08/1905 Board of Public Works Minutes

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2G The Board met in regular session at 10 a. m. Mr. Papezynski absent. Petition filed for an electric light at the corner of Marion street and Marion Blvd. Remonstrance filed against the proposed Brick Pavement on Birdsell street from Washington street to Linden avenue. Electric Light ordered in at the intersection of N. Main street and the 2nd alley north of Navarre street. Engineer filed Assessment Rolls and Final Estimates for the following improvements, to -wit; -- Pipe Sewer on St. Louis street from Madison street to the St. Joseph River, Pipe Sewer on W. Tutt street from Prairie avenue to the end. of the Brick Sewer on Tutt street, Brick Pavement on Colfax avenue from Sycamore street to the east end of the river bridge, Grade,.Curb & Valk on Wiltwer avenue from Dayton street to alley .south of Calvert street, Walks on Florence avenue from Wilber street to Johnson street, All under Improvement resolutions Nos..2361, 273, 2421, 256 & 266 respectively. Also Water connections on Portage aven'Oe from Forest avenue to I. I. & I. R. R. Viaduct. Resolved, that notices as to the amount of assessments be published for six con- secutive days in the South Bend Daily Times and the ,South Bend D aily Tribune, coiamencing on the 24th day of August 1905, stating that this Board will give a hearing on the amount of such assessments at its office in the City Hall on the 12th day of September, 1905, at 7:15 P. M. .Resolved further, that the entire work under the above contracts be accepted and approved and the final estimate thereon allowed. Notice of: this resolution shall be published on the 24th day of August, 1905, in the South Bend Daily Times and the South Bend Daily Tribune, stating that this Board will give a hearing on the acceptance of such work at its office in the City Hall on the 12th day of September 1905, at 7:15 P. M. Communication from Indiana Railway Company. The Honorable board of Public Works, South Bend,* Indiana* r entlemen; In compliance with the request of I1r. Frank 11. Dunnahoo, Attorney for your Board, I beg to submit the general terms upon which this Company would contract with a company operating a line between Logansport and South Bend, to run its cars over the tracks and use the terminal loops and station of the Indiana Railway Company; and instating these terms I beg to say that they are .identical with the terms agrrved upon between the South Bend and Southern Michigan Railway Company, a subsidiary company of the Indiana Railway Company, and the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph Electric Railway Company of St. Joseph Michigan, with agreement and concluded after a thorough study and investigation of the conditions ogoverning such cases throughout the middle West. In order to°place. this i#atter clearly before your Honorable Board i will quote from the before mentioned contract, the paragraphs mainly applying to this case. "---The St. Joseph Company, now being called upon so to do and being satisfied that the said Railway Company(The South Bend Company ),will construct its said railway from South.Bend, Indiana to St. Joseph, Michigan, agrees that it will construct .the above described single and double railway trae �s with necessary overhead lines over the routes aboved named, and that such construction will be modern and of standard quality for the use of an Interurban Railway, which Company (The St. Joseph Company) will maintain the same at its own expense, together with the overhead line, to be operated by the trolly system.