El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1915-12-07
SOUTH SIDE IS
BEING GRADED
Street Deartment Trying to
Eliminate Flood Waters;
Flowers For Parks.

Much work is being done and planned
by the city street. grades and park
department, which is under the direct
supervision OF alderman J. ". Fisher.
Alderman Fisher has dispensed with
a superintendent of streets as well as
a superintendent OF parks and has
taken over the supervision of this
work. placing the street and park
crews in charge OF foremen.
Much of the attention of Mr.. Fishers
department recently has 3een devoted
10 the southern part OF the city. For
many years the section below san An
tonic street has been mudhOle after
rains and SHOWS. Second, Third and
part Of Fourth streets have been
graded and surfaced, and some work
has been done on St Vrain and Fifth
streets. The streets have been graded
and in some places raised and the gut
ters have been cleaned out so that rain
water drains off the streets into the
cutters and does not flow onto ad-
joining property. The department
will soon commence similar work on
Seventh street and just now is engaged
in grading st. Vrain from Third to
Seventh streets. Cotton avenue, from
Overland to Boulevard. is to be graded.
Storm Sewers.
Estimates are now being secured to
install large storm sewers in East Fl
Paso TO take care Of the flood waters
that come down from the higher ele-
vations after heavy storm 1t is
planned, also, to provide a storm drain
to take care of flood waters from the
Golden Hill district.
In the section north of the tracks
cutters of unpaTed streets have been
cleaned up, and number of streets
cut or filled to grade Since the paw
ing Of Nevada street all the intersec-
lions have been brought to grade. A
new pavement has been laid on West
Main street as far as LaWton- Between
natural grade is as much as six feet
higher than the new grade, and this is
to be lowered TO the new level TX
tensive grading Of streets has also
been done in the northeast section of
the city. In the reducing of California
be removed and some Of this has been
used as surfacing for streets in the
lower part OF the city
To Grade East Boulevard.
Estimates are now being prepared
for the grading Of East Boulevard
from Cotton avenue to Piedras street
and Alamogordo street from Piedras
street to Stevens avenue. the city
limits. In some places the grade will (
be raised.
In the city parks it is the plan to !
plant petunias around all the parks /
and along The street parking. -Four !
thousand bulbs are now being planted ]
in Carnegie square. Houston square. !
San JacintO plaza and the east one-half !
Of Cleveland square. In February Of /
next year all dead trees and other I
plants viii be removed and replanted- I
In January the fertilizing of the /
ground in the parks viii be started
To Have Sunken Garden.
It Is probable that the waterfall and I
-anks in Houston square will be re- I
moved and the space turned into a
sunken garden The rockpile that sup !
ports the cannon in San Jacinto plaza /
s TO be torn out and rebuilt
Highland Park square is also to re-
,eive the attention OF the park de-
'artment Filling Will be placed !
where needed and grass. shrubbery
md flowers will be planted
The paving Of number OF streets in
he northern part of the city will
greatly increase the parking. as most
II the new work calls for q 30-foot |
'avement and parking on each side.