The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-27
oEEIcIAL PUBLICATION
OF Ordinance Passed and Resolutions
Adopted by the Common Council of the

OF Ordinance Passed and Resolutions
Adopted by the Common Council of the
City of ST. Paul.
A'y No. 66SS-O Ordinance No 2S1O-By
Mr.. Rosen-
Rosen-
An Ordinance granting to Chicago Great
Western Railway Company the right to
construct, maintain and operate rail-
way tracks over and across Chicago
avenue, in the City of st. Paul, Min
neSOta-
The Common Council of the City Of St.
Paul do ordain as follows:
SECTION /.
The City of st. Paul hereby grants to
the Chicago Great Western Railway Com
pany, its successors and assigns, the
right to construct, maintain and operate
one or more tracks, not to exceed three
tracks, including a cross-over track,
across Chicago avenue, between Custer
and Starkey streets, substantially, as
shown upon blue print filed in the office
of the Commissioner of Public Works or
the City of st. Paul, on September elev-
enth 1902 and identified by the signature
of the Assistant General Manager of the
Chicago Great Western Railway Com
pany.
Provided, However, That nothing here
in contained shall be held to take away
or abridge the power of the city to regu-
abridge or modify any state law regulat-
ing the care, construction and manage
ment of railroad crossings, and
Provided, However, That the grades
as the present established grade of Chi
cago avenue at said point of crossing.
The tracks hereby authorized to be con-
structed shall be put in under the direc-
ton of the Commissioner Of Public Works
of the City of st. Paul, and in such man
ner as he shall direct. And said tracks
shall be so constructed that the rails
thereof shall not be higher than the top
nf hn 1rfa NJ ia
company, whenever required by the Com
missioner of Public Works or directed so
to do by the Common Council. shall plank
or pave with such material and in such
manner as it shall be directed, the space
lying between the rails of said tracks and
for space of at least two % feet out
side of each rail of said tracks and keep
and maintain the same in proper condi-
ton.
SECTION 2.
The rights hereby granted may be re-
voked or annulled and said tracks order
ed removed by the Common Council, in
which case all right and authority of the
said company to maintain said tracks
shall cease and determine, and
said company shall thereupon within
ninety 600 days after the service upon 1t
of a copy of a resolution or ordinance di-
recting such removal, take up and remove
said tracks and restore the premises from
which they shall be so removed to the
same condition as the surrounding por-
in suitable and proper condition for public
travel thereon. The Chicago Great West
ern Railway Company shall at all times
indemnify and save harmless the City OF
ST. Paul from any and all claims for dam
ages on account of any injury to persons
or property sustained by any person, firm
or corporation in consequence of the con-
Struction, maintenance and operation Of
said tracks, and shall reimburse said city
for all sums which it may be required to
pay as damages or as costs or expenses
in defending against such claims.
SECTION. 3.
Tie Chicago Great Western Railway
Company within thirty (30l days after the
shall file with the City Clerk of the City
of st. Paul its written acceptance thereof,
the same to be in such form as shall be
approved by the Corporation Attorney;
otherwise this ordinance shall have no
force or effect.
SECTION 4.
This ordinance shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage, pub
lication and acceptance as hereinbefore
provided.
Passed by the Assembly Sept. 10, 1902.
Yeas-Messrs. Arnold. Doran, Haas
Rosen, Schumacher Van Slyke, Wheeler,
Whitcomb, Mr.. President-9.
Nays-0.
R. SCHIFFMANN,
President of the Assembly.
Passed by the Board of Aldermen Sept
%, 1902.
Yeas-Ald. Bantz, Buschmann Corn
Holt, Moriarty, Rohland. Mr.. President
ii.
Nays-0.
FRANK ]. HUBER,
President Of the Board Of Aldermen.
Approved Sept. "a, 1902.
R. A. SMITH,
Attest: MATT JENSEN,
Sept. 27, 1902. City Clerk
A'y F No. 6594-
In the matter of the report of the Board
1t Is hereby ordered by the Common
Council of the City of st. Paul
That the Board Of Public Works Of the
City of st. Paul cause the following i'm
provement to be made, to-wit:
Open, widen and extend Fourteenth
street Q4thl, from Broadway to L'Orient
street, in said city, taking and condemning
property lying within the lines of strip
so feet wide; the center line Of said strip
shall be the center line of Fourteenth
ItFes In sr EyS to edition pr9 % sna
of block 10, of Ashton & Sherburne's ad-
dition, and lots 1, 2, and of Payte 6
McElrath's Encouragement of lots 10, 81.
%, "a, % and q of block IS, Ashton &
Sherburne's addition, in the City Of St.
Paul, Minnesota.
The final order in this proceeding,
heretofore adopted by the Common Coun-
Gil and known as Board File No. 1890, Is
hereby annulled.
That said Board cause said work to be
let by contract, as provided by law, with
out one-haf the estimated cost being
after said work shall be placed under
contract, said Board shall proceed with
out delay to assess the amount, as nearly
as they can ascertain the same, which
will be required to pay the costs and
necessary expenses of such Improvement
upon the real estate to be benefited by
said improvement, as provided by law; it
being the opinion of the Council that real
estate to be assessed for such improve
ment can be found benefited to the extent
of the costs and expenses necessary to
be incurred thereby.
Adopted by the Assembly Sept. IS, 1902.
Adopted by the Board Of Aldermen
Sept. %, 1902
Approved Sept. 25, 1902
A'y F No. 6593--
In the matter of the report Of the Board
of Public Works dated Sept. IT,. 1902.
1t is hereby ordered by the Common
Council Of the City OF st. Paul:
That the Board of Public Works of the
City of st. Paul cause the following i'm
provement to be made, to-wit:
Reconstruct, relay or repair. except
repaired, with cement, the present side
walks on the following streets, to-wit
On the east side of Chatsworth street,
from st. Clair street to Summit avenue:
together with the necessary crosswalks
across all intersecting streets, boulevards
and alleys on the line Of said improve
ment:
That said Board shall proceed without
delay to assess the amount, as nearly as
they can ascertain the same, which
will be required to pay the damages. costs
and necessary expenses of such improve
ment upon the real estate to be bene-
flied by said Improvement, as provided
by law; it being the opinion Of the Coun-
Gil that real estate to be assessed for such
improvement can be found benefited to
penses necessary to be incurred thereby.
Adopted by the Assembly Sept 1s, 1902.
Adopted by the Board Of Aldermen
Sept. 3d. 1902.
Approved Sept. %, 1902.