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Show fclTY ABANDONS SIDEWALK PROJECT Construction of sidewalks In district dis-trict 155 In tho southwestern part of the city, will not be carried out this year, according to action of rho city commission at their meeting Monday nicht. Although the city gained Juns-1 diction the protest against the improvement im-provement was so strong that the commission decided to order tho Jurisdiction Juris-diction vacated. The small home owner in the dls-! trlct Is decidedly in favor of the improvement im-provement which will be delayed owing ow-ing to the protest of the larger property prop-erty owners. It was tald. The excavation and grading ot'i Thirty-second street between Jefferson Jeffer-son and Quincy avenues was ordered done at once. The Taylor-Child Construction Con-struction company, through Its engineer, engi-neer, W. E. Roach, announced that the steam shovel would begin work tomorrow morning. The work will be the cutting down t' the hill to a 13 per cent grade and excavating a street about forty feet In width. The petition of Lloyd C Stone and others for an extension of Water mains on Lincoln avenue between Eighteenth nnd Nineteenth fitrects was referred t- Mayor Frank Francis of th waterworks water-works department |