The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1903-03-13
Proposed Ordinance.

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| Dated March f. 1903
! Southern Wisconsin Inter-Urban Rail-
way Company, By Michael Hayes,
President.
| To the Mayor and Common Council of the
| City of Edgerton
| The Southern Wisconsin Inter Urban
| Railway Company, a corporation, organ
| lied under and pursuant to the laws Oh
| the State Of Wisconsin, hereby apples
| to your honorable body for q franchise
! to construct, maintain and operate a
i street railway with all necessary switch
| es. turnouts, sidetracks, wyes, poles,
wires, curves and other fixtures in, upon,
| along and across certain streets in the
i ed in the annexed proposed ordinance,
| and it respectfully asks for the adoption
! Of said ordinance.
, Dated March d. 1903
| Southern Wisconsin Inter Urban Rail-
| way Company, By Michael Hayes,
| An ordinance granting to the Southern
| Wisconsin Inter Urban Railway Company,
| a corporation, organized under the laws
| of Wisconsin, it's successors and assigns,
| the right to construct. maintain and oper-
ate an electric railway in the city OF
| Edgerton, and prescribing, the. terms ana
conditions upon which the streets, a ,,nad
ueS and alleys of said city may be USED
and occupied by said railway.
| The Mayor and Common Council of the
| City of Edgerton do Ordain as follows:
Section 1. The Southern Wisconsin
Inter-Urban Railway Company, it's success
the full term Of fifty years from and al
ter the passage of this ordinance the
right and authority to construct maintain
and operate in the City of Edgerton. all cleo
trio railway for the purposes enumerated in
sec. 1862 of the Wisconsin statutes OF 1893, with
all necessary switches, side tracks, turnOutS,
wyeS, poles, wires, curves, and other fixtures
in, along and upon the following streets, to-
wit:
Lord Street, Main Street, and any other
street or portion thereof lying easterly OF Main
Street; Victoria Road, Albion Road from the
end of Victoria Road to the city limits;
Stoughton Road and GAINESVILLE Road.
Section 2 The mode and manner of
constructing said railway shall be as fol-
lows:
The track shall be laid with rails of the
tee pattern along such location in said
streets as the said railway Company. it's
successors Or assigns, shall designate
and the Common Council shall approve,
and shall be laid and maintained at the
present or established grade of said street
or avenues over which it shall pass, and
in case at any time the the City of Edger
ton shall change the grade of any street.
said railway company, its successors ana
assigns, shall change the grade Of the
tracks to correspond to such new grade,
at it's or their own expense and without
any claim against the city for any dam
ages resulting from such change of grade.
such a manner as to be of as little I'M
pediment as practicable to the free and
ordinary use of the streets and avenues
and the passage of wagons carriages ana
other vehicles on or across said track at
any point. and in any and all directions,
and with such suitable cutters at any or
ali necessary points, so as to permit free
flow of water falling or accommodating on
said streets.
At all street crossings where there is
no paving, the track shall be so planked,
or otherwise constructed, as to make safe
and convenient crossings for all kinds OF
vehicles as well as pedestrians, and such
crossings shall be maintained in constant
| good repair.
Whenever the City of EdgertOn shall
| pave or otherwise improve any street or
streets over which said track or tracks
| shall pass, the said railway company
shall pay the actual cost of such paving
| or improving for a space of seven CD feet
for single track, and fourteen QQ feet
for double track, and the cost and expense
of such portion of such pavement Oh i'm
prOvement shall be assessed to and become
a charge against the property of said COM
pany and collectible in the same manner as
prescribed by law for the collection OF
special assessments against real prop
erty fronting on any street or streets
which have been ordered paved or i'm
proved by said Common Council, or, at
| the option of said city by action against
| the owners of said railroad; provided that
| in computing said space of seven feet and
fourteen feet, the space included within
| the tracks of said railway Company shall
| be included as a part thereof.
When such railway crosses or runs on
any street or avenue that has been paved
| or improved said railway company shall
| lay it's tracks and put the paving back, so
| as to restore said street or avenue to as
| good condition as before the track was
laid t The guage of the track X, shall be De
| a fit. y in) Any part of any street
| over which said track shall pass outside
| the limits herein required to be paved or
| improved by said railway company which
which shall be excavated or disturbed in
| the construction Of said track, shall be
restored as soon as possible to its former
| condition of usefulness. All excavated
| earth. rubbish or debris accumulated dur
| ing the construction of the track shall be
| promptly removed from the street or av-
enue and care shall be taken in the con-
| struction of the track to obstruct travel
upon the street or avenue as little as pos
| sible On streets not paved all cross
| walks which shall be taken up in the con-
| struction of the track shall be promptly
| relaid, in the same or similar manner,
| fore.
| Section 3. Said railway shall be oper-
! ated with electricity. with overhead wires,
! or other motive power approved by the
| common council except steam motive pow
| err, and the company, it's successors or as
! signs, shall have the right to erect all
! necessary poles and other mechanical con-
! trivances to carry said overhead WIRE
and for the purpose of carrying telephone,
| telegraph, or electric-light wires for aid
| in purposes of said railway. or for the
| purpose of furnishing electric light and
power service to others subject, however,
| to all the conditions and provisions of
such police ordinances Of said city as are now
| in force or which may hereafter be in force
| and which said city is authorized and may
| deem proper to enact
Section 4. Said railway company shall
place and maintain upon said railroad APP
| proved motor cars with modern conven-
fences for the comfort of passengers,
shall light the same at night. and in cold
weather they shall he comfortably heated.
| Each motor car shall, unless the Common
| Council otherwise prescribes. be provided
with headlight. which shall be kept
| burning after sunset. and with a gong,
bell or whistle for danger signals.
Section 5. Said railway company it's
| successors or assigns, will take the rights
and privileges herein granted subject to
! the right of the City of Edgerton to or
! dain and establish such reasonable regu-
lations as the Common Council within
| its police powers may from time to time
| prescribe in respect thereto.
Section 6. The rate of fare for carry
! ing passengers on said railway shall not