Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-10-02
CONSTRUCTING
MUCH SIDE WALK
Nearly $4,000 Square Feet Now
Laid and Much More is to
BE Built.
TWO CREWS ARE WORKING
Work for Sewer Construction Now
Being Lined Up and Will BE
Started Soon.

During the past few weeks the city
commission and William +. Reynolds,
city manager, have been making
every effort to construct as much
sidewalk as possible in the city. and
to put in that which it has been felt
was most badly needed, and up TO
Tuesday night 34,954 square feet of
cement sidewalk have been laid.
During the past few years Alma
has ben growing rapidly, and the
sidewalks did not keep pace with the
growth. During the course Of the
war it was necessary TO hold up the
building of the walks, and as a re-
suit the city commission has a large
accumulation of petitions for side
walks. These petitions call for more
walks than can possibly be laid under
the most favorable conditions this
fall and some of them must go over
until next year.
This has made it necessary to 90
over the ground carefully and pick
out the walk that was the most badly
needed, and this is being put in as
nearly as possible in this way, that
the greatest number Of people may
derive the benefits therefrom.
The city now has two crews work
ing on the sidewalks and they are
making rapid headway. a continua-
ton of good weather for another
month will see much more badly
needed sidewalk laid as result
y Pacnlntfpne 60. ha -
sidewalks are being passed each week
by the commission and the work is
being done just as rapidly as possible.
Many paths in various parts of the
city, which heretofore have been mud
dy in rainy weather, and highly dis
agreeable as result, have been dis
pensed with within the last few
weeks, with the laying of the 34.954
square feet of sidewalk. All of the
walks which have been constructed
are five feet in width.
An estimate on the walk which has
been placed was obtained yesterday
by City Manager Reynolds. The
streets and the amount of walk laid
on each follows: Republic avenue
from Superior to Eastward has $3.50
square feet of walk; Eastward street
from Republic TO Grove avenues has
! ,450 square feet; Grove avenue from
Eastward to Rosedale streets has
/ 1925 square feet of walk, exclusive
of l76 square feet of crossings; Rose
dale street from Grove to Grover ave-
nues has Z, 800 square feet of walk.
and Grover avenue north from Rose
dale has $50 square feet of walk. On
Pleasant avenue between Superior
and Eastward streets 3,745 square
feet Of walk and 176 square feet OF
cross walk have been placed. On
Eastward street between Pleasant
and Republic avenues 1925 square
feet have been put in. Riverside
Drive has 2,022 square feet Of walk
and Meyer avenue has 1000 square
feet of new walk
Water Mains and sewer extensions
are hard proposition right now for
the commission in view Of the high
cost of pipe, but some water mains
have been laid on Mechanic street and
a small amount of sewer on Grafton
avenue.
Sewage conditions have also been
bettered on several streets in the city,
where manholes had not been made
when the sewers were constructed.
Eleven manholes have been put in and
thirty more are to be constructed 70
do away with present conditions. Il
was stated by Manager Reynolds that
had these manholes been constructed
when the sewers were built, as should
have been the case, that the cost
would have been only about one-half
Of the present cost.
Plans are now being made for tne
further extension of sewers in the
,ity, and it is expected that within
The next two or three weeks bids Will
De asked from contractors for the
of a large amount. It
S the intention to get this WORK doue.
f possible. yet this fall