Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-04-19
Council Bluffs.
BROADWAY PAVING ORDERED
Council Passes Ordinance, No 0bjec.
tions Being Made.
WIRES MUST GO UNDERGROUND
Telegraph and Telephone Companies
+ Accede TO Request and Improve
ment VIII be Hurried
in short order.

Yesterday was the day fixed by the city
council for objections from those who OPP
posed the requirement of all OF that por-
tion OF Broadway surfaced with granite
blocks not included in the original repave-
ment resolution passed last fan providing
for the improvement of that portion lying
between Second and Sixth streets.
The directors failed to take notice or
else had permitted their objections to be
dissipated, for not a single protest was
filed at the meeting of the council last
night With manifest satisfaction the
pending ordinance was called up and
passed without a ripple of opposition.
Broadway will now be paved from the
Methodist church to the Northwestern
depot. II there are any property owners
who still oppose 1t they have rested too
long on their right and will now object
in vain, for there is no law they can
invoke to prevent the work being done.
wires Go Underground.
The council also called up and smoothly
passed the ordinance ordering underground
all telephone, telegraph and electric light
wires the ordinance specifying that the
conduits must be laid by May l. The
original ordinance introduced a week ago
and laid over for conferences with the
managers of the Postal and Western Union
Telegraph companies was slightly amended
permitting the telephone companies to
maintain poles required for the distribution
of their wires where required and poles
at Eleventh street for the connection with
the cable and aerial wires. For the re-
moval OF the poles and the placing Of
the wires in the conduits the companies
were given until January l. The ordinance
also permits the erection Of poles II de-
sired in the alleys in the blocks facing
Broadway on the north and south sides
the fun length of the street. The wire
companies agree to begin the work of lay
ing their conduits at once, finishing before
Contractor Wickham gets ready to begin
repaving. George Nicoll, local manager of
the Western Union, was present at the
meeting last night and told the council
that he had nothing further to request for
the company.
Filler on Broadway.
While the council was considering the
paving matter Mayor Maloney and City
Engineer Etnyre made their report con-
corning their discoveries on their mission
to Chicago to inquire into the best character
OF filler to be used on Broadway. They
spent from Thursday until Saturday at
the work and visited Elgin and Aurora as
well as Chicago. On Thursday they walked
about ten miles in Chicago looking at
brick pavement that had been treated with
the Sarco- asphaltum filler. 1t is rather
new thing in Chicago, but It is meeting
with increasing favor At Elgin they
found pavement that had been in use for
five years and dug out some of the Sarco
"a
deterioration. At Aurora 1t had been In
use for four years, and Was in high favor
In their report to the council they re-
Trained from directly recommending It, but
stated that its advantages were favorable
to a less noisy street and the greater ease
with which the pavement could be opened
and repaired. They said the cement filler
was a little cheaper and was better
preservative of the brick. Their report
also contained the statement that at the
meeting Of the National Association of
Engineers two years ago the engineers re-
fused to recommend 1t, but at the meeting
last January the report stood to .. Both
were Enthusiastically impressed with the
Sarco.
other Paving Matters.
The resolutions ordering the pavement of
East Pierce street to Canning which were
introduced several weeks ago were finally
passed. The contract with e. A wickham
for the requirement. of South Sixth street
was approved and the mayor ordered to
sign 1t. Completion Of the passage of the
paving and curbing resolutions affecting
North Harrison street was also affected
A number or resolutions providing for
sewers were passed. One calls for the
construction OF an eight-inch sewer on
Mornngside avenue to the end Of Cooper
avenue and another from Twelfth avenue
from Third street to the east side OF High.
A dozen bids for furnishing 100 feet of
fire hose were opened. The prices ranged
from 65 cents to Sl.10 foot, all with guar
antees of three years service and to sus-
tain a water pressure of 400 pounds. They
were referred to the fire and light com
mttee for tabulation.
Detention Hospital.
Alderman Beebe called attention to the
very bad condition of the Detention hospi-
tai again, and said IT was a good deal Of
a disgrace to the city and county, There
are no inside toilets and people suffering
from serious attacks OF smallpox were
Obliged to go out in cold and stormy
weather. often at great jeopardy of their
lives. He said the roof was full Of holes
and leaking badly whenever there was a
rain. He said last week two men and one
woman were detained there. and that If
there had been another patient Custodian
O'Grady would have had to house him in
the barn that was last used for a glandered
horse. The matter was referred to the
committee on city property with instruc-
tons to ascertain the cost OF the required
improvements