Evening journal., 1919-09-30
KING Street TO BE
REPAIRED BY CITY
Business Men and Property
Owners Anxious for Pro-
posed improvement
DISCUSS MARKET
CLOSING HOURS

Formal action looking 10 the repay-
ing Of King street from Front street 10
Fourteenth sstreet. was taken at the
meeting OF the Street and Sewer Dlree-
tors this morning.
A petition asking for the improve
ment was presented IN behalf Of King
street property owners, ana was placed
on nle for further consideration and
action.
Il was explained that the project also
contemplates repaying King street from
/ Fourteenth to Sixteenth street, but that
the necessary signatures OF property
owners had not been thus far obtained
/ Those two blocks will likely DE ems
braced in a supplementary petition.
The petition went in under the
auspices Of the King Street Improve
ment Association, Of which Charles
Topkis is president The project is
favored strongly by King street bust
ness men.
Once more the question Of at what
hour the miscellaneous street market
shall close, bobbed mp before the board,
With the idea OF keeping that market
in working harmony with the other
street markets a resolution making its
closing hour the same as the other mar
kels WIS offered and given its first and
second readings. II probably VIII come
up for final action at the next meeting
A prOnOuced effort has been made by
those who stand in the miscellaneous
market 30 have II remain open an hour
longer than the other markets. That
aroused so much opposition from those
users OF the other markets and also Of
certain business men that the board de-
cided 10 end the controversy by amend
ing the market regulations so it VIII in
clude the miscellaneous market.
A petition was read from Lilburne
Chandler asking that the board grade
LamOtte street between TNenty-s Xth
and Twenty-seventh streets, which wac
placed on file.
A communication was read from the
Clerk Of the City Council calling aiten-
tion OF the board TO the dirt falling in
the city streets from overloaded trucks.
coming from building operations, also
from cinders that the Wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company are
using. The board ordered a letter 20
be sent to City Council, stating they
were doing all in their power in re-
gard TO the dirt problem. They further
stated they had asked the police to CO.
operate with them in this work.
A representative from the Liberty
Morocco Company, which operates the
old Mitchell Thomas plant. was pres
ent this morning and stated they were
building two concrete buildings on
Nancy street, which lies between Mary
land avenue and Liberty street, and
that the company wanted permission TO
bridge Nancy street, connecting the
two buildings. The street Is a small
one. being one block long and ten feet
wide. They ask TO bridge the second,
third and fourth floors. The board
deferred action on this until an inves-
tlgation can be made
There were present two representa-
tives OF the National Sanitary Corpora
tion Of Philadelphia, in regard TO plac-
ing waste receptacles throughout the
city. President johnson stated the board
was not yet ready 10 take over the I
but suggested that the cor |
send them a written proposal, /
stating under what terms the recep- /
tacles could be obtained.