The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-10-19
MANY ORDINANCES FOR IMPROVEMENTS Will Pave Additional Portion of
 Highland Avenue
TO PAVE FIRST AVENUE
Repealed Ordinance Calling for Wood Blocks on Highland Avenue and Substituted BtuIithc-Other
 improvements In Sight.

Three new street improvement ordi-
 nances were introduced before the City
 Council last night. Contracts for iettihs
 work under nine ordinances already pass
 ed. and recommended in the report or
 inc street committee, were affirmed The
 city engineer was ordered to draw up
 additional ordinances for repairing oe
 tain streets and sidewalks, and he was
 also instructed to advertise for bids TOT
 other work In fact, much of the time or
 the council was taken up with street
 improvement measures
 The new ordinances provide for the paw
 ing of Fourteenth street from the north
 line of the general railroad right of way
 to the right of way of the Southern rail-
 road: the paving of Alabama street from . St. Charles avenue to Bellevue street; the paving of Avenue l from Twelfth to Fourteenth streets
 Ordinances were adopted providing for paving First avenue from Twenty-second to Twenty-sixth streets, and for the paw ing and otherwise improving of Highland avenue from the east line of Twentieth street to a point where the northwest line of lot No. B. in block No. 964 If ex- tended northeastward would cross High land avenue.
 HiqhIand Avenue Paving. Improvement ordinance No 239. calling for the paving of a certain section of Highland avenue with creosoted wooden blocks was revoked, it being the desire of the residents to have bitulithic pave ment.
 Alderman Forney introduced ordinance No, 29S. which provides for the construc- ton of storm sewers in wards six, seven and eight. He reminded the council that 1t was the same measure he recommended about four months ago and complimented the city engineer for having it ready It was referred to a committee for con- sideration.
 Alderman Jones asked for the confirma- ton of assessment ordinance No. 254, asying the work had been completed at a cost of $1s5. .SS. It had reference to the work on Kirkland avenue. Other street work approved by the coun- cil was embodied in the report of the street committee, which met at F o'clock in the office of Julian Kendrick' the city | A Jones, Stoekmar, Barbour, Moore, Cope land c. R). Fulghum and Mayor Ward. | were present. The report as adopted: Committee Report. We recommend that the matter or paw | ing Eighteenth street between avenue Ii | and Eleventh avenue. south and on Ave- | nue I be referred to the Mayor. chair | and the two aldermen from the Eighth ward.
 That the matter of the paving Avenue G from Twentieth to Twenty ninth streets be referred to the mayor, the chairman or the street committee, the city engineer and the aldermen from the Sixth and Seventh wards.
 That the matter of opening street at Avenue and Twenty-fourth street he
 referred to the mayor, the street com
 missioner and the city engineer. That the city engineer be instructed to draw an ordinance for the paving of side walks, where same are in bad condition on southwest corner of Second avenue and Twentieth street; east side of Twen- tieth street between First and Second avenues; south side of Third avenue De- tween Twenties and Twenty-Five streets; east side of Twentieth street between | Third and Fourth avenues. That the building inspector be instruct ed to inspect all down pipes where same cross the sidewalk and to notify the prop l erty owners to keep same opsn and in | good repair.
 That the city engineer be instructed to | bridges are uncovered. If the roads were l built up even with the bridges 1t would do away with many irregularities and l bumps.
 | 1T recently took a trip over several Of ; the roads in Montgomery county and in | that respect they outclass us. The roads have been built up even with the bridges | and this makes travel over the highways very pleasant. If the ruts and holes were | filled and the roads built up on the same level with the bridges, Jefferson county would have the best roads In the