The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-01-27
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

viii be forfeited 10 the city.
No person is eligible as a bidder who has
within two years prior TO the letting OF
said contract made default in payment Of
any Just claim for any work or labor per-
formed, or for any skill or material fur
nished pursuant 10 any such contract as
herein advertised, or who within said TWO
years failed 10 complete any such con-
tract.
Said bids shall be made under and by
virtue of ordinance No. S,S49 and as amend-
ed by ordinance No. 8. 40. and the state law
relative TO Improvements upon the in
stallment bond plan, and the bidder shall
state whether he viii accept in payment OF
said Improvement the bonds of Local I'm
provement District No. Il5.' or wait until
the bonds to be issued for said improve
ment shall have been issued and nego-
tiated as. provided by said ordinance No.
S.349. and as amended by said ordinance No.
$40.
The board of public works reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
Proposals must be indorsed on the en-
velope: Bid for the Improvement of Caller
street"
BY order OF the Board of Public Works.
GEORGE F. MEACHAM.
Secretary.
Date OF first publication January %. 1896.
ORDINANCE NO. 4,072-An ordinance
granting unto -Bruhn Company,
Washington corporation, its successors
and assigns, the right and authority
to locate, lay down, construct maintain
and operate a railway, consisting of one
public streets. alleys anu premises IN the
city of Seattle.
Be it ordained by the city of Seattle as
follows:
Section l. That there be. and hereby is.
granted unto the F'Tye-Bruhn Company.
Washington corporation, its successors ana
assigns, the right and authority, for the
period of twenty-five years from the date
Of the taking effect of this ordinance, 10
locate, lay down, construct, MAINTAIN ana
operate a railway, consisting OF one track,
a
streets, alleys ana premises situated IN the
city of Seattle, to-wit:
A strip of land fifteen feet wide, being
seven and one-half feet wide on each side
of the following described center line: Be
ginning at a point forty-Seven one-hun-
/ dredths GAO of one foot south or ana eight
and three-tenths $50 feet west OF the
northeast corner of lot five 90. block one
%, OF Central Seattle, said distances being
measured respectively parallel and pefpen-
dicular to the west line OF the alley IN sild
block one: thence southerly, curVing TO the
westward from a tangent course bearing
three 10y degrees twenty (2W minutes 10
the eastward from the southerly course OF
the said west line OF said alley by curve
of a uniform radius or five hundred ana
seventy three and seven-tenths t5I3 . rect,
consuming an angle OF twenty-five I'D de-
greeS one "a minute, a distance or TWO
hundred and twenty and seventeen one
hundredths (220.1O feet; thence southwest
erly along a tangent course bearing elsh-
teen CS) degrees forty-one (ilD minutes TO
the westward from the southerly course or
the said west line of said alley, distance
of one hundred and twenty-eight and forty
ons-hundredthS Q2S.40) feet; thence con-
tinuing southwesterly, curyinS to the west
ward from the tangent course last &c.
scribed. by a curve of UNIFORM radius OF
two hundred and thirty-one esd feet, con-
Stunning an angle OF seventy-one t.ll degrees
twenty coo minutes, distance or TWO nun
dred and eighty-five and thirty-three one
hundredths t2S5 .SS) feet: said right-ofxxway
above described crossing in its course wal
ker street and Ninth avenue south, former
ly Seattle Boulevard.
And thereafter to maintain and operate
said railway upon the condluonS prescribed
in this ordinance.
Section 2 That the rights herein granted
to said Frye-Bruhn Company, its success
sors and assigns, are upon the following
conditions:
/. That said railway be constructed on a
common level with the streets on said
rght-of-way, as such level is now or may
hereafter be established by the city OF Sc
attic.
2 That wherever said track shall cross or
be crossed by a wharf or street now con-
structed or hereafter TO be constructed,
said company shall plank or pave, as ina
proximate portions of said wharf or street
may be planked or paved, ana Keep IN re-
pair, and shall thereafter replank or re-
pave. as the city may require, at least
seven and one-half feet on each side OF the
center line of its right-of-way
g. Whenever said city shall so require oy
ordinance. said grantee, its successors or
assigns, shall construct overhead Yiaducts
on the streets traversed or crossed py salu
grantee, its SUCCESSORS and assigns, AT any
Intersection or crossing thereof, over the
tracks hereby authorized, and over any
other tracks owned or operated by SAID
grantee, it's successors or assigns, by which
viaduct teams. vehicles. foot passengers
and traffic OF all kinds may be enabled 10
pass along said streets at proper eleVa-
ton above said tracks, which Vladucts, or
any OF them. shall be of such material and
shall be built maintained and renewed in
such form and size and at such time or
times as said city of Seattle may require,
and the cost and expense thereof and all
damages occasioned thereby TO the owners
of abutting property. or others, snail De
peid by said grantee. ITS SUCCESSORS or as
signs who shall thereafter constantly keep
and maintain in good repair said viaducts,
and each of them, or the city OF Seattle
may require said tracks to be earned over
and across said streets on overhead cross
ings.
1. That the said grantee herein, its success
sors or assigns, shall, when so ordered by
said city of Seattle, place, maintain ana
keep in use. at its or their expense ana
without any expense to said city, at the M
terSection OF or place or crossing any or all
streets traverSed or crossed by stia grantee,
It's Successors and assigns, suitable electric
lamps upon posts furnished and placed IN
position by said grantee, It's SUCCESSORS OF
assigns. and TO keep elch OF sild iatiil's IL
Illuminated by electric hght during the same
hours OF the night during which any street
lighting system that may al any uIie De
employed throughout said city generally
shall be in operation.
Section 3 That the city OF Seattle shall
retain the same control over the streets and
alleys in or across which said railway snail
be laid down as over other streets ana al
Ievs and shall have the right at all times.
by general ordinance. 10 regulate the speed
of locomotives and trains within the units
OF the rfght-of-way herein granted, ana
the maximum period OF time for winch 10
ccmotives cars or trains shall De allowed /
20 blockade travel across or along streets, |
and shall have such further police powers /
over said rght-of-w-ay as the clly CHARTER
and state laws permit
Section 4. That in the operation or sald
railway the said FTye-Bruhn Company, IT'S |
successors or assigns, shall have the right |
10 use steam. electricity or any other mo-
tive power that said company. It's success |
sorz or assigns. shall deem best
Section 5. That any other railway com /.
pany constructing standard gauge rail- /
way 10 Seattle and engaged as "A common 4
carrier or any street railway operating /
under city franchise shall have the right /
to cross the track Of said Frye Bruhn COM
pany within the limits OF said r1ght-of- /
way. subject 20 reasonable rules ana reBu- /
lat!ons and in such manner as not 20 IN !
rea soma bly, interfere with or impede the 4
transaction and dispatch OF business or /
said Frye-Bruhn Company, its successors /
or assigns.
section I. That said Frye ruhn Com I
pany. its SUCCESSORS and asst GINS. shall hold /
and save the city Of Seattle harmless for, /
from or against any damages. costs or ex-
penses recovered against the said city by 1
reason OF the gllEent operation or pain /
teuance Of said railway, and shali defend, |
AZ it, own cost. any suit brought against /
tho said CITY OF SEATTLE based upon negll- /
gence or alleged negligence Of the said 4
company in the operation o. maintenance I
OF said railway across any streets IN the 4
city OF Seattle.