“CWA to Make S. Cedar St. Soldiers’ Memorial Drive” from the January 5, 1934 Door County Advocate
CWA TO MAKE S. CEDAR ST. SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL DRIVE
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$74,000 Allotted Project
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LITTLE LAKE HAS 40 MEN WORKING
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100 More to Be Added When Project Can Get More Wheelbarrows
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According to a telegram received Wednesday from Frank N. Graass, the Soldiers’ Memorial drive project on South Cedar street from the former box factory site to the Grasshopper property has been approved by the state Civil Works administration, carrying with it an allottment of $74,000. Twelve thousand dollars’ worth of other projects of a smaller nature were also approved the message showed, but H. R. Jones, deputy C. W. A. administrator here, had not heard up to yesterday afternoon just what they covered. Some $50,000 worth of projects were in Madison awaiting approval in addition to the memorial drive job, Mr. Jones said.
The South Cedar street improvement plan was presented personally to the state administration officials at Madison Tuesday by a special committee appointed by Mayor James G. Martin. Members of the committee who made the trip are Highway Commissioner R. B. Bieri, Frank N. Graass, Alderman Norman Hanson arid City Engineer E. W. Odbert.
Will Be 100 Feet Wide
The memorial drive will be a boulevard 100 feet wide and will beautify the water front by the use of a dry stone retaining wall the entire length. Filling for the project will be dragged from the shallow water of the bay. Complete plans have not yet been completed.
Every property owner on the drive has consented to give over his shore frontage to the city to make the project possible.
Owing to extreme cold weather, the past week has seen a number of projects almost at a standstill, but work is now being resumed in earnest. The payroll this week will total about $13,000 and go to about 1,250 men, Mr. Jones reports.
Wm. Bernhard Appointed
The latter part of last week, William Bernhard, prominent licensed architect from Ephraim, was named by Regional Director Edgar Berner of Green Bay to the new office of deputy construction inspector for Door county. Mr. Bernhard’s approval must be obtained on all plans for work on C. W. A. projects undertaken on this peninsula. One of the biggest of these jobs now under way is that which involves interior decorating and considerable minor remodeling of the rural and state graded schools of the county.
Courtesy of the Door County Library Newspaper Archive
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