Show TILT FILL ron Fort ASTORIA ASTORIA Ore Oro April Re 23 23 n Re Reconstruction construction of ot Astoria's streets street has been undertaken on the solid fill plan Instead ot of o tho the lad plan which the city Ily commission first had approved The ehan change e eIn In the tho method ot of o rebuilding the streets which were wrecked in th the eI I Clr tiro 1 of ot December 8 3 1922 were made when wh n property owners ob- ob objected ob objected to the tho plan of o leaving tine apace sp beneath the pavements un- un unfilled un unfilled filled According to the plan tIDally finally adopted concrete retaining walls are Bre to ba be erected at ot the I lines and between the walls there thero will be bo placed solid tills fills of OC o cart earth These Those fills will ant replace the wooden piling on which the streets were originally built Tho The wooden piling with Bt spaces a es beneath was responsible for or the rapid Spread ot of the tho fire which wiped out the I business section The Tho piling had been beeD constructed when the ely city was wa built out over the mud flats of the tho Columbia river In the early days |