Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-08-05
COUNCIL APPROVES
RESOLUTION FOR
SUPERIOR ST. PAVING
FOUR BLOCKS OF IMPROVEMENT
WILL COST S22,o46.2o - PUBLIC
HEARING AUGUST 16-PASS
EAST SIDE ORDINANCE.

A resolution providing for a brick
pavement from Guion to Champlain
streets, on Superior, at an estimated
cost of $22,046,20, was unanimously
adopted last night by the council at
special meeting in the city council
petition bearing names of a
large percentage OF property owners
whose homes are in the territory pro-
posed for improvement is, according
to the councilmen, responsible for
last nights action in adopting a reso-
luton providing for paving the four
blocks of unpaved street from Colum-
bus school to the aqueduct
The resolution calls for concrete
base and brick surface with concrete
curb and gutter, the street to be Il
feet in width from curb to curb.
The resolution prepared by public
engineer George Farnsworth follows
in outline all the other street improve
ments undertaken by the present ad-
ministration and is believed to be
hole-proof against legal attack.
After hearing the draft of the
lengthy document read by Clerk Cur
tis, the council fixed Wednesday,
August IS, at o'clock in the after
noon as the day and hour for the pub
lie hearing.
Pass East Side Ordinance.
The ordinance covering the Orleans
and Chapel street pavement, the only
two unpaved blocks remaining in
East Ottawa, was also unanimously
approved last night. The blocks eff
fected by the ordinance are the
Stub" ends of both Orleans and
Chapel streets.
The ordinance calls for concrete
pavement similar to that in the First
avenue Improvement, and the cost, ac-
cording to Engineer FarnsWorth's es-
innate at $6,453S0.
Not to Plank Aqueduct Bridge.
Acting on the theory that within the
next month or sixty days the territory
east of the Fox river will be subtract
ed from the city limits and with it goes
the city's responsibility toward the
aoueduct bridge, the council agreed
last night to take no steps toward re-
planking the structure, which, accord
ing to Commissioner Dougherty, Is
badly in need of new flooring.
Mayor Weeks announced he was in
communication with the National Fire
proofng Company, owners of the land
to be placed outside the corporate linz
its, and was expecting at any time to
receive their consent to the subtrac-
ton proposition.
He suggested that the city wait be-
fore doing anything with the aQueduct
until he has received some sort of a
reply from the company, either con-
senting or refusing to the city's pro-
position to put the territory back in
the township.
Commissioner nougherty brought
the matter up and informed his col
leagues that he had obtained figures
on the replanking, which, he said,
would cost the city in the neighbor-
hood of 5000.
MoIoney Building Pavement.
Considerable time was taken up in
the meeting with a discussion Of the
Moloney building paving, ordinances
for which have been approved but no
steps taken to get the improvement
under way. The sewer it was ex-
planned. has caused the delay in adj
vancinE the improvement and until
the city invents some way to take care
of that proposition it is useless to con-
template any further steps in getting
the paving job under way. Commits
sioner Dougherty said the present
sewer is too shallow for practical use
and the only way that difficulty can
be overcome is by running a main
north thru the alley TO Jackson street
and hook onto the sewer there.