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June 8, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE crete, tile, and rubbish of every descrip- ~ortion of said bar Into the concrete of roadway. Upon said " concrete shall be set In one-half <%'> cubic yard tion removed fro~ the site of the im- said pavement on the other side of said completed foundation shall be spread a layer of of crushed stone. All new materials shall provement. j~int. The latter shorter portion of each clean sand two (2) inches in depth and be of the same kind as those now tn use. There shall be removed. including all o said bars shall be coated with grease upon said sand cushion shall be laid the All existing cables where disconnected grub ping of roots, one ( 1) foot below and Inserted in a one (1) inch in diamete~ clea:ned bricks. After being laid, the for the making of said proposed improvethe subgrade of the roadway or the re~al pipe, said pipes being ten (10) ~arne shall be rolled and tamped and the ment shall be reconnected so as to confinished grad~ of the parkways where nc es in length and made from twenty JOints completely filled with asphalt stitute a completely connected system. all within the Village of Kentlworth, located, sixteen (16) trees seven (7) (h20) gauge metal. One end of said pipes filler. inches in diameter and over. The exca- s all be closed with a cork, or in a manAll existing structures within the lines County of Cook and State of Illinois. vations where said trees are removed ner t.o keep the concrete out and provide of said improvement shall be removed shall be backfilled with earth, and all ~n op~n space at least one (1) inch long from the site of said impro.vement. .AU NOTICE· IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN TO wood, brush and rubbish shall be re- m which said bar may slide. old lumber, brick, concrete and other ALL PERSONS INTERESTED, that the President and Board of Trustees of the moved. T~ere s~all be constructed a longi.. building materials or structures shall be Village of Kenilworth, County of Cook All catchbasins and manhole catch- tu~mal jomt formed in the concrete of completely removed from the site of said and State of Illinois, having ordered basins shall · be constructed of concrete S~ld pavement in Sixteenth Street, along proposed improvement. · · composed by volume of one (1) part t e center line of said pa,vement as All sand herein provided to be used that the improvement above described Portland cement, two (2) parts sand and shown on said Plate numbered 3 'said for concrete or mortar shall be clean, be made, the ordinance for the ·same four ( 4) parts gravel or crushed stone longitudinal joint shall be made of coarse, sharp sand. Said sand when being on file tn the offtce of the Vlllage mixed with sufficient water to form a V-shaped asphaltic painted sixteen (16) dried shall pass a screen having four Clerk of said village and the sa.ld vilquaking mass. Said catchbasins and g~uge metal six and one-half (6%) inches (4) meshes per lineal inch, and not more lage having applied to the Superior manhole catchbasins shall have an inside wide. aft.er be.i~g pressed into shape. Said than twenty-five (25) per cent of said Court of Cook County,· Illinois, for an diameter of four (4) feet and sidewalls longlt.udmal JO.mt shall be provided with sand shall pass a sieve having fifty (60) assessment of the cost of said improve· ment according to the benefits, and a. and bottoms six (6) inches thick. Said five-eighths (%) inch round deformed meshes per lineal inch. Said sand shall special assessment therefor having been walls shall be drawn in at the top to steel reinforcing bars, four ( 4) feet long contain no vegetable nor other deleteriand returned to said Court, Gen!it and supp?rt the cast iron .covers here- spa~ed five (5) feet apart -throughout th~ ous matter, nor more than two (2) per made eral Number 477106, the final hearing ma~ter provided for. Each of said catch- ~n.tire ~ength thereof, placed through the cent by weight of clay or loam. All gravel or crushed stone herein thereon will be held on the second day basms and manhole catchbasins shall be ~omt, Imbedded in the concrete of said July, A. D. 1928, or as soen thereprovided with an asphaltic coated cast pavement four and one-quarter ( 4%) provided to be used shall be clean dur- of as the business of the said Court iron cover consisting of a fram e weighing mches below the finished surface of said able, tough gravel or crushed llm~stone after will permit. All persons desiring may two hundred seventy-five (275) pounds pavement and extending equal distances free from vegetable or deleterious mat~ file objections in said Court before said ter. The size of said crushed stone or and a perforated lid weighing one on each side of said joint. day, and may appear on the hearing and gravel shall be such as to pass a two hundred twenty-five (125) pounds. Th.ere . shall also be constructed a (2) inch round opening and shall range