06/27/1938 Board of Public Works Minutes

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378 ---__-.---_.-____----MEETING __June 2,7_,_1938 Regular meeting of the Board of Public Works was held on Monday, June 27, 1938, All members were present. ,.Minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved." Claims from the follow- ing suppliers in the 'amount of $2314 26 were apt?roved. and ordered paid. Also payroll of the various Departments amounting to $7135.69: Am rioan LaFrance & Foemite $ �.. 92 Yl-kayy, Products Corp. Amerida-m-LaFrance and Foamite_ _- 465.5U Hi Co. _�..-� 3.75 y_ 33.50 Bomgardner Mantrfactur �g---Go`. 93.16 Hibberd Pri ting Co. City, rater y�orXs-. ---`- 5.04 McCaffery Co. 9.36 Busine stems Inc. 13.25 S. H, Reese l -_.."r -._.,_ 122.37 _Ut)f ater Works 425 OB.. St. J9,9,eph s Hospital �7�1_.60 ,non Service Co., Inc. 18'.99 Mr. J. C. Weer, Street Commissioner, was authorized to purchase a car of cold - pack for -,use in repair of streets. A delegation of residents in the vicinity of Kemble Avenue, Douglas Streeto Oliv- er Street appeared -before the Board and urged the extension _of the .bus. line from the present terminal to Rum: Village Park.. Mr. .R.R. Smith and Mr. W. W. Waterson of the Northern_ Indiana Raolway Company were present and after discussion of this matter it was decided that Mr. Smith submit a proposal in regard to this matter at the next meeting of the Board on July 5. Mr. R. R. Smith and Mr. W. W. Waterson of the Northern Indiana Railway Company submitted the following Agreement for the elimination of street cars on Washington Street, Chapin, Sample Streets, and Prairie Avenue, which calls for public hearing on July 14, 1938, at 10:00 A. M. The Northern Indiana Railway Company will advertise according to law: AGREEMENT This Agreement made and entered into this day of June, 1938, by and between the City of South Bend, Indiana, by and through its Board of Public Works and Safety, hereinafter called the first party, and the Northern Indiana Railway, Inc., a corpora- tion organized under the laws of the State of Indiana, and Raymond R. Smith, Receiver of said Northern Indiana Railway, Inc., their successors and :assigns, hereinafter call- ed partiesof the second part, WITNESSETH: i That Whereas, the parties of the second part now have and own an indeterminate per mit to operate, as a part of their street railway system in said City of South Bed, a local street car service for the carriage of passengers for hire over the following route, viz; I. On -,Washington Street from its intersection with Main Street, west to Kal'ey Street, thence north to Bertrand Street, thence west to Bendix Drive, .thence west and north onBendix, Drive to Westmore Street, thence East on Westmore Street to Mead Street, thence south on Mead Street to Washington Street. 2. On Chapin Street from its intersectionwi.th Washington Street south to Sample Street, thence west on Sample Street to Kosciuszko Street; and. said parties of the second part now have street railway tracks laid in said streets and are operating street cars over the same and along said routes for the carriage of passengers for hire, and have the indeterminate right to continue to operate street `-cars over and upon said streets; And Whereas, said, party of the first part is about to relay the pavement on Wash- ington Street from Main Street west and has requested the parties of the second part to remove their said street -railway tracks from all the streets and avenues onihe routes above described; and has requested them in place of said service to install taid opera- te automobile or motor busses for the carriage of passengers .for hire, and said parties of the second part are willing to comply with said requests in consideration that said City grants to them the right to operate motor busses over said streets. and into the dame general territory`for.the carriage -of passengers for hire. Therefore, consent, permission and authority are hereby granted and given by the party of the first part, to and vested in the parties of the second part, their sue - censors and assigns, --subject to the conditions hereinafter specified, to operate vehic- les, commonly known as motor busses, for the purpose of carrying passengers for hire, from the date of this agreement, over the following routes in said City of South Bend, to -wit:, 1. Beginning at the corner of Washington -Street and Michigan Street,.thence south on Michigan Street- to- Jefferson Street, thence west on Jefferson Street to Main Street, thence -north on Main Street, thence west on Washington Street to Birdsell Street; thence north on Birdsell Street to Linden. Avenue, thence west on Linden Avenue to Bendix Drive, thence northerly on Bendix Drive to Westmore Street, thence East on Westmore Street to Olive Street, thence south on Olive Street to Linden Avenues thence over the route above described to the corner of Washington Street and Michigan Street. • 0: 11 • 0 7