11/11/1919 Board of Public Works Minutes

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287 . • ` 18card 'met in reg4lar sess ion at 10: 00 A.M.. A11 members present. Mr. Eli .Krou appeared before ;the Board and presented plat of Krou and Whittiore "s Suva Div'is ion, tot South Bend,' lime referred to; the Engineer ' for .report to, be submitted Wedrtesday�Noveniber 12 the` 1919. at 7; i5 P.M, ,. r - T 7` Permit -granted to Thomas WillAams to out into©Wengor and Carroll Street pave'met to repair defective 'sewer tap; fir. ; A. W. White of the White ,Construction. Company met with the Board and the matter of finishing up pavements and the f ilingoof assessments Tolls was discussed, the Board ordered Joseph Burke Street Foreman to light and take care of gas lights *in *iver Park during illness f Gilmore Nifeng, Said work to be started at 6:00 P.M. turned off at 12:00 ocleek a per contract and said Joseph Burke to be -pa1d at rate of indpeotdr. The Board instructed the Clerk to notify;the C4tg Controller to release the money' held up on'Portage Avenue pavement improvement. Partial estimate allowed' the Williston Construction Company on Californig) Avenue from Blaine Avenue to Ports.g ' A 'venue at.. 7,294.04 Complaint received about pole i3i the way of garage at 119 South Scott Street and the Board ordered that the.South Bend Home tel. Company be notified . c� 4 '� to remove this, pole entirely as thare is another elephone , poia`" ith-in 30 Peet of this pole and place the wires on the other pole. Complaint'about a pole near the center of Columbia Street at the f irst all y south -of Broadway at rear of New . Broadway Church,, this is an I. & M. Pale xxdx No. - 6859 and should tie set to the west side of Columbi a Street about 6 feet. The following communication received from, Irvin.. Chief Engineer of the Grand Trunk 4ailway System. Same reaa and placed on file. Detroit, Mich. Nov. 3,1919• Deartment of Public .Works, South Bend, Indiana. �antlemen.: Attention:- Mr. H.4 F. rust iser I have your communication of October 31st., concerning crossings at Saint Joseph, Arnold, Walnut and Harris Streets, your City, also the headings and approaches to the new crossings installdd at Scott Street, taylor Street, William and Prankliffi Streets. I have instructed our Div is are attended to at once; if al all possible, the in forces to 'see that these mseters ,tter to receive prompt attention. yours truly, T. T. TRV ING Chief Eng inepr.