The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-07-26

| IS 10 say fOI tue NiulH VI tNNht'
| 200 feet on each side of the center
Inc OF the said avenue. and the exca-
waited and graded surface of the
street and avenue shall be made firm
and solid, throughout by rolling the
same with a roller or eight (S) to
twelve (12) tors weight and by the
use of any other necessary means to
make a proper sub-grade surface, and
grade for the said Walnut street
shall be curved or shaped to that CT
an arc or curve whose chord is thirty
TWO (32l feet in length, and whose
middle ordinate, at the center line of
the said street, shall be six (6) inches
in length or height: and the face or
top surface Of the sub-grade for the
said HOlbrook avenue shall be curved
or shaped TO that of an arc or curve
whose chord is forty (40) feet in
| length, and whose middle ordinate,
at the center line of the said avenue
shall be eight (S) inches in length or
height and should il become necessary
or proper, in preparing the said sub.
grade for the paving materials, to
remove any unsuitable earth or ma
terials and replace the same with
| proper materials, ii shall be done, 30
| that in all places there shall be a
proper foundation for the upper work
to rest upon. The Garth excavated
from the said street and avenue shall
| lie used. 50 far as may be necessary.
for filling back of and against the
curbing All eXcavated materials not
needed in the use of the work, shall
| be the property of the contractor,
who shall dispose of the same at his
own risk and expense and at the
earliest reasonable time so that the
same shall in no way become an OBJ
struction to the public No eXcava-
ton or grading shall be done until
the paving materials shall have been
\ delivered along the line of the said
street and avenue, unless written
permission shall be obtained from the
Board of Local Improvements of the
city for that purpose.
| Section 8. The Cairo Electric and
Traction Company shall, before or at
the time of the grading of said Wal,
nut street and Holbrook avenue. re-
move the present rails of its railroad
track or tracks and switches or turn
out tracks now laid upon said street
and avenue. along the line of the said
improvement, and substitute therefor
| 'T' rails of not less than seven (O
inches in height and weighing not
less than seventy (70) pounds to TIE
yard. in compliance with section four
! ~ of Ordinance No. 179 of sail
| City of Cairo, adopted November : Sth
A. D. 1898, and approved November
18th. A. D. 1908, authorizing the said
Cairo Electric and Traction company
to construct, lease, maintain and
operate a system Of street railways n
the streets and public ways in said
City of Cairo
Said substituted ct" rails shall be
so laid in said street and avenue that
the top surface thereof shall be
equal in elevation to the top surface
Of the completed brick gavement
herein provided for The bottoms of
said rails shall be securely spiked TO
| suitable wooden cross-tieS, which sail
cross-ties shall rest upon a bed Of
! concrete, six 90 inches in al pth
composed of one % part of Portland
cement and eight (S1 parts of washed
river gravel of sizes ranging frcm
gravel of two CO. inches in diameter
down to coarse sand. and the same
shall be graded so that the gravel and
sa"d shall not contain more than
twenty 900 per cent yoids
Said concrete for said foundation
for the said railroad track or tracks
and. switches or turn out tracks Of
said last named company shall be
mixed and laid in the same manner
as is herein specified for the mixing
and laying of the concrete for tho
foundation of the brick pavement
herein provided for.
Said crcss-ties shall be so placed
that with the concrete base and con
crete foundation for the brick pave
ment the said cross,ucs shall be com
pletely creased in said concrete.
Nosel bricks shall be used on the
inside of the car track or tracks of
the said last named company next
to the rails Of said track or tracks.
said nosed bricks 10 he of the same
General dimensions and character as
the fricfs TO be used for the balance
Of said brick pavement.
The Cairo and Thehes railroad com
pay shall. before or at the tine Of
he grading of the said Wa'nu. stroot, T,
Law its railroad track or tracks across
raid Walnut street. along the line of
~a'd Improvement, ani the rails OF
IT'S sal railroad track or tracks |
across tho said Walnut street shall be |
50 laid that the top surface of said |
ra.ls shall be c1ual ir elevation to the
ton surface of the completed brick |
pavement herein provided for. The I,
bottoms Of said rails shall be Sc
orreIt SUikPd TO suitahia wooden