05/28/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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It 9 71`.,.. City Civil Engineer reported as follows on complaint about condition of River bank across from Riverside Drive beteen Navarre Street and Bartlett Street. The, property on which this rubbish is being dumped is owned or con- trolled by Staples and Hildebrand. They state that the rubbish is dumped during the night without their permission, but that they ,have been . uhable to catch the offenders although they have endeavdred todo so. The Board refered this matter to the Police Department. The Board.ordered a thirty day notice sent to Martha Chapoton and Vassar Realty Company, owners of property known as lot 34 O,P. South Bend located at 116 So. Main Street , to repair or construct new cement sidewalk. The following notice was ordered sent to Dr. C. U. Eisenbeids in -regard removal of carolina poplar trees. South Bend, Ind., May 29th., 1918. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS.. Dr. C. Eisenbe iss, 1134_Portage Avenue. South Bend, Indiana. ' You are hereby notified to remove Carolina Poplar trees in front of your property at 127 E. Broadway Lot No. 20 Haney Addition and at S.W. cor. of Broadway and Witwer Ave in the City of South Bend, Indiana, as provided in Ordinance No. 1729 adopted by trhe Common Council of this City on the 25th. day of May 1914, providing for the removal and destruction of willow and carolina poplar trees in the streets of said City wherein there is now, or shall hereafter be, a sewer. If, same arc not removed by June 10th.,1918m, hhe above mentioned Ordinance will b,3' enforced. CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA by its BOARD OF PUBLIC STORKS. G. A. ELLIOTT H. F. ROSTISER Attest: - \ JOHN F. -DEHAVEN. Veronica C. Sweeney. Clerk of Board. • The following communication received from L. H. Webster. T.4a7 27th. ,1918. Board of Public Works of City of South Bend, Indiana. Gentlemen:- Will you please extend the time on the High Street and Ewing Avenue, sewer system from the first of June 1918 to the first of August • 1918. I have near two thousand feet to do of the fourteen thsaoudd feet to do yet add cannot get tenought men to finish it as soon as I have wanted to do the work, it being so far from town. 'Very truly yours, L. H. WEBSTER The Board Granted an extension of time until July lst, ,1918 providing contractors cleans and removes sand from Ewing Avenue immediately, ° Pole and wire inspector reported on complaint about pole which sawys out intothe street at 667 La Porte Avenue. This is a 13ostal Telegraph Co. pole and <it is entirely rotted off at the ground and the wires is all that hold the pole up, This pole Is dangerous and should be reset at once, Notice order sent to said company,