The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-22
PLAN FOR PAVING,
Specifications in for Seventy
Five Blocks in City.
Total Cost Estimated at APP
proximateIy $35O,OOO.

Plans and specifications for about
seventy-five blocks of paving for To-
peka streets and alleys are complete
and were presented to a special meet
ing of the city commission today. Bids
for the paving contracts are to be adj
vertised for immediately, and are to
be received by Friday. May 6, at 10
o'clock.
The paving contemplated will cost
approximately s350,00O. it is estimated
cock. The amount of work TO be
done is so extensive. according to j. f.
Snyder. superintendent of streets, that
it will be a year before all the work
is complete. Actual work on the paw
ing probably will begin the latter part
of May. Snyder said.
Save City Money.
A saving to the city on the cost OF
the paving was made in the commits
sion meeting this morning, when the
commission moved to strike from the
specifications the clause which allowed
the amount of bonds furnished by
contractors to be added to the con-
tractors charge. Such had been the
custom for many years hut Com
mlssione" McGiffert suggested that
1T was not done in other cities and
was not expected in Topeka A local
contractor supported the statement of
McGfffert, after the contractor had
been summoned to the meeting by w
). Hancock, street commissioner, as
president OF the city commission. The
saving to the city is estimated to be
about ten dollars on every thousand
dollars spent.
Streets and Alleys To Be Paved.
The streets and alleys to be paved.
for which specifications are now
ready, and for which bids have been
advertised, are:
Lane street to Euclid avenue ia
Eighteenth; NORTH Harrison street from
| Laurent street to ST. John Eleventh street
BROOKS avenue to Woodward avenue
Second street, Jackson to Van Buren,
Huntington avenue, Tyler street to Polk
street; Topeka avenue, First street TO
Second avenue; Thirteenth street Kansas
avenue to Jackson street; Second street,
Quinton boulevard to Buchanan street !;
Qulnton boulevard, First street to Second
| street; Adams street, Fourth street 10
| Fifth street; Adams street, Seventh street
| TO Eighth avenue: Lane street. Eleventh
| street to Huntoon street; Fourteenth street.
| street. Boswell avenue to College avenue !:
Topeka avenue. Euclid avenue to Shunga
nnnga creek; Lincoln street, Hufltoon
street to King street; Seventh street.
Lane street to West street; BYRON avenue
| Lincoln street to West street; North Van
Buren, street, Gordon to st. John street /:
North Kansas avenue, Garfield street 10
city limits; Gordon street, Kansas avenue
TO .r quincy eyen street; Tenth avenue, Wood .
Eleventh street, Grand avenue to Wood ,
| ward avenue; Laurel avenue, Greenwood
| avenue to Broadmoor avenue; Laurel ave
nue., Woodlawn avenue to Greenwood ave-
nue.: Fourteenth street. buchanan street
to Lincoln street. Second street. from al
ley between Polk street and ITler street
to Topeka avenue; re- paving of Tenth ave-
nue., from Topeka avenue to Morris ave-
nue..
i Alleys.
Between Folk and Western, Douthitt and
II u n In on; Clny-Buchanan. Sixth
Seventh; Harrison-Topeka, Douthitt- Hunt
ington; Tyler-Polk, Fourteenth Douthitt
Fillmore-Cla Sixteenth Euclid; Mulvane-
College, Twelfth Huntoon; Madison -Jeffer-
son, Fifth-Sixth; Kansas-Jackson, Norris
} Laurent: Park-Laurel, Woodlawn- Elm :
wood; East and West alley, Van Buren,
Harrison. Wrist Second. -