Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-20
REJECTS BIDS
FOR WORK ON
THREE STREETS
Works Boards Acts OF Advice
of City Engineer, Who Says
They're High.

Contending that they were from % to
so cents a square yard too high. Frank
C. Lfngenfelter, city civil engineer, today
recommended to the board Of public
works that it reject all bids received for
the permanent Improvement of Tacoma
avenue, from Michigan to st. Clair street;
permanent improvement of Sheridan ave-
nue. from Washington street to Lowell
avenue, and permanent improvement of
Station street from Twenty First street
to Massachusetts, avenue.
The board granted the recommenda-
ton.
Following a conference with Merle N
wk Walker, attorney for property own
Yers, who are seeking an injunction to
prevent the board from proceeding with
a resolution to open and permanently
improve Michigan street, from DOrman
to Highland avenues, in order to remove
a jog, the board agreed with the city
Iegsl department that demurrer to the
complaint be fled and the Superior
Court in which 1t is filed be asked to
hold a hearing some time this week. If
the demurrer is sustained the board viii
be free to proceed and if not the matter
will have to be settled by an argument
upon the petition for injunction.
Mr.. Walker contends that the boards
procedure is Illegal because the resO-
luton provides for both opening and
paving The board now is attempting
to collect from property owners In the
district assessed under the resolution
ADMITS IT PROPER
FOR OPENING STREET.
This is proper in the case of the
mere opening Of a street, because It is
necessary to have money with which to
buy property in the way Of the open
Ing but 1t is not legal for the board to
collect money for the paving Of the street
in advance of the work being done, Mr..
Walker says. The law likewise pro-
vides that paving, excepting intersec-
tlons, shall be paid for by abutting prop
erty owners. The Michigan street i'm
prOvement is assessed over a district six
blocks wide and more than two miles
long.
All action was rescinded upon resolu-
tions for the permanent improvement OF
Spann avenue from Shelby TO Laurel
streets and the permanent improvement
Of English avenue from the Big Four
railroad to keystone avenue.
Readvertisins for bids was ordered
on the grading Of Ohio street from Gale
to BrOOkville avenues
A contract with Thomas A. Moynahan
for the laying of a switch from the Big
Four railroad across Pratt street to
kPratt street and Senate avenue was ap-
<prOFed.
KRIDS RECEIVED
OR STREET WORK.
Bids were received as follows:
Permanent improvement Of Hiatt street
from Minnesota to Norris streets: Marion
County Construction Company. asphalt,
1910 per lineal foot and bituminous con-
crete, $3.50
Permanent improvement Of Mansfield
street from Eighteenth to Twenty first
streets: American Construction Com
pany, asphalt, 5000. and bituminOus con
crete, $3.50: Mansfield Engineering Com
pany. asphalt, 1892, and bituminOus con-
crete, S5.65.
y Grading Of Station street from Twenty
eighth to Thirtieth streets: ColumbisH
Construction Company. S1S2; Frank
Lawton, S1-59; Hugh Mcdonald. S1.49
Permanent Improvement Of Station
street from Twenty Eighth to Thirtaeth
streets: Columbia Construction Com
pany, concrete, S4.65.
Permanent improvement of Harvard
Place from Cornelius to lockwood ave
nues: J. n Morgan & Son, bituminous
concrete, S5-27, and asphalt. $3.50. Mans
field Engineering Company, bituminous
concrete, S5.3S, and asphalt, $3.50.
Permanent Improvement of North
street from Emerson avenue to the first
alley east Of Leland street: Columbia
Construction Company. concrete, s. 80:
J. ". and ". c. Martin, concrete. $3.50;
Mead Construction Company, asphalt,
$3.50. and bituminOus concrete, S6.42
No bids were received on the grading
aid crawling of Gemmer street from
~ feet west of State avenue to State
avenue
Contracts were awarded as follows:
Sidewalks. curbs and graded lawns in
Good avenue from University to Beech
wood avenue TO J. W. and W C. Martin
on their bid Of S2.97 per ineal foot; to-
tai. S1.207.S9.