The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-13
BIGGEST WORK
 OF THE CITY Extensive Improvement in South Montgomery VILE AND A HALF OF ASPHALT Smooth Boulevard to the City
 Limits. Extensive Work Is in Progress to Meet Demands of Remarkable Growth Sf south Montgomery--com-
 pletion in the Fall.
VILE AND A HALF OF ASPHALT

In. the extensive improvements of Hull Street, the city is right now in the midst of one of the biggest paw ing and engineering jobs it has ever undertaken. The task is the levelling. grading and asph aiting of Hull Street from South to Fielder Street, distance of over half q mile.
 The primary purpose back of the i'm provement is the building of a boule- yard to the city limits, in view of the establishment of the Methodist Wo- men,s College near the Southern city limits. The city will probably have the boulevard completed before the &C., tuai work on the college begins.
 As to the beginning of the work on the college buildings no official state, nlent has been made. but the time Is put to work some time ago on the plans. A landscape gardner has been retained and the grounds will soon assume form. The contract will be possibly let in the fall.
 Tn the meanwhile the city of Mont gomery Is doing more than it's share of the work to make the college great. The Methodist laymen of the city pre- scented the college with twenty-eight acres of land on a commanding hill land which. at a fair estimate. will be worth a thousand dollars an acre when the first spadefuIl of dirt is turned on the grounds. The people of Montgomery contributed aneth CT S50.- 900 as a part of the construction fund
 Now Montgomery is going even fur ther in the building of an asphalt bon- levard from Dexter Avenue on Hull Street for nearly a mile and a half. This is to provide a new driveway to the college grounds.
 The first half of this big paving con. tract was finished last fall. The city and the contractors are now busy with the second half.
 Hull Street from South to Fielder Street has been extended from Cramer to Fielder Street. Until the present task was undertaken. Hull Street only ran as far as Finley Avenue, although the Cloverdale car line over a special franchise from private parties. ran ai- most to Fielder Street before it took it's turn. In doing so 1t passed over on an enbankment, big sink All this has been filled in; Hull Street on the crest of Bellinger Hill has been cut down feet, storm sewering has been put down and first-clasg sidewalk paw ing Is now being laid
 The asphalt paving and the sidewalk paving will be carried to Fielder Street and when the Job is completed in the fall. Hull Street will be the best and most beautiful driveway in the city. And when 1t is completed. the biggest paving contract ever let by the city. the biggest single Improvement ft ever undertook. will have been completed.
 It is also announced by the Mont Romery Traction Company that It's line out Hull Street will be improved along with the paving. Big and heavy steel paving rails will be laid. On them bet ter time and better schedules can be made and larger cars can be run to take care of the increased and inc creasing patronage. It Is furthermore announced that there will be no trans- ferring of passengers as there were when the first half of the Hull Street paving was laid. The present track will be pushed to one side and cars will run over 1t while the big steel rails are being laid on the new track.
 The growth of South Montgomery