The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1916-05-16
BUILD STORM Sewer
COMMISSIONERS AND PROPERTY
OWNERS TO MEET-MER-
CHANTS ASSOCIATION
HOLDS MEETING.

AT next Monday nights meeting
OF the city commission will be taken
up the question OF installing a storm
sewer along that part of Egan ave
nue. to be paved, and the merits of
various kinds of paving materials
will be discussed by the city com
missioners and Egan avenue proper
tn owners
Commissioner T. A. Johnson and
City Engineer G. A. Trimmer at last
nights regular monthly meeting of
the Madison Merchants association,
explained that it would be inadvis-
able to pave without putting i'm a
storm sewer. Mr.. Johnson said
the matter should be taken up at
once, and that the commissioners are
DESTROYS of having the opinion of the
property owners i'm the matter. Mr..
Trimmer pointed out that the cutters
along Egan avenue already had cost
the city as much as would a storm
sewer, and that the danger from
water i'm the street would be greater
after the paving is laid. Curbs along
Egan venue o are from twelve TO
fifteen inches above the roadway,
and when the paving is laid they will
be only about eight inches above the
street, Mr.. Trimmer explained. The
city engineer estimated that to con
strUct the storm sewer, ii would cost
not to exceed $50 for each 25-foot
lot. He told that the high point on
Egan avenue is at Seventh street and
That the first manhole would prob
ably be at Sixth street, the surface
water running south, under the Mil
Waukee railway tracks, to the creek.
tn reply to a question, Mr.. Trimmer
said the city attorney probably would
make a report on the matter of pay
ing for the construction across
street intersections.
Property owners will be asked to
meet with the commission to go into
the storm sewer question and to dis
cuss paving materials.
share Cost of Connections.
It was brought out at the meeting
that there is a movement on foot to
elualize. between property owners
on The west side of Egan ven and
those on the east side. the cost of
lead connections 10 the water main.
The water main is laid on the west
side Of the street, about five feet
from the curb line, and more than
seventy feet from properties on the
east side of the avenue. Owing TO
the distance being SO much greater,
many times more lead pipe is re-
CURED to make the connections ON
The east side than on the west side.
The matter vas brought to the at
t%ention of the meeting by Or. w. A.
b0thschild. Commissioner Johnson
said the commission already has the
matter under adyisement. and that
an ordinance providing for equitable
payment probably would be passed.
The commissioner also told that per
sons who had installed new street
water connections during the last
two err three years would not be re
quired TO put in new connections be
fore the paving Is laid.
Upon the request of the good roads
committee of the Commercial club,
the Merchants association appropri-
3ted $50 to be added to the prize
fund for good roads day, June g..
+ AAG GUNNER tldl Glub mas dlThduN 10
mated $50 for that purpose, and a re
quest viii be made of the board Of
county commissioners for a grant Of
S100. 1t is intended to award three
cash prizes to the crews who make
the best improvements on a given
mile Of highway on good roads day
Assist Football Club.
The association voted to endorse
the campaign Of the football club of
the State Normal school to raise
funds with which to pay a part of
the expense of organizing and main
tanning a good football team. Prof.
G. q. Wagner. Normal school coach,
addressed the association in behalf
of his team. He told that while he
would like to have all the members
of the association purchase a season
ticket, it was the cooperation and
moral support of the association his
team and himself desired as much as
anything else. He told that the
boosting of the association mem
here could mot buf aupur vxaIl for tho