09/01/1920 Board of Public Works Minutes

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W n �r�sav SantgEbtr 3st 1920 Cont This being the date set for the making of final award on type of pavement on,walnut Street from Sample Street to Indiana Avenue and awarding of contract on said 'street. Attorney A Wolf and Harry Sanders of Sanders & Egbert, Attorney Seybold, L. E. Couter and F. C. Raff of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works were present at' said meeting and discussed with the Board the advisability of award- ing contract at this time. Attorney Seybold and F: C. .off representing Oliver's stated -;to the Board that Mr. Oliver wanted the pavement put in on Walnut Street this Fall, on account of their new factory buildings going in there and they needed a pavement to get in and out to their new buildings, Attorney Wolf representing Sanders & E gbert stated that `this company did not want any pavement put in until all switch tracks necessary for their business was first put in on Walnut Street. +.he Board after careful consideration decided to defer the awarding of the contract on Walnut Street until Thursday September gth.tl920 at 9: 00 A.M. Attorney Arthur Gilliam appeared before the Board in regard to contract for the operation of auto ,buses on certain streets in the City. Same referred to the City Attorney for report. Copy of contract filedyy the Board, .. r CONTRACT. This agreement m de and entered into this day of 1920, by and between the City of South Bend, by and through its Board of Public Works, hereinafter called first party, and the South Bend Motor Bus Company a corporation duly created and organized under the Jews of the State of Indiana, hereinafter called second party, Witnesseth: That consent , .permission and authority are hereby given and granted by first party to and vested in second party, its successors and assigns, to operate its commercial vehicles, commonly known as.jitney busses, for the purpose of carrying passengers, for a period of fifty (50) years, over the follow- ing streets and routes in the City of South Bend, Indiana:- L. On South Main Street between Washington and Division Streets and on Div is ion Streets between Main and Olive Streets, 2. On South Main Street between Washington Street and Jefferson Blvd. on Jefferson Blvd. between South -Main Street and South LafayetteStreets, on South Lafayette Street between Jefferson Blvd., and West Sample Street, On West Sample Street between South Lafayette and South Franklin Streets, on South Franklin Street between West Sample Street and West Indiana Avenue; on West Indiana Avenue between South Franklin Street and South Xemble Avenue., and on South Kemble Ave. between West Indiana Ave.,, and EwingAve. 3. On Washington Str et from Main Street to Lafayette Street, on South Lafayette Street from Washington Street to Test Broadway, on West Broadway from South Lafayette Street to•South Main Street, on South Main Street frem West Broadway to Indiana,, on Indiana Ave., from South lain Street to South Leer Street on South Leer .Street from Indiana Ave. to Calvert Street and East on Calvert Street. 4. On Sample Street between Lincoln Way Eastand Chapin Street. Said second party agrees to opira.te its said vehicles over said streets and routes regularly add in accordance with a regular time schedule adequate to the convenience and necessity of the inhabitants of said City; second party further agrees not to pick up any passengers at intersections of any of said streets with the Chicago, South Bend & Northern Indiana Railway Company's tracks except at the downtown starting points; Said second party also agrees to comply with tchtprovisions and requirements of any ordinances now or hereafter in force in said rigulaxt ing such traffic. First party further g,rants.the right to second party to erect and maintain suitable signs .along said streets and routes, advertising its stops and schedules; said first party agrees not to enter into any similat contract granting a similar right to any other applicant c over ing the same streets and routes, unless such applicant first files with the Board of Public Works of said ,City a. vert if fed statement to the effect that public convenience and necessity require the granting of such second right, and which statement shall be signed by not less than five householders from each block of the street or streets for which application is made, and if that number of householders does not reside in array one boock, then said statement hh.all be signed by all householders residing on such bloke; provid ied that it such statement it filed, the granting of such contract shall rest in the