Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1902-05-27
AN ORDINANCE
May 1927

AN ORDINANCE
Granting permission to the Northern
Ohio Traction Company, its success
sors and assigns, to construct, ex-
tend, maintain and operate an ex-
tension of street railway, in and
along certain streets therein named.
Whereas, the Northern Ohio Trac-
ton Company owns and has in opera
tion a street railroad in and along
South Main street to Miller avenue in
the city of Akron, Ohio. and has made
application for leave to extend said
railroad, the tracks and necessary ap-
purtenances for operating the same,
from said Miller avenue south on
said South Main street to the right-of-
way of the railroads; thence westerly
from South Main street in and along
an alley and Ira avenue to the west
line of Celia avenue, and,
Whereas, said extension is deemed
beneficial to the public, therefore,
Section 1. Be 1t ordained by the City
Council of the city of Akron, that the
Northern Ohio Traction Company, its
successors and assigns, be and they
are hereby granted permission to ex-
tend their said street railroad, and to
construct, maintain and operate such
extension, with either single or double
tracks, beginning at the present
southern terminus Of said street rail-
road at Miller avenue; thence south
erly in and along South Main street
to the right-of way of railroads; thence
westerly from South Main street In
and along an alley and Ira avenue to
the west line of Celia avenue in said
city.
Sec. 2. That the Northern Ohio
Traction Company, its successors and
assigns, shall construct, operate, main
tain and keep in order and repair, the
said street railway and portions Of the
street along which the same shall be
constructed, or any and all parts there
of, in full conformity to subdivision
two, of chapter thirtyseven of the
Revised Ordinances of the City of Ak
ron, as fully and fairly as If said sub
division were fully embodied herein,
except where the provisions of this
ordinance conflict Herewith, in which
case the provisions of this ordinance
shall control. Said company shall
have the privilege of laying and main
tanning "T' rails on the alley and Ira
avenue until said alley and avenue Is
paved.
That the rights and privileges I'd
said city, its NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. indi-
viduals and corporations in said chap
ter, shall be ut all times and in all
particulars recognized by said The
Northern Ohio Traction Company, its
successors and assigns.
Sec. 3. The street railway to be
upon the above described streets and
alley, shall be operated by means Of
electricity as the motive power.
The construction of said railway
shall be under the supervision and con-
troll of the Board of City Commission
ers, or their successors, and shall in
all respects, be subject to the approval
of said Board or its successors. The
poles to be used shall be of wood.
| The tracks. switches, turnouts, sid
ings and spurs shall be constructed.
so that the upper surface of the rails
thereof shall at all times conform to
the grade of the streets in which they
| are laid, and shall be located, except
as above specified, so that the center
| line of the space between the tracks
and switches shall be as near as may
| be the center line of said street. unless
otherwise ordered by the Board Of
City Commissioners. or its successors.
| The insulation and adjustment of the
feed wires, upon which the said poles
and the kind and protection of the
trolley wires, and all matters pertain
ing to the electrical equipment of said
railway, shall be subject to the ap-
proval of the Board of City Commits
siOners, and their successors.
/ That whenever that portion of said
South Main street and alley and Ira
ave. are improved by the grading and
paving thereof, said The Northern
Ohio Traction Company shall pave, re-
pave, macadamize or remacadamize
and keep in repair the spaces between
the rails of a single track land one
foot on the outside of said rails, and
whenever double tracks. switches,
turnouts, or sidings shall be construct
ed, said The Northern Ohio Traction