05/1905 Board of Public Works Minutes

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21 The Board met in regular session at 10'A. M. All members present. Petition filed for Pipe Sewer on Oak street from Scott street to Cushing street. Referred to the Engineer for Specifications. The following communication was sent to the Indiana Railway Company. To the Indiana Railway Company: You are hereby ordered and directed within thirty (30) days from the service hereof to remove all the poles uded by you in the operation of your railway or other- wise along that part of your tracks and line beginning at the intersection of the North line of Vistula avenue, as now established, and the west line of Leer street projected across Vistula avenue to the said north line thereof, and extending to the Denslow Culvert at Springbrook Park, which culvert is in and across Vistula avenue, and all within the City of South Bend, St. Joseph County, Indiana, wherever the same (said poles) are within the road way proper or on the north curb line of said Vistula avenue as established, and shown by the plans, specifications and profile of the Vistula avenue Brick_ Pavement.Improvement approved and adopted by the Board of Public Works of said City oid the 29th day of March, 1905, and now on file in the City Civil Engineers office in said City, and also as shown and established by the stakes set by said Engineer, to which plans, specifications, profile and stakes you are hereby referred for more specific descriptions and indentification. You are further ordered and directed to place all poles. owned, used or to be used by you within the limits described North -of, and adjacent or near, to the said c,qrb line heretofore particularly indentified. On your failure to comply with the requirements of this notice and order, the City of South Bend, Indiana, will take such steps to enforce compliance with same as the law in such cases provides. Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend,Ind Adopted May 19th, 1905. By, W. A. McInerny, Pres. To James McWeeney, Superintendent of Police of the City of South Bend, Indiana.. You are hereby commanded to serve the foregoing and within notices upon the Indiana Railway Company by reading and leaving a copy.thereof, and make due return. Board of Public Works of the City of South Bend, Indiana, By W. A. McInerny, President. The following communication sent to the Postal -Telegraph -Cable Company. To the Postal -Telegraph -Cable Company - (Same as above Communication sent to the Indiana Railivay Company) President.