The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-18
BOARD TO PAVE
NORTH SEVENTH
WITH CONCRETE
Second Petition for Cement
Roadway Contains Names
of Twenty of Thirty Resi-
dent Property Owners.
Argument That Brick Paving
Costs More Wins Fight,
Though Causing Feud in
NeighborhOod.

NelghbOrhOOd.
| A petition for the paving of North
Seventh street from A street to Fort
Wayne avenue, with reinforced con-
crete signed by twenty Of the thirty
resident property owners. was pre-
sented to the board of public works
| today. The petition will be examined
and if legal the board will order ce-
| ment paving for the street tomorrow.
Last week there were only eight
! petitioners for concrete paving, all
residents of the block between North
A and B streets. At that time Pc
tion for brick paving was presented,
signed by large number but many of
the signatures had been written with
lead pencil and were not acceptable.
Advocates of the cement roadway
then took advantage of the law which
permits the presentation of a second
petition within ten days and got very
busy, with the result that they have
won a decisive victory over the brick
paving champions.
(; Those who signed the second
/ petition for a cement roadway, which
petition was circulated by a school
| teacher, Mrs. Clara Graves, were won
| over by arguments that a concrete
| street would be cheaper than a brick
| street. Some signers also said that
they had first petitioned for a brick
street under the impression that
concrete street would be similar to
the concrete paving in front of former
mayor w. w. Zimmermans home.
Neiehborhood Feud.
| The fight over the question of the
| kind of material to be used in the paw
ing of North Seventh street has re-
| suited in a neighborhood feud and it
| is said that some of the residents now
refuse to speak to neighbors with
whom they formerly were on the most
| friendly terms.
If the board finds the petition pre-
sented today is legal. which some Of
the advocates of brick paving deny,
! and act favorably on it. North Seventh
street will be the first thoroughfare
in the city to be permanently improv-
ed with concrete. When the question
of permanently improving North Sew
enth street from A street to Fort
| Wayne avenue arose the majority of
resident property owners remonstrat-
ed and the board then put the ques-
ton up to council, which ordered the
improvement.
At the board session this morning
| SiXty-one of the SiXty-two blocks for
which street oiling had been petition
ed were ordered so improved. One
block North A street from Fourteenth
to Fifteenth, was defeated by remon-
STRANGE
Mrs. Kate Pickens protested against
the oiling of North Ninth street on
the ground that she suffered from
throat trouble and that oil was injur-
ious to her. John Hegger opposed the
oiling of South Fifth street because he
and not a tenant in a house he owns on
that street would have TO pay the as
sessment. Mrs. Nixon Of South
| Twelfth street opposed oiling that
street because it would not benefit
her. But the majority of property
owners on that street want it oiled"
said President Bavis. We'll then the
majority can pay my assessment. [
| won't she replied and left the room.
Another woman left rejoicing because
the street she lived on was to be oiled.
Il am tired of eating dust" she said
as she departed.
Oil Damages Everything.
+. S. Hunt sent letter to the
board objecting to the oiling of South
Seventh street. He said oil damaged
the street, polluted the river, caused
Ii,
tires and was injurious to trees.
The blocks ordered oiled are: South
Fourteenth street, Main to South A;
| North Ninth street, Main 10 E: North
Twelfth, Main to A: South Fifth. A TO
c; North A. Tenth to Eleventh: South
Twelfth. Main to Z; North A, Fifteenth
to Sixteenth; North Eleventh. A TO
ID: South A, Thirteenth to Sixteenth;
North Sixteenth, Main to c; Richmond
avenue. bridge to West Fifth: North
| Thirteenth, Main to f; Kinsey. West
Third to West Fifth; North Fifteenth.
, Main to F: South Sixteenth. Main TO
B: North Tenth. Main TO f; North c.
Sixteenth to Twentieth; South Four
teenth. A to ID.
1t is provided that when a part of
street is oiled it shall be closed to
traffic for As hours. Bids for this pub
lie oiling will be received soon. Many
other blocks in the city. it is expected,
will be oiled under private contract.
The board received a petition for
the cementing of the roadway in an
alley between Richmond avenue and
Randolph street, from West Fourth TO
West Fifth.
Assesses Benefits.
The board has ordered the Mather
Brothers company and the Standard
Oil company each to pay to the city
5000 benefits for the closing of a part
of North Eleventh street. This was
acceptable to the former company but
the Standard Oil company protested.
Superintendent johnson of the L. III.
& p. company informed the board that
the company had decided to allow the
city to make all street repairs where
long trenches had been dug. the COM
pany to pay the city for the cost OF
such improvements, but that the COM
pany would make all repairs to streets
damaged by service pipe connections.
On the advise of Street Commis-
sioner Knollenberg Southwest Second
street from National avenue to South
west E street is to be improved with
gravel West First street was also or.
dered repaired by the board.