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Board t in: regular session ai, 9:00 A.M. All members present.
<br />Atty, Crumpacker appeared .befee'°the Board in regard to Petition
<br />of-P. C. C. & ST. L. Ry. Co pany.tPeti-lion with blue print attached approved and
<br />resolution to be prepared and, submitted- to the Board.
<br />South Bend, Indiana►.
<br />May 23:1924 0
<br />TO TR HONORABLE BOARD` OF P LIC WORKS r„
<br />OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND;
<br />The Pittsburrho
<br />, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Coin sky
<br />respectfully petitions andews to your Honorable body that it and the New York
<br />Central Railroad Company, New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois Railroad Companyt
<br />the Michigan Central Railro Company, and the Indiana -Northern Railway Company,
<br />own and operatea,racks, cross-overs and switch tracks, and Bonne ctions, that .are
<br />1-ocsted- between- -the-.groueids of the Studebaker: Corporation and the first alley west
<br />of Catalpa St,reetp as shown on the:blue print map hereto attached, marked Exhibit
<br />A. and made a part hereof; that it:is desired',to make changes in the cross -oven and
<br />connecting tracks for the better operation -of -the yards of said railways and for
<br />the purpose of increasing the faeilities-of the Studebaker Corporation, all as
<br />shown and indicated on said blue print, map marked Exhibit A;. that a part of said
<br />changes will take place as shown on said Exhibit A, where said track crosses Kendall
<br />Street, Chapin Street and Catalpa Street; that the changes which it is desired to
<br />make in said tracks are shown on -,said blue print, as well as the additions that
<br />will be necessary in order to carry out said proposed improvement in facilities.
<br />-WHEREFORE this petitioner asks that permission be granted to
<br />make said alterations and necessary additions as indicated and shown on said blue
<br />print.map marked Exhibit A.
<br />Tf3 PITTSBURGH, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO
<br />ST. LOUIS RAILROAD COMPANY,
<br />APPROVED
<br />MAY 2791924• BY PARKERF CRABILL CRUMPACKER
<br />BOArd of public works & MAY Its Attorneys.
<br />BY L. B. SLAUGHTER
<br />President.
<br />Atty. Wm. Crabill appeared for the Grand Trunk Ry. Company in.
<br />re petition of the Grand Trunk Ry. Company for sidbtack for H. G. Christman:
<br />Company. Resolution approved as follows'-'-
<br />R E S O L U T I O N.
<br />Be It Resolved, By the Board of Public Works of the City of South
<br />Bend, Indiana, that the petition of the Grand Trunk Western Railway Company for
<br />permission to construct an industrial sidetrack acro s Francis Street in said City,
<br />immediately north of its present west bound main track, be granted subject to.the
<br />following terms and conditions:..
<br />(1). That said industrial sidetrack shall be constructed;.whoply
<br />upon the. land of the petitioner, Grand Trunk Western Railway Company.
<br />(2). That said industrial sidetrack shall be constructed an main-
<br />tainod according to the terms and subject to all the conditions of they';fra c-bise
<br />granted to the Penninsular RailRoad Company of Indiana, prsdeaessors of said
<br />rand Trunk Western Railway Company, embodied in Ordinance No. 62 of the Common
<br />Council of the City of South Bend, passed March 2nd.9 1868, and all ordinances
<br />supplementary to and amendatory thereof.
<br />(3) That said industrial sidetrack shall be so construpted.;as to
<br />cause the least obstruction possible to the passage of persons and vehicles, and
<br />shall be always maintained in a condition on which shall be safe and convenient
<br />for such passage; said railway Company shah construct ell necessary drains'and
<br />culverts to permit free passage of water; shall plank between the rails and for
<br />a distance of six feet on each side thereof to the full width of the xtreet-, and if,
<br />and when, required, will plank between the rails on the line of the sidewalk. Upon
<br />the neglect or refusal of said Grand Trunk Western Railway Company to comply
<br />with any or all of the foregoing requirements whencalledupon to do so, the Common
<br />Council of said City of South Bend, or the Board of Public Works,may order the
<br />sane to be done by the Street Commissioner of said City, and the cost thereof, with
<br />20t penalty added thereto, shall be }paid to the City by saud Railway Company.
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