12/31/1918 Board of Public Works Minutes

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r �'y e b 8 �Q t Board met in regular session at l0i 00 A.M. All members present. The matter of the Bissell 'Chilled Plow Works be ing set for this -time interested property ownerjs appeared 'as follows:- Atty. Vaughan representing E. H..Westervelt, Attorney Crumpacker, H. G. Christman, Mr . Austin and Mr. Gill of Pla.tz & Gill Contractors, Attorney Crumpacker started to the Baard� that he would have Mr.`- plats call and. see -Mr. W. D. Teeple Commissioner of Buildings in reSsAd to the remodeling of said building of the Bissell. Chilled Plow Works so that it will comply with the Building Code .if same can be done without taomuch expense. The Board,,ether decided to continue. this matter until W.. D. Teeple Building Commissioner would get to a with Mr. Platz� and c out inupd this matter until Tuesday Januar y 7th:,1918 at 10:00 A.M. Mr. E. -R,. Austin submitted plans for the remodeling of the Beard of Works office into a water works office. This matter deferred until Tuesday January 7th..91918 at 10: 00. A.M. • Geo. Hoffman contractor an the Miami Street Grading contract appeared before the Board and requested an exjaens ion of time on said contract. Two weeks was granted by the Board in which to complebe .contract. The following w ithdrawel of the pr epos it ion of the Beyer Floral Company for the sale of land to the City of South Bend was presented to the Board. by Vitus Jones by mail and same was read and placed on file. To the C ity of South Bend Through its Board of Pub 1 is War ks , In the year 19170 The Beyer Floral Company, under the heading " Communication and. Proposition", offered to sell Ito tha City of South Bend Through its Board of Public Works certain lands leading from Mishawaka Avenue southeasterly and past the Sample Street Biiidge and along the river at a certain price. Thereafter a Supplemental c ommunicat ion and Proposition was made to the City through its Bard of Park commissioners. The Beyer Floral Company reserved the right to withdraw its first c ommunicat ion at anytime after January ist. ,1918, and the Supplemental Communication expired at the --end of thirty days as it was not .continued .by mutual agreement. The Beyer Floral Company -now withdraws a.11 communicat ions and pro•- pos it ions relative , to the sale of said land to tb. _ ity of South Bend, B_EYER FLORAL COMPANY, BY VITUS T JONES Atty. December 2791918. y he fallowing guarantee bonds were filed and approved by the Board of Public Works, GUARANTEE BOND. •KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS, That the Williston Construction Company, as principal, .and -the London & Lancashire Guarantee & Accident Company as surety,• are -he=reby held and bound to the City of South Bend, Indiana in the sum of One Hundred and seventy Dollars ($170.00) for the payment of. which well and truly to be made, they ,j a int ly and severally bind themselves, their heirs, executors, adminstrators and assigns by these presents. - The c and it ion s of the above obl igat ions are such, that where as, the above bound The Williston Construction Company has completed the work under the contract for the paving of Harvy Street from Blaine Avenue to Allen Street in the City of South Bend, Indiana, with Texaco Lake Asphaltic concrete, under Improvement $,esolution No. 5689 adopted by the department of Public Works of the City of South Bend, on the 13th:9 day of March 1918: