Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-01-18
TO MEET IN SPECIAL SESSION
CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER
IMPROVEMENTS.
Important Matters To Be Taken Up And
Discussed At a Meeting 0u
Monday Night.

The City Council will meet in spec
ial session on Monday evening next
for the purpose of considering in de-
tail the specifications for the improve
ments TO be made by means of the
proceeds of the bonds authorized by
the Act Of the Legislature al its last
session.
The face value OF the bonds is S25,
600 and they were sold 10 the Annap-
oils Savings Institution at pre-
MUM Which netted $SlS. The amount
received from the sale has been draw
ing interest from the Annapolis
Banking and Trust Company and
something over $i00 Will be received
from this source. The amount which
will be derived from the bonds is
therefore over 81 200 in excess of their
face value.
The improvements to be made under
this bond issue are among the most
important ever carried out in Annapo-
lis. 4 good proportion of the money
will be expended in improvements at
Murray Hill, the chief suburb of An
napolis. Franklin street and South
gate avenue, the main thoroughfares
of that section, will be paved in tarred
macadam for their entire length and
other paving will be done on Murray
avenue and part of Second street. The
whole section will be severed and
large building boom is expected to fol-
low i'm the wake of the Improvements.
A notable improvement will consist
in the bulkheading and filling of
Charles street cove, which divides
Murray Hill at one point from the
main city. At present two sewers
empty into this cove and the new
sewer serving the larger part of the
western section of the city will also
empty into ii. 1t is a matter OF a
short time when the condition of the
cove would make it a menace TO
health. as there is little tidal move
ment there. 1t is intended to carry all
the sewers out pass the bulkhead into
Spa creek, where the tide is much
stronger. The new sewer Will run
along Shaw street, which is to be eN-
tended to the bulkhead.
The city authorities have been in
consultation with the heirs of the late
James ID. Murray, to whom the land
necessary TO extend Shaw street be-
longs, and it is believed that an
amicable arrangement will be made
and there will be no necessity of re-
SOIllUR lO lAOtNShAhEos
The other improvements 10 be made
under the bond issue are the paving
of Market, Conduit, Union and
Charles streets with tarred macadam,
and Martin street with vitrided
brick. All these streets are in the
main section of the town and are un-
paved. The first four mentioned are
in a group near the northern bank of
Spa creek and Martin street is a short
thoroaghfare running directly to one
of the gates of the Naval Academy,
whieh will probably be the main gate
when the construction work there is
completed.
The contrcat for the laying of the
sewer authorized under the ordinance
has been awarded TO Charles A. How
ard, of Annapolis, at cost of little
over SO, 900. He has already begun TO
place the pipe along the route in order
| to begin work at once. The sewer
cannot be continued 10 the water until
a right of way over Shaw street is
procured, but il Will be laid under the
rest of the streets in order that there
may be no tearing up of the new
streets when they have been paved.
The special meeting has been called