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Show uo GRADES ARE TO BE CHANGED in an This altcrnoon the city commissioners commission-ers are in session considering the re.-ommendatioM re.-ommendatioM of the anarlnearine partment that the grade, at tho intersection inter-section of Jelferson avenue and Twenty-seventh street, be lowered five feet. That the grade will necessarily have to he lowered is conceded, out it Is a question with the commissioners commission-ers whether ii should be lowered five feet. The Twenty-seventh street hill is quite steep and it is argued that to lower the grade at the intersection of Twenty-seventh street and Jefferson Jeffer-son it will be possinle to lessen i he-grade he-grade from, Washington avenue east to the top of the hii'. The commissioners commis-sioners are forced to determine the grade at this time as the Moran Construction Con-struction company will be ready by the first of the week to grade Jeffer: son avenue for asphalt paving. The D. H Peery Estate. J. P. O'Ncil, John Hamncr und others havu peti Honed the conrrtmissioners to lower the. grade on Twenty fifth street, between Washington avenue and Adams, and on Adams north and south, the dla-tance dla-tance of he l r a black each wajy The matter will be taken under ennslriera tlon and investigations will bo made as to whether jurisdiction can he gained It Is said that sufficient frontage of abutting property favoring the propojlllon has been pledged to give the city Jurisdiction The object for lowering tho grade is to facilitate business enterprises in that district. The property owners own-ers say it is in tho central husiness district of the city and should bo Improved for commercial purposes Property owners have petitioned the hoard to open a (iti-foot Street between be-tween Twenty-filth and Twenty-slxtn streets, and between Harrison and Tyler avenues. The street is nl-ready nl-ready open part of the wny and the petitioners are of the opinion that it should bo opned tue remaining dis tance. The matter will be given attention at-tention by the street department su perlntendent. |