Contract Awarded for Opening Higbie Avenue, Springfield

New York, 1895

The highway commissioners of Jamaica held their regular weekly meeting at the Town Hall on Tuesday. Commissioner Wolff presided. The petition to open Oakley avenue, Woodhaven, from Liberty avenue to University place and the awards of the commissioners, $3,500, having been confirmed by the general term of the supreme court, it was ordered that 60 days' notice be given to all persons through whose land the road passes to remove their fences. The avenue passes through land of George Shattuck, Lewis C. Lockwood, E. C. Mielleret, Maria Napier, Ernestina Foquet, Thomas Napier, Charles C. Napier, Kate B. Napier and Earl A. Gillispie.

Three bids were received for the opening and grading of Higbie avenue, Springfield, from Farmers' avenue to the Springfield road, and the building of a stone bridge over the roadway eight feet wide, nine feet high and fifty feet long, as follows: George Marshall, $980; John H. Valentine, $949; Freeland & A. M. Twombly, $950. John H. Valentine being the lowest bidder by $1, he was awarded the contract. The work is to be completed June 1.

Estimates were received from the district road overseers of the amount of money required for the roads in their districts during the year 1895, as follows: District No. 1, $2,735; district No. 2, $2,400; district No. 3, $2,745. The commissioners will take action upon the estimates at their next meeting.

Commissioner Baker reported that the toll gate on the Jamaica and Hempstead road had again been thrown open.

Complaint was made that the planks in the bridge on Farmers' avenue near the residence of John Muller were broken, and the bridge impassable. Complaint was also made of a washout on Central avenue.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, March 15, 1895, p. 1.