Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-11-08
IMPROVEMENTS
FOR 1915 DONE
Formal Acceptance of Subways
Marks Completion of This
Years Program

City Council tomorrow will likely
adopt a resolution authorizing Com
missioner William IL. Lynch, superin-
iendent of streets and public improve
ments. to accept the newly constructed
under the Cumberland Valley railroad.
Mr.. Lynch will offer the measure.
The formal acceptance of the work,
will, with a few exceptions mark the
completion of Harrisburg's public inn
provement program for 1915.
Probably the only other big job
that is still in course of construction in
the city is the new Cumberland Valley
bridge across the Susquehanna, but
this Is a private contract. The great
Niaduct incidentally is beginning to
take shape. From Harrisburg's front
steps hundreds of people daily watch
the gradual stretching of the great
concrete spans nearer the city. One
halt of the bridge is to be completed
by December /. il is understood, and
7hc contractors are rushing the job by
night and day.
Some paving and grading jobs must
DE completed by Commissioner Lynch
and lot of planting remains on Com
missioner Taylor's program.
Within a day or two the laying of
ahe granolithic pavement across the
newly completed gap in the River
Wall at Market street will be started.
Hhe placing of the final slabs on the
fiver dam, delayed by the high water
And cold weather, will probably not
DE finished until next Spring.
The paving of half a dozen streets
in Bellevue park, will be accomplished
in week or so, while the concrete
bases on Brown and Zarker streets are
ready for the asphalt top. Nerbeke
street from Fifteenth to Eighteenth.
IS to be graded before winter sets in
and Commissioner Lynch to-day open
ed bids for the grading of Lexington
end Reel streets between Mahantongo
and Division streets. Sucker Broth
Crs Construction Company bid $3.50
on the Lexington and S1.15O on the
1teel street job while G. Frank Kautz
lid $50 on Lexington and S1,225 on
the Reel street contract
Work on the construction of the big
Ej-inch sanitary sewer through Asylum
run, was scheduled for this Fall. but
40 date the city has not received the
plans and specification which had been
fcnt to the State Health Department
Tor approval. In the Thirteenth ward
the two big 36-inch segment concrete
sewers are about half finished and it
Is possible that they will be completed
before the winter shutdown.
At the new formal entrance to Res
CUNoir park at Twenty and Mar
kct streets. Park Commissioner NJ.
Harvey Taylor is finishing the plant
ing of shrubbery. Along the River
Front north of ''Hardscrabble" some
OF the dead trees, that had been plant
cd atop of the bank early in the sea-
son. are being removed and some fifty
young elms substituted. on the lit
tie strip of park land north of Maclay
street about forty baby elms will be
planted.
odds and ends of the Improvement
Calendar for 1915 are receiving the
park superintendent's attention as he
wishes to turn over the department to
his successor in tip-top shape. Prob
ably the last big job to be undertaken
will be the filling in of the deep gully
on the lake road bluff in wildwood
and the elimination of the sharp So
curse in the road
The Mahantongo street sewer will
probably be completed within a week
or ten days and another sewer will
likely be finished before the weather
becomes too cold. This will extend
between Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets about los feet south of Derry