Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-04
ORDINANCE FOR NEW ROAD
Measure for Great Westerns Right Of Way
lnirsduosd in the Csuncil.
PROVIDES FOR THE VACATION OF STREETS
Grant Use Of Public Highways for
Terminals and Depots-Merchsnts
ON south Avenue and Third
street Protest.

Two ordinances In the interest OF the
Great Western railroad we're introduced
at the meeting Of the city council last
night. One granted the railroad a right
of-way over certain streets and alleys in
the city while the other provided for the
vacation Of certain streets, portions of
streets and alleys. Both measures we're
passed to their second reading and then
referred to the committee Of the whole.
The right-of-way ordinance grants the
Mason City & Fort Dodge Railroad COM
pany, by which name the extension Of the
Great Western from Fort Dodge to this city
is known, permission and authority to
locate its railroad and TO lay down, main
tain and operate two or more main tracks,
%turnouts. switches. etc, along the route
from Eighth avenue and Thirteenth street
where connection Is had with the Omaha
Bridge and Terminal tracks to the city
limits.
The route as outlined in the ordinance
is along Ninth avenue to Fourth street
thence southeasterly to Wabash yards
thence across Tostevin street thence in a
southessterly direction parallel With South
avenue and across Woodbury. avenue and
thence in a northeasteTly direction to the
city limits.
Location for Freight Depot.
One section OF the ordinance gives the
railroad permission to erect it's freight
depot on Ninth avenue between Sixth and
Seventh streets and to project depot ten
feet into the avenue. Also grants the rail-
road permission to occupy all OF Ninth
avenue south of the south curb line from
Sixth street to Eleventh street for an
approach to any team tracks that the rail-
road may maintain and operate.
The vacation ordinance provides for the
vacation Of all those parts of Fifteenth
avenue. Fourteenth avenue and the alleys
in blocks twenty, seventeen and sixteen
In Williams First addition to the city OF
Council BLUFFS, Iowa, from the west line
Of Third street to the east line OF the right
of-way of the Wabash Railroad company.
All Of those parts Of Eighth. Ninth ana
Tenth streets lying between the south line
of Ninth avenue and the north line OF
Tenth avenue. and the alleys In blocks
ave, thirty-two, thirty and six, and all Of
the alleys lying east OF lot fourteen in
block seven. Riddles subdivision.
Proposed Meets Opposition.
Several of the aldermen in discussing this
ordinance stated that an Objectionable feat
ure of it was the proposed vacation Of
Eighth, Ninth and Tenth streets and this
It is believed will be strongly opposed.
A protest signed by thirty-two merchants
and business men on South Main street was
! filed objecting to the railroad absorbing
South avenue and Third street on the
grounds that it would injure their trade
and drive farmers to seek another market
for their products and to do their trading
elsewhere. South avenue, the protesters
assert was the main highway to the city
from the country southwest Of the ctS.
A protest was also filed by. residents in
the neighborhood Of south avenue,
An ordinance vacating the alley In Coch-
ran addition through the property recently
purchased by the school district for the
Second avenue school was passed under a
suspension of the rules.
An ordinance granting the Groneweg &
Schoentgen company permission to build an
elevated plank Sidewalk or platform along
the eide Of their proposed warehouse on
Ninth street and Broadway was introduced
and referred to the committee OF the whole.
Under the plan proposed this sidewalk
would be three feet eight inches above the
present grade. The plan provides for steps
at south and north ends for use of pedes-
trians.