The Cairo bulletin., 1907-09-05
WASHINGTON AVENUE TRACKS
TO BE FINISHED FOR PREsI-
DENTS VISIT.
ONLY ROUTE AVAILABLE
For Grand Parade--Good Work On
Big Sewer-Other Paving Work
and Street Filling Held
Up Temporarily.

them, under all the circumstances.
! the building O fine tracks on Wasl
/ ington avenue by the Cairo TraCuo
/ Company The company has larg
force at work now pushing the wor
! with an energy that Will please tn
, public. The concrete work has gol
, NEARLY two blocks from Eighth t,
Tenth streets, the tracks are laig
as far as Twelfth street and Enginee
, Peter Fraser with his big steam auto
, mobile, is breaking up the old grave
pavement farther up preparatory tt
making the excavation for the tracks
all the way to Twentieth street.
/ 1t is understood the company will
do everything possible 10 get this
work done by October /, with the
istreet between the rails paved with
ghricky and the whole put in condition
| for smooth passage by the grand
parade of the president on Oct Bird.
IIt il Of the utmost Importance that
this be done, else there may be n5
street over which the procession can
pass.
The Big Sewer
The suggestion that Commercial ave.
lnue may be utilized ii Washington
avenue Is net available was made
overlooking the fact that this street.
too will be torn up IN the course OF
the present month, in the construc
| ton 0f the big sewer Mr.. Sehilling
Of the Rich Construction Company
l.has made a good start on this big
piece OF work. He has passed the
stone wall in digging the tunnel from
the river towards Commercial avs
inue. and has found 1t a difficult piece
of work. In ordinary soil. he saws.
tunncliing can proceed safely two and
a half feet at a time. tombers then
being put up. But he finds the soil In
the leyee so sandy that he does not
consider 1t safe to dig out more than
nine inches or foot before putting in
timbers to hold it, He is proceeding
with great care to guard against acct
dents and while he is making only
about two feet per day in going
through the levee, he feels sure of |
that and viii take no chances of a I
eave-in, with all that such an acct |
dent might imply in the way Of TN
ury to men. TO say nothing Of delay In
the work.
Mr., Schiiling has also received tho
Zig Eve ton iron gate for the sewer.
II came Tuesday and Is to be I'M
loaded at Tenth street. He has also
began to dig the big manhole at the
bottom Of which it Will be set. thirty
feet below the top Of the lcvee. This
excavation Is being dug eight feer
Square and heavily planked us 1t pro
ceeds downward 1t was about tewlye !
feet deep yesterday.
Mr. schilling has not a large force
q men. He is employing white men
who understand the business. and
pays them extra wages. He says he /
Imported some of the men and ex-
poets to bring more very shortly and
set them to work on Commercial ave
nre as quickly as possible
Street Paving.
Mist important among the street
paving propositions in which the PEG
pie have been interested is Washing
ton ayenae But in this as well as in
The eases Of Poplar street and Syca
more street. there Is a temporary de-
ay caused by the failure of the bid !
lers on this work to provide for plac /
ng the bonds to be issued by the city |
n payment for the work. The board I
{ LEGAL Improvements will meet again {:
n the very near future to order an. {
,ther advertisement for bids on the
svenue,u and II is expected the con
ract will be let early IN October.
Sycamore and Poplar streets have !
been ordered paved. but the ordi i.
lances relating thereto have not yet
leen adopted. The city council IS
'eady to adopt, however. as soon as
hey shall be presented. a protest !.
signed by number Of citizens on
Poplar street. against paving that ,
street with brick is not likely TO be of !
ective, as such a change in the char
ieter Of the Improvement at this
stage would make it Necessary 10 be- ;
sin all over again and have another :
public hearing.
The paving Of Second street seems I
% be dragging a little. All parties :
concerned agreed some time ago. 10 I
lave the work done without the for
nality Of an ordinance and special :
.axation. but as yet no steps have !
Jeen taken to carry out the plan.
Street Filling.
Street filling and sewers have been r
3rdered TO the estimated value Of
about sl0000o. only a small norton
u which has been contracted for with
he Cairo Contracting q Dredging Co. I
The latest batch Of seven streets. 4
or which the estimated cost is nearly I
$4,000. has been favorably passed up :
on BY the county court and remains !
10 be advertised for. The Dredging I
20 IS under contract 10 Git sevefal I
streets that we're ordered filled some :
line ago and has performed a part Of l
re contract IN filing rfx+.,-+t. -. ;