Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-06-08
DERRY ST, PAVING
JOB To Be STARTED
DURING THIS WEEK
Harrisburg Railways, End of East
End Work Will Be Completed
by Tonight at IL
BUSY THROUGHOUT SPRING
New Trackage Will Not Be Put In
to Service, However, Be-
fore Next Saturday
BUSY THROUGHOUT SPRING

Paving of Derry street between
Eighteenth-and-a- and Twenty
third streets will be started tomorrow
morning by the Central Construction
and Supply Company.
The start of the Derry street paving
is made possible by the completion Of
the work on the reconstruction of the
Harrisburg Railways Company tracks
in Derry street from Thirteenth to
Twenty-third streets.
F. B. Musser, president of the rail-
ways company announced this morn
ing that the last bit of work on this
job will be completed by IL o'clock
tonight. The Central Construction &
Supply Co. has only been waiting until
the traction company was through
with it's end of the Derry street job
before moving steam shovel and
force of men out on the actual work
of excavation and concreting. Actual
excavation will begin tomorrow morn
ing or possibly a day latetr. Some of
the curbing has already been set.
Paving of the Dock street bridge
will also be started just as soon as the
Harrisburg Railways Company COM
pletes laying it's tracks at this point.
The last rail in the new stretch of
Derry street trucking will be put in
before o'clock this evening and the
contractors will complete their end of
the job by midnight.
Company Rushes Work
Completion of this work marks the
end of one of the biggest improvement
jobs to be undertaken by the railways
company this summer. The job was
completed in record time and with lit
tie exception the regular Hummels-
town, Paxtang and Allison Hill sched-
ules were maintained throughout the
course of the work. Mr.. Musser said
this morning:
"The stretch of track between Thir-
teenth and Twenty-third streets in
Derry is one of the finest in the en-
tire United States. The rails are Of
the heaviest sort in use for street rail-
ways purposes and the concrete bed
construction work is of the kind ap-
proved by leading engineering experts
The new line gives the Allison Hill
people the best rail equipment that
the company could provide"
Schedule time was maintained on
the Hill line during the progress of
the work by means of temporary
crossovers at Thirteenth, Sixteenth
and Eighteenth streets.
Work in Thirteenth Street
Announcement was made this morn
ing that a gang of hundred men is
at work this week on repairing the
trackage in Thirteenth street between
Market and Derry. Patches of track
of several hundred feet in length will
be repaired.
Mr.. Musser stated that the reason
the work in Derry Street was COM
pleted in record time was because the
company kept both day and night
forces on the job whenever possible
The tracks from the paving line at
Eighteenth-and-a- street to Twen-
ty-third are laid in line with the pro-
posed paving grade and these tracks
will not have to be relaid when the
city paves Derry street
The complete line of double track
ing will not be in use in Derry street
before Saturday because five days
must be given for setting" of the
concrete.