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8 : r l, t June 1, 1928 the site of the Improvement. Said parkways shall be leveled, smoothed and hand-raked and all stones, broken con-' crete, tile, and rubbish of every description removed from the site of the improvement. ' There shall be remo_ ved, including all grub!Jing of roots, one (1) foot belo w the subgrade ot the roadway or the finished grade of the parkways whe t'e located, sixteen (16) trees seven (7) jnches in diameter and over. The excavations where said trees are removed .shall be backfilled with earthr and all wood, brush and rubbish shall be removed. All catchbasins and manhole catchbasins ~;hall be constructed of concrete composed by volume of one (1) part Portland cement, two (2) parts sand and four (4) parts gravel or crushed s t one mixed with sufficient wate r to form a quaking mass. Said cat c hbas in s and manhole catchbasins shall have an inside diameter of four ( 4) feet and sidewalls and bottoms six (6) inches thick. Said ~·a lls shall be drawn in at the top to fit and support the cast iron covers he rejnafter provided for. Each of sa id catchbasins and manhole catchbasim; s hall be }Jrovided with an asphaltic coated cast iron cover consisting of a fram~ weighing 1 wo hundred seventy-five (:ll:l) pounds :.1 nd a perforated lid w eighing one hundred twenty-five (125) pounds. Each catchbasin and manhol e catchb_asin shall .be prgvide~ with a \'itl'ifit·d tile sewer PIPe elbow eight (8) in ches in diameter, liet in the wall of said ba~in , <tnd each of said catchbasins and manhole catchbasins shall be connected to said drains h e r einafter proYid ~d for or to existing stormwater drains. Th e loca tion~. depths, details of construction and con.n~:=ctions and c,Je nin1:;-s of said catchbasms and manhole catchbasins are more fully shown on said pfates num bered 2 and 3. Excavations shall be made to receive said catchbasins and manhol e cat('hba.siQ!> a.nd all openings around ~ame ~hall be back-filled with eat·th and fluslwd with water. All drains and all connt:ctions for cat chbasins and manhole vatchhasins h en·in provided to Le constructed shall co n:-;i~t of salt-glazed, Yitritied hub and 1-ipigot tile sewer pipe, and shall be laid with joints of mortar composed by volume of one (1) part Portland cement anu two (2) parts sand, mixed with sufficient water to form a quaking mass. Said drains shall be laid in trench es exca\·ated thet:efor. The depth of the tile pipe <lmm refers to the depth of the finw line. or the. inside bottom of said tile pipe dram. Said tre nches shall be back-tilled with earth and flushed with water. The locations and depths of said drains an~ connections are more fully shown . on satd plates numbered 2 and 3. Th e existing manhole and catchbasin covers shall be adjusted to the finished grade of said proposed improve ment ~'here located, by cutting down or buildIng upon the present masonry, using new ht'ich laid in a mortar composed by \'Olume of one (1) part Portland cement and two (2) parts sand mixed with sufficient water to form a quaking mass. Each of said manholE·s shall be cleaned of all earth, broken masonry and rubbish. · "Upon the subgrade prepared as herein p!'ovided shall be con:-;tructt>d a one ( l) course reinforced concrete pa ,·ement of the thicknesses shown on said plates numbered 2 and 3. The concrete for said pavement shall be composed by volume of one (1) part Portland cement, two (2) parts sand and three and one-half (3 1h) parts gravel or crushed stone, mixed with sufficient water to form a quaking mass. All of sa:id pavement seven (7) inches thick shall 1'1t· reinforced with forty-two ( 42) pounds of effective electric welded steel fabric to each one hundred · (100) square feet of pavement and all of said pavement ten (10) inches thick shall be reinforced with one hundred twelve ( 112) pounds of effective electric welded steel fabric to each one hundred (100) square feet of pavement. The wires of said steel fabric shall have a uniform spaeing, which spacing shall not exceed six (6) inches center to center of wires and shall extend to within