01/29/1924 Board of Public Works Minutes

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and southerly rails of said tracks shall respectively be descending grades of six (6) feet to each one hundred (100) feet until they intersect the present street grades of Miami Street. The grade of Brook Street which intersects Miami Street on the west side shall be changed so as to conform to the grade of Miami Street and then descend at the rate of eight (8) feet to each one hundred (100) feet until'it intersects the present grade of Brook Street. . (26) The.grade of Marine Street,where the same intersects the tracks of said railroad shall be raised three and three i,enth (3-_ 10) Feet glove the top of the highest rail of said tracks as now maintained, and the trakks of said Company across said street shall be raised to conform to the grade of said street when changed as provided herein. 4 (27) The tracks of.the GRAND' TRUNK WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY and the -NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY at Vhepoint where they cross just east of Arnold Street shall be raised six and one ahlf,(6 ) feet above the top of the rails of the orpssing frogs as now maintained at said crossing; and the tracks of said railways shall be raised to conform to the grade of said crossing point when changed as provided herein.* (28) The grade of DIVISION STREET shall be changed, beginning at a point one hundred (100) feet east of the east line of Pine Street and then ascending seven tenths (0.7) of a foot in each one hundred (100) feet to the west line of Laurel Street, at.which point the raise in the grade of Laurel Street shall not exceed three and four tenths (34) feet above the present grade of the tracks of the Grand Trunk Western Railway 0ompany, The gRade of Division Street; from the lAst above mentioned point, shall be a descending grade 6 five (5) feet in each one hundred (100) feet, until it intersects the present grade of Division Street west of Laurel Street; and the grade of Laurel Street shall be change so as to Sonform to the grade of Division Street, and on each side of Division Street shall be descending grades of five (5) feet to each one hundred (100) feet, until they intersect the present street grades of Laurel Street. The grade of Pine Street which intersects Division Street and the tracks of the Grand Trunk Western Railway'Companys shail_.be changed so as to conform to the grade of Division Street as hereon established and shall descend from each side thereof at the rate of five (5) feet in egoh one.bundrtd 1100) feet, until it inter- sects the present grade of Pine Street. (29$ That the tracks of the different railroads herein referred to shall be raised so as to conform to the different street grades as herein fixed. t(30) That all streets over which the tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company are Required Uy this resolution to be raised or elevat*dt shall have the full amount of the elearnace as provided for in -this resolution for each of said streets forthe full width beneath the superstructure, an4---that at all points where there is a change in the direction of street 'grades as fixed above suitable allowances shall be made for vertical curves. (31) And.the tracks of the Terre Haute and Logansport Railroad Company now Pennsylvania Railroad Company), Indiana Northern Railway CompAnys Oliver Chilled Plow Company and Studebaker Corporations whose trasekw interseot.or connect with the tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company, if said companies of any them, shall desire to keep and maintain said eonnneetions, shall be raised so as to conform to the grades of said New York Central Railroad Company as herein established and mage proper connections with saute. (32) That the said improvement shall be made and paid for sccording to the method and manner provided for in an Act of the General.Assembly of Indiana of 1923, Page 110, or any other law applicable thereto. TYat the Chicago, South Bend and Northern Indiana Railway Company, which maintains street car tracks at Chapin.Street and Michigan Street, where the same intersect the tracks of said Railroad.Company be and is hereby'ordered to reconstruct its tracks accord- Igg to the grades herein provided fors and shall pay five (5) per cent -Of the cost of the alteration of such grade crossings at such intersections. All other resolutions heretofore adopted by the Board of PUblie Works for the separation of tracks from the grades of any streets be and are hereby rescinded. BE IT FURTMERESOLV'ED, That notice of the time and place for public consideration of this resolution be given in the manner provided by law. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the 2nd. day of February 1924 and on the 9th. day of February 1924 in the South Bend Daily Tribune and the South Bend News Times. Adopted this 29th. day of January 1924. L. B. SLAUGHTER L. P. HARDY B 0 ARC! Ot PUBLIC WORKS. ALBERT F. HONER Attested:$ . -- Veronica C. Sweeney Clerk of Board .