Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1911 — PETITION FOR BRICK STREET IMPROVEMENT. [ARTICLE]

PETITION FOR BRICK STREET IMPROVEMENT.

Want Cullen, Forest and Washington Bricked to Bridge—Thence Macadam to Collegeville. Attorney E. B. Honan is today circulating a petition to have a brick street and macadam road built from the new Monon depot to St Joseph's college. The route proposed Is from the depot on Forest to where it branches off into Dayton, thence to Washington street and west to the river bridge. From the bridge to St. Joseph’s college it is proposed to make a macadam roadway in which tar is used to bind the rock together, making a street little short of asphalt. The petition contemplates building the street under the state 3-mile law, throwing the burden jointly upon all real estate owners of the city of Rensselaer and Marion township. It would materially widen Cullen and Forest streets by narrowing the parking. The streets will doubtless be far too narrow in their present state to accommodate the increased traffic thereon after the new depot is completed. The petition is being liberally signed.