06/06/1922 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 9:00 A.M. All members present. Permission granted to the-Wm;-H. Burke Co; to close Main Street from i3outh line of La Salle Avenue to North line of Colfax Avenue from this date for one week, proper barricades and red lights to be placed and the police and fire departments to be notified.. T D. Hi es P esid nta of th ew Jers , Indi & Illliinois R. R Company with Walter hennis , rirntendent and ' orneys, nes anTI enchain 'a pearea before the Board and took up matter of permission to cross Chapin Street and toeir strg1 into Studebakers with a side track off of their %ilroad. and filed petition as a ows:-» STATE OF INDIANA ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ) SS BEFORE THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BE®D. PETITION OF THE NEW JERSEY, INDIANA & ILLINOIS RAILROAD COMPANY FOR FRANCHISE FOR ADDITIONAL SIDE TRACKS. To the Honorable Mayor, Common Council and Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend,:Ia Your petitioner,,the New Jersey, Indians. & Illinois Railroad Company, respectfully shoves by this, its petition; 1. That said petitioner is a corporation duly organized and existing under and by virtue of the lwws of the State of Indiana for the purpose - 'of operating a steam railroad and partsiaularly organized -and existing under and by virtue of the eneral laws of the said State pertaining to the organization and erxistence of steam railroads. 2. Thar said petitioner is duly authorized to maintain and operate its present steam railroad in the City -of South Bend under and by virtue oaf Ordinance Number 1250 adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Beni., February 28th. 1904 and Ordinance Number 2100, adopted by the Common Council of the City of South Rend, July 12th., 1920. 3. Your petitioner further respectfully shows that it owns, olperates and controls a steam railroad in the said State of Indiana, and particularly' in and through St. Joseph County, in said State, and in and from the station of Pine: in said Courity in a northerly direction in and to.the City of South Bend, and i:s a common carrier of freight and passengers for hire, bo# -in state and interstate _commerce; and that its line of railroad connects with and furnishes interee3hange o°f traffic with other lines of railroad engaged in such commerce; that in order to provide accommodations necessary to accomplish the purpose for which said Company was incorparated, and in order to furnish proper and adequate public facilities in the discharge of its duties as such common carrier, and for the purpose of improvement of its road by the construction of additional yard facilities, it has become and is necessary and desirable that said petitioner construct, x�c uteopperate and maintain additional switch or yard tracks east of the west line off Prairie Avenue, immediately North of its present industrial spur track, in said City, hereinafter more specifi- cally referred to, and that said petitioner has by proper legal proceedings acquired the fee simple title to the necessary lands therefore. And petitioner says that it ftsir�s an� intpjs to sae such dditional side or Ord tracks nd th 11a d obtai ed ere ore or ra roa purposes n the storing, rec'iving, han.1 ng and de ivery o freight and passenger cars, and the loading, unloading and interchanged thereof in the discharge of petitioner's functions, and to put the same to such uses as such uard tracks and facilities are generally put in the peration of a steam railroad as a publi carrier. That the additional switch tracks above referred to will all lie between the west ine of Prairie Avenue and the East line of Kendall Street in said City of South -Bend; that Prairie Avenue will be crossed by one (1) of such additional tracks; that Catalpa Avenue will be crossed by Two (2) of said additional tracks;. the alley between Catalpa Avenue and Chapib Street will be crossed by four (4) of said additional tracks; that Chapin Street and the alley between Chapin Street and Kendall Street will be crossed by five (5) of said additional tracks, and that Kendall Street will be crossed by one (1) of said additiona tracks, that all of said additional tracks will stand upon land owned by petitioner; that the exact location of said tracks is more specifically shown by a map attached hereto and made a part of this petition. 5. That said tracks will cross at grade, the above described street and alleys; that all of said tracts will directly connect with and constitute a part of petitioners existing Industrial spur track through which it serves the Studebaker Corporation and will make interchanges with the Pennyylvania Lines; WHEREFORE this petitioner prays that it be granted ppermission to construct, maintain and operate within the City of South Bend, its said proposed additional switch or ya rd tracks. NEW JERSEY, INDIANA 8c ILLINOIS RAILROAD COMP, ONES ,;:OB NCI A_l T Attorneys. This being the date set,for the deferred hearing on plans, and estimates of the New York Central Ry. Company and other track separation matters in this City, and this hearing was deferred by the Board until July llth. 1922 at 10:00 A.M.