The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-02

/ COufeISinS 10 the east ana west SlQeS
of bridge at both the north and the
south ends thereof
| 3. GENERAL CHARACTER OF
IMPROVEMENT.
That the general character of the
improvement petitioned for herein
and herewith recommended, be the es-
tablishing of a proper grade there
fore, and in conformity with the
grades of other and already estab
lished highways Herewith connected
in so far as the same can be done.
By the plating of said highway by
providing and establishing of Ways
along the each side Of thirty foot i'm
| provement for eventual and subse-
quent and further improvement by
sidewalks and parking places.
| That the thirty foot in width for
| highway along the center thereof be
further improved by the construction
along the each side of said thirty foot
| highway, except in so far and in so
much as is occupied by bridge above
referred to, Of cement curbs and re-
tanning walls of proper and suitable
and practicable width, and of some
six inches in width along the top
| thereof, and in heighth above eventu-
| al surface of the highway of some
! eight inches, and in connection there
with the building and construction
along the entire length of such curbs
and retaining walls and on the high
ways sides thereof of cement flanges
! or wings or S~tters, of the uniform
width of eighteen inches, and such
| wings or flanges of elevation and
grade to be flush with the finally i'm
proved grade of highway at the sur
! face thereof, the such cement con-
struction along the both sides of said
i improved part of highway being of
| such character as to provide for the
proper drainage of highway so i'm
| proved, and of such construction as to
preclude and avoid to greatest pos
sible degree the raveling and washing
away and wasting of the crushed
stone and highway material used in
the construction of the roadway pro-
| per.
Further that the said cement con-
! struction and said highway for its
full length thereof to be provided with
proper drains and sewers leading
therefrom to carry away all surface
waters from the said finished and i'm
proved highway, and also said con-
crete and cement construction to be
of such form as to provide for any 9th
er plated highways entering into
and joining with said improved part
of said highway, and also of such
form as will permit drives and road
ways through, over and across the
same, and especially to the several
entrance ways to the property of the
Richmond Lake and Park Company
/ bordering upon a part of said pro-
posed to be improved highway.
That the center of said highway be.
tween said lines of cement construc.
ton be further improved by the ex.
cavation of the soil therefrom and
therealong to sufficient depth to pro-
vide for permanent bed and founda,
ton Of cement with crushed stone,
or crushed stone of various size
screenings placed therein and built
up thereby to grade of surface of high
ing sizes and screenings for proper
matchmaking construction, and the
same throughout and in course of ap-
plication in filling to be thoroughly
rolled and packed by use of and roll
| ing with road roller of some ten to
twenty tons in weight, and all in
keeping with the most approved meth
DDS of construction of macadamized
roadways.
Further that the surface and upper
! layers of macadam in said improved
portion of highway in the application
thereof be treated with some form or
substance like unto tarvia or some
other equally dust-proof material, the
same acting as a binder to the said
macadam, and all in keeping with the
most approved methods of construc-
! ton of macadamized roadways.
i Further these petitioners request
that this copy of petition and dupli-
Gates hereof circulated and signed will
all be Considered as one petition.
And said petitioners, and each of
them, as hereinafter subscribed here
by and herewith petitions for the i'm
Iprovement of the said highway as here
! in above stated or in substantial COM
pliance Herewith, and hereby request
and petition that all proper steps and
proceedings be taken on this petition
upon its presentation as by law provid-
ed. Respectfully petitioned,
Edgar NJ Haas, etal.
Notice is further given that said pc
tition will be presented to the said
Board of Commissioners of the said
! County of Wayne, State of Indiana, on
! Saturday, July 18th, the same being
during the regular July, 1918. term and
session of said Beard and said Court.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have
hereunto set my hand and the seal
of the said Board of Commissioners
of said Wayne County, State of In
diana, this twenty-fourth day of June.
1913. Lewis S. Bowman,
Auditor of Wayne County, State of
Indiana.
! (SEAL)
! GARDNER. JESSUP & WHITE,
Attorneys. jun 25-jul .