08/08/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

Home Browse Search

521, Wednesday August 8th,, 1923. Continued. Concerning the improvement of the readway of alley south of Thomas Street from Chapin"Street to Laurel Street with asphalt, asnh€rltie concrete, bitulithie, concrete or brick, in pursuance to Resolution W,, 1:224, this being the date set for the making ofthe preliminary order designating the kind of pavment, the Board at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday August 'nth., 1923 publicly opened read and considered all bids and then continued their -meeting to Wednesday Ata.gus14 Bth., '1923 at 7:15 PLM. Now on:las'V named date the Board designated Concrete as the kind of pavement with which said street is to be improved with and fixes the 29th. day of August 193 at 10:00 A.M. as the time when petitions for cha Bing the kind of pavement must be filed, and the Board hereby continues this matter until the 21st. day of August 1923 at 10:00 A.M. On the day above named the Board will either pass on petitions let said contract or reject, all bids. L. B. SLAUGHTER .: BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKSL., PHARI1Y :. AhBERT F. HONER Attested: Veronica C. Sweeney Clerk of Board. Dated this Aug. 8th., 1923. Petition presented by Attorney Crumpacker for the Pittsburg Cincinnati Chicago & St. Louis R. R. Co, requesting permission to relocate switch tracks on Ewing Avenue. Sbdd-4petition with blue print appgove,d in consideration that the crossing he .pneperly..planksrd and maintained. South Bend, Indiana. August, 8th. , 1923. HONORABLE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND: -- The Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad Company respectfully -shows and represents that it is successor to the r;hts and interests of the Terre Haute and Logansport Railway Company, and now has installed and in operation two tracks A,hat cross Ewing Avenue in the City of South Bend, one of which is a switch track ; that the present switch track is located as shown on the Bleu print msp hereto attached, marked Exhibit "A", and made a part of this petition and is shown by dotted white line; that said-swit•eh track joins the main track a few feet south of the South line of Ewing Avenue and then spreads to the West of the main track across Ewing Avenue; thence it is desired to move the South end of said switch track West and locate the same pa.rRIlel with the main track as shown on said Blue print map by a line marked in yellow; that sueh moving of the switch track will not increase the numbersof tracks across Ewing Avenue. That relocation of said switch track as shown on the Blue print will greatly facilitate the switching of ears and that it will not require the use of the main track to the extend now necessary and will in this manner also be a benefit to the dafety of the traffic on the main line, WHEREFORE, this petitioner respee.tfully askes that it be permitted to move said switch track as shown on said Blue Print. APPROVED AUG. 8,1923. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS BY L. B. SLAUGHTER President, PITTSBURG, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, & ST. LOUIS R. R. CO. BY ANDERSON, PARKER, CRABILL & CRUMPACKER. Attorneys for Petitioner.