Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1895-04-04

A N ORDINANCE to authorize the Halle
~ ton and North Side Electric Railway
Company, of Hazleton, Luzerne county, Penn,
sylvania, to lay tracks and operate its road
upon certain streets within the borough of
Freeland, Iuzerne county, Pennsylvania.
BE it ordained and enacted by the burgess
and town council of the borough of Freeland,
in council met, and it is hereby enacted by au-
thOrity of the same.
Section |. That the HaZletOn and North
Side Electric Railway Company be and is
hereby authorized to lay and construct its
tracks with the necessary switches. turnouts
and crOssovers, and operate the same over and
upon the following streets of said borough:
On Centre street from the south end of the
borough line to Walnut street, along Walnut
street eastwardly to the borough line, and on
Front street, South street, Pine street, Main
street and Johnson street. The tracks shall
be laid in the centre of the street, excepting
so much of the streets named MS shall by
the borough authorities be deemed necessary
for turnouts. The kind of rail to be stand
ard rail, not less than sixty 800 pounds to the
yard, the top of said rail to be laid even with
the grade of said Streets us given by the bor-
Ough authorities.
Sec. 2. The said Hazleton and North Side
Electric Railway Company shall keen their
tracks in good condition so that the same can
be crossed with safety to persons and vehicles,
and shall macadamize the inside of tracks,
and also twelve Q2) inches in width on the
outside on each track until such time as the said
borough council may by ordinance direct any
OF the said streets to be paved, when the said
company shall forthwith conform to the kind
OF paving so authorized.
Sec. 3. The said Hazleton and North Side
Electric Railway Company may erect poles
and wires to operate the said railway with
electricity, but the borough council shall be
entitled, free of charge, to use such poles for
fire and police alarm wires, provided that
such use in no wise interferes with the opera
tion of said railway.
Sec. 4. Any material excavated by said
railway company in the construction of its
railway, and not needed by said company,
shall be delivered by said railway company ut
such points us may be directed by the borough
authorities; provided that if no place be deslg-
mated, it shall be removed by the said railway
company and deposited at some place selected
and provided by said company outside the
borough limits.
Sec ). The said railway company shall run
its cars ut II rate of speed not exceeding eight
Cs) miles an hour within the borough limits.
Sec q. All poles erected for the purpose of
conveying power shall placed at proper and
suitable points along the line under the super
vision of the borough authorities.
Sec I. The borough of Freeland, by its
properly constituted officers, shall ut all times
have the right to make repairs and improve
ments to culverts and sewers under the sur
face occupied by said railway, and to open
and remove the said tracks and turnouts
whenever it shall become necessary for such
purposes, but If possible without obstructng
the running of cars of the said railway com
pany, and the said railway company shall at
all times keep clear of all distractions all
water courses crossed by said railway at the
point of such crossing.
Sec. s. In the event of fire or the alarm of
fire, that right of way must be yielded readily
and at once to the fire apparatus of said bor-
ough, and the said railway company shall not,
by the running Of its cars, interfere with the
proper use Of said apparatus during the time
of any fire.
Sec. 9. Said railway company shall be liable
for all accidents that may happen through the
negligence of said railway company in the
construction or operating of the same, and
save harmless the borough of Freeland from
all suits at law that may arise therefrom.
Sec 10. That the said railway company
shall, within thirty go days after the passage
of this ordinance, file with the borough clerk
acceptance of the provisions of this ordnance
under its corporate seal, otherwise this ordi-
nance shall be void and of no effect.
Sec. II. Whenever the said railway COM
pany shall cross any streets across which water
courses now run, they shall, if necessary, CON
struct culyerts beneath their tracks and one
QD foot on each side of such tracks, so as to
preserve regular grade, and shall at all
times sec that such culycrts are kept clear and
open and are of sufficient dimensions to allow
all surface water to pass through under such
tracks.
Sec. L. Said railway company shall run its
cars ut intervals of not more than one % hour
apart ut all times between six 90 o'clock II. IN.
and ten 40 O'Clock p. III.
Passed finally in council, February H. A. ID.
1880 Attest, Frank DePierro, president.
Thomas A, buckley, secretary.
Approved February %, 1895.
Patrick Mclaughlin. burgess.