The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-17
Taxpayers of Birmingham Have Not Succumbed to Bugabo0 of Hard
 Times.
INTERESTING DATA IS COMPILED BY
 MAURY NICHOLSON
Figures Are Taken From the Records of City Engineers Office-Includes Work Just Completed, Still
 Under Construction or
 Under Contract

The taxpayers of Birmingham, in reality. way down in their hearts. have not yet succumbed to the hard times bugaboo A little investigation and multiplica ton and addition yesterday produced the astounding fact that through their city government. the. taxpayers of Birming- ham at this very time of hard times" are spending a little over a quarter mil lion dollars of money in street improve ments, sewers, sidewalks and pavements,
 This is an estimated cost of street i'm provement work just completed, still un- der construction or under contract The data was compiled by Assistant City En- gineer Maury Nicholson upon instruc- tfbns from Commissioner James Wealth. erly. who has charge of the street de- partment, and who was asked for the in- formation by a reporter.
 The figures are facts, taken from the records in the city engineers office. Some of them are estimates. but they are ac- curate estimates made by members of the city engineering department, and will vary little from the actual cost after the work specified is completed
 Hard Times Not Here
 Many people, when informed of the figures will. no doubt, feel that if that much street improvement work is being done by the city of Birmingham, the hard times and money stringency which everybody is talking about must surely not have arrived yet in Birmingham.
 The data is given as follows Third avenue, Walker to Twelfth
 street, six blocks, asphalt, under
 contract, cost ........................$ 19, 500 Twenty-second street. south, Ave
 nue B to Avenue F. brick, four
 blocks. nearly finished ........ 1925 Twenty-sixth street, north, Eff
 teenth to Seventeenth avenue,
 three blocks, grading and macad
 amizing under construction. ...... 22,ooo Sanitary sewers. West End, four
 and a half miles. just completed 17,000 Thirty-elghth street, Avenues B to
 F, grading and macadamizing,
 just completed ...................... 7,ooo Thirty-frst avenue. Twenty-second
 to Twenty-fourth streets. grading
 and macadamizing. completed.... 4,300 Thirty-second avenue, Twenty
 sixth to Twenty-eighth streets,
 grading and macadamizing, com
 
 Eula street. one block, concrete
 paving, completed ................ HOO Sanitary sewers, East Birmingham,
 four miles, under construction. 22,000 Forty-first street, East Birming-
 ham, Eighth to Tenth avenues,
 paving under construction........ 6,600 Sanitary sewers. Owenton, two
 miles, under construction ... 11,oo0 Twenty ninth to Thirty-second
 ctr
 ley, grading and macadamizing, under construction ................ 4,a00 Pike avenue, Ensley. three blocks,
 grading and macadamizing ..... 4,S00 Ensley avenue, two blocks, asphal-
 tic concrete, completed ............ 2,3O0 Sanitary sewer. East Lake, five
 miles, under construction .. 15,aOo Twenty-fifth street, north, First
 to Eighth avenues, asphalt, just
 completed .......................... 2S,oOO Fifteenth street. south, Avenue F
 to Fourteenth avenue, eight
 blocks, asphalt, under construc-
 ton .................................. 10000 Twenty-third street. Ensley, sani-
 tary sewer. three-quarters mile.. 3,700 Thirty-hfth street, south. Avenues
 to F. two blocks, under con-
 tract, grading and macadamiz-
 ing ......................... 4,so0 Thirty-fourth avenue, Twenty-sev-
 enth to Twenty-ninth streets, as- phaltic concrete, under construc-
 ton ..................,....... s5oO Maplewood avenue. two blocks,
 concrete and asphalt, under con
 struction ........................ 3.s5o Twelfth street, north, Fountain
 avenue to Twelfth avenue, grad
 ing and macadamizing, under con
 struction ........................... 1,6o) Thirty-second street, Ens1ey. Four
 teenth to Fifteenth avenues,
 grading and macadamizing, un-
 der construction ..........,...... 2.5oo Cottonwood avenue. one block, as-
 phaf, under construction ........ $500 Sanitary sewers. Woodlawn, three
 quarters mile ....................... 1900 Twenty-fifth street. north. Twelfth
 to Seventeenth avenue, under
 construction, asphalt .....-........ IS, 400 Sidewalks in all parts of city in
 small jobs totaling cost off,. 1,Soo Total .$25l, ,4e5