5 Storm Sewers; One Pavement

5 STORM SEWERS; ONE PAVEMENT

City Engineer Key Recommends for Next Season.

$31,298.23 THIS YEAR

Was Spent in Improving the Condition of Streets in This Kind of Work.

The board of public works held a meeting Wednesday which was as long as a boy's wishes for Christmas presents when it came to minutes consumed and as short as the Times' list of correctly reported items when the amount of business which was done is reckoned up.

There was more gossip than at a curbstone convention about what the men employed on the sewer jobs had done, are doing and are going to do. No action was taken.

City Engineer Key presented his annual report, and it was the only gem in the cluster of business that was transacted. During the past year there have been constructed the following public improvements which came directly under his department:

Washington st. pavement (Clancy)... $12,267.02

Hill st. sewer (Hutzel & Co.)... 10,074.45

Liberty st. sewer (Hutzel & Co.)... 3,827.18

Main and Madison sts. sewers (Hutzel & Co.)... 1,542.24

Huron st. sewer (Schneider Bros.)... 3,587.34

Total storm sewers... $19,031.21

Pavement... 12,267.02

Gross total... $31,298.23

During the year there have been 136 connections made with the sanitary sewers.

Mr. Key also recommended the following work for the coming year:

STORM SEWERS.

State st., Fuller to Monroe.

Gott st., Hiscock to Pearl.

N. Division st. terminus to E. Ann.

Detroit st. terminus to Catherine.

E. William st.

PAVING.

State st., Huron to William.

After the report was completed City Attorney Norris remarked: "I am glad I don't have to make a report."

Mr. Keech - It wouldn't take you long.

The clerk then opened up the bids for 30,000 feet of oak lumber for crosswalks and bridge flooring. They were as follows:

C. A. Sauer, Ann Arbor, $26; John Lindemann, Ann Arbor, $22; John Dickerson, Willis, $26; C E. Smith, Sheldon, $27. As Mr. Brown had offered the city the lumber for $21 per thousand, the board recommended that the council accept the proposition.

Mr Schleicher reported that the Ann Arbor railroad had built that portion of a plank walk which had been ordered to be laid in front of the freight house.

Mr. Norris - I thought they would build that walk some day.

Mr. Schleicher - Yes, even Mr. Gilmore was surprised.

This, therefore, settles any threatened legal set-to between the city and the Ann Arbor road - except possibly to overhead bridges.