Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-01-04
COUNTY TO RUSH
PAVING BEGUN
LAST YEAR
Board Will Keep Workmen on
Marietta, Georgia and More
land Till They're Finished.

An incomplete program for street and
road Improvement for 1919. which con-
templates the completion of Considerd-
bile paving on Auanta's cross-town
thoroughfares. as well as other street
developments projected during 1912, was
approved today at the first meeting Of
The public works committee of the Fui-
ton commission
Chairman shelby Smith. While assert
ing that the fun program for 1913 hard
ly would be- mapped ont before Feb
luary. declared at the outset that it
was the committees Intention TO com
plete without delay the work authorized
by the board last year.
This means that the county force viii
be kept on the Marietta street paving.
the Georgia avenue and the Moreland
avenue work, ana then switched TO the
Ivy street regarding as soon as the
city Is ready to undertake that job
To improve Glmer.
The paving and regarding of Gimer
street to complete cross-town thor
oughfare by way Of the Washington
street viaduct. win be undertaken by
the county this year
1t is planned also to use the force Of
convicts at the Miner camp exclusively
for sewer work The members of the
public works committee were uuani-
nous today in their decision that the
Highland avenue sewer work was to
be completed within the next six
months
Commissioner Smith. speaking for the
committee in detailing the work pro-
iected during 1912, which would be
rushed to completion, said.
1t is the intention Of the reorganized
board to stick by last years program
where the work has been started or is
found TO be necessary
Opens Gross town Route.
The Marietta street paving Will con-
tinue with as big a force as the county
can muster. The Georgia avenue paw
ing. one of the most important Jobs
now under way, will be completed this
year without doubt
This Georgia avenue job. with the
regarding and paving of Gilmer street
from Ivy street at the intersection Of
Edgewood avenue TO Washington
street at the Auditorium Armory. and
the regarding and paving of Ivy street
to Peachtree will open up a cross town
thoroughfare connecting the Grant park
and West End sections with an the
north side
Commissioner Smith said he expect
ed that a smooth pavement along such
a cross town route would take consid-
cradle traffic off the Whitehall-P Peach
tree viaduct and tighten the traffic at
Five Points.
The Moreland avenue paving will be
another cross-town line improvement
with the paving completed, the Grant
park section and Ormewood win have a
smooth drive to Inman Park. Druid
Hills and other sections on the north
side.
Will Widen West Hunter.
The committee agreed to stand by the
work of its 1912 predecessors in re
moving the dirt and digging the bitches
and putting down the old material foI
the proposed Ivy street regrade.
Another improvement to be underta-
ken on the south side is the widening
Of West Hunter street to the Adams
vile district Residents in the section
west of the Southern railroad tracks
appeared before the commission last
year. but this job was passed up
1t was announced that dwelIers ii
West Hunter street had made all ar
engagements for the widening, and it re-
NAMED only for the county TO begin to
put the street in better shape
Chairman Smith said that the fun de
tails of the 1913 program would be sub
uitted TO the board some time in Feb
luary. and the arrangements with the