Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-05-23
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.
Proposed Franchise.

I
To THE MAYOR AND COMMON CouScIL OF THE
CITY OF WAUwATOsA:
The Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Com
pany hereby requests that you grant TO it a
street railroad franchise III tile City Of Wauwa-
tosa, as more particularly set forth in the pro-
posed franchise hereto attached.
MILWAUKEE LIGHT, HEAT AND
| TRACTION co.
BY JOHN L BEGGs,
Pres't and GeaI Mngr.
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Mil
| waukee Light, Heat & Traction Com
| pany to construct, maintain and
operate street railways in the City
| of Wauwatosa.
The Mayor and Common Council of
the City of Wauwatosa do ordain as
| follows:
SECTION l. There is hereby given
and granted to the Milwaukee Light,
Heat & Traction Company, hereinafter
called the Railway Company, its sne-
cessors and assigns, in addition to the
streets, avenues, highways and bridges
now occupied and 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 Wau-
watosa, to-wit:
| /. On Greenfield avenue from West
Main street to the southern limits of
the city of WauwatosG.
.. On Fifty-ninth street from Wells
street to Grand avenue (as It is now or
may hereafter be plated or extended):
3. On Grand avenue Gas it is now or
may hereafter be plated or extended)
from Fifty-ninth street to the western
limits of the city of Wauwatosa.
T. 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.
2. On Wauwatosa avenue from North
Main street to the northern limits of the
city of Wauwatosa
SEC .. The tracks of said Railway
Company shall be constructed with inn
proved Tee rails, laid to a gauge of
four feet, eight and one-half inches
AMI 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-
cles 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, lie
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 skall have
last used to pave or repave these spaces
and the street previous to such repairs.
unless the said Railway Company and
said city shall agree upon some other
material. Said Railway Company shall
ouerate 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
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
said streets, except where expressly
ordered otherwise by said city.
SEC. 3. 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 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
ears or carriages shall be chartered for
a special price or for Il special purpose);
which fare shall entitle each passenger,
upon demand made at the time of pay
ment 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 he established from time TO time
as viii fully carry out the intent and
purpose of this section; each transfer
ticket or Slip shall be good only for the
passenger to whom it is issued and
only for continuous trip from the
transfer junction punched, upon the
first car leaving in the direction speci-
fled upon the transfer so given after
the time designated on such transfer.
SEC. T. In consideration of the
granting of this franchise by the city
of Wauwatosa, the said Railway Conn
pany agrees to establish and maintain
a five cent fare from any point on the
lines of said company within the limits
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