Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-03-16
To RESUME WORK
ON IMPROVEMENTS
Continued from First Pagel


the Sucker Brothers Construction
Company, the contractor. will be to
tear out Of a couple of sections at Tus-
carora street. This was agreed upon
before the job was closed down for
the winter
The contractors originally had been
required to complete the wall in 200
working days, but an additional thirty
days has been allowed. To date about
half the time has been consumed and
approximately twenty-five per cent
of the wall is completed. According
to the specifications a working day.
is day upon which the stage of the
river is below three feet.
Work on the Creek Job
Unsatisfactory weather is all that
will prevent the start of work on the
creek. The stream is improved now
from its mouth to Hemlock street.
Between Market and Walnut the con-
tractor was working when operations
were discontinued for the winter. The
Job is practically finished from Reilly
TO Maclay. When the work is formally
started this Spring the contractor will
begin at these three points to join the
links.
The resumption OF the river dam
construction will hardly be possible
before June I. More than half of the
Job is completed and it is believed that
the contractor can finish before Fall.
Possibly 800 feet will be left open,
however, in order that the height of
the river may not be raised to such an
extent as to interfere with the con-
struction of the wall. The engineers
of the Board of Public Works figure
that the footwall should be completed
to "Hardscrabble" before the final
open link in the dam is closed.
To Decide Upon Wharf
No steps or wall will be constructed
from Herr to Calder streets and il is
likely that the section at Market street
will be left open until the remainder
Of the job is finished. Whether or not
a small wharf will be built at Market
street or whether the steps will be
continued, is yet to be decided.
Chances are that the section will be
left free Of either wall or steps. The
steps have been finished from Iron al
ley to Tuscarora street
The bond of the Central Construc-
ton and Supply Company, the low
bidder on the Dock street bridge, was
prepared to-day. The specifications
provide that the company shall begin
work within five days after notification
by Commissioner w. H. Lynch, super
intendent of streets and public i'm
provements. Sixty days are allowed
in which to complete the job. Com
missioner Lynch will likely notify the
company to begin by April provided
the contract is approved by City Coun-
ell tomorrow. In the meantime, it is
hoped the $4,000 bonus from the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
be paid.
Street Paving Plans
Harrisburg will have comparatively
little to do this year in the way of
street paving. In addition to a few
streets that were left over from last
year, Derry street from Eighteenth
to Twenty-second, and Maclay street,
Maclay from the Pennsylvania rail-
road to Cameron and Seventh street
from Emerald to Woodbine, are the
only sections to be improved. Some
grading incident to the changing of
the tracks by the Harrisburg Railways
Company will be necessary before the
Derry street job can be started and
this it is expected will be finished by
May 80. In the meantime a few sewer
connections will be made in that high
way. An additional block In Derry
street-from Twenty-second to Tween