three (3) inches of all joints, but shall not cross joints. Adjacent pieces of said ·fabric shall be lapped four (4) inches when the lap is made at right angles to the cet;lter lin~ of said pavement, and twelve (12) inches when the lap is made parallel with the center line of said paYement. There shall be constructed transverse expansion joints three-eighths (%) inch thick in said pavement seven (7) inches thick and transverse expam;ion joints one-half (lh) inch thick in sa_id ~aveme~t ten (10) inches thick, filled with asphaltic felt which said joints !';hall be spaced thi;ty (30) feet apart in said pavement seven (7) inches thick and said joints shall be spaced forty (40) feet apart in said pavement ten (10) inches thick and in each case normal to the cent.er line of said pavement, and the felt m said joint shall extend one-half ( 1h) inch above the top surface of said pavement. Said expansion joints, shall each be provided with three-quarter (%.) inch round smooth steel bars, two (2) feet long-, placed through the joints, spaced two (2) feet apart and imbedded in the concrete of said pavement tour (4) inches below WILMETTE ·LIFE 1he finished surface of said pavement ~aid bars shall extend sixteen (16) inche~ 1~to ~he conc~ete .of said pavement on one . .side of 8atd jomt, and the remaining portion of said bar into the concrete of ~a.u'l pavement on the other side of said JOmt.. The latter shorter portion of each of s~Id bars .shall be coated with grease and _ m se ~ted m ~ ·on~ ( 1) inch in diametei: !netctl pipe, said J>IJ>es being ten (10) l~chef.l m le ngth and mad. e from twenty (20) gaug m etal. One end of Raid pipes shall be closed with a cork, or in a ma.n-' ner to k eep the concrete out and provide ~tn o p~ n space at least one (1) inch long m which said bar may slide. T~ e re . s~all he constructed a Iongitu~lmal JOint formed in the concrete of :mid pan~ men~ in Sixteenth Street along t.he ce nter I.tne of sa id pave m~nt, as sho\~n C!n sa t~ .Plate numbered 3. Said h! ngttud1nal JOI11t shall be ma de of \-shaped asphaltic painted sixteen (16) g<~uge m~tal :-:ix and one-half (6%) inches Wide. aft.er be_n~g pressed into :-:hape. Said longit.udmal Jnmt shall be provided with tive-e igl!ths .<%) inch round deform d st el rt- mforc~ ng bars, four (4) feet long, :-: pa~·efl fi\' e (.>) feet apart throughout the ~·n.ttr e !e ngth thereof, pla ct'd throug·h th e Jomt, Imhecl d t-d in the concrete of ~aid yan:tnt'nt fout' and one-quart(·!' ( P4) In ch es lwlow the finish ed surfac(· of said P:t\'emPnt. and fX tending equal di stanc's on f'a ch Slflf' of said joint. Tl~.e re. shal.l . also be constnwtecl a Inngttudmal JOint along the t·l·nter line and from e nd to end of tlw pa\·ement tt·n (10) in ·hes in thickn P ~s IwrdnabO\'e lH'o\·id ed fot·. Raid longitudinal joint shall J,... mad(· 11f nne-half (lh) in<'11 thick :·sphaltic felt exU· n<ling from tlw hottfl!l1 ,,f th e concn· te to fllle .. half (1,~) in<"h aho\'e th(· top nf tlw pan·nw nt. l-'aid lt·ng-itudinal jo int shall IJ~ pro,·id ed with thr~>e-quartPr C 1.~) ill('h ill clianwtt- 1' round ;-:tt·t· l r einfo1·eing ban: two (2) feet r-;ix (li) inches long spar d two (2) feet six 1 r;) int'h es apart and imbedded in the t·u twt·tte throug-h sa irl j11int filtll ' und one·tuarter (.P;.L) in('lw:-; l1t·lo\\· tlw finish ed ~ llrfa ce of th e ]Xl\-t'IJWnt. 01w P lld of sa id hars ~ hall h l' <·r·<ttt-d with ('llJ) gTea:-;e anrl painted with l\\-lt (:?) ('o:lls of hnt a::.:]lhalt. ,,.hPr<' ~aid paYt> JIH:>nt ir-; hPrein pro,·icl ecl to be con:-trueterl around cast iron CO\' rs, said <'0\'P r s shall hP st-paratf'd from th e f'nncr te nf said pa \'t·mt'nt hy thl'l·e -eig-hth:-- (~!!) inC'h thit'i' asphaltic f· ·lt expa nsion joints and I:'Xtf'nding from the bottom of said· coYe r~ to tlw s urfn. ('<· ,.f th e finish e> rl pa\·e mf: nt. ~:till t·rnJeretP p:n·ement during- eonstrud ion shall lw pmtected from rain, hot ~un or win<l n ml frost hy burlap, and sa icl pa ,·t>nwnt shall J,p cured bv th P u:::e of t\\'n (2) poun<l:-l,f C'alcium -ehlndcle to f.al'h s(iuare yard of pan>me nt . The ln<'a.tion. \\'iclths