The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-18
ALLCLAIM HEAVY DAMAGES
PROPOSED WIDENING or GRAND
 AVENUE AND ST. JOHN STREET.

 Important Meeting of Board of Compensa-
 ton Last Night-Property Owners Repre-
 scented by Counsel-Another Meeting on
 same Subject Two Weeks II ence.
 The proposed widening of Grand ave- nue and St. John street, from Olive to State street, was the subject of the hearing before the board of compensa- tion last evening Besides the members of the board, Charles B. Matthewman, A. Maxcy Hitler and Charles T. Coyle, there were present Attorney E. P. Ar vine, City Treasurer Charles s. Mersick, Attorneys Roger S. Baldwin and AL fred N, Wheeler Sydney Oviatt, G. w. Cooper and J. F. Lyon.
 The meeting was held for the pur- pose of assessing the benefits and dam- ages for the proposed improvement, and the matter came up by Clerk Hitler reading the orders of the court of conl- mon council and the board of public works providing for the widening of the streets in question. The reports were to the effect that the locality had been for many years menace to life and limb and the scene of number of accidentc In view of these facts pub | lie necessity demanded that the streets be widened and thus the danger of ac- cidents materially lessened.
 1 Attorney E. P. Arvine appeared in the 1 interests of John Rogers, who owns the property located at the southeast cor her of Artisan and St. John streets and asked for continuance as he had not had an opportunity tolookinto the facts l of the case owing to the fact that he
 had only been retained in the case last
 evening The board decided to grant his request, and he will present his clients case at a meeting of the board to be held two weeks from last night. A like continuance was granted to G. w. Cooper, whose property is at the junction of Artisan, St. John streets and Grand avenue, and also to Attorney Alfred N Wheeler, who represented clients whose property is in the same
 locality. Charles s. Mersick and Sydney E.
 Oviatt, the real estate agent, were pres-
 ent in the interest of the owners of the
 property at the northeast corner of
 Artisan and St. John streets. Both
 claimed that the property they repre-
 sented was worth $36000, and that the damage by the proposed Improvements would amount to at least $20,000 They
 also claimed that the present net in
 come from the property was $1,S0O, and
 this would be practically wiped out if
 the proposed widening was made.
 Judge Simeon F. Baldwin, who owns
 the property at the corner of State and
 Grand avenue was out of the city, and
 consequently unable to be present He [ was represented by his son, Attorney 7 Roger s. Baldwin, who presented a communication from the judge to the l members of the board in which it was
 set forth that he should claim damages
 to the amount of $5OO0O to $60000, if
 the proposed widening was made. He
 also stated that he had purchased the
 property seventeen years ago, ana slnce he owned it had expended about $30, ,0',o i in improving the property. It was also } set forth that the income from the . property was about $2,600.
 I After considerable discussion it was s voted to continue the hearing for twc , weeks, at which time Judge Baldwin ,, and others will be on hand and present : their claims. After arriving at this de e cision the members of the board con- 2 sidered some routine business in execu = tive session, and will mak a report tc l. the next meeting of the court of com 1T mon council.