The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-11-18


tracks Of the Cairo Electric and Trac.
ton company upon the said Thirty
fourth street from Commercial ave-
nee to Washington avenue, shall be
placed. located and reconstructed as
follows. that is to say:
Uron that part of the street where
there are two tracks, the said tracks
shall be so placed or located that the
center line of the street where they
are shall be the center line between
the two tracks. and the said tracks
Shall have the distance of six C6) feet
between their nearest rails; and
where there is but one track the cen
ter line of the same shall be, or Co
incide with, the center line of the
street.
For the reconstruction and laying
of the said car tracks, the excavation
and grading of the street and the sub
grade and its surface shape and CON
tour shall be made done and com.
pleted as herein above provided and
REQUIRED for the street as a whole;
and the said Cairo Electric and
Traction company sail before or at
the time OF the grading OF the said
street. remove the wooden p'les now
in use and use iron posts for support
ing its trolley wires, and shall also
substitute for the T' rails now in
use by ii tram or hange rails CT not
less that tifty-fye (55D pounds weight
TO the yard upon and along that pOr-
ton of said street which is traVersed
by the said railroad track of the said
Cairo Electric and Traction com
pany in compliance with section six
cd of ordinance two (2) OF said city
If Cairo, approved on September 10,
1904. granting to the said Car Fec
tric and Traction company authority
to operate and maintain, for twenty
600 years, the lines OF electric stree,
Hallway then owned and operated by
1t in the said city of Cairo, Illinois,
along and upon the route in said or
dinaGce named The rails which shall.
be used by said street railroad com
pany shall be girder rails OF the
lange or tram section. commonly
kuCWn as the - section AMI the top
of said rails shall be laid at an ele-
walton equal to the top surface Of the
inished pavement and the bottom Of
said rails shall be spiked TO suta' lie
wooden crossties which said cross
ties shall rest upon a bed Of CON
crete OF six 60 inches in depth, said
concrete to be composed Of one tD
Dart of Portland cement, three 60
parts ot clean sharp sand and six TO
parts of broken stone; said cross.tias
shall be so placed that with the con
'rete base and the concrete founda-
ion for the brick pavement the said
cross ties shall be completely meas d
n said concrete. Nosed bricks shall
re used on the inside of the ear
tracks next TO the rails OF said tracks,
said nosed bricks to be of the same
general dimensions ana character as
he bricks TO be used for the bal
lnce of said pavement
Section 16 In the description Of
the imprc, aalent tn,ein PROVIDED fcg,
The word grade" shall mean the
grade OF the said Thirty-fourth street
rs now established by ordinance.
The word cement" wherever used
shall mean American Portland Ce.
nent of the first grade and quality
Mess some other kind of cement is
expressly mentioned
Specifications.
Section II. For ether and more
complete details of and concerning
tho said local Improvement, both as
TO the materials TO be used therein
and the manner and methods of the
use thereof and of the construction
of the Improvement, reference is
hereby had and made to the plans.
specifications and prOfiles OF the said
work and improvement made by the
city engineer of the said city and now
on file in his Office at No. III Com.
mercial avenue, in said city; and all
the terms and requirements contained
therein shall be binding on the con.
tractor; but II In any case the terms
or requirements thereof shall be
found inconsistent with the terms or
requirements OF this ordinance. the
latter shall govern.
Section IS. That the recommends
tion Of the Board of Local Improve
ments of the Improvement herein pro
yilcd for and the itemized estimate
in writing of the cost thereof as
caused 10 be made by the said board
over the signature of its president
who has certified thereon in writing
that In his opinion the said estimate
Z Twenty Thousand. -Four Hundred
Seventy Seven Dollars and Forty
Seven Cents S20.47T40 and Of
Eight Hundred and Nineteen Dollars
tsSl9 sJb do not respectively exceed
tn probable cost OF the said improve.
mont and the lawful expenses attend
ing the same are hereto attached
and are hereby approved.
Section ~ That the said local
Improvement shall be made and the
estimated cost thereon a. made and
certified by the President Of the
Board Of Local Improvements and by
il approved shall be paid for by
special taxation Of contiguous prop
frty. and 10 this end and turr5ogp