10/26/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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794 Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. Atty. Orie Parker appeared before the Board and filed a remonstrance as- follows: - TO THE HONORABT,E BOARD OF PUBLT C WORKS. ✓ We. the undersigned citizens, residents and property owners of the City of South Bendm Indiana, hereby protest and remonstrate to your Honorable Board and say; That we reside in the vicinity of the Franklin School Building on the comer of East Sam ple and South Clinton Streets in said City; that said City by its Board of', Public Works has heretofore and is now allowing and permitting the use of a portion of said South Clinton Street a public highway opposite the said School property as a, playground for the pupils of said school. That said street is used each school day for a period of one hour during the forenoon and for a period of about one hour at noon as a school playground, and for this purpose a strip of about two hundred feet of said street is roped off by tw ropes running across the entire traveled public highway, to the entire exclusion of all vehicles and travel for all purposes. That by reson of said closing of said street at said times all traffiQ is suspended from Bronson Street to . Sample Street on Clinton Street and all vehicles are compelled to go out of thie rway a distance of four or five ordinary city blocks. That the residents are Prevented from receiving legitimate and usual service from merchant delivers and are deprived from the use of said street, for their own approach to their houses by vehicle , *T.d aredeprived of the usual and efficent fire protection to their homes and property._ That residents immediately oppiste the school are annoyed Rnd greatly disturbed. in the peace and quiet enjoyment of their properties; all to the, great damag e. and in jur3t of the said properttes. The undersigned furtfler show that- they in a sufficient ground about the school building that belongs to the City for use as a playground. Therefore the undersigned p •-otest and-regxest the Honorable -Board to keep and maintain said street as an open public hi f-�tway throughout the entire day. Signed and dated October 25th.11915. Owner of property JOSEPH GRUEGER 704 East Sample Street. �► " Fred Raush, 729 Clinton Street. * " H. E. Klingelsmith, 959 Clinton Street. " Stephen L. Ashton9923 Clinton St. " Chas. L. Reinoehl, 869 So. Clinton St. " H. H iiiffbauer, 626 E. Sample Street. Dr. Montgomery appeared before the Board in regard to haVing a proper drain installed on Erns3erger Street Mere said street is being improved. The Ciy 61 Engineer was instructed to take said matter up -with -County Engineer. Atty. Dinnen appeared before the Board representing the South Bend Home Telephone Company in the absence of Mr. E. C. Daicey, Mgr. of said company,. and dis- cussed the laying of underground cuntbz.it. The Board informed tepresex tatives of said company that the work would have to be done in accordance t1th the City Ordinance. Bond and contract for Bituninous and Glutrin Bound Madadam pavement on Leeper Avenue from Howard Street to Angella Avenue signed by H. N. Barnes as principal and London Lancashire Indemnity Company of America was approved by the Board. Permission granted the Central Union Telephone Company to set two 25 ✓ foot poles on west side of alley between Main and Michigan Streets no-th of Eckman Street, also to notify said company to stencil all of their poles now standing in south Bend according to City Ordinance. Petition filed for a street light at or near the alley at the beginning ✓ of the 1100 block W. Colfax Avenue Petition for a street light on North Walnut Street between LaPorte ,/ Avenue and Linden Street. Same, placed on file.