new water mains are to be put down as
fast as possible. Between sixty and
ninety men will be required for the
work on the extension of the mains and
even more will be used on the paving
work
The extension of the water mains has
been contemplated for some time. The
pipes were ordered long ago and are
AAOW OAl lldIAN. All lIlG lIldAA1S l1ldl Ill z
to be extended in the near future will
be six inches. The city has not for
several years put down any mains
smaller than six inches and in the re-
cent agreement with the Southeastern
Tariff Association, it was stipulated
that no mains smaller than six inches
should be used in the future
Mains on Louisville Road.
The first mains that are to be ex-
tended will be along the Louisville road,
st. Thomas street and other thorough
fares in that vicinity. AS soon as these
are completed, other mains are to be
extended. The water works depart
ment of the city has been improved
materially in the last few months and
much important work is still being
planned.
Owing to the delays experienced in
getting material very little paving has
so far been done this year, but this
has now been arranged and the paw
ing is to be pushed at a rapid rate
from now on. The pavement on Aber-
corn is to be continued from Henry
street to Park avenue, and ordinances
for number of other streets have
been passed by Council. These will
all be paved at once. beginning with
Abercorn and Park avenue.
Streets to BE Paved.
The appropriation for street paving
this year was $25, 900, and the indica-
lions are that all of this will be spent
Park avenue. Abercorn, Whitaker,
West Broad, and River streets have
all been provided for by Council. When
the paving is started all of these. will
be finished before a stop is made 1t
was only recently that the contract
for furnishing the city with vitrified
brick this year was let. These brick
are now arriving in quantities and
there are already on hand a sufficient
number to complete most of the streets
that have been passed by Council
Though the appropriation for paving
for great deal of work can be ac-
complished with that amount as the
city does not have to pay but a third
of the, cost, and not even that much
when there is a street car track on
the street paved. The street car COM
pany is required to pay for the paw
ing between its tracks and for two
feet on either side. The property own
ers pay two-thirds of the balance and
the city has to. pay the remaining third.
With $4,000 appropriation, $75,000 worth
of pavement could be put down, even
If none of the streets paved had car
tracks on them. AS some of them
have, however, and the electric COM
pany will have to pay a large pro-
portion of the cost of paving these,
the city will be able to get about $780,
600 worth of pavement with the $685.
000 aDDrOnriatio