The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-03

An immense amount of street i'm
pTovements will be made in Pensa-f
cola if the present plans of the board
of public works III this regard carry,
the members at last nights session /.
OF that body devoting much time 10
:he consideration of this work, one
of the results of their deliberations
being that the board will advertise
for bids for hardening BaTraRCas
avenue, the work To commence on In
tendencia street, the start TO be made
at Baylen street and carried west on
intendencia street to the end of the
avenue, passing through the Maxent
tract.
The work is to be done according to
specifications prepared by the city
engineer and the road is to be con
structed of clay and cinders or clay
and gravel or oyster shells.
Another big item of street improve
ment viii be the expenditure of 81 800
in the hardening Of Gadsden street to
Lee on Davis. east on Lee to Ninth
avenue, a motion that the council ap-
Dropriate the above amount being
unanimously adopted.
LOCO TONS OF SHELLS
me fhird item Of street improve
meQE = contained in the boards re-
qde5f Tor bids @HoF fr4hspoftfng fa5lds
80 @v-.s-.-s. Shells from 8palaef1i-
cora, arfangemen1S for sel.lg,.fns, fl,.,
shells having been previously mduS-
by the committee on oyster shells,
which recommended that the board
have the above amount brought here
as soon as possible
The committee appointed at a pre-
ViouS meeting to ascertain what is the
best method of placing street names
recommended that a thTee-inch mar
BILE block letter be placed in the
sidewalks and also asked that the
council appropriate $500 for this
purpose. The committees recon-
mendatiOns were adopted. The style
of the letter viii be similar to that
used i'm the sidewalk at the Thiesen
building indicating the name of thaS
structure
SIDEWALK RECOMMENDING
We find that the Farquhar survey
has become a law fixing sidewalk
grades reported the committee ap-
pointed to look into and report on the
matter of differences in permanent
sidewalk grades, and taking this as
a basis we find IN all parts of the
city permanent walks laid to grades
both higher and lower than the law
full grade, so that new walks are being
built AUDITING old walks and that from
the new to the old there are steps up
and steps down, in some cases as
much as fifteen inches. much to the
detriment, inconvenience and unsafety
OF. pedestrians. IT would seem both
unfair and impracucable to cause the
owners OF these Old permanent walks
to destroy and relay them, and your
committee, therefore, begs to make
the following recommendations:
That such an ordinance be passed
as Will require that where a new
walk is to be laid which abuts a per-
manent walk on different grade that
such new walk shall be so built as to
encroach and extend on the old walk
to form a slope of say one to six
inches instead of an abrupt step up or
down. That if the old abuttiDg walk
be higher, then il shall be cut down
so as to merge into the new one, and
that where the old walk is lower
than the new. WORK shall extend on to
and merge into it by such slope as
may be established by law.
Your committee further cecom-
Tends that all new work and all old
work shall be made to merge into
each other where such old work shall
be declared by the city engineer to be
OF permanent character"
The report which was signed by J.
o. Walker and W. J. Forbes. was re-
ceived and adopted. Chairman Daniel
and City Engineer Thornton viii go