The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-02-24
WOULD lay MILES
OF NEW PAVING
Bids Invited by Board Will
Take Entire Street Appro-
priation.
NO FUNDS LEFT FOR GRADING
Forty-Two Blocks Of Smooth
Paving, Besides Broad
Street, in List.
NO FUNDS LEFT FOR GRADING

granite sDall paving will amount in
tho aggregate to more than the totDl
street appropriation to BIO carried il,
the annual budget for this year. III
all the work for which proposals have
been invited is Undertaken, there Viii
be nothing left for grading new streets,
for curbing, sutterins or for Rraveiiig
| streets In the outlying sections. other
than ouch work as can be done by the
city hands and carts. tf the work for
which lids arc to bc opened on March
| Ia is undertaken. aud all of the items
arc regarded AZ desirable. though per
haps not urgent all of this wears
street appropriation will be, expended
city leaving little or no provision for
growth. and a larger amount VIII ~
for smooth paving than ever before In
tho city's history.
Forfy-1TTo Blocks of smooth Paving
Aside from tho continuation of the
repavinS Of Broad Street. bids have
been invited for forty-two blocks OF
smooth paving In different sections
! while bids are to be opened Il, the
same time for thirty-thrcc blocks of
granite spall paving. For some years
tho annual appropriation ordinance has
provided street fund for grading,
gravel, curbs AMI cutters. and granite
sp3il paving, leaving all smooth pay
ing to be done by special appropijn-
| tion the object being TO check The ten
ocncy or tho old Street Committee 10
scatter separated blocks of expensive
rnvinE with no continuing plnn. and
where the taxable values did not jus
titE the Improvement.
The budget, IL Is statcd will carry
this year s250,0oO for streets generally
withou. limitation on the Adminiatra.
tive Board as to how IL shall be OK
Pchu.u Last year there was pro
Vldeu 100000 for streets generally
$4,000 for Broad Street. $4,000 for
new Lester street, $1,000 for West
Broad Street. $4,000 for Grove Ave-
nue.. and $500 for Lombardy Street.
making: II total of SSIS2GO
Five Btocks ON Broad street.
mo Board has invited bids for con-
tihuat.oi, OF the Broad Street paving
from ihird TO jefferson. a distance OF
nFc BLOCKS. The blocks on upper Broad
street seem to DC longer. AS $50. 900
suiiiced for seven blocks OF new paw
ing last year. while a like amount ia
apportioncd Tor only five blocks this
year, although the present contractor
tnc washington Asphalt Block and Tile
company. has offered to renew its prcs
ent contrac, on the same terms.
Bids for other smooth puyinp have
pecn invited by the ADMINISTRATIVE
ioard, returnablc March II, as fol-
lows: Ilnc street Broad to Frank
81. "'oNNs' LON baruN, Park to
MAIN, three blocks; Grove Aycnu. Al
olson To Boulevard. nvc blocks: Franz
IN street, Twenty eighth to Twenty
iinth, one block; beside Jefferson
rark' one block Randolph street
from Main Street To cemetery. ten
blocks; Marshall street. Ninth 70
INN one block; Twenty ninth street.
So. 90 ~ Grace. one block; Harrison
street Main TO Floyd. one block !:
Floyd Avenue. Morris TO I.omba rdy
tnrec blocks; Allison Street, Broad 10
hiohu'ncnt Avenue. two blocks: Parlt
avenue, lombardy to Meadow. four
blocks; Monument Avenue. Addison To-
DAVIS one long double block: Hanover
avenue Loinbardy TO Meadow. four
pi' AIbemarlc. Pine TO Laurel. one
niock: Iinc. Main to Cary. ono block
ana Beverly. Laurel to Cherry. one
niock' making total Of forty-tyo
docks Of varying length and width
the cost OF paving which will run anv
where from $1,000 a block on narrow
streets. to $4,000 a block on Monu
ment Avenue The cali for bids does
paving. so that bids may be cyncctcd
70 range from s1.2o per square yard
TOT bitumInous macadam, to SEQ Nor
square yard for asphalt block
Cary street Stricken From list.
Because of excessive claims for dam
|eeH oh tHe part OF abuttinS owners
nc ooard has stricken from Its list
curbing Cary Street from Allen Ave
nue. to the Boulevard. distance Of
Ton blocks. the estimate on which Was
Soo'ooo' BIDS have been Invited for
granite spall paving, returnable March
IA, for Broad Street, Allison to Rob.
inson' four long blocks OF double
width; Marshall Street from Twenty
Y
Baker, from First to Brook Avenue
eight blocks. and DuvaI, from first
10 BROOK Avenue, seven blocks. the
richmond and Hcnrico Railway to paw
part or the cost of this improve
ment; williamsburg Avenue, from
hen.h TO scott Street. five blocks, and
Main Street. from Rowland to the
Boulevard, seven blocks, making a
totai OF thtrty-threc blocks.
IN connection with the paving bids
IL IS matter OF some comment that
whiic tho standard price. on asphalt
biock paving has remained at $500 per
square yard since 1902 tho cost OF
erahi'l spall paving has increased
more than one third in the same ne
riod. pe
Forty-two blocks of smooth paving
AT $4,000 blocka price below what
such work has been costing for the
average block--would mean an OUTLAY
OF Sl26'oOO; thirty-threc blocks of
granite spalls at $4,000 would add
$4,000 and when $4,000 has been sot
apart to continue the rcpaving of
Broad street to jefferson. it will bo
seen That $4,000 Of the street fund
OF $250,oO0 has been apportioned, leay
Ing $4,000 for grading, gravel, curb
ing ana guttering throughout the city.
Demands Are Increasing.
All OF inc paving being of charac-
ter ana in "a locality where It is need
ed, AMI the obutting owners having
bcen given to understand through tho
invitation OF bids that tho work Will
be done. members OF the Admnistra-
live Hoard sec no way out save a con-
siderable increase in the street appro-
Dr'ation, either for the special items
LIFTED above. or for the general street
fund for tho newer sections. Certain
~ the board sees no reason for out
ting tho street appropriation below
what was provided last year. when
the demands are daily increasing, and
whei more than $1.o0O.0Oo Is being
expended In brick dwellings, in the
newer parts Of tho CITY each year.