The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1914-03-21
BIOS OPENED FOR
CITY IMPROVEMENT
WORK BEING CONTRACTED FOR
TO COST CLOSE To
100000.
WALL SHOCKOE CREEK
SMOOTH PAVING AND SEWERAGE
THROUGHOUT CITY is LARGE
PART of woRK--IN ENGI-
NEER's HANDS.
WALL SHOCKOE CREEK

The administrative hard yesterday
opened bids for municipal improve
ments which are to cost the city in
the neighborhool OF 5000, 900. The bids
are for the reclamation of the
Shockoe creek district smooth paw
ne. and sewerage and were referred
70 the city engineer, who will report
back TO the administrative board at
he earliest possible time.
Acting under the authority given by
he council last Monday night. the ad-
ministrative board plans to wall in
about 500 feet OF Shockoe creek
where 1t passes through the property
recently purchased by the city from the
/. c. Williams estate. The work will
cost between 10000 and $4,000. 1t fs
the hope of the board to wall in the
entire length of the creek and so rid
the city Of the polluted stream and pre-
vent the breeding of millions of flies
and the spreading of disease germs
which are SO great a menace to the
health OF persons passing through the
district.
Following is the work being con-
tracted for:
6rauoifthfc Curbs and Cutters.
Cncurbered and guttered portion OF
east and west sides of Thirty second
street between NJ. and q streets.
NJ street from Twenty ninth TO Thir-
tIeth street.
street from Twenty ninth to Thir
ty-second street.
o street from Thirty-first to Thirty
third street.
Both sides OF r street form Thirtieth
TO Twenty-second streets.
Both sides of q street from twentieth
to Twenty second street
Both sides OF r street from Twenty
fifth to Twenty seventh street.
Both sides of Twentieth street from
to T street.
South side OF Floyd avenue from Null
berry to Deep Run street,
North side of Floyd avenue from
Robinson street to Boulevard.
North side Of Floyd avenue from
Sheppard to Crenshaw avenue.
South side OF Floyd avenue from
Dooley to Crenshaw avenue.
South side of Grove avenue from
Auburn to corporation line.
North side OF Grove avenue from
Tilden street 10 corporation line.
Both sides OF National Cemetery road
from Chimboraxo park TO corporate
limits. east OF creek
Cowardin avenue from lakewood ave
nue. TO Rogers street.
Twenty-tarst street from Q to Car
Twenty-fourth street from r to T
street.
Nineteenth street from f to Q street.
Darlington street from Nineteenth
to Twenty -ffth street
Turhs around center grass plots and
eurbs and cutters east and west sides
where needed on Boulevard between
Beverly street and Monument avenue.
North and south sides OF Cary street
from boulevard to Creusfaw avenue
tguttefs only.
Both sides of Davis avenue from
Main TO Cary street.
Both sides OF Sheppard street from
Cary to Chaffn,
Both sides OF kensington avenue
from boulevard to Sheppard
Both sides of Sheppard street from
Stuart 10 kensington avenue.
Eoth sides OF Auburn avenue from
Cary street to Grove avenue.
Both sides Of Addison street from
Grove avenue TO Beverly street.
Both sides OF Elm street from Floyd
avenue TO Cary street.
Both sides of Meadaw street from
Floyd avenue TO Taylor street.
Both sids OF Sycamore street from
Main to Cary street.
Both sides of CRANKY street from
Main To Cary street.
Powhatan street from Corwardin
avenue to Atlantic Coast Line railroad
Pocahontas street from cambridge
to Pow hatan street
Buchanan street from Cowardin ave-
nue. to Pocahontas street
Bainbridge street from Atlantic
Coast Line railroad to Twenty-second
rtreet
stockton street from Fourteenth to
seventeenth street.
Brick Paving.
East side of Randolph street from
Cary street to Riverview cemetery.
Sewers.
Sewer in Ashland street from syca-
more to Elm street twenty-four inch
+, pipe line from Byrd park TO lake
20 Shields Grove lake in Dance street
and Ashland street.
Grading.
Powhntan street from Cowardin ave-
aue to Atlantic Coast Line railroad.
Pocahontas street from Bainbridge
10 Powhatan street.
Grading and GravciinK.
stockton street from Fourteenth to
Seventeenth street
stockton street from Fourteenth to
Seventeenth street.
Granolithlc sidewalk Paving.
Around Asbury Place, bounded by
Hanover and ParQ avenue and Lom-
hardy street.
South side OF Kensington street from
Boulevard to Shepard street
East side OF Sheppard street from
Stuart avenue to Kensington avenue
west side OF Robinson street from
Main to Beverly street.
West side OF lakewood avenue from p
to Q street.
south side of Broad street from Rob-
inson to Mulberry street.
North and south sides of Beverly
street from Addison to Boulevard. six
.oot sidewalk (unpayed portion).
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