The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1911-10-04
FOURTH WARD
gets BUSY
Continued From Page one.


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the ward at general meeting to be
held Oct. 16. at the courthouse.
Judge Young advanced the idea that
/ II would be well to send the city en-
! gineer to Chicago and have him COM
/ pare his paving plans and specifica-
tons with the plans and specifica-
tions that are used In the windy city.
There is no place in the west where
there Is so much paving done as in
Chicago and during the recent years
/ the board OF municipal improvements
In Chicago have been experimenting
with the new kinds OF paving now
being used and would be adequately
able to advise the Fargo city engineer
and the property holders regarding
the paving situation specifically as
well as generally.
The question of the Dolarway paw
ing has been talked SO much here
| that the executive committee deemed
! 1t worthy Of the most careful investi-
cation. To that end the committee
was selected and the men will go to
Ann Arbor, where a thorough investi-
cation OF the new method of paving
win be made. Ann Arbor. Mich. has
more Of this paving than any other
city in the country, 1t being discover
ed and manufactured by a man In the
Michigan university town.
The raising Of the funds for the
payment Of the expenses Of the city
engineer and the delegation to Ann
Arbor viii be made among the prop
erty holders of the ward. 1t liz con-
ceeded that in the long run tho resi-
dents Of the ward win be repaid for the
information received by its represent
tatives and It Is expected that there
| will be very little trouble expert
enced in getting the funds raised.
The city engineer In his trip to Chi
cago will be limited I'm the amount
of money he is to spend for the ward.
Likewise the members of the COM
mittee who will go to Ann Arbor will
have limitation placed on its funds,
At the meeting last evening 1t was
decided to get out card Of questions
and have every property owner an
swer all of the questions on the card
III. w. Gearey, N. G. Young and w.
J. Hancock were named as a COM
mittee to prepare the card and dis
tribute II.
On the card the property owner Of
the ward will be asked questions re-
garding what he wants in the way
of paving, as to materials, width of
streets, parkways, curbing base, time
and method of payment as well as such
other things that the committee shall
see fit to place on 1t. 1T is expect
ed that in this manner statistics can
be complied which will show the ex-
act preferences OF the property hold
ers Of the ward.
In cases where the property Is own
ed by parties living out Of the city,
an endeavor win be made to get a
card signed by the property owner, by
the aid of the mails. The commit
tees that have been asked to inyesti-
gate the different opinions Of the resi-
dents Of each street and avenue in
the ward will manage the card dis
1 trihution and return.
4 Another committee was instructed to
| call upon the managers of the teIe-
phone. gas and electric light COM
panies regarding what can be done
towards the permanent laying of con-
duits and underground wires in the
ward. The city officials will be ques-
| toned regarding the laying Of sewers
4 anu WdACE AAuAAA0s ~ 10 AAAE AA@N4SA1AA
Of the ward to have everything that
| is to go under the streets for several
years to come, laid down before any
paving 10 laid.
There was good deal of discussion
regarding the width Of the streets.
For the purpose Of cutting down ex-
penses it was suggested that the
streets all be made narrower, being
twenty six feet wide and the avenues
thirty feet in width. However, there
was a good deal Of opposition to this
| and it Is probable that the streets
| will all remain the same width as
| they are now.
Some of the residents, at the pres
emit time, seem to want one kind of
paving on their street, while on other
streets another kind Is desired. There
Is some talk OF having each street
made a separate paving district and In
this manner every street can have
the kind OF paving that the property
owners on It DESIRE regardless of the
| wishes of the neighboring street. II
the contract for the paving Is to be
let at once and all the paving is to
be uniform, it viii remain the same and
be one paving district for the en-
tire ward.
| Chairman Gearey Of the meeting has
| not vet named his committee to cali