Omaha daily bee., 1899-06-18
COUNCIL OFFERS CONDITIONS
Proposes to Shorten Time Allowed on a
Viaduct and Subway.
WILLING TO CLOSE SEVENTEENTH STREET
Twcnty-Fourth street viaduct TO he
BuiIt During 1oOO-Marthn street
to he Closed when Bancroft
subway is Done.

The proposition TO the Burlington and
Union Pacific roads which the council
started to work en- late Friday afternoon
was finished yesterday and sent to the
heads Of the roads for their consideration.
1t is the result Of the deliberations OF the
council and the attorneys for the roads yes
terday afternoon in the council chamber and
contains some notifications OF the PROPOSE
tion the roads submitted. The conditions
imposed by 1t on the roads are in brief as
follows:
To maintain, pave, light and otherwise
care for the subways at Seventh, Thirteenth,
Fourteenth and Twentieth streets.
To construct the Sixteenth street viaduct
according to the plans prepared by the city
engineer by January l., 1899, and forever
thereafter maintain 1t.
To construct vaduct on Twenty-fourth
street between Hickory and a point 100 feet
more or less south Of the tracks OF the right
of-way of the b. G. NJ. during the year 1900,
according to plans made by the city engi-
neer and approved by the council, the VIA
duct to be completed by January 1, 1901
To construct subway on Bancroft street
thirty feet wide, with a headway OF twelve
feet in the clear, when required to do so
by the city.
To construct viaduct on Boulevard street
and open that street to the public. said via
duct to be according to the plans OF the city
engineer and to be maintained by the roads
after completion.
To provide all necessary lights and watch
men at all grade crossings.
The council and mayor to be the arbiters
between the roads when they cannot appor-
tion the expense satisfactorily themselves.
Concessions from the civ.
In return for the above concessions on
the part of the roads the city agrees to dc
certain things as follows:
To amend the ordinance OF 1876 so as to
relieve the Union Pacific from the necessity
of maintaining an open roadway across its
right of way near Sixth street
Not to seek to reopen any street between
Seventeenth and Twentieth, Twentieth and
Twenty-fourth, Twenty fourth and Bancroft
or Bancroft and Boulevard.
To close Martha street over the right OF
way of both roads on the demand of the
latter, provided that it shall not be closed
before the subway at Bancroft street Is
completed and open to travel, and provided
that the roads shall save the city from all
damages incident to the closing of said
street, making provision in advance for the
payments that shall protect the city from
less.
To close Seventeenth street on the demand
OF either road on the same terms as tc
damages as specified for Martha street.
To vacate and close all streets over which
viaducts have been or shall be constructed
provided that such closing shall not prejudice
the rights OF the city to require the recon
structon or maintenance OF the viaducts oil
to use the streets for laying sewers or other
subways.
To assume the expense OF lighting all via.
ducts and hereafter to make no charge
against the roads for lighting except in sub
ways and on grade crossings.
The material points in which the above
proposition differs from that submitted by
the roads are the time limits the con
struction OF viaducts or eubways at Ban
croft and Twenty fourth streets and the ref
erence to the claims of the city against thu
roads for lighting viaducts in the past. NJ
mention Is made of the claims.