The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1910-09-09
COUNCIL PASSES
PAVING ORDINANCE
Provides Brick For Certain
Streets, Cement Rock or
Gravel for Others.


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1t looks now as if there would be
some important paving operations under
way in Palatka before very long.
AT least the city council has done its
part by passing an ordinance which au-
thorizeS the board OF bond trustees to
go ahead with the work.
There are certain leading men in the
city who have contended for vitrified
brick, Others have insisted that brick
was TOO expensive-that not enough
streets could be paved with that mate
rial and that only cement rock, shell or
gravel could be spread with the money
in hand.
The ordinance reads like a comprom-
Use, in that ii provides that certain streets
shall be paved with brick, while on
others cement rock or gravel shall be
used.
AT the meeting of the council Tues
day night the committee appointed to
confer with the bond trustees, consist
ing of Mayor Howell A. Davis, and Al
dermen Benz. |. Gay and F. H. Wilson,
submitted its report. The committee
also had attached to its report table of
estimated cost for paving with the va
riouS materials, which the bond trustees
had had prepared by Engineer Cairns of
Gainesville.
The report of the council committee
stated that the committee in its recon-
mendationS had sought in so far as pos
Sible to meet the majority views of citi-
zenS, and named the streets which in its
opinion should be paved, together with
the materials to be used
In brief the Ordinance, which passed
unanimously and in full accord with the
committees recommendations, provides
for the paving of the following streets:
North Laurel street from Second TO
South Third Street-vitrified brick and
granite curbing.
South Third street from Laurel 10
Lemon StrcetS-vitrified brick and gran
ite curbing.
North Third street from Lemon 10
Reid Street-vitrified brick and granite
curbing.
Reid street from North Third TO Wa
ter streets vitrified brick and granite
curbing.
North Third street from Reid to Dun
ham-with Macadam, cement rock,
she'll, or gravel, with either granite or
concrete cutters and curbing.
River street from Laurel to the Grant
line-with Macadam, cement rock, shell
or gravel, with wood curbing.
South Fifth street from Lemon TO
Laurel-with Macadam, cement rock,
shell or gravel, with wood curbing.
Laurel street from South Fifth TO Kir
by street-with Macadam, cement rock,
shell or gravel, with wood curbing.
Kirby street from Laurel TO Morris
Street-with Macadam, cement rock,
she'll, or gravel, with wood curbing.
Kirby street from Morris 10 TecumSeh
strect-gravel and wood curbing
Tecumseh street from Kirby to the |
southwest corner of the West View |
Cemetery, and from that point across
the right of way as per ordinance passed |
May 4th, and approved May 9th, 1909, TO |
the Grant line-gravel and with wood |
The ordinance appropriates the sum of
Sc, $40, or so much of that sum as is
necessary from monies derived from |
the sale of paving bonds, or refunding |
bonds, by the board of bond trustees, |
for paying the city'S part of the expense |
of paving the above streets, and also |
provides that the streets be paved in the |
order named.
Another ordinance passed by the |
council on Tuesday night, and which |
will be cheerful news to the average tax |
payer, provides for levy of Is mills
for the coming year, reduction of 2
mills from the levy of the year just
closed. This means saving of 81 per |
thousand on the assessed values.