The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-04-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK PLANS FOR WALKS
Council May Order Property Holders
to Lay Cement Sidewaiks-Cheap-
err Ones Would Leave Something
for Better Roads.

Every resident OF Berca is inter-
ested personally In an ordinance now
before the Town Council regarding
sidewalks. II will be a matter Of
convenience and comfort to all OF u
and OF expense 10 a good many, and
the subject is therefore about as i'm
portant as can come up.
The proposition now before The
Council is to require the property
owners along certain streets TO put
In cement sidewalks. The walks are
TO be five feet wide. with a drain
underneath, then filling Of broken
stone or brickbats covered with ~
inches of broken stone and cement
and finished with two inches OF &C.
ment. II will be ? fine walk. and
there is no doubt that IL viii be a
great improvement to the town. and
one greatly needed The plan is to
have Il on both sides OF the street
from the hill by Prof Mason's house
to Welsh's corner. and on the east
side Of the Richmond Pike as far as
the Baptist Church.
This Improvement will cost p-ob-
ably more than has ever been spent
on the Berea streetg at once before
perhaps more than has been spent
on the streets altogether. The
exact cost The Citizen has not been
able to learn. Some OF the mem
bers OF the Council think It can
be put in for fifteen cents q
square foot. VI seventy five cents a
running foot A contractor whom
The Citizen called up. but who did
ut want TO be quoted because ne
might bid on the job. said that the
cost would be all OF twenty cents a
loot. and figures secured by the coll
lege when some work OF the same
kind was under consideration, put
tee price at twenty two cents. The
@alk along Main street cost s1SS a
running foot The price. therefore.
will be somewhere between s0.75 and
Sl.10 a running foot--that Is man
With hundred foot lot viii have TO
pay from s75 to $40 for his walk
Altogether there are S.s75 feet of
walk TO be laid. and the cost will be
from 5000 TO $3.50. Every property
owner can tell at once about what il
win cost him.
So Tar as The Citizen can find out
no one In town is opposing the III
proyement. No one doubts that the
town needs every BIT OF help OF that
kind IL can get and sidewalks will
help good deal. but there are some
people who doubt whether this will
be the best way TO spend the mon
ely. They ask what will be done for
the roads. which are so bad that they
can hardly be used in winter and also
what good II will do TO have fine
sidewalks when we have to get into
three inches OF mud every time we
come 10 crossing Also. few point
out that this walk is Is n better one
than most towns. even a good deal
bigger and richer than Berea, have.
In Williamsburg a recent sidewalk
ordinance called for only four foot
walks. against five here, and many of
Richmond's walks are still brick and
stone.
Here are a few things that could
be done with the money. Think
them thru and see which would suit
you best. and which seems to you
would do most for the town.
II the town is willing to have n
cheaper sidewalk. II can get one that
will do perfectly we'll to get around
on, will look well, too. and will at
the same time be a starter on a &C.
ment walk. so that nothing will have
to be torn out when the citizens get
money enough to put that in. This
Is a cinder walk. To build II you
put in a drain. as In a cement walk.
then broken stone. just the same.
and then a layer OF cinders. There
you have a pretty good walk. 1t is
dry and does not get dusty. IL will
cost about twenty five cents run
ming foot or s25 hundred foot lot.
And when we get ready. the founda-