The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-04-03
CITY WORK ON
70 PAVEMENT
JOBS Started
Total Cost of Projects Is
Set at $3.50, 1000: 1913
Miles Contracted.
WIDENING IS DISCUSSED
Nineteen Main Streets to
Be ReSurfaCed; Bridge
Approach on List.

With the arrival Of spring wealth
err, city contractors have started
work on seventy street and alley
paving projects costing more than
$3.50 900.
At the opening of the paving sea-
son this year, 1913 miles of street
and alley improvements were I'M
der contract, according to Sherman
A. Hendricks, assistant to the city
engineer.
Projects under contract will give
the city an additional paved area
of $4,000 square yards when COM
pleted, Hendricks said. Cost OF the
improvements will be paid by prop
erty owners.
Plans are near completion on
widening and resurfacing of Della
ware street, from Twenty eighth to
| Thirtieth and Washington boule-
ward from Twenty eighth to Thir-
tieth.
Widening Is Considered
The board of works also con-
templated a widening project on
East New York street, but the plan
is not decided upon. Nineteen
main streets will be resurfaced, and
the approach to the Delaware street
bridge at Fall creek will be built
from the 100000 bond issue now
pending in council.
Henricks estimated IS per cent OF
the ninety-four resolutions adopted
by the works board since Jan. l
will be completed. They are divid-
ed as follows: Streets, SO; alleys, 10;
grading projects, IT; walks, 10;
vacations, 10.
Street and alley improvements
under contract:
Alley east Of Adams. Twenty-third
street to Glen Drive. concrete; alley east
Of Adams. Twenty fifth street to alley
north Of Twenty sixth, concrete; Arsenal.
Southeastern to Bates. concrete: second
alley east Of Arsenal, Vermont to Sturm,
concrete; Bell street, Michigan to North
concrete: Berwick avenue. Michigan to
alley south of B. & o.. concrete: Bolton
avenue. st. Clair to Tenth, concrete;
Broadway, Sixty-hrst to WeStfield
boulevard. concrete; alley west of Capitol,
Sixteenth to Eighteenth. concrete; alley
east Of Carrollton. Fifty-frst to Fifty
second. concrete; alley south of Conner,
Linden to Boyd avenue, concrete.
Court street. east to Noble. asphalt;
Court. Meridian to Illinois. asphalt; Dear
born Newton to English. concrete; alley
east Of Detroit, alley south of South
eastern to Bates. concrete: Ethel. Thirty
first to Thirty concrete; fourteenth.
Riley to Bancroft. concrete; Graceland,
Berkeley road to Forty-sixth. concrete;
Graham, Pleasant Run boulevard to st.
Clair. concrete.
Most Are Concrete
Harlan, Southeastern to English.
asphaltic concrete; Haverford, Fifty
ninth to sixty-thrd. concrete; Henry,
Madison to Pennsylvania. concrete;
Hlnesley. Fifty-second to Westfeld
boulevard concrete; Holiday, Boyd TO
point 498 feet east Of State. concrete:
alley west Of Illinois. mccarthy to second
alley south. concrete; Jackson. Pershing
TO Harris. concrete; Kenwood, Fifty-fourth
| to Westfeld boulevard. asphaltlc concrete;
Keystone. Graydon to Southeastern. con-
crete: Leland. st. Clair to Pratt. con-
creto; Linden, Raymond to Tabor.
| asphaltic concrete.
Manlove. Forty-second to Forty sixth
| concrete; Massachusetts,, Ohio to New
York. widen and reSurface: Massachusetts,,
east to Cornell. widen and resurface;
alley east o. McKim. Southeastern to
Bates. concrete: Meridian. Fifty fourth to
| Westfield. widen and pave; Michigan
Sherman drive to Emerson. concrete: alley
north Of Michigan. Bradley to Denny. con-
crete; miller. Harding to Pershing, con-
crete; Neal, Washington to CCC g. st. L.,
| concrete; New Jersey. Beverly Drive to
| Fifty-Second. asphsltic concrete; Northern,
Boulevard Place to Cornelius. concrete.
Several Offers Listed
Ogden. Thirteenth to Fifteenth, concrete;
alley east Of Parker. Roosevelt to Twenty
third, concrete: Pennsylvania. La Grande
to Raymond. asphaitie concrete: Pine,
Harrison TO English, concrete: Pine. Mary
lanc to Harrison. concrete; Primrose
Fffty-ninth to Sixty-third. concrete; Ritter
Pleasant Run Parkway to Tenth, con-
crete: Rosslyn Fifty-ninth to sixty-third;
grading and curb: st. Clair. Emerson to
Hawthorne. concrete; Sangster. Forty sixth
to Fifty second. concrete.
Alley west Of Sheffield. Washington to
Turner. concrete; alley north Of Sixteenth,
Capitol to Boulevard Place. concrete; alley
north of Sixtythird. Bellefontaine to
point 1913 feet east. concrete; alley North
OF St. Clair. Pierson to Illinois. concrete;
second alley north Of st. Clair Pierson to
Illinois. concrete; st. Joseph, Audubon
road to Graham. grade and curb; alley
south Of Southeastern. Detroit to Summit
concrete: alley north OF Southern. Rams
dell to New Jersey, concrete: Sterling,
Twelfth to Commerce. concrete: Stuart
alley north OF Twenty to Thirtieth
concrete: Terrace. STATE to second alley
east, concrete.
Alley north Of Thlrty-ffth. North
western TO Clifton. concrete; Thirty-ninth
street. Boulevard Place to Cornelius. con-
| crete: fremont. Michigan to Tenth, con-
crete; Twenty-eighth. Illinois to Capitol
asphalt; Udell. Harding to Riverside. walk.
| grazing. curb: alley north Of Vermont, first
| TO second alley east Of Arsenal concrete;
| warman. T. H. I. & E. to Morris. con-
crete: alley north of Watson road, Carroll