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Show EMPLOYEE OF CITY IS TES1GCEMFJ First Carload for Highland Park Walks Is Being Examined. The first carload of cement designed for uso in tho sidewalks and street curbings of Highland Park was subjected sub-jected to tests by the employee of the city engineer's depnrtmont who has that work in charge, Saturday. Tho results of this test will not bo known for nbout a week yet, for tho little blocks of comont with which the engineer en-gineer makes tho tests have to ''sot" so loug bofore they arc placed in the pressure-measuring machinos which determine de-termine whether or not they come up to the standard. Tho roason a city official is making these tests is because tho sidewalks in Highland Park must; bo laid in accordance accord-ance with city specifications. If ho declares that the cement in this particular par-ticular carload is not up to tho standard stan-dard required by the city for such purposes, pur-poses, it will bo sent back to the manufacturers. manu-facturers. If it is up to tho standard. U will at onco be taken to Highland Park, where the -work of laying tho sidewalks will begin. In the meantime, preparations for the sidewalks are going ahead rapidly, and quite a stretch of ground has been lev-oled lev-oled off. ready for tho actual laying of the hard surface. It is not to be imaginod that the city does all this work for the owners of Highland Park gratis, oven though the property owners arc paying lor the laying of the sidewalks without expense to the citv. Tho citv has a fixed rate per lineal foot for the fixing of grades and the inspection for work of this kind, and another for the street curbing. Tho permit to lay sidewalks in fronl of the lots on Highland Park will cost Kimball it Richards, the owners, own-ers, something like $3575. Thesido-walks Thesido-walks arc five feet wide, and will be laid on both sides of each street. The inside line of the sidewalk will be two feet from tho property line. Building restrictions require that no house shall be within fifteen feet of the property line. On the side of tho sidewalk toward to-ward the roud will be a parking strip eight feet wide, on which trees will be or have been plnnted. Then there will be the cement curb and tho thirty-six-foot roadway. Permits were taken out at Inspector A. R. Hirth's office for twelve new houses last Monday, anil work on some of these is already well under way. The permits call for an aggregate expenditure ex-penditure of $30,000, or $2500 per house. The structures will be of five room each and of brick or similar building material. |