make their defense. Said ordinance proEach catchbasin and manhole catch- longitudmal joint along the center line from that size down to a size that will vides for the collection of said assessb.asln shall be prQvided with a vitrified and from end to end of the pavement pass a one-half (Ih) inch ring. Not more ment in ten (10) annual installments, ti.le sewer pipe elbow eight (8) inches in ten po> inches in thickness hereinabove than five (5) per cent shall be small with interest thereon at the rate of five diameter, set in the wall of said ba~in provided for. Said longitudinal joint shall enough to pass a screen having four per centum (5%) per annum. Dated at the City of Chicago, and at a .n d each of said catchbasins and man~ he made of one-half (lh) inch thick meshes per lineal inch. hole catchbasins shall be connected to Rsphaltic felt extending from the bottom All cement provided for herein shall the Village of Kenilworth, County of said ~r~ins hereinafter provided for or of the concrete to one-half (%) inch be first class American Portland cement Cook and State of Illinois, this thirtyto .existmg stormwater drains. The lo- above the top of the pavement. Said and shall be so ground that ninety-two first day of May, A. D. 1928. SAMUEL E. ERICKSON, cations. depths, details of construction longitudinal joint shall be provided with (92) per cent will pass through a standClerk of the Superior Court of and con,nections and openings of said three-quarter (%) inch in diameter round ard number 100 sieve, having ten thouCook County, Illinois. catchbasms and manhole catchbasins are steel reinforcing bars two (2) feet six sa~d (10,000) meshes per square inch. RALPH R. HAWXHURST, more fully shown on said plates num- (6) inches long spaced two {2) feet six Bnquettes made from mortar composed JOHN O'CONNOR, bered 2 and 3. Excavations shall be made (6) inches apart and imbedded in the by volume of one (1) part of said PortGEORGE C. RICHARDS, to receive said catchbasins and manhole c·oncrete through said joint four and one- land cement and three (3) parts of clean Commissioners heretofore apcatchbasios and all openings around same ttuarter (41,4) inches below the finished torpedo sand, exposed to air for one (1) pointed by the Superior Court of s~all be back-filled with earth and flushed surface of the pavement. One end of day and immersed in water for six (6) Cook County, Illinois, to make w1th water. ~aid bars shall be coated with cup grease days, shall develop an ultimate tensile said report and assessment roll All drains and all connections for and painted with two (2) coats of hot strength of two hundred· (200) pounds ELMER E. JACKSON, ' catchbasins and manhole catchbasins asphalt. Where said pavement is herein per square inch. Village Attorney. brick herein provided to be used All provided to be constructed around cast herein provided to be constructed shall L36-4tc consist of salt-glazed, vitrified hub and iron covers, said covers shall be separated shall be first class hard burned sewer spigot tile sewer pipe, and shall be laid from the concrete of said pavement by brick. VILLAGE OF WILMETTE All water used in the mixing of conwith joints of mortar composed by volume three-~ighths (%) inch thick asphaltic PROPOSALS of one (1) part Portland cement and two r'elt expansion joints and extending from crete or mortar shall be clean ·a nd free (2) parts sand, mixed with sufficient the bottom of said covers to the surface from iron, acid, alkali, or vegetable matFor paving with sheet asphalt and water to form a quaking mass. Said nf the finished pa,.vement. Said concrete ter and suitable for the purpose for otherwise improving Lake A venue from drains shall be laid in trenches excavated pavement during construction shall be which it is used. All calcium chloride herein provided the east line of Ridge A venue to the therefor. The depth of the tile pipe Jlrot.ected from rain, hot sun or wind and be used in curing said concrete pave- nort~east line of Michigan Avenue. drain refers to the depth of the flow frost hy burlap, and said pavement shall to shall be in the form of loose dry (Wilmette Special Assessment No. 215) line or the inside bottom of said tile pipe he cured by the use of two .{2) pounds ment Wilmette, Ill., June 6, 1928. lumps or flakes, and fine enough to be drain. Said trenches shall be back-filled ,,f calcium chloride to each square yard spread Sealed proposals for paving with sheet easily by mechanical spreaoers. of pavement. The location, widths and with earth and flushed with water. asphalt and otherwise improving th~ The locations and depths of said drains details of construction of said pavement, Said calcium chloride shall conform to roadway between the gutter flags of the following : and connections are more fully shown on ioints and curb and integral curb are Passing three-eighths (%ths) inch Lake A venue from the east line of Ridge more fully shown upon plates numbered sieve said plates numbered 2 and 3. A