and !lt>ta ils of co nstruction of :--aid pan·nwnt, joints and f'ttrh :m<l int t>g- ra I ('\ll'h n t·emnr<> full:> shown upon pia t .. :-- lltllnhc·r ed :? n.nd 3. Trendws of tht· width f.: :1 n<l <lt·pth:-; and at th e Ioc<ttion!'; a:-- shown cou :-;aiel platt-:-rnnnbered 2 and 3 shall h e> PXCa\·ated n1· f1·rmed to n ·ee h ·r tlw saicl l' Ul'h hen· inn ft er proYi<l ed for. Th e hot tom or !"Ub!!'ntde of said tre-nches ~hn11 he thoroughly t·ompacted by tamping· ht'fore tlw ennt·rete of !';aid eurb Rhall he pla<'ed. The integ-ral curb h e rein pro,·idt>d to he t'onstructed in this impro\'ement :-l.long th e edg-eH of the cPnci·t>te pa\'emen~ se,·en (7) incheR thick and tht· eurb hert>tn pm,·ided to be- <'onstrudecl n.Iong- the . Nlgef' of the COn('t'ete pavenwnt' ten (1 0) mshes thick, herein provided fnr, !<hall he l'Ollstructed of concrete eomposNl hy volun~e of one (1) part Portland f'ement, two ( ~) part!': sand and three and one-half (3 1~.!) Jlart!': gravel ~r crushed .stone. exrept ~he exposed portiOns of sa1d curb and mtpgral curb to a thidmess of one-half (lh) inch which shall be finished with a mortar coat composed by volume of one (1) part Portland cement and two (2) parts sand. All of ;said c~mcrete :'lnd mortar shall be mtxed w1th sufficient water to make a quaking mass. Transverse expansion joints thr~e eig-hts (%) inch in width and filled wtth asphaltic felt sha11 be construct~d through the width and depth of said f'Urh and integral <'Urh as extensions of iaid transverse joints in said pavE>me~t. 'f'JlQ location, dimensions and . detatlS' of construction of said <'urh and mtegr~l eurb are more fully shown upon satd plates numbered 2 and !l. The concrete pavement herein provided for sha11 be connected with existing pavements wherever located and the exIsting brick pavement in West Railroad A venue wherever the proposed concrete paveme~t shall conne('t therewith, shall be adjusted to meet the proposed concrete pavement, and the said brick pavement, from the said connections to the middle of the paved roadway of West Railroad Avenue, shall be removed and the bricks composing said paven1ent shall be cleaned, turned and relaid on a concrete base, adjusted to meet the proposed pavement, and the present concrete base of said brick pavement shall be adjusted by placing new concrete thereon, composed by volume of one part Portland cement. two parts sand and three and one-half parts crushed stone, mixed with sufficient water to make a quaking mass. The ~aid new concrete shall be spread upon the present concrete base and thoroughly compacted by ramming untll free 51 mortar appears upo~ the surface. The crete ornamental electric· street Ugbtlng finished top surface of the concrete standards or lamp posts and solid cast foundation shall be even and uniform bronze lantern type fixtures mounted ~nd shall conform to and be six (6) thereon shall be located, set and conmches below the finished grade of the nected as shown on said plate · numcompleted roadway. Upon said concrete bered 3. Each of said above standards foundation ·s hall be sprPad a layer of shall be set in one-half (lh) cubic yard clean s3;nd two (2) inct .!S in depth and of crushed stone. All new materials shall upon said sand cushion shall be laid the be of the same kind as those now tn use. cleaned bricks. After being laid, the All existing cables where disconnected ~a.me shall be rolled and tamped and the for the making of said proposed improveJOmts completely filled with asphalt ment shall be reconnected so as to confiller. stitute a completely. connected system, All existing structures within the lines all within the Village of ~enllworth, of said improvement shall be removed County of Cook and State ot Illlnois. from the site of said improvement. All old lumber, brick, Cq(lcrete and other NOTICE IS ALSO HEREBY GIVEN TO building materials or ~tructures shall be ALL PERSONS INTERESTED, that the completely removed from the site of said President and Boo.rd of Trustees of the Village of Kenilworth, County of Cook proposed improYement. All sand herein provided to be used and State of Illinois, having