Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-04-29
SENATE AVENUE
TO BE WIDENED
AS TRAFFIC AID

Plans to make Senate avenue an artery
which will relieve Capitol avenue and
Meridian street Of some Of the traffic
bound for northwestern points, were an
nounced by the board of public works to-
day.
The board ordered plans prepared for
widening ten feet and resurfacing Sen
ate avenue from Tenth TO Sixteenth
streets and widening ten feet and re-
surfaciug Of Boulevard place from Six
teenth TO Twenty First streets. The ave-
nue. becomes Boulevard place north Of
Sixteenth street
The downtown section Of Senate ave-
nue. was resurfaced two years ago With
the rest improved. traffic bound for
Riverside Park, north Indianapolis. the
Lafayette road and such points can com
fortably 90 over Senate avenue and Bou-
leyard Place to Twenty First street. west
to Northwestern avenue, which recently
has been resurfaced. and thence to des-
tination.
The board also ordered plans for re-
surfacing East street from Ohio to Tenth
streets. Cornell avenue, between Nine
teenth and Twenty Third Pennsylvania
street, between Twenty Fifth and Fall
Creek boulevard Senate avenue, between
Mobile and kentucky avenue New Jer
sey street, between Twenty Fourth and
Fall Greek boulevard; Delaware street,
between Maryland and Georgia; Geor-
gia street between Pennsylvania and
Delaware; College avenue. between Mas
sachusetts avenue and Eleventh and
shelby street, between Prospect and
Southern avenue.
Plans also were ordered for permanent
improvement Of streets as follows: Ar
lington avenue, between the PENNSYLVANIA
Railroad and Brookvile road Thirty
Second street, between Illinois and Boule-
ward place Twenty Eighth street. be-
tween Illinois and Clifton: Twenty
Seventh street, between Illinois and Cap
itol avenue; Twenty Ninth street, be-
tween Illinois and East Riverside drive +;
Bernard avenue, between Cornelius and
Conser avenue; lie Grande avenue, be-
tween Shelby and Mabel streets; Wood
lawn avenue, between Shelby street and
State avenue, and between State and
Keystone avenues; Winthrop avenue, be-
tween Forty-Sixth and Forty Ninth. and
Linden street, between Prospect and
Minnesota.
Resolutions were adopted for perma-
nent improvement Of Ruckle street, from
Seventeenth to Twenty First streets;
Michigan street between Ritter and Ora
ham avenues; Jefferson avenue, between
Tenth and Rowland avenue; the first al
ley east of Delaware street, between
Twenty Ninth and Thirtieth, and for va
cation of the first alley east Of Central
avenu9 between Forty Ninth and its
present terminus near Forty-Sixth.
Contracts were awarded as follows:
Sewer on Twenty fifth street, between
Northwestern avenue and Annetta street
Columbia Construction Company, 81 144;
curbing on Washington boulevard, be
tween Fifty first and Fifty sixth. Amer
lean Construction Company, IS POI SO;
sewer on fremont avenue. between the
alley north of Michigan and Tenth,
Colombia Construction Company. ST.
6S1.75; sewer on Ketcham street, be-
tween Walnut and the alley south of
Tenth, J. H. King & Co., $3,997 40; walks
curb and graded lawns on Harlan street.
between Maryland and Southeastern ave
nue., Schwert Brothers. So, 632.61; walks
and graded lawns on Bernard avenue, be-
tween Cornelius and Redwood ave
nues, 2. F. Carlos, $1,254 90; walks OF
Beauty avenue. between New York and
Michigan. Abel Brothers, S2,27021; walks
on north side of Cruft street, between
Shelby and the first alley west Schwert
Brothers, $oS2. 6S; Walks on Thirteenth
street between Temple avenue and Rural,
Todd & Reid, $40, and sewer In the first
alley south of Twenty fifth from RAIDER
to the first alley east, Columbia Con-
struction Company, $1,71450.