07/14/1920 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 7:15 P.M. H. F. Rostiser absent. Property owners on Bertrand Street from- Olive Street to aohnson Street appeared before the Board and requested that sewer be put in on Bertrand Street from Johnson Street to Olive Street. The resolution which was adopted and sat for hearing in 1919 and deferred for hearing until this year, was rescinded by the Board and a new resolution ordered prepared. This being the date set for the deferred hearing on the Sample Street Pavement improvement Contract. Property owners residing and owing property on Sample Street between Walnut and Olive Street, also Councilman, Olejniczak, and Kuss of the 6th., Ward F. C. Raff and L, G. Couter of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works present. The Board read 13th.9 1920 from the Chicago, To the Board of Public Works, South Band, Indiana. Gentlemen: - the following communication filed with the Board July South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company. South Bend, Indiana. July 12th., 1920. As requested by your Board, I beg to submit herewith my report on the extension of street railway tracks on Sample Street froze Kosciusssko Street to Olive Street. ANALYSIS OF EXTENSION OF STREET RAILWAY TRACK ON SAMPLE STREET'FROM KOSCIUSZKO STREET TO OLIVE STREET. Length of extension 2400 ft. Cost of paved track $20250 " " Add it ional passing track P500 " " Overhead line 2500 TOTAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION $26250 V on above (cost of•money) 1837.50 COST OF OPERATION FOR ONE YEAR OF ONE ADDITIONAL CAR OVER THE.NUMBER NOW IN USE.F Wages $5172.80 Cost of Maintenance of car equipment @ 3 cts . per car mile 1723.92 Cost of power @ .035 per car mile 2011,24 COST OF OPERATION $8907.96 7% interest on investment 1837.50 $10745.46 Note: No account taken of •cost oia accidents, insurance or overhead expense. Therefore the extension must produce in new business over and above what would be accommodated by the line stepping • at Kod.sdxiszks Street $10745.46 to pay for actual cost of operation. $10745.46 .-- 214909 revenue passengers per year. POPULATION The tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company are a natural barrier to prevent people 1 iv ing north of the tracks from going toward Sample Street for street car service. There would be a number of people however living north of the tracks in the vicinity of Olive Street who would undoubtedly do south on Olive to take cars. This nuber cannot be determined with any accuracy. The population between the New York Central tracks and Sample Street west of Pulaski is 350. There is no riding population south of Sample Street west of Rulaski as this is occupied by Oliver Factory Sites. There is a scattered population west of Olive Street which would be served by the extension.