05/27/1925 Board of Public Works Minutes

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cl _ Engineer signed assessment roll and final estitmaoe under improvement Resolution No, 1450 adopted and final estimate allowed. Notice of adoption of the assessment roll and of hearing upon the same waived and hearing set for jump loth, 1925at7:15P.M. .Hearings had on assessment rolls and final estimates as follows: - Pipe sewers on.Eddy Street from Division Street_toa point 145 ft. north of Division Street and Sunnymede Avenue from Eddy Street to' point 15 feet :sat of west line of let 302 Sunnymedo Addition under IMprovement Resolution_No, 1449• Grades curb and -walk sin Street in Lincoln Maner.Seoond Addition under improvement Resolution No, 1419, In the above matter no remonstrators appeared and no written remonstrance was filed. The Board therfore find that the property assessed in said roll filed ,Vay 19th., 1925-and May 20th., 1925 is benefited in the amounts as shown on said roll, and the Board Further find,•that the assessment roll filed May 19th, and 20th.s 1925 and the final estim%te°aliowed May 19th.9 and May 20th.9 1925 should be and the same are hereby in -all things ratified, confirmed and approved. ° Th following petition and agreement approved. May 27th., 1925, TO the Honorable Board of Public Works, South Bend, Indiana. The undersigned respectfully represents to your Honorable Board that they have purchased.all of the real estate lying west of College Street to the New York Central Railroad tracks between Werwinski Street on the north and Langley Avenue on the South, exceptining 33-A&ID feet off of and from the south axrl o-f the four (4) lots fronting on Langley Avenue, and that heretofore on the 15ti day of April 1925 your Honorable Board vacated the alley between Werwinski Street and hogAikgy Avenue -from College Street to such New York Central Railroad tracks. The undersigned would show that they have purchased said property for the purpose of carrying on a coal business, and that they_ }lave _ entered_ into.._ _ __ negotiations with a hoisting company to build and construct heists and elevators to noble them to carry coal from railroad cars and deposit it in elevators or silos, which they contemplate building on such real estate; that in order to carry out their plan it is necessary for them to construct a switch or spur track commencing 81 feet south of Langley Avenue and extending across Langley Avenue and upon said real estate up to the south line of Werwinski Street, which spur track or side track will be a total of 430 feet in lanth, all of which track and work is set out upon a blue print attached hereto and prepareg by the Engione.ering Department 'of the New York Central Railroad, and they now petition your Honorable Board for authority to extend said track across Langley Avenuf a public street in the City of South Bend,' Lentz Bros. By Otis Romine .4 1 Their Attorney, . ACREEMeNT. This agreement made and7 entered into this 27th% day of May 1925. by and between the City of South Bend, by and through its Department. of.Public Works, and Clifford M. Lantz doing business as Lentz Bros. of South Bend,' Indians;, WITNESSETH: That the- Department of Public Works of the City of South Bend' Indiana, does by this dgreement grant to Clifford M. Loniz , doing business as Lentz Bra. authority Za construct, maintain and operate an industrial or spur railroad track within the City of South Bend, over, upon and across.Longley Avenue as follows: Beginning at a poin% on the south line of Langley Avenue feet east of the present track oif,the New York Central Railroad; thence in anortheasterly direction across said.Longley Avenue approximately parallel to the present tracks of aid. New York. Central Railroad, all accord ing to the blue pf nt attached tothe petition for aid grant and as indicated t'hereae.,