The Birmingham age-herald., 1905-02-14
BAD WEATHER HAS
 RETARDED PAVING
Improvements Will Commence
 Within Next Few Weeks
CITY ENGINEER TALKS
Contract for Paving Part of Highland Avenue With creosoted Wooden
 Blocks Is Reported-Fifth Avenue Improvements.

Just as soon s the bau weather breaks the contractors will proceed with the work of pa ing several streets and ave nues in Birmingham. The contracts were let by the Cita Council sometime ago but the bad weather for the past two months has aiE.ost practically suspended all publi, worh During the month of January the city and county public work did not cover quite four days, and the record for February has not been that good so far. according to the reports of those who are in a position to know.
 The Crockett Paving company. which has the contract for paving Eighteenth street from Avenue A to Fourth ave me; Morris avenue from Eighteenth to Nineteenth etreet and Morris avenue from Twenty-seeona to Twenty-fourth street with vitiaed brick has not yet started to work on the contract and will not do so until good weather is assured.
 The Delays.
 "While it is trua there has been con siderable delay in this work, still no dam age has been done" said City Engineer Julian Kendriek yesterday afternoon. Suppose the ectractors had started to work ploughing up Eighteenth street for the vitriled brick last January. They could not possibly have made any pro- gross in the work, and the throughfare would haze been in a worse condition than 1t is now, in fact it would have been such that teams could not pass along without boz ng up in the mud. During cold weather 1t is impossible to lay con crete in one nights time and it would have to be all torn up
 ''trhe Nashville Roofing and Paving company which has the contract for paw ii.g Fifth avenue Nineteenth street, Twentieth street and part of Highland avenue with bituminous macadam Is just as eager to go to work as the property owners interested are to see the work proceed. This firm is now putting up it's plant, is quarrying the stone and making other preparatos for starting the work just as soon as the weather will permit.
 creosoted Blocks.
 ''We expect to receive within the next few days the contract with the United States Wood Preserving company, which was awarded the contract for paving Highland avenue from the east curb line of Twentieth street to the Woodward property with cresoted wooden blocks. This contract after being approved of by the City Attorney was forwarded on to New York to the headquarters of the United States company for the sigma lures of the proper officials, and the seal As this is the first contract secured by the company in Alabama it was nec- essary to file papers in Montgomery, n- asmuch as the corporation is a foreign one. Like the other two companies the United States company will start work on their contract, 1 am advised just as soon as the weather permits. The com pany is now remodeling It's plant at Si- dell, La, I understand, in order that the supply of cresoted wooden blocks can be secured for the Birmingham con tracts"
 It Is understood that the City Coun- ell will let several other large paving contracts during the coming spring and summer. The City Engineer has instruc- tions to prepared an ordinance providing for the paving of South Nineteenth street with bituminous macadam. The bituminous macadam. The bitumnouswy bituminous macadam along Fifth avenue will probably be extended westward as far as the fair grounds