Evening journal., 1910-03-31
TEN MILES OF
new STREETS
City Departments Agree on
Some ThOrOughfareS to
be Improved
IMPROVEMENTS WILL
COST $35O,OOO

Another meeting Of tho members Of
the Street and Sewer Department and
City Council TO discuss street improves
ments, was held last night, and tho
lists OF streets which need improving
submitted by the members Of Council
were gone over and revised list made
up. The list includes the streets 10
bo improved In the various wards, with
the exception Of the Tenth and Tlev-
onth wards. In neither Of these wards
are the streets 10 be improved desig-
mated. as tho Councilmen and the menu
bers OF the Street and Sowor Com-
mission have not yet beon able 60 como
TO an agreement.
The members Of Council decided to
appropriate S350,00O for street improve
ments and $4,000 for sewer work. bonds
for half of which amount arc TO be-
issued this year and for tho remainder
next year.
The list of streets to be improved
includes t67 1-9 blocks or 10 1-2 niles
Monolithic. which includes pavement
with concrete as an ingredient. will be
tho kind Of pavement laid.
Street Commissioner Frank W. T1er-
son said to-day that the list Of streets
fixed upon win cover tho expenditure
Of tho entire appropriation Of S400 600
He said that plans for street improve
mcnts should be laid out at least a.
year in advance and added that sone
1 of the streets in the new list would
not be touched until summer, there
being enough work hanging over from
last season To keep the men busy until
that time.
The lists Of streets in the various
wards decided upon for Improvement
follow:
First ward-Orange street, Second to
Sixth; Willing street, Fifth to sixth
Second ward-Frenoh street, Front to
Third; Second street. French to Lomb-
ard New Castle avenue, b street 70
city line.
Third ward-Third street. Madison 70
Adams: Fifth street. Madison tc
Adams. Adams street. Second 20 Lin
dcn Parish street. sixth street, JET
ferson 20 Adams.
7 lsourth ward-Sixth street King t.
church, Fronch street, Third to sixth
Spruce street. Fourth to Sixth; Walnu
street. Third 20 sixth
rYftn ward-Bayard avenue. sixth
Seventh. sixth street. Springer TO Bayor
acenno. sixflfattnoei. Jcnorsoh to- 7Jif322
u sixth ward-sixth street. King TO I'oi
" idr' frDucU street, HlAiH 70 riNittf
4 Walnut street. Sixth TO Ninth
? Seventh ward-Tatnall street. Twelfth Z.
b Fourteenth. Scott street. Delaware ave,
- nue. 10 Gipln avenue: Delaware avenI
d Union TO Grant; Harrison street, Delawtl
1 avenue to shallcross avenue; Rivcrviel
avenue. Pennsylvania avenue TO WI
! lard street; Brinckle avenue, DELAYED
avenue 20 Eighteenth street, Thirtent
? street Lincoln 10 dupont; Union street.
Fourteenth TO Seventeenth. Rodney stroct.'
5 Pennsylvania avenue to Tenth William
J son street. Scott 10 Lincoln, SiXteenRI
street. Woodlawn TO Grcnhill avenue.---
Eighth ward-Spruce street, 81
Eleventh, sixth street, Poplar TO the rail-
road Guyer avenue.
Ninth ward-Claymont street, Twelfth
street 10 Vandevor avenue; Lamotte street,
Nandcver avenue to Twenty-second; /;
Twenty-third street. Market street to
Concord avenue; Tatnall street. Concord
avenue to Twenty fifth; Washington ST..
Twenty-third to Twenty-ninth; Twentieth
street. jefferson to Van Buren,; Twenty
second street. Market to Carter; Jeffer-
son street, Eighteenth to Twenty-second.
Twelfth ward-Franl1lin street, Chesuut
10 Linden: Fifth street. Broome 20 Rod
, ney: Fulton street, Front to Second; Sixth
street. Franklin TO Broome; Clayton street
/ Fourth to Sixth: Union street, Front 20
, sixth; Bayard avenue. Fifth TO Sixth;
, Fifth street. Springer TO Bayard avenue;
Lincoln street. second 70 Fourth; Scott
street. Front to Fourth.