08/01/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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zip ki 4. At the intersection of Lafayette Street and the tracks of said Railroad, the surface of said street shall be depressed two and one tenth (2.1) f6et below the top of the highest rail of the tracks at said intersection as now maintaind clearance shall be.twelve -,nd one half(l*) feet between the surface of the streets s as fixed above and the superstructure work over said street; the grade of the approach of said street north from the north line of the superstructure shall be a straight line until it interoects the present grade at the south line of South Street, and the grade of the approach s outh fr om the s outh line of the superstructure shall be .a straight line until it intersects the present grade at Bronson Street. 5. At the intersection of Prairie Avenue and the tracks of said Railroad the surface of said street shall be depressed two and one half(2-2) feet below the top of the highest rail of the tracks at said intersection as now maintained; clearance shall be twelve and one-half (122) feet between the surface of the street as f axed above and the superstructure work over said street; the grade of the approach of said street on the north shall be a straight line from the north line of the. super-- strucutre until it intersects the present grade at the north line of South Street; and the grade of the approach on the.,south shall be an ascending grade of six -tenths (.6) of a f oot for each 100 feet from the south line of the superstructure until it inter- sects the present grade on Prairie Avenue. 6. At the intersection of Scott Street and the tracks of said Railroad the surface of said street shall be depressed two and twenty 41hree one hundredths (2.23) feet below the top of the highest rail of the tracks at said intersection as now maintained; clearance shall be twelve and one-half (12-1) feet between the surface of the street as fixed above and the superstructztire work over said street; the grade of the approach of said street on the north shall be level from the north line of the super- structure until it intersects the present grade on Scott S Street, and the grade of the approach on the south from the south line of the superstrucuture shall be a level grade until it intersectd the present grade on Scott Street., %, At the intersection of Chapin Street and the tracks of said railroad the surface of said street shall be depressed six (6) feet below the top of the highest rail of the tracks at said intersection as now maintained; c learar�- shall be ixteen f (16) feet between the surface of the street as fixed above); and the superstructure work over said street; the grade of the approach of said street on the"north shall be an ascending grade `of two and one half (2-2) feet to each one hundred (100) feet from the north line of the superstruettt�.re until it interests the present grade, and on the south the grade shall be an ascending grade -f .,— ! one half (21-) feet to each one hundred (100) feet from the south line of the superstructure until ii intersects the present grade. S. The grade of Dunn Street, which intersects Chapin Street at a point immediately north of the tracks of said railroad, shall be changed, and the grade from the east line of Chapin Street shall be an ascending grade of three (3) feet to each one hundred (100) feet until it intersects the present grade of Dunn Street. That said improvement, shall be made and paid for according tothe method and manner provided for in an Act of the General Assembly of Indiana of 1911,Page 314. That said improvement will affect the tracks of other companies, whose tracks intersect or connect with the tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company at points where the tracks of the last named c or:!oany will be changed or elevated, and that said other companies are named as follows; - Grand Trunk Western Railway Company Vandalia Railroad Company, Indiana Northern Railway Company, Oliver Chilled Plow Company, Studebbker Corporation. And it is further resolved and ordered that the 15th. day of August, 1916, at Nine (9) o'clock A.M. be fixed as the time when said Railroad Companies or other Companies, or any of them may appear and file a remonstrance as to said proposed changes of jrades , or amounts of clearance , at which time this Board will have a hearing upon this Resolution and will approve change or modify hhe same. And it is further ordered that a copy of this resolution shall be served at least ten days before the time of said hearing, upon some resident officer or agent of this f ollo*ing named companies:-