The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-03-07

For an Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. A54,
being a franchise to build, maintain, use and
operate an electric railway within the City OF
KenoSha.
To the Honorable, the Mayor and Common
Council of the City of KenoSha, Wisconsin,
conference.-the Kenosha Electric Railway
Company, corporation organized under
Chapter 80, of the Revised Statutes of the State
of Wisconsin. to which your honorable body on
the second day of June, A. u. 1902, and on the
seventh day of January, A. ID. 1907, granted per-
mission and authority to construct all electric
street railway in the City of Kenosha by Ordi-
nanceS numbered respectively 254 and 200 of the
City of Kenosha, hereby makes application to
the said City of Kenosha, and to the Common
Council thereof, for the grant to it, the said
Kenosha Electric Railway Company, of certain
amendments to Ordinance known as Ordinance
No. 254 being franchise to build. maintain
and operate an electric railway within the said
City, the said amendments granting to said ke-
misunderstanding Railway Company, the right,
permission and authority to use upon its tracks
in said City, rails of the pattern known as ''I>''
rails, in lieu of rails of the girder pattern.
The substance of the privileges asked by said
Company, is contained in draft of the ord-
nance hereto attached, which is marked Ex-
hibit "a" and which is made part of this ap-
p1ication with the same effect as though written
at length herein.
KENOSHA ELECTRIC. RAILWAY COM
PANY.
By A. C. FROST, President.
Dated Kenosha, Wisconsin, March 4th, 1907.
EXHIBIT ssA''
ORDINANCE NO.
An Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 254 of
the City of Kenosha, passed June End, 1902, and
amending Paragraph One Of Section Two of
said Ordinance. by providing for theuSe byss the
Kenosha Electric Railway Company .ofirails of
the ST. pattern on it's railway tracks in said
City, ts 4s e.ess sa ss
Be 1t Ordained by the Common Council of the
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 254, passed
June End, 1902, and Paragraph One of Section
Two of said Ordinance 254, being ar ordinance
granting a franchise for an electric street rail-
way in the City of Kenosha, Wisconsin, be, and
the same is hereby amended by striking out the
word sson1y" where the said word appears in
the twenty first line of said paragraph one, as
printed and published and by adding after the
word pattern where said word appears in
said twenty. first line, the following words, s'or
of the IT. rail pattern,1zso that said Paragraph
One of Section Two when so amended shall
read as follows: Paragraph One. The said
Kenosha Electric Railway Company shall and
will build plank cross walks between it's tracks
at all street crossings where its tracks are laid
OH nnpaved streets at it's own cost and expense.
The tracks of said railway shall at all points
be so laid that the center line of a double track
railway would be at all points the center line of
the street, exceptat curves, and the rail lying
nearest the curb line of the street shall not be
more than eight feet distant from the center
line of the street, except at curves and shall be
so laid and maintained that carriages and other
at any and all points, and in any and all direc-
tons without material distractions; and that
the rails laid in said respective paved streets and
streets that shall hereafter be paved shall be of
the sgirder, pattern, or of the TT rail pattern.
and that the space between the rails in paved
streets be either macadamized or bedded in such
manner that vehicles can easily cross the
tracks at any point as aforesaid.
Section D This ordinance and the amend
ments above set forth shall take effect and be
in force from and after the passage and pub
LEGATION OF this ordinance and its acceptance in
writing by said kenosha Electric Railway
Company, provided however, that such accept
ance shall be filed with the City Clerk of the
City of Kenosha, within thirty 800 days after
the passage of this ordinance.
Approved. .............
Published. Observation-Disclosures.
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Mayor.
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City Clerk W46