Evening journal., 1916-03-16
THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1916.
AVENUE AM MS MpRoyEMENT.

fENNNlLNANlA AVENUE AND IT'S IMPROVEMENT.
TITLE Of a beneficial nature need be looked for
~ from the Board Of Directors of the Street and
Sewer Department relative to the much-noeded inn
proyemont Of Pennsylvania avenue
The attitude assumed by that body toward those
who have potitioned for the repayng of that highly
important thoroughfaro is that City Council made up
the list OF streets that shall be paved that the
and Sewer Department merely carries out the Coun-
cilmanc mandate and that Pennsylvania avenue Is
not ON the first street improvement list transmitted
to the department by City Council.
All that the Street and Sewer Department has Tor
Independent use, it is asserted. is $4,000 Il is for
street repair work Of that amount nothing is avail
able at this time but it may be possible, year to
use $1,000 of the fund for the benefit of Pennsylvania
avenue
AS it win cost approximately $4,000 to carry out
the Pennsylvania avenue project the petitioners have
in mind, it viii be how grossly inadequate
$4,000 appropriation would be TO put the avenue in
proper condition for the great volume of automobile
and other traffic that flows through it,
Even the fact that private individuals have offered
TO contribute much $4,000 toward the improve
ment will bring no immediate action OF favorable
nature.
From the department came the suggestion that the
Levy Court be asked TO contribute $4,000 toward the
cost Of paving the avenue far west the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad bridge also was hnted broadly
and rather unnecessarily that il the OF prop
ery aDuttlng on the avenue would pay out OF their
pockets for curbing the thoroughfare il would be
big saving to the city
Such of the presentation OF the petition
cannot be satisfactory by any to the petition
many of whom not of abutting prop
erty, but persons who eager have one of the
city's chief approaches kept in proper condition
The movement far Il has progressed should
lead The friends OF Pennsylvania to decide
thing with respect TO the future. That is to take
steps in due time, to impress upon City Council. and
especially upon the City Councilman from the seventh
ward the fact that Pennsylvania has right
to be recognized when the improvement list is
being prepared. and that those who interested in
its condition determined that It shall be main
tanned in condition that will the convenience
of the public and be in keeping with the dignity Of the
city.
There are certain of city's thorouehfares that
are so important TO city whole that it should
not be necessary at any time tell our city officials
that they should be maintained properly Least OF
all should t be necessary to plead with City Council
or the Street and Sewer Department for such main
tenance II should be granted as a matter Of course.
PENNSYLVANIA avenue is Of them. Not until such
horoughfares have been provided for should our City
councilmen engage in log-rolling game to dispose
OF big street Improvement fund where. as they see
It, win do the most good for their own political
fortunes though it may not serve the public in
terests well those interests might have been
served by pursuing different course.