Show BOARD OF WORKS ACTS KOTO AT AT I LAST LAdi LAst HOT l Contract for Connection Be Between Between Between tween Intercepting and Gravity Sewer I INSPECTION INSPECTION TRIP IS MADE MADEl SORELY NEEDED IMPROVEMENT MAY BECOME AVAILABLE The board of ot public works had a n lu lii lucid lucid cid eld interval yesterday esterday In other woke up For two years n ars it I has ha been consid considering ering the question queston of connecting the new ne Intel sewer with wih the grail graI graIt ty t sewer in order that the intercepting sewer might have an outlet Most lost people understand that a sewer is no good without an outlet but the board did not sem to take that view of ot the case rase until yesterday when after a trip tripot ot of inspection it voted vot d to award to the Campbell Building company the eon con contract on tract for tor or the two sewers The work will wi cost cst The intercepting Int sewer server was wis started two years ears ago and finished on Dec D 20 by James Kennedy Kenedy the contractor l n So Solar far lar it It has hn been of no use to the resi resl residents dents dent of or the locality which it is IH sup supposed supposed supposed posed to serve sone because of or the attitude of or tile tle or of public works The Tl lit little lt littie tle tie question of an outlet had not been considered by that body and aI today the concrete tunnel lies le useless under tinder Eighth West street ste t from froin Eighth h North orth to Sixth South SQl th streets and thence t east et to MaIn street at Ninth South street street Will Wi Take Six Months It I wi ill probably be he six months mo before the thE connection between beve n ii this thI tl sewer at Eighth West IVest X streets i with ih ith the at Eight North and Third Vest streets can be made by the company awarded the Ut contract et ct end perhaps p another six months nio be before before before fore the pumps can b put into Into opera operation oper tion tI The intercepting sewer It must be understood at its Us end ezit er Is thirty eight ight feet below the level If f the tn gravity ty tv sewer and aud the tl sewerage must be bt pumped through wood stave ave pipe a distance of ot feet fee Into the gravity sewer seer The contract for tor tr the pumps has already been let but the letting of the contract t for 01 the pipe line was postponed until yesterday B B iJ L na bould is i to blame bIame for up ip p the board bo d to to the le fact fae that it J do something Mr Ir owns own property on 01 South West W est st Temple street and two weeks ago appeared before the board and Ri asked some rather pointed pointe questions He lie said that thata a sewer seuer extension in his district had hud been approved two years ago but no work ever eyer done because it was to empty into hito the intercepting sewer and the tte til latter latel had no outlet He wanted to know why wh there thero had not rt been an out let lEt provided for and asked a number of other embarrassing questions The board put him off of as Is Its Is custom and did nothing noting Friday evening Mr Ir appeared again agin and so s bothered the board boar by his questions that some one suggested that some thing be done more to get rid of or R bould than anything else el It I was then decided to Inspect the work decie yesterday yes yesterday morning This Thi was wan wa done and anda at a a meeting of or he the board bird after the tip was over in Chairman McMillans nice rffie m the contract was awarded on a bid submitted some two months ago Those on the Trip Those hosI who went vent on the trip were Mayor Bransford Councilman Mur do doh h City Engineer Kelsey Kelsy and the various members of the board bortl board of pub lic lc works including the clerk Frank R It R Christensen The Th board bord will wi not be b bothered by b Mr lr for some time and feels much easier In order that the tue work ork may start the council counci must approve of the boards award As the matter mater Involves Involve nn an expenditure of or there will wi no I doubt be considerable opposition in Inthe Inthe I the council counci finance committee which may ma tie tl things up for another month Anyway Away the board feels that it has I done its duty and it I knows that Mr Ir wont ask any more embar embarrassing embarrassing rassing least questions for some time Ume at |