Street grading specification

Here is the hundred thirty-first installment:

Specifications for Grading and graveling the roadway and sidewalks of Shelby Street [now Broad Ripple Avenue] and North end of Light Avenue [Coil], in the Town of Broad Ripple, Marion County, State of Indiana, from the west line of the first street east of Morgan Street [Guilford], to a point two hundred (200) feet in Light Ave.

The roadway of Shelby Street shall be made level for a width of thirty-eight (38) feet and be graded according to stakes set by Town Engineer on the following grade.

Begin at the west edge of the first street east of Morgan Street with a cut of one (1) foot and run west on a descending grade of fifty-two hundredths (52/100) of a foot per 100 feet for 300 feet on the east line of Morgan Street, thence west with a fall of Six tenths (6/10) of a foot to the west side of Morgan Street, thence west on a descending grade of twenty six hundredths (26/100) of a foot per 100 feet for 860 feet, thence south in Light Avenue two hundred (200) feet on an ascending grade of twenty eight hundredths (28/100) of a foot per (100) feet.

This roadway in Light Avenue to be fifty six and one half (56 ½) feet wide, thirty nine (39) feet of which are west of the center line, between the two street car tracks and seventeen and one half feet east of this center line.

This roadway grade of Shelby Street to be covered with good river of pit gravel as follows, a width of eighteen (18) feet in the center of the roadway to be twelve (12) inches deep and then slope to each side, where it shall be five (5) inches deep.

The roadway grade in Light Avenue to be covered with good pit or river gravel as follows:

eighteen (18) feet the center line of which is the center line between the two street car tracks, to be twelve (12) inches deep, nineteen (19) feet west of this center line between the two tracks to be ten (10) inches deep, twenty nine (29) feet west to be eight (8) inches deep and five (5) inches deep at the gutter line.

On the east side of the tracks the gravel to slope to the east side of the roadway at which place it shall be five (5) inches deep.

Each sidewalk of Shelby Street east of Morgan Street shall be graded Fourteen (14) feet wide, the gutter edge to be six (6) inches above the roadway grade and rise three (3) inches across the walk.

Six (6) feet of each sidewalk grade next the property line to be covered with earth to even with the top of the sidewalk gravel.

Each sidewalk of Shelby Street west of Morgan Street and west sidewalk in Light Avenue shall be graded six (6) feet wide, the gutter edge to be made six (6) inches above the roadway grade and rise one tenth (1/10) of a foot across the walk.