01/23/1924 Board of Public Works Minutes

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i N ` Wednesday January 23rd. Continued,,z they intersect the present street rades of Miami Street. The grade if Brook Street which intersects Miami Street on t e'west side,shall be changed. so a as to conform to the grade of Miami Street and then descend at the rate of eight (8) feet to each one hundred (100) feet until it intersects the present grade of Brook Street., (26) Tke grade of MARINE STREET where the sAqie V terseots the tracks of said .railroad shall be raiseddthres and three tenths (3 10) feet above the top, -of ;uke highest rail of said tracks as now maintained, and the tracks of said company across said street shall be raised to conform to the grade of said street when changed as provided. hereinn. (27). The tracks of the GRAND TRUINK WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY 'aad the NEW_YORK CENTRAL RAILRAOD COMPANY V the point where they cross just east of Arnold Street -shall be raised six and one half (6-2) feet above the top of,tke rails of the crossing frogs as now maintained at said crossing; and the tracks of said rsilways shall be raised to confort to the grade of said crossing point when changed as provided herein. (28} The grade of DIVISION STREET SHALL be changed, beginnfrrg-at a point one hundred (100) feet east -of the east line of Pine Street And 1##eh ascend-in� seven tenths (0.7) of,a foot in each one hundred (100.) feet to the. west lime o Laurel S-treet, at which pdin the raise in the grade of Laurel Street shall not exceed. tree and ,four tenths NO feet above _the present grade of the Tracks of the Grand Trunk`Weste.+n Railway Company. The grade of'Div sion Street, from the last abve mentioned point, shall be a descending grade of. five (5) feet in each one hundred (100) feel,, unti.l-it intersects the present grade of Division; Street west of Laurel Street; and tke grade of Laurel Street shall be changed so as to conform to the grade of Division Street,•and on each side of Division Street shall be descending grades of five (5) feet to eiex one hundred (100) feet, until* they intersect the present street grades of Laurel Street. The grAde of Pine Street Which intersects Division Street and the tracks of the Grand Trunk Wwstorn Railway �o*pany, shall be ckanged so as to conform to the grade of Division Street As herein established, and shall deso*nd from each side thereof at the rate of five (5)_feet in each one hundred (ka0 feet, until it intersects the present grade of Pine Street. (29) That the tracks of the different railroads herein referred to squall be raised so as to conform to the different street grades as herein fixed. (30) That all streets over wlkieh the tracks 6 the New York Central Railroad Company are required by this resolution to be raised or elevatedip shall have the full amount of the clearance as provided for in this resolution for'each of said streets for the full width beneath the superstructure, and that at all points where there is a change in the direction of street grades as fixed above suitable allowana*s shall be made for vertical curves. (31) And the tracks of the TERRE Haute and Lggqnsport Railroad Company, Oliver. Chilled Plow Compiny and Studebaker Corporation, whose tracks intersector connect with the tracks of the New York Central Railroad Company, if said companies o r any of them, shall desire to keep and maintain said connections, shall be raised so as to conform to the grades of said New York Central Railroad Compj-ny as herein established and make proper connections with same. (3 ) That the said improvement shall be made and paid for accordin to the method and manner provided for iri an act of the General Psembly of Indiana of 1923, Pago 110, or any other law applicable thereto. That the Chieago.South Bend and Northern Indiana Railway Company, which maintains street car tracks at Chapin Street and Mixhigan Street, where tie same intersect %kzxtazakaxa2 said RAi'lroad Company be and is hereby.ordered to re- construct its tracks according to the grades herein provided for. All other resolutions heretofore adopted by the Board of Public Works for the separation of tracks frmm the grades of any streets be and are hereby rescinded. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED That notice of the t-and place for public consideration of this resolution be given in the manner provided by law.. Notice of this resolution shall be published on the .......day of ............ and one the .......day of........t9....in the South Bend Daily- Tribune and the South Bend News Times. Adopted this 23rd day of January, 1924_ BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS L. P. Hard yghter Attested Albert F. Honer Veronica C. Sweeney Clerk of Board.