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Board met in regular session at 7:15 P.M. All members present.
Deferred hearing had on resolution for pipe sewer on Emerick Street
from Sorin. Street to a point 100 feet northerly from —the center of Hagerty-Street,'under
Improvement'Resolution No.. 850. In the City of South Bend, Indiana.
In the above matter Attorney Walter Clements appeared before the
Board and presented agreements of the Michigan Central Ry. Company, which form was
referred to the Michigan Central Railway Company for signatures.
The Board deferred all action on said resolution until Wednesday
j April 12th., 1921 at 7:15 P.M.
I The following petition was filed by property owners on .Division
Street and who also a peared personally and objected to %he Geo. Cutter Company
fencingup a part of Division Street. The Board referred the following petition to the
City Attorney for whatever action necessary.
To the Honorable Board of Public Works,
cif .the City of South Bend, Indiana.
The_undersi�gned, citizens residing in the vicinity of the inter-
section of Division St., Bt Peter. Street and Notre Dame Street in the'City of South
Bend,. respectfully represent to your Honorable Body that the Geor a Cutter Company
has, without autority, fenced upp a part of Di�tision Street lying et
ween St. Peter Street
and Notre Dame Street, and has, denied the public access to said street.
We, therefore, respectfullyy request that you take such action as may
be necessary to cause vacation.of that part of the Street so wrongfully closed by the
said George Cutter Company. °
C. 0. Stallard 216 So. Saint Louis St. Eugene A.. Humpphreyy 226 So. St. Pter St.
E. L. Mes_sey, 609 E. Wayne St. W. R. Smith, 81� E. Wa�'ne Street.
T. J. Jennings, 318 Se. St. Louis Blvd. Bridget Doran 319 So. totre Dame Avenue.
E. L. Jennings,
CharIes L. Beckler 80b6 E. Wayne Street.
$ � Mark W. Miller, So. St. Peter St.
Wm. Swearinger, 4106 Frances St. South. Mary A. Watt 31626 N. Wayne Street.
Arthur W. Barnard Albert.A. Wilsey 724 E. Wayne Street
Geo: L. Smith 234 So. St. Peter St. Sarah E. Henry 816 E. Wayne Street.
W.°H. Gammon 812 So. St. Peter Street.
FILBD
APR. 691921.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS °
BY G. A. ELLIOTT
President.
Hearing had on resolution for Trunk sewer on Indiana Avenue from
Olive Street to Prairie Avenue, under improvement Resolution No. 853. In the City of
South Bend, Indiana.
In` the above matter property owners appeared requesting that said
sewer be tut in and Wm. Calvert, Mr. May and 'others property owners appeared and
objected o sewer being put in, and objected on a count of large amount of assessment
their land would receive. The Boardafter hearin€? all paTti6s interested deferred all
action on -,aid resolution until Wednesday April 13N., 1921 at 7:15 P.M.
Hearin had on Improvement Resolution No. 854 for the Pavement on
Sorin Street from Emerick teet to Nedde Court, under Improvement Resolution Na. 854.
In. the City of South Bend, Indiana.
In the above matter remonstrators appeared but no written remonstrance
was filed. And the Board being fully advised in the premises decides that the benefits t®
:property liable to be assessed for said improvements are equal to the estimated cost of the
same as reported by the City Civil Engineer, and thereupon takes final action on said
resolution as originally adopted and the same is hereby In all things, ratified, confirmed
and approved.
Resolved further, that notices be published on the 7th. day of April
1921 and on the 14th. day of April 1921 in the South Bend Daily Tribune a newspaper of
general circulation in said City','stat1ft°that°this Board will receive bids for the
construction of said improvements up to 16:00 A.M. April 26th., 1921 at TO:00 A.M.
The Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.
Hearing given on dondemnation resolution No. 58 for the Widening of
of Mishawaka Avenue and Nineteenth Street at Northwest corner of Nineteenth Street,
in the City of South Bend, Indiana.
In the above matter no remonstrators appeared except Attorney F. Ltl
Jellison representing Iva U. Engle and written remonstrance filed. The Board therefore
ever -rule all written remonstrances and sustain all former action taken and declare
t,r1e above described property in all things condemned and appropriated for public use and
this resolution in all things ratified, confirmed and approved
The Board further ordered that the City Engineer be instructed to
'prepare a roll of all owners or holders of propperty and of valuable Interests therein
soughtto-be taken or to be injuriously affected which list or roll shall hkso describe
the roperty beneficall affected and show the awards'of damages and assessments of
benems in the above matter. The Board; agreed to pay Iva U. Engle out of the- City
.Funds for amount due as set by appraisers; and not assess same to the territory bor* fi-
cally affected:
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wEdnesday April 6th., 1921. Continued,
The following permission was granted by the Board.
South Bend, Ind. AVr. 6,1921.
,To the Beard of Public Works
City of South Bend, Indiana.'
Gentlemen:- o
The undersigned, reppectfully request permission to close alley -14 for a distances
if-166 feet Woining the propertyy bow bei wrecked and exeavated for the New Palance
Theater Building, for the period of ninety days.
The Pusnge-building°®n°the °�t]Yey"i `beiiiwreekec� at this time and fature
excavation in the frent-and-rear°will be to the depth of 13 feet.below grade.'
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Per these°ro&sons�the alley will be unsafe for pedestrians or the passage of
vehicles during this operie .
Respectfully,
PALACE THEATER 'CORPORATION.
A. HANDELSMAN
.>, BY S. HANDELSMAN
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