The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-12-12
CITY WILL NOT
PLUNGE into Debt
improvements Will Be Held
Down to the Appropria-
tons for This Week.
MAYOR AGAINST SEWER
Believes Construction of the
Reeveston Sewer Will
Be Too Expensive.

Resolutions for proposed street i'm
provements in 1913 were approved and
passed by the board of public works
today
The most important improvements
brought up were the paving of North
and South Eighth streets with brick
and the building Of a sewage system
through Reeveston place.
The paving of Eighth street will
cost the city approximately $4,000.
If the building of the proposed system
costs more than So, 900 it will not be
undertaken, according to Mayor Tim
norman.
Mayor Zimmerman seriously object
ed to the plan of building the sewer
system in this part of the city He
said that it will necesstate the issu-
ance Of heavy bonds if this and all
other proposed improvements are
made.
City Engineer Charles said he knew
of many buildings which would have
been constructed last year if there
We're a sewage system in Reeveston
'If it will be made this year the reve-
nue. derived from the new houses will
DS Idi nc cUOuSH W u6lD pay Iue
amount of the bond which might have
to be issued, and will justify the city
Mr. Charles. The resolution to have
the improvement made was passed on
condition that it would not cost the
city more than $4,000.
improvements.
Resolutions to have the following
improvements made were passed: Ce-
ment roadway in the alley between
North Twentyfirst and Twentysecond
streets from ID to e, sanitary sewer
in Fairview in the alley between Cross !
hall and Green street from alley south |
of Grant street to School street: i'm |
provcment of North D street by con-
structing a cement sidewalk from
North Nineteenth street to North
Twenty fourth; alley between South
Eighth and Ninth to be cemented
from to B; cement walk, curb and
gutter on both sides Of South Fifth
street and grading and leveling the
road way from X to L street; cement
curb and gutter on both sides of
South Second street and a sidewalk
from to B street on the west side
sewer in the alley between State and
John street and State and Williams
running from the trunk sewer in Sher-
idan street to Northwest Second
street; sewer from the crematory to
river.
Other improvements
Resolutions were also passed ia
voring the following improvements:
A sewage system in the south east
ern part of the city; trunk sewer be-
ginning at South Fifteenth and B
street running east on B to Twenty
first street; laterals running south
from the trunk to e in South Six
teenth street, one running south on
Seventeenth street from trunk to a
point 300 feet North of South E street:
one running from South Eighteenth
street from sewer to a point 800 feet
North of E street; one running south
on Nineteenth street from the trunk
sewer to point 400 feet north of
South E street; one running south on
South Twentieth street from said sew
err to a point fourteen feet south of
Reeveston; one running from South
Twentyfirst to trunk sewer on Reesev-
ton Road: bricking of the roadway of
North Eighth street seven feet north
of Elm place cunning to the south line
of the intersection Of North A and
Eighth streets; bricking of South
Eighth street from South to H
street. The probable cost of both these
streets will be $4,000; sanitary sew
err in the first alley east of north
Third street east in alley south of
North A to the rear of lot No s, thence
in northeasterly direction to point
$50 feet more or less north of A
street.
Resolution for bricking Main street
from Fourth street to the Main street
bridge and specifications for improv-
ing Johnstown street from Second
street to the river We're ordered re-
paired. Mayor Zimmerman said that
although the resolutions were passed
by the board. the city promises to
carry out only those which it can af-
ford to make. No improvements. will
be made where they will cost the pro-
perty holders more than half of their
assessed taxes.
The resolution for a sewer from
North G. to river between North Four
teenth and Fifteenth streets was held
up pending the investigation of the
city engineer. 1t was said that the re-
quest for this improvement was for
personal gain rather than for the good
of the people who would be taxed for
the improvement