The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1912-02-27
Proposed Ordinance. No. 4s.
AN ORDINANCE

To Be HntiSied An Ordinance Granting
Vile & Nashville Railroad Company.
Be 1t Ordained by the Mayor and Council
Of the City Of Pensacola:
Section l. That the Louisville & Nash
Vile Railroad Company, q corporation,
its successors and assigns, is hereby
granted the privilege Of constructing and
maintaining railroad tracks, sidings and
the following streets, to-wit: On Wright
street between Hayne street and the east
line OF Alcaniz street. and on Wright
street between Ninth Avenue and FIJI
teenth Avenue; across Alcaniz street be-
tween Wright street and Gregory street
across Cevallos street, Ninth Avenue,
Avenue, Thirteenth Avenus. Fourteenth
Avenue, Fifteenth Avenue, Sixteenth Ave-
nue., Sixteenth Avenue and Seventeenth
Avenue. between Wright and Heinberg
Ninth and Tenth Avenues. and down
Tenth Avenue to point between Helm
berg and Gregory streets; on Heinoerg
nues; said tracks being indicated by
solid white lines on a plat hereto at
tached as 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
avenues between Wright street and
closed; and It shall be unlawful for any
person to use said portions OF said streets
for traffic not connected with the opera
ton Of said railroad company: The
streets between Wright street and Bel
mont street, and between Tenth and
Fourteenth Avenues. shall remain closed;
and the rights herein granted shall exist
SHAH continue sh 70 GO oocH Tne the spscs n0rss
Of Wright street, between Tenth and
Fourteenth Avenues. with. its round
S0Tss WORKSHOP tr and other th
which it now has as to said portions of
streets to lay therein and maintain
water. gas. sewerage and drainage pipes,
erect and maintain therein telephone,
telegraph and other electric poles and
wires for municipal purposes, which it
that before the portions of Fifteenth
Avenue and Sixteenth Avenue, herein
mentioned, shall be closed, said grantee,
own coSt Snd expense e constitute. ar - Tia
duct, and all the foundations and walls
necessary. for a subway, or sub-grade
crossing. which shall hal, extend underneath
tracks and roadbed at the western end Of
Its Bayou Tsxar trestle, and the center
line OF which shall be at point one hun
the western line of Seventeenth Avenue
extended, or twenty-six hundred and
seventy-four $3.50 feet east of the mile
post at said company's shops, and which
any public street which may be connected
Herewith. Said viaduct shall have a
clear width Of twenty-five (25) feet; and,
overhead, the lowest point of the lowest
member Of said viaduct shall be not less
tnan lab feet above mean tide; and said
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 aforementioned
streets not closed shall be laid and main
for by the city authorities, except that
where no grade therefor shall have been
established by the city authorities prior
said grantee, its successors and assigns.
shall have the right to conform as nearly
as practicable 70 the natural grade of the
land, but In all cases the railroad bed and
grade from time to time thereafter es-
taollshed therefor by the city authori-
Section f. That the said grantee, its
successors and assigns, shall keep and
maintain on Wright street, between
Hayne and Alcaniz streets, and on Tenth
Avenue, Heinberg street and Fourteenth
Avenue. and any other street or por-
ton OF street, crossed or traversed
by any Of it's tracks, between its said
tracks, and for eighteen (1s) 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
sh2u construct and maintain all necessary
tntersecting street crossings over said
ro@dbed and tracks, and whenever the
city or AUDITING 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 Raid tracks
or any part thereof. the said grantee its
successors and assigns, shall at the same
time, or upon notice given by tie proper
city authorities, improve, grade or pave
the space between their rails and tracks
and for eighteen (1s) inches on sach side
thereof In the same manner and with
the same material a. IL Esed 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 20 the satis-
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
ordinance shall be constructed along or
across any street or streets, or parts
thereof, that are at the time of such con-
sbuction paved, said grantee shall. under
and In conformity with the provisions OF
the city's contract for such street paving.
at its own expense relay and repair the
paving in the space between the rails and
far at least eighteen (1s) inches on either