venue to the northeast line of Michigan one hundred (100%) per cent. The existing manhole and catchbasin 2 and 3. Retained on one-quarter (%) inch Avenue (except across the right of way covers shall be adjusted to the finished Trenches of the widths and depths and sieve not more than twenty (20%) per of the Chicago and North Western Railgrade of said proposed improvement '\t the locations as shown on said plates cent. way and except across the tracks of the where located, by cutting down or build - numbered 2 and 3 shall be excavated or Passing twenty (20) mesh to the inch Chi_cago, North Shore and Milwaukee ing upon the present masonry, using new formed to receive the said curb herein- sieve, not more than ten (10%) per cent. Railroad), and including the roadways brick' laid in a mortar composed by after provided for. The bottom or sub- The chemical composition shall conform of intersecting streets to the outer lines volume of one (1) part Portland cement grade of said trenches shall be thoroughly to the following requiremnts : or line of Lake Avenue (except Main and two (2) parts sand mixed with suf- eompacted by tamping before the conCalcium chloride (anhydrous) not less Street and Sheridan Road) in the Village ficient water to form a quaking mass. crete of said curb shall be placed. of Wilmette, Cook County, Illinois, in acthan seventy-five (75%) per cent. Each of said manholes shall be cleaned The integral curb herein provided to be Magnesium chloride, not more than cordance with the ordinance and specifiof all earth, broken masonry and rub- C'onstructed in this improvement :;tlong one-half of one (1%) per cent. cations for said improvement will be rethe edges of the concrete pavement seven Sodium chloride, not more than one ceived by the Board of Local Improveb~~ ' Upon the subgrade prepared as herein (7) inches thick and the curb herein pro- (1%) per cent. ments of said Village of Wilmette until provided shall be constructed a one (1) dded to be constructed along the edges All of said electric welded steel fabric 7 :30 o'clock P. M. on Tuesday, the 19th course reinforced concrete pavement of nf the concrete pavement ten (10) in(;hes herein provided for shall be manufac- day of June, A. D. 1928, at which time the thicknesses shown on said plates ~hick, herein provided for, shall be con- tured from cold drawn steel wire having said .Proposals will be publicly opened, numbered 2 and 3. The concrete for said c:tructed of concrete composed by volume a yield point of not less than fifty thou- exammed and declared by said Board of pavement shall be composed by volume f)f one (1) part Portland cement, two (2) sand (50,000) pounds per square inch Local Improvements in the Council of one (1) part Portland cement, two (2) 'larts sand and three and one-half (3%) and which shall bend cold one hundred Chamber in the Village Hall. parts sand and three and one-half (3th) narts gravel or crushed stone, except the eighty (180) degrees around a pin, the The specifications for said Improveparts gravel or crushed stone, mixed exposed portions of said curb and in- diameter of which is equal to the di- ment and blank proposals will be furwith sufficient water to form a quaking tegral curb to a thickness of one-half ameter of the wire specified without nished at the office of said Board of Local mass. All of said pavement seven (7) ( lh) Inch which shall be finished with a cracking on the outside of the bent por- Improvements in said Vlllage Hall. inches thick shall be reinforced with mortar coat composed by volume of one tion. Proposals · must be made out on blanks All said electric welded steel fabric furnished by ~aid Board of Local Imforty-two ( 42) pounds of en'ective electric (1) part Portland cement and two (2) shall be free from rust, scale, paint or parts sand. All of said concrete and provements and must be addressed to welded steel fabric to each one hundred (100) square feet of pavement and all of mortar shall be mixed with. sufficient coating of any character which will tend the Board of Local Improvements of the to prevent . proper bonding of the con- Village of Wilmette, Wilmette, Illinois, said pavement ten (10) inches thick shall water to make a quaking mass. Transverse expansion joints thrPe- crete. Said wire shall develop an ulti- and endorsed "Proposals for improvement be reinforced with one hundred twelve (112) pounds of effective electric welded eights (%) inch in width and filled with mate tensile strength of seventy-five of Lake A venue from Ridge Avef:teel fabric to each one hundred (100) asphaltic felt shall be constructed thousand (75,000) to eighty-five thousand nue to Michigan A venue" and all must be accompanied square feet of pavement. The wires of through the width and depth of said (85,000) pounds per square inch. Said proposals said steel fabric shall have a uniform curb and integral curb as extensions of wires shall have a uniform spacing of by cash, or a certified check payable to six (6) inches center