The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-13
LEGAL NOTICE.
Prop0sed ordInanee, No. %.
An ORDINANCE


vile Railroad Company. corporation,
It's successors and assigns. Is hereby
granted the privilege Of constructing and
maintaining railroad tracks, sidings and
the following streets, to-wit: On Wright
streef between Hayne street and the east
itn4 81 Alcaniz street. and on Wright
sszast hetween Ninth Avenue and FIT
teenlh Avenue: across Aicaniz street be-
tween Wright street and Gregory street
4cross Cevallos street, Ninth avenue,
Tenth Avenue, Eleventh Avenue, Twelfth
Avenue, Thirteenth Avenue. Fourteenth
Avenue. Fifteenth Avenue, Sixteenth Ave-
nue., Sixteenth Avenue and Seventeenth
Avenue. between Wright and Heinberg
Ninth and Tenth Avenues. and down
Ientn avenue 10 point between Helm
peTg ana Gregory streets; on Heinberg
street between Tenth and Eleventh Ave-
nues; said tracks being indicated by
Soud white lines en- a plat hereto at
tached as a part hereof.
Section >. THAT Wright street between
Tenth and Fourteenth Avenues. and
Eleventh.. Twelfth and Thirteenth Ave-
nues between Belmont street and Helm
berg street and Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Heinoerg street. are hereby declared
closed. and II shall be unlawful for any
person to use said portions of said streets
for trafac not connected with the opera
don Of said railroad company The
streets between Wright street and Bel
mont street. and between Tenth and
and the rights herein granted shall exist
ss to them only so long as the grantee
snal continue 70 occupy the space north
Of Wright street, between Tenth and
mouse, workshop, and other railroad
buildings. The city retains the right
which i now has as to said portions OF
streets 70 lay therein and maintain
water, gas, sewerage and drainage pipes,
and every other pipe or conduit and 70
rect and maintain therein telephone,
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wires for municipal purposes, which it
may deem necessary; provided, however,
that before the portions Of Fifteenth
Avenue and Sixteenth Avenue herein
mentioned shall be closed, said grantee.
- successors or assigns, shall at their
own cost and expense. construct a VIA
duct, and all the foundations and walls
crossing. which shah extend underneath
and to the outer lines Of said companys
tracks and roadbed at the western end Of
Its Bayou Texar trestle. and the center
line of which shall be at a point one hum
oreo and twenty-four CPD feet east of
the western line of Seventeenth Avenue
extended, or twenty-six hundred and
seventy-four (2674) feet east Of the mile
post at said company's shops, and which
shah be public way and fern part of
any public street which may be connected
clear width Of twenty-five (25) feet; and,
overhead, the lowest point of the lowest
member of said viaduct shall be not less
grantee, its successors and assigns, shall
thereafter maintain said viaduct and all
the foundations and walls necessary for
said crossing.
section 3. That the tracks of the said
railroad IN all of the above ment toned
streets not closed shall be laid and main
tanned upon the grade designated there
for by the city authorities. except that
where no grade therefor shall have been
established by the city authorities prior
to the construction OF the said roadbed.
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shall have the right to conform as nearly
as practicable to the natural grade OF the
land, but in all cases the railroad bed and
grade from time to time thereafter es-
taolshed therefor by the city authori-
Sectfon THAT the said grantee its
successors and assigns, shall keep and
maintain on Wright street, between
Hayne and Alcanfz streets, and on Tenth
Venue. Heinberg street and Fourteenth
ttdN Of street. crossed or traversed
by any of its tracks, between its said
tracks, and for eighteen. uS9 inches on
ton as the city shall keep. or require to
be kept, the same streets adjacent to the
parts occupied by the said tracks. and
intersecting street crossings over said
ro7dbed and tracks. and whenever the
city or abutting property owners on any
Of the said streets shall improve grade
or pave any street or part of street upon
which said grantee its successors or as
signs, shall construct their said tracks.
or any part thereof, the said grantee. its
successors and assigns. shall, at the same
time. or upon notice given by the proper
city authorities, Improve. grade or pave
the space between their rails and tracks
and for eighteen (1S) inches on each side
thereof IN the same manner and with
the same material as is used in improv-
ing. grading. or paving the remainder of
said street adjacent to the said rails and
tracks, and shall maintain the same in
good order and condition to the salts
faction OF the proper city authorities, in
accordance with the terms OF the Charter
or Ordinances of the City of Pensacola:
and whenever any of the tracks con-
structed by the said grantees under this
ORDINANCES shall be constructed along or
across any street or streets. or parts
thereof, that are at the time of such con-
suuctton paved. said grantee shall, under
and IN conformity with the provisions of
the city 8 contract for such street paving,
at its own expense relay and repair the
having in the space between the rails and
Tor at least eighteen (1S) inches on either
SIDE Thereon, and so much thereof as may
be damaged or disturbed in the prosecu-
ton Of the work herein authorised SO as
TO conform to the established grade.
making the needed repairs with like
Material used in said paving, and shall
construct the necessary storm water in
lets and drains and connect to the storm
water sewer, all to the satisfaction of
the Board Of Public Works.
Section 5. The work of constructing
the roadoed and laying tracks permitted
under this ordinance, shall be so done
by the grantee that the travel on not
more than one street perpendicular to-
Wright street shall be INSTRUCTED or inn
peded at any one time. and the work
OF repairing, rcsurfacing and repaving
the streets or portions OF streets dis
turbed by said railroad. shall be done
under the supervision and direction of the
Board OF Public Works.
Section s. That all the streets herein
mentioned. crossed or occupied by the
tracks OF said railroad company, shall be
guarded by watchmen, or protected by
gates, as the Council may by resolution
determine to be necessary for the public
safety.
Section ~ At every point where the
railroad tracks of said company cross any
street, or avenue, herein mentioned.
which is now, or shall be hereafter
paved, said company shall erect and
maintain, as the Council may by .resolu-
ton determine. one arc light equal to the
General Electric Series &c amperes alter
mating current enclosed arc lamps con-
Stunning not less than 400 watts at the arc.
Section s. That the city shall have the
authority to require the grantee, at any
time when the Mayor and City Council
think that the Interests Of the public de-
n7and 1t. to construct and maintain
plank crossing across 4ts tracks at the i'm
terseeticn of any unpaved streets not
closfd by this ordinance. such crossing to
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