11/16/1915 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. Mr. A. H. Rice absent. Bdds were received, opened and read, for water connections on Leeper Avenue from Howard. Street to Angella Avenue, and on Keasey Street from Michigan Street to Carroll. Street. The same were re0erred o the Engineering Dept. for tabulation to be reported on at 7:45 P.M. this 16th. .ray of. Nov.1915*- Bids were received, opened and read for pipe sewer on Fox Street from .� St St. Joseph Street to Fellows Street. The same were referred to the City Engineer for tabulation to be reported on at 7:45 P.M. this 16th. clay of Novernber,1915. Final estimate filed by the City Engineer for Iron Pipe.fence with concrete posts on Lincoln tray East from 193.9 feet south of -Grand Trunk Western Ry. ri7,ht of way to 489.6 feet north of Grand Tunk Western Ry. as per contract with Staples & Ackerman. The Board approved the same and ordered that. it be paid out of miscellaneous Fund. Bond and contract for pipe sewer on Indiana Avenue From Michigan Street to Ruin Street signed by Staples &..Ackerman, was approved by the Board. ` Report was riled by the Pole and Wire Inspector of a complaint.of pole owned by the South Bend Home Telephone Company in the way of a building atalley north of railroad street and west of Taylor Street about 100 feet. The same was ordered to be moved out into the alley and be placed so as not to be in front of a door window cl-! driveway, Communication From Indiana & Michigan Elee. Company in regard to contract for the limiting in the Business district. The same was read and placed on file. The following communication was received from City Engineer and read and placed on file. The Honorable Board of Public Works South Bend, Indiana. Gentlemen: - Mr. Thom4s Beaning 4ncl I have made an investigation of the under -ground dis- tr ict as requested by your board. The Postal Telegraph Co. still have over -head wires on Lincoln Way Easton Chapin St., and on La Porte Ave. fhe Chicago ,South Bend & Northern Indiana Ry..Coo have apparently not done anything to place th:;ir feed wires.,telephone wires, or signal wire underground. The business district the Postal Telegraph and the Western Union have call wires crossing the main streets..These wires are .not attached to any poles but run frommone building to the other. The_Chicago,Lake Shore & South Bend Ry. have telephone wires Which are not underground. There has been nothing done on Division St. by the Grand Trunk Western or the Western Union Telegraph Co, towards placing the wires on that street underground. The three blue prints that I an submitting indicate where we found over head construction still in existance belonging to the Home Telephone Co., The Central Union , and the Indiana & Michigan Electric Co. At some of the points inhere triese companys show over head construction they have their conduits in but have not yet placed their wires in them. Respectfully submitted, FREDERICK J. ANDERSON, City Engineer. Mr. Bryan of the Indiana and Michigan Elec. Co. vd tb Mr. Roberts4 Kennedy and Mr. McWilliams of the Cutter Company appeared before the Board and presented a out d of an, iron -post. The Board agreed that this was the type of post to be used. President.