The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-01-31
ORDINANCE NO. 900.

shas III Ordinance 254, granted permission and
authority to the Kenosha Electric Railway
Company, hereinafter called the Railway COM
pany, its successors and assigns, to lay down,
Construct operate and maintain, tor period of
fifty (50) years from the date of the passage of
said Ordinance 254, ain electric street railway in
the city of Kenosha; and
Whereas, pursuant to the provisions of said
ordinance, an electric railway was built by said
Railway Company III the City of Kenosha and
Whereas. The Railway Company desires per
mission and authority to lay down, construct
operate and maintain its tracks upon other
streets and avenues in said city in order that it
may more completely meet the demands of the
Inhabitants of said city;
Now, therefore, be it ordained by the Common
Council of the city of KenOsha:
Section 1. That in addition to the rights;
privileges and franchises granted to said railway
company by Ordinance No. 254 of the city of
Kenosha hereinbefOre reCited and in conSdera-
ton of the acceptance Of the terms, conditions
s.nd provisions thereof, the right, pern1isson
consent and authority are hereby given and
granted to the Kenosha Electric Railway Com
pany, its successors and assigns, to locate, lay
down, construct, maintain, use and operate
until the End day of June, A. d. 1852, an electric
street railway with all necessary sde-tracks,
switches, Y's, curves, turnouts, connections,
poles, wires and other appliances and convent
ences necessary or usually employed IN the
constructions maintenance and operation OF an
electric street railway system, using electric
power, over, across, along and upon the follow
ing streets, avenues and bridges in the city OF
alleys between the terminal points hereinafter
specified
From and connecting with it's railway on
Main or North Main street, SO-Ca11ed at some
convenient point with said railway at or near it's
intersection with Grand avenue; thence north
westerly to Grand avenue; thence westerly
upon and along Grand avenue and upon and
across Grand avenue bridge to the western cor
poratiOn limits of said city.
Also upon and along Ashland avenue from
the south corporation limits northerly to the
north end of Ashland avenue; thence norther1y
and across Grand avenue and across Pike Creek
or Pike River (so-ca11ed) upon street and
bridge, which when opened and constructed as
hereinafter provided, will connect Ashland
avenue and Caledonia street; hence norther1y
upon and along Caledonia street to the north
corporation limits.
Also upon and along Elizabeth street from it's
intersection with the east line of Crate street
westerly TO the western corporation limits of
said city.
The said electric street railway to be single
track railway on Ashland avenue from Grand
avenue south to Prairie avenue; to be double
track street railway from Prairie avenue south
on and along Ashland avenue to the south cor
poraton limits; on Ashland avenue from Grand
avenue to Pike River, and on and along Caledo-
MIA street to the north end OF Caledonia street,
to be a double track railway; on Grand avenue
to be a single track railway from the east end
of Gr&nd avenue, or North Main street, to Ash
land avenue; and single or double tracks on and
along Grand avenue from Ashland avenue to
the west corporation limits; and on Elizabeth
street from it's intersection with the east line OF
Crate street westerly to the western corporation
limits to be single or double track street rail-
way,
When double tracks are laid on Grand ave-
nue., where said avenue is now paved, the said
railway company, its successors or assigns, in
lieu of rebatng the cost of paving to the prop
erty owners as provided and required by Para
graph / of Section of Ordinance 254, shall and
will at it's own cost and expense widen the
pavement of said street by removing the pres
ent curbing and placing said curbing so that
the pavement of the street will be sixteen and
one-ha1f 900 feet each side of the center
line of said street, and will pave the space on
each side thereof between the present paving
and the new curb line with vitrifed brick of the
same character as now laid on said street
Section 2. Wherever said railway company
shall lay double tracks on Ashland avenue
on Caledonia street, it shall, at it's own cost and
expense, pave ten (10) feet on each side of it's
center line between tracks, the said paving to
be of vitrified paving brick or of such MATERIAL
except asphalt pavement, as may be ordered by
the Common Council of the city of Kenosha
and used by it for paving the remaining por-
ton of said Ashland avenue and said Caledonia
street.
Wherever said railway company shall lay
single track on Ashland avenue between Grand
avenue and Prairie avenue it shall, at its own
cost and expense pave ten (10) feet of the center
Of said street it's entire length between said
Grand avenue and Prairie avenue where one
track is laid, the said paving to be of vtrfied
paving brick, or of such material, except as
pha1t pavement, as may be ordered by the Com
mon Council of the city of Kenosha and used by
il for paving the remaining portion of said
street or avenue between said Grand avenue
and said Prairie avenue.
Nothing herein contained shall be construed
to include the curbing and grading on said
street or to compel the railway company to
pave airy portion of said street sooner than the
remaining portion of said street shall be paved.
Section 8. In consideration of the grant
hereby made the said grantee shall:
l. Construct at its own cost and expense a
new substantial modern steel bridge, with
proper, necessary and adequate approaches
thereto. over and across Pike Creek or Pike
River (so-called) connecting Ashland avenue
with Caledonia street whenever the city of Ke-
nosha shall by appropriate action lay out and
open public street connecting Ashland avenue
with Caledonia street and shall authorize the
construction of bridge across Pike Creek or
Pike River (so-calledl in connection Herewith;
the said bridge to be constructed with cement or
stone abutmentS at both the north and south
ends of said bridge, and to be constructed with
a roadway proper of not less than twenty-five
feet eight inches (22.8) in width, and with
sidewalks for pedestrians on each side thereof
not less than six (6) feet in width in the clear,
with iron or steel hand rails on each side there
of not less than four feet six inches 40 high;
and Will build and construct proper approaches
to said bridge on each end thereof; the said
bridge, abutn1ents, approaches and appnrten-
anceS to be built under the direction of the Com
mon Council of the city of Kenosha, and to their
satisfaction and approval and at such grade as
shall be authorized by the City Engineer of
said city, and if, in the construction of said
bridge and approaches, vitrified brick pave
ment, or other like pavement be used by the
grantee, the said bridge and approaches shall
be maintained by the city of Kenosha, and if in
such construction the roadway of said bridge
and approaches shall be of plank the said
grantee shall maintain the said bridge and APP
proaches and plank roadway during the life of
said franchise, or until such time as said
grantee shall pave said bridge with vitrifed
brick or other like pavement when said bridge
and approaches shall be maintained by the city
of Kenosha
2. AT Jerome Creek, so-ca11ed, on Ashland
avenue, the said grantee shall build and con-
struct a cement, stone or brick cu1vert of proper
size, to be built from lot line to lot line with
proper wings of the same material on each side
thereof, and on both sides of said Ashland ave-
nue.; and shall fill in over said culvert to
grade specified by the City Engineer of the City
of Kenosha, and shall build a proper cement
or iron railing on each side of said cu1vert on
said avenue, and shall do all work thereon
under the supervision and direction of the said
City Engineer.
3. Said grantee SHALL at it's own cost and ex-
pense, repair and strengthen Grand Avenue
bridge and put said bridge in safe condition, so
that the cars of said grantee may pass there
over, and thereafter, during TIE life of said
franchise, shall pay one-ha1f of the cost and ex-
pense OF the maintenance of said bridge.
a. SAID grantee shall keep and maintain that
part OF Ashland avenue and that part of Gale
donla street occupied by its tracks, to width
OF twenty l2O) feet where double tracks are laid,
and that part of Ashland avenue to width of
ten Q0) teet where one track is laid, and that
part OF Grand avenue to width of sixteen 16)