02/20/1923 Board of Public Works Minutes

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r Board met in regular session at 9100 A. M. All members present. Mayor E. F. Seebirt present. Mr. Wm. Fury appeared before the Board and presented written petition from property owners requesting a Trunk sewer in the District lying between Keller Street and Vassar Avenue west of Portage Avenue. Same read -and resolution ordered. Petitions filed and resolutions ordered on the following: - Grade, curb and walk on California Avenue from the west line of Lawndale Avenue to the west line of Sancome Avenue. Grade, 'curb and walk on Sancome Avenue from thenor.th line of Ilan wren Street to the south line of California Avenue. Pipe sewer on California Avenue from the west line'of Lawndale Avenue Sxamx to the Sancome Avenue. Pipe sewer on Sancome Avenue from the north line of Van Buren Stree to California Avenue.. . Pipe sewer on Monroe Street from Olive Street to Kaley Street. Charles Calvert; ,end RMr. °English of the Indiana & Michigan Elea. Company appeared before the Board in regard to River Park lights. The Board hereby ordered that the following lights be placed. in River Park. 33-200 C. P. lights on iron posts staggered on Mishawaka Avenue in River Park and 27-400'C. P. lights on other streets in River Park as shown on blueprint in the City Engineer's office and one 100 C. P, light at Ernsperger Street brid a h`. y ' The following bod of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company eceived read and placed on file and the Clerk instructed -to -notify said compa .ny that arrangements had been made to install -electric lights in River Park and that they will therefore remove their equipment at the expiration of their contract. Chicago, I11. February 13,1923. w Board of Publia Works, LL South Bend, Indiana. • A gentlemen: -- In answer' 'to your request of February 2nd. for a bid for gas street lighting in River Park for one year from April 30th., 1923 to April 3091925, we will furnish all the necessary globes, domes and mantles for the sixty four. (64) Welsbach tamps now in use on the streets of River Park Wu tolfurnish the labor to light, extinguish and maintain thesame, for the sum of $23.00 per lamp per year. Trusting the above will meet with your favorable consider&ldnn. Yours respectfully* ,FILED WELSBACH STREET LIGHTING CO. OF FEB. 20,1923. AMERICA. BO,A 2D OF PUBLIC WORKS W. S. GREAR BY L. B. SLAUGHTER Dist. Supt. President.. Board ordered that the salary of John Vernon Street Foreman be increased to $130.00 per month and John Doran Clerk in the Building Department be increased to $150.00 per month from February 1st., 1923. IN"r Grade allowed on Pokagon Street Irtween Teeumsh Street and Grade allowed on Otsego Street between N. W. Corner of Pokagon Street and S. E. Cor. Angella Aveme. Angella Avenue from Lafayette Street to W. Line of alley East of Otsego Streeton south side. Estimated cost of Pipe sewer on Oak Park Court filed at .$29024.