Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-06-17
COLLECTION OF
ASHES BY CITY
TO BE COSTLY
Moving of Water Mains Also
Will Be Expensive
Operation
MAYOR PREFERS CHARGES
More Streets to Be Paved Dur
in the Coming Sum-
mer Season

Charges of being absent with
out leave. and conduct unbe-
coming an officer preferred by
Mayor Keister against PATROL
man Charles j. Davis. Hear
ing to be held June "a.
Report of j. W. LeIoux,
Philadelphia, giving estimated
cost of reIayinS water mains in
State street, and specifications
for work presented by Commits
sioner s. +. HasSIer.
Specifications for paving six
teen sections of city streets pre-
Sented by Commissioner w. Fl.
Lynch and approved. Bids to
be opened in two weeks.
Ordinances read providing for
new sewers.
Commissioner Hassler an
nounced il will cost $4,000 to
purchase nc wwagonS and horses
for municipal ash collections
bureau.
These important business questions
kept city council in session for an
hour and a-half this morning and
after the business session adjourned
the commissioners held an informal
talk lasting until after noon.
Mr.. Ledoux, water engineering ex-
pert, recommended in his report that
the pipes no win the center of State
street under the proposed founda-
tions of the new memorial bridge
should be moved to the north side
of the street in view of the extensive
plans of the State.
Cost of Mains
He said that the total cost of re-
laying the line and installing a force
and a return main. each SO inches IN
diameter to replace the present 80
inch lines, will be S14S.479. but II
new 30-inch mains are used it will
cost S119,766. He said that in view
of the fact that the State in planning
for the new bridge necessitates re-
moving the water mains the State
shoul dpay all the cost in case the
S0-inch pipes are replaced with those
of similar size. and if 36-inch pipes
are laid, should pay one-half of the
additional cost over that of laying
S0-inch lines.
After reviewing the various plans
which have been proposed Mr.. LIE.
doux recommends that the 30-inch
pipes crossing diagonally from the
Pennsylvania railroad right-of-way tc
State street near Cameron street
and turning east in State street near
Cameron street, should be replaced
by pipes running parallel to the rail-
road to State Steret on the north
side, then east in Stat estreet on the
north side to Thirteenth where the
S6-inch pipes could he Joined with
the 30-inch mains now in use Be
cause of proposed plans to fill in part
of the ground and other conditions
which will develop the engineer sug.
gests the use of flexible joints and
other improvements.
Pipes Costly
Details of connecting the new
pipes with the present mains wher
they are laid and specifications fol
doing all the work are furnished also
by Mr. LedouX. Copies of his re.
port have been furnished to the
State and to the engineers making
plans for the bridges.
Approximate estimates for the cost
for 36-inch mains as given by Mr.
JsedouX follow: Pipe, s51, 900: f1eX-
role joint pipe, $4,000; conduits
S16,665; adequate crossing Paxton
creek, $500; castings, s5,S72;
valves three, s2.55O; engineering
and miscellaneous, 6,400.
Council deferred action on the re-
port.
Specifications for paving the fol-
lowing streets were approved: Bren-
singer, Emerald to Curtin; Oak
Seventh to Elizabeth; Oxford, Sixth
to Jefferson; Sprague, Brensinger to
Turner; Brensinger, Woodbine To
Forrest; Emerald, Jefferson to Sew
enth; Cameron, Herr to Calder
Bailey, Twelfth street to Messiah
Home; Walnut, Cameron to Paxton
creek; Home, Berryhill to Kensing-
ton; Kunkel, Sixteenth to Seven
teenth; David, Park to Whitehall;
Helen, Nineteenth to David; Ethel
Nineteenth to Prospect; York, Sew
enteenth to Eighteenth; Chestnut
Nineteenth to Twentieth. Bids foI
next two weeks.
Charges Preferred
Mayor Keister preferred charges
of being absent without leave and
conduct unbecoming an officer
against Patrolman Charles j. Davis
The Commissioners decided to hear
the case next Tuesday morning at II
o'clock
Ordinances were read by Com.
missioner Lynch authorizing con-
struction of a 12-inch sewer in Berk.
ley Place, near Reservoir Park. and
a 10-inch sewer in Penn stret, from
Seneca to Schuylkill. He also intro
duced a measure vacating an alley
fifteen feet wide south of Seneca
betwene Front and Second streets
The ordinance authorizing repairs tc
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