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STREET NUMBERING
CHAPTER XXXIX
BY 1895 free mail delivery became popular and of course
DuBois was always clamoring for something it could get for nothing
and the people believed they ought to have free mail delivery.
Accordingly a petition was sent in to the Post Office Department and
the Department notified the Postmaster that free mail delivery would
be granted DuBois whenever the streets were properly numbered. W. F.
Daley was Postmaster at that time and he came to the Council with
this demand from the Government. The Council with its usual system
of putting things over on the Borough attorney, directed him to
prepare a system for naming the streets and numbering the houses.
The plan submitted, was to divide the town into four
sections. The hub was to be at the intersection of Long Avenue and
Brady Street. At that point the borough streets were divided into
four sections, East and West, and North and South. The central
division street was named, beginning at Brady Street, East Long
Avenue, and that west, West Long Avenue, and starting at the same
point, Brady Street was named North Brady Street and South Brady
Street. All streets parallel with Long Avenue were called avenues
and all streets parallel with Brady Street were called streets. One
hundred numbers were assigned to each block beginning at Long
Avenue. The first building was No. I East Long Avenue, etc., and No.
1 West Long Avenue, in the same manner as to Brady Street.
The old street names were followed in so far as
practical, but a very large number of names were eliminated. Thus,
what was known as "Long Street" and "Booth Street," became "West
Long Avenue." Summit Avenue from Brady Street east took the name of
East Washington Avenue, and from that point west, West Washington
Avenue, the name given by John Rumbarger. Some of the present
streets had as many as three names.
This ordinance was adopted by the Council and then free
mail delivery was given. Mr. W. F. Daley then published a directory
of the Borough, being the first directory published and fortunately
a copy of it has been donated to the Public Library.
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