Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-05-18
COLUMBIA AVE.
IMPROVEMENT
is CALLED OFF
Financial Disability of Prop
erty Owners Prompts
Boards Action.

Pleas Of resident property owners
claiming they are financially unable to
meet the expense Of the permanent i'm
provement of Columbia avenue from Six
teenth to Twentieth streets and from
! Twentieth street to the Belt railroad
caused the board Of public works today
to resc;std all action upon resolutions
for the pavement.
This was a deviation from the usual
policy Of the board, which for the past
| two years has been to attempt to push
through the improvement Of important
| streets over remonstrances.
The board awarded contracts as fol-
| lows:
Permanent improvement of Forty
Seventh street from Pennsylvania street
to WashiD gton boulevard with bitumin-
GUS concrete, to ]. n. Morgan & Son fcf
$3.50 per Iineal foot, s16.3S4.55 total.
| Permanent Improvement of the first
alley east of Ritter avenue from Lowell
/ avenue to Washington street with two
course concrete, TO Columbia Construction
Company, $3.50 per lineal foot, se,o9s.5 50
total.
Resurfacing Of Fl Wayne avenue from
Alabama to Tenth streets with asphalt,
/ to J. n. Morgan Son for S720 per
lineal foot, s12. SCOTS total
| Permanent improvement Of Garfield
avenue, from Walnut to Pratt streets,
1 with bituminous concrete, to Union As
phalt Construction Company for $40 per
lineal foot, SIS, 2S9.O4 total.
RESCIND ACTION ON
TWO OTHER PROJECTS.
All action was rescinded on resolutions
for the opening of Chester street from
Tenth to Twelfth streets and the per-
I Of
from Michigan to Tenth streets.
1 Final action upon resolutions for side
walks, curbs and graded lawns in Cres-
| cent street from Northwestern avenue to
| Thirty Fifth street. and for grading of
| Crescent street from Thirty Fourth to
! Thirty Fifth streets, was postponed 10
Aug. II on request Of property owners.
/ A resolution for the permanent im-
provement of Guilford avenue from Forty
| Sixth to Forty Ninth streets was
/ adopted.
/ Remonstrances against the permanent
/ improvement Of Salem street from Thirty
Fourth to Thirty Sixth streets; the per
manent improvement Of Parker avenue
I from New York to Michigan streets, and
the permanent improvement Of Harding
street from Washington street to Ken
lucky avenue, were reported insufficient
| by City Civil Engineer Frank C. Lingen-
felter
! NUMEROUS RESOLUTIONS
ARE CONFIRMED.
Plans were ordered for a sewer in
/ Carrollton avenue from Fifty First to
/ Fifty Second streets and The following
resolutions confirmed Sidewalks in Win
throp avenue from Forty Second to
Forty Fourth streets; sidewalks, graded
lawns and curbs in Blue Ridge road from
Boulevard Place to Sunset avenue; per
manent improvement of Blue Ridge road
from Boulevard Place to Sunset avenue
permanent improvement of Harvard Place
| from Cornelius to lockwood avenues
/ permanent improvement of Station street
from Twenty Eighth to Thirtieth streets
grading of Ohio street from Gale street
/ to Brookville avenue; sidewalks and
curbs in Ohio street from Gale street to
Brookville avenue; vacation OF Spann ave-
nue. from Randolph street to the Big
Four Railroad and vacation Of the first
alley south of New York stree. from
Lynn street to the first alley east OF
Lynn street
The resignation of Ray N. Bonsib
craftsman In the city civil engineering
department was accepted and Charles "
Roessner and William F. Nichols were
appointed junior inspectors in the same
department.