Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-01
STARTS REMAINDER OF PROJECT
BY ORDERING DISTRICTS AND
STREETS IMPROVED.
BIDS TO BE OPENED
ON MONDAY, JUNE rs
Contract Will Specify That Work Must
Be Begun July and Finished Oct.
25-speeificatiens as Regards Width
Of Pavement Remain Unchanged
Since Last Revised.

| Overriding all objections the city
! council, at an adjourned meeting this
forenoon, ordered paved the four re-
manning districts Of main roads to the
city limits, and about three-auarters
of mile of city streets. The pave
ment ordered laid was for District No.
g. Summit street from Thirteenth
west; NO. 4, North Center street. from
First, street to the river bridge, and
/ North Third street from the end Of the
pavement to Center street; No. s,
South Center street from the North
western right of-way to the city linn
it's south Of South street; No. 6, North
Third avenue from Marion street to
the city limits, and Riverside street
from Second to Third avenue.
| The inside pavement is for North
! Twelfth street, from Main to State;
South Twelfth street from Boone to
| 200 feet just south Of the M. & ESt. l..
right of-way, and North Ninth street
from State to Summit.
Open Bids June 26.
J The council will receive bids for all
! four districts and the inside streets
Monday, June 26, at o'clock. The
resolution specifies that the work is to
be begun by July 1, and finished by
| Oct. %. Each bidder must file with
his bid certified check for $1,000 for
each district, and the inside streets, a
total of $500 for the entire project.
The specifications remain as they
! We're prepared for the hearings on OBJ
! jections. North Center and North
| Third streets, North and South
Twelfth, and North Ninth street are
! to be thirty feet wide. Summit street
| is to be twelve feet wide on both sides
! of the seven-foot strip for the street
| car tracks.
Center Street Unchanged.
Altho some of the South Center
street property owners wanted the
pavement widened to twenty-four feet
all the way, the, widths were not
changed.
This pavement remains twenty-four
feet wide from the Northwestern right
of-way to Washington street: sixteen
| feet from Washington street to the
Linn creek bridge twenty-four feet
wide from the bridge to South street
and sixteen feet from South street to
the city limits.
The seven-foot strip on Summit
street west Of Thirteenth in which thu
street car line may. be, laid at some
time will be filled with gravel anc
4 clay binder. The north side Of the
street along the soldiers home grounds
will not be paved this year. or until
the state appropriates money for the
improvement.
North Third Avenue.
The resolution for paving North
Center street provides for pavement
only to the bridge, but it is the inten-
ton Of the city to gravel the road
north Of the bridge to the city limits.
With wide parkings in the center,
and ample drives on both sides, the
North Third avenue project will trans
form sandy wastes in Riverside street
and the avenue north Of Marion street
| into a beautiful boulevard.
The drives on both sides OF the park
ings will be connected at intervals
with wide intersections. The drive
ways in North Third avenue, from