The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-10-02
Follows Signatures of Both
County Board and Trac-
ton Company Of a Com
promise Agreement.
|EXPL AVIATION MADE
TO THE TAXPAYERS
Under the Terms of This
Agreement 1t Is Claimed
that the County Will Be
Saved $4,000.

E. NJ. Haas, chairman of the COM
mittee from the Commercial club to
settle the traction matter today pre-
sented to the county commissioners
an agreement signed by the T. H.. l. &
E. Co., whereby the county dismisses
its appeal to the Supreme Court and
agrees to build the wing walls to the
traction bridges on the National road
improvement, and furnish necessary
company is to pay the county not to
exceed $4,000 for this work The
agreement had previously been signed
by the county board.
1t is claimed that the county will
save over 100000 by this action by
applying the amount saved on other
gravel roads. The bonds have al
amount cannot be paid back to the
taxpayers.
The committee from the CONNER
cial club has issued the following
statement:
Statement Issued.
In view of the long discussion of
the various phases of the troubles
between the county commissioners
and the traction company regarding
the location of tracks on that section
of the National road which is being
improved, west of the City, the COM
n1itfna nf fhirtI oroi al
club desire to make known it's attitude
in the matter in public statement,
the same being herewith set forth
over our signatures.
The Commercial club, as early as
May !, appointed special committee
to offer its services to the county com
missiOners in the settlement of the
controversy. This committee, so long
as the commissioners and the trac-
ton company were negotiating did not
participate in the matter. When these
negotiations failed, the commissioners
employed attorneys to continue fur
ther effort to settle the matter, but it
finally terminated in a suit in court
in which the court ruled that the trac.
tion company had the right by fran
chise to place it's tracks within IL feet
of the center of the road This de-
cision was rendered on July the Sth
From this time forth the traction com.
pany made no effort for a settlement
and the attorneys urged an appeal to
the Supreme Court, but sixty days
elapsed before the papers were per.
fected and filed.
1t was after the decision of the
court when the special committee OF
the Commercial club was again urged
ter and make a report. The commit
tee made thorough investigation OF
the contract and specifications, con
ferred with parties along the line OF
the improvement, talked with attor
neys on both sides of the controversy
and the traction officials and then
made an exhaustive report of its find
ings and made recommendation fol-
plan of settlement, to the board OF
directors of the Commercial club.
The Principal Points.
The principal points of the report
were that the contract and plans pro
vided that the new road should be
built 46 feet wide and the traction
company should place it's tracks out
side Of this new roadway and also that
whatever portion of this As foot road
way the company would construct
should be deducted from the contract
price of $4,000. This seemed to fur
nish the solution for a settlement The
committee thought that if the tracks
OF the company could be moved Gu,
about feet further from the center
than their present location, and the
company build at their own expense
the feet that they would occupy the
road would still be wide enough fol
traffic. The committee made some
comparisons with the streets in the
city and found that if the road was
built 46 feet wide it would be 4 fee,
wider than Main street all through
the business section of the city, and
ten feet wider than South 9Th, 10tf
and 11th streets. The committee came
to the conclusion that il the road were
made 40 feet wide between the north
curb and the north rail of the track
it would be amply wide for all the
traffic for all time to come and that
the appearance and proportions of tine
road would not be injured, and would
save the township $4,O95.
The committees report therefore
recommended that the road be made
forty feet wide between the curb and
the north rail. The board of directors
thoroughly discussed the matter and
unanimously adopted the committees
recommendation and instructed them
to call on the county commissioner
and offer their services to obtain &
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