The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1915-01-28
BOARD REQUEST
COUNCIL TO Give
FUND FOR TRUCK
Loan of $12,5OO Recommend
ed for Aerial Ladder Wag-
on and Repairs to City
Building.

The board of public works today,
following the action last night of the
ordinance committee Of council in en-
dorsing the negotiating Of temporary
loan on the part of the city to pur-
chase an automobile aerial ladder
truck and to make alterations at the
city building, decided to recommend
to council at it's next meeting to au-
thorize a loan of s12,50O, to be borrow
ed from time to time.
POSSIBLY the city will make no pay
ments on this loan this year, and will
renew the note at the close Of the
year so that It can be paid off in 1916"
Controller McMahan said. However,
the truck will be purchased this year
and improvements made at the city
building"
To RefIoor Station.
The office of the city engineer Is to
be located at the west end of the coun-
Gil chamber and the room now used
by the engineering department will be
added to the quarters of the firemen
of the city hall companies. A safe will
also be purchased for the engineering
department and a cement floor will be
placed in the fire department quarters
on the first floor. The present floor
would not be able to support the
weight of the automobile chemical
wagon and ladder truck.
President Bavis of the board was in
a happy mood today because the Com
mercial club directors had approved
the bond issue proposal advocated by
council and himself The two other
board members, Mr.. Marlatt and Mr..
McMinn were predicting however, that
on every street which it is proposed
to pave there would be almost unani-
nous remonstrances filed by resident
property owners.
Predict Stumbling Block.
McMinn said he thought if two
thirds of the affected property owners
on any one of these streets signed
remonstrance the board should call
halt to the proceedings and not take
the question before council for final
action Bavis, on the other hand, sug-
gested that no bridges be crossed I'M
til they were reached.
The board today completed the work
of initiating the street paving program
by adopting resolutions for the paving
OF the following streets: Fifth street,
South A to North A, and Fort Wayne
avenue, North A to North D; Sixth
street, South A to Fort Wayne avenue.
The board also adopted a resolution
for cement curbs, cutters and side
walks on Williams street from North
west Second street to the end of the
former street.
Macadam Declared Waste.
The board also discussed informally
the advisability of refusing to make
any more macadam streets except in
the extreme outskirts of the city. Nc
MINI declared that macadam streets
were waste Of good money and when
petition for the making of one was
presented he said it would be a good
plan if the board suggested to the
petitioners that the boards policy pro-
vided only for permanently improved
streets.
Council is to be asked to appropriate
$S30.50 for J. F.. Hipskind, contractor,
as the five per cent withheld by the
city on the cost of the making i'm
provements at the municipal plant in
1913.
City engineer estimated that $23, 900
in work has been done on the Morton
park sewer system and the board
authorized the issuance of contract
or's certificates for IS per cent of the
estimated cost of the completed work
in favor Of the contractor, F. E. Slick