Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-30

Very truly yours,s
MILWAUKEE LIGHT, HEAT AND
| TRACTION CO.
BIZ JOHN l. BEGGs,
Pres't and Gent Ingr.
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Mil
waukee Light, Heat & Traction Com
| pany to construct, maintain and
operate street railways in the City
of Nauwatosa.
The Mayor and Common Council of
| the City of Wauwatosa do ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. There is hereby given
end granted to the Milwaukee Light,
| Heat Il Traction Company, hereinafter
called the Railway Company, its sue
cessors and assigns. in addition to the
streets, avenues, highways and bridges
now occupied aud used by said Railway
| Company in said city, the right, permits
sion and authority to lay, construct,
maintain and operate a single or dou-
BILE track electric railway with all
necessary or convenient turn-outs,
! side-tracks, cross-overs, curves. switch
es and connections, and to construct,
erect and maintain all necessary or
convenient conduits, poles and under
ground or overhead wires, in the man
ner and upon the conditions hereinafter
set forth, over, along, across and upon
the following streets, avenues, high
ways and bridges in the city of Wan
watosa, to-wit:
| /. On Greenfield avenue from West
Main street to the southern limits of
the city of Wauwatosa.
:. On Fifty-ninth street from Wells
street to Grand avenue las it is now or
may hereafter be plated or extended):
3. On Grand avenue las it is now or
may hereafter be plated or extended
from Fifty-ninth street to the western
limits of the city of Wanwatosa.
4 On State street formerly called
the Milwaukee and Watertown Plank
road from North Main street to the
eastern limits of the city of Wau-
watosa.
s. On East Milwaukee avenue from
| North Main street and Third avenue to
! the eastern limits of the city Wauwa-
tosa.
! g. On North avenue from the east
ern limits to the western limits of the
! city of Wauwatosa.
! z. On Wauwatosa avenue from North
| Main street to the northera limits of the
| city of Wauwatosa.
| Company shall be constructed with i'm
proved Tee rails, laid to gauge of
( four feet, eight and one-half inches
ant as near the center of the street as
practicable; they shall not be elevated
above nor depressed below the estab-
! lished grade of the streets and shall be
SO laid that carriages and other vehi-
Giles can safely and readily cross the
streets at any and all points 1t shall
be the duty of said Railway Company
at all times to keep in good repair, the
roadway between the rails and for one
foot ON the outside of each rail as laid
and the space between the two inside
rails, of its double track, with the
same material as the city shall have
last used to pave or repave these spaces
and the street previous t9sueh repairs.
/ unless the said Railway Company and
said city shall agree upon some other
material. Said Railway Company shall
! operate thereon street railway cars and
carriages by means of power produced
/ by electricity, conducted upon wires
suspended over, above and along its
| tracks, or such other power as may be
1 agreed upon between said city and the
said Railway Company, its successors
and assigns. The poles of said Rail
way Company shall be set behind the
existing or established curb lines of
1 said streets, except where expressly
ordered otherwise by said city.
| SEC. g. After the passage, publica-
| ton, and acceptance of this ordinance
| by said Railway Company, the rate of
fare for one continuous passage upon
| the lines of railway within said city,
owned and operated by said Railway
! Company, constructed under any fran
chise herein, heretofore or hereafter
granted to said Railway Company, or
its predecessors, successors or assigns,
as the case may be, Shall be five cents
for a single fare, except where children
under ten years of age, the rate of fare
! shall be three cents for one child and
five cents for two children riding to-
! gether, and infants in arms under
three years of age free except where
cars or carriages shall be chartered for
a special price or for a special purpose);
which fare shall entitle each passenger,
upon demand made at the time of paw
nent of fare, to one transfer. at estab-
/ lished transfer points, to any connect
ing or cross line of said Railway Com
pany, for passage with in said city, and
such convenient points of transfer
shall be established from time to time
as will fully ears'y ont the intent and
purpose of this section; each transfer
i ticket or slip shall be good only for the
passenger to whom it is issued and
/ only for Il continuous trip from the
transfer Junction punched, upon the
first car leaving in the direction speci
fed upon the transfer SO given after
the time designated on such transfer.
! SEC, 1. In consideration of the
granting of this franchise by the city
of Wauwatosa, the said Railway Com
pany agrees to establish and maintain
five cent fare from any point on the
lines of said company within the limits
Of the city of Wauwatosa TO any point
upon the lines of said company in the
village of West AlGs over the line to
be constructed on Greenfield avenue,
provided the necessary permission aud
! authority are obtained from the town
board of the town OF WauwatcSa to
construct. maintain and operate an