ordered for concrete or mortar shall be clean, that the Improvement above described c·oarse, sharp sand. Said sand when be made, the ordinance for the same dried shall pass a screen having four being on file in the office of the VIllage ( 4) meshes pe r lineal inch, and not more Clerk of said village and the said v11than twe nty-fi,·e (25) per cent of said lage having applied to the Superior sand shaH pass a sieve having fifty (50) Court of Cook County, Illinois, for an meshes pe r linea l inch. Said sand shall assessment of the cost of said improvet·ontain no Yegetable nor other deleterl- ment according to the beneflts, and a uus matte r, nor more than two (2) per special assessment therefor having been made and returned to said Court, Genl'ent by \n.·ig-ht of clay or loam. . All gra Yel or crushed stone herein eral Number 477106, the final hearing JH'OYided to lJe used shall be clean, dur- thereon will be held on the second day able, toug·h gravel or crushed limestone of July, A. D. 1928, or as soon therefn· e from Yeg-e table or deleterious mat~ after as the business of the said Court te r. The size of said crushed stone or will permit. All persons desiring may graYel shall be such as to pass a two file objections in said Court before said ~2) inch ro~nd opening and shall range day, and may appear on the hearing and from that size down to a size that will ~ake their defense. Said ordinance propass a one-half ( % ) inc h ring. Not more VIdes for the collection of said assessthan th-e (5) pe r cent shall be small ment in ten (10) annual installments e nough to pass a screen having four with interest thereon at the rate of five per centum (5%) per annum. meshes per lin eal inc h. All cement provided for herein shall Dated at the City of Chicago, and at lJe first class American P~rtland cement the Village of Kenilworth, County ot and State of Illinois, this thirtyr..nd shall be so gTound that ninety-two Cook (92) p r cent will pass through a stand- first day of May, A. D. 1928. SAMUEL E. ERICKSON, ard number 100 sie\·e, having ten thouClerk of the Superior Court of sand (10,000) meshes per square inch. Cook County, Illinois. Brique ttes made from mortar composed RALPH R. HAWXHURST, by \'Olume nf one (1) part of said Port.lOHN O'CONNOR, ln.nd eement and three (3) parts of clean GEORGE C. RICHARDS, torpedo sand, exposed to air for one (1) Commissioners heretofore apday and immers!:'d in water for six (6) pointed by the Superior Court of days, shall develop an ultimate tensile Cook County, Illinois, to make streng-th of two hundred (200) pounds said report and assessment roll. per square inch. EL:\IER E. JACKSON All brick he rein provided to be used Village Attorney. ' shall be flr s t c· Iass hard burned sewer L36-4tc bri<'k. All water ustd in the mixing of conVU,J"AGE OF WJLJ\JETTE crPte or mortar shall b f' clean and fre e from iron, acid, alkali, or vegetable matProposal ter and suitable- for the purpose for which it is used. For the construction of a connected All ca lcium chloride herein pro,·ided of Portland cement concrete to he used in curing said concrete pave- system on the north side of Thornment shall be in the form of loose dry sidewalks wood A venue from Ridge A venue to lump.· or flak es, and fine enough to be Twenty-third Street ; also on the south sprC'ad eas ily bY mechanieal spreaders. Said calcium (·hloride shall conform to side of Thornwood A venue from Ridge A Yenue to Twenty-third Street ; also on the following: Passing three-e ighths <:Ysths) inch the east side and on the west side of Twenty-first Street from Thornwood :-;ie\'e onto hundrt-d (100 % ) per cent. except R et:dn E>d on on(·-quarter (1,4) inch A Yenue to Chestnut Avenue, sieYe nut more than twenty (20 % ) per where walks are already laid. (Wilmette Special Assessment No. 209) ce nt. . Wilmette, Ill., May 31, 1928. Pa!:'sing twenty C~O) mesh to the inch Sealed proposals for the construction sif'n>, not more than ten (10 % ) per cent. The chemical composition shall conform of a connected system of Pnrtland cement concrete sidewalks five (5) teet and to the following requirt>mnts: