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Title: Public works
Year: 1896 (1890s)
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Subjects: Municipal engineering
Publisher: Ridgewood, N.J. (etc.)
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ded by city council to, S_ ^ Slack, a Baltimore firm, at bidof $7,870. Specifications for channel ex-cavation called for separate bids forearth and rock excavation, slope pavingand sheet piling. The Slack & Slackbid ■was 71 cts. a cu. yd. for earth re-moval, $2 for rock, $2.25 for slope pav-ing and $43 for the piling. Totals ofeach of the eight other bids were as fol-lows; Otto Paving & Construction Co.,$i.9oO: Firor & Williams. $9,455- R BWenner, $9,890: Bruno Pizzimento $11.-620: Whitley. Turner Co.. $12,020- S WChilds. $13,515: R. E. Newmver, $14,965;T. L. Eyere. $16,893. Dallas. Tex—City Park Board andBoard of City Commissioners have join-ed in award of contract for constructionof public comfort stations at Elm andErvay to Trinitv Construction Co. attheir bid of $11,695 and of plumbing forstations to Sanguinet .St Bond Co attheir estimate of $2,694. This makestotal cost of two stations $14,389. ?i7 Municipal Journal Volume XXXVII NEW YORK, DECEMBER 10, 1914. No. 24
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PREI.IMI.\.\I;V CI.K.^NINC WITH .s.X^.W IM.iWS 1 .\ .\ 1: W Vi NEW YORKS SNOW REMOVAL PLANS Snow Fighting to Start at the Beginning of the Storm Rather than Its End—Sewers to Remove More thanHalf of the Snow, Shoveled Into Them While Still Clean. The problem of snow removal in New York differsfrom that in any other city in the world not only in themagnitude of the work, but in a number of other condi-tions resulting therefrom. One of these is that there donot appear to be available in the city and vicinity suf-ficient vehicles, including all private ones, contractorscarts, etc., to remove the snow to waterside dumps inthe few days which the citizens think should be sufficientfor the work. For instance, last winter the area sched-uled for snow cleaning was about twenty million squareyards, only 3,000 vehicles were procurable, which couldnot average more than 50 cubic yards of snow each perday; so that with the 38-inch snow fall of last Februaryand March, it was not theoretically poss

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