The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-03-19
STREET WORK ON
AT RECORD SPEED.
Board Promises Completion OF
100000 Improvements Be-
fore Bad Weather.
RUSH BROAD STREET WORK
Day and Night Shifts to Expedite
Smooth Paving i'll Re
tail District.

BY the end OF this week the Admin
istrative Board will have awarded
practically every contract for surface
TO award under the $500. goo appropria-
ton made by the last budget to the
streets generally" fund. The DISPOSE
ton OF this business within less than
two months OF the passage OF the APP
preparation ordinance establishes Il new
record In Richmond street building.
Approximately 100000 OF the $780,
600 allotment is already assigned under
contract now in the course of execution.
This amount includes $4,000 which will
be required for the maintenance OF the
hands and carts force. OF the remain
ing 100000; about $4,000 in round
construction and about $4,000 for
smooth paving; The Council has eN-
for the smooth paying. OF Broad street
between Third ana Jefferson Streets.
Under the old regime said Henry T..
Beck last night the letting of con
tracts for street work was seldom com
plete before June OF the appropriation
year. In several instances this re
late in the autumn and early winter.
This WAS notably the case in the work
ON Broad Street year before last. when
that thoroughfare was torn up and
kept in an almost impossible condition
through the busy fall season"
Open Bids To-Morrow.
The board will tomorrow open bids
for the smooth paving OF Broad Street
and several of the leading residential
there will he opened competitive bids
for the Improvement OF Shockoc Creek
west of Sledd street, rs authorized by
tho Joint resolution adopted on Tues
day night by the Common Council
1T is the purpose of tho board to
see that all street work is complete
said Mr.. Beck. This provision will he
made part of the contract for the Broad
that thorouGhfare will not have to CON
tend with u cut up street during the
busy season s'soG, MuGh Of the wGrk on
minimize the Inconvenience.
Awards Made Locally.
without exception; the contracts 50
tractors. The character of bids sub
mittcd has enabled the board to dis
tribute tho contracts with the result
Il prepondcratinG share OF the citys
work
such distribution makes for an
earlier completion of the whole inn
provement program and gives stimuli
tancous employment to the labor avail
able for this work.
The board expects to award. the
smooth paving and ShOckoc Creek
contracts Friday: With these out Of
the way the wloie street Improvement
work Of the year will be laid out. and
1t will only remain to see that it is
completed within the time and in the
manner described in the contracts.
work on street improvements than has
| ever been employed in this work by
| the city at any one time before"
| smooth Paving List.
Besides the bids for the smooth
! paving Of five blocks OH Broad Street,
! bids will be opened tomorrow for
Monument Avenue. one block, Davis
TO Robinson Streets.
, Grove Avenue. one block. Davis to
,, Hanover Avenue. three blocks. west
wardly from llombardy Street
=, Park Avenue, two blocks westward
Meadow street, one block, Broad
Street TO Monument Avenue.
street to Monument Avenue.
Floyd Avenue. two blocks, west
w4rdly from Iarvie street
Grace to Franklin Streets.
Franklin Street, one block between
Twenty-sevcnth and Twenty eighth
Streets.
Marshall Street. eight blocks, TWEEN
ty-stXth to Thirty fourth Streets.
East Broad Street, four blocks. Thir-
ty-Second to ThirtN-siXth Streets.
Companies SHIRE Expense.
More than half of the expense OF
smooth paving the eight blocks on
East Marshall Street will under the
ordinances. be borne by the Richlnomd
and ilcnrico hallway Company, which
operates 'wo-tract car line along
Of the expense OF paving East Broad
street wiz be charged TO the Virginia
| Hallway and Power Company. whose
Broad and Main line extends TO 'rhir-
tyfourth Street.
The board yesterday awarded q con
| tract for curbinG. gutterinE and park
! ing the boulevard from the Reservoir
| To Monument Avenue. The improve
! incnt Will bc extended through to
! Broad Street within the year The
! whole work on tho Boulevard is pre-
! paratory to the smooth paving of The
| whole thorOughfarc--a project which
| the board has had In mind 70; some
/ time.