The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-02-26
BOILING PLEADS
FOR COOP GRAFTON
City Engineer Would Prevent
Constant Tearing Up Of
City Streets.
PRESENTS ANNUAL REPORT
His Work Cost Only IS Per
Cent. Of Total Charges
for Construction.

The annual report OF City Engineer
Charles r. Boiling was submitted ia
Mayor Richardson yesterday. anu
shows one of the busiest years on re-
cord in the way of now construction
The department has supervision of all
work and all expenditures for streets.
sewers, parks and Improvement Of the
James River. under direction OF thrca
Council committees
The force consists of tho CITY EN-
Sinecr. SIX assistant engineers, four
oiilcc assistants, ono draughtsman. ono
rodman and n special assistant en-
sincer IN Washington ward--D. L, La
trade. who was formerly City Engineer
Of Manchester
in outlining some Of the specific I'm.
provemcnts completed during the year.
TIC City Engineer calls attention TO
the asphalt block paving Of tho road.
bed and sranolthic Sidewalks around
The entire block on which tho John
Marshall High School Was recently
erected: the Improvement to s;idcwalks.
turfins and tree planting on Chin
oorazo Boulevard formerly Thirty
foufth Street: the curling, gathering,
paving wallSways and tiIrfinG Of
Monument Avenue between tho Boulc-
yard and tho Eoscncath Road and to
q large amount OF permanent improve
ment, SUCH 8 grading. curbing gutter
Ing and paving. both within tho old
and new corporation limits.
What Work HIM Cost.
Expenditures for Improvement and
maintenance including tho grounda
and parks, were as follows: Streets
generally, Sasl24s.aa: special accounts
territory. s35.l25.Sa; Wa shinston Ward.
;i5ei5.35: grounds and parks. s47.-
I6i13; James River Improvement, Si4,-
Siai9 This makes total Of work
done on vouchers OF this department
OF s615.342.S5.
The pay roll Of the Engineering Do
pariment for the scar was saoslo
making the percentage OF cost for en-
Sinecring and supervision 80 per cent,
or much less than tho average est
mated cost of engineering and super
vision, D per cent. being ordinary al
lowed BY railway and other large cor
porat ions.
Sewer bond Issue.
The balance brought forward from
1910 from the sewer bond issue was
sSsoo65.5o. on which payments were
made for work completed amounting
to s21o,966.5a, while s36.190 was trans
ferred TO sewers generally. and $4,000
TO sewer connections. a large num-
her Of trunk and lateral sewers have
been or arc now being built, including
a trunk sewer leading from SEVENTH
teenth Street TO Paramount Avenue
and the Niechanicsville Turnpike: the
sewer along MochanicsTille Turn pike
10 O Street and along Street ans
Darlington Street to Twcnty-fourth
Street. providing the main drainage FOR
ali that section. Of tho city between
seventeenth and Twenty sixth Streets
and Ncnablc street and The new cor.
~poration line.
Another most important sewer ex.
tends along the Bloody Fun ravine
from Williamsburg Avenue TO a point
near The east portal Of the Chesapeake
and Ohio tunnel Another now under
construction extends along the ravine
from The Government Road to Leigh
and Thirty-fourtli Streets. Still another
most important sewer. now nearly
completed. extends along shepard
street. ParEc Avenue and West Strcc,
from the Boulevard 10 Cary Street
and drains large area OF the an
neNed tcrritor" west Of the Boule.
ward
Others Under Contract.
IN addition 10 these. contracts for
trunk sewers to drain the large and
thickly built up territory south Of
Cary Street. between the old and new
corporation lines. have been recently
.
;icipatcd that BY the end OF 1911 near
iN all of tho important trunk sewers
necessary for the drainage and SAM.
tary Improvement OF the annexed ter
ritory north Of James River will have
been completed
The report says ''In connection
With tho sewers, the sewer conncc.
tons to lots have been extended az
the main sewers wero built, and the
water mains and connections have
closely followed. II is most irnpcra-
tive for gbod and economical reasons
that the gas mains and the lot con
nections should be made along These
streets before any permanent street
Improvement is made as otherwise it
results in utterly running tho street
in tho subsequent laying OF these pipes
and their connections. After the
streets arc improved and sewer ana
water connections made, and the gas
connections not made, the Improvement
TO the street Is all lost by the subsc-
Gucnt digging"
Knowles refuses TO Cooperate.
notwithstanding tho urgent recon-
mendations OF the City Engineer II,
this regard. superintendent Knowles
mud tho Committee on Light have re-
fused TO cooperate. although the Wa.
ter Department and Superintendent
Davis are giving every assistance in
protecting tho streets.
At the last meeting OF tile light
Committee. Mr.. Boiling reported that
sewers and water mains had been laid
In West Cary street from the old ia
tho now corporation limits. and that
lis department was preparing to grade
and gravel the street this spring, and
asked that all house connections for
Gas he made. On recommended ton OF
Mr.. Knowles, the Light Committee ia
bled tho request, refusing to make tho
connections at this time. prcfelring to
dig in the street one by one as new
houses are erected
Wants Larger Force.
Mr.. Boiling reports that with IS large