The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-20


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 be
come an obstruction to the public
! No excavation or grading shall be
done until the paving materials shall
have been delivered along the line
of the said street, 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, at its own
/ cost and expense, before or ut the
time of the grading of said Eighth
street remove the present rails of its
railroad track or tracks and switches
for turnout tracks now laid upon said
street, along the line of the said
Improvement, and substitute therefor
TT rails of not less than seven ca
inches in height and weighing MOI
less than seventy (70) pounds to tn,
yard, in compliance with section fc
(4) of Ordinance No 1T9 Of "a
City of Cairo, adopted November 1911
A. D. 1908, and approved Noyembe
18th, A. d. 1908, authorizing the sal
Cairo Electric and Traction Company
to construct, lease, maintain anG
operate system of street railways il
the streets and public ways in sai(
City of Cairo.
Said substituted ''T' rails shall BE-
SO laid in said street that the tol
surface thereof shall be equal in eli
walton to the top surface Of the com
Ipleted brick pavement hereinafte
provided for. The bottoms of sal
rails shall be securely spiked to sui,
able wooden cross-ties, which saiC
.cross-ties shall rest upon a bed @
concrete, six co inches in depth
composed of one Cd part of Portlan
cement and eight 81 parts of washe
river gravel Of sizes ranging from
gravel OF two t2l inches in diamete
down to coarse sand, and the sam
shall be graded so that the gravel an
sand shall not contain more thar
twenty t20) per cent voids.
Said concrete foundation for sal
railroad track or tracks and switches
or turnout tracks of the said Cair
Electric and Traction Company. upo
the said Eighth street. shah be cor
structed al ihe cost and expense
the sad Cairo Electric and Traction
Company, and the saule shall be
the depth Of sly 60 inches below tn.
bottoms of the cr0ss-ties of the sal
Cairo Electric aad Traction Compan
upon which the said track or tract
and switches or turnout traces Of tn
said company are laid, and the sam
shall extend under and between tn
said eross-ties of the said compan
and for the distance of twelve az
inches outside Of the rails Of IL
tracks and between the said cross
ties and at the ends thereof and fo'
the distance of twelve CID inches
outside of the rails of its track
the said concrete foundation sha
extend above the bottoms Of tn
said cross-ties TO such a height that
with the said concrete foundation an
the concrete foundation for the bricl
hereinafter provided for
the said eross-ties shall be completely
incased in said concrete.
Said concrete for said foundation
for the said railroad track or track!
and switches or turn out tracks o
said last named company shall bt
mixed and laid in the same manner
as is hereinafter specified for the
mixing and laying OF the concrete foi
the foundation Of the brick pavement
hereinafter provided for.
catch-Basins.
Section 4. There shall be one O.
brick catch-basin on each side of sal
Eighth street at each corner and on
ID brick catch-basin on each side
said street in the center of eaci
block, except in the blocks betwee'
Commercial avenue and Railroa
street and Railroad street and Ohio
street, and all of the said catch
basins shall be of the same size ant
description, in all respects, and they
shall be constructed as follows, to
wit: they shall be set upon founda
lion of two 60 courses of hare
burned brick. and the inside dmen
5ions thereof shall be twenty-fou,
CAD inches by twenty-four (2f'
inches by fortytwo t42l inches ir
lepth measured from the top of the
to the bottom of the said
the walls Of said catch
basins shall be nine (9) inches thick
and the same shall be constructed Of
hard burned bricks, laid in Portland
cement mortar, composed of one Cd |
part of Portland cement and three CD |
parts of clean sand, and the inside Of |
said catch-basins shall be plastered |
,ne-half (1a) an inch thick, with |
Portland cement mortar. composed of |
me Cd part Of Portland cement and |
)ne Q) part of clean sand; said |
,atchbasns shall be fitted with cast