Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1914 — Street Contractors Will Be Ready for Work This Week. [ARTICLE]

Street Contractors Will Be Ready for Work This Week.

The contractors, 'who will put in the brick pavement on Washington street, were here Friday and stated that they had their tools and outfit all loaded for shipment to Rensselaer and would be here sometime this week ready to begin work on their contract paving from Cullen street west to the river bridge. The city council would have preferred that they put off commencing on the work a few weeks until the light and telephone poles could be removed and the sewer matter more fully investigated, but they said their outfit was already loaded on cars and they cohld not put off the work.

However, the 12-inch sewer already on the south side of -Washington street is deemed large enough for years to come if, properly laid, and the work of taking it up from Front t’o Van Rensselaer street and giving more fall on the west end and removing the “bump” of about a foot in the middle of the block, was begun Monday morning and is being pushed as rapidly as possible. All or practically all of the business houses on the south side of Washington street drain into the sewer in the alley in the rear of the business houses, and do not use the Washington street sewer at all. The telephone people do not want to tear up their poles until they can move into their new building, so it will be necessary to leave gaps in the curb, to be filled in after the improvement is put in. It is not a very big job, the paving of the two and one-half blocks, and will take the contractors but a short time when they once get to work at it.