The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-10-16
CITY DIRECTS
PAYING AROUND ..
CIVIC CENTER
Requests That Ford Company
Complete Work About Court
House This Fall
BIG DISTRICT READY
FOR WORK IN SPRING
Petitions Received Asking I'M
provement of II Blocks in
Residence District

rejecting new DluS VI tHe Tol'
Paving Co. for the paving OF fou
blocks surrounding the county bulld
ing, the city commission last evenin
unanimously adopted resolution III
lecting the paving company to I'M
prove these streets under the terms
it's original contract in conformlt!
with the remainder Of the Second dis
trict, in which this territory original
ly was included.
For technical reasons, the commits
sion had considered making OF these
four blocks a special district, instead
OF including it with the original dis
trict, as the terms Of the contract
permitting a fifteen per cent increase
in the amount of work, warrant its 40
ing. The terms submitted by the paw
ing company for this additional work
we're somewhat higher than the con
tract made last fall, and for this rea'
son the commission last evening avail
ed itself of the prerogatiVe retained in
awarding the contract, and whose con-
stitutionalty has been upheld 10y the
supreme court of North Dakota.
The commissions resolutions direct
that this work be completed this fall
il possible. Petitions received last
evening from the Bismarck special
school district, the McCabe NJ.
church, Bismarck hospital, Judge Lu'
Their f. Birdzell, DR.. Z. P. Quain, rep
resenting all Of the frontage AUDITING
on the outside of this square asked
that the improvement be made; that
asphalt be used land that the work
be included in the citys contract with
the Ford co.
lev. William Suckow, representing
the Bismarck Evangelical hospital, adj
dressed the commission on the i'm
portance of having this work done
this fall. Otherwise, he declared, the
hospital will be Inconvenience during
the early spring months next year by
having a mudhOle at its door. AttOr-
rey Frank p. Allen, appearing for the
county commission, advised the board
that that body took the stand that a
special district should MOI be created,
but that the work should be Included
in the original contract under the II
per cent extension clause. A set OF
resolutions adopted by the county
commission at its last meeting, read
ing to this effect, was received and
filed by the city board.
To Create Third District.
Upon the receipt OF petitions from
propcrty-holders representing a MA
jOrlty OF the frontage on II blocks of
street in the residence district, the
commission last evening adopted a
resolution directing the city engineer
and city attorney TO take the neces-
sary steps to create a third paving
district, upon which bids will be ask
ed this fall, in order that work may
begin early in the spring.
This new district, second in size
only to District No. 2, includes Main,
Broadway, Thayer and Rosser, from
the end OF District No. 2 to the limit
OF the built-up residence district on
the west, First Mandan and Wash
ington\. avenue from Main street to
Avenue A; East Park street and West
Park street, through Custer park;
Hannafin, from Broadway to Rosser;
cross.street connections between Av-
enues B and C on Raymond, Washing.
ton and Mandan avenues and First
street; Second street, from avenue B
to D; Avenue c, from Second to
Third; Ninth, from B to c.; c, from
9TH to 9Th; 9Th, from B. to d; 7th
from D to the Boulevard; and Ave
nues E and F. from 8th to 7th street
The petitioners include Louis H.
Carufel, A. w. Gussner, P. E. Byrne,
E. A. Hughes, E. H. l.. Vesperman,
w. p. Tomas, G. A. Burton, Bishop
Vincent Wehrle, F. B. Strauss, Inter-
national Harvester Co., Mary l.. Nc
Lean, c. N. Kirk, O. w. Roberts, T. r.
Atkinson, o. N. Durham, H. P. God
dard, NJ. F. Goddard, w. L. Nuessle,
Gottfried Kikul, Paul Brown, G. ].
Keenan,, J. w. Mclaughlin, Mrs l..
N. O. Tucker, J. X. Doran, r, H.
Thistlethwaite, F. A. Lair.
L.. Crossing at Ninth.
By resolution the commission d.
rected the Northern Pacific to install
a Waterman at the Ninth street cross
ing. F. B. Allen appeared on behalf
OF moving picture operators asking
that their annual license fee be re.
duced from $3.50 to the old figure O.;
$50. City Weighmaster Wakeman
reported some dealers in coal and
other merchandise were ignoring the
city scales. The Oscar H. Will Co.
agreed to the opening of an alley be-
tween Fourth and Third and Thayer
and Rosser, providing its paving and
grade are not disturbed
The city bacteriologist reported