 New residential suburbs, such as Irvington and Woodruff Place, were established, but Indianapolis still retained its slum areas.As the city grew, it also experienced a need for more public services, such as utilities and street railways, as well as an improved public school system.A street railway came to the city in the 1860s, the city established its first sewage system in 1869, most of the city's downtown streets were illuminated with gaslights by 1870, and the first water supplied from a central waterworks was delivered to city residents in 1871.