Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-08-01

pany hereby requests that you grant to it
street railroad franchise in the city of Wauwa-
tosa, more particularly set forth in the pro
posed franchise hereto attached.
Respectfully yours,
MILWAUKEE LIGHT. HEAT AND
TRACTION 60.
BY JOHN T. BEGGs.
Pfest and GeuI Mngr
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Mil
waullee Light, Heat Il Traction Com
pany to construct, maintain and
operate street railways in the City
Of Wauwatosa,
The Common Council of the City of
Wauwatosa do ordain as follows:
SECTION l. There is hereby given
and granted to the Milwaukee Light.
Heat X Traction Company, hereinafter
called the Railway Company. its sue
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 for the purpose Of
extending its lines and system,
TO lay, construct. maintain and
operate II single or double
track electric railway with all
necessary or convenient turn-outs.
sidetraclis, 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 Wauwatosa.
| >. On Wells street Cas it is now or
may hereafter be plated or extended):
| from Fifty-ninth street to the western
| limits of the City Of Wauwatosa.
g. 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.
4. On East Milwaukee avenue, West
! Milwaukee avenue and Ludington ave
nue. from the eastern limits of the City
of WauwatoAa to West North avenue.
! ;. On North avenue from the east
ern limits of the City of Wauwatosa to
the western limits of the City of Wau-
watosa.
6. On Wauwatosa avenue from North
avenue to the northern limits of the city
of Wauwatosa.
:. On Wisconsin avenue (as it is now
on may hereafter be plated on extend
ed from West North avenue to Church
street, and on Church street from Wis
cousin avenue to North Main street,
|
shall not be opened for travel from
West North avenue south to Church
street, within two years after notice Of
intention to lay tracks on either Wis
consin avenue or Wauwatosa avenue
shall have been filed in the Office of the
city clerk, as hereinafter provided, then
and in that event only the said rail
way company shall have and is
hereby given the right per-
mission and authority to lay,
construct, maintain and ope-
rate single or double track electric
railway over and upon Wauwatosa ay-
euue from North avenue south to North
Alain street; it being expressly under
stood aud agreed that the said railway
company shall give the City of Wau-
watosa notice in writing of its inten-
ton and desire to lay tracks from
North avenue south over and upon
either Wisconsin avenue or Wauwa-
tosa avenue, such notice to be address
sed to the City Clerk of
the City of Wauwatosa, and delivered
to him at his Office in said city,and that
the said railway company, its success
sors or assigns shall have no rights
hereunder to enter upon or undertake
to lay track ON Wauwatosa avenue
south of North avenue until the eXpira-
ton of two years after giving notice of
intention to lay track as above pro-
vided; it being further expressly I'M
| derstood and agreed that if, after Civ
! :1c notice of intention to lay track as
above provided, the said railway
company, its successors and as
signs shall neglect or fail to
construct, maintain and operate
an electric railway from North avenue
south to North Main street within six
months after the expiration of the two
year period of notice, hereinbeforc re-
quired to be given, all rights and
privileges conferred by this ordinance
in and to. over and upon Wauwatosa
avenue south of North avenue shall
! forever cease and determine.
SEC =. The tracks Of said Railway
Company shall he constructed with i'm
/ proved lee rails, laid To gauge of
four feet, eight and one-half inches
amt as mean the center of the street as
/ practicable: they shall not be elevated
above or depressed below the estab-
/ lished grade of the streets and shall be
81 laid that carriages and other vchi-
cles can safely and readily cross the
streets at any and all points, 1t shall
be the dutV 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 rcpave 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
operate thereon street railway