The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-12-19
PAVE MAIN STREET
10 CITY Limits
Resolution TO This Effect Now Pend.
ing Before City Council
Many Other Inn
provements.
FRANKLIN STREET WORK
VIII be Done Along With Program
Arranged II Resolutions
Are Passed by the
City.

Resolutions now pending beore the
city council for street improvements
for 1912, Include the paving of Main
street with brick, from Fourteenth
street to the city limits, the paving Of
Franklin street with brick, from
Fourth street to Thirteenth street, the
paving Of north Fourteenth street
from Orleans avenue through the old
baseball grounds to Grand avenue,
with cement and macadam, the con-
structlon Of sewer through Rand
park and one block of cement paving
on Orleans avenue, Fulton street and
Palean street.
Resolutions ordering this work
have not been passed by the city coun
Gil but are pending II passed. the
work VIII be started next year, prob
ably earyl in the spring. The program
is probably the most extensive that
has ever been laid out by city coun-
Gil. 1t calls for about thirty-six blocks
Of paving covering over two and one
half miles.
From Fourteenth street to the city
limits is a mile and half. The lin
| its are located about quarter of a
mile north Of the Standard Four tire
plant and about the same distance
south of the township road which
leads to the River Smelling and Re-
fining plant. There has been much
agitation for the paving of Main
street from the present limit of paw
ing at Fourteenth street to about
Twentieth street.
Franklin Street Work.
| Franklin street was ordeerd paved
by the city council this year along
with the other street improvements.
This order was countermanded, how
ever, after residents on the street had
petitioned the council to delay the
work, stating that it was their inten-
ton to resurface the street at their
own expense.
The extension OF North Fourteenth
street through the old baseball
grounds is another item Of interest to
tKeokuk residents. This improvement
will start at Orleans avenue and in
tersect Leighton avenue, seymour
street and Stripe street. The opening
OF this street. If it is done by the city,
and the grading of Stripe street, which
. is also contemplated. will undoubted-
ly open up this district and be the
initial step toward its being built up.
| Inc peuQIlS TeSOluLlOliS VI tuo COuIl-
Gil calls for the following work:
Y The paving of Main street with
brick and curbing with cement from
the east line Of Fourteenth street to
the city limits.
The paving OF Franklin street with
brick and curbing with cement from
the east line of Fourth street to the
west line OF Thirteenth street.
The paving Of North Fourteenth
kstreet with macadam, from the north
line of Orleans avenue to the south
line of Seymour street. The paving
of North Fourteenth street with con-
crete from the south line Of Seymour
street to the south line OF Grand
avenue.
The paving OF Orleans avenue with
concrete and curbing with cement
from the east line of Fifteenth street
to the west line of Sixteenth street.
The paving of Palean street with
macadam from the east line OF Thir-
teenth street to the west line Of Four
teenth street.
The paving with concrete and curb
ing with cement of Fulton street from
the west line Of Fifteenth street to
the east line of Sixteenth street.
The council has also recommended
the construction Of a five by four and
tone-haf foot concrete sewer through
Rand park from a point at Fifteenth
and Orleans avenue, 800 feet north
west through the park.