09/25/1917 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Tuesday Seember 25th.,1917. Board met in regular session at 10:00 A.M. All members present. Partial estimate allowed to the Williston Construction Company for v pa vement improvement on Howard Street from Niles Avenue to Notre Dame Avenue, which amountsto ................. .................................. .... ...$2,992.27 Mr. Eugene Miller of the American Trust Company, with Mir. Chas. Oberlein plumber contract on water taros on Eddy Street and Uishawa.ka Avenue, appeared before the Board and requested that the money held up on contract for said water taps txxkkx be released. The Board ordered that said money be released if Mr. J. W. Toyne Supt. of the Water Dept., would o. k. said taps. Grades were approved by the Board as follows:-• Rrd. alley west of Lafayette Street between lots 54 and 55 Hen.rick's and Grant's Addition and between lots 4 and 5. Alley east of Clinton Street from Sample Street to Bronson Street. Partial estimate allowed No. 2 for grade, curb and walk on Fox Street from Oak Park Addition to Miami Street, allowed H. L. Davis, Contraetof tzx for the amount of .............................................. ......................$1,271.19 01 Complaint about unsanitary condition of bi.dement of old Hill mill, located back of Greif's Saloon just off of Colfax Avenue bridge, which contsiAns filthy water. Same referred to the Health Department for investigation. The following communication received rea load placed on file, and + ermission granted. To the Board Of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana. South Bend, Ind. Sept., 24,1917. Gentlemen: - Willk your Board please extend the time of completing the High Street and Ewing Avenue sewer system to the Twentith of January, Nineteen Hundred and Eighteen year of our lord. Yours very truly, L. H. WEBSTER EXTENS ION AGREEMENT. South Bend, Indiana Sept., 25,1917. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: - he time in which to complete the improvement specified in the within contract is hereby extended by the Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana until the 20th. day of January 1917.' E . M. MORRIS • JOHN B. WEBER Board of Public Works: PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT CONTRACT. THIS AGREENT, Made and entered into this +welfth°day of September 1917 by and between Harry N. Barnes, Contractor of the County of St. Joseph and State of Indiana,. (hereinafter referred to as the " Contractor"), <�nd the City of South Bend, In the County of St. Joseph, and State of Indiana, by and through its Board of Public 'Works, (hereinafter referred to as the City"), under and by virtue of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, entitled " An Act Concerning Municipal Corporations, " approved March 6,1905, and all amendatory and supplmeneta,l acts thereto:- Witnesseth, that the contractor covenants and agrees to construct pavement, in first alley north of Washingtnn Avenue from William Street to Taylor Street, with concrete, according to the specifications, at and for the following prices.. Grading, per cu. �d. 177 cu. yd.......... at per au. yd.......... C 75 622 sq. yda. of 7 concrete, per sq. yd ...........................1.54 1 storm water inlets, each..... 4.............................. ..8.00 25 feet of 8* pipe, per lin ft..................................... .60 yb.