Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-04-06
EAST SIDE CITIZENS
SEEK IMPROVEMENTS
Want Streets Opened and Graded
and Refuse Covered to
Check Disease.

Communications signed by residents
a,d rronertv owners between Jessup and
Thatcher streets, and sixteenth ana
T,ventv-fourth streets, was received by
tbe directors of the Street and Sewer
pona-tnent Yesterday petitlonins
the board To establish curb and building
limos and do all necessary grading. The
covering of cans and other refuse deposited
bv the city in the lots cast OF this section,
WAS /, ked for. There were 437 names at
tached TO the following petition:
TO the Street and Sewer Department
of the CITY of Wilmington-Ge Gentlemen
The undersigned. residents OF the van
dever Avenue Section of the City of Will
n,ingtoo request that YOUR board regulate
and grade Sixteenth and Seventeenth
streets from Church TO Pine streets, also
Sprllce street from Sixteenth street TO
Nandever avenue; and then open those
three streets TO public travel IN sale
condition. -
''We respectfully request that you use
the dirt taken therefrom, to cover the
tin cans and ashes the city of Wilmington
has widely spready immediately east OF
our homes. . c,v
eve s,lbmie that the Street q Sewer
Jo,ort,,oo+ owes us immediate relief
from the intolcrable conditions existing
from Fifteenth street to NandCver avenue
along Ueald street; we acknowledge our
grateful anpreciation of the change In the
iandscape between Fourtcenth and fI-
teeoth streets. already accomplished and
We request that the good work be con-
tlnucd
tecnth street, Winfield {. Ncngarten,
LOG Pine street: G. y. NlcAllIster, sol
/ Seventeenth street and BenJamin W.
Conway. 500 f.. Seventeenth street, per-
sonallv presented the petition hey SAID
that scarlet fever cases in that section were
attributed to the unsanitarv conditions
Of the vacant lots Deslsion was reserved
bv the dlrectos.
The annual statement in accordance
with the franchise Of the Wilmington "
Philadelphia Traction Company and the
Wilmington 4 Southern Railway 90.
filed this morning, showed the company had
received for It's lighting franchise II 10
960 IT, and had paid taxes amounting 70
S27. 900 3S, which was more than per
cent as required hy the city.
The statement submitted by the latter
companv for the same franchise was
s432 20. as compared to SS05, which was
paid ont IN taxes.
r. Henry Gricr. served notice that he
would present q resolution during the
next few davs for the control and reguiat
ING Of gas stations end tanks, under and
OF the sidewalks Of the city.
Charles NJ Banks, city treasurer, re-
ported the following balances: Current
expense fund. S14.451 90; special expense
fund. SS.37I47: sewer expense fund,
50. SOS. .83: BrandywIne sewer fund
S4a.9l6l2; paving tax fund, SS.56S a.,
Delaware avenue Improvement tund,
s322 81: making total Of S9l.227.12.
Permission wqs granted the Wilmington
Gas Coto open Broome street, between
Tenth and Eleventh streets, Tor the plir-
pose of LAYING gas main.
In Communication from the klwanls
Club the directors were asked to consld-
cr rcpaintluc the onc-way street trattlo
slgns. The matter VIII be referred TO the
repar committee.
The paving Of Ninth street between
Market and King streets was ordered
Edmund : McAtcer clerk OF the market
reported the following collections for the
month Of Va -ch. 4>S spaces at p cents
each, Sl22, Ii spaces 81 so cents each, IS;
> spaces at - ccnts each, 81 30. , spaces
Al 81 each. -. , spaces NJ So Is, s. 50,
! space st 81 80 ard l72 spaces 81 $500
each, STA. making q total Of S9l1.l