to center of said the order of the President of the Board spacing, which spacing shall not exceed <1aid transverse joints in said pavement. The location, dimensions and details wire. of Local Improvements of the Village of six (6) Inches center to center of wires All cast iron castings for covers herein Wilmette, for a sum of not less than ten and shall extend to within three (3) of construction of said curb and integral for shall be made of tough gray (10) per centum of the aggregate of the inches of all joints, but shall not cross "urb are more fully shown upon said provided iron made from new pig billets, containpropoRal and no proposal will be conjoints. Adjacent pieces of said fabric plates numbered 2 and 3. The concrete pavement herein provid- ing not more than ten one-hundredths sidered unless accompanied by such check shall be lapped four ( 4) inches when the (0.10) per cent of sulphur. Said castings ed for shall be connected with existing or cash. lap is made at right angles to the center be true to pattern, free from flaws. The contractor will be pa.!d tn bonds line of said pavement, and twelve (12) pavements wherever located and the ex- shall All castings while hot shall be coated isting brick pavement in West Railroad and vouchers payable solely out of the inches when the lap is made parallel with Avenue, wherever the proposed concrete with an asphaltic paint. Said cast-iron assessment for said improvement, when the center line of said pavement. conform to the following test- collected in accordance with the proThere shall be constructed transverse pavement shall connect therewith, shall shall a test bar one and one-half (1%) inches expansion joints three-eighths (%) inch be adjusted to meet the proposed con- in diameter and fifteen (15) inches long visions of the ordinance therefor, and thick in said pavement seven (7) inches crete pavement, and the said brick shall be used. Said test shall be on an In the manner prescribed by Ia w. which thick and transverse expansion joints oavement, from the said connections to unsupported length of twelve· (12) inches, bonds wtll bear interest at the rate of one-half (lh) inch thick in said pavement the middle of the paved roadway of with load at the middle. The minimum six (6) per centum per annum. Railroad Avenue, shall be removed The contractor to whom the contract ten (10) inches thick, filled with asphaltic West the bricks composing said pave- breaking load so applied shall be two may b~ awarded will be required to felt, which said joints shall be spaced and thousand nine hundred (2,900) pounds furnish a bond to the satisfaction and ment shall be cleaned, turned and rethirty (30) feet apart in said pavement laid on a concrete base, adjusted to with a deflection of at least one-tenth approval of said Board of Local Improveseven (7) Inches thick and said joints meet the proposed pavement, and the (1 flO) of an inch before rupture. ments, in a sum equal tn fifty (50) P"'r shall be spaced forty ( 40) feet apart in ')resent concrete base of said brick paveThere shall be moved from their pres- eentum of the contract price, condisaid pavement ten (10) inches thick and ment shall be adjusted by placing new ent locations in West Railroad Avenue In each case normal to the center line concrete ther·e on, composed by volume three (3) reinforced concrete ornamental tioned for the faithful performance of of said pavement, and the felt in said of one part Portland cement, two parts electric lighting standards or lamp posts the contract. EARL E. ORNER. joint shall extend one-half (lh) Inch sand and three and one-half parts and solid cast bronze lantern type fixERNF.RT C. CA ZEL. above the top surface of said pavement. crushed stone, mixed with sufficient tures mounted thereon, and installed ALBERT L. GRINNELL. Said expansion joints, shall each be pro- water to make a quaking mass. The and connected as a part of the proposed PAUL A. HOFFMAN. vided with three-quarte·r (%) inch round said new concrete shall be spread upon improvement. <;. MILES McDONALD. smooth steel bars, two (2) feet long, the present concrete base and thoroughThe foregoing three (3) reinforced conHANR VON REINSPERG, placed through the joints, spaced two (2) ly compacted by ramming until free crete ornamental electric street lighting (;ORDON WILSON. feet apart and imbedded in the concrete mortar appears upon the surface. The standards or lamp posts and solid cast Board of Local Improveof said pavement four (4) inches below finished top surface of the concrete bronze lantern type fixtures mounted ments of the Vlllage of the finished surface of said pavement. foundation shall be even and uniform thereon shall be located, set and conWilmette. Said bars shall extend sixteen (16) inches and shall conform to and be six (6) nected as shown on said · plate numL37-ttc into the concrete of said pavement on Inches below th~ finished grade of the bered 3. Each of said above standards one side of said joint. and the remaining