08/22/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes (2)

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�2j `3 %2' Hearing given on Vacation Resolution No. 30 for the purpose of vacating Street and alleys in the Stiover-Longley Addition, In the City of South Bend, Indiana. • In the above matter no remonstrators appreard and no :written remon- strance was filed, and the Board therefore sustain all former action taken and declare the above described property in all thingd vacated and this resolution in all things ratified, confirmed and approved. Resolved further that the City Engineer be instructed to prepare a roll showing awards of damages and assessments of benefits to all parties and properties interested in the above matter. Mr. H. J. Slot contractor on contract for cleaning and deepening Me Cartney Creek appeared before the Board and stated that there was more yards of excavation in said contract for above improvement that what he bid on. City Engineer for instructed to investigate this matter. Partial estimate allowed C. H. De Frees on lst. alley West of Lafayette Street from Colfax Avenue to La Salle Avenue Asphalt Pavisment for ....... $'736.80 Partial estimate allowed C. H. De Frees for brick pavement improvement on 1st. alley west of Michigan Street from La Salle Avenue to Madison Street°and lst. alley north of La Salle Avenue between Michigan St. and Main Street for the amount of ... ..................................................$1037.00 Clerk instructed to write to the Michigan Central Ry. Company and state that the time had now -expired for the changing of the turn table on Cedar Street as per arrangement with the Board. Alsot to notify thmmto put the viaduct in safe condition over Leeper Avenue, as since the constrpction of sidewalks under the same said openings are very dangerous. This work to be dome at once. Clerk instructed to send bill for the amount of Twenty Two ($22.00$ to Stephenson Underwear Mills for theeost of putting vacation Resolution No. 29 through for printing, advertising and miscell, neous ex)ense. City Engineer peesented to the Board,report of inspectors on Asbhaltic Concrete work on Indiana Avenue. Same read and placed on. file. Communication received from Deahl & Hammerschmidt attorneys for Mrs. Adele Bickford in regard to water taps on Michigan Street. The same was read and placed on file. Petition for pavement nn first alley west of..Michigan Street between Madison Streeu and Marion Street was received by the Board read and placed on file. Petition filed.with the Board for the opening of William Street from Colfax Avenue duo north to Michigan Avenue; also to open a street from Marion Street north to the intersection or point of intersection of Navarre Street and Portage Avenue. Same placed on file no action taken. Communication received from Dr. Charles Bosenbury, Secy. of the Health Board in regard to insanitary condition of sewer at the south end og Leeper Bridge. The same was read and placed on file. The Street Commissioner has been instructed to lower this sewer outlet. The following communication was received, read and plp-ced on file. To the Board of Public Works, of the City of South Bend , Indiana:- - As President of the Indiana Northern Railway and of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, I respectfully remonstrate against the adoption. v of the plan now before your• honrrable body for track elevation in this eitym so far as it affects the copporat:ions above named. The plan, if carried out as indicated, will damage .our property at and near Chapin Street, will effectually cut off oureonnections with the New York Central Railroad and the Grand Trunk Railway, cause a loss generally to out business that I do not consider warranted by the necessities of the case. J . D. OLTVER PRESIDENT.