07/27/1920 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Bids f r sewer connections on Jefferson Blvd. from;, 121.9 feet west of Sunnys ide Avenue to Graenlawn Avenue, under Improvement Resolution No. 777. Bid of Holgan & Roach. inch pipe, per lin ft.... #too* ................. o.;o$5.30 _ Bid of Joseph A. Luther, f 5° inch pipe sewer, per lin ft.................Q ........ 5.00 All of the above bids were referred . t o the Eng in eer for tabulation to be reported on Wednesday July 28th., 1520 at 7:15 P.M. Atty. Wm. Mc Inerny appeared before the Board and filed Petition and blue print of proposed sidetrack to South Bend plattof the Indiana & Michigan Elea. Co. Which was a: -proved by the Board. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS. South.Bend, Indiana. Gentlemen: - Your' Petitioners, the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company, shows to your Honorable Board that it is a corporation orgainzed under the laws of the State of Indiana for the purpose of manufacture and d istr ibut idn-tof electricity for heat, light and power for the use of the City of South Bend and the citizens thereof; that it operates aid maintains a°plant for the manufacture of such electrical energy on the corn r of Bridge and Colfac Avenue in said City; that electricity at said plant is gene4ated by means of steam; that for the purpose of conveying coal and other supplies -to said plant, petitioner has heretofore used a, siding or switch track leading from the Michigan Central Railway Company's r ightef-way through what is known as the Old Singer Plant and Crossing Mad is on Street a short distance crest of Em-rick Srreet in said City of South Bend, that the use of said track has been in conjunction with numberous other companies and institutions and that the common enjyyment of said switch track has been do invonvenience to all of the said users, and at times has seriously threatened the supply of cal of your petitioner at its said plant; that the require- ments of said plant are in excess of twelve cars of coal daily arjjd the, storage capacity of said plant is somewhat limited; thdt to safequard the continuous ,operation of said lectric ial plant and to give it satisfactory access to the right-of-way of said Michigan Central Railway Company,• pet it'ioners has atcons iderable expense acquired a right-of-way over private pro erty to permit a s id ing which will intersect the existing s iding leading to petitioner's Plant at a point north of Colfax Avenue and north of the ast race, and' permit a connection with the Michigan Central Railway Company's tracks at a point just north of Mad is on Street in said City; that. it is the intention of Petitioner to immediately construct said s id4wg that In the construction of said s id ing it is necessary to cross therewith public streets bf the City og South Bend, to= -wit:.. Emerick Street, at a point on the easterly line thereof and near the north line of Madison Street; thenee southwesterly across said Emerick Street and Madison Street and passing put of said Street on a private right of way to a point on the west line of Emerick Street and about thirty five (3 5) feet south of the south line of Mad is on Street in said City of South Bend. ° . . WHEREFORE > your pet it ioner � prays • that it be ° granted ' the right and p.rivi.lege to construct and maintain said track over and across said Emerick Street and Mad is on Street at said 1 ocat ioh. Very respee'tfully, INDIANA &•MICHIGAN ELECTRIC CO. Approved this 27th.2 day of July 1920. BY F. A. BRYAN BY G. A. ELLIOTT HARVEY F. ROSTISER Board of Public Works.