The Washington times., 1919-03-27
ROAD REPAIR
PLANS OFFER
/ MANY JOBS
District Awards Contracts For
Extensive Improvement of
the City's Highways.
BY BILL PRICE.

EuG engineer VI NAC
District gOvernn- mt has prepared an
extensive prog Of roadway ano
street work, diving appropria-
tions for the ..Cnt fiscal year, and
IN nearly all cases the contracts call
'or completion OF the projects by
July 1, 1918. In some cases the work
must be started by that time 10 make
the appropriations available in the
next fiscal year.
The program has been mapped out
and contracts awarded early, so that
as much work as possible may be
<tven 20 unemployed men with the
epening OF good spring weather
Cement Concrete R0adWayA
To the Continental Contracting
Company OF Baltimore there have
been let contracts for cement con-
crete roadways for the following
streets the total cost being about
s116,e ,eOO:
Thirty-eighth street northwest.
massachusetts, avenue TO MacOmb
. street: Shepherd street northwest
C0urth TO Fifth: Shepherd street
rthwest. Georgia avenue TO Four
tS,ath: Fifth street northwest, Rock
Creek Church road to Shepherd
street; Talbert street southeast,
Nichols avenue to Shannon place;
shannon place southeast Chicago
street 10 South Terminus: Webster
street northwest Georgia avenue 10
Iowa avenue; Allison street north
vest Georgia avenue to Iowa avenue;
Iowa avenue northwest webster to
Allison; Ninth street northwest
Georgia avenue 10 Kansas avenue:
Ninth street northwest, Allison 10
Buehanan; Claiming street northwest,
North Capitol TO First; Hobart street
northwest, Sherman avenue TO Geor-
Eia avenue; Seventh street north
wesE, Rock Creek Church road TO
Taglor street; Wiltberger street
northwest, s TO T street
The Crawford Paving Company, Of
this city, has contracts for sheet as
phalt paving for the following streets
at q total cost Of about $125,O00:
Twelfth street northwest from B 20
e.; Phelps street northwest, Florida
avenue to s; Thorton street north
west, Thornton street TO Wyoming
avenue; New Hampshire avenue north
west, Georgia avenue TO Park road;
Kalorama road northwest, Sixteenth
20 Champlain strestBs Rhode Island
avenue northeast, Fourth to Twelfth
streets; Fourth street northeast, from
end Of asphalt to Rhode Island ave-
hues " street northeast, from
Foarth to Fifth: Fifth street north
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Mne1da% ROadwHyA
To George 3. MuIIin & Co., this oity,
: the following contracts for macadam
roadways has been awarded:
Massachusetts, avenue northwest
;,etween Murdock road and District
line: Sixteenth street northwest, Mon
taRue street TO Alaska avenue; Wood
lev road northwest. between Idaho
avenue and 100 feet west Of Wiscon-
sin avenue.
ResurfaeInE and Grading.
The following streets are TO be re-
.urfaced by the Crawford Paving Com
many at a cost Of $4,000:
Twelfth street northwest. TO g;
Fourteenth street southwest. B TO {:
N street southeast, Fourth to New
Jersey avenue; intersection OF First
and K streets northwest.
these streets are to be graded:
Kearney. northeast, Eighteenth to
--wentieth: Central avenue northeast
E2hode Island avenue to 200 feet south
~ brentwood road: Thirteenth north
vveet. between Randolph and Quincy;
Tbirteenth and Kansas avenue north
vest. Quincy street 10 Spring road
vista street northeast, Franklin TO
south Dakota avenue
these thoroughfarcs are q" he
.nacadamiZed:
Sixteenth street northwest. Mon
.,-Ue 10 Alaska. Massachusetts ave-
,,e northvest. MurdoCk Mil road 10
Dfstrfct line: Rhode Island avenue
,,orrbeast. Twenty-eiEhlh street 10
District line.
NanH of the main rosdwsys Of the
,istrict arc badly in need or re-
,sirs. being full of holes and ruts'
I'd the Engineer Department IS pre-
.rinR to make extensive repairs as
.needily as possible. This ~ done
y day labor, employed by the Dis
.riet. and not by contract The mac
.Sam and other materials for repairs
- b.i1r placed along the roadwsys.
Tbere is a bad state Of affairs IN
s,v Of the City's most important
-trerts along the car tracks IhlS
..nsir work IS done through arrange
-,snt with the street railways. Wnich
~ the bills. This sort OF work -
a. behind. having been neglected.
Curing the war
Contracts For Sidewalks
Contracts have been made with the
-r-srren r BreniEer Company to lay
..1ent sidewalks on about 100
.r,ets. the cost 10 be paid by ASSESS
saent. .,-,,.
One OF the longest sidewalks Is 1"
-, laid along Nichols avenue south
ast abutting the grounds OF the
government Hospital for the insane
- is TO be on the east side OF that
venue, and as it abuts Government
,.roperty. is not assessable against
rivste property. a number Of pubic
rbooIs arc TO have sidewalks iaid
around them.