Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-08-17
SITE OF FIRST
HOUSE MAY BE
PARK LOCATION
Works Board Offers Ground
to Board of Park Com
missiOners.
QUIZ SAFETY OF BRIDGE

Conversion of a plot of ground, on
which the first residence In Indianapolis
Is said TO have been constructed, into
public park, became possibility today
when the board of public works an
nounced 1t has refused to sell the tri-
angular tract located at the northeast
corner Of Blake and Washington streets
to a private purchaser and is offering 1t
to the board of park commissioners. The
city acquired the land when 1t was buy
Ing ground for food prevention pur-
poses.
1t is said it was on this plot that the
McCormicks, one of the two families
that was the first to settle ia what later
became Indianapolis, located
President Mark II. Miller Of the board,
announced that City Civil Engineer Frank
c. Idngenfelter County Surveyor J. j.
Griffith and J. w. Titus, bridge engineer
for the State highway commission, Will
be asked 10 inspect the Kentucky avenue
bridge and make a written report on Its
safety. The board has been discussing
the ACCESSIBILITY of closing the structure
and asking the county council TO make an
appropriation, which with money from
the city flood prevention fund. would be
sufficient TO erect a new one.
BIDS RECEIVED
By THE BOARD,
Bids were received as follows:
Local sewer In Meredith avenue, from
Rural TO Gray streets, Columbia Con
struetion Company, $3.50 a hneal 1Oot'
]. II. King & c., $3.50.
Local sewer in Spencer avenue from
Burgess avenue to Brookvilie avenue, 60
lumbia Construction Company, $3.50 D.
II. King & Co, SS.T4; George W. Nc
Local sewer in the first alley south Of
Michigan street from forty nine feet OF
Alton avenue to ninety five feet west OF
Berwick avenue, j. IL. King & Co., $3.O4;
George W. McCray, $2.99. aud Columbia
Construction Company, $2.SS.
Local sewer In Forty Ninth street from
Pennsylvania street to $40 feet west, Co.
lumbia Construction Company $3.29.
Local sewer in Forty Ninth street from
Meridian street to $50 feet east, Ameri-
can Construction Company, $4.49; Column
bia Construction Company, SS.1l.
Sidewalks and graded lawns in Forty
Seventh street, south side, from Penn
sylvania street to Central avenue: John
Arnold & Co. S1.4O lineal foot; j. w.
& w c. Martin, s1.19; Sehwsrt Brothers.
Welsh. Sl31; w. c. Halstead $3.50;
Krebay Concrete and Paving Company,
81 40; Frank Lawson, SLY.
Resurfacing with asphalt Of Alabama
street from Maryland street to 265.l3 feet
south. 1890 a line6l foot.
avenue from Park TO College avenues,
American Construction Company. 1914
lineal foot; Indiana Asphalt Paving
Company, 1881; J. y. Morgan Son,
$685..
RESOLUTIONS were confirmed as fol-
lows:
Grading aud graveling Of Morgan
street from Belmont TO Pershing ave
nues; grading OF Crescent street from
Thirty Fourth to Thirty Fifth streets;
curbing IN Forty Ninth street from III
Forty Ninth street from Pennsylvania
street 10 the MOnon railroad; curbing IN
Forty Ninth streets from College avenue
to the Monon railroad permanent i'm
provement Of Forty Ninth street from
Illinois street TO the Monon railroad, and
sidewalks. curbs and graded lawns IN
Crescent street from Northwestern avenue
to Thirty Fifth street
WILL REsURFACE
SOUTHEASTERN AVENUE.
resolution for tho resurfacing Of
Southeastern avenue from Washington
street to state avenue was adopted.
Contracts were awrded as follows:
Sidewalks and graded lawns In Forty
Sixth street from Boulevard Place TO
Sunset avenue, William ]. WEIGH, S139 a
lineal foot, total, Sl,647.7s, and sidewalks
and graded lawns In Forty Fourth street,
south side, from Boulevard Place to Sun
set avenue, William J. Welch, S155, total,
81. s39.77.
Plans were ordered drawn for the
permanent Improvement Of Euclid avenue
from Washington street to Pleasant Kun
boulevard petition for water mains In
several streets between Southern avenue
and tho city limits was denied, ana the
petitioners instructed to bring in separate
petitions for each street Ia which the
mains are desired. The original petition
did not set out the names Of any OF the
streets. All action was rescinded on q
resolution for the permanent improve
ment of Twenty Eighth street from
Illinois street to Capitol avenue. be
cause OF a remonstrance against tho i'm
provement bearing the names OF a
majority Of the resident property owners
Work will proceed toward the perman-
ent improvement Of Eastern avenue from
Michigan to New York streets, since a
remonstrance filed did not contain the
names Of a majority Of the resident
property owners.