The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1909-07-23

ed Tor the folioWing building peti'
tons:
e. w. Chavers. to raise building
| about 3 feet and buili addition 14x20
| SO as to make two additional rooms,
all to cost about s2o0.0a, lot 80. block
| "A city-524 Douglas street.
Max Lyman, to erect two story
frame double fiat building TO cost not
less than 100000 on lots S and s
| block 20, city-S09 Walnut street.
J. S. Thompson. to erect two
story frame dwelling on lots and q
street
r. f. Thomas, to erect a twostory
building 25x40 on lots % and "a
block IS, fourth addition.
| Henry C. Steinel, to remodel cot
tage so as to make a two-story mod
ern residence. all to cost about
100000, lots 6, T. and 8, block 10
fourth addition--3313 Washington
avenue.
Claude Winter, Jr.. to erect an
eight room, twostory modern dwell.
ing to cost about $35o0OO on lots SO
and 81, block 40, city-31G Ninth
street.
| Alderman Nellis moved the report
be received and permits granted as
recommend. TIL motion was adopted.
| The building committee reported
further recommending that the Cairo
| Bill Posting CO.. be granted permits,
sion to erect bill board at lots |, 2
and 3. block 76, city, northwest cor.
mel Fifteenth and Walnut and at lcts
and 6, block Sc, Washington
avenue between Eleventh and
Twelfth streets.
AllerAan Nelis moved the report
| be received and permits granted as
recommended The motion was
adopted.
Petitions.
The Cairo Electric and Traction
company presented the following peti.
| ton
To the Honorable, the Mayor and
City Council of the City of Cairo,
Illinois:
Gentlemen: The undersigned, tho
Cairo Electric and Traction Com.
pany, hereby respectfully requests
that it may be permitted to remove its
railway track on Walnut street from
Eighth street 70 Twentieth street and
on Eighth street from Washington
avenue to Walnut street, with the ap-
purtenant appliances.
Ordinance No SO, adopted by the
city council on April 4, 1906, and ap.
proved by the mayor on April 5,190G,
gave this company the right to con-
struct and operate its railway on
Fourteenth street from Walnut
street to Washington ava1ue
on Washington avenue from
Fourteenth street TO Eighteenth
street and on Eighteenth street from
Washington avenue TO Walnut street
Since the adoption of that ordinance
the Cairo and Thebcs Railroad com
pany has procured the issuance of an
injunction out of the circuit court OF
Alexander county preventing the Cal.
ro Electric and Traction company
from laying down and operating its
street railway track on Walnut stree:
between Fourteen h and Eighteenth
streets.
Since the said ordinance No. 90
was adopted the Cairo Electric and
Traction Company has also construct
ed its tracks on Washington avenue
from Eighth street to Twentieth
street
To require this company to main
tain its tracks and operate its cars
upon the streets provided for in said |
Ordinance No Sc and upon Walnut
stree between Eighteenth and TWEEN |
tieth streets and between Eighth aud |
Fourteenth streets and upon Eighth |
street between Washington avenue
and Walnut street will, we submit, |
not only involve much unnecessary
expense upon the company but will |
result i'm great inconvenience to |
many of the companys Iatr0ns, par.
hANtidi ~ AuOSt uoiH6 ats tdIS III 81 |
ing to or from points on Walnut street
north of Twentieth street.
If your Honorable Iiody will consent
to the removal of our tracks, with
their appurtenant appliances, on Well
nut street from Eighth street To
twentieth street and on Eighth street
from Washington avenue to Walnut
street, street. this company will pay
INTO the city treasury, for the benefit
Of the property owners along Walnut
street who may be entitled thereto,
such a sum as would equal the cost
Of paving that part of the street now
occupied by our tracks from Eighth
street TO Fourteenth street for a width
# seven feet. We will make this
payment in ten annual installments
md at the times which may be pro
'ided for the payment of installmenls
# the assessment by the other prop
'rty owners along the line of the pro
'osed brick pavement on Walnut
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