01/23/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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Board met in regular session at 9:00 A.M. All members present. Petition filed for pavement on Miner Street including inter - 'section of St. Peter Street. same placed on file to be held up until St. Peter Street is ordered paved. a The folldwi�ng assignment of the Williston Construction Company was approved by the Board; South Bend, Indiana., } January 22nd.1923. 1 In consideration of the payment by the City of South Bernd 'to, ths undersigned, the Williston Construction Company, of the sum of Three Thousand four hundred twenty-four Dollars and two cents ($3,#24.02) the undersigned Williston Construction Company, hereby sells and assigns to the City of South Berl Bend, all rights, liens and claims of every kind and character that they may have against the Chicago, hake Shore and South Bend Railway Company, arising out of or in any way connected with the improvement of La Salle Avenue in said 'City between the West line of River-Brtdge and the West line cf'Main Street, under Improvement Resolution No. 1002 of the Board of Public Works of said City, it being the intention by this assignment that whereas a controversy exists between the City of South Bend and the said Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway Company as to the liability of said Railway Company for any part of the cost of said improvement, and the City of South Bend having obligated itself to pay to the Williston Construction Company the amount Blue and assessed. against .the said Chicago, Lake Shore and South Bend Railway Company, the said City is now by this assignment substituted to all rights of the said Williston Construction Company and entitled to all rights that they -may have against the said Railway Company for the cost of aaid improvement. APPROVED WILLIST09 CONSTRUCTION COMPANY BY E. A. COATES, .JAN. 23,1923. Pres. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS BY L. B. SLAUGHTER President. Communication received from C. M. Baker, Gen. Supt of the Postal Teleg. Co. acknowledging receipt of notice to remove poles off of Lincoln Way East and place wires underground. Same readrand placed on file. Communication received from J. M. Peterson requesting Boulevard lights on Cottage Grove Avenue. Same read and placed on file and Clerk instruo. ted to notify Mr. Peterson ,that boulevard lights may be installed where the residents pay the difference in cost over the regular lighting system. This has been elope in many sections in the City. The lighting appropriatin is scarely sufficient to care for necessary lights without oranamental additions, It is the policy of the Board of Works not to install boulevard lights in residence districts, Excavation bend for the sum of $1,000.00 of Claude Holden approved. Petitions received and placed on file for consideration after February lst., 1923. Macadam pavement on Tenti Avenue from Lafayette Street to Iroquois Street. Pavement on Ohio Street from Carroll Street to High Street. Petition for sewer on Marine Street frft Calvert Street to Bowman Street. Resolution ordered. Representative of the Sinclair Refining Company appeared before the Board and took up the matter of rounding off cornerof Prairie Avenue and Dubail Avenue. This matter referred to the City Engineer.