08/01/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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zis Property owners on W. Division Street between Olive Street andChicago St. appeared before the Board and requested that Division St. be oiled between these points, also sewer and water on said street. The Board instructed these property owners uo file a petition for sewer and water. ✓ Petition filed for a light on 525 Phillipa Street. Same placed on file. Contracts were awarded on the following improvements. Pipe sewer on Ochard Street and Kendall Avenue from Scott Street to Dunham Street to L. H. Webster.,. Pipe sewer on Donald Street from Michigan Street to Main'Street to L. H. Webster. Water connections on Jaquith Court from Chapin Street 'to Prairie Ave. to Thos. Williams. Sewer on Marine Street from Indiana Avenue to Calvert St. to Stalliss ✓ & Ackerman. Pavement on alley west of Lafayette Street from Marion Street to Navarre Street to Hoban & Roach. Estimated cost of cement sidewalk improvement on the west side of Kemble Avenue from Oliver Street to Ewing Avenue at ........ $90Q.00 RESOLUTION NO. 2. FOR TRACK SEPARATION. Resolved by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana: - That it is deemed necessary that the grade crossings of the tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company, formerly the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad Company, a steam railroad, at the intersection of said traciks'> with Michigan Street, Bronson Street, Main Street, Lafayette Street, Prairie Avenue, Scott Street and Chapin Street, all in the'City of South Bend, Indiana, be altered by elevating the said tracks at said intersections. And that the change in grade of said several intersecting streets, and the amount in feet of the clearance at each intersection between the surfaxe of each of such streets as proposed by such new grade, and the bottom of the superstructure work over the same, shall be as follows: - 1. At the intersection of Michigan Street and the tracks of said ' Railroad, the surface of said street shall be depressed six feet below the top of the highest rail of the tracks at the intersection as .now maintained;. clearance shall be sixteen (16) feet between t'ie surface of the street as fixed abovem and. the bottom of the superstructure work over said street; the grade of the approach of said street on the north shall be a uniform grade•from the south line of South Street to the north line of the superstructure over said street, and the grade of the approach on the south shall be an ascending grade of two and one-half (2--) feet to each one hundred (100) feet from the south line of the superstructure. 2. At the intersection of Bronson Street and the tracks of said Railroad, which street intersects them at the same point that Michigan Street does, the depression and the clearance shall be the same as is provided in No. One above for Michigan Street; the grade of the approaches of said street be an ascending grade of three (3) feet to each one Hundred.(100) feet each way east and 'west from the east and west lines of the superstructures over said street respectively. 3. At the intersection of Main Street and the tracks of said railroad the surface of said street shall be depressed two and six -tenths (2.6) feet below the top of the highest rail of the tracks at said intersection as now maintained; clearance shall be twelve and one-half (12-2) feet between the -surface of the -street as fixed above and the superstructure work over said street; the grade oaf the approach of said street on 'the north shall be level from the north line of the superstructure until its intersects the present street grade, and on the south the -grade shall be a uniform grade from the south line of the superstructure to the present Crade at.the north line of Bronson Street.