The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-05-15

PAVING MAY COVER one ADDITIONAL
bLOCK-blDS ASKED ON SEWERS AND
WATERWAYS OPINIONS ARE FILED
Residents on Eleventh Street
from Avenue B to Avenue c
Want Pavement There
Street Light Will Be In
stalled on South Side

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ance providing for the addition o.
one block to the paving project ant
advertising for bids on construction
of certain watermains and sewers
the city commission accomplished
considerable work In 4 short spac,
Of time last night.
The additional block Of pavement
desired is on Eleventh street from
Avenue B to Avenue c, and the pc
tition requesting it was signed b,
e. P. Grain, Charles D. Mandigo, E
w. Harris, Hans Evenson and Car
Bredy. The signatures represented
$50 front feet out of total Of 600
The watermains extension will bt
on Mandan street from Avenue D t
Avenue E, and the engineers esti
mate of the cost is $1,251.95. Bid.
will be opened on June 4. At tn,
same time bids will be opened OF
installation of . sanitary sewer il
the same block, the estimated cost
being $769.48.
Bids will also be opened on June
4 for construction Of storm water
sewers on Broadway from Thirteenth
to Sixteenth streets, and on Fiji
teenth and Sixteenth streets from
Broadway to Avenue B. The en-
gineer's estimate Of cost on this pro.
ject is $9,289.39.
Cannot Cut Paving Job
Any idea that parts Of the pro.
posed paving project would be
dropped was dispelled last night by
an opinion of City Attorney C. l.
Young, who held that it would be
illegal to order any change in the
streets to be paved from those de-
scribed in the ordinance creating
the special assessment district to
cover this work.
Upon petition 6 persons residing
in that vicinity, the city auditor was
instructed to have q street light in
stalled at the corner of Thirteenth
street and Sweet avenue.
A petition was presented by prop
erty owners affected asking that
the alley in block AZ, Northern Pa
cific addition. be graded. This is
the alley between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets and Avenues B and
G. The signers were Albert F. Nc
Call, Simon Klein, Fred Miller, D. ].
Hughes and John Roether. No ac-
ton was taken a. further time was
given the petitioners to secure more
City Attorney Gives Rulings
An opinion of the citv ATTORNEY
was read, in which he held that the
city has the right to regulate the
placing of poles by public utility
companies and can prohibit the plac-
ing of them along streets if it de-
sires. The city has the right to pass
an ordinance providing where the
poles shall be placed, he contended.
The opinion was requested when
owners protested the ac-
tion of the Hughes Electric COM
pany in resetting poles on certain
streets, placing them in the boule-
wards close to the curb lire. The
city auditor was instructed to ar
range a conference between the city
commissioners and the utility Off
cials.
Ruling on two questions presented
to him at a previous meeting, the
city attorney last night held that
In the use of an automobile horn
to call for service at q gas station
in reasonable manner so as not
to offend persons with normal SEN
sibilities who may be within hearing
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