Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-08-08

track required to be constructed and
completed and put in operation by the
said Grand Rapids Lighting & Power
Co. and its associates or assigns.
SECTION 5. The rights and privi-
leges herein are granted to Grand
Rapids Lighting & Power Go. and its
associates or assigns upon the follow
ing qualifications to-wit:
The work upon said street railroad
Tor the purpose of constructing said
| road for operating by electricity shall
be commenced on or before May l.
1902. and the work shall be prosecuted
with all due speed and diligence until
completion, said railroad shall be fully
completed, the entire length Of said
city except across the Wisconsin river
equipped and in operation and con-
nected with like line from this city
to Stevens Point and intermediate
| points on or before September 10, 1903.
| provided that if said Grand Rapids
Lighting & Power Co. and its asso-
clateS or assigns, are delayed in the
construction of said railway by order
or injunction of any court or judge
| thereof the time that said Grand
Rapids Lighting & Power Co. and its
associates or assigns are so delayed
shall be given to it over and above the
time given by this section for the
completion of said milage and shall
not be deemed a delay of construction
on the part of said Grand Rapids
Lighting & Power Co. and its associ-
! ateS or assigns
In case during the time in which
said Grand Rapids Lighting & Power
20. and its associates or assigns are to
build complete and operate said road,
said Grand Rapids Lighting & Power
Co., and its associates or assigns shall
by order of any court judge or court
commissioners or other competent
officer be enjoined or restrained from
| building, completing or operating said
railroad or any part thereof said Grand
Rapids Lighting & Power Co. and it's
associates or assigns shall appear and
defend said action and at once move
to dissolve said injunction and press
said motion to determination as soon
as possible and shall thereupon, when
said injunction be dissolved, proceed
at once with the completion of said
work. Said Grand Rapids Lighting &
Power Co. shall within thirty (30) days
after passing and acceptance of this
ordinance deposit with the city clerk
of said city of Grand Rapids bond in
the sum of two thousand (S2000.O0)
dollars to be approved both as to form,
condition and the responsibility Of
the sureties therein by said mayor
and common council and the cOndi-
ton for the completion, equipment
and operation of the number of miles
of street railway within the time
andGin the manner specified in this
ordinance, and approved as herein
| provided, and in case of failure to so
deposit this bond this franchise shall
thereupOn become null and void and
of no force or effect.
SECTION 6. The track of the rail-
way shall be laid SO as to conform to
the street grades already estab-
lished and if when laid where
grades are not established, or if
the street grade be changed
after the rails are laid, said
Grand Rapids Lighting & Power Co.
and its associates or assigns shall lay
or relay said tracks SO as to conform to
the surface of the streets occupied
by said tracks and to grades as finally
established, provided further that said
Grand Rapids Lighting & Power Co.,
its associates or assigns shall change
their track to the grade of streets
occupied by their tracks whenever
the city of Grand Rapids shall grade
the same. And Grand Rapids Light
ing & Power Co., its associates or
assigns shall plank, pave, macadamize,
gravel or put down Nicholson pave
ment in the space between the
rails Of the track at each principal
street crossing and shall keep the
street between the track within and
Immediately adjoining the outside of
the track level with the tramway and
of the same material as the street may
be on either side Of the track, and
provided further that the said Grand
Rapids Lighting & Power Co. and it's
associates or assigns. shall keep the
street within the rails at all times
in good repair and condition in
accordance with whatever order or
regulation may be adopted or passed
in respect thereto by the common
council of the city of Grand Rapids,
and provided further that in case any
public bridge is repaired, if occupied
| by the said Grand Rapids Lighting &
Power company and its associates or
assigns, that company its associates
and assigns shall bear it's just propo-
SitiOn Of the cost Of replanking and
paving the same, if the bridges be
paved.
Whenever it shall be necessary in
constructing or operating the said rail-
way to cross any bridge in the city, of
Grand Rapids, the common council
may in their discretion order and re-
quire track to be laid in each
carriage way thereof, and in case it
| hnrOnln
for said city to repair or rebuild any
bridge upon which said railway may
have been constructed and running of
cars be suspended over the same by
reason thereof, or if it be necessary
for said Grand Rapids Lighting &
Power Co. and it's associates or assigns
to remove the tracks of said railway.
from any bridge, during such repairing
or rebuilding, the city shall in any or
either of such cases not be liable to
any damage to said railway or the
owners or the operators thereof: nor
shall the owners or operators of said
railways be liable to any damage. or
subject to forfeiture Of any right or
privilege or franchise hereby conferred
by reason of said failure to run said
cars over any bridge during the repair
or rebuilding thereof.
SECTION 7. The tracks of said
company shall be of standard guage
four feet, eight and one-half inches
q fit. 81 inches) wide and the rails to
be used shall be such rails, as other
first class electric roads throughout
the country are using, of most modern
designs All rails shall be of steel
weighing not less than 56 1851 lbs.
to the yard laid upon suitable ties to
give good substantial road bed, said
track to be maintained in a good sub