New Britain herald., 1916-02-24
PUBLIC WORKS WILL COST CITY $230,274 That Is Amount Asked for in
 Annual Budget

The budget for the coming year work was taken up for consideration by the board of public works last eve ming and $23O,274 will be sought This is considerably more than was asked for last year when the figures were $196,694.25 and the amount allowed was but $147,414.
 Following is a list of the more inn portant items for which money is needed; permanent pavement repair, $500; new macadam, 3o,460; clean ing streets, 4,0OO; cleaning catch basins, s4,OO0; new cross walks, $350 repairs to old cross walks, $lOO; street signs, $500; expenses of en- gineer, $500: street repairs $5,O0O, grading, s13.125: macadam repairs, 5000; cobble gutters, $700 and con- crete gutters s250; dump, $500; semi permanent paving, $27,000 and similar paving repairs. $500; expense in of fee, s325 cinder walks, S100; rail- ings (new and old) $20O; repairs to utensils. etc, $1.O0O; storeh ouse and yard, $4OO; remove snow and ice, s4,00O; new equipment $1,O00; trees, care, etc., $1,500; waste cans, $10O; street oil, $3,OO0; Xmas tree, $15; re- taing walls $5,200; street lighting, $31,OOO: street sprinkling, S2O,O0O. The lighting figures last year were but s25,9O3.S7 and the sprinkling cost but $14,S46.S5. Chairman E. N. Hum- phrey explained the extra cost permits the purchase of street fiushers. En- gineer Hall said a motor driven ma chine should be bought and another one used as a fusher, in order to do away with the squeegee which costs S3,50O a year and wears out the pavement. With proposed new ma chimes the city could do it's own sprinkling and also use the cOnVerti- ble carts for hauling snow. Such streets a day.
 For Permanent Paving.
 Estimates on permanent paving are S21SS9, including the cost Of Elm street from Park to East Main street Sewer maintenance is estimated at s11,OOO and catch basins at 5000.
 Semi-Pe1rnanent Paving.
 Main to Elm on Chestnut, $1,S9O; Arch street to Shuttle Meadow ave- nue from end of present paving, s5.32o: Hartford avenue to Allen on Stanley street, S7,440: Dwight Court to East on Dwight street, $2.97O; East to Market on Jubilee, $5,40o; West Main to Myrtle on High, $&,375; total of s26,395.
 Costs of Macadam.
 Elm street, north to Hurburt ave- nue, s1760: Myrtle to Bond on Booth, S2,607; Fairview to Sheffield on Park Ext, S1,591; Stanley to Fair view on Park Ext. $2,56O; Jubilee to Newington avenue on Chapman, $2,3o0; East to Cha pman on Rhodes s3,oOO: to 2G9 Broad cn High, $2,oOO; 269 High to end of street, $2.1OO; East Main to Smalley on Cottage Place. s2,S50: Laurel to Olive on Con- merton. s1.3SO: South Main to Maple on Ash. s950; Park Ext. to Chestnut on North Sheffield s962; North to West on Oak, $5,100; Lincoln to Black Rock on Garden, s2,S50; I.in- coin to Black Rock on Harrison, s3,25O; a total of $35,460
 Would Grade Streets Corbin avenue to Hart on Lincoln. $500; Andrews street, Greenwood to end, $20O; Burritt to Bond on Broad, $500; Myrtle to Broad on Cleveland S275; Burritt to Hunter on Clinton S70O: F. Lawlor to Lasalle on Law loT' @oOV IlllWoOu at Nllthfop, S-VO, Monroe street extension from Madi- son to Linwood, $500: Pleasant 70 Kelsey on Sheffield, $2OO; Ash to Lin wood on Shuttle Meadow avenue S200; Oak to Tremo ont on West $2O0: Wilcox street, from the end of grad ing. to Lasalle, $7OO: West Main to Steele on Wooster. S7.500: old town line to Lasalle on Clark, $103O: a to- tai of $13125.
 For Bridges.
 COrbin avenue bridge 5000; Mon roe street bridge, $2.S0O; Bridge re- pairs $500; total SS.100.
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