C'alcium chloride (anhydrous) not less four (4) inches wide, on the north side of Thornwood A venue from the west line than seYenty-five (75 %) per cent. ::\Iagnesium <'hloridt>, not more than of Ridge A venue to the east line of Twenty-third Street, except across the one-half of one (1 o/r ) per cent. Sodium chloride, not more than one central twenty-two (22) feet of Twentyfirst Street, also on the south side of (1 % ) per cent. All of said electri<' welded steel fabric Thornwood Avenue from the west lfne herein provided fot· shall be manufac- of Ridge A venue to the east line of tured from <'Old drawn steel wire having Twenty-third Street, except across the a yield point of not less than fifty thou- central twenty-two (22) feet of Twentysand (50,000) pounds per square inch first Street, and except from a line ten and which shall bend cold one hundred hundred fifty (1050) feet east ot Twentyeighty (180) degreeR around a pin, the third Street to a line eleven hundred diameter of which is equal to the di- (11 00) feet east of Twenty-third Street, ameter of the wire specified without where walk Is now laid. Also on the cracking on the outside of the hent por- east side and on the west side of Twenty-first Street from the walk provided tion. All said electric welded steel fabric to be laid on the north side of Thornshall be free from rust, scale, paint or' wood A venue to the walk now In place coating of any character which will tend on the south side of Chestnut Avenue, to prevent proper bonding of the con- except where walks are already laid, tn crete. Said wire shall develop an ulti- thP Village of Wilmette, Cook County, mate tensile strength of seventy-five Illinois, in accordance with the ordinance thousand (75,000) to eighty-five thousand and specifications for said improvement (85,000) pounds per square inch. Said will be received by the Board of Local wires shall have a uniform spacing of Improvements of said VIllage of Wilsix (6) inches center to center of said mette until 7 :30 o'clock P. M. on Tuesday, the 12th day of June, A. D. 1928, wire. All cast iron castings for covers herein at which time said propo~:;als will be provided for shall be made of tough gray publicly opened, examined and declared iron made from new pig billets, contain- by said Board of· Local Improvements ing not more than ten one-hundredths in the Council Chamber In the Vlllage (0.10) per cent of sulphur. Said castings Hall. The specifications for said Improveshall be true to pattern, free from flaws. All castings while hot shall be coated ments and blank proposals will be with an asphaltic paint. Said cast-iron furnished at the office of said Board of shall conform to the following test- Lo<'al Improvements in said Village Hall. Proposals must be made out on blanks a test bar one and one-half (1%) inches in diameter and fifteen (15) Inches long furnished by said Board of Local Imshall be used. Said test shall be on an nrovements and must be addressed to the unsupported length of twelve (12) inches, Board of Local Improvements of . the VIlwith load at the middle. The minimum lag-e of Wilmette, Wilmette, Illlnois, and breaking load so applied shall be two endorsed "Pronosals for the construction thousand nine hundred (2,900) pounds of a connected system of concrete sidewith a deflection of at least one-tenth walks north side of Thornwood Avenue (1 /10) of an Inch before rupture. from Ridg-e Avenue to Twenty-third There shall be moved from their pres- Street and other streets," except where ent locations in West Railroad A venue walks are already laid and all proposals three (3) reinforced concrete ornamental must be accompani J by cash, or a certielectric lighting standards or lamp posts fied check payable to the order of the and solid cast bronze lantern type fix- President of the Board of Local Imtures mounted thereon, and installed provements of the VIllage of Wtlmette, and connected as a part of the proposed for a sum of not less than (10) ten per improvement. centum of the aggregate of tbe proposal The foregoing three (3) reinforced con- and no proposal wlll be considered un·