Show PAVING DATA J BEING GATHERED George M Bacon Delegated by Improvement Im Improvement Improvement provement League to Report Rep on Beautifying Second S cond South WANTS DRAY TIRES WIDER I I ORGANIZATION WILL WILLi DEMAND MORE SEWER SEVER CONNECTIONS 1 i q orse eorge M Bacon special engineer r for forth forthe the th Civic Improvement I league g l ie Is at work ork r paring a report on the oust cost and char character chara character acter a t r of the improvements to be made on East Second South street He is col collecting collecting collecting data lata showing the relative r cost of asphaltum as compared with macadam for surfacing material So far he has shown that macadam together with tUh the th parking of the center of or the street and the curbing of ot it will n t about 54 4 1 per front foot toot The cost of or curbing and paving the roadway with asphaltum would would be about 50 per foot foot Tp Ip 1 jp on o ri the report of Mr lIr Bacon will largely y depend d pend the future actions of the league end ind the property holders Initial steps toward the beautifying of Sixth East street will be taken during the coming week The necessary ordinance ordinance nance to legalize any plans the league may ma have for this work will be intro at the next meeting of or the t c nn in inell t ell eU As Ae soon as SUI the tho th ordinance is j lk td the actual work will begin Wide Tires Favored The Civic Improvement league leagur has be begun begun begun gun an agitation in fervor Ivor fc vor of the ordinance ordinance ordinance nance establishing the width of tires on onh heavy h v wagons The rIle or ordinance finance Is now in inthe Inthe inthe the ands of a committee c tee of the coun council council cil and will m probably be bc reported at the then next n meeting The main provision of the ordinance Is that all tires on wagons shall be at lease four inches wide It Iti i jq iq probable that an amendment to this ordinance ordinance will wit be asked so as to make the front wheels narrower than those of the rear wheels The rhe plan is I to have all wagons made so that the tread of the I front wheels will be just wide enough j to tt allow Ilow the outside ou of the front wheel tires to run overlapping sll the track made matle by bv the tires tiros of the HIe rear wheels This method m thod of building wagers would make the wheels run In a man manner mannEr manner ner and would have a tendency to make j the paving paying on which they the t t travel l suffer loss from cutting than h narrow tires After Better Sewerage The league is now beginning gInning bf to agitate the th compliance with the law regulating the connecting of houses with sewers s The matter will be brought to the at attention I nUen 1 of the board of public works and he the t health board Jt It is claimed that a I I mall small percentage of the houses in the th i i I I Districts now are connected with j the ills pipes For this reason the health I hoard board claims there is much unnecessary sickness j I I |