The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-11-24
Winter Will Soon Stop Street I'm
provement Work-oniy a Little
Left to be Com
pIeted.
NEW ADDITION OPENED
Great Amount of Work Accom-.
pIished Under Commissioner
Schmidt Since the First
of the Year.

The work of the department of pub
lie improvements will be concluded
for the winter within a few days on
account OF the weather A few jobs
that are nearly completed will be
finished If possible but no attempt will
be made to start any large work now
A great amount of improvement
work has been done under the adj
min.stration of Councilman f. T. F.
Schmidt the past year. One of the
largest single improvements was the
opening up of the new residence dis
tEict around Mckinley avenue. Here
streets were put in and graded, side
walks constructed, water mains. street
car line. and electric light lines ex-
tended. Sewers laid and much other
work done.
Probably the next work of import
ance was the Improvement of South
Fifth street and Commercial alley, in
Guiding the reconstruction OF the South
Fifth street bridge and the straighten-
ing of the street next to the cereal
works. Although all of this improve
ment will not be completed this fall,
when finished IT will afford confirm,
Gus brick pavement from Main street
to the box factory on Commercial al
ley.
Some idea OF the amount OF work
done in improving Keokuk the past
year may be gained from the follow
ing list of imT royements:
Concrete streets-Water street from
the waterworks to Blondean; Seven
teenth street from Grand avenue to
the first bridge; concrete alley in the
block bounded by Eighth and Ninth
and by Concert and Blondeau.
Brick streets-Second street from
Bank to Johnson twill be finished this
fall; Fifth street from Carol to
Cedar (haH finished now. Will be com
pleted next spring.; Fifth from the
bridge to B street: Commercial alley
from half way between and c
streets past the box factory: Eighth
street from Main to BIondeau Ito be
finished soon): Ninth street from
Main to Blondeau Ito be finished
SOON: Eleventh street from Main TO
johnson FINISHED Yesterday.
Grading work-Bluff street from 3
half way to c; street from the in.
tersection OF B half way to Park
street: angle OF Commercial alley
next to the cereal works, one-hali
block long; c street from Park to the
river front: extensive grading work
done in Belknap and Kilbourne places:
Palean street graded from Nineteenth
to Twenty-second; Johnson from
lTwenty-second to Twenty-fourth
Twenty-second from Main to Ex.
change.
Repaired streets fThe following
streets repaired by being resurfaced
with nacadam and made as good az
new c street from Bluff to Reid
three blocks; Seventh street hill from
the bridge TO c and Bluff: Ninth
street from Blondeau to Grand ave.
nue.; Eighth street from Concert to
Grand avenue; High street from
Ninth to Eleventh; Main street from
Twentieth street to the city limits
Anschutz hill from Fifteenth street
/ to the city limits fresurfaced and OIL
ed); Seventeenth from Grand to con
meet with the AnschutZ hill Improve
ment; nearly all the park drives re
/ surfaced.
Culverts-11o feet Of cement cul
vert in the park: 300 feet of FIVE foot
! brick culvert between Seventeenth