Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1918-04-27
LET FOR
Street PAVING

awarded contracts Tor fourteen miles
of street paving, to cost approx.
mately 100000.
They are the first paving contracts
awarded this year, all work having
been held up because the State Coun.
Gil of Defense asked that all public
improvements be stopped on account
of the war and the high cost of ma
| terials. Michael j. Faherty, president
| of the board, however, finally induced
the contractors to agree to a station.
airy price for the year, within the
| estimates of the engineers for the
| board.
Streets to be improved, the con.
tractor receiving the job, kind Of
construction, and cost. follow:
Broadway from Wilson avenue to
Foster avenue; the Ryan Company;
creosote block; cost, $l26,147.
South Central avenue from West
Sixty.third to West Sixty.fifth street;
the Smith 4 Brown Company; brick
paving; cost, $30,093.
Crandon avenue from West Seventy.
second to West Seventy.second street;
the American Asphalt Company; as
phalt paving; cost, $5,705.
East Forty.eighth street from Ellis
to Dorchester avenue; Ready 4 Cal.
laghan Coal Company; asphaltic.
macadam paving; cost, $14,209.
West Forty-ninth place from Racine
avenue to Throop street; asphalt paw.
ing; X. +. Conway a. Co.; cost, 5000
| utr
Oakley avenue to South Western
boulevard; the Contracting and Mate
rial Company; brick; cost, $14,912.
South holman avenue from West
Harrison street to Colorado avenue;
brick: the X. +. Conway Company;
$2,41S.
South Morgan street from West
Fifty.seventh to West Fifty-ninth
street; asphalt the American As.
phalt Paving Company; $l6,025.
East Ninetysecond street, from JEFF.
frey to Anthony avenue; macadam;
the Calumet Coal and Teaming Com.
pany; $73,3li. ..,.
West One Hundred and Fifth street.
from Wood street to Prospect avenue;
asphalt; the American Asphalt and
Paving Company; $12,516.
South Rockwell street, from West
| Twenty-fifth to West Twenty-six
street; brick; the Citizens Construc.
ton Company; $13,564.
South Troy street, from West Fifty.
eighth to West Fifty-ninth streets;
asphalt-macadam; James A. Sackley
& Co.; $5,307.
Webster avenue from Elston avenue,
$50 feet east granite block; the Mar.
quette Construction Company, $15,.
23S.
Potomac avenue system, from the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul rail-
road tracks to North Homan avenues
asphalt; the American Asphalt Com
pany; $1S,977.
| East One Hundred and Thirtieth
street system, from Baltimore avenue
to Carondelet avenue macadam; the
Farr Brothers Company; $2O,535.
| West SiXty.ninth place system, from
South Robey street to Hamilton ave.
nue.; asphalt; the American Asphalt
and Paving Company; $41,293.
Luna avenue system, from West
North avenue to Hirsch boulevard;
asphalt; the American Asphalt and
Paving Company; $90,626.
The Edison Park avenue system
from North Oketo avenue to Ozanam
avenue; asphalt the II. f. Conway
Company; $26,65S,
| South holman avenue, from West
Harrison street to Colorado avenue;
brick; the Ryan Company; $23,36S.
| LeClaire avenue, from Hutchinson
street to Cullom avenue; asphalt the
r. +, Conway Company, $2,41S.
East Ninety.third street, from South
Chicago avenue to Baltimore avenue.
Additional contracts for approx.
mately 100000 are to be awarded
within few days.
~
John F. CIare has thousands OF
/ friends who would like to see him
elected Judge.
John z. Vogelsang has done much
to make the restaurant the attractive
feature OF Chicago life that 1t is
today.
Clarence S. barrow Is always the
friend of the poor and the downtrod.
den and no one stands higher at the