08/29/1916 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. Muir. A. H. Rice absent. Bids were received, o,oened and read for pipe sewer on Miami Street from Fox Street to Ewing Avenue, also bid received for grade, curb and walk-on Ninth St. from Pleasant St. to St. Josebh River. The same were all referred to the City Engineer f or tabulation. This being the date set fzr deferred hearing on Track Separation Res - solution No. 2 for elevation of New York Central.Ry. Company tracks in this City from Chapin Street to Michigan Street. Hearing e ont inued until Tuesday September 12th. 1916 at 10: 00 A.M. The Chicago, South Bend & North ern Indiana, Railway Company was ordered to be made parties of this rroceedings, and a c apy1-of`Resolution No. 2 w�.s ordered served today giving them a ten (10) days notice. Attorny Samuel Darker appeared for the Vandalia Railroad Company and stated that said company agree uo sever their connections with the New York Central Railroad Company, but work was to continue along, until that time. The following parties appeared 'in regard to above hearing. C. D. Moon Gen. M ;r. N. Y. C. Rd. Co. Attorneys Van Fleet and Hubbell for N. Y. C. Rd. Co. Attorney Parker for Vandalia Rd. Co. Attorney C. C.rumpacker and H. M. Goings Engineer for Grand Trunk Rd. Company. H. M Wair and F. I.' Hardy for the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Ry. Company. # rZ. Reinsagen, Asst. Prin. Engineer for the New York Central Railroad Company. Geo. M. Witwer and H. D. Johnson of Studebaker Corporation. Geo. M. Witwer and H. D. Johnson representing the Studebaker Corporation appeared before the Board and presented the following communication: Honorable Board of Public Works South Bend, Indiana. Gentlemen:- We are going to erect a building at'the northeast corner of Lafayette and South Streets. We are desirous of laying a steam pipe from our office building to said property for -heating this building and would likea permit to lay it in the alley that runs north and south between Main and Lafayette Streets. It will also be necessary for us to cross South Street between Main and Lafayette. Trusting that you will grant this permit so that we can go on with this work at once, We are, GMW,MM Very truly yours, THE STUDEB'KER CORPORATION The Board granted permission for the above. BY A. R. ERSKINE, Pres. Mr. F. W. Rankert, Pesident of the Western Construction Co. requested that the said company be givdn an extension of time of Sixty (60) days on their Contract for the pavement on Michigan Street from La Salle Avenue to South St. under Improvement Resolution No. 415. The granting. of said extension held up until 7: 45 P.M. this 29th. day of August 19105 . Clerk instructed to write a letter to Geo. Hoffman Company requesting that they appeare at the Board meeting Tuesday September 5th. ,1915. at 1000 A.M. Petition for a pipe sewer on Dale Avenue from Indiana Ave. to Dubail Ave. received and read and placed on file.