The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1915-03-23
PAVING COMMISSION
CHOOSES ENGINEER
ELECTED CITY ENGINEER
WADE A. SANDERS AT
MEETING YESTERDAY
SPE ECIFICATIONS
For Street Paving Will Be Ready
By April 2 to Present to
Prospective Bidders
SPECIFICATIONS

city council, inspecial session yes
terday afternoon. adopted resolution
| expressing its desire to save the
| street paving commission as much ex-
pense as possible in carrying forward
its work of paving city streets with
the bond issue recently voted and Of
fered the commission the services of
City Engineer Wade A. Sanders as
resident engineer for the street paw
ing work. without cost to the COM
mission.
A meeting of the paving commits
sion was held last evening at $50
o'clock in the office of Chairman e. II.
Horton. when the resolution from
city council was read. The commits
sion, upon motion of Commissioner B.
o. Evans, which received Il second
from Commissioner d. A. Ledbetter,
unanimously decided to accept the Of
fer from city council. Consequently,
City Engineer Sanders will serve in
the capacity of resident engineer for
the paving commission. City coun-
ellis Willingness to let the commits
sion have Mr.. Sanders services, and
without cost to the commission,
means a big saving to the commits
sion, as they would have had to en-
ploy resident engineer at heavy
cost. The salary of Mr. Sanders will
be paid out of the current funds of
the city.
Prepare Specifications.
The matter of calling for bids Cor
street paving work was next discuss
ed by the commission. resulting IL
the commission instructing Mr.. San
ders to have prepared by April z
plans and specifications for the street
paving. These plans and specifica-
tions are to be furnished contractors
who may care to bid ON the paving.
Soon after these plans and apeclflca-
tions are completed the commission
will call for bids for doing the paw
ing.
No Streets Selected.
The commission has not decided
upon any streets that will be paved.
In preparing his plans and specifica-
tions Mr.. Sanders will make surveys
of number of streets. Surveying q
street does not mean that, the COM
missioR-has decided to pave that par
ticular street. In general, the engin-
CSi W"-i iiiohO oUA fOyo OA ShOoS otASSNo
along which there are car lines. When
the general surveys are completed the
plans and specifications will be drawn
up and turned over 10 prospective bid
dcrse.
IyIll Meet Engineer.
Gilbert c. White, a paving expert
of Charlotte, Who has conferred with
the paving conn ,ission on several oc-
casions with tn, view of making q
contract with them to do the egineer-
ing work for the paving, has asked
to appear before the commission
again Yesterday evening the commits
sion decided to hear Mr.. White on
Wednesday evening at s o'clock, at
the Office of Chairman Horton. The
employment of Mr.. Sanders as resi-
dent engineer removes the necessity
of employing an engineer like Mr..
White. The commission will probably
entertain proposition from him
looking toward his serving the COM
mission as consulting engineer.
In preparing the plans and specifi-
cations for the commission, Mr.. Sam,
ders will, of course, have to have
some assistance. Thee ommission au-
thorized him to engage what help
was necessary in carrying out this
work.