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Wednesday February 27 1924.
<br />Board%et in regular session at 7115 P. M. .All members present,
<br />City Engineer present. On accuunt df number of property owners and interested
<br />parties attending adjourned to Common Council room, City Hall, South Send,
<br />this. being; the date set for hearing on Resolution No. 4 for-othe. separation Fff
<br />grade crossings of'the Now York Central Railroad Company on the following
<br />streets in said city: Chapin Street,.Scott.Street Prairie Avenue, Lafayette
<br />Street, Main Street, Branson Street, Michigan -Street, Fellows Street, Samplt-
<br />Street, "un$ Ptreotl U%io StXrL0et! Marl#tta. ftx►ee.t.3n# High Street.
<br />Attorney Buezkowski appeared representing properly owners in the
<br />west part of the city, and objected to form of said Resdlutio that it did not
<br />p ro'ide for, elevating tracks over Arnold street and a 11 giros ings up to -Olive
<br />street,, and objected to track_ elevation funiess these were included.
<br />Among the ppropperty owners present were Stanley P Demski, Wm.
<br />Gammon and Chas. Niedbalski. Attorney Harry G. Wair appeared for the Chicaago$
<br />SOUTH Bend « Northern Indiana Railway Com any. attorney John'G. Yeagley
<br />appeared For the New York Central Railroad Company.
<br />The Board offer hearing all interested parties, r$$ceived written.
<br />remonsOmnces and eont3nued the hear ng on said resolution until Wednesday,
<br />March 12, 1924 at 9:00 A.•M.-
<br />Remonstrances were filed as follows:
<br />State of Indiana BEFORE THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
<br />SS.
<br />St. Joseph County OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND.
<br />In the matter of Resolution
<br />No. 4, pproviding for Grade
<br />Seperation at certain street REMONSTRANCE.
<br />crossings and the elevation
<br />of certain railroad tracks in
<br />the city of South Bend.
<br />Theundersigned persons interested in and affected by the
<br />Improvement providef for in Resolutian No. 41, Providing for Grade Seperation,
<br />coo hereby in their own and individual capacity, as such persons .triter-este'd in
<br />and affected by the improvement provided for by the said resolution,land as w
<br />committee acting for and in behalf of numerous other persons. simila$y interest-
<br />ed in nd of a to b the m ov ent ro ided or be ore a res lut on
<br />a :gut ortze , �o a a ,resolu _� sn - ored,�:#a�_t,�};ch�9*�.w��kee�e���x�,��s� � � �e a
<br />part hereof , of ' said'persor s enacted at a mass meeting of said persons held on
<br />;February 26th 1924-, at St. Hedwigs Hall, remonstrate against said Resolution
<br />No. 4 in its present form and pray that the aforesaid Resolution No. 4 be
<br />modified so as to provide for the.elevation of the tracks of the New York Cen-
<br />tral Railroad Company, and of 4-he Grand "'rank "esters Ashy Company over all
<br />of the street crossings over which the tracks of the'said railroad companies
<br />pass between Chapin and Olive streets inclusive.
<br />8'or grounds of remonstrance the undersigned declare that, the public
<br />necessity and convenience of the proposed improvement demand and require the -
<br />modification prayed; that the plan proposed in said R esolution No. 4 elevates
<br />s number of the existing grade crossings several feet thereby making the use of
<br />said crossings extremely dangerous to human life; that Division, Walnut and
<br />Olive streets are major arterial streets and used of necessity by large numbers of
<br />people and particularly by those who reside west of Chapin street.,
<br />Name Address
<br />Rev. A. Zubowicz 3 1 S. Scott z
<br />Marion S. Wesolowski 44 S. William St.
<br />C. H. Gramckowiak 316 N. Michigan St.
<br />P. Rosplochowski 1237 W. Division
<br />Val M. Sparazynski 218 S. Chestnut St.
<br />Alfred Lawisso 1136 W. Division St.
<br />"EXHIBIT A"
<br />The following resolution was adopted at a mass meeting' -of
<br />approximately 200 citizens and residents of the Sixth Ward representing
<br />approximately 1300 citizens and voters of the catty of South Bend, held on
<br />February 26, 1924, at St. Hedwig's Hall to the authenticity and eniuness of
<br />which the undersigned, citizens and residents of South Bend, cer ify to.as a
<br />committee appointed for said and other purposes:
<br />Resolution
<br />Whereas, the Board o F Public Works of the city of South Bend, ST.
<br />Joseph County, State of Indiana, by resolution known as Board of Public Works
<br />Resolution No, 49 Providing for Grade Seperation, proposes to adopt a certain
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