Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1896-08-14
STREET. VACATING.
Petitions Presented the Council
for .Vacating Three Streets
at the Railroad.
Second Avenue N. E., First
Avenue S. E. and Second
Avenue S. E.
Petitions to be Acted on by the
City Council on Friday
y Evening.

& City Council on Friday
Evening. sls
The question nf vacating certain
streets across the railrOadr9 track,
from Fifth street to- Sixth street,
will he before the city council on
Friday evening. Three petitions
were presented to tIt, city COUNCIL On
July 6, and on the 18th Of that month
the council ordered that the petitions
he advertised to be heard on Friday
evening, Aug. IA. The petition for
Second avenue northeast il az fol-
lows.
TO THE COMMON COUNCIL. OF THE CITY
OF LITTLE FALLS, MINI. '&
liENTLEMEN: The undersigned
petitioners, constituting Il majority
of the owners nf property ON the line
of Second n venue northeast. residents
within said city. do hereby petition
your honorable body to vacate that
part of Second avenue nOrtheast.
living bet wcen Fiitn and Sixth streets.
The facts and reasons for such ap-
plicAtion are that the st. Paul &
Northern Pacific Railway company,
Il corporation organized and crea ted
under and by virtue "f the laws Ot
the state III Minnesota. under titlc
I, OF chapter 81. OF the general stat
utps nf 1879 and acts amendatOry
thereof: and which corpora tiOn has
heretofore built and constructed Il
line of railway aud telegraph be
tweer Wa1ab and Brninerd III said
state. extending through the city Ot
Little Falls. desires to build, con-
struct and; erect new passenger and
freight 8sleppta III said city, aud lay
sufficient new tracks, and put in u
sufficient number Of switches and
appliances to enable said company
to handle its business at said city,
and that the same cannot be done
without great danger and incon-
venience to the public unless said
portions of the street are vacated.
This application is accompanied
by plat of said streets proposed to
he vacate
II. B. FUTILE.
II. J. MATHlEsON.
J.C. FLYNN.
n. j ACOBsON.
N. RICHARDSON.
A plat ~hOws the location Of tho
avenue. The petitions for the other
avenues were in similar form.
Those who signed the petition for
vaca ting First avenue southeast are:
Fl. E. Meyers, Robt. Muske, Peter
Nledved, j. w. Berg. H. f. Schleusen-
er, Lyman Signor, p. H. Gross, ".
II. TOurtillOtte, r. Hoffman. &. B..
Buckman. N. Richardson. jerome
Mecusker. Mary Gross.
Those vino signed the Second
avenue south petition are:
H.lF. Schleusener, Ezra Hamlin, :,
A. Tanner,J. w. Berg, John Kerrich,
John Wetzel. 4. Il. Davidson, Peter
W. Blake. Ozias King, F. Stangl, r.
H. Gross. Mary Gross, H. Dengle.
F.. Pantzke, VIM. Barters. Nj.
Schankle. Magdelana Lang, John
Nester. ,
Second avenue northeast is the
one that crosses the track two blocks
north of Broadway, and Is the one
upon which the French Catholic,
Conversational and Methodist
churches are situated.
First avenue southeast is the first
one south of broadway, and Is the
one that crosses First street at the
Buchanan hotel corner.
Second avenue southeast is the Sec
ond one south of Broadway, and
crosses First street just south OF the
Batters hotel.
Second avenue northeast and Sec
ond avenue southeast have not been
in use as public highways since the
railroad was builC nearly twenty
years ago, but First avenue south
east III used to a considerable extent.
The heavy shippers of the city are
unanimous in desiring to have better
railroad yard facilities in the city.
and they seemed to he impressed
with the belief that the railroad
company will not supply them until
the above avenues are given over to
the railroad company's use.
The provisions under which the
proceedings have SO far been taken
provide that q three-fourths vote of
the council is necessary. Last year
the vacation plan was defeated
because only five votes were fer it..
The council then contained seven