The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-07
ORDINANCE NO. 1906.

of Commercial avenue from the soutf
line of Thirty.fourth street TO the
south line of Thirty-eighth street, in
the City of Cairo, Illinois, by paving
the same with vitrified bricks ano
otherwise improving said Commercial
avenue.
Be it ordained by the City Coun
Gil of the City of Cairo, Illinois:
Section /. Whereas the owners OF
the property adjoining said CONNER
cial avenue between the south line OF
Thirty-fourth street and the south line
of Thirty-eighth street together with
the Cleveland. Cincinnati, Chicago and
st. Louis Railway Company, have
signfed in writing to the City Engi'
neer of the City of Cairo, Illinois,thelr
willingness to improve said CONNER
cial avenue between the above men
toned points and to pay all the cost
thereof and, whereas, the City Coun-
Gil is DESTROYS that said Commercial
avenue shall be improved, permission
is hereby granted to the said property
owners and the Cleveland, Cincinnati,
Chicago and st. Louis Railway Com
pany to construct said Improvement
under the direction OF the Board of
Local improvements of the said City
Of Cairo, in the following described
manner.
Section 2. Said Commercial evenue
from the south line of Thirty-fourth
street to the south line of Thirty
eighth street shall be graded by fill
ing the same with earth or excayating
as may be required, for its entire
width from lot line to lot line and the
space for forty (40) feet in the center
of said avenue shall be graded and
well rolled and made firm and solid
so that the surface shall be that of a
ccrve or arc whose chord is forty t40)
feet in length and whose middle or.
dinat is eight Isl inches in height,
and on this firm foundation shall be
laid or spread foundation of good
and suitable Portland cement con
crete five CD inches thick, made of
one part Portland cement and eight
parts of washed river gravel of sizes
ranging from stones of two inches in
diameter down to coarse sand and so
graded that the aggregate of sand
and gravel shall not contain more
than twenty per cent. voids and on
this foundation SHAH be spread a cush.
ion of clean sand, two inches thick,
and on this sand cushion vitrified
bricks, of a well approved grade and
quality shall be we'll laid, and the
space between the bricks shall be fill
ed with cement grout filler, and the
graded surface of the concrete foun-
dation. the sand cushion and the brick
paving, all complete. shall have the
curve and contour above described
and specified, and the center line of
the top and finished surface of the
paving, when complete shall be to the
grade of said avenue as now establish
ed by ordinance.
Section 3. A concrete curb AMI
gutter of the kind and pattern known
as the combined curb and gutter, shall
be constructed on both sides Of said
avenue at the outer edge of said brick
pavement Said concrete curb and
gutter shall be made of one part Port
land cement and five parts of washed
river gravel as above described and
the curb portion above the gutter flag
shall be six inches high and six inches
thick and the gutter flag shall be
twenty-four inches wide and six
inches inches deep and its curvature
shall be a continuation of the curVa-
ture of the brick pavement. The said
combined curb and gutter shall be set
upon a bed or foundation Of cinders
eight inches thick, well tamped and
well supported with natural earth
backing, well tamped; the distance
between the inner faces of the curbs
shall be forty (40) feet.
Section 4. The said brick paving
and combination curbing shall, at the
intersection of Thirty-fourth street
be extended around and out to the
lot line on hoth sides of the said ave-
nue. SO that the distance between the
curbs, at the lot line shall be thirty
six (3G) feet. or eighteen t1S) feet on
each side of the center line of the said
Thirty.fourth street, and at the outer
edge of the pavement thus extended,
natural lime stone curb, six co inches
thick and twelve N2l inches deep
shall be set on natural earth founda.
ton, between the pavement and the
natural earth and flush with the same
at the top.
Section 5. There shall be eight
(Sl brick catch-basins constructed in
the said avenue at such points as is
necessary to furnish the proper drain.
age: all of said catch-basins shall be
of the same size and description as
the catch basins now located at the
northeast corner of Washington ave-
nue. and eighth street in the said City
of Cairo. Said catch-basins shall be
connected with the existing sewer in
said Commercial avenue by means of
vitrifed tile sewer pipe of ten inches
inside diameter.
Section Il Wherever any norton