Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-05-15
STREET IMPROVEMENTS
Work Done in Wilmington During tn
Past Year.

Work lone IN wilmington Duflng the
Past Year.
The report of tho Street and Sewer
Department for the year ending January
3lst, 1905, which has just been completed,
shows that the following Improvements
were made during the year:
Paving AZ square yards Of gram
ite blocks; 39660 square yards of mac
adam; 23S6.54 square yards Of rubble
stone; 39S67 square yards of ashpaltum
blocks, S363.5 square yards Of Warren's
bitulithic; 714O4 square yards Of Ber-
muda asphalt; 32S7 square yards of
bituminous macadam. The total amount
of paving for the year was 2.020 miles,
the total cost amounting to S43,60l22.
Macadam streets esuriaced-Iwenty-
third from Market to Washington; Wash
ington from bridge 10 Twentieth, and
from Twenty-frst to Twenty-third; Com
merce north of Christiana avenue, Third,
from Van Buren to Franklin; Fifth, from
Madison to jefferson; Nandever avenue,
from Heald TO Thatcher streets; Pchnsyl-
vania avenue west of =. a. o. railroad
A total of 5027 square ysrds OF cross
ings and 1909 3 square yards of side gut
ters werc laid during the wear.
The special fund of the department
was expended as follows Sewer extern
sion, $40. .4Sl 50: paving and improving
Streets $40 0,S6i55; grading and opening
streets, 81 q03 .63; total, S53. .3i007.
The number OF src lamps in use on
| February lst. 1905, WAS 3l4, an increase
of nine. The lamps cost S84 30 per lamp
per year. Inc number OF incaudescent
electric light lamps In use on February
| lst, 1906, was fot, four new ones being
\ installed ard three discontinued. These
lamps cost SASS per lamp per year. The
numSec OF incandesceut gas lamps in use
| February lst, 1905, was 626. Tho amount
/ paid by the city for lighting purposes for
| the year was Sal .943.37.
Tho total receipts for the year includ-
I ing appropriations, interest, sewer and
| building permits, &c, amounted to Sl94.-
4 S44.77 and the expenses were S202, ,0l4Sl
The balances follow: Current expenses
Balance February lst, 1905, Sli ,O64 .07:
receipts for year to January 3lst. 1905.
| STAG, ,5Of.35; total receipts. Sl57 500 81;
| expenses for year ending January 3lst.
/ 1906, Sl4S 642 %; balance February lst
1906, S., ,92706.
SPECIAL fund for improving streets. &c.
Receipts for year to January 3lst. 1905.
| $50, ,34O07; expenses for year to January
3lst, 1906, S53 ,340O7.
Special fund-Prices Run sewer-Bal-
ance February lst, 1905, 1921 receipts
for year to January 3lst. 1906. 35 cents:
total receipts, S32.4S; expenses for wear
ending January 3lst, 1906, S32.4
The expenses were as follows Light
ing the streets, S40,747S9; cleaning the
/ streets, SIG. .SO07l; street sprinkling
| S462.50; Office expenses, 81 ,0S3. 90; re-
moving ashes and rubbish. SlI .323Ol.
cleaning sewers, S5,26035; repairing
streets, Sll, 1927; salaries, Sl4, Sol .25;
/ CUTTERS and crossings, S26l9S3; sewer
repairs, 81 ,Oi2.94; making a total Of Sl05.-
! 70l IS
The following resolutions were adopted
during the year Requiring street car
companies operating in the city TO sprinkle
streets; permitting the South Wilmington
Railway Co. to locate, construct. operate
and maintain It's line on certain streets i'm
the city; authorizing the Wilmington
Electric Light and Power Co. to erect
poles. string wires and lay conduits in the
public roads, highways, streets. &c. in
the city; to change, fix and establish the
width of Tenth street, between Market
and 1atnall.
The following streets were condemned
during the year: Mount Vernon avenue
from Pennsylvania avenue. or Kenneft
turnpike. TO Seventeenth street: Twenty
FIRST street. from the northerly side of
Washington street. norihorly TO the line
Of land oi the North SIDE Improvement
Co. and Twentieth street. from the north
erly side Of Market street northerly TO the