The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-09-08
REM0NSTRANCE IS
FILED AGAINST DAM
Another Complaint Made to
Board of Works by
Roller Mills.
NEW BRIDGE FLOORING
Contracts are Let For I'M
prOvements in New
ReevestOn Place.

A remonstrance from the Richmond
Roller Mills company against the con-
struction of new dam across the riv
er below the Main street bridge, again
brought this matter before the board
of works this morning.
G.. G.. Carpenter, manager of the
Richmond Roller mills near the Doran
bridge. claims that there was a con-
slant backwater because OF the dam,
and wants the city to prevent it from
being built as high as it was last year.
He says that a dam two feet lower
would answer the requirements of the
plants and at the same time would re-
lieve his plant of the back water
No action was taken on the remOn-
STRANGE. 1t was placed on file and will
be brought up when the r. H., | and f
traction company and the Light, Heat
and Power company take further steps
to have the dam built.
The contract for an improvement
amounting to SIS, so was awarded
to John Hipskind. The improvement
which consists of three parts, is !
Reeveston, and will be built with no
expense to the city. The contracts
provide for the grading crawling,
curbing and filling of the street, the
placing of curbs around the park
places, cement walks on both sides Of
the streets and the filling OF the park
ing places with good earth suitable
for sowing grass. The contractor also
has a contract for the construction Of
cement walks.
The contract for the construction of
a cement alley a half a square long
between Tenth and Eleventh streets,
north of Main, was awarded to F. E.
Slick
Because all traffic to the hospital
must pass over the Tenth street
bridge, the board will take steps to
have a smooth flooring replace the
present rough board floor of the
bridge
The owners of the KID Cabinet COM
pany, whose building is now under
construction on Center street, petit
toned the board for fire protection.
The city agreed to pay for one fire
hydrant which gives the company
5OO-foot extension without expense.
The company will arrange for the lay
ing of the remaining 250-foot main ex
tension.
A complaint by DR.. E. B. Grosvenor
that the water works company has
failed to place National avenue in its
original condition after making main
repairs, was ordered investigated. The
board requested the company to re-
pair Pearl and Fifth streets in West
Richmond, as it is claimed that the
water works company left the streets
in a bad condition, following the lay
ing of a main in West Pearl street.
resolution for the opening of
South | streets from Eighth to Ninth
streets was adopted.
The sewers failed to carry off the
water from the heavy rain Saturday
afternoon and the board received the
usual number of complaints today. In
West Richmond, II sewer heads were
almost washed out by the rain.
Because of the complicated system
of keeping books according to the form
Of the public utilities commission, SUI
perintendent Nimrod Johnson, of the
city light plant, will take up with the
board of works Thursday the plan
adopted by other companies here. The
water works company and telephone
company have secured the services of
an expert accountant to teach the
bcokkeepers the new system. Pratt
~ IN, No x-ol,
alton of the water works company for
the city, and is we'll known here.
The bookkeepers of the city claim
that the members of the commission
do not understand the system and
have secured experts to explain it to
them The methods were borrowed
from the public service commission of
Wisconsin. Three days have been set
aside when the commission experts
will explain to expert accountants the
method of keeping books according to
the system.
There are now fourteen accounts on
the books of the city light plant
These will be replaced by 12S ac-
counts when the public service COM
mission is in use.
The new machinery is rapidly being
installed in the light plant Two en-
gines and generators are expected
next week. Last week large excitor
was installed. The walls of the build
ings are completed to the middle of
the second story.
City Attorney Bond will petition rhe
court for the appointment of an ap-
praiser to take the value of an excitor
which the city plant wishes to sell
The machine is too small for the work
at the plant. Because it is valued NJ
more than S100. state law requires
that it be appraised before it is sold