The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1915-02-16

have to be done soon towards getting
road material as we have now used
about all the shell We have. Total
cost of shelled streets including Stag.
$3,3S6.S4
Streets General.
Pavement cleaning on streets paved
with brick. cost 1898. There are a.
600 square yards of brick paving cost
ing Soc per square yard per annum for
sweeping by hand, the sand being
hauled by cart and used for filling
streets and sidewalks. Raking and
cleaning other streets by hand, $500.
Removing trees. gr-cing streets for
shells and general street work. ST..
500. A considerable number of dead
,rees that were not sound and safe
were removed, Several hundred pal
metto and other trees were hauled
with city etam, and set out under the
direction of the Civic league. they
furnishing most of the labor for same.
Practically all the mistletOe, which
was gradually killing the trees, was
removed from the trees on the streets
and in the parks. and the trees trim
med, approximately 500 in all. and 9th
er trees in the parks and some OF the
principal streets were trimmed and
dead limbs removed, costing $739.50.
Repairs to road rollar, $7S5.30. Street
fountain removed from Norwich and
N to Norwich and r street, Sc. To-
tai cost of the general street work,
$4,223S0
Stable expenses: Feed for seven
head eight months and ten head four
months. $l,0S9.4S. Horseshoeing and
repairs to follng stock, $200.l5. Re
pairs to stable. $5.95. Livery. 81.
Medicine, $3.50. Care of stock (sta-
bleman), $3.50. Transfers, including
cart driver, sprinkler, hauling shell,
drain pipe, etc, $l,079
One horse from the public works
department was loaned to the fire de-
partment in February, and returned in
September with three of their horses,
which they have been using since for
hauling shell and other material.
Approximate distribution of stable
| expenses: Hauling cinders from Light
| & Water company. shell from streets
and street cleaning, $3.50. Hauling
shell, paving material, drain pipe
dead trees, dirt for filling sidewalks
etc, 1923.
Carpenter and Mansfield 100 pieces
of 10-inch, so pieces of 12-inch and
one sand trap were constructed APP
proximate cost of material sgt. N. w
corner Albany and II streets. 60 pieces
of 12-inch pipe laid and one sand traf
put in by city force. Approximate
cost for material SIP.
Norwich and | streets. 60 pieces OF
S-inch pipe laid and one sand traT
built; approximate cost of material
$500. S. w. corner Albany and
streets, one sand trap constructed
approximate cost for material, SO.
! Gloucester street: Taking up and
relaying drain pipe on north side Glou
cester between Barlow and Glynn ave
nue. and across Gloucester west oil
Glynn avenue. preparatory to extend
ing it to c and Stonewall streets fol
draining low laying area, would recon
mend this to be extended. RelayeC
400 feet 18-inch and z40 feet Of "a
inch pipe, 10 feet of pipe crossing un
der Gloucester street, was bedded II
concrete about half the depth of the
pipe, using the old brickbats for the
concrete two trap covers, $500 bricks
barrels cement 60 pieces new "a
inch pipe and 10 pieces of 18-inch pipe
was user; approximate cost of new
material, $40 About half of this was
done with county convicts, and fin
SHED with city force. Gloucester and
Sycamore 40 pieces of S-inch pipe laid
| for crossing, cost for material $3.50
| Union street two hundred feet south
of Fourth avenue, "a pieces of 15-inch
pipe was laid across street in place
OF old wooden hox drain; cost for ma
tcrial $3.50.
Johnson and M streets: Seventeen
and half feet Of 20-lnch pipe was used
to extend street crossing; cost for ma
terlal, ST. Gordon and NJ: Ten feet
OF 15-inch pipe used to extend drain
at crossing, $3.50.
N and Amherst: Replacing old
bridge using 25 pieces of 18-inch pipe
cost, 8.75 Removed AZ inches of Is
inch pipe from Albany and N to cross
N at Amherst.
Newcastle street: Near colored
cemetery, replacing old wooden bridge
with double 24-inch pipe used 30
pieces of 24-inch and two cubic yards
of concrete; approximate cost for ma
terial $3.50.
About 200 feet north of N street old
wooden bridge removed and 40 pieces
of 15-inch pipe laid; cost for material,
$14.
N. & Lee and N and Stonewall:
The bridges were renewed and
strengthened for fire trucks, rising
lumber left over from N street sewer.
Gloucester and Johnson: Thirty
seven and half fet of 8-inch pipe used
for street crossing; cost $3.40.
Prince street: North side east of
Richmond so pieces of Pinch pipe
laid, 5000.
Drainage general: Cleaning gut
tiers, sand traps, open bitches and con
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