Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-04-05
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

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An ANCE-G RANTING TO THE
N Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Com
pany the right to enter upon, occupy and use
certain streets lanes and highways. and tolease
the property and franchises OF certain Dassen-
ger and street railway companies. or either. and
to construct and operate, or either, by means Of
electricity, or otherwise, passenger and street
railways, or either.
city of Pittsburg in Select and Common COun-
cils assembled and it is hereby ordained and
enacted by the authority o. the same, That
the Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction CON-
pany snail have the right, and IS hereby author
Ized TO enter upon any and all streets, lanes,
alieys or highways, or parts thereof within the
dc,s salu CITY OF Pittsburg upon which any or All OF
1ne Ioliowlng named passenger or street railway
companies, to wit: Pitts6urg and Birming-
@ lam passenger Railroad Company the
Soutnslde Passenger Railroad Com
pang and the Pittsburg and OTmS-
Dy PASSENGER Railroad Company now are or
may hereafter be constructed upon procuring
the consent Of said passenger or street railway
companies respectively and make construct,
~nlalhIaln ~ and operate thereos such motors,
caDles, electrical or other appliances and neces-
sary or convenient apparatus and mechanical
hXtures by means of an overhead electric sys-
ZEN OF otnerwise, as said traction company
snail at any time or times select and as will
provide for The traction of cars over the rail-
ways OF said companies. or any of them and.
IL SAID traction company shall determine 10 use
eleculclty as motive power. to place. erect,
lanes, alleys or highways or parts thereof on
or over which the railways of the said passen-
ger or street railway companies or any Of them.
now are OF hereafter may be constructed such
poles, posts, supports or other devices as said
traction company may from time to time select
for the support or maintenance of any over-
head or other system. and if said traction
company shall at any time determine to use
cable or other kind of power or any other means
or system for the supply or application N
power, it shall have the right to construct.
maintain, operate or use in or under or along
said streets, lanes, alleys and highways or parts
thereof. such conduits or subways and such
cables or other devices as it may select for the
application or supply OF power; and it shall az
any time or times have the right to change Itz
kind of power or system for the application or
supply of power; and the said traction company
shall also have all the rights and privileges
herein given in, on. under, over or along such
streets, lanes, alleys or highways az 1t may ira.
verse or occupy in order to connect with the
power house or houses of said company
section The said Pittsburg and Birming-
ham Traction Company shall have the right.
and consent is hereby given TO said company to
lease the property, rights and franchises of
any and all of the aforementioned passenger or
street railway companies which the said trac.
tion company may desire to operate and the
said Pittsburg and Birmingham Traction Com
pany shall have the right and is hereby au-
thorized to construct, maintain and operate, or
either, the railway of each and every of the
said companies, from which it shall secure
lease or enter into contract with for the supply
OF motive power.
Section 3-lf the said Pittsburg and Birming-
ham Traction Company shall hereafter at any
time contract with any other passenger or
street railway company or companies or other
transportation company to furnish or supply
power tor the traction or operation of cars over
the railways OF any of the said companies which
shall be constructed with the consent of Conn
CHS OF this city, the consent of the city is here
by given to such future contract or contracts,
and the said Pittsburg and Birmingham Trac-
ton Company, in order to enable it to econo-
mlcally and conveniently carry out such con-
tract or contracts as it may hereafter make IS
hereby given in, on, under, over and along the
streets lanes, alleys or highways of this city
included within the routes of any and all OF
such companies and the branches and exten-
sions thereof, and which shall be constructed
as aforesaid, all the privileges and powers given
to it in the first section or this ordinance on the
streets lanes, alleys and highways therein re-
Section 4-AIl the rights and privileges here
by given or granted are under and subject to
the terms and provisions of general ordi-
nance, entitled "A general ordinance relating
TO the entry upon, ove- or UNDER or the use
occupation of any street. lane or alley. or any
part thereof, for any purpose, by passenger or
street railway companies, or by companies op-
Grating passenger or street railways, and pro-
viding reasonable regulations pertaining there
to Tor the public convenience and safety" ap-
proved the 18th day of February, A. d. 1890,
and the rights and privileges by this ordinance
given or granted shall cease and determine
only upon the expiration of the charters of the
said passenger and street railway companies re-
spectively.
Section 5-The said Pittsburr and Birming-
ham Traction Company, in consideration Of the
rights and privileges hereby granted. shall,
within 80 days after the passage and approval
OF this ordinance, by writing executed under
its corporate seal. duly attested by the proper
officers of said company and to be filed in the
office of City Controller, bind itself that there
shall be expended in good faith, when its
tracks are relaidi and within two years from
the date Of the passage and approval Of this
ordinance, not less than twelve thousand five
hundred dollars lsl2. 500 per mile in paving
with block stone. in manner as provided in the
aforesaid general ordinance, each and every
mile of single track of any of the street rail-
way companies enumerated in section l of this
ordinance which shall be operated, or upon
which motive power shall be supplied by the said
Plttsburg and Birmingham Traction Company,
excepting, however, such portions of said
tracks as are now paved with block stone.
Section 6-The Chief of the Department Of
Public Works shall have the right to employ
and place suitable persons to supervise the
work of construction of said railroad author
lied ty this ordinance at the cost and expense
of said company and in no event shall the city
Of Pittsburg be held liable for any damage to
person or property that may occur in any man
ner or under any circumstances during the
progress of the work thereon.
Section THAT any ordinance or part of ordi-
nance conflicting with the provisions OF this
ordinance be and the same Is hereby repealed
80 far as the same affects this ordinance.
Ordained and enacted into a law in Councils
this 2ist day of March. A. d, 1890
II. p. FORD, President of Select Council.
Attest: GEO. SHEPPARD, Clerk of ,Select
Council. W. A. NAGEE. President of Com
mon Council pro. tenn. Attest: GEO. BOOTH,
Clerk of Common Council.
Mayors Office March "a 1890 Approved;
WIN. MCCALLIN. Mayor. Attest: w. II.
MCCLEARY, Mayors Clerk.
Recorded in Ordinance Book vol. T. page
355. 3lst day of March, A. ID. 1890.
SEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE-