Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-13
CONTRACT FOR
NORTH SIDE
DRAIN AWARDED
Improvement for District
North of 51st Street to Be
Made Within 9 Months.

A contract for the CONSTRUCTION OIL the
Fifty Sixth street and Westfield road
main drain, which will serve most of the
territory north of Fifty-First street and
west of College avenue, was let to the
Shechan Construction Company by the
board Of public works today. The com
pany's bid was S10.47 per llneal foot, or
a total of S2S3, 37O.55 on Ferguson segmen-
tai block The improvement is to be
completed within nine months.
The city civil engineer department is
preparing plans for the sanitary sewer to
serve the same district as that covered by
the main drain and for extensions Of
other sewers to take care of the district
east of College avenue and north of
| Fifty First street. 1t is expected that
contracts on these improvements will be
let before the end of the year.
/ ORDER PLANS FOR
RESURFACING FOUR STREETS.
Plans for the resurfacing of four i'm
| portant streets were ordered as follows
Broadway from Twenty First to Twenty
Fifth streets, Northwestern avenue from
Twenty First to Thirty Second streets,
Pennsylvania from Georgia to Henry
streets and New Jersey street from Vir-
ginla avenue to South streets.
| committee representing the Ben Har-
/
was granted permission to erect and
maintain for thirty days a booth on the
sidewalk at Market and Pennsylvania
! streets The booth is to serve as head
! quarters of the Sons of Veterans drive
! for 1000 new members which is to open
soon.
AWARD CONTRACTS FOR
/ PERMANENT WORK.
Other contracts were awarded as fol-
lows
! Permanent improvement of Webster
avenue from Washington street TO Lowell
/ avenue with bkuminous concrete Mead
| Construction Company for $7.41 per
lineal foot, total, $10,o24.77.
| Permanent improvement Of Good ave-
nue. from University to Beechwood ave-
nues with bituminOus concrete, Mead
Construction Company, for $4S4 per
lineal foot, total S4,271.O5.
| Curbing in Healing avenue from Tenth
street to a point 800 feet south. Krebay
/ Construction and Paving Company, for
/ S1.25 per lineal foot. total S1,005.
Curbing and graded lawns In Moore
avenue between Christian and Dearborn
/ street. ]. w. and W. c. Martin for 1913
| per lineal foot, total, S4,2774I.
! Sidewalks and graded lawns IN Miller
street from Pershing to Belmont ave
nue., Frank Lawson, for s1.73 per Hneal
/ foot, total. S2,32512.
ADOPT RESOLUTION TO
IMPROVE FIFTY-FIRST STREET.
Preliminary orders for the use of ma
terials In permanent improvements were
made on streets and alleys as follows:
First alley west Of Northwestern ave
nue. from Eugene to Thirtieth streets,
two course concrete; Kenmore Road from
Washington street TO Pleasant Run Park
way, bituminous concrete; Shelby street
from Prospect street TO the first alley
south Of Georgia street, asphalt; Berke-
| ley Road from Illinois street to B0ule-
ward Place, bitumious concrete; Spring
street from Ohio 10 Walnut streets, BIZ
luminous concrete; Thirty SIKH. street
from College TO Carrollton aSenues, BIZ
luminous concrete; FIRST alley east Of
Ashland avenue from Twenty fifth to
Twenty seventh streets. two course CON
crete; first alley west of Illinois street
from Georgia to Maryland streets, two
course concrete.
] A resolution for the permanent i'm
provement Of F1fty-hrst street from
Pennsylvania street TO College avenues
was adopted and bids We're ordered re-
advertised for the sewer in East Tenth
street from a point twenty feet east Of
Denny street to a point 155 feet east Of
| Hawthorne Lane
NUM- ROUS BIDS
ARE RECEIVED.
Bids were received as follows:
Permanent improvement OF Blue Ridge
TOAD from Boulevard Place to Sunset ave-
nue. American Construction Company,
asphalt $1072 per lineal foot and btu
minous concrete. 1902; Mansfield Engi-
Leer Company, asphalt, $1O75 and btu
miDous concrete, $l0.24; J. y. Morgan &
Son, asphalt, S10.S0 and bituminous con
crete, 5000.
Grading and sidewalks in winthrop
avenue from Forty Second to Forty
Fourth streets: Hugh Mcdonald. 81 81
John Arnold & Co, $40; G.. II. Hairless
81 03, Kretay Construction and Paving
Company, $165; Frank Lawson, 81 6S; J.
W. X w. c. Martin, $1.49; Schwert
Brothers. S1.49
Permanent Improvement Of Sheridan
avenue from Washington street to Lowell
avenue: Mead Construction Company,
| asphalt $616 per lineal foot and btu
minoGs concrete, s595.
Permanent improvement Of Harding
street from Washington street to Ken
lucky avenue: James. Il. Mcnamara
Construction Company, concrete. $4.S7
per lineal foot; s. NJ. Timberlake Com
pany, concrete, $3.50; J. w. and w. c.
Martin, concrete, S5.11; Marion County
Construction Company, asphalt, $3.50,
and Columbia Construction Company,
Sidewalks and curbs in Ohio street
from Gale street TO Brookville avenue
John Arnold & Co, $3.42.
Grading, sidewalks and graded lawns
in Blue Ridge road from Boulevard place
to Sunset avenue: Schwert Brothers,
1895 per lineal foot; Krebay Construc-
ton and Paving Company, 1894; Frank
Lawson. 1913; W. c. Halstead, 1922;
Permanent Improvement Of Salem
street from Thirty Fourth to Thirty
Sixth streets: American Construction
Company, asphalt, $3.50 per lineal foot
and bituminous concrete, $500; Mansfield
Engineering Company, asphalt, $3.50. and
bituminous concrete, S56s; j. n. Moran
& Son, asphalt $3.50 and bitumlnouS
concrete. $500