Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1922-06-20

tnlS purpose. a plot or lana mas Deen
purchased Mt Twelfth and Thatcher
streets, upon which has been con-
strueted and erected one of the most
up-to-date asphalt plants I'm the coun-
try. railroad siding has been built
| from the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
on Fourteenth street into the plant
upon which deliveries OF the neces-
| sary materials In car load lots can he
handled. 1t also has n water front,
and when the Brandywino is made
navigable for commerce, we will be
able to handle materials In barge load
lots. Elevators, operated by electric
motors, are placed at the railroad sid
Ing for tho unloading of the stono and
sand instead OF shoveling Same from
theNcars by hand. Tanks for the stor-
age of asphalt have been provided,
| connected with pumps by which the
asphalt is pumped direct from the
tank cars on the siding into tho stor-
age tanks and from the storage tanks
into the mixing box. This equipment
alone saved the city ss2 per day In
the handling OF asphalt over the old
system. a stone crusher. equipped
with electric motor, is installed at this
cd from the street beds TO be paved
and tho rock from the sewer trenches
are crushed and reused In that form
in the concrete foundations and for
street repairs. The department has
ut this location. including the land,
railroad siding and equipment. prop
erty valued at approximately $4,000.
We believe II would be of material
interest to you to know what Is re-
quired in the way of men and ma
terial To do the departments work.
We employ throughout the season be-
tween 400 and 500 men each week,
having a payroll of between $4,000 and
SO, 900 per week which is paid TO citi-
zens of Wilmington and expended by
them here. AS far as possible. all
materials are purchased from VIII
mington dealers and this ia no small
amount To show you in what mag
nitudo and amount this material Is re-
quired, the Wilmington merchants de-
; livcred upon the work in trucks car
load lots of material in number suf
fcient to make up a train FIVE miles
long. and In addition TO that, the de-
partment itself unloaded 3At cars on
its siding at the paving plant. or
equal to "A train three miles long, or a
total of eight miles Of freight cars for
last seasons work.
We have on file about SO different
, petitions for street paving at this
time. but with the great amount oi
repavinC work demanded I'm the cen.
trail and business portions Of the city
and on certain main entrances to the
city. il was the consensus of opinion
lof the directors of the Street and Sew
er Department and the members o.
the Council that the public and citi
zens Of Wilmington generally will b'
benefited TO the greatest degree b,
the concentra ton OF the energies o
Il tho departments forces on the paving
: and improving of tho following strets
10 Fourth street between Adams an
, Union streets.
l Fourth street between Market stree
and Christiana creek.
King street between Front an
. Ninth streeta.
= King street between Twelfth an
: sixteenth streets.
~ Front street between French an
h Poplar streets.
Market street between Elevent
street and Nandevcr avenue
Broome street between Marylsn
1t avenue and Lancaster avenue.
n Heald street between Lobdell stree
= and Christiana avenue.
And for that reason the paving {
the above mentioned streets has bee
- authorized for this seasons work an
given preference over the petition
n, for the paving IN residential section
8 and MS IT is not deemed wise TO sc
ID more bonds for any purpose. the pa
~ ing OF the streets for which petition
$. are filed cannot be done until n lat
Id date This seasons work. as outlin,
/ above comprises the paving OF a,
l. proximately 106 900 square yards.
ar The Wilmington and Philadelph
OF Traction Company is a heavy CO
er tributor toward paving and pawn
he maintenance costs on all stree
re where It has tracks. II pays for fro
nd % per cent 10 so per cent of the tot
costs on the streets used by IT.. Il
Is percentage varying with width
" streets and number of tracks. Exec
Sc for this help the costs TO the abutti
10 owners and the city would be We
~ much greater.
,,r Should Remove Street Market.
Our special effort this season,
nd addition TO paving the streets me
on toned. is to make King street a frs
r. class business street equal to Marl
ch street. The street is now in coui
or Of paving with asphalt. The trac
nd of the Wilmington and Philadelpf
p Traction Company have been reno
ed between Front street and Min
o0 street. All the wooden poles and I
awning posts will be removed. and
their place, iron poles with ornameI
al lights installed, similar TO {
- light in the triangle OF Delaware ay
nue., Washington and Eleventh stree
a The overhead wires crossing &
q, street will be removed, and the C
an will do its part TO bring about
he desired Improvement of this sire
olv The farmers market on King str
lev hould be removed to some other sire
nd not that ] wish TO get rid of
M farmers market, but the city
at grown to such an extent that It ne.
is q. second business street and X
EAR street is the logical street for [
,od purpose. IL never will be the busin
ON street desired so long as the GU
wn stone market is located there. 1 wo
IA suggest French street or Wall
Hts street as better location for the m
the ket and should think. the farm
themselves would prefer it. Any h
IAN the Ijons' Clnh can Give tor,
ork bringine, about th,s charge Ri,
the ,y5u he fo. the horao. 90 -.