Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-02-01
LYNCH SAVES AT
LEAST $4,000 IN
STREET REPAIRS
Annual Report to Council
Shows Liberal Estimate Is
Not Above $4,000
$4,000 UNDER CONTRACT
Harrisburg Now Boasts of
Nearly rs Miles of Paved
Highways
$4,000 UNDER CONTRACT

Harrisburg now has 1883 miles of
paved streets.
That significant high-light in the
city's progress stands out pre-eminent-
ly in the comprehensive report for the
year ending December 81, 1915, which
was submitted to City Council this
morning by Commissioner w. Ii.
Lynch, superintendent of streets ana
public improvements.
One other item also stands out with
especial prominence. According TO
Commissioner Lynch's report the city
expended s19, 9,9S9.23 for repairing and
maintaining its paved streets.
Street Repairs Cost $4,000
OF this sum S12,694.l5 was paid into
the city by the Harrisburg Railways
company the Harrisburg Gas COM
pany and other individuals or corpor-
ations for private cuts" which left Il
balance of $6,995.0S. This represents
the city's actual outlay for repairing
its asphalt streets. Added to this the
interest on the repair plant loan and
deducting a liberal amount for de-
probation of the plant-say $4,000 all
told-would run the city's actual cost
of keeping it's streets in repair during
1915 to approximately 10000. And
under private contract in previous
years the city paid $4,000 for this
work.
Up to January 1, 1916, Commits
sioner Lynch paved twenty-seven
highways total of 2.94 miles or a
total of 47,0SS.17 yards, 1t was all
done at an expenditure of 29,706.33.
The Sewers in 1915
In addition to the paved streets
Commissioner Lynch put down thirty
four new sewers covering total of
2.S6 miles at a cost of SS2,S13.6S.
Three highways We're graded These
cover total of forty-seVen hundreds
of a mile and cost 5,226.
Other improvements completed by
S Commissioner Lynch included: Con-
struction of 55 new sewer inlets: re-
building of 6 other inlets; cOnstruc-
tion of 3 manholes and the building of
% new crossings. Just 2,296 new
street signs were placed and 627 old
ones were repainted. Forty of the
electric light globes We're used as
street signs, the names of the highways
having been painted on the globes.
8 This was a metropolitan idea carried
out by Mr.. Lynch. Six mo parking
and twelve safety zone signs We're
set UP, too.
MIR Lynch refers to the convenience
of the motor truck that was placed in
the bureaus service during the year.
Another sprinkler and two more
sweepers were added to the street
cleaning equipment, and two more
& sweepers will be purchased this year.
The New Subways
Commissioner Lynch refers to the
fact that the bridges over the Phila-
delphia and Reading tracks at Thir-
teen and Seventeenth streets were re-
painted and that the construction Of
the subways under the Cumberland
Valley tracks at Second and Front
streets were completed and approved
by Council.
rI,n ~, 1 S,f 1Nn
cost of installation and maintenance
of the new asphalt repair plant is also
included in Mr.. Lynch's report. The
plant was operated for the first time
on July IA. 1915. The statement
shows that the ground cost $3.50; re-
pairs to trestle. s90746; plant, So
933.75; road roller, S1,675; tools. etc,
S1.S99.16, a total of S21,045.40. These
expenditures were all made from the
$4,000 appropriated for the building
of the repair plant by the 1915 loan.
From the balance of S3,954.60 the new
brick office laboratory and storage
building will he provided.
The Street Repairs
Mr. Lynch's report of street repair
ing during the year shows that 12,-
966.0S square yards of asphaltum were
put down for city maintenance; g.
O17.5S yards for the Harrisburg Rail
ways company; 334.26 yards for the
IidITlSDuiS SdS tOlllpdIly' anu 80 D.
OF yards for private cuts" a total of
22,296.99 yards.
During the year 7S7 permits We're
issued for making openings in the
streets for steam, water, gas and
sewer operations and III permits were
grants for similar work for erection
of electric light, telephone and tele-
graph noles.
Mr.. Lynch's financial statement
shows that his appropriation for the
year totaled $157,O19.74 and that his
expenditures were S146,936.06, leaving
balance January /, 1916, of $1O,-