The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-12-22
WADUCT MATTER
 AT LAST SETTLED Adoption At Next Meeting a
 Formality SOME CHANGES MADE Work VIII Begin on First Avenue on April 1, Provided Streets Are Closed By Legislative En-
 actment
SOME CHANGES MADI

Signed and witnessed, the agreement by which Birmingham is finally to remedy the grade crossing evil at both First ave- nue and Twenty weight street, was last night submitted to the City Council by Chairman P. J. Rogers of the legislative committee.
 No attempt was made to pass it, and it was referred to the judiciary street and railway committees. It will come up for adoption at the next meeting. The agreement is the work of weeks of hard labor, and it has the indorsement of the representatives of all the railroads and corpora tions concerned, the members of the legislative committee, and Mayor Culpepper Exum. That it will be adopted is no longer a matter of doubt.
 Given below is the first official copy of the agreement and is different in many respects from the preliminary draft pre- vlously printed.
 Work on the First avenue viaduct be- gins April l. 1911.
 It is to be 60 feet in width and lie be- tween Twenty-ffth and Thirty-fourth streets
 The city provides the right of way, as sumes all property damage, and pays for the construction of the approaches.
 The city agres that before work shal, begin the streets and allies set out in the agreement shall have been closed by leg lslative enactment.
 The city agrees that before work shall breaches, and to maintain the ordinary repairs on the pavement of the ap' breaches and viaduct The cost of renew ing pavement on the viaduct is to be borne by the railroads.
 | After six years work is to begin on the Twenty eighth street viaduct from First avenue to Avenue B, under the same terms as control the First avenue propo- l stion.
 Extension will be granted in case of le- gal entanglements. strikes, etc. The Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company is granted the same franchises on the viaduct which It now holds along First avenue. | Here is the agreement in full: State of Alabama, Jefferson county. This memorandum of an agreement to be entered into by and between the South and North Alabama Railroad company, Southern Railway company. Alabama Great Southern Railroad company, Bir- mingham Belt Railroad company, Bir- mingham Railway, Light and Power com- pany. sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron com pany and seaboard Air Line railway and the city of Birmingham. Witnesseth:
 The South and North Alabama Railroad company, Southern Railway company, Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company, Sloss-Shefield Steel and Iron company, Birmingham Belt Railroad com pany, Seaboard Air Line railway and Ala bama Great Southern Railroad company agree to construct a viaduct and ap- breaches. sixty (6O) feet in width. along First avenue, between Twenty-frst and Thirty-fourth streets, in the city of Bir- mingham, according to plans and specf- cations to be submitted to and approved by the city engineer of Birmingham. Said companies also agree that they will im- mediately cause complete and detailed plans and specifications to be prepared by competent engineers for submission to the city engineer of Birmingham to this end, and that the said plans and specifica- tions shall be submitted to said city en- gineer with all reasonable diligence.
 The said companies further agree that the work of constructing said viaduct and Approaches shall be begun with all reason able diligence and by April l. 1911, upon the approval of such plans and specified tions by the city engineer of Birmingham and upon the compliance by the city of Birmingham with the conditions herein