02/24/1914 Board of Public Works Minutes

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2 (3 Board met in regular seesion at 10:00 A.M. All members present. Bond and contract 9ror improvement of Parkovash Avenue from Iroquois Street to Lafayette Street, under Improvement Resolution No., 259.signed by Henry De Vos as prinicipal and United States Fidelity and Guaranty Company of Baltimore,Md. as sureties was approved by the Board. Bond wnd contract for improvement ,of Tonti Avenge from Lafayette Street to Iroquois Street by pipe sewer., under improvement Resolution No. 260, signed by Henry Fidelity and Guaranty.- Company of Baltimore, Md. De Vos as prinicipal and United States as sureties, wa-s approved by the Board. • Petition received and read for a Hose House in the vicinity of the corner of Michigan Avenue and•Johnson Street. The same was read and placed on file. The Board instructed the Clerk to sent a fire (5) days notice to Hilton Hammond, Contractor building the Public Comfort Station at the cornerofWashington Avenue and Main Street to remove the barricade and clean up the corner. Communication received from the Indiana and Michigan Electric Compa my ✓ in regard to five --light post lighting, and also blueprints showing sections of the City with locations of lamps. The same were read and placed on file. Bids on Various Streets were before the Board. and the same were ✓ re ;e cted. Petition for aa: street light at the end. -,of Prairie Avenue,called the / Chapin St. car lines was filed with the Board, and the same was read and referred to the Street Commissioner, for investigation:. Petition filed with the Board for a grade on Portage Avenue from North line of Morris Park Addition to North City Limits, The same was read and referred to the City Civil Engineer for investigation. Petition filed with the Board for a street light on E. Bowman Street at the intersection of High Street. The same was read and referred to the Street Commissioner for investigaton. The Board ordered the Clerk to notify the Grand Trunk Western Ry. Company,through their Attorney, to remove the un—used stone piers now standing under their present bridge, to include all of the stone work in their construction-) and to remove all of the surplus fill made by their company for its convenience in un— loading of material between St. Louis Street and the river according to the agreement - at the time of its con6truction. Communication received from the Oliver Chilled Plow Works,relative to J the dumping of cinders aria brick bats into the river back of the Orpheum Theatre. The same was read and paced on file.