06/28/1922 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Wednesday June 28th., 1922. Board met in regularsession at'7:15`P.M All members present. Hearing had on gesesoment"ro11 and final estimate for pipe sewer o Rush Street from �he first alley sou'�h of Faney Avenue to a point 47 feet soutn o the center line o the. alle son oil Haney Avenue, under Improvement Resolution utt No. 92. In the City of South Ben, Indian. a In the above tier nonre onstrators'appeared and no written HIA onstra ce was sled. :The Bsa d to ire oie 4 that th� gropePrt ssesse in said fi cut 9 n� iat he assessment rots H IuAg ��* 0�922 ro a th �d�r� �'urt er 1 th. 1 22 should be ro the same are hereby confirmed an the 1n%l estimate allowe J 3 ► 9 raticfied, confirmed and approved. This beinc, the date set for an informal hearing on franchise resented by the Chica o South Bend & Northern Indiana RInlwtahisComaattner aonumberlo ing of track on Fellows St eeV From Broadway to Ewing Avenue i were presene and filed a written interested property'owners'residing on Fellows Street remonstrance against laying tracks on Fellows Street, also a number of property owners relining south of Ewing Avenue were present and presented a petition to have car line extended south of Ewing Avenue to Victoria Street, Atty. Stickland and A., B. Thielens represemilIg Citizens. Homes CoM&pny presente at said hearing and stated people living in southeasterly part of city needed street car servive, others present, were R. R. Smith, Vice President and Gen'1. Mgr, Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company, Councilman Erler and Gall. This neetin _resolved itself into a public discussion of the quest}'on whether or not street car tracks should be put in on Fellows Street, and the Board after hearing all parties interested took no action on said franchise, but defer hame until some future data. Petition filed for a light at the corner of Kemble Avenue and Donald Street. Same referred to the pole and wire inspector for investigation and report. Resolvtd ordered prepared for a pipe sewer on Columbia Street from Wenger Street to Paris Street. Partial estimate No. 1 for the grade, curb and walk on Oakside Street from Michigan Street to Fellows Street allowed to H L. Davis. & Son. Written remonstrance -filed Avenue beeatween Sorinremoving Street ndastrip South Bend of Park ground in the center of Notre Avenue. Same read and placed on file. Contract awarded to H. N. Barnes for grade, curb and valk on Eckman Street from Michigan Street to Vandalia R. R. at.....v1671.25 Contract awarded to H. N. Barnes for 5a94�1.cur and walk on �3erg�rn Street from Portage Avenue to olive Street fo�rro•.for pipe sewer on O'Brien Contract awarded to Geo. A. H p P p Street from Washington Avenue to 1st. alley south of Kenwood Avenue.for...$4207.60 City Engineer presented plans for the proposed a�&ajng of alley from W. Washington Avenue ©f.alle alley lst. alleynoTth unorthtthrough 'tosColfaxoAvenue. L. 31-32 Wtjxtngand widening y , thru. lot,ll Dubbar's Sub. of B. 0. L. 30-32. Plan of the relocation of Chapin Street and Catalpa Avenue from Bruce Street to Calvert Street. Plan of the intersectionnof Notre Dame Avenue and Sorin Street. Board advised City Engineer to have Real Estate Board appoint appraisers, on the above propositions. Concerni1mg the improvemeftt of the alley lying between Lots 3-4-5 and 6 in Mease Addition from La Porta Avenue to Lincoln Way West with asphalt* asphaltic concrete, Vitulithic., or brick in rsuancedto Resoating thetion •kind of paveme998 this nt the date set for -the making of the .,preliminaryt192 publicly s opened, read and ensidered the Board at 10:00 A.M. Tuesday June 27, 1922 at 7:15 P.M. all bids and continued this matter until Wednesday June 28th.9 Now on last named date the Board designated Concrete as the kind of avetnent with which said street is etitionspforechanginfixes thethe kind0of.pdavet June 1922 at 10:00 A.M. as the time Of when p of must be filed, and the Board hereby continues this matter tterwillieitherlpass onypetitions July ysaid contrucat 00or.Mrejectthe allabove bids.named y L. B. SLAUGHTER L. P. HARDY BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. ALBERT F. HONER Attest:- Sweeney Veronica C. Clerk of the Board. Bated this 28th..day of June 1922.