The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-29
MAnYNEW SEWERS
UNDER CONTRACT
i. ]. Smith and Company to
Build Two Branches Of
Dooley Drain.
JUDGE cRuMP ARBITRATOR
City Engineer Boiling Reports
on Church Hill Land
slide.
JUDGE cRuMP ARBITRATOR

Contracts were awarded to /. j
Smith and Company. the lowest bidder
! for two main branches of the DooleS
sewer by the Council Committee or
Streets last night, subject to approva
by the Council. 4, Contracts were also
awarded for number of lesser sew
ers in various parts of the city. BIDS
had been received at the previous meet
ing and referred to subcommittee
which recommended that the awards
be made to the lowest bidder In each
case.
The Hampton Street branch is esti-
mated to cost s26,17o, and the Wlndci
Street branch $26,36S Contract was
also awarded to I. j. Smith and Com
pany for sewer in Rowland, Meadow
and other streets, to cost $i2,Sf7, and
to S. p. Clay for sewer on Dance ana
other streets, to cost s7357. others
contractors who secured lesser awards
| for sewer construction in various parts
of the city, all to come out of the pond
! issue for sewers, were j. c. Cheatwood,
j. B. Chewing, Javi Perkins, Fred
Robins and Fletcher and Kelly.
!! Contract was awarded TO c. F. La
! throp and Company for supplying the
| city with Old Dominion Cement at Sl.ol
per barrel. AS the city furnishes an
cement used in construction WORK,
and now has about four miles OIL sew
ers under contract, the amount OF the
cement contract this year Will be I'M
usually large.
Mr., Lynch said he had been informed
that the cement cost 80 cents more IN
barrels than in bags. Mr.. boiling ex-
planned that that was only when the
bags are returned intact, and that
when cement was delivered IN oaSs
there was danger OF damage by damp
ness and of having wet cement used
on the work. The contract was hnaiiy
awarded, the city reserving the right
to use either bags or barrels, AS might
be to the. best advantage, with the
usual rebate for bags returned.
CITY Engineer Boiling recommended
to the committee the appointment of
Beverly r. Crump as the arbitrator on
the part of the city in the proposed
arbitration as TO the joint use OF poles
between the municipal electric plant
and the Virginia Railway and Power
Company. The company is to appoint
another, and those two to select third
member of the board, the decision to
be final. The cost OF arbitration is to
be borne Jointly. In a letter City At
torney Pollard Endorsed the appoint
ment of Judge Crrrmp, saying that
there were legal questions involved.
He recently served on the condemnation
| commission appointed by the Hastings
Court to fix the value of Mayo's
Bridge.
CITY Engineer Boiling repbrted on
the recent slide at Thirty-tirst and
Grace Streets, where an avalanche or
earth slipped across the lower drive
way in Chinborazo Park, practically
destroying an old brick sewer In mir
ty-irst Street. He recommended that
the Church Hill tunnel Of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio be extended, or that
| the railroad company be required to
erect retaining wall TO avoid further
| slides, and that a new sewer be con-
structed from Thirty-hrst and Grace.
| embedded deep in the blue mari subsoil
| which he stated did not slip, the sewer
| to be continued on down the ravlne be-
| side the Park road and the railway
| tracks to joint the Bloody Run Ravine
\ sewer now being constructed near the
] Gas Works. The sewer is estimated &c
1 cost s12,43O, and will relieve complaint
from a large section of the doors OF
/ open drains beside the railway tracks
The matter was referred to the City
Attorney to report whether the city car
require the Chesapeake and Ohio tt
continue the tunnel and so make pos
sible the opening of Grace Stree
!, through to Chimborazo Park, as pro
jected.