The Morris County chronicle., 1908-12-08
A YEARS WORK
ON THE STREETS
Street Committee IN Report to
Board Of Aldermen Shows
Much Accomplished
BOARD CLOSING UP THE WORK


K. Day, chairman of the street com
mittee, presented a report of the work
of his committee during the year. Mr..
Day has given much time and atten-
tion to the street work and his report.
which follows, shows that he and his
colleagues on the committee have ac-
complished much In spite OF the streets
being torn UP for the laying of sewer
and other pipes and ducts;
The stfest Committee, although un-
able TO do much work toward the re-
pairs of macadam roads on account OF
the lateral connections to the sewer
not being completed, has been active
along other lines, especially In the en-
deavor to keep the cutters Of the town
free from sand, mud and other litter,
and in it's campaign for new sidewalks.
The committee has been under very
heavy expense during the last year in
the matter of the gutter cleaning ow-
ing to the fact that the sewer con-
tractor in retilling his trenches left a
: great quantity of sand in the roads
which was ultimately washed into the
cutters by the rains, choking them
and the catch basins, and also filling
the storm sewers at such points where
the storm sewers did not have enough
fall to efficiently flush themselves.
There has hardly been day during
the past summer but that a gang of
men has not been at work cleaning
cutters, the cost of which has amount
ed to, in ronnd numbers, seven thOus-
and dollars ($7 ,000), this amount being
in excess of from two to three thous-
and over the amount paid for this pur-
pose before the work of bhe sewer be-
gan.
Road Repairs-Five car loads Of
three quarter inch trap were purchased
and used for filling holes in the ma
cadam roads, which holes were not
caused by reason of the sinking of the
sewer trenches.
Race Street-Race street was found
to be a muddy sink hole, and in such a
poor condition, that, in the spring
time, wagons with any kind of a load
would sink into the mud up to the
hubs of the wheels. The department.
filed this~-stfeet for three-fourths OF
its length with large stones, obtained
from the sewer trenches, to the depth
of ten to fourteen inches, using three
hundred loads of stone which were
carefully laid by hand, covered with a
suitable top dressing and then rolled
with the steam roller, thereby putting
this street in good condition.
keumnir Avenue-ThiS road was
graded and the hump Id the road near
Mills street removed, and two new
catch basins were placed in both sides
of the road, at its lowest point, and
connected with fifteen inch tile. pipe
line, so that the surface water cOulo
be carried from one side of the road tC
the other.
Hazlett street, Mt. Airy place, Lin
den street, Hazel street, Oak street
and a party of Liberty street were
graded with gravel and then rolled in
TO hard gravel road bed by means Of
the steam roller.
S-WalkS-All the cross walks on
the town roads were back filled with
three-quarterS inch trap rock thereby
bringing the road bed up to the leyel
OF the cross walks. The committee
has found it very difficult TO prevent
holes wearing out in the road bed ad
jacent to the cross-walks and some
3 means should be devised to prevent
this wear at these points, which might
be accomplished by The use Of tar
preparation along with rock. New
cross walks were laid upon Hillary
avenue, Cole avenue and Henry street
and the croSS-walkS at the corner Of
Grant street and Cleveland street and
at tbe corner of Spring street and
Spring place were relaid and lowered
Plank Bridges Many of the plank
covered bridges or conduitS at the in
terSectiOn OF the streets had Their
planking renewed, and the plank con-
duit at the corner of Maccullock aven-
ue and Miller road was removed and
in its place was laid wide SD allow
cobbled gutter. These plank COW
cred bridges are source OF a great
deal OF annoyance by reason oil
sand, mud and leaves clogging
them and causing the surface water
to flow into the roads washing
them out and causing holes to appear
All plank bridges maintained by the
town should be removed and in lieu
thereof wide, shallow cutters should
be laid, and laid in such manner as
to cause the least possible Jolt to wag-
OnS and automobiles in crossing them.
There is now an ordinance allowing
property holders to build plank
bridges over the cutters in front ol
their drive ways; this ordinance
should be repealed and property hold
ers be prohibited from building these
bridges, and compelled to remove
those now laid and made to co0ble
from their driye-ways into the gutter
FRANKLIN PLACE-The only per-
manen improved road bu1f his
ear, was Franklin Place. II b .ing
macadamized from gutter 10 gutter
and he macadam top dressed with
Tarvia, process thar Mnutclair has
been using Tor the last eli ht years.
with excellent Is THIS road was
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