Evening journal., 1912-07-23
CITY STREET
IMPROVEMENT
Departments Will Work To-
Gether When BettermentS
Are TO be Made
ASK MONEY FOR
MORE SEWERS

Department this morning received
tho following letter from the Board
Of Water Commissioners. requesting
information Of prospective opera
.ions, and will notify the Water De-
partment they viii be glad to COM
ply with the request:
Gentlemen Relative to confer
ence OF members Of our Board and
your President and Street Commis-
sioner. held this morning Il is our un-
derstanding that in the future you
viii advise this Department OF any
information you may receive upon
prospective building operations on
streets on which e Is your intention
10 place improved paving, together
with the time when you intend START
ing such improvements.
.'rn the endeavor to cooperate
with YOU in this work each instance
thus called to our attention VIII DC
given due consideration by TINS
BOARD and the work decided neces-
sary completed as rapidly as possi-
bic. Respectfully yours
John II. Kienle,
"Chicf Engineer
Samuel II. Baynard and William I.
Bancroft appeared before the depart
mont relative to the 125-foot extension
OF the Franklin street trunk line
sewer from Eighteenth street SOUTH
which the Street and Sewer Depart
ment had declared they would build
n the Park Board would pay the cost
about $500. Mr. Baynafd went 70 the
meeting OF City Council last week ana
aaked that Council allow money now
wing in the bank for park improve
ments to be applied to the sewer ex-
tension which rs within park limits.
CITY Council went on record TO the
erect that the Street and Sewer De-
partment should bear the expense out
OF their $4,000 special fund Tor
sewer construction.
Directors OF the department viii go
before City Council TO urge that the
Park Board bear the expense, as the
Park Board IS willing to do one
point made by the Street and Sewer
Department is that in the agreement
by which they were given the S9O,oOU
special fund, there was q clause ol
exception stating that this tund
should only be applied to new sewer
construction, and that the proposed
extension comes under this eNcep-
ton.
The department claims that the use
OF this special fund for extension OF
alteration OF sewers already con-
structed nulliies the very purpose fol
which the fund was asked, that Is
TO have permanent fund for new
sewer construction
Mr.. Bayard asked for the grading
OF eighteenth street, between Frank
lin and Van Buren,, which was ordered
done.
Complaint was made OF an open
trench on Woodlawn avenue between
Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets that
has not been guarded by lights at
night The board ordered an inves-
tigation
City Solicitor Daniel o. Hastings
reported TO the directors that the
conditions mentioned in the franchise
granted TO the Wilmington and
Southern Traction Company to the
effect that permission should be OBJ
tanned from the Levy Court for the
line to cross Market street bridge
and from the various railroads con
cerned TO cross their tracks south o
Market street, had been compiled
with. The next step will be approva
of plans. rails, location of poles, etc.
by the Street and Sewer Depart
ment
Permission was given the VII
mington and Philadelphia Traction
Company to erect several new poles
provided they we're of iron. Thl
company will be ordered by the De
partment to remove signal and tele
phone boxes from Market stree
poles The company stated in a let
ter they would remove broken glas
on their tracks which had been com
Department. They thought the glas
came from the light globes above
probably broken by boys.
Alfred TAYLOR. OF No. 4iS Sout
Franklin street. was one OF a numbe
Of persons complaining OF flooded ce
lars. Curbing had been ordered o
Linden, between Franklin and Broom
streets, and will be laid at once.
A. s. Reed OF the A. S. Reed an
Brother Company, who Is building fou
houses fronting on second,street mes
Broome, asked sewer connection
which will be made through Fulto
street sewer.
Grading OF Monroe street, betwee
Eighteenth and Nineteenth street
was refused as the street is priva
property. Title to Il could not
taken by the city until grading
done at the owners expense.
A gutter was ordered on Hea
street, between c and ID streets. whe
flooded cellars were complained Of.
Howell S. England asked The posi
bility Of sewer connections for pro
critics at No. 1904 and 3506 Mark
street, owned by Mrs. James Brandc
The property cannot be connect
until a new sewer system is built
IN that section, Of which there is
prospect for a very long time.
Application for sewer on Tweni
seventh street. between Madison a
Monroe. where flooded cellars We
complained OF. was ordered placed
the list 10 be constructed.
SUNDAY CAMP SERVICE.
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