The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-04-02

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when summer comes. Referred to the !
Board of Health.
STREET CROSSING.
A petition for a stone crossing ON
Poplar at the intersection OF High
and northeast corner OF Bull Run was
referred TO the President and En-
gineer.
A petition for hydrant on the cor
ner OF Front and Keel streets was re-
ierred to Chief Cleary.
AMENDED CONTRACT AFFIRMED.
The following was read and con-
frmed:
TAX1So DisrAIcT, SHKLBY COUNTY, TKSN.,C
DAyIp HADbEN, PRxs DhNg 1000
Memphis, Tenn, March ~, lSS0.)
II is hereby agreed that the Citizens
Railway Company may lay single
track and switches in lieu of double
track, as called for in their contract,
upon the following streets, to'wit;
ON Calhoun street, from. Shelby
street to Tennessee street, laying track
on the north side of Calhoun street
turning into Tennessee street in such
manner as to come into the center OF
the street $50 feet south of Calhoun
street: thence down the center of Ten
nessee street to Georgia street; thence
down the center of Georgia street to
PENNSYLVANIA avenue; thence down
the center of Pennsylvania avenue to
Jackson street, with switches at such
places as may hereafter be agreed
upon and as may be directed by the
District Engineer.
II is agreed that the $50 feet ON
Tennessee street may be on the west
side, 81 inches from the center, as 1t
was laid out before this contract was
stoned and q change of same will in
volve much cost.
The foregoing notifications in the
original contract are based upon the
conditions named below, viz; Should
the Kansas City, Springfield and Mem
phis Railroad Company pave th'
block on Calhoun street between
Shelby and Tennessee streets, the Cltl
zens Railway Company agrees to pa.
the Taxing District for a strip l34 Ice
a wide by the length of the block Mt tn,
| cost price of first class block pavement
r Also nay the Taxing District for tn
; having Of strip on Tennessee street
Z between Calhoun and Georgia street,
Z lSIx750 feet, at the contract prlc
?, OF 81 80 per square yard.
q DAVID p. HADDEN, President.
SAN TATE, in V. r. and NJ.
THE QUESTION or OPENING STREETS.
q Resident property owners asked thu
, Jefferson street, from Manassas
!. Orleans, be opened for public us
,, This would be great public benel
), and would largely subserve the co
y yenience of petitioners and won
q make marketable a very large amou
- of property now unsaleable. ORDER
:. to be opened and graded, provide
= property is decided to the city.
~ ID. j. Sharpe, who resides on al
owns lots 80, 3s, 81, 40, Al, AZ in bio,
Q. Fort Pickering, sent in commuI
cation stating that there are no OPP.
u alleys in said block and no way oil
10 press and egress except by way oil y
IN ond street. There are three alleys, b
70 all closed, and residents suffer accoi
ID ingly. Referred 20 engineer TO car
'u out previous orders
m The following, addressed TO the he
2, orable Legislative Council OF Me
: phis, was also read:
or Your petitioners would respectl
e9 " ask the immediate attention
ho your honorable body to the proprl'
u; and advisability of opening n
e9 avenue and thoroughfare for comm
! nication between that portion OF Me
~ phis living northeast of Alabama STR
and the central part of the city.
that norton Of the Eighth Ward co
monty known as Scotland is and
been since il was settled up cOmpa
T., lively isolated, and the people NV
,e, in that quarter have been and are )
ior compelled TO travel much out o
. he direct course in order to reach
y! Market. House or any portion OF
NJ business part of the town AS c.
nc sequence, this part Of the town has
IA grown MS its otherwise desirable SIT
Ia ton would enable it to do.
70 Petitioners suggest rs reasons
-ne favor of the measure, that the OPP
", W ing of such streets as will enable
Ior people TO come more directly |
& town would greatly increase the va
" of property, and would quickly br
-, this portion of North Memphis TO
r.,ee' very front for desirable reside
Al property, thus greatly increasing
'n4 able values and adding TO the reve
o,a of the city.
ore Petitioners further show that
We. obstacles which have hereto
ogs existed in the way of this deve
q ment of the city have been rece
'yes removed. The large large bodie
sue sue land lying west OF Thornton ave
We, Eer which have heretofore been entan
vac in litigation have recently bee
uou rested and settled in the ow
. ship Of energetic and enterpri
nv citizens and petitioners are lntor
oqu that the necessary right OF way
, .ue their substantial cooperation in
ing making of the improvement propC
ioa. can be secured upon most advf
~ geous conditions.
CITY Petitioners arefurtheT informed
arly in contemplation of this very imp
'uel ment, many years ago Col. James
Al veyed TO the city strip OF gr'
lou fifty feet wide and running from
~, ket to Winchester streets, for the
HIe nose of extending Fourth street.
pau; ground was paid for by the city
ana should be utilized under the c,
Will tionso the deed. 1t has been for !
NJ wears in the possession OF naked
- passer without title.
ue- Petitioners ask that the ma
zen herein suggested be referred
Ihen proper committee for investiga
Jury and report to the next regular
ing.
II was signed by about fifty n
5tom and referred 10 the President,
Sh Is gineer and Attorney.
men lI These petitions naturally br'
oll' up the question as to the advisa
-. OF opening various other streets
iVH nropsrtv was still cheap and in