The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-07-11
HOW 1T WAS DONE.
Senator Parker Offered a Resolution.
Everybody Voted Aye and Adjourned.


mon council Wednesday evening trans
acted as important a piece OF business
as the municipality of Plymouth has
ever been concernedin, perhaps, andset-
tied the much mooted question OF pa
wing so far as they were able to settle
it at the time. Unless stopped by an
injunction the paving will be done
and in less than three months it will
be finished. A full council was pres
ent and all votes were unanimous and
given without debate or hesitation.
At the sound of the gavel Council
man Parker presented and read the
report of the special committee to
which had been referred the remon-
STRANGE against the improvement
of North Michigan street. The COM
mittee had investigated the stat ofus
eyerv signer of the document and its
report was a detailed recital of the
rights and the amount of frontage rep
resented by each of them. Clara
Neil. who had withdrawn, asked that
her name be replaced on the remon-
STRANGE aud J. B. Rowell and George
Neff, who had signed, asked to with
draw from it.
Giving the remOnStrance the bene-
fit of every legal doubt it lacked
at least one of having the requicite
two-thirdS in number of the resident
owners of lots along the proposed
pavement and at least 400 feet of rep
resenting the necessary twO-thirds of
the frontage Under strict applica-
ton of the law it would lack still
more of being sufficient to force an
abandonment of the project: The
committee recommended that the re-
monstrance be disregarded and the
council promptly concurred.
Mr.. Parker then offered a resolution
accepting the bid of w. w. Hatch &
Sons, of Goshen, for paving, curbing and
filling, reserving the option to choose
between two kinds of brick, founda-
ton and filling, as follows: For &C.
ment curb, 22} cents lineal foot; for
cement filler, cents square yard, or
sand filler cent, at the option of the
council: for brick paving, with gravel
foundation to the north line of Wash
ington street and gravel or stone the
remainder of the distance to the bridge
as the council may determine, using
either PoSten or Clinton block, at the
councils option, Posten and gravel,
S1.37, Posten and stone S1.56,
Clinton and gravel Slab, Clinton
and stone, s1.62. The adoption of
this resolution was followed at once
by an adjournment. The contract
will be drawn and executed without
delay and the work will be entered
upon.
The excavation will be done by the
city at a lower price than any of the
contractors proposed anu the expense
will not be taxed as part of the i'm
proyement but will be paid out of the
general fund. 1t is expected that it
can be ready for the PAYERS in about
two weeks and that the pavement will
be laid in sixty days from the time
the street is ready, provided there is
no delay in securing the shipment Of
material.
1t seems likely that the Posten
block cannot be obtained in time for
this seasons work and that the Clin-
ton will be selected in order to save
delay. If Clinton brick is used, with
gravel foundation throughout and &C.
ment filler, the total cost of the i'm
provement on North Michigan street
will be SCI, 215.S0; if stone founda-
tion is used south of Washington
street the cost will be 1928 additional.
Prior to Wednesday and all during
that day there was much talk of an
Injunction and attorneys were con-
suited as to the possible grounds of
such writ and as to the liability of
parties and their bondsmen in case of
failure. After the Council accepted
the bid and the rights of the success
full bidder accrued, thus greatly in
creasing the liability upon an injunc-
tion bond, the talk of legal resist
ance died out and the improvement
will now doubtless 60 forward without
opposition. 1t seems to be assured
that successful remonstrance can not
be obtained in the South Michigan
street case and there is no likelihood
that any attempt at objection will be
made on Laporte street, so the three
plans will be carried out. Center
street may be added yet this season,
upon the petition of property owners.
A Great Relief.
Mrs. Catterson-I thought would
roruo and foil vny, that vour T4a ro1d has