The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-06-24
COUNCIL TO TAKE
ADVANT AGE OF LAW
Three-mile-road Law to Be
Used in Twelfth Street
Improvement.
MANY BRICK STREETS
At a Low Cost to Property
Owners-Health Dept.
Gets $500.

Council last night voted to take ad-
vantage of the three-mile-road law IN
the Improvement OF North Twelfth
street and North street by passing a
resolution signifying that it favors the
improvement. This is the second time
the city will have employed the three:
mile-road law for the improvement OF
township roads, Tenth street from H
to the north corporation line having
been the first street improved under
the law within the city.
The discussion in council last night
of taking advantage of the law within
the city limits is the first step towards
securing a number of brick streets in
the city at a low cost to the property
owners. Although several councilmen
at first objected to the use of the law
within the city, after hearing the argu'
ments of City Attorney Bond and VIII
fred Jessup, nine of the eleven council
men present voted for the passage OF
the resolution.
Mr.. Jessup stated that should coun'
Gil show itself favorable of the con-
struction of brick streets in the city
under the provisions of the three-mile'
road law, several other improvements
will be brought up soon. One of these
will be the improvement of North j
street from Tenth street to Nineteenth
street and Nineteenth street and Gaar
road to the New Paris pike. The city
now has an opportunity to secure a
system of brick streets through the
city.
Total Almost Miles.
The proposed improvements in the
city under the three mile-road law
total almost eight miles. Should the
improvements be made, with those al
ready decided on, within two years
the city will have more than nine miles
of brick streets constructed under this
law. Two of these are boulevards
each more than two miles in length
in the city limits.
The Improvement for which the
resolution was framed is the brickine
of North J street from Tenth street
to Twelfth street and North Twelfth
street from j street north to the cor
poration line at the top of the Twelfth
street hill
This Improvement will be great ad.
vantage to the city as that part of the
road is washed out at every rain and
costs more to keep up than any other
street in the city.
Use Any MateriaE
Under the provisions of the three
mile-road law, the roadways may be
constructed of any material which the
county council names. Councils reso'
luton last night, however, contained
a clause by which the roadway must
be thirty feet wide and of brick. The
improvement will be more than one
half mile in length in the city limits
but will also extend for some distance
on the marlborough pike.
A spirited discussion of the law was
entered into by almost all of the coun-
cilmen. Several exprestSd their opin-
ions as directly against the applica-
ton of the law within the city limits
while others demanded to know why
Richmond could not have taken ad-
vantage of the law sooner.
Councilman Won Pein declared that
he could not vote for the resolution
because property owners along the
line of the improvement of South
Eighth street are paying the full cost