Evening journal., 1913-09-23
CITY WANTS
STREET WIDE
B.GO. BRIDGE
So Informs Counsel For Com
pany Regarding Turnpike
Improvement
ALSO WANT NINTH
STREET APPROACH PAVED

Andrew u. Sanborn, counsel for the
IB. and o. Railroad Company, appeared
before the Directors OF the Street and
Sewer Department this morning and
asked what the board had decided to
do about the work on the west side
OF the B. and o. bridge on Ninth
street. He was informed that the
directors expected the railroad COM
pany to carry out its agreement with
the city and to build the approach
10 the bridge so that sidewalks could
be laid on Il regardless OF whether
the city intended to pave the street
now OF at later date.
The question of the Concord avenue
bridge was also taken up, and Mr..
Sanborn was informed that Il was
the sense Of the board that the
bridge should be built from building
line 10 building line. Mr.. Sanborn
said he understood that the city had
nothing 10 do with the bridge, as II
would not be in the city, and he hoped
that as the company had made an
lagreement with the Levy Court Il
erect the bridge that the city would
mot step in at this late time and hold
lup the project He was Informed
that the city wanted Il built from
building line to building line.
When asked whether the city woul'
attempt TO force the railroad 20 buil'
the bridge at that width by a reporte
from THE EVENING JOURNAL on
of the board said that was one of tn
, bridges the board has not crossed ye
! but that il was the sense of the boar
that the bridge should be this width.
A letter was received from the Amer
can Surety Company asking that th
department furnish the company with
letter stating that the contract whic
the city had with William II. Smalle
for furnishing materials TO the city ha
( been complied with. The matter wa
4 referred TO City Solicitor Daniel
! Hastings. The contract was carried on
with the city.
4 resolution amending the resolutio
y approved September 10, 1911, entitled g.
D resolution regulating the erection am
e maintenance of signs, awnings, ares
# ways, steps, porches, columns, vault
windows. doors. etc, on. in, across, upc
and over the public sidewalks, and r
pcaling certain ordinances relatiI
tl,sreto. Was given its first and secoI
II readings.
Y The new resolution provides that steT
porches, approaches or other inlets
). buildings may extend for a distance NJ
I. exceeding one third the width of q
! sidewalk. but not more than four fe
I. from the true building line where q
. grade is equal to or exceeds tall or III
!, OF one foot in twenty feet The pr
y visions apply only to the area betwe'
, Eleventh. Walnut. Tatnall and Froi
streets. and the steps be used only TOT
:, inlet to the first floor Of any building
i John y. Dunbar plumber, asked TN
4 the sewer on Fifth street between Ma
4 ket and King streets be lowered NJ
: Dunbar is doing work for a properi
; owner on this street, who has lower'
j.. his cellar below the sewer and can n
y drain his building into the sewer. II
/. board decided that il the sewer was
, he laid IL should be a l2-inch sewer u
!, stead Of a 6-inch pipe as Il "a at presen
/, and that II the property owner VIII pa
q for lowering the sewer the departnie
I. will pay for the difference between
inch pipe and l2-inch pipe.
resolution authorizing Charles
Leak and George W. Pierce, trading
Leak and Pierce to erect a railroad n
inc across lower Linden street
freight facilities for their business "
Given lis first and second readings.
IS, A letter was received from Joseph
s. Carpenter. .Ir.. asking that the depa
c. ment grade Spruce street betwe
n Twenty and twenty IN
o. streets and Twenty-third street
H. tween Pine and Spruce streets.
st The letter stated that u u conte
n plated to take about ten city blocks
e. The land in that vicinity Tor park p
lg poses and so there is a great amount
nj grading and filling TO be done. The s
rv nIus dirt from these streets can be M
.aJ Tor filling. The board will inspect
at streets.
r. A letter was received from Mrs. J.
,ly Bailey asking permission to set
he four Oriental plain trees on the Al
re walk ON Riverview avenue between L
70 aware avenue and Nineteenth str
~ The matter will be taken up with
'er city forester.
12 A letter to Mr.. Sparks from Thon
W. Hammond was read at the meeti
The letter complained Of the rep
work made on Sixth street. fr
Greenhill avenue TO the city line.
~ on Ford street. from Fourth to 81
N streets. The letter said that
from the bitches had been thro
OF into the streets and that they "
IN worse than before the attempted
an pairs had been made.
es- The board stated that the best
IN pairs possible had been made on
IN streets with the funds at hand.
ant --
ere DEATH OF DOUGLAS COCHRA