Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-04-01
C|TY'S IMPROVEMENT
WORK OF 1915 IS ON
Contractors OverhauIing Equip
ment For General Operations as
Soon as Weather Permits

| While the weather has not opened
up sufficiently to permit of a general
start of all the work scheduled by the
city for the 1915 Improvement pro-
gram, those contractors who had not
already begun operations were busy to-
day placing and overhauling machin-
( cry and equipment and in other ways
preparing for the early April activi-
| ties.
At to-night's meeting of the Board
of Public Works the resumption of
work on the river wall by Sucker
Brothers Construction company and
on the Paxton creek, py the West Con-
struction company will be discussed.
Sucker Brothers are ready, practical
ily to go ahead on the putting down of
the remainder of the concrete side
walk on the wall from Walnut to Ma
clay street, the last Dit of the con-
tract. This will be finished by July
l and early heXt week will likely find
the concrete mixer in action.
River Front Nearly Finished
BY Saturday the filling in the River
Front slopes above "Hardscrabble" will
be finished. it is expected as only a
few more hundred loads or the earth
will be needed. For the last couple
of days, half dozen or more of the
motor trucks which had been recalled
from Baltimore by the brown-klng
Construction company, eNcavating
contractors for the Pennsy freight site,
have been hauling dirt to the west
end river embankment Planting will
be started as the weather permits.
Wildwood park driveway from Ma
clay street TO the breast of the dam
has been tilled in with cinders, rolled
and scraped and is now open Tor SER
vice. The bridges in the big track are
being repaired and the footDridge over
the Paxton creek above the dam is
being rebuilt. The work on the new
concrete bridge over Spring creek in
! Cameron parkway is being hustled
along while the work on the entrance
and formal driveway TO RESERVOIR at
lTwenty-trst and Market is practically
finished.
To Begin Paving Work
Paving operations wIIl be started
within few Gays by the Central Con-
lstrucuon ana Supply company accord
ling to Commissioner w. II. Lynch to-
Iuay. The first job to be undertaken
viii be Derry street from Twenty-third
to the eastern city limits. Botn the
lpaving and the railway companies
nave peen nouned and as soon as the
lcurbing is received the work Will be-
GIN. Market street from Nineteenth to
tTwenty-tirst street Will be the next
section to be paved. The curping, ac-
cordIng to Mr. Lynch, will be supplied
by {. +. Waiter contractor.
| 1ToDdplN inc OHlN DlS StNtI Nu1-
tracts that are under way now is the
extension of the new system in the
business district. Contractor William
HI. Upperman is now working north
ward Irom Chestnut to the Square.
Extra night shifts may be put on in
tine near future TO drive the line
Through the under asphalt tunnel
that wlll be necessary wnere the pipes
will cross Market street. Night work
lwlll liKeiy be insisted upon because or
the lack OF traTtic congestion. The
iCentral Construction ana supply COM
pany is building the Wiconlsco street
lsewer and at least one big sewer job,
the new line at Third and Geiger
lstreets, has already been complete by
lContractor w. ii. Opperman and ac-
lcepted by the city.
Start Sig Sewer Monday
Monday Contractor John Sucker
will begin work on the construction of
1.-THE new sewer in Carlisle street near
Derry and as soon as the weather con-
Editions permit Sucker Brothers will
lDegin the grading of Market street
from Twenty-iirst to the eastern city
line.
Street repair work is being pushed
lalong as rapidly as possible by Con-
tractor Charles p. Walter whose con-
tract with the city expires Monday.
MIR. Walter says ne is nearly finished
land has put down about 2,OOO yards
Iof paving in patching up the streets
Commissioner Lynch said he doesn't
think that the repair work Will be en-
tirely completed by Monday, and he
evinced surprise at the amount Wal
ter said he laid. The commissioner
said he hadn't thought that much
work had been done. April Mr.
Lynch will open bids for the city as
pnalt repair plant.
On the Big Subway
on the Second street subway the
necessary grading is now under way
for the foundations for the sidewalk
; on the western side of the street
The paving of the subway, according
to Mr.. Lynch will likely be started in
the near future and the traction COM
pany and the paving contractor will
lprobably do their work in conjunction
lThe paving contract will be let by the
! T. Larry Eyre company, contractors
for the whole job and bricks for the
, slopes of the approach, have already
been tested out it is understood.
With the exception of a hundred
yards of eartn on the Meadow Lane
slopes the excavation for the Pennsy
freight site is practically finished
The sewer and gas mains have beer
lput down and foundations have beer
, laid for the erection of the concrete
wall that is to retain the south em-
} bankment of the Cumberland tracks
on the upper section of the site.