The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-11
MINOR STREETS
WILL SHARE IN
WORK PROGRAM
Proposed Projects Intended
to Benefit Small
Home Owners.

ilNitiS ONllNi d
Small home owners, with property
on secondary streets which could
not stand assessment for street i'm
provements, will be benefited by
proposed civil works projects Of the
works board program.
Hundreds Of resolutions that have
been considered by the present
board and its successors are being
busted of and new investigations
made as 10 their ACCESSIBILITY.
Works board members, Walter G.
Boetcher, Charles o. Britten and
Louis G. Brandt, have worked out
siXty-four different projects which
will entail a pay roll of more than
100000 for Civil works men.
Grading Proposed
One Of the largest projects in the
grading, berming and ditching of
scores of the secondary streets
throughout the city. If possible
many Of these streets, following the
grading and general improvement,
will be paved with gravel and tar
via top.
This series Of projects and food
prevention project, from East New
York street north along the east
bank of White river and the south
bank of White river to Indiana ave-
nue., and the sister flood preven-
ton project, that of improving the
dixie in Warheigh, will keep the
major portion Of the 10,500 men to
be absorbed, busy for three months.
Improvement of Tomlinson hall
started today under the supervision
of Mr.. Brandt and William Hurd,
building commissioner. The four
towers of the hall will be removed,
and the fire hazard reduced by the
installation Of a sprinkler system.
Street Projects Listed.
Records Of Ernest Frick, board
works secretary, reveal the follow
ing contemplated street improve
ment projects:
Arlington avenue, from Pleasant
Run to Lowell avenue, relief sewer;
Baltimore avenue, from Forty
second street, grading roadway;
Bethel avenue, from keystone to
Candy, grading, berming and drain
age; Brookville road, Sherman drive
to city limits, grading and drain
age; Churchman avenue, Keystone
to Raymond, grading, berming and
drainage; Colvin street, Bethel to
chWchman, grading; Carson ave-
nue., Shelby to Morton, grading,
berming.
Other streets. which will be
graded and bermed, include: Con-
gress avenue, Indianapolis to Ethel;
Euclin avenue, Eighteenth to Nine
tenth; Forty-ninth street, from
Keystone to Monon tracks; Forty
second street, Monon to Nickle
Plate tracks; keystone avenue, from
Minnesota to Walker; Lafayette
road, from Sixteenth street to cor
poration line; Mathews avenue,
Hanna to Lawrence avenue; DIN
street, PogueS Run to Highland ave-
nue.; DIN street, Pine to Highland.
With cooperation Of the Indian
apolis Railways, Inc, resurfacing of
stretches between the street car
tracks on Roosevelt avenue, from
Thirteenth to Sixteenth streets, will
be made, as we'll the same strip on
College avenue from Thirty-fourth
street north. Thirty-fourth, be-
tween Illinois and Central, also will
be resurfaced, as will Sherman ave-
nue. from Twenty-flfth to Thirtieth.
Rural street, between Thirty
fourth and Thirty-eight, will be
BRAIDED. AS many corners on curbS
at the thousands of intersections
throughout the city will be rounded
off and cut back, as possible. Raj
ston avenue, between Fifty-ninth
and and Sixty-second streets, will
be graded, as will Rawles avenue,
between Ritter and Audubon road.
Raymond street, between the Bluff
road and the city limits, will be
graded.
Large Drainage Job
The largest project of street re-
pair now under way, is that of max
ing the fill for West Sixteenth street
between West street and the inter
section of Sixteenth street at In
diana avenue. A new drainage syS-
tenn will be installed on Mount
street, Warman avenue and Tibbs
avenue. Sangster avenue, between
Forty-second and Forty-sixt h
streets, will ge graded, as will Shell
by street from Troy avenue to
Moffett.
Other streets upon which the civil
forces will work are:
st. Clair street, the length of its
improved section; Sherman drive,
Thirtieth- to Thirty eighth street.
Sherman drive. south of South
eastern avenue; West Sixteenth
street. from Lafayette road to city
limits; East Sixteenth street, Sher-
man drive to Emerson; Temple ave-
nue., Thirty fourth to Thirty eighth;
Tacoma street. Thirty-fourth to
Thirty-e eighth; TibbS avenue, YER
mont to Washington; West Tenth
street. Tibbs avenue to DIN; Troy
avenue, Shelby to Dietz; Twenty
first street, Sherman to Dearborn;
Twenty first, Sherman to Emerson;
Thirteenth street, De Quincy to
Bozart; East Vermont street, Arsenal