The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-30
Board Today Accepts Com
promise Agreement Pre-
pared by the Committee of
Commercial Club.
WIDTH OF HIGHWAY
is TO BE REDUCED
Traction Company Will Pay
$3.50 for purchase of Nee
essary Land and to Build
Bridge Wings.

After months of controversy over
the location of the tracks of the Terre
Haute. Indianapolis and Eastern Trac-
tion company on the National Road,
between the city limits and the Wayne
Center township line, which is being
improved by macadam roadway,
the county commissioners on Saturday
agreed to the compromise proposition
which the Commercial Club engineer
ed, giving the company the right to
use the roadway to point forty feet
distant from the north curb line.
e. NJ Haas, as chairman OF the Com
mercial Club committee and secretary
G. w. Jordan of the club, went to In
dianapolis with an agreement signed
by the board of commissioners to
which the officials of the company will
attach their signatures, and when this
Is done some time today it will mark
the close OF the long period Of trouble
between the company and the board
Of commissioners.
Have Options on Land.
/! The Commercial club has acquired
options to the land needed to effect
the compromise, and on the visit of
the club representatives $3.50 was to
De secured from the company Golfers
with which to settle with the land
owners. Deeds, led in sum and sub
stance show that strip of ground 219
Feet long, 10 feet wide was secured
from Harmon Woke and wife; another
strip seven feet wide and 400 feet
long from Rudecil Hunt and wife; also |
strip OF ground of smaller dimen- |
sions from Samuel Gaar for $50, max 4
Ing the total to be expended for land
$3.50. The title for the land will be ves- !
ted In the name of the county. In ad- !
dition to purchasing the land there !
will have to be wings constructed to
bridges and retaining walls erected to
retain the dirt which will be used in !
making the necessary fills. This work,
II is estimated. will cost $500. which
expense will be borne by the company,
but the work done under the direction |
of county agents.
The county will dismiss it's case on
appeal to the Indiana Supreme court /
to obtain a ruling from this body on |
q ruling given by Judge H. c. Fox, as
to the police powers of the commits
sioners to force the company to get
off the highway, as was ordered.
Judge Fox decided the commissioners
did not have this power. The com.
missioners were later advised by
their attorneys that there was only a
small chance of Judge Fox's ruling
being reversed by the state supreme
court. and therefore advised that if a
good compromise could be effected,
this would be the better proposition,
and especially so in that the trouble
would be adjusted at once. instead of
being delayed several months, posi-
bly, year or two in carrying on the
litigation. .
The result of the compromise is that
the roadway will be but forty feet
wide instead of forty six feet, from
the city limits to the end of the i'm.
provement. Instead of the actual cost
being what the original contract call
ed for. contractor Cronin's agreement
with the commissioners to do the work
Will be amended and he will not re-
ceive by about $4,000 or $4,000 as much {
as his original contract called for. The
utility Of the road, by narrowing it
six feet, will not be diminished in the !
least the county board believes. The
commissioners while regretting they
Will not set a decision on the right OF
the board in such matters, so as to (
establish a precedent, believe the
compromise will be